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By Catherine Leffert, Jordan Muller and Sam Ogozalek the daily orange

How SU trustee Steven Barnes has influenced campus-wide change

Four anonymous, prospective members and one brother of Theta Tau on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Syracuse University, specifically naming Chancellor Kent Syverud among other officials. They claimed the university rushed to label them as “criminals” in an attempt to “malign the students personally” to salvage SU’s reputation, court records show. The Daily Orange obtained and published videos last week showing people in Theta Tau’s house using racial slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. Chancellor Kent Syverud described the videos as, “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities,” in a campus-wide email sent last Wednesday morning. In his email, Syverud announced the initial suspension of Theta Tau. The professional engineering fraternity was permanently expelled from

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Editor’s note: This story is part of a series on the role of corporate influences in Syracuse University’s governance and campus politics, based on dozens of interviews with faculty, staff, students, university leadership, higher education experts and other outside experts. ric Spina was leaving out a key piece of information as he addressed the Syracuse University faculty and staff gathered in Hendricks Chapel. It was November 2013, and Spina, then SU’s provost and interim chancellor, was leading a forum about a university-wide assessment being administered in partnership with consulting firm Bain & Company. The assessment, Spina said, would culminate in a report containing “a set of facts and a deep knowledge base” that would be presented to Chancellor-designate Kent Syverud, serving as a crucial foundation to guide his decisions. Data was to be collected through budgetary analysis, interviews with campus leaders and surveys of faculty and staff. Further input would be provided from the assessment’s steering committee, which was a mix of faculty and administrators. Spina emphasized that the steering committee would play a leading role in the assessment. “It’s not really the Bain project,” he said. “That’s a clear message I want you to hear. This is the Syracuse University project that is being run by the steering committee.” What Spina didn’t mention was that there was another committee involved: the assessment’s executive committee, which was privy to

more information than the steering committee and had authority over it. The executive committee consisted of Spina, four other upperadministrators, SU trustee John Riley and, notably, trustee Steven Barnes. Barnes is an executive at Bain Capital, the investment firm with close historical ties to Bain & Company. Bain Capital’s foundThe head of ers were a group of partners from the Board Bain & Company. Although Bain Capital and Bain & Company are of Trustees separate entities, some faculty works for Bain. said they perceive the intersection of the two at SU as a possible How is that conflict because of their historipossible? Bain’s cal similarities. policies are the Serving on the assessment’s executive committee was an ones that are early sign of the influence Barnes being pushed would have in guiding SU’s instiat Syracuse tutional planning under Syverud. A long-time donor to SU and a University. voting trustee since 2008, he was named chairman in 2015, makTula Goenka ing him the university’s highestprofessor of television, radio and film at su; ranking individual authority. It university senator gives him the responsibility of leading SU’s central governing body that has ultimate rule over the university. On Wednesday evening, Barnes sat in a first row pew inside Hendricks Chapel as SU community members — including Barnes — participated in a discussion about discrimination on campus in light of the Theta Tau videos.

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Officials address demands By Casey Darnell and Kennedy Rose the daily orange

As Chancellor Kent Syverud spoke on Wednesday evening in Hendricks Chapel, members of Recognize Us silently stood in aisles and pews, holding banners that read, “All Power to the Students” and “Everything Expressed Needs to be Addressed.” From the balcony of the chapel, a banner was hung that read, “RECOGNIZE US. RECLAIM OUR CAMPUS.” High-ranking Syracuse University administrators, deans and members of the Board of Trustees were present at the town hall in Hendricks to address student concerns following uproar over videos published by The Daily Orange that show people in the Theta Tau fraternity house using racial slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. About 300 students, faculty and staff attended the event, which lasted about one hour and 30 minutes and consisted of a wide-ranging

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Michael Speaks, dean of the School of Architecture, has promised to hold monthly forums with students in the wake of the Theta Tau fraternity’s expulsion. Page 3

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Theta Tau expulsion Catch up on the latest Daily Orange coverage of the Theta Tau fraternity’s expulsion from SU. See dailyorange.com

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theta tau expulsion Since Syracuse University initially suspended the Theta Tau professional engineering fraternity on Wednesday, campus community members have taken to Twitter to share their perspectives on how SU has handled the situation. @YELAH_NALLIM

if those members of Theta Tau don’t get reprimanded besides their little suspension, best believe in a few months when I get hit with that “alum donation” email I’m linking them back to the article and reminding them Syracuse doesn’t want my sp*c money @RYANFRAZIER_

Theta Tau is the Engineering Fraternity so I hope the same energy is kept in all my classes from now on @CRYSLETONA

While I am utterly appalled at what Theta Tau at Syracuse University allegedly said in a video during pledging, I am unfortunately not surprised. We must hold our campus accountable for the racist, homophobic, and sexist behavior it allows and perpetuates. @DRUNKCUSEFAN

These Theta Tau pricks deserve everything they get. Despicable human beings. @_SWEETTEE05

Hendricks forum GHUFRAN SALIH (LEFT) AND KYLE ROSENBLUM, Student Association president-elect and vice president-elect for the 2018-19 academic year, respectively, listen to Syracuse University community members’ concerns regarding institutional culture and policies at a forum in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday evening. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

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Architecture dean promises monthly forums By Jordan Muller and Sara Swann the daily orange

Syracuse University students and faculty gave suggestions Wednesday on how to respond to the release of the Theta Tau videos and the circulation of a list that included anonymous sexual misconduct allegations against professors at the School of Architecture Michael Speaks, the architecture school’s dean, and Lori Brown, an architecture professor, moderated the forum, which about 50 people attended. Students and faculty also addressed concerns about diversity in the school and the architecture industry. The forum, one of several organized by SU’s schools and colleges, came days after SU permanently expelled its chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity for its involvement in the creation of videos Speaks called “disgusting.” In wake of the Theta Tau videos, Speaks said the school is planning to host monthly

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Racist is as racist does Theta Tau bros - u said it u videoed it U OWN IT Its as racist as anything racist ever is & was @DRJWLOWERY

Dear Theta Tau Members, If you don’t want people to call you racist, don’t say incredibly racist things on video! Frat Bros Behind Racist Video Sue School for Jeopardizing Their ‘Success’ https://www.vice. com/en_us/article/7xd33z/ theta-tau-frat-bros-racistvideo-sue-syracuse-vgtrn?utm_ campaign=sharebutton … via @ vice #SAHElaw @_SWEETTEE05

Kanye is that one black kid in the corner of the theta tau video. @PATTYX19_

As much as I believe the SU administration has failed poc and marginalied groups on multiple occasions, we can’t be mad at SU if the Theta Tau dude sue for 1mil? Like obviously SU doesn’t wanna pay that and it’s not their fault? @_APD8

Yo those Theta Tau guys are crazy lol wow @BIKOMANDELAGRAY

LORI BROWN (LEFT) AND MICHAEL SPEAKS, a professor and dean of the School of Architecture, respectively, speak at the forum on Wednesday. kai nguyen photo editor

Long thread: The violence of whiteness begins with solipsism—the reality of not being able to see others as such. Solipsism is the privileging of oneself over everyone else— indeed, it is the privileging of oneself through the repression of others. #recognizeussu

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lawsuit campus Saturday. A university spokesperson in a statement to The D.O. on Wednesday afternoon said, “Syracuse University does not comment on the specifics of pending litigation. The University stands by the actions it took to protect the well-being of the campus community and maintain a respectful and safe learning environment.” All five students are named as “John Doe” in the lawsuit. In the lawsuit, the students allege that on March 30 they participated in a “Roast” of current Theta Tau fraternity members and that SU, “in violation or contravention of its procedures,” has allowed “Theta Tau and Plaintiffs (among others) to be treated abusively, creating a hostile campus tainted by the mischaracterization and mislabeling the University itself created.”

