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Sean O’Keefe, a former NASA administrator, has been appointed to the position of University Professor. Page 3
ncaa investigation
Report adds layer to inquiry CFS internship program reportedly part of NCAA’s investigation of Syracuse
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As the DAT movement protest enters its third week, protesters continue to spend nights in Crouse-Hinds discussing issues and singing songs of solidarity. Page 9
city limits the university series By Jacob Pramuk staff writer
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us Route 443, better known as the Connective Corridor, stretches across the city of Syracuse and connects Syracuse University to the surrounding community.
The Connective Corridor project serves as a reminder of former Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s emphasis on community development. As the transition in leadership under Chancellor Kent Syverud has led to an increased focus on addressing internal deficiencies and fiscal issues, SU faces a difficult task in deciding how to invest limited funds in the city. “We should care about the success
S • Born to run
Martin Hehir leads Syracuse cross-country into the national championship race in his third postseason with SU. It’s a role he was practically made for. Page 16
SU continues projects, maintains relationship with city under Syverud breakdown Here’s a look at some of the projects SU has done with the city, including the Connective Corridor.
$42.5 million Amount of money Syracuse University, in partnership with the City of Syracuse, secured in external funding for the Connective Corridor
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connective corridor initiatives Buses, the facade improvement grant program, University Avenue Gateway and public art the near westside initiative A non-profit organization that leverages the resources of SU, the city, residents and more to achieve its goals.
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An internship program involving Syracuse athletes and their connection with Tri-Valley YMCA in Oneida, New York is part of the NCAA’s inquiry in its investigation of Syracuse Athletics, the Post-Standard reported Monday afternoon.
NCAA INVESTIGATION The NCAA concluded an investigation of the Syracuse Athletic Department in a hearing at the end of October. Chancellor Kent Syverud, Director of Athletics Daryl Gross, Jim Boeheim and Scott Shafer all attended. Any sanctions that may result from the inquiry are expected to be announced in the next 6-10 weeks. The NCAA concluded its investigation at a hearing in Chicago last month and Syracuse is awaiting the announcement of violations, if any, which the NCAA said would be announced 30–60 days after the investigation came to an end. The documentation of hours completed by athletes for internships at the YMCA, along with who was responsible for approving those hours, is included in the possible violations, The Post-Standard reported. The internship under question was part of a requirement to graduate with a degree in child
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nikeeta slade, a member of THE General Body, speaks at a rally that was held near the Remembrance Wall on Monday afternoon. The rally was organized by faculty members, many of whom attended the rally to show support for the sit-in at Crouse-Hinds Hall. margaret lin photo editor
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SU community rallies in support of protesters By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor
More than 150 members of the SU community, including faculty and staff gathered near the Remembrance Wall on Monday to take part
in the latest rally held by THE General Body. THE General Body, a coalition of student organizations, has been staging a sit-in in the lobby of Crouse-Hinds Hall since Nov. 3 following the Diversity and Transpar-
ency Rally. Last Wednesday, Chancellor Kent Syverud sent an email to the SU community, which included an apology for the communication surrounding the closing of the Advocacy Center, as well as a 53-page response to THE General Body’s list
of grievances and demands. “We are exhausted, but that’s not to say we’re not galvanized to keep up this fight,” said Yanira Rodriguez, one of the protesters. “None of us take pleasure sitting in an administration building, see rally page 6
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Rose tattoo provides student with comfort By Gigi Antonelle staff writer
Although Victoria Ruzzo only knew her great grandmother for a short amount of time, the rose tattooed on her shoulder symbolizes the influence she had on Ruzzo’s life, before and after her death. “She was a great woman and like a rose, very soft and gentle, but also a very firm woman,” said Ruzzo, a senior education major. “She was a great role model for all of the women in my family.” Ruzzo’s great grandmother passed away at the age of 93 when she was in sixth grade. The tattoo, which she got in September, also represents her newfound spirituality. As her spirituality grew, she asked her great grandmother for signs. “Everyone can have signs from loved ones. You just associate certain things with certain people,” Ruzzo said. Ruzzo recalled moments when she realized the true significance of the rose. After her family moved out of their house, Ruzzo found a white satin box with roses on it. It was her great grand-
mother’s box, and inside was a hand mirror with roses on the back of it. Years after her death, Ruzzo decided to read her great grandmother’s obituary for the first time. In the obituary, it said her great grandmother loved to plant roses in her garden. “I didn’t know it was something she had happened to love,” Ruzzo said. A surreal moment, Ruzzo said, occurred with one of her best friends, who is a medium. In the morning after a sleepover, her friend told Ruzzo that she saw her great grandmother placing roses around her as she slept. “I literally asked a spirit for a rose as a sign from my great grandma,” Ruzzo said. “And then, all the signs showed up. I was sort of coming into my spirituality, so that sort of made me decide on the rose as being the most significant.” The rose tattoo has provided Ruzzo with comfort, peace and happiness. “It was something so simple,” she said. “It was just a rose, but at the same time, it’s sort of the reason why I’ve become more spiritual and aware of myself.” gantonel@syr.edu
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The Syracuse Common Council is considering a new law that would fine residents who don’t shovel their sidewalks. See Wednesday’s paper
A group of geography majors has created a website about geography set to launch on Tuesday night. See Wednesday’s paper
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student association Here are some other notes from Student Association’s meeting on Monday night in Maxwell Auditorium.
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@Nia_Juda that @SAatSU meeting was long & tiring but what’s more important is making sure that the student voices are heard & issues are addressed
@supreetkay Wish more students attended the undergraduate excellence focus groups today instead of complaining over social media ELECT HER Elect Her, a workshop that aims to increase women’s roles in student government and to encourage women to pursue a future in political office, took place on Saturday at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center. COUNTING DOWN Number of Student Association meetings left in the semester.
TERRY MCCONNELL, a professor on the Undergraduate Excellence Workgroup, takes notes during a forum held Monday night in Maxwell Auditorium. Members of the SU community were able to share concerns about SU with the workgroup. frankie prijatel asst. photo editor
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Students, faculty discuss SU issues at forum By Alexa Torrens staff writer
Several associate deans, professors and undergraduate students from the Undergraduate Excellence Focus Group joined assembly members of the Student Association on Monday to discuss concerns about education and life at Syracuse University. The undergraduate focus group is part of Fast Forward Syracuse, a strategic planning process started by Chancellor Kent Syverud to restructure and improve SU. The group was designed to identify and create resolutions to issues students face on and off campus. Julie Hasenwinkel, associate dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science and a member
of the focus group, began the meeting with a presentation about what the group wants to accomplish. According to the group’s presentation, its long-term goals are to improve the quality of the undergraduate experience, prepare students for their careers and foster strong relations between alumni and the university. During Monday’s meeting, the group’s goals were “to listen, to encourage everyone to have a voice and to collect meaningful input from students.” Students were divided into seven groups to discuss academics and transitions, intersections between students and the quality of student life. A member of the undergraduate focus group led each discussion and recorded concerns
brought up by the students. The groups that discussed academics and transitions emphasized the importance of making it easier for students to double major in colleges that may not have established partnerships. Assembly member Nicole Sherwood said it is difficult for her to pursue her ideal majors because “there isn’t a partnership between Newhouse and VPA.” Other issues brought up in the academic discussions included the lack of class sections, the complexity of connecting with student advisers and the need for a more central student center. Students from the two groups about intersections talked about how effectively SU embraces ethnic, racial and socioeconomic diversity.
