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Syracuse University is now accepting public suggestions for the 2015 commencement speaker. Page 3

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Landlord and Syracuse alumnus Ben Tupper creates murals for properties he owns around campus. Page 9

S • Unexpected gift

Jim Boeheim says Rakeem Christmas has benefited greatly from the absence of Baye Moussa Keita.

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crime

DPS arrests 2 potential suspects DPS chief says 2 men are possibly connected to recent campus burglaries

By Annie Palmer, Dylan Segelbaum and Jacob Pramuk the daily orange

tiffany steinwert and grady steinwert-arrowood walk through the aisles of PriceRite on Erie Boulevard Monday.

Steinwert, the dean of Hendricks Chapel, participated in the CNY SNAP Challenge last week. margaret lin photo editor

Spread thin Hendricks dean reflects on week of living with food stamp restrictions

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iffany Steinwert could only think about carrots on Saturday.

She had consumed foods like rice, beans, eggs and Maruchan Ramen noodles for six days, and her uncomfortably full stomach wanted nothing but the remnants of her limited vegetable supply.

Steinwert had $29.40, or $4.20 per day, to spend on a week’s worth of food, and the budget forced her to buy frozen foods and meals heavy in starch and salt rather than fresh produce. But Steinwert’s dilemma is all too familiar for low-income Americans that receive

food aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. “Because you don’t have a lot of money to purchase foods, you can’t really afford much variety,” Steinwert said.

Steinwert, the dean of Hendricks Chapel, took the 2014 Central New York SNAP Challenge from Feb. 9-15. During the weeklong event, which was organized

by InterFaith Works of Central New York, participants attempt to maintain a healthy diet exclusively with SNAP food aid, otherwise known as food stamps.

Steinwert said she found purchasing healthy food under a budget difficult. As the federal government slashes food aid see snap page 8

tiffany steinwert looks through the food at PriceRite grocery store Monday.

It was one of the stores where Steinwert shopped during the CNY SNAP Challenge last week. margaret lin photo editor

The Department of Public Safety on Monday confirmed two people who were arrested this weekend are being considered as possible suspects in the recent burglaries of academic buildings.

DPS Chief Tony Callisto said a DPS sergeant saw two people on Saturday leaving an office in the Hall of Languages. The sergeant recognized the pair from surveillance video and followed them out of the building. He immediately called for backup and officers got into a foot-chase with the men, eventually arresting them.

Callisto said both men were found with two stolen laptops.

Duncan “Wonderboy” Miller, 21, homeless, is charged with thirddegree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny — both felonies — as well as misdemeanor seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and third-degree criminal trespass.

Miller is being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center on $20,000 cash or $10,000 bond for the burglary, grand larceny and resisting arrest charges; $1,500 cash or bond for the criminal possession of a controlled substance charge; and $100 cash or $500 bond for criminal trespass.

Christopher “Shinobi” Dugger, 25, of 521 Garfield Ave., Syracuse, was also arrested Saturday. Dugger is also charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, third-degree burglary as well as the misdemeanors of possession of burglar’s tools, resisting arrest and third-degree criminal trespass.

Dugger is also in jail. His bail for the burglary, grand larceny, possession of see burglary page 4

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TATTOO tuesday | kai troge

Freshman remembers bike accident with tattoo

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By Naomi Falk staff writer

After Kai Troge endured an accident during his time as a camp counselor, he received a myriad of letters from concerned campers. One of them inspired his first tattoo.

It read: “If you make a thousand paper cranes, you’ll feel better.”

Troge, a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry freshman biotechnology major, had been making a left turn on his bike when a car struck him.

“When I was in the emergency room, people were like, ‘How are you alive?’” he remembered.

The camper’s letter struck a chord with Troge, who immediately began incorporating paper cranes into his life.

“I put them places. I gave them to people. I just started making cranes everywhere. It became part of who I was,” he said.

Historically, the story of a thousand cranes comes from a Japanese legend. It states that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will, in turn, be granted any wish of his or her heart’s desire.

It prompted him to get a paper crane tattooed on the middle of his left forearm, which signifies the appreciation

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kai troge, a freshman biotechnology major at SUNY-ESF, got his first tattoo of an origami crane inked onto his arm where he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle. shira stoll staff photographer

for life Troge gained after the accident.

