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A vigil was held Tuesday evening inside Hendricks Chapel on the Syracuse University campus for victims of crime and child abuse in Onondaga County.

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President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts could affect Syracuse-based arts organizations, and their leaders are not happy about it.

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Will Hicks wasn't retained as the strength coach for SU football when Dino Babers was hired in 2015. But he's thriving working with the Olympic sports.

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pulling the plug Trump's proposed budget cuts could deplete organizations in Syracuse

By Michael Burke news editor

Illustration by Delaney Kuric staff illustrator

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o combat the housing crisis in Syracuse, community organizations such as CNY Fair Housing use dollars from the federal government each year to assist people in dire situations.

Sometimes CNY Fair Housing investigates complaints of people in poverty being denied housing. Sometimes the group works to help people facing imminent eviction from becoming homeless. Other times, the nonprofit helps people with disabilities remain in their homes.

But soon, the federal funding that helps enable those endeavors could be gone. United States President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the Community Development Block Grant as part of cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

For the current fiscal year, the CDBG provided Syracuse with more than $4.6 million in funding. The grant provides funding every year to a number of housing agencies in Syracuse. In addition to CNY Fair Housing, other groups that receive funding include Home HeadQuarters, Empire Housing and Development, the Greater Syracuse Tenants Network and Jubilee Homes.

Jean Kessner, a Syracuse common councilor at-large, said the city has a “serious need for improved housing” that would be made more difficult to meet without the CDBG funds.

“What we will have lost is one of the things that stands between us and these really, really significant housing problems,” she said. “… It would compound them.”

The grant also funds other types of agencies, such as youth programming groups like the Boys & Girls Clubs of Syracuse and neighborhood development organizations such as the Northeast Hawley Development Association.

And, in addition to the direct services such as housing and after school programming that the grant funds, CDBG also acts as an economic multiplier for the city, said Stephanie Pasquale, the deputy commissioner of Syracuse’s Division of Neighborhood Development. For example, if the grant funds a roof improvement to a house, it’s not just helping the homeowner — it’s also helping construction businesses in the city.

“That grant funds a really wide array of services ... that would go away immediately,” Pasquale said.

In a statement provided to The Daily Orange, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said Trump’s proposed cuts to CBDG and other community funding “shows a lack of an urban agenda.”

"We are not going to put more Americans to work, revitalize our urban cores, or improve our schools by cutting funding for see budget

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SU, Le Moyne College establish joint academic programs

By Taylor Watson asst. copy editor

Syracuse University and Le Moyne are in the process of developing initiatives that allow students to benefit from each institution after recently reaffirming their academic relationship.

SU announced in late March a curriculum partnership between its School of Information Studies and Le Moyne’s Madden School

of Business, along with an extension of the current relationship between Le Moyne and the College of Law. The institutions are playing off each other’s strengths, said Sue Corieri, assistant dean for enrollment management and special academic initiatives at the iSchool.

New opportunities are being developed within pre-existing programs that linked the iSchool with Le Moyne’s Madden School.

Using a “plug and play” module of curriculum, students from SU and Le Moyne will be able to customize their degrees and incorporate a selected specialty Certificate of Advanced Study from the partner school into their home school’s master’s program. SU students will be able to take courses at Le Moyne and vice versa.

CAS components from SU are in the subject areas of information and security management

and data science, and those from Le Moyne include enterprise systems and health information systems — subject areas not offered in the iSchool or SU’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Corieri said.

“We thought it would be wise to leverage the strengths of the other institutions and accept those courses into our master’s program,” Corieri said.

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plete, but could begin as early as next fall, Corieri said. Students will be able to choose to just take courses or to earn a CAS. “It gives our students and Le Moyne’s students more breadth of courses without having to hire new faculty,” Corieri said. “… We really bring two different cultures together that makes the learning environment much stronger.”

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WORK wednesday | talley larkin

Senior designs, sells 3-D printed jewelry

By Chloe Greenwald staff writer

In recent years, 3-D printing has become increasingly popular.

Talley Larkin has combined her creative design skills with her new technical skills to launch a 3-D printed jewelry line on Etsy.

This past summer, Larkin, a senior in the industrial and interaction design program, traveled to Berlin for an introduction to 3-D scanning and printing program at the Technical University of Berlin. While sightseeing, she came across a local merchant selling handmade jewelr y.

Inspired by a piece resembling a molecule, she decided to create her own jewelry using her new 3-D printing knowledge.

“I really liked them and thought I could totally make them myself,” Larkin recalled.

Larkin created a 3-D printed molecule necklace as a birthday present for her sister. The reaction she got encouraged her to create an entire line of the molecule-inspired pieces. When she returned to Syracuse, she began selling the pieces and started her business, TCL Design.

Her process involves designing the necklace through an online program. The design is outsourced to a company called Shape Ways. The company brings

her designs to life through a 3-D printer and then the jewelry is sold on her Etsy page, which she created this past October.

“Most (students in the Berlin program) were engineering students … so they didn’t have the design sense,” Larkin said about the benefits of her artistic background.

She started out making necklaces with gypsum powder and some other materials, but has since then transitioned to metal for a more durable structure.

Larkin utilizes both Instagram and Facebook to create buzz for her one-of-a-kind products.

These platforms have helped her connect with other vendors who share a similar passion.

Over the summer she will be interning at Motorola Solutions to help work on the company’s public safety department. Both her coursework and business have made her desire a career in experience design, something that requires both technical skills and creativity.

Right now, she is content with the status and size of her business and plans to focus her energy on her internship. She believes her experiences have well prepared her to enter the workforce, and that the possibilities for her jewelry business are endless. cjgreenw@syr.edu

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N • Chronic for chronic Chronic pain is now included as part of New York state’s medical marijuana program.

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Over and out SU has plans to terminate the Cold Case Justice Initiative, a program in the College of Law. See Thursday's paper

Piecing together When an SU alumnus died, police found he assumed an identity. Now, a friend is searching for answers.

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WORLD CHEMICAL ATTACK More than 50 people were killed and 300 wounded on Tuesday in war-torn Syria, after jets dropped what the U.S. government believes to be sarin, a chemical agent, on a town in the Middle Eastern country’s northwestern province. A U.S. government source said the attack was “almost certainly” carried out by Syrian military forces. The military’s command in a statement denied using any chemicals in the town Tuesday. source: reuters

(FROM LEFT) ISAIAH AND MONIRA ALOZAIME hold candles during a vigil at Hendricks Chapel to honor National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The number of abused children reported in Onondaga County stood at 1,830 in 2015. jordan phelps staff photographer

Vigil commemorates victims of child abuse

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Lights went dim inside Hendricks Chapel as the Syracuse University a capella group Otto Tunes hummed a tune on the stage.

About 60 people sitting in pews, holding lit candles, either stared waving their candles or looked straight toward the stage as they remembered children whose lives were taken away by abuse, neglect and crime.

The annual Go Blue 4 Kids Candlelight Vigil, organized by the local non-profit McMahon/ Ryan Child Advocacy Center and the Onondaga County Crime Victims' Rights Coalition, took place at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday night. The candlelight vigil was second time the organization held the event to commemorate, said Colleen Merced, associate director of the advocacy center.

“I think it’s a moment to not only be in solidarity with survivors but I also look at that light as being a light for hope and a healing as well,” said Jolie Moran,

an attendee and outreach and advocacy program coordinator at Vera House, a local organization seeking to end domestic and sexual violence.

The vigil — organized to honor National Child Abuse Prevention Month — is an opportunity for people to not only recognize and honor the victims and survivors, but also to think forward to “change the culture” and prevent abuse and neglect from happening, Moran said.

Linda Cleary, executive director of the McMahon/Ryan Child Advocacy Center, gave introductory remarks at the beginning of the vigil around 6:30 p.m. During her speech, she said that one in 10 children will be sexually abused before they turn 18 and reminded the audience that those could be immediate family members, relatives or friends.

Child abuse is “a far bigger problem” than people give attention, Cleary said.

“The first 18 years of a child’s life should be filled with daddy’s piggyback rides, dirt under her

tiny fingernails and skinned knees healed by a kiss from mom,” Cleary said. “But too often you hear stories of horrific physical and sexual abuse.”

The number of abused and maltreated children in Onondaga County went up from 1,781 in 2010 to 1,830 in 2015, according to the New York state’s Kids’ Well-being Indicators Clearinghouse website. Statewide, though, the number of children decreased from 79,668 to 69,403 within the same period.

Merced then spoke to the attendees. This year’s vigil theme — strength, resilience and justice — shows the vision for a future where victims feel strengthened with responses they receive, organizations supporting and advocating on behalf of the victims to be resilient and respond to challenges and communities to see collective justice, Merced said.

Those at the event took a moment to recognize victim assistance professionals within organizations and law enforcement personnel seeking justices.

Maureen Foran-Mocete, outreach and education program coordinator at the advocacy center, and Syracuse Police Department detective Clark Farry received the 2017 Advocate 4 Children Award.

Monira Alozaime, who works at the District Attorney’s office, attended the vigil with her son to take a moment to remember those whose lives were lost because of crime.

“I just try to remember specific people that I’ve lost as a result of a crime, just remember their memories, feel their presence,” she said.

Merced said after the vigil that people can assist victims and survivors by being compassionate.

Moran expressed her hope that one day advocates like herself might not have to do the job.

“Although we love what we do, if meant that both children and other victims were not being victimized, we would be in a different place,” she said. ssugiyam@syr.edu @SatoshiJournal

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Master's program to focus on cloud computing

By Catherine Leffert contributing writer

Due to a rise in companies relying on cloud based data storage, Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies will offer a new master’s degree program in enterprise data systems this fall.

The program will teach students how data is processed, stored and networked primarily through cloud-based infrastructure, said Carlos Caicedo, the

curriculum lead for the new program and an associate professor in the iSchool. Applications have opened for the program and will officially close June 1. Students must complete 36 credits and have to take 12 credits of selected a secondary focus area to finish the program.

The purpose of this new master’s degree is to train professionals who can simultaneously sit with a CEO in a meeting and immediately design technology

to complete the required datadriven tasks, said Caicedo and Jeffrey Saltz, an associate professor in the iSchool.

The “traditional IT guy that’s in a basement moving cables around” is becoming more obsolete as companies want more wellrounded professionals, Caicedo said. The new master’s program was created over the past year and a half in response to feedback from industry partners.

“The employers are now ask-

ing for more of these students who can ... manage storing, sharing, accessing all the data,” said Elizabeth Liddy, the dean of the iSchool. “So we develop these programs because it’s responsive. We want to ensure that our students get the best jobs and that our employers are happy with how the students are prepared.”

This new program is different than other programs the iSchool already offers because it focuses

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LATEST WARNING President Donald Trump will warn China’s President Xi Jinping that his country should use economic measures to subdue North Korea, the nearby rogue nation that has been developing its nuclear capabilities, a senior White House official told foreign media on Tuesday. Trump will discuss North Korea and other security issues with Jinping during their upcoming summit at his Mar-aLago resort in Florida. source: south china morning post

POLITICS DIVIDED PARTY A feud among Republican lawmakers in Congress over tax reform could derail attempts to reboot the party’s legislative agenda after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act. House Republicans and Senate Republicans are currently debating over what provisions, like a proposed “border adjustment tax,” should be included in corporate tax overhaul. source: usa today

DENYING ACCUSATIONS Susan Rice, a former national security advisor to then-President Barack Obama, denied accusations on Tuesday that she or Obama ordered spying on officials working for President Donald Trump. Rice has been accused of allegedly seeking to “unmask” Trump officials who appeared in foreign surveillance reports. She also denied claims that she leaked information to U.S. media. source: bbc

U.S. APPEAL REJECTED New York state’s Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Facebook’s appeal over search warrants prosecutors obtained in 2013 that would force the company to turn over account information to law enforcement from people suspected of fraud. The court’s decision was a defeat for internet privacy advocates and other companies like Google and Microsoft that supported Facebook in the case. source: reuters

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Survey: Applications from international students down

By Bailey Benzinger contributing writer

International students make up 5 percent of the total enrollment in United States universities, according to the Institute of International Education, which roughly equals 975,000 students.

But that margin may not last going forward.

A recent survey by the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers found that 40 percent of the over 250 schools surveyed reported a decrease in the number of international student applications they received.

The most frequently noted concerns of international students and their families were listed in a summary of the findings. One such concern is that “the climate in the U.S. is now less welcoming to individuals from other countries.” The national trend had been an increase in international student applications over the past decade up until this point, per The New York Times, leading some to wonder whether President Trump’s policy promises and rhetoric have affected international interest in studying in the U.S. Other concerns outlined in the summary include the potential for an expansion of what countries would be affected by an executive order travel ban, the potential for a rise in student visa denials from certain countries, and the potential for restrictions around visas to change, especially around the ability to travel, re-enter the U.S. after traveling, and opportunities regarding employment.

The survey also found that the region most concerned about studying in the U.S. is the Middle East, a predominately Muslim region. President Trump has been associated with islamophobic rhetoric in the past and his executive orders banning travel from the Middle East affected Mus-

lim majority countries.

One of the reasons that international students may be looking to attend school elsewhere, said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, provost faculty fellow for internationalization at Syracuse University, is the fact that other countries do not have the political climate that the U.S. has.

“I think overall it’s fair to say that a lot of international students, particularly from the affected countries, might have second thoughts about coming to the U.S. while they can, let’s say, go to places like Canada or Germany and get as good of an education without all these problems attached to it,” Boroujerdi said.

International students currently studying at institutions across the country are experiencing the “chilling” effects of President Trump’s proposed travel ban even though it is not currently in effect, Boroujerdi said.

He explained that many get visas that only allow one entry into the U.S., so if they travel or do research abroad, they must reapply and go through a security background check to re-enter. By the time they do so they may have missed the date by which they are supposed to return by.

Per Inside Higher Ed, many of the U.S.’s international students are from China and India, neither of which is affected by the travel ban. Still, the survey found that enrollment from these countries is dropping, too. Twenty-five percent of universities reported declines in Chinese undergraduate applications and 26 percent reported those declines for Indian students.

Because international students are “a very important ‘brain pool’ that we draw upon,” the effects of a decrease in international students at colleges across the nation could be devastating, Boroujerdi said. bpbenzin@syr.edu

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budget cuts housing, education, and building a wall,” she said. “These programs fight poverty and blight every day. Shortsighted investments for unsubstantiated fears will not make our country great again but will instead have a devastating impact on cities across the nation.”