“I think Syracuse does an OK job of trying to be diverse, but I don’t think we’re all integrated … people really stick to their cliques,” said Kerlyne Gai, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. “You can’t teach diversity. It has to happen naturally,” said Henry Hokura, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Proposed methods of fostering diversity included a mandatory forum for freshmen that will promote the importance of working with people from different backgrounds and more action by residence advisers to unite students. Students acknowledged that learning communities and Orange After see sa page 6
SU names former NASA employee as professor By Katelyn Faubel staff writer
Former NASA Administrator and United States Secretary of the Navy Sean O’Keefe is set to hold the title
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of University Professor. Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina announced O’Keefe’s appointment as the 17th University Professor last week. O’Keefe has also been named the
Howard G. and S. Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. O’Keefe, who is also an SU alumnus, has had an accomplished career
spanning more than 35 years of work in non-profit organizations, the private sector, higher education and the United States government. A few of the many high positions O’Keefe see o’keefe page 8
A Student Affairs Summit will be held in mid-February as part of the reconnection phase of Fast Forward Syracuse. More than 20 students are on the task force, including graduate, law and SUNY-ESF students. The summit “is going to give students more of an opportunity to have their voices amplified,” said Iggy Nava, the chair of the student affairs task force for SA. THE GENERAL BODY AD HOC COMMITTEE The ad hoc committee designed to make recommendations to THE General Body’s document of grievances and demands explained its rationale for the positions it took on items listed in the document. Assembly members approved the document. MONEY TALKS The New York Public Interest Research Group will be holding an event called “Money Talks: Fighting the Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy” on Wednesday. There will be a film screening and a panel that will include the executive director of Democracy Matters, a non-profit student political organization, the legislative director of NYPIRG and a SU professor. NEW YORK STATE DREAM ACT SA has signed on to support the New York state DREAM Act, which allows undocumented students to receive financial aid. NYPIRG encourages other student organizations to sign on to show their support for the act to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. — Compiled by Alexa Torrens, staff writer, atorrens@syr.edu
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Students should attend panel, screening on money in politics Before writing this article, I asked my roommate what it would take for him, someone who admittedly hates politics, to take an interest in the political system. His response: nothing. To him, there are so many things wrong with our government that it is upsetting just to talk about. To be honest, I can’t blame him. I suspect many of you feel the same way. If, as my roommate does, you find government to be too disheartening to think about, then I would like you to consider this: “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” (Pericles) I would ask you to consider that every single day, decisions are made for you — whether you know it or not, whether you care or not. And a helpful hint: you probably should care. Regardless of your background or your political affiliation it is hard to deny that beyond the finger pointing there is something deeply and systemically wrong with our government. We have seen a clear change in direction. Our leaders no longer vote for children, but for checks. Money talks… so what does that make us? I’ll let you finish the sentence. Now, I ask you think about the things you
really care about, the things that make you angry or upset. It could be civil rights, immigration reform, ISIS, Ebola, the environment or your student loans. That’s one that should strike a chord with many of us. It’s upsetting to think we cannot control these things, but according to the Princeton Review, that is reality. Democracy is losing. America is essentially governed by a rich and powerful few. Now, think again about those things you care about. Do you want to be heard? Do you want to decide your future? I hope that you would all answer that with an overwhelming yes. If you want to be heard, or simply learn more about our government come out on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. to Eggers 220. The Student Leadership Institute, Democracy Matters, NYPIRG and Public Citizen will be holding a showing of “Pay 2 Play,” a film detailing the role of money in politics. There will also be a panel of experts to share their opinions and answer your questions. Come out, and find your voice. Ryan Brinkerhoff Economics and policy studies major Class of 2017
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SU needs to shift focus away from city Syracuse University needs to shift its focus away from the city of Syracuse back to the needs and problems of the university. But while doing so, it cannot abandon the work done under former Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s tenure. Chancellor Kent Syverud has already indicated plans to reduce the university’s presence in the city. Syverud has made it clear that he will honor SU’s current commitment to the city through the Connective Corridor and Near Westside Initiative. Reducing — not removing — SU’s influence in the city is the best option for the university. Completely turning its back on the city would undo years of work done under Cantor and would be a disservice to those who have benefited from the university’s involvement. But at the same time, the university needs to focus on its internal issues that have been brew-
ing for years, many of which have been brought to light this semester through campus protests. SU needs to address and solve its own problems before it can tackle problems that exist in an entire city. By becoming a stronger institution, the university will have better resources to help improve Syracuse. As a non-profit institution that doesn’t have to pay taxes to the city, SU should feel some responsibility to assisting Syracuse. But the university also has a responsibility to continue to improve both the quality of education and life for its students at SU, and these responsibilities should come first. It’s important to ensure that reducing SU’s involvement in the city won’t turn the university into an ivory tower. Moving forward, SU should not expand any efforts to improve the city. Its goal should be to maintain the connections that
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s the semester begins to wrap up, college students across the country are not only preparing for finals, but also putting plans in place for the summer. Even with summer months away, deadlines for some of the most competitive internships and summer programs are swiftly approaching. The problem is, not every student can afford to work at a competitive internship, as they are often unpaid. Brown University recently addressed that issue with the creation of the new initiative BrownConnect. Brown’s President Christina Paxson created the goal, “to provide every undergraduate receiving financial aid with at least
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one funded internship or research opportunity,” The Brown Daily Herald reported Thursday. Although many universities might have similar career preparation tools, providing internship support to students who receive federal financial aid specifically is an angle other universities should consider adopting. Many schools offer assistance to students in their hunt for the perfect summer job or internship. Syracuse University, for example, provides assistance such as Career
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Services and OrangeLink — an online database to connect SU and SUNY-ESF students to a number of professional development resources. But not all students have equal access to the high-caliber positions they would qualify for. Some college students do not come from backgrounds that place them at close proximity to professionals in their respective fields. While trying to build those networks through summer internships, not all students may be able to afford the costs of living where there internship is located in if the position is unpaid. Some college students have aspirations to have a dream internship or job while in school, but the
reality of being able to provide for themselves or even a family can become inhibit that dream. Many internships and summer positions for college students are unpaid, which can cause students to sacrifice taking the experience that could help build their careers in order to take a paid job out of their field. A program similar to BrownConnect that aids students with their internship search could lessen the ultimatum many students feel they are faced with in deciding on their summer plans. Driven and qualified college students should not have to face a toss up between monetary gain and professional experience, especially when not all of the peers
at their school do not have to face the same circumstances. SU’s OrangeLink and Career Services department have both been successful resources for students on campus for many years. A newer service, ‘CuseConnect, is also unique in its opportunity to provide students with connections to alumni in their quest to find mentorship and ultimately a job. But the addition of helping students who need it most to find funded summer opportunities — or financial help — is a new addition that the university should consider adopting. Nina Rodgers is a junior sociology major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at nmrodger@syr.edu.
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rally again, for 14 days, 331 hours, but we will not leave that building until we get concrete actions that address the issues that we’re all concerned about.” The rally, which lasted about 40 minutes, was held at the Remembrance Wall and focused on the lack of negotiations between the SU administration and protesters, SU not allowing legal counsel to enter Crouse-Hinds over the weekend and SU faculty members supporting the protesters. “This university is at a crossroads and we owe a deep debt of thank you to THE General Body for pointing to exactly where that crossroads is,” said Don Mitchell, a geography professor at SU. “They sit-in and I stand with them precisely because they are pointing to the exact pressure points in this university where we can make change, change that we need to make.” Mitchell was one of about 50 SU faculty members in attendance. Paula Johnson, a professor in the College of Law, said THE General Body should have been allowed to meet with legal counsel over the weekend. On Friday, university officials delivered copies of the student code of conduct to protesters staying in Crouse-Hinds
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Dark encourage students to socialize and befriend people from different backgrounds. Danielle Reed, a junior and member of THE General Body, lived in the Multicultural Living Community her freshman year. “If I hadn’t lived on that floor, I probably would’ve gotten a total different perception of Syracuse,” Reed said. “Just being a student
over the weekend. When Janis McDonald, a tenured professor in the College of Law, tried to enter the building on Saturday morning to discuss the code of conduct with students, she was turned away by Department of Public Safety officers. Crouse-Hinds closed at 5 p.m. on Friday. Students were allowed to stay in the building over the weekend and could leave at any time but were not allowed to re-enter until Monday morning. “As a lawyer, as a law professor, as a member of this community, that action offends me on so many levels,” Johnson said of the students not being able to meet with legal counsel. “If it were a medical emergency, they (lawyers who went to Crouse-Hinds over the weekend) would have gotten in. This was a legal emergency and they should have gotten in,” she said as the crowd cheered. During her speech, Johnson encouraged attendees, especially faculty members, to support THE General Body and get involved. Said Johnson: “We stand with the students. We demand that there be no reprisals against these students. My faculty colleagues: use your voice, use your action, use all of the means at your disposal to say what the future of this university will be.” jmatting@syr.edu
of color at a predominately white university, opening up spaces and having residence halls encourages students of different backgrounds to talk to each other.” To improve the quality of life at SU, students suggested making transfers feel more comfortable and incorporated on campus, increasing sexual assault awareness and incorporating education and teaching skills that are relevant to life in the real world. atorrens@syr.edu
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SUNY-ESF professors use crowdfunding to raise money for blight-resistant chestnut trees By Anjali Alwis staff writer
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fter 25 years of work, two SUNY-ESF professors have developed a way to restore the American chestnut tree back to its former glory and are receiving funding from the community to help the cause. The American chestnut tree was almost wiped out due to a blight but William Powell and Chuck Maynard of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry have found a way to create blight-resistant trees. Their goal is to produce 10,000 trees while going through the regulatory process. Normal grant agencies won’t help with funding as it is not considered research though, which is why they turned to a crowd funding page that has received more than $35,000 in support so far. “I always tell people that we can’t build the boat before we went fishing”, said Powell about the process behind the creation of the tree. The American chestnut tree used to be the most common tree in the eastern forest until about a century ago when people started importing Asian chestnut trees. But the Asian chestnut trees also brought a blight, which produces an acid called oxalate. Oxalate acid invades healthy tissue in the tree and creates a canker — a sunken dead
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of the city and some challenged neighborhoods in the city because they’re part of what Syracuse University is,” Syverud told The Daily Orange in September. “So I think we need to build on that and we need to be very targeted in how we invest.” Syverud noted the difficulty in investing in the city stems from a lack of “strategic funds” SU spent during Cantor’s tenure. The Bain & Co. diagnostic report noted “widespread and varying investments” in community engagement programs. “You’ve got to build on what we’ve got with the city but you’ve got to also focus on some internal needs,” Syverud said. Syverud cited a continued commitment to the Connective Corridor, including finishing construction, improving the bus system’s efficiency and “(making) it work successfully for students.” It fits with what many see as the administration’s strategy of maintaining support for major existing community projects while developing fewer new commitments, said SU Vice President of Community Engagement and Economic Development Marilyn Higgins, who oversees SU’s side of the Connective Corridor and Near Westside Initiative.
area of the tissue on the bark. This grows around the tree and essentially cuts off circulation so that everything above it dies. While the Asian chestnut trees were resistant to it, the American chestnut trees were not. It started in Long Island and over the course of about 50 years spread through the whole native range from Maine to Georgia, killing three to four billion large American chestnut trees. Maynard and Powell had to start from scratch as no one had ever regenerated an American chestnut tree from tissue culture before. The process was complex, Powell said. The researchers had to develop the tissue culture methods, find the gene for blight-resistant trees and then actually create the blight-resistant tree. While Powell and Maynard have developed the tree, they cannot immediately start distributing them as they still have to go through the Federal regulatory process because they used genetic engineering. While the regulatory process may take several years, Maynard and Powell are creating trees so that they will be ready for immediate dispersal once they have been approved. “While we’re waiting, we didn’t want to sit on our hands, we want to actually produce,” Powell said. Dana Piwinski, a development officer at SUNYESF, said he is very happy about the support that
the Fundly page set up for the restoration has gotten from both alumni and strangers. “People will post comments about how their grandmother used to tell them about the big chestnut trees in their yards, and they’re excited about seeing them again in the future,” Piwinski said. Through the Fundly page, the researchers are hoping to garner interest in people across the country to become part of the project and support it in two ways: funding to help them grow the trees, as well as participate in planting of the
mother chestnut trees that the blight-resistant trees could be used to breed with in the future, once they’re available. After only one week, half of the $50,000 goal has been raised. Powell said the main reason to focus on this tree is because of its importance to the environment and its history. “This time of year when you hear ‘chestnuts roasting on an open fire’. That’s talking about the American chestnut,” he said.