He brought a design for the tattoo in to Pins & Needles Electric Tattooing in Hopewell Junction, New York.

The artist, Erika Harris, copied every detail of his drawing.

The piece is a combination of a geo-

metric style tattoo with a watercolor tattoo. The latter, which seems to be a recent trend, has been seen as an incredibly difficult concept to pull off.

Troge’s tattoo, however, is strikingly realistic, as if he took a brush and paint to his skin.

He describes the placement of his tattoo as being on his “accident arm,” a part of his body that’s still scarred by the near-death experience.

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campus briefs Penn State

• Eric Barron was picked Monday to be Penn State University’s new president. Barron was a former professor and dean at Penn State and Florida State University’s president. source: cbs news

University of Chicago

• A 20-year-old male student was found dead inside his dorm room Saturday afternoon, after several students reported smelling a foul odor. source: huffington post/chicago tribune.

University of Missouri

• Students formed a human wall, blocking the Westboro Baptist Church from protesting football player Michael Sam’s coming out. source: msnbc

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Snowed in Alexandrah Gichingiri, a sophomore public health major, participates in an activity as part of the 2014 Winter Carnival. On Monday in the Schine Atrium, there was a food drive collection to support the Hendricks Chapel Food Bank. The carnival will continue through the rest of the week. It includes events such as College Humor Live and Trivia Night on Wednesday evening, as well as a chili cook-off starting at 11 a.m. Thursday. The carnival concludes with a viewing party for the SU versus Duke basketball game Saturday night. emma fierberg asst. photo editor

University accepts grad speaker suggestions

By Claire Moran staff writer

With help from students’ suggestions, commencement speaker committees are currently working on securing individuals for this year’s ceremony and 2015.

The annual commencement speaker selection process has begun for the 2015 ceremony. The 2014 commencement has been going on since last year, but a name has not yet been released.

For current juniors, the selection process has started.

Community members have the opportunity to suggest a speaker online, said Josie Torrillo, the assistant director of the Office of Special Events. The names submitted online are then given to a student committee, which will submit them to Chancellor Kent Syverud, she said.

Syverud will make a final decision and start contacting potential speakers. The student committee includes two seniors to represent

the graduating class, individual student representatives from each college and student representatives from the Board of Trustees, according to the Syracuse University commencement website.

SPEAK NOW Here is a list of the five previous commencement speakers: 2013 — Nicholas Kristof New York Times Columnist 2012 — Aaron Sorkin ‘83 Award-winning Screenwriter, Producer, Playwright 2011 — J. Craig Venter World-renowned Scientist 2010 — Jamie Dimon - Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase 2009 — Joseph R. Biden Jr. - 47th Vice President of the United States

People can submit nominations for speaker suggestions through the website, based on certain characteristics such as the nature of the speaker’s achievements, the lessons that the speaker can offer to students and “the honor brought to SU should the candidate accept the nomination.”

All commencement speakers also receive honorary degrees from the university, and therefore all nominees must be eligible for an honorary degree. The University Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees is responsible for conferring these degrees.

For the speaker, Syverud passes a list of possible commencement speakers to the committee. The Honorary Degree Committee would give the names selected to University Senate, according to its website.

The committee also confers degrees to others besides the commencement speaker based on nominations from the committee.

Chris Day, chair of the Honorary Degree Committee, said the com-

mittee’s selection and nomination process is very secretive. He added that people that receive nominations often have some connection with SU. “(These are) people who are very prominent, done a great deal of things,” Day said.

Torrillo said it is important for the process to start this early. Many of the potential speakers are very busy and need to be given a lot of advance notice, she added.

“Its important to get the process started earlier to get the names of who students want,” Torrillo said.

Although students have the opportunity to submit names early, not all of them choose to do so.

Anthony Rini, a junior international relations major, said he probably will not fill out the form.

“The form isn’t like a multiple choice poll,” Rini said. “The odds of people coalescing on one person are pretty small so the odds of me getting what I wanted are pretty minimal.”

Page Garbee, a junior transfer

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Committee could offer family help Senators make initial plans for family, work life balance committee

By Kate Capodanno staff writer

The University Senate is looking ahead to determine how best to develop policies regarding balancing work and family after a new Ad-Hoc Committee was proposed and passed Feb. 12.

