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The Ark, an underground music venue in the University HIll neighborhood, has closed indefinitely, after a year of weekly basement concerts. Page 7

The emergency notification app Wildfire recently launched at SU this fall. The university doesn’t recognize the app, citing concerns about misinformation. Page 3

Four years after being medically disqualified from Syracuse football, former quarterback AJ Long has found a new outlet in coaching to ease his self-doubt. Page 12

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The search continues By Emma Folts

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nterim deans are leading three Syracuse University schools and colleges into the academic year as search committees continue to seek permanent replacements. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, College of Engineering and Computer Science and School of Information Studies all lack permanent

Interim deans lead 3 SU colleges and schools

deans. The engineering college and Newhouse began their searches for their next permanent leader in February and July, respectively, while the iSchool search committee formed in November 2018. With an end to their tenure not yet established, the three interim deans are continuing initiatives outlined in SU’s Academic Strategic Plan, becoming acclimated to the institutions they now head and collaborating with colleagues. see deans page 4

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SU revises minors policy after sexual assualt allegations By Casey Darnell news editor

Syracuse University added new restrictions to its policy on minors visiting campus after learning of sexual assault allegations against a former SU graduate student. ESPN reported on Aug. 1 that Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympic athlete who attended SU in the 1980s, had been accused of sexually assaulting at least seven SU students during his time at the university. That day, Chancellor Kent Syverud announced the university became aware of an allegation against Mainwaring in February. Mainwaring worked in Resi-

dence Life during his time at SU. At least seven local high school students have also accused him of sexual assault. He kept office hours as a counselor at Nottingham High School, about two miles from SU, where he met and allegedly abused minors, ESPN reported. SU’s policy banning students from hosting minors under the age of 13 on campus went into effect on Aug.1, said Marianne Thomson, associate vice president and dean of students, in a statement to The Daily Orange. The university also requires a parent or guardian of a minor to submit a permission form if an SU student wants to bring them into a residential space. “The primary goal of these poli-

cies is to foster a community of care that is safe for all of our students,” Thomson said. “We believe that increased thought about guests and minors on campus provides a more comprehensive approach to guests in the residence halls.” In addition to its policy on minors, SU hopes to improve security by expanding the role of residential security aides, Thomson said. RSAs check IDs for all students and guests at the entrances to residence halls. This fall, the university is transitioning RSAs into checking IDs at 5 p.m. instead of 8 p.m., with the goal being to have RSAs at residence halls 24/7 by the start of the spring semester.

Another policy change concerning safety is reflected in the Code of Student Conduct, which was updated for the 2019-20 academic year. A new rule, listed as No. 17 in the handbook, requires student leaders to intervene or notify the university of a situation threatening the safety of another person. SU defines “student leaders” as students who hold positions in registered student organizations, including those with the titles of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, recruitment chair or team captain, Thomson said. Also included are students who influence the decisions of an organization, like an unofficial membership coordina-

tor or event planner. While the university has already banned hazing through the Code of Conduct and other policies, the student handbook now has a rule, No.15, that specifically prohibits the “assistance, participation in, promotion of, or perpetuation of hazing.” The code previously included the hazing ban in a rule that prohibited any conduct that threatens the mental or physical health of any person. “The changes in the conduct code reflect our in situational values — that we care for each other and that we are one Orange Family that looks out for the wellbeing of our community members,” Thomson said. cdarnell@syr.com

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regional news Catch up on the biggest news throughout the region. ALLEY CLOSURE Lakeview Bowling alley, a longstanding family-owned bowling alley in Liverpool, closed on Sunday after more than 30 years of business. The closure comes three years after former owner Gary Vincitore died. The bowling alley once held senior leagues, junior leagues and a bowling group for people with disabilities. source: Syracuse.com HIT AND RUN A driver was arrested this week on charges of hitting a pedestrian and fleeing the scene this past weekend. The crash happened in the Eastwood area at 11:24 p.m. on Sunday night. The suspect said several others were involved in the disturbance as well. source: Syracuse.com STOLEN CAR

Super jam Funk ‘n Waffles, a restaurant in downtown Syracuse. hosted the All Star Super Jam on Tuesday night, featuring local bands, including members of Root Shock, BS & SE, Pearly Bakers Best and more. Dozens of people turned out for the concert, which started at 9 p.m. The Little Rock Music Group booked the venue space at Funk ‘n Waffles. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor

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Wildfire app provides alerts to SU students By Natalie Rubio-Licht asst. digital editor

Wildfire, an emergency notification app, has launched at Syracuse University beginning this fall. Students at the University of California, Berkeley created Wildfire specifically for college campuses. The app categorizes by subjects, such as safety, tips and student problems. Though branded as an emergency communications app, users can also share posts categorized as memes or chatter. “Our goal is to build safer, more informed communities focused on spreading useful, factual, and timely information,” said Wildfire CEO and cofounder Hriday Kemburu, in an email to The Daily Orange. A Syracuse community member requested that Wildfire come to SU. That person’s name, however, could not be disclosed, Kemburu said. Despite the app’s success in alerting students of events and potentially

dangerous situations, SU does not officially endorse the app and cannot verify the information sent through it. The chief of Department of Public Safety Bobby Maldonado said he’s worried about misinformation being spread through Wildfire. Maldonado said he is prepared to respond to safety concerns spread on Wildfire. “Our biggest concern is that there is no real way to check the veracity of the information, other than to go out to a location and see that it in fact occurred,” Maldonado said. Since the app’s creation, Wildfire has alerted 4,000 UC Berkeley students of a shooting near their campus, and 11,000 students that Golden State Warriors player Kevin Durant was on campus, Kemburu said. Classes at the University of California, Davis were cancelled after students used Wildfire to spread a petition about the air quality during the California wildfires in November 2018.

All information sent out through Wildfire is crowdsourced, meaning it comes from the app’s users. A team of moderators confirms the reliability of the information, Kemburu said. Notifications are chosen based on user engagement with posts and a moderator’s ability to confirm the information in the post. While most campus communication systems are “one channel” — where users are unable to interact with those sending notifications — Wildfire allows students to interact with each other on and follow up on posts with additional information, videos and photos, Kemburu said. SU’s official emergency notification system is Orange Alert. The university uses the alerts in the event of major incidents on campus, including weather events or campus closures, Maldonado said. Orange Alert has not been used to notify students of a crime in about four years, Maldonado said. Instead, when a crime happens

near campus, DPS sends emails to the student body alerting them of the incident. Because crime alerts are sent via email, Maldonado said Orange alerts are more serious. Kemburu started Wildfire after he was mugged outside of a UC Berkeley library. He posted on Facebook to alert students of the situation and realized that only his network of friends would be made aware of the situation. Wildfire connects entire communities, unlike other social networks that only connect friends and family, Kemburu said. An SU student recently posted a notification on the app regarding fentanyllaced marijuana with an attached screenshot of the warning posted on Instagram. About 1,200 Wildfire users saw the notification. “If it’s important enough, a notification is sent out to everyone in that location,” Kemburu said. nrrubiol@syr.edu @natalierubio_

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SU, city to collaborate on data-sharing initiative By India Miraglia asst. news editor

An agreement between Syracuse University and the city of Syracuse will allow SU students to work with municipal data provided by the city, potentially relating to city services and code violations, among other things. The city both collects and creates a large amount of municipal data, said Sam Edelstein, chief data officer for Syracuse, in an email. Through the partnership, the city will share

select data with SU students, who will the analysis and work on projects with the data, he said. “We know that students get great experience working with real data like the types that we collect, and we get the benefit of experts helping us to make sense of the information,” Edelstein said. The city’s goal is to have the partnership up and running by the fall, Edelstein said in a second email. Students involved with the university-wide collaborative work with real clients to help them bring

more digital technology into their organization, according to the collaborative’s website. Syracuse Common Councilor Bryn Lovejoy-Grinnell, of the 3rd District, said the agreement could potentially be a great partnership that she hopes can lead to policy solutions for the city. “I believe there’s power in data aggregation,” Lovejoy-Grinnell said. Some councilors expressed concerns over the summer surrounding the security of sharing data. Edelstein said over email that

there are no security concerns surrounding the data sharing agreement. The city chooses the data that is shared and is sensitive about what data is presented, especially if it contains personally identifiable information, he said. Edelstein said the students will not have access to the data’s source systems — the systems or files that hold the data. Instead, they will be given a copy of the original data, he said. india@dailyorange.com @IndyRow

A 17-year-old aspiring journalist from Rochester was accused of stealing a police car with a 13-year-old early Monday morning. Prosecutors say the aspiring journalist threatened a man at a gas station with a BB gun as well. The 17-year-old pleaded not guilty on Tuesday on charges of grand larceny. source: WHEC INDUSTRIAL GROWTH Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Tuesday that will require industrial development agencies to livestream and publish videos of open meetings and hearings. The videos must be kept on the websites of the agencies for five years. The legislation will allow those unable to attend public meetings. source: Syracuse.com CODE INSPECTIONS Two Syracuse code inspectors offered inspections last week to any tenant living in Skyline Apartments. The inspections followed a Syracuse.com article revealing numerous complaints concerning the apartment complex. The inspectors looked at 11 units, with the majority of violations found considered to be minor. source: Syracuse.com FAIR PARKING New York state police issued a statement alerting drives of the danger of dropping off and picking up passengers on Bridge Street, located near the New York State Fair. Stopping along the street creates an “extremely hazardous situation for pedestrians and other drivers,” Trooper Jack Keller said in an email. source: Syracuse.com LEBRON’S PIZZA A Blaze Pizza backed by Lebron James will open in DeWitt on Wednesday. This is the first location of the restaurant to open in central New York. source: Syracuse.com

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That committee reviewed 300 nominations and 60 applicants.