“I’m very grateful that we’re going to have the opportunity to complete these projects,” Higgins said. “Chancellor Syverud has not in any way gotten in the way of us doing that.” A plan to function with minimal contributions from SU has allowed some of the university’s flagship community development programs to remain mostly untouched by changes in funding priorities. Outside of staff salaries and office space, both the Near Westside Initiative and Connective Corridor will operate without university contributions this year, Higgins said. The Near Westside Initiative earned nonprofit status in 2007 as part of Cantor’s “Scholarship in Action” strategy. The nonprofit carries out development and cultural programs in Syracuse’s Near Westside neighborhood, incorporating academic experiences for SU students and faculty. While the Near Westside Initiative has largely decreased its financial dependence on SU, the university was vital in starting the organization’s momentum, said Maarten Jacobs, director of the Near Westside Initiative. SU had a much larger role in the property and program development at the organizations’ start, Higgins said. Higgins anticipates SU will not provide any
of the roughly $3 million the Near Westside Initiative will spend on property development and programs this year. Donations from outside foundations and businesses, among other groups, will sustain the organization moving forward. Similarly, much of the more than $47 million raised for the Connective Corridor project came from grants at varying levels of government, according to fundraising records provided by Higgins. She added that SU won’t contribute any more money to the project, as the rest of the infrastructure costs will come from money already raised. The Connective Corridor and Near Westside Initiative, two keystone programs in Cantor’s “Scholarship in Action” strategy, have established financial viability. But other nonprofits more reliant on the university face a more uncertain future with changes in SU’s priorities. For instance, 601 Tully, another cultural institution on the Near Westside, received $200,000 less in its 2014–15 budget than it had in the previous year, The Daily Orange reported in April. The process to apply for nonprofit funding from SU has changed in the last year as well. While organizations previously took requests to individual schools and colleges, SU has since centralized the process so requests go through the SU Office of Government and Community Relations.
The process aimed to stop different parts of the university from responding to the same funding request to reduce redundancies and waste, said Kevin Quinn, SU Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, in an email. The process applies to non-profit organizations so that SU can engage community requests without wasting resources. Other programs that operate through SU aren’t worried about funding. The Office of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community, which manages La Casita Cultural Center and Point of Contact, offers opportunities for students to learn about Hispanic culture or study Spanish, said Teresita Paniagua, executive director of the Office of Cultural Engagement for the Hispanic Community, in an email. Paniagua said that after the change in university leadership, the office has “no indication whatsoever of any changes related to our programs” at SU. Though it may be too soon to characterize Syverud’s relationship with the city, he has verbally committed to maintaining some of the key contributions of Cantor’s tenure. Said Syverud: “I care deeply about the city. I think Chancellor Cantor’s legacy of connectivity to the city is world-renowned and something to build on and something we should be really proud of.”
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o’keefe has held over the years include former administrator of NASA, chancellor of Louisiana State University, former United States Secretary of the Navy and chief executive officer of Airbus Group Inc. He was also previously a professor at Maxwell and served as director of the National Security Studies Program. Spina said the courses O’Keefe will be teaching are yet to be determined. They will most likely be leadership courses available to students of multiple programs. Some may be newly designed to suit O’Keefe’s expertise. O’Keefe said his favorite part during his past times of working as a faculty member was working with students. “It’s the most rewarding part because it reminds you that the next generation wants to make a difference,” O’Keefe said. O’Keefe said he also plans to specifically engage graduate students through academic experiences such as graduate assistants and fellowships. The Phanstiel chair was created in 2006 to train SU students for future careers as government leaders and innovative thinkers. As Phanstiel chair, O’Keefe said he also has the opportunity to bridge SU with strategic and management think tanks in Washington, D.C. After the decision for O’Keefe to become Phanstiel chair, Spina began questioning what O’Keefe’s appointment might mean to the whole university. He spoke with Dean James Steinberg of the Maxwell School about expanding O’Keefe’s appointment to place him in a position where he could interact with students all over the university. “We wanted to make him accessible to the university, given the knowledge that he has, so
that his appointment could impact the entire university,” Spina said. Spina said he believes that through his new appointment, O’Keefe will educate and inspire students to do great things after leaving Syracuse. In response to the announcement of his new appointment, O’Keefe said he believes that he will have the chance to find common ground between various programs through his new appointment. “It’s a tremendous honor and a wonderful opportunity to work with students. It is quite a distinction and an extraordinary opportunity, “ O’Keefe said. For O’Keefe, he said it’s a dream come true to come back to his alma mater. O’Keefe said the foundations of his professional career are grounded in SU and he hopes to give back to SU. Spina said he believes that it is an incredible opportunity for the university to have someone as accomplished as O’Keefe, who has such a student centered attitude and spirit, to hold the position. “Someone who has not only lived an academic life, but he’s had responsibilities in the highest of positions and has dealt with a lot of opportunities to be a leader,” Spina said. “It’s hard to think of anyone better for the position of (Phanstiel chair) in terms of strategic management and leadership.” He said he also looks forward to collaborating with faculty members that he met 15 years ago when he was a Maxwell School professor. O’Keefe also said his new position allows him to work with many other people who are every bit as stellar as the colleagues that he worked with when he was previously at SU. Said O’Keefe: “I am delighted to be back. It will be a great to be a part of a community that I have always had a fondness for.” kmfaubel@syr.edu
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Alumni to produce comedy Kickstarter campaign raises money for sketch show “South Canada” By Katelyn Faubel staff writer
(FROM LEFT) GREG JACKS, COLTON JONES AND TATIANA CADET participate in THE General Body’s sit-in at Crouse-Hinds Hall. The sit-in is currently in its 15th day, and at night the protesters do “human stuff,” where some gather in a circle to sing songs.
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Desperate to raise money for his new sketch comedy pilot, a recent Syracuse University alumnus took to Kickstarter and was willing to get tattoos of people’s names —on his butt. “With 13 days left of the Kickstarter, we introduced our Butt Quest: Nick (Brown) would get someone’s name tattooed on his butt for a donation of $10,000,” said Josh Frackleton, an SU alumnus and co-producer of the comedy pilot. “We went all around Hollywood to tell people about our #buttquest and The Daily Dot even did an article on us, which helped to tell more people
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Protesters at sit-in build sense of community in Crouse-Hinds Text by Sam Blum
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t was 11:30 p.m. and for THE General Body protesters, that meant it was time for “human stuff.” Surrounding them is an administration that has said it’s time for them to leave Crouse-Hinds Hall, a student body that has a wavering and ever-tenuous support for their cause and a media that has grown a fascination with their every move. But amid the chaos and the controversy that engulfs its actions and its purpose, THE General Body still likes to find time for “human stuff” every night. Tuesday marks the 15th day of the protest and the beginning of its third full week since a group of protesters marched to the administration building and refused to leave until a 43-page list of demands were met. It’s been a grueling day-to-day process that, when negotiations aren’t taking place, follows a script similar to the one that occurred on Thursday night. For the 25 or so students protesting the administration that stayed the night, that meant gathering in a circle in the lobby of Crouse-Hinds Hall and singing. Not everyone wanted to participate, but then again, not everyone wanted to be sleeping on a hard brick floor. So, they all came together and everyone sang. see sit-in page 12
JULES STRUBLE AND MADELEINE SLADE talk near THE General Body’s food table and protest signs in Crouse-Hinds Hall.
Members of THE General Body receive donated food from their supporters for their meals during the sit-in.
about our campaign.” This month, Frackleton and Brown, who graduated in 2012 and 2013, respectively, began producing their new sketch comedy pilot “South Canada” through their independent production company El Richard Grande Productions. Frackleton and Brown, who met at SU through the sketch comedy group Humor Whore, started a 45-day-long Kickstarter campaign in September in hopes of raising $15,000 to fund their sketch pilot. After an initial three days of heavy donations, the Kickstarter started to lose traction. Frackleton and Brown developed a six-episode web series introducing their newest fundraising ploy, Butt see south
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south canada Quest, in order to reach their goal. The team was able to reach its goal with one or two days left of the Kickstarter, with Brown’s butt remaining inkless. Frackleton said filming of “South Canada” began at the start of November with two sketches filmed per week. Filming will most likely be finished before Christmas with post-filming production scheduled to begin soon after. Frackleton and Brown collaborated in 2012 to co-produce a six-episode web-series called “The Complex” that went on to win a College Emmy award. Brown moved to Los Angeles in 2013, a year after Frackleton did, and the two began making YouTube videos together. In the spring of 2014, the duo began developing the idea for “South Canada.” “We felt that we should do something bigger. We wanted to separate ourselves from the masses that were doing content on YouTube,” Brown said. During this past summer, Frackleton and Brown began recruiting writers, actors and filmmakers, many of whom are SU alumni, to begin writing the sketches and establishing a brand name. Two months of writing meetings allowed for a multitude of ideas to develop into the 10–12 sketches that will be featured in “South Canada.” “We sourced a lot of people from out here. We had some SU alum on our writing and producing team, but we also brought on people we had met in L.A.,” Brown said. Frackleton said he and Brown wanted a more professional process when creating their sketch ideas, so they decided to replicate much of the creative methods that they learned from
their time with Humor Whore. The process allowed for a creative environment where all members of the project’s team could pitch ideas for the 30-minute-long pilot. During one of the writing meetings, the name “South Canada” was chosen after it was brought up that the United States was really just south Canada. Along with a myriad of promotion giveaways promised to donators of different amounts, Frackleton and Brown plan to host a revealing party of “South Canada” at a theater in Los Angeles in early March or April. Ari Weinberger, a 2012 alumnus and the lead producer of “South Canada,” joined the team after Frackleton and Brown asked if he was interested in producing their show. He met the duo through Humor Whore and also collaborated with them on “The Complex.” “Our plan once finishing the production of South Canada is to pitch it to any network that will look at it. Our goal is to produce a high quality, high production pilot,” said Weinberger. Once “South Canada” is completed, the team plans to distribute the show by pitching it to a variety of media outlets, such as FX and Adult Swim, or creating a professional YouTube channel where the pilot can be reached online. Weinberger believes the best platform for “South Canada” is Netflix. However, Frackleton and Brown’s ultimate goal is for the show to air on a television network. As filmmakers, Frackleton and Brown plan to continue working for themselves by directing their own content. “South Canada” is just the first step. Said Frackleton: “I first and foremost want to be a film or TV director, but I also like acting. ‘South Canada’ allows me to do both.” kmfaubel@syr.edu
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lexandra Mayo stood up in front of her class last year and made an announcement. Mayo, a junior in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, spoke about a lack of awareness of rhythm and blues music on campus, and her desire to start a club on campus to change it. Little did she know that it would lead to her co-hosting a radio show. Sitting in her class that day was Destiny O’Loughlin, a junior political science major. After listening to Mayo speak, the two planned to start a club dedicated to R&B music. Although the club was never approved, the two were able to start their own hourlong, weekly radio show on WERW.
I think R&B is an important genre because it’s all about love, it’s about what connects you to somebody else. It’s about what brings people together, what tears them apart. Destiny O’Loughlin junior political science major
The show, titled The Republic Believes in Crescendo, or RBC, airs every Saturday at 7 p.m. on WERW and has been on the air since September. It is DJed by both Mayo and
(FROM LEFT) DESTINY O’LOUGHLIN AND ALEXANDRA MAYO are trying to bring awareness of R&B music to SU’s campus on their weekly radio show, The Republic Believes in Crescendo, every Saturday at 7 p.m. kadijah watkins staff photographer
O’Loughlin, who go by the DJ names Mayo and DK, respectively. During their hour-long time slot, Mayo and O’Loughlin play various R&B songs from playlists they have compiled and discuss events in the music world, particularly in R&B. The duo considers it a goal to feature and interview local artists on the show, as well as conduct phone interviews with artists outside of Syracuse. But they have not been successful so far. “We’re trying to do something to make people heard, especially people in R&B, but in all genres as well,” O’Loughlin said. RBC, which plays off the acronym for R&B at ‘Cuse, strives to satisfy a need for R&B on campus. The word “republic” in the name refers to the show’s audience. The musical word “crescendo,” which signifies an increase in loudness, refers to the duo’s goal of spreading awareness about R&B and playing R&B music. Although the show is based in Syracuse, the duo has listeners from all over the country, including Atlanta, O’Loughlin’s hometown. Cheryl Middlebrooks, a listener from
Atlanta, said although the show is based in Syracuse, she is still able to connect to it online and enjoy it. “(O’Loughlin) and Mayo have such a great chemistry,” Middlebrooks said. “I’m enjoying it. They crack me up. I also like how they put the new and the old together — it’s great.” O’Loughlin said part of the reason she loves R&B is because it reminds her of home. “I think R&B is an important genre because it’s all about love, it’s about what connects you to somebody else,” O’Loughlin said. “It’s about what brings people together, what tears them apart.” Both O’Loughlin and Mayo are singer-songwriters, and the two have collaborated musically together. Mayo performed at Nourish International’s “Nourish the Soul” event at Funk ‘n Waffles on Nov. 6, and O’Loughlin is a former member of the Redemption a capella group on campus. “I think being able to make music and share it with everyone here at Syracuse is really a great way to connect to other people here in our community,” O’Loughlin said.
“Everyone can come together, because music brings people together and I just think that it’s a great opportunity that we have.” Mayo said the passion she and O’Loughlin have for R&B helps make the experience a positive one. “We get to collaborate sometimes and then sharing that with the world and then being able to share other people’s music with the world, too — it’s like being able to share a passion with people,” Mayo said. Mayo and O’Loughlin also use social media platforms to educate followers about R&B and interact with listeners and aspiring artists. The DJs hope to continue promoting new artists while also playing music that doesn’t get the attention they feel it deserves. “We just want to show people that R&B is not boring. It’s not a dying genre,” Mayo said. “R&B talks about life, it has a message. And that’s what I love about music — I love the passion behind music and everything it has to say. It’s like the unspoken words that people can’t put out there. It’s your emotions in your music.” idamle@syr.edu
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sit-in First, Mary Rose Go, a program assistant in the College of Arts and Sciences, belted out “Quando M’en Vo,” an opera song that had the rest of the protesters voraciously snapping at its conclusion. Afterward, they all sang “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King and “Seasons of Love” from the musical “Rent.” “I don’t mind spending my time here because I know it’s going to some place
what is the general body? A coalition of student organizations at SU that is aiming to educate and inform other SU students on its list of grievances and campus issues. source: the general body website
absolutely necessary,” protester Ella Mendonsa said. Mendonsa, a senior political science and public policy dual major, said it’s hard to not have access to a shower, to sleep on the floor of an academic building and to be willing to continue that sacrifice during Thanksgiving Break. Yet neither she nor most of the other protesters have showed signs of wavering. Lining the walls of the administration building are blankets, pillows and sleeping bags. Adjacent to the stairway were two tables covered by different trays of food and snacks. As soon as one was finished, someone came to replace it with more. The cubbies that just weeks before were used for study had become makeshift bedrooms, with protesters trying to sleep with blankets covering their entire body. At 8:15 p.m., once all the classes ended and everyone left their offices, Colton Jones a senior psychology major and an organizer of THE General Body, gathered everyone for a meeting to go over the day. The negotiations committee read an email it received from Dean of Student Affairs Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz. It told them the administration will now focus its attention on “the other 21,000 students” on campus. The group became angered, and pointed out that THE General Body’s purpose is to serve those students as well. “That’s bullsh*t,” Jones said. The group of protesters sleeping over then went into small lecture hall near
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the entrance of Crouse-Hinds for a secret meeting to discuss the next day’s schedule. As one protester entered the room, she whispered the group’s “You can’t stop the revolution” chant under her breath. The meeting started with the protesters making sure they were not at risk of being compromised. The administration and Department of Public Safety have tried to stop them at every turn, they said. One girl asked Jones what he’d do if someone walked in and looked at the projector screen and saw his agenda. Jones then snatched away the paper, mimicking his plan of action, as the rest of the protesters snapped at his quick reflexes. The meeting lasted for two hours, ending only because DPS wouldn’t let them stay past 11 p.m. After they finished the meeting, ate dinner and sang, it was around 12:15 a.m. and time to sleep. One of the protesters asked Joe Shanley, the on-duty DPS officer that night, to turn the lights out. Some of the protesters rolled out yoga mats and sleeping bags to avoid sleeping on the uncomfortable hard brick floor. Others retired to the cubbies that line the stairway to the second floor. Nick Holzthum, a junior information management and technology major, got into bed by taking the armrests off his wheelchair and slowly lowering himself on to a mattress. He is the only protester who has been there every single night. Though the quiet skewed the reality of the situation, sleeping was far from easy. Some lights remained on throughout the night, including the plastic candles that line the staircase and have an automated flicker. The cold creeped in as the temperature dropped outside. DPS officers have even been accused of taking pictures of the protesters while they sleep. When the sun rose at 6:45 a.m., it went straight through the glass windows. And when the doors opened at 7 a.m., administrators and professors started to come in and step over the protesters as they got their last minutes of sleep. The protesters have made a home out of a place that isn’t one. And while they all stand by the fact that doing so was a last resort, it’s become a haven for aligning beliefs and a representation for the change that they’re demanding. “They’re wrong for waiting us out, because we’re right,” said protester Ben Kuebrich, a doctoral candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences. “And we have to show people why we’re right.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3
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An MLB draft hopeful as a high school junior, Connor Center could touch 90 miles per hour on the radar gun. But Chris Stewart, his lifelong friend and former peewee lineman teammate, had urged Center to jump back into football ever since he stopped at 13 years old to focus on baseball. Center was firm on his baseball-only stance until Stewart died in a car accident on Dec. 1, 2012. The death of his best friend gave Center a new outlook on his sports career. He was going to leave baseball to focus solely on football in Stewart’s honor. “(Connor) told me he felt like something motivated him and was in his corner telling him, ‘Hey, go do this,’” John Center, Connor’s father, said. “He grew up right after everything happened to Chris.” Center worked to reapply himself to a future in football. He grew 3 inches after his junior year of high school and put on 40 pounds to fit the mold of an ideal tight end or lineman. Dozens of schools responded to the workout video he sent them in the mail, and Center chose the University of Colorado. Now he’s a redshirt freshman tight end who hasn’t found the field just yet, but he and his dad think he’s a year away rising to prominence like Stewart knew he could. “Teams tried to promise a future for me in the NFL,” Center said. “I was a blank canvas and open mold for them to use.” In high school, Center occasionally worked out at a baseball complex run by a regional scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who told him he’d get drafted if his fastball stayed at 90. from page 16
violas 1-13 Atlantic Coast) season-long struggles, she reflects positively on her career at and her grandfather’s hand in it. “I feel close to him every time I put on my Syracuse jersey, or every single time I get to go and have Thanksgiving with my family or to spend holidays with my family that I never got the opportunity to do,” Melina said. “Even though he’s not there, I know he’s still a part of it all.” On July 2, 2008, Melina and her Santa Monica Beach club volleyball teammates were back at the hotel after finishing the third day of a fourday tournament. Melina’s parents, Guy and Shari Violas, went to the hotel’s pool to order Coronas. Guy’s phone rang. It was his father’s phone number but his brother on the other end. He told him their father had a heart attack while he was at the Greater Rochester International Airport baggage claim and he might be dying. Guy went numb, ran to his hotel room with his wife and when the phone rang again, he learned Peter had died. With puffy red eyes, Guy tried telling his daughter the news. But he couldn’t muster any words and when a teammate’s mother did so, a 14-year-old Violas dropped her head in her father’s shoulder. Within an hour, the family started the 10-hour drive from Reno to Los Angeles, where they flew cross-country to Rochester, New York. At Peter’s funeral, the poem “Footprints in the Sand” by Mary Stevenson and footprints were
Inconsistencies in his velocity and on-field success built up frustration and uncertainty about the sport he had dedicated every fiber in his body toward. Kyle Buss — a longtime friend of Center and Stewart who played football with them at a younger age — informed Center in early January that he was going to leave baseball to pursue football. Buss’ words led Center to reach the same conclusion in the wake of Stewart’s death. On Jan. 4, 2013 Center called his dad to tell him that he had just quit the baseball team.
My family was shocked when I started getting football offers. Because anyone in their right mind would say, ‘How the hell are you gonna do that?’
After Center called his father to tell him the news, he immediately took off to the gym. No longer was he restricted to not lifting weights above his waist from fear of potentially injuring his pitching arm. Videos of him working out, running, catching and doing football-related activities were sent out to 60–70 Division I schools, and Center’s father said they received about 40 immediate responses of interest. He received 22 offers to play from schools that hadn’t met him yet. “My family was shocked when I started getting football offers,” Center said. “Because anyone in their right mind would say, ‘How the hell are you gonna do that?’”
Despite “great pitches” from both Miami and Syracuse, Colorado was the best fit. They gave him free rein to pursue his aspiration of becoming a tight end, and Center thought it was the best chance for him to reach his ultimate goal of making a name for himself as a football player. But after the hiccups of jumping offsides in practice or running the wrong route in his initial training at Colorado, he knows he’s doing it for the right reasons. “Chris will always be a background part of this for me,” Center said. “Especially on the hardest days, the dog days of it. He’s always in the back of my mind.” cgrossma@syr.edu
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“Sometimes you chase it too much,” the elder Center said, “And he didn’t want it anymore. “I told him that I’m going to help him pursue any dreams he has.” Word got back to the Stewart family of Center’s decision to pursue football. It was both surprising and meaningful for Stewart’s parents. “Initially I was shocked for one thing,” Mike Stewart, Chris’ dad, said. “But at the same time it was emotionally very meaningful that he’s sort of doing this in Christopher’s honor, and it’s been nice to follow Connor on all of this.”
printed on cards. To honor him, Melina had the footprints from the cards tattooed on her ribs. “I felt like when he passed away, I didn’t really get the chance to become as close to him as I wanted to because he lived across the country,” Melina said. Guy described his father as “the biggest Syracuse fan on the planet.” A native of Canandaigua, Peter’s fandom came from his proximity to SU and from guarding Jim Boeheim when the legendary basketball coach was playing for Lyons High School. For years, Peter kept stats for each basketball game he watched. Peter’s sons wanted to go to SU, but couldn’t afford to. So Guy ingrained SU and sports into Melina from an early age. When she had to make her decision between Colgate, Cornell and Syracuse, it was an easy one. Midway through Melina’s freshman season, Syracuse fired head coach Jing Pu and hired current head coach Leonid Yelin before her sophomore season. Despite the coaching switch, she stuck with the program. “As a walk-on, I never felt she was doing less and asking for something easy because she’s (a) walk-on because she’s not on scholarship,” Yelin said. “She’s a hard-working kid, she did everything like everyone else.” Nine of Melina’s fellow freshmen joined the program in 2011, but only four reached their sophomore years at SU and only two reached their junior years. Despite starting 18 games last year, Melina didn’t get a scholarship until this season,
CONNOR CENTER was once focused on professional baseball until his best friend died in a car accident, which then inspired him to play football. courtesy of colorado athletics
which has been a difficult one for her. She’s made 44 reception errors in 26 games, five more than 39 in 30 games last year. Kathryn Metherell, Guy’s mother, has never missed a home match and would bring pompoms to cheer on her granddaughter, then soothe Melina by taking her out to dinner after. The volleyball team used to throw mini-volleyballs to the crowd at home games and Melina would always throw the ball to her grandmother — and each one is still in the
trunk of Metherell’s car. And despite SU’s and her personal struggles, she decides to look at her positive accomplishments with the program. Volleyball has not only brought her closer to her grandmother, but her grandfather too. “I know that my grandfather is always with me,” Melina said, “and I know that he is always supporting me in everything I do and he’s always looking down on me.” cjlibona@syr.edu
MELINA VIOLAS (15) came to SU as a walk-on in 2011. The scholarship senior is motivated by her late grandfather who serves as her inspiration. allie wahl staff photographer
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hehir to start his day off with sources of protein. He likes to keep it simple for lunch, he said, opting for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. For the final meal of the day, he and his housemates — other SU runners — cook ground beef, rice or chicken and are “all about” vegetables. Sometimes, he’ll make his specialty, chocolate chip pancakes. But that’s only when he feels like treating himself. “The sport of running, because it’s so fundamentally physical, it’s all about the kind of shape your body is in,” Hehir said. “It’s less so a skill sport, say like baseball or something. I mean you need to be physically fit but you also
When I think of Marty, I always think high energy. He’s always one to bust a joke. He doesn’t have to have any nerves or anything. He knows what he can do. Max Straneva su runner
need the skills to bat and pitch and swing. “In running, it’s literally all about how well you’ve maintained your body.” Then there’s the mental component. In baseball, there’s no pacing yourself running around the bases. Football players don’t conserve their energy when running downfield. In cross-country, it’s all about strategy and not knowing how to run fast, but when to. “He doesn’t go out and try to dominate practice,” Fox said. “He gets what he needs. He’s just an even-keeled guy and I think they all feed off of that.” But his SU career didn’t start off with him setting the tone for those behind him. He was getting his “butt kicked,” he said, and felt a little bit of doubt after a couple workouts. But just a year after he second-guessed his place in Division I cross-country, Hehir won the 2012 Big East individual title in his redshirt freshman year. That’s when he said he thought he might have a shot to continue a successful career. Fox said doubting yourself is the way a great runner thinks, and that’s exactly how Hehir was wired. But now, when he’s pulling away from the field in the final leg of a race, there’s no reason for doubt. “He never really seems stressed out,” SU assistant coach Adam Smith said. “When Marty looks back and sees five or six Orange jerseys, the pressure’s gone.” The oldest of four kids, Hehir is the reason his siblings, and even his cousins run, his father, Martin, said. Still today, Hehir has a knack for leading, figuratively or literally. He challenges his teammates and holds them to high standards, and that’s not
Tri-Valley YMCA and a former tutor for Syracuse football, attended the NCAA hearing last month, Leo’s lawyer, Robert Whitaker, told The Post-Standard. Whitaker also told The Post-Standard that the NCAA didn’t accuse the YMCA of any faults. But the former sports director of Tri-Valley YMCA, Jeff Cornish, is the one under investigation for providing extra benefits to SU men’s
basketball and football players, The Post-Standard reported. The Post-Standard also obtained a lawsuit that shows the YMCA sued Cornish in state Supreme Court in 2008. It claimed that Cornish set up a bank account using the YMCA’s not-for-profit tax ID number without permission and redirected possibly as much as $338,462 for his own use. It’s unknown how
much of or if this money was used or if any was given to SU athletes, the Post-Standard added. The YMCA had close ties with Syracuse athletes, and the athletes participated in charity events to raise funds for the YMCA, the Post-Standard reported, but specified that it is unknown whether any of these events are part of the investigation.