The proposal for a new committee was set into motion after the Committee on Women’s Concerns was repeatedly approached by students, faculty and staff regarding issues about the balance between work, studies and life, said Marty Hanson, co-chair for the committee.

Hanson proposed the motion to develop an Ad-Hoc Committee on Family-Friendly and Work-Life Balance Concerns at the Feb. 12 meeting.

According to the official proposal, the new committee would address concerns surrounding childcare, maternity and parental leave and caregiving.

“There is a vacuum that we are trying to fill with this motion to the Senate,” Hanson said. “We are trying to shine a spotlight and begin to identify what some of these issues are that are expressed by the university’s

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burglary burglar’s tools and resisting arrest charges is set at $25,000 cash or bond. For the criminal trespass, bail is set at $1,500 cash or bond.

He has a prior felony conviction for attempted second-degree burglary and spent four years in prison, according to the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The department’s database says Dugger got out of prison on Dec. 20.

Shinobi, which the police report lists as Dugger’s nickname and alias, is a Japanese term for ninja.

Chief Callisto said the pair has not been charged in connection with the recent string of burglaries in on-campus buildings, but are being considered as suspects in the investigation.

The Syracuse Police Department and DPS are still investigating several burglaries that happened in the last two weeks at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Huntington Hall, Sci-Tech, the College of Law, Crouse College and Archbold Gymnasium. Several offices in Newhouse II were

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Miller and Dugger are expected back in court on Thursday.

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List of charges Duncan “Wonderboy” Miller was charged with: • Third-degree burglary and fourth-degree grand larceny (felonies) • Seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, resisting arrest and third-degree criminal trespass (misdemeanors) Christopher “Shinobi” Dugger was charged with: • Fourth-degree grand larceny and thirddegree burglary (felonies) • Possession of burglar’s tools, resisting arrest and third-degree criminal trespass (misdemeanors)

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committee community members.”

USen members will have to wait until the Agenda Committee meets before any formal progress can be made. The Agenda Committee plans to meet a week from Wednesday to begin formally brainstorming what will happen with the new Ad-Hoc Committee, said Bruce Carter, chair of the Agenda Committee.

Carter said he does not know an exact timetable for when the new Ad-Hoc Committee would officially be created, but he said he hopes to have it be ready right after spring break.

First, the Agenda Committee will discuss who the members should be on the new committee, Carter said. The Agenda Committee will then reach out and contact potential committee members prior to the next Senate meeting to see who is interested in participating.

“We are trying to put together a committee that is diverse,” Carter said.

Carter said he speculates that they will try to get a graduate student and a representative from Human Resources to be members of the committee.

“The goal is to have the committee up and running as quickly as possible,” Carter said.

Both Hanson and Carter said there is a committee called the Committee on Services to Faculty and Staff that would normally handle many of the concerns faculty, staff and students are bringing up. However, that committee is currently inactive.

Hanson said since this committee is “dead,” many people were turning to the Committee on Women’s Concerns to address problems they were facing.

“The people who approached us were having really grave problems in their life,” Hanson said.

“Most of these issues were not issues that our

committee was set-up to help with or qualified to.

We realized, there needs to be a different venue to have those kinds of conversations across campus.”

USen may decide that instead of creating an entirely new committee, it could resurrect the Committee on Services to Faculty and Staff, Carter said. But that is something to be decided in the coming weeks.

Either way, Patrick Neary, president of the Graduate Student Organization, said in an email that he is excited that there will be a committee to address policies toward balancing work life and family life.

Neary attended and spoke at the USen meet-

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The Committee on Family-Friendly and Work-Life Balance Concerns will examine Syracuse University’s policies regarding family-work balance and addressing related issues. ing during the proposal of the new committee.

He said he was pleased with the support the faculty and staff showed during the meeting.

“They broadly agreed that graduate students are oftentimes hit hardest, and frequently fall through the cracks of these policies as they currently stand,” Neary said.

Graduate students have been discussing work and life balance issues for many years and have not see much success, but now it appears that the university is prepared to make real progress, Neary said.

