FREE TUESDAY april 19, 2016 high 57°, low 36° N • Ladies first Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner spoke at Syracuse Univer- sity on Monday about what it’s like to be a woman in politics. Page 3 P • Eclectic Avenue The Vault, an art space in downtown Syracuse, aims to provide an affordable venue for musicians, comedians and local artists of all kinds. Page 9 S • Back at it again Brittney Sykes chose to come back to Syracuse instead of leaving the Orange for the WNBA. She’ll be in her fifth year with SU next year after two ACL tears. Page 16 the independent student newspaper of syracuse, new york | dailyorange.com crime Players allegedly stabbed Court docs: Howard used pocket knife on 2 players HOWARD student association SA sponsors undergraduate research program By Alexa Torrens news editor Syracuse University’s Student Association is sponsoring for the second consecutive year an undergraduate summer research program that will allow 25 students to receive $1,000 in research funding. The program was initiated last year by SA’s then-Vice President Daniela Lopez, who worked with former Office of the Vice President for Research Gina Lee-Glauser. That year, the program was spon- sored solely by SA and funded seven students to do research over the summer with a faculty mem- ber of their choice. This year, SA is putting forth $10,000 for the program, and that funding is being matched by SU’s Office of the Provost, SA President Aysha Seedat said. In addition, the Office of Research is contributing $5,000. The deadline to apply for the program is Friday. Applications will be reviewed by the Office of Research. SA will not play any part By Chris Libonati asst. sports editor Naesean Howard stabbed Corey Winfield with a pocket knife in the current SU cornerback’s right lower back, upper right chest, left abdomen and left wrist, court documents said. After he stabbed Winfield, Howard stabbed Chauncey Scissum on the right side of his neck, right upper chest, left shoulder and bottom lip, the felony complaint filed against Howard said. Scissum’s condition was listed as critical but stable and Winfield’s was listed as in stable condition. Howard was charged with two counts of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. The stabbing happened Saturday at about 5:50 p.m. at 321 Slocum Heights Drive on South Campus. Howard was indefinitely suspended from the university, Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in a statement to The Daily Orange. Howard lives at 450 Slocum Drive and was arrested on the 1000 block of Ackerman Ave- nue, according to a police bulletin. On Monday, Syracuse.com reported that Howard showed up to a party in a ‘rage.’ Citing a friend who was at the party, the outlet reported that Winfield tried to protect Scis- sum, who had surgery and couldn’t defend himself against Howard. Scissum, Winfield and Howard were all defensive backs when Howard was kicked off the team by then- head coach Scott Shafer. Per the report, of the 30 or so people at the birthday party, five or six were football players. After the stabbing, Scissum was taken to the hospital by an ambulance while Winfield was driven there. Howard appeared in court Monday morning and is due back in court Friday at 10 a.m. Follow along with @DOsports and here for more coverage. [email protected]@ChrisLibonati see research page 4 Text by Michael Burke asst. news editor Illustration by Devyn Passaretti head illustrator W ith New York holding its United States presidential primary on Tuesday, here is a rundown of each candidate’s plans on issues relating to higher education and campus life. COLLEGE COSTS Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton: Under Clinton’s “New College Compact,” the federal government would fund grants to states and colleges to ensure students at public institutions do not have to take out loans for tuition, books or fees. The plan would also provide free tuition at community colleges and support private, nonprofit colleges that keep costs low. Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Sanders’ plan would pro- vide $47 billion each year to states to make tuition free at public institutions. Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): It is unclear whether Cruz has a plan related to college costs. Republican candidate John Kasich: Kasich’s official website outlines the plan currently being implemented in Ohio, where he is governor. In that state, he has implemented a system that encourages high school students to earn college credit while taking high school courses. The system was put in place in an effort to ultimately reduce college costs by giving those students a jump-start on their college careers. Republican candidate Donald Trump: It is unclear whether Trump has a plan related to college costs. see candidates page 4 How candidates plan to address higher education issues GET SCHOOLED
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Players allegedly stabbedCourt docs: Howard used pocket knife on 2 players
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SA sponsors undergraduate research programBy Alexa Torrensnews editor
Syracuse University’s Student Association is sponsoring for the second consecutive year an undergraduate summer research program that will allow 25
students to receive $1,000 in research funding.
The program was initiated last year by SA’s then-Vice President Daniela Lopez, who worked with former Office of the Vice President for Research Gina Lee-Glauser. That year, the program was spon-
sored solely by SA and funded seven students to do research over the summer with a faculty mem-ber of their choice.
This year, SA is putting forth $10,000 for the program, and that funding is being matched by SU’s Office of the Provost, SA
President Aysha Seedat said. In addition, the Office of Research is contributing $5,000.
The deadline to apply for the program is Friday. Applications will be reviewed by the Office of Research. SA will not play any part
By Chris Libonatiasst. sports editor
Naesean Howard stabbed Corey Winfield with a pocket knife in the current SU cornerback’s right lower
back, upper right chest, left abdomen and left wrist, court documents said.
After he stabbed Winfield, Howard stabbed
Chauncey Scissum on the right side of his neck, right upper chest, left shoulder and bottom lip, the felony complaint filed against Howard said.
Scissum’s condition was listed as critical but stable and Winfield’s was listed as in stable condition.
Howard was charged with two counts of assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. The stabbing happened Saturday at about 5:50 p.m. at 321 Slocum Heights Drive on South Campus. Howard was indefinitely suspended from the university, Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in a statement to The Daily Orange. Howard lives at 450 Slocum Drive and was arrested on the 1000 block of Ackerman Ave-nue, according to a police bulletin.
On Monday, Syracuse.com reported that Howard showed up to a party in a ‘rage.’ Citing a friend who was at the party, the outlet reported that Winfield tried to protect Scis-sum, who had surgery and couldn’t defend himself against Howard. Scissum, Winfield and Howard were all defensive backs when Howard was kicked off the team by then-head coach Scott Shafer.
Per the report, of the 30 or so people at the birthday party, five or six were football players. After the stabbing, Scissum was taken to the hospital by an ambulance while Winfield was driven there.
Howard appeared in court Monday morning and is due back in court Friday at 10 a.m.
Follow along with @DOsports and here for more coverage.
With New York holding its United States presidential primary on Tuesday, here is a rundown of
each candidate’s plans on issues relating to higher education and campus life.
COLLEGE COSTSDemocratic candidate Hillary Clinton: Under Clinton’s “New College Compact,”
the federal government would fund grants to states and colleges to ensure students at public institutions do not have to take out loans for tuition, books or fees. The plan would also provide free tuition at community colleges and support private, nonprofit colleges that keep costs low.Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Sanders’ plan would pro-vide $47 billion each year to states to make tuition free at public institutions.Republican candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): It is unclear whether Cruz has a plan related to college costs.
Republican candidate John Kasich: Kasich’s official website outlines the plan currently being implemented in Ohio, where he is governor. In that state, he has implemented a system that encourages high school students to earn college credit while taking high school courses. The system was put in place in an effort to ultimately reduce college costs by giving those students a jump-start on their college careers.Republican candidate Donald Trump: It is unclear whether Trump has a plan related to college costs.
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How candidates plan to address higher education issues
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By Leah Meyers staff writer
When Pierre Marie was just 1 year old, he and his family moved from France to California to accommo-date his father’s job. Although he does not remember much about living in France, Marie feels deep-ly connected to the French city where he was born: Lyon.
This connection is part of why the freshman economics major decided to get a lion head tat-tooed on his chest.
“Lyon, to me, is a place where my roots are from. I never for-get who I am and where I came from,” Marie said.
Lyon is the third largest city in France, located near the Swiss Alps. It has two main rivers that cross through the city, where Marie said one can always find people hanging out and walking.
Despite not growing up in Lyon, Marie still has memories from the French city because he visits once a year. He said he tries to go back during either sum-mer or winter breaks each year to visit and stay with his godfather. Some of his favorite memories are riding bikes around the hills with his godfather and family. And while in France each year, Marie also visits his family living in Paris.
Marie had always been inter-ested in the whole artistic process that is involved with choosing a tattoo. He said he knew when he turned 18, he wanted to get a tat-too that really meant something to him personally.
On his 18th birthday, Marie tat-tooed a lion’s head over his entire left pectoral, but more specifically,
over his heart.The lion tattoo represents the
city that he is from because in French, “Lyon” means lion. But the city was not his only inspiration.
When Marie was 10 years old, a rugby coach he really admired told Marie that he had a heart of a lion. Marie explained that a lion’s heart means you protect and
fight for the things and people you love.
“I’ve always tried to live my life like that since that moment,” Marie said, adding that he’s very protective over his little brother and friends and family in general.
Said Marie: “It seemed obvious to me to get a lion.”
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(FROM LEFT) SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-MINN.) AND SYRACUSE MAYOR STEPHANIE MINER spoke Tuesday in Eggers Hall about what it’s like to be a woman in politics. Klobuchar was in town campaigning for Hillary Clinton. riley bunch photo editor
By Alexa Torrensnews editor
Amy Klobuchar holds a United States Senate record. She’s raised $17,000 in campaign funds from ex-boyfriends alone.
Klobuchar, a Democratic sena-tor from Minnesota, also guesses that she’s the only senator to have started her working career at an A&W Root Beer stand, where she was required to wear a tight T-shirt that read “Take home a jug of fun.”
Her interest in politics didn’t come until she was done with her
education and working for a law firm. When she was young, she was doing the same things all the other girls in 1970s suburban Minneapolis were doing: straightening their hair, tanning on their roofs or trying to marry their high school prom date. But hers ended up gay, and maybe that’s how she ended up in the Sen-ate, she said in Syracuse on Monday.
Klobuchar joined Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner in a moderated discussion on women in politics on Monday morning in Eggers Hall’s Strasser Legacy Room. More than 30 Syracuse University community members
attended the event.“I always figure women often-
times can’t just achieve things by being macho — like, you know, walk-ing around on a flight deck saying, ‘Mission accomplished’ in a flight suit — that’s not going to work,” Klobuchar said. “And I’ve noticed that women tend to run more on accountability, they run more on statistics, they run on results.”
Klobuchar, who is one of 20 women currently serving in the Senate, recalled the lack of female role models she had when she first ran for a Senate seat in 2006. She remembered looking at the web-
sites of prominent female politi-cians and noticing their efforts toward getting results and pub-lishing those results.
She added that when she was running for Senate, she would constantly be asked: Can a woman win?
Her response, which she said made no sense but seemed to work, was that half the electorate was men. And if she was just run-ning as a woman she wouldn’t win. So she was running on her record as a prosecutor. As someone who served as a county attorney for
By Nina Leeds staff writer
The Syracuse University Abroad office is attempting to increase the number of abroad programs geared toward students in sci-ence, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.
Student Association members discussed that process with SU Abroad Recruitment Specialist Briana Rinaldo at SA’s Monday night meeting in Maxwell Audi-torium. Assembly members also went over the undergraduate
research program, the Orange Education Program and the recent voting approval of a direc-tor of diversity affairs position.
Rinaldo said on Monday that while 90 percent of students come to SU with the desire to study
abroad, fewer than 90 percent of students actually end up studying abroad. Rinaldo attributed this to certain roadblocks that come up and said that SU Abroad is doing a number of things to combat those roadblocks, including increasing the number of programs geared toward STEM students.
SA Vice President Jane Hong said she was pleased that the posi-tion of student director of diversity affairs, which SU students were able to vote for or against on MySlice last week, was approved by voters. Hong said that the next step will be to
establish a written description of what the job would entail.
“This is a very flexible descrip-tion that we are trying to flesh out,” Hong said. “This is new ter-ritory for us so we’re really trying to figure out what would work best with our population. But that’s really going to flow with the mis-takes or with the successes that we have with this position.”
Hong also said that SU Chancel-lor Kent Syverud said he intends to accomplish all of the short-term recommendations put forth by the
what is sa?The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 59th session and Aysha Seedat is president. Outside of the cabinet, there are four committees and four boards, which report to the association.
election 2016
Experts predict results Professors expect Clinton, Trump to win New York state primary
By Brett Samuelssenior staff writer
Polls show Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump leading in their respective parties heading into
T u e s d a y ’ s New York pri-mary, which experts say can shape momentum in the nomina-tion race mov-ing forward.
Clinton and Trump both hold steady leads, according to polling data, but the number of delegates each wins will depend on how they and other candidates fare.
In order to receive delegates from the New York primary in the GOP race, a candidate must receive at least 20 percent of the vote. Trump, a New York City native, holds a steady lead in the GOP race, according to Real Clear Politics average polling data. The businessman is polling at 53.1, while Ohio Gov. John Kasich is at 22.8 percent and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) falls short of the delegate threshold with just 18.1 percent.
On the Democratic side, Clinton, who served as a United States sena-tor for New York state before being
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in processing the applications because SA does not want to show any bias, Seedat said. Stu-dents can apply on the SU Qualtrics website.
The research program is an example of an SA initiative that started out with exclusive funding by SA, but then got “buy-in” from the university after SA showed SU how suc-cessful the program was, Seedat said.
“As an undergrad who’s not in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math-ematics) fields who’s conducted research on our campus out of pocket, it means a lot to me that the university is willing to, you know, look at undergrads as a population that is keen into doing this sort of work,” Seedat said.
The program is aimed toward students who are not in STEM fields, Seedat said, because STEM students often receive fund-ing for their research through the university from organizations like the National Science
Foundation. But the program is not limited to non-STEM students. STEM students are welcomed to apply so long as they are not already sponsored for research, Seedat said.
She added that the program is seeking freshmen, sophomores and juniors who are interested and engaged in a specific field but haven’t done a lot of research or haven’t had the opportunity to do a lot of research in that field.
On the application, students are required to name a faculty member they’d like to conduct research with and whether they have reached out to that faculty member. Students must also provide a description of their area of research interest and a personal statement about their career goals in research and their interest in participating in the summer program.
“I think that it’s important for you to be able to leave your university feeling really invigorated, feeling really inspired to do some-thing, and hopefully this research opportu-nity can help students do that,” Seedat said.
Klobuchar had with sexism on the job was when she was on a conference call with her colleague, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), some House representatives and a high-ranking military official. The official addressed the congressmen by their official titles, but insisted on calling Klobuchar “ma’am.”
“I said, I really don’t care if you call me ma’am but can you call Al ‘sir’ then so we’re the same?” she said. “We just want to be the same. And I said we both do the same job.”
Even after Klobuchar said something to the official, he called her “ma’am” again by the end of the phone call. In a move the sen-ator said she probably wouldn’t have made five years ago, Klobuchar approached the official’s boss at an event a week later and asked him to make sure the official didn’t
differentiate between men and women in equal positions.
“You don’t have to make a public deal out of everything, but calling people on it just quietly when it happens is one way to deal with it because it’s not right that it’s continuing in this day and age,” she said.
Miner also ref lected on times she’s been slighted in her political career, espe-cially as mayor of Syracuse. She recalled when she was first elected mayor in 2010, when men she had never met came into her office, calling her “Stephy” and asking her for tax breaks.
“That’s weird. And it took me a while to sort of put my finger on it that it was a kind of power dynamic that they were trying to use,” Miner said. “And the longer I have been mayor, the faster I’m able to pick up these kind of things that happen.
“You’re in this weird role where all of a sudden your name is a weapon.”
Student loans and debtClinton: Clinton’s plan would allow peo-ple to refinance existing loans at the cur-rent interest rates. The plan would also “significantly cut interest rates” and allow people to enroll in an income-based repay-ment program.Sanders: Similar to Clinton’s, Sanders’ plan would strive to significantly reduce interest rates in addition to allowing bor-rowers to refinance their loans based on current interest rates. Sanders would also prevent the federal government from prof-iting off student loans, according to his official website.Cruz: Cruz has proposed abolishing the U.S. Department of Education, which allocates funding for grants and subsidized loans, and giving states more power in education.
Kasich: Kasich does not have a plan out-lined on his website, but said in an October debate that people could potentially do pub-lic service to pay off their debt.Trump: Trump has proposed cutting fund-ing for the Department of Education. It is unclear whether he has a plan outlined beyond that, but he told The Hill in a July interview that the government shouldn’t profit from student loans and said in a November interview with an Iowa NBC affiliate that he would allow some people to refinance their loans.
Student aid programsClinton: Clinton’s plan would increase the number of available Pell Grants and allow Pell recipients to use those grants fully for living expenses, as Pell Grants are not part of her proposed plan to make college debt-free.Sanders: Sanders’ plan would require public institutions to meet 100 percent of
the financial need for the lowest-income students. His plan would also significantly expand the federal work study program.Cruz: Cruz supports giving control of finan-cial aid programs to states, rather than the federal government, according to the Nation-al Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.Kasich: Kasich has not released a plan related to student aid programs or how they should be funded, according to NASFAA.Trump: It is unclear whether Trump has a plan related to student aid programs.
Campus sexual assaultClinton: Clinton has proposed increasing sexual violence prevention education pro-grams that center around issues such as con-sent and bystander intervention. She also supports increasing counseling and health care support to sexual assault survivors.Sanders: Sanders said at an Iowa forum in
January that he supports programs similar to the ones Clinton has proposed, but he also said that sexual assault on campus is a “very serious crime” that should be dealt with by police.Cruz: It is unclear whether Cruz has a plan related to campus sexual assault, but as a student at Princeton University in the early 1990s, he worked on implementing anti-rape programs — something he cited in a Decem-ber 2014 interview with Business Insider.Kasich: At a recent town hall event in Watertown, New York, Kasich told a woman worried about sexual violence at St. Law-rence University — where she is enrolled — that she should avoid parties where there is a lot of alcohol. He also said students should know how to report sexual assault privately and access rape kits.Trump: It is unclear whether Trump has a policy toward addressing sexual assault on college campuses.
The Syracuse University admin-istration should be commended for investing in research oppor-tunities for non-STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students. The application period for SU’s Student Association undergradu-ate summer research program is underway for the second con-secutive year to allow 25 students to receive $1,000 in research funding. When the program first started it was sponsored solely by SA to sponsor seven students. This year, SA’s contribution of $10,000 for the program is being matched by SU’s Office of the Provost, said SA President Aysha Seedat. The Office of Research is also contrib-uting $5,000. Though the program is not limited to non-STEM students, Seedat said the program is intended for students who are not in STEM fields, considering STEM students often receive funding for their research
through the university from third-party organizations. And at a time when students may feel unnecessarily pres-sured to pursue STEM careers due to projected financial stabil-ity, it is progressive for SU to express encouragement through fiscal support. This backing shows that as an accomplished research institution, the univer-sity is consciously validating the ambitions of the greater campus community rather than ruling them out if not from tenure-track faculty, graduate students or solely STEM students. Moving forward, SU should ensure to remain inclusive of non-STEM students by advanc-ing the university’s understand-ing that non-STEM students may not have access to equal opportunities as their peers and offer essential support in return — support that has the potential to propel the university forward as one research institution.
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business
Kasich, Sanders have best NY plans
As each of the remaining presidential candidates has made their journey to the
Syracuse area, there is no better time than the day of the New York primary to evaluate what they would do for the region’s economy.
Hillary Clinton
Clinton returned to her adopted home state earlier this month as the first candidate to visit this election season with her mes-sage of equal pay for men and women, “debt-free” college and creating jobs. The ideas may have resonated well with the crowd of about 600 supporters in a college town, but what stuck out most was her plan to “make manufacturing sexy” in an appeal to millennials. Her $10 billion “Make it in America” economic plan would offer tax credits to emerging industries and punish those that outsource. Her platform aims to curb the downward spiral cities like Syracuse faced when manu-facturing departed. Contrary to Clinton’s rhetoric, industry does not need to be “sexy” — it needs to be stable. New York industry seemed to be rocky during Clinton’s eight years as state senator, as many industries packed up and left the state. “Make it in America” also relies a great deal on punishing other parties and such action could drive businesses away just as easily as it could attract them. Clinton’s billion-dollar proposal has several strong points and could be successful, but Syracuse voters should be mindful of a plan that ignores the fact that you attract more flies with honey than vinegar.
Bernie Sanders
Sanders was business as usual in a visit after Clinton’s with an economic platform that had much to offer the receptive Syracuse crowd. All in all, he is perhaps the most thorough when it comes to his multiple plans for fiscal reform. Sanders supports everything from breaking up Wall Street banks to revitalizing the rural economies that cover a broad stroke of the Onondaga County populace. The only catch would be the massive amounts of money — an estimated $2 to $3 trillion increase in yearly federal spending, according to The New York Times — needed to imple-ment these policies. The candidate claims that tax increases would be focused toward corporations and the United States “1 percent.” Whether he can accomplish this is unknown, but, if he could, Syracuse might find itself rising out of its current financial situation. The bottom line is Sanders’ brand of democratic socialism has big dreams for raising the tide of the
economy for the lower and middle class, but could only be successful if he finds a way to pay for it without alienating businesses and investors.
Ted Cruz
Cruz visited the Syracuse area on Friday and discussed initiatives that would affect local business, centering on tax reduction and deregulation. The crown jewel of Cruz’s economic platform is a Simple Flat Tax that he claims would create nearly five million jobs and boost wages by 12 percent. The plan calls for the elimination of tax brackets, meaning individuals will pay one universal rate of 10 percent of their income and businesses will pay 16 percent. When the presi-dential hopeful calls the proposal simple, he means that taxes and income penalties for both indi-viduals and businesses would be eradicated under his watch. But even if his tax cuts create more U.S. businesses, how will those investors end up in Syracuse after so many have left in past years? Surely, these are questions that can’t be explained by tax reductions alone.
Donald Trump
Trump arrived in Syracuse on Sat-urday to the welcome of support-ers and the dismay of protesters. The speech was a typical Trump affair that featured much in the way of nationalism and promises of greatness, but little in the way of policy fixtures. Trump’s platform – if it could be called that – is quite vague on details, pushing for a reformed tax bracket for individuals as well as lower taxes for all businesses. Though the tax plan is plau-sible, it’s not exactly clear how it would benefit cities including Syracuse other than a small increase of income for individuals. Indeed, these tax breaks would do little good if there are no jobs to generate this income. Trump has sparked a national discussion of strong-arming jobs back to the country, but how they will end up in Syracuse specifically is unknown. Unless voters think Trump’s force of will is enough to revitalize the central New York economy, voting for him is a roll of the dice.
John Kasich
When it comes to Kasich’s appear-ance at nearby Le Moyne College on Thursday and in Syracuse on Monday, what he didn’t say is more telling than what he did. The governor of Ohio drew a fairly
large crowd at his initial stop for a candidate who is struggling in the polls, but his speech did little to comfort central New York voters who are interested in economic issues. Kasich’s speech at Le Moyne focused mainly on foreign policy, which is important issue, but not particularly relevant to the many individuals in Syracuse who are worrying more about poverty than what the U.S. should do abroad. His speech simply did not have much for the Syracuse crowd to latch onto in terms of economic recovery, but what he did say about the economy was primarily wagging his finger at New York for raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour, an idea he touched on during Monday’s talk. Other than that, Kasich’s policy seems to be focused on tax cuts and promises of smaller government. As much as Kasich clings to his hard-earned success as governor, Ohio and New York are different states, and he will need more than a broad approach to appeal to upstate voters.
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After hearing what the candidates in Syracuse had to say, though Kasich is unfamiliar with New York territory, his proven record of revi-talizing the Ohio economy makes him is the optimal choice on the Republican side. For Democrats, Sanders’ big dreams are worth the gamble rather than playing it safe with Clinton and her record of doing little for New York. Hugo Benitez-Silva, an associ-ate professor of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, explained that this is a national election focused on national issues and it’s difficult to extrapolate candidates’ plans for one geographical area. “Candidates are not going to put a lot of focus on individual cit-ies or regions,” said Benitez-Silva. “Presidential candidates set the tone for local governments if they are elected to office, but otherwise there are only certain overarch-ing themes such as taxes that are directly applicable.” Each candidate certainly has the potential to change New York for better and for worse. In a race that is constantly evolving, this is but a glimpse at the complicated issues that make up the modern political system. When New York citizens heads to the polls now and in the future, voters shouldn’t forget to consider the economic issues that matter most to the local community and state.
Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and public
policy dual major. His column appears weekly. He can be
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Additionally, SA President Aysha Seedat spoke more about the undergraduate research program. The deadline to apply for the program has been extended to Friday.
Seedat said that there is now $25,000 being allocated toward the initiative, up from the $5,000 of what the SA had originally planned. She added that no undergraduate students will be reviewing the applications. The Office of Research will be bringing in faculty members to review all of the applications so that informa-tion of the applicants can be kept confidential.
Students applying for the grants need to
be on campus during the summer and can-not have an already-funded research grant through another department or through the government, Seedat said.
Also at Monday’s meeting, Assembly-woman Madeleine Fitzgerald discussed the recent approval of the Orange Education Program, a pilot program that SA’s Academic Affairs Committee has worked to establish
with the College of Arts and Sciences. Fitzgerald said that upperclassmen,
sponsored by a professor, will be able to give 15-20 minute lectures via a portal through the program. The students will be able to lecture on whatever subject they want, Fitzgerald said. The pilot will be run through the First-Year Forum.
Pope Francis recently released a document called “The Joy of Love,” which discussed the Catholic Church’s views on family life. In the document, Francis welcomed divorced Catholics into the church, but rejected same-sex marriage.
To get an expert’s perspective, The Daily Orange interviewed Gustav Niebuhr, an associate professor of religion and the media, who also teaches in the newspaper and online journalism depart-ment in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
The Daily Orange: Pope Francis has made a lot of statements about what should happen in the Catholic Church, but does he actually have the power to change the doctrine of the church?Gustav Niebuhr: No, it doesn’t change the doctrine, but what it does is it calls attention to aspects of teaching that he thinks are very important — the family is a basic unit of society — and at the same time, I think it’s part of his overall message of inclusiv-ity in a broader sense than you would’ve heard from his immedi-ate predecessors. Francis has really set out to be someone who really is trying to present the warmth of Christian teaching, rather than its rigor, and in that sense, he gets a lot of credit. He
is someone who is reaching out, and I think progressive forces in and outside of the Catholic Church like that.The D.O.: How is Francis different from other popes?G.N.: Francis is really a fascinating character in that he con-tinues to make news, and he’s making news with a more or less consistent message, which is a message of welcome and humility, and I think as long as he has a way to translate that into a way that captures people’s imaginations, he’ll be someone who makes a very big mark on the church, even without changing the doctrine. I think the effort to go to the (Greek) island of Lesbos and pick up the Muslim families was tremendously moving, and I think people who felt apart from the church or are cynical about it have got to acknowledge that that was pretty impressive.The D.O.: The document does not specifically say anything against use of artificial birth control, but does call for better sex education. And, during the Year of Mercy, women can be forgiven for abortion. Does the church seem to be moving per-manently toward being more accepting, or is this solely Francis?G.N.: It certainly is Francis. I think he would like to present a warmer and more welcoming impression of the church, espe-cially in terms of people who have been divorced and he’s got a lot of compassion there. In terms of not really saying anything about birth control, there’s really no public demand for him to speak out on birth control and the encyclical by (Pope) John
Paul II has been largely ignored. To pick a fight over that issue seemed like a losing strategy, so he’s not bringing it up because he’s trying to change the tone and message from the church.The D.O.: Do you think his motion to welcome divorced couples back to the church will change much, or has the damage already been done?G.N.: I think there are people who will feel relieved to hear that and people who have been through divorce will feel like he’s listening. He knows this is something that, for many people, is not undertaken lightly at all, so I think it’s a good thing for them and a good thing overall if it makes people more comfortable with calling themselves Catholic.The D.O.: Will the church ever change its stance on same-sex marriage?G.N.: The thing about the acceptance of same-sex marriage is that there’s been a change in some western countries, and it’s come incredibly quickly. It wasn’t even on people’s screens back in the 1980s, and then suddenly it came on as an issue in certain countries with a large Catholic popula-tion, and it moved much more quickly than people expected. The Catholic Church takes quite a while to change and there are other things on its radar that it wants to deal with before we get there.
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appointed secretary of state, holds a lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who was born in Brooklyn. Clinton is polling at 53.6 percent, while Sanders is at 41.6 percent, according to Real Clear Politics average polling data.
The Daily Orange spoke via email with Shana Gadarian and Grant Reeher, two political sci-ence professors at Syracuse University, to see what they’re expecting in Tuesday’s primary.The Daily Orange: What is the expecta-tion going into the primary as far as results? Easy wins for Clinton and Trump, or is it expected to be more tightly contested? Shana Gadarian: These are relatively easy wins for both Trump (and) Clinton, but expect the other candidates to pick up some delegates. Grant Reeher: Polls have consistently shown both Clinton and Trump to have com-fortable leads, especially so for Trump. So that is the expectation going in. For Sanders, the particular rules regarding voter eligibility in New York state make it harder for late surges to change things. The registration deadline for new voters was last month, and the dead-line for a registered voter to change from one party into another party, or from independent into a party, was last October. So indepen-dents excited by Sanders would have had to figure that out last October before his cam-paign really got going. This also works against Trump, but he has a large lead already. Cruz is not a good fit for New York’s Republicans, I don’t think.The D.O.: How important is New York state and its delegates in each race? On the Repub-lican side there’s obviously been some talk of Donald Trump losing momentum, so does New York become a critical state for him?S.G.: Trump needs to keep up momentum but even if he gets 2/3 of the delegates, he’s still looking good. If Cruz does better than expected, expect him to make an argument
that he’s still the only one who can stop Trump at the convention. G.R.: New York is essential for Trump. A loss here would be devastating to his cam-paign going forward. On the Democratic side, if Sanders does not pull off an upset, it’s prob-ably the beginning of the next stage of the “inevitability” framing of the race, for Clin-ton. Given that the delegates in the Democrat-ic race are allocated proportionately, neither one will likely change much of “the math” which favors Clinton at this point.The D.O.: We’ve seen nearly every can-didate make a stop near Syracuse in the past couple weeks — How big of a role will upstate cities like Syracuse play in deter-mining the results of the primary?S.G.: Upstate is more conservative than downstate so it will actually be more impor-tant on the GOP side since there are more voters concentrated here overall. However conservative voters in blue districts have a big determinant since GOP delegates are apportioned by Congressional district. G.R.: Given the various groups that each candidate is appealing to, all parts of the state will be important for both parties’ candidates. So upstate is going to be impor-tant in both races, I would think.The D.O.: Looking ahead to the big picture, after New York votes, will there be a clear picture of who the nominee will be on each side? Or is that something that won’t be obvious for a few more weeks?S.G.: Each candidate is still going to keep fighting. After NY, the Dem side will be clearer than the GOP side, which probably won’t battled until the convention in July. G.R.: My hunch is that things will get a little clearer in Clinton’s Favor after New York, but the race will definitely go on. On the Republi-can side, I don’t see New York making anything clearer. We are going to the wire on that one, and perhaps beyond, into the convention.
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OPEN THE VAULTNew downtown Syracuse venue brings together art of all mediumsBy Kathryn Krawczyk co-feature editor
Beats echoed down a nearly empty South Warren Street on a Saturday afternoon. The sound lead to what looks like an old
building marred by the faded remains of an M&T Bank sign.
But inside the building, now known as The Vault, it’s nothing like the bank it once was.
A woman is singing her heart out, while the thumping bass leaks out into the street. Models strut around the floor as the music blares, then cuts out, then starts up again. In the basement, there are dozens of models sitting as makeup artists try out different hairstyles and shades of eyeshadows.
Behind the music and the models are walls covered with work from local artists: tribal masks peer down from behind the stage, anoth-er area shows off various paintings of bright, neon landscapes. And if a spot isn’t filled, it will be soon — framed prints rest against the walls, waiting to cover a blank space.
Even after almost six months in business, The Vault’s owner Justin Pellingra can’t sum up the place, or its intended experience, into words. Every night there’s something new going on.
A friend of his described it as a mix of The Factory, Andy Warhol’s multimedia art studio in New York City, and hardcore punk music venue CBCG. Pellingra wasn’t sold on this idea, shrugging his shoulders as he turned back to hang up more artwork.
“It’s something to experience, something I
can’t easily describe,” he said. “I want people to be engaged in a creative environment; to see the world in a brighter way, maybe in the way a child would.”
There’s never a quiet moment at The Vault. This past weekend, Pellingra, along with mod-els, designers and musicians, gathered hours before a fashion show to prepare for that night.
Tuesday nights are devoted to meditation. Wednesdays are art and music sessions, which Pellingra described as “an open platform to be creative.” This Thursday, there’s a show featur-ing nerdcore rapper Mega Ran. And Friday, 25 artists and four bands will fill the space for an art showcase called The Bizarre Bazaar.
As a self-described “creatively restless per-son,” Pellingra said the mixed media art space was something he always wanted to create. He could never narrow down his millions of inter-ests and wanted to pursue them all.
When Pellingra first approached local land-lords and banks to help kickstart the business,
The Vault’s mission isn’t easy to sum up. It serves as a gallery showcasing pieces from local artists, but also hosts local punk and indie concerts, improv comedy shows and video game tournaments while functioning as a full film studio. liam sheehan asst. photo editor
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Target works with Marimekko to create brand new collection
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In case you needed another reason to run to Target, a new designer collaboration
has just hit the stores. Target teamed up with Finnish brand Marimekko and launched a fun, summery collection Sunday.
Target describes the style of
Marimekko as simple and spirited, calling attention to “its authentic Nordic sensibility
and iconic prints.” Marimekko artist Maija Isola created the vibrant prints and patterns seen in the home and fashion pieces, according to the collection page on Target’s website.
Visiting the website reveals a collection full of bright yet
minimalistic prints. They ’re available in many different for-mats, including plates, napkins and even patio items like ham-mocks and beanbags.
The fashion collection includes swimwear and other summer essentials like tunics
and palazzo pants. Beach totes, hats and scarves are the perfect accessories, all in the same prints as many of the bathing suits and clothing pieces.
There are equal numbers of regular and plus-size items
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he often found them to be skeptical.“They’d say, ‘When you know what you
really want to do, come back and talk to us,’” Pellingra recalled.
Before Pellingra got The Vault, it was still a performance space that often hosted the Syracuse Improv Collective.
After seeing one of the group’s shows, he talked to a landlord, secured the space and by the beginning of November 2015, The Vault hosted its first show.
Pellingra wants to keep the space affordable, but also faces the chal-lenge of running a busi-ness. But so far, shows have been successful and above all, the experience has been fun, he said.
“I love to be around talented, creative peo-ple,” Pellingra said. “By creating this, I’ve cre-ated a magnet for these kinds of people. It’s an incredible way to grow.”
One of those people is Kinyon Brinson, who first came to a show at The Vault last December and said he immediately felt comfortable. There were artists, DJs and hip-hop musi-cians all in the same space — everyone had something artistic about them.
That eclectic feel is what led Brinson to start scheduling events at The Vault.
“It can be shaped into whatever you want the event to be,” Brinson said. “There was less resistance and more acceptance.”
This Wednesday, Brinson’s shaping The Vault into a nerdcore event with perfor-mances by Mega Ran and Sammus, and a tournament for the sports action video game, Rocket League.
Jeremy Allen, who’s hosting The Bizarre Bazaar on Friday, has other plans for the art space. He’s bringing in 25 different craft vendors, some from as far away as Rochester, New York, and Montreal, Canada. There will also be performances from four local bands, some with punk and indie sound.
It’s all in an effort to improve Syracuse’s art scene, a place Allen said is “No. 1 for having the most unsuccessful events.” He said everyone wants to see a stronger community, but no one puts in the effort to make it happen.
To him, The Vault is a place that’s making that change. It was a large enough space for his events, but there was another reason behind his choice.
“I also just wanted to bring a little more awareness to the venue itself because it’s some-thing good for Syracuse to have,” Allen said.
Pellingra had similar reasons for opening The Vault. He said he knew there was talent in Syracuse, but those artists just weren’t
being recognized.“I felt I had a
responsibility to help divert the art of the city on a more creative and innova-tive path, to provide a space for all people who are artists but have no platform,” Pellingra said.
Besides hosting events, Pellingra has also taken a more hands-on approach by reaching out to the artists himself. Just in
the past week, he commissioned pieces from two artists who’d never been working artists before.
Every event, every display is another check off Pellingra’s self-described bucket list: Theatre, music, art classes, yoga — check.
The Vault is also a full film studio, and right now he’s working on a docu-fiction TV show with details still under wraps. Next on his list is a live interactive theater perfor-mance, and his ultimate pipe dream is for the space to host a live taping of a TV show.
Despite having these big goals for the future, Pellingra doesn’t let them distract him from the present. He’s always working in the moment, always busy preparing for the next event — a feeling that he tries to create for the audience, too.
“For me, there’s something about creating an experience for people,” Pellingra said. “It’s happening in that moment and that’s it.”
homan available in the collection, a somewhat rare occurrence for a major fashion brand, as it is typical for lines to include plus-size clothing in limited amounts. In addition to the line being inclusive in sizes, it is also inclusive in price — most items in the 200-piece collection are under $50.
Designer collaboration is nothing new for this major retailer. Over the years, Target has collaborated with more than 175 brands, most notably Missoni in 2011, Jason Wu in 2012, Phillip Lim and Prabal Gurung both in 2013, and Lilly Pulitzer last year.
However, all of these brands were house-hold names and significantly more well known than this year’s choice of Finnish company Marimekko.
The previous collaborators’ collections were also seemingly more high fashion than the one that was just launched. While Marimekko has amazing prints and colors, the silhouettes and types of clothes are more geared toward everyday women, versus more fashionable women that previous collections seemed to aspire toward.
The simply-cut bathing suits, breezy tops and pants, and practical accessories certainly have an audience, but it may be a different audience than that of the previ-ous designers.
This may explain why so far, Marime-kko’s collaboration with Target hasn’t sparked the same response as previous collections. Last year’s Lilly Pulitzer col-
lection had customers lining up outside Target stores nationwide and buying out stock both in stores and online in a matter of hours.
Still, the availability of sizes, inexpensive prices and exciting prints in this collec-tion may make up for any lack of brand awareness or high-fashion qualities. Target appears to be extremely excited for this new launch, and with its history of sold-out collaborations, we will be able to see if shop-pers are just as thrilled.
For me, there are a few clear standout pieces in the shop. Check out the Kukkatori print tunic for $26.99 for a cool, mod, f lower-power vibe. The blue Kukkatori print palazzo pants are also a definite win-ner in my eyes.
Overall, this line is fun and simple — nothing too edgy or over-the-top, but a good collection nonetheless. I think it will definitely sell to a certain audience, especially one that’s ready for fun, sum-mery prints.But I doubt this will be one of the insane sell-outs that we’ve seen with brands like Phillip Lim.
Target is known for its awesome designer collaborations; whether this one will be remembered as such is still up in the air. Check out the collection on Target.com to see for yourself. There are so many pieces that there is likely something for everyone.
Jackie Homan is a sophomore magazine journalism major. You can email her at
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Guys, keep it easy with a floral print graphic tee in a light wash for everyday wear. Pair this top with medium wash jeans and neutral sneakers with a pop of color, like blue or green to complement the earthy tones of the tee.
2. formalSpringtime is all about delicate, dainty colors and hyper-femme silhouettes. For a breezy, girly comfort, go for a skater dress with a high-cut waist. To make it formal, large print floral works best. The black-and-pink combination transitions well from day to night. Shoes also set the vibe for your outfit. For night, opt for nude strappy heels that high-light your lovely legs. For day, a pair of pointy toe flats keep your silhouette looking long and tall.Keep your accessories simple with a dainty clutch or a minimalist cross-body bag in a neutral tone.
3. businessWho says business casual can’t be fun? A pastel bodycon midi skirt is a total conversation starter that conservatively shows off your feminine silhouette. The best thing about floral is that the colors are easily matchable. You can pair this kind of skirt with a range of blues, pinks, oranges or neutrals. Go for a top with a similar texture, such as this silk V-neck blouse. Simple black flats or ankle strap heels keep the look professional and can transition with the weather.
4. partyGuys, rock this floral cap with confidence. It’ll get everyone talking at your next rager. Keep the rest of your look simple with a plain, white T-shirt and jeans. Go for neutral sneak-ers, but if you dare, try a pop of color like green to play up your floral accessory. For chillier nights, toss on a flannel shirt, or tie it around your waist when things start heating up. The next time you’re feeling extra confident, try a floral tee to match.
5. class Floral button-ups are your best bet for those throw-it-on-and-go kind of days. Toss it over a white tee and jeans for an easy, breezy look that works with the summer weather. For extra style points, coordinate your backpack with the rest of your look. You can’t go wrong with an earthy tone, like this grass green Fjallraven backpack. Or if you’re feeling daring, sport a smaller print floral backpack in a light wash.
How wind patterns drive balls to right field for SUBy Matthew Gutierrez staff writer
Mike Bosch credits a groundhog for why there have been so many home runs hit to right field at SU Softball Stadium.
The groundhog, which he calls the team’s mascot, lives beyond the right-field fence and occasionally scurries around the bleachers for food. Its mere presence attracts balls its way, said Bosch, Syracuse’s head coach.
However, there are more logical ways to explain the jet stream that has helped send 29.6 percent of home runs hit this year over SU’s right-field fence. It’s not just that there are a handful of powerful left-handed hitters on the team. Seventy-seven percent of Syracuse’s home runs this year have come from right-handed bats.
A dominant westerly wind, a southerly wind blocked by Tennity Ice Pavilion and air pockets created by surrounding areas have contributed to the right-field power alley. These factors will likely come into play again on Wednesday, when Syracuse (23-18, 8-9 Atlantic Coast) hosts Colgate (7-21, 3-5 Patriot) in a doubleheader.
“There really is a big difference, wheth-er it’s righty or lefty, in that general right-center, right-field way,” SU assistant coach Alisa Goler said. “If it gets up in the air and comes off the bat pretty hard, in my opin-ion, I usually assume it’s going to go out. That’s how big of a difference it is.”
The right-field jet stream was evident most recently in last Wednesday’s dou-bleheader between SU and Canisius. The Orange smacked three home runs to right or right-center field.
In game 2, Corinne Ozanne didn’t appear to get all of an outside pitch, but she sent it over the right-field fence anyway. A man in a Canisius jacket turned to his right and asked, “What is this, a home run derby?”
Jon Nese, associate head of the under-graduate program in meteorology at Penn State University, examined Syracuse, New York, wind roses, or diagrams. He also looked at the SU Softball Stadium and surrounding area on Google Maps. He explained three reasons for why balls carry out to right field.
First, the dominant wind in Syracuse is westerly, or coming from the west. SU Soft-ball Stadium faces north-northeast, so the sun isn’t in the batter’s view. This means the wind blows across the field and out toward right field, which sits in the east.
Most of the time, the outfield flags in left field indicate the wind is blowing in, toward home plate. Nese said while the flags are not wrong, the dominant wind in
Syracuse is still westerly. Second, Nese said southerly winds are
blocked by Tennity Ice Pavilion, which looms right behind the first base dugout. Nese said the pavilion is just high enough to block southerly winds that would blow from the South and push balls toward left field.
“I strongly believe that ice pavilion plays a major role in lessening the impact of a south wind blowing balls out to left field,” Nese said. “I would not put too much stock in what those flags are showing.”
The third reason for the right-field jet stream lies in what surrounds the stadium. In addition to the trees, there is a parking lot behind the left field fence. On a sunny day, the impact of the sun on the asphalt in the parking creates small-scale effects that influence the flags, Nese said.
The air over the parking lot rises because it tends to get warmer than air over, say, nearby dirt. To fill the void over the parking lot, air from surrounding areas — SU Softball Stadium — tends to move toward the lot. This creates small-scale air movements that could impact the flight of balls, Nese said.
“Small scale variations in the wind are very much related to the surface covering, whatever is covering the surface,” Nese said. “For example, an asphalt parking lot will tend to absorb sunlight better than nearby dirt.”
Goler first noticed the jet stream last fall because the team’s lefties, excluding Sydney O’Hara, are not power hitters. Yet when they would pull the ball, it would get out in a hurry.
The jet stream has existed since at least 2009, Jenna Caira’s freshman year at Syra-cuse. Caira, SU’s all-time leader in wins, strikeouts and earned run average, said while most home runs to the left side of the field would barely clear the fence, right field was a different story.
“It just carried for days,” Caira said. “It’s probably still going. That’s how hard it would go out and carry.”
Syracuse has become a power-hitting team — the Orange is 44th in Division I in home runs per game with .95. But even on balls that stay inside the park, the jet stream can turn what would otherwise be routine fly balls into extra-base hits.
SU assistant coach Kristyn Sandberg acknowledged this fact and said she and Goler teach their hitters how to make the most of the stream. They teach right-hand-ed hitters to work the right-center gap and lefties to pull the ball with runners on.
“It’s a nice home field advantage,” Goler said, “but you just got to hope nobody else hits it in the air over there.”
CORINNE OZANNE is one of several SU hitters who have experienced the dividends of a favorable channel driving balls to right field. eddie natal staff photographer
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women’s lacrosse
Bodt embraces increased scoring role in senior season
men’s basketball
Syracuse offers Class of 2017 SG Randolph
By Liam Sullivan staff writer
Midfielders don’t get many chances to shoot. Tasked with playing integral roles on
both ends of the field, midfielders like Erica Bodt typically only take one shot a game, while the attack fires off as many as 10 and sometimes more.
So when Bodt gets a chance to
put points on the board, the senior captain makes the most of her opportunity.
“It’s about being ready for those oppor-tunities and being totally focused so that
when you get (a chance to shoot), you’re ready, you look at the net, you take your time and you bury it,” Syracuse head coach Gary Gait said. “She’s been doing a great job with that this year.”
No. 4 Syracuse (12-4, 4-2 Atlantic Coast) needs Bodt to continue flourishing as the Orange face No. 20 Cornell (10-2, 4-1 Ivy) at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Schoellkopf Field. Bodt ranks seventh on the team with 14 points and has scored five goals in SU’s last six games, elevating her play as the team prepares for its final three games before the ACC tournament.
The senior captain has held a role as a two-way midfielder since freshman year, but toward the tail end of last season, Bodt began to become more efficient offensively. In the 15 games she’s played in this season, Bodt has managed to shoot 24 times and convert 45.8 percent of those chances, up from 40.7 percent last season and 35.3
percent as a sophomore. Bodt struggled with shot selection early
in her SU career, Gait said. In her sopho-more and junior season, she had a bad habit of dropping her stick down and throwing the ball high, soaring high over the top of the cage.
She believes the confidence comes from both extra work outside of practice and affirma-tion from Gait that she didn’t just have to play midfield with a defensive mind. Gait encour-aged her to become more multi-dimensional.
“When you get the ball, you don’t want to score,” Bodt remembers Gait said while
pointing out a flaw in her game. She began devoting time to developing an
offensive game. Bodt plays wall ball at least twice a week for 30 to 45 minutes at a time, emphasizing the use of both hands on her stick. She also began going with roommate Kayla Treanor and other teammates to take extra shots outside of regular practice time at least twice a week.
“I’m just trying to be more fluid with my right and left hand,” Bodt said. “It makes it a lot easier if you’re in games and you get a feed with your non-dominant hand up.”
Now as her final season nears its end, Gait sees Bodt making less mistakes early in games and building confidence accordingly. Even when she makes mistakes, she’s more likely to respond — a product of a four-year maturation.
“Just because it’s my last season, I’ve got to go out with a bang,” Bodt said. “… I want to lay it all out there.”
Syracuse offered 4-star shooting guard Brandon Randolph a scholarship on Tues-day morning, per multiple reports.
The Class of 2017 recruit also holds offers from Georgetown, Maryland, Louisville, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, per Scout.com. Kansas has also offered Randolph, per
247Sports.com. The Orange currently does not have
any verbal commitments in the 2017 class and has only offered four other guards in the 2017 class: Trevon Duval, Hamidou Diallo, Lonnie Walker and Quade Green.
The Westtown (Pennsylvania) School senior is listed as 6-foot-6, 183 pounds by 247Sports.
Randolph is ranked the 11th-best shoot-
ing guard in his class by Scout and 12th by 247Sports’ composite rankings. Randolph is not ranked in ESPN.com’s top 60 players in the Class of 2017.
Entering the 2016-17 season, SU’s only returning guard who received significant playing time this past year is Frank How-ard. Tyus Battle, who signed on for the Class of 2016, may also be in the mix for playing time.
perhaps to close out the season’s final 40 min-utes in grander fashion than SU did in an 82-51 loss to Connecticut in the national title game.
Her three phone calls — first to assistant coach Tammi Reiss, then to her mom and finally back to Hillsman — in that 40-minute span offered as much discussion about her past as it did her immediate future. Sykes had just wrapped up her first full season in two years, averaging just over 10 points and 29 minutes per game as she appeared in every one of SU’s 38 contests.
But she knew at times she was a shadow of her former self, and her hulking right-knee brace was an ever-present reminder of that. Oppo-
nents like Georgia Tech whizzed past Sykes on her right at the top of the zone, and she struggled to drop back on her reconstructed knee.
Her jump shot went into ruts, as she opted for it more than ever instead of driv-ing the lane. So when talking to Reiss, a former WNBA guard herself, the first-year assistant laid out the pros of playing another collegiate year to better learn the playing style of her healing body.
“That’s like the big thing for me right now. Just getting stronger, making sure I stay healthy,” Sykes said. “Get one more year under my belt post-injury.”
And just as it was with Reiss, learning was a focal point of Sykes’ discussion with her mom, Regina. The two mulled over the decision throughout the season, not necessarily thinking
about staying an extra year to polish off a bas-ketball career, but for Sykes to become the first member of her family to earn a master’s degree.
Regina Sykes didn’t adamantly steer her daughter down one path, but maintained that if Sykes wanted to pursue a WNBA career now, she needed a clear idea about where her position might be on a draft board.
“When you hear from just about every team in the league,” Hillsman said, “you probably know (she’s) going to get drafted.”
But Sykes wasn’t naïve to the jaded prism she could be viewed through, shining bright-ly on her right knee.
And Regina Sykes wasn’t remiss to point out of the finality of her daughter’s decision. That if Sykes left Syracuse for the WNBA, there was no easy path to return and finish her education.
“I knew she was gonna stay,” Regina Sykes recalled thinking upon hanging up the phone.
So lastly, Sykes dialed back her head coach. The one who began her tailspin, forc-ing her down a path she thought she’d have days to map out. She had heard everything she needed to hear, but Hillsman echoed Reiss’ message for final emphasis.
That they believed in Sykes, and she would be fine if she left for the WNBA. But that there was an upside to playing one more season at school with her ACL injuries in the rearview.
More time to smooth over her outside shot. More time to help develop a roster laden with young talent. More time to define a legacy and career Sykes couldn’t find closure for unless she left room for one more chapter.
short-stick defensive midfielders. He’s 30 pounds bigger than the second heaviest. And when he rushes in from the wing, opposing players have to take notice.
“Wow, that’s a big boy,” short-stick mid-fielder Paolo Ciferri said of his first impres-sions of Schwasnick. “He’s going to be able to knock some people around.”
Against UNC on Saturday, Schwasnick got even more playing time than against Cornell.
In the first quarter, the ball squirted toward UNC’s attacks after a faceoff. As the scrum con-tinued, he kept boxing out. And after another Tar Heels player picked it up, he leaped into the air, wrapped his stick around their body and forced another loose ball before SU eventually earned the possession.
Then midway through the second quarter, Schwasnick matched up against North Caro-lina’s Steve Pontrello. As Pontrello caught a pass about 12 yards in front of Syracuse’s
net, he didn’t shield himself from pressure. Schwasnick took a running start and laid his body into the 5-foot-9, 198-pound Pontrello. When the two collided, Pontrello, his stick and the ball dropped to the turf as the Orange began its transition offense.
“Schwasnick’s been great. He’s been terrif-ic,” Desko said. “He’s just a warrior in there.”
As Williams and UNC’s Stephen Kelly battled to flip the ball out to their teammates, Schwas-nick fought to get in position for the faceoff win.
With Grimm injured, Ciferri and Joe Gil-lis had to take on a more physically-taxing role as defensive midfielders. But by adding Schwasnick into the rotation on the wing, Ciferri and Gillis can save their energy.
In his first season receiving playing time, Schwasnick can still improve his offense and defense. For the time being, though, he’s able to contribute by sticking to his simple “get the ball” mindset.
“I think you’ll see him a lot on the wing going forward,” Desko said.
pushing weightRedshirt freshman Luke Schwasnick’s size has helped him grab ground balls for Syracuse at the faceoff X. Check out his size against other SU short-stick wings.
Luke Schwasnick6-foot-1, 228 pounds
Redshirt freshman4 groundballs in last
two games
SSPORTS dailyorange.com @dailyorange april 19, 2016 • PAGE 16
Winfield and ScissumCheck our website for continued coverage of two SU football players’ alleged stabbing and Naesean Howard’s court dates.See dailyorange.com
The Big OSenior midfielder Erica Bodt is taking on a more offensive role in her last go-around with SU women’s lacrosse.See page 14
Make an offerSU reportedly offered shooting guard Brandon Randolph a scholarship on Tuesday. He holds offers from multiple schools.See page 14
By Matt Schneidman sports editor
Malachi Richardson will enter his name into the 2016 NBA Draft but not hire an agent,
according to Jim Boeheim via the official Syracuse bas-ketball Twit-ter account.
In a rule passed by the NCAA earlier
this year, underclassmen are able to return to school even if they’ve declared for the draft. They are permitted to participate in the NBA Draft Combine, which takes place May 11-15, and participate in one NBA team tryout. Richard-son, who needs an invite to the combine to participate, will have until May 25 to leave his name in the draft or return to Syracuse for his sophomore year.
Richardson ranked sec-ond on Syracuse with 13.4 points per game as a fresh-man behind fifth-year senior Michael Gbinije and averaged 4.3 rebounds and 2.1 assists per contest. He shot 36.9 per-cent from the field and 35.3 percent from long range, hit-ting a 3-pointer in each of the Orange’s last nine games.
His most memorable per-formance came against Vir-ginia in the Elite Eight, when his 21 second-half points helped erase a 16-point defi-cit with under 20 minutes to go en route to the Orange’s Final Four appearance. He was named the Midwest Region’s Most Valuable Player over Nai-smith Award finalist Malcolm Brogdon and Gbinije.
In a statement via the Syracuse basketball Twitter account, Boeheim said, “With the new rules, it’s an opportu-nity for Malachi to get a bet-ter understanding of where he would be in the draft.” Rich-ardson will be able to weigh the opinions of NBA person-nel before making a decision to become the latest one-and-done Syracuse standout or return for a second season with the Orange on a team that only loses two rotation players.
Richardson enters name in draft, but doesn’t hire an agent
RICHARDSON
By Connor Grossman asst. web editor
Not even 24 hours after los-ing in the national cham-pionship game, Brittney
Sykes got a call she never expect-ed. She was sitting in Schine Student Center with volleyball players Amber Witherspoon and Christina Oyawale when Sykes’ phone buzzed, showing her head coach’s phone number.
“‘Listen, I have some bit-tersweet news,’” Sykes recalled Quentin Hillsman telling her around 5 p.m. on April 6. “’You
only have 24 hours to decide if you’re going to leave or stay.’”
Twenty-four months of recov-ery boiled down into a matter of hours with one phone call. Count-less days crutching through snow. Miserable weeks spent largely on training room tables. All that time spent trying to recreate the player she once was before back-to-back ACL tears in 2014 and 2015. Sykes’ decision loomed to return to Syracuse for a fifth year or depart for the WNBA.
She was “stunned,” and told Hillsman she needed a few hours, knowing in her mind she
needed far more than that. Sykes wasn’t more than a couple hours removed from the team’s flight home from Indianapolis, but
immediately began dialing a short list of important contacts. None of which included the teammates she just finished an improbable five-month journey with.
“I didn’t want to bring (them) into that decision,” Sykes said. “Something of that magnitude, whether you’re going to … play in the WNBA, or stay one more year with your teammates … it’s big.”
So she strayed away from her closest friends, and her previous claim to Hillsman ended up a lie. Sykes guessed it only took her 40 minutes — not hours — before she called back her head coach to inform him that she was staying. That she needed another year to build up her lower body. That she wanted another run at history,
By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor
The only thing Luke Schwasnick cares about is getting the ball. He doesn’t care that he only plays for a fraction of games. He doesn’t care if he needs to sacrifice his body. He doesn’t even care if he has to take out his own teammates in practice.
About a month or two ago, assis-tant coach Kevin Donahue had to tell Schwasnick to settle down. Schwas-nick ran in from the side of the field
at full speed and crashed into faceoff specialist Ben Williams, arguably Syracuse’s most valuable player.
“I just always have that thought in my mind,” Schwasnick said. “You got to get the ball.”
The 6-foot-1, 228-pound redshirt freshman has made his biggest mark on No. 8 Syracuse (7-4, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) in the past two games while picking up four ground balls, half of his season total. He’s played an increasing amount as the Orange’s short-stick midfielder rushing in
from the wing on faceoffs. Known for his physical nature at the posi-tion, Schwasnick utilizes his size while providing depth for SU.
Though playing on the wing in college is much more specialized than it was in high school, Orange coaches have seen Schwasnick’s potential on the wing for years.
“He’s fearless. He’s big, strong, athletic,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said. “I know why we recruit-ed him. You can see it in him, just him physically and athletically.”
The most comfortable Schwas-nick has felt all season came against Cornell on April 12. For the first time, he received signifi-cant reps on the wing, where Tom Grimm received the majority of time in the beginning of the sea-son. But Grimm went down with an injury on April 2, and SU had been scrambling for answers since.
In came Schwasnick, who plays with a tenacity that matches his size. He’s as tall as any of Syracuse’s
BRITTNEY SYKES played an integral role in Syracuse’s trip to the national title game against Connecticut this month. The guard will return for a fifth year with the Orange and have one final chance to win a national championship at SU. evan jenkins staff photographer
see sykes page 15
see schwasnick page 15
ONE MORE TIMEWhy Brittney Sykes is coming back for 1 more season at Syracuse
10.3Points Sykes scored per game
this season. That’s 6.3 below the year before she tore her ACL.