S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications

School of Information Studies

deans Amy Falkner, an associate dean of Newhouse for 13 years, is now the interim dean of the communications school. She described the transition into her new role as “a different ramp” than the other interims because of the circumstance of her appointment. “The situation here at Newhouse was a little different because we lost our beloved dean in the spring,” Falkner said. Lorraine Branham, Newhouse’s previous dean, died in April of cancer after leading the school for 11 years. Falkner has served as acting dean of Newhouse since fall 2018. Newhouse’s search committee is the most recently created of the three committees, having been in place for nearly two months. Falkner, who serves on the committee, said she couldn’t answer how long she foresees herself acting as interim dean. A description for the position hasn’t been created yet, and Falkner wasn’t able to say which qualities she would like the school’s next permanent dean to have. For now, students can weigh in on what they want the next dean to bring during an upcoming forum on Sept. 3 at 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. Newhouse staff and faculty have been informed on what the search process is expected to be like, Falkner said. “We’re not keeping people in the dark,” she said. “We’ve told them what we expect based on prior dean searches, how they typically go, because there is a pattern to them.” As the search for a permanent dean continues, the school will work on implementing the initiatives outlined and planned in its Academic Strategic Plan, Falkner said. The Academic Strategic Plan, released in 2015, is a document that outlines SU’s academic goals, including those for research, infrastructure and the student experience. The search committee that hired Branham in 2008 took seven months to complete the task after the long-serving Dean David Rubin announced plans to retire.

Meanwhile, Dean of Libraries David Seaman has served as interim dean of the iSchool since May after the school’s former dean, Liz Liddy, retired. Seaman said he is meeting as many members of the iSchool community as possible, including alumni. He has visited alumni in Washington, D.C., Boston and New York City. “While I’m an interim dean, it’s in everybody’s best interest for me to be as fully functioning as possible so (we) can hand over a fully operational school to the next dean,” Seaman said. Provost Michele Wheatly selected Seaman for the position, a choice Seaman thinks was partially because of his former position as chair of the school’s permanent dean search committee. Seaman chaired the committee from its inception, stepping down when he was appointed interim dean. Gene Anderson, dean of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, took over as chair in June, when the search for a new dean was extended, per SU News. Since he was appointed, Seaman said he doesn’t want the school to lose any momentum. There have been discussions about expanding the iSchool’s recruitment areas, and the school has made changes to its marketing and communications methods. “There’s not one big initiative that I’m coming in with,” Seaman said. “It’s more a matter of learning what the school is ambitious to do and making sure we don’t slow down any of that ambition.” Aiding Wheatly’s choice was the iSchool’s connections with the university’s libraries, Seaman said. The information school offers a master’s degree in library science and has a close connection with Bird Library’s Blackstone Launchpad through the school’s emphasis on entrepreneurship, he said. “If we get a new dean chosen by the winter break, great, we’ll move on from there, but it’s easier to plan for a longer period and have it be cut short than the opposite,” Seaman said.

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Sharing a corner on the Quad with the iSchool is the College of Engineering and Computer Science, where Can Isik now leads as interim dean. He follows the college’s former permanent dean, Teresa Dahlberg, who announced in December she would be leaving the college to become vice chancellor and provost of Texas Christian University. Isik described his transition as smooth. Having served as a senior associate dean of the college for 13 years, Isik said he knew the college’s chairs, associate deans and staff well, and had a fairly good understanding of the inner workings of the dean’s office. As an interim dean, Isik said he’s not changing the direction of the college. Instead, he wants to make sure the college is moving forward and making improvements to its academic mission. He said the committee has conducted surveys with students, faculty and staff, and is using the results to guide their search. “I’m sure the whole college is hoping that we will soon identify an outstanding candidate and transition to the next dean,” Isik said. That could take weeks or months, he added. The college would like someone who has leadership experience among academic organizations, as well as “outstanding” ideas to advance the college and positive experiences at their former positions with students, staff and faculty, Isik said. Seaman and Isik echoed each other in acknowledging the potential of their school and college. There are opportunities for the iSchool to continue to grow, especially as information professions increasingly become a part of everyday life, Seaman said. Isik said the engineering college has room to grow, both in terms of the faculty research output and the accomplishments of students and graduates. “I look forward to seeing the next dean take their place and move the college forward,” Isik said. esfolts@syr.edu | @emmafolts_