“The energy in the University Senate last Wednesday was so positive and the community wants something like this to work because people are hurting,” Hanson said. “The work life balance is a very difficult balance.” kacapoda@syr.edu

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Social media, videos steal stage at Sochi

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he 2014 Winter Olympics didn’t begin with the traditional lighting of the Olympic flame. It started with #SochiProblems.

When thousands of reporters arrived in Sochi a week and a half ago, they found hotels under construction, contaminated water and broken plumbing — so they tweeted about it. #SochiProblems was tweeted 26,000 times within 24 hours of the reporters’ arrivals and numerous Twitter accounts like @SochiFails and @SochiProblems popped up overnight, BuzzFeed reported on Feb. 6.

There is a lot of social media attention surrounding these games, but its focus is not on the incredible journeys and accomplishments of the athletes.

Rather, it’s on the drama and all the things wrong with this year’s competition. And Millennials are the ones creating the headlines.

Let the games begin.

For this year’s Olympics, the Internet is the toughest critic, and the Internet is not impressed. During the opening ceremony, one of the iconic Olympic rings didn’t light up.

A picture of the mishap quickly went viral around the web.

I, like many others, didn’t watch the opening ceremony, so my only knowledge of it came from seeing

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that picture countless times on my Twitter feed. The fail took the attention away from the actual event.

Sochi’s mistakes weren’t the only thing distracting from the actual sporting events. Broadcaster Bob Costas’ pink eye went viral — literally and figuratively — quickly becoming one of the top news stories during the first few days of the Olympics. I heard more about Costas’ eye than I did about the Olympic sports.

American bobsledder Johnny Quinn was trapped in his bathroom and broke through the jammed door to get out. The picture of the smashed door tweeted by Quinn quickly went viral, only adding to the list of #SochiProblems.

Though there has been a lot of attention toward non-sporting events, there have also been a few standout Olympic performances that have gone viral. Julia Lipnitskaia, a 15-year-old Russian figure skater, became one of the most talked about athletes during the games after her gold-medal-winning performance left audiences amazed. A video of her performance is making rounds on

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the web, and news sources and social media are buzzing about her talent.

After scoring the game-winning goal in a shootout against Russia’s hockey team, T.J. Oshie quickly became a household name on social media, receiving a huge increase in followers and mentions on Twitter.

That being said, Lipnitskaia and Oshie are only two of thousands of athletes who have trained their whole lives to compete in the Olympics. The lack of attention toward the majority of athletes reveals how one-sided social media can be. #SochiProblems and relevant viral videos don’t do anything except turn an international event into a joke. The negative things that trend on social media detracts from the whole point of the Olympics: the events and the athletes who compete in them.

Neither the Olympics nor social media is going away. It’s literally in everyone’s hands to decide what goes viral and what’s better left untweeted. Hopefully, the next Olympics we will focus more on the events of the games, rather than on pink eye and a less-than-stellar opening ceremony.

Kate Beckman is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at kebeckma@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @Kate_Beckman.

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CNY SNAP Challenge aptly shows difficulty of living on food stamps The CNY SNAP Challenge appropriately calls attention to the issue of living on food stamps — particularly with recent cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

InterFaith Works, an organization that seeks to support the dignity of individuals and faith communities, hosted the CNY SNAP Challenge from Feb. 9-15. The program challenges Central New Yorkers to live on $29.40 worth of food for one week. This dollar amount is approxi-

mately how much money people on food stamps are allotted per week, according to the CNY SNAP Challenge website.

In November, $5 billion was cut from the program, reducing the amount of money families receive from SNAP across the board. The CNY SNAP Challenge reflected these changes in funding, as last year’s participants were challenged to spend $34 per week.

The CNY SNAP Challenge is an effective way to express how difficult

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it is to rely on food stamps. Participants are forced to make tough decisions, weighing the importance of nutrition up against expense. Participating in the challenge is likely an eye-opening experience for people who are not accustomed to making these decisions.

There is often a stigma around food stamps as some people see them as an overly generous handout. The challenge shows people the real struggles that come along with food stamps and also the necessity of the

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The CNY SNAP Challenge does not just send this powerful message to people who take on the challenge; the website also has a blog where participants document the struggles they endure throughout the week. In this way, the challenge can further extend its reach beyond its participants.