For CNY Fair Housing, the CDBG funding comes from a number of municipalities: the city of Syracuse, Onondaga County, Auburn and Watertown, said Sally Santangelo, the group’s executive director.

The nonprofit uses the funding to investigate complaints of fair housing, provide legal representation for victims of discrimination and to help individuals understand their fair housing rights, among other related services, Santangelo said.

“It’s important in terms of helping people maintain housing stability,” she said. “If people end up becoming homeless, it ultimately costs our community significantly more. If we can work to keep them in their homes, it’s ultimately cost effective for our community.”

Home HeadQuarters, another Syracusebased housing agency, also receives significant funding from the CDBG. The organization helps underserved community members become and remain homeowners by providing grants, down payment assistance, homeowner education, foreclosure prevention and property development.

Of the country’s 100 largest cities, Syra-

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le moyne collaborating since 2012 via the Fast Track program, which allows students from both institutions to start taking graduate-level courses during their senior year. SU facilitates the fast track program with Mercyhurst University and Stonehill College as well.

SU and Le Moyne also reaffirmed their relationship involving SU’s College of Law. Students from Le Moyne can complete their undergraduate degree in three years, then transition to SU’s law school and get their J.D. degree in three years, shaving one year off what is usually a seven-year process, said Grant Keener, interim assistant dean for enrollment management at the College of Law. Known as the 3 + 3 program, it enables students to “double dip” on their credits during their first year of law school, Keener said, by simultaneously starting the J.D. program and completing the three elective requirements from the undergraduate program. The program began in fall 2013, but was recently reaffirmed by both institutions.

The 3 + 3 program provides an opportunity for Le Moyne to recruit high-ability students who are interested in a legal profession, and serves as a steady pipeline of high-achieving students for SU’s College of Law, Keener said.

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computing primarily on combining management and technical knowledge. Previously, there was not a comprehensive master’s degree that merged these skills.

Companies that rely on data, such as Amazon or Google, need employees who know how to handle data on a technological level — and a management level — which is how enterprise data systems function, Caicedo said.

This program also teaches students how to properly design and use cloud-based infrastructure as a system in which data is stored externally.

“We want people to understand not just the technology and not just the infrastructure side of data, but also how people use that data,” Caicedo said.

Cloud computing is becoming more prevalent as companies acquire large amounts of data without knowing ways to store or network the data, Saltz said. Everyone has heard about the cloud, but actually getting the technology and infrastructure of the cloud to work properly takes a lot of skill, he added.

SU now offers a range of data-related programs, including this master’s program, and a pre-existing business analytics pro-

cuse has the highest rate of concentrated poverty among black people and Hispanics.

Karen Schroeder, the chief communications officer for Home HeadQuarters, said the funding the organization receives from CDBG flows to “some of our most challenged families, populations and neighborhoods.”

Without CDBG funding, Schroeder said, “I think that it would just be harder to reach those people. The need is greater than ever and hopefully we don’t lose one leg of the stool.”

At the Syracuse branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs, which provides after school programs for youth, CDBG funding is relied on heavily, said Pat Driscoll, chair of the executive board.

Driscoll added that any cuts to the CDBG “would certainly impact the operation of the club.”

“I just hope that our president and members of Congress don’t lose sight of the fact that the Community Development Block Grant plays in our communities,” he said.

Santangelo, the CNY Fair Housing executive director, said the fact that so many organizations in the community receive funding from the CDBG is what worries her most about the potential elimination of the grant.

“It’s one thing for one organization to lose funding, but we’re talking about absolutely devastating impacts to the human service agencies in the community,” she said. “And that’s a real concern for the longterm opportunities for the people of central New York.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

an initiative that would lead to a master’s degree in international relations from SU’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in which students from Le Moyne and other Jesuit universities would study at Le Moyne, then move on to Maxwell’s program, said Joe Marina, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Le Moyne.

They are also exploring a direct entry program that would allow SU students to join Le Moyne’s master’s program in occupational therapy that operates out of downtown Syracuse.

SU and Le Moyne have had a relationship for at least 20 years, Marina said, and by having both colleges in the same city, it only seems natural that they would find ways to work together, he added.

But it is only in recent months that the partnership has really begun to take off, he said, due to the collaboration between SU Chancellor Kent Syverud and Le Moyne President Linda LeMura.

The educational connection between the institutions makes sense because of the nature of education itself, Marina said.

Teaching and learning are human experiences not meant to be seen in isolation, he said.

“What we’re doing here is taking a large complex university like SU, compared to a small liberal arts Jesuit college like Le Moyne, and sharing the best both have to offer with each other,” Marina said. tnwatson@syr.edu

gram in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the data science program in the School of Engineering’s computer science department.

The iSchool’s enterprise data systems master’s degree has the capacity to teach students the technological components of managing data, unlike the business analytics program and the data science program.

“There are lots of programs in the iSchool or Whitman or computer science that talk about building applications or the context of how to use applications,” Saltz said. “But there’s a gap in how do we deploy the tools required to make those apps work.”

The master’s program is innovative in a way, because it caters to what companies have specifically said they needed, Liddy and the other iSchool professors said. The program is different because students will see both sides of the cloud: the side of the developer and the side of the user, Saltz said.

Liddy and the iSchool professors said they are confident that students, after completing the master’s course, will be hired by a company to work with enterprise data systems.

“In this data-driven world, you need professionals that understand all the details related to infrastructure that deals with the data,” Caicedo said. ccleffer@syr.edu

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But despite uproar from the technology community, the expansion of the tax would help accommodate the consumer shift from brick-and-mortar to the internet.

As the proposal, which is commonly referred to the “Amazon Tax” for the types of businesses it targets, stands now, outside marketplace sellers — including third-party sellers on Amazon — are required to collect a sales tax from New York state residents if the seller is also located in New York. Cuomo plans to extend this tax by requiring marketplace providers to collect taxes on sales to New York residents regardless of the seller’s location.

The tech community and pro-business advocates argue the tax, which, according to the New York Post only affects providers that facilitate annual sales of $100 million, will deter companies from establishing marketplaces in New York. But the odds that a new tech company will create a marketplace and quickly generate $100 million in sales revenue are unlikely. The $100 million floor on the tax enables companies to establish an efficient operational structure that wouldn’t be destabilized by the sales tax.

To understand the implications of the proposal, it’s important to grasp what it means to be an internet marketplace like Amazon, eBay or Etsy. These platforms provide a virtual “marketplace” that allows buyers and sellers to make transactions. Unlike eBay and Etsy, though, Amazon acts as a seller of

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goods in its own marketplace.

Tax laws in New York provide an unfair advantage to these online retailers over brick-and-mortar establishments. Every brick-and-mortar transaction within the state inevitably happens between a New York buyer and seller, but internet marketplaces have been able to avoid this tax.

This is particularly unwarranted when role of business in society is changing. Society is at an inflection point in which businesses are slowly moving toward a model that aims to maximize stakeholder value rather than stockholder value. For almost every business, stakeholders include the government and the public. For the public to thrive, profit-seeking organizations must pay their fair share of taxes to the public infrastructure that ultimately allows them to exist.

Taxes are intended to benefit, although they can be — and are — misappropriated. But there are two sides to the issue.

In regard to the “Amazon Tax,” techies and business advocates must acknowledge that because consumer shopping habits are changing, the way online purchases are taxed must also change. This issue revolves around a concept known as “nexus.”

The nexus is defined as the temporary or permanent presence of people or property by an organization. In terms of the tax at hand, any company that

has a facility or employees within New York state would be considered to have created a nexus — or a physical presence — within the state, even if the company’s marketplace is based on the internet.

Because the company has a nexus within the state, the state government could impose taxes on the company.

The nexus issue was addressed in the 1941 Supreme Court case Nelson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. The case arose when the retail giant Sears distributed a mailing catalog that consumers could purchase goods from. A large amount of Sears’ sales revenue was coming from states the store shipped catalogs to, but the company did not pay sales taxes on these states until the case was decided.

“The nexus of transaction issue for sales tax for Sears-Roebuck has already been settled in the courts, and Sears-Roebuck is dying,” said Lee McKnight, an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. “The new sales leaders have to pay their fair share.”

The business tides are shifting in favor of companies that inhabit the internet marketplace, and it’s time that these companies pay the sales taxes asked of brick-and-mortar retailers. Cuomo’s proposal to expand the “Amazon Tax,” if approved, would level this playing field, and ensure internet retailers are paying forward with their success.

Daniel Strauss is a sophomore entrepreneurship and finance double major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at dstrauss@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @DanielStrauss13.

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As I sat at the end of the third row in the Joyce Hergenhan auditorium during the Student Association Presidential Debate, crossing my legs — legs that were “decently” covered by opaque tights that extended past an “appropriately” long black dress — I clenched my blazer shut and watched a man diminish my extensive on-campus leadership and broad academic experience; exhaustive malaria research and medical work in India; and nonprofit work in South Africa as “not real experience.”

As I sat at the end of the third row, attempting to exude professionalism with my opaque tights, long dress, blazer and overall demeanor, I watched one man falsely accuse me of incompetence and another man — a caring and compassionate man, who I am proud to call a dear friend —defend me.

As I sat at the end of the third row, I realized I was powerless. I realized that a man could destroy the significance of my accomplishments by a simple subjective classification of their irrelevance, and I could do very little about it.

Tyler Rossi’s comments about me during the Student Association’s Presidential Debate were problematic for two main reasons, one of them specific to this campus and another one much larger than this incredible Orange community I love dearly.

Rossi’s comments, which he apologized to me for, were

specifically problematic to this campus because he employed personal attacks to a Student Association election without regard for their detriment to Student Association. By making the comments he did, Rossi did not promote the trustworthy Student Association he has been advocating for, but reduced the seen effectivity of SA and the importance of this election. The way to bring back trust is not to insult others.

Rossi’s comments also had implications beyond the realm of this campus — they’re reflective of the fight women, especially women of color, continue to battle to be seen as equal—both equal in experience and equal in importance. His comments remind us that we’ve come far, but we have much further to go.

I value the experiences that Tyler Rossi and Roy Tin have, and I believe they make valid arguments as Student Association’s Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates, respectively.

I strongly believe that although our experiences are different, theirs are in no way less important than mine. I look forward to future collaboration of our varied experiences, a true reflection of what makes Syracuse University so special.

Angie Pati Syracuse University, Class of 2018 Neuroscience and psychology dual major Vice presidential candidate, Student Association 61st Legislative Session

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Partnership could expand opportunities Syracuse University’s upcoming academic partnership with Le Moyne College is an opportunity for both institutions to benefit from the other’s respective strengths, and also for SU to increase its involvement outside the University Hill community.

SU recently announced a partnership between its School of Information Studies and Le Moyne’s Madden School of Business, in addition to an extension of its relationship with Le Moyne and SU’s College of Law. Although the schools have been in collaboration for some years, it’s clear both institutions are making efforts to strengthen their relationship in ways that will be beneficial for students from both schools. The newest element of the partnership could be unveiled in fall 2017.

It’s essential for universities to recognize where partnerships

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This is effectively the basis for the partnership, which will permit students to take courses at the other school and allow master’s students in certain programs to obtain Certificates of Advanced Study in subject areas that are offered at one school but not the other. SU offers these certificates in information and security management and data science, while Le Moyne offers them in enterprise systems and health information systems, which are programs not currently available at SU. The partnership also has the capacity to support diversity of

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Moving ahead to fruition, this partnership demonstrates SU acting on a highly-discussed idea for the university to branch out of the University Hill community and further extend its reach into the city of Syracuse. By solidifying this new partnership with Le Moyne in this way, SU has developed more rounded academic opportunities for its own students while better servicing the greater Syracuse community. That’s academic engagement in action.

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NY expands medical marijuana to include patients with chronic pain

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octors in New York state can now prescribe medical marijuana for patients with chronic pain, after a new regulation took effect in March.

New York has some of the strictest medical marijuana laws in the country and does not allow smoking or edible medical marijuana products. This new regulation, however, is an attempt by the state to bolster its medical marijuana program, which according to The Poughkeepsie Journal, has struggled to register patients and prescribers.

“Improving patient access to medical marijuana continues to be one of our top priorities, as it has been since the launch of the program,” said Howard Zucker, the state’s health commissioner, in a statement. “These key enhancements further that goal."

With the passage of the new regulation, the state has also expanded the eligibility for medical practitioners to prescribe medical marijuana to their patients. Previously, the state only allowed licensed physicians to prescribe the drug, but now allows nurse practitioners and physician’s assistants to prescribe. However, the medical practitioners must still take a DOH-approved course on medical marijuana

before becoming certified, the DOH said in a statement.

Over 900 practitioners have been registered for the NYS Medical Marijuana Program and over 15,000 patients had been certified by their practitioners as of March 28, according to the DOH. In the U.S., 28 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Cancer, HIV infection and AIDS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease, among other things, are considered chronic pain, according to the Department of Health’s website.

Although the law has relaxed on eligibility for medical marijuana consumption, advocates say it is still not enough.

“I believe the laws are way too restrictive. We prescribe medications that have way more negative effects on the body than what cannabinoids have on the body,” said Anthony Baney, a volunteer at Western New York National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. He is also a candidate running for the Erie County Legislature.

Baney said he believes the expansion of the program to cover patients with chronic pain is a positive move by the state, but added that he thinks the state could do more to expand marijuana legalization.

Full marijuana legalization, though, will unlikely be on the Legislature’s table for quite some time, Kristi Andersen, professor emeritus of political science at Syra-

cuse University, said. There is not much of a push in the Legislature for total legalization of marijuana, she said.

New York does not have a referendum system similar to western states such as Washington or Colorado, Andersen added. Because of that, it is unlikely that New York would expand marijuana legalization via a ballot measure, she said.

Colorado was one of the first states to authorize medical marijuana use and then became the first state, alongside Washington, to authorize recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21.

Abbey Borchers, deputy director of Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper's Office of Marijuana Coordination, said the state’s constituents were looking for a criminal justice alternative to the war on drugs.

After legalization, the state’s arrests and citations for possession or consumption of marijuana privately by people ages 21 and older have decreased 81 percent from 2012 to 2015, she said.

Recreational marijuana pays for itself, but it is only “a drop in the bucket” of the state’s $27 billion budget, Borchers said. The money made from recreational marijuana goes toward abuse prevention campaigns, regulation and mitigating any negative outcomes from legalization, she said.

“It hasn’t just imploded with bad outcomes,” Borchers said.

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Plan to cut public arts, news funding could reverberate through CNY

Light Work supports photographers through residencies, exhibitions and access to resources. Founded in 1973, it has established a steady budget, but President Donald Trump’s proposed budget plan would hurt its finances. codie yan staff photographer

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ome say art is a universal language.

Under President Donald Trump, it could be a dying one.

Independent movie theaters in 187 cities across the United States screened a movie adaption of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” Tuesday and the Palace Theatre in Syracuse was one of them. The screening protested Trump’s proposed federal budget plan, which, among other cuts, slates both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the chopping block.

While The Palace Theatre is a non-partisan establishment, Director of Event Booking Gia Palermo wanted the theater to join on the national conversation and teamed up with Uplift Syracuse and the Onondaga Demo-

The trickle effect of cutting the arts is a devastating idea. To me, it just makes no sense.

Shane Lavalette executive director of light work

cratic Committee to make it happen.

“I thought it was important for the Palace to be among the theaters across the country that are standing up — making a political statement that we’re in solidarity,” Palermo said. “And the things that are happening in the government are not OK.” Endowments like the NEA and CPB have kept the central New York arts and news scene afloat since 1965. Staple Syracuse arts organizations, including CNY Jazz, the Everson Museum, the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Stage and Light Work all receive NEA funding. The CPB funds Syracuse University’s WAER and State University of New York-Oswego’s WRVO radio stations through annual community service grants and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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Women leads like Buffy Summers are needed more than ever

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efore “Twilight” and “The Vampire Diaries” made vampires seem edgy and mysterious, the norm was to kill them. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was the predecessor.

Most of our generation would have been too young, some not even born yet, when “Buffy” first premiered in 1997. But, like “Friends,” “Buffy” is now as popular as ever. After it left Netflix on April 1, most people hoped it was an elaborate prank.

The seemingly irrelevant show

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BINGEWATCHING FOR THE GREATER GOOD jumped back to significance this month when Entertainment Weekly announced that the first four issues of the April edition would be dedicated to the cast of “Buffy” that reunited with show creator Joss Whedon to celebrate

its 20th anniversary.

Despite the fact that episodes are no longer readily available, “Buffy” is still relevant. With a strong female lead played by Sarah Michelle Geller, “Buffy” led the third-wave feminist movement in pop culture. While she might seem like your average demon-hunting cheerleader, Buffy’s character was much more complex than most people realized.

The show explored a number of social issues, especially ones often faced by teenagers. A show

about a teen whose destiny is to fight demons with an army of other fighters, “Buffy” was the ultimate teen show that hooked a generation. The various characters that made up Buffy’s army represented characters with diverse behavior. The show was a pioneer in showcasing issues of homosexuality and social problems faced by teens, but often ignored by adults.

Today, Buffy’s legacy still lives on. Still revered by some as a feminist icon, it’s time a character like Buffy Summers returns to TV.

“Buffy” was a show that celebrates exceptional women and brought the concept of a female being a judge of her own destiny into mainstream media.

When “Buffy” came about, next to no other shows at the time were used to the concept of a strong, individualistic fighter being a woman. Though “Buffy” has its flaws and suffers from exaggerated plot points, I would still blame that on the time period of its duration. No era exaggerated drama on

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in purgatory, Trump’s proposal elicits mixed feelings from the central New York community.

“Luckily for us, we’ve been around long enough that we have some solid footing,” Shane Lavalette, director of Light Work, said. “But it would hurt us and especially hurt institutions that are newer.”

Light Work received $50,000 from the NEA in 2016 to support its artist-in-residence program and $63,000 for its Urban Video Project, Executive Director Jeffrey Hoone said in an email. Lavalette said he is trying to remain optimistic despite the proposal’s implications.

“The trickle effect of cutting the arts is a devastating idea. To me, it just makes no sense,” Lavalette said.

Mary Lee Hodgens, associate director at Light Work, agrees.

“It’s unbelievable to me. I’m terrified,” she said. “Fundamentally, it’s so important to people. It just feeds your soul.”

But Hodgens doubts the NEA and the CPB will disappear entirely. Despite her unfavorable view of the Trump administration, Congress’s recent failed attempt to repeal former President Barack Obama’s healthcare law convinced her there is hope for rational lawmakers. But she still feels a sense of urgency because of how valuable the arts are.

“If you don’t have the humanities and the arts, you’re not telling the story about who you are,” Hodgens said. “And if you’re not telling stories to each other about who you are and what you are, then it’s all just business and science. It’s just too dry.”

That trace of confidence exists in some public media circles, too. Michael Ameigh, WRVO Public Media’s general manager, considers the proposed CPB elimination with both “guarded optimism” and practicality. Based on his experience, staunch

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“Buffy” inspired the concept of a successful female lead. Shows like “Parks & Recreation” and “30 Rock” furthered the cause for women in television, and recent series like “Broad City,” “Jane the Virgin” and, of course, “Orange is the New Black”

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public broadcasting support has shielded the endowments from Republican efforts to eliminate it in the past.

“It’s the arch-conservative approach: ‘You shouldn’t be funding public broadcasting and we don’t like these guys because they’re too liberal.’ They hear from their own constituents who are conservative,” he said. “‘Leave that alone. (Public broadcasting) is one of the few sources out there of information that is credible.’”

Along with donations from listeners and funding from underwriters, $200,000 of WRVO’s $3 million budget comes from an annual CPB grant, Ameigh said. So, while WRVO could survive a CPB cut, it would take a hit that would mainly affect payroll and the station would have to seek out other sources to round out the budget.

“That’s not to say we can’t do that,” Ameigh said. “But it would be something that wouldn’t happen overnight.”

Kevin Kloss, WAER content and operations manager, paints a similar picture for his radio station should the CPB get the axe.

“We’d have to rethink the way we run our operation in terms of resources and staffing,” Kloss said. “If there’s something happening in Syracuse, if there’s something happening in Auburn — we may not have the resources to cover both of those stories.”

Like Ameigh, Kloss’ outlook is positive but wary.

“It’s not the first time we’ve seen something like this, but it is the first time we’ve seen a president like this,” Kloss said. “It is a very real threat, but I think it’s going to get saved once it gets to Capitol Hill.”

While Trump presents a new threat to these endowments, the ‘80s and ‘90s were golden eras of public funding backlash. Ronald Reagan worked to defund the NEA when he came into office in 1981.

Joe Whelan, Syracuse Stage’s marketing director, points to the controversy surrounding photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. In 1989, the tour of Mappletho-

rpe’s sexually explicit exhibit “The Perfect Moment” became the nexus of activism against the NEA. “Since that time, you’ve heard people say, ‘We need to abolish the NEA because they’re supporting homosexuals. They’re supporting pornographic art,’ which is just a smoke screen and an inaccurate portrayal of what the NEA does,” Whelan said.

As seen in the 1998 Supreme Court case “National Endowment for the Arts vs. Finley,” the NEA tightened its grip on decency standards post-Mapplethorpe. And before that, then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich led the movement to cut the NEA in 1995.

Whelan cites a few reasons why Congress wouldn’t extinguish these grants now, including that these endowments comprise a small portion of the budget. Of the $1.1 trillion at the government’s disposal, only $148 million goes to the NEA and $445 million goes to the CPB.

Whelan has also seen the benefits of public funding for art on society’s minds and wallets.

“Cutting the NEA would be a job-killer because many arts organizations become hubs for other businesses. They not only support people who work in the arts organizations, but restaurants and things around these arts organizations,” Whelan said.

He said larger cities like New York and Los Angeles can support their own arts organizations, but smaller markets won’t have the same chance at making it past the cuts. The start of fiscal year isn’t until Oct. 1, but for those who rely on these grants, this issue feels like it’s right on the doorstep.

“If you get out to a more rural area, smaller cities, the importance of the NEA increases and these are places that are hurting anyway,” he said. “Why would you want to hurt them more?”

carry on the legacy.

This opens up dialogue about the need for more shows with strong female leads.

And while some current shows do fulfil a feminist’s hunger, women in TV are still underrepresented. With Hollywood trying to recover from the major whitewashing that was caused during its golden age, women on screen still achieve at an alarmingly slow pace. Very few female-led shows have the opportunity to make it

big without being canceled or completely changed by production houses.

And women in TV are taking more losses.

Take “The Mindy Project” announcing its last season, for example. And while actors like Viola Davis are making waves in the diversity department, female-led shows are still at a risk of suffering from stereotyping — for example, a smart and studious female lead that is also Asian. It is now more than ever that the TV industry needs a demon-

fighting teen to come to its rescue.

Very few shows have managed to have a cultural impact as big as “Buffy.” As Joss Whedon is now busy dabbling with the occasional Marvel movie, we can only hope he decides to return to creating vampire hunters that slayed the game.

JOE WHELAN said ‘80s and ‘90s backlash against the NEA stemmed from a so-called explicit Robert Mapplethorpe photography exhibit. ally moreo photo editor

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1. RICARDO PEIXOTO is originally from Rio de Janeiro, but is now based out of the Bay Area. He played the seven-string guitar Tuesday night. 2. ROGERIO SOUZA often performs at festivals across the globe, while also teaching guitar classes. 3.

EDINHO GERBER is currently touring with Souza. Cities they have visted so far include Seattle and Philadelphia. jacob greenfeld asst. photo editor

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dinho Gerber had just finished nearly an hour of maddening work on his guitar when he was approached by an adoring fan.

“I just need to see your calluses, because there were a few times when I thought, ‘Oh, that has got to hurt,’” the woman said.

Gerber responded with a laugh, saying nylon strings aren’t too tough on his fingers.

“I just had a little bit of fried chicken grease,” he joked, pretending to reach into his back pocket to rub on a little more of the imaginary fat.

The exchange acted as pleasant closure after Gerber and two other Brazilian guitarists, Ricardo Peixoto and Rogério Souza, wowed Slocum Auditorium on Tuesday night with an evening of music presented by the department of art and music histories. The event was organized by Silvia Lazo, an SU professor and a Brazilian woman herself, and promoted by the students in her Music in Latin America class.

Lazo knows there are endless ways to learn about other cultures. But one way or another, she said, you’re going to “migrate into some cultural art form.” Tuesday night, that art form was embodied by sound.

“So much of the music is connected to the history of that country and to the political situation,” Lazo said. “It’s part of our whole world history, really.”

The trio’s music itself provided a mini history lesson. During the mid-

dle of the set, Gerber explained they were playing a few pieces written by legendary Brazilian composer Pixinguinha — the man who is credited with giving birth to samba music. He talked about the fact that Pixinguinha would be 120 years old this year, but even with his legacy going so far back, it’s still very much alive, an inspiration for what he and his colleagues do.

“His music is simultaneously simple and ultra-difficult,” Gerber said.

To an outsider’s ear, the simplicity was hardly recognizable. All three musicians plucked away at their strings with composed fury for nine songs.

Gerber played a six-string guitar, while Peixoto and Souza each had seven. They stayed seated for the entirety, their bodies locked in on the music. Between the three of them, they shared just one music stand. For most of the show, it stayed with Peixoto. For a short time, Souza claimed ownership.

“This is called sharing,” Peixoto joked before passing the stand mid-set.

“Fortunately, we all get along.”

The dynamic of a trio was one both Peixoto and Gerber admitted to be complex.

Peixoto said after the show that playing solo is a lot of work. A very specific repertoire has to be worked out. In a duo, more freedom to improvise surfaces. But add a third player to make a trio, and the game changes.

“When you’re talking about a trio of the same instrument — of guitar or some other kind of chordal instrument — then you’re dealing with a whole different bag of worms,” Gerber said.

“Because they’re all very similar, how

3 you play the songs is similar, so you have to be always aware of what the other guys are doing.”

Often during the show, Gerber, positioned in the middle of his Peixoto and Souza, would shake his luscious locks of hair out of his face to glance at one of the flanking players. Their eyes would connect, and they would communicate a message without uttering a word.

“Ears are always 100 percent listening to what the other guys are doing” Gerber added. “Sometimes a lot of it is off the cuff and improvised. We’re looking at each other, saying ‘You go ahead,’ ‘No, you go ahead.’”

But beyond just technical skills, the three Brazilian musicians engaged in an effort to share their culture.

Peixoto is from Rio de Janeiro. Souza has worked as a producer with topshelf Brazilian recording artists. Gerber, born to a Brazilian mother and an American father, spent his childhood in both countries.

Peixoto mentioned how the three of them know they aren’t usually playing to a crowd of people well-versed in Brazilian music. But saying “Brazilian music” is like saying “American music” — there are so many genres encompassed within it. Tuesday night contained samba and bossa nova, just to name a few. Gerber called the trio “musical ambassadors.”

“If we can just offer glimpse — just the tip of the iceberg — of what Brazilian music is and can be, that’s great,” Gerber said. “Because it’s such a rich culture and really specific.”

The hexagonal walls trapped the ambience of the dark room, but the liveliness of the trio’s natural overlap kept everyone actively engaged. Lazo said she wanted to make the show intimate yet accessible.

Considering the trio walked off the stage of a fairly packed Slocum Auditorium to a standing ovation, it’s hard to argue she didn’t accomplish her goal. jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

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Post-injury, Shkudun inches closer to breakthrough

bled Shkudun plays returns from the baseline.

Serving presents her only real advantage, but even that has failed her recently.

Not even a year after serving as Syracuse’s On Friday, leading Louisville’s Elle Stokes No. 1 singles option, qualifying for the 12-11 in a super tiebreak, Shkudun served for NCAA tournament and finishing the season match point. The surgically repaired joint ranked 64th in the country, Anna Shkudun diminished her normal service ability, but has struggled more than anyone expected. she’d made it work throughout the match.

In her debut singles match of the season Now, amplified by the fatigue of a lengthy tieagainst Brown — her first off a left knee break, she struggled. Neither of her attempts surgery in November — Shkudun played No. landed inside the service box. Shkudun dou1 singles and lost 5-7, 0-6. Six matches later, ble-faulted, lost the lead, the next two points Shkudun faced demotion to No. 2 singles and the match. with her 1-5 record.

“It’s also a little bit harder mentally when “She’s in a tough spot obviously,” SU head you’re playing shots you used to make,” Shkucoach Younes Limam said. “She’s playing high in dun said, “and now you’re missing them.” the lineup and every time she steps on the court Close losses dent Shkudun’s confidence and she’s going to play someone who is very good.” remind her that simply returning to the court is Post-surgery rehab has capped Shkudun’s not enough. When Shkudun makes errors, she ability this season, and Limam has adjusted. often marches back to the baseline and mutters Shkudun finds herself playing No. 3 singles to herself in Ukrainian. Yet teammates see this now, most recently last Sunday against Flor- as a natural progression in health and fitness. ida State. The graduate student is close to a “She’s definitely stepping up her game,” breakthrough, teammates and Limam said, sophomore Gabriela Knutson said. and Syracuse (6-9, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) hopes The conundrum now for Limam is where to it will come against North Carolina State play Shkudun. With Valeria Salazar’s season(16-7, 5-5) this Friday. The team feels her ending surgery, SU has only eight players to confidence is almost back and that her body fill six spots. Usually, sophomore Libi Mesh or just needs to catch up. junior Nicole Mitchell sat out alongside Olivia “You understand your fitness level or Messineo. Mesh has played doubles only three your tennis level is not there yet,” Shkudun times and Mitchell recently returned from an The Daily Orange 4/4/17 Sudoku said. “You just keep trying to work hard and illness. Sitting Shkudun means playing both play more tennis.”

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Shkudun’s fiery demeanor still surfaces, but “That is the only thing that makes me her play has been slow to follow. honestly to feel better now,” Shkudun said.

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Syracuse. He’d become a part of the community and couldn’t imagine saying goodbye to the people who became his closest friends.

And he understood what kind of influence the coaches had on their players.

He learned that in high school. Hicks’ dad died when he was young, and Hicks turned to his football coach, who pushed him to spend extra time working out. It led to an offer from North Carolina State, something Hicks doesn’t think would have been possible without his coach’s motivation.

He arrived on campus as one of the strongest players on the team, but knee injuries derailed his Division I athletic career. So, he left school. At 21, Hicks spent his days powerlifting and his nights as a bouncer.

Then, his former coach at N.C. State, John Stucky called. Stucky urged his former player to return to finish his degree while helping coach in the weight room.

Stucky, who was named one of the 10 Master of Strength and Conditioning Coaches by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association, counseled Hicks to specialize: Push something heavy, pull something heavy, press something heavy, and condition.

That phone call was in 1983. Thirty-four years later, Hicks still attributes the start of his coaching career to Stucky.

“Coaches change people’s lives,” Hicks said. “Not just how they are physically and how they play and all that, but coaches can change lives. Somebody was willing to do it for me. I was always one of those that thought you should pay it back.”

When Hicks began as graduate assistant strength coach, the National Strength and Conditioning Association didn’t even exist.

The man that predates the association has earned emeritus status from the NSCA, meaning he no longer must renew his certifications.

Yet the thing players remember most about Hicks can’t be credentialed. It’s the trust he earns with players.

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Number of years Will Hicks worked as a strength and conditioning coach with the Syracuse football team

“That was my guy,” former SU wide receiver Ashton Broyld said. “… You could go in and talk to coach Hicks and talk about anything, and I mean anything, and I promise he ain’t telling anyone else about your business.”

In 2010, following his redshirt senior season, former Syracuse linebacker Derrell Smith traveled to Boca Raton, Florida, to train for the NFL combine. A nagging knee injury prevented the eventual Tampa Bay Buccaneer and Houston Texan from attending the combine, but when Smith returned to Syracuse to train for his Pro Day, Hicks worked on Smith’s mobility. Within two days, the knee problems were fixed.

“That’s not even his job,” said Smith. “He did that just out of the kindness of his heart because he wanted to see us succeed. That was the biggest part of the trust between us. He really wanting to see us succeed and doing what was necessary to do so.”

When Smith visited SU a few months ago, he visited Hicks first. Former N.C. State standout and St. Louis Ram Tory Holt still texts Hicks every Father’s Day, often before Hicks’ own children.

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williams Devils win before SU escaped in overtime.

SU ranks a mere 27th in faceoff winning percentage. Whether Williams’ struggles signify a more prolonged downturn and whether the Orange uses more of Varello, who’s 20-of-30 from the X and has drawn rave reviews from teammates, remains to be seen. Williams still has five regular-season games, an ACC tournament and possible NCAA tournament to fully recover from the injury that sidelined him for SU’s only loss

surgery on a Tuesday. After he was released from the hospital that Saturday, doctors told him he should be sidelined for the next six to seven weeks. With the help of a walker, the 55-year-old returned to work with the softball team the following Monday.

“I had to check on my girls and make sure they were OK,” said Hicks. “They were surprised I was out that long.”

Coaches change people’s lives. Not just how they are physically and how they play and all that, but coaches can change lives. Somebody was willing to do it for me.

I was always one of those that thought you should pay it back.

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That summer, the same country music playlist blasted over the speakers each morning. Pitcher Sydney O’Hara and second baseman Alicia Hansen could recite the entire country music mix by the end of the summer, Toby Keith stuck in their heads. The pair shuffled back and forth while rolling the softball to practice scooping groundballs. They practiced their gasser test weekly, which helped O’Hara drop two seconds off her usual time and Hansen pass the test with ease after previously struggling. Hicks cheered the duo on during the test.

In the fall, Hicks had hosted the “Softball Ultimate Frisbee Championship of the Free World,” as he called it. Instead of their normal running for the day, the entire softball team participated in the Frisbee extravaganza for 45 minutes. For a day in the summer, tennis players had focused on trapping a balloon between their legs and balancing a tennis ball on a spoon.

Since the switch over a year ago, women’s tennis made its first NCAA tournament.

O’Hara has hit better than ever and leads the ACC in batting average. Hansen has started every game this season and finds herself one hit ahead of her total from last year with over 20 games left.

“He expects you to work your hardest,” O’Hara said. “If you don’t you feel like you’re letting him down in a way.”

Hicks has mostly stayed the same. Each morning at 5:15 a.m., he’s still the first Syracuse employee to arrive at Manley Fieldhouse. He still begins the day by brewing “the juice,” his daily dose of coffee and Mountain Dew. “Bring the juice,” Hick’s yells at dreary players. “You gotta bring the juice!”

But after that, he no longer follows a regimented schedule. One day he meets with tennis at 4:30 p.m., and then at 9 in the morning.

Hicks finished instructing the tennis players after about 30 minutes into the morning workout but they didn’t stop. Instead, each returned to the starting point and tried to break more personal records in Hicks’ drills.

“If you coach them the right way they’ll want to stay all day,” Hicks said with a smile.

“They stay for extra work because it’s fun, not because they have to.”

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of the year.

“It’s just a matter of him getting his technique back,” Desko said.

The SU offense has scored goals at the right times. Its defense has shut down some of the best attackmen in the country, which came Saturday in UND stud Ryder Garnsey.

A healthy Williams would make Syracuse, two wins away from its best start since 2011, even more dangerous down the stretch.

“He’s a beast,” Raymond said. “We’re still preparing for him like he’s the best one in the country.” mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

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Douglass traveled long distances for Division I offer

By Matt Liberman staff writer

Baylee Douglass showed up to her second night of tryouts for the DeMarini Zephyrs, now the Aces, and was the only player asked to come back. Her father, Lynn, didn’t understand what was going on. There were some great players who tried out.

After the tryout, Douglass sat next to her father in the family’s Honda Element. The two were an hour into their nearly threehour journey from Kansas City to their hometown of Centralia, Missouri. DeMarini head coach Ryan Taylor told Douglass he would be in touch soon about whether she made the team. Douglass couldn’t wait any longer and after much pestering, Lynn called Taylor.

Douglass made the team. In fact, she made it after her first tryout. Lynn asked Taylor if he just asked Douglass to come back the second night to pitch batting practice.

“He kind of snickered and said ‘Yeah.

She was on the team,’” Lynn said. “’We just wanted her to come back and throw a little batting practice.’ I was like ‘gosh dang it.’”

Douglass was a freshman in high school then. Now Douglass is a Syracuse (17-12, 3-6 Atlantic Coast) transfer. The junior hasn’t played that much due to injury, appearing in only four games for a total of 7 1/3 innings.

But before she transferred to Syracuse, she had to get on the Division I radar. And given that her hometown had about 1,000 people, Douglass needed to travel far distances to make that happen.

“At that point we were willing to do anything possible,” Douglass said.

Seeing the opportunity, Lynn drove his daughter the 150-plus miles to try out for the team, and 150 miles back. After tryouts ended that night, Douglass was invited back for the second day of tryouts. When she got to the field, that’s when she realized she was the only returning player.

Taylor saw a spark in that tryout that made him call Douglass back.

“The kid’s 5’3, not that big, doesn’t have overpowering speed, but man she really spun the ball well,” Taylor said. “You kind of just have that gut feeling with players.”

Douglass made the six-hour round trip from Centralia to Kansas City every Wednesday night, on top of a three-hour practice. Douglass and Lynn would leave around 2:00 p.m., and typically get home between 12:00-1:00 a.m.

Despite the driving time, Douglass was punctual.

“I could probably count in the four years she played the number of times she was late on one hand,” Taylor said.

On the way there they’d stop at either KFC or Taco Bell in Concordia, about an hour shy from practice. On their drives home, Lynn would make sure to stop at a quick mart and grab ice for Douglass’ shoulder and elbow.

For Douglass, the drives felt longer than they were. She suffers from motion sickness, which is one of the reasons why the pair drove down in an elevated Honda Element, allowing Douglass to see out of the front window, even from the back seat when her mother came for the drive.

But this meant she couldn’t do homework or read in the car. Despite the limited time to do work, and constantly having to pick up from not having enough time, Douglass finished atop her high school class.

The time commitment wasn’t just on Douglass, though, but her entire family.

Taking time to drive to-and-from practice, spending money on gas, travel expenses and equipment accumulated a lofty bill.

“For the amount of money we paid for Baylee’s travel ball career,” Lynn said, “we probably could’ve put her through just about any college and grad school.”

Her impact on the game still remains with her former coach and the new DeMarini Aces.

Douglass was the first player on the team to travel such a far distance. But after she joined, Taylor began expanding his recruiting.

But the money, and time, paid off. Douglass played two seasons at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with outstanding performances, winning the conference freshman of the year and was second-team all-conference her sophomore year. Now, she plays at SU. “My wife always said, ‘Lynn, we can’t afford to be on this team,’” Lynn said. “And I told her, ‘We can’t afford not to.’”

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WILL HICKS served as Syracuse football’s strength and conditioning coach until head coach Dino Babers took over in 2015. The 55-year-old now enjoys working with the SU softball and tennis teams.

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‘ Bring the juice’ Will Hicks still influences SU athletes after change in role

By Josh Schafer staff writer

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ill Hicks stood on the 10-yard line of the Manley Fieldhouse turf in his blue Syracuse jumpsuit with five SU tennis players in a line beside him.

The athletes waited for Hicks to launch a tennis ball down the field. They’d run down as soon as the ball left Hicks’ hand, needing to catch it before it bounced twice on the turf.

“Like a dog in the park,” Hicks boomed as Gabriela Knutson chased one down.

“You get a treat if you bring this one back,” the assistant athletics director for athletic performance yelled as Anna Shkudun caught it on the fly.

The players breathed heavy as they got back in line to continue the drill. But their coach, who already downed two cups of coffee and two bottles of Mountain Dew upon his arrival five hours earlier, showed no signs of fatigue.

That’s how “the old professor,” as Hicks called himself, has been influenc-

ing his athletes for 34 years. He worked with SU football players from 2000 to 2016, when football coach Dino Babers fired former coach Scott Shafer’s staff, including Hicks, which is common as new coaches implement their system. Babers runs a high-pace, no-huddle offense that requires a specific strength and conditioning program.

“Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve always brought my strength and conditioning coach with me.” Babers said. “What we do is unique. It hasn’t been seen before.

The way they condition the way they handle the strength department is very different than what other people do. It’s important to keep that continuity as we move forward.”

Now, Hicks works with Olympic sports but a change in job description hasn’t prevented him from bringing the same fire.

“Truthfully,” Hicks said, “I’m having a blast.”

Despite losing the job he held for 16 years, Hicks had no interest in leaving

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SU senior Ben Williams continues to struggle at the X

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

Syracuse’s most important player has slipped into mediocrity.

Amid the worst stretch of his career, perhaps brought on by a nagging injury, SU senior faceoff specialist Ben Williams has won only 52 percent of his chances at the X. The 2016 Tewaaraton Award Nominee has posted a 50-percent faceoff success rate or worse in four of his last five games. He had a career-worst 4-of-18 day against Duke before freshman Danny Varello replaced

him. Last week at then-No. 1 Notre Dame, Williams lost three of the first four faceoffs of the game and finished only 10-of-23 in the upset victory.

For years, Williams has given the Orange a sense of ease. In his sophomore and junior years, he delivered game after game with few blemishes.

Yet a slow start has extended into a disappointing season, which SU head coach John Desko attributes to his FOGO’s injury. Williams gets another chance to step back on track for the No. 2 Orange (7-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast), which visits unranked Hobart (4-5, 1-1 Northeast) on Wednesday night.

“He’s a little banged up,” Hobart head coach Greg Raymond said.

“Maybe that has a little to do with it. I don’t think there’s anything going on with him … Opponents find ways to infiltrate ways of him getting into a groove and make him not as comfortable.”

Four faceoffs into Saturday’s contest against UND, Williams looked like he did the week prior, when he posted a career-worst day in a near loss to Duke. Despite his slow start, Williams strung together four of the last five faceoffs in the first half. It set up a Syracuse transition goal and

several lengthy possessions, allowing SU to work its offense and take a twogoal lead headed into the break. When Williams clicks, so does Syracuse.

But Notre Dome scored three unanswered third-quarter goals to erase a three-score deficit headed into the final frame. Williams lost 4-of-5 faceoffs during that period, allowing UND to dominate possession and score four goals in the quarter.

“He started out well,” Desko said after the 11-10 win over UND. “He did a really nice job getting the ball out to himself … They tried to muck things up in there and try to

slow Benny from getting out clean.

“Then their double poles, anytime that happens, you’re going to make it hard for us to get the ball.”

Williams’ struggles at the X can’t be attributed to one reason. His lingering injury could fuel this trend, though the roots may run deeper.

Duke head coach John Danowski said veteran faceoff specialists wear down toward the end of their college careers. Fortunately for SU, the offense capitalized on 15 Duke turnovers to overshadow Williams’ career-worst game, a near-Blue see williams page 14