restricted to the course. Each Wednesday, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams sit down on the Manley Field House turf and Fox goes around asking runners for an interesting fact about anything in the world to challenge their creativity. If someone states a fact that seems questionable, Hehir is the first one to argue it, Smith said. That joking personality carries over to the locker room, too, where Hehir said he and the other seniors will “roll in and get rowdy to make sure everyone knows they’re there.” “When I think of Marty, I always think high
energy,” fellow senior Max Straneva said. “He’s always one to bust a joke. He doesn’t have to have any nerves or anything. He knows what he can do.” Hehir said keeping everyone smiling is part of his daily job. But it was Hehir smiling ear-to-ear in a post-race interview with ESPN after being crowned the best runner in the conference. The intense grimace, aggressive pump of his arms and vicious strides as he pulled away
from the field aren’t indicative of “the nicest guy on the team” label that Smith gave Hehir, rather a culmination of the craft required to excel in a sport that is much more than what it seems on the surface. “He’s a big part of the reason the culture is what it is here,” Smith said. “He’s just kind of taken that role and just really embraced it.”
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MARTIN HEHIR used to be filled with self-doubt early in his SU career. But his strong, balanced training regimen has led to team-leading results for Syracuse. In his senior season this fall, he’s won the individual ACC title and finished sixth in the NCAA Northeast Regional. He’ll try to take home NCAA championships on Nov. 22. courtesy of su athletics
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artin Hehir thinks people underestimate how hard it is to be a good runner. Runners don’t need to know how to swing a bat, kick a ball or catch a pass. Cross-country carries its own intricacies and rigors, though, and the Syracuse senior has them down to a tee. “Every run, every little thing you
do in running in terms of nutrition, in terms of how you rest, in terms of how hard you go in practice, it all kind of culminates into how your body feels on race day,” Hehir said. “It all makes a big difference.” Combine a specified diet, an unfaltering mental fortitude and attentive body management, and you have someone equipped with three qualities that define the best runners. But then top it off with a bubbling personality, a natural leadership
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instinct and an insatiable desire to never be second, and you have Hehir, a three-time individual conference champion. He’s coming off an Atlantic Coast Conference individual title, a sixthplace overall finish at the Northeast Regionals and will now look to finish among the country’s best at the Nov. 22 NCAA national championships for No. 2 Syracuse. Having that point be a realistic goal, though, hasn’t come easily, and
certainly isn’t just about “being fast.” “He’s a multi-faceted person that’s really bright,” SU head coach Chris Fox said of Hehir. “He doesn’t over-study, he doesn’t over-train, he doesn’t over-anything. A lot of
Hehir’s mind, body, diet lead SU to nationals that is just innate, his personality, he just has a good gift for keeping it all in perspective.” Every morning, Hehir eats granola and Greek yogurt, preferring see hehir page 15
CHAMPIONSHIP RUNS Martin Hehir won conference titles in 2012 and 2014 and finished third in 2013. As he and the Orange are in the thick of yet another postseason run, here’s a look at how Hehir’s performed in 8K conference championships. *2012 - 24:37.2 2013 - 24:05.5
2014 - 23:15.2 *BIG EAST
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Violas reflects on late Syracuse earns NCAA No. 9 seed grandfather, SU career By Matt Schneidman asst. copy editor
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Melina Violas has a picture of herself at a young age in an orange wig next to her grandfather, Peter Violas. The two are posing at the bottom of the pullout bleachers at a Syracuse basketball game in the Carrier Dome. Violas, her father, uncle and grandfather all sat 20 rows up in the bleachers for the game. Although she grew up in Los Angeles, her family’s roots are in Canandaigua, New York, just an hour west of
Syracuse. A Buffalo Bills or Syracuse shirt was always in her closet. And her grandfather — who passed away on July 2, 2008 — was mostly the reason why. The Violas’ connection to central New York made coming to SU easier, even though Melina passed on offers to play elsewhere and had to make the Orange volleyball team as a walk-on. Violas earned a scholarship as a senior this season and, despite losing her libero spot to freshman Belle Sand amid Syracuse’s (8-18,
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Syracuse has received the No. 9 seed in the NCAA tournament and a firstround bye, the NCAA announced on Monday afternoon. The Orange (15-3-1, 5-2-1 Atlantic Coast) will play the winner of Penn State and Hartwick on Sunday at SU Soccer Stadium. The Nittany Lions, who earned an at-large bid, and the Hawks, who automatically qualified by winning the Sun Belt, will face off on Thursday in University Park, Pennsylvania. If SU faces Hartwick in the second round, it’ll be a familiar sight for
Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre, associate head coach Jukka Masalin and assistant coach Matt Verni. McIntyre was the Hawks’ head coach from 2003–09 and Masalin was his assistant for two years before both came to Syracuse. Verni led the women’s team from 2007–13 and also graduated from the school. “Probably, yeah,” McIntyre said with a smile after being asked if he’d prefer a matchup with Hartwick. “As an alumnus, as a former coach, I am a little bit biased, delighted that they’re in the tournament. But they’ve got a tough game.” The Orange defeated Hartwick, 4-1, in its first exhibition game on
Aug. 16, and hasn’t played Penn State this year. After beating Duke in the first round of the ACC tournament, Syracuse fell to Louisville, 2-1, in the semifinals on Friday, falling from the nation’s No. 1 ranking. Last time it lost to the Cardinals’ the Orange went 2-0-1 in the next three games, finishing the regular season as the nation’s top-ranked team. Said midfielder Stefanos Stamoulacatos: “We’re all confident that we have the ability to make it back to North Carolina and get to that final four again.” mschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman