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On Thursday, a SlutWalk will take place across the Syracuse University campus to spread awareness about sexual assault.

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Who is Syracuse?

Day three of this series from Pulp shines a light on senior RA Kara Sheplock and teaching assistant Micah Fialka-Feldman.

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The late, great Pearl Washington had an unprecedented effect on the Big East. Look back on how he influenced the conference.

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Fast Forward Syracuse launched two years ago to provide a roadmap for the university’s future. It is broken down into three parts, focusing on the Academic Strategic Plan, the Campus Framework and Operational Excellence. Some have concerns about the transparency of the process. will carrara contributing photograher

Editor’s note: In Chancellor Kent Syverud’s inauguration address in April 2014, he listed four goals to improve Syracuse University.

This series looks at the status of those four goals, two years after the speech.

By Brett Samuels senior staff writer

ast Forward” has been the phrase at Syracuse University associated with change since Kent Syverud took over as chancellor, despite the issues and confusion surrounding it.

It’s defined on its website as “a roadmap for the future and a guide to help ensure the success of the University in the context of a changing and

Two years after Fast Forward’s launch, a lack of communication and clarity has many feeling

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challenging higher education environment.”

Syverud said Fast Forward took its name from the student entrepreneurship competition that took place during his inauguration weekend. It’s been an exciting process that’s been moving fast in some ways and slower in others, he said in an interview with The Daily Orange.

But many on campus see flaws with Fast Forward, some minor and others many worry could undermine the entire process.

There are concerns among faculty about communication and transparency breakdowns within the process. There are worries from students and faculty that participation and investment in the initiative is lacking.

And there is a sense of fatigue from many see fast

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Surveys made available for Campus Framework input

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University students can now access an online survey to indicate their preferences on three aspects of the Campus

Framework plan.

Students can vote on proposals regarding the University Place promenade, two potential options for seating areas on campus and renovations to Archbold Gymnasium, according to an SU News release.

Students can test replicas of the seating options, which would be located on the University Place promenade, at Schine Student Center until midday Friday, according to the release.

For Archbold renovations, stu-

dents can give their assessments through the survey regarding a potential student wellness center “where all services are provided in one central location,” according to the survey.

Similar to the seating options, renderings of the University Place

promenade can also be found in Schine. On the survey, students can give their opinions on three proposals for the University Place promenade: a pedestrian walkway “in the heart of campus,” seating gardens

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Senior grows through working ropes course

By Danielle Bertolini staff writer

When Clayton Davidson first heard the Syracuse University was building a ropes course at the end of his freshman year, he knew he wanted to get involved.

“I just expressed interest and kept in contact,” Davidson said. “And eventually I came back in August of 2013 and started doing training.”

Now a senior, the accounting management major works for the Outdoor Education Center as a student program coordinator, leading groups through the challenge course and training new facilitators.

The outdoor challenge course is an eight-element high ropes course on South Campus. Including ziplines, a “leap of faith” and a low ropes course, it’s mainly used for teambuilding and leadership exercises.

Interested in the outdoors his entire life, Davidson said he loves being outside on the ropes course.

“Once you’re standing on the platforms, if you look out over the zip lines you get a whole view of the city,” Davidson said. “You can see the lake in the background — it’s really a beautiful view.”

He emphasized the most defined

experiences of his job are those that involve personal and collective growth, especially for individuals who are nervous to be so far outside their comfort zone. Davidson also underlines goal-setting as a major component of his work, as it’s central to teambuilding.

As much as he enjoys leading groups through the ropes course, Davidson insists that safety is always the top priority.

“We make it as safe as we possibly can,” Davidson said.

Additionally, the Outdoor Education Center prides itself on facilitating programs in the most effective way possible, helping groups to meet their full potential and achieve their goals.

After graduation, Davidson will be doing risk consulting for an accounting firm, a job he sees as connected to his current experience. Unfortunately, Davidson’s new job will not be outdoors. While he said that he is disappointed by this, he’s enjoying his time at the outdoor challenge course while it lasts.

“I love doing it,” said Davidson. “I think it’s the most fun job on campus.” dbertoli@syr.edu

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Syracuse receives fed funding City gets $100,000 to help reintegrate inmates

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A.O. SCOTT discussed on Tuesday night the different types of film critics and his recent book about the art of criticism. Scott spoke in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. zach barlow asst. photo editor

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New York Times film critic talks career field

By Haley Kim staff writer

A critic’s taste is actually not very different from an average person’s, said A.O. Scott, a film critic for The New York Times for more than 16 years.

Scott described taste as one of the most confusing and contradicting human qualities, and said that it is always developing.

“I don’t think that critics are people with better taste,” Scott said, “… but are people that can explain our taste in a way that is clear and useful and that other people can relate to their own taste.”

Scott spoke to a nearly full audience at the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday night, discussing his new book “Better Living Through Criticism: How

to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth.” He discussed the art of criticism in conversation with the Goldring Arts Journalism Program Director Eric Grode, and answered questions from the audience.

Scott, who graduated from Harvard University in 1988 with a degree in literature, has been a film critic for The New York Times since January 2000, according to his New York Times biography. “(Criticism) is a good thing for culture and it’s also just a fact of human life. Just as we make things, and create representations and stories and works of art, we also judge those,” Scott said. “… Everyone is a critic because criticism is a really primal and primordial human activity.”

The purpose of his book, Scott said, was to connect the idea of criticism as a job with the primal

instincts to criticize. He said the book is about the practice of criticism, but also about what it means when we say something is “good.”

Scott said there are different kinds of critics: some who come in with a formulated or programmed set of ideas about what they hope to see, and others who work in a more intuitive way. Scott is the latter.

“I find (it) very risky and very limiting to kind of come at it, to come at a movie with an established set of expectations or values. … You are almost guaranteed to miss what is new and challenging,” Scott said.

Because Scott likes to view things without preconceived notions, he is in resistance of the algorithms that websites like Netflix and Amazon use to recommend films. But, he said, there is pleasure in viewing familiar forms of enter-

tainment, of knowing where you are and where the film is going to go.

The majority of the work he views is in the gray area between terrible and amazing, above or below average, Scott said. It is the job of a film critic to write about something worth reading, Scott added.

The nuances of critiquing something involve finding what it is interesting about it, Scott said.

Even when movies aren’t interesting, he said he tries to find something to hold his attention.

In response to a question from the audience, Scott said the most important aspect of a good film is its connection to human reality.

“It has to touch something true and be in some way — it’s hard to sort of pin down and describe it — but it in some way has to be honest,” he said. hykim100@syr.edu

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Trump, Clinton win big in state primaries

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Business mogul Donald Trump swept five northeastern primaries — Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — on Tuesday, continuing the momentum he gained from a huge victory in the New York primary last week.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won a total of four contests, and three of them — Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware — by double digit margins, according to The New York Times.

Clinton scraped by in Connecticut, where she won by 4 percent of the

in it to win it Here are the total number of delegates candidates could earn in the Republican and Democratic primaries on Tuesday. Trump swept the primaries, while Clinton won four of the five states below.

RHODE ISLAND 19 (R) 24 (D) CONNECTICUT 28 (R) 55 (D) PENNSYLVANIA 71 (R) 189 (D) DELAWARE 16 (R) 21 (D) MARYLAND 38 (R) 95 (D)

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vote with 90 percent of the state reporting as of 11:15 p.m. EST on Tuesday night. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), meanwhile, took Rhode Island with 55 percent of the vote as of 11:15 p.m. EST. Trump was largely expected to do well in Tuesday’s races. According to FiveThirtyEight’s polls-plus forecasts, Trump had a greaterthan 99 percent chance of winning in every state on Tuesday. In all five states, Trump won by triple digits while Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich split the remaining vote.

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The Syracuse Housing Authority will receive $100,000 of the $1.75 million the United States Departments of Justice and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allotted to help individuals in the justice system find jobs and housing.

The total award of $1.75 million will go to 18 different Public Housing Authorities (PHAs) across the country that are each partnered with a nonprofit legal service organization that has experience providing legal services to juveniles, according to a release from the Department of Justice. The Syracuse Housing Authority partnered with the Center for Community Alternatives, which received $58,744 from the Department of Justice and HUD, according to the release.