Though the program calls attention to the problems people on SNAP face, it should be taken a step further by asking participants to get friends and

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Many people may think they recognize the importance of SNAP, but experiencing the difficulties of living on food stamps first hand can be far more effective. Thinking twice before putting an item in your grocery cart or feeling your stomach rumble illustrates the true struggle of living off of food stamps.

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Assembly approves bill, creates budget review committee

By Dylan Segelbaum staff writer

The Student Association on Monday approved the formation of a committee to review the organization’s roughly $90,000 operating budget, a move the group’s president says meets a campaign promise of making the group more accountable.

“It’s in order for transparency and accountability and all of these sorts of things to be shown,” president Boris Gresely said in an interview after SA’s 7:30 p.m. meeting in Maxwell Auditorium.

“And to definitely make sure that we’re empowering the assembly, we’re also employing the people — the constituency, the students — so that they know where all this money’s going to,” he said.

SA’s speaker of the assembly is expected to appoint five people to the Special Committee on the Budget within the next few days. The committee will review the budget, see if it meets the student assembly’s priorities and will make a recommendation.

Gresely said the committee will allow for greater transparency, because SA’s budget will be talked about during its meetings. He added that the move will make the organization’s cabinet accountable to the student assembly.

In 2012, SA violated its codes by spending almost $4,000 to hold a formal. When asked if the idea for the committee was in response to that use of money, Gresely said he thinks it was “to a certain degree.”

Like other student organizations on campus, the student activity fee covers SA’s budget. For undergraduate students enrolled in 12 or more credits, the fee is $203. SA works to allocate the money to student groups, such as University Union.

SA started with about $88,000 in its current budget, and has approximately $30,000 left, Gresely said. About $40,000 of that money goes to covering half of the program that provides free copies of USA Today and The New York Times on campus; the Division of Student Affairs covers the other half of the newspaper program, he said.

Proposed budgets for student organizations are due in early March. The Special Committee on the Budget will dissolve April 15 after the budget process is done.

Other Business Discussed: The President’s Report In a report earlier in the meeting, Gresely addressed the assembly for more than 15 minutes. He called on the student and assembly representatives alike to make their voices heard about issues they see on campus.

For the second week in a row, Gresely brought up how the Syracuse University football team is scheduled to play Louisville on Oct. 3 — Yom Kippur.

An assembly representative raised the issue of whether the day of the football game should be something SA should pursue. She added that addressing increases in tuition might be something more worth pursuing.

Gresely said the example of the football game happening on Yom Kippur was “philosophical” and only one example of a campus issue.

“What I’m saying is that it’s the value component of who we are,” he said. “We can’t let that be pushed aside for money or whatever that is.”

He said the issue of tuition increases could be addressed as well. Evoking the words of President Barack Obama, Gresely talked broadly

Boris Gresely, president of the Student Association, addresses the assembly at Monday night’s meeting. The assembly passed a bill, which will allow SA to create a committee to review the organization’s operating budget. frankie prijatel contributing photographer

about the need to get students “fired up.”

Toward the end of his report, he went around and asked a few people in the room if they “were pissed” tuition is going up.

When Gresely posed that question to speaker of the assembly Ben Jones, he replied: “I mean, I graduate, so,” to laughs from the assembly.

Women’s Leadership Week Later in the meeting, former SA president and current assembly representative Allie Curtis talked about Women’s Leadership Week — a working title — an event that will be held April 1-5.

Elect Her, a national initiative that looks to get women involved in politics, is the culmination of the week, Curtis said in an interview after the meeting.

Board Elections The student assembly voted to re-confirm members of the Finance Board and Board of Elections and Membership. The assembly also elected new members to both.

Adrianna Kam became chair of the Board of Elections and Membership after the student assembly re-confirmed her. Dan Hernandez was also re-confirmed to his spot on the board, but said mentioned his schedule as a reason for not continuing in that role. dmsegelb@syr.edu | @dylan_segelbaum

@PhilPorter13 Congratulations to the confirmed BEM & Finance Board Members! Especially ‪@AdriannaKam‬!

@AllieCurtisSA And with a successful meeting - happy Presidents’ Day to all!

