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The Hope Cafe, a restaurant dedicated to assisting The People Project, is set to open a new location in Syracuse. Its menu offers a variety of cuisines.

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A student at a SU Abroad partner university has tested positive for the new coronavirus. The student did not come in contact with other students at the university.

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Alexis Kaiser led Syracuse softball with seven home runs last season.

After a summer playing for the Israeli national team, she’ll be the Orange’s power hitter once again.

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Racist graffiti reported in Day Hall

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rofessor Jeff Rubin explained to the students in his IST 195 lecture how the SpotterEDU app would allow him to take attendance through the students’ phones.

“It’s called Bluetooth low energy,” said Molly Scheuer, a freshman who took Rubin’s class last semester. “Your phone connects to beacons on the walls of the classroom and it verifies that you’re close enough to connect.”

SpotterEDU, which students download on their phones and activate with a class code, uses Bluetooth to precisely determine when a student enters a room and to notify pro-

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I don’t think that we have any privacy in the digital world anymore, if I’m being frank Molly Scheuer freshman

fessors of absent students. The app is one of several ways SU can track its students through technology.

The app has made taking attendance for large classes like IST 195 — which has over 300 students — much easier, Rubin said. An earlier version of the app allowed students to send professors their exact location via a button. This function has since been removed, he said.

Rubin offers his students the opportunity to opt out of using spotter, although this requires them to see him at the end of class to confirm their attendance, he said.

SU initially partnered with SpotterEDU in 2016 to keep track of student-athlete attendance, said Rick Carter, CEO and co-founder of SpotterEDU. In its current form,

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Racist graffiti targeting black and Asian people was reported in Syracuse University’s Day Hall on Tuesday, according to the Department of Public Safety.

The graffiti was found on the back of a vending machine, according to a DPS bias incident report issued Tuesday. It is unclear on which floor the vandalism occurred.

Day Hall has been the site of four reported incidents of racist graffiti since early November. A total of 23 racist, anti- Semitic and bias-related incidents have occurred at or near SU since Nov. 7.

Day Hall’s fourth and sixth floor were vandalized with racist graffiti targeting black and Asian people between Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.

The N-word was written on a ceiling light, garbage cans and at least one mirror in the residence hall’s sixth-floor bathroom. Additional graffiti targeting black people was found on Day Hall’s fifth and sixth floor on Nov. 18 and Nov. 21.

The Day Hall vandalism sparked the black student-led movement #NotAgainSU. The movement held a sit-in at the Barnes Center at The Arch for eight days in protest of the racist incidents. #NotAgainSU also presented a list of demands to Chancellor Kent Syverud to implement or face calls for resignation. Syverud signed 16 of the movement’s 19 demands as written and suggested revisions to the remaining three. The chancellor also agreed to demands from Asian, international and Jewish students and discussed concerns and solutions with indigenous students. #NotAgainSU continues to call for the resignation of Syverud. esfolts@syr.edu

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Newhouse faculty seek greater transparency in dean search

By Chris Hippensteel asst. news editor

Some faculty at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications want more transparency in the hiring process for the school’s next dean.

The Newhouse dean search committee announced Jan. 14 it had scheduled three unnamed finalists to visit the school between Jan. 15 and Jan. 24. Students and fac-

ulty could receive the candidates’ names, cover letters and resumes a day before each visit by agreeing to attend the presentations via a school-wide email.

Students were advised not to disperse or publicize the candidate information to preserve the confidentiality of the search.

After the first candidate’s presentation Jan. 16, some professors said they’re disappointed by secrecy surrounding the hiring process.

We’re used to more straightforward, transparent approaches to questions Ken Harper

associate professor of visual communications

“As a communications school, we’re used to more straightforward, transparent approaches to questions that affect all of us,” said Ken Harper, associate professor of visual communications. “We’ve been left wanting in that area because of how the search has evolved in bringing the final candidates to Newhouse.”

The search for a new dean for the Newhouse School began after the death of former dean Lorraine Branham last April. Branham

served as dean for nearly 11 years.

After her death, the university established a search committee composed of Newhouse faculty, students and alumni to determine her long-term successor. The university hopes to appoint a new dean to the position by July 2020, according to an SU News release.

Harper said lack of information left some faculty feeling in the dark about the hiring process. see deans page 4

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New role Raj Dewan began his role as dean of SU’s School of Information Studies this month.

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City officials will discuss how to ensure Syracuse residents are counted in the 2020 Census.

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Drone startups work in Syracuse

By Jeremy Hochman contributing writer

Professional preparation Syracuse University’s Martin J. Whitman School of Management hosted a career fair Tuesday in Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium. Students brought their resumes and cover letters to network with potential employers. Photographers were also available to take headshots for students to upload to their LinkedIn profile pages.

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Coronavirus reported at SU world partner school

By Michael Sessa asst. news editor

A student at one of Syracuse University’s global partner schools in Australia has tested positive for the new coronavirus.

The student, who attends the University of New South Wales Sydney, is hospitalized and in isolation, the university’s provost and vice-chancellor said in an email Monday. The student did not attend any classes and had no close contact with others before she was admitted to hospital.

SU students can attend classes at UNSW Sydney through Syracuse

Abroad’s World Partner Program.

Five cases of the new coronavirus have been reported in Australia.

SU is monitoring the spread of the virus, SU said Saturday in a campus-wide email.

Health officials believe the newly discovered coronavirus, a respiratory disease, originated in Wuhan, China. The disease spreads through saliva and causes pneumonia-like symptoms, including shortness of breath, fever and coughing.

Only individuals who have visited Wuhan within the past two weeks or have come in contact with someone who has are susceptible

to the disease, said Karen Nardella, SU medical director, in the email.

The UNSW student arrived in Australia from Wuhan on Jan. 22.

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Cases of the new coronavirus that have been reported in Australia

Students in SU’s London and Florence study abroad programs also received program-wide emails about the virus Monday.

There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United Kingdom and Italy, university officials said in the emails.

SU will expedite a new travel and safety policy requiring all students and faculty to register any international travel plans prior to their departure, SU officials said in a campus-wide email Tuesday. The policy will add a greater layer of protection to the campus community, officials said.

There are no confirmed cases of the virus in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a see coronavirus page 6

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Sustainability program funds new initiatives

By Maggie Hicks asst. news editor

When professor Louise Manfredi applied for a campus sustainability grant last April, she wanted to fix her department’s wasteful habits and encourage others to do the same.

Syracuse University’s Campus as a Lab for Sustainability grant awarded funding to Manfredi and three other professors in May to support four sustainability projects. The professors have since used the funding to install beehives at SU and reduce waste.

The grant was established alongside SU’s Climate Action Plan.

The plan, which the university

introduced in 2009, aims to completely eliminate SU’s net emissions of greenhouse gases by the end of 2040.

“The importance of CALS is being able to offer funding to students and faculty that can help reduce our carbon emissions and educate our students about sustainability on campus,” said Melissa Cadwell, a sustainability coordinator for SU’s Energy Systems and Sustainability Management department.

The CALS grant awards up to $75,000 per project and has provided funding for 11 sustainability projects since 2016. Here are the four sustainability projects SU professors have pursued with the 2019 funding:

Reducing waste

Manfredi, an assistant professor of industrial and interaction design, requested $17,670 from the CALS program to reduce waste production in the School of Design.

Before the CALS grant, design students used large, unmarked bins for material disposal, Manfredi said. As a result, students were often unaware of what materials they were allowed to recycle, she said.

The new bin system utilizes color-coded bins for different materials and provides graphics for what can go in each bin, Manfredi said.

“We have students from all over the globe who all have different recycling protocols that they are used to,” Manfredi said. “This system will allow students to understand what

materials will go where.”

Manfredi also designed a material exchange program where students can leave their unused materials out and take other materials that students leave for free.

“We are trying to waste as few materials as possible so at the end of the semester we aren’t throwing away things people could potentially use,” Manfredi said.

Manfredi also used the CALS money to hire assistants to research Onondaga County’s recycling protocols and to interview students on their recycling habits.

She and her colleagues are creating a pop-up exhibition detailing the results of this initiative to display on campus during Earth Day. see sustainability page 6

Startup companies in the drone industry have moved to Syracuse to participate in a yearlong business competition.

The GENIUS NY competition selected five companies from around the world to compete for a $1 million prize at CenterState CEO’s Tech Garden, a business development service in downtown Syracuse. GENIUS NY is the world’s largest business competition.

Eget Liber, a Syracuse underwater drone company, was selected for the accelerator alongside companies from Seattle, New York City, Australia and the United Kingdom.

The accelerator provides resources and events to help the five companies grow and promote themselves to investors, said Jeff Fuchsberg, director of GENIUS NY. The competition is looking for startups with a high potential for growth and a compelling business pitch, Fuchsberg said.

Geopipe, one of the five selected companies, creates algorithms to generate 3D models of the real world for gaming, architecture, engineering and simulation.

Christopher Mitchell, the CEO and co-founder of Geopipe, has been working on developing the company with his team for three and a half years, he said.

“We are looking forward to working with the professionals here at GENIUS to hone our go-to market strategy for gaming, to continue to execute on our technical roadmap and to get to certain milestones in traction and revenue by the end of the one year period of GENIUS,” Mitchell said.

Syracuse is a great place to grow a business, and the GENIUS NY program is a major economic generator, said Eric Ennis, director of business development in the city.

Syracuse works closely with CenterStateCEO and drone industries to keep businesses in Syracuse after the competition concludes. The teams who qualify for GENIUS NY should be able to help create jobs and have a positive economic impact in Syracuse and the central New York region, Fuchsberg said.

Companies who participated in GENIUS NY in the past few years, such as Switzerland’s FotoKite and Sentient Blue from Italy, still have their United States base of operations in Syracuse.

“The million dollar grand prize is very attractive to startup companies all around the world, so it immediately puts Central New York on people’s radar, and GENIUS NY on people’s radar,” Fuchsberg said.

Geopipe and British startup BotsAndUs, also in the competition, are see drones page 6

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tech

the app has no means of providing student location data outside of a beacon-equipped classroom, he said.

“The original problem we were trying to solve was getting real-time information to coaches and advisors to assist in getting student-athletes to class,” said Carter, a former division-one basketball coach. “We were just automating this process.”

SpotterEDU has since ended its partnership with SU Athletics. Only a handful of SU professors, including Rubin, now use the app for academic purposes, Carter said.

While SpotterEDU’s hardware limits its reach to the walls of Rubin’s classroom, SU has other means of collecting student data, Rubin said.

Any IT resources that SU provides to students — such as free campus Wi-Fi or Office 365 — can collect student data, according to university policies. SU’s policy for student privacy rights protects against unreasonable search and seizure but does not mention data collecting or tracking.

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deans Brad Gorham, chair of the Newhouse communications department, said in a statement that the “(cloak)-and-dagger-like secrecy” surrounding the candidates for dean has led his colleagues to investigate who the candidates may be and share the names with others.

Gorham understands why confidentiality is needed during the early application process, but said the university should tell faculty, staff and students about the final candidates once they’re invited to campus.

Providing the cover letter and resume of candidates ahead of their presentation is rare among dean searches, said John Wildhack, director of SU Athletics and co-chair of the dean search committee, in a statement.

“We have, and continue to advance this search process in a transparent manner,

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campus at a given time, Rubin said.

“At any given moment, you could look at a device ID and figure out which access point that device ID is connected to,” Rubin said.

“You’re hitting off an access point and that access point knows you’re there. So, yes, that data would be there.”

Data the university can collect from students’ phones through campus Wi-Fi is detailed in ITS’ acceptable use policy, said Eric Ferguson, communications director for SU’s Information Technology Services.

The university may access, copy or view data stored or transmitted on any IT resource SU provides under certain circumstances, according to the policy. Circumstances include complying with law enforcement, aiding in the university’s legal defense and protecting the health or safety of individuals.

The policy also permits the use of data transmitted or stored on IT resources when needed to perform necessary functions to further “the university’s mission and operations.” The website describes this type of data usage as a “last resort,” but does not provide specific examples.

The information accessible from students’ phones through campus Wi-Fi is similar to the data gathered by any other public Wi-Fi

network, Rubin said.

“It’s a question of how you are utilizing that data,” Rubin said. “Technically the data’s there. But we implemented Wi-Fi not to track students — we implemented Wi-Fi to give students access to information.”

empowering the Newhouse community to interact with the candidates, while also respecting the confidentiality any academic leader would expect during a search process,” Wildhack said.

Newhouse is large, with approximately 150 faculty members and 2,250 students on campus, Wildhack said. It’s not possible to provide every member of the campus community the opportunity to meet the candidates directly, he said.

More than 60 Newhouse faculty and staff attended each of the dean forums, Wildhack said. Interim Dean Amy Falkner also hosted a dinner with candidates and a group of Newhouse faculty and staff, he said. Feedback from Newhouse faculty, staff and students will aid in the final candidate’s selection, he said.

SU’s College of Engineering and Computer Science and School of Information Studies also conducted searches for new deans this fall. The iSchool appointed its new dean, Raj Dewan, in December.

Aileen Gallagher, associate professor of magazine, news and digital journalism, said after the presentation that she believes SU’s central

A situation that requires speculation on the part of the faculty to find out who might be the next leader of their school is problematic Aileen Gallagher associate professor of magazine, news and digital journalism

Technically the data’s there. But we implemented Wi-Fi not to track students — we implemented Wi-Fi to give students access to information.

Jeff Rubin associate professor of practice at the school of information studies

Ferguson did not respond to a request for comment seeking to clarify whether the acceptable use policy extends to location data on student mobile devices or messages sent

through university email accounts.

Carter and Rubin both defended the use of SpotterEDU and similar services in tracking student attendance. Every athletic program that used the app has achieved an all-time high GPA average in the app’s first two years of use, Carter said.

Rubin described similar success boosting attendance in his classes.

“I’ve got enough data to show attendance has a direct correlation to your grade,” Rubin said. “It is because I care about the student and want them to do well in the class — not because of any data collection or surveillance.”

SpotterEDU now works with about 40 schools, including Ivy League schools such as Columbia University. The company in 2019 logged an upwards of 1.5 million student checkins, Carter said in a Washington Post article.

As universities continue to implement new methods of compiling and analyzing student data, students like Scheuer have begun to accept the trade-off between privacy and convenience.

“I truly don’t care if an app is tracking me,” Scheuer said. “I don’t think that we have any privacy in the digital world anymore, if I’m being frank.” news@dailyorange.com

administration, not the search committee, chose to keep the final stages of the process secretive.

Gallagher’s colleagues on the committee told her the decision to keep the finalists’ names under wraps was not their own, she said.

Gallagher said she is confident in the search committee’s ability to find a qualified fit for the position, but she worries that the secrecy surrounding the process will be a turnoff to potential candidates. The lack of information runs counterintuitive to Newhouse’s identity as a communications school, she said.

“A situation that requires speculation on the part of the faculty to find out who might be the next leader of their school is problematic,” Gallagher said. “We believe in open access to information. And that starts with how we conduct ourselves.”

— News editor Emma Folts contributed reporting to this article. cjhippen@syr.edu

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Surveillance tech raises the stakes

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he past century has seen historic leaps in technological innovation. But if we want to enjoy these new technologies, we must be ready to face the dangers that come with them. One of these dangers is becoming clear for students of Syracuse University as some professors begin using surveillance technology to track their class attendance and location.

This development is both unique and scary, though it may not seem that way at first. The government’s ability to surveil its citizens has been common knowledge for a while now, but it’s another thing entirely when private organizations harness that same power and use it for their own gain. While the technologies provide advantages to universities and students, they also open to door to serious invasions of privacy.

A few years ago, there was widespread outrage when people realized that social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram were monitoring their users’ activity so that they could better target them with ads. Later, when Amazon was accused of using its Alexa personal assistants to record people’s conversations and apply the topics discussed to their own marketing schemes, the public was furious. Now, SU is wielding similar power towards purposes of their own, and in doing so has brought to light the unsteady ground its students stand upon when it comes to the protection of their data.

Many U.S. colleges are using surveillance technology to keep track of their students. SU is now one of the thousands of colleges that rely on surveillance technology to keep track of their students.

Some SU professors rely on an app called SpotterEDU, where instructors are able to automate the process of taking attendance,

DYLAN WILLIAMS IN MODERATION something that has often been an issue for teachers with large lecture halls. This technology may sound invasive and scary, but in reality, it only provides administrators with the bare minimum of information — whether or not a student is in class.

“The one thing we knew we had to be extremely accurate, but not invasive,” said Rick Carter, CEO and co-founder of SpotterEDU, in an interview.

Carter claims that student privacy is the number one priority for the company.

“We wanted to make sure a college student still had the ability to make their own decisions, and everything they were doing wasn’t being watched and reported to someone else. Because that’s not the point of college,” he said.

On a small scale, using these kinds of systems to improve the educational experience at a university is a good thing. For professors, it can make the burden of taking attendance easier and more efficient. Students, on the other hand, are supplied with proof of their attendance which provides reassurance of maintaining good attendance, which many professors include in grading.

Before the arrival of these technologies, it was assumed that people had the right to basic privacy. Now, many Americans have chosen to allow certain invasions, as it can be worth it to trade privacy for convenience and safety. When branches of the government comb through our personal data, they are able to intercept and prevent countless threats to our safety every day. Meanwhile, the ethics of private universities like SU are more difficult to predict.

SU’s privacy policy explains the university’s reasoning for collecting some student data.

“We need to use your personal data for our legitimate interests in being able to manage Syracuse University’s operations, its courses and its programs,” it reads.

While this explanation may seem boring, it may be among the most important things on the page, and that’s because of its phrasing. There’s no further information provided for what the university’s “legitimate interests” might be. While it is possible that student data will truly be used exclusively in the interests of genuine academic improvement, it’s important that anyone agreeing to that policy is aware of the open-endedness contained in sections such as this one.

Current SU students are becoming adults at a time when the world around them is changing just as drastically. The best that we can do as a generation coming of age within this period of innovation is to approach each new situation with caution.

It’s important that we move confidently within this new environment by educating ourselves on our privacy rights so that we know when they are being infringed upon, and we need to demand that private organizations such as SU provide us with the information we need to do so.

While these new surveillance technologies deployed by universities across the country provide advantages to students and professors, they may also cross the line of privacy invasion.

Dylan Williams is a freshman in the transmedia department.

His column appears bi-weekly.

He can be reached at dwilli39@ syr.edu. He can be followed on Twitter @_DylanFox_.

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ear editor, A recent column in The Daily Orange, “Reducing required classes would increase course flexibility,” and article, “Faculty divided over universitywide diversity curriculum,” — both published last week — illustrate the increasing interest in curriculum, but also betray a lack of understanding of the processes of curriculum development.

Columnist George Hashemi asks why students are required to take classes that they don’t particularly want to take. There are many reasons for the breadth of coursework in our undergraduate programs. In professional schools, external accrediting bodies have curricular standards that dictate not only major requirements but also many distributional requirements. Furthermore, New York State requires that all Bachelor of Arts degrees contain at least 75% liberal arts content; Bachelor of Science degrees must contain 50%; all other bachelor’s degrees must contain at least 25%. On top of these statutory requirements lies an American cultural ideal that any truly educated citizen be broadly knowledgeable in the arts, letters, social and natural sciences.

Together, these statutory and aspirational expectations can leave little room for curricular innovation, especially in the professional schools. It is not impossible, however. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication has recently passed a significant revision of its undergraduate curriculum. The School of Education is in the early stages of redesigning its undergraduate curriculum as well.

The second important point to bear in mind is that the curriculum is the exclusive domain of the faculty at Syracuse University. The

university administration cannot unilaterally make curricular decisions, nor can it impose them on the faculty. Curricular change is initiated by the faculty in the schools and colleges. Initiatives passed at the school/college level then proceed to the University Senate for approval. New programs and major changes then go to the New York State Department of Education for final approval.

The decentralized, facultydriven nature of curriculum development at the university means that any university-wide curricular initiative, such as the proposed “extensive liberal arts core” highlighted in Asst. News Editor’s Chris Hippensteel’s article, needs to be initiated in separate actions in each of the schools and colleges. Broad adoption of new ideas requires buy-in across campus by faculty from all the schools and colleges, and that is as it should be. But our decentralized process also offers a way forward. Successfully piloting an innovative curriculum in one or two colleges can serve as a testbed for future implementation by other academic units.

The administration is committed to ensuring that investments in new initiatives, both inside and outside the classroom, promote diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility on our campus. We appreciate the thoughtful conversations initiated by students, faculty, and staff who are offering their ideas, time, and energy to ensure that our students become globally engaged and responsible citizens.

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coronavirus statement Monday.

The New York State Department of Health has sent test samples from 10 patients pos-

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sibly infected with coronavirus to the Centers for Disease Control, Cuomo said. Seven tested negative and three other samples are still pending, he said.

The Department of Health

has been providing guidance to the state’s colleges and universities on how to identify the virus and communicate with students about it, the statement said.

Nardella urged any stu-

dents who have traveled to Wuhan recently or are displaying symptoms of the virus to contact medical personnel at the Barnes Center at the Arch immediately. msessa@syr.edu

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sustainability Introducing honey bees on South Campus

Lisa Olson-Gugerty, an associate teaching professor of public health in Falk College, plans to use $9,988 in CALS funding to install six beehives on SU’s South Campus in late May. “Bees help improve food security and instability and environmental health,” Olson-Gugerty said. “On campus, they will serve as essential pollinators for many native plants and will provide opportunities for more sustainable food production.”

Olson-Gugerty helped make SU part of Bee Campus USA, an initiative that promotes awareness of bees as important pollinators on college campuses. She also plans to use the bees as a way to contribute to different programs at SU, she said.

“While VPA students could learn how to design their own hives for the bees, business students could work on promoting and selling the honey we make,” OlsonGugerty said.

Olson-Gugerty plans to apply for future CALS grants to build more hives on SU’s Main Campus and introduce educational programs on beekeeping, she said.

Adding course components on Smart Stormwater Management

CALS awarded $10,000 to Baris Salman, an assistant professor for the Civil and Environmental Engineering program. He used the funding to purchase hardware for a Smart Stormwater Management system on SU’s South Campus.

Graduate engineering students will con-

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struct the system using a network of sensors that measure the velocity, water quality and water level of stormwater. Students will analyze the data in class to improve the stormwater infrastructure at SU and make the system more sustainable, Salman said in an email.

“We are hoping that this project will bring significant returns in terms of raising the human capital and securing larger grants in smart infrastructure systems,” Salman said.

Generating energy from food waste

To support his research on converting food scraps and other waste into energy, CALS awarded $18,240 to Jeongmin Ahn, an associate professor for SU’s mechanical and aerospace engineering program.

Ahn is researching a system that gener-

ates biofuel from materials such as banana peels or cherry stems and converts it into electrical and heat energy.

“We want people to understand that trash is not actually trash,” Ahn said. “You can generate power out of it rather than just throwing it away.”

The funding has allowed him to buy resources for his research, Ahn said. He also plans to give lectures in different classes to draw attention to why his project is important. These lectures will help raise awareness for environmental issues in various SU academic programs, he said.

“Almost all of our environmental issues are related to energy consumption, so we have to make sure that all students understand that and can address it in their own way,” he said. mehicks@syr.edu

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drones both open to creating a headquarters in Syracuse, company spokespersons said.

BotsAndUs found GENIUS NY on social media before entering the competitive application process, said Ayllin Yassin, the company’s business development manager.

The company’s first customer service and operations robot, called Bo, is already having a positive influence in Europe and the Middle East, Yassin said. BotsAndUs will use the GENIUS NY competition to conduct market research in the US, she said.

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“(The robot’s) goal is to drive efficiency across customer service, operations and analytics across a multitude of industries and sectors,” Yassin said.

Despite the $1 million prize, the competition is more of a collaboration because the five companies have very different products and customers that don’t overlap, Mitchell said.

Ennis said the city is in the process of constructing a $12 million Tech Garden expansion, with GENIUS NY as one of its major focuses.

“As GENIUS NY continues to expand and companies really pay attention to Syracuse and the drone industry, I think the future looks bright and I think the Tech Garden itself is one of those world class centers that’s helping grow that,” Ennis said. jshochma@syr.edu

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Moving on

Survival showcase

First tour Students in the Young Voices Project performed “When They See Us” at four middle schools.

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Multimedia artist Dionne Lee’s exhibit features sculptures and photographs about survival.

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COURTNEY COOK (LEFT) AND MATTHEW CULLIPHER help a customer at The Hope Cafe Coffee and Teahouse, an establishment that serves authentic American, Italian and Peruvian cuisine to support The People Project. corey henry photo editor

Hope Cafe donates its profits to help people living in poverty worldwide while serving authentic cuisine

By Sydney Bergan asst. copy editor

I feel like that sandwich is just me — it’s Italian, it’s American and Peruvian all in one Matthew Cullipher founder of hope cafe, ceo of the people project

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he sharp smell of coffee beans mixed with the aromatic sweetness of homemade apple pie empanadas gently wafts out of Hope Cafe.

Spanish music plays softly over the speakers, and low lighting illuminates the hanging textiles and pictures of Peru that scatter the wall.

Matthew Cullipher, founder of Hope Cafe, welcomes cafe regulars by name. Cullipher is also the CEO of The People Project, a nonprofit dedicated to helping children living in extreme poverty. Over time, Cullipher’s efforts have stretched to 13 different nations.

Cullipher traveled to Peru for the first time in 1999 with a church to construct a new school for the children in the area. On that trip, he said he found an intense level of poverty that Peru faced and the lack of educational opportunities that children had.

“That just rocked me, and that was it,” he said. “I dedicated myself to doing work there and elsewhere ever since then.”

Cullipher established The People Project in 2004 when the nonprofit built its first school in northern Peru. The education establishment was accredited in 2005, and the organization began serving underprivileged communities all around the world.

The People Project is based in Syracuse and has current projects in Zambia, Kenya, Peru and Pakistan.

During Cullipher’s five collective years living in Peru, he started a restaurant in the country that raised money for the newly founded organization. However, before returning to the United States, he had to close the restaurant. In an effort to maintain the function that the restaurant served for the organization in Peru, Cullipher decided to open Hope Cafe.

The Hope Cafe opened in Liverpool in 2017 and will see cafe page 8

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‘When They See Us’ performance completes first tour

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Lakesha Green posed four questions to the high school students she was mentoring: “What is purpose? What is your purpose? Why are you here?

Are you living, or are you existing?”

After reflecting on the questions, the students journaled their responses, and the Young Voices Project instructors and mentors compiled the students’ journal entries. It was these entries that helped create the production titled “When They See Us” that incorpo-

rates poetry, monologue and dance.

The Young Voices Project is a partnership with Hillside Family of Agencies and the education department at Redhouse Arts Center. After performing at Redhouse on Dec. 6, the group of high school students took the production to four middle schools in Syracuse, completing their final tour date on Jan. 23. This was the first time that the Young Voices Project went on tour.

Green, and Alice Olom, the Young Voices Project instructors, chose the production’s title, “When They See Us,” before inviting the students to

reflect and write. Green said she was inspired by the Netflix series of the same name that tells the story of the Central Park Five.

The “When They See Us” production differs from other types of productions because the performance started out open-ended, and the students wrote it themselves, Green said.

“We made it a safe place for them to be able to share their experiences because everything that was in the script is real,” Green said. “It came from a real place, so we created that environment for them to do that.”

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slice of life

The Good Life Foundation uses hip-hop to teach life skills

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When a coworker told Hasan Stephens that they needed to lock up more kids to keep getting their hours in, he knew it was time to quit.

It was 2012, and Stephens was running a program at the Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center, just southwest of the city of Syracuse.

Through the program, he taught youth entrepreneurial life skills, with the goal of eliminating youth violence, poverty and incarceration.

Although Stephens said his work at Hillbrook was rewarding because he was helping youth, he wanted to do so in a way that would be more beneficial to them.

“I wasn’t there to lock kids up,” he said. “I was there to keep kids out of prison.”

With the help of Jonathan Cerrito, a lawyer at Blitman & King, Stephens established the Good Life Foundation as a 501(c)(3). Now, what began as a small grass-roots project has emerged as a nonprofit local Southside foundation.

The foundation worked out of the law firm’s offices until 2014, when it moved to the South Side Innovation Center, its current location.

As a result, Stephens regards Cerrito as a cofounder of the foundation.

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voices The Young Voices Project didn’t plan to take its performance on tour, Green said. Marguerite Mitchell, the director of education at Redhouse, proposed the tour because she felt that more students needed to experience the production, even if they couldn’t be part of the process of creating it, she said.

Green said the tour gave the students an opportunity to mentor other students who

“When I was younger, I always knew that I wanted to give back and teach kids about money because I never learned about money growing up,” he said. “I never wanted another black or brown child to experience what I experienced.”

Before starting at Hillbrook in 2006, Stephens was a local radio personality known as “DJ Maestro.” However, when Clear Channel, now iHeartMedia, downsized, he was left without a job, evicted from his apartment, and forced to give his daughter up to family members. Ultimately, Stephens said that DJing saved his life. And it was his hip-hop influences that he then carried with him to Good Life.

In fact, hip-hop is woven through every facet of the foundation. Stephens explained that they use hip-hop as a unifier among the youth. They show music videos and motivational speeches, dissect lyrics and “use the thing that they love the most to get them and draw them into the work that we want them to do.”

In his efforts to provide entrepreneurial life skills to youth ages 13-24, Stephens is assisted by a modestly-sized staff of 16 employees and additional volunteers. These employees are tasked with a range of responsibilities, from programming entrepreneurial ventures for youth such as lawn mowing and T-shirt printing, to providing life coaching for youth at four Syracuse City School District schools.

Eugene Akins, a former convict, is one such life coordinator for the foundation and mentors

youth in prison and on probation. Akins quickly found that the teenagers could relate to his experiences and were willing to trust him.

“When they put these kids with me, it’s a little easier for them to look at me and talk to me and deal with me and trust me, rather than just some guy that went to Harvard or SU and has a degree in psychology.”

In his job, Akins said he finds out the kid’s interests in order to connect with the kid and help them harness what he calls their “God talent.” Akins views himself as having a “big brother role” to the teens that he speaks with.

As for the kids that participate in the program, they say that the foundation has affected them in a positive way.

“They taught us different ways to make money instead of doing it the illegal way,” said 17-year-old Tra’von Harrell. He and his twin brother, Tre’Meir, became involved two years ago at the age of 15 after being put on probation for being caught in a stolen vehicle.

Stephens added that they could barely stay in a school prior to Good Life, but now have straight A’s at OnTECH Charter High School. Even when they got off probation early, Tra’von said they kept participating with Good Life because they felt close to the staff.

“As time went on, they basically went from acquaintances to associates, from associates to family,” he said.

Part of that family is Joseph Diaz, a life

coach at Syracuse STEM at Blodgett Middle School. He said that even though he’s supposed to be the one motivating kids, the kids have begun to motivate each other through one another’s successes.

As for the future, Stephens said they are outgrowing their current location and are engaged in a $6 million capital campaign for a 37,000-square-foot building at 215 Tully St., to be called the Hip-Hop Center for Youth Entrepreneurship. The foundation is also looking to expand regionally to markets that are similar to Syracuse, such as Rochester and Buffalo.

The main thing, he said, is raising $6 million in their capital campaign for the building.

“I think it’s growing rapidly to where I want it to go, but I think we have a long way to go,” said Stephens.

In 2019, Good Life reached about 750 kids through programming and mentoring. In 2020, it is projected to reach about 1,000 kids.

For many of those involved at Good Life, working there is an opportunity to give back in a meaningful manner.

“If you’re not invested, if you don’t love it, it’s not something that you’re passionate about, then it’s not going to work out for you,” said Azariah Yemma, vice president of programming. “Coming from where I came from and the things that I’ve done in the past, I feel like I have to give back.”

may have faced similar experiences and challenges. It allowed the high school students to pose the same questions that they asked themselves to other youth in Syracuse, Olom said.

“We wanted to give the high schoolers a time and a space to be able to voice out what they have been going through and why they are the way they are,” Olom said. “Especially because in high school – that’s the time that they start to show what’s been going on in their life, in their persona.”

Olom said that the performance served as

an outlet for high school students to express their own challenges and experiences.

Moving forward, Mitchell said the Young Voices Project plans to continue touring in future years. The group hopes to expand its program to include tours and productions in both high schools and middle schools during the fall and spring semesters, she said.

“The mission of the education department is to attempt to break down barriers and make sure that everybody in Syracuse believes that art is for them,” Mitchell said. “And that com-

ing here is for them. It’s for everyone.”

The students had to adapt their performances for each of the different spaces in the middle schools. At the last tour performance, the students had to adapt in other ways too, as they had to split the lines of one of the lead actresses because she was on a college visit.

“It was it was a great journey. I mean, as much as they went through a process, so did we,” Green said. “We were right there with them. And there were moments that they uplifted us through it.”

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nity. He’s handed out free food to the homeless on the street and organized clothing drives and Christmas presents for kids in need.

“We kind of jokingly call ourselves a fill in the gap outreach because we fill in whatever gaps we see,” he said.

Kitty King found The Hope Cafe through her niece, whose husband is Peruvian and discovered the cafe on a search for authentic Peruvian food. Since trying it on her niece’s recommendation, King has been a loyal regular to the cafe ever since.

King and her friend Joni Furgeson, another cafe regular, are inspired by the cafe’s vision, and its relaxed atmosphere.

“It’s kid-friendly. My grandchildren have come here before, and you don’t have to worry about them ruining anything or getting loose,” King said.

Currently, the cafe serves about 10,000 people a month, Cullipher said. In the future, he hopes to reach 100,000 monthly customers and continue to make an impact on the surrounding community.

He wants his worldwide legacy to be for the children that he’s providing a better education and quality of life to, he said.

“It’s been amazing to see how people have gotten behind us and our vision,” said Cullipher. “It’s been a humbling process honestly, very humbling.”

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The cafe is run completely by volunteers and donates 100% of its profits to The People Project.

The cuisine is a fusion of American, Italian and Peruvian food including caprese arepas and the chicharron “sanguich,” a combination of Peruvian meats and sauces on Italian bread.

Cullipher’s favorite item on the menu is the breakfast sandwich because it is a combination of different foods they serve at the cafe and is representative of his identity, he said.

“I feel like that sandwich is just me — it’s Italian, it’s American and Peruvian all in one,” Cullipher said.

Courtney Cook, a volunteer at Hope Cafe, works the counter. Cook, a Syracuse local, has been working at Hope Cafe for more than two years.

Cook was friends with Cullipher through church and started helping out at the cafe randomly one day when it got really busy. The cafe helped her escape from a job she didn’t enjoy and learn more about Peruvian culture and food.

“It seems like it’s a very loving culture and friendly,” Cook said. “Matt’s wife’s family has helped me with open arms, and I love them so I’m sure that I would love to go to Peru someday.”

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Dionne Lee, a multimedia artist, employs a variety of mediums including photography and rope in her exhibit entitled “Trap and Lean-to.” The exhibit combines Lee’s passion for the nature and calls upon the duality of the American wilderness.

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Multimedia artist Dionne Lee‘s exhibit features pieces about survival skills and identity

By Christopher Scarglato staff writer

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ultimedia artist Dionne Lee believes almost anything can have a double meaning, even a piece of rope.

In the center of Light Work, a 40-foot piece of black hand-woven rope hangs from a pulley. This is her first sculpture, “Running, rigging and wading.” The brainchild piece of art stemmed from Lee’s interest in sailing, and the rope seeks to represent both the idea of the violence and aid that can happen with rope, Lee said.

The sculpture is a part of Lee’s LEE exhibit entitled “Trap and Leanto,” which runs from Jan. 13 to Mar. 7 at Light Work.

Lee will be speaking more about her exhibition at a gallery talk on Jan. 30 from 5 to 7 p.m.

“I approach everything where it’s like two things can almost always be true at once,” Lee said. “There’s nothing that’s like totally pure or good.”

Lee’s exhibit also uses multiple mediums such as video and photography, trying to encompass the constantly changing American landscape and her place within its history as an African American woman, according to the exhibit’s contact sheet.

Lee’s primary inspiration for the exhibit came from the American wilderness. Lee’s art tries to intersect her interest with nature being both “violence and prosperity” and “connection and alienation,” accord-

Forests can be a really beautiful protective space, but they can also be mysterious and dangerous Dione Lee featured artist

ing to the exhibit’s contact sheet.

“Forests can be a really beautiful protective space,” Lee said. “But they can also be mysterious and dangerous.”

Lee first picked up a camera during her teenage years after experiencing photography through her father and grandfather. The camera eventually grew to be a form of expression for her and helped the artist understand the world better, Lee said.

Years later in 2019, Lee blended her passion for both the outdoors and photography when creating “Trap and Lean-to.” After attending wilderness survival workshops and jotting down notes — which later became her artworks’ titles — Lee eventually made her survival skills into art. Lee’s work features collages of black and white photographs showing activities such as building a lean-to and a fire bed.

The photographs at the exhibit also feature components from Lee’s wilderness survival guides and magazines. Lee utilizes black and white photography

processed in a darkroom using a silver gelatin process.

The process is an aged technique primarily used for creating black and white photographs that also allows the altering of photos.

The artist’s method of handling photographs is known to be disrupted, organic and instinctive. In a world filled with digital printers, seeing Lee’s handson art is what caught the attention of Mary Lee Hodgens, the associate director of Light Work and curator of “Trap and Lean-to.”

“Why would a photographer want to do this kind of process which is very intuitive?” Hodgens said. “I don’t know, but I think it is just what her genius is.”

Hodgens asked Lee if Light Work could host an exhibit for the artist in August 2019 after seeing her work featured twice in Artforum, an art magazine, and in exhibits such as Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh.

Working alongside Lee through numerous emails, Skype calls and phone calls, Hodgens put together a master list of her art while learning what ideas came behind it.

While formatting the layout of the exhibit, Lee asked for a special request of black frames, which added greater background to her work and allowed her pieces to be presented with no glass covering.

“That connection that you have with a piece of art when it is not obstructed by a piece a plexiglass makes it different,” said James Pershing, a senior photography major at SU who worked on the exhibit’s installation. “For me, it makes it better.” cscargla@syr.edu

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kaiser She led the Orange in home runs (7) and had the fourth best slugging percentage despite only playing in 38 of the team’s 53 games in 2019 because of a concussion.

“I’ve always been strong, I’m a bigger kid,” Kaiser said. “I had so much strength that I could hit it out of the infield when I was really young.”

When she was 11 years old, Kaiser played club softball for the first time. She dedicated her time between Canyon Del Oro High School’s team and her travel team, which played an hour and a half away in Phoenix.

Kaiser loved softball because it can be an individual sport. If the team is having a rough stretch or isn’t playing well, Kaiser said, she can still count her home runs. And that was from page 10

clemson game with the strong shooting performance they’d need to defeat Syracuse, hitting three of their first four 3-point shots.

Syracuse rotated well on defense for much of the half and forced Clemson into contested outside shots. Still, the Tigers hit 7-of-17 3-pointers in the first half.

The Tigers eventually cooled off and hit just two 3-pointers in the second half.

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Buddy Boeheim and Elijah Hughes combined for 44 points on a combined 15-of-35 shooting on Tuesday night.

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her strength.

Connecting for long hits was natural for Kaiser. At Canyon Del Oro, Kaiser was an important part of the 2017 team that brought home its ninth state title in school history.

During the four games of Canyon Del Oro’s playoff run, she homered against Gila Ridge in the first round and drove in four of the Dorados’ 32 runs. Nearly half the girls from that season went on to play in college, but it was Kaiser leading Canyon Del Oro with 14 home runs and a First-Team All-State award.

“She was an incredible hitter, so we always relied on her to come up in big situations or set the tone for the game,” Canyon Del Oro coach Kelly Fowler said.

As a sophomore, Kaiser verbally committed to Syracuse. Playing collegiate softball was always a goal and Syracuse “felt like home,” sion. He finished the first half with 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting from the field.

To start the second half, Buddy came alive.

After nearly turning the ball over, Buddy snagged the loose ball and finished a layup, furthering his recent surge of scoring inside.

Then he went back out to where he often hits, beyond the 3-point line and sank a triple. A few possessions later, he hit once more from well beyond the arc with a hand in his face.

“Elijah and Buddy kept us in there,” Boeheim said. “Marek is key for us, and him being in foul trouble hurt. That happens sometimes. Unbelievable effort and they made the last play.”

Then, Girard hit the shot from several feet from beyond the 3-point line, pulling up when his defender didn’t expect it.

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Kaiser said. She won SU’s starting catcher job after the fall season, but suffered a minor concussion during the year when multiple foul tips in practice struck her mask. Kaiser was sidelined for several weeks and by the time she recovered, Gianna Carideo had taken over her spot behind the plate.

“I hated not being there,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser hit the best out of any bench player, so head coach Shannon Doepking moved her to designated hitter. She ended the season with 100 at-bats and 25 hits, laying the foundation for an expanded role in the future.

Her home runs, most over the left field fence, reinforced why she was recruited by former Syracuse head coach Mike Bosch in the first place. Doepking often placed her in the middle of the Orange’s lineup and relied on Kaiser’s power to help the Orange score runs in bunches.

stick midfielder Peter Dearth picked up the ground ball but was immediately trapped by three Vermont players. He took a step, threw his head and shoulder into the chest of one Catamount with a growl before shaking off the other two with long, galloping strides. A pass to Andrew Helmer resulted in a Syracuse goal in transition. Soon after, Brett Kennedy made a stop and turned up field, speeding across half.

His pass to Rehfuss would lead to another shot on goal, this time stopped by the Vermont goalie.

Both Dearth and Kennedy will be key for the Orange on both ends of the field. Both are aggressive, athletic and fast — great for transition. Carcaterra compared Dearth at the short-stick midfield position to a cornerback in football that can press. It allows the rest of the defense to worry about other threats. Kennedy showed he can become a shut-down close defender, rarely getting beat one-on-one in the scrimmage against Vermont.

“I’d say he (Kennedy) came in very raw, just a raw athlete similar to how I did,” redshirt senior Nick Mellen said at media day. “And he’s just fitting in our system, he’s fine-tuning at this point. His athleticism’s there.”

Generally, the Orange are more free-wheeling and run fewer sets. Delayed cuts through

Transition tanks

• Scanlan iced his foot after the Vermont exhibition and looked to be walking with a slight

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Only four teams over 19 years have won the championship: Minnesota (6), Wisconsin (5), Minnesota-Duluth (5) and Clarkson (3).

The CHA is guaranteed only one representative at nationals, the winner of the CHA tournament. Until 2005, the CHA champion wasn’t even guaranteed an NCAA tournament appearance. A CHA team has never made nationals as an at-large bid.

“We cannot get a second team at this point in time because of our winning record, or lack of a winning record, against non-conference teams,” CHA commissioner Robert DeGregorio said. “The other thing that would help is if we could grow our conference and reduce the number of non-league games.”

The last five CHA champions have all been eliminated in the first round of the NCAA tournament. They scored a combined three goals.

Regardless of who finishes atop the CHA this year, the true test of talent will be if they can, like only Mercyhurst has before, go further.

“To bring the team to another (CHA) championship and NCAA tournament,” Lindsay Eastwood said at the beginning of the season. “To go even further … That’s my goal.”

the box and was engaged off the ball with sharp cutting.

Griffin Cook was also featured more in the offense from behind the cage and with more freedom to improvise. He actively looked to come out from behind the crease and draw slides or find the open player at the restraining line. In transition on Sunday, Cook scored on a wraparound attempt he tucked past Vermont’s goalie. Head coach John Desko said after the game that Cook is looking more like the player he recruited in high school.

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conference’s small size forces teams to play more non-conference games and encourages competitiveness and rivalries. This season, SU has already defeated every CHA team, but has also lost to all but Lindenwood.

“I would say the CHA as a conference from top to bottom is probably the most competitive within itself,” Knight said. “If you don’t show up for a particular game, you’re not going to win.”

While only five points separate the first and fourth seeds in the CHA, one team has dominated the conference since its inception in 2003. Mercyhurst has won the CHA tournament, and the bid to NCAAs that comes with it, 12 times, including nine consecutive years from 2003 to 2011. The Lakers have appeared in 70% of all CHA championship games, they are also the only team to win a game at the NCAA tournament.

Like almost every CHA team before them, Syracuse was unable to win a game at the NCAA tournament. They fell to Wisconsin, one of the mid-western powerhouses that has dominated women’s collegiate hockey.

Following a faceoff in the first quarter, short-

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the middle were popular and used effectively by Trimboli and Dordevic to score goals. Dordevic picked out different players to basically play as a point guard and relied on pick-and-pops to get open shots for his teammates as the defense slid and doubled. With the attention that both Dordevic and Chase Scanlan draw, similar plays with the two of them could become a go-to play down the stretch to create openings.

At media day on Jan. 7, Desko said the Orange plan to use the new No. 22 primarily as a finisher and in two-man-game situations.

There wasn’t much of either against Vermont.

He didn’t appear on the scoresheet against the Catamounts and played centrally on offense for most of the game after recording a goal and an assist against Hofstra.

Curry’s role in the new offense isn’t clear.

He was the only Orange midfield or attack tabbed to the Inside Lacrosse preseason All-ACC team, but on this SU team, there’s a multitude of playmaking options. He did finish with six points on the day with a goal and five assists. He played mostly at the top of the box but did venture into the wings as the offense remained fluid. But he’s not getting these types of looks anymore.

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“Coach Doepking always preaches to us ‘just own your role,’” Kaiser said. “...When I came back from my concussion I knew that all I had to do for this team was have a good bat.”

Even after her summer in Israel, Kaiser might not be Syracuse’s starting catcher. Carideo is no longer with the Orange roster, but Kaiser experimented with outfield in the fall — a position she had rarely played to that point.

She might have to abandon her life-long position of catcher, but her spot in Syracuse’s batting order is secure. The Orange will find a way to get her pull-hitting power into the lineup. And ever since her concussion, Kaiser’s grown to accept that.

“I liked the idea of being part of a program where we can build ourselves up,” Kaiser said.

“And I think we’re gonna do that this year.”

Injury/redshirt notes

limp throughout. He was not available to the media after the game, but a team official said Scanlan’s foot isn’t a major concern moving forward.

• Dami Oladunmoye did not play in either scrimmage with an illness, but he has regained academic eligibility after losing all of 2019. Desko said Oladunmoye should be back for the opener against Colgate.

• David Lipka didn’t play with an undisclosed injury, but Desko said he expects Lipka back for the opener.

• Jack Kennedy is out, likely for the season, with an upper body injury.

• Per Desko, freshmen faceoff men Gavin Kline and Luke Talago will likely redshirt.

Lineup notes

• Jakob Phaup and Danny Varello split the majority of the faceoffs, like last year.

Varello went 8-18 across the two games while Phaup was 8-14.

• Brett Kennedy was moved from long-stick midfield to play close defense alongside Nick DiPietro and Nick Mellen against Vermont.

• Curry, Trimboli and Dordevic should make up one midfield line.

• Scanlan will likely play attack alongside Rehfuss and Cook. @aromajumder | armajumd@syr.edu

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HITTING HOME

Clemson outlasts Syracuse, 71-70, in SC

By Josh Schafer

Sophomore slugger Alexis Kaiser was built to hit home runs, and she’s ready to return to the heart of SU’s order

By Allie Kaylor staff writer

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ALEXIS KAISER led SU with seven home runs last year as a freshman catcher and designated hitter. aaron kassman staff photographer

lexis Kaiser’s freshman season had just ended, but another opportunity already emerged. It was an invite from Stacy Iveson, one that reached Kaiser in the spring and offered her the chance to join the Israeli national team for the 2019 European Championships.

All Kaiser needed was at least one grandparent who was an Israeli citizen, and she was just one of 13 current or former Division-I softball players in the United States that met the criteria. The offer came out of nowhere, but a month later, Kaiser boarded a plane and started training in Israel. The ultimate goal was a topeight finish in the Czech Republic and a 2020 Olympic qualification, but Kaiser also became an Israeli citizen in the process. She was one of two current NCAA athletes on the team — others were coaches or recent graduates. She hit .368 over nine games as the five hitter, rotational catcher and pinch hitter.

“She was a very strong and talented athlete and great hitter,” Iveson said. “Just a solid person you would want to have as part of your team.”

The invite wasn’t necessarily a reward for Kaiser, but a freshman season with the Orange that started with a home run in her first at bat and ended with a .250 average certainly helped her earn it. After years of gymnastics, soccer and just about every other recreational sport, Kaiser discovered softball and gradually became the home-run hitter she is for Syracuse. see kaiser page 10

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A missed shot on one end quickly turned into Clemson running the floor. As Syracuse’s defense scrambled, the Tigers drove into the lane.

Joe Girard III couldn’t fully stop the drive. Jesse Edwards was too far up.

The ball went to Clyde Trapp, who sank a layup in Edwards’ face in the eventual 71-70 Clemson win on Tuesday night at Littlejohn Coliseum.

Edwards, who had slowly fallen out of the rotation and not played over the last three games, shouldn’t have been in the game. But the big men in front of him couldn’t stay in the game. As Syracuse approached a 10-point second-half lead, center Bourama Sidibe reached behind a Clemson defender’s back and picked up his fourth foul with just over 12 minutes remaining in the game.

At the time, both he and forward Marek Dolezaj had four fouls.

With freshmen Edwards and Quincy Guerrier in for the two upperclassmen, Clemson scored three consecutive points and Dolezaj returned. About four minutes later, Dolezaj fouled out.

“A couple fouls you can’t commit,” said head coach Jim Boeheim.

“We need him in the game.”

Then a little more than two minutes after Sidibe was forced back in, he too fouled out. Down the stretch, the fouls led to a 3-point play allowed by Edwards and a turnover with under a minute to play.

Then came the final play, a scrambled mess that ended with a layup in Edwards’s face and halted Syracuse’s winning streak at five.

Shooters?

Clemson entered the game shooting 32% from beyond the arc but relied on three-pointers for 38% of the total scoring. The Tigers started the see clemson page 10

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Notebook: Film review, injury updates Syracuse part of evolving College Hockey America

By Arabdho Majumder senior staff writer

In a series of tune-up games for its regular season, Syracuse hosted Hofstra and Vermont at the Ensley Athletic Center on Sunday in roundrobin scrimmages. The Orange cruised past Hofstra, 17-3, in three periods with no reporters in attendance before playing Vermont in the afternoon in front of local media.

SU played to a 10-5 lead in the first two frames against the Catamounts playing mainly starters, but with the reserves in for the final period, Vermont closed the score to 11-10.

Syracuse starts its regular season on Feb. 7 against Colgate in the Carrier Dome. Here are some take-

aways from the weekend scrimmages and also what to expect for SU’s home opener.

New offense, similar look

Much of what Syracuse ran offensively against Vermont resembled looks it had last year too, when it scored the second-most goals per game in the ACC (12.86). Pat March isn’t radically overhauling the Orange’s system, instead just making small tweaks, at least for now.

The main difference is the angle of attack, with SU playing less topdown and more from the wings.

“We’re just playing closer to the goal,” Brendan Curry, SU’s only preseason All-ACC midfielder, said after the scrimmage. “Getting

our hands free more, moving it behind, trying to just change the direction of the ball as much as we can.”

Last year, much of the creation on offense came from Curry dodging from the top of the box and coming downhill with speed. Now that role is more on Tucker Dordevic, who missed all of last year with an ankle injury. When Dordevic is not on the field, Rehfuss becomes SU’s wingdodger, but unlike last year they’re both coming in from closer to the goal.

Dordevic, who’s “the guy” for Syracuse this season according to ESPN analyst Paul Carcaterra, was all over the field on Sunday. He dodged from the wing, the top of see notebook page 10

By Will Hentschel staff writer

Last season, Syracuse women’s ice hockey won its first-ever College Hockey America Championship.

With it came its first appearance in the NCAA tournament, an appearance that was quickly ended by a 4-0 loss to Wisconsin.

Syracuse’s defeat in the national tournament wasn’t a surprise. In the 15-year history of the CHA, the conference champion has advanced past the first round only five times. In 2008, Syracuse became the fifth team

to join the smallest conference in women’s college hockey, and have yet to win an NCAA tournament game. Unable to consistently beat teams outside of their conference or recruit at the level of the dominant midwest teams, Syracuse’s struggles in the CHA appear to have no definitive end in sight.

“A lot of people might see the CHA as a weaker conference,” Associate Head Coach Brendon Knight said. “We always like to talk more about the positives.”

The CHA now fields six teams, still the fewest in the sport. The see cha page 10