Under the Juvenile Reentry Assistance Program (JRAP), the Department of Justice and HUD are working together to provide this money to different cities’ housing authorities so that Americans leaving prisons and juvenile justice facilities can reintegrate

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national news Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the United States right now:

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INSIDE GOP Business mogul Donald Trump will attend California’s Republican party convention in an effort to court party activists and counter Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) highly organized campaign to accumulate delegates. Trump originally planned to attend the Virginia GOP convention at James Madison University, but quickly cancelled the trip due to logistical concerns. source: the washington post

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GOING DOWN Apple’s revenue fell 13 percent in its second fiscal quarter, marking an end to the tech giant’s 13 years of continuous quarterly growth, the company announced Tuesday. Net income also fell to about $1.90 per share as sales of the company’s flagship product, the iPhone, dropped. After the announcement, shares dropped about 7 percent. source: the new york times

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fast forward after two years of brainstorming sessions and listening meetings. “I don’t think Rome is built in a day,� said Deborah Pellow, an anthropology professor. “All I know is that there’s a real communication breakdown. I don’t think people know what’s going on.�

In his inauguration address on April 11, 2014, Syverud declared that he wanted SU to become an institution that embraces change.

Since then, Fast Forward has become the central vehicle for that change. It encompasses the Academic Strategic Plan, which maps out the future of the university’s teaching and research; the Campus Framework, which aims to determine what the physical shape of the campus should be; and Operational Excellence, which looks at ways the university can save money and become more efficient.

According to its website, there are 20 working groups — including oversight and advisory committees — within Fast Forward. Additional workgroups existed last academic year during the discovery phase of the process.

A draft of the Academic Strategic Plan was released last summer, and identified six broad pillars that would guide the plan moving forward: internationalization, discovery, innovation, the student experience, commitment to veterans and military-connected communities and “One University.�

Mehrzad Boroujerdi co-chairs the implementation group for internationalization and was involved in the discovery phase last academic year. He said he’s fully supportive of Fast Forward, and believes it’s important for the university to have a vision moving forward. Every major university he knows of has done the same thing, he said, and “it would be idiotic not to have one.� “I would say if you look at it from the perspective of developing a brain trust, Fast Forward has been successful in that sense,� he said. “But if you’re looking for very concrete ideas, I don’t think that’s possible.�

Boroujerdi attributes that partly to significant turnover in leadership. Up to this point, there has been an interim provost. Michele Wheatly will take over in mid-May and will oversee the implementation of the Academic

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survey along the north side of University Avenue and access to Wi-Fi along the promenade.

The promenade would run from South Crouse Avenue to College Place, effectively restricting cars and other vehicles from

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funding back into their communities. The program is funded through the department’s Second Chance Act funds, according to the release.

U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in

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Strategic Plan. Since January 2015, five colleges on campus have hired a dean or had a dean announce their departure, and other administrative branches have dealt with changes, including some within human resources. This has forced some decisions to be postponed.

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The pieces of distinct feedback the administration said it received regarding the Academic Strategic Plan

Another factor that has put some decisions on hold is funding. Multiple members of Fast Forward committees said they were told in the beginning of the process to come up with ideas within their respective group that would improve campus, and not to worry about the cost at the time. Lisa Moeckel, co-chair of the One University implementation committee, said there was no budget provided to set parameters for what would be feasible. “If we knew right up front that this was not affordable, we wouldn’t waste our time,�

Moeckel said. “But I get the flipside that we want to think big because even if it might take us three or four years to get there, it could be really good.�

A portion of the funding for the Academic Strategic Plan is supposed to come from savings through the Operational Excellence aspect of Fast Forward. In an effort to create savings without reducing services, the university has changed office suppliers, changed the telecommunications plan and, with significant backlash, changed the travel policy for professors and staff who book flights through the school.

Andy Clark, senior associate vice president of the Operational Excellence program office, said only some of the efforts identified have quantifiable savings estimates. It takes about a year following implementation to determine accurately how much money is saved. With that in mind, the Operational Excellence committee will have a better idea of how much money is available in June and the fall, he said.

At a University Senate meeting in early April, it was unclear how much money would be available for the Academic Strategic Plan and how that would affect SU’s budget. Many faculty and staff members said they’ve heard that the money that will be available from Operational Excellence is expected to fall short of the original goal.

In interviews with The Daily Orange, several on campus voiced concerns about the lack of communication and absence of information shared as Fast Forward progresses.

Under a tab on the Fast Forward website labeled “News,� the most recent post is from Feb. 26. The next most recent post is from December 2015. Many of the articles available on the site advertise listening sessions or comment periods, which some professors say are ineffective. Others don’t attend.

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs at SU, said in an email that about 230 students, faculty and staff have been directly involved in the academic strategic planning process since it began through workgroups and committees. In addition, he said the administration received more than 1,300 pieces of feedback, which helped shape the final draft of the plan.

Last Thursday, a pair of listening sessions for students regarding the Campus Framework initiatives drew about a dozen attendees.

A few faculty members said they simply don’t have time to go to listening meetings because of their responsibilities to teach, work on research and serve on other committees and faculty groups.

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The number of faculty, staff and students directly involved with committees and working groups associated with Fast Forward, dating back to two years ago

Several professors noted that they were sent about a half dozen surveys in the last few months, but haven’t seen the results or how their responses are being used in relation to Fast Forward. “With the academic plan, it would be nice to see comments and what was cherrypicked and what was not cherry-picked and so on,� said a professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs who asked not to be named.

Many faculty members have deeper concerns — due to a lack of communication — that the end results of Fast Forward may not be as inclusive as they seem. Some are unsure where the six broad pillars of the Academic Strategic

Plan draft came from. Others say they believe the university gets its message out when it forms working groups and when it has results to display, but only reveals a select portion of information in the middle of the process. “There is widespread skepticism about whether the investment people have made in it, in time and in thought, will have any influence on what is actually done,� said Samuel Gorovitz, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

A few professors used phrases such as “happy talk� and “fake participation� in discussing how they felt about communication surrounding Fast Forward so far. “My perceptions about this might be all wrong, but because there’s been no communication, because there’s been no trust building, because there’s been no transparency, people are assuming the worst about this,� said another Maxwell professor who asked not to be named.

Others aren’t quite as skeptical, and believe that some faculty will naturally be more invested in the process than others — just like students. Many on campus agree that planning for the university’s future is a good, common sense move. But most acknowledge that it’s time to see some results to counteract the fatigue that the campus is experiencing from two years of listening sessions and workgroups.

The implementation groups will technically conclude their work at the end of the month.

They will present their final ideas and recommendations, and Fast Forward will move to its next phase in the next academic year.

Wheatly, the provost-designate, said the university should be moving ahead and gaining some traction with the Academic Strategic Plan. It’s time to prioritize certain ideas and move the thinking into action, she said in an interview with The Daily Orange.

In the meantime, there is a portion of campus that won’t be satisfied until the disconnect between those leading Fast Forward and those on the outside is resolved. “You’re not going to make everybody happy all the time,� said Moeckel, one of the co-chairs of the One University group. “But I think we could increase our percentage a bit.� blsamuel@syr.edu | @Brett_Samuels27

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driving in that area. Bus stops currently on University Place, such as those in front of Bird Library and Schine, would be moved to the opposite sides of those buildings on Waverly Avenue. The promenade would have a 24-feet clear zone for emergency access.

Additionally, Sasaki Associates, the architecture firm SU hired to complete the

University Promenade, has proposed implementing heated sidewalks near and along the promenade to improve the melting of snow on the sidewalks.

In addition to the seating areas, the promenade would feature other studentfriendly amenities such as a bike corral in front of Bird Library.

The promenade, the seating areas and Archbold renovations are initiatives under the Campus Framework plan, one of three initiatives of SU’s Fast Forward plan. The other two components of Fast Forward are the Academic Strategic Plan and the Operational Excellence plan.

the release that the future of the country depends on the future of young people — including those who have become involved in the justice system. “By helping justice-involved youth find decent jobs and stable housing after they return home, these critical grants provide a foundation for a fresh start and offer a path toward productivity and purpose,� Lynch said in the release. “In the months ahead, the Department of Justice will continue helping justice-involved youth enrich their lives and improve our country.�

Nearly 55,000 people under the age of 21 are in juvenile justice facilities and about 185,000 young adults aged 18 to 24 are in state

and federal prisons, according to the release.