Demi Douglas (Back) and taylor anderson (foreground) were among four candidates considered for the Finance Board. frankie prijatel contributing photographer

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amid rising costs, the challenge aimed to raise awareness of the SNAP recipients’ struggle to afford healthy options with a limited budget.

“Why is it that the poor are always at the center of budget cuts in America?” Steinwert said.

Purchasing healthy food proved difficult for Steinwert during last year’s SNAP Challenge, when she was given $34 to spend in a week.

But a $5 billion cut in the federal program’s budget that went into effect Nov. 1 reduced her individual allotment even more, by nearly $5.

Congress recently passed an agriculture bill that will cut SNAP funding in 15 states, including New York, according to a Feb. 5 Washington Post article.

Food aid was increased by 14 percent as part of the federal stimulus in 2009, Sarah Hamersma, an assistant professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs said in an email.

When the increase was implemented, inflation was gradually supposed to even out costs.

But the stimulus and inflation never leveled out, and last year’s cuts marked a sharp 5 percent drop in funding, equivalent to a loss of $29 in weekly benefits for a family of three, she said. The cuts may have made the 37,880 Onondaga County residents that receive SNAP benefits more dependent on food pantries, Hamersma said.

As Steinwert showed solidarity with food stamp recipients, the combination of inflation and cuts made staying under this year’s SNAP

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Challenge budget more difficult, she said. The costs of basic items like chicken, cheese and margarine have risen since her previous SNAP challenge, Steinwert said.

But Maruchan Ramen noodles, which Steinwert described as “disgusting,” remained affordable at 20 cents per pack, she said.

Steinwert said the challenge didn’t leave her hungrier or more fatigued than usual. She ate

portions similar to or even greater than those she normally eats.

Cheap foods with little nutritional value satiated Steinwert’s hunger longer than healthier

foods in some cases, which poses a serious problem for those who regularly rely on the SNAP program.

“I think the misconception about SNAP benefits is that you’re not getting enough food and going hungry,” Steinwert said. “In reality you’re eating a lot of bad food.”

Those involved with the challenge also hoped to lessen an existing stigma around SNAP benefits, especially at a private university like SU, Steinwert said. She sees a degree of “poor shaming” around campus, she said.

Often, individuals that grew up in a household whose income was well above the level for SNAP qualification assume that those who receive benefits don’t work or even splurge on luxuries like lobster, she said.

But Steinwert remembers accompanying her grandmother to pick up her food stamps, back when the aid came in physical “stamps” rather than the current Electronic Benefit Transfer system. Though Steinwert’s parents didn’t receive aid, she would stand next to her grandmother, a woman who would take home scraps from the kitchen of a bar where she worked to make sure her family had enough food.

Steinwert recalls looking around at children her age waiting in line for stamps, wondering how they were any different than her.

Today, roughly half of children in Syracuse live below the poverty line, Steinwert said. And many of Syracuse’s children eat on a minimal budget, which she said concerns her after participating in two SNAP Challenges.

Steinwert said she believes continued cuts to benefits and a lack of empathy toward SNAP

recipients should be addressed. But she also noticed the significant difference in price between healthy and “junk” foods.

Government policies like the recent agriculture bill can contribute to healthier foods costing more than junk foods, said Anne Bellows, a professor of food studies in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The food industry makes more money from chocolate, soda and pizza than fresh produce, she said.

Carrot growers have less pull in the United States government than corn syrup producers, she added.

“Most lobbying is for public expenditures to produce most cheaply the food that is the worst for our nutrition and health,” Bellows said.

Steinwert said she limits her 4-year-old son Grady’s intake of unhealthy foods. He enjoys treats like pizza or Oreos on certain occasions, but didn’t get to take any snacks into his school on Valentine’s Day because they cost too much for his mother’s SNAP Challenge budget.

Steinwert was happy to return to her regular food budget Monday as she bought Oreos for Grady and cream for her coffee, which she said she also couldn’t afford during her week on SNAP. But after her experience with SNAP, Steinwert couldn’t help but think of other mothers who can afford only to buy “junk” for their children.

Said Steinwert: “When they’re thinking about how to fill the stomach of their children so they don’t say ‘Mommy, I’m hungry,’ they’re buying cheap junk food because that’s the best way to stretch their dollar.”

