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An “Obamacare” repeal might lower the quality of people’s health care coverage. Here’s how it could impact students at Syracuse University.

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Read five things you should know about Diplo, the DJ famous for working with Justin Bieber on hit track “Cold Water,” before seeing him at Juice Jam on Sept. 10.

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Kamal Miller wasn’t a driven student or soccer player in high school. His love for his mother, and an offer from Syracuse University, changed everything.

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Diplo to headline Juice Jam

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

Popular electronic music producer Diplo will headline this year’s Juice Jam Music Festival, University Union announced Monday night.

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Juice Jam 2017 Where: Skytop Field When: Sept. 10 at 12:15 p.m.

How much: $20 with valid SU or SUNY-ESF ID

ANGIE PATI (LEFT) AND JAMES FRANCO (RIGHT) are the 2017-18 SA vice president and president. sabrina koenig asst. photo editor

Franco and Pati to push for transparency, shuttle plans during SA tenure

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The Syracuse University Graduate School Organization e-board wants to prioritize career services. ally moreo photo editor

GSO e-board outlines health care, graduate student housing goals

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eniors James Franco and Angie Pati, the Syracuse University Student Association’s 61st Session president and vice president, respectively, plan to increase transparency within SA and push for a Euclid neighborhood shuttle plan.

Franco and Pati, longtime friends, are keeping in mind former President Eric Evangelista’s SA bylaw violations from last semester.

If two students are chosen to represent the student body, they are going to represent the entire student body, not pick and choose. We’re going to fight the good fight for the good people.

Angie Pati vice president, syracuse university’s student association

Evangelista attempted to nominate an individual for the position of public relations co-chair without opening applications to the student body.

The former president also lied about the nominee’s status on the cabinet and the nomination process and mistakenly sent an email about the investigation to the entire campus see sa page 6

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he Syracuse University Graduate Student Organization’s new executive board this year has plans to maintain graduate student health care, aid international students and ensure the future of graduate career services.

Jack Wilson, Sweta Roy and Joshua Fenton were elected to the GSO’s executive board in April and Rikki Sargent was appointed during the summer. Wilson and Fenton ran unopposed.

Wilson — who hopes to finish his Ph.D. in experimental psychology this spring — ran on the promise of improving housing for international students. He said international students have more difficulty finding off-campus housing because of the time and monetary commitments it takes to travel internationally and tour houses.

International students also need visas, which usually don’t go effective until just weeks before the students are supposed to start classes, Wilson noted.

His solution would involve the university having international graduate students stay in on-campus housing in the months before they start classes so they have ample time to find apartments.

Wilson explained there is no university rule that doesn’t allow international graduate students to stay on campus during the summer, but there is no official system that allows them to do so.

He said he hopes to have a pilot program ready by the end of this school year so the university can advertise it and students can use it by the summer.

Sargent, GSO’s vice president of internal affairs, will run GSO senate meetings, keep track of registered student see gso page 8

Diplo, a stage name for Los Angeles-based Thomas Wesley Pentz, is well-known for his collaboration with artists such as Major Lazer. Diplo received multiple Grammy nominations, including Producer of the Year, in 2013 and 2016.

The musician also helped produce Major Lazer’s hit “Lean On” in 2015 which reached number one at Top 40 Radio.

“Diplo remains the go-to producer for the who’s who of the pop music landscape,” UU said in a press release.

UU also announced that performers Ugly God, MØ, Smallpools and Jeremy Zucker will perform at Juice Jam. The annual festival opens to students at 12:15 p.m. on Sept. 10 at Skytop Field.

Ugly God, known for his single “Water,” is based in Houston. The rapper released a mixtape, The Booy Tape, in 2017. That song climbed into the Top 30 of the Billboard 200.

MØ, the stage name for Denmark-based Karen Marie Ørsted, recently released her first solo “Nights With You.” Tickets for Juice Jam are $20 for Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students with a valid college ID. A maximum of two tickets will be issued per ID. Tickets go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Carrier Dome Gate E ticket booth. Sales continue through Thursday at 6 p.m. unless the event is sold out before then.

Last year, SU students attacked Fetty Wap on Instagram. Wap was the Juice Jam headliner who failed to show up at his own show.

UU in a statement said Wap, a popular rapper known for his hit “Trap Queen,” skipped out on his Syracuse performance due to “travel delays.” Students did not get refunds. sfogozal@syr.edu

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Monuments removed After the violence in Charlottesville, Confederate monuments are being removed across New York.

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Going to the chapel Meet the new dean of Hendricks Chapel, Brian Konkol, who is beginning his role at SU this fall.

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College ranked top film school

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A new year Syracuse University students started classes on Monday for the 2017-18 academic year. SU freshmen might see a dramatically different campus within the next four years as SU continues to implement a major infrastructure plan called the Campus Framework. The University Place promenade, which was completed last year, is part of the Campus Framework. molly gibbs contributing photographer

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ACA repeal could lower quality of insurance

By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

If the Affordable Care Act is repealed in the future, Syracuse University officials said they do not believe it will create issues for students enrolled in the university’s health insurance plan.

However, the potential lowering of minimum essential coverage requirements may require SU administrators to write new minimum coverage standards if students planning to opt out of the university’s health plan are to retain comprehensive coverage, some say.

Currently, all full-time undergraduate, graduate and law students at SU must have health insurance coverage that meets SU’s minimum guidelines, according to the Student Health Insurance Office’s website.

Those minimum standards require health insurance plans be

provided by a U.S.-based insurer, cover emergency and non-emergency services in the Syracuse area and comply with the ACA.

One of the things we could and should discuss in more detail is what we require in terms of minimum coverage.

Ben Domingo director of syracuse university health services

The Student Health Insurance Plan, or SHIP, which is offered to SU students by the university, meets SU’s minimum standards.

But students can opt out of SHIP if they can demonstrate they have coverage that complies with SU’s current minimum requirements.

Ben Domingo, director of SU Health Services, said if health insurance plans are watered down because the ACA’s minimum essential coverage standards are lowered or eliminated, it will be harder for SU to determine whether students that opt out of SHIP have comprehensive health insurance.

“Without minimum essential coverage guidelines it becomes very hard to figure out what somebody’s plan has or doesn’t have,” Domingo said.

The intent of the university’s current policies are to ensure students have adequate health coverage that prevents them from having unforeseen medical expenses, he said.

Domingo said if the minimum essential coverage mandate in the ACA is eliminated, students

may come in with a “hodgepodge” of insurance plans ranging from good to “bare bones.”

“One of the things we could and should discuss in more detail is what we require in terms of minimum coverage,” Domingo said.

SHIP, he said, is comprehensive and meets the minimum coverages mandated by the ACA. It will still provide essential coverage for things such as women’s health care and psychiatric care even if the ACA is repealed, Domingo added.

John Palmer, a University Professor and dean emeritus at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said states may be given the flexibility to lower minimum coverage guidelines if parts of the ACA are repealed.

“I think there’s some potential that the minimum coverage would not be set as high as it is now,” Palmer said. see health

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student association

Uber partnership approved, cabinet confirmed

By Catherine Leffert staff writer

The Syracuse University Student Association on Monday night approved a pilot Uber partnership program and confirmed cabinet members.

SA passed a motion that effectively gives $10,000 worth of Uber rides to SU students.

The partnership between SA and Uber will last from this Fri-

day at 5:00 p.m. to the following Sunday at noon. With a coupon code, any SU student will get a $10 coupon for an Uber ride.

SA is using this weekend as a test to determine whether a partnership with Uber would be a worthwhile investment, said SA President James Franco.

The SA fund is contributing $10,000 to the project — half from the transportation fund and half from the student advancement

fund. However, if SU students spend less than that amount, SA will get the remaining money back.

SA will be distributing the Uber coupon code soon, Franco said.

Other business

The first SA meeting of the school year began with the official swearing in of James Franco as president, Angie Pati as vice president and the rest of the assembly.

Roma Amernath was elected to be the new recorder. Amernath will take

minutes and roll call. The previous recorder, Drew Jacobson, is abroad.

The new cabinet members each gave a short speech to the assembly, before assembly members asked them questions. The potential cabinet members were then asked to leave the room to allow assembly discussion, during which each candidate was confirmed.

To be officially confirmed, each candidate who is presented to the see sa

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The College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University is now home to the 23rd best film school in the country, according to a recent ranking in The Hollywood Reporter.

The Hollywood Reporter — which releases a ranking of the country’s 25 best film schools annually — placed Syracuse’s film program 23rd on the list for the second year in a row. VPA made the Top 25 list in all but one year since the rankings started in 2011, with the school previously being ranked as high as 11th in 2014.

In a profile explaining the ranking, The Hollywood Reporter highlighted that the strengths of the program lie in the school’s internship and study abroad opportunities.

Students in VPA could land an internship at two of the world’s largest film festivals: the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.

“I think there are a lot of film programs, but not many of them have the kind of international focus that we have,” said Owen Shapiro, professor and program coordinator of film in VPA. Shapiro added that the school’s international focus has an effect on the type of students the school draws in.

The college is widely recognized for its large abroad programs.

The most noted abroad programs for film students involve study in Prague, Czech Republic; Bosnia;

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local news Here is a round-up of the biggest news happening in New York state right now.

RECORD-BREAKING ATTENDANCE A total of 123,206 people attended the New York State Fair on Sunday, breaking the record for highest attendance of any day in fair history. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Earth Wind & Fire performances helped shatter the record. source: syracuse.com

EX MAYOR LEADS THRUWAY Former Syracuse Mayor Matthew Driscoll will lead the New York State Thruway. Driscoll is currently the commissioner of the state’s transportation department. His nomination must be confirmed by the state senate in January when the legislature reconvenes. source: times union

MINER FOR CONGRESS? Right-leaning super political action committees are beginning to research Mayor Stephanie Miner in case she decides to run for Congress. Miner, a Democrat, would pose a threat to Rep. John Katko if she ran for Congress. source: syracuse.com

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Student life goals should come 1st for SA Student Association President James Franco and Vice President Angie Pati have one goal for this academic year that stands out above the rest: to make SA a “people’s government.”

To Franco and Pati, this means ensuring SA is known for transparency and open communication. But most Syracuse University students aren’t concerned with SA’s reputation or even knowing what happens at a meeting. To students, a people’s government means making changes that actually improve their life on campus.

This is the mistake past SA administrations have made — focusing on vague goals like “communication” and “connection.” This year, Franco and Pati have ditched buzzwords in favor of tangible bullet points.

Yes, transparency is at the top of the SA administration’s list. But Franco and Pati have also listened

to students’ concerns and set goals to address them. They are laying the groundwork for a peer listening service to supplement SU’s mental health services, and are working to implement a Euclid Avenue-area shuttle.

And to build to that list, Franco and Pati are planning a “listening tour” to meet student organizations and hear their concerns.

Students should take advantage of SA’s promise of open communication. After all, SA is a great resource for students to air grievances and make suggestions to improve student life. Franco sits on the university’s Board of Trustees and has the ear of the SU administration, so he can suggest change in a forum students don’t have access to.

Still, students shouldn’t have to know the ins and outs of an SA meeting to benefit from the organization. It’s SA’s responsibility to identify and advocate for the

student body’s top needs, like it has with its Euclid shuttle and mental health care proposals.

Achieving these goals might not come with recognition from the average student, and SA members should recognize their jobs are often thankless. Nevertheless, tangible goals should remain SA’s top priority.

After the former SA president’s bylaw violations, repairing SA’s image should be important for the current administration. But Franco and Pati shouldn’t think students don’t trust SA — they’re probably more concerned with the next football game.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board serves as the voice of the organization and aims to contribute the perspectives of students to discussions that concern Syracuse University and the greater Syracuse community. The editorial board’s stances are determined by a majority of its members.

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‘Medicare for All’ would cover essential services for Syracuse women

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ongress may be out for summer, but Democrats are turning up the heat on a new federal health care plan to combat Republican Party’s failed efforts to repeal Affordable Care Act. With Congress on recess until Sept. 5, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., took her vacation as an opportunity to raise awareness for a single-payer program to help the United States’ struggling lower and middle classes.

Not only would a singlepayer program aid lower-class Americans, but it would provide women across the country — especially in high-poverty areas like Syracuse — the comprehensive care they’ve been lacking. Under a single-payer program, Medicare would cover breast and cervical cancer screenings, contraception, domestic and interpersonal violence counseling and various sexually transmitted diseases and health screenings.

In a statement, Gillibrand said the time for skyrocketing premiums and copays is over.

“Health care is a right, it should never be a privilege,” she said during a Facebook Livestream with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

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in this country.”

In New York state alone, more than 1.9 million women depend on Medicare for basic health insurance coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that focuses on providing information about health policy. With women listed as nearly 49 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries, it’s clear to see that basic health care isn’t just a social rights issue, but a women’s rights issue as well.

Gillibrand isn’t the only Democrat pushing for a revamped “Medicare for all” system.

Progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) referred to the GOP’s proposed plan as a “knockout blow” to working-class citizens, promoting single-payer systems as an appropriate successor to Obamacare.

While Obamacare was considered by many progressives a step in the right direction for affordable health care, a universal Medicare system relies

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primarily on government funding to cover American citizens.

Under the Medicare for all model proposed by 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Medicare would eliminate copays and expensive deductibles, covering long-term care and sparing citizens the burden of skyrocketing premiums.

Sanders’ plan would “cover the entire continuum of health care,” including emergency care, mental health treatment and diagnostics, according to a statement posted on his website.

Christopher Faricy, a political science professor at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said a Medicare for all system would help reduce the number of uninsured Americans in the country. It can also potentially lower the costs of treatment through the government’s supply power.

The main drawback? Its cost.

“The federal government would pay the full cost of medical treatment under a true singlepayer system, eliminating the need for premiums,” Faricy said. “But it would be tremendously expensive, and there would have to be a tax increase on everybody in the U.S.

to pay for it — or a huge increase in the national debt.”

By reimagining Medicare as a system inclusive to nondisabled civilians and citizens under 65, a single-payer system would thrive off a combination of federal funding and taxes primarily from citizens making more than $250,000 per year. Taxing the wealthiest Americans would be a financial relief for lower-class Americans in need of access to health care, Faricy said.

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1.9 MILLION WOMEN IN NEW YORK STATE DEPEND ON MEDICARE source: kaiser family foundation

The fact that the majority of Medicare subscribers are women making less than $20,000 annually — according to America’s Health Insurance Plans — makes it obvious that something needs to be done to alleviate the fiscal burden plaguing the American health care system.

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average per capita income of about $19,000 — per Sperling’s Best Places — shows just how important this bill would be to this city.

After the failure of the GOP’s health care plan — and its many flaws — American women simply cannot afford to place their lives in the hands of white, male congressmen and senators who consider pregnancy and menstrual irregularities “preexisting conditions.”

Apparently, if it doesn’t come in a blue pill, male politicians aren’t interested.

But despite Democrats taking the reins in promoting Medicare for all, Gillibrand said the proposal is anything but a partisan issue.

“People want affordable health care, and (Medicare for all) is the solution, and it makes sense to people even in my two-to-one Republican district,” Gillibrand told New York Magazine in April.

So while Congress may be out on summer break, Gillibrand is making sure that with single-payer health care on the horizon, the doctor is in.

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Upcoming project would add bicycle lanes to Euclid area

By Katelyn Faubel staff writer

Planned improvements to Euclid Avenue near Syracuse University will move forward this academic year, a city official said, using money from a New York state grant.

“It won’t be all done until next year,” said Pete O’Connor, commissioner of the Syracuse Department of Public Works, about the Euclid Avenue Bike and Pedestrian Network Expansion project. “We’ll start some of it this year as part of our construction season.”

The project includes the construction of bicycle lanes, an action O’Connor said has sparked conversation within the community.

Syracuse authorized the construction along Euclid after it was confirmed this summer that $1.5 million from the state could be used for road improvement projects in the city.

The money will come in the form of a reimbursement grant from the state’s Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program.

O’Connor said he was originally given a $2.5 million budget by the city for his roadway Total Reconstruction Program this year, which aims to repave 15 to 20 roads including Euclid Avenue.

The public works commissioner, though, said the city was alerted in July that $4 million in total was in fact available through the CHIPS reimbursement grant. That extra money will help fund the Euclid project.

Syracuse Common Councilor Helen Hudson authorized the 2017-18 Euclid Avenue Bike and Pedestrian Network Expansion, according to a July Common Council agenda.

The authorization stated the total cost of the expansion would not exceed $935,000, according to the agenda. O’Connor said the project will take place between Westcott Street and Comstock Avenue.

“One side of the street is a bike lane with parked cars next to it and the other side is just going to be pavement markings,” O’Connor said.

O’Connor said the bicycle lanes are just

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pavement markings, but “the compromise was done in-house,” in regards to one bike lane being near parked cars and one not.

He said the project would not be complete until next spring when the construction season starts again, and some of the construction will be started this year.

O’Connor said he plans to start curb work and American with Disabilities Act corner work before the construction seasons end near the end of October.

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Confederate monuments removed across New York

By Ryan Dunn staff writer

After weeks of vocal protests from a number of groups across the political spectrum, Confederate monuments are starting to be removed from New York state.

In response to the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, earlier this month, calls to remove Confederate statues and artifacts began pouring in nationwide.

New York, which was previously home to three Confederate monuments and three roads named after Confederate soldiers, is no exception.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to the outcry by penning a letter to acting under secretary of the United States Army Ryan McCarthy, asking to rename streets at Fort Hamilton dedicated to Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. “Given the events of this week, including the violence and terrorism perpetrated by white supremacists in Charlottesville and the resulting emboldening of the voices of Nazis and white supremacists, I now strongly urge the U.S. Army to reconsider its decision and I call on them to rename these streets,” Cuomo said in a press release.

Cuomo also tweeted advocating for the removal of Lee and Jackson’s busts from the City University of New York Hall of Fame for Great Americans. University officials there quickly carried out the request.

A plaque commemorating Lee’s planting of a tree at a Brooklyn church was removed earlier this month, leaving an obelisk and plot of graves at the Mount Hope Cemetery as the only remaining Confederate memo-

rial in the state.

That plot is cared for and maintained by the Sons of Confederate Veterans — a group of men who are descendants of Confederate soldiers.

“We are honoring guys who, like all soldiers, are just doing what the old men of the world ... decided that they do,” said Patrick McCullough, commander of the New York City branch of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

McCullough said he disagreed with the politicization of the memorials and warned against removing them hastily.

“Something that has been in place for 100 years, we are in a really regrettable political climate when it becomes a rallying point for all sorts of terrible things,” McCullough said.

“I’m not comfortable with saying ‘They were here for 100, 150 years and today we are going to take them down’ because that’s kind of irrevocable,” McCullough added.

“They never go back up again when you take them down.”

Representatives of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The concept of Confederate remembrances in New York state seems strange to some given New York’s staunchly Unionist past, McCullough said, but there are more ties to the Confederacy than it would seem.

Jackson and Lee both saw their first military appointments at Fort Hamilton in New York City well before the civil war and many future Confederate soldiers were trained at West Point. rarozenb@syr.edu

There will be detours on the side of the road with curb work, and bicycles will have less room, O’Connor said. Car lanes, though, will remain open, he added.

The entire Total Reconstruction Program project — including the Euclid improvements — should last, at a minimum, 15 to 20 years, he said. There is the possibility, though, that the project will go on longer than that.

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community. Due to these violations, some of Evangelista’s abilities were restricted for the rest of the semester.

As a result, when people think of SA, they either don’t know what the organization is or if they do, in the past year alone, they think of a lot of the violations that happened, Pati said.

Working on rebranding Student Association as the “people’s government” might be a significant challenge, but it’s something the team is excited about, Pati said.

“When SA is viewed in a positive light, it ultimately helps the students,” she added.

To strengthen SA’s image during the upcoming school year, Franco and Pati will work on publicizing initiatives and improving communication and transparency, so students will know what SA has accomplished, Pati said.

They also plan to have a “listening tour” throughout the academic year, Franco said.

The listening tour will include SA members developing connections with student organizations by attending their meetings, getting to know general and executive board members, Pati said.