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“The Roast is a time-honored Chapter tradition that builds unity by satirically and hyperbolically depicting brothers,” the lawsuit states. The lawsuit states that there were 16 people in Theta Tau’s new member class this spring. Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado, in a campus-wide email on Sunday, said SU removed 18 students from “academic participation” due to the university’s Theta Tau investigation. In one video, a person asks another person on his knees to repeat an “oath” of racial slurs. “I solemnly swear to always have hatred in my heart for n*ggers, sp*cs and most importantly the f*ckin’ k*kes,” the person on his knees repeats. The videos were posted in a secret Facebook group called “Tau of Theta Tau” by a user named David Yankowy III, recordings of the videos show. Yankowy was listed as a member of Theta Tau on the SU fraternity chapter’s

website before portions of the site was made inaccessible last Wednesday afternoon. Several videos filmed in the house were uploaded in the secret Facebook group. In one recording, a person, using anti-Semitic language, yells at two other people. “You f*ckin’ k*kes, get in the f*ckin’ showers,” he says, and the two people run out of the room as others laugh. In another recording, a person sits down in a rolling chair and a different person yells, “He’s drooling out of his mouth because he’s retarded in a wheelchair.” The students claim that SU officials have labeled them racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic and hostile to people with disabilities since the release of the videos. The lawsuit also claims that SU placed the students “on an unauthorized, improper ‘suspension’ without cause.” Several high-ranking university officials are personally named in the lawsuit: Syverud; Theresa Dahlberg, dean of the College of Engineer-

ing and Computer Science; Robert Hradsky, dean of students and associate vice president of the student experience; and Pamela Peter, assistant dean of student rights and affairs. The lawsuit calls for a jury trial. Of the five students anonymously represented in the lawsuit, four are members of the Class of 2021 and one is a member of the Class of 2019, court records show. Three of the plaintiffs were described as “ethnically diverse,” being of Indian American, African-American backgrounds and one being a Central American citizen, according to the complaint filed in federal. Of the SU chapter’s 48 members, 44 percent are considered “diverse,” according to the lawsuit. The five students are being represented by the Syracuse-based law firm Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet. ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert jmulle01@syr.edu | @jordanmuller18 sfogozal@syr.edu | @SamOgozalek

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hendricks conversation that included Title IX policy and the racial makeup of the Department of Public Safety. Board of Trustees Chair Steven Barnes, Trustees Vice Chair Reinaldo “Rey” Pascual, Trustee Joan Nicholson and Trustee Theodore McKee sat in pews at the chapel Wednesday. “I too believe that the outlines of the recommendations, the demands, make a ton of sense,” Barnes said of Recognize Us’ list of demands, which were presented during the forum. In a petition distributed to audience members, Recognize Us members wrote that a plan to address the demands must be disclosed to the campus community and ready for implementation by Sept. 3 or “students will be forced to employ other measures to demand recognition and respect.” Syverud, who spoke several times during the forum, sat near Barnes and other trustees. “Our alumni are appalled that, we who are here today, might let these videos define our values and our (university),” Syverud said. “And the videos will so define us unless we today act and show by our actions what our values really mean.” The forum, which started at 7 p.m., came at the demand of Recognize Us. The group presented Syverud with a different list of demands at a sit-in in Schine Student Center on Friday morning. That protest was organized in opposition to the university’s handling of the initial suspension of Theta Tau. As part of those demands, the coalition requested a town hall with SU administrators, deans and members of the Board of Trustees. The university announced that board members would be present at the forum during a press briefing on Monday. The list of demands distributed Wednesday called on SU to expand and rework diversity and implicit bias training for students, faculty and staff; review and conduct a campus-wide survey on Greek life; improve accessibility for individuals with disabilities; improve services for sexual assault survivors; and hire more faculty with marginalized identities. Jo Johnson, an art history major, presented the demands to forum attendees. Susima Weerakoon, a graduate student, questioned administrators about SU’s policies regarding the Title IX process for sexual assault survivors. from page 3

forum forums, continuing into fall 2018. Recordings of the videos, which were obtained and released by The Daily Orange last week, show people at Theta Tau using racial and ethnic slurs and miming a sexual assault of a disabled person. The fraternity has called the content a “satirical sketch.” The school started plans to launch an advisory group to discuss the culture of the school after students raised concerns about accusations of sexual misconduct among professors at a forum in late March, Speaks said. Multiple School of Architecture professors were accused of misconduct in a nationally-circulating spreadsheet that was anonymously sent to the school’s undergraduate student body listserv in March. Most of the discussion focused on diver-

Hundreds of Syracuse University campus community members attended a forum in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday evening. The Recognize Us movement demanded a town hall be held following the Theta Tau incident. dan lyon staff photographer

Weerakoon said sexual assault survivors can go to the university’s Title IX Office for No Contact Orders. These orders prohibit communication between designated students in the best interest of their safety and security, according to the 2016-17 SU Student Conduct System Handbook. No contact orders at SU prohibit contact in person, over social media or via a third party. Students who live off campus must present evidence to the Onondaga County Family Court to obtain an order of protection. This requires paying SU’s Title IX Office for evidence transcripts, Weerakoon said. She asked why the university makes survivors pay for their own transcripts. “Based on your description, that’s a really stupid policy,” Syverud said. The room snapped in response. Chief Human Resources Officer Andy Gordon said that as of Thursday, funds would be made available for students to access their Title IX transcripts, and the audience erupt-

ed in applause. A few attendees raised concerns about DPS’ actions toward people of color, which they described as discriminatory. DPS “routinely polices and profiles students of color,” said Chris Eng, an assistant professor in SU’s English department. He asked what steps are being taken to diversify the department and to stop the policing of students of color. His question wasn’t addressed until an audience member pointed out that DPS Chief Bobby Maldonado hadn’t answered Eng. “This department must reflect the community in which it serves,” Maldonado said. He added that he has been “strategic” about increasing the number of women and people of color in the department. It’s unclear if there will be an audit of the department, which Eng and other audience members requested. Students and officials also discussed the student conduct process in regard to sexual misconduct; accessibility of the campus;

bathrooms and various resource centers for individuals with disabilities; hiring in the Counseling Center; and SU’s relationship with the city of Syracuse. Raymundo Juarez, a junior studying history and political science, took the microphone for the final question of the evening. “I’ve never felt like I’ve had a home at this university, no matter how hard I’ve tried,” Juarez said. He added that SU has no support systems to make students who are not white men feel at home. He asked officials to make Schine a place where students can congregate and feel like they’re at home and to emphasize places such as the Office of Multicultural Affairs as being more than “just a box in the basement.” Juarez said: “I challenge the Board of Trustees to take the courage to not just be another corporatist university in the United States, but to make this an oasis of justice.”

sity issues in the school and the architecture industry. Vittoria Buccina, the architecture school’s director of enrollment management, said the School of Architecture’s yield of students of color is higher than the university overall. She said there’s “never a moment in time” that geographical and cultural diversity isn’t thought about during the school’s recruiting process. “I think if you compare us to other schools and colleges, we’re doing really well,” Buccina said. Speaks said, though, that the school could be doing better. One student suggested the school invite architecture firm recruiters that represent more diverse companies. She said the firms where she has interviewed have mostly been dominated by white people. Lindsey Dierig, a sophomore architecture

student, said there are issues in the School of Architecture that students, faculty and staff have the power to address.

pressures the School of Architecture could apply to the university to help change the overall culture. Speaks said he thinks the central administration has done a lot to start to address the issues that surfaced after the release of the Theta Tau videos. As for the School of Architecture’s role in helping to change the overall campus culture, Speaks said the architecture community should worry about itself first, before acting on behalf of the entire university. But he added that the School of Architecture should strive to be an example for other schools and colleges at SU to follow. Addressing these issues is not the responsibility of a single school or college, Speaks said. “You hear a lot about ‘One University,’” Speaks said. “So this should be a ‘One University’ issue.”

You hear a lot about ‘One University,’ so this should be a ‘One University’ issue. Michael Speaks

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“I think a lot of the reason why there’s been so much outrage about the videos is because although we are in the architecture college, we still go to this university,” Dierig said. She also asked the dean if there are any

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It’s time for SU leaders to act on concerns they’ve heard from students The Syracuse University town hall held at Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday highlighted the importance of students’ accessibility to administrative officials to cultivate tangible change. The meeting gave members of the SU community the opportunity to speak with Chancellor Kent Syverud and members of the university’s Board of Trustees, including Chair Steven Barnes, about their grievances. #RecognizeUs, a student coalition that formed after Syverud sent a campus-wide email about a series of problematic videos

filmed in the Theta Tau house, also delivered demands to the administration with a deadline of Sept. 3. At the town hall, SU student Susima Weerakoon asked Syverud and board members why students must pay for Title IX transcripts in sexual assault cases that are sent to the city for no-contact orders. When Syverud said he was unaware of the “stupid policy,” a board member said that as of tomorrow, the university will make funds available for students to access their transcripts. That moment of recognition showcased how crucial it is for stu-

dents to have a transparent, open relationship with administrators, especially regarding issues affecting the quality of student life. Syverud and other administrators have been criticized for their lack of transparency regarding policymaking in the past, and Wednesday’s forum showed how powerful students are when they have the opportunity to confront administrators. The information gap between the administration and students makes it so administrators don’t understand the everyday problems of students, especially those with marginalized

identities. The more administrators make themselves available to students, the more the campus will adapt to fit the needs of students. With classes ending next week, SU must use the summer to develop policies and programs that remedy the grievances students have shared since Syverud sent the email about Theta Tau. This process must come before — or at least fall in tandem with — the university’s planning and implementation of its large-scale initiatives, including Invest Syracuse. Students have made their voices

heard. Now, it’s time for the university to not only be willing to listen, but also willing to change.