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“Right now I’m facing the fact that I’m graduating next year and I have no idea what I’m going to do,” Garbee said. “I feel like in some ways he’s kind of a grown man who things kind of sponta-

neously worked out for him, but at the same time he had no idea what he really wanted to do…and I feel like I just really relate to that right now.”

Garbee added that she would look for a speaker who had “wit” in order to make the

speech more interesting.

“I think they need to have something to offer to people who are just graduating, some kind of perspective on the world,” Garbee said.

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(Left) A mural inside of 516 Euclid Ave., which is also known as “Big Red,” describes the bar inside of the house’s attic, where many parties are thrown.

(Right) A mural of the house itself is painted along the walls, colored entirely in red because of its nickname. emma fierberg asst. photo editor

PAINTING the scene Landlord captures memorable moments in student houses with SU-themed murals

By Madysan Foltz asst. feature editor

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alking down Euclid Avenue on a Saturday night, partygoers often see a long line of students walking in and out of “Big Red,” a house that has for many years been campus-famous for throwing huge house parties.

Inside the hallowed halls of “Big Red”, however, is a recently added treat: a mural, painted by Ben Tupper, the landlord of the house. The mural immortalizes famous Syracuse alumni who

We had no idea it was coming. But when most people come in the house, it’s the first thing you notice.

Matt Berger roommate in 561 euclid ave., “big red”

have visited the place in the past.

The mural is entirely based around events that occurred within the confines of the house since the time it was built, Tupper, a ’91 Syracuse University alumnus said. Pieces of history are depicted on the walls of the house’s sprawling, triple-layered stairwell. Each corner shows an exciting

event that occurred since the house’s construction.

This is just one of many projects that Tupper has done, and is planning to do, in the nearly two-dozen houses he owns around campus. Tupper partners with SU students and faculty to create large and small scale art pieces for his properties.

“I put them in 20 houses, in places you wouldn’t expect — corners with smudged paint, chipped paint,” Tupper said of the smaller pieces. “I take an ugly spot and beautify it.”

Tupper estimated that at least 15,000 to 25,000 people have walked through the doorways of the house that is the site of his most-recent mural. Among the thousands was Carmelo Anthony, who once partied in “Big Red’s” attic.

Lou Reed lived in one of the houses Tupper’s father owned on Ackerman. Donovan McNabb lived in a summer sublet on Livingston during his time at SU. It is “fun little stories like these” that Tupper translated into the mural.

“I’ve always been a person who really loves history, not just in an abstract way. I want to do my part to share all of these great stories with people,” he said. “It’s not just another house on Ackerman. I want them to know something crazy funny happened at that house.”

The mural was painted at 516 Euclid this past summer.

The current residents, junior environmental engineering major Philip Wong and junior music major Matt Berger, said it came as a pleasant surprise.

“We had no idea it was coming,” Berger said. “But when most people come in the house, it’s the first thing you notice.”

Wong said guests really enjoyed the mural inside his house.

Joey Sims, a sophomore physics major, has gone to parties at 516 Euclid.

“It’s a really awesome place,” Sims said. In regards to the mural, he said “There’s no avoiding it — it’s pretty dope.”

Tupper drew inspiration for the murals from his days as a student at SU. As a student, he and his fellow classmates held political protests on the quad against apartheid in South Africa. To draw attention, they drew chalk murals on the walkways in front of Hendricks’ Chapel.

Tupper’s political interests led him to Baton Rouge following his graduation in 1991, where he experienced a “wealth of culture.” While in Baton Rouge, he took interest in murals, inspired by the abundance of wall art in nearby New Orleans.

When Tupper later returned to Syracuse, he was offered his family’s properties and landlord business by his father, Joseph Tupper, a biology professor at Syracuse University.

“Originally I said ‘hell no, I don’t want to be a landlord.’

You know, everyone hates landlords, I didn’t want to be ‘the man,’” Tupper said. “That’s not who I am.”

But Tupper eventually changed his mind and took over the business in 1996. But he vowed not to be the stereotypical landlord, saying that he has approached the job “not with the mindset of making tons of money but with the

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hen I filled out the application to study abroad in Strasbourg, I took a deep breath, crossed my fingers and signed up to take the majority of my classes at a French university. I knew it would be a challenge, but I looked forward to mastering the French language and immersing myself in a new experience.

