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In high school, everything on the court revolved Joe Girard III. Now for SU men’s basketball, he’s stepped into more of a floor general and defender role. Page 12
The Women’s Network, founded at SU by Jamie Vinick, started chapters at other universities, such as Cornell University and University of Florida. Page 7
SA President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha Saied have planned several initiatives for the spring semester, including SEM 100 reform. Page 3
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Student fell into creek, police say By Emma Folts news editor
When you are accustomed to privilege, parity and equity might feel like oppression Rev. Raphael Warnock senior pastor of the ebenezer baptist church
The Syracuse Police Department has determined that missing Syracuse University student Allan Gonzalez fell into Onondaga Creek on Jan. 19. Gonzalez, a senior in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, was last seen Jan. 18 in the city of Syracuse. SPD has led a missing person investigation into Gonzalez’s GONZALEZ disappea ra nce since his roommate reported him missing Tuesday. see student page 4
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REV. RAPHAEL WARNOCK delivered the keynote address at Syracuse University’s 35th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday. He encouraged unity amid racism and hate. lucy messineo-witt staff photographer
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Swastika found in Marshall Square Mall By Michael Sessa asst. news editor
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yracuse University leaders and invited speakers called for unity in response to racism and hate at SU during the university’s 35th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday. The celebration featured performances and a keynote address by Rev. Raphael Warnock as part of this year’s theme, “A Living Legacy.” Warnock is a senior
pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where King served as co-pastor of the church from 1960 until his assassination in 1968. This is a critical moment where racism and bigotry have become rampant in America, Warnock said. Colleges and universities don’t exist in an academic vacuum, he said. “It doesn’t matter if it shows up in a church or on a campus,” Warnock said. “It’s not enough to be nonracist — we have to be anti-racist. We have to stand up and say no, never again.”
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Anti-Semitic graffiti depicting a swastika was found Friday in Marshall Square Mall, the Department of Public Safety reported Sunday. The graffiti was found in a men’s bathroom stall on the second floor of the mall, according to a DPS bias incident report. Marshall Square Mall houses stores, restaurants and eight university classrooms. The incident is one of at least 22 racist, anti-Semitic and biasrelated incidents to occur at or near see graffiti page 4
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ITS anti-phishing security can’t detect all threatening emails By Richard J Chang asst. digital editor
Syracuse University’s Information and Technology Services is unable to detect all threatening and targeted emails through its security system, ITS security officials said. Christopher Croad, chief information security officer at ITS, said about 1 million emails are sent to SU email
addresses on a daily basis. An estimated 50,000 emails on average are potential phishing or spam emails. All emails sent to SU faculty, staff and students go through ITS’ spam email and anti-phishing security system before reaching the recipient. The system’s rules are manually drafted based on patterns of prior harmful emails. Threatening emails cannot be
prevented through ITS if the department has not discovered a similar email previously, said Richard Ameele, manager of ITS core infrastructure services. “It’s not dynamic,” Ameele said. “It doesn’t learn on its own. The rules are written by people and they’re pushed to us once per day. If we don’t customize something based on feedback from the community, the filter
doesn’t learn anything.” SU professor Genevieve García de Müeller received a threatening anti-Semitic email in November that referenced the Holocaust. She reportedly received another “racist threatening email” on Dec. 20. The Syracuse Police Department is investigating both incidents. A targeted email such as the one sent to García de Müeller went
through the ITS system and was likely undetected, Ameele said. Croad did not see a rise in threatening emails during or after racist, anti-Semitic and bias-related incidents that occurred at and near SU last semester, he said. ITS removes a majority of suspicious emails before they reach the campus community, he said. see emails page 4
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Rep. Katko endorses Trump’s 2020 run By Chris Hippensteel asst. news editor
Watch party Syracuse University students gathered in Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium to watch the 2020 Grammy Awards. Orange After Dark, which sponsors late-night activities for SU students, hosted the event. Rapper Nipsey Hussle post-humously won the award for best rap performance, and Beyonce won best music film for her “Homecoming” movie. hannah ly staff photographer
Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) will endorse President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, the congressman announced Thursday. Katko cited Trump’s economic and trade policies as his reasons for supporting the incumbent during a meeting with Syracuse. com. He also said Trump was preferable to any of the Democratic candidates currently competing for the nomination. During the 2016 presidential race, Katko called for Trump to drop out of the race following controversial comments Trump made about women. After that same election, Katko was one of 25 Republican congressmen to hold seats in districts Hillary Clinton once carried. That number has since dropped to three. Rep. John Katko is one of
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SU offers joint law, business degree program By Sarah Alessandrini asst. copy editor
Syracuse University launched the nation’s first joint online law and business degree, allowing students to earn two degrees at once without attending classes on campus. SU’s College of Law and Martin J. Whitman School of Management offer a juris doctor degree and a master’s in business administration through the program. Students earning the joint degree take all required on-campus courses, taught with the same material from in-person classes. The College of Law currently
offers an on-campus joint J.D./ MBA with Whitman. The college separately launched an online J.D. program, JDinteractive, in January 2019. After launching JDi, the College of Law discussed offering the joint J.D./MBA online as well. “Once we had an on-campus and online J.D. program and an online MBA program, we had this opportunity to bring them together,” said Nina Kohn, director of online education at the College of Law. Online courses include live sessions in which faculty present lectures in real-time, allowing students to interact with both the see degree page 6
Republican congressmen to hold seats in districts Hillary Clinton once carried.
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SA plans SEM 100 reform, heritage months By Victoria DeCoster staff writer
Syracuse University’s Student Association plans to reform SEM 100 and implement trigger warnings in classes this semester. SA President Mackenzie Mertikas and Vice President Sameeha Saied said they’ve planned several initiatives for the spring semester. Mertikas and Saied also aim to expand student employment opportunities and plan heritage months with SU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs. SA will help revise first-year diversity course SEM 100 for fall 2021, Saied said “Anyone that’s gone through the course before knows that it’s
not necessarily effective and it doesn’t hit all the topics that it needs to,” said Saied, who serves on the University Senate ad hoc committee overseeing the course’s revision.
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Kent Syverud signed in November. Syverud accepted demands and concerns from international, Jewish and indigenous students, as well as from the black studentled movement #NotAgainSU. Mertikas and Saied discussed providing trigger warnings in classes with administration last semester. They hope to get the initiative on the university’s agenda this year, they said. “You can be in an economics class and not be expecting a topic like sexual assault to come up,” Mertikas said. “That’s not a safe space for those students who may be affected by that.” SA has a two-part plan for implementing trigger warnings, Mertikas said. All faculty and
staff would first take part in training addressing the need for trigger warnings. Trigger warnings would then be announced before class, whether through a course syllabus or in an email sent prior to meeting, she said. SA is also collaborating with the Office of Multicultural Affairs to plan Black History Month, Saied said. SA will focus on promoting events throughout the month, she said. A Celebratory Month Committee formed this year to coordinate events and facilitate communication between student organizations on campus, Mertikas said. “There are representatives from see sa page 6
Katko said Trump earned his support through his economic, tax and trade policies, which he said have lowered unemployment in central New York. He expressed support for the president’s 2017 tax reform, his trade war with China and his work to implement revised trade agreements between Mexico, Canada and the United States. The congressman also praised Trump’s support of the military, which he said has made America a safer place. Voters should not interpret the endorsement as approval of the president’s conduct in office, Katko said. Although Katko voted against impeaching Trump last month, he has criticized a number of the president’s policies, including the use of Defense Department funds to construct border wall between the U.S. and Mexico. However, Katko said Trump’s overall record outweighs the negatives of his time in office, The Democratic Party has moved too far to the left, Katko said, and he doesn’t support any of the party’s candidates. He named former Vice President Joe Biden as an example of a candidate he once liked, but now feels has been pulled to the far left. Katko said he doesn’t want voters to view his endorsement of Trump as blind support for the president. Earlier this month, Trump named four of the five Republican congressman representing New York state as honorary co-chairs of his New York campaign. Katko was the only New York Republican not chosen. cjhippen@syr.edu
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celebration At least 22 racist, anti-Semitic and biasrelated incidents have occurred at or near SU since Nov. 7, sparking student protests. The spate of bigotry on SU’s campus motivated the celebration’s theme this year, said Ashley Laird, SU junior and cochair of the event, during a speech. The celebration’s theme intends to express the university’s commitment to creating an inclusive and accessible campus environment, she said. “This commitment is especially important in times such as these as students and the entire community respond to hate, fear, racism, antiSemitism and uncertainty,” Laird said. Chancellor Kent Syverud referenced King’s 1965 visit to Syracuse in his greeting. King spoke in a Sims Hall dining center about inequality in education. SU is now in a place to reiterate King’s message, Syverud said. The university community has been exposed to racism and anti-Semitism in the past few months, Syverud said. The community has taken action in the face of hate and fear, he said. “We must all reaffirm the values of this university and this city and do the right thing for all of our students and all who live here,” Syverud said. Warnock told The Daily Orange after the celebration that student activism has often elevated society to a “higher moral plain.” Student activism spurred many of the changes during the 1960s civil rights movement, he said. “I think we ought to encourage that activism and expression, as long as it’s done nonviolently,” Warnock said. “More often than not, it has pushed us in the right direction.” Universities have the power to expose students to important viewpoints, but students have to be willing to step out of their comfort zones, Warnock said. Syverud has previously said that SU needs to expose students to a wide range of ideological viewpoints to be considered a “real university.” People are blind to certain social issues until they connect with people who have different lived experiences, Warnock said. “That’s the beauty of an academic environment like this. When you are accustomed to privilege, parity and equity might feel like oppression,” Warnock said. “There has to be a shaking in the status quo. Privilege blinds you.” America’s political leaders are to blame for much of the division in the country, Warnock said. Many of the country’s leaders seek to divide the nation because they lack vision and leadership skills, he said. “You cannot lead where you’re not willing to go,” Warnock said. Warnock encouraged students in particular to use their political and social power to fight back against divisiveness and hate. He urged the audience to register to vote where they attend school, and show up to the polls from page 1
student SPD has obtained footage of Gonzalez accidentally falling into Onondaga Creek shortly after 3 a.m. on Jan. 19, SPD Sgt. Matthew Malinowski said in a press release. A hat SPD from page 1
graffiti Syracuse University since Nov. 7. A swastika was found drawn in a snowbank near the 505 on Walnut, a luxury apartment complex on Nov. 14. Anti-Semitic graffiti depicting a swastika was found in Haven Hall
Dominique’s Dance Creations, a Syracuse dance company, performed between speakers at the 35th annual celebration. The dance company was one of several performers during the celebration. lucy messineo-witt staff photographer
(LEFT) SU’s 2020 MLK Community Choir and the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble performed during the celebration. (RIGHT) SU awarded five Unsung Hero Awards to students and community members. lucy messineo-witt staff photographer
even if it rains or snows. The celebration featured performances from the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble and SU’s 2020 MLK Community Choir. Dominique’s Dance Creations, a Syracuse dance company, also performed. Syverud and Bea González, vice president for community engagement, presented
five Unsung Hero Awards to students, faculty and community members who have made a positive difference in the lives of others, but are not widely recognized for their efforts. Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel and co-chair of the celebration, also spoke. He encouraged the audience to love and support
one another. “In our celebration and in our deliberation, may we be reminded today and always, if we are close enough to debate, we are close enough to love,” Konkol said. “If we are close enough to put down, we are close enough to lift up.”
believes belonged to Gonzalez was found on the bank of the creek, Malinowski said. Onondaga Creek flows parallel to the Armory Square neighborhood. Family members identified Gonzalez in surveillance footage from Armory Square bar Benjamin’s on Franklin the night of Jan. 18.
After viewing what Gonzalez was wearing the night of his disappearance, SPD determined he walked to Onondaga Creek from Walton Street the morning of Jan. 19, Malinowski said. SPD investigated a report of a male in Onondaga Creek calling for help Jan. 19 at 3:30
a.m., Malinowski said. Police and fire departments were unable to find anyone in the creek after an extensive days-long search. Efforts to find Gonzalez are ongoing, Malinowski said. Environmental factors have caused difficulties in the search, he said.
two days later. Additional graffiti depicting a swastika was found in the lower level of Bird Library on Jan. 21. DPS has identified the individual responsible for the graffiti and referred the perpetrator to SU’s Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities, DPS said in a campus-wide email.
DPS will not share the perpetrator’s identity to comply with federal privacy laws, the department said. SU professor Genevieve García de Müeller received a hostile, anti-Semitic email that referenced the Holocaust on Nov. 19. She reportedly received “another racist threatening email” Dec. 20. The Syracuse Police
Department is investigating both incidents. DPS introduced a Bias Incident Reports website in late November to consolidate public safety updates. DPS previously provided alerts via email but was advised by law enforcement that the repeated distribution of email notifications is likely to motivate copycats.
written system rules targeting those emails yet. Students should report harmful emails to ITS so the department can investigate and prevent the messages from spreading, Ameele said. While ITS looks at harmful emails for dangerous content, Croad said ITS staff do not monitor and read student or faculty emails. ITS subscribes to a threat intelligence feed, a third party source that informs staff of internet security hazards and bad IP addresses several times a day. ITS uses this information to track if the same threats enter SU’s online systems. People create phishing emails because there’s financial value in gaining access to users’ email account information, Croad said. Once
account information is obtained, other personal information becomes accessible, he said. Croad and Ameele said students should look at an email’s sender before opening the message. If students are unsure if an email is legitimate, they should hover over links before clicking them to see where they actually lead. Since implementing multi-factor identification in April 2019, ITS saw a sharp decrease in compromised SU email accounts, Croad said. Multi-factor identification allows users access to a computer’s contents after their login is verified through multiple means.
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emails “I don’t recall seeing any attacks related to those incidents,” Croad said. “They could have happened and maybe we weren’t made aware of them. People, especially faculty and staff, are pretty good about notifying us when they see things.” Ameele said he was asked to add security rules blocking emails that contain certain subject matter during the string of hate crimes at SU. The majority of emails since have been the usual phishing attempts and spam emails, he said.
I don’t recall seeing any attacks related to those incidents... maybe we weren’t made aware of them Christopher Croad its chief information security officer
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iPad voter check-in expands access
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he right to vote doesn’t always guarantee the ability to easily vote, particularly in communities where lengthy wait times and inaccessible polling places act as barriers to casting a ballot. Onondaga County has taken an important step towards reducing the barrier of wait times by upgrading their voter check-in system, forgoing the bulky binders of the past for iPads, a faster and more user-friendly approach. Voting has been a central pillar of American politics and government since the nation’s founding. The American experiment distinguished itself from its international competitors with its (mostly) Democratic system. Despite originally excluding marginalized identities the ability to vote, America has progressively worked to expand voting access. Inaccessible polling conditions are an issue all around the nation. The 2018 midterm elections left hundreds of citizens waiting in hours-long lines in order to cast a ballot. Polling places have a national reputation for inefficiency, and with that reputation comes a significant population of eligible voters who simply opt-out of voting. When the voting process becomes too time consuming or frustrating, it discourages voters from participating in it again. Conversely, a positive experience at the polls can encourage voters to return during the next election. Dustin Czarny is a Commissioner of the Onondaga County Board of Elections, the Democratic half of the Board’s bipartisan leadership. Czarny played
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WRITING FROM THE LEFT an important role in passing and implementing the policy. “The quicker somebody can check-in, get their ballot, and vote, and leave, the more likely they’re going to repeat that experience,” said Czarny. Whether intentional or not, long wait times at polling places serve as a form of voter suppression, usually impacting families and low-income people most significantly. Substantial waits can deter people from coming to the polls, or even force them to leave before casting their ballot. For workers with hourly wages, there is a tangible cost to all of the time spent waiting at the polls. This means low-income individuals are often most harmed by lengthy wait times at polling places since the costs of leaving work, booking additional child care, and accessing transportation can be cost-prohibitive. Others may have only a lunch break to cast their vote or a short gap between leaving the office and picking the kids up from soccer practice. Being busy shouldn’t force someone to forfeit their right to vote. Another concern of opting for a high-tech check-in system is cybersecurity. While concerns around election-related hacking have been abundant, particularly since the 2016 Presidential Election. Czarny says the county ensured that upgrading didn’t mean compromising safety. “How we deal with security in general at the Board of Election is
that our voting machines are not connected to the internet, and polls are always manually programmed, so there’s no way for an outside hack.” Projects like these can have significant upfront costs. It cost Onondaga County $750,000 to upgrade their voter check-in system, though the purchase was covered by a state grant. While the upfront price tag may look steep, the investment is well worth it. Printing the hardcopy voter rolls can cost up to $30,000 a year, and training and paying volunteers to facilitate check-in can cost $20,000 or more. By investing in a high tech approach, those costs go down, allowing the iPads to eventually pay for themselves. But the bigger investment is in the residents of Syracuse. “We live in a very busy time,” said Czarny. “We have a lot of demands on people’s time. Single parents, people who work two jobs, people who work shifts, people who have childcare needs, they don’t have a lot of time to be sitting in line for hours to vote, and often they decide not to because of that.” By streamlining the voting process Onondaga County makes it clear that they prioritize citizens. Providing the community with the best possible tools to participate in their own political system is of the utmost importance of preserving the American fundamental right of voting.
Sydney Gold is a freshman policy studies and public relations major. segold@syr.edu @Sydney_eden
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Katko endorsement is blind partisanship
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t seems that Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) has changed his mind when it comes to Donald Trump. Back in 2016, Katko refused to endorse now-President Trump. Now, he has RACHEL a “whole PIERCE landscape, not LIBER A L just his perCOLUMNIST sonality.” This “landscape” refers to the president’s economic policies like the tax cuts he passed in 2017 and the falling unemployment rate in Central New York. Additionally, Katko has voiced his support for Trump’s new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, along with the president’s support of a trade war with China. The reality is, many of Trump’s claims regarding employment are false. Trump claimed he helped bring 600,000 manufacturing jobs to the United States. This number is off by 25%. Trump also claimed that his daughter Ivanka has created 14 million jobs when in reality all private companies have only pledged to create 12 million total. Two very different numbers. As a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, it seems odd for Katko to endorse a president who has seemingly threatened our national security. According to The Washington Post, the seven impeachment managers argued that the Senate “must ‘eliminate the threat’ that the president poses to national security”.
So is this Katko mirroring his fellow elected officials in the Senate? The, Keep-Supporting-Trump-NoMatter-What-So-We-Get-Elected, tactic? It seems so. Strategically, Central New York is very red, it only makes sense for Katko to come out and endorse Trump. However, Katko reminds his constituents that this endorsement is not “blind” support for the president or an endorsement for his mannerisms. He wants people to know that he understands the concerns of his behavior. So why endorse? I honestly applaud Katko for expressing some concern for the president’s behavior. It is rare for a member of the GOP to criticize the president. It feels like too many have lost themselves in the effort of their own reelection as well as the president’s. So sure, in 2020 Katko has more than “Trump’s personality” this election year than in 2016, according to Katko. Our political climate has changed dramatically since 2016. The impeachment trial adding fuel to the flame of division and polarization. Katko proves to be a local example of those who support the president for the sake of what seems to be reelection and for the party. By doing so, he is putting the country and constitution second.
Rachel Pierce is a junior broadcast journalism and political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at repierce@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter @rpiercesyr
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Rep. Katko’s Trump endorsement is based on presidential merits
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s the election nears, voters need to be very cognizant of who they are voting for and why. Recently, Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus) announced that he will support President Trump when he runs for re-election. This is such a big deal because Katko formerly spoke out against Trump and urged him to drop out of the presidential race back in 2016. He instead voted for Nikki Haley and made it clear that he did not endorse Trump’s character. But today, he joins the increasing number of people, be it Democrats, independents, or Republicans, who will be voting Trump in 2020. The biggest reason that these people, including Katko, are flipping sides is that they can now judge the Presi-
dent off of his achievements and not just his character. As Katko acknowledged when asked about why he is voting Trump, Trump has brought unemployment in the United States and, more specifically, in central New York to the lowest it has been in a long time. Trump has established trade deals with Canada, Mexico, and, more recently, China. Although many people argue that Trump is bad for the American people, they cannot disagree with the facts: Trump is good for the economy and the American workforce is booming because of him. Similarly, Trump has made the United States a safer place for its citizens and constantly proves
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Neither Biden, Warren, Sanders, or any other Democrat candidate on the ballot will be able to keep their word about what they are arguing for. Visions like free college or free healthcare for everyone are nice, but not plausible. Instead, when going to vote in a few months, voters should ask themselves who will actually be able to achieve what they propose. Like Katko, voters may want to consider voting based on performance and not just on character or party affiliation.
Skylar Swart is a freshman political science major. Her column appears bi-weekly. She can be reached at saswart@syr.edu. She can be followed on Twitter at @SkylarSwart.
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degree professor and their classmates. “Our standards are the same, whether you are in our residential program or our online program,” said Kathleen O’Connor, associate dean of online education at the College of Law. “It’s our professors that maintain the rigor in their courses.” Students pursuing the joint degree first apply for an online J.D. After completing a number of JDi courses, they can apply for an online MBA. The MBA applications will open in fall 2020 and will also be available to current JDi students. Online degrees make graduate-level education accessible to students who are unable to attend on-campus classes for personal and professional reasons, such as military status or caretaking responsibilities, Kohn said. A cross-discipline degree also gives graduates a leg-up in today’s ever-changing employment market, she said. Alexander McKelvie, associate dean for undergraduate and master’s education at Whitman, said having a business background is useful for attorneys, especially those looking to start their own private practice or become legal counsels for corporations. “It’s really what we’re trying to achieve as a university,” McKelvie said. “When you from page 3
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have two separate colleges on campus that are collaborating on a joint program, that’s really big.” The online MBA market is just emerging for many schools, McKelvie said. SU was among the earlier players to offer a high-quality online MBA, he said. These courses use interactive tools to keep students engaged, answering questions and reflecting on course material rather than just watching prerecorded lectures, he said. Both the JDi and the online MBA programs draw students from a variety of undergraduate backgrounds. Many are returning to their education with some level of professional experience, McKelvie said. Students pursuing the online J.D./MBA can anticipate challenging coursework, O’Connor said. The JDi program underwent a lengthy accreditation process from the American Bar Association to ensure the online curriculum was as rigorous as the on-campus classes. “I’m excited for us at the university that we’re leading an innovative program on the cutting edge of legal education and combining it with an MBA program,” O’Connor said. “We feel confident that we are bringing a very valuable degree and valuable education to these students.” scalessa@syr.edu @sarahalessan
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Teen, local band play at Funk ‘n Waffles By Christopher Cicchiello and Cydney Lee the daily orange
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The Women’s Network adds five new chapters
uring her freshman year, Jamie Vinick found that of the available networking clubs for women, they were focused only in the communications and business industry. She was looking for an organization that would connect women from all types of majors to professionals in various fields and to other female students on campus. With no prospective clubs in sight, she started her own student organization: The Women’s Network. Since her sophomore year, Jamie has spent time growing the organization and cultivating its impact. As founder and president of the organization, she began gaining members through distributing flyers at freshman dorms. “I thought it was going to be a miserable failure,” said Jamie. “I was expecting 20 people to attend the first meeting, and 180 people showed up. Now, we’re one of the largest organizations on campus.” However, Jamie and the growing leadership of The Women’s Network have not stopped there. The Women’s Network is expanding its reach to five other campuses across the country. The networking club will open chapters at Cornell University, University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin, University of WisconsinMadison and University of California-Berkeley. The first meetings of these organizations will begin Feb. 12 nationwide. Molly Lawrence, a freshman accounting and public relations major, oversees relations between campus ambassadors and the Syracuse chapter. “I mean it is at the end of the day, a networking club,” Lawrence said. “And so the larger the network overall, not just on each individual campus, just really the more impactful the club can actually be.” According to its ambassador guide, the organization aims to help its members explore traditional and non-traditional career paths as
well as develop soft skills needed to network. The organization brings in female guest speakers from a variety of professions. Past speakers at Syracuse have included CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins, SNL writer Claire Friedman, and San Francisco-based venture capitalist Nicole Quinn. Gaby Vinick, president of the University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter and sister of Jamie, says she and her peers felt that The Women’s Network filled a need for female empowerment on her campus. “We’re really all about celebrating ambition, and I think that is so, so important,” she said. “I think a lot of women especially want to feel proud of that they’re driven and really just to connect with people in an authentic and meaningful way.” Clare Sellers, a sophomore at Cornell, wanted to build a life outside of the classroom. So, when Jamie approached her about leading a Cornell chapter of The Women’s Network, Sellers jumped at the chance to get more involved with the community. Sellers also saw the club as a way to make Cornell’s campus feel smaller. As a transfer student, she was always looking for ways to meet new people from diverse backgrounds. “It feels like such a perfect opportunity to be meeting women with the common denominator of women supporting women,” said Sellers. The Women’s Network succeeded in bridging the gap between interdisciplinary female students and connecting them to industry professionals. Steph Hausman, a senior in advertising and marketing, says she’s proud of the types of speakers she’s been able to bring to the organization. As the networking relations chair, Hausman brought in Peace Corps officer Rachel Katz to FaceTime into a meeting. Katz, who is currently serving in Peru, gave the club members the chance to learn about post-grad fellowship opportunities. “Our goal is to connect women in all different fields and be able to hear from women, not just in our own industry, but other industries
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There were loud howls coming from the audience even before 16-year-old electric guitarist Brandon “Taz” Niederauer took to the stage. One fan, Molly Costa, craned her neck over the stage to get a glimpse of the setlist for her favorite artist, pointing excitedly to her Niederauer t-shirt. “‘Taz,’ ‘prodigy’ — those two words have been said in the same sentence many times, so who’s excited?” said Rob Zaccaria, the lead drummer for the Bad Mama’s Blues Band. On Jan. 24, Niederauer and the Bad Mama’s Blues Band brought the psychedelic ‘60s to Funk ‘n Waffles for a show that lasted nearly three hours. The Bad Mama’s Blues Band opened up the show by playing mostly original content off of their new album, “Steppin’ on Broken Glass.” However, they mixed in a few classic rock numbers, such as The Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools,” into their setlist. The local music group formed about four years ago after lead singer Emily Pastuf was told by a fellow band, Poor Man’s Whiskey, that she should pursue singing. She then began participating in open mic nights around the Syracuse area and eventually turned to her friend and bassist Zak Masoud and said, “Let’s start a band.” Pastuf recruited three other friends, Jeff Swidoski (guitar), Will Fuegel (piano) and Zaccaria (drums), and the Bad Mama’s Blues Band was born. The band is no stranger to Funk ‘n Waffles, as they have performed there numerous times. Pastuf cites the open atmosphere, chicken tenders and “built-in crowd” as the reasons that keep them coming back. For Niederauer, this was not his first time performing at Funk ‘n Waffles either. Last February, he kicked off his Winter ‘18-‘19 tour at the popular Syracuse hangout spot. Pastuf is also a big fan of Niederauer and said she was excited watch him perform live. “He’s very big in the music scene I like to follow,” she said. “I’ve watched him get bigger and bigger and bigger, so it’s really cool for [us] to be able to open up for him.” Niederauer’s set lasted nearly two hours, and in that time he transported listeners with his virtuosic guitar playing. Zaccaria, a 2012 Martin J. Whitman School of Management alumnus, and the other members of Bad Mama’s Blues Band watched Niederauer perform for the first time at the concert. “It’s really a dynamic musical journey of melody and rhythm,” Zaccaria said. “And he takes you some place. It’s kind of like a whitewater rafting trip, but it’s like you’re floating on a piece of French toast. It’s very psychedelic. It’s delicious.”
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Sonny Kelly to perform one-man show titled ‘The Talk’ By Mandy Kraynak asst. feature editor
While dropping his son off at first grade, Sonny Kelly realized that he would have to have “the talk” with his child. It was April 2015, and Kelly and his son were listening to the news when they heard about the death of Freddie Gray and the protests in Baltimore. Gray, a 25-year-old black man, died from a spinal injury in police custody. “It kind of fell upon me all at once,” Kelly said. “And I’m looking into my rearview mirror, and I’ve got to explain to this 7-year-old what it means to be black in America.” Kelly said that explaining to his son that some people would only ever see him as a black boy and that he would be judged based upon his race was a traumatic experience. As a Ph.D. student in communication and performance studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kelly said he decided to turn the from page 7
concert For much of the show, Niederauer’s eyes remained closed, allowing his fingers to fly over the strings without care. “How are y’all?” Niederauer said, finally addressing the crowd. “That’s that Syracuse spirit, that Carmelo Anthony spirit.” Alongside Niederauer were his drummer Kendall Lentz, bassist Matthew Fox and local guitarist Matthew Godfrey. “Honestly, to be able to play with one of the future rising stars — it’s amazing to see it all progress,” Godfrey said. “I’ve been with him since he was 10 years old. I started as his guitar teacher, so I’ve seen him completely go from just the start all the way to now, so it’s really cool.” Among a litany of Niederauer’s own work, they played songs from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and The Beatles. He played two original songs, “My Revival” and “Where I Belong.”
experience into his art and research. Kelly searched through archives of conversations from the past hundred years to create a performance called “The Talk.” The one-man show incorporates literature, including works written by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates, along with Kelly’s personal experiences and reflections. Kelly plays around 22 characters in the performance, he said. Kelly will perform “The Talk” in Syracuse University’s Grant Auditorium from 6:30-9:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The show centers around the difficult conversation that parents must have with their children about racism and intolerance in America. “Many people think of ‘the talk’ as the conversation parents have about sex and sexuality and the birds and the bees,” Kelly said. “But with the black community in America especially, ‘the talk’ has risen to the level of genre or the level of custom — a cultural custom — whereby
we prepare our kids to live in a racialized world where they are going to be judged by the color of their skin, by their racial identification.” Elisa Dekaney, an associate dean in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, saw Kelly perform “The Talk” at the ACCelerate Creativity and Innovation Festival. After seeing his performance, she wanted to bring Kelly’s work to SU, she said. “I think when we all come to a performance like Sonny Kelly’s ‘The Talk,’ we are challenged to look at ourselves, to look at who we are and where we fit into society in relationship to others,” Dekaney said. “And in understanding the situation of others, perhaps we will develop an understanding, the ability to discern [and] the ability to get rid of some misconceptions and prejudice that we all carry.” “The Talk” is an event created in connection with SU’s 35th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. James Haywood Rolling Jr., VPA’s director of diversity, equity
His sets usually include his originals and vary based on the gig and type of venue. At 16-years old, some days, Neiderauer is studying for his AP classes and maintaining his A average. Other days, he’s travelling the world and selling out shows as a famed guitarist.
age of 8. Four years later, he was cast as the lead guitarist in the Broadway production of the film. This is also where he got the nickname “Taz”: his swiftness on the guitar reminded one of his teachers of the Tasmanian devil. From then on, the young musician has been making a name for himself, having appeared on talk shows such as “Ellen” and “Good Morning America.” He also shared the stage with some of his favorite artists, like Stevie Nicks, Lady Gaga and Slash. Most recently, he was featured in Spike Lee’s Netflix series, “She’s Gotta Have It.” As for the near future, in addition to his 2020 tour, Niederauer said his fans can expect some new music. “We’re in the process of writing songs, and I just wanted to wait for my voice to drop fully before we release anything, because we kept on having to re-record it as my voice has changed,” Niederauer said. “But we’ll for sure have some stuff in the coming years.”
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“It is hard to balance both, but if I don’t do well, I can’t play, so it’s worth it,” he said in an interview with The New Jersey Herald. The Long Island native was inspired to play guitar after watching “School of Rock” at the
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and inclusion and an organizer of the event, said the content of “The Talk” fits in with the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King Jr. was one of those who said that you can’t have a nation that’s called a democracy and sweep the needs and pain and the struggles of one huge segment of the population under the rug and pretend that it’s not really happening,” Rolling said. A talkback session will follow the performance, giving audience members the opportunity to give their own thoughts and experiences. The purpose of “The Talk” is to generate long-term dialogue that continues after the event is over, Rolling said. “This kind of presentation is about taking a common conversation in the families of persons of color and putting it out front and center so people can sort of see how difficult it is to navigate life when you have these kinds of injustices taking place on a regular basis,” Rolling said. ackrayna@syr.edu
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network that we might not have been exposed to,” said Hausman. As well as alumni networking events and resume building workshops, the Syracuse chapter has taken annual networking trips to New York City. The organization has met with companies including CNN, NBC, Hulu, Bloomberg, and Spotify. Jamie says that members have been able to gain internship opportunities through networking events by the organization. She hopes the new chapters see the same success the Syracuse chapter has. “This is just the beginning,” said Jamie. “As we continue to expand, our hope is to positively touch the lives of hundreds and thousands of students within the next few years.” abnakanu@syr.edu
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girard training he underwent. Starting in high school with a new trainer and continuing through the summer of 2019 with Travis, Girard’s development into SU’s starting point guard occurred long before encountering Hubb. “(Girard’s) going to make some mistakes,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said earlier this season, “but he’s going to come after you.” From the start, Girard showcased a wellrounded skill-set familiar to those who watched his Glens Falls tenure. He converted five of six 3s and pulled in five rebounds against Seattle in his third collegiate game. The growing pains would come when the competition level increased. In the Barclays Center against Oklahoma State’s Isaac Likekele, Girard was pressed for most of the game and committed five turnovers. Likekele often forced Girard to dribble past him most of the court and hounded Girard. Saddled with a busted lip and a Quadrant-I loss, Girard said he had never faced a defender like the 6-foot-4 Cowboys guard. It was one of the first times his physicality lacked at the Division-I level. Girard and his father identified this potential problem a few years ago and worked to correct it. After from page 12
cooper Thursday. Now, winning every remaining game is a requirement just to reach the 19-win mark, the only outcome Cooper’s known at SU. Her point total and scoring rate has dropped — both results of a weeks-long slump. But Cooper’s remained the leader of Syracuse’s (9-10, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) twoguard offense and 2-3 zone defense. Cooper’s toughness and leadership shows when she dives for loose balls, takes charges and makes the extra pass. Her off-court role, as a mentor to freshmen guards Taleah Washington and Teisha Hyman, may be just as unquantifiable. After every game — close win or uncompetitive loss — Cooper always answers questions in long, eloquent diatribes intended not only for the media, but also for her teammates. Expectations that lower and lower with each loss have defined the 29-game season culminating Cooper’s Syracuse career. But through that, Cooper, the only rostered senior, has found another role, and the Orange may need it to save their season. “They nicknamed me grandma,” Cooper said. “But I really look at everybody as my kids.” During her freshman season, Cooper started 32 of Syracuse’s 33 games as the only nonsenior in Quentin Hillsman’s starting lineup. Cooper averaged 9.3 points per game and sunk 81 3-pointers, the second-most on the team, but was still nervous at first. All but four players had been a part of the Orange’s final four run the previous season. “She was nervous, of course, being the only freshman on the floor with four seniors,” Cooper’s mother, Benji Hardaway, said. “She had some doubt, but the team as a whole felt very comfortable. Coach Q gave her quite a bit of leeway, so she was able to find her spot, find her niche. ” Cooper hasn’t given up her spot in the starting lineup since. An all-but-one-game starter turned into every game last season, despite health complications that “couldn’t heal,” Cooper said. As Syracuse reaped the benefits of transfers Tiana Mangakahia and Miranda Drummond in 2017-18, Cooper posted similar numbers to her freshman year. On Dec. 27, 2018, Cooper was admitted to the emergency room with strep throat. A week later, she was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. Cooper dealt with some form of illness until the from page 12
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Atlantic Coast) stuck to its game-plan — it ran the full-court press after made shots, attempted 22 3s played at its usual fast pace — but again that wasn’t enough. The Orange fell to Wake Forest (12-8, 5-4), 65-60, on Sunday evening at the LJVM Coliseum in WinstonSalem, North Carolina, suffering their fourth defeat in five games. After starting 4-for-13 from the field, Syracuse made its last three shots of the opening quarter to cut Wake Forest’s lead to three, including a 3-pointer from Kiara Lewis with five seconds remaining. Lewis was SU’s most effective player in the first half, scoring 11
his ninth grade season, Girard met with JR Michael, a local trainer, for new techniques. Michael, then 28, played basketball recreationally after playing football at Hudson Valley Community College. He was assigned to Girard because his sports background allowed him to demonstrate each drill and explain its benefits. Girard’s father, Joe Jr., watched the first sessions and asked questions. Initially, Michael took a baseline assessment of Girard’s physique. His weaknesses, Michael said, were in-line with that of many high school athletes: weaker core, lesser range of motion. Michael knew that Girard’s range would need to be expanded as his opponents eventually grew bigger and stronger. They put Girard on a VertiMax, a resistance plyometrics board that works on a jumping and landing platform, to add a few inches to his vertical. They rotated in band work for lateral training, resistance bands to create muscle tension and fast-twitch. When Michael introduced Girard to Travis, a former high school teammate of Michael’s, they attacked the challenges together. Hanging leg raises immediately followed by hanging leg tucks which were Girard’s leastfavorite exercises, but eventually he was texting Michael videos of him completing them.
Girard needed to transform his body to recover quicker, as Glens Falls relied on him so heavily — he averaged nearly 50 points per game as a senior. Meanwhile, Girard cultivated some of the mobility skills he needed to be a better defender with Michael, something the Indians didn’t necessarily need but the Orange would a year later. Between training sessions with Michael, Travis and Girard also competed in one-onone shooting competitions. They played King of the Hill, joined five-on-fives and guarded each other, talking smack with each step. Travis knew Glens Falls’ system didn’t require Girard playing the tightest defense, so he challenged him some plays, coached him through others. “He had to do everything every game for four years,’’ Boeheim said. “He’s used to having the whole world on his shoulders every game. He doesn’t have the whole world on his shoulders now.’’ As Girard eased into Syracuse’s lineup, opponents replicated Likekele’s full-court press strategy on Girard. A week later against Iowa, Girard dribbled it off his foot while a Hawkeye pressed him. Later in the contest, he directed fellow guard Brycen Goodine away from the press and brought it forward. “Most freshmen can’t adapt like that,” Tra-
vis said. “He slows the game down. He controls the tempo.” Michael and Travis saw Girard’s comfort level grow from afar, as Syracuse flipped close losses into season-shaping wins. He hung with Kihei Clark as the Virginia guard pressed. He committed three turnovers, but had small victories, too. After gathering at midcourt, Girard faked a screen call by pointing to Clark’s left and then charging right before finding Marek Dolezaj for a dunk. He ran a two-man game with Elijah Hughes, alternating passes and 3-point makes. “I’ve always been comfortable with the ball and I’m getting more comfortable with it as I’ve gotten experience,” Girard said postUVA on Jan. 11. “.. You just gotta keep staying focused and get your team into the offense.” Last Wednesday against Notre Dame, when he scored 15 points on three 3s, Girard passed his most-recent test — a rematch with Hubb played out over 40 full minutes — with two game-clinching free throws. Boeheim said freshman point guards haven’t done what Girard’s done this year. And by the time Girard checked his phone postgame, he had a text from Travis lighting up his phone: “Great game. Keep working.” nialvare@syr.edu | @nick_a_alvarez
end of the regular season, she said. “It was frustrating, I was off-balance a lot,” Cooper said. “I was falling a lot in games, like randomly.” Cooper’s illness ended when she used a “home remedy” recommended by her mother, but not before what she called the “worst pain of her life.” The Chicago native purchased oregano oil to put in her ears and try and regain balance. She waited two weeks after buying it before finally using it, but noticed hardly any difference her first two attempts. On her third try, before a practice just days before the ACC semifinal against Notre Dame, Cooper tried a little too hard to cure herself. The oregano oil seeped into her left eardrum, she said, and the ensuing pain felt “like a torture method.” Cooper started bawling due to the pain, something she never does, she said, and soon it was too painful to make movements like lifting her arm or blinking. “I literally felt like I was going to die,” Cooper said. “But I think it did work.” After a trip to the doctor’s office, the feeling wore away and Cooper felt better than she had in months. Cooper posted three-straight double-digit scoring performances, a stretch that followed one where she didn’t reach double-digits for 15 of 16 games. Just as Cooper was healthy again, SU’s season ended. But despite her three-month struggle, Cooper didn’t miss a start. In her SU career, the only game she missed was during her freshman year against Duke — one Cooper insisted she was “fine” to play in but was kept out by the training staff. It’s a mindset Cooper employed throughout her youth basketball days too. She even brought her AAU backpack to her father’s funeral in 2011 and was prepared to play that day, but couldn’t make it because of time. “I don’t like to miss games at all,” Cooper said. “If I don’t have to miss a game, I won’t.” This season, as Cooper has stumbled to over 10 points just four times in the last 11 games, Hardaway’s searched for an answer to Cooper’s shooting struggles alongside her daughter. The 28.5% field goal percentage wasn’t normal. A 22.1% from beyond the arc was worse. Before the Georgia Tech game, the pair went to the gym and tried to fix the “hiccups.” Sometimes, Cooper and Hardaway don’t have time for those shootarounds because they’d conflict with SU’s walkthroughs. If Hardaway’s travel schedule from Chicago is limited
too, like a 5 a.m. arrival and 11 p.m. departure time to and from the Pittsburgh game on Jan. 19, those sessions won’t work either. But even as Cooper searches for a technique answer, a remedy to cure one of the longest shooting slumps of her career, Cooper’s durability and experience has made her an invaluable piece to this year’s Syracuse team. Her numbers aren’t as strong as they used to be, but Washington and Hyman have credited Cooper for helping them ease into the college game and learn SU’s complex defensive system. Cooper said her relationship with the freshmen guards reminds her of the “special big-sister, little-sister relationship” she developed as a freshman with former SU star Brittney Sykes. “Everything I wish I knew when I was their age, the things it took me two, three years to figure out, I just try to enlighten them now so they can be confident,” Cooper said. After last season’s loss to South Dakota State in the NCAA tournament, Cooper proposed a trip to the Times Union Center in Albany, where a group of Syracuse players watched Connecticut’s final four game against UCLA. She’ll regularly invite the team over and cooks for them, sometimes treating them to a Cajun chicken pasta dish, a consensus favorite. “I’ve always been a leader,” Cooper said. “Being a little kid, playing around outside, I
was always like, ‘Alright guys, you go here, you go here, you go here.’ I was always trying to tell people what to do because I cared.” Cooper’s final year at Syracuse may not reach the heights of her first three seasons. There might not be an NCAA tournament appearance. Might not be a game where she breaks the all-time 3-point record for a single contest (eight), one she matched against Iowa State three years ago. But Cooper’s role as a leader may be more important than ever. The Orange need new leaders to emerge when Cooper graduates. She’s as crucial as anyone in preparing the next generation of SU stars. After the Duke blowout loss, Cooper sat at the table and questioned Syracuse’s future. There’s only 11 games left now, she said, and this isn’t the identity Syracuse wants to have. Hillsman tried again to put the blame on himself, saying it’s his job to trigger the talent in players. Cooper didn’t buy that. She’s been here too long to do that. Saving Syracuse’s season starts with one factor, and Cooper’s at the front of it. “It’s on us,” Cooper said. “It’s not on somebody else. Not on Coach. Not on the other team.” “It’s on us.”
points (6-8 free throws made), dishing out two assists and acting as the Orange’s main creator. Five SU players, including Lewis, put up at least four shots in the opening 20 minutes. Despite another poor shooting performance in the second quarter, the Orange earned a two-point lead heading into halftime by clamping down on Wake Forest’s forwards. The home team shot 3-for13 from within the arc as SU forwards Maeva Djaldi-Tabdi, Amaya Finklea-Guity and guard Emily Engstler each recorded a block and kept active hands down low. The Orange allowed 46 points in the paint in Thursday’s 88-58 loss to Duke, several of which were uncontested layups. On Sunday, SU allowed just 20.
The Demon Deacons adjusted their offense to open the second half by taking advantage of newfound space from behind the arc. Alex Sharp drilled her only two 3-point attempts of the quarter while Gina Conti sunk one. Wake Forest more than doubled its second-quarter tally and retook the lead, 47-44, heading into the final period. Lewis, Djaldi-Tabdi and Engstler each added four points in the quarter to keep SU within a score. But the Orange soon ditched its varied shot selection and resorted to its favorite shot, the 3-pointer, to open the fourth quarter. Four of SU’s first six shots of the period came from behind the arc. Zero dropped. Syracuse went scoreless in the first four-and-a-half minutes of the quarter and trailed by nine before Eng-
stler sunk a deep ball before the under-five media timeout. Out of the timeout, Engstler feigned another 3 then drove to the hoop and converted an and-1, narrowing the Demon Deacons’ lead to three. Later, Teisha Hyman and Gabrielle Cooper each dropped in 3s and SU forced a travel after the ensuing Wake Forest’s inbound pass. But an offensive foul on Engstler on the next possession caused the Orange’s hot hand to foul out, negating SU’s comeback. Over the final three minutes, Syracuse scored just four points, and the Demon Deacons successfully ran out the clock. Syracuse returns to the Carrier Dome on Thursday to face Virginia Tech at 8 p.m.
GABRIELLE COOPER came to Syracuse one year after SU made the national championship, and she’s produced ever since. elizabeth billman asst. photo editor
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Flanagan becomes 7th coach to reach 400-win milestone By Gaurav Shetty asst. copy editor
Brynn Koocher’s goal five minutes into the third period against Robert Morris made history. Koocher’s game-winner helped head coach Paul Flanagan earn his 400th-career win, launching him into the record books as one of seven women’s collegiate hockey coaches to reach the milestone. It was the latest building block in his career, one that has a short-term quest to repeat as College Hockey America champions. Flanagan started the Syracuse women’s ice hockey program back in March 2008 and has since turned the program from inexperienced newcomers to contenders. In the almost 12 years Flanagan has been at SU (8-16-1, 7-4-1 CHA), he’s amassed 171 wins. On Jan. 18, his career number reached 400. “I don’t know,” Flanagan said, “Somebody brought it up in the locker room after and I think I just kind of downplayed it.”
I certainly wasn’t worried about my win-loss record. You don’t worry about that. Paul Flanagan syracuse ice hockey head coach
Flanagan began coaching at his alma mater, St. Lawrence, where he played hockey and served as team captain during his senior year. Six years later, he returned to the Saints as an assistant coach for the men’s team. Flanagan stayed for 11 seasons next to Joe Marsh and then became the head coach of the women’s program when its former coach took the head athletic trainer position
with the Saints. In that role, Flanagan excelled. He won 230 games, took his team to five NCAA Frozen Fours — including four straight — and never had a losing season. After the 2000-01 season he was named the American Hockey Coaches Association Coach of the Year, a season the Saints finished second in the NCAA tournament. Flanagan’s first win as head coach was a 4-0 shutout against Mercyhurst on Friday, Oct. 22 1999, when some of his current players weren’t even born. Nine years after his first win, Flanagan came to Syracuse to start a brand-new program, sacrificing wins and delaying individual achievements. But progress didn’t take long. After only two seasons, SU was in the CHA tournament final. From there, the Orange made five finals in seven seasons but lost them all. “I recognize that when I left St. Lawrence we really had it going pretty well you know, the wins were coming in a little bit easier initially and I recognize that coming here and starting from scratch,” Flanagan said. “I certainly wasn’t worried about my win-loss record. You don’t worry about that.” That humility is what has endeared Flanagan to the countless players, coaches and staff that he has worked with over his career. His reputation reached future Orange players before they even came to Syracuse. “Everyone always had good things to say,” Lindsay Eastwood said. “So it was comforting knowing I was gonna be in good hands.” Assistant coach Julie Knerr played almost 150 games in four years as a player at SU and has now been Flanagan’s assistant for two seasons. Associate head coach Brendon Knight has been with the program for eight years. Prior to the 400th win they both said they didn’t think Flanagan even knew about his upcoming milestone. “He was obviously very, very successful
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Ramirez leads SU past Cornell for 3rd-straight win By Thomas Shults
contributing writer
It all started in warmups when senior captain Miranda Ramirez yelled out instructions to her young teammates, of whom three of six are freshmen. After Syracuse lost the doubles point, Ramirez, the No. 80 singles player in the nation, huddled everyone up and urged SU to “take the singles, we can’t let them have any more breaks.” They listened, and Ramirez’s 6-1, 7-5 singles win clinched a team victory and SU’s fourth singles match win. Ramirez added a doubles victory to improve to 6-0 on the season in Syracuse’s (3-0) 5-2 win over Cornell (0-4).
Mentally I had to stay strong and just sort of know that like I was better. It was a little closer than I think it needed to be but it’s alright as long as I get the W in the end. Miranda Ramirez su senior
“We know that we have the confidence to beat this team,” Ramirez said postgame. SU lost the doubles point when partners Polina Kozyreva and Zeynep Erman, as well as ITA’s No. 48 Kim Hansen and Sonya Treshcheva both lost. Then, led by Ramirez, SU huddled and regrouped to win five of the first six singles sets. Even though Ramirez encouraged her teammates to play assuredly, her own confidence waned in her singles match against
Ashley Huang. After cruising through the first set 6-1, Ramirez stumbled in the second. All looked to be going as planned for Ramirez, up 3-1 in the second set before coughing up three straight games, and falling behind 4-3. Head coach Younes Limam said there’s “ups and downs” in tennis, and after taking a sip of Gatorade and consulting with assistant coach Jennifer Meredith, Ramirez turned to her trusty serve for back-to-back aces to swing momentum. Ramirez wouldn’t let Huang break her serve for the rest of the match. “Mentally I had to stay strong and just sort of know that like I was better,” Ramirez said. “It was a little closer than I think it needed to be but it’s alright as long as I get the W in the end.” Ramirez’s aces led to her taking four the next five games, breaking Huang’s serve once. At one point, Huang let out a frustrated sigh, banging the green tarp by the wall with her racket after losing the set lead. After regaining the lead, Ramirez’s straight-faced demeanor also returned. Hansen and Guzal Yusupova played similarly in control, losing a combined four games total. Freshman Polina Kozyreva, playing in place of an injured No. 111 Sofya Golubovskaya, won 6-1, 7-6 for SU’s fifth singles win. After its third straight win, Syracuse circled to stretch, with the veteran Ramirez leading the routine. Leadership comes naturally, said Ramirez. And even when she was struggling, Limam said he wasn’t too concerned with Ramirez’s match, evidence of the trust they’ve developed over the past four years. “They all owned their court, and I’m super proud of them,” said Ramirez. “So it’s a great team win today.” tgshults@syr.edu
PAUL FLANAGAN began his coaching career in 1999 at St. Lawrence, and then continued to succeed for SU ice hockey. ally walsh staff photographer
in St. Lawrence, they won a lot of games there,” Knight said. “It’s taken us a little longer here, but it just speaks to his longevity and the amount of successful teams he’s had.” It all came together last year as SU won their first CHA championship. Flanagan needed 11 years to win and punch his team’s ticket to the NCAA tournament for the first time. After the Orange beat Robert Morris in the conference title game, players began to chant “GOAT” on the team bus. The title stuck and former players now refer to Flanagan as “GOAT.”
All six coaches ahead of Flanagan for alltime wins have stayed at the same program over their careers, unlike Flanagan who left St Lawrence. Flanagan credits some of the great players he’s had for many of his wins. But in the week leading up to his eventual victory the record was on his mind, just in a different type of way. “It’s just another sign that I’m old,” Flanagan chuckled. “Yup, that’s just another sign I’m old.” — Assistant Sports Editor Mitchell Bannon contributed reporting to this piece
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Road to 400 SU ice hockey coach Paul Flanagan earned his 400th career win last week. See page 10
SU tennis looked to senior captain Miranda Ramirez for leadership, and she delivered on Sunday. See page 10
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Strong singles Guzal Yusupova led SU tennis to a 5-2 victory against Notre Dame at Drumlins Country Club. See dailyorange.com
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Making the leap
JOE GIRARD III is averaging 11.9 points, 3.65 assists and 2.75 rebounds per game for the Orange one year after scoring nearly 50 points per game as a high school senior. To become such a reliable floor general, Girard had to improve his core strength and range of motion. max freund staff photographer
By Nick Alvarez
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oe Girard III gained a step, dashed left and spun. A fade-away two-pointer got the crowd ready. On the next possession, a catch-and-shoot 3 from the same wing brought the fans to their feet. He leapt in front of the Carrier Dome stands after both shots, nodding his head along with the cheering. It was Jan. 4, and Girard had been challenged, knocked down and stepped over by Notre Dame’s Prentiss Hubb. Watching miles away on television, Girard’s shooting coach Brian Travis knew what would follow. Girard walked across halfcourt, faked a pass left and pulled up. “That’s the Joe I’m used to seeing,” Travis, 36, said. “That fierce, ‘I’m coming at you’ player.”
Joe Girard III has become Syracuse’s only reliable point guard option as a freshman see girard page 9
women’s basketball
Six games, and five wins, later, Girard has more than settled into his role as the lone freshman starter in SU’s (13-7, 6-3 Atlantic Coast) lineup. His field-goal percentage (37.2), assists (2.3 per game) and rebounding (2.5 per game) outputs have increased in conference play. As Syracuse’s only consistent point guard option, he’s helped lead an offense that’s fourth in the ACC in offensive efficiency, per KenPom. And he’s done it by transforming his body and by playing a different role than he did in high school, where he became the best scorer in New York state history. Girard’s early-season hype was compounded with sudden expectations of a starting job. They mirrored the expectations trailing behind his whole career. And he’s risen to the challenge. His production linked to the physical and mental
women’s basketball
SU in need of Cooper’s leadership SU loses 4th of last 5 with defeat to Wake Forest By Andrew Crane and David Schneidman the daily orange
Less than an hour after one of Gabrielle Cooper’s brightest moments at Syracuse, she sunk down into a folding chair and stared down into the media room table. Sandwiched between Amaya Finklea-Guity and Emily Engstler, Cooper had removed her ponytail and her hair ran over a white Syracuse jersey. A frown stretched across her face. She
shuffled back and forth, reaching for one of the microphones. It was Jan. 16, and the Orange had suffered an 18-point loss to Georgia Tech, setting their season back further than it already was. Cooper had scored her 1,000th-career point against the Yellow Jackets that night on a driving layup in the third quarter, becoming the 29th player in Syracuse history to surpass that number, but that milestone quickly became an afterthought. Cooper came to Syracuse one
year after its 2016 run to the national championship and has appeared in the NCAA tournament all three of her seasons with the Orange. That streak, after the Georgia Tech loss, may be slipping away. “We’re just not playing good right now, we’re not playing good,” Cooper said. “These last two games have been some of our worst games that I’ve played in since I’ve been here.” That was before the Orange’s 30-point loss to Duke last
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By David Schneidman staff writer
After Syracuse’s 30-point loss to Duke on Thursday night, head coach Quentin Hillsman made it clear that the Orange would not be changing the way they play despite three losses by at least 15 points in their last four games. That means a full-court press after every made basket, lots of
3-point attempts and a fast pace. “At the end of the day, I’m never going to stop,” Hillsman said after the Duke game. “Either we’re going to figure it out and play our way, or we’re going to have more games like this because I’m not going to back down playing the way we need to play.” On Sunday, Syracuse (9-10, 3-5 see loss page 9