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N • ReZone Syracuse

Residents discussed a sprawling plan to change city zoning requirements during a public forum Monday at Nottingham High School. Page 3

O • Get out the vote

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P • Team players

Moderate columnist Daniel Loftus argues the costs of New York’s early voting plan are not worth the negative effects it could have on the electoral process. Page 5

Tim Green was an All-American football player at SU from 1982 to 1986. Now, he’s an author. He recently released a book he cowrote with Derek Jeter. Page 7

FRESH FACES

KAITLYN ELLSWEIG (LEFT) AND RYAN HOUCK would be Student Association newcomers if they’re elected president and vice president, respectively. The pair met through the SU Democracy Matters chapter. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

KAITLYN ELLSWEIG

RYAN HOUCK

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

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Ellsweig centers campaign on community engagement

Houck focuses on details of pair’s planned initiatives

By Colleen Ferguson

aitlyn Ellsweig has been political for as long as she can remember. As a child, Ellsweig said she’d talk about politics with her grandfather, who was one of the only politically engaged people in her family. At 21, she’s still political. She’s launched a bid for Student Association president. And as president of the local Democracy Matters chapter, a nonpartisan political advocacy organization, the junior economics and political science double major remains as socially conscious as possible, even when considering decisions such as her recent haircut. She’s now sporting a shoulder-length bob. It’s the shortest haircut she’s had since she was 4. She chose to cut it off “on a whim” during Syracuse University’s Relay for Life cancer awareness event earlier this semester. “Everything that Katie does is pretty much dedicated to helping somebody else,” said Meg Burnard, Ellsweig’s campaign manager and close friend. “She wants to help people.” Outside Democracy Matters, Ellsweig is an EMT for SU Ambulance. She tutors kids as a volunteer at the Northside Learning Center. She’s been involved on campus since her freshman year, but this campaign is

etails are important to Ryan Houck. As an accounting and finance double major, he’s constantly “zooming in,” as he puts it, to focus on the small things. The sophomore is now putting that skill set to use in Student Association elections this spring. If elected, Houck would serve as Kaitlyn Ellsweig’s vice president. Ellsweig is a junior economics and political science double major. Houck said the pair’s openness to new ideas is a positive aspect of their campaign. Ellsweig and Houck currently spend much of their time bouncing ideas off each other about platform development and other campaign specifics, Houck said. The duo’s campaign manager, Meg Burnard, said she “referees them,” acting as the middleman when the two are too far apart. “I sit in meetings, and when Katie is dreaming up big ideas and Ryan is nitpicking the tiny details, I bring them both back to the middle where they meet,” she said. She added that, despite their differences in approach, Houck and Ellsweig balance each other out well. The two met during Houck’s freshman year through the local chapter of Democracy Matters, a

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Even after 15 years, Kansas fans are “still bitter” about dropping a close national championship game to Syracuse in 2003 in the Superdome, 81-78. Page 12

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STUDENT ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS 2018

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S • Unfinished business

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Presidential candidates face off at 1st debate By Catherine Leffert asst. news editor

Student Association presidential and vice presidential candidates squared off Monday night in the first election debate of the spring, discussing campus mental health resources and different diversity initiatives. The debate was moderated by Sophia Faram, chair of SA’s board of elections and membership committee. Kaitlyn Ellsweig, a junior economics and political science double major; John Jankovic, a sophomore political science and psychology dual major; and Ghufran Salih, a sophomore information and technology major, answered questions about their campaign platforms and detailed actions they want to take to address sexual assault at SU; the university’s diversity; and Invest Syracuse, a $100 million academic fundraising plan. All three presidential candidates stressed diversity as a major platform in their respective campaigns, highlighting different initiatives they want to implement. Ellsweig said that, as part of her administration, she and Ryan Houck, her vice presidential running mate, would want to better broadcast the existence of SA and its diversity affairs committee. Salih said that she and her running partner Kyle Rosenblum want to hold the administration accountable for promises they made, such as hiring a permanent chief diversity officer. That hire is listed as a goal by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion. Jankovic and his vice presidential candidate, Serena Fazal, said they want to build a coalition by partnering with organizations such as University Union, U100 and heritage organizations on campus to attend each other’s events as a strategy to increase diversity among various groups. The candidates also highlighted initiatives they thought were strong under the current administration, President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati. Salih and Rosenblum said they wanted to build off of Pati’s idea of creating an on-campus peer listening service, allowing students to call or text a support line anonymously about problems they may be facing. Mental health issues are important to Houck and Ellsweig, she said, based on past experiences, and they want to promote SU to hire more counselors. Jankovic and Fazal, who were both volunteers on the SA relief trip to Puerto Rico over winter break, said they wanted to create an initiative for “international advocacy,” promoting see debate page 4

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NEWS

Rising in the ranks Sophomore John Jankovic is campaigning for president of SU’s Student Association. See Wednesday’s paper

Second speaker MSNBC analyst Joy-Ann Reid will give a speech at SU on Tuesday as part of SU’s lecture series. See Wednesday’s paper

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state news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening in New York right now. CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT

Marc Molinaro, the Dutchess County Executive, announced his campaign for governor of New York. Molinaro, a Republican, said he would focus on ending corruption in state government and making the state more affordable for families. source: local syr

PAPA JOHN’S SHUTDOWN

All Papa John’s locations in Rochester have shut down. The owner wrote in a note posted to a closed store door that the restaurants would cease operating immediately, and blamed New York state for the closures. There were five Papa John’s locations in the city. source: cny central

RECORD ACCEPTANCE

First debate (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) RYAN HOUCK, KAITLYN ELLSWEIG, GHUFRAN SALIH, KYLE ROSENBLUM, JOHN JANKOVIC AND SERENA FAZAL, all Student Association presidential or vice presidential candidates, gathered in Maxwell Auditorium on Monday to participate in the first debate of the spring 2018 election. Students will vote for candidates from April 9-12. molly gibbs asst. photo editor

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Student leader prepares for Wheeler’s exit By Jessica Andreone staff writer

SUNY-ESF’s student governing body has elected its next president for the 2018-19 academic year, and he’s already preparing to work through the college’s expected administrative changes. James Quinn, a sophomore environmental studies major, will replace current Undergraduate Student Association President Ben Taylor. Carson Rowe, a freshman environmental studies major, will serve as the next vice president alongside Quinn. Quinn and Rowe, who were elected late last week, already have plans for their new positions. The body’s next president said he wants to create a document for feedback from undergraduates

and graduates on qualities they want to see in SUNY-ESF’s next college president. President Quentin Wheeler announced in late March he would resign by the end of June as the campus reeled from increasingly tense relations between faculty and administrators. Academic Governance, SUNYESF’s faculty governing body, voted no confidence in Wheeler in November 2016, citing what they said were examples of poor leadership and a climate of fear. Conflict between faculty and administrators continued after the 2016 vote, notably in the wake of the administration’s controversial decision earlier this year to remove three faculty department chairs just days before the start of the spring semester. SUNY Chancellor Kristina John-

son and the SUNY Board of Trustees will work with SUNY-ESF’s Board of Trustees to appoint interim campus leadership effective July 1. The chancellor and boards will also begin a search for SUNY-ESF’s next permanent president. “This year has been combative, and parties involved have been fighting each other tooth and nail,” Rowe said. “It is time that the college begins to heal and move forward into the future.” Rowe said his time at SUNYESF has taught him that communication needs to be strong between all parts of the college, so everyone can work together. He said that, as vice president, he will work hard to encouraged shared decision making. “My goal for the next year is to work with the new leadership … to

make sure that the student voices are heard,” Quinn said. Taylor, the current USA president, said in March that he was not surprised to learn of Wheeler’s decision to resign. The president understood the move would probably help the college, Taylor said. Quinn said he decided to run for USA’s president because of conversations he had with other students. Those students all agreed that there was a void in leadership, Quinn said. Rowe said he ran for vice president of USA so he could better serve the students of SUNY-ESF. “I think the students at ESF are some of the hardest working and dedicated people and I want to provide them the atmosphere to be successful,” Rowe said. jlandreo@syr.edu

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Residents discuss zoning project at forum By Gabe Stern staff writer

With the deadline for a new city zoning update fast approaching, local residents expressed concerns about the project, called ReZone Syracuse, during a forum at Nottingham High School on Monday evening. ReZone aims to update zoning districts, modernize land usage throughout the city and regulate some building designs. Preliminary ReZone plans are set to be presented to the city’s Common Council in June. Owen Kerney, a representative of ReZone Syracuse, presented information about the project Monday at

the forum. Kerney said residential areas of the city that prohibit many for-profit stores will largely stay the same under proposed zoning changes. But Kerney stressed how wide-ranging the project is. “These procedures affect everybody,” he said. “Whether you’re doing a new fence on your property, you’re renovating your house (or) something in your driveway.” Most of the changes included in one draft of ReZone Syracuse were design standards that would have only applied to the city’s lakefront area and James Street, Kerney said. Now, though, regulations on designs of buildings, which would require a

certain level of transparency in windows and ground floors, will apply to the entire city, Kerney said. ReZone Syracuse also includes a provision that would regulate corner stores in “mix-use districts,” which allow for the construction of both residential and commercial space. The regulations require a notification for communities when a new corner store is being built. ReZone would create additional design standards for corner stores with owners who want to build in mix-use areas, Kerney said. As soon as Kerney finished his presentation, Gloria Sage, a resident who has lived in Syracuse for more

than 50 years, stood up and held out a petition of 197 signatures from her neighbors near the corner of Thurber Street and Brighton Avenue. That intersection is south of Syracuse University’s Main Campus. According to a draft of the latest ReZone map, a parking lot at the corner of Thurber Street and Brighton Avenue would be converted from a residential area to a commercial area, allowing for “God-knows-what,” Sage said. The residents who signed Sage’s petition oppose that residential to commercial switch. Lindsay Speer, a resident of the

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Cornell University has broken a record for the number of applicants for admission this year, with more than 51,000 students applying for a spot in the Class of 2022. The university admitted 5,288 and placed 6,684 on the waitlist. source: cny central

GUN LEGISLATION

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced last weekend that the state has passed legislation to bar domestic abusers from possessing handguns and long guns. There was previously a loophole in state law that allowed domestic abusers to still own some types of firearms. source: cny central

AMPHITHEATER RENAMING

The Lakeview Amphitheater will be renamed the St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview after the health care system paid $750,000 for the naming rights. The money will be paid to Onondaga County over five years. source: cny central

COUNTRY CONCERT

Country artist Thomas Rhett will perform at the Oncenter War Memorial Stage at the end of the summer, playing alongside Brett Young and Midland. The concert is on Friday, Sept. 21 and tickets will go on sale Friday. source: local syr

SYRACUSE PENGUIN

The new penguin chick born at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse has been named Felix. Felix, meaning “lucky,” won 34 percent of online votes cast in the naming contest online. The penguin is the 55th Humboldt penguin hatched at the zoo since 2006. source: cbs news channel 2

SHERIFF RETIREMENT

Cayuga County Sheriff David Gould announced he would retire and would not seek re-election. The 71-year-old sheriff is a retired state police investigator, and was elected sheriff in 2007. Gould worked in law enforcement for 48 years, and he spent 34 years with the New York state police. He was endorsed by both the Democratic and Republican parties when he ran for the first time in 2006. source: syracuse.com

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ellsweig her first venture into student government. She announced her campaign in midMarch, the first of this spring’s candidates, along with her running mate Ryan Houck, who’s running for vice president. Neither have previously served in SA. Ellsweig’s campaign is student-driven and based on a platform of accessibility, community engagement, inclusion and sustainability, she said. If elected, Ellsweig will need to give up some of her extracurricular activities, but she said it’s worth it. She has a chance to give the student body new opportunities. “Knowing what SA has accomplished … has made me realize that I’ve had so many amazing opportunities as a student on this from page 1

houck non-partisan political advocacy organization. Houck is the group’s fiscal agent and director of technology. Outside Democracy Matters, Houck is involved with several other student organizations, including the Orange After Dark event board, Beta Alpha Psi and WhiTAX, a studentrun accounting firm.

If you think of something at 10 p.m., text me. I want to know about it. Ryan Houck

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Houck, who grew up in a small town north of Philadelphia called Pen Argyl, said he came to SU to experience a more diverse environment. Houck said he fit in with Democracy Matters but was attracted to the idea of SA leadership after watching the current president and vice president,

campus,” she said. She hopes to provide resources to students who need them that haven’t always been available to her or students from other backgrounds, Ellsweig said. Aspects of Ellsweig and Houck’s campaign are centered around civic engagement. Ellsweig said she hopes to instill civic values in others because she has benefitted from her own outreach at SU. She said students often inaccurately view the areas surrounding University Hill and don’t always engage with the local community because they’re told it’s dangerous. Ellsweig said she wants the city and university to exchange respective strengths and weaknesses so SU can build partnerships and become a less secluded campus. Working on campus issues requires SA leaders to follow up on solutions proposed by university administrators, she added. She referenced James Franco and Angie Pati, tackle everything “as a joint team.” That leadership approach is something Houck said he and Ellsweig would continue, if elected. Houck said he looks at the fine points of the bigger topics they want to tackle. Part of looking at those details, he said, means constantly remaining accessible to constituents. The team’s campaign website includes Houck’s and Ellsweig’s personal cell phone numbers and email addresses, so people can contact them at any time. “If you think of something at 10 p.m., text me,” Houck said. “I want to know about it.” The candidates are focusing on different parts of the campaign platform. Houck is working on sustainability ideas. Ellsweig said she and Houck might consider implementing new recycling systems at the Carrier Dome or promenade, if elected. Houck wants to better educate the campus community about plastics that can be recycled and how to dispose of textbooks. “We’re not here to push through our own initiative for ourselves, we’re here to represent the student body,” he said. “We’re here to listen to them constantly. We wanted this to be the students’ platform.” cefergus@syr.edu | @ColleenEFergus2

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a 2016 report by Chancellor Kent Syverud’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion, which included ways to increase representation on campus. She said two years later, many of those ideas have still not been implemented. The New Jersey native said she has struggled with depression since middle school. Sometime near March 2017, she found herself relapsing. Ellsweig said she called SU’s Counseling Center but was told staff there did not have resources that fit her needs. “That’s something that really stuck with me and affected me for a really long time, so it’s something I’m definitely very passionate about, making sure that we continue to push for those resources,” she said. Her own struggles with mental health have helped give her an appreciation for peers, Ellsweig said. She had to seek support from friends from page 1

debate not only disaster relief, but also awareness. One of the first issues Houck discussed in his opening statement was the need for transparency from the university in regard to Invest Syracuse, which includes a $3,300 tuition premium that will affect first-year and transfer students starting at SU this fall. Current students will be grandfathered into the program and won’t have to pay the extra tuition premium. The candidates all agreed that sexual assault was a problem on campus. Rosenfrom page 3

rezone Westcott neighborhood area east of Main Campus, said she had concerns about the lack of support for collective housing in ReZone Syracuse. Current laws prohibit more than five unrelated people from living together in a single-housekeeping unit, she said. The definition of “related” in this context is being married by blood, marriage, adoption or a housing situation in which

and professors to recover, and the process left her with a positive outlook on the people in her circle, Ellsweig said. People around Ellsweig have confidence in her as well. Elizabeth Ashby, an assistant professor of economics at SU, met Ellsweig when she took Ashby’s course as a freshman. The professor has stayed in touch with Ellsweig since. Ashby said Ellsweig has a “deep sense” of civic responsibility, humility and an understanding of social issues and policy. She added that Ellsweig’s focus on helping others will propel her to victory during the SA election. “She uses her intelligence as a way to better the world,” Ashby said. “This is who Katie is. Everything she’s learning she has a purpose for.” cefergus@syr.edu | @ColleenEFergus2

blum, a co-chair on SA’s health and wellness subcommittee, said he and Salih would request and release a sexual assault and relationship violence report, similar to the SA mental health report released a few semesters ago. While Rosenblum has some experience in SA, Salih does not, but she said they try to use an “unwritten” platform to hear what students want from SU. Ellsweig and Houck said that as students with no formal SA experience, they provide outside perspective. Jankovic touted his previous time serving multiple positions in SA over three semesters. ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert

someone is responsible for the well-being in the house, Speer said. “You have low-income communities, refugee communities (and) people who are used to living closer together,” Speer said. “Our concept of what a family looks like, what a household looks like, it’s very isolating in many ways. I strongly think that the five unrelated persons law is being used against people in ways that we don’t really realize.” gkstern@syr.edu

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NY early voting puts democracy at risk

oting is tough in the United States, and the Syracuse Common Council recently showed support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s initiative to implement a 12-day early voting period to make it more accessible. But this initiative should be taken with caution. Cuomo’s initiative “to make it easier for New Yorkers to vote” requires every county in New York state to grant residents access to at least one early voting poll site in the 12 days before Election Day, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The Syracuse city council voted on March 12 in support of the legislation “to enhance the ability of City of Syracuse voters to actively participate in the electoral process,” according to minutes from the March 12 meeting. While it’s fair for Cuomo and others to think longer voting periods may boost the number of people going to the polls, it’s important to remember that early voting isn’t the catch-all solution for voter turnout. And it may also come at a cost to voters’ decisionmaking abilities. Shana Gadarian, an associate professor of political science at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said early voting is a tool that will largely help engaged voting demographics — not attract new voting demographics. “We are just making it more convenient,” Gadarian said. “It’s not necessarily the case that we are lowering all those other barriers that we have for people, like information and the need to register. … Those barriers don’t go away just

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because we’ve increased the number of days that people can vote.” The numbers suggest early voting doesn’t do much — if anything — for actual voter turnout. As people have tended to vote early in recent elections, the voter turnout hasn’t noticeably changed, with the only notable difference being reduced waiting times. And in some cases, turnout has even dipped, with the 2016 presidential elections seeing a 20-year low in numbers, per CNN. Voting early is convenient, but its effects on civic engagement are little to none. And in some ways, we’re giving up time. Election cycles last for months, concluding on Election Day. But with the advent of early voting, the cycle can end much sooner, leading to greater chances of voter remorse. While many voters decide on their candidate well in advance, earlier isn’t always better. Take Montana, for instance, where Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.), was running for a House seat in 2017 when a scandal emerged a day before the election. Gianforte was charged with a misdemeanor for bodyslamming a reporter, according to The Guardian. In any normal voting circumstances, this likely would’ve cost Gianforte the election. But with two-thirds of ballots already casted through early voting, Gianforte went on to win. The Montana special election

was an extreme case for early voting, but it proves things can happen during the early voting period that could warrant voters to consider switching candidates. Some states — including Minnesota, New Jersey, South Dakota and Vermont — even allow voting 45 days or more ahead of Election Day. These early voting periods mean residents in those states could have cast their ballots before any of the presidential debates in 2016. And early voting also comes at a cost. The 2019 New York Executive Budget includes about $7 million for early voting, according to a release from Cuomo’s office. Early voting may not be the best tactic to increase voter turnout, but there are other possible methods. Increasing the number of polling booths and their accessibility to voters would alleviate some of the burdens that come with in-person voting. Naming Election Day a nationally recognized holiday would make it so voters don’t have to cram their voting time into their work schedule. These methods may come at a cost to convenience, but they are tangible. Yes, mobilizing every voter to the polls in the middle of a work week is hard. But if early voting does little to help bring more people to the polls, maybe the government’s focus should be directed at the other obstacles leading up to Election Day, not just the day itself.

Daniel Loftus is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at dploftus@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @danielploftus.

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SU graduate employees respond to administrators’ Feb. 27 letter In response to our letter, administrators claimed the Graduate Assistant Healthcare Committee is “reviewing ways to enhance health insurance for graduate assistants in a collaborative, deliberate and comprehensive manner.” In reality, they included a few GSO representatives at the table and hosted listening sessions. Graduate workers need a union, which would give us the power to democratically negotiate our working conditions through a federally-protected process called collective bargaining. As it stands, the administration can make closed-door changes to

our individual and family healthcare, wages and other working conditions. Collective bargaining guarantees that administrations can’t change our contracts without all our input. With a union, we would decide what we want in our contracts, and then vote to accept or reject proposed contracts. Graduate union contracts have secured resources for international students, childcare, mental health services and procedures for addressing racism, sexism, ableism and homophobia. NYU’s grad worker union contract guarantees over 90 percent of healthcare premiums are covered by the

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university. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s grad worker union contract includes a grievance procedure for microaggressions, discrimination and harassment. Arguments against unionization often hinge on what ifs. What if undergraduate tuition is raised? What if it affects graduate student funding? These things are already happening: Syracuse recently raised undergraduate costs of attendance to over $70,000. Graduate workers in at least five departments have lost stipends, pushed to hourly pay. Many have lost tuition waivers and healthcare benefits. Col-

lective bargaining provides real decision-making power to fight university corporatization. The proposed healthcare changes don’t just affect grad workers. Forcing us off employee health plans could raise the cost of healthcare for faculty who teach us and staff who keep campus clean, offices running, prepare food, maintain buildings and grounds, provide library support and perform other essential labor. We deserve the power to democratically shape our working conditions. Learning about changes to our healthcare through a mass email is detrimental to our

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Former Syracuse football star Tim Green releases children’s baseball book with Derek Jeter By Adam Lehner staff writer

hortstops and linebackers don’t usually work together. One has a knack for fielding ground balls; the other likes to shed blocks and force fumbles. When the objective is authoring a children’s book, though, common ground can be found. Former first-round NFL draft pick and Syracuse University alumnus Tim Green recently proved just that, releasing the second installment of his collaborative book series with New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter in March. The collaboration has proved beneficial and enlightening for both former sports stars. “Double Play: Baseball Genius 2” follows Jalen DeLuca, a young boy with the ability to predict a pitcher’s throw before he even winds up. In the first book, released in March 2017, DeLuca used his talent to help save the career of aging New York Yankee JY Yager. In “Double Play,” both characters are shunned by their respective teams and must prove that they

possess the baseball gravitas necessary to stand out among their peers. Though this is only the second book the pair has worked on together, it is Jeter’s sixth children’s book and Green’s 37th publication. Green has become a New York Times best-selling author by writing about his former sport, and he has dabbled in baseball literature in the past. The series’ young protagonist is named after Jeter’s nephew, Jalen, who is remembered by many for tipping his cap in respect during his uncle’s final game at Yankee Stadium. Green has named a number of his characters after his own five children in past novels. DeLuca, like Jeter, is biracial, and in the first iteration of “Baseball Genius” he is faced with bullying. The authors hoped that by including this they would give young readers the chance to see from another perspective, potentially steering them to be kinder and more understanding toward their peers, Green said. Green expressed how enlightening it was to learn what growing up as a biracial child was like. As a veteran children’s book author, Green has helped the future Hall-of-Famer along the way as well. see green page 9

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When Joy-Ann Reid was growing up, she’d stay up late to watch “Nightline” and wake up early on Sunday mornings to watch “ Meet t he Press” and “The McLaughlin Group.” Now, as a political analyst, she’s a part of the REID world she grew up watching. Reid hosts her own show on

MSNBC called “AM Joy,” writes a political column in The Daily Beast and teaches the race, gender, and the media class at Syracuse University’s New York City campus. On Tuesday, she will deliver a lecture on SU’s main campus as part of the University Lectures series in Hendricks Chapel. Journalism was something Reid was always interested in, but she didn’t think of it as a career, she said. She entered the pre-med track at Harvard University but realized it wasn’t for her. Shortly after the death of her mother, Reid took a year off school to figure out her next step.

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of journalists, she said. So when her co-worker, Brandi Kellam, mentioned a teaching position for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications opening at SU’s Fisher Center in New York City, Reid seized the opportunity. She’d always been interested in teaching because her mother was a nutrition and dietetics professor at the University of Northern Colorado, she said. Cheryl Brody Franklin, director of Newhouse in New York, was excited for Reid to join the staff. “I feel like I could just tell that Joy would be a perfect fit for the see reid page 9

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green “I think, for Derek, I was proud in the process of his admiration for my storytelling and creating the characters and so forth,” Green said. “I felt good about that.” The writing process has become secondnature to the all-time Syracuse football sack leader. While acknowledging the importance of a positive message, Green said that first and foremost, the mission is to entertain with plenty of action and short chapters that end with suspense. A Liverpool High School graduate, Green made his way onto the SU campus as a Rhodes Scholar finalist in 1982. Over the next four years, he rewrote the record books, twice earning All-American honors while becoming SU’s all-time leader in career sacks. His hard work transcended the football field, and he graduated in 1986 as the co-valedictorian of his class. John Roos, Green’s teammate on the early ‘80s Syracuse roster, remembered his scholarly drive. “Off the field, Tim was a great student and took school very seriously,” Roos said. “On road trips, he would be reading books on the plane while everyone else was sleeping or listening to music.” Green simply had a thirst for education. He said he loved to read, using it as an escape, and that reading likely helped him become a better student. “As a football player, he’s one of the from page 7

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position,” Franklin said. “I felt her passion and her excitement for teaching.” While teaching a three-hour class may seem daunting for some, Reid uses her class as a chance to take a break from the cynical rhetoric she hears during the day, she said. “What I do during the day is I interact with a very negative news cycle, and I’m trying to parse through it for the audience,” she said. “Whereas teaching the class, it’s a chance to kind of come at news

best that’s ever played here,” said John Wildhack, director of athletics at SU. “He is a person of great accomplishment. No question about that.” Upon graduation, the Atlanta Falcons called Green’s name in the first round of the 1986 NFL Draft. He led a successful and consistent eight-year career, nabbing 24 career sacks while anchoring a defense that featured Deion Sanders in the secondary. Green said the sack he is most proud of is his 1992 takedown of “the Gunslinger,” Brett Favre. “Brett was my roommate for away games in Atlanta his rookie year, so when he came back with the Packers, that was a big one,” Green said. “And, of course, I think he’s maybe the greatest ever, so it’s always good to have those guys on your sack list.” Once he took his pads off for good, Green was once again enticed by the classroom, returning to SU in 1994 to pursue a law degree. “When you’re done (playing), education is so important to keep from backsliding into depression and a feeling of helplessness that many guys feel,” said Green, who has run his own law firm for the past two decades. Green’s ambition will not soon be forgotten around campus. “There’s not too many Tim Greens in this world. He’s an incredibly bright, articulate person with diverse talents,” Wildhack said. “We’re proud of how he’s represented our university.”

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and history and information from a different perspective with a group of people not yet in the industry.” The course — race, gender, and the media — analyzes the fundamental diversity issues members of the media industry face, including examinations of the role of media in a multicultural society. The class also uses current events, such as the #MeToo movement, as a basis for discussion. Reid kept the class relevant, said Sara Zadrima, who took her class last spring. Zadrima, who has since graduated and now works in New York City, added that Reid would often

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Q&A portion of the event. “We’re talking about just how we approach (civil movements) as journalists, whether or not we’re being intelligent about the way that we approach race and gender as we’re telling stories as journalists,” Reid said about Tuesday’s event. Reid will discuss how the media covered the civil rights movement and how the media covers modern civil rights movements, like Black Lives Matter and #NeverAgain. Branham said the conversation is meant to be an open discussion between Reid and students. abnakamu@syr.edu | @nakamura_amy

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Bosch wants Syracuse to improve on lack of home runs staff writer

Syracuse has ranked among the best in extrabase hits over the past two seasons. Last year, the Orange tallied 76 doubles, the 15th best mark in the nation. In 2018, it ranks first in the country in triples with 15. But despite SU’s ability to find gaps in the outfield and put runners in scoring position, its offense still lacks a power-hitting identity. Syracuse (16-14, 4-7 Atlantic Coast) has hit just two home runs this season, ranking thirdto-last in Division I. Since joining the ACC in 2013, the Orange has hit at least 30 home runs each season, including 58 in 2014. This year, SU’s on pace to hit less than four. SU’s inability to clear the fences has prevented comeback opportunities and game-changing hits. from page 12

jayhawks the free-throw line. And he remembers the thrill of the final seconds, his heart racing as Hakim Warrick blocked Michael Lee’s 3-point attempt at the buzzer. “We’ve never really gotten even for that one loss in New Orleans,” said Geiger, a 1965 graduate of KU. A few feet from him, one Kansas fan said of the game, “I don’t remember losses.” When longtime KU fan Jeff Twist recalled the game, he was slightly disgusted. He singled out Anthony, who scored 20 points in the title game and was named Most Outstanding Player. He said the Jayhawks have never gotten revenge. from page 12

man-down goalie Dom Madonna and fired a shot on the low right post. Madonna quickly dove across the net to save the shot and clear the ball, negating the man-up chance. Seven minutes later, Tyson Bomberry was flagged for unnecessary roughness, his third penalty of at least one minute in the last two games. Syracuse played the last 49 seconds of the half a man down. With the seconds dwindling down and Notre Dame’s top scorer, Ryder Garnsey, closing in on Madonna, defender Nick Mellen deflected the ball, leading to an SU possession. In the third frame, Notre Dame earned two more man-up opportunities. The first ended in a shot wide of the net that Syracuse gained possession on, and the second ended in a crease violation that led to an Orange goal and a 6-5 SU lead. “There were just too many missed plays on our part,” Corrigan said. “Ten could’ve easily been six and six could’ve easily been 12 for us, but it wasn’t. So they win.” What made it difficult for Notre Dame to from page 12

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hinged on Syracuse’s ability to gain possession in draw situations. Morgan Widner’s injury gave way for Julie Cross to jump into a new role as Syracuse’s draw-control specialist, but more than a month after the injury and coming off losses in three of its last four games, Syracuse is still “scrambling,” Gait said. “It just is disappointing,” Gait said. “I thought that we were super deep.” Last season, Syracuse was one of the NCAA’s best draw control teams, carried by the play of then-freshman Morgan Widner, whose 7.09 draws per game ranked seventh in the nation. Since the start of the 2017 season, Syracuse has only lost two games — March 14, 2017 against Florida and March 28, 2017 against Princeton — where it won the draw controls battle. Gait said that new rules in women’s lacrosse will make the draw split “50-50” and no one will “dominate.” Thus far for Syracuse, that hasn’t been the case. The Orange is getting outpaced in the draw 212-155, including 53-33 across its three conference games, all losses. Before the injury to Widner, Gait addressed his team’s depth. When Widner wasn’t playing well, the Orange could insert Cross to win the

“That’s a little bit of a glaring stat that we’d like to improve on,” head coach Mike Bosch said. “To get that clutch two-run or three-run home run to tie the game or put you ahead is huge. We’re working on it.” Of SU’s 32 home runs last season, 14 came from seniors, including a team-high nine from Sydney O’Hara. The Orange knew it would suffer a slight drop in home runs, as SU’s top offensive players hit for contact more than they do for power, SU outfielder Alicia Hansen said. But hitting just two through 30 games has raised concerns Bosch didn’t think he’d be faced with. While Bosch noted Syracuse is “working on” its power-hitting problems, Hansen and Bryce Holmgren, SU’s top two hitters, believe stringing together multiple base-hits is just as useful as hitting a home run. The Orange’s strengths are suited more for contact-hitting

and baserunning, Hansen said. “It’s no different than getting a baserunner on then getting them in,” Hansen said. “It’s a lot easier to get that with one swing, but if we’re capable of doing all the little things to score instead, I think that’s fine.” For SU, doubles and triples have not had the same impact as home runs. The Orange scores 4.5 runs a game, ranking 114th in the country. Thanks to its flurry of long balls last season, Syracuse averaged 5.4 runs a game, the 29th best clip in Division I. Against the top pitchers in the ACC, Bosch said, SU might only get one chance to change the game, so it can’t rely on multiple hits to get the job done. The Orange’s power-hitting struggles are affected by its rigorous, travel-filled schedule, Bosch noted. After starting the season with 28 straight away games, SU will play 15 of its

final 23 games at Skytop Softball Stadium. In the away games, at least 20 were played at stadiums with field dimensions larger than SU’s. Familiarity with its home field and shorter distances to the fence will “help (Syracuse) a big deal,” Bosch said. In tournament play and against its first two conference opponents (Virginia Tech and Virginia), SU was able to get away with minimal power hitting while notching a 15-8 record. Since, it’s lost six of seven against higher quality opponents. If SU wants to have a chance against the ACC’s best, it will need important, runproducing hits in the form of home runs. “Obviously a long ball is good every once in a while,” Holmgren said. “But we’re learning to work around it and trying to find success without it.”

He wanted SU to beat Duke in the Sweet 16 so that KU would be the team to end Syracuse’s improbable run. “Oh yeah, still bitter,” Twist said. “I hated Syracuse ever since then.” Highlights of that game have cropped up in montages played at NCAA Tournament sites, including Detroit and Omaha. When the footage showed at SU’s Round of 32 game in Detroit, a contingent of Syracuse fans cheered. Before the 2003 title game, SU head coach Jim Boeheim had been to a pair of Final Fours already and finished runner-up each time (1987, 1996). Then-Kansas head coach Roy Williams had reached the Final Four on four occasions. After the game, Boeheim shook hands with Williams, who said: “Jimmy, I’m really sad, but I’m really

happy for you.” To which Boeheim responded, “Thank you, but you’re going to get one, too.” In the dying seconds of the 2003 title game, Kansas had a chance to tie after Warrick missed a pair of free throws. But Warrick blocked Lee’s shot with 0.7 seconds remaining on the game clock. “The Block” has lived on in Syracuse lore, as Lee was a strong shooter and a made 3-pointer would have sent the game into overtime. “I thought Lee was going to make that last shot from the corner, but Warrick blocked that shot. He got him with his elbow!” said Frank Burris, a Kansas fan. “I got all ball,” Warrick wrote in 2015 for The Players Tribune. Seconds later in the 2003 game, Syracuse players created a mosh pit near centercourt.

Burris was munching on a Reuben sandwich across from the CenturyLink Center the day of Kansas’ Elite Eight matchup. But the more he and his friends thought about the game, the more frustration settled in. “An unheralded freshman nobody knew anything about hit seven 3s first half,” said John Moore, a Kansas season-ticket holder. “We were tired. We ran out of gas. I remember our guys bending over holding their shorts, sweat dripping off their face.” “We couldn’t make a damn free throw!” Burris interjected. “I felt like I wanted to throw up,” John said. “It was a Final Four we could have won, should have won. Still bitter.”

score on extra-man chances was SU’s ability to spread out and collapse its zone quickly. The five-man unit forced Notre Dame to pass the ball around the perimeter of the zone. The Fighting Irish struggled to create separation from a defender on either side of the crease, and any time a Notre Dame player tried to break the zone with a run or pass through the middle, multiple defenders collapsed to force either a turnover or a rushed shot. One player who SU focused on specifically was Mikey Wynne, Martin said. The plan was simple. Martin faceguarded Wynne, locking him off from getting the ball and forcing Notre Dame’s other players to beat a four-man zone of Mellen, Bomberry, Cunningham and DiPietro. The Irish didn’t. Of the eight man-up opportunities, four ended in turnovers. Seven of Notre Dame’s nine man-up shots sailed wide of the net. “Defensively I thought we were terrific,” Desko said after his team’s win. Prior to Saturday, the only team SU held to under 10 goals was Binghamton in both teams’ season-opener. In that game, the Orange held the Bearcats to four goals. And against Bingbattles that Widner couldn’t because she relied more on “finesse” to win draws. But after the injury, Syracuse has tried numerous combinations of players. This season, 16 players — either the draw taker or the wings — have recorded a draw control. Last season, Widner carried the Orange’s

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hamton, SU won 82.8 percent of faceoffs as opposed to 42.1 percent on Saturday. Binghamton is 3-9, while Notre Dame entered the Dome as the No. 7 team in the country. SU entered this season with the idea that

defense would be its strength. While that hasn’t held true through the team’s first half of the season, against Notre Dame, the Orange found the defensive intensity it’s been searching for.

draw. In 2018, the Orange has relied on Julie Cross (36 controls), Neena Merola (33) and Kerry Defliese (29) to carry its mediocre draw control attack. “I think we’re just trying to figure some things out, just throwing people in,” Defliese said after SU’s loss to Maryland on March 11, in which SU was dominated on the draw 22-8. Despite not having any experience, she said, Defliese was SU’s top option on the draw from SU’s March 4 matchup with Virginia through its March 26 matchup with Northwestern. But as Syracuse continued to struggle, the Orange turned to Merola on the wing and Emily Hawryschuk at the faceoff X to fill the void. The switch was another example of how unpredictable the Orange’s draw control lineup has been this year. After the loss to

Maryland, Defliese weighed in on her future leading the draw. “We’re still working on it,” she said. Gait said he tried out Hawryschuk because she has “quick hands.” Though she said that she hasn’t taken a draw since high school, the Orange entrusted Hawryschuk to lead the team on the draw against Duke’s then-No. 2 draw control group. The Orange has switched around the draw team all year, but Hawryschuk said after the Duke loss “you just got to adjust.” “We can’t keep doing the same things over and over again, be getting the same results and expect it to just switch one day,” Gait said. This year, Syracuse has tried to do things differently, and the results have always remained the same.

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Syracuse men’s lacrosse takes on Hobart in the Carrier Dome on Tuesday night. See Wednesday’s paper

Dom Madonna earned weekly honors for his 13 saves to upset Notre Dame men’s lacrosse. See dailyorange.com

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‘still bitter’

Syracuse defeated Kansas in 2003, 81-78, to win its only national title. Carmelo Anthony and Gerry McNamara led the Orange to victory. Anthony scored 20 points in the game while McNamara scored 18 in the first half on six made 3s. daily orange file photo

By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

he name wasn’t coming to Bill Geiger, a longtime Kansas fan. Which Syracuse guard hit all of those 3-pointers for Syracuse back in the 2003 national championship? There were six of them, all in the first half. Geiger knew that because he sat at the Superdome in New Orleans right on the baseline, not far from where most of the 3s originated. He watched as Syracuse bounded to an 18-point lead, backed mostly by a guard unbeknownst to most of the Kansas faithful. “Your star was (Carmelo) Antho-

Fifteen years later, Kansas fans remember KU’s loss in the 2003 title game ny, but he wasn’t the kid who beat us,” Geiger said. “The freshman who hit all of those 3s did. One after the other. What was his name?” A few seconds passed and Geiger had an epiphany: “McNamara! McNamara killed us!” Gerry McNamara, the Syracuse freshman point guard, led the Orange to an 81-78 win over Kansas, delivering the program its lone national title.

Fifteen years later, the game lives on for Kansas fans. Losing March Madness games casts a long shadow. The 2018 national championship game was Monday night, leaving one side to go home unsatisfied. Last week, devout Kansas fans recalled the 2003 national title game loss to Syracuse. For many, the loss still stings. Even though the Jayhawks had a dominant 2017-18 season, ending with

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a Final Four loss to Villanova, fans still resented the 2003 loss to Syracuse. On the night KU beat Duke to advance to the Final Four, excitement filled the air in Omaha, Nebraska. The Jayhawks were 30-7 and off to their 15th Final Four. They have made three Final Fours since losing to SU in 2003. Yet when recalling that loss, KU fans were awash with renewed frustration. Geiger said he has attended just about every KU game since he was a kid in the 1950s. He recalled with detail how McNamara’s 3s put the Jayhawks at an early deficit. He didn’t forget that KU forward Nick Collison went 3-for-10 from

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Syracuse defends well a man-down SU ‘scrambling’ to solve draw issues By Matt Liberman staff writer

Syracuse head coach John Desko spent much of Saturday’s contest pacing up and down the sidelines with his hands raised, trying to get the officials’ attentions over penalty calls. The opposing end looked like a mirror image. His counterpart, Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan, did the same, except his frustration was due to a lack of execution from his players. “I can’t think of a lot of opportunities where the mistake wasn’t ours,” Corrigan said after the game. “We didn’t execute … (Syracuse) did fine.”

One area where No. 8 SU (5-3, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) did more than just “fine” in its 10-6 win against now-No. 12 Notre Dame (5-3, 0-1) on Saturday was in man-down situations. Entering Saturday’s contest, SU ranked 58th in the nation in defending manup opportunities, giving up goals on 45.8 percent of all chances. On Saturday, the Orange held the Fighting Irish scoreless on eight man-up situations totaling five-and-a-half minutes. “It’s a momentum changer,” Syracuse short-stick midfielder Nick Martin said. “When you get a couple stops it’s almost like a goal.” Heading into the contest, SU volunteer assistant coach Steve Scar-

amuzzino spent all week going over Notre Dame’s offensive sets in their man-up units. Every day, the five-man unit of Martin, Nick DiPietro, Tyson Bomberry, Marcus Cunningham and Nick Mellen grinded through those sets, Martin said, preparing for UND. On Saturday, after receiving no penalties in the first quarter, the Orange was penalized twice in the second period. The first came on a Jamie Trimboli slashing penalty with the score tied at three with just under eight minutes left in the second period. Once on the man-up, Notre Dame’s Mikey Drake ran out across the middle, 15 yards in front of SU see man-down page 11

By Michael McCleary asst. digital editor

Syracuse’s struggles on the draw arose long before Morgan Widner hit the Carrier Dome turf with an injury on Feb. 22. After Syracuse’s opening day win versus Connecticut, SU head coach Gary Gait sat confidently on the podium. A team that had just lost its fall season had expected mistakes, and Gait brushed off any notion that he was worried about the games outcome.

With his team at full strength and a slow start the only question mark in what turned out to be a blowout win, Gait addressed the problem that kept the Orange from providing the knockout blow earlier than it had. “It all starts with the draw,” Gait said. For No. 18 Syracuse (7-5, 0-3 Atlantic Coast), that’s where it’s always started. The draw has become a constant talking point after games, as every result has see draw page 11