In addition to the Syracuse Housing Authority, two other New York state recipients were listed: the New York City Housing Authority and the Albany Housing Authority.

The NYCHAthority partnered with Youth Represent, Inc., which received $88,412, according to the release. The Albany Housing Authority partnered with the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York, which received $81,000.

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securing the state’s 71 delegates and makes it more difficult for him to amass the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.

In total, Trump came away with 17 delegates for Pennsylvania because of this rule, according to The New York Times.

Including Tuesday’s victories, Trump has 950 delegates, according to the RealClearPolitics delegate count.

On the Democratic side, a candidate needs 2,382 delegates to secure the nomination.

After Tuesday, according to RealClearPolitics,

Clinton has 2,137 pledged delegates as well as superdelegates, who can vote for whichever candidate they want to at the convention. Sanders has 1,306 delegates, as of 11:15 p.m. EST. According to The New York Times, Sanders will reassess his campaign after Tuesday, but remained adamant that he will stay in the race until the Democratic convention.

The next primary is in Indiana, which is on Tuesday. The race is widely considered to be important for Trump.

primaries convention, Trump needs 1,237 delegates.

With wins on Tuesday, Trump is one step closer to winning the nomination outright.

However, Pennsylvania’s primary is unlike any other state in the country. It has 54 unbound delegates, which means they can vote for whoever they want to on the first ballot, according to The New York Times. This “loophole primary� prevented Trump from

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he ire of tens of thousands of Verizon workers rings through the east coast region as negotiators are hitting several nasty hang-ups.

Earlier this month, 36,000 Verizon workers — the vast majority belonging to the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, according to CNN — walked out of their jobs after reaching their breaking point. The workers have been without contract since August and have a vast list of grievances, including the outsourcing of jobs and the cutting of healthcare benefits.

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam recently visited striking workers in Dewitt, New York — a suburb of Syracuse — to chide them for what he calls a strike that “makes no sense to anybody.� But what really doesn’t make any sense is how a CEO is comfortable making a reported $18 million a year while jobs are being outsourced and workers are being asked to transfer across states away from their families for months at a time.

These workers are justified in their dissent because Verizon’s attempts to maximize profits at the expense of employees have gone too far. Whether or not this strike bears any fruit, it should serve as a stark reminder that workers and the unions that represent them will not take abuse by larger corporations lying down.

Indeed, the strikers are weaponizing public opinion to help pressure the company into giving into their demands. Soon after McAdam visited Dewitt, presidential hopeful and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders expressed his support to the striking workers in New York and brought muchneeded publicity to the cause.

It was crucial for the striking workers to stay relevant and cause public scorn for Verizon in order to have their demands met, since their interruption of service is not making any headway for the group.

Despite the fact that negotiation efforts have stalled and nei-

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IT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS ther side seems willing to budge on their position, the indefinite strike really isn’t hurting Verizon due to a commendable amount of planning on the company’s behalf.

Verizon has learned from a similar strike in 2011, which saw 45,000 workers walk off the job. Since then, the company has invested in training 10,000 substitute workers should situations like this arise, according to The Wall Street Journal. Other Verizon employees have also stepped up to fill in the jobs the trained technicians have left vacant because of the strike.

Verizon recently outsourced 5,000 jobs to Mexico, the Philippines and the Dominican Republic as well as ramped up the hiring of lower wage, non-union workers to save money. These cost-cutting measures are in response to the decline of wired services, which most CWA workers serve and the steady loss of profits from the sector. Ironically, the jobs Verizon has shipped overseas are also helping to ease the pressure caused by the striking employees.

As abominable as Verizon’s actions are toward the union, their ability to carry on as if nothing is wrong is admirable. Though it’s business as usual for customers, it’s extremely doubtful that these scab workers are providing the same quality of work the trained technicians would be able to offer.

Either way, Verizon’s ability to stay the course represents a large point of leverage for the company.

With the corporation having lost 1.4 million customers last year along with 2 percent of its sales, it may seem like Verizon is simply stuck between a rock and a hard place — between hurting workers and losing money. This is simply not true considering Verizon is still reporting $8.9 billion in wireline profit, according to CNN. Arguments in favor of the company ignore the fact

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that Verizon FiOS, another section of wireline sales that the striking workers manage, has seen a 9 percent growth in sales.

Verizon seems simply unwilling to cut into its profits to keep jobs in the United States and increase the pay of its technical workers who only make, contrary to misinformation spread by Verizon, an average of $74,000 yearly, according to CNBC. Jan Ondrich, a professor of economics in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, agreed that there is a problem with Verizon’s priorities. “I don’t think anyone (Verizon’s chief executives) is worth that amount of money,� said Ondrich. “Companies need to be more responsible to their employees before taking compensations like that.�

The CWA could be criticized for its reluctance to appear before mediators immediately after the strike began, as suggested by Verizon. But the union cannot really be blamed for its reluctance because there has been no progress on either side of the negotiations in nearly 10 months.

Whether or not the strike pans out for the embattled employees, it at least offers a glimpse of what workers face in today’s corporate world. What is being demanded by the protesters is not greedy — at the very least, many can agree that jobs should stay in the U.S. when at all possible.

Avoiding outsourcing and giving workers fair benefits is something all companies should strive to do. Yes, sometimes hard decisions must be made, but not when the company is more than profitable and its CEOs are making tens of millions a year. It’s time Verizon and other companies remember that its workers are its most valuable asset and should start treating them as such.

Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public policy dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at tahorn@syr.edu.

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SU student discusses threats to democracy Our democracy is in peril.

SuperPACs and billionaires are bankrolling our elections, and as a result, most Americans have virtually no influence in our political system — a damning state of affairs for the world’s oldest surviving democracy.

Yet, far from giving up, the American people are ready to take back their democracy. In fact, citizens are united in their support for the needed reform.

85 percent of Americans want fundamental reform in the way our elections are funded. Almost 3/4 of Americans support public financing of elections, the most necessary and urgent reform; and 78 percent want to overturn Citizens United.

Evidence of this new excitement can be seen in the recently concluded actions and events of Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening — two movements centered on money in politics and voting rights.

On April 2, 150 “Democracy Spring� marchers left from Philadelphia to walk 140 miles to the nation’s capitol. Then on April 16, they were joined by thousands of “Democracy Awakening� activists, including students from Democracy Matters, the national student organization that works to get money out of politics and people back in. Over 5,000 people came together in Washington for three

days of rallies, cultural events, teach-ins calling for a democracy that works for all of us, not just for the big campaign donors.

The growth of this democracy movement is incredibly exciting.

Yet this is just the beginning. To truly give democracy back to the American people will require a difficult struggle for change. The small group of political mega-donors, who benefit handsomely from the status quo, will not give up quietly. But the majority of the American people now understand what is at stake.

We need to protect the voting rights of every citizen. We need to create public financing systems like those in Maine and Connecticut, in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City, so that running for office is possible, even for those who don’t have millions of dollars. And we need to overturn Citizens United so that corporations and rich individuals can’t buy elections. Only then will we have elected officials who listen to the majority of Americans — to our pleas to protect our environment, to reduce the enormous burden of student debt on college graduates, to stop mass incarceration and to create the vibrant democracy that we all deserve.

Jessica Faunce Political Science & Citizenship and Civic Engagement Syracuse University 2016 Co-President of Democracy Matters

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MICAH FIALKA-FELDMAN is currently a teaching assistant at the School of Education and works for the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. Fialka-Feldman, 31, identifies as a person with an intellectual disability, and uses his experiences as a springboard for self-advocacy and disability rights. bridget williams staff photogra-

Five quick facts about Micah Fialka-Feldman 1.

He is a TA for SPE 311: Perspectives on Disabilities.

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In May 2014, he was appointed

by President Barack Obama to serve on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.

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He graduated from the InclusiveU program with a certificate in disability studies last May.