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Democratizing Knowledge calls for change after Theta Tau videos The Democratizing Knowledge Collective at Syracuse University includes faculty, staff and graduate students who are deeply involved in promoting just academic spaces and just institutions throughout society. The Theta Tau fraternity’s vile videotape reveals just how compromised the values of justice are at SU. As some would suggest, the racist, misogynist, homophobic and ableist videotape reflecting the hateful views of the fraternity concern issues of diversity and implicit bias. However, the focus on diversity is misplaced, and the fraternity’s actions were

anything but implicit. Instead, these behaviors take place in an environment where racial and gender disparities exist at all institutional levels and groups, have been routinely devalued and excluded and continue to be so. The outrage of students who’ve protested the fraternity’s actions is based on their feelings of assault and psychic violence that also take place in many undergraduate and graduate classrooms on this campus. Such injustices embolden discriminatory action by those who are viewed as having the qualities and — dare we say — qualifica-

tions to be members of this community. The astounding failure of the SU curriculum allows students to get from their first year to senior graduation without knowing such behavior is offensive and amounts to hate speech, and is, by definition, extreme. We don’t discount the value of dialogue, but we must be clear that dialogue alone won’t adequately address these issues, nor redress members of communities who feel directly under attack. Beyond individual or collective sanctions against fraternity members or organizations, the university must make fundamen-

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Student reflects on oppression at SU Recent events have prompted discussion among students, and a common question posed by fellow white students: What does it mean to be oppressed? This past Wednesday, as our students walked down the dilapidated and pockmarked sidewalk of Walnut Avenue toward Hendricks Chapel, our heads high and eyes forward, it became quite clear that we were being watched and jeered at by the petty lords of the land: the blue-blooded brothers of the Greek organizations in their pastel-shaded halls of wood. I saw the laughter, a cruel mirth bubbling in their eyes, as they smirked down at us. Some of them walked past our humble procession on the sidewalk with the same insufferable grins on their faces. I think that’s what made me most angry —

this was all a joke to them, that we were like a spectacle to them. It was a terribly familiar feeling. It’s the feeling of being silenced. It’s the feeling in your heart when strangers, your peers, your school, your society makes you feel like your voice doesn’t matter — like you’re less than human, and your identity is secondrate because of your skin color, how much your parents make, your accent, who you believe in or who you love. It’s like being wrenched away from your mother at birth and being given to a father that doesn’t love you. The only part of you, your Americanized identity, is actually “real.” The rest — the food you grew up eating, the music your parents play in the house when you’re young, the folk stories you hear at your bedside — those aren’t really there; they aren’t real. They’ve been redacted, erased

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from the public eye, just like the true histories of the Americas before colonization and Africa before imperialism. They’re omitted and replaced with mythologies of civilization triumphing over savagery, and somehow that’s supposed to coincide with the triumph of “good over evil.” These are blatantly dishonest views of history that frame our views of the world and ultimately divide us against our brothers and sisters. My only piece of advice to my fellow activists as we move forward is to seek to understand and forgive those who seek to silence us, and to not stoop down to their level. Meet their hate with love. Turn the other cheek, and stick together. No matter what, keep your heads up — things will get brighter.

tal changes. This means structural changes to transform the university’s culture, including investment in financial aid and health insurance for larger communities of students of color, hiring more faculty of color, LGBT faculty and providing resources to interdisciplinary departments and programs that offer education that actively combat racist, heteronormative, ableist knowledges and culture of the normative curriculum at SU. Culture doesn’t change with dialogue, education and bias training of only some constituencies. Nor does it change with

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higher representation of minoritized faculty. Transformational change requires resources and investments in people and communities already doing this work. Similarly, bias training — implicit and explicit — must include the entire university community: all university administrators and officers, in addition to faculty, staff and students. Until the university makes critical changes to instill equity, inclusion and justice, SU will continue to facilitate these ongoing assaults on all of our humanity.

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STEVEN BARNES, chair of SU’s Board of Trustees, speaks inside Hendricks Chapel during a discussion Wednesday between SU administrators, faculty, staff, students and trustees about discrimination on campus. It was a rare public appearance for Barnes, who has served as chair since 2015. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer from page 1

barnes It was a rare public appearance for Barnes, who has operated mostly in quiet as chair. Last week, he penned a message to the campus community saying he was “appalled” by the behavior in the Theta Tau videos. That was the first time he has personally addressed the full campus community as chairman, according to SU News archives. Even as Barnes has functioned in a space unseen by some, he has left a lasting mark on the university, where policies and initiatives in recent years have closely resembled common Bain managerial approaches. Barnes has brought 30 years of experience as an executive at Bain Capital to his positions of power. The firm has developed a healthy reputation of creating profit for its investors, but it has also generated controversy for what critics call “vulture capitalism.” Bain has sometimes profited from companies — like Toys R Us — that it led into bankruptcy and through periods of mass layoffs. The Bain & Company-led assessment of SU suggested several Bain models that have fundamentally changed the institution. Efforts to cut costs, a regular Bain strategy, reduced and rearranged the university’s staff. The creation of the Academic Strategic Plan set a new institutional mission that features a heavy emphasis on SU’s military and veterans programs — a pocket of campus Barnes has long financially supported and led. Prominent university officials see the influence Barnes has had and speak glowingly of him. Vice Chancellor Mike Haynie, who holds a faculty position endowed by Barnes, in an email called Barnes “a deeply passionate alumnus.” Dick Thompson, who served as chair of the board before Barnes, said Barnes has “done an exceptional job.” Syverud said in an email that Barnes “has a unique understanding of and respect for the culture of Syracuse University.” Others within the campus community are less encouraged by the institutional changes SU has endured since Barnes

was named chair. Some staff and faculty say SU’s cost-cutting tendencies have reduced morale and productivity in academic departments. Others fear the military-focused mission will undermine academic freedom by discouraging research and teachings critical of United States foreign policy. “The head of the Board of Trustees works for Bain. How is that possible? Bain’s policies are the ones that are being pushed at Syracuse University,” said Tula Goenka, a professor of television, radio and film, and a University Senator. “It’s a very corporate model. And it’s not a model for education.” Barnes was not made available for an interview for this story, nor did he agree to answer questions via email. Instead, he provided this statement: “Syracuse University had such a positive impact on my life and for that I am deeply appreciative. It is a privilege to be able to give back to the University through my volunteer service and through my family’s philanthropic support to help ensure that others have similar opportunities to achieve their dreams. Helping the University achieve its vision of being a pre-eminent and inclusive student-focused research university is at the core of everything I do — as an alumnus, as Board chair and as a supporter of my alma mater.”

‘Building something to collapse’

U Magazine and SU News stories about Barnes often include that he was once CEO of Dade Behring, a company that manufactured machinery for the medical diagnostics industry. These references to Dade are published alongside praises for Barnes — a “turnaround expert” with “a unique capacity to grow and build great companies” — and his career, “an epic success story.” But while Barnes was CEO of Dade, the company struggled to survive. After Bain Capital used mostly debt to purchase the company, Barnes drove Dade into further debt, and it ultimately went bankrupt. But Barnes, Bain and its investors made millions by having Dade pay Bain generous dividends.

The tactics Bain used at Dade fell in line with the strategy the firm typically employs, according to experts. When purchasing companies, Bain often uses significant amounts of debt, so the firm risks less of its own money and still gets a controlling stake. It’s then on the individual companies — not Bain — to repay the debt, and Bain and its partners can often guarantee a profit for themselves even if the companies fail by extracting fees and dividends, experts said.

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I think Bain’s activities — the track record is very questionable. Good for investors, but it shows a complete disregard for the companies they own and it puts a lie to the idea that they’re building something. They’re really just building something to collapse. Josh Kosman author of “the buyout of america”

“Whenever I say this, it just blows people’s minds,” said Eileen Appelbaum, coauthor of the book “Private Equity at Work” and a private equity expert, referring to the debt-financing strategy. “… That’s like you buying your neighbor’s house with the big mortgage. You own the house, but your neighbor has to pay the mortgage.” In a statement, a Bain Capital representative said the firm “has been focused on growing great companies and improving their operations” since its founding. Bain and other investors, including Goldman Sachs, purchased the company that would become Dade Behring in 1994 for more than $400 million, using mostly borrowed money, according to media reports and “The Buyout of America,” a book exam-

ining the effects of private equity on the U.S. economy. Bain put down about $30 million of its own money. Barnes left Bain to become an executive at Dade in 1996 and became CEO the following year. With debt soaring in 1997, Barnes had the company begin cutting costs by laying off hundreds of workers and reducing employee benefits. In 1999, Dade, still under the direction of Barnes, borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars to repurchase shares from Bain and Goldman Sachs. Through that agreement, Bain earned $242 million — about eight times its original investment — and Barnes personally received about $3.38 million, according to Securities and Exchange Commission documents. Shortly thereafter, Barnes stepped down as CEO and returned to Bain. Dade eventually filed for bankruptcy and was taken over by creditors after failing to recover from the debt it faced following the stock repurchase program. “If you are Barnes or Bain or their investors, you probably would look at Dade as a pretty good success story. They made a lot of money from Dade,” said Josh Kosman, author of “The Buyout of America.” “But if you were to look at it in another way, Dade went bankrupt largely because of Bain’s actions, and a lot of people got fired.” Bain’s strategies are common in private equity, but experts said Bain is sometimes particularly aggressive. A 2012 Wall Street Journal analysis found that, of 77 businesses Bain invested in from 1984 until early 1999, 22 percent either filed for bankruptcy or went out of business within eight years after Bain first invested, “sometimes with substantial job losses.” But no matter how poorly its companies have performed, Bain and its partners have rarely suffered the financial consequences, experts said. Even in the case of Bain-owned Toys R Us, which filed for bankruptcy in September and announced in March it will close or sell all its stores, Bain profited. When purchasing the toy retailer in 2005, Bain, Vornado Realty Trust and private equity firm KKR loaded it with several billion dollars in debt. Bain contributed about $43 million and was later paid $61 million in

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fees, thus profiting about $18 million. “Everybody else is a loser,” said Appelbaum, who is also co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. “The workers are losers. Communities lose because stores shut down. The creditors and the vendors who provided all the goods for Toys R Us, the retailers, they’ll be lucky to get pennies on the dollar.” Since its origin, Bain’s purpose has been to use companies as engines of profit for its investors. Mitt Romney and other partners from Bain & Company left the consulting firm in 1984 to create Bain Capital under the direction of Bill Bain, the founder of Bain & Company. In 1985, Romney said the firm would look to take over companies and, after five to eight years, “harvest them at a significant profit.” Barnes became affiliated with Bain that year. The firm was his “biggest client” as he worked for auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers, he said in a 2014 interview with Privcap. In 1988, he left PwC for Bain, where he has since worked as an executive, aside from when he has left to lead Bain-owned companies. Barnes isn’t SU’s only high-ranking trustee with ties to Bain. David Edelstein, one of four vice chairs to Barnes and chair of the board’s Academic Affairs committee, worked under Barnes as an executive for Dade beginning in 1998. Michael Thonis, another vice chair, was a consultant for Bain & Company in the 1970s. Other Bain Capital companies that Barnes has helped lead have endured fates similar to Dade and Toys R Us, including radio giant iHeartMedia, which Barnes invested in and served on the Board of Directors until 2012. Bain and Thomas H. Lee Partners used more than $13 billion in debt in 2008 to purchase iHeart. Burdened by its debt, iHeart fired more than 8,000 of its roughly 31,000 workers in 2012, according to Appelbaum’s book. Years later, iHeart still hasn’t been able to shake its debt. The company filed for bankruptcy in March. Bain will at least break even, experts said. “I think Bain’s activities — the track record is very questionable,” Kosman said. “Good for investors, but it shows a complete disregard for the companies they own and it puts a lie to the idea that they’re building something. They’re really just building something to collapse.”

Fast Forward Syracuse

ain & Company’s final report assessing SU, published in April 2014, signaled that major change was coming to the university. The report found that the majority of faculty and staff believed SU needed “to change significantly” within five years. SU needed a strategic plan and needed to cut costs to improve its budget, the report said. That change began with Fast Forward Syracuse, a three-pronged initiative implemented by Syverud in 2014 that severed in part as the second step in the Bain & Company assessment. The initiative intended to reshape academic planning, create a plan to improve campus infrastructure and identify areas to cut costs. Nearly four years later, change has been realized through policies, programs and initiatives that grew out of that planning. The Academic Strategic Plan has set a new vision for SU and identified institutional priorities. The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program, a buyout program, reduced SU’s staff by 254 employees. The Campus Framework Plan, a 20-year guide to revamping SU’s infrastructure, was designed in alignment with Academic Strategic Plan priorities. Last year, SU implemented Invest Syracuse, an initiative to raise $100 million to fund the Academic Strategic Plan — in part by saving $30 million through cost-cutting. The degree to which Barnes was personally involved in conceiving those policies is not clear, but they all stem from the report he was a leader in creating, and they were implemented while he’s served as SU’s highest-ranking officer. Some faculty expressed concern that SU’s institutional policies are being informed disproportionately by a Bain perspective between Barnes and Bain &

Company, whom SU paid about $8 million in consulting fees between 2013 and 2015, according to SU’s tax returns. Sandra Lane, a professor of public health and a member of the steering committee for the Bain & Company report, said the issue of a possible conflict wasn’t raised during the assessment process. She added that she personally hasn’t interacted with Barnes or other trustees. “I don’t know whether I think that was properly disclosed,” she said. “It does look questionable.” Bain Capital and Bain & Company are separate companies, but they’re closely connected historically. In his book “Turnaround,” Romney describes Bain Capital as a sister company to Bain & Company.

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What it does to morale is indescribably negative. It reflects a management outlook driven by people with little insight into how human beings actually work and how an institution of higher education actually works. Samuel Gorovitz professor of philosophy on bain policies at su

Harry Strachan, both a Bain Capital and Bain & Company partner, wrote in “Bain Stories from the Early Years” that the two firms have used the same “process of improvement” — Bain Capital with its companies and Bain & Company with its clients. The process consists of combining a “strategic focus” with “operating excellence” and reducing costs, he wrote. Bain & Company’s final report at SU suggested the university “achieve operational excellence” in line with a strategic plan. After that report was published, most members of the assessment’s executive committee didn’t have a prolonged role in implementing its findings. Three of the five upperadministrators — Spina, CFO Lou Marcoccia and Senior Vice President Christopher Sedore — left SU by 2016. Kal Alston, senior vice president of human capital development, stepped down in 2015 to return to the faculty. Riley is no longer a voting trustee. Barnes stuck around, becoming chair in May 2015. As chair, Barnes is a voting member on each of the board’s nine committees. Syverud has described Barnes as a “great partner, advisor and leader during the strategic planning process.” Barnes also personally helps fund the strategic plan: In August, he made a $500,000 “annual fund challenge gift” to Invest Syracuse. Barnes is closely affiliated with Vice Chancellor Haynie, who has played a leading role in developing and implementing the Academic Strategic Plan. Haynie, who became the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship in 2011, was named vice chancellor for veterans and military affairs in May 2014. In 2016, his responsibilities were expanded to include oversight of the Office of Government and Community Relations as well as University College, SU’s part-time school. He is among the university’s highestpaid employees, according to SU tax returns. Haynie is one of only 15 people who served on both the Academic Strategic Plan Steering Committee, which drafted the plan, and the Academic Strategic Plan Implementation Oversight Committee, tasked with implementing the plan. Of the other 14 people, three were exclusively faculty members and one was a staff member. The remaining 10 were administrators, but four have since left the university: Marcoccia, Sedore, Senior Associate Vice President Andy Clark and Kenneth Kavajecz, former dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. In alignment with the Academic Stra-

tegic Plan, there are two major ongoing construction projects underway as part of the Campus Framework Plan. One is the Barnes Center at the Arch, a wellness and recreation complex where Archbold Gymnasium currently stands, named after Barnes in recognition of his $5 million gift to the project. The other is a massive complex for military and veterans organizations and communities. Christopher Newfield, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara who spoke at SU about university governance in March, said it’s become increasingly common for individual trustees to have widespread influence at universities. “It’s not so much that senior officials are rooted in their own communities and listening to basically everybody,” he said. “There are privileged actors that are having a disproportionate influence, in my view, on academic management, particularly consultants and donors, members of boards of trustees.” SU officials, including Syverud and Thompson, said Barnes has not overstepped a trustee’s traditional responsibilities, which include general oversight but not involvement in management. Syverud said in an email that Barnes “has deep appreciation and respect for shared governance.” “Chairman Barnes is steadfastly committed to ensuring a high-functioning board that ultimately supports students, faculty and the University’s academic and strategic priorities as identified collaboratively by our campus community,” Syverud said. “He recognizes and appreciates the bright line between his role as board chair and my role as Chancellor.”

Lingering consequences

ow morale. Fewer support systems for students. A loss of institutional memory. Reduced productivity. Those are recurring themes that have developed in some academic departments since SU bought out 254 staff employees in 2015. Some of those workers were academic support staff, such as administrative assistants, who students and faculty said provided essential services. Faculty, remaining staff and students described day-to-day life within those departments as more demanding, more stressful and less efficient than it was prior to the buyout. Syverud has acknowledged that the genesis for the buyout was the Bain report, which indicated SU’s operating expenses were outpacing its revenues, and that a primary driver of that trend was staff salary expenses. The buyout was a standard exercise out of the Bain playbook: downsize in an effort to improve the operating budget. The program was announced in June 2015, the month after Barnes became chairman. The report said inefficiencies were driven by raises and promotions for employees earning above $120,000 annually. Some faculty interpreted that as an indication SU would cut back on upper-administrators, but SU’s tax returns for Fiscal Year 2016 indicate only three upper-administrators took the buyout. Instead, the buyout operated mostly among secretarial staff and other lower-level administrative workers, faculty and staff said. Administrative work that was previously left to two or three staff members in a given department is now the responsibility of one or two remaining staffers. Samuel Gorovitz, a professor of philosophy at SU since 1986, said the changes implemented through the buyout have exerted “a downward pressure on the quality of staff.” “What it does to morale is indescribably negative,” he said. “It reflects a management outlook driven by people with little insight into how human beings actually work and how an institution of higher education actually works.” One administrative assistant who remained after the buyout said in her multiple decades working at SU, she’s never seen staff morale as bad as it is now. Her department lost one of its three staff members. She said the added work has caused her to feel persistent anxiety.

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Growing impact Here is a look at how Steven Barnes’ influence at Syracuse University has evolved over the past 12 years: 2006 Mike Haynie arrives at SU as an assistant professor of entrepreneurship

2007 Haynie establishes the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans, which later becomes the Barnes Family Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans after Barnes endows the program

2008 Barnes joins SU’s Board of Trustees

2011 SU partners with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to establish the Institute for Veterans and Military Families. Haynie is named the executive director and Barnes is appointed as co-chair of the institute’s inaugural advisory board.

2011 Haynie is appointed Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship following a gift from Barnes to establish the position

2013 Kent Syverud is named SU’s chancellor-designate

2013 SU hires Bain & Company to conduct a university-wide assessment meant to inform Syverud’s decision-making. Barnes is named to the assessment’s executive committee.

2014 Bain & Company’s final report following the assessment is made public

2014 In his inauguration address, Syverud says SU must become the “best place for veterans”

2014 Haynie is promoted to vice chancellor of veterans and military affairs

2014 The development of SU’s Academic Strategic Plan begins, with Haynie playing a leading role

2015

Barnes is named chair of SU’s Board of Trustees

2015 The Academic Strategic Plan is published, making veterans and military communities a pillar of the university’s mission

2015 Implementation of the Academic Strategic Plan begins, with Haynie in a leadership role and Barnes in an oversight role

2015 SU announces the Voluntary Separation Incentive Program, which ultimately reduces the university’s staff by 254 employees

2016 Haynie’s responsibilities are expanded to include oversight of the Office of Government and Community Relations

2017 Invest Syracuse, an initiative meant to fund the Academic Strategic Plan, is announced. Barnes pledges an annual fund challenge gift of $500,000 to the initiative.

2018 Construction begins for the National Veterans Resource Center to house the IVMF

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DREYA CHERRY found her way to First Year Players after a friend recommended she join. During her senior year, she served as the pit manager and helped lead the group’s first orchestra comprising only first-year students. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Dreya Cherry First Year Players pit orchestra manager leaves legacy of dedication, love and inclusion By Andrew Graham sports editor

Editor’s note: The “Who is Syracuse?” series runs in The Daily Orange each spring to highlight individuals who embody the spirit of Syracuse University. The D.O. selected eight individuals nominated by the SU community. This series explores their stories.

alfway down an aisle in an empty Setnor Auditorium, Dreya Cherry leaned on an armrest. She glanced to her right and spotted a couple friends rehearsing with the Syracuse University concert band. A smile spread across her face and she waved quickly. Her friend tossed a quick wave back. “I know them from First Year Players,” Cherry said. Those brief waves, exchanges of grins and random hellos are a daily occurrence, Cherry said. It’s because of the community she’s immersed herself in at SU. Since coming to Syracuse, Cherry has been involved with First Year Players, a theater group for freshmen and transfer students. She’s currently the pit manager, in charge of instrumental music and the pit orchestra for shows. Now a

senior, Cherry is set to move on from the It’s an organization that, yes, we community that’s put on a musical but it’s a lot more done so much for her, the community than that. It’s very much about she’s helped build. the community you build and the But not before she gives back. family you have and the people “It’s an organizayou get to meet. tion that, yes, we put on a musical, but it’s Dreya Cherry a lot more than that,” Cherry, a music industry major, said. “It’s very much about the community you build and the family you have and the people you get to meet.” Cherry’s senior year with FYP has been defined by a big project: creating the first pit orchestra with only first-year students. In the past, the pit has been open to all students. When the show’s producers approached her with the idea for this year’s show, “Young Frankenstein,” Cherry took the challenge head on. “The 16 first-years we had in the pit are incredible people,” Cherry said. “Incredible musicians.” see cherry page 11

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DIANE WIENER has been passionate about diversity since her childhood. She realized the importance of mental health awareness at a young age. To Wiener, it’s not possible to discuss cultural issues independently because they intertwine. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Diane Wiener First-ever director of a disability cultural center strives to create inclusive environment at SU By Molly Gibbs

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ngry chants echoed in the hallway of the Schine Student Center on Friday morning as Diane Wiener turned the corner, out of breath. She had just been showing support for the students protesting the Theta Tau videos. She unlocked the door of the Disability Cultural Center, a small room tucked in a hallway of Schine, and headed towards her office. As the DCC’s director, Wiener’s office door is plastered with stickers,

posters and quotes, displaying messages like “Therapy Dog Thursday” and “Black Trans Lives Matter” and a Mahatma Gandhi quote. Wiener said the door reflects her and the DCC’s

notes and posters of comic book characters cover the walls. Lining one wall is a custom-made shelf, ordered to Wiener’s specifications so that it’s accessible to all stu-

As a student on this campus, as a disabled student on this campus, I know that I have a space at the Disability Cultural Center. Priya Penner su sophomore

commitment to intersectionality. Spider-Man figurines and other superhero characters sit on crowded bookshelves inside the office, and sticky

dents. Stacked Braille business cards sit on a messy desk, and everything from the light switches to the buttons that open doors automatically are at a

lower height. The Disability Cultural Center is the students’ space, she said. Wiener said that annually, hundreds of current and prospective students, faculty, staff, community members and alumni visit or engage with the DCC. Since fall 2011, she has served as the center’s full-time administrative director, the first person to serve in this position at a university in the United States. She pushes for diversity, social justice, inclusion and empowerment on the Syracuse University campus. Wiener’s passion for diversity and inclusivity can be traced back to her childhood. She said she has a history of activism, but her father’s suicide when she was a teenager helped her realize the importance of mental health awareness. She added that she lives with anxiety and depression and has experienced, in the past, unremitting distress and suicidality, which she’s see wiener page 11

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cherry This change was something that people in FYP were unsure about, even pit members, but Cherry had pushed for it and wasn’t going to let her team fail. And it didn’t. Almost everything went off without a hitch — except opening night. Everyone was set, the music had been rehearsed as best it could be. It seemed there would be no issues, until a cellist didn’t show. Pit member Abby Tubis said Cherry, a bassoonist, grabbed the cello sheet music and played the whole part on piano. “From what I heard, it was all her work that made it into a first-year pit. It was her enthusi-

asm for pit,” Tubis, communications sciences and disorder major said. But what Cherry has done for FYP and so many others reaches far beyond a pit in front of a stage. It’s the little things, not grandiose gestures, that make Cherry stand out. She’ll send encouraging text messages to her pit members, unprompted. She’ll meet anyone for lunch or coffee, just to talk. During technical week — the week of rehearsals leading up to opening night — when everyone was tired and stressed, she ended the nights by telling everyone that no matter what, she still loved all of them. Cherry went even further for Tubis. Cherry and Tubis are both Jewish, and when Cherry

found out that Tubis, a freshman, wasn’t going home for Passover in March, she invited the freshman to her apartment for a seder dinner. “She’s so sweet. She’s just a mentor for me,” Tubis said. When Cherry originally came to Syracuse as a bassoonist, she wasn’t entirely sure how much she wanted to get involved or where she wanted to do it. She was a member of the marching band, which she loved, but the season is only active in the fall. During her first season in marching band, one of her friends recommended First Year Players. Cherry checked it out, auditioned and got a part in that year’s show, “The Addams Family.” After that, she was hooked. Only freshmen and transfer students can

DREYA CHERRY will graduate from SU next month with a degree in music industry. She will continue her studies in the arts management master’s program at Carnegie Mellon University. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

perform in FYP. So after her first year, Cherry became a staff member, which is open to upperclassmen. She started as a general staff member her sophomore year, then served as pit liaison, the link between the pit orchestra and the rest of the cast and crew, her junior year. This year, she ran the show as a pit manager. The love she felt as a freshman kept her in the staff for the next three years. She said she met some of the most influential people in her life that first year and she wanted everyone who came after her to feel that same care and support. So far, she’s succeeded. Evan Lewis, a junior physics and applied mathematics double major and marching band member, joined FYP after Cherry encouraged everyone in marching band to audition. Lewis, then a freshman, went for it and is still involved two years later. The pair became good friends, and Cherry is always there when Lewis needs her, he said. “She is like my comfort zone in that organization,” Lewis said. Tubis feels the same way. She refers to herself and Cherry as kindred spirits. That’s partially because they’re both bassoonists, but more so because of how much Tubis sees herself in Cherry. She hopes to one day be as influential for others as Cherry was for her. “She always commits herself to the happiness of other people,” Tubis said. Above all else, Cherry spreads love to those around her. Lewis and Tubis both were sure to use the term “unconditional love.” So did Cherry. For her, love is like a currency and the value is in loving others — spending the time and energy to make other people feel as safe and cherished. In a few weeks, Cherry will graduate and head to Carnegie Mellon for graduate school, where she’ll pursue a masters in arts management. Even though she’ll be gone physically, the ones Cherry has loved in Syracuse won’t forget, and they’ll try to pass that love along to the next generation of First Year Players. “So much unconditional love,” Cherry said. aegraham@syr.edu | @A_E_Graham

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wiener grateful she no longer experiences. “I do have other disabilities that are ‘hidden’ but most of my disability identity is around mental health and emotional variance,” Wiener said. Wiener also stresses the importance of intersectionality and a cross-disabilities perspective. She said it’s not possible to discuss issues regarding race and ethnicity without also discussing issues regarding gender, sexuality and disability, as well as considering spiritual identity or its absence. Her efforts haven’t gone unnoticed by members of the SU community. Associate Dean of Hendrick’s Chapel Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz said she thinks Wiener’s work has already changed the culture of SU’s campus tremendously. “I think we’ve really been blessed to have Diane always doing so much of the heavy lifting,” Kantrowitz said. Priya Penner, a sophomore political science and citizenship and civic engagement major, said she feels welcome in all respects at the DCC. “As a student on this campus, as a disabled student on this campus, I know that I have a space at the Disability Cultural Center,” Penner said. “Not only are my separate identities welcome at the DCC, but who I am as a person, a disabled, queer woman of color who was born in a different country, all of my identities and experiences and what those experiences create are welcome at the DCC.” Devin Nonnenman is one of Wiener’s mentees and currently a resident adviser. The senior, who’s a chemistry and forensic science double major in the College of Arts and Sciences, said people don’t need to know or speak to Wiener to see the impact she’s made on campus. Nonnenman has had Wiener talk to his residents about diversity, inclusion and disability culture. She ended up staying for more than three hours. His residents realized how much Wiener cared about them, even though she’d only just met them and may never see them again, he said. They talked about her for weeks afterward. While Wiener pushes for intersectionality at SU, she doesn’t deny the negative

DIANE WIENER strives to create a more inclusive environment at SU. Her office is filled with uplifting messages and features that are accessible to all students. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

impact that intersectionality can have. She said that intersections can work together to create more oppressive experiences — and tying that into the Theta Tau videos, said that it’s possible to use intersections against a specific group of people. “If people had doubts about the importance of intersectional identity, this video highlights how to use those ideas against people,” Wiener said. “I’m not shocked by what happened.” She added that she and several of her colleagues felt this incident was inevitable, and

Wiener is determined to create a sense of belonging for students who were hurt by it. That means going beyond inclusion. “Inclusion isn’t good enough,” she said. “The protest that’s happening outside is a comment on that in a very deep and vivid way.” Wiener said she was at Hendricks Chapel during one of the student forums for nearly five hours, listening and taking notes about how she and her role on campus can help the students and the university make changes.

When bad things like this happen in the world or on campus, it’s easy to think everyone is bad as well, said Stephen Kuusisto, a professor in the School of Education. But there are some people, like Wiener, who realize that’s not true. People who wake up every day trying to help people in big and small ways. Said Kuusisto: “Diane’s knowledge, vision and imagination, I think will be central to bring a true embrace of diversity into play rather than just chatting about it.” mogibbs@syr.edu

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weakness potentially has the No. 6-seed Orange playing three games in four days. The stretch begins against second-seeded North Carolina (12-3, 6-1), which beat SU 20-11 earlier this month in the Dome. To extend its season into May, Syracuse will likely need to upset the Tar Heels and then succeed in a format that has been its foil. “We’re banged up,” Gait said, “and we’ve scrambled and tried to get through the number of games in a short amount of time. It’s been tough. We’re hoping to regroup, get through this week … and do what we need to do.” The stumble against the Blue Devils was the Orange’s fourth contest in seven days. Syracuse started that stretch with a 11-10 overtime loss against Notre Dame on March 24, followed by a 14-10 breakdown at Northwestern two days later, and a 17-16 win in Princeton on March 29.

Syracuse conceded 50 goals in a three-game stretch from March 4-11

2018’s gauntlet was determined by factors outside of Gait’s control, he said. The Carrier Dome was set to undergo renovations during the season, he said – so SU hadn’t finalized its 2018 slate. When it turned out that the SU would be able to play on its home turf, it was too late. Most other teams had finalized their schedule, leaving the Orange with short layovers between matchups. A consequence of this has often materialized in mental errors, players and coaches said. Passes in the midfield are forced and result in turnovers. Defensive slides aren’t as crisp. Assistant coach Caitlin Defliese also attributed SU’s uptick in fouls to mental fatigue.

“We try to put a lot of prep behind each game,” sophomore defender Lila Nazarian said. “It’s really hard to have a 24-48 hour turnaround and be ready to play a totally different team. We do the best we can, but sometimes we’re just not as prepared as we want to be.” This year, SU has turned to its man-toman defense at a higher rate, players said. At times, it has tried to switch to a zone scheme based on the opponent, but the quick switch has been difficult with fewer practices. The Orange’s first compact stretch spanned a week in early March. It started with a 17-16 defeat against Virginia on March 4. Syracuse upset Florida, 17-15 on March 7, and was crushed by Maryland, 18-11, four days later. SU’s backline conceded 50 goals, the most it allowed in a three-game period all season. “We’re not as dialed in as we need to be,” Nazarian added, “and that’s when the fundamentals come away.” Syracuse implements fundamental drills when it typically has a few days between matchups, sophomore attack Emily Hawryschuk said. Defenders work on boxing out, and attackers go over dodging techniques. Players push themselves harder in these practices because the extended layoff allows their bodies to recover, Hawryschuk said. Alternatively, practices the day before a game consist of seven versus seven, set plays, and clearing practice, junior defender Alexa Radziewicz said. After film breakdowns of both SU’s play and its upcoming opponent, there isn’t a lot of time for much else. In preparing for Thursday’s game, some coaches have argued that the earlier, condensed run of games give SU an advantage. Before Hawryschuk hopped on the team bus on Tuesday, she tried to echo the same sentiment. “The schedule this year, it was …,” she said before her voice trailed off. “It was tough the way it was set up. But, it does prepare you for situations like this. I think our bodies will be prepared for it. That’s the big thing.” With its season potentially on the brink, SU will follow the same formula it did earlier in 2018. This time, it hopes for different results. nialvare@syr.edu

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barnes “The amount of stress and additional pressure that not only our department but other departments have felt, I think if all of us could have just walked out the door, we would have,” she said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of a fear of backlash. “But we can’t.” Departments where staff members were replaced are still in some cases less efficient, faculty and students said. The new employees don’t have the same institutional memory of former staff members, many of whom had worked at SU for decades. Terese Gagnon, a doctoral student in anthropology, said she and other graduate students often rely on staff members for a number of administrative requirements, including paperwork and course registration. “There are so many little things you have to do as a graduate student that aren’t intuitive so you don’t necessarily know, because you’re doing this thing year-round,” Gagnon said. “(Staffers) who are brand new have so much to learn.” The geography department’s staff was reduced from three to two after the buyout. One of the two remaining positions has been filled by a temporary employee, said Thomas Perreault, a geography professor. Before the buyout, the position was filled by a person who had been at SU for about 15 years, he said. The long-time staff member was better equipped than the temporary employee to support students because, given her years of experience, she understood the bureaucracy of the university, Perreault added. “It’s not the temp’s fault,” he said. “They were put into an impossible situation. It’s the fault of these decisions that are handed down by Bain because, from a consultant’s perspective, that’s how you save money.” In an email, Syverud said he knows “it is not easy to make changes in the way that we operate by reducing staff” and that he recognizes “that some of our faculty members remain disappointed in the process.” But he also said he believes the program has improved the university’s efficiency. Syverud added: “Ultimately, the voluntary separation incentive program allowed deans and other unit leaders to have the flexibility in making decisions about appropriate staffing levels in line with our effort to have resources available to address our academic priorities.”

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isitors will soon be welcomed to SU by a 115,000-square-foot complex dubbed the National Veterans Resource Center, which is expected to open in spring 2020 at the intersection of South Crouse and Waverly avenues. The building, which will cost $62.5 million to construct, will serve as the hub of veterans and military life at SU and house the Institute for Veterans and Military Families, the Office of Veteran and Military Affairs and the Army and Air Force ROTC programs, among other offices. With the NVRC, SU is seeking to solidify central New York as the “nation’s hub of research and programming” for veteran and military sectors, according to the NVRC’s website. The NVRC is a culmination of the institutional commitment to veterans and military-connected sectors that officially began when Syverud took office. The origin of that commitment can also be traced to Barnes, who has been closely connected to SU’s veterans and military programs as they’ve ascended within the past decade to become an institutional focus. As SU has become increasingly associated with military communities, some faculty have grown concerned. They worry the university is conflating support for veterans with support for national security interests, and that doing so will infringe on their ability to freely criticize military policies. “People who are critical of U.S. foreign

A plaque inside the Institute for Veterans and Military Families recognizes several large donors, including Barnes. Barnes has been a supporter of SU’s veterans and military programs as they’ve grown to become an institutional focus. kai nguyen photo editor

policy or the national security state are going to seem to be out of step with the priorities of the institution,” said Mark Rupert, a professor of political science whose research specialties include militarism. “… It’s going to be a real challenge for people who are here for the coming years and decades to deal with that.”

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People who are critical of U.S. foreign policy or the national security state are going to seem to be out of step with the priorities of the institution. ... It’s going to be a real challenge for people who are here for the coming years and decades to deal with that. Mark Rupert professor of political science at su

Years before military communities became a pillar of SU’s mission — before even the IVMF existed — there was a veterans program hosted in the Whitman School: the Barnes Family Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities. The program was created in 2007 by Haynie, who arrived at SU as an assistant professor in 2006. Barnes’ later endowment of the program has allowed it “to endure in perpetuity,” Haynie said. In June 2011, Haynie became the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship after Barnes made a donation to create the professorship. Before becoming the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship, Haynie’s title was the Barnes Fellow. That month, SU also announced the creation of the IVMF, considered the crown jewel of SU’s commitment to veterans and military communities. Haynie previously told The Daily Orange that the process for creating the IVMF began with the expansion of the Barnesfunded bootcamp program. As the program achieved success, there was an “opportunity

recognition” that sparked the establishment of the IVMF, he previously said. When the IVMF launched, Haynie was named its executive director, and Barnes was soon named one of two cochairs of its advisory board, a position he held until 2016. As noted in a 2016 SU News article, the IVMF grew considerably under Barnes’ leadership, from a staff of four to more than 70 across eight states. It amassed corporate and government partnerships and expanded its program locations to several military bases. The IVMF’s growth prompted the University Senate budget committee — in a February report — to call on Haynie to “address the Senate or hold an open forum to broadcast these activities more widely across the university community.” Inside the offices of the IVMF, there is a plaque recognizing the institute’s largest donors. Among them are a number of corporations and a handful of individuals, including Barnes. “Steve has been a long and early supporter of this work,” Haynie said. “… When I had an idea to start (the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans), the first institutional supporter of that program was Steve Barnes. And not only did he make the program possible and viable and sustainable, but then he became a champion for our subsequent work.” The Academic Strategic Plan references both the bootcamp program and the IVMF as it describes SU being “uniquely positioned to serve as a thought leader” in areas relating to veterans and military communities. Ellen Moore, author of “Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus,” said it’s common for universities to conflate support for veterans and military interests as being one and the same. The strategic plan states that SU “will leverage and enhance faculty expertise focused on veteran, military, and national security interests.” To accomplish that, the strategic plan suggests hiring “clusters of new faculty” with expertise in those areas and “incentivizing faculty interest” in those areas. “In those quotes you have the exact link,” said Moore, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. “That is the exact moment of conflation.”

That conflation can be “very threatening to academic freedom,” Moore said, and has the consequence of professors being discouraged from teaching openly about ongoing wars. The distinction between a veteranfriendly and a military-friendly campus was a point of discussion during a University Senate meeting in January, when associate professor of sociology Jackie Orr asked Syverud if there was a difference to him between those two pursuits. Earlier that month, Syverud sent an email to the university community saying SU would seek an expanded relationship with Fort Drum, the military base 85 miles north of Syracuse. “I think the needs and issues of those two communities are somewhat different, and as you suggest, the university’s interest in those communities may be different,” Syverud responded. “I haven’t thought through all the empirical differentiations, and I suspect we might come to different views on it, but I’ll think through that issue more clearly now that you have raised it.” Orr said she brought up the issue because she’s seen SU become “obviously, simplistically a military-friendly campus.” “I think pressing on that difference between veteran-friendly and militaryfriendly becomes one little wedge into trying to have some public conversations very rapidly on a campus that I can barely recognize compared to the campus 10 years ago,” Orr said in an interview. For Rupert, an early dissenting voice in SU’s prioritization of military communities, the “ship has sailed.” As he sees it, SU has become fundamentally linked to military interests through the Academic Strategic Plan. Rupert, who plans to retire in five years, said he hopes current and future faculty are able to maintain a space at SU where they can be critical of foreign policy “without feeling like they’re undermining the Academic Strategic Plan.” “We’re a different institution (now),” he said. “… The priority is what we can do for the national security state. And to the extent that we tie our institutional future to their priorities, it’s going to be very hard to undo that.” — 30 — mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

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Crittenden coaches and competes with SU hurdlers By Eric Storms staff writer

In most sports, it would be odd for coaches to compete against their players. Not in track and field. Take the 2018 Gainesville Tom Jones Memorial Meet on April 13, for example. Syracuse hurdler Angelo Goss placed ninth in the 110-meter hurdle finals. Ahead of him, in fourth, was Freddie Crittenden, an SU volunteer assistant coach. But Crittenden is not a coach in the traditional sense. In his time at Syracuse, Crittenden was a five-time All-American. Now, after graduating Syracuse in 2017, he is continuing to train for his professional career, which he hopes will eventually lead him to the Olympics. And since some meets Syracuse runs in are open to professional runners like Crittenden, he’s often there to run too. “I just try to be like a teammate,” Crittenden said. “I don’t want to assume a role of authority. They’re still like my friends, my homies. I don’t want to act like I’m so much better than them, because in a lot of ways they are better than me, so I still learn from them in some ways.” Crittenden decided to remain in the program to help him transition from college competition to the pros. He also “loves” the assistance of coach Dave Hegland, who coaches the SU hurdlers. Hegland is just as glad Crittenden is helping out, saying it’s good for everybody. “I think it’s good for (volunteer assistants) in that it continues to give them a little strucfrom page 16

music transfer catcher. It’s a song she often plays at her house, and it reflects her positive outlook on life. It’s a song she often sings while in the batter’s box or while she’s behind the plate catching. It’s a song that puts her in a good mood and can block out unwanted stress during an at bat. During a childhood where she rarely spent more than three years in one place, music acted as a constant in her life. “If I have a good song going through my head, I generally feel better and do better,” Carideo said. “It kind of keeps your mind away from the 500 things that you feel like are going through your head.” Born in Tampa, Florida, Carideo moved to Hartford, Connecticut at 2 months old. Carideo moved across the country to Los Angeles two years later, and then started second grade in Sydney, Australia. She moved back to Los Angeles and then again to Tampa, and finished high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, before her parents moved to Oregon shortly after her graduation. Long before she started playing softball, from page 16

rehfuss One summer during his underclass years, his family decided it wasn’t worth sending Rehfuss to a recruiting tournament. “We were like well, they’re just going to check his name off because he’s a small kid,” she said. Rehfuss led Shaker in points his sophomore season. He picked up club lacrosse to gain exposure REHFUSS and grew a few inches, but his weight still hovered in the low 100s. The following year he picked up colleges’ interest, most notably from Penn. There, he met Judd Lattimore, an assistant coach at the time. Lattimore was then hired as the head coach of Holy Cross, and he kept in contact with Rehfuss, eventually offering him a spot on the roster. Rehfuss finished his career at Shaker with 319 total points — 99 more than the next-best player. Players are still afraid to wear his No. 5 jersey, Hennessey said, something he believes won’t change for years. “He truly, honestly brought our program, with his play, to the next level,” Hennessey said. “and now what he’s doing in college, he’s even brought it even further. He’s really done

ture, access to facilities, that kind of thing,” Hegland said. “It’s good for our young kids on the team because hopefully they can continue to learn from people who have been successful and achieved some of the things that our young kids want to achieve.” Crittenden is not the first graduate to become a volunteer assistant after graduating SU. Hegland cited many runners, including 2008 graduate Ramon Sosa, who still helps the team today in a similar role to Crittenden. Runners like Alabama-transfer Goss have benefitted from learning from accomplished Syracuse alumni. “That’s what I didn’t have at Alabama,” Goss said. “The whole team around showing us how to do correct stuff. Assistant coach Freddie and Ramon tell us what we’re doing wrong and what we’re doing right.” Crittenden’s path to success has not been easy. In his junior year at Syracuse, he tore a ligament in his left knee in the Division I East Regional Finals. He said the injury held him back from winning the overall NCAA Championship, instead placing fourth two weeks later. His senior year, Crittenden again was injured in the east regionals, this time keeping him off the track for longer. Hegland said he rebounded strong. “He was still just right back at practice on Monday getting ready for the next thing, getting ready to hopefully compete at the USA Championships,” Hegland said. Crittenden feels he put too much pressure on himself senior year. Since then, he said he

FREDDIE CRITTENDEN still races with SU runners. Now as a coach, he competes against his athletes in invitationals. courtesy of su athletics

has changed mentally. “Since I’ve graduated, I’ve learned to kind of just let things go, let the process take place and just be patient with the season,” Crittenden said. “I don’t have to have the pressure and that constant urge to perform, perform, perform, perform and kind of slow down, take a deep breath and just enjoy the moment.” Hegland said that Crittenden’s schedule is different enough from SU’s that it doesn’t feel like he’s still just a Syracuse runner.

Crittenden has traveled to Poland, Italy and California without the team for outdoor meets, as well as the New York Millrose games during the indoor season. Still, Hegland says, it’s the same Crittenden he’s known the past four years. “That’s the good thing,” Hegland said. “He’s still just the same guy coming to practice, happy to be here, wanting to work and looking forward to the next competition.”