But last Monday, as I walked away from my history lecture, I wasn’t thinking about the new vocabulary I’d picked up or the books I was reading. I was thinking, “What the expletive did I sign myself up for?”

That Monday was a particularly brutal one. I’d taken my first test at the University of Strasbourg, which was a chronology exam covering 700 years of medieval history.

Between a slight procrastination on my part, a slight misunderstanding about what the test would cover and the fact that no sane human being can memorize 700 years of dates, the test was exactly as bad as it sounds.

And, as I was discovering, the French grading scale is inherently more rigorous than the American model because of the different nature of higher education. French students don’t apply to college. Anyone who passes the baccalaureate, the famously stressful exam given in France at the end of high school, can enroll in a public French university of their choice. But without the ability to raise admissions standards, French universities attain selectivity by using tough grading standards to whittle down each graduating class.

But after a yoga class at the university gym helped me de-stress from the trauma of that test, I was soon able to focus on the positive

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One of the obvious advantages is an increased vocabulary. The type of academic language used in textbooks, while not always applicable to conversation, is an important step toward fluency. And if, like me, you take a class in contemporary theatre, you also learn an entire set of innuendos and swear words, the usefulness of which can be left to the imagination.

But French professors evidently don’t believe in baby steps. Coming from the American university system, I expected a few small papers and quizzes to pave the way to a final project or exam. Instead, my professors simply handed out impossibly long reading lists and announced that on the last day of class we would take a three-hour exam and/or hand in a 15-page research paper and/or present our firstborn child for sacrifice.

In keeping with this independent learning style, almost no time is allotted to questions or discussion in my classes. Instead, as the professor lectures, students jot down notes at the speed of light evidently not missing a word.

The feat is both impressive and infuriating when you haven’t followed your professor’s train of thought for the past 15 minutes and your notes are a collection of random nouns and question marks.

But one of the benefits of the hands-off Right now, Tupper and student workers have completed two full hallway murals at “Big Red,” and have another one in the design phase.

Tupper cites Banksy, the world-renowned British street artist, as a source of inspiration for a lot of his work. Tupper said he has another two projects in the works, not pertaining to mural art.

Overall, Tupper said he hopes that students

teaching style is that professors have fewer rules when it comes to the nuts and bolts details of assignments. Rather than measuring our margins and double-checking that we used the Modern Language Association rather than the American Psychological Association format, French professors tend to go straight to the content.

This past Thursday, I had my first major school assignment since my disastrous history test. I had to read my textual analysis aloud to the class, an exercise that, like reading textbooks in a foreign language, is ultimately rewarding but also slightly terrifying. Luckily, I was allowed to read from the printed copy of my paper, and I very quickly gave up on the nuances of pronunciation in favor of robotically reading the words off the page.

All in all, the presentation went about as well as I could have hoped. I couldn’t tell if the blank looks on my classmates’ faces were due to my mispronunciations or the fact that no one, in any language, wants to hear analysis of Verlaine hours before the weekend begins.

Once I finished, my professor was kind enough to say I’d done well, before going over all the grammatical errors in my outline. But that was good enough for me.

My professors may not believe in baby steps, but that’s exactly what I’m learning to take.

Maggie Cregan is a sophomore history and magazine journalism major. From Cleveland to Syracuse to Strasbourg, she enjoys rocking out and getting hopelessly lost. If you want to talk to her about this column, or are Keith Richards, reach her at mmcregan@syr.edu and follow her on Twitter at @MaggieCregan_SU.

enjoy their time at SU, but also reflect on the past.

“Syracuse is a snowy, grey place. I want to brighten it up with some colors and some history,” Tupper said. “I have done murals since I was a teen with a can of spray paint. Now I’m a 44-year-old man that still loves to get his message out visually.” mgfoltz@syr.edu | @madysangabriele

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and estate Artist Eric Church releases conflicting album, part money-maker, part sincere

By Jessica Cabe staff writer

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ric Church has been walking a fine line between country artist and country moneymaker since his 2006 debut album, “Sinners Like Me.” His records are characterized by their inconsistency in song quality, but he uses his fourth studio album, “The Outsiders,” as a mouