April 25, 2024

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N • The Johnson Treatment

During his 1964 visit to SU, President Johnson worked to gain the support of Newhouse’s newspapers across the country.

‘Sea of change’

SU food service and library workers voted to recognize their union

By Ahna Fleming asst. news editor

Hourly student food service and library workers at Syracuse University voted 99%, or 1146 to 1, in favor of recognizing their union, according to a Wednesday afternoon Service Employees International Union Local 200United press release.

The vote was held in the JMA Wireless Dome from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday. The group, which is mostly comprised of graduate and some undergraduate students, announced its plans to begin unionization efforts through SEIU earlier this semester.

“We’re so excited these student food service and library workers joined together in our union. Our members will continue to make sure students are well-fed and library services are top notch,” Scott Phillipson, SEIU President, said in the press release.

The union will work to improve pay rates, “unhealthy” working conditions and worker-manager relations. Around 750 graduate students work by the hour for SU’s Food Services and 150 students are hourly library workers.

A spring 2023 survey from SU’s Graduate Student Organization and Graduate Employment Issues Committee found the pay rate of general food service employees to be $15.30 an hour, with student supervisors earning $16.16 an hour. About 55% of student hourly workers reported having a second job or working in multiple locations, graduate student Bertram Probyn said when he presented the survey at GSO’s February meeting. In the survey, only 4% of food service workers reported feeling that management at their jobs is approachable. see union page 6 on campus

Micron

formed

By Dominic Chiappone senior staff writer

As a resident of Syracuse for 17 years, Mike Haynie said the central New York economy has not been “inclusive” for decades. But with Micron Technology’s historic investment in the central New York region, Haynie — Syracuse University’s vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation — said he is now excited for the “first time in a long time” about the economic opportunity for his community.

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‘academic partnership’ ahead of construction

Haynie managed SU’s engagement with Micron as early as November 2021 — 11 months before the semiconductor manufacturing company announced it would invest up to $100 billion in the Syracuse region. After representatives of Micron first visited the university in January 2022, Haynie said SU “set the groundwork” for a partnership.

“For Micron to be successful, everyone realized that Micron needed an academic partner, and we were going to position Syracuse University as that academic partner,” Haynie said.

In preparation for Micron’s arrival, SU is expanding the College of Engineering and Computer Science as part of the new Academic Strategic Plan — a roadmap of goals the university aims to implement by 2028.

The process of creating the new ASP began in September 2022, a month before Micron announced its investment in the region. Gretchen Ritter, SU’s vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer, said the ASP drafting process was designed to be responsive to the “broader

environment,” and Micron was a “big factor” that influenced the university’s plan.

In October 2022, Micron announced it would commit up to $100 billion to construct a new semiconductor fabrication facility in Clay, approximately 11 miles away from SU’s main campus. The new facility is expected to create nearly 50,000 jobs in central New York — 9,000 jobs at the plant and an additional 40,000 jobs in the supply chain and construction industries, according to Micron.

Micron’s investment will “transform” the Syracuse region, multiple SU administrators said.

“There's a real appreciation that this is a transformative moment for the central New York community … and that we should be good partners in this, both for the benefit of the university and for the benefit of the broader community,” Ritter said.

In preparation for meeting the demand for jobs with Micron’s investment, the university is planning to increase undergraduate

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“LBJ was watching the two wire services almost whenever. He was watching the three TVs that he had in his office and bedroom and at the ranch … He was just an enormous consumer.” — Tom Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson’s former deputy press secretary

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CULTURE

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Former Israeli soldier speaks on identity, Palestinian solidarity

By Samantha Olander asst. copy editor

Meital Yaniv, a former Israeli soldier and former Zionist, shared their experiences with identity and Palestinian solidarity in a conversation on the ties between the environment and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

The discussion, hosted in Marshall Auditorium by 315Students4Liberation, centered around Yaniv’s “letting go” of their former Israeli soldier identity. Titled “Breaking Free from the Ecocidal War Machine,” the conversation was facilitated by Sarah Nahar, a Ph.D. candidate in religion and environmental studies at Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF, and took an in-depth look at Zionism and Israeli identity amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Throughout the conversation, Yaniv cited parts of their book “Bloodlines” — described as an “intimate dive into the Israeli apartheid regime from the perspective of an ex-Israeli/exZionist soldier,” according to their website — to highlight their Israeli background and connection to the land of Palestine.

“My conception is my indoctrination into soldierhood. A soldier’s identity is something you are groomed for and then you become it, the shape doesn’t leave you when you leave the army,” Nahar read from their book. “You need to consciously decide to leave your identity behind and that is a disorienting process of patience and grief. It is a departure from something your body knows as home.”

The conversation was part of ESF’s Earth Week celebration, which Nahar said was appropriate since there is an interconnectedness between the Earth and the ongoing IsraelHamas war. Nahar said the “genocide is ecocide,” and said the first two months of the war generated more planet-warming emissions than the annual carbon footprint of the world’s top 20 climate-vulnerable nations.

The Israel-Hamas war began 201 days ago as of Wednesday. Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,200 people, Israel’s military has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

Reflecting on their personal experiences with Palestinian solidarity, Yaniv said they initially approached the issue from a place of guilt. They said they now “show up” for Palestinian solidarity for themselves because it is “the only way I get liberated, the only way I get free.”

Yaniv said many Jewish Americans have been “desensitized,” and the grief and insecurity that many are feeling is not solely rooted in the ongoing conflict, but influenced by generations of trauma.

“They first need to understand that the reason they feel unsafe has nothing to do with a place called Israel or Palestine,” Yaniv said. “It has to do with so many other traumas that have happened in these generations.”

Yaniv emphasized the importance of finding a unified sense of belonging through connection with the Earth rather than focusing on differences of opinion or nationality.

It can be hard to balance daily tasks in a “time of genocide,” Nahar said, but it’s important for individuals to focus on empowering change. Yaniv echoed this sentiment and said Palestinians must maintain compassion, even for those they might have difficulty finding compassion for.

Addressing the conflict occurring in Gaza, Yaniv said empathy is important because the actions of Israeli soldiers today can be attributed to the same training that they grew up with.

“It’s not out of evil, it’s out of training,” Yaniv said. “That training is to not see Palestinians as human beings or people deserving of anything … they are not human beings in the eyes of the soldier.”

Bahar Zaker, a registered nurse who attended the event, said the conversation made her realize many parallels between her work and the ongoing conflict.

“When I’m at work, I see my patients sometimes dying or dealing with disease and pain, and then my mind goes to the pictures of people in Palestine,” Zaker said. “I have these two dualities: my patients here that I’m trying to take care of and the patients there that maybe no one is there to take care of.”

Following the conversation, Nahar opened the event up to a Q&A with the nearly 50 attendees. One attendee, who did not share their name, asked Yaniv what right they had to speak about trauma when other people don’t have the opportunity to.

Acknowledging the harm they said they have previously caused as a former Israeli soldier, Yaniv said they only have the right to speak on their own experience of “returning to (their) senses” and praying for the “liberation of Palestine and the land of our bodies” as they leave their soldier identity behind. Yaniv, who said they grew up in a right-wing Zionist family, said they understand the trained “Zionist Israeli mindset.”

“Because I was raised in that way, and because something in my body said ‘no’ after the first time I had to send planes into Gaza,” Yaniv said. “I’ve been in the process of trying to understand what I was raised to do.”

Another attendee, a child who did not share his name, said hearing stories about the ongoing conflict has “made (his) stomach churn,” and said Yaniv was courageous for speaking out about such an important issue.

Reflecting on their own experience of being born into Israeli soldierhood, Yaniv said people need to allow their hearts to “break open” to fully engage with the reality of violence and oppression occurring as tensions continue to rise.

“I really hope that this conversation will break our hearts a little bit more so that we can show up in this moment where our kin are being slaughtered in the West Bank and in Gaza and inside Israeli prisons and our kin on universities lawn are being brutally arrested right now by police, by riot gear, may that heartbreak shape us,” Yaniv said.

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City Scripts forum highlights Micron Technology arrival impacts

By Julia Boehning asst. news editor

Around 50 people gathered in the Cicero Firehouse Wednesday evening for a City Scripts forum to discuss the impacts of Micron Technology’s impending arrival in the Onondaga County community.

The panel, called “Good Company: Micron and the Shape of Growth,” fostered discussions surrounding the developments needed to accommodate the plant, which is projected to create around 50,000 new jobs in central New York.

The forum featured three presenters — Andrew Herod, a former Athens, Georgia, city official, Tod Rutherford, a Syracuse University geography professor and Frederick Harris, a former real estate developer. Following the presentations, Sen. Rachel May, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon and State Assemblyman Al Stirpe responded to their points.

“For this project to be successful, I think that there are two really important takeaways. The first is clear communication … and the second is that the same thing can appear really different to different people,” Herod said. “That’s the nature of our democratic system.”

City Scripts was founded by SU faculty in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the School of Architecture. The group is dedicated to “the exploration of the intersection of politics and the design of the built environment,” according to its website.

Herod, the first presenter, provided a case study of a similar but smaller-scale project that occurred when he was District 8 commissioner in AthensClarke County, Georgia. In 2013, the region saw the arrival of a new, $200 million Caterpillar manufacturing facility. The Micron project will require legislatures to consider the “interconnected” nature

of community systems, Herod said, rather than viewing each as an individual entity.

The second speaker, Rutherford, explained the underlying geographical and policy implications behind the Micron investment and broader national efforts to decrease the offshoring.

Micron will receive $6.1 billion from the federal government via the CHIPS and Science Act, which aims to promote domestic semiconductor production efforts.

Rutherford also discussed the recent workforce development initiatives throughout the community. He emphasized the efforts of local universities to invest more into STEM programs that will prepare skilled laborers to work for the plant. The Micron plant will employ around 1,000 technicians and 1,000 engineers, Rutherford said, citing a syracuse. com article.

Rutherford said he believes that community benefit agreements will be crucial in ensuring that central New York has a “two-way relationship” with Micron.

The final presentation included central New York’s plans to accommodate an influx of workers amid an ongoing housing crisis. Harris said the city needs to invest more in developing dense and affordable housing options.

Harris criticized what he called the country’s “obsession” with homeownership, citing the United States’ subsidies for mortgage payments.

One way central New York can introduce more affordable housing options is through “mixedincome developments,” Harris said, while still maintaining its “character.”

All presenters emphasized the importance of central New York cities continuing to invest in improving infrastructure proportionate to the economic growth Micron will bring.

City and state officials spoke about adding affordable housing opportunities, improving transit infrastructure and protecting the area’s

resources — namely the region’s proximity to prominent bodies of water.

“This is the place on the planet with probably some of the most abundant freshwater … we have to be very vigilant to make sure that we are stewarding that resource … and not just handing it over to the highest bidder,” May said.

Following the politicians’ remarks, the floor opened to a question and answer session. Though panelists’ attitudes toward Micron were generally positive, the attendees were more critical of the project.

Community members expressed concerns about the plant’s environmental effects, impact on disadvantaged communities and the project’s “lack” of specific language surrounding how it plans to uphold its promises to the community.

“There’s been references to Micron being

100% renewable energy. At best, that’s imprecise language,” said Peter Wirth, the vice president of Climate Change Awareness & Action.

Most questions were met with brief silence before the speakers responded. While the politicians did not yet have answers to some of their concerns, Stirpe admitted, local leaders hope to continue collecting community feedback.

Local legislatures plan to introduce more public outreach efforts in the summer, Stirpe said.

“No project is entirely, 100% great ... the way that you get trust with the public is that you’re upfront with it,” Herod said. “The easiest thing to tell people as an elected official is yes … that’s what a politician does. What a leader does is what’s best for the community.”

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Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon addresses speakers’ presentations at the City Scripts forum. maxine brackbill photo editor

meital yaniv (left), a former Israeli soldier and former Zionist, shared their experiences with identity and Palestinian solidarity. The discussion centered around Yaniv’s former Israeli soldier identity amid the Israel-Hamas war. brycen pace staff photographer

By Kyle Chouinard managing editor

BSamuel Newhouse prided himself on not interfering with his collection of newspapers. President Johnson tried to change that.

efore President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated the Newhouse School of Public Communications on Aug. 5, 1964, he took a car ride from Syracuse Hancock International Airport to Syracuse University with then-Chancellor William Tolley and Samuel I. Newhouse.

In each version of the story, LBJ demands that Newhouse, one of the largest newspaper owners at the time, have his various publications endorse him over Republican Barry Goldwater in the upcoming election. While Richard Meeker wrote in his 1983 biography on Newhouse that he first protested LBJ’s demands, the media magnate immediately capitulated to the president’s requests in author Carol Felsenthal’s retelling of the drive based on Tolley’s account. And Tolley, who sat in the front while Newhouse and Johnson sat in the back, gave his own perspective on their interaction in “At the Fountain of Youth” — a book he wrote that focuses on his time at SU. While Newhouse was originally comfortable handing over the endorsement of his newspaper in New Orleans, he protested when Johnson demanded the support of all of his papers, Tolley wrote. “Sam, you know why I’m here, don’t you?” Johnson asked early in their conversation, according to Tolley. Newhouse, nervous about breaking his rule of non-

interference, told LBJ that he would see if he could get him help “with the way the headlines are written,” Tolley wrote.

After the ride, Johnson, weighed by reports of American boats firing upon the North Vietnamese, sat on a stage in front of thousands. By sheer coincidence, the speech was his first public appearance after the Gulf of Tonkin incident. He wasn’t just speaking to Syracuse, he was speaking to the world.

“Aggression — deliberate, willful and systematic aggression — has unmasked its face to the entire world. The world remembers, the world must never forget, that aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed,” Johnson said at SU. “We of the United States have not forgotten.”

However, the report Johnson gave to Syracuse, and the justification he used to kickstart further American intervention in Vietnam, was faulty.

The two U.S. destroyers involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident weren’t attacked on Aug. 5, though one of them had engaged North Vietnamese torpedo boats days prior. With the Gulf of Tonkin — and what Onondaga Historical Association Curator Robert Searing said historians call a “blank check” created by the ensuing Tonkin Gulf Resolution — Johnson tried to use his speech at SU, and his time with Newhouse, to help launch and gain support for a war that killed millions.

Though Johnson tried to sway Newhouse over the five miles between the airport and university, the seeds of his influence had been planted months earlier. Newhouse, by his own account in his privately published biography, “A Memo for the Children,” arrived at the White House on March 13, 1964, expecting a simple lunch. He was there to secure Johnson as his new namesake’s dedicator.

He was met by Bill Moyers, a special assistant to Johnson, who informed him that the president could no longer make their lunch due to a series of devastating floods.

Moyers then asked Newhouse if he wanted to join the president on his helicopter trip across the Northeast and Midwest.

“The next thing I knew I was flying all over the countryside,” according to Newhouse’s account.

“We went from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Illinois and I forget where else. In each state, there was a brief speech, a meeting with the governor, with LBJ dragging me up to be introduced at each stop.”

“On Johnson’s part, this had been a brilliant move,” Felsenthal wrote. “Sam was a captive audience, there being no way of exiting the plane or of extricating himself from Johnson’s huge group. The president was smart enough to hold back from asking Sam for specifics. There would be plenty of time to do that the next August.”

Once they returned to the White House, LBJ continued his time with the newspaper owner. Newhouse was brought into a

conversation with then-Secretary of State Dean Rusk in the president’s private quarters, according to his book. McGeorge Bundy, the special assistant for national security affairs, was also in the room, according to LBJ’s diary.

After the other men started to talk about “some sensitive foreign policy matters,” Newhouse moved to excuse himself.

LBJ told him to “stick around.”

Johnson had mastered a combination of negotiation and intimidation to get his way long before their scheduled lunch.

Using his 6-foot-4-inch frame, he also physically dominated people in what is now known as the “Johnson Treatment.”

“(It was) Lyndon Johnson’s way of getting what he wanted from somebody,” said Mark Updegrove, the president of the LBJ Foundation, of the “Johnson Treatment.”

“That treatment can be flattery, can be cajolery, it can be cruel, it can be kind.”

The meeting wasn’t the first time LBJ and Rusk had spoken that day. Before Newhouse arrived, LBJ individually met with Bundy and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara as well as a group that included Rusk, according to the U.S. Office of the Historian.

McNamara had just returned from a days-long trip to Saigon to assess the South Vietnamese military situation the night prior, according to “The Vietnam War Day by Day.” The U.S. Office of the Historian wrote that Johnson was briefed in at least one of those

meetings about McNamara’s draft report on the trip.

The final memo McNamara addressed to the president on March 16, 1964, went over the country’s policy on Vietnam and possible next steps for the U.S. to take. McNamara’s first recommendation to the American government was to make clear that the U.S. would continue to support South Vietnam “for as long as it takes to bring the insurgency under control.”

Though Johnson’s diary references the meeting and attests to Rusk and Bundy’s attendance, it does not mention Newhouse being in the room. Newhouse did not disclose in his memoir what the men discussed, but he wrote that he was “astonished to hear them talk in my presence about several sensitive subjects.”

“I didn’t think I was in a wise position for a prudent publisher who wanted to preserve his independence,” Newhouse detailed in his autobiography. “(I’ve made sure never to be in that sort of situation again.)” Johnson immediately leveraged his time with Newhouse for political gain. Hours removed from his speech at SU, LBJ put in a call at the White House for Robert Jones, an Alabama congressman, according to a call archived by LBJ’s presidential library.

The president attempted to use the call to get Jones, a Democrat who had just voted against Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1964 the month prior, to vote for the anti-poverty bill. After directly

asking him if it would “beat” Jones to vote for poverty, Johnson asked if The Birmingham News, which Newhouse owned, had “helped any.”

Once Jones later responded that the paper was going to support Goldwater, Johnson detailed his conversation with Newhouse.

“I talked to (Newhouse) today and I told him … that I wondered if he’d mind asking him to ask his editor to help (Jones), if he could help me with this poverty bill,” Johnson said. “He said, ‘No, I’d be glad to.’” Newhouse, according to Tolley, was not glad to.

“When we arrived on campus, Sam had had enough. I accompanied Johnson to the airport after the ceremony, but Sam did not,” Tolley wrote. “He had one arm broken and was not about to have the other one broken as well.”

Regardless of Newhouse’s feelings on the matter, Johnson added over the phone to Jones that the newspaper owner had also helped him with “one or two of the Republicans.”

When the poverty bill came to a vote, it wasn’t incredibly close in the House of Representatives, passing 226-185. Jones voted “aye.”

Outside of Johnson’s intrusion, Newhouse prided himself on noninterference.

In a statement to what was then SU’s School of Journalism, Newhouse wrote that an ideal newspaper owner should have “an intense interest in all of the operation of his newspaper, but who can top that intense

interest with an even greater degree of self-control.”

When covering Newhouse’s $15 million gift — $151.1 million in today’s dollars, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — TIME Magazine was less kind. The magazine wrote that Newhouse was “often criticized as a crass financier whose only concern is his profit” and that he has “done little to improve the quality of his often mediocre papers.”

Felsenthal said that, as a newspaper owner, Newhouse wasn’t very interested in influencing the way news was covered. First on his mind, she said, was seeing that his papers had their advertising squared away.

“Johnson and the Vietnam War were the only times Newhouse interfered in the editorial coverage of any editorial report

(in) any of his papers,” Meeker told The Daily Orange.

But by speaking at the dedication of his namesake, however, Johnson did Newhouse a huge favor. With that, the newspaper owner’s actions were consistent with a quality he demonstrated throughout his life, Meeker said.

“When someone did him a favor,” Meeker said, “he always tried to repay it.”

LBJ’s call with Jones also wasn’t the first time Newhouse and his papers were discussed in the White House, according to calls stored by LBJ’s presidential library. A week before the president’s trip to Syracuse, LBJ and Edwin Weisl, a friend of Johnson’s, had a phone conversation in which Weisl mentioned that he had called Newhouse with a request.

“He’s calling his editor in New Orleans to put the pressure on Abers on the anti-poverty bill,” Weisl told the president, potentially referring to Mississippi Congressman Thomas Abernethy.

Abernethy did not go with Johnson, voting “nay” along with the entire Mississippi delegation.

While he did not always positively engage with the media, LBJ had a significant understanding of its importance, said Tom Johnson, who worked as a deputy press secretary under LBJ and shares no familial relation with the former president.

“LBJ was watching the two wire services almost whenever,” said Tom Johnson, who later became the president of CNN. “He was watching the three TVs that he had in his office and bedroom and at the ranch … He was

just an enormous consumer.”

Johnson had plenty of friends within the press that he had lunch with, including a columnist at The New York Times and White House correspondents, Tom said. In a 1969 interview, Weisl said he had called the heads of CBS, NBC and ABC “to be sure that they would project the feeling that this was a dedicated man that would be a great President” following John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.

“I got in touch with Mr. Newhouse who then owned the largest chain of newspapers, and, you know, got him to feel that this President was a great man and would be a great President, and to convey that feeling to the public,” Weisl said.

And if Johnson’s goal was to have the support of Newhouse’s newspapers in the upcoming election against Goldwater, he got it. In his book “Newspaperman,” Meeker notes that, while both of Newhouse’s papers in New Orleans supported Republican Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1968, they endorsed Johnson in 1964.

“Overall, only two Newhouse papers endorsed Goldwater in 1964, while thirteen supported Johnson,” Meeker wrote. “In the nation as a whole, less than five papers out of every ten (42.3%) endorsed Johnson that year.”

Johnson was even more successful in winning the actual election against Goldwater, capturing over 90% of the electoral vote and 61% of the popular vote. He only lost six states, which included Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

A decade after Johnson’s last days as president, Newhouse died in August 1979. In his obituary, The New York Times characterized Newhouse as a man who did not use his newspapers to push his certain ideas on the American public. And outside of his spat with Johnson, that was true.

“I am not interested in molding the nation’s opinion,” Newhouse is quoted as saying in the obituary. “I want these newspapers to take positive stands of their own; I want them to be self-reliant.”

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Lyndon B. Johnson attends the dedication of the Newhouse School of Public Communications on Aug. 5, 1964. Thousands of people were in attendance.

photos courtesy of the special collections research center

Biden to announce upstate New York as ‘Workforce Hub’

By Kendall Luther news editor

President Joe Biden is set to announce Thursday that upstate New York will be one of four new Investing in America “Workforce Hubs.”

The upstate New York hub, which will focus on semiconductor manufacturing, is part of the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to connect workers with jobs created by Biden’s Investing in America agenda — which includes the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.

“I worked with the Biden administration to make Syracuse one of only a handful of locations around the country designated as a workforce hub and that’s going to deliver assistance to companies, educational institutions, labor unions to build a pipeline of workers to fill in the thousands of good paying jobs being created,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a Wednesday press conference.

Biden will announce the hubs when he visits Syracuse to highlight a $6.1 billion preliminary agreement with Micron Technology under the CHIPS and Science Act, according to a Wednesday press release. Biden last visited the city in October 2022 after the announcement of the Micron facility. The investment will support the construction of the semiconductor plant in Clay — just 10 minutes from Syracuse.

Schumer said “major funding” from the CHIPS announcement will help support workforce improvement efforts as well as highlight Micron’s leadership and investment in workers throughout central New York.

Micron’s investment will bring 50,000 jobs to the state with 9,000 jobs at the plant and 40,000 spinoff jobs within the community, according to its website. The complex is predicted to employ about 1,300 people at an average salary of $98,000 in filings with Onondaga County, syracuse.com reported.

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An SEIU organizer, who requested to remain anonymous, said the campaign was inspired after graduate student workers voted to recognize Syracuse Graduate Employees United in April 2023.

“Some student workers who work in dining … saw that grad students last year were organizing and were like, ‘This is really cool. We want to see the union difference in our workplace,’” the organizer said. “They had this meeting last year in April right after the SGEU win, and then people started organizing.”

Student organizers have been actively working since the fall, they said, and began the unionization process with SEIU in February, gathering signatures from more than 30% of the student workers.

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enrollment in ECS by at least 50%, add 50 new faculty members and increase research expenditures by 100%, according to the ASP.

Transfer students will make up for approximately half of the growth in undergraduate enrollment for ECS, Ritter said. There are currently 1,534 undergraduate students in ECS, according to its website.

Link Hall — which houses ECS — will also be renovated. As part of the Forever Orange campaign, SU announced a $2.15 million investment to construct a new student center in the building, which will be located in its Center for Science and Technology.

The university initially planned to expand engineering programs prior to Micron’s arrival, Ritter said, but Micron’s anticipated investment “helped to accelerate that commitment.”

“If we were going to have that weight and that heft to be able to really have a transformative impact in this region, and more broadly, that was one of the things that we needed to do,” Ritter said.

Ritter said SU will continue to focus on creating a diverse science, technology, engineering and math workforce to help. Engineers, computer scientists and STEM specialists remain a huge national need, which ECS Dean J. Cole Smith said gives SU students “a bigger menu to choose from.”

“You're gonna have internships and opportunities right here within Syracuse, and stu-

paign. In March, representatives from the group told The Daily Orange that the proposed union, which had already begun to gather support, would also include hourly library workers.

Drew Van Dyke, a student library worker, said the union vote felt like a “climax” of a long process.

“There’s been a lot of meetings, a lot of canvassing, a lot of conversations with other workers, a lot of just kind of getting to know the structure of how things work on campus … and convincing people that this will be a good thing,” said Van Dyke. “Now it all comes down to this.”

Van Dyke said he felt bittersweet that the “chapter” has ended, but is very excited because he feels they are on the “crust of a great wave.”

The security of union recognition for library and food service workers follows SGEU’s ratification of their first contract with SU in March. The contract includes a median 24% stipend increase for the 2024-25 academic year, improved financial support for

dents that want to stay and work locally and grow this economy, because they love the area, will be able to do that,” Smith said.

Another preparation route SU took was the formation of the Northeast University Semiconductor Network in April 2023 along with 20 other higher education institutions to invest in education and training for the industry’s new workforce.

Funding through partnerships with Micron and the National Science Foundation will help to create pathways to train this emerging 21stcentury workforce, Duncan Brown, SU vice president for research and Charles Brightman endowed physics professor, said.

Brown said Micron’s investment is a moment the central New York region hasn’t seen in decades.

“We've seen what happens when jobs leave a region. We saw that with the decline not just in Syracuse, but across what is termed the Rust Belt,” Brown said. “We haven't seen what happens when jobs come back.”

Micron is aiming to begin site preparation on the new facility this year. Micron will receive an additional $6.1 billion in federal funding to build the facility in Clay, syracuse. com first reported on April 18.

President Joe Biden will visit the city of Syracuse Thursday to discuss the impacts of the CHIPS and Science Act — a bill he signed in August 2022 that aimed to incentivize companies like Micron to invest in domestic semiconductor manufacturing.

Haynie said the arrival of Micron will “change everything” for central New York.

represented individuals” on a pathway to well-paying careers, according to a Wednesday press release. In addition to its partnership with the Manufacturers Association of Central New York, Micron will work with the American Federation of Teachers, the state, New York affiliates and teachers to develop a semiconductor “training framework” based on foundational and technical skills needed for the industry.

“This is a historic moment for semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S.,” Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in a statement sent to The Daily Orange. “Micron’s leading-edge memory is foundational to meeting the growing demands of artificial intelligence, and we are proud to be making significant memory manufacturing investments in the U.S., which will create many high-tech jobs.”

The other new “Workforce Hubs” include Michigan, Milwaukee and Philadelphia, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Natalie Quillian said in the press conference. The new hubs will join inaugural hubs in Columbus, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Augusta and Phoenix, which First Lady Jill Biden announced in May 2023.

“These initiatives by the President and the jobs and opportunities they are creating in communities are exactly what the President means when he talks about building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up,” Quillian said.

Biden’s message to Syracuse will address other investments in the Syracuse region, such as a $180 million federal grant for its Interstate 81 Viaduct Project, which was announced in March, according to the press release.

“People will be coming to Syracuse, not leaving Syracuse, to get good paying jobs,” Schumer said. “It’s writing a new chapter for places like Syracuse and for upstate New York.” kaluther@syr.edu @kendallaluther

international students and extended health care coverage through SU.

Roger Rosena, a graduate student who was involved in elections for both SGEU and the food and library service workers, said that he has seen a “sea change” on campus.

“A lot of people, students and even non-students, have been influenced by what we do,” Rosena said.

Over 800 other SEIU Local 200United union workers on SU’s campus in buildings, ground and dining services will begin negotiating their new collective bargaining agreements this year, according to the press release. SU’s administrative, professional and technical staff aims to hold their union election by the end of May.

Having secured union recognition, the representatives of the hourly student workers group can now begin to meet with the university to bargain for a fair contract that addresses their concerns.

“With the union election now complete, Syracuse University and SEIU Local 200United, the

union that will represent the student food services and libraries workers, will meet to determine a schedule for negotiating a collective bargaining agreement,” a university spokesperson wrote in a statement to The D.O. “The University is committed to working collaboratively and in good faith to reach a fair contract that supports and reflects the important contributions of these student workers.”

Van Dyke said the next step is to understand workers’ bargaining priorities and what they want out of the union, while also increasing the union culture at the university.

“Unions … provide spaces where people are with people that have something in common with them despite having different jobs,” Van Dyke said. “A longer goal is to bring that kind of union culture and that kind of culture of solidarity into this campus and into people’s lives.”

News Editor Kendall Luther contributed reporting to this article.

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With demand increasing for a new workforce and the opportunity for economic development, Smith said he’s never been a part of something that has the potential to do more for the central New York region than Micron’s investment.

“The transformation of the entire region is what supplies so many wonderful opportunities for our students,” Smith said. “I'm really excited to see it happen because I know it’s going to happen.”

joe biden will announce upstate New York as a “Workforce Hub” when he visits Syracuse to highlight a preliminary agreement with Micron. young-bin lee daily orange file photo

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American High ‘Academy’

Jeremy Garelick started “American High,” the only film production company in the Syracuse area focused on high school storylines. The company has developed an internship program with several SU students. hieu nguyen daily orange

American High provides various internships in the film industry to students in the Syracuse area. The production company specializes in movies about navigating high school experiences.

By Savannah Stewart asst. culture editor

Before Jeremy Garelick and his team arrived in Syracuse, there wasn’t a production company in the area, forming a large barrier to anyone seeking a career in film that needed professional experience. To remedy the problem, Garelick’s company, American High, started a robust internship program.

“We started an academy,” Garelick said. “We’re training people and we’ve really made a difference in the local economy, in the local ecosystem.”

American High is based in Liverpool, New York, and is focused on creating teen comedies about relatable high school experiences. Since its start, the studio has created films like “Holly Slept Over” and “The Binge.” Because of the internship program, some SU students have worked on the studio’s movies.

Jeremy Garelick founded the studio in 2017. He grew up loving films like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “The Breakfast Club” but, over time, noticed studios veering away from high school storylines. He became eager to lead a resurgence of this genre.

“I knew that if we could make people laugh and tell stories that would resonate and people can relate to about high school and the high school experience that it would work no matter what,” Garelick said.

want to maintain their relationship with the university.

Beyond script coverage and development, American High also focuses on artificial intelligence, which is a quickly developing aspect of the film industry. Sophomore and television, radio and film major Chloe Fatuova has explored this topic since beginning with

This internship is unique, Fatuova said, because it focuses on AI in storytelling. She learns how to use the software as a tool and as assistance, rather than letting it corrupt and take over the industry. Her goal for college is to try everything, and AI is a facet of the industry she hadn’t explored in depth before.

This summer, American High will be filming two movies. Garelick said there are many opportunities to learn across various departments, including AI and visual effects. The internship changes as the business changes, he said, which includes understanding AI and how it will affect students’ careers.

James Hutchinson, Chloe Fatuova and Ella Thomas have interned with American High. lars jendruschewitz asst. photo editor

American High tries to hire people locally, like SU students who want jobs in the industry, Garelick said. He and his team

the company as a spring intern.

“AI is advancing so fast and I think the best thing we can do is just learn along with it before we lose track and fall behind,” she said.

Listen to these (Block) Party hits

By The Daily Orange Culture Staff

This Sunday is Syracuse University’s annual Block Party. Organized by University Union, students can attend their own music festival in the iconic JMA Wireless Dome. This year, UU is hosting four artists: Lil Yachty, Teezo Touchdown, ISOxo and KARRAHBOOOO, along with student DJ group FEEM.

Yachty and ISOxo are coming to SU after performing at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival the last two weekends. Here are all the songs you need to know to prepare for the Party.

Lil Yachty

“A Cold Sunday”

“A Cold Sunday” is Yachty’s most recent release. The song features a jazz riff as Yachty raps about a heartbreak. Yachty samples

Citation’s “Inspiration of My Life.”

“Yacht Club” feat. Juice Jam

“Yacht Club” is the fifth track of Yachty’s third studio album,

“Nuthin’ 2 Prove.” The “smooth and catchy” song made it onto the Billboard Hot 100.

“Broccoli” by DRAM (feat. Lil Yachty)

This 2016 hit was both Yachty and DRAM’s first appearance on Billboard Hot 100’s top five tracks. Praised by Rolling Stone and nominated for a Grammy, the song was an instant success.

Teezo Touchdown

“UUHH”

With upbeat lyrics and a peppy chorus, “UUHH” is one of Teezo Touchdown’s most popular songs. It was released last year on his recent album, “How Do You Sleep At Night.”

“You Thought” feat. Janelle Monáe Featuring Monáe, “You Thought” is another hit from his 2023 album. After listening to this song, you’ll be all set to jam out Friday.

ISOxo

“Aarena (Knock2 Remix)” Unlike the first couple of artists

on this year’s Block Party lineup, ISOxo primarily produces dance and electronic music. “Aarena,” a high-energy, upbeat track, released in 2022 on the album “niteharts.”

“how2fly”

Last year, ISOxo released the album “kidsgonemad!” This track, “how2fly,” was one of the album’s most popular.

KARRAHBOOO

“Running Late”

KARRAHBOOOO started as Lil Yachty’s assistant before releasing her own music. She is a member of the “Concrete Boys” and released “Running Late” with the group.

“Not Da 2” by Concrete Boys ft. Lil Yachty and KARRAHBOOOO

“Not Da 2” is featured on the debut compilation album “It’s Us Vol. 1.” Fans should expect to hear some songs with both Yachty and KARRAHBOOOO played on Friday considering their past collaboration.

The most important thing to remember about media, Fatuova said, is that it’s growing in all aspects every day.

“Even if you don’t think you’re interested in it, learn it,” she said.

Fatuova arrived at SU as a TRF major and interned in the summer of 2023 with Major League Baseball Network. She said sports was not the route she saw herself pursuing, but she took the opportunity and loved it. Similarly, working with AI was not something she expected to do, but she took the opportunity.

“Say yes to as much as you can, even if you don’t think you’ll like it because, you know what, you try it and then you find out you don’t like it, that’s fine, you don’t have to do it again,” Fatuova said. “But it’s so good to have skills in every aspect of the industry that you work with. I fully believe that you are better at your own position if you know the positions around you.”

the stage

By Olivia Boyer asst. digital editor

When flutist Grace Lesselroth was in eighth grade, her dream was to perform in Carnegie Hall. Last Friday, alongside 29 other Syracuse University students, that dream came true.

“The smile just would not leave my face,” Lesselroth said. “I started to tear up a little bit and had to calm myself down because I just felt very in awe and very much shell-shocked about the fact that I made it.”

This was the second year SU students have been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall, giving selected students a once-in-alifetime experience. Carnegie Hall is internationally known for being one of the most impressive environments for performers and audiences.

Most students’ primary instructors nominate them to perform. The instructors bring their

nominations to a board of directors and they decide their choices by the end of the fall semester, SU professor Dr. Milton Laufer said. All spring, the nominees met and bonded with the groups they would perform with as the recital approached.

Some students, like Joshua Garvin, performed solo, while others performed in small groups. The instruments included flute, violin and saxophone among others, as well as vocal performance.

“Our outlets (performance venues) just closed for years, right? It’s hard to imagine losing that entirely for so long, and I think we came away with this. I think we came away with a much bigger appreciation for just being able to do what we do,” Laufer said.

Lesselroth, a senior majoring in music education, has been off campus since transitioning to teaching music in the Syracuse

their 3-3 start. Mashewske lost three consecutive draw controls, kickstarting Louisville’s attack. After the Cardinals’ Madi McKee won her first draw control, Louisville stormed down the field, leading to a Kylea Dobson goal.

Despite forcing a turnover after the Cardinals’ second draw control win, SU failed to clear the ball, leading Dobson to tie the game 2-2 four minutes in. Louisville then extended its lead to 3-2 on a Rian Adkins goal after Emma Ward failed to capitalize on a 7-on-5 advantage at the other end of the field.

Though Mashewske lost the ensuing draw, Syracuse caused another turnover. This time, it capitalized. The Orange worked the ball around Louisville’s defense before resetting to Savannah Sweitzer near midfield. With the ball further from the cage, the Cardinals let Payton Rowley slip near the crease unmarked. Seeing this, Sweitzer fired a perfect pass and Rowley tied the game 3-3.

Then Mashewske — who won a game-high 15 draw controls — got hot in the circle, and so did SU’s offense.

Ward put Syracuse back in front by bullying defender Olivia Toll before rifling home her first goal at the 6:07 mark of the third quarter. Two and a half minutes later, Sweitzer extended SU’s lead to 5-3.

Then, Syracuse’s leading scorer Emma Tyrrell made it three straight. Following a Mashewske draw control win, Tyrrell stormed down the right side of the field, making easy work of her isolation opportunity.

Following another Mashewske win in the draw circle, the Orange got the ball back into Louisville’s defensive zone. This time, they slowed down before creating an isolation for Sweitzer, who scored a pair of goals versus Boston College. Darting from the right corner of the 12-meter, Sweitzer bulldozed her way in front of the crease before beating Addeche and extending the Orange’s lead to 7-3.

To close the opening quarter, Joely Caramelli, who was named to the ACC’s All-Freshman team Tuesday, became Syracuse’s seventh goal-scorer. After Delaney Sweitzer — who notched six saves — stood strong in the cage on a Louisville free position shot, SU got the ball to Tyrrell, who assisted the freshman.

While the Orange carried a dominant 8-3 lead into the second quarter, their offense struggled over the next 15 minutes. Midway through the

With 45 seconds left in regulation, the Orange failed to clear as Saam Olexo couldn’t properly come up with a loose ball at midfield. Two passes later, Marc Psyllos tied the game at 16-16. Despite sending the game to two overtimes, Syracuse never recovered for its third straight overtime defeat of the year.

Eleven days gave SU plenty of time to regroup before its matchup with North Carolina. But the fourth quarter again wasn’t pretty.

In an eerie recurrence, Syracuse led UNC by six midway through the third quarter. Then, the Tar Heels went on a 5-0 run to end the game.

The Orange failed to make easy passes, missed ground balls and took bad shots, Gait said. They turned the ball over seven times and failed to clear twice. Spallina simply called Syracuse’s errors “boneheaded.”

“Just mistakes we don’t typically make, but under the pressure we made them,” Gait said.

After cutting Syracuse’s lead to one, the Tar Heels reset out of a timeout, getting the ball to Trevor Deubner, who had already scored twice in the fourth. Deubner ran in front of the right side of the goal from X, firing into Mark’s stick for his 13th save.

“We’ve been in three games where we’ve had opportunities to win …and we haven’t made those saves,” Gait said. “It’s a big step for us to finish that one-goal game with a win.”

quarter, Ward tallied her second goal giving SU a 9-4 lead, but it didn’t score again until late in the half. Ward, who notched four points, completed her hat trick 10 seconds before halftime, giving SU a 10-5 lead.

“Playing with people like Emma Tyrrell, Maddy Baxter and Savannah Sweitzer, they’re able to bring out the best in me and helped me make big plays,” Ward told ACC Network postgame.

Similar to its first meeting against Louisville, Syracuse dominated the second half. On March 30, the Orange outscored the Cardinals 13-5 in the final 30 minutes en route to a 22-12 win. In the ACC Tournament, SU outscored Louisville 7-3, kick-started by Olivia Adamson. Two minutes into the third quarter Adamson, Syracuse’s leader in points throughout the regular season, scored on a man-up opportunity to become SU’s eighth goal-scorer — tying a season-high.

The performances of all three fourth quarters culminated against UVA. Just like its recent history against Notre Dame, there was no precedent for Syracuse to keep up with the Cavaliers, who averaged 20 goals in their last three wins over SU.

With Syracuse leading by one at the start of the fourth, the Cavaliers won 2-of-8 faceoffs to open the quarter, creating a crutch for the Orange just like they did in South Bend. The attack stalled with two shots by the midway point of the fourth quarter similar to in Ithaca. And after dominating against Virginia’s aggressive ride, SU struggled to clear like in Chapel Hill, allowing the Cavaliers to tie the game at 14-14.

But this wasn’t going to be another gut wrenching loss for Syracuse, who employed everything in its arsenal to succeed down the stretch. After Ryan Colsey gave Virginia a 17-14 lead, John Mullen won at the faceoff X to set up a twister goal from Stevens.

Then, Thomson rolled after setting a pick for English, one of its coveted plays that Cavaliers’ head coach Lars Tiffany said they struggled against all afternoon, to cut UVA’s lead to one.

Following Dwan’s game-tying goal, he caused one final turnover to keep it scoreless for the final nine minutes of play.

“To be able to mount a comeback in the fourth quarter, which we haven’t been able to do lately, it’s exciting for us,” Gait said. anish.sujeet@gmail.com @anish_vasu

the draw, who struggled at times coming off an injury.

Kokoro Nakazawa, the ACC’s leading scorer, responded with a goal on the other end, but the Emma’s proceeded to make the play of the game. After the teams traded possession, Syracuse worked the ball to Ward at X.

As she traveled toward the 8-meter, the Cardinals double-teamed her. But once the defense collapsed, Ward swung a no-look pass to Tyrrell, who scored her second of a game-high four goals six minutes into the third quarter.

A minute later Adkins cut Louisville’s deficit to 12-7, but the Orange closed the quarter on a 3-0 run, taking a 15-7 lead into the fourth quarter. Smith tallied her second goal before Tyrrell corralled a hat trick. Then, Maddy Baxter became SU’s ninth goal scorer — a season-high mark.

Throughout the fourth quarter, the Orange slowed the game down, closing out a dominant 17-8 win.

In postseason play since Treanor became its head coach in 2022, SU has consistently fallen short. Treanor’s first season saw the Orange lose in the quarterfinals while they dropped to North Carolina in the semifinals last year.

The difference between those teams and 2024’s is the strength of its offensive depth, which is well-equipped to end Syracuse’s nine-year ACC Tournament drought.

“We have a lot of trust within each other, being able to put the ball in everyone else’s stick and knowing that everyone’s a threat is just something that really works for us,” Tyrrell told ACC Network postgame.

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Syracuse has struggled in fourth quarters throughout the season, but against Virginia, it finished strong leading to

two more after receiving passes and utilizing her quick release to best Dolce.

Adamson stuck to the same basics she’s practiced through much of her career.

“She always thinks of herself as being able to play an important role,” Tom said. “And so she never really said ‘Look, I have this opportunity.’ She just was looking forward to the year and doing what needed to be done.”

In the first quarter of SU’s season opener against No. 1 Northwestern, she was silenced. Though she quickly broke through, scoring a game-high six goals.

From there, Adamson notched at least three points in all but two games in the regular season, helping Syracuse to its first-ever ACC regular-season title. While leading the team in scoring for most of the season, she also alleviated pressure from Mashewske on

In SU’s nonconference bout with UAlbany, the Great Danes won the draw battle 13-6 in the first half, prompting the Orange to rely on Adamson in the circle in the second half. The attack helped SU win 10 of the game’s last 15 draws en route to a 20-11 win.

While Adamson’s versatility helps SU, her inside finishing ability elevates her as a scoring threat. Ward describes Adamson’s finishing game as “phenomenal” and credits her for quickly getting into the offense’s flow and taking on a larger role in 2024.

In SU’s regular-season finale versus Boston College, Adamson netted a team-high three goals, all resulting from her inside scoring prowess. On the first, she took a tight window pass from Ward and flipped it underhand to beat BC’s Shea Dolce high. Later in the game, she scored

Against Louisville Wednesday in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals, she was limited on the scoresheet but her presence forced the Cardinals to send more attention her way, making room for a season-high nine different players to score. When she did find the back of the net, it was a sharp shot to the upper-right corner.

“Her role has changed where now she’s one of our very top threats and defenses are scouting her and coming up with game plans to stop her where in the past she’s been successful because they’re trying to stop somebody else,” Treanor said.

Under Treanor, along with assistant coaches Kenzie Kent from 2022-23 and Abigail Rehfuss in 2024, Adamson has vastly improved her knowledge of the game and learned different techniques.

Adamson said when she started working with Treanor, she was blown away by how her coach helped her technically improve and fine-tune her raw skills. Though she wasn’t recruited by Treanor — who was an assistant at Boston College from 2017-21 — Adamson said it was a lifelong dream to play under Treanor, who she admired as a player during her childhood.

When Adamson learned Treanor became Syracuse’s new head coach ahead of her freshman season, Tom said she was ecstatic. As a driving force behind Treanor’s coaching success at SU, the player Adamson once idolized now adores her.

“She’s one of the best finishers I’ve ever coached. I love coaching her, I always have and she’s elite,” Treanor said. amstepan@syr.edu @AidenStepansky

No. 4 Syracuse had a season-high nine different goals corers against Louisville, propelling the Orange to a 17-8 victory in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. courtesy of the atlantic coast conference

a comeback win. jacob halsema staff photographer

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calm in the cage

Since implementing meditation into his daily routine, Will Mark has seen an increase in his performance

By Zak Wolf asst. sports editor

Will Mark was never the meditating type. Although Mark often immerses himself in books and studies that emphasize mindfulness, he said meditation always seemed “taboo.” All Mark could envision were monks sitting in silence, which led to his disinterest.

That was until last spring, when he met with Michelle Giordano — an academic coordinator for Syracuse Athletics — to discuss potential classes for the fall semester. She brought up CRS 347: Mindful Communication Skills as something that could help Mark deal with the pressures of being a goalie.

Initially hesitant, Mark gave in. Now, meditation is something he can’t live without. Mark’s routine consists of daily meditation for five-15 minutes along with keeping a journal. The change was minor, but the results have been evident.

“It could very well be the most important class he’s taking in college,” said Mark’s father Chris.

Mark has valued lacrosse’s mental side since his days at Long Island University, but his extra emphasis this year has garnered elite results. A calming presence in net

all season for Syracuse, Mark is holding opponents to a career-best 10.49 goals per game while recording a 54.7% save rate. Mark recorded double-digit saves in SU’s last 11 games en route to recently being named a Tewaaraton Award Semifinalist.

Mark says that as a goalie, positive and negative thoughts can consume your day. Yet he’s learned to accept those thoughts and let them pass through meditation. It’s directly translated into being “calm and present” during games, Mark added.

Consistency inside and outside of lacrosse has also been essential. Eating correctly and sleeping enough are core tenets of Mark’s process, with Chris adding that Mark walks around campus in his free time to absorb his surroundings.

The calmness stems from Mark’s time with professor Diane Grimes, who teaches CRS 347 and who he called his favorite teacher. Each class opened up with yoga, followed by a meditation period before students discussed the assigned readings, which often broke down dealing with stress and reacting to positive and negative situations.

“As a goalie, it’s super important to be mindful of your thoughts and stuff and be as calm as possible and as confident as possible at the same time,” Mark said.

From the first assignment, Mark was enthralled by the content. He vividly remembers sending the piece to his sisters right away. Parts of the assignment highlighted dealing with pressure, which Mark easily connected to. Among active Division I goalies, nobody has faced more shots than him — a harsh reality forced upon him during his time at LIU.

Originally committed to Vermont in high school, Mark decommitted and ended up at LIU in 2019 — the program’s first season in D-I. Chris said Mark wanted to be somewhere he could immediately contribute, which LIU offered.

He was the starter from day one. With an inexperienced defense in front of him, Mark was pelted with shots as a freshman, making a name for himself as a shot-stopper.

Despite standing 6-foot-4, Mark stayed low to the ground, making saves on low bouncing shots look routine that other goalies would “struggle to stop,” according to former LIU goalie coach Matt Gill. Described as one of the most “athletic goalies he’s ever seen” by Gill, Mark’s quick hands and reaction time, combined with his length and athleticism, made him one of the top goalies in the Northeast Conference.

As a goalie it’s super important to be mindful of your thoughts and stuff and be as calm as possible and as confident as possible at the same time. Will Mark Syracuse goalie

“Big guys don’t move like he does,” Gill said. “He just does things that a lot of other guys don’t do and he does it very naturally.”

In 2020, Mark led the nation with 15.29 saves per game. Still, he allowed at least 14 goals in all but two games as LIU went 1-6. During this time, Mark was introduced to the mental side of lacrosse. For so long, Mark emphasized technique — until he met LIU defensive coordinator Jack Runkel.

Syracuse defeats Louisville 17-8 in ACC Tournament quarterfinals

By Justin Girshon asst. sports editor

When Syracuse suffered an 8-7 loss to Boston College in the NCAA Tournament semifinals, it marked the end of an era. Meaghan Tyrrell, the program’s all-time leader in points, and Megan Carney, SU’s leading scorer in 2023, graduated. Throughout their time donning Orange, the Megs were program staples. In its first six games without

them in 2024, Syracuse struggled to a 3-3 start — already matching its loss total from 2023. But over the next nine games, SU’s new-look attack developed and couldn’t be stopped. Instead of relying on two players, the Orange spread the ball around to a litany of options. It resulted in a nine-game winning streak where SU scored 17.33 goals per game — 3.33 more per game than it scored across its first six games. The winning streak propelled Syracuse to

its first outright ACC regular season title, earning it the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. Coming off second-lowest scoring game of the season — an 11-10 loss to Boston College — the Orange got back in the win column doing what they do best: spreading the ball. In No. 1 seed Syracuse’s (13-4, 9-1 ACC) 17-8 win over No. 9 seed Louisville (8-11, 3-8 ACC) in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals, a season-high nine SU players scored. The Orange will face

either No. 4 North Carolina or No. 5 Virginia on Friday in the semifinals as they look to win their first ACC Tournament since 2015.

“That’s what makes our offense really strong, how many different goal scorers we do have,” Syracuse head coach Kayla Treanor said postgame. To start the game, Syracuse’s attack fired on all cylinders. After Kate Mashewske won the opening draw control, SU worked the ball around its attack. From X, Natalie

Smith hit a cutting

Emma Muchnick, who stormed through the lane before netting the game’s first goal. Like clockwork, Mashewske won the next draw and the Orange swung the ball around Louisville’s defense. After facilitating the first score, Smith maneuvered her way near the crease and fired past Sara Addeche in the cage giving Syracuse a quick 2-0 lead. But from there, the Orange showcased inconsistencies reminiscent of

women’s lacrosse

Syracuse goalie Will Mark has always taken the mental side of lacrosse seriously. Since changing his everyday routine in the fall, Mark has excelled in net for SU. He allowed the least amount of goals per game in his career while accumulating a 54.7% save rate. aidan groeling staff photographer

SU scores 14 runs in double-header sweep of Le Moyne

By Nick Jepson asst. digital editor

With an 8-2 lead entering the seventh inning, Julianna Verni entered in relief and was immediately helped by a miraculous diving putout by Rebecca Clyde to exit the inning. She followed that up by striking out Alyssa Dybacz. But it wasn’t easy, as the Dolphins loaded the bases on two walks and a single. All of a sudden, the pressure mounted. Audrey Benderski hit a routine fly ball, but the combination of a poorly run route and wind was enough to cause Madelyn Lopez to drop the ball in right field, scoring all three runs.

Just go at them and just remember how talented we are. If we go out there with our best stuff, and we work together, I think we’re just as good as anyone in this conference.

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Brandi Feeney followed with a single, bringing Sydney Nesci to the dish, representing the tying run. She missed a home run by just a few feet yet salvaged a double. Brooke Nicolaos scored but Benderski’s pinch runner, Elaina Kassap, was thrown out at home on a perfect relay by Makenzie Foster to seal a victory for SU.

After dropping a weekend series to Pitt, Syracuse (23-20, 5-13 Atlantic Coast Conference) bounced back by sweeping its doubleheader against Le Moyne (14-29, 5-10 Northeast Conference). The Orange were led by strong starting pitching and steady offense, winning 8-6 in game one and 6-1 in game two.

On SU starter Britney Lewinski’s first offering of the day, Dybacz hit a line drive to center and Angel Jasso made a diving catch to get the first out. Lewinski retired the next two batters to end the inning.

men’s basketball

Jaquan Carlos transfers to SU

By Tyler Schiff senior staff writer

Hofstra transfer Jaquan Carlos has committed to Syracuse, he announced on Instagram Wednesday.

The 6-foot guard spent his last three seasons with the Pride before announcing he’d enter the transfer portal on March 25. Carlos has one year of collegiate eligibility remaining. This past campaign, Carlos averaged 10.4 points, 6.3 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 steals a game. The Brooklyn, N.Y. native also shot 41.3% from the field, 34.4% from 3 and earned All-Colonial Athletic Association Defensive Team honors. In 2023-24, Carlos started all 33 games for Hofstra and helped lead it to a CAA Tournament semifinal berth.

A nifty passer and capable scorer, Carlos fills SU’s point guard vacancy following Judah Mintz’s departure for the NBA Draft. Carlos becomes head coach Adrian Autry’s third addition from the transfer portal this offseason after forwards Eddie Lampkin Jr. (Colorado) and Jyáre Davis (Delaware) inked commitments this past week.

Per 247Sports, Carlos left high school fielding double-digit offers as a three-star prospect and the sixth overall player in New York. Prior to his commitment to Syracuse, Carlos was the No. 37 ranked transfer point guard and received interest from multiple high-major programs. trschiff@syr.edu

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Syracuse struck first in the bottom of the first frame when Dolphins’ starter Laura Bennett surrendered a two-out double to Taylor Posner. Madison Knight followed by sending a single to the right-center gap, scoring Posner.

After getting two quick outs, Le Moyne loaded the bases in the top of the third. But Lewinski struck out Frankie Larobardiere swinging to escape the jam.

“When I don’t walk them and I’m throwing strikes, I’m not getting hit really hard,” Lewinski said postgame. “So if I just go at them, I’m going to get out of it.”

Lewinski got herself out of another threat in the top of the fourth with a runner on third. She forced a strike out and fly out to leave the runner stranded.

The Orange put their second run on the board in the bottom of the fifth, with a no-doubt home run from Olivia Pess for her first of the year. Two batters later, Clyde sent another one out of the yard to left field, extending SU’s lead to 3-0.

Le Moyne clawed back in the top of the sixth when Lewinski walked the bases loaded with one out. She struck out Feeney, but Nesci launched a double to the left-center field gap, scoring two. Shannon Gavigan grounded out to end the inning, but the Dolphins cut SU’s lead to just one.

Jasso punched right back, leading off the bottom of the frame with another long home run. SU continued to threaten, putting runners on second and third. Foster and Pess delivered backto-back RBIs, then Kelly Breen hit a sacrifice fly. Clyde followed with another RBI single, blowing the game open for an 8-2 SU advantage and leading to an eventual 8-6 win.

“It was an adjustment at the plate,” Pess said. “Before (the fifth inning) we were up in the box. But we noticed the spin (of the ball) was getting on us quick and we needed to let the ball travel a bit.”

Jessie DiPasquale started in the circle in game two and began by leaving a runner stranded at second in the first. In the bottom of the inning, Jasso created a scoring chance for SU using her speed. She bunted for a single, then stole second and third. Knight walked, but Clyde struck out swinging to end the chance.

Syracuse threatened again in the bottom of the second, though, as Pess and Angie Ramos began the inning with singles and were both moved over by a Peyton Schemmer sacrifice bunt. This brought up freshman catcher Taylor Davison, who grounded out to short, yet Pess bolted for home and scored on a collision at home plate with catcher Kassap.

A former national champion with Loyola (Maryland) in 2012, Runkel let the goalies experiment with what worked for them, according to former LIU goalie John Ruddick. Runkel gave Mark the freedom to determine his approach and only made minor tweaks to his technique.

Runkel’s biggest challenge with Mark was keeping him level-headed. He knew Mark “wore his emotions on his sleeve,” but Runkel had to ingrain in his mind that he didn’t have to save every shot.

“We constantly fed his competitive fire, but also made sure he stayed as even-keeled as possible because you can imagine seeing that many shots in a season can lead to mixed emotions,” Runkel said.

Despite Runkel’s advice, Mark didn’t always listen. LIU’s shooting drills were designed to “overwhelm goalies,” where they sometimes saw five step-down shots within 15 seconds, Ruddick said. Each rep was supposed to be short to keep each goalie fresh.

Not for Mark. If he didn’t make a few saves, he stayed in until he made his presence felt, Ruddick said. Runkel often had to step in and drag Mark out of the net, but he usually waved him off. If Runkel got him to the sidelines, Mark somehow snuck back into net.

“That’s probably the weirdest part about him,” Runkel said. “(I had) to tell him, ‘Hey, relax, you don’t need to be in every single drill and make every single save.’”

While the rest of LIU’s defense pieced itself together, Mark was its rock. As a sophomore, Mark’s development went to another level, registering a career-high 57.7% save rate and winning the NEC Defensive Player of the Year award. He then won back-to-back Defensive Players of the Year honors after posting a career-best 10.64 goals allowed per game.

But LIU left much to be desired. Following the Sharks’ 11-10 loss in the NEC semifinals to Saint Joseph’s, head coach Eric Wolf left for a job at New Jersey Institute of Technology. So, Mark explored his options.

Gill said everyone knew Mark could play “anywhere in the country.” The coaching staff used to talk about how he fell through the cracks despite being a top D-I talent. Once Mark hit the transfer

After a Foster single loaded the bases, Jasso drove in two more on a single to left. Two batters later, Knight drove in another pair. Then, Clyde hit a sacrifice fly, giving Syracuse an early 6-0 cushion.

“It takes the pressure off of a pitcher,” DiPasquale said of the six-run lead. “Just feeling calm and being able to go at hitters.”

Le Moyne went away quickly in the third and fourth, only getting one runner on base. Though, the Dolphins loaded the bases in the top of the fifth inning with just one out. Larobardiere followed with a walk, gifting the Dolphins their

first run of the game. Yet DiPasquale limited the damage, getting McKenzie Bergdoll to pop out and Benderski to ground out to third. DiPasquale finished off her complete game in the seventh. She gave up one run on six hits, while walking three and striking out eight. “Just go at them and just remember how talented we are,” DiPasquale said. “If we go out there with our best stuff, and we work together, I think we’re just as good as anyone in this conference.”

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portal, Gill’s phone blew up from a plethora of coaches before he transferred to Syracuse.

Nothing changed for Mark. He wanted to prove himself at another school — this time at one of the most decorated programs in the country. Mark did just that in 2023, saving 54% of shots and allowing 12.10 goals per game. While the defense around him was inconsistent, Mark was SU’s foundational piece.

So as Mark entered his second season as Syracuse’s starter, he didn’t have to change much on the field. What differed was his approach off of it. After taking CRS 347 in the fall, Mark wanted to expand his knowledge of meditation, so he enrolled in the advanced course CRS 447 (Mindful Communication Theory).

The results have been notable. Gill — who grew up in central New York — traveled from Maryland to see Syracuse battle Duke on March 20. While at LIU, Gill closely observed Mark during warmups. Based on how he was moving, Gill could tell whether Mark would have a big game. As part of the superstition, he never told his coaching staff. He didn’t want to jinx anything.

That didn’t apply to Mark at Syracuse. So when Gill watched Mark barely move while warming up against Duke, he turned to his father in the stands.

“He may go off today,” Gill told him.

Gill’s prediction rang true. Mark shut down what was the No. 1 offense in the country, holding the Blue Devils to four goals — their lowest total since 2012. Mark’s 77.8% save percentage was the second-highest of his career.

When called upon, Mark’s been there for Syracuse this season. After letting up his most goals of the year (18) against Cornell on April 2, Mark had to come up big 11 days later versus North Carolina. A once-six-goal lead in the third quarter was trimmed to one with two minutes remaining. But Mark denied Trevor Deubner, his fifth save of the fourth quarter, as SU held on for a 10-9 win.

Postgame, Mark said he’s at his best when “he’s feeling the win and the stick in his hand.” Mark joked that he sounds crazy, but that’s his style.

“I play my best lacrosse when I’m doing everything right outside of lacrosse,” Mark said. zakwolf784254@gmail.com @ZakWolf22

Syracuse swept its doubleheader against Le Moyne Wednesday, defeating the Dolphins 8-6 and 6-1. meghan hendricks senior staff photographer

In his past 11 games, Will Mark has resgitered double digit saves, developing into one of the best goalies in the country. arnav pokhrel staff photographer

Staff members in academic units at Syracuse University call for unionization

We, the staff in academic units at Syracuse University, are coming together to form a union.

Alas, we know that whenever workers seek to empower themselves, there is pushback. Retaliation is illegal, but union efforts are consistently met with a variety of half-truths and deceptions. In order that the staff members be accurately informed, examples of such misleading points are included below, along with the actual facts.

“If you unionize, you will have to pay extensive dues and initiation fees.”

We will have to pay dues as union members as they are essential to allowing us to have a strong worker organization with lawyers, offices, printing and union staff who support us. However, there are no initiation fees to join SEIU. Dues, meanwhile, are proportional to compensation and kept at a rate of just 1.5% to 2.0%. Furthermore, we won’t have to pay them until a union contract has been negotiated and voted on by us, the staff members. So, are we going to accept a contract that offers a compensation increase less than our percentage of dues? Of course not! This is in marked contrast to our present situation where the annual raising of both parking and benefit costs is often much greater than any yearly increase in compensation, and there is nothing we can do about it.

“If you unionize, you will have to go on strike.”

Striking is just one of the many tools that organized workers employ to secure a fair deal. It is an action taken only when of the utmost necessity, and is never decided upon unilaterally. In fact, an affirmative vote from two-thirds of union members is required for such a measure. In other words, our union will be democratic: all members will have a vote, including on whether or not to strike.

“If you unionize, you will lose power and influence over your working conditions.”

This is patently false. The whole point of coming together as a union of workers is to increase our power and influence via our strength in numbers. Under the existing approach of parlaying on an individual basis, it is far too easy to disregard us. However, this will be anything but the case when we negotiate together as a union. Suffice to say, it is a lot more difficult to discount hundreds of staff members! And, to reiterate a previous point, our union will be democratic. We will have a vote on our representatives, on our collective bargaining agreement and on all other important issues. Can we say the same as matters currently stand? Do we actually have any type of voice at all about the matters that affect us as employees?

“If you unionize, your working conditions may get worse.”

As previously stated, we will have a direct voice in our collective bargaining agreement in our union. In other words, we never have to accept a contract that offers less than before: after all, we can vote against it. Furthermore, it has been proven again and again that forming a union results in better working conditions. For example, staff members at the University of Ver-

In 2016, SU established the Preferred Name Policy to prevent these harmful triggers and eliminate the use of deadnames in classrooms and in university communications with students. In accordance with this policy, the university created a form on MySlice that allows students to put their preferred names in the university system. The Pronoun, Gender and Preferred Name Advisory Council was created along with the policy, but isn’t visible or accessible to most trans students.

While the policy was made with good intentions, the implementation needs improvement. The lack of a visible, structured system and department result in unclear communication and inconsistencies that leave transgender students in a state of constant, anxious uncertainty over whether they will be deadnamed.

“It brings more of a gamble to interactions,” SU sophomore Timasco Thongchanh said. “It’s like I have to explain myself. It almost feels like coming out again or putting that ‘Oh, you’re trans’ target on your back. And if you’re trying to be a stealth trans, it kind of outs you as different.”

This is not a situation unique to Thongchanh.

A study by Pew Research Center in 2022 showed that about 5.1% of adults in the United States under the age of 30 identified as transgender and/or nonbinary. That percentage is only growing as people become more open to discussing and questioning their gender identities, and Syracuse University is no exception to a growing LGBTQIA+ community. This is all the more incentive to resolve the faults in the Preferred Name Policy’s system.

mont secured raises up to 37% and a minimum hire rate of $20 per hour, along with improvements to their work hours and fully-covered health insurance. And, right here at Syracuse University, the graduate TAs and RAs just won up to 36% raises in pay and major improvements to their benefits in their first union contract. Furthermore, they did not move backwards on a single issue, nor lose any pre-existing benefits.

“Labor relations at Syracuse University are best kept ‘in-house’ and ‘in the family.’”

Our union will keep matters “in-house” and “in the family.” We, as Syracuse University staff members, have initiated and carried out every step of this organization effort. As a group, we have overwhelmingly supported the campaign to form our union with a majority already having signed union cards and made the commitment to vote “yes.” And we will serve as our own union representatives once we win. Our SEIU organizers support us in an advisory role, but we make the decisions. We are the union.

“Syracuse University cannot afford to make improvements for the staff members, especially right after the graduate TAs and RAs won their raises.”

There is good evidence that this is just not true. With a current endowment of almost $2 billion, the real question here is not of affordability, but of priority. In other words, are the staff mem-

And as legally changing one’s name is a lengthy, tedious and often confusing process that can be expensive and sometimes dangerous, the preferred name system provides an alternative.

It brings more of a gamble to interactions. It’s like I have to explain myself. It almost feels like coming out again or putting that ‘Oh, you’re trans’ target on your back.

Timasco Thongchanh su sophomore

Depending on the state, filing for a name change can range anywhere from $100 to $500, excluding additional court fees. Also, according to a guide from Forbes, “you may have to ‘publish notice’ of your name change application … which usually involves paying for a notice to be published in the local newspaper,” which could potentially out people facing transphobic communities. After all that work is done, trans persons still have to refile legal documents under the new name and inform all relevant entities — such as landlords, employers and banks — of the legal name change. In order to legally live under your preferred name, you have to risk your safety and wellbeing.

bers valued enough for funds to be prioritized to treat them well? Just one example: let’s consider how much property Syracuse University has purchased in the surrounding neighborhoods the past few years. With millions to spend on real estate and new projects, shouldn’t it also be possible to decently compensate the very people that keep things running? Furthermore, the graduate TAs and RAs are our colleagues, and they deserve to be valued and respected just as much as we do. This certainly can be done; the choice just has to be made to do so. All of our unions together can ensure that it happens. Finally, let us take a step back to examine the possible motivation behind spreading these misleading messages. Though it may be claimed that it is done out of concern for the well-being of the staff members, is that true? After all, power is

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SU’s Preferred Name Policy is meant to be a step toward bridging the gap for trans students who are either unable to legally change their name or are waiting for this change to be formally processed. But without clear communications and consistency, the system falls short.

The Preferred Name Policy states that it “will attempt to display Preferred or Chosen Names to the University community where feasible and appropriate and will make a good faith effort to update reports, documents and systems that are designated to use Preferred or Chosen Names.”

While the wording could indicate a genuine intention for future improvement with the system, referring to someone’s livelihood as “feasible” or “appropriate” is inappropriate and invalidating.

Additionally, the policy states that preferred names “ will only appear on class and grade rosters.” However, according to a university spokesperson and an answers.syr. edu page, the system has improved to cover other areas, such as SU IDs, Handshake and the Wellness Portal. Overall, the lack of an updated policy and the need to scour multiple sites for information is confusing and leads to miscommunication.

“It was disappointing for sure,” said SU sophomore Finn Geiger. “I had gone through all the right channels, I had emailed a bunch of people to try to get this resolved and then it just didn’t cover every single thing.”

A more prominent centralized system would also cover the inconsistencies that the current one faces.

According to a university spokesperson, “residential living spaces will use preferred names if a student has designated a preferred name in MySlice.” Yet, the areas that preferred names are actually displayed tends to be inconsistent,

never shared without a fight. But we, the staff in academic units, deserve to have a say. This place would not function without us, and it is time that such is explicitly acknowledged via the mediums of respectable compensation, decent benefits and genuine respect.

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leaving many trans students with troubles being deadnamed both in person and online.

Despite SU freshman Sapphira Gilligan’s preferred name being displayed in other areas of the residential living system, she had difficulty getting back into the building after the scanner system crashed due only to the fact that her preferred name wasn’t on the room rosters.

“For most people, it’d be a slight inconvenience,” Gilligan said. “But for me, it was minutes of practically arguing with the security guard. I didn’t totally recognize it in the moment, but I was a bit shaky from it, because it does cause that dissonance to happen. It put me a little on edge and left me a little shaky for the next bit.”

In addition to facing experiences like these, incoming students have been confronted by their deadnames upon arriving at SU. One Resident Advisor, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were required to put name tags on their residents’ doors but were given a list of only legal names.

“I had to send out an email at the beginning of the year asking for preferred names,” the RA said. “There’s also no system in place to ask if people want their preferred names to not be on the door when moving in, in case they’re not out to their parents.”

Currently, the PGPNAC has little presence, but its accessibility is necessary to communicate and collaborate with the trans and nonbinary students whose daily lives are impacted by the systems it develops.

“The system is also used for people who just want to go by nicknames,” Thongchanh said. “And I understand that. But for some people it means a lot more.”

Ella Chan is a freshman majoring in Visual Communications. They can be reached at egchan@syr.edu.

Administrative and professional are working toward securing union recognition from Syracuse University. On Wednesday, Food Service and Library workers succesfully unionized academic office staff at SU. calysta lee staff photographer

women’s lacrosse

Adamson emerges as top attacking threat for SU

By Aiden Stepansky asst. sports editor

Olivia Adamson’s summer routine requires elite shooting accuracy.

Following a warm up session with her father, Tom, she helps train her younger sister Gigi, who’s committed to Clemson as a goalie in the class of 2028. If Gigi asks for a shot to a corner, Adamson repeatedly pins the corner until her sister gets what she wants from the drill. The two go back and forth each morning until the blistering Florida heat tires them out.

“Every opportunity she gets where she’s looking at the goal, she’s done it hundreds if not thousands of times before,” Tom said of Adamson.

Through continuous shooting reps in the summer, Adamson’s elite finishing ability propelled her to become a top threat for Syracuse in 2024. Throughout her Division I career, Adamson’s point total has increased every season as she jumped from a key role player to a star. After SU lost its top two goal scorers — Meaghan Tyrrell and Megan Carney — from 2023, Adamson led the Orange in points (65) in the regular season and is primed to help them surge through the postseason.

“I think from my first semester freshman year to now I’ve completely grown into a different player,” Adamson said.

With Tyrrell and Carney gone, there was a clear role for Adamson to step into. She said her goal was to fill out one of those top spots, but she wanted to stay with her routine and continue to grow. Her Syracuse career started in a similar fashion.

When star attack Emma Ward was injured in the 2022 preseason, an opening was created for Adamson to make an instant impact. She took the opportunity and ran with it, scoring less than a minute into her career. Twenty-one games later, she earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference Freshman Team honors and tied for third on the team in goals.

As a sophomore in 2023, her role slightly shifted. Draw control specialist Kate Mashewske suffered a season-ending lower-body injury

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seven games into the season and the Orange needed someone to step up. SU head coach Kayla Treanor bounced around a few options but Adamson stuck.

Despite never taking a draw in college, Adamson excelled. She won 107 draws and helped Syracuse reach the Final Four. Simultaneously, she developed as a key cog on the attack, posting career highs in assists (21) and points (51).

“She’s always been a great player from the day she stepped on campus,” Carney said of Adamson. “It was just getting comfortable and finding her role.”

In the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, Adamson posted one of the best games of her career. A game-high six points and nine draw control wins helped Syracuse defeat James Madison to reach its

first Final Four under Treanor. Though SU’s season ended with a Final Four loss to Boston College. Heading home for the summer meant Adamson had to reconnect with her routine. Working with Gigi put Adamson’s skills to the test every morning. Gigi often requests Adamson to repeatedly place a flurry of shots in specific areas. And while Gigi’s trying to improve, Adamson hones in on her accuracy and practices different shots.

Tom said about midway through Adamson’s high school career, he realized the role she might play in college as a finisher. To aid this, they delved into having the hands to take in anything that comes her way and the vision to finish plays. Just like the roles she had to adjust to in the past,

2nd-half defense lifts Syracuse to win over Louisville

By Timmy Wilcox asst. digital editor

At the 10:04 mark of the fourth quarter, Louisville’s Izzy Seikel dodged around SU’s Coco Vandiver and fired at goalie Delaney Sweitzer. The shot was aimed at the right side of the cage and Sweitzer jumped in front. The Louisville offense maintained possession and set up another shot 30 seconds later. Abby Scully came darting toward the SU goal and caught a pass from Seikel. Seikel fired from point-blank range but Sweitzer denied the shot again.

The two saves by Sweitzer marked SU’s dominant defensive effort in the second half.

After Louisville scored at the 7:56 mark of the third quarter, it went scoreless for nearly 20 minutes, adding just one more goal in the contest.

Behind strong defensive play, No. 1 seed Syracuse (13-4, 9-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) maintained its five-goal halftime lead to win 17-8 over No. 9 seed Louisville (8-11, 3-8 ACC) in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals. Sweitzer tallied six saves including four in the final 30 minutes of play. The Orange made it difficult for the Cardinals to string together offense, winning the ground ball battle 22-17.

After about seven minutes of opening play, SU trailed 3-2 as Louisville started the game aggressively on offense. Kylea Dobson scored twice including on a player-up opportunity following a green card on Maddy Baxter.

The Cardinals won the ensuing draw following the score and looked to extend their lead to 4-2. Bianca Chevarie was called for a foul in the 8-meter, but Louisville leading scorer Kokoro Nakazawa failed to convert on the free position chance, missing wide. Louisville stayed on the offensive end, but as it was getting into its offense, Dobson turned the ball over and Chevarie scooped it up.

Savannah Sweitzer pushed the ball ahead to Payton Rowley on the clear who then fired it past Louisville goalie Sara Addeche to tie the game at 3-3. The goal sparked a 6-0 SU scoring run which allowed it to build an 8-3 lead entering the second quarter.

During the 6-0 scoring run, Louisville tried to break it up, but when it got the ball it quickly gave it up. At the 4:05 mark of the first quarter, Lauren Figas was leading a clear when Katie Goodale knocked the ball away from her stick which turned into a goal by Savannah.

Each team scored twice in the second quarter, sending the game to halftime with SU ahead 10-5. Syracuse was in a familiar

position, taking large leads into the second half during its nine-game winning streak. In wins against Cornell, Pitt and Clemson, the offense continued to climb the scoreboard while the defense rooted itself.

Olivia Adamson scored just over two minutes into the third quarter, building the SU lead to six goals, its largest to that point. Nakazawa scored following a draw-control win by Louisville, but then the Syracuse defense began to find its rhythm.

At the 10:50 mark of the third quarter, the Cardinals looked to set up their offense in the SU zone, but Goodale recorded another turnover, creating a loose ball against Dobson. Delaney scooped it up and a minute later, the Orange lead jumped back out to six goals behind a score by Emma Tyrrell.

Nakazawa got another try at a free position shot near the eight-minute mark of the third quarter, but again, Delaney stopped the shot using her stick to thwart it away. The ball ricocheted into the stick of Rian Adkins who caught it and scored in one motion to cut into the SU lead 12-7.

For the remainder of the third quarter, the Cardinals tallied just one more shot, which was denied by Sweitzer, and were forced into three turnovers by the SU defense. Meanwhile, the Orange closed the third quarter on a 3-0 scoring run to take a 15-7 lead into the fourth quarter.

At the 11:58 mark of the fourth quarter, Negai Nakazawa set up for Louisville’s sixth free position chance of the game. With the Cardinals not converting on their first five attempts, SU continued to have its way as multiple defenders stick-checked Negai leading to an easy ground ball pick up for Sweitzer.

Sweitzer’s back-to-back saves with 10:04 remaining set the tone for the rest of the game, sending Louisville a message that it was running out of time for a comeback.

“Delaney (Sweitzer) was great. It’s so nice to have Delaney back there.” SU head coach Kayla Treanor said postgame. “I thought she did a nice job of handling the ball as well.”

When Syracuse got out to a 16-7 lead following a goal by Emma Muchnick, the SU defense did not let up. With five minutes left, Goodale took the ball away from Figas and then on the Cardinals’ next possession, Vandiver forced a turnover.

With 2:29 left in the fourth quarter, Allegra Catalano scored to end Louisville’s near 20-minute scoring drought. The goal marked the Cardinals’ only score of the fourth quarter as strong defense by SU limited their attack and any chance at a comeback.

“For us defensively, we made some adjustments and they kind of settled into the game,” Treanor said. “We played a lot better after that.” tswilcox@syr.edu @TimmyWilcox32

SU’s

play down the stretch

By Anish Vasudevan editor-in-chief

After Saturday’s win over Virginia, Syracuse head coach Gary Gait sat at the media stand with three Syracuse players alongside him. To his right was Billy Dwan, who scored the game-tying goal. To his left were Will Mark and Sam English. Mark saved UVA’s final shot with three seconds left, 45 seconds after English put the Orange in front for good. Gait stared at the stat sheet before giving his typical opening statement. But unlike two of its previous three games, he had good news to share.

“We’ve been in this situation a few times this year and came up short,” Gait said postgame. “Hopefully we’ve turned the corner, these guys figured out how to get it done today.”

No. 4 Syracuse enters its first ACC Tournament game since 2019 — and an NCAA Tournament berth all but decided — after a whirlwind of games to end the regular season. The outcomes of SU’s last four games have come down to crucial plays in the final 15 minutes.

The first two contests resulted in losses at No. 1 Notre Dame and then-No. 13 Cornell. The latter two ended with SU defeating North Carolina 10-9 before Saturday’s statement win over the Cavaliers, which acted as a culmination of what worked late in the earlier three contests.

“We did everything we needed to this time, when we needed to this time,” Gait said.

Flashback to March 30, when Syracuse made its first trip to South Bend, Indiana, since a 16-goal loss in 2022. The script was there for revenge by the Orange, who now had all the pieces (a loaded attack, consistent faceoff unit and shutdown defense) to challenge the Fighting Irish.

Then, the faceoff unit fell apart with its worst win rate all season (31%), which Gait said postgame was partially due to Mason Kohn feeling “under the weather.” Kohn didn’t win a faceoff until 11 minutes in, allowing ND to lead by six at the end of the third quarter.

Despite facing its largest deficit of the season, Syracuse wasn’t done. It launched a calculated comeback, as Christian Mulé set up Finn Thomson then Joey Spallina to cut the deficit to four.

It wasn’t that SU did anything drastically different offensively. It just started to capitalize on mistakes from the Fighting Irish’s defense.

“We battled back harder to give ourselves an opportunity to get it close and have chances to make plays,” Gait said.

SU responded to the Fighting Irish’s only goal of the fourth quarter with a score from Jake Stevens before Michael Leo found the back of the net to bring the Orange within two. Stevens picked up the ensuing ground ball on the faceoff, but the offense stalled. Owen Hiltz missed Thomson at the crease with less than two minutes left. Forty seconds later, Hiltz shot wide to end the game.

The late sputtering made no appearance early in Ithaca three days later. Syracuse jumped out to a 7-0 lead, taking a six-goal lead midway through the third quarter. But like the Fighting Irish did against them, the Orange broke down. And the Big Red finished the job.

This time, SU’s attack was a major problem without Pat March on the sidelines after he was ejected in the first quarter. It also failed to acknowledge Cornell’s goalie switch at halftime. After Matthew Tully gave up 14 goals in the first half, Wyatt Knust started the second half. Gait said the Orange got in a “mental trap,” trying to replicate their firsthalf success of shooting low.

But they barely mustered any offense, firing just two shots and turning the ball over seven times in the fourth quarter.

“We didn’t have possession there, we played a lot of defense,” Gait said. “It just puts us in a really tough position to keep redefending.”

John Odierna’s defense did everything it could to stop Cornell’s attack in transition. But after a Stevens turnover with seven minutes left, the Big Red got back on offense down by two. Willem Firth sprinted down the left side, causing Nathan LeVine to slide once he got close to the crease. Michael Long was left unguarded before finishing past Mark for his career-high ninth point.

In her new role as a top attack, Olivia Adamson’s pinpoint shooting accuracy has helped her to lead the Orange in points in 2024. joe zhao asst. photo editor

No. 4 SU’s defense shined versus Louisville in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals, holding the Cardinals to one fourth-quarter goal. courtesy of the atlantic coast conference

OPINION

SU’s Preferred Name Policy must have a clearer system

Syracuse University’s Preferred Name Policy is inconsistent and opaque, which causes some transgender and nonbinary students to be unintentionally misgendered

By Ella Chan guest columnist

“Is this you?”

A food service worker recently asked me this when they saw that the photo on my Syracuse University ID card didn’t match the short pixie cut I have now. It startled me a little, to be put into the spotlight, publicly questioned on the authenticity of my identity.

Now, every time I go to the dining halls, the worries that piled up in that moment — as the line stalled and people watched, wondering why they were stopping me, why there was a problem, whether I’d done something wrong — come flooding back as a worker takes a moment too long staring at my ID card.

Having your identity questioned, especially in public, is uncomfortable. Deadnaming someone, or calling someone by the name assigned at birth that they no longer go by, is a form of identity invalidation.

Deadnames are often a representation of times before finding and expressing one’s true self. To refer to someone by their deadname reminds them of all the pain and discomfort from before they changed their name and invalidates the identity they’re expressing with their preferred name. This experience is uncomfortable at best and, at worst, a violent traumatic trigger.

Unfortunately, being deadnamed is not an uncommon situation for many SU students.

Anish Vasudevan

Kyle Chouinard

Stefanie Mitchell

flynn ledoux contributing illustrator

An ode to bad test takers just in time for finals

By Sarah Wells humor columnist

There is one thing I have known my entire life: I am a bad test taker. I hate tests. I hate studying for them. I hate sitting down and taking them. I hate how my hands get sweaty and my pencil slippery when I don’t know the answer to a question. I hate the smug look on my professors’ faces when they hand a test back to me. (Like sure, I know you know I just do the Wordle in your class, but don’t rub it in my face.)

If I could abolish tests, I would. Believe it or not, I was going to be a doctor, but then I found out that you had to take lots of tests in medical school and I dropped the idea immediately. Helping people wasn’t worth it.

Just kidding, I could never be a doctor. Quite honestly, I would probably say “Ew” too much and all of my patients would leave.

I much prefer the art of the written essay –sitting down for three hours before it’s due, crying for a few seconds, then blacking out while you type a whole bunch of nonsense onto a Google Doc. That’s how I like to do my assignments.

Hey, let’s be real, that’s how I write this column. I’m going to look back during edits and not remember writing a single word of it. Hey, future Sarah reading this! Here’s a funny word to make you laugh: kazoo! Haha!

For the rest of you who are “good test takers,” I hope you’re happy, but let me fill you in on what you’re missing out on, up in your cloud of academic superiority.

For any bad test takers reading this, do you also get a tummy ache every time you see a Scantron form or one of those little blue books? Because when I do, I have to run to the bathroom and do

Last summer, Syracuse University sophomore Ella Thomas interned with American High, allowing her to delve deeper into her interests. She worked on the company’s script development team. In her role, Thomas read two to three scripts every week, then submitted coverages and write-ups regarding the script’s subject along with her thoughts. She said the scripts were easy to work with because

Dreamer Isioma

“Sensitive”

“Sensitive” is Dreamer Isioma’s most popular song. The song went viral on TikTok, with over 38,000 videos using the sound, after its release in 2020.

breathing exercises. All those memories of my high school geometry class, writing out proofs… the hair on the back of my neck is standing up just thinking about it (Also, how on earth do you even do proofs? Because from what I remember, I just wrote something along the lines of “blah blah blah blah right angle blah blah blah blah parallel.”)

Anyway, getting off the subject of my high school math classes, my main gripe with having

they were about fun, high school stories, rather than intense plots.

Before the internship, Thomas’ only experience with script coverage was through a screenwriting course she took as a junior in high school. American High allowed her to expand upon her prior experiences.

“It was just really cool to learn how to do script development because that is what I want to do,” Thomas said. “So that was really nice to get experience to have someone trust me doing that, and the fact that I got to give my own feedback on these things.”

“Valentina”

Before the success of “Sensitive,” Dreamer Isioma released “Valentina.” They performed at Lollapalooza in 2021 and released the album “Princess Forever” last year.

renforshort

“f*ck i love my friends”

Since she started creating music in high school,

tests is that they require me to pay attention in class. What. A. Freaking. Snooze. Have you ever actually paid attention to a class around here? It’s a miracle anyone stays awake.

But, to all of my test takers, you can do this. You can get through another semester, just like I have. (Assuming I pass. Like I said, I’m a bad test taker.)

sfstewar@syr.edu

An experience like Thomas’ is just one example of what Garelick envisions to create what he hopes is “the greatest internship program ever.” He said it’s constantly evolving with the feedback of students who articulate exactly what they want.

“It’s great that they are asking for help from college-aged students because that’s who they’re aiming for, with the movies and things like that. It was really fun to read stuff that would be targeted at my generation,” Thomas said. culture@dailyorange.com

renforshort has worked with artists like YUNGBLUD, Avril Lavigne and Machine Gun Kelly. Her most popular song is “f*ck i love my friends.”

DWLLRS

“Blue Spirits” DWLLRS released “Blue Spirits” in 2022. The band is made up of a duo from Clemente, California. culture@dailyorange.com

CONCERTS THIS WEEKEND

Shaw Quadrangle

University Union is hosting Block Darty on Shaw Quadrangle. Dreamer Isioma is set to headline the show. The NigerianAmerican musician is known for their hit “Sensitive” and recognition by Rolling Stone and Teen Vogue. DWLLRS and renforshort will also perform. Saturday afternoon’s show is free of charge and the concert precedes Block Party at 7 p.m.

WHEN: April 26 at 1 p.m.

PRICE: Free

JMA Wireless Dome

University Union is hosting Block Party on Saturday. Lil Yachty will headline the event with Teezo Touchdown, ISOxo and KARRAHBOOOO also performing. Lil Yachty is best known for his melodic rap hits including “One Night” and “Flex Up.” SU student group FEƎM will open the show with a DJ set. The event marks the end of the school year and a celebration of SU students. Tickets for Block Party are available online and at the JMA Wireless Dome Box Office during the show until 9 p.m. A college ID is required to enter.

WHEN: April 26 at 7 p.m. PRICE: $15.00

Redgate

The Gritty Jawns and Saint Luke are performing at Redgate’s final show under current management. The Gritty Jawns is a local Syracuse, NY student band. Saint Luke is a multi-genre singersongwriter from Paterson, New Jersey. Attendees are encouraged to wear red to celebrate Redgate’s rebrand. More information can be found via direct message to Redgate’s Instagram. WHEN: April 26 at 11 p.m. PRICE: $10.00

Westcott Theater

SNAILS is performing this Saturday. The Montreal native’s music is known for its bass music sound. His debut album “THE SHELL” hit number one on the iTunes Electronic chart. SNAILS has also collaborated with popular EDM artists Skrillex, Jack Ü and Flux Pavillion. Tickets are available online.

WHEN: April 27 at 8 p.m.

ARTIST: $25.00 - $99.00

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area. She started performing with a flute quartet and found a way to stay connected to campus culture while teaching off-campus. The flutist group was nominated together for Carnegie Hall, performing together one last time before graduation.

“I’m fully off campus, very much unaffiliated, which makes me sad. This opportunity was amazing because I was able to bridge that gap of time I have been away from campus to still socialize with people in music school and also get together and have these rehearsals with a quartet.” Lessleroth said.

Garvin has also been dreaming of Carnegie Hall since eighth grade. His performing arts high school in his hometown of Houston, Texas was the pathway to the stage.

Growing up, Garvin saw many high school choirs performing at Carnegie, but never envisioned that he would one day be a soloist in the renowned concert hall.

Several different performance groups took the stage on Friday, from Garvin’s solo to Lessler’s quartet.

“It seemed like as a soloist and to have your own moment and your debut performance was not something I heard of. I never thought it would be me.” Garvin said. “I honestly just want to keep performing.”

Junior saxophonist Mason Romero performed in a quintet. While the five-hour bus ride was taxing, nothing could cap the buzz of excitement among the group.

“Carnegie Hall is a big name.” Romero said. “So it was very overwhelming and very surreal to walk into the space and be one of the people that was performing.”

Romero said the overwhelm of the concert hall gave way to feelings of surrealness as he

performed. While many students were nervous, the excitement and camaraderie of the group made the negative emotions an afterthought.

“Just knowing that every concert – this is a cliche – but every concert can be your

last. So, it’s important to live in that moment and extract all the joy you can as a performer and as an audience member.” Laufer said. ogboyer@syr.edu

Mike Powell and The Echosound are performing this Friday. This Syracuse, New York band is known for their Americana rock sound. The five-piece band formed during the COVID-19 pandemic and has gone on to release its debut album “Plastic Spoon Honeymoon” in 2023. Tickets for the show are available online.

WHEN: April 26 at 8 p.m.

ARTIST: $24.90

Landmark Theatre

Rob49, Stunna Girl and Haley Smalls are performing at Landmark Theatre’s first-ever Spring Fest. New Orleans native Rob49 is known for his tracks “Mama” and “Homebody,” along with his Top 20 feature on Travis Scott’s hit “Topia Twins.” Stunna Girl is an up-and-coming female rapper known for her hit “Like Dat.” Haley Smalls is a R&B singer-songwriter who released “Timelines” on April 19. Tickets for Spring Fest are available online.

WHEN: April 26 at 7:30 p.m.

ARTIST: $47.70 - $116.30

leah bowman contributing illustrator Last Friday