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He was a summer intern at the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through the American Association of People with Disabilities.

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He is featured in an upcoming documentary called “Intelligent Lives,” which will explore themes of intellectual disability through personal stories.

MICAH FIALKAFELDMAN

School of Education TA strives for disability rights, self-advocacy Editors’ note: “Who is Syracuse” is a series that runs in The Daily Orange every spring. It highlights individuals who embody the spirit of Syracuse University. Members of the SU community were encouraged to nominate people they thought fit this description. This series explores their stories.

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icah Fialka-Feldman’s elementary school in Huntington Woods, Michigan, had a very specific rule: Children with disability needs had to walk through a “special” door to get inside the school, while everyone else would walk through the normal entrance.

But Fialka-Feldman, who, at the time was in the first or second grade, didn’t think that was right.

“I just came home one day and I told my parents, ‘I want to go in the same door as my friends,’” said Fialka-Feldman. With his parents’ help, Fialka-Feldman brought his concerns to the school, and was able to go through the same entrance as everyone else.

This seminal moment began a life of self-advocacy for FialkaFeldman, instilling in him a passion for disability rights and justice.

Fialka-Feldman, 31, identifies as a person with an intellectual disability, and uses assistive technology, such as his iPhone or

speech recognition software, to help with reading and writing.

He’s an employee of the School of Education and the Lawrence B. Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education at Syracuse University, where he currently works as a teaching assistant and holds seminars. Fialka-Feldman is also a graduate of InclusiveU, an individualized program within the Taishoff Center that supports students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. “(InclusiveU) has helped me learn and grow from having a chance to teach students that are going to graduate and maybe one day have a student with a disability in their classroom,” he said.

InclusiveU participants are able to take courses in any subject they wish — theater, physical education and chemistry, to name a few — but Fialka-Feldman’s passion lies in disability studies — he loves learning about the history and culture surrounding disability rights and its advocates.

It’s a passion that also garnered him national attention.

In 2009, Fialka-Feldman sued Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, for accepting and subsequently revoking his application to live in one of their dorms. Fialka-Feldman had previously been commuting two hours from home and became excited about the possibility of living on a dorm after helping his younger sister move into hers.

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KARA SHEPLOCK was born in Indiana, but since her parents are from Liverpool, she has been a Syracuse fan her entire life. She thought she was going to college at Butler University, but when she found out she was accepted to SU, she was estatic. bridget williams staff photographer

KARA SHEPLOCK Senior RA strives to enhance resident halls through Colorful Pizza campaign Editors’ note: “Who is Syracuse” is a series that runs in The Daily Orange every spring. It highlights individuals who embody the spirit of Syracuse University. Members of the SU community were encouraged to nominate people they thought fit this description. This series explores their stories.

By Stacy Fernandez staff writer

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espite being raised more than 650 miles from Syracuse, Kara Sheplock was raised eating Cosmos’ pizza and wearing Manny’s gear.

Born in Zionsville, Indiana, her parents raised to her to bleed orange. Originally from Liverpool, her parents often took their family on vacation to the Salt City.

“Literally, orange has been the only color in my closet since I was a tyke,” said Sheplock, a senior food studies major.

Growing up near Indiana University, she would often get into verbal spats with her teachers, pushing back against their Hoosier pride. In her fourth grade play, she was supposed to sing IU’s fight song, but instead snuck SU-related words into the tune.

Sheplock was all set to attend Butler University, which was a mere thirty minutes away from home. She even had a student ID for the school.

But the luck of the Irish seemed to be with her on St. Patrick’s Day when she received an email from SU saying that she had gotten in. Sheplock started running up and down the hallways of her house

with excitement. A place she always considered her second home, had suddenly become a reality.

This idea of a second home has defined her time at SU. But when she arrived on campus, her dorm life didn’t mimic that home-away-from-home feeling.

Her resident adviser freshman year didn’t foster a nurturing environment. So when she was a junior, she decided to apply to be an RA, and has since built her reputation as “the mama bear” of DellPlain Hall.

Former resident and now-close friend Tessa Stewart said Sheplock acted like a mom in a number of ways. The duo became close on frequent walks to class.

I just had an epiphany.

You know what, we’re all a lot like pizza.

KAR A SHEPLOCK “That’s kind of how I introduce her to people, ‘Oh, this is Kara, she was my RA, now my mom,’” said Stewart, a sophomore television, radio and film major.

Stewart said when she first found out she would be living next to the resident advisor she “was really pissed” and thought the experience would, put bluntly, “suck.” But the stereotypically-uptight RA caricature was never Sheplock’s style. She choose instead to work on fostering friendships,

something her residents praise her for.

There is a natural power barrier created between RAs and residents because of the titles placed upon each, Sheplock said.

“You wouldn’t think of hanging out with your RA,” she said. “That was something that was like: ‘Challenge accepted.’”

She combats this barrier between her and her residents by referring to them as her “kids” or “kiddos,” which she said is a more accurate way to describe her relationship with them.

Like a mom, she wants her “kids” to come to her when they need support. She regularly offers people rides, walks new students to class and even helps past residents find apartments.

And she does it all with a smile, a defining feature regularly mentioned by her residents.

But Sheplock’s typical smile was quickly erased from her face one solemn evening in February.

She was standing in Marshall Square Mall texting one of her “kids,” checking in to see how their day was going.

“Good, not as bad as what’s going on in Walnut Hall.”

“What do you mean, what’s going on in Walnut?”

Sheplock stood in shock, her heart sinking to the pit of her stomach as she received more information regarding the passing of a fellow student.

Chills ran through her body. Her thoughts were racing, thinking that one of her kids could be in that building and one of her kids could know her.

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ONEIDA 5.2%

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MADISON 5.8% ERIE 5.1%

Here’s the March non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for some counties in New York state.

ALBANY 4.1%

ONONDAGA 4.6%

WESTCHESTER 4.2%

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Syracuse metropolitan area sees declining unemployment in March

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he March non-seasonal unemployment rate in the Syracuse metropolitan area is down compared to this time last year.

For the past year, unemployment has been on the decline in the Syracuse area. In March 2016, Syracuse reported a 5.1 percent non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, a 0.8 percent decrease from March 2015 when the unemployment rate was 5.9 percent, according to data released by the New York State Department of Labor reported on April 19.

how is the unemployment rate calculated?

The unemployment rate is calculated by determining how many people are unemployed divided by how many people are in the labor force. Seasonally adjusted data accounts for influences that might affect unemployment rates.

Statewide, the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate also dropped from 5.7 to 5.2 percent, according to the state Department of Labor.

In actual terms, the 5.1 percent Syracuse unemployment means that 16,100 people were out of work in March, according to Syracuse.com. This is down from 18,405 people in March 2015, according to the Unit-

ed States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In the last 10 years, the highest unemployment rate was in February 2012, which reported a 9.6 percent unemployment rate, according to the BLS. During that month, 31,298 people were out of work.

The unadjusted rate is used to calculate annual average estimates, according to the BLS. That data is also usually used in smaller geographical levels, such as county and city levels, according to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, because seasonally adjusted levels are usually only available at the state level.

Though the unemployment rate is continuously declining, it might not be representative of how many people are actually not working. This is because the unemployment rate does not take into account people who don’t have jobs but also are not actively looking for work, according to the BLS. The Syracuse labor force has been declining the past few years, but the population has seen little fluctuation, according to U.S. census data.

In March 2013, 322,817 people were in the workforce, which is 8,076 more than how many people were in the labor force in February 2016, according to the BLS. Local counties have also seen decreased unemployment rates, according to the BLS. Madison County’s unemployment rate decreased 0.9 percent in 2016. Onondaga County saw a 0.7 percent decrease in unemployment. Oswego County had the highest decrease in unemployment of the three counties, lowering its unemployment rate by 1.1 percent this year. trtolton@syr.edu

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The first graph shows a breakdown of Syracuse’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the past seven months. The second shows how March’s unemployment rate, which was just released, compares to the March unemployment rates of the past 10 years. source: bureau of labor statistics

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POWERwalk SlutWalk will take place at Syracuse University for the first time

Text by Deniz Sahinturk staff writer

Illustration by Sarah Collins contributing illustrator

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hen Micheal Sanguinetti, a police officer from Toronto, advised female students at Osgoode Hall Law School to “avoid dressing like sluts” to prevent sexual assault, he didn’t know he would inspire a movement that would spread through Canada and the United States.

But it wasn’t a movement supporting him.

Instead, Sanguinetti sparked a series of “SlutWalks” across the U.S. and Canada. These protests target rape culture, specifically the idea that women should be blamed for sexual assault based on what they are wearing.

A SlutWalk will take place at Syracuse University on Thursday at 7 p.m. starting in front of Hendrick’s Chapel. The event will begin with speeches from Keturah Raymond, creator of feminist magazine Femme Noir, and Jordan McGriff, vice president of anti-sexual assault group, A Men’s Issue. The speeches will be followed by performances and the march across campus.

The decision to have a SlutWalk at Syracuse was obvious, said Tatyana Laird, a

senior public relations major who’s helping to organize the event. The conversation about sexual assault and violence against women was already huge on the SU Campus, and programs like It’s On Us were already challenging rape culture on campus.

WHAT IS

SLUTWALK?

A SlutWalk is a protest march against sexual assault and rape culture.

Participants often wear revealing clothing to imply what someone is wearing or looks like isn’t an excuse for assault.

“We thought, why not have our own Slut Walk?” Laird said.

They thought the protest could be another step in this positive change.

Raymond, a freshman newspaper and online journalism and information management dual major, became involved in the event after talking to McGriff. They originally intended to only collaborate for a discussion with A Men’s Issue to promote Femme Noir. But when McGriff suggested this event, Raymond was immediately excited and they started the preparing that very day.

Raymond said they hope to change the dynamics of the campus.

“You should be able to dress for a party without fearing the judgment of others, and what might happen to you,” Raymond said.

Justin Alvarez, public relations chair of A Men’s Issue and a junior broadcast and digital journalism major, said the idea was first brought up by fellow A Men’s Issue member and McGriff’s brother. He had attended a “SlutWalk” in Binghamton and wanted to bring it to SU. Alvarez said with the event, they hoped to get the men involved in the cause against violence against women — something that’s also a big objective of A Men’s Issue.

Overall, the SlutWalk is aimed at starting a conversation around the issues of sexual violence and rape culture and create a comfortable space for women around campus. Laird said the name “SlutWalk” drew people in with the shock value of its name.

Some people were confused and a little put off by the event’s name. But luckily, Raymond said some people’s reactions to this event came from the other end of the spectrum.

“Some were like, ‘It’s awesome, I want to go,’ right away,” Raymond said. “When we were tabling at Schine to promote the event, see slutwalk page 10

SU students create communities through Instagram

By Nina Moll contributing writer

Instagram has become a part of the glue that holds Syracuse University students together. Some just take pictures to share with friends. But some students, such as Eric King and Olivia Feng, use Instagram to connect the SU community. @DogsofNewhouse on Instagram is run by King, a junior

magazine journalism major. While sitting in a booth in food.com, King noticed the increasing amount of dogs that pass through Newhouse and wanted to document them for other students to see. He said he felt as though this was a quirky thing that made Newhouse special.

This account offers the dog coverage that Newhouse students, faculty and staff crave, King said.

Although the @DogsofNew-

house account only has a few photos posted, the feedback he has received has been positive.

King turned to Instagram as his social media platform of choice and after just a couple of weeks, the account has gained 138 followers as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night.

What started out as a hobby, grew into something popular among Newhouse students.

“Twitter is dead and Face-

book is more personal,” King explained. He chose Instagram because he thought it was a great place to start a community.

King has even opened up his account to all SU students, allowing for them to submit their own photos for his followers to see.

Another SU student, Feng, has created her own original brand through her Instagram. The sophomore finance and accounting major

in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management founded @SUGlance on campus to record the style trends of a variety of students.

After coming to Syracuse from Beijing, Feng wanted to get involved in an extracurricular she was truly interested in.

Her goal was to take the “street snaps” idea of taking pictures of stylish people on the streets that

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slutwalk many people stopped by to ask us how they could get involved with it, and offered to help us make signs and posters to use in the event.”

But even though some found it inappropriate, Laird said the name was suitable to the nature of the event, as it was about reclaiming a word usually thrown at women as an excuse for sexual assault. And after learning the meaning behind the event, many skeptics were excited to join in and help out.

Laird said this excitement could be related to the fact that the event is about taking back the streets.

“This is an event that gives people a chance to reclaim and own their sexuality in

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is popular in China and Japan, and make it more personable to students. So she formed her own club, collaborating with friends and classmates to photograph and find college fashionistas on the SU campus. With a team of 20 students, SUGlance has been at work for a little bit over a year.

SUGlance is where Feng can release all of her energy and share what she finds interesting to the Syracuse community.

Through Instagram, Facebook and Tumblr, SUGlance shares photographs of people wearing different styles around Syracuse. Of all the platforms, Feng prefers Instagram.

“Everyone has one and it’s so in trend now,” Feng said. “Our photos are touched up and made to look more professional, and Instagram is the perfect place for them to be displayed.”

SUGlance has collaborated with other student organizations, such as Chinese Platform, which is a blog made for the Chinese

places that they were normally made to feel unsafe at,” Laird said.

Alvarez said the name “SlutWalk” is about reclaiming a derogatory term and changing it into a non-derogatory one. He said it is also about changing the conversation behind the term “slut” and what it means to people.

“I think it’s a dope event and a dope concept,” Alvarez said. “People should come out and help us shed light on stories that might not be receiving the attention they need to be receiving.”

Raymond said that being able to put on an event called “SlutWalk” was, in itself, already huge progress for the SU campus.

“With this event, we are saying that it doesn’t matter how I look, act or dress, as sexual violence is never the victim’s fault,” Laird added. dsahintu@syr.edu

community of students at SU. The SUGlance team often writes articles for this blog.

In the past, SUGlance has photographed sorority bid day shirts, in order to promote the Panhellenic community. Feng believes that reaching out to different groups of people allows for them express their own identity, and she wants to share that with the SU community and the world.

Feng expressed her interest in turning SUGlance into Glance, a college brand that will be available at other schools across the United States. While reaching out to friends at other universities in order to continue sharing the styles of college fashionistas, the SUGlance club will cover Mayfest, Block Party and the Senior Fashion Show.

These Instagram accounts are vastly different, but have a common goal. Both @DogsofNewhouse and @SUGlance share more than just photos with SU students — they aim to create a community through their followers. njmoll@syr.edu

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#ĂŹ is a Syracuse University sophomore who released his first four-track album, “Ghoul Summer,â€? last year. Radio stations have asked him to make his music more mainstream, but he prefers his original style inspired by the ‘80s new wave movement. evan jenkins staff photographer

UP AND COMING Sophomore takes lo-fi sound beyond Syracuse with band “Super Defense�

By Joe Bloss staff writer

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here’s a sophomore that walks around Syracuse University with a very definitive style about him. His pant legs are rolled up to reveal his high tops. He’s confident, with a retro flair. Hipster might even be an applicable adjective. His name is Andy Horvath.

There’s also a band that dominates the Syracuse DIY music scene. They’ve played at Spark Contemporary Art Space and Scarier Dome. Their lo-fi bedroom pop music has been released on student-run tape label Ghoul Tapes, so retro would be a fair assessment of their style. The band is called Super Defense.

Horvath, a Bandier student, is the man behind Super Defense. He records the vocal and instrumental tracks. It’s a fairly new project, approaching what will be its first birthday this summer, and it’s come a long way in one year. Two weekends back, Super Defense played in front of what Horvath estimated to be a crowd of 500 people, opening for Matt and Kim at the University of Rochester’s Dandelion Day. Last summer Horvath, a native of suburban Cleveland, worked as an intern at a professional sound company in Ohio. It was backbreaking work, unloading tons of equipment and testing out hundreds of thousands of audio cables. At night he would sit in his room and write songs that expressed his sentiment that he was wasting his summer away while working. “I felt this weird struggle of me fighting against becoming an adult, trying to hold on to what little of summer I had left,� Horvath said. “So I made the

songs out of an impulse that I could still make something out of the summer.�

From that Ohio summer came “Ghoul Summer,� a four-song tape Super Defense released in October.

Originally sold through Bandcamp, it can now also be found on Run For Cover Records’ online store, a label whose roster Horvath is a big fan of, and Rough Trade NYC, a record store in Brooklyn. Horvath said seeing his tape on the shelf next to a bunch of artists he loves was one of the first moments he realized Super Defense had something going. “Ghoul� is a term of affection that Horvath and his friends throw around to describe something goofy. So without his friends, Super Defense’s first EP would lack a title. It’s also these friends that provide live backing for Super Defense. Evan Pacheco, Andrew Idarraga and the more recent addition of Nate Currie round out the band.

Last semester, live sets from Super Defense graced a few college campuses besides SU. The guys opened up for PWR BTTM at Cornell, and played shows at the University of Hartford and Wesleyan University. Since, Horvath has released a second tape titled “Closing Ceremonies.�

This summer, the band will start things off in the studio. Once final exams are done, Super Defense is spending two days at Converse’s Rubber Tracks Studio. At the Brooklyn studio, emerging bands can record with an engineer free of charge and retain all the rights to their music.

Horvath admitted he entertained the idea of using the band’s time at Rubber Tracks to rerecord their most popular song, “New Brubeck.� Some radio stations have reached out to him saying they love the

song, but it sounded a bit too lo-fi to break through on mainstream radio. Despite a plea for an updated version, Horvath said he’s happy with the original. “I want to do the song justice. I feel like if I recorded a song twice it’s kind of like taking a do-over or taking a mulligan,� Horvath said. “I want to show that I’m not just a one-trick pony that has to rerecord an old song.�

Instead, with all three of the band’s live members joining him, Horvath will be working on new material.

He said he has a lot of ‘80s new wave influence, much like bands Beach Fossils and DIIV from the label Captured Tracks. One song from that new material will be the subject of the next video Super Defense puts out with filmmaker Joel Hinojosa. They’ve teamed up with Hinojosa once already, as a music video for “New Brubeck� was released earlier this month.

In the video, Horvath and his band don the retro flair that defines Super Defense so well. They’re playing classic video games, like the legendary Star Fox 64. They’re perusing through vintage vinyl and trying on clothes at Goodwill. At one point Idarraga is riding a skateboard while gripping onto a car zooming through a parking lot. Horvath said they were going for a vibe of reckless youth and positive energy.

With the video, opening for Matt and Kim and the upcoming session at Rubber Tracks, it’s an interesting time to be Andy Horvath. It’s this all-over-the-place college agenda that Horvath loves about what he does.

Said Horvath: “The project is cool, starting in college, we’re kind of in this incubator where we can experiment and try out different things and I’m not set in stone or tied to anything.� jtbloss@syr.edu

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Distance runners upstage jumpers and sprinters

By Matt Liberman staff writer

The number of Syracuse’s jumpers and sprinters can be counted on two hands and it’s a concerted effort by the coaching staff. The Orange is known for its distance team, and head coach Chris Fox has created that dynamic.

“We don’t even look at throwers or pole vaulters,” Fox said.

Even coming off a national championship in cross country and an Atlantic Coast Conference indoor title, where three of his hurdlers finished in the top four, Fox’s jumpers and sprinters are still overlooked. He focuses on recruiting distance runners while SU assistant coach Dave Hegland recruits hurdlers.

Distance runners and hurdlers like Justyn Knight, Freddie Crittenden and Colin Bennie have become household names among the nationwide track and field community, casting a shadow over the rest of the roster.

With just four sprinters on the team, Winston Lee, a junior sprinter who finished fifth at the ACC indoor championship in the 60-meter dash, tries to manage the hand dealt to him. He has clocked the best times among the sprinters on the team and knows that he can’t slip up if he wants to get the attention he hopes for.

“I think it does bring added pressure,” Lee said of having so few sprinters, “and it is important for me to keep improving so that I don’t fly under the radar.”

If there were more on the team, Lee said he would be a better sprinter. But he also knows there’s nothing he can do about it.

Jabari Butler, the top high jumper for SU, had a similar outlook as Lee. The senior believes that adding more jumpers would be beneficial to him, especially someone better than him because it’d push him to compete to be the best.

“As you can see with the hurdlers, Freddie (Crittenden) makes the younger guys better,”

Butler said.

Young runners like Chevis Armstead, Richard Floyd and David Gilstrap have Crittenden to look to for tips, training advice and competition. Butler did not have that luxury when he came to SU. Frank Taylor and Will Watson, both jumpers, helped him out when he began his high-jump career for the Orange.

But Taylor and Watson weren’t high jumpers.

Unlike Armstead, Floyd and Gilstrap, Butler was on his own.

Part of the reason for the makeup of the roster is because of the team’s facilities, Hegland said. High jumpers, for example, only get to actually jump in meets once a week.

Despite competing in different events, Lee and Butler are often training together.

Hegland coaches the hurdlers, sprinters and jumpers. At practice the three groups often do the same exact workout.

Butler doesn’t need to be high jumping two to three times per week, Hegland said.

His training is more effective working with the sprinters and hurdlers rather than individually.

The coaching staff must be upfront about the training situation when recruiting, Hegland said.

“We have to say that if you are going to come here, you’re primarily going to be training like a sprinter,” Hegland said.

“And if you’re not OK with that, then this isn’t the right place to come.”

Before coming to Syracuse, Lee knew about SU’s distance program, but didn’t know much about the sprinting department. Butler didn’t even plan on being a high jumper for the Orange.

Both ended up competing for SU and both have been successful. But both remain in the shadow of the centerpiece of Syracuse’s program. mdliberm@syr.edu

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washington an average of 23,914 fans attended Syracuse basketball games.

“With ESPN, all those games, they became national games,” former Boston College head coach Gary Williams said. “... All of a sudden there was three Big East games during the week that were televised nationally. Pearl became national.”

By the time Washington, Mullin and Ewing had left their collective mark on college basketball, ESPN had grown from a fledgling television network into a full-blown powerhouse. On Jan. 5 of the 1986-87 season the network debuted Big Monday. The TV event became a regular spot to air primetime college basketball games, which wouldn’t have been televised in primetime eight years prior.

The 1987 NCAA Tournament ended with two Final Four teams coming from the Big East. Two years prior, in the 1985 NCAA Tournament, three of the Final Four teams — St. John’s, Villanova and Georgetown — came from the Big East. The eighth-seeded Wildcats and first-seeded Hoyas went on to play against each other in the championship game.

What made those teams so appealing was the star power each held. There were other Big East teams with future NBA players. Boston College, the team Washington drilled his famous half-court game-winning shot against, had players whose professional careers lasted far longer than his.

But what made Washington so memorable was his on-court flair, a smile that still sticks

in ESPN color commentator Dick Vitale’s head and the former SU point guard’s ability to shake and bake his way to the basket.

“He was just absolutely special, I felt that he was the one big time key recruit in the era of Jim Boeheim,” Vitale said. “ ... It was like a rock concert. When he had the basketball in his hands and he was coming up the court in those Big East battles on Monday nights, they were so filled with talent. … It was as good as it gets and Pearl was the show, it was like seeing Springsteen in concert.”

In the same way that Boehiem and his two sons stay up until 10:30 p.m. to watch Stephen Curry play, people used to make the same effort to watch Washington play, Boeheim said.

Yet Washington never directly reaped the benefits of the progress he made. Boeheim credits Washington with being the start of the program’s success and making it attractive to players like Derrick Coleman and Carmelo Anthony, but the former SU point guard never played past the Sweet 16.

“His excitement, what he did on the court that’s what got people excited about Syracuse basketball,” Boeheim said. “From that everything flows … It all flows down that same path.”

In the same way that Syracuse’s importance partially flows from Thompson’s words and the same way SU’s future success flows from Washington, the popularity of basketball on television does, too.

“He not only helped our program, he helped make the Big East and he helped college basketball,” Boeheim said. “He’s a guy that everybody wanted to see play.” cjlibona@syr.edu | @ChrisLibonati

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fialk a-feldman on the fact that Fialka-Feldman — a student taking a full load of courses and paying full tuition — was in a special program and not working toward a bachelor’s degree.

It took two years, but he won the case.

“I wasn’t asking for them to build a new dorm for me, or anything,” Fialka-Feldman said. “I was just asking them for a chance to have the full college experience.”

This same passion for disability rights is what brought him to Syracuse in 2012 to take classes through the InclusiveU program. It also brought him to Washington, D.C., in 2013 for a summer internship at the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities through the American Association of People with Disabilities.

That passion also caught the eye of President Barack Obama, who appointed him in 2014 to serve on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. FialkaFeldman occasionally travels to the nation’s capital for the PCPID, which serves as an advisory committee to the president and the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Beth Myers, director of the Taishoff Center, said she knows Fialka-Feldman so well, it

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sheplock word out about mental health awareness, in light of recent incidents, “even if (Colorful Pizza) was just a philosophy.”

Around a decade ago, when Tumblr, a blog creating website, became popularized, Sheplock created an account with the pizza planet from Toy Story as the background and Colorful Pizza as the name.

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seems like they’ve known each other for a very Fialka-Feldman also runs a self-advocacy long time. They met through a professor from seminar in which he encourages people with the David B. Falk School of Sport and Human disabilities to make their voices heard and to Dynamics, who Myers said referred to Fialka- establish a circle of support with family and Feldman as the “Martin Luther King of the friends. disability rights movement.”

That’s something that Fialka-Feldman does “You know that’s well, Myers added — a really significant he knows not only thing to call somehow to ask for help, body,” Myers said. but also who to ask, “Really think about and not everybody what it means — with disabilities is how does somebody able to do that. make these big “Micah’s teachsweeping changes ing is about how for a particular comyou can combine munity of marginalself-advocacy and ized people?” growth into making This semester, decisions for yourFialka-Feldman is a self, but also how to TA for a class Myers build up your comMICAH FIALK A-FELDMAN teaches, SPE 311: munity of people “Perspectives on who will help you Disabilities,” which examines the 13 federal make decisions and help you carry out those categories of disabilities. In addition to doing decisions,” she said. “He’s able to do that in a what other graduate assistants do — taking really personal way that other people can’t.” attendance, grading papers, leading class disJordan Feldman, a senior selected studies cussions — Myers said Fialka-Feldman adds in education major, met Fialka-Feldman dur“a fantastic perspective” by sharing his own, ing his first semester freshman year at a Dispersonal experiences with a disability. ability Student Union meeting. It wasn’t until

the following semester, however, that the two became good friends through the Peer 2 Peer program within InclusiveU. He now helps Fialka-Feldman as part of his support staff through a program at the Resource Center for Accessible Living, where he assists Fialka-Feldman with “independent living skills” within the community. These skills include budgeting, buying groceries and voting in last week’s primary.

The program has strengthened their friendship, he added, in the sense that they now spend more time together outside of their work on campus. He also stressed Fialka-Feldman’s strong understanding of his self-advocacy skills, drawing from his own experiences and sharing what he’s learned with others.

“People just gravitate to his positive energy,” Feldman said. “It’s tough to describe these intangible qualities that make him who he is.

He’s just welcoming to all sorts of people.”

When he was in elementary school, Fialka-Feldman opened the door — literally — by making his voice heard. Now, he’s dedicated his life to opening doors for others like him.

Said Fialka-Feldman: “I want everyone to learn that people with disabilities can have a voice, and know that people with disabilities can be involved in the community.”

She hadn’t used or thought of the account since creating it, but a few days after the incident, it popped into her head.

“I just had an epiphany. You know what, we’re all a lot like pizza,” Sheplock said.

Pizza is made up of the same basic ingredients, but no two pizzas will ever come out exactly alike, Sheplock said. ` Sheplock sat in the lounge of her hall for the next few hours typing away what would become a three-page, single-spaced document

Nonnenman has only know Sheplock for a semester and a half, but had heard about her long before. When he finally introduced himself, he understood why people felt so positively toward her.

“It just felt like it was someone that I had known for a while,” Nonnenman said. “She just has this presence, this understanding. she knows how to talk to people in a way that makes them feel welcomed.”

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titled Colorful Pizza.

Sheplock presented the idea to her supervisor with the intent of making it a part of a mental illness awareness program for the building, but her supervisor liked the idea so much that she gave Sheplock the ability to turn her idea into a building wide campaign to reduce the negative stigma surrounding mental illness.

Devin Nonnenman, an RA on a different staff, said Sheplock doesn’t give herself the recognition she deserves.

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Syracuse drinks coffee to bolster on-field performance

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

What the Syracuse players really wanted before their game in the Sportco Kick Off Classic in Las Vegas was some caffeine. Despite a Starbucks not being within five miles of the team’s hotel, Jocelyn Cater said Mike Bosch had the bus driver take them to a nearby Starbucks.

“I was like, ‘What are we going to do?’”

Cater remembers asking Bosch, SU’s head coach. “He’s like, ‘We’ll have to take the bus.’

So we took the bus for everyone’s pregame coffee because that’s our thing.”

That was back in February, but 46 games into the season, SU players have relied on coffee to get through early morning workouts, weeknight doubleheaders and weekend series on the road.

The cup of joe has become a significant part of the Syracuse (25-21, 9-11 Atlantic Coast) culture.

Many of the Orange players developed their addiction to coffee at SU. AnnaMarie Gatti’s affection kicked in right away, as a freshman in fall 2014. She didn’t consider herself a big coffee drinker in high school, but now she’s hooked. She won’t throw a pitch without having had a cup.

“As long as I can get it in my system before I start to warm up, I’m fine,” Gatti said. “But if not, I can’t function.”

Before a recent Saturday doubleheader, SU players shared a big jug of coffee while watching film. That day they played 22 total innings. In the 22nd inning, they won on a walk off. from page 16

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All-time series: Syracuse leads 14-7 Last time they played: By the time Friday comes, the two teams will still be

After last week’s doubleheader versus Colgate, Cater sipped a Starbucks coffee while leaving the field. Usually her pregame Starbucks only lasts her through the first hour of batting practice, but on April 20, she had extra.

In the fall semester, players wake up for 6 a.m. workouts every day. After those workouts, to stay fresh during a day of classes and afternoon practice, Cater and teammates make Starbucks runs.

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Number of Starbucks grande coffees to put an athlete above the NCAA’s caffeine doping level.

“When you have 6 a.m.’s,” Gatti said, “you have to (drink coffee) or you won’t be able to survive.”

A central nervous stimulant, coffee can raise peoples’ heart rates, induce jitteriness and make drinkers “just a little amped up,” said Jane Burrell Uzcategui, an instructor of nutrition in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

Side effects include insomnia, upset stomach and diarrhea, but timely, moderate coffee consumption can enhance athletic performance.

“It usually peaks at about an hour,” Uzcategui said. “Having (coffee) an hour before the game would be good timing.”

Uzcategui noted that for the average size ath-

less than two weeks removed from a clash in the Carrier Dome that Syracuse came away victorious from, 13-7.

The Tar Heels came in hot against an SU team that was 1-4 in its last five games, including three losses to ranked opponents. But

lete, three grande coffees from Starbucks can put an athlete above the NCAA’s caffeine doping level. SU players limit themselves to one cup before games.

On the road, finding good coffee can be a challenge. If Starbucks is inconvenient, Cater will resort to hotel coffee which is “not so good.”

“It’s a treat on the way to the airport,” Cater said. “If we’re lucky, Coach Bosch lets us.”

Cater drinks coffee after cardio workouts, during batting practice and after games. Even before bed, she’ll down a cup and still go to sleep fine. Between classes, she’ll make pit stops at Starbucks.

Other players swear by coffee. Corinne Ozanne said what her roommates find most annoying about her is the constant smell of coffee. She lives in an off-campus apartment with Cater and Sydney O’Hara. The trio has a threetiered stand dedicated to coffee.

The top row is a Keurig machine, espresso machine and line of mason jars full of Wegmans tea. The second is littered with an array of coffee mugs. The bottom shelf contains coffee flavors ranging from Reese’s peanut butter cup to mint chocolate chip and blueberry. The roommates have more than 30 types of coffee in total.

“It’s just crazy,” Ozanne said. “(Ozanne’s) the reason I have a downfall with it,” Gatti said. “I pretty much lived with her all of last year. I would sleep in and she’d bring me coffees.”

Every other week, Gatti gets coffee beans sent

to her door. Ozanne, who gets her coffee grounds from Freedom of Espresso on Walton Street in Armory Square, uses her French press to get her coffee crisp every time and introduced the methods to Gatti.

Syracuse’s defense suppressed one of the best offenses in the country, and the hosts snaked out to an early lead it never relinquished.

The Orange offense was anchored by five points each from veteran Dylan Donahue, who’s long had a stranglehold on opposing defenses, and Sergio Salcido, who didn’t have more than five points in his career prior to this season. Salcido, a junior midfielder, tied Nick Mariano for a team-high three goals against North Carolina.

Nine total players registered a point for Syracuse, compared to the Tar Heels, who were fueled almost solely by Michael Tagliaferri’s four goals. UNC head coach Joe Breschi said after the loss that his team struggles when the offense turns into a one-man show.

Luke Goldstock also ripped off a couple goals, but Tagliaferri was at the controls with at least double the shots of any other player.

The North Carolina report: Syracuse hasn’t run into many opponents with a more prolific offense than its own. The Tar Heels have one of the nation’s best, scoring 13.3 goals per game which paces all but five teams in the country. Anchoring the offense are five goal scorers with more than 20 tallies this season, including a team-high 36 goals

by Steve Pontrello. Tagliaferri, who was one of several midfielders this season to burn the Orange, is actually the lowest total scorer among North Carolina’s top five.

Part of the reason SU found success against UNC was a comfortable 16-of-24 performance

at the X, but Stephen Kelly’s 59.5 percent clip on the draw isn’t a far cry of Ben Williams’ 64.2 percent. Kelly is what makes the Tar Heels go, as exemplified in the team’s miraculous late run against Notre Dame.

Kelly won 7-of-10 faceoffs against the Fighting Irish in the fourth quarter, and punctuated his 19-for-35 day at the X with the game-tying goal directly off the faceoff to knot the score at 15. His skill set is on par with Williams’, who has spent his entire two seasons at Syracuse breaking the stereotypical faceoffget-off barrier.

How Syracuse beats North Carolina: The Orange already laid out a successful blueprint. Tranquilize a high-octane offense, win a steady amount of faceoffs to feed the ball to a deep offense and sidestep penalties that will draw out an average man-down defense. Syracuse did all of those things two games ago, but the Tar Heels should be better equipped to predict what they’ll see from the SU defense and again from Williams.

A potentially underrated part of the Orange’s last win over UNC was Evan Molloy’s career-best play in net. He yielded only two goals in the opening half, and has repeatedly been praised as a defensive ringleader who communicates enough to ensure the defenders slide correctly. Molloy’s versatility outside the crease has also created opportunities in transition when Syracuse has cleared the ball.

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Gatti frequents Recess Café because it gets its beans direct from farms with sustainable and ethical practices. The team also frequents the Starbucks behind the College of Law. “You know there’s something wrong when the people at Starbucks know your order and know your name,” O’Hara said, laughing.

Growing up, O’Hara would sometimes come home to a refrigerator filled with five Mountain Dew bottles. But while sharing an apartment with Cater and Ozanne, she was inevitably overwhelmed by her roommates’ coffee. Now, she’s another addict.

“Whether he believes it or not, (Bosch) is a big coffee drinker,” Ozanne said. “Him, Anna(Marie Gatti) and Jocelyn (Cater), if there’s no Starbucks, they are not happy campers.”

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North Carolina scored the secondfewest goals they’ve scored all season against Syracuse on April 16. That was only the third time the team has been held to single-digits this year.

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The Orange has done well to minimize the damage all season, allowing the second-fewest goals per game in the conference.

39.5% The Tar Heels’ conversion rate on man-up opportunities is the worst in the ACC, and that’s a nice reprieve for an SU team that averages the second-most penalty minutes per game.

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Dembele puts SU in Top 10 Syracuse offeree Cheickna Dembele sliced his list down on Tuesday

By Sam Foriter asst. copy Editor

Syracuse basketball players honored Pearl Washington during the season by wearing “Pearl” warm-up jerseys. Washington spurred massive attendance in the Carrier Dome and helped push college basketball on TV in his three seasons. liam sheehan asst. photo editor

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Pearl Washington changed SU, the Big East and NCAA basketball

By Chris Libonati asst. sports editor

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he words still sting for many Syracuse fans.

For most they symbolize a final failure, the inability to send Manley Field House out on a high note after Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim won his first 51 games there.

But when then-Georgetown head coach John Thompson Jr. said, “Manley Field House is officially closed,” he set everything in motion. A rivalry for years to come. A meaningful game in every Big East season regardless of whether the teams were

ranked. A seemingly pure hatred.

“People wanted to watch him, And yet that became a posi- the Dome was relatively new,” tive for Syracuse. Without those Boeheim said. “I don’t know the words, the Big East would have numbers, but when Pearl came, been a shell of the numbers what it was. It put changed and Dwayne “Pearl” people wantWashington and ed to come to Patrick Ewing see him play. on a stage batThey wanted Amount SU’s tling in front of to come to see average attendance increased by from the year 30,000 fans as Syracuse, but before Washington got to well as many they wanted Syracuse (20,401) to his more sitting on to come to see freshman season (22,343). their couches. In Pearl Washthe end, history ington.” pitted Washington and Syracuse Since his cancer returned last against a program 239 miles away summer, Washington had been and six words apart. remembered via T-shirts, dona-

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tions and prayers. He’s not only regarded as a game changer for Syracuse, but also college basketball and the Big East. Chris Mullin, Ewing and Washington served as the Big East’s ambassadors and as a reason to show basketball games on television.

Regular season games started being televised by ESPN in 1980, the same year the Carrier Dome opened its doors. Just three years later, Washington started his storied career at Syracuse and brought SU’s average attendance from 20,401 in 198283 to 22,343 in 1983-84. By the end of Washington’s junior year, see washington page 12

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After a season-long nine days of rest, No. 4 seed Syracuse (8-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) is rewarded with a rematch against No. 1 seed North Carolina (8-5, 3-1) in the opening round of the ACC

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Class of 2016 center Cheickna Dembele has trimmed his list of potential schools to 10 and Syracuse made the cut, according to multiple reports.

The Scotland Performance (Pennsylvania) Institute product is unranked by ESPN and Scout.com, but has a three-star rating from 247Sports.com’s composite rankings and Rivals.com.

The list reportedly includes UNLV, Missouri, Iowa State, Temple, Pittsburgh, St. Joe’s, Maryland, Michigan State and Baylor. The only official visit planned for Dembele is UNLV on April 27, per Syracuse.com.

The Orange only has two open Class of 2016 offers remaining. The other belongs to four-star big man Taurean Thompson of Brewster (New Hampshire) Academy. Thompson, who is ranked 75th in ESPN. com’s class rankings, will visit SU this weekend.

Dembele is listed by multiple recruiting sites as 6-foot-10 or 6-foot11 and roughly 235 pounds.

If Dembele were to commit to the Orange, barring any unforeseen circumstance, he’ll join a frontcourt of seniors Tyler Roberson and Dajuan Coleman, as well as sophomores Tyler Lydon and Paschal Chukwu.

He’d arrive with fellow freshman forward Matthew Moyer.

tournament on Friday at 6 p.m. in Kennesaw, Georgia.

The Tar Heels are fresh off a shocking win against formerly top-ranked Notre Dame, as UNC outscored the Fighting Irish 8-1 in the fourth quarter to snatch one of the most exciting wins in this college lacrosse season.

up next VS North Carolina at Fifth Third Bank Stadium Friday, 6 p.m.

The Orange attacked a much less heralded program, cruising past Binghamton, 13-5, on Wednes-

day, in a game that SU was winning 9-0 at halftime.

But now for the second time in as many seasons, Syracuse and North Carolina will play in the semifinal of the ACC tournament.

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