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Empathy is necessary for advocacy

o successfully debate, inform and discuss gun policy reform, there needs to be understanding. You must be able to realize the perspective of the other side of the argument. I first visited a shooting range when I was 15 years old. I come from a liberal family, but one that often goes duck hunting. By visiting a shooting range and becoming familiar with firearms — how they work and how they’re regulated — people can begin to understand why gun rights advocates hold such strong beliefs. They can also better realize the sheer violent power of firearms. “I do think in terms of how guns work, and why people feel they need to own guns, what people use them for,” said Shana Gadarian, Associate Professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “The empathy is really important in these conversations.” Posters hanging at the range displayed phrases like “Keep weapons pointed downrange at the donkey” — at the Democratic party logo. I met firearms enthusiasts who owned dozens of weapons each, and I learned the true strength of a firearm. It was fun, but that experience taught me that guns are not like the toys I played with as a boy, but weapons of destruction, violence and death. I learned, first hand, why gun legislation reform is necessary. I can relate to these gun rights activists

NICK ROBERTSON LEFT OF THE ISSUES that disagree with me now. I can see them as people, not just as political opponents. Experiences like this one, however, are just a piece of the puzzle that is good faith gun reform advocacy. Gadarian said building empathy for other people’s perspectives is important for issues like gun control. There is common ground between the left and right on this

There’s a lot of gun control advocates that don’t like what they see when it comes to gun violence. They don’t particularly like guns. They wish guns didn’t exist. And so they’re not going to learn very much about guns.

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issue. The problem is cracking our stubborn outer shells. Many liberals start the debate at a disadvantage. Grant Reeher, a professor of political science in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs said it’s important to understand the details of major issues to form an opinion. To be a good faith gun control advocate, you need to be educated about firearms, even if you don’t like them. “There’s a lot of gun control advocates that don’t like what they see when it comes to gun violence,” said Reeher. “They don’t particularly like guns. They wish guns didn’t exist. And so they’re not going to learn very much about guns.” In a time when mass shootings are heavily reported, it is important to be informed and prepared. College students, like those at Syracuse University, are usually some of the most politically active people — and they should be the most informed. First-hand experience gives you the chance to learn, and the knowledge to successfully debate. And on top of that, you might just have some fun.

Change how you talk about migrants ear Editor, This past month, I’ve felt restless knowing someone hated my people’s existence so much that they wrote 2,300 words about it; that their premeditation to kill involved a 10 hour drive; that their next move was loading a gun and altering the lives of people on the border. The community in El Paso and Juárez simultaneously live out the promise offered in America while celebrating the culture of another country they have ties to. It’s why I felt compelled to volunteer at a shelter where migrants go after being processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. For many, detention can be traumatizing and getting settled in the U.S. isn’t easy. I can’t imagine the degree of trust it must’ve taken for migrants to let me drive them to the Greyhound station, to make a formula bottle for their baby, or

respond when I asked why they had a number written on their hand in sharpie — how border patrol groups people. But this compassion is simply the way of fronterizos and the people we welcome. Still, I’m disappointed by practices running counter to our mission of human dignity. Just consider other points in history when we have ignored names and assigned numbers to people. This dehumanization has festered blanket resentment toward Latinx people in the U.S., including students at Syracuse University. And as some worry about an “invasion,” it’s worth noting that U.S. intervention has exacerbated the poverty and violence in the northern triangle, as the Guardian has reported. A recent art exhibit in El Paso called “America the Borderland” shed light on border and immigration issues. Interview subject Monsignor Arturo Bañuelas provided

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Mic drop SU’s underground music venue, The Ark, has shut down indefinitely

SU faculty members’ art to be shown By Mateo Estling staff writer

Artwork currently in the SU Art Galleries exhibit “Not a Metric Matters” wasn’t centered around a theme — it was individually chosen by the curator. For the first time since 2014, SUArt Galleries is hosting a faculty exhibition at the Shaffer Art Building, curated by DJ Hellerman. “Not a Metric Matters,” which opened earlier this month and runs through Nov. 24, will showcase Syracuse University faculty art right on campus, allowing students to see the art created by the professors whose class they’ve attended. Faculty members from the School of Art, School of Design and the Department of Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will be featured, said SUArt Galleries associate director Emily Dittman. She added this was a way to show the contemporary work they’ve been creating. Unlike previous exhibitions at SUArt Galleries, the theme of “Not a Metric Matters” isn’t present in the art itself, but rather in those creating the art: the VPA faculty of SU, Dittman said.

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co-founder of The Ark, left the band FLOTUS last year to focus on running the underground music venue. The Ark spent the last year hosting basement concerts, but is now closed indefinitely. katie reahl staff photographer

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ormerly known as the The Ark, 917 Lancaster Ave. was the place to experience live indie music from local musicians in a grungy, unfinished basement. From the hours of 9 p.m to 1 a.m, bands like NONEWFRIENDS, Settle for Sadler, Spendtime Palace and The Brazen Youth all played the stage during the 2018-19 school year. Where once was a raised stage and mural depicting an ark braving an ocean of lava, now lies a dusty washer and dryer unit.

After a successful year of hosting touring and local bands, the hardship of living in a house dedicated to concerts and wild times began eroding the friendship between founders Ryan McKeown, Noah Steinberg and Kyle Smith. For this reason, The Ark has been closed indefinitely. “A lot of us just got really, really tired of putting the shows together,” McKeown said. “We were constantly cleaning the place just so we could feel like we were living in a healthy space. It’s a taxing lifestyle.” In its one year of operation, The Ark had at least one show each weekend with nightly attendance

averaging about 60 people, making it the premiere house to hear the raw sound of the underground music scene, McKeown said. However, operating a house to host independent bands is a longstanding tradition at SU. McKeown said in his first year at SU, he spent most of his time with the older marching band students, who said threw large music shows in the off-campus house nicknamed “Big Red.” “After going to these shows during the first few weeks of college, I realized that I wanted to contribute to the music scene in any way I see the

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Yasser Aggour, a featured artist and associate professor in the Department of Transmedia, said the piece he contributed was a series of photographs called “Killing Snails with Scissors.” “The title comes from a literal fever dream,” said Aggour. “My son had a fever and started hallucinating about killing a snail with a scissor.” Aggour’s photography reflects his belief that based on the current political and social climate, social media has become darker and more sensationalized, much like a “fever dream.” For Aggour, he said he tried to create his own photography to the heightened level he sees on social media, adding this the kind of work people acknowledge. “The ecosystem for imagery is really intense,” Aggour said. “You can’t possibly keep up. Here are hundreds of millions of photographs being produced every single day, so how do you make an image people will pay attention to?” He said while the work is dark, it still has an inviting quality to it. see metric page 8

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the ark could,” McKeown said. His next year, McKeown said he reached out to seniors operating another off-campus music venue that has since closed, known as Space Camp. But when he offered to continue their legacy, they refused. The summer before his junior year, McKeown and Steinberg, both sound recording technology majors, laid the groundwork for the music house. They gathered speakers, guitar amplifiers, a drum kit and selected a house for the next year. In order to focus solely on the house, McKeown left the band FLOTUS as their keyboardist, he said.

The music scene is far from dead. Now that I’m not throwing shows every weekend, I definitely want to keep the music scene alive because it’s really rare what we have in Syracuse. Ryan McKeown ark co-founder

The trio originally named the house Noah’s Ark, after founding member Noah Steinberg. It was later shortened to The Ark. To set themselves apart from other music houses, McKeown and Steinberg outlined two goals for The Ark: to be as professional as possible while handling the bands and to make it a space that felt like a true “comprehensive” stage venue, McKeown said. Nick Lussier, lead singer of The Brazen Youth, said both he and his bandmates were treated with professionalism and respect the night of their performance last fall. “It’s hard to make a house venue seem pro-

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fessional, but they definitely were. They had a lot of equipment and seemed to take pride in who they were booking,” Lussier said. During the first semester, they arranged two shows each week with three or more bands playing nightly, McKeown said. He added that people would show up not knowing about The Ark and think it had been in existence for years, but the trio said that they had “no idea” what they were doing first semester of last year. Peter Groppe, lead guitarist for NONEWFRIENDS and FLOTUS, said he performed at The Ark a total of nine times this past year. He continued to return because the “energy that the crowd brought fueled artists to perform to their highest potential,” Groppe said. The founders also agreed they would not take a chunk of the profits and would instead give all of the money they collected on a given night to the acts performing, based on their own experiences being underpaid for performances. They even offered each traveling band free lodging in their house. With McKeown and Steinberg acting as the music experts, Smith, as the journalist of the trio, focused his efforts on the promotional aspects via social media. He also charged himself with the task of documenting each show, McKeown said. The benefit was the reward of gaining a reputation in the community as a safe, underground venue, McKeown said. He added the Ark may be closed, but he hopes it will remain a symbol model for other individuals with the desire to start a live music venue. Groppe said he’ll miss reaching new audiences by playing at The Ark. While there are still other venues and houses that independent bands can perform at, The Ark will be missed by those given the opportunity to share their music talents and those who sought it out week after week. “The music scene is far from dead. Now that I’m not throwing shows every weekend, I definitely want to help keep the music scene alive because it’s really rare what we have in Syracuse,” McKeown said. cmcicchi@syr.edu

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metric Heath Hanlin, an associate professor of transmedia, comes in with his own thoughts about the current social climate with his film titled “Branches” which explores line, light and sound. Hanlin said that his work reflects the complexity of modern life. He uses lines in his film to emphasize to the audience that rather than staring at one or two lines, they should rather look at the bigger picture and see the trends the lines create. Hanlin added he applied mathematics in his film for the lines, while also maintaining a free-f lowing process in the video. “It was pretty free flowing. We knew where we wanted to go and how to get there, but we left it pretty free,” he said. Don Carr, a professor in the VPA School of Design’s MFA program and coordinator

of the industrial and interaction design program, said he tackled something different in his piece entitled “Amber Waves.” “Amber Waves” takes the form of wheat grains, and can also harvest wind and sun energy, he said. By making his work functional, he thinks it will allow people to better understand how natural energy is conserved, he said. Carr said that “Amber Waves” is, about the hypnotic, rhythmic motion of seeing wind energy moving like a field of grain. The grans harvest the energy much like a sail — every time the shaft bends, the flexing creates electric resistance that will create a low level of electric energy, he said. Faculty members involved in the exhibition will speak at the Shaffer Art Building or on campus, including at a gallery reception on September 12 so the SU community can interact with the art and artists. mtestlin@syr.edu

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Syracuse men’s basketball recruits to watch in 2019 By Anthony Dabbundo asst. sports editor

Syracuse men’s basketball just returned from preseason exhibitions in Italy, where four freshmen had their first collegiate ingame experience. The Orange open their season on Nov. 6 against Virginia, but they are still working to complete their 2020 recruiting class. The Orange don’t have many spots to fill. There are currently no seniors on the scholarship list, and with 11 scholarship players, plus key contributor Buddy Boeheim who doesn’t count as a scholarship player because his father is a University employee. SU’s Class of 2020 recruits will be smaller than previous seasons. Because of the Orange’s five-man incoming freshman class and one verbally committed player — Woody Newton — for 2020, SU has just one of its 13 scholarships remaining to hand out. Newton, a four-star recruit, verbally committed to the Orange in June. Newton is a

6-foot-8, 190-pound forward from Mt. Zion Prep (Maryland), and is ranked No. 91 in the nation by 247Sports. Newton was primarily recruited by SU assistant coach Allen Griffin and associate head coach Adrian Autry. Newton is described as one of the top defensive players in his class, and shined defensively during the Nike EYBL event in Dallas while playing with Team Takeover in June. During his junior season at Mt. Zion Prep, Newton played 30 minutes a game, averaging 14.2 points. “I will bring to any program a tough player that will lock up any best player in the country,” Newton said in June. “I’m always giving my all, 110%, and I’m ready to work, no matter what.” Xavier, Seton Hall, Cinicnnati, Penn State, Kansas State, Maryland and Virginia Tech all offered Newton, but the forward chose the Orange instead. The Orange’s 2020-21 frontcourt appears to be pretty crowded. Marek Dolezaj and Bourama Sidibe will be seniors, and the

Orange will also have then-sophomore forwards Jesse Edwards, John Bol Ajak and Quincy Guerrier joining Newton if none declare for the NBA Draft. One recruit to keep an eye on is Andre Jackson, who plays on the same AAU team that Boeheim and incoming freshman Joe Girard III played for. Jackson, a 6-6 wing from Albany Academy, could fit the mold of lengthy guards at the top of SU’s 2-3 zone. Much like assistant coach Gerry McNamara who recruited Girard III, he’s been the lead man in trying to convince Jackson — ranked No. 63 nationally by 247Sports.com — to join the Orange in 2020. Girard III and Jackson were AAU teammates before Girard III graduated high school in 2019. Jackson has received significant interest from Syracuse, and the 247Sports experts see Syracuse as his most likely landing spot. But Iowa, UCLA, Connecticut and Maryland have also all been closely recruiting the wing and are in his top five. Syracuse had an open offer to the West-

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physician, “disqualified him from further participation in football and any other contact sport at Syracuse,” per a 2015 press release from SU Athletics. When Long stepped out of Manley Field House on that cold October 2015 day after he was disqualified, his mind wouldn’t stop racing. He paced back to his apartment, 843 Small Road Apt. 3, climbed up the stairs and crawled into bed. As Long lay there and blankly stared at his wall, cemented with posters of some of his idols — Michael Vick, Donovan McNabb, Robert Griffin III, Kellen Moore and Drew Brees — tears slowly dripped down his cheek. “This isn’t how it ends,” Long thought. “This can’t be the end.”

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revenue off then-No. 2 Clemson 27-24 in the Carrier Dome. That season, the Tigers led the ACC in revenue with more than $52 million. Louisville and Boston College, who both steamrolled the Orange by more than 28 points that season, took in $43,649,769 and $32,378,875 in revenue, respectively. Even though the 2017-18 football team generated the most revenue for SU, the team actually made $2.65 million less than the prior year. In 2016-17, Syracuse took in $44,182,377 in

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pocket passer to fit his system, Patterson and Long said. Long had been excluded at Syracuse by Lester, and now, the same was unfolding at Wagner. Those same thoughts of “Why me?” and “Hasn’t enough bad stuff already happened to me?” returned to haunt him. “And when I caught myself really doing that, I didn’t like the person that I was because that’s never the person I’ve been,” Long said.

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isits to a neurologist at Penn Medicine in late 2015 gave him hope. Eventually, after being cleared, Long decided he wanted to continue his athletic career at another school. “When he actually sat down and thought about it, he didn’t feel done,” Long’s father Ace said. “We didn’t feel like football was over for him. We didn’t feel as though he was unsafe.” Long knew he wanted to keep playing, but he couldn’t continue at his dream school, so he looked elsewhere. He transferred to Wagner, but after a change in coaches and a back injury caused by over-lifting, he moved again to Division II West Chester. After leaving Syracuse, Long experienced anxiety, depression and self-doubt, which first started in high school and ballooned after his disqualification. Long never felt like Wagner was a perfect fit when visiting, but it was a clean slate. Wagner was one of the few FBS schools to express interest and offered Long a quick path back to the field. Custavious Patterson, Wagner’s offensive coordinator at the time, was Long’s guidance. Long sensed that Patterson cared about him, and he appreciated Long’s authenticity. Still, Patterson was unsure about Long’s health. Patterson asked Ace to drive to Staten Island to dispel his concerns. “His father told me about how he was healthy and how the concussions were a thing of the past,” Patterson said. “As bad as I wanted the kid to play for us, I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t being selfish and that I wasn’t

town School’s (Pennsylvania) Noah Collier, but once the Orange tapped Newton, Collier removed Syracuse from his top three schools. Collier played with Ajak for one season at the Westtown School. During Ajak’s senior year as a center, Collier, then a junior, was a wing for one of the top programs in the state. SU also offered guard Scottie Barnes, forward Isaiah Jackson and center Hunter Dickinson — all three top-30 recruits by 247Sports — but haven’t extensively pursued any of them as all three have visited other high-major programs instead of SU. The Orange have also begun to extend offers to the Class of 2021, offering six rising juniors already. All six players, including two centers, one guard and three wings are ranked in the top 100 on 247Sports 2021 rankings. With more scholarships becoming available in that class, SU will likely be more active in pursuing more than one or two targets. That list should continue to grow throughout 2019.

AJ LONG works as a quarterback coach at Whitehall High School, fulfilling his plan of returning to the game on the sidelines. courtesy of aj long

going to have a future vegetable on my hands.” The quarterback and coach spoke together up to three times a day. Almost immediately, Long revealed his troubles to Patterson — that Tim Lester, former SU offensive coordinator and current Western Michigan head coach, labeled him as “not good enough to play quarterback.” Western Michigan made Lester unavailable to comment for this story. Patterson didn’t see him as weak or fragile, he said. Even if he had never experienced these fears, Patterson tried to place himself into Long’s mind. At Wagner, Lester wouldn’t be there to doubt him again. “Why does this happen to me?” Long would often ask. “That type of stuff doesn’t happen everywhere,” Patterson said. “Here’s how you can cope with this.” It started with a deep breath. Every time he started to feel anxious or question his worth, Patterson told Long to sit up straight, inhale and exhale. Patterson then assigned readings. The two covered Urban Meyer’s “Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Champion-

ship Program” and Tom Coughlin’s “Earn the Right to Win.” As spring approached, Long was making progress. He had become good friends with Sterling Lowry, now a former Wagner safety and Syracuse native, and settled into the “Wagner brotherhood,” Lowry said. But one day, Long and Patterson were sitting in his office discussing blitz packages when Wagner head coach Jason Houghtaling walked in. “Hey, we’re going to demote you because we want to change up what we want to do,’” Patterson remembered Houghtaling telling him. “I was alright with it because I had seen it coming in the cards,” Patterson said. But Long didn’t react the same way. Wagner’s new West Coast philosophy was not supportive of his skillset. As a mobile quarterback who uses his legs and arm to hurt a defense, Patterson’s offense fit him better. In the coming weeks, Long received little to no attention from new Wagner offensive coordinator and current Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Rich Scarangello. Scarangello didn’t see Long as the prototypical

revenue in Babers’ first season on the sidelines. The Orange contributed an undisclosed amount to a total men’s recruiting expense of $1,002,537, and accumulated $24,994,763 in total expenses — along with an operating expense total of $3,529,663.

an Orange defense that held opponents to a 31.8% shooting percentage. Virginia, the ACC tournament champion from that season, listed its revenue at just under $13.5 million. North Carolina, who made a run to the ACC tournament final as a No. 6 seed, made only slightly more at $24.6 million. The only ACC school to earn more than Syracuse was Duke ($36,412,223), who knocked the Orange out of the NCAA Tournament.

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During the 2017-18 season, highlighted by three NCAA Tournament wins and a run to the Sweet 16, SU men’s basketball pulled in $31,772,639 million dollars in revenue, according to the EADA data. That year, sophomore Tyus Battle averaged 19.2 points per game and spearheaded

Women’s Basketball

Despite a campaign in which sophomore guard Tiana Mangakahia led in nation in

ong looked for a distraction, something to take him away from his playing career. That previous Christmas, Angela Reiss, Long’s mother, gave him his first camera. In August practices, Long snapped pictures of anything he found interesting, usually oddshaped buildings in Manhattan and pictures of his friends. When the season began, Long still had yet to receive clearance to play following a back injury. So during games, he started snapping pictures of his teammates, the dance team and cheerleaders. It provided an outlet for him — a way to enjoy life outside of sport, a way to forget about the past. He started to believe that he had a greater purpose off the field. “It made me realize that there are other things in life I was good at,” Long said. “It wasn’t just football.” Those past experiences that manifested his anxiety don’t cross his mind as much anymore. After two seasons at West Chester — he threw for 23 touchdowns and won a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) title in his senior year — Long is content with how his playing career concluded. Even after the disqualification, Long considered staying at Syracuse and taking a position as a graduate assistant. While sitting on the bench at Wagner, he crafted his plan to coach kids his way. Now, Long’s where he thought he’d be after his career ended. He just got there quicker than he had hoped. Long’s tumultuous path has made him more aware of his weaknesses. He’d known of his anxiety since before college, but his experiences have showed him how to cope with it. For the moment, he finally has it figured out. “It’s been this constant battle but the one thing I will say is I’ve realized that whatever happens, happens,” Long said. “I won’t make kids feel what I felt: inferior, afraid or unable to speak their mind.” adhillma@syr.edu | @_adamhillman

assists and assists per game, the Orange suffered losses in the first rounds of both the ACC and NCAA tournament in the 2017-18 season. SU’s women’s basketball brought in $1,863,762 of revenue, more than $200,000 greater than ACC tournament champion Louisville ($1,610,281). Florida State led the ACC in that category with $6,245,942. The program accounted for $5,448,042 in expenses, just under 23% of the total expenses across all SU women’s teams, and contributed to a $429,014 recruiting expense total that stretched across all women’s programs. arcrane@syr.edu | @CraneAndrew

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4 years after being medically disqualified, AJ Long reflects on his self-doubt from football

Story by Adam Hillman asst. copy editor

Photo Illustration by Ali Harford senior staff designer

hen AJ Long decided to coach football, he told himself one thing: never lie to your players. Long didn’t want to be like the coaches who had led him astray. The coaches who’d recruited him to play as a mobile quarterback, only to change to a west coast system. The coaches who told him he wasn’t good enough to play the position he’d been recruited for at Syracuse. Returning to the game as a signal caller was always his long-term plan, just not this early. Coaching at Whitehall High School (Pennsylvania) and Diamond Athletics is his

way of keeping his passion alive, showing kids that the most important part of the game is having fun – something he lost throughout much of his time at Syracuse and Wagner. “If they do a great job, I’m gonna tell them they did a great job. If they did a bad job, I’m gonna tell them they did a bad job,” Long said. “I’m focused on being honest with these kids for the sake of these kids’ health, because this stuff impacts what you think, feel and do off the field.” Five years ago, Long became the first true-freshman quarterback to win his first career start at Syracuse. He threw for 171 yards and ran for a score in an October 2014 win over Wake Forest and started five games for the Orange that season after Terrel Hunt’s injury. A year later, on Oct. 13, 2015, Long was barred from playing at SU. After suffering his third concussion in less than two years, Dr. James Tucker, a former Syracuse team see long page 10

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A breakdown of SU sports revenue By Andrew Crane asst. copy editor

This Saturday’s season opener against Liberty kicks off the 2019 season for the sport that has generated the most revenue in recent history for SU Athletics. Information released in April regarding financial data from two academic years ago, July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018, from Equity in Athletics Data Analysis (EADA) shows that Syracuse reported $96,722,491 in total revenue across all sports. Almost half of that came

from football. Additionally, SU Athletics’ average annual institutional salary per head coach increased as well, with men’s salaries rising $156,572 to $988,648 and women’s increasing by $26,584 to reach $238,457. For the women, that was more than five times greater than the increase from 2015-16 to 2016-17. For the men, it was a change in direction after that number had decreased approximately $8,000 the year before. Here’s a look at the financial data from the 2017-18 season for football and men’s and women’s basketball,

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Football

According to the data provided by Syracuse University to EADA, football brought in $41,533,110 in the 2017 season, nearly $10 million more than the men’s basketball program. That season — head coach Dino Babers’ second at SU — the Orange lost five consecutive games to close the campaign and drudged to a 4-8 record for the thirdstraight season. But on Oct. 13, Syracuse knocked see revenue page 10

SPORTS REVENUES OF SYRACUSE’S ACC RIVALS

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$60 MILLION

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