Franco and Pati also have several other initiatives planned for the 2017-18 school year.

SA is working to organize a shuttle that would operate from campus to the Euclid neighborhood. The shuttle would have an approximate 15-minute round trip. Franco said this plan is in its preliminary stages.

The organization is also looking to partner with ride-hailing service companies this year to show students that it is a safe way to get home once shuttles stop running at night, Franco said.

During the academic year, SA will also make strides in regards to student mental health, Franco and Pati said.

tioning volunteer organization in the city of Syracuse, has taken an interest in the Euclid project, according to the group’s website.

Harry Lewis, a SEUNA member and former president of the organization, said he feels the lack of bike lanes on Euclid Avenue is a safety issue, adding anything to help students from getting hurt is important to SEUNA. “I think (the grant) will be used for the safety of the university,” Lewis said. kmfaubel@syr.edu

Groundwork is being laid for a peer listening service, and there’s also potential for partnerships between SA and the Crisis Text Line as well as Woebot, a service designed to help young adults improve mental health through therapeutic conversations, Franco and Pati said.

“If two students are chosen to represent the student body, they are going to represent the entire student body, not pick and choose,” said Pati, adding that SA also plans to focus on diversity and representation this year. “We’re going to fight the good fight for the good people.”

Franco and Pati have been best friends since freshman year when they lived on the same floor in Sadler Hall. Franco added her as a friend on Facebook before the school year started, but Pati rejected the request, thinking it was a prank page setup mimicking the actor James Franco.

Not only did he share a name with a celebrity, but his profile picture looked like Ellen DeGeneres, Pati said. She only realized it was not a prank during their floor meeting introductions.

Pati became focused on organizations such as OrangeSeeds, Love Your Melon, Syracuse University Ambulance and the Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity before her SA vice presidential bid.

Franco, previously the SA Academic Affairs committee chair, joined SA during his freshman year to help improve the student experience at SU, he said. “(SA) jurisdiction is so broad that you can have an impact on something like mental health and then safety,” he said.

Franco is active in other student organizations, involving SUA and being an orientation leader.

The combination of Franco’s involvement in SA and Pati’s work for other student organizations fits together well, the vice president said.

“We have a great working relationship,” Pati said. “We’re best friends who respect each other’s opinions.” ssiyer@syr.edu

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health care Palmer said Democrats would be resistant to lowering insurance baselines. To maintain parts of the ACA such as full Medicaid expansion, however, Democrats might be willing to make a compromise with Republicans that could include giving states power to lower minimum coverage requirements, he added.

Grant Reeher, a political science professor in the Maxwell School, said states such as Texas and Florida — more conservative states that have opted out of the ACA’s full Medicaid expansion — may lower minimum requirements in a post-ACA world.

Many colleges, including Cornell University, have spent time determining what insurance plans they will and will not accept, Domingo said.

According to Cornell’s website, none of the requirements to waive Cornell’s student health insurance plan are connected to ACA mandates.

Domingo said the university has talked about setting new minimum guidelines, but the specific coverage baseline has not yet been solidified.

When portions of the ACA, also known as “Obamacare,” were nearly repealed this summer, Domingo said the university was waiting to see which parts of the ACA would be repealed or replaced.

The “skinny repeal,” which fell two votes short of passing in the Senate, would have eliminated the individual mandate requiring people to have health insurance. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the skinny repeal would have caused insurance premiums on the exchange to increase 20 percent.

Premiums for SHIP would remain competitive because SU has a favorable risk pool, Domingo said. College students are healthy and don’t need to use health insurance as much as older people, he said.

Because the future of the ACA is uncertain, Domingo said he expects more students to enroll in SHIP. Even this year, students have been voluntarily opting to enroll in SHIP in higher numbers, he added.

“The simple turbulence and uncertainty in our environment about the future of health care has, in my opinion, led people to clearly see the student plan as a good option,” Domingo said. jmulle01@syr.edu

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organizations and ensure the organization’s communities are working properly.

Sargent was appointed to the GSO executive board after elected internal vice president Shivali Naik vacated her position to pursue an internship in California last summer, Wilson said. A vote to confirm S She said she would attend all GSO meetings and voted on resolutions as a senator.

It was when Sargent began to attend GSO meetings outside of senate meetings that she wanted to get more involved.

“That’s what intrigues me the most about GSO,” Sargent said. “Not so much the specific issues that we deal with, but the fact that we allow each academic program to have a voice in their education and in their lives here at Syracuse.”

Sargent noted her greatest challenge as internal vice president is to get people involved with the organization. But she already had a number of people signed up to serve on committees and to be academic program senators.

“If it stays this way, I shouldn’t have to worry about that. I’ve been very impressed with the incoming graduate students reach-

ing out and wanting to get involved before they’re on campus,” Sargent said.

Sargent isn’t the only person in charge of recruitment and graduate student involvement at GSO. Sweta Roy, the vice president of external affairs, plans events and represents the organization.

Roy joined GSO by accident. Her career in GSO started when she became involved with the outreach committee under last year’s external vice president, Peta Long. While she thought the outreach committee would be in charge of recruiting science, technology, mathematics and engineering students, the position actually required organizing social events for graduate students.

Roy was never an academic program senator, unlike her colleagues. She ran for and won the external vice president position when she thought she should “try it out.”

“My job is getting everyone the information, making sure they get the right information and join us,” Roy said.

Though she’s only had the job for a few months, Roy has already planned two large events. She recently finished planning the GSO picnic, her largest event to date.

GSO isn’t only concerned with international students and recruitment. The organization has been working for years to keep graduate student employees on the

employee health care plan, Wilson said.

SU’s employee health care plan is less expensive than the student plan and includes benefits such as dental and vision services, Wilson said. The battle to keep employee health care for graduate employees inspired Wilson to join GSO around late 2014, the same time THE General Body began protesting at the university.

“It was actually around that point that I realized I actually had a say in what’s going on,” he said.

The health care issue affects a large portion of the graduate program because many of the students are teaching assistants or have some form of employment with the university, Wilson said.

He said it would be his greatest challenge as GSO president this year.

“We aren’t entirely sold on the issue, so this is going to be very intense negotiations between ourselves and the administration,” Wilson said.

In the meantime, graduate students are essentially in “limbo” in terms of longterm healthcare, said GSO Comptroller Joshua Fenton.

As comptroller, Fenton meets with the university task force, attends meetings and advocates on behalf of grad students. He also handles the organization’s finances and

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by Franco, Pati and a small committee.

Nobody previously applied for recorder, so it was the only cabinet position that did not adhere to this process. Amernath was nominated and confirmed by other assembly members during the meeting.

Here’s who was confirmed: Chief of staff: Andres Laguna Student Life chair: Elizabeth Sedore

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Peru; and Bologna, Italy.

Shapiro said the school’s desire to create the “total filmmaker” is what sets film education at SU apart from other universities.

Be mindful with meditation in Hendricks and visit People’s Place for free fruit on Mondays. Unwind Monday afternoons with yoga, co-sponsored with the Contemplative Collaborative.

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I think there are a lot of film programs, but not many of them have the kind of international focus that we have.

Owen Shapiro college of visual and performing arts professor and program coordinator of film

The concept of the total filmmaker, coined by the late comedian and filmmaker Jerry Lewis, involves practicing all disciplines of film from cinematography to scriptwriting, editing, directing or special

drafts the budget.

Fenton is pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics after finishing his master’s degree at the University of Kansas. He joined GSO after an academic program senator in the mathematics department had to leave because of a conflict.

“The summer has been kind of quiet for comptroller business, but that’s going to ramp up,” he said.

Other GSO initiatives include expanding career services for graduate students. There is only one graduate career advisor for about 5,000 students, Roy said.

The new Invest Syracuse plan aims to strengthen career advising, according to its website, so GSO wants to ensure the expansion of graduate career services is implemented correctly, Wilson said.

In addition, a new Office of the Ombuds — an office where students can go to arbitrate hostile interactions with faculty or employers — will be established.

Wilson explained there will be a search committee for an ombudsperson.

To make sure the office is set up correctly, the university will need to be transparent in its decisions and allow graduate students and faculty to have a say in the decisionmaking, he said. krose100@syr.edu

ment: Jack Woltman Co-chair of Community Engagement: Jen Sweet Co-chair of Diversity Affairs: Khalid Khan

Co-chair of Diversity Affairs: Dia-

sia Robinson. Robinson served as chair of Diversity Affairs last year, which was its first year in existence.

Academic Affairs chair: Malcolm AliDavis Public Relations chair: Alexandra Dimitri Technology chair: Chris Yin ccleffer@syr.edu

effects, Shapiro said.

“When they become juniors, after they’ve had two years of filmmaking, they have developed some stronger interests in some areas more than others,” Shapiro added.

He said students can then begin to take advanced courses in those particular areas in anticipation of a year-long senior thesis project.

All students create their own style, Shapiro said.

“If you look at a group of films from our seniors and graduate students, you won’t be able to say, ‘Oh, that’s a Syracuse look.’ They will all be very individual,” Shapiro said.

Ranking high on The Hollywood Reporter’s well-trusted list makes the school more visible to prospective film students, said Jennifer Saluti, director of recruiting and admissions at VPA. Saluti added that due to the increased visibility of the program, the flow of applications could change.

“Rankings will often broaden the external image of programs, make them more visible to a wider audience,” Saluti said.

“Because rankings like these increase visibility of programs, they often result in an increase in applications.” bross02@syr.edu

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American DJ and producer Diplo is headlining Juice Jam 2017 on Sept. 10 at North Skytop Field, announced University Union. Here are five things to know before seeing him live:

He has a show on Viceland

James Van Der Beek plays Diplo in Viceland’s TV show “What Would Diplo Do?” He acts alongside DJ Dillon Francis and actor Bobby Lee. Van Der Beek deals with the behind-the-scenes life of the musician. The show’s first season started on Thursday, Aug. 3, and Diplo is one of the show’s producers.

Music major?

Diplo attended school at Temple University, but he did not study music. The artist majored in anthropology. In an interview with The Fader he reffered to it as “probably the worst major you could ever get.” After realizing his true passion was for music he ended up dropping out of school.

But, in the beginning of his career he used his anthropological skills to get people to write about him and his music.

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Get ready to be “Bad and Boujee.” As the most popular stage at the state fair, Chevy Court pulls in the biggest names.

Hip-hop trio Migos will perform Sunday at 8 p.m. and students are pumped. DJ Khaled and Post Malone were also slated in this year’s line-up, but cancelled after accepting offers to perform at the 2017 MTV Music Awards. Cancellations happen every year, said Dave Bullard, a fair representative. When Snoop Dogg cancelled the fair brought in Nas, and when Meghan Trainor fell through they scored Jason Derulo. Whatever happens fairgoers are guaranteed a popular name on stage.

For the lover of rock and tribute bands, the Empire Experience Stage provides a hearty mix of genres including rock and roll, funk and a bit of polka music for good measure. On Saturday, the venue is set to host the annual JAMS Funk Fest, an all-day festival with performances by gospel, soul and funk artists.

The nostalgia of the 1980s and ‘90s rock era will be felt in the audience when about half a dozen tribute bands take the stage this weekend.

For the person who marches to the beat of their own drum or the tune of their own piano, this is the stage to visit. Empire Theater is home to classical entertainment and cultural performances. Those with a more refined taste can enjoy organ music, piano sets and belly dancing. Many people don’t realize the Empire Theater is among the state fair’s venues, Bullard said. It provides a place to go for people who may not be keen on the more mainstream performances of Chevy Court.

Weekend shows: Dark Hollow, a tribute to the Grateful Dead; Us and Floyd, a tribute to Pink Floyd; The British Invasion Experience; Thunderstruck, a tribute to AC/DC; JAMS Funk Fest 2k17; Ruby Shooz; Badfish, a tribute to Sublime

Weekend shows: Nancy Wildoner “Pop Pipes”, Fritz Orzelek, Danza Romani, John Paul Fiscoe, Chandini Belly Dance Troupe, Erie Canal Cloggers, Mahoney Irish Dancers, CNY Theatre Organ Society Concert

Weekend shows: Migos, A Tribe Called Red, Blue Öyster Cult, DNCE, Spin Doctors, UB40 and Kool & the Gang

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As a child growing up in Tupelo, Mississippi, he was fascinated by dinosaurs. He chose the name “Diplo” because of the dinosaur Diplodocus.

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Diplo is a minority owner of a United Soccer League team, Phoenix Rising FC. On Jan. 27, 2016, he purchased a share of the soccer club. He is also a supporter of the United States Men’s National team and Arsenal F.C.

Bernie Sanders is his boy

As part of the surprises of the 2016 presidential race, Diplo produced his song “Revolution” to be used in a Bernie Sanders advertisement.

Rihanna once told him his music sounds like a ‘reggae song in an airport.’

Rumors floated around about a collaboration between Diplo and Rihanna. In an interview with GQ Style, the DJ revealed that Rihanna said the track he sent her sounded like a reggae song at an airport. cbfogel@syr.edu

Traveling Arthur Ross art exhibit makes its way to SU

By Emma Glasse

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More than 1,200 prints from European artists will be exhibited at Syracuse University Art Galleries’ first reception of the school year.

The gallery, under the name “Meant to Be Shared” features the latest collection by Arthur Ross. The reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 7 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m at the Shaffer Art Building.

Drinks and food will be served in the main atrium area in front of the gallery. The event is free and open to all students and faculty.

The SUArt Galleries typically holds receptions twice a year — once at the beginning of the school year and another at the end.

Domenic Iacono, director of SUArt Galleries, said the receptions usually bring in about 170 people, largely local fans of the art world.

At least three curators from the Yale University Art Gallery and Ross’ widow will attend the reception. Ross’ expansive collection was initially gifted to Yale University Art Gallery, but at that time Ross has also asked that his collection be shared with other educational institutions. As he wished, his collection has been to the University of Florida and now Syracuse University.

Ross began his career as an

investment banker in the 1930s, and he soon became involved in philanthropic efforts throughout New York City.

Ross’ charitable work focused on environmental efforts, like the maintenance and upgrade of Central Park, international relations and the preservation and spread of art.

Before he died in 2007, Ross managed to curate a collection wide enough to span between

the 18th and 20th centuries. The collection included artists like Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Francisco Goya.

Goya was Ross’ first artist for his collection, and expanded into other classical artists like Édouard Manet’s prints for Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven.” Beyond traditional art, the collection also includes rare texts. elglasse@syr.edu

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‘Get Out’ to be screened on side of Everson Museum

By Sarah Allam

contributing writer

For the first time in six years, visitors of the Urban Cinematheque Art and Culture Fair will feature a movie chosen by fairgoers, who picked Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” in an online poll.

The annual Urban Cinematheque Art and Culture Fair at the Everson Museum of Art being held in collaboration with Light Work takes place Friday from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.

“Too often in central New York we hear ‘there’s nothing to do,’ so, via our collaboration with Everson, we can bring an exciting event into the heart of our city,” said Anneka Herre, director of Urban Video Project and an instructor of transmedia core in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The movie will be projected on the side of the Everson Museum in collaboration with Light Work to hold UVP’s year-round outdoor public projections. Peele, the movie’s director, added his own commentary to an extended version of the film, which will be shown at this year’s Cinematheque unlike previous years.

“People ask me if the film is scary, and it is a common thriller, but the really scary part is

the racial commentary because that’s what makes people uncomfortable,” said Cjala Surratt, Light Work promotions coordinator.

The movie selection offers an opportunity for conversations regarding racism, class and politics, Herre said.

In addition to the movie, artists were invited to hold tables at the fair. When the fair began, about a dozen organizations tabled, most from the Syracuse University Coalition of Museums and Art Centers. The fair now has off-campus organizations representing the visual arts, dance, music and theater.

“Part of this is the larger goal of not just engaging the public but encouraging the students to engage in activities on and off the Hill and letting them know there’s bridges and connections between the city and college,” Surratt said.

The Cinematheque also welcomes SU students. In connection with the event, buses run between the Schine Student Center and Everson Museum.

“The event is about reaching out to a wide audience, so we are looking for films that will have broad appeal, but which are also well aligned with our mission to present moving image art to the public,” Herre said. ssallam@syr.edu

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rin Ferris spent her first Saturday as a Pennsylvania State University student weeding plants on a farm. Now, four years later, she’s helping other students do the same.

Ferris, a senior dual majoring in labor and employee relations and psychology, is the executive director of Fresh S.T.A.R.T., a student organization that puts together one of Penn State’s largest days of service.

Every year she and her team pair more than 500 firstyear, change-of-campus and transfer students with a volunteer opportunity. Almost 600 people participated on Saturday.

“Our motto for Fresh S.T.A.R.T. is ‘get rooted,’” said Ben Kline, co-director of community partnerships.

“We want students to find their space on campus and make service a part of their time on campus.”

Kline said the organization keeps three goals in mind for each day of service: introduce students to service opportunities, build friendships and create engagement between the campus and surrounding city.

This year the day ran from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The first two hours were spent on check-ins, lunch and bonding activities so participants could get to know one another. About noon, everyone split into groups and headed to their designated volunteer location, Kline said.

The approximately 20 organizations that Fresh S.T.A.R.T. paired with were split into four categories: environmental focus, philanthropy and special interest groups, community building and social justice preservation and issues in health and human development.

“There’s a little bit of something for everyone,” Ferris said.

Students took part this year in work with a local animal shelter, a children’s museum and Rise Against Hunger, an organization working to provide food security, Kline said.

In three and a half hours, a group of about 30 volunteers put together 10,000 meal packages full of nonperishable foods. The packages put together on the Penn State campus will be delivered to people all around the world, Ferris said.

“I’m really proud of all the work the volunteers put in and the impact they were able to make,” Ferris said.

The effect is also felt in the coming days and weeks.

Volunteers also attend a student organization fair at the end of the day, where they can choose to continue their service throughout the year. It’s also a chance to mingle with other students in similar situations.

Kline said the fair is where he first got involved with Circle K International, a service organization on the Penn State campus of which he is now president, and where he made some of his closest friends.

Of her time in Fresh S.T.A.R.T. Ferris recalls how grateful the two farm operators were to have the students there.

“They explained to us how our effort there in just four hours really helped them tremendously in the season and year to come,” Ferris said. “In terms of the labor, it wasn’t something they would be able to do because they just don’t have the staff on hand.”

After her freshman year, Ferris took on a leadership

About 500 incoming students take part in Fresh S.T.A.R.T.’s day of service every year. The organization’s goals include linking students to campus clubs and forming bonds with the local community. courtesy of ben kline

role as co-director of community partnership and now executive director. Though the 2017 day of service is over, she’s already got her mind on next year. It may only be one day, but it takes almost a full year to put together, Ferris said.

Once again the Fresh S.T.A.R.T. team has to reach out to organizations all over the city, elect new people into leadership positions and reach out to deans, busi-

nesses and alumni for donations. While the organization receives staff support and money from the university it still relies on outside funding.

But it’s worth it.

“We’re trying to get students engaged in the community and develop the next generation of service leaders,” Ferris said. sfern100@syr.edu | @StacyFernandezB

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make soccer and school a priority.”

The driving force behind Miller is the woman who at times worked two or three jobs to provide for his soccer aspirations.

His mother, Sauzette, paid for Kamal’s club soccer teams, where he stood out enough to gain interest from about 50 colleges, his coaches said. He turned down offers from Penn State and Michigan to play for Ian McIntyre at Syracuse. This way, his mother would be within driving distance. At SU, he calls her every day.

As a little boy, Miller refused to go to bed until his mother got home, about 9:30 p.m.

Miller camped at the door with a blanket and waited for her to walk through the doors. He didn’t budge, because he needed a hug before bed.

“I don’t want you to work two jobs,” he told her. “I want to … help you one day.”

One of Miller’s former coaches, Patrice Gheisar, introduced him to the possibility of playing collegiately. Before he started the 11th grade, Miller’s grade average stood around 50 on a Toronto grading scale, equivalent to a GPA well below 2.0. “Bad attendance, no desire,” Gheisar said. In 10th grade, a former SU assistant saw him play. It was then that

miller involved with. I’ve stayed in a good spot.

“Finally getting in touch with a school that believed in me in Syracuse,” he added, “it really pushed me to do well. It put a light in my head.”

The SU proposal forced him into becoming a better student. When he recognized playing professional soccer in Europe right out of high school was a stretch, he realized the quickest path to earning a salary in professional soccer would be through college. That, he figured, would give him the best opportunity to help out his single mother.

The first indication of Miller’s dominance came one morning when he was 4 years old.

In the 10 minutes it took his parents to grab Tim Hortons coffee, Miller netted two goals.

Over the next 14 years, he bounced balls off the walls and floors in the house, spending most weekend nights either at soccer games or in his room watching the sport.

“Kamal’s from the ‘hood and he could have made excuses,” Carmine Isacco, Miller’s club coach who is also the head coach at York University, said. “But he went out of his way to

Miller recognized grades could prevent him from playing college soccer.

SU offered Miller as a junior, but Miller said he was unsure whether he’d be eligible academically. He retook ninth and 10th grade math and English classes to gain eligibility. He missed practices to take night classes twice per week. Because he bounced from class to practice to class some evenings, he showed up to practices and games hungry.

When he arrived to practice, he grabbed the first snack available.

“I looked at Kamal one day and the kid barely had any water,” Gheisar said. “He said, ‘That’s all I’ve had: bread and baloney.’ There were pains in him.”

McIntyre, SU’s eighth-year head coach who has turned the program around, visited Miller about once per month his senior year. He came to his practices to check on the lefty whom he envisioned would turn into a looming wall in front of the 18-yard box. McIntyre asked about his family, but Miller and his coach said that McIntyre mostly wanted to check in on Miller’s grades. Many times, he visited without a heads-up.

“For Kamal, especially under Patrice, there was a light at the end of the tunnel,” Isacco

said. “Playing at Syracuse and in the MLS became real. He had every chance to fail and he didn’t.”

During Miller’s senior year, his club team played Syracuse in a friendly inside the Ensley Athletic Center. Miller found himself taking a penalty kick with the score knotted at one. He grooved the shot to beat the Orange.

That initial impression did not fade.

Miller proved himself early, breaking into the starting lineup by the 2015 season opener. Amid the program’s first-ever College Cup run, he rendered Clemson’s top striker a non-factor in the national semifinal. The past two summers, he took classes at SU. Last year, on an SU team ranked as high as No. 1 in the country, he teamed up with Miles Robinson for what teammates called, “The Beasts of the Back” because opposing forwards rarely found space behind them.

Miller said he does all this for his mother. He has a promise he intends to keep.

“She is his heartbeat,” Kameshia Broome, his older sister, said. “Everything he does is for her.” mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

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Dino Babers offers prayers to Harvey storm victims

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

The devastation brought by Tropical Storm Harvey has a heightened meaning for Syracuse head coach Dino Babers.

Both his mother and father attended high school in the Houston area. His father is buried there. As the storm leaves an untold number of people displaced in the greater Houston area, Babers offered Monday his prayers to the victims.

“My heart goes out to them,” Babers said. “I hope they’re all OK. The rest of the country rallies, like we always do, to make it easy on them and get the city of Houston back on its feet.”

Tropical Storm Harvey, which made landfall in Texas Friday as a Category 4 hurricane, has so far left eight people reported dead, according to The New York Times, and many others injured. Homes and businesses have been flooded, damaged or destroyed. The United States’ fourthlargest city, Houston has about 6.6 million people living in its metropolitan area who have been affected.

Babers, SU’s second-year head coach, said

all of the friends and family he has been able to contact in the Houston area are OK. “This event is unprecedented & all impacts are unknown & beyond anything experienced,” the National Weather Service said on Twitter on Sunday. “Follow orders from officials to ensure safety.”

Last fall, Babers was a preliminary candidate for Houston’s head coach opening, per the Houston Chronicle. Art Briles, who created Babers’ offense, coached at Houston from 2003 to 2007.

He turned around the program during his tenure there. Then he was hired at Baylor, where he hired Babers as his wide receivers coach.

Baylor, located in Waco, Texas, is about 180 miles north of Houston. Babers left the program in 2011 to become Eastern Illinois’ head coach.

In 2001 and 2002, Babers coached at Texas A&M, in College Station, Texas, about 100 miles northwest of Houston.

“It’s interesting because so many times you hear about those hurricanes rolling through there, it’s supposed to be really bad,” Babers said Monday. “That’s a lot of water (from Harvey). I’ve spent a lot of summers down there as a kid and there’s nowhere for that water to go.

“My prayers are out to them.” mguti100@syr.edu | @MatthewGut21

DINO BABERS, who has coached for multiple Texas teams, expressed sympathy on Monday to those affected by Tropical Storm Harvey. daily orange file photo

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depth chart Williams. Babers didn’t go into much detail regarding his thought-process behind the choice, but said Samuels had a strong camp. Samuels played in 10 games last season and started five, while Williams started one but played in all 12.

Cornerback

SU had a lot of options here, some more experienced and some young. Two sophomores, redshirt Christopher Frederick and Scoop Bradshaw, earned the starting nods. Graduate transfer Jordan Martin was expected to compete for a spot but moved to safety during camp.

Frederick, now wearing No. 3, started the second half of last year and tallied 22 tackles.

Bradshaw’s contributions as a true freshman last year were mostly on special teams.

Punt return

Starting free safety Antwan Cordy was listed as the only option. Cordy, a redshirt junior, suffered a forearm injury Week 3 against Louisville and missed the rest of the 2016 campaign.

Cordy’s athleticism — he’s totaled 13 tackles for loss in his career — will help him in this role. His importance to the defense adds a wrinkle of intrigue to the decision to put him out in the open field.

Linebacker

No surprise here in that seniors Parris Bennett, Zaire Franklin and Jonathan Thomas will start, but it’s worth keeping an eye on how SU will try to get snaps for the rest of the unit. Graduate transfer Austin Valdez put up big numbers in 2015 under Babers at Bowling Green, and he’s behind Franklin at middle linebacker.

Kielan Whitner, second on the strong side after Thomas, has converted from safety and could be especially useful in coverage situations. jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

Position

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Quarterback 2 Eric Dungey

16 Zack Mahoney

Runningback 4 Dontae Strickland

21 Moe Neal

Wide Receiver 8 Steve Ishmael

87 Sharod Johnson

Wide Receiver 3 Ervin Phillips

83 Sean Avant

Wide Receiver 10 Sean Riley

82 Nykeim Johnson

Wide Receiver 17 Jamal Custis

5 Devin C. Butler

Tight End 6 Ravian Pierce

36 Chris Elmore

Left Tackle 60 Cody Conway

56 Liam O'Sullivan

Left Guard 75 Sam Heckel

69 Patrick Davis

Center 68 Airon Servais

71 Keaton Darney

Right Guard 63 Evan Adams

64 Colin Byrne

Right Tackle 65 Jamar McGloster

77 Mike Clark

Defensive End 85 Josh Black

97 Brandon Berry

Nose Tackle 52 Kayton Samuels

98 McKinley Williams

Defensive Tackle 95 Chris Slayton

45 Kenneth Ruff

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Defensive End 55 Kendall Coleman

57 Kingsley Jonathan

Weak-Side Linebacker 30 Parris Bennett

12 Andrew Armstrong

Middle Linebacker 4 Zaire Franklin

11 Austin Valdez

Strong-Side Linebacker 23 Jonathan Thomas

25 Kielan Whitner

Cornerback 18 Scoop Bradshaw

9 Juwan Dowels

Free Safety 8 Antwan Cordy

2 Jordan Martin

Strong Safety 14 Evan Foster

6 Rodney Williams

Cornerback 3 Christopher Fredrick

7 Devin M. Butler

Kickoff 48 Cole Murphy

Place Kicker 48 Cole Murphy

35 Sterling Hofrichter

Punter 35 Sterling Hofrichter

92 Nolan Cooney

Long Snapper 47 Matt Keller

53 Nathan Hines

Holder 16 Zack Mahoney

Kick Returner 10 Sean Riley

24 Shyheim Cullen

Punt Returner 8 Antwan Cordy

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Babers on Harvey SU football head coach Dino Babers has several connections to the city of Houston.

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men’s basketball

Thompson reportedly leaves SU

MILLER TIME

By Sam Fortier sports editor

Inside Kamal Miller’s rise to college soccer stardom

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

T

eammates mobbed Kamal Miller when he evened the score late in Syracuse’s final regular season game of 2016. The thensophomore had anchored the SU backline throughout the season and, in the game, stopped several runs. In the 36th minute, Miller chopped a low liner in the back of the net. He ran away from the goal and blew a kiss to his mother, crying in the stands.

“This one’s for you,” he mouthed to her, because before the game, Miller told her in his apartment that he’d score for her.

Miller is the core of Syracuse’s threeback defense, and he has emerged as one of the best players in college soccer. It is likely that the junior, who may play with the Canadian Under-20 National Team at points this fall, will be selected near the top of the first round in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.

The 6-foot, 185-pound Toronto native has started in all 47 of Syracuse’s games since arriving to campus in 2015. In high school, his grades and school attendance slipped, and he didn’t have serious college aspirations until the 11th grade. Now, he’s focused. He’s driven to win, to prove himself on college soccer’s biggest stage, to play professionally, and it all powers him in what he said is almost surely his final season for No. 8 Syracuse (2-0).

“Looking back on where I’m from, it’s a place where a lot of guys tend to go to waste,” Miller said. “I’ve seen good talents go (to waste) due to stuff they shouldn’t have been see miller page 12

KAMAL MILLER used to sleep by the front door until his mom got home. Now he wants to go professional for her. paul schlesinger asst. photo editor

Forward Taurean Thompson has reportedly withdrawn from Syracuse and “likely won’t be back,” according to Donna Ditota of Syracuse.com.

“We have been informed that Taurean is taking a leave of absence from Syracuse University,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said in a statement to Syracuse.com. “My understanding is he wants to go to school closer to home due to some family health issues.”

Summer-long rumors speculated something like this would happen, Ditota reported. She wrote that Thompson did not attend summer classes, “unusual though not unprecedented.” That Thompson was rumored to maybe transfer from SU or pursue a professional career. That Thompson has not responded to messages and invitations from teammates over the summer.

Thompson’s two high school coaches, Bob Hurley at St. Anthony (New Jersey) High School and Jason Smith at Brewster (New Hampshire) Academy, both told The Daily Orange that they had not heard from him in months.

Thompson attended a closing ceremony for St. Anthony in May, Hurley said, and at that time everything seemed “normal. School and everything seemed good.”

Last season, Thompson averaged 9.2 points and 3.8 rebounds per game. He shot 54.6 percent from the field while playing 17.9 minutes per game. He scored well, but struggled with foul trouble and learning the Orange’s 2-3 zone defense. Thompson rotated in at center.

Now, at that position, Syracuse has only Paschal Chukwu, the 7-foot-2 Providence, Rhode Island transfer who missed most of last season after eye surgery, and Bourama Sidibe, an incoming freshman. sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

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Breaking down SU’s depth chart Offensive lineman Donnie Foster leaves SU

By Joe Bloss

senior staff writer

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. sports editor

Former Syracuse offensive lineman Donnie Foster is no longer a member of the program. It is unclear why. Syracuse.com’s Stephen Bailey first reported the news.

Foster attended “at least the first couple” practices of preseason camp, Syracuse.com reported.

The 6-foot-3, 326-pound redshirt junior center started the last two games of the 2016 season when Colin Byrne went down with an injury. Foster appeared in six games that year.

Foster, who suffered a knee injury during spring practice, did not play in his freshman or sophomore years at Syracuse. He arrived at SU as a preferred walk-on from IMG (Florida) Academy and former head coach Scott Shafer gave him a scholarship in spring 2015.

On SU’s Week 1 depth chart released Monday morning, redshirt freshman Airon Servais is slotted as the starting center. SU begins the 2017 season Friday at 7 p.m. against Central Connecticut State at the Carrier Dome. mguti100@syr.edu @MatthewGut21

Syracuse football on Monday released its Week 1 depth chart, offering the first look at how position battles played out in preseason camp.

Here’s a look at what some of the chart means going into the Orange’s season-opener Friday night against Central Connecticut State in the Carrier Dome.

Quarterback

This is Eric Dungey’s offense and that was never in question, but his concussion history and tendency to extend plays out of the pocket made the battle for the secondstring spot a storyline in camp.

Senior Zach Mahoney won the job

over true freshman Tommy DeVito, a four-star recruit and Elite Eleven quarterback. Mahoney, originally a walk-on after a season in junior college, has started seven career games including the final three of 2016.

Head coach Dino Babers said last week that should Dungey go down, the quarterback that puts the team in the best position to win would play.

“Burning” DeVito’s redshirt year wasn’t a concern if he would be the best option. It will be interesting to see if things change should Dungey suffer an injury early in the season.

a high ankle sprain sidelined him early on, so this will be the first look at him in Babers’ offense. Someone will have to step up to replace Amba Etta-Tawo’s 94 receptions from 2016.

Custis gets the first crack at being the guy. At 6-foot-5, he figures to be a solid option in the red zone.

Custis took the job over sophomore Devin C. Butler, who missed the second half of last season because of injury and recorded two catches in limited action before that. He played some running back in spring practice.

Wide receiver

Nose tackle

Redshirt junior Jamal Custis earned the other outside spot opposite senior receiver Steve Ishmael.

Custis redshirted last season after

In somewhat of a surprise, redshirt junior Kayton Samuels will start instead of sophomore McKinley see depth

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