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Page 16 the independent student newspaper of syracuse, new york | dailyorange.com TAYLOR MIRIAM HENRY , a Remembrance Scholar and senior film major, received her middle name in memory of her mother’s best friend, who was killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. frankie prijatel staff photographer Panelists discuss injustice Panel features discussion on deaths of Brown, Martin By Sara Swann asst. news editor The Black Lives Matter movement is the new Civil Rights Movement dur- ing the (In)Justice For All event on Wednesday night, CNN Legal Ana- lyst Sunny Hostin said during the (In)Justice For All event on Wednes- day night. During the almost two-hour event, seven panelists discussed top- ics including police brutality, racial profiling of victims, recent social movements involving young people, law enforcement reactions and how the media has handled these issues. see panel page 8 By Sara Swann asst. news editor G rowing up, Taylor Miriam Henry never really understood the weight of her middle name. But now that she is one of 35 Remembrance Scholars, she said she is beginning to fully realize what it means. Taylor was named after her mother’s best friend, Miriam Luby Wolfe, who was one of the 35 Syracuse University students killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988. “I always knew I was named after her, but I guess I formed more of a connection with her after going through the (Remembrance Scholar appli- cation) myself,” said Taylor, a senior film major. But the similarities go beyond the namesake. Taylor said she knew as soon as she chose to go to SU that she wanted to be a Remembrance Scholar. Each year she volunteered during Remembrance Week, so when it came time to apply for the Remembrance Scholarship, there was no ques- tion about it. Remembrance Week is an annual event held at SU that honors and remembers the lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. This year’s week runs through Saturday. “We knew right from the beginning there was a poignancy about her going to Syracuse Univer- sity and being named after Miriam,” said Taylor’s mother, Tami Henry. Tami recalled worrying about Taylor flying in a plane for a class field trip to Washington, D.C. when she was younger. “That’s obviously a fear of mine — my children getting on flights without me,” Tami said. “And Taylor’s my oldest so the first time she had to get on a flight without me, I went completely irra- tional and I was freaking out trying to figure out how I could go with them.” Tami added that Taylor was mad at her at the time because she didn’t really understand where that fear came from, but since then she has grown to fully understand the weight the tragedy has had on her family. Now that she is participating in Remembrance Week as a scholar, Taylor said she has become more involved in every possible aspect and the whole event itself has become much more per- sonal for her. “(Miriam) would have been a huge part of my life,” Taylor said. “She would have been my god- mother. Trying to put that into words for people, trying to put that into perspective for myself sometimes is really hard.” Taylor said she never told any of the other Remembrance Scholars about her connection to Miriam, but slowly they’ve all come to realize it. Hollis Kran, Taylor’s best friend since soph- omore year, recalled one night last year when Taylor opened up to her about Miriam and her connection to the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Kran said she knew Taylor’s middle name men’s basketball SU seniors excited for new season see basketball page 15 Remembrance Week 2015 PART 4 OF 4 see remembrance page 6 By Jesse Dougherty web editor CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sitting on his couch in March, Michael Gbinije couldn’t resist watching an NCAA Tournament that Syracuse couldn’t be a part of. With a self-imposed postseason ban announced in February, the Orange sat out of the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA tournaments. Gbinije made a point of watching teams SU faced during the regular season. He wanted to know how his team would have matched up. He wanted to know how far Syracuse would have gone. In four years at Duke and Syra- cuse, he’d started taking postseason basketball for granted. But after his Remembrance Week is a weeklong series of events organized by Remembrance Scholars to commemorate the lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. What is Remembrance Week? More than Remembrance Scholar honors memory of mother’s best friend O • Hotline blessing Gender and Sexuality columnist Caroline Colvin explains how Drake’s “Hotline Bling” music video is a push to broaden main- stream beauty standards. Page 7 a name
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TAYLOR MIRIAM HENRY, a Remembrance Scholar and senior film major, received her middle name in memory of her mother’s best friend, who was killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. frankie prijatel staff photographer
Panelists discuss injusticePanel features discussion on deaths of Brown, MartinBy Sara Swann asst. news editor
The Black Lives Matter movement is the new Civil Rights Movement dur-ing the (In)Justice For All event on Wednesday night, CNN Legal Ana-lyst Sunny Hostin said during the (In)Justice For All event on Wednes-day night.
During the almost two-hour event, seven panelists discussed top-ics including police brutality, racial profiling of victims, recent social movements involving young people, law enforcement reactions and how the media has handled these issues.
see panel page 8
By Sara Swann asst. news editor
Growing up, Taylor Miriam Henry never really understood the weight of her middle name. But now that she is one
of 35 Remembrance Scholars, she said she is beginning to fully realize what it means.
Taylor was named after her mother’s best friend, Miriam Luby Wolfe, who was one of the 35 Syracuse University students killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing on Dec. 21, 1988.
“I always knew I was named after her, but I guess I formed more of a connection with her after going through the (Remembrance Scholar appli-cation) myself,” said Taylor, a senior film major.
But the similarities go beyond the namesake. Taylor said she knew as soon as she chose to go to SU that she wanted to be a Remembrance Scholar. Each year she volunteered during Remembrance Week, so when it came time to apply for the Remembrance Scholarship, there was no ques-tion about it. Remembrance Week is an annual event held at SU that honors and remembers the
lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. This year’s week runs through Saturday.
“We knew right from the beginning there was a poignancy about her going to Syracuse Univer-sity and being named after Miriam,” said Taylor’s mother, Tami Henry.
Tami recalled worrying about Taylor flying in a plane for a class field trip to Washington, D.C. when she was younger.
“That’s obviously a fear of mine — my children getting on flights without me,” Tami said. “And Taylor’s my oldest so the first time she had to get on a flight without me, I went completely irra-tional and I was freaking out trying to figure out how I could go with them.”
Tami added that Taylor was mad at her at the time because she didn’t really understand where that fear came from, but since then she has grown to fully understand the weight the tragedy has had on her family.
Now that she is participating in Remembrance Week as a scholar, Taylor said she has become more involved in every possible aspect and the whole event itself has become much more per-sonal for her.
“(Miriam) would have been a huge part of my life,” Taylor said. “She would have been my god-mother. Trying to put that into words for people, trying to put that into perspective for myself sometimes is really hard.”
Taylor said she never told any of the other Remembrance Scholars about her connection to Miriam, but slowly they’ve all come to realize it.
Hollis Kran, Taylor’s best friend since soph-omore year, recalled one night last year when Taylor opened up to her about Miriam and her connection to the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
Kran said she knew Taylor’s middle name
men’s basketball
SU seniors excited for new season
see basketball page 15
Remembrance Week 2015PART 4 OF 4
see remembrance page 6
By Jesse Dougherty web editor
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sitting on his couch in March, Michael Gbinije couldn’t resist watching an NCAA Tournament that Syracuse couldn’t be a part of.
With a self-imposed postseason ban announced in February, the Orange sat out of the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA tournaments. Gbinije made a point of watching teams SU faced during the regular season. He wanted to know how his team would have matched up. He wanted to know how far Syracuse would have gone.
In four years at Duke and Syra-cuse, he’d started taking postseason basketball for granted. But after his
Remembrance Week is a weeklong series of events organized by Remembrance Scholars to commemorate the lives lost in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
What is Remembrance Week?
More than
Remembrance Scholar honors memory of mother’s best friend
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By Clayton Dyerstaff writer
There are viciously destroyed and decomposing pumpkins littering Livingston Avenue. Sexy nurses, cats, cops and devils are making the march to Marshall Street. That’s right, it must be Halloween in Syracuse, and nothing says Halloween like a pumpkin ale.
As I’ve said before, pumpkin ales will never be in short supply come October. However, not all are created equal, and then there’s a clear distinc-tion when it comes to a good pumpkin ale and a bad one. I’ve had my fair share of pumpkin ales, so I decided to try one that may be on the stranger side — in honor of Halloween, of course.
The Traveler Beer Company spe-cializes in a type of beer that few others can compete with – craft shandys. Traditionally associated with summer, shandys are crossovers between beer and soft drink, such as ginger beer, ginger ale and carbonated lemonade. With a low alcohol content and a sweet, citrus flavor, a shandy is the perfect type of beer to enjoy at the beach, which
makes the Traveler’s Jack-O Traveler such a weird idea. I needed to broaden my horizons and decided to give the pumpkin shandy a try.
The Jack-O Traveler poured to form a light, white head and had little to no carbonation. The beer had an interestingly sweet smell to it, com-parable to pumpkin pie. The wheat beer’s bottle claims that the brew “strikes a perfect balance between bright refreshment and seasonal spice,” not a far-fetched notion for a shandy coming from Traveler.
Compared to many of the other pumpkin ales on the shelves today, the Jack-O Traveler had a sur-prisingly sweet flavor. While most competitors emphasize the flavor of all spice, the Jack-O Traveler accen-tuated the sweet flavor of brown sugar. Just as it smelled, the beer had a taste reminiscent of pumpkin pie.
The Jack-O Traveler is a perfect bev-erage for casual beer drinkers and fans of sweet beers alike. However, whether or not the sexy cops will enjoy it is a question beyond my expertise.
JACK-O TRAVELER SHANDY emphasizes the sweet flavor of brown sugar, instead of the pumpkin spice other seasonal ales do. It is perfect for the casual drinker. lukas halloran staff photographer
INSIDE N • Just as free An Arizona State University MBA program in its business school has gone tuition-free and officials say it will benefit the entire institution.
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S • Held back An injury to Juuso Pasanen has forced SU’s leading scorer Julian Buescher to play more defensively.
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I’ll stand by youA chapter of Students for Rand, the official youth effort of the Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) presidential campaign, is now at Syracuse University.See dailyorange.comN
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(FROM LEFT) LESLEY MCSPADDEN AND SYBRINA FULTON, the mothers of Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin, respectively, spoke about their sons and how they’ve dealt with their deaths during a panel discussion at SU on Wednesday. moriah ratner asst. photo editor
By Katelyn Faubel asst. copy editor
Black Lives Matter. That was the con-sensus following the (In)Justice For All panel among Syracuse University students in attendance and panelists who participated in the event.
The panel, hosted by the National Pan-Hellenic Council Wednesday night in Goldstein Auditorium, focused on social justice and police brutality. The nearly two-hour-long event featured the mothers of Mike Brown and Trayvon Martin, two teenagers who were shot.
Jania Joseph, a sophomore broad-cast and digital journalism major,
said she enjoyed that panelist Ben-jamin Crump, the president of the National Bar Association, talked about how black lives matter, but it is not that all other lives do not matter.
She said the panel was powerful and that there were a lot of emo-tional moments for her. She added that she heard the panelists talk on the news, but actually having them in front of her and telling their stories made the event better.
Fredricka Whitfield, a CNN anchor who was one of the panelists, said in an interview following the panel that instinctively, everyone thinks of the news about a woman finding out her son has been killed, but it is another
thing to hear a mother talk about see-ing her child laying there lifeless and now having to process the gravity of what has happened.
“I think really hit home for every-one,” Whitfield said. “I had not heard that perspective from them before and I think that led to a great reminder — a sad reminder — but a reminder nonetheless that we’re talking about human lives. We’re talking about lives; it’s not about a story.”
Whitfield said she thought the panel was great but no one really knew, coming into the event, where the conversation would be going. She added that hearing audience reactions was enlightening because,
“It clearly is striking a cord with many on many levels.”
Keith Kobland, media manager for SU, said that a stipulation of hold-ing the event was that the panelists requested no video coverage. He added that security was the same as any other event in the Goldstein Auditorium, which he said has a capacity to seat 1,500 people and saw about that many attend the panel.
Leja Henderson, a sophomore inclusive early childhood special education dual major and a mem-ber of the Black Celestial Choir Ensemble, sang before the panel began its discussion.
Panel sparks Black Lives Matter discussion
Here is a round-up of the top news stories published in The Daily Orange this week:
STUDENTS KILLED Two graduate students in the Syra-cuse University College of Engineer-ing and Computer Science died in a car accident about five miles away from campus on Oct. 22.
FOR STARTERS Syracuse University, along with four other schools, received $900,000 from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to establish an entre-preneurship hub in Bird Library.
OFF-CAMPUS SEXUAL ASSAULTS Two Syracuse University students reported to the Department of Pub-lic Safety that they were forcibly touched while walking on streets near the SU campus between 1 and 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.
BACK IN TOWN Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala returned to her alma mater Syracuse University to speak about higher education issues in Maxwell Auditorium on Friday.
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election 2016
Sanders holds video conferenceBy Bridget McAllister contributing writer
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders spoke directly to a core constituency of his campaign Wednesday night: college students.
About 70 Syracuse University students tuned in to the live feed of Sanders speaking from an audi-torium at George Mason University in Virginia. An independent senator from Vermont, Sanders is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election.
Spearheaded at SU by Jason Ash-ley, a senior citizenship and civic engagement major, the conference lasted just under two hours in Hun-tington Beard Crouse Hall’s Gifford Auditorium. The event was broad-cast to more than 300 colleges and universities across the U.S.
In particular, Sanders stressed issues regarding the American econ-omy, the current prison system and
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Republican candidates face off in 3rd debateBy Kylon Harris contributing writer
United States Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was considered the winner of the third Republican presiden-tial debate on Wednesday night by CNBC, the event’s host.
Eleven GOP presidential hope-fuls gathered on stage at the Univer-sity of Colorado-Boulder to discuss taxes, the economy, the nation’s budget and climate change. Moder-
ating the debate were three CNBC anchors: John Harwood, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla.
The 11 candidates who participated in the debate were Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Rubio, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Cruz’s attack on the media also helped make him one of the debate’s
frontrunners, according to Vox. Many of the usually quiet candi-
dates like Fiorina, Rubio and Kasich gave much more feedback while frontrunners like Trump and Car-son were more observant than vocal.
The candidates, while often argu-ing with one another on the specificity of their policies, seemed to remain on a united front against the Democrats.
Every candidate on stage men-tioned the name “Hillary Clinton” at least once, and some made their
opinions of the former secretary of state very clear.
“The men and woman on this stage have more experience than any participant in the Democratic debate, including Hillary Clinton,” Cruz said.
Toward the end of the debate, the candidates were asked more contro-versial questions about their back-ground in politics and business.
The next Republican debate is scheduled for Nov. 10.
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“It is beyond my comprehension why today in America hundreds of thousands of bright and qualified young people are unable to go to college for one reason: their families lack the money. That is wrong, and we are going to change that,” Sanders said, stressing the effect of economic hardship on young Americans.
Sanders expressed disapproval of the cur-rent American criminal justice system as well.
“America has more people in jail than any other country on Earth. … Disproportionately, those folks are black and Latino … I will not be the president of a country that has more people in jail than any other country,” Sanders said.
He also spoke on current issues in race rela-tions in America, making reference to divisive cases like the shooting of Mike Brown and the recent video of a police officer dragging a student from her desk in South Carolina.
Emphasizing his desire to witness the decriminalization of marijuana, Sanders dis-cussed the relationship between marijuana-re-lated arrests and high prison populations, citing a statistic that in 2014 that there were about 620,000 marijuana-related arrests in the U.S.
“It is time to end the arrests of so many
people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana,” he said.
Arguing that the current system allows the wealthiest families and corporations in the nation to invest large amounts of money in par-ticular candidates who serve their interests, he characterized campaign finance programs like Super PACs as degrading the integrity of the political system.
“We have an economic system that is rigged,” Sanders said. “Almost all of the income and wealth is going to the top 1 per-cent. I will be the president of a country with an economy that works for all of us, and not just for the billionaires.”
He also mentioned his desire, if elected president, to campaign for the national mini-mum wage to be steadily raised to $15 per hour.
Sanders’ speech was followed by a ques-tion-and-answer period, during which he answered questions both from people in the immediate audience and those asking on Twit-ter via the hashtag #studentsforbernie.
Questions ranged from his policies to com-bating human trafficking to his advocacy of disability groups.
In particular, he stressed his desire to see young people involved and engaged in the political sphere.
Henderson said the event was informative for the black community, but she said she thinks more people should have come out to be educated, to come together as a community
and to stand up for what is right. “I will take away from the event that all lives
matter, but we should throw it out there that black lives matter because black lives haven’t been appreciated for a long time and it’s time to start now,” Henderson said.
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The Arizona State University W.P. Carey School of Business has announced it will offer its incoming MBA students the opportunity to apply for full-tuition scholarships. The initiative is being funded by money from a 2013 donation from the school’s benefactor, William Polk Carey. courtesy of arizona state university
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A new initiative at the Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business is taking the high cost of receiving a Master’s in Business Administration entirely off the table for the incoming class of fall 2016 and every class after that.
The business school will be awarding about 120 full-tuition scholarships to next fall’s MBA students in hopes of funding its degrees in higher education and fostering a new, diverse class of graduates who maybe did not think an MBA was possible before now because of the price tag, said Amy Hillman, dean of the Carey School.
“We started to think about what the boundaries were for pursuing a graduate degree in business,” Hillman said. “You have an expensive tuition proposition and you don’t have other federal aid available.”
Hillman added that the initiative is being funded by money
still available from a $50 million grant donated to the business school in 2003 by philanthropist and alumnus, William Polk Carey. The business school is now named after him.
While there are only 120 scholarships to give out, there are usually only 70-80 students in each class of the Carey School’s MBA program.
Hillman said she hopes those who normally could not afford to pursue higher education will be encouraged to apply and then hopefully receive acceptance.
The Carey School would like to see a more diverse group of students than normal, including women, minorities and even entrepreneurs who could benefit from an MBA but were plan-ning to save their capital for a start-up, she added.
Every student that applies to the program is eligible for the scholarships, Hillman added. But that does not mean that every student is accepted.
“Full-time MBA programs are very competitive to get into, so while we’re taking the tuition part off the table, a student still needs to be very qualified to get in,” Hillman said.
Andrew Stevens, a second-year student currently on track to receive his MBA from the Carey School, said while he still has to foot his own bills, he believes the full-tuition scholarships will help him in the long run, as well.
“I think anything that boosts up ASU as a school is a benefit to any student that goes here. It strengthens our degrees after we graduate,” Stevens said. “Just because I’m not in that class that receives the tuition benefit, I still think I receive the bene-
fits of going to ASU.” In order to carry on an initiative like this, Hillman said the
Carey School understands that it will need to figure out more ways than just grant money to fund full-tuition scholarships year after year.
Stevens said he hopes the university’s move creates a new precedent within the education industry.
“With so much talk, especially in politics, about trying to make education more affordable and accessible, what ASU is doing is such a leadership move,” Stevens said. “I think it’s going to bring in a stronger and more diverse student body. I really do hope it changes the landscape for education as a whole.”
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was Miriam, but before that night she never knew the name’s significance. Kran said Taylor opened up about her connection to Miriam, and told her how she wanted to become a Remembrance Scholar.
Kran said she also noticed the resemblance between Taylor and Miriam, and when Taylor
changed her profile picture on Facebook to a photo of Miriam, she didn’t immediately real-ize that the photo was not of Taylor.
Tami described the similarity between her daughter and Miriam as “a little freaky.”
“Taylor’s always had curly hair and over the years it’s relaxed a bit. But Miriam had incred-ibly curly hair and one of the things people always remember about Miriam is that when she walked, she walked with a bounce and that
just made her hair bounce even more,” Tami said. “But (Taylor) does kind of look like her from a certain angle.”
One of the ways Taylor is remembering Miriam during Remembrance Week is through Miriam’s favorite children’s book: “The Red Balloon” by Albert Lamorisse.
Taylor tied a single red balloon to the chair on the Quad that represents where Miriam sat on Pan Am Flight 103. She has also used social media to share pictures of a red balloon near Miriam’s favorite places at SU.
For Miriam’s last birthday, Tami said she cross-stitched a clown with a bunch of bal-loons, making the middle one a big red balloon to reference her favorite book.
“It’s just really special and poignant,” Tami said. “I kind of feel like she’s never really left me.”
Tami said in a way, Miriam is living on through Taylor, especially now that she is a Remembrance Scholar.
“(Taylor is) just such a go-getter, which Mir-iam was as well,” Tami said. “And there were just so many things she wanted to do that you know she wasn’t able to do, and I think in some ways in some of the work I’ve done and some of the work Taylor does, we’ll keep some of those ideals going.”
Taylor said she is most excited to share Remembrance Week with her family since her mom, grandmother and one of her younger sisters will be attending the Rose Laying Cere-mony on Friday.
Every year during the Rose Laying Cere-mony, Taylor said she’s had many thoughts and memories about Miriam that she’s wanted to say, and this Friday is her opportunity to finally share them.
Taylor said as Remembrance Week has been going on, more and more of the significance is clicking for her, making the whole experience that much more emotional.
“Just every part of this has become a very big part of my life. It’s just something that I want to continue being involved in,” Taylor said. “Look back, act forward — I want to continue acting forward in (Miriam’s) memory and honoring the person she was and honoring her dreams.”
A graduate program for female STEM students recently welcomed its largest class yet.
Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) accepted 51 students into its Future Profes-sionals Program (FPP), according to an SU News release. WiSE-FPP supports female graduate students in STEM fields at Syracuse University, who often face gender biases in their programs and career fields, said Sharon Alestalo, program director of WiSE-FPP.
The program began in fall 2007 with 13 associates; in fall 2014, the program welcomed 44 associates, according to a WiSE document.
Professors Laura VanderDrift and Laura Lautz, both faculty advisers for the program, said the significance of this year’s large class size is that the program is growing and word-of-mouth is strengthening.
WiSE-FPP is an interdisciplinary group that connects women from 15 different fields, including biology, electrical engineering and computer science and psychology, according to a WiSE-FPP document. Many female graduate students are often isolated or are one of few in their specific program, said Lautz, an associate professor of Earth science.
She added that by bringing these women — both students and faculty — together, WiSE-FPP shows STEM women that they are not alone.
“It can be challenging to find role models when you’re a woman in STEM,” Lautz said.
Jueun Kim, a clinical psychology student and alumna of WiSE-FPP, said she has benefited from WiSE-FPP and has recommended it to other col-leagues. She said the mock interviews were one of the most helpful aspects of the program.
“They gave very specific input on what
would be stronger to say, what would make us look stronger as a candidate for job market. It was really, really helpful,” Kim said.
Students often hear about the program from other students and ask to be nominated by faculty, which, in turn, brings the program to faculty members’ attention, said Lautz, who has been a faculty adviser since 2011.
“Students don’t do it to check a box. They really get something out of it, and so those programs grow,” Lautz said.
The 51 associates, who are nominated by fac-ulty, are generally graduate students in or above their third year, which allows them to retain the full benefits of career preparation, Alestalo said.
Alestalo said there is a “leaky pipeline” for female students in STEM; while the number of women entering the fields in the K-12 and under-graduate levels is growing, the number of women who go on to complete a doctoral degree and take a STEM job post-doctorate is much lower.
“Undergraduate women don’t always pursue further a master’s degree, and their eligibility for STEM careers are limited because many STEM
careers require further education,” Alestalo said. Those STEM women that go on to graduate
school and the work force are confronted with a culture that is not as friendly to women, Alestalo said. This culture includes gender biases, such as the maternal wall, or the tradi-tional perception of a woman’s role to the fam-ily, and the balance between professionalism, likeability and competence, Alestalo said.
Kim said the group’s discussion of learning how to assert herself as a female in STEM, especially when negotiating salaries, was very important and beneficial.
Alestalo said helping women develop pro-fessional success and networking competen-cies while providing a safe support place is the goal of WiSE-FPP.
“Sometimes you’re just so isolated that you don’t see that you’ll ever get that grant or fel-lowship,” Alestalo said. “But if you’re in a room where four, five or six people have gotten one, you can say, ‘Well, my turn will come.’ It’s not feeling as hopeless.”
WiSE-FPP program welcomes largest group of STEM women
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Sustaining Earth
A central figure in the controversy over human-caused (“anthropogenic”) climate change has been “The Hockey Stick,” a simple, easy-to-understand graph Professor Mann and his colleagues constructed to depict changes in Earth’s temperature back to 1000 AD. The graph was featured in the high-profile “Summary for Policy Makers” of the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and quickly became an icon in the debate over anthropogenic climate change. In this lecture, Professor Mann will tell the story behind the Hockey Stick, using it as a vehicle for exploring broader issues regarding the role of skepticism in science, the uneasy relationship between science and politics, and the dangers that arise when special economic interests and those who do their bidding attempt to skew the discourse over policy-relevant areas of science. In short, Professor Mann will attempt to use the Hockey Stick to cut through the fog of disinformation that has been generated by the campaign to deny the reality of climate change and, in so doing, will reveal the very real threat to our future that lies behind it.
> Monday, Nov. 2 | 5:30 p.m. Panasci Family Chapel, Le Moyne College
Michael E. Mann, Ph.D.Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University
A book signing will follow in the lobby.
THE HOCKEY STICK
AND THE CLIMATE WARS: DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES
For more information, please contact the McDevitt Center at [email protected] or (315) 445-6200.
This event is free and open to the public.
It is sponsored by the McDevitt Center at Le Moyne College.
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OOPINION
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It’s been just over a week since Drake broke the Internet by dad dancing in a turtleneck against
dreamy James Turrell-inspired art installations. However, the music video for “Hotline Bling,” released by Drake on Apple Music, offers more than just memes and gifs. The women who appear as silhouettes against neon lights in the video are fuller-figured. While Drake is probably not the first rap-per in the history of music to feature bigger women, he should be praised for his choice of dancers. The Canadian rapper sends the message that big is beautiful, even in a world where any woman who is above a size two is considered “plus size.” The women of “Hotline Bling” are stunning in a manner that is right in line with rap music norms. Due to the ethnic roots of hip-hop, rap’s beauty standards have always been less Eurocentric than that of runways and haute couture magazines. This beauty – whose lips, hips and behinds are bigger – has existed for hundreds of thousands of years in people of African and Latina descent, but now is becoming more and more apparent in mainstream culture. The rise of curvy celebrities, like the Kardashian sisters, is a reason that these physical characteristics are now more accepted in the mainstream. Demi Lovato, an emerging icon of body positivity, credits the Kar-dashians with helping her accept her own curves and those of thick women, including Beyoncé. Lovato’s admis-sion to this in her Complex cover story
illustrates the importance of size rep-resentation in all facets of the media, even if it’s just E! News. As with any standard, there will be outliers. Some women have said that the “thick” ideal of hourglass figures is essentially unattainable if women are not naturally endowed. Be that as it may, body-shaming for fatness as opposed to thinness is more pervasive. The fashion indus-try’s top models have a quantifiable beauty and magazines regularly retouch their subjects to make them appear as slender as possible. The existence of such a narrow beauty standard is what makes “Hotline Bling” extraordinary. While all women are beautiful, this music video provided a medium in which curvier women were presented in a respectful, exciting and glamorous light. If more rappers were inclusive in their video castings, they would bring about a change in the public’s perceptions of bigger women. However, not all rappers have had the same exposure to body-pos-itive feminism as Drake. He has been romantically linked to Nicki Minaj and Serena Williams. Both of these women have been vocal about the fact that they have bodies that challenge popular conceptions of physical beauty. The album art of Minaj’s most recent release, “Anaconda,” sparked
controversy as the rapper fearlessly showcased her voluptuous figure. Similarly, the album’s title track is a love letter to her butt and a positive nod to other curvy women. Minaj spoke out earlier this year about the lack of representation for women with bigger figures in the pop industry in regard to MTV Video Music Awards. Like Minaj, Williams has also faced ridicule for her body proportions and has turned the negative attention into a means of promoting body pride and self-confidence. Despite having a career built on agility and feats of strength, Williams’ muscular physique has been derided for being masculine. However, Williams has said that she pays no mind to body-related criticism as she has people to inspire and Grand Slams to win. In the same way that these women are dominating in their respective industries, Drake is unde-niably the current king of rap. Just as Drake knew that his dancing would become a meme, surely he knew that he could use his high-profile platform to set a standard of beauty, fashion and rap music video aesthetics. Rappers, if you’re reading this, it’s not too late to make a positive impact when it comes to rap’s rep-resentation of women. More male artists should follow in the “6 God’s” example of being inspired by women, rather than objectifying them.
Caroline Colvin is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can
be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter at @fkacaro.
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Financial factorIs the current SA budget application process fair for all student organizations? Share your opinion on the online poll. See dailyorange.com
The Student Association Finance Board’s system of allocating funds for registered student organiza-tions is extensive and fair. How-ever, SA must remain considerate of newer student groups when the past successes of an organization are a factor in budget decisions. It is clear that SA puts a consid-erable amount of time and thought into RSO budget allocations, but the Finance Board must maintain a fair balance when distributing funds between well-established campus organizations and newer student groups. Board members should remain considerate of RSOs’ efforts and avoid discouraging organiza-tions on campus that are trying to get themselves off the ground. The board voted earlier this week to package $685,000 in spring 2016 funding for RSOs after the board carried out deliberations for more than $1.5 million in budget requests, which was an average amount, SA Comptroller Phil Kram-er said. When the board is voting on proposals, Kramer said approving a budget essentially comes down to whether the board feels the RSO can succeed in holding the event it has requested money for. Like the budget process, the process to even become a recognized student organization requires dedication. For this reason, every RSO on the Syracuse University campus is entitled to some funding and should ideally be
able to hold at least one event per academic year. RSOs should never be turned away by SA on the basis of their relatively new status. If the mem-bers of the Finance Board reject an idea by placing too much emphasis on fact that it has never been done before, the board, and the respec-tive RSO, will never know if that event would have been successful in the first place. That being said, SA’s existing budget application process is a practical system of evaluation in which decisions are made as a logical compromise between RSOs’ requests and the limits of SA’s budget. The board members take a rational approach in ensuring that the events that appeal most to a wider demographic of stu-dents, rather than a niche group, can be considered for more fund-ing. But while the legitimacy of a student group is a valid question to pose during budget delibera-tions, being an RSO warrants the right to be fully considered for funding in itself. Though the system is imper-fect, it is fair. However, while having a straightforward way to addressing the upwards of $1 million in requests each semester is efficient, SA must remember to not exclude the groups that are working to establish themselves on the SU campus.
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panelThe panel took place in Goldstein Auditorium, which was nearly full for the event.
Panelists Sybrina Fulton and Lesley McSpadden, the mothers of Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown, respectively, discussed how they have dealt with the loss of their sons and their healing process.
Fulton said the death of her son is something that drastically changed her life and is something she carries around with her every single day.
Since the death of her son, Trayvon, Ful-ton said she has retired and is now travel-ing around the country to bring awareness to issues of gun violence in America.
“You have to learn to adjust to this new lifestyle, to this heartache, to this pain,” Ful-ton said. “You have to learn how to channel negative energy into positive energy.”
Fulton also spoke about the day she found out her son had been killed. She asked the audience if they thought the day she learned of her son’s death — which was a day after Martin actually died — was the worst day of her life.
Everyone raised their hands. However, Fulton said this was not the worst
day of her life. The worst day of her life was when she saw her son dressed in white in a white casket during his funeral.
She added that even though thinking of that day is painful, it helps her heal.
Throughout the event, the panel took ques-tions from audience members. One audience member asked the two mothers to talk about what their sons were like.
Fulton said her son, who was 17 years old when he was shot and killed, was like an aver-
age teenager. McSpadden said Brown loved video games
so much that she had to convince him to go outside. She added that as her oldest child, he was a leader and very determined to graduate from high school.
“I miss my son. I was ready to watch him grow into a man,” McSpadden said through tears. “Now I have to go on SoundCloud to hear his voice and I have to look at pictures to see his face. … I hate that I have to sit on this stage.”
Fulton also addressed the issue of victim blaming. She said when her son was killed, law enforcement tested her son for drugs and alcohol, but they did not test the officer who shot him.
“They said he had a small amount of mari-juana in his system, but who doesn’t?” Fulton said. “… My son did not ask to be killed. He did not ask for his death.”
Department of Public Safety Chief Bobby Maldonado said he is cautious when formulat-ing his own opinions and he tries to do so with all of the information.
He added that police officers are valuable resources and that communicating effectively is key.
“Law enforcement officers should be peace-keepers, not crime fighters,” Maldonado said.
When asked about the support she has received since her son’s death, Fulton said she and McSpadden would much rather have their sons than be in this position, but the sup-port they have received, even from people who never knew their sons, has helped them know that they are not alone.
“The more we talk about these issues, the closer we are to coming to a solution and the better we will be as a country,” Fulton said.
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Costumes that kill Still not sure what to dress up as for Halloweekend? Humor columnist Danny Cuneo has you covered. See dailyorange.com
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Fraternity to debut 1st filmDelta Kappa Epsilon to create documentary on Oct. 14 Orange Alert
GHOST STORIESParanormal investigators discuss life as mediums, hauntings
By Alexi McCammondcontributing writer
Katherine Tinder sat in the packed Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium on the night of Oct. 14 while the Syr-acuse University campus was on lockdown due to an Orange Alert.
In the auditorium, Tinder said she heard people “cheering because they used this opportuni-ty to get their midterm canceled.” Close by, law enforcement was searching Oakwood Cemetery for suspects of a shooting a few miles off-campus. The victim of the shooting was 15 years old.
“I was very disappointed by the campus after the shooting,” she said. “People’s reactions were embarrassing.”
Now, Tinder, a junior television, radio and film major, is co-produc-ing a documentary about youth violence in Syracuse that is spe-cifically targeting SU students. The Syracuse Youth Development Council (SYDC) and Delta Kappa Alpha, a professional on-campus film fraternity, recently partnered to create the documentary.
The upcoming film will be DKA’s first film production since the organization officially launched last summer. The doc-umentary will feature the stories of youth and community members who have been personally affected by local violence, Tinder said.
The SYDC also launched its programming this semester. Earlier
I was very disappointed by the campus after the shooting. People’s reactions were embarrassing. Katherine Tinder junior television, radio and
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By Katherine Soteloasst. feature editor
When Tammy Rosenfeld was 5 years old, the shadows standing at the edge of her bed didn’t scare her.
She was used to them — the sometimes one, sometimes many, shaded outlines of a human figure. They stood where the hard light seeping in from her bedroom window hit the mattress, where shadows shouldn’t be, in a space where only she slept.
In 2012, Rosenfeld founded Salt City Paranormal Investigations, a not-for-profit team of three that does public and private investigations of central New York hauntings. SCPI joined an abun-dance of already established teams in CNY, like the Syracuse-based Shadow Chasers that Kate Creighton’s husband, P.W. Creighton, founded eight years ago.
The women knew they were different their whole lives, and have spent parts
of their adulthoods investigating para-normal activity.
Kate Creighton identifies as a medium, one who feels sensations when a spirit is present. Rosenfeld, who is an empath, or someone who picks up on energy of the deceased, experienced a lot of the para-normal growing up.
The oldest of five, Rosenfeld grew up bouncing from house to house in the rural countryside of Onondaga County. Her parents were renters, so the family moved every three or four years, totaling seven or eight houses.
It was at these houses, alongside her four sisters and one brother, where she shared her first encounters.
“My sister (Rosenfeld) is more sen-sitive, so her experiences were more extreme, but it was definitely hard to tell how much of this was just our childhood imagination and how much of it was real,” said Wanda Toscano, the second oldest child in the family. “But as we got older,
stuff started lining up and I realized ‘yeah, this is real.’”
It wouldn’t be until 2005, the year Ros-enfeld watched the first episode of “Ghost Hunters,” a SyFy original about two plumbers-by-day, paranormal investiga-tors-by-night, when she realized it wasn’t just her family who could feel spirits.
“I was shocked that people were actu-ally talking about this stuff that I had experienced all my life. I was like ‘People do this? I can do this,’” she said.
So she started her research. For five years, the West Virginia University grad-uate spent her free time scouring the Internet for answers.
In 2010, she found one in a local team she quickly joined. Rosenfeld became the case manager and did the nitty-gritty tasks, like setting up investigations, fill-ing out and filing paper work and organiz-ing events, meet-ups or appearances.
After a falling out in the process, she see paranormal page 10
quit and started SCPI. Like Kate Creighton, having a team was the
turning point for Rosenfeld. The teams made both women more comfortable with her abili-ties, both in practice and conversation.
“It made me realize that I’m not crazy, but I actually just see things on a different wave-length than other people,” Kate Creighton said about Shadow Chasers.
As a freshman at East Tennessee State University, P.W. Creighton traveled to the Appalachian Mountains for a project to docu-ment local folklore.
There, he met a woman who told him sto-ries of paranormal occurrences in the area. P.W. Creighton realized that these stories weren’t documented, but are worth telling.
“He really started paying attention to paranormal local folklore and thought, ‘Well, if I can document this, maybe I can analyze this,’” Kate Creighton said.
When he returned to campus, he started Shadow Chasers.
As a junior, he met Kate Creighton in a graveyard near the State University of New York at Potsdam on a ghost hunt with her two friends. They hit it off, and now the married couple works together on a ghost hunting team only slightly bigger than Rosenfeld’s, but still small enough to count on two hands.
In their almost decade of work, the Creigh-tons have investigated asylums, hotels and theaters, including the Capitol Theater in Rome, New York and the Stanley Theater in Utica, New York. This Halloween, they’ll investigate the Hotel Utica.
Rosenfeld’s work has taken her to similar venues, like the abandoned Pennhurst Asylum in Spring City, Pennsylvania, and the Yankee Pedlar Inn in Torrington, Connecticut, two of the Northeast’s most haunted locations.
The first time she went to Pennhurst, she went with Joe Chin, a former member of Ghost Hunt-
ers, the show that set the stage for her hobby.“When we were in the boys’ dormitory, I
saw a black shadow that was about 3 feet high, and it started charging at me,” Rosenfeld said. “That kind of freaked me out.”
Mostly, though, on these eight to 10 hour investigations, both Rosenfeld and Kate Creighton agreed there’s nothing to fear.
The teams use science-based equipment, like EMS scanners, RSF meters, thermal scanners and, for the Creightons, a PX, an oculus that takes in energy and translates it into words, Kate Creighton said.
During instances where spirits are present in a private investigation, the teams will ask the homeowners what they want to do. Many times, the spirits will be left to stay and the investigation acts simply as affirmation that something is present.
Others times, a priest will be called in to perform a cleansing.
“Many homeowners just want an objec-tive third party to come in and say: ‘Yes, something is here, and no, you’re not crazy,’” Kate Creighton said.
The teams will leave, often unpaid. Rosenfeld works a 9-5 job as a social worker, Kate Creighton works in customer service and her husband is a published author and archaeologist.
On the side, Rosenfeld writes for Para-normal Enlightenment magazine and hosts a radio show called “Sisterhood of Women in the Paranormal.”
Though the dark shadows at the edge of her childhood bed never scared her, she understands that the paranormal does frighten some people.
That’s why she’ll stay up all night in aban-doned asylums, old hotels or graveyards — so the shadows and gut feelings don’t creep up on those who don’t want them.
“My number one main reason why I do it is to help people,” Rosenfeld said. “When my family was experiencing a lot, there was no one there to help us. No one. So that’s why I do it — to help people.”
this month, SYDC hosted a teacher panel on youth violence and safety around the same time as the shooting.
“It was sad (the shooting) made people want to come out more, because they finally realized it’s an issue that happens around us,” said SYDC co-president Rachel Brown-Weinstock.
The SYDC works with six other youth-ori-ented student service groups. Together, the organizations work to solve some of the larger issues facing the community, as well as make a bigger impact on the lives of the youth, Brown-Weinstock said.
She added that the group is hoping the doc-umentary shows that the youths in the film are very human, and that they are impacted by the violence. The community can’t be fearful or have the impression that the young people are inherently bad, Brown-Weinstock said.
Sarah Grabman, a DKA founder and co-producer of the project, said she hopes the documentary will change students’ per-ception of the outside communities and their unwillingness to venture off campus.
“They don’t take the time to understand [the communities],” Grabman said. “We’re taking that approach of not assuming that we know fully what it’s like so we can provide
that knowledge to students.”Increasing awareness about these off-cam-
pus issues is an important goal for SYDC and DKA, Brown-Weinstock said, and she hopes that increasing awareness will lead to engage-ment, a sentiment shared by DKA.
“It’s amazing how little you have to do to cre-ate a big impact,” Tinder said. “If you go into the city and work at an afterschool program for 30 minutes instead of watching Netflix, that helps increase these youths’ chances of graduating.”
Tinder said it has been difficult to approach the documentary production because this is a sensitive issue for many people in the community.
“We are trying to talk to as many people as we can, but we don’t know how the community flows and we don’t know the politics,” Tinder said. “It’s kind of scary because you need to try to shape a voice that is respectful and repre-sentative of the community as a whole.”
Since this is its first production, DKA wants to collaborate more with the surround-ing communities on future projects. Tinder said the organization is honored to be associ-ated with the SYDC and its efforts to increase awareness about youth violence.
The tentative date for the documentary screening is Nov. 19 in Schine Student Center Room 304 ABC.
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Fright Nights at the FairWhere: New York State FairWhen: Oct. 30 at 10:30 p.m.How Much: $3
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By Sam Gozinskystaff writer
In the fall, the state fairgrounds is a place where visitors and community members can enjoy a variety of events, including dog shows, wine-tasting and concerts.
However, Syracuse is a popular destination during this time of year for Frankenstein, zombies, flying monkeys, jailed clowns and even a giant.
Since Oct. 2, the state fairgrounds has been hosting “Fright Nights at the Fair” on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the Beef Cattle Barn. Attractions at this year’s Fright Night include a clown prison, a chain-saw massacre, flying monkeys and a haunted mansion.
Orange After Dark is providing tickets and transportation at a dis-counted price of $3 for the event on Oct. 30. Orange After Dark’s ticket will allow students admission into each attraction. Planned in collabo-ration with Paradise Companies of New York, a vendor organizer, Fright Night’s last night this year will be Oct. 31.
“I think that getting off campus and taking a bus trip to somewhere
that, if you go by yourself, is pretty expensive and if you come with us, it’s only three bucks, is a little more appealing than some on-campus events because there are so many things to do on campus, so sometimes the attraction is ‘let me get off campus for a few hours,’” said Orange After Dark program coordinator Lorena Silva.
Silva spoke about what she thinks the events can offer students other than an alternative to a night of partying.
“We find that people that aren’t from Syracuse or central New York really like our programs because it gives them a chance to see what Syracuse and the area really have to offer,” Silva said.
When creating the fall calendar for Orange After Dark, Fright Night was a no-brainer for Silva and assistant director of student affairs and SU and Daily Orange alumna, Courtney Jones. Not only does it fit perfectly with the Halloween spirit, but Fright Night is an extremely popular event, she said. Orange After Dark has taken students to Fright Night in the past and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive, she said.
Every Saturday for the last three weeks, the midnight movie pro-gram, which is co-sponsored by University Union and Orange After Dark, has shown a Halloween-themed movie in Gifford Auditorium. This weekend’s movie is “Sinister 2.”
However, “Fright Nights at the Fair” is by far the biggest Hallow-een-themed event that Orange After Dark sponsors.
“This is one of our higher-capacity and higher-volume events in terms of how many students we can take, and I’ve always heard reports of everyone having a really good time,” Silva said.
Orange After Dark is extremely close to selling out the 800 tickets it’s offering for “Fright Nights at the Fair,” Silva said.
Halloween-themed events provide Orange After Dark with an oppor-tunity to be in holiday spirit without excluding anyone.
Tickets for “Fright Nights at the Fair” are available at the Schine Student Center Box Office, and buses will leave on Friday night starting at 10:30 p.m.
“We know students like going. You’ll get students coming up to you and saying, ‘Oh man, I was so pumped to see it on the calendar again this year, and I went last year, and I can’t wait to go again this year,’” Jones said.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Trevor Cooney attempted 230 3-pointers and Jim Boeheim thinks that Syracuse was, for the most part, playing the right odds.
“Last year, he really had to take some shots that were not quality shots. But he had to take them,” Boeheim said at ACC Basketball Media Day on Wednesday. “I wanted him to take them because he had the best chance, his percentage of the bad shots were better than some of the other guys who were shooting about 17 percent.”
As the Orange plans to base its offense on 3s this season, Boeheim expects a slight tweak in Cooney’s role. He said the fifth-year senior — SU’s leading returning scorer who averaged 13.4 points per game last season — still has the same green light, but that he’d like Cooney to take out the 40 or 50 “bad shots” he took last season. Boe-heim thinks that could bump Cooney’s 3-point percentage — 30.9 last season — up seven or eight points and improve the offense considerably.
“I definitely think I, personally, can only benefit from us having more shooters this year,” Cooney said. “The shots I am going to take are going to be better and the whole floor will be opened up for everybody to make more things happen.”
Boeheim said Cooney was one of two reli-
able perimeter options last season, which led teams to press up on him and force him into contested shots at times. Cooney said he hopes opponents play him the same way because this year’s team is better equipped to capitalize on it. Boeheim counted five or six capable shoot-ers on his team, which could include any of Cooney, Michael Gbinije, Malachi Richardson, Kaleb Joseph, Tyler Lydon and Frank Howard.
SU expects to take 25-to-30 3s a game in the coming season, That will probably cut into Coo-ney’s 230 tries, but he see that as a positive change.
“I think it allows me to score more honestly,” Cooney said. “That may sound funny, but if I’m taking less shots but the quality of the shots is higher, then I’ll be in really good shape with the rest of the offense.”
But some weren’t as understanding. For-mer tackle Sean Hickey tweeted, “Everything changes. Everything. Have to redo everything that I have worked for the past three years…I’m not happy. #shocked” Former running back Jerome Smith chimed in with, “Loyalty is hard to find smh.”
Reports surfaced of Marrone interview-ing with the Bills and Cleveland Browns just two days after the Pinstripe Bowl, but the move still blindsided players. Then, once the unexpected news passed, acknowledgment of reality set in.
“I think we kind of figured that Coach Mar-rone was going to bring some of the staff with him,” former fullback Clay Cleveland said Tuesday in an email.
That “some” became seven, starting with offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett on Jan. 8. One week later, running backs coach Tyrone Wheatley, offensive line coach Greg Adkins, secondary coach Donnie Henderson and defensive quality control coach Jason Rebrovich followed.
Two days after that, it was assistant head coach John Anselmo and director of strength and conditioning Hal Luther to Buffalo. Line-backers coach Steve Morrison also left SU, but for “personal reasons.”
A staff that coached Syracuse to six wins in its final seven games was now a skeleton of itself, with foundations swept out from under players.
“Obviously, everybody within that running back room had their stories with Coach Wheat-ley about how they grew with him,” Gulley said. “Mine was pretty crazy because me and Coach Wheatley didn’t see eye-to-eye from day one
… and then we he just left, it went deeper than football, it was like, ‘Dang.’”
“I can’t sit here and lie to you and say you know, ‘Oh it was simple to move on from a guy like Coach Adkins,’” MacPherson said, “ … who all of us on the offensive line would’ve run through a brick wall for.”
“Uh oh, Coach Marrone gone…Hope Coach Ad(kins) doesn’t leave…,” Trudo tweeted the morning of Jan. 6. “The two biggest reasons why I came to Syracuse.”
What remained was Shafer, with his wide receivers coach and defensive line coach. By Jan. 22, he almost had a whole staff, hiring coaches for the offense, defense, quarterbacks, running backs and linebackers. But effects of widespread change trickled into recruiting.
Texas quarterback Zach Allen flipped to TCU. Prized in-state running back Augustus Edwards decommitted and Florida linebacker/
defensive end Malik Brown did the same. Syr-acuse, after losing its starting wideouts and Allen, grabbed receiver Corey Cooper Jan. 27 and QB Mitch Kimble the next day. Neither are still with the program.
“Just looking back at it,” Shafer said, “it was a little bit of a flurry.”
Almost three years later, SU needs three wins in five games to avoid missing two straight postseasons. The 2012 team started an identical 3-4, but finished 8-5.
Five coaches that came on after the mass exodus and nine current starters that were recruited by Marrone remain. They’re left to pick up the pieces of an era under fire by some, and an era left by a coach, who just more than a week after facing his team with a finger to the sky, turned his back and left.
he could and could not say. Most importantly, Boeheim didn’t leave Trevor Cooney and Rakeem Christmas to speak on behalf of his embattled program.
“No, I have not (had a conversation with Pitino), I will call him but I have not right now, but I will talk to him,” Boeheim said at media day. “I don’t give advice. I’ll just talk to him as a friend, that’s all. He knows, he’s smart, he knows what he has to do.”
Cooney, who went through a similar expe-rience to the Louisville players at last year’s media day, said he “wouldn’t wish it upon anybody.” Michael Gbinije, who joined Coo-
ney this year, said he and Cooney definitely “feel for” Lewis and Lee because they’ve been there before. Gbinije’s advice to the Louis-ville players was to do their best to take the attention and turn it toward basketball and the coming season.
That’s easier said than done, as Lewis and Lee faced a steady stream of Pitino- and scandal-related questions in an hour with reporters.
“I didn’t really know what to expect,” said Lewis, who added that the players were advised not to speak on matters unrelated to basketball. “I knew I was going to be asked some tough questions, but I also believe that’s why (Pitino) put me and Damion here to talk about these things — because first of
all, it doesn’t involve us.“I can’t really speak on it too much because
I really don’t know anything about it. I came here to talk about basketball and have some fun and enjoy this experience. And so far, I have been.”
Pitino’s absence from media seemed to have little effect on Lewis and Lee, but that doesn’t mean it was the right way to go about this. The two players continually echoed Louisville’s initial release, saying Pitino was advised by counsel to not attend and that they understood why he wasn’t there. Lewis, after implying that his and Lee’s presence was in some ways strategic, said that Pitino “would love to speak on things; he just can’t.”
But there have probably been a lot of
times Pitino was “advised” not to do some-thing but did it anyway. Pitino’s a grown man capable of making his own decisions. His past tells us as much. He chose not to rep-resent Louisville when his representation was most necessary, and left two players to talk about something that did not and should not concern them.
“We don’t let any outside distractions get to us,” Lee said during his press conference.
And while that may be true for Louisville’s players, it can’t be said for its absent coach.
Jesse Dougherty is the Web Editor at The Daily Orange, where
his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at [email protected]
or @dougherty_jesse.
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breakout year, he was left wondering what “could have been.”
“It’s nice to know that we have a chance to play in the postseason,” Gbinije said of the upcoming season. “We’re not ranked or being looked at to do much, but basically it’s on us to write our own story now, and I kind of like this opportunity.”
At Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Media Day on Wednesday, Gbinije and back-court mate Trevor Cooney both painted the 2015–16 season as a “fresh start.” Last year, the Orange was consumed by an NCAA investiga-tion that, at times, pushed basketball to the back of the conversation. SU’s season ended with a premature thud on March 7, the day after the NCAA announced the findings of its investiga-tion and the sanctions against the program.
A nd with the 18-win, postseason-less season pushed into the past, Cooney and Gbinije looked back on last year before expressing optimism for the season that lies ahead of them.
“It definitely was tough. It wasn’t about basketball anymore, and that was the hardest part,” Cooney said. “Especially toward the end of the year when you’re trying to play well and you’re trying to play for each other because you weren’t allowed to go to the ACC or NCA A Tournament.”
Thinking back to last season, Cooney tabbed upset wins over Notre Dame on the road and at home against Louisville as ones that defined his frustration. Syracuse left the court feeling good about its play, but Cooney
said the conversations with the media in the locker room had nothing to do with that.
“It wasn’t even about how you beat them or who played well,” he said. “It was defi-nitely just about the sanctions and stuff like that. It not being about basketball was the hardest part.”
As far as Cooney and Gbinije are concerned, that’s all behind them. The conversation is shifting back to basketball, and things are starting to feel normal again.
“It definitely feels a lot better. I think it would have been really, really tough this year, going into this year knowing you couldn’t go to the postseason,” Cooney said.
“It feels good to control your own destiny.”[email protected] | @dougherty_jesse
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media day
LEFT HANGING
Syracuse football has 6 wins in its last 19 games. Facing the struggles of the present, The Daily Orange took a look back at some hard times of the past.
By Matt Schneidmanasst. sports editor
Flurries of snow pelted the Yankee Stadium grass as Doug Marrone turned to the mass
of Syracuse players behind him, his pointer finger in the air with the 2012 Pinstripe Bowl Trophy at his back.
Some players hoisted their hel-mets in the air while others donned their new championship hats. Running back Prince-Tyson Gul-ley raised his right hand to the sky with the MVP trophy at his side. Safety Ritchy Desir, mounted on a teammate’s shoulders, tipped his cap to the crowd. In a moment of bliss, everything was right for the Orange.
A second Pinstripe Bowl win in three years. SU defeated West
Virginia, 38-14. Marrone sat at the interview table postgame, express-ing excitement to enter the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013.
“I thought he was about to try to start a dynasty where he graduated from,” Gulley said Tuesday. “… And I thought that was the original goal.”
But Marrone bolted for the Buf-falo Bills’ head coaching job, not telling any players and eventually taking seven SU coaches with him. A team eight days removed from cementing a program turnaround was left searching for answers amid the shock.
Three remaining coaches – Scott Shafer, Rob Moore and Tim Daoust – scrambled to fill out a recruiting class that lost three verbal commits because of the coaching changes. Shafer was hired as head coach three days after Marrone left and delved into his past stops to patch together a staff for the offseason. And though a 2013 Texas Bowl win gave season one a passing grade, an era under Shafer that started with uncertainty still faces questions with Syracuse on a four-game losing streak.
“Everybody kind of thought that it was really going to be similar to what we were already doing,” Gul-ley said, “but then Coach Shafer switched it … which was a culture shock because obviously they don’t think anything like each other.”
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2013, the chaos began. Among those Syr-acuse players asleep when ESPN broke that Marrone was headed to Buffalo were center Macky Mac-Pherson, guard Rob Trudo and line-backer Cameron Lynch. MacPherson found out via texts from friends and former coaches. Trudo from about 15 messages in a team group chat. Lynch from his mom.
Former SU safety Jeremi Wilkes, a junior in 2012, tweeted, “Ol boy dipped to the bills aint even shoot us a txt..damn.” Instead, within minutes of the Bills’ announcement that came around noon the next day, returning players and graduating seniors received a 403-word email written by Marrone mixed with apology, reflection and support.
“In terms of how the locker room felt, it was a lot of shock, a lot of dis-appointment I think,” MacPherson said Wednesday. “ … Not at Coach Marrone or anyone involved in the move; I think it was just more understanding that there was going to be a change.”
PART 4
THE DARK DAYS OF SYRACUSE FOOTBALL
Syracuse coaching exodus leaves players shocked, Scott Shafer scrambling for stability
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For Trey Lewis and Damion Lee, a day of interviews
started at 9:02 a.m. and Lewis was asked about their head coach three minutes later.
Lewis, a transfer to Louisville by way of Cleveland State, was the first player from any team to talk in the press conference room at Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Media Day. He was first asked about becom-
ing a leader as a transfer. Then his 3-point shooting ability. Then, if to only acknowledge the elephant in the room, a reporter asked if Lewis felt “hung out to dry” by head coach Rick Pitino.
Pitino was not at media day on
Wednesday.Lewis and Lee were.Pitino is under fire for a sexual
scandal.Lewis and Lee are not.Two transfers who joined the
program months ago were in Charlotte to answer questions sur-rounding the program. The coach who’s run the program for 15 years hung behind.
“We understand why he’s not
here,” Lewis said. “He sent us because we are the leaders of this team.”
On Friday, Louisville announced that Pitino, as advised by counsel, would not attend media day with the swirling allegations that former director of basketball operations Andre McGee hosted parties that connected players and recruits to escorts. A year ago, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim was in the mid-dle of an NCAA investigation that
resulted in the well-documented sanctions at season’s end. The situa-tions aren’t completely parallel, but it’s clear that Pitino can still learn from the coach who hired him as a 24-year-old assistant in 1976.
Like Pitino, Boeheim was told he couldn’t speak about the impending investigation at last year’s media day. Unlike Pitino, Boeheim showed up last year and told reporters what
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1. DOUG MARRONE left for the Buffalo Bills eight days after winning a bowl game, taking seven coaches with him. daily orange file photo
2. SCOTT SHAFER (MIDDLE) introduced five new assistants on Jan. 22, 2013 to nearly fill the vacant spots. luke rafferty staff photographer
men’s basketball
Rick Pitino can learn from Jim Boeheim after media day no-show
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JESSE DOUGHERTYTHE DOCTOR’S IN
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