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ADVOCATING FOR ANSWERSMonths later, details about new sexual assault resources still remain unclear
By Anna Merodasst. news editor
When the decision to close the Advocacy Center was announced in May, Brittany Moore was one of the few students still at Syracuse University.
“It was shocking to be here on campus when it was happening, because I think so many people were so invested in it,” said Moore, a senior with a dual major in television, radio and film and
information management.Since the closing of the Advocacy Center in June, students,
faculty and administrators have struggled to find common ground on issues of privilege and confidentiality within the new structure of sexual assault resources. The administration says the new structure was created to provide students with com-plete privacy, but some students and faculty say the changes won’t increase the level of privacy for advocacy services.
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By Gigi Antonellecontributing writer
On Sept. 23, 2011, sophomore Han-nah Karr lost her best friend.
Karr, an undecided sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, designed a tattoo to commemorate her friend from summer camp, Kelsey Lynne Kramer. Both Karr and anoth-er one of her friends from camp got the tattoo for Kramer.
“The tattoo is an infinity sign with Kelsey’s initials, because she will forever be my best friend and she’ll live on through me,” Karr said. “It’s on the upper side of my torso, on the side closest to my heart.”
Below the infinity sign is Kramer’s birthday written in Roman numerals.
Karr had been best friends with Kramer and four girls from camp since they were 4 years old. Since they were all from different suburbs of Philadelphia and rarely saw each other, they looked forward to reunit-ing at sleep-away camp in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania.
One afternoon, Kramer went out to the store to buy nail polish —
a simple errand. But on the way there, she got in an accident and her car was found upright against a tree. She was airlifted to the hos-pital, where she was on life support and died shortly after. To this day, nobody is quite sure what caused the accident.
Throughout high school, Karr and her camp friends had begun to lose touch. However, after Kramer’s death, Karr and her camp friends reunited.
“I appreciate that my friends have stood by me, just like I stood by them during her death. After she died, we all became closer. We all made more of an effort to see each other,” Karr said.
Karr remembers Kramer for her wit and cleverness. After her death, Kramer’s high school varsity soccer team retired her number.
“She was really sma rt and she cursed like a sailor,” Karr said. “She was honestly just a fun, free-loving person.”
Karr’s tattoo is a simple tribute to a life that ended much too soon.
Said Karr: “This tattoo makes me closer to her and she’ll always be with me.”
HANNAH KARR memorializes her best friend Kelsey Lynne Kramer. Kramer died in a car accident in 2011. The two had gone to summer camp together in Pennsylvania. doris huang staff photographer
corrections & clarifications In a graphic accompanying the Aug. 25 story “Syracuse grows 2015 class to 22 over summer, breaks program record” part of the information highlighted that 22 players from the 2015 recruiting class were from nine different states. Twenty-three players were included. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
Student remembers friend after car crash
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The search is onAs the school year begins, there are currently four ongoing dean searches at Syracuse University. See Wednesday’s paper
Checking outThe Syracuse University Department of Public Safety has decided to end 24-hour check in at the Brewster-Boland-Brockway complex. See Wednesday’s paper
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By Annie Palmerstaff writer
More than 50 students gathered on the steps of Hendricks Chapel Monday afternoon with their hands raised and bearing the same name: Mike Brown.
Syracuse University’s Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program called for students to join in the #Hands-UpWalkOut movement by convening for a photo on the steps of Hendricks, followed by a discussion. Some stu-dents walked out of their classes to join in the dialogue, while others sim-ply came in support of the 18-year-old male who was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
After a statement by Dean of Hendricks Tiffany Steinwert, Emelia Armstead, JUMP’s secretary, read off the names of victims of police brutality. Armstead then beckoned the crowd to “raise up” any other victims they knew — one audience member shouted out Trayvon Mar-tin, which compelled audience mem-bers to snap their fingers in approval.
“Let’s take a moment to reflect,” Armstead said. “These past few
weeks have been exhausting.”She asked the audience to think
about what the next step is to make sure incidents like Brown’s death never hap-pen again. Audience members spoke about the importance of education, doing more than just using a hashtag and recognizing that it ‘s a racial issue.
“These issues are happening right here in Syracuse,” an audience member said. “This is happening in the DPS reports, where you see
young black men called out all the time. So I think having these con-versations helps to acknowledge that this is a racial issue.”
Sherri Williams, a PhD candidate
in mass communications, said stu-dents need to shift from focusing on national news to paying attention to local media, as police brutality can happen in their own communities.
“Ferguson is also Syracuse,” she said. “I think it’s important to focus on the United States, but there is a lot happening here in Syracuse.”
James Duah-Agyeman, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, pointed to the fight outside of Fae-gan’s Pub in May 2013 as an event that created a tense relationship among students and local police.
Seven students were arrested out-side of Faegan’s for charges including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest,
inciting a riot, harassment, obstructing governmental administration and unlawful possession of marijuana, police said. The scene attracted about 300 people and led to an altercation among students and police.
Ultimately, the event led to dis-cussion among the university, the Department of Public Safety and the Syracuse Police Department about the relationship between stu-dents and police officers on campus.
Duah-Agyeman said there have been discussions between him, class marshal Ronald Taylor, SPD and DPS about how to educate students on protecting themselves from getting
By Rob Romanostaff writer
A friendship that began in the 1960s has led to a $1 million donation to Syracuse University in hopes of help-ing students with disabilities.
SU received the donation from alumnus and former SU basketball star George Hicker ’68 in honor of Brian McLane ’69. The donation will fund the Brian McLane Legacy Fund, an effort to improve access and opportunities for disabled students.
Hicker and other members of the SU basketball team would help
Students gather in support of slain teen
Donation to aid disabled students
Students gather outside of Hendricks Chapel as part of a vigil to support Mike Brown, a teenager who was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mis-souri. Following the protest, the group moved inside and held a discussion on the issues of police brutality. chase gaewski staff photographer
EMELIA ARMSTEAD helps lead the vigil for Mike Brown on Monday outside Hendricks Chapel. chase gaewski staff photographer
Here’s a quick recap of Student Association’s first meeting of the fall 2014 semester:
FUTURE GOALSSA President Boris Gresely explained his goal for the assembly to create a proposal entailing the organization’s ideas for the future direction of the university by the end of September. This topic will be expanded upon at SA’s next meeting.
SPEAKER ELECTIONSElections for the speaker of the assembly were held. Candidates Nia Boles, Dan Hernandez and Evan Ronen all shared a common goal in promoting transparency and connecting all Syracuse University students with SA. Another concern was making a better effort to convey SA’s responsibilities outside of budget season to students.
Hernandez, a senior and former SA chairperson, was elected speaker. He said he feels it is his responsibility as speaker to conduct meetings efficiently and effectively and ensure “everyone has a voice.”
CABINET NOMINATIONSThe assembly unanimously confirmed Gresely’s cabinet nominations. The confirmations are as follows: Jared Rosen as chief of staff, Austin Galovski as director of public relations and Brittany Moore as director of student engagement. Amy Freid also introduced herself as the director of technology to assembly members.
The miscommunication surrounding the closing of the Advocacy Center has detracted from the positive changes Syracuse University has made regarding sexual assault. The university needs to improve the way in which it presents changes to students, as well as how it communicates with them after decisions are made.
An email sent from Chancellor Kent Syverud to SU students on May 30 included a memo detail-ing that the services offered at the Advocacy Cen-
ter, formerly the Center for Sexual and Relation-ship Violence, would be realigned and integrated into the Counseling Center, Office of Student Assistance and Office of Health Promotion. The way the university handled this announcement was inappropriate, as the information was initial-ly distributed via email. This led to some students thinking that resources for victims of sexual assault were being removed, not realigned.
A campaign to bring back the Advocacy Center
erupted on social media and a student-created petition gathered 8,222 signatures shortly after the announcement. Some students were misin-formed about what the changes facing the Advoca-cy Center actually were, something that could have been avoided had the university publicized their announcement rather than burying it in an email.
The university’s response to student concern seemed reactionary and made SU seem ill-equipped to handle the outpour of questions from students. Even months after the initial announce-ment, communication with students still needs vast improvements.
In general, the changes implemented by the university seem positive. The number of trained counselors has increased, for example, and the services offered by the Counseling Center are now completely confidential, a problem the Advocacy Center faced in 2013 when its confidentiality was
revoked under Title IX’s “employee responsibility clause.” The clause stated that any employee must report any information they receive about a sexual assault if they do not have a professional counseling or therapy degree.
But there are still some components that aren’t as clearly stated. The confidentiality of the Office of Student Assistance, the intended entry point for the students who want to pursue a judicial case within the university, is still in question. Administration has given conflicting answers to students inquiring about the confidentiality of the Office of Student Assistance and there doesn’t seem to be a concrete answer.
If the university expects students to embrace the changes, it needs to fix its problem of reac-tionary communication. Students need credible information to form educated opinions and SU must do a better job of providing that information.
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SU needs to improve communication regarding Advocacy Center
The death of unarmed Missouri teen-ager Michael Brown has raised a host of critical questions and thought-pro-
voking discussions across the country and around the world. Brown, 18, was shot 6 times by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer, Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. Since then, protests have been ongoing in Ferguson.
As college students, we hold a unique power to be the leaders behind social movements. A college campus can be the breeding ground for the necessary changes our nation needs, a place where prejudices, misconceptions and negative attitudes can be challenged. This is especially important in a time when activism often occurs online, rather than in person.
A range of silent protests, rallies and discussions have been held on campuses across the country, including right here at SU. Students
gathered on the steps of Hendricks Chapel the first day of classes to take the symbolic #Hand-sUpDontShoot photo, and discuss a plan of action.
Social media has erupted over the past few weeks with trending topics related to the case. The hashtag #HandsUpDontShoot shows images of large crowds of students with their hands up in a surrender-like stance.
Many of these images began on college cam-puses such as Howard University and Spelman College and are now spreading like wildfire with more rallies being held as students across the country return for another academic year. This trend is history repeating itself, as some
of the most revolutionary moments in time were sparked by college students on their own campuses. Consider the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, occurring primarily during the 1960s. It was college students that organized and participated in lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregated restaurants. The same principles can be applied in the wake of Brown’s death, to ensure that his family sees a fair trial .
Many people have sounded off on social media, voicing concerns that creating trending topics on social media are not effective in truly igniting change. This would be true if college students were remaining apathetic on college campuses. The act of coming together for #HandsUpDontShoot pictures and discus-sions brings activism to real life and not just behind a screen. The only way we will fail as a generation is if we do not continuously and
adamantly stand against civil injustices. It is up to us to challenge ourselves, our classmates, our professors and even our administrators to speak out on pertinent national issues.
The images captured of protests in Fer-guson, New York City and other cities across the country almost seem unreal. Although the death of Michael Brown may have occurred miles and miles away from Syracuse, the irra-tional fear this nation has of other ethnicities and cultures transpires across many geo-graphic borders. At a time of civil unrest and emotions running high for many Americans, college campuses can play an active role by not only spreading awareness, but by actively standing against injustices.
Nina Rodgers is a junior sociology major. Her column appears weekly. She can be
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On Aug. 9, Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police offi-cer in Ferguson, Missouri,
a suburb of St. Louis. Since the story broke, media sources and the pub-lic are increasingly concerned with police brutality, and rightfully so.
There has been what seems to be a trend of fatal police shootings of unarmed, black males. This needs to be addressed through greater accountability of police officers and greater punishment for unjustifiable shootings and police brutality. Improved accountability can be reached by passing legislation requir-ing police officers to wear cameras that record all of their interactions throughout the course of their shifts.
The shooting, understandably, has lead to large protests in the Ferguson area. These protests have resulted in significant damage in the St. Louis area. Many were arrested, injured and there has been significant looting of nearby stores.
Another shooting of an unarmed black male in 2009 led to similar protests. On New Years Day, Bay Area Regional Transit Police shot unarmed Oscar Grant. There was clear footage of what occurred before and during Grant’s shooting and as a result, there was no dispute over the fact that Grant was shot unjustifiably. In Brown’s case, there was limited footage of the incident and it is disputed whether or not Brown brandished a knife. Johannes
Mehserle, the BART officer who shot Grant, later claimed he thought he was using his taser. According to a Nov. 5 2010 ABC article, Mehserle was convicted of involuntary man-slaughter and sentenced to only two years in jail, which is the lightest sentence possible.
However, the accountability level in Grant’s case was somewhat higher because of the film of the interactions prior to the shooting.
According to an Aug. 12 Wall Street Journal article, expert Maria Haberfeld said that there has not been an increase in police brutality but rather an increase in documen-tation of it with cell phone cameras. No data is cited in the article. Haber-feld later stated that there is not a centralized database documenting police brutality.
One solution to the hazy accounts of arrests and brutality, as well as the lack of accountability, is requiring officers to wear cameras. According to an Aug. 18 Wall Street Journal article, police accountability has improved in Rialto, a small town in California. The Rialto police officers are required to wear cameras to record their entire shifts. The cameras cost $900 and could be worn on a shirt collar or sunglasses.
Researchers found that “within a year, the number of complaints filed against police officers in Rialto fell by 88 percent and “use of force” fell by 59 percent.”
If cameras are implemented in order to hold police accountable, it is important that these records be made accessible, and perhaps public, when officers are being accused of brutality. Data regarding police bru-tality should be published annually based on the video footage.
Filming all police activity creates greater accountability for both officers and citizens. Unraveling the details of an incident where there is accurate video footage is much less complicated than the he-said-she-said inaccuracy of the accounts of the shooting in Fer-guson, and any police brutality.
There are several problems with police brutality, the first being accurate documentation of the events and the second being a lack of punishment for officer’s actions, both within the police force and in the U.S. Justice system. Officers need to be severely reprimanded within the police force for use of excessive force, and in the criminal justice system if necessary. A combination of clear facts established through videotap-ing and harsher punishments could help end police brutality.
Rachel Potter is a senior political science and sociology major. Her
On Aug. 19, “The San Francisco Gate” published an article about Mills College, a women’s college which has recently decided to allow trans* applicants into their school. Of our nation’s 119 single-sex colleges for men or women, Mills College is the only one to accept trans* and non-gendered students for admission.
Under this new policy, which will be in effect as students return to classes on Aug. 27, a wider variety of gender identities will be considered for submission into Mills College. This includes applicants who were “not assigned to the female sex at birth” but identify as women and applicants who are non-gendered but were assigned the female sex at birth.
This new policy is a great start for Mills College but it still perpetuates a
very narrow view of gender. The policy states that, “female students who become male after enrolling may stay and graduate.” Though they didn’t mean to, Mills College implies that a trans* person suddenly becomes a new gender and that there is a defined marker for when someone becomes a man or a woman.
This is not just a case of poor wording — this is insensitivity. One small micro-aggression like this may not seem especially hurtful, but it perpetuates the notion that trans* people are not really men or women. This is a notion that the
trans* community hears every day as well, as a notion that many use as an excuse to discriminate against and even inflict violence upon trans* people.
Also, under this policy, appli-cants must either identify them-selves as male or female, which diminishes gender into a binary and will inevitably lead to people having to misidentify themselves if they do not belong to either gender.
Not only does this policy force applicants to misidentify them-selves but also non-gendered stu-dents who were assigned male sex at birth but who don’t identify as male or female are not permitted to enter Mills College. In short, Mills College only allows non-gendered people who they deem to be girls into their school.
The focus on whether or not someone is a real girl completely detracts from Mills College’s efforts to take a gender-neutral approach to admissions and to make trans* students feel more included. It also further perpetuates the struggle that trans* people must go through on a daily basis by drawing rigid lines for who does and does not classify as a girl.
Women’s colleges can provide a uniquely safe space for women and people who do not fit the gender binary. Mills College is off to a great start and hopefully it will continue to widen its definition of gender as well as inspire other schools to widen their views as well.
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For the second time in three years, SUNY-ESF will welcome the largest class in the history of the college.
This fall’s class will have 580 new students: 330 first year and 250 transfer students. Faculty and students attribute the increase in students to the college’s reputation and strong programs.
Claire Dunn, the director of communications at State University of New York College of Envi-ronmental Science and Forestry, credits this
increase to growing public awareness of the types of environmental programs that ESF offers.
“If you want to study the environment 100 percent, this is the place to come,” Dunn said. “The college can distinguish itself because it is devoted completely to the study of the environ-ment. If that’s what students want, this is the place to be, that’s what they come for.”
Kayla Besong, a sophomore environmental resource engineering major, said she feels very positively about the increase in attendance.
“It means more people are passionate and more people are starting to care and pay atten-
tion, which is what we need because things are starting to change,” she said.
Dunn said the college has been doing a lot to increase its own visibility, such as planning and holding outreach activities and increasing involvement in major community events.
“We’re doing a lot of things we didn’t do before. We’re at the state fair and other busi-ness events; developing relationships which in many ways that are new for us,” she said. “Our reputation is spreading and we’re now seeing the results of that.”
The far-reach of the school’s reputation is evident in a study of its geographic represen-tation. In this incoming class, 22 percent of first-year students and 10 percent of transfer students will come from outside New York State, making it one of the most geographically well-represented SUNY campuses, according to an Aug. 13 ESF press release.
Melanie Wilson, a second year transfer student, said she agreed about the college’s geographic diversity.
“People come from out of state because everything here is so environmentally focused,” she said. “(The increase in size) is representative of a general trend towards envi-ronmentally-minded individuals.”
The college prepared for the record class by expanding Centennial Hall and its bike storage space.
Besong asserted that the ambiance on cam-pus was very different from any other location. In her hometown of Pittsburgh she felt that people didn’t care about environmental issues — there is not even a recycling program. But ESF was a world apart from that, she said.
“Here, you can talk to anyone and they’ll have opinions on environmental issues that are based on facts. It’s very unique — unlike any other college in the nation,” Besong said.
When asked what it means for the future that programs and schools like SUNY-ESF were growing, Wilson brought up that older generations believed that this could be the last generation to make a difference. Schools with strong, environmentally-focused programs helped this push for a better future in that “there is a press for creative, scientific ideas that you don’t find in many other places.”
Wilson’s advice to members of the incoming class of students is to embrace the reputation ESF has been building all these years: “Con-tinue with the communal vibe. Shared ideas are bigger ideas.”
Under the new structure, the services of the Advocacy Center will be divided into the Coun-seling Center, the Office of Student Assistance and the Office of Health Promotion. Within the new system, the Counseling Center will be the private and confidential primary entry point for students seeking these services.
The Counseling Center will now have a five-member Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team , said Cory Wallack, Counseling Center director.
The support services of the Sexual and Relationship Violence Response Team are com-pletely confidential and students can contact the response team 24 hours, seven days a week, Wal-lack said. Even though the services are housed in the Counseling Center, he said the center is trying to emphasize that the support services are not related to its mental health services.
Students previously voiced concerns about the Counseling Center’s location, which is on Walnut Avenue near fraternity and sorority houses. As a result, the response team will now meet with students in residential halls or other locations requested by the student on campus, Wallack said.
The peer educational programs such as A Men’s Issue, Sex Esteem and the MVP pro-gram will continue to coordinate with the same administrators who previously ran the Advocacy Center within the Office of Health Promotion.
Janet Epstein, former director of the Advo-cacy Center, will run the Office of Student Assistance, which will assist and advocate for students who wish to pursue a sexual assault case through a judicial process at the university.
But the changes to create a more privileged structure for sexual assault resources haven’t been well received by some SU community members.
The same day Chancellor Kent Syverud
announced the closing of the Advocacy Cen-ter, Erin Carhart, a 2014 alumna, created an online petition demanding the chancellor reinstate the Advocacy Center as a confi-dential resource. The petition sparked the #BringBacktheAC campaign on social media and collected 8,000 signatures within the first month of the initial announcement.
During the summer, the campaign changed its focus and is now working to have an advo-cacy center at SU, even if its sole purpose is to create a sense of community on campus.
In response to the closing of the center, the campaign will host a rally to protest the deci-sion at Hendricks Chapel at noon on Sept. 10.
Faculty members also launched a petition asking the chancellor to delay the decision to close the Advocacy Center until students and faculty members arrived back on campus, said Chandra Talpade Mohanty, a professor of women and gender studies. The petition collected 55 faculty member signatures within three days.
“It’s a concern to us, because the closing of the Advocacy Center wasn’t discussed with most people who have an expertise,” she said.
After the immediate backlash to the clo-sure of the Advocacy Center, Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, announced that a series of listening meetings would be held on campus to clarify to the community what the new struc-ture will look like and to listen to concerns from students and faculty.
Two listening meetings were held this sum-mer. Another meeting will be held earlythis fall, said Derek Ford, one of the campaign’s organizers.
Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president for the health and wellness portfolio of the Division of Student Affairs, was one of the administrators who spoke on the panel of offi-cials during the listening meetings.
Dayton expressed concern that while stu-dents protest for an advocacy center on campus,
they might spread misinformation about the new structure. She said some examples of misconcep-tion are that there is a decrease in services for sexual assault and that the administration is try-ing to save money by consolidating the services.
“Services have been enhanced,” she said, add-ing that more people, time and energy have been dedicated to the new structure this summer.
The chancellor will also organize a work-group soon that will help the community have a better understanding of the concerns, she said.
Another issue that has been discussed is
the idea of confidentially and privilege. Unlike the Advocacy Center, the Counseling Center is respected as a privileged and a confiden-tial space. There are professionally trained counselors who are not considered responsible employees under Title IX, according to a fact sheet released by the university in June.
Privileged and confidential resources have different meanings by law. A service that is non-privileged and confidential must still pro-vide a student’s information about the nature, date, time and general location of an incident, according to the fact sheet.
Under the new structure, the Office of Stu-dent Assistance will act as the entry point for students who want to pursue a judicial case within the university.
But the Office of Student Assistance is
also not considered a confidential space, said Randi Bregman, the executive director of Vera House, which partners with the university.
“That part doesn’t make sense to me in this model focused on privilege, so I’m hoping we can focus on that very early,” she said.
Wallack, the head of the Counseling Center, said if students enter a judicial process with the university and share any additional information about another sexual assault case with a staff member within student assistance during the process, it will be considered private information.
Meaghan Greeley, a graduate student in the masters of social work program at SU, said she has spoken with multiple members of the admin-istration involved in the decision to create the new structure, and she has received different answers each time about the level of confidenti-ality within the Office of Student Assistance.
If the administrators do officially consider the Office of Student Assistance as a confi-dential resource, Greely said, then it begs the question as to why the Advocacy Center was closed, when it could have performed the same tasks with certain assumed confidentiality.
Moore, one of the students involved in the campaign, said she hopes students will stay engaged as the decisions for the new structure for sexual assault resources develops this fall.
“I think now that everyone is back, students can really be involved, attend the listening meet-ings, attend the rally, hear what the administra-tion has to say and really push the administration to make the best out of this situation,” she said.
McLane, who uses a wheelchair, get to class. Hicker had a level of empathy for McLane, since Hicker was hit by a car his sophomore year, leav-ing him with a compound fracture of his femur.
“I was within incidence of being in the same situation for life, or worse,” Hicker said.
The relationship between Hicker and McLane has lasted more than 50 years and now the two are coming together to help today’s disabled students. The money from the fund is going toward improvements in web-based tech-nology, access to facilities, personal assistance and more flexible campus transportation.
The web-based project will consist of soft-ware accommodations to enable students who are deaf, blind, have speech impairments or know English as a second language to have bet-ter access to research resources. Charles Merri-hew, interim vice president of advancement and external affairs, said campus websites may need
to be upgraded to accommodate more people.The fund also calls for modifications to doors
and restrooms, better signage, stair lifts and changes to drinking fountains among other projects. Hicker said the locations being made more accessible are 804 University Ave., the Office of Financial Aid, Bird Library, the Car-rier Dome, Crouse-Hinds Hall, Schine Student Center, the Slutzker International Center and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.
Merrihew said the changes will be gradual. “What we’re working with is campus plan-
ning, design and construction as kind of a set of waves,” he said.
Improvements to the campus bus system will include more flexible transportation for people with disabilities but the plan has not been completed. The personal assistance pro-gram will likely include assistance for students with disabilities who need help getting around campus, taking notes in classes, transporting items or getting up in the morning, but it still remains in the planning stage, said Lisa Honan, executive director of development.
“We have just begun to raise the money that we will need for this,” Honan said. “George’s gift is a wonderful stimulus to help us raise this money.”
There will also be funding in the future to help students with non-physical disabilities, such as those with learning disabilities.
“There are so many more people, kids that have learning disabilities that we don’t know about and if they diagnose it they won’t tell you because they’ll be at a disadvantage,” Hicker said.
Co-President of the Disability Student Union, Nick Holzthum said he has positive expectations for the changes.
“I think the changes that are going to occur on campus are going to be well-received and the changes are very long overdue,” he said.
McLane said he hopes the fund helps estab-lish SU as a place where the disabled are able to get an education without severe difficulty.
Said McLane: “The ultimate goal is to increase both the number of students and the diversity of those students coming to Syracuse in terms of disability.”
arrested. On a larger scale, he said students can stay educated on the issues by discussing them with their peers.
“These students wearing the nametag saying ‘My name is Mike Brown’ reminds them that it could happen to them,” Duah-Agyeman said. “It’s important for them to remember not to live in fear, but to be mindful of instances like these.”
Paula Johnson, co-director of the Cold Case Justice Initiative, reminded the audience that the “past is not the past,” and that events like Brown’s deaths can bring communities together.
“These last few weeks have felt like a life-time for many of us, ” Johnson said. “It’s only been about two weeks since this began, so in that sense it’s a beginning, an opportunity to show support — not only in Ferguson, but here in this community .”
Campaign meeting to be held at 5:15 p.m. in Carnegie 119
JULY 30 Listening Meeting
JUNE 23 Listening Meeting
JUNE 4Advocacy Center closes
Administration posts fact sheet about changes
MAY 30 Syverud sends out email with memo announcing changes to sexual assault services
Online petition is created
APRIL 2014 White House Sexual Assault Task Force Report Released
SEPT. 2013 “Responsible employee clause” from Title IX is taken away the Advocacy Center’s confi-dentiality. The Counseling Center still con-sidered privileged and confidential resource
AUG. 2011 R.A.P.E. Center (‘Rape: advocacy, prevention and education’) name changes to the Advocacy Center
1990 R.A.P.E. Center opens
history of changes
Since its founding in 1990, the Advocacy Center has evolved over the years. Here is a timeline of some of the changes:
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By Jackie Frerefeature editor
More than half a century of Marshall Street his-tory came to a halt this
summer, and students, alumni and faculty are speaking out.
Cosmos Pizza & Grill, the popu-lar restaurant sandwiched between Insomnia Cookies and the Verizon Wireless store, has been shut down since mid-May with expectations of reopening in July after “mainte-nance and improvements,” accord-ing to the sign in the window. In June, a “For Rent” sign appeared in the next window with the number of a Syracuse lawyer.
No one has come in or out of the diner and the usual phone number is disconnected. With no response or word from the owners, this has left everyone wondering — what happened to the Syracuse Univer-sity staple?
“The first day it hit the news that Cosmos was closing, I got phone calls from three or four of my friends ask-ing if I knew someone so they could by it,” said Ira Berkowitz, a 1982 SU
alumnus. “I know people who want to reopen it. It is shocking to me.”
Berkowitz said his friends, who are also SU alumni, did their own research and tried making phone calls to the numbers on the restau-rant’s windows, but have yet to receive any response.
When Cosmos opened in 1963, it was one of the only restaurants on The Hill. It was a place students went for eggs and bacon, burgers, cheesy fries and honeybuns. Varsity and Burger King were the only two other hangout spots for faculty and students in the sixties, because there was no student center at the time.
Berkowitz was nicknamed Mr. Cosmos by fellow alumni for order-ing 240 honeybuns for his son’s bar mitzvah and naming his dog Cosmo. The diner-style restaurant was the best place on Marshall Street to go for breakfast on a college budget — and to see who went out with who the night before, he said.
“I was a regular,” Berkowitz said. “Cosmos was my go-to place for break-fast. You’d walk in there on a Saturday or Sunday morning — I’m sure you’ve
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SU in top 50 LGBT-friendly listgone grillBy Brendan Kriselasst. feature editor
There’s a new ranking Syracuse Uni-versity can be proud about.
On August 15, SU was ranked on the top 50 list of LGBT-friendly colleges and universities by Campus Pride, an organization that ranks LGBT-friendly colleges and universi-ties based on their own index.
The Campus Pride index includes eight factors, said Rebby Kern, the media, communications and pro-grams manager for Campus Pride, in an email.
SU received five stars in six cat-egories: policy and inclusion, sup-port and institutional commitment, academic life, student life, campus safety and counseling and health. It
received 4.5 stars for housing and recruitment and retention.
Due to a growing number of reg-istered schools, Campus Pride has expanded the list from 25 schools to 50, according to its website.
For Chase Catalano, director of the LGBT Resource Center, inclusion on the list does not mean being able to take a break from the hard work of making SU’s campus as inclusive and welcoming as possible.
“It’s an honor, and it’s great to get the recognition and we still have lots of work that we’re interested in doing,” Catalano said. “We’re invest-ed in using this as a way to inspire ourselves, not to get complacent about it.”
For the LGBT Resource Center, that means improving its traditional
Campus Pride ranks colleges, universities on LGBT resources, policies
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We’re invested in using this as a way to inspire ourselves, not to get complacent about it.Chase Catalanodirector of the lgbt resource center
Cosmos Pizza & Grill has been closed since mid-May with a sign reading “maintenance and improvements,” in the window. The Marshall Street restaurant was established in 1963, and is one of the oldest and iconic restaurants on campus. cassie zhang contributing photographer
up in the air Alumni reflect on their memories of the popular restaurant that came to Marshall Street more than 50 years ago.
It was really cheap and just a fun place to hang out. I cannot emphasize enough how crazy cheap it was.
I think it’s just sad because M-Street today is just not what it used to be back in the 90s when I was in college. Cosmos was always just upbeat and positive.
The first time I went back since I graduated, I went to Cosmos. It was like, ‘Oh Cosmos!’ I’m home.
I can’t believe that space isn’t open. That is shocking to me. There’s something completely strange going on there.
Jennifer Carnahan1999 su alumna
Aileen Gallagher1999 su alumna and newhouse professor
Linda Landau1976 su alumna
Ira Berkowitz1982 su alumnus
SU alumni react to Marshall Street staple Cosmos’ unknown future
programming and events. For this year’s annu-al LGBT student social, the center is bringing in an ice cream truck to make it a special event and to attract more students to attend.
The LGBT Resource Center and the senate committee on LGBT issues at SU have made it a new priority to discuss trans* inclusion with SU Athletics, Catalano said. If achieved, SU’s campus would only be more inclusive to all sexual orientations and gender identities.
Catalano believes that SU made this year’s list due to a large amount of continued institu-tional support provided by the university.
“We are very lucky to have faculty, staff, students (and) alumni who are really invested in having the LGBT Resource Center, having a
senate committee on LGBT concerns and hav-ing an LGBT studies program,” Catalano said.
Roger Hallas, director of the LGBT studies program, was not surprised by SU’s inclusion on the list of LGBT-friendly schools. Hallas believes that the ranking, while a nice recognition, is not as important as SU’s resources for LGBT students.
“It doesn’t matter whether we’re in the top 20, the top 30, the top 50,” Hallas said. “What really matters is are we making the grade in those specific areas of student support, cam-pus life, academic life, quality on the level of Syracuse’s policies as an institution.”
Much like Catalano, Hallas sees the ranking as an opportunity for continued growth and success for the LGBT community on campus. Much of this has to do with the growth of the LGBT studies program.
Created in 2006, SU’s LGBT studies pro-gram is already a leading program, especially when looking at LGBT issues on a worldwide scale. After receiving a three-year Chancellor’s Leadership Projects grant from Nancy Cantor, the department hosted two conferences — one in Syracuse in 2010 and one in Madrid in 2011 — which attracted scholars and activists from over 25 different countries.
This large commitment to the LGBT studies program at SU reflects the university’s com-mitment to the entire LGBT community as a whole, Hallas said.
For Charles Morris, interim department
chair of communications and rhetorical stud-ies, and many others involved with LGBT issues on campus, the ranking did not come as much of a surprise, but was nonetheless a gratifying and deserved recognition of SU’s commitment to academic and social LGBT issues on campus.
Said Morris: “We should all note with thanks that, most importantly, the ranking represents the successful and ongoing labor of community building, social justice initiatives, superb teaching and world class scholarship by LGBT people and their allies across campus.”
heard of the walk of shame — well, the walk of shame came with breakfast at Cosmos.”
The news of Cosmos not only came as a shock to many alumni, but so did the sudden loss of co-founder George Cannellos, who died in January 2013. To Linda Landau, a 1976 alumna of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Cannellos working behind the counter every day created the friendly, unforgettable atmosphere of Cosmos. He spe-cifically hired SU students to create a connec-tion close to campus and the community.
“He was always there,” Landau said. “He
worked there. Maybe that was a part of the lure of it all.”
Cannellos was the face of a long-standing tradition on Marshall Street. With Cosmos at a standstill and its famous owner gone, SU has lost a piece of its history.
Jennifer Carnahan, a 1999 Newhouse alumna, said she is saddened that yet another local restau-rant is gone from “M-street.” With chain restau-rants like Jimmy Johns and Chipotle, Carnahan said Marshall Street is losing its college feel.
She said the past bustle of Marshall Street is gone and has been replaced by bars and night-life. Carnahan added that she’ll miss coming back to campus as an alumna and grabbing her favorite cheesy fries with her friends.
“Even though it was just a restaurant, it was one of those staple institutions on M-street,” she said. “It was sort of like build-ing a bond and all the friendships that you had as you were going through school. It was a tradition.”
Newhouse professor and 1999 SU alumna Aileen Gallagher also said Marshall Street was losing its character and that one could find the restaurants on The Hill now anywhere — they’re no longer unique to SU.
Gallagher remembered Cosmos as an equal-izer, because every single person could afford a meal there. She had never met anyone in her time at SU as an undergraduate student or as a professor who was unable to afford a Cosmos
cup of coffee or meal.“It was reliably good food, and there’s some-
thing for everybody,” Gallagher said. “People liked it. It is the definition of comfort food.”
Although students, faculty and alumni will miss Cosmos’ signature food, Landau said the SU community is losing part of its culture.
“I think the bigger thing was, it wasn’t a restaurant, it was a part of Syracuse Univer-sity,” said Landau. “Other restaurants have come and gone. Nobody cared about any other restaurant that came and went, but Cosmos and Varsity really represent Syracuse. It’s almost like saying we’re going to get rid of Newhouse or the basketball team.”
I’m not always a fan of social media, but I owe it to Facebook that I’m still connected to life in the United States.
Without my friend’s Facebook status reading, “CUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE,” I probably would have forgotten that Syracuse University is starting its first week of classes.
My semester at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile started three weeks ago and I’ve been abroad in South America for about two months now. My group of 20 started in Cuenca, Ecuador for a month-long, language immersion experience.
After picking up three Spanish credits, see-ing the equator and hiking through a national park, seven more students joined us when we arrived in Santiago, Chile. Then, our two professors showed us through Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay.
With all of this traveling, I’m beginning to feel more disconnected with home. The time zone is the same as the east coast, but it’s winter here. The winter feels more like
spring, reaching 60–70 degrees in the after-noon and 40 degrees in the evening. When I Facetime my family and hear crickets in the background, it’s like I can feel the humidity of Pennsylvania’s summer. I forget what month it is a lot.
With my fourth week under my belt, I’m settled in with my host family in Santiago. I know the city well enough to not get lost on the metro. I’m picking up on the Chilean slang and I felt my first earthquake Saturday evening — a 6.4.
Because Chile stretches along the west coast of South America, the geography ranges from the world’s driest desert in the north, the Andes Mountains along the east, Patago-nia in the south and the Pacific Ocean along the west.
My goal is to travel the country in all four directions, and my past two weekends were spent in the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains.
Santiago is in the center of it all.With a capital city of 6 million — twice the
size of Los Angeles — Chile is an ironic mix of urbanization and desolation, which is exactly why I chose to come here. Eighty-five percent of the country’s population lives in urban areas. Santiago’s surrounding area is peppered with houses and vineyards, but it’s mostly desolate natural beauty.
Santiago is a cosmopolitan maze of metros, busses and suited-up people walking somewhere important. There are enough McDonald’s, sushi restaurants and smog for everyone in the city.
But as quickly as I can get wrapped up in the rushed city life, I can leave it. It’s an hour east to the beach and an hour west to the Andes Mountains.
On Friday, my friend and I donned our snow pants and headed to El Dorado to ski through a program with about 30 interna-
tional students. We drove on Route 40, which is said to have 40 switchbacks. This is prob-ably true since El Colorado is between 8,000 and 10,000 feet in altitude, while Santiago is at about 2,000 feet.
With these huge, bare mountains in the distance, it felt like the only thing that existed was this ski resort. The rest of the world sim-ply had fallen off. Or, rather, I had simply fallen off the world.
But sure enough, after another hour-long drive, we were back to city life and I was taking the metro to my host family’s house.
I recounted my day to my host family, then I Facetimed my real family. Soon enough, I was reconnected with the familiar senses of sum-mertime — crickets chirping in my backyard and my friend eating Oreo ice cream.
Danielle Roth is a junior majoring in mag-azine journalism and international relations. She is following her desires for good food and
adventure in Santiago, Chile. Email her at [email protected] or tweet her @danielleroth_ .
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show your colorsThe LGBT Resource Center has many events planned for LGBT students this fall.
Aug. 27, 7:00 p.m.750 Ostrom Ave.LGBTQA Student SocialMeet and socialize with other LGBT students on campus and the staff at the LGBT Resource Center. An ice cream truck will be serving up free soft-serve ice cream.
Aug. 28, 3:00 p.m.Schine 304 ABCCultural Centers Welcome Join the LGBT Resource Center, the Disability Cultural Center, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Slutzker Center for International Services as they talk about inclusion and community across their identities.
Sept. 3, 6:00 p.m.750 Ostrom Ave.EmbodyJoin a discussion group for gender questioning, genderqueer, gender non-conforming and trans* identified students, faculty and staff.
Sept. 8, 6:00 p.m.750 Ostrom Ave.New 2 ‘QuseNew 2 ‘Quse is a weekly discussion group for LGBTQA students who are new to the Syracuse and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry campuses.
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a capellaAuditions: Aug. 31, Sept. 1, Sept. 3
Where: 213 Crouse College
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By Isha Damlecontributing writer
Orange Appeal, an all-male a capella group, have been making crowds go wild since 1997 in its signature Chuck
Taylors, ties and black button-down shirts. On Aug. 8, Orange Appeal released its most
recent album, appropriately titled ‘Chucks & Ties,’ based on the group’s trademark perfor-mance wear.
Orange Appeal president Zack Phillips, a dual major in television, radio and film and policy studies, said this is the first album the group has produced in four years. After raising $11,500 through Kickstarter, the group record-ed the album during the 2014 spring semester.
Sophomore television, radio and film major and Orange Appeal member Brendan Ger-maine sees the album as a way to remember his time with the group after he leaves SU.
“I think that (often) in college a capella, you
do it for four years in school, and then you’re just kind of done with it,” Germaine said. “It’s exciting that the album is out there, on iTunes, on Spotify and it’s going to be there for as long as it’s going to be there because it’s solidified.”
Because several donations came from their family members, Orange Appeal opted to keep the album family friendly and appeal to all ages by singing songs from classic artists like The Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder and chart-top-pers Justin Timberlake and Avicii.
“The fact that we have music from the ‘60s and music that was released last year, I think that’s the really cool thing about the album,” Phillips said.
Until “Chucks and Ties”, Orange Appeal had not released an album featuring any of its current members. With the increasing popularity of a capella music in pop culture, Phillips felt that it was important to release new recorded material.
“People are becoming a lot more into a capel-la music, which is kind of great, so we kind of
needed an album that could compete with some of the more high-level stuff that’s being put out by a capella groups now,” Phillips said.
Ted Trembinski helped Orange Appeal record the album in a soundproof editing booth in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Commu-nications. Trembinski works for The Vocal Company, an a capella production company that has worked with acts such as Pentatonix.
Trembinski worked with each soloist for an hour, and helped simplify the recording process by featuring 12 out of the 21 members on each song.
“The process was really seamless. (Ted) was the producer of the album and he was amazing to work with because he really brought a lot out of me that I wasn’t expecting to give,” junior television, radio and film major and member Mike Liebenson said.
After successfully recording the album, the group now hopes to make a music video for the first song off the album, “I Want You Back”, which stars Liebenson as lead vocalist.
“We think it would be really cool if we could make a music video to accompany that song, because you get much more attention if you have a video to go along with your music. That’s kind of our goal right now,” Phillips added.
Production for the music video has yet to start, but Phillips is also focused on other goals for the group, such as traveling for live performances. He said they enjoy traveling to schools to perform with other groups but the trips are expensive.
Phillips is hoping that the album’s success will contribute to the group’s goals of traveling and help them find new members, as eight of their members graduated last year. He said that even though musical talents are import-ant in all singing groups, personality is an important factor as well.
“I think our group has a really distinct personality, and we really look for guys who want to be part of this brotherhood (and) enjoy themselves up on stage,” Phillips said.
Note-worthySU a capella group releases album named after signature attire
(Left to right) eric king, zAck phiLLips And mike Liebenson perform at Citrus in the City for an audience of new SU students. The group just released “Chucks and Ties,” its first album in four years. frankie prijatel asst. photo editor
first-stringers and freshman Steve Ishmael is a second-teamer. • On the offensive line, right tackle Ivan Foy leapfrogged Michael Lasker, who was listed first at the spot in the preseason depth chart.• Guard Rob Trudo is first at the right guard
position. Nick Robinson was at the top of the position in the preseason depth chart, but head coach Scott Shafer ruled him out for the Villanova game with an ankle sprain.• With Josh Parris sidelined a few more weeks after undergoing a knee surgery, Kendall Moore is listed as the first-team tight end with freshman Jamal Custis right behind him.• On the defensive line, Robert Welsh and
Micah Robinson appear to be the starters at defensive end for Syracuse. Ron Thompson was listed as a first-teamer in the preseason depth chart, but will spell both Welsh and Robinson. Also, Marcus Coleman has the edge on Isaiah Johnson at defensive tackle.• Freshman Juwan Dowels clinched the fourth cornerback spot over Cordell Hudson, Corey Win-field and others. He is listed behind senior Bran-
don Reddish, while Julian Whigham and Wayne Morgan hold down the other cornerback spot.• Freshman linebackers Zaire Franklin and Par-ris Bennett also cracked SU’s two-deep roster.• Ryan Norton will kick field goals in place of Ross Krautman. Norton had taken most of the first reps throughout training camp during practices open to the media.
Scott Shafer said on Saturday that he wanted to have every position battle settled, two-deep in the Orange’s depth chart, by Tuesday. On Monday, Syracuse announced its top two across the board.Here’s who will line up for the Orange, and where, in Friday’s 7:30 p.m. sea-son opener in the Carrier Dome against Villanova, according to the Monday depth chart release.
In 2013, Syracuse stood on the fringe of Atlan-tic Coast Conference contention. It boasted a young and talented attack — the kind that could beat a team one night, and come up empty the next.
It was the kind of team that would get just one shot on goal against Notre Dame, but also the kind that would defeat Connecticut, a nationally ranked power, just four days later.
Its entire offense was in its first season. The options were plentiful, though hardly refined.
“We’ve got guys with full college seasons under their belt,” junior goalkeeper Alex Bono said. “It’s going to be important that we keep working on the system, working on the way we’re going to play. We’ll improve that way.”
W hat was a group defined by its youth returns for another go-round in the ACC — this time with more experience. Though the young offense was far from prolific last season, finishing third-to-last in goals during conference games, it does return 96.6 percent of its goal-scoring roster from last season.
And 20 of the 30 goals scored came from the 2013 freshman crop of Emil Ekblom, Chris Nanco and Alex Halis.
“I think as a coaching staff, we’ve got some headaches,” McIntyre said, “because I think we’ve got some options this year.”
The Orange had suffered eight losing sea-sons in the last nine years before its run to the round of 16 in 2012. Now just one year removed from its first season as a member of the ACC, Syracuse has begun to develop a stable core to its offense.
Moving to the premier men’s soccer con-ference bolstered its recruiting for last year, but because of that, nearly all of SU’s top offensive players were getting their first taste
of college soccer. And while the returners bring valuable
experience, so does one of its newer players. Julian Buescher, a midfielder, is making his first appearance for the Orange but already has proven capability.
He comes in as a 21 year-old freshman from Germany. In his first exhibition game he scored Syracuse’s first goal. McIntyre said he’s going to be a fan favorite.
Buescher said that he’s trying to work him-self into the offense.
“We have to (get) the balance right,” Buescher said. “We (have) a lot of points that we have to work on.”
As an offense, Syracuse’s 30 goals ranked fifth in the ACC, but only 12 of those came in its
11 conference games. Syracuse proved that it could win. It was
victorious in all seven of its nonconference games, and eventually defeated two nationally ranked programs at SU Soccer Stadium.
But the bright flashes of 2013 were more of an indication than anything else — a stepping-stone for an attack that is in transition.
This season, though, is about showing that last season truly was a prelude.
“We’re up for the challenge, we know every game during the season has postseason ram-ifications,” McIntyre said “…We can show (consistency) and find a way to kind of roll our sleeves up and get some points at the stadium, as well as on the road.”
Young Syracuse attackers look to punish in 2014 season
ALEX HALIS was second on the team in scoring as a freshman. He had six goals, one assist and started all but one game for the Orange. His .333 shooting percentage was the highest on the team. chase gaewski staff photographer
EMIL EKBLOM was the top scorer for Syracuse last season. His 10 goals accounted for a third of the team’s scoring for the entire year. He started in every game and leads a strong, young offensive core in its second season. chase gaewski staff photographer
CHRIS NANCO was third on the team in scoring last year, tallying four goals and one assist. He started all but one game and also scored two game-winning goals. He joins Halis and Ekblom as the top scorers for SU. daily orange file photo
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Every time he went for a jog in high school, he ran by Beaver Stadium, the home of the Nittany Lions. That was all he needed, and it wasn’t the only path that Penn State would lead him down.
In 2003, when PSU wide receiver Scott Shirley’s father was diagnosed with kidney cancer, the Nittany Lions turned a weight-lift-ing competition into a fundraiser. Later that year, Shirley and two of his teammates started Uplifting Athletes, a nonprofit organization that helps college athletics raise money for awareness and research of rare diseases.
Uplifting Athletes now has chapters at 21 schools, with each chapter run by a stu-dent-athlete. Rodgers started the Syracuse chapter before his junior year, adopting brain cancer as its focus with Long in mind.
Long, who was both a two-time captain and standout punter with the Orange, missed the Pinstripe Bowl in 2010 — his senior sea-son — for surgery to remove a brain tumor. He graduated before Rodgers got to Syracuse and has since beaten brain cancer. Rodgers leads the SU chapter in the punter’s name.
“Sam and I have grown very close since he started the Uplifting Athletes here,” Long said. “Just to know that he took to my story and is continuing to work to help raise awareness — it’s amazing.”
Along with Uplifting Athletes, Rodgers has also made two mission trips to Haiti to work with children at an orphanage. There, he taught children English, built green-houses and ran a soccer clinic for more than 100 kids in the village. After it was done, he gave away soccer balls, shoes and cleats.
Still, Rodgers has kept up with his craft on the field.
Since he’s been a starter for the last three years, he’s started to zero in on second-level nuances. When a holder usually catches a snap for a field goal, he has to turn the ball so the kicker doesn’t strike the laces. Rodgers is working on hiking the ball with the perfect speed and rotation so punter Riley Dixon, who moonlights as the team’s holder, doesn’t have to turn the ball.
The two worked tirelessly over the sum-mer, with Dixon looking to build on a breakout season and Rodgers calculating the ideal snap.
“He’s the best long-snapper I’ve ever had,” said Dixon, who is also the vice presi-dent of the SU Uplifting Athletes chapter. “I mean really, Sam’s just a guy that doesn’t do much wrong.”
Behind Rodgers’ confident smile is a matching self-awareness. He can talk about the nuances of hiking to punters and holders — joking that field goals are high-pressure while punters sometimes feel a mile away — but sees football as a starting point.
“When you’re a college athlete people want to hear what you have to say,” Rodgers said. “I have one more year on the football field and one more year to make a difference in the community. This platform doesn’t last forever.”
Although Syracuse failed to produce a 1,000-yard rusher last year for the first time since 2007, the Orange’s rushing game has hit new heights the past two seasons. SU will look to Prince-Tyson Gulley, a fifth-year senior and team captain, to carry that trend forward this season. Here’s a look at Syracuse’s leading rushers and the team’s damage on the ground over the past 10 seasons:
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Fair gameFormer Syracuse forward C.J. Fair signed a non-guaranteed contract with the Indiana Pacers after going unselected in the NBA Draft in June. See dailyorange.com
Zero to heroVillanova walk-on wide receiver Poppy Livers has gone from barely making the team to lead-ing it heading into the 2014 sea-son. See Wednesday’s paper
By Jesse Doughertysports editor
Sam Rodgers could hike a football in his sleep. Some-times, when a make-believe
game sneaks into a dream, he actu-ally does.
Standing in the middle of Syra-cuse’s Petty-Iacono Football Wing, Rodgers closed his eyes and put his hands at his sides — acting as if he was in his bed. Then he jolted his body forward and threw his hands between his legs, his head toward his waistline and spread his legs apart.
Whoever was on the receiving end had just received a perfect snap.
“I’ve just been here doing this so long,” said Rodgers, the Orange’s starting senior long-snapper. “It’s like you do something enough, over and over, and you really start to live it and think about it all the time.”
Rodgers, a four-year starter, was named a team captain alongside running back Prince-Tyson Gulley, offensive tackle Sean Hickey and
linebacker Cameron Lynch toward the end of training camp. Gulley has been a primary piece of the Orange’s backfield for three seasons, Lynch is considered one of the conference’s best linebackers and Hickey and “NFL” have often shared sentences.
As a long-snapper, Rodgers’ status isn’t comparable. But he’s played the most collegiate games of the four and — along with his charity work with Uplifting Athletes in honor of two-time SU captain Rob Long— become
a steadfast leader in the process. “It’s weird for a long-snapper to
be a captain but also think about the role,” Rodgers said. “My job is to go out every day and be as consistent as possible. And when you’re looking for a captain you need someone with
a consistent attitude. I pride myself in that consistency.”
Growing up in State College, Penn-sylvania, Rodgers was in the heart of a football town. When he was making his college decision, he considered
By Matt Schneidman asst. copy editor
Two-star cornerback Daivon Ellison verbally committed to Syracuse, he announced via Twitter Monday night.
He becomes the 24th verbal pledge to the Orange’s Class of 2015, choosing SU over offers from Rut-gers, Boston College and Old Domin-ion, according to Scout.com.
Ellison is entering his senior season a Don Bosco (N.J.) Prep School and is listed at 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds, according to Scout.com. The site also rates him as a two-star prospect.
Ellison is the third cornerback to pledge to SU. Cornerback Treevon Prater was committed to SU’s 2014 class but was ruled academically ineligible and is now part of the 2015 group.
Syracuse is now third in Division I with its 24 commitments.
Syracuse releases depth chartBy Phil D’Abbraccioasst. sports editor
Syracuse released its pre-Villanova depth chart on Monday, clearing up some of the positional battles that were fought over during training camp. The Orange hosts the Wild-cats at the Carrier Dome on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Highlights:• Both quarterbacks A.J. Long and Austin Wilson are listed as sec-ond-string quarterbacks. Sopho-more Mitch Kimble is not on the depth chart.• Ashton Broyld is pegged as the second-string H-back behind Brisly Estime, after being listed as a first-team wide receiver in the preseason depth chart.• At wide receiver, fifth-year senior Adrian Flemming is one of the
I’ve just been here doing this so long. It’s like you do something enough, over and over, and you really start to live it and think about it all the time.Sam Rodgerssu long-snapper
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A look at SU captain, senior starting long-snapper Rodgers SNAPSHOT
SAM RODGERS was recently named a captain as a senior for Syracuse. He’s a four-year starter at long-snapper for the Orange, and has done a lot of work to fundraise in honor of former two-time Syracuse captain Rob Long who survived brain cancer. margaret lin photo editor
SAM RODGERS as a long-snapper, is not used to being in the spotlight at Syracuse. But head coach Scott Shafer said his election as a captain was an obvious one because of his organizational skills and charity work with Uplifting Athletes. margaret lin photo editor