It wasn’t until the plane ride back from the World Series, though, that Carideo realized she wanted to pursue a music-related career after college. While studying for a psychology final that she had just a few days after softball season ended, she realized Washington did

not offer a program that corresponded with her passion. “I think kind of in that moment, just studying a textbook that I had no passions behind, I needed to make a move,” Carideo said. “Something needed to change.” Carideo decided on Syracuse University not knowing if she would see the softball diamond again. All she knew was that SU offered a music industry program that few other schools had. “I had known that I wanted to [play], but I think you need to come to a certain peace with it,” Carideo said. “Now I get to play, and so what am I going to do about it? What am I going to do differently?” Carideo’s travel softball coach played with Alisa Goler, Syracuse associate head coach, in high school. As a result, Goler trusted the travel ball coach’s input when she heard about a catcher from Washington looking to transfer to Syracuse. Goler’s decision to trust her former teammate paid off this season, both on and off the field. “She has good positive energy in the dugout,” Goler said. “She works her tail off, she’s constantly in the cage hitting, she’s constantly

catching in the bullpen or doing stuff to help other people out.” That positive energy stems from Carideo even though she spends most time backing up starting catcher Michala Maciolek. But against Niagara on April 18, Carideo seized her pinch-hit opportunity. As she settled in for her lone at bat that day, Carideo swung at the first pitch she saw and missed. She held her hand out to the umpire to signal a time out and took a deep breath. She held her bat in front of her as she settled back into the batter’s box. The right-handed Carideo ripped the next pitch to right-center field for a stand up double. Teammates and coaches agree that Carideo has brought a sense of energy with her from Washington. As the next batter, Alicia Hansen, stepped up to the plate, Carideo’s voice could be heard from second base. “Nobody better! Nobody better!” she yelled to Hansen as she tiptoed off the bag. “What she brought from Washington to here was her attitude and her charisma,” said Alexa Romero, Syracuse’s ace pitcher. “I’ve never really seen it in person before.”

an amazing thing for us.” When Rehfuss arrived at Holy Cross, though, he disliked playing under Lattimore. The intense coaching methods did not align with what Rehfuss wanted from a school, Claire said. He wanted to play lacrosse elsewhere and thought it’d be better to transfer. During an October break, Rehfuss and his dad sat down to talk about transferring. Steve told his son there might never be a chance to play lacrosse again if he transferred. He didn’t get looks before college, and schools like Syracuse were a stretch for a first-year transfer. “They’re recruiting ninth graders, not freshman in colleges,” Steve remembered saying to his son. “He said, ‘I’m willing to take the risk … To his credit, Stephen believed in himself, refused to take no for an answer and got his release.” That release came after a near three-hour conversation with Lattimore, who wanted Rehfuss to stay. But Rehfuss wanted out. This past season, Lattimore was placed on administrative leave from Holy Cross after both players and parents expressed concerns about him on several occasions, Inside Lacrosse reported. When Rehfuss returned home, he met with Hennessey and the two sent out film to colleges, hoping for a call back. It was the same cycle the coach and player went through when Rehfuss desperately searched for a home in high school.

“We knew a little bit about (Rehfuss) because he had gone to Holy Cross,” thenBrown and now-UVA head coach Lars Tiffany said. “… But to our mistake, we didn’t pursue him hard enough.” Then, Syracuse finally called. The coaches gave Rehfuss a full tour of the campus and where he’d live if he came to SU and even showed him a team practice. While at SU, Rehfuss turned to his mom once more. She was expecting him to comment on the quality of players and be worried. But he told her the opposite –– that he could keep up with the team. Rehfuss returned to Holy Cross to take classes that spring and officially transferred to SU in fall 2016 as a redshirt freshman. Before leaving for Syracuse, Steve pulled his son aside. They talked about the upcoming season. Steve told Rehfuss that making the travel squad in his first year would be a real plus. “And of course he didn’t listen to me,” Steve said, “because he never settles.” As SU took a commanding lead in its season opener against Siena, Rehfuss entered the game, scoring a hat trick less than five minutes after notching his first collegiate goal. A year later, Rehfuss notched a hat trick again in the season opener as a starter against Binghamton. He did what he does best: facilitated the offense from the X, dishing out two assists. It was something he picked up because

all his favorite lacrosse players were feeders and he always loved point guards in basketball that were great passers. He earned a spot on the starting attack just two years after not knowing if he’d ever play college lacrosse again. Rehfuss has started every game since for the Orange. He ranks first on the team in points and assists, third in goals and has the second-best shot percentage on the team of those who’ve taken double-digit shots. Rehfuss averages nearly two assists per game, and is just one shy of doubling the next-best player in assists, Nate Solomon. This past week against Navy, Rehfuss assisted on six different goals for the Orange and scored a goal in the process, contributing on seven of the Orange’s 12 goals. Rehfuss has taken an improbable path to success at Syracuse. He wasn’t recruited because of his size and received just one Division I offer. He wasn’t looked at despite growing a foot and asking for his release from Holy Cross. And he wasn’t supposed to end up at Syracuse. But in that first week of January, Rogers wanted him. And now, Rehfuss has grown into a star for the Orange. “Getting that call was the best call of my life,” Rehfuss said. “… I was told so many times I wasn’t good enough or too small to play at the next level. I was told I’d be better suited to play Division III.”

Carideo was involved in musical theatre. At 6 years old, she asked her parents for albums as her birthday present. When living in Los Angeles, she was surrounded by the entertainment industry. Music followed Carideo wherever she went. It followed her to the University of Washington, where she declared her major in environmental engineering and was on the softball team that placed third at the College World Series in 2017.

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Stephen Rehfuss facilitates SU’s offense after getting little attention from recruiters

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Following Syracuse’s third loss in seven days, head coach Gary Gait judged his team as “tired and flat-footed.” The Orange had just been steamrolled by Duke, 17-10, in the Carrier Dome and Gait proposed that the signs of a blowout were present before Syracuse stepped on the field. “With one day of rest, one day of preparation, those are the games we don’t play well,” Gait said after the Duke game. “It’s unfortunate. It’s just the nature of the schedule this year.” He’s admitted that few things have gone according to plan for No. 19 Syracuse (9-8,1-6 Atlantic Coast) this season. A shortened fall ball, a rash of injuries and lack of conference wins has placed the Orange firmly on the NCAA Tournament bubble, Gait said. But SU’s schedule hasn’t helped. The Orange has often encountered a slew of games in a week, meaning there’s a day or two to prepare for an often topranked opponent. Thursday’s ACC tournament in Durham, North Carolina,

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Carideo at SU for music STEPHEN REHFUSS was originally recruited by one Division I school: Holy Cross. After his freshman year, he decided to transfer and caught the attention of Syracuse. josh shub-seltzer staff photographer

By Charlie DiSturco senior staff writer

tephen Rehfuss’ phone lit up with a 315 area code in January 2015, during Christmas break of his freshman year. Holy Cross had just granted Rehfuss his release and he was having lunch with his mom, Claire, who was reading the newspaper. Rehfuss looked up at her. “I don’t know what this number is,” Claire remembered him saying. Rehfuss put the phone back down. But the phone kept buzzing and Claire told him to answer it. Syracuse assistant coach Lelan Rogers was on the other side. Rogers had received Rehfuss’ tape from his high school coach and wanted Rehfuss to tour Syracuse the following day. The call surprised the Rehfuss family, nearly knocking them off their chairs, Claire said. Rehfuss and both his parents took the more than two hour drive from Latham, New York, to Syracuse and met Rogers and SU head coach John Desko. They wanted Rehfuss to start as soon as possible. He committed that day. After receiving just one Division I scholarship offer in high school, Rehfuss was joining the second winningest program in college lacrosse.

Nearly two years since, Rehfuss is the main facilitator of No. 12 Syracuse’s (7-5, 4-0 Atlantic Coast) offense, which will be the top seed in the ACC tournament for the second consecutive season when it takes on Virginia on Friday. For the Orange to avoid an early exit from the tournament yet again, it will rely on Rehfuss, who leads the team with 40 points and 23 assists, to run the offense at X. “He was a leading scorer in his area so we started looking at those kind of stats,” Desko said. “…Talking to people, coach Rogers made some calls out that way and a lot of people felt he was a really good prospect.” Four years before his visit to Syracuse, Rehfuss made the Shaker (New York) High School varsity team as a freshman. He had the talent and could beat defenders with his speed, Shaker head coach Shawn Hennessey said, but he was 5-foot and just north of 100 pounds. Steve, his father, was 6-foot-4, and knew Rehfuss would hit a growth spurt. Rehfuss had the talent and dominated his freshman year of high school, but colleges paid little attention to him. College recruiting used to start in eighth or ninth grade, and most colleges focused on recruiting big, strong, fast athletes rather than skilled, undersized players like Rehfuss, Hennessey said. see rehfuss page 15

By Gabe Stern staff writer

With one out in the bottom of the sixth inning as Syracuse batted against Niagara, Bob Marley’s “Could You Be Loved” echoed throughout Skytop Field. Gianna Carideo was already at the plate for SU CARIDEO as her walkup song played. Like her teammates, she had mobbed Andrea Bombace after Bombace ripped a home run in the previous at bat, which extended Syracuse’s lead to 7-1. As everyone cleared away and Carideo took her practice swings, the already-soft music started to fade. Marley’s hit from the ‘80s serves as more than just a walkup song for Syracuse’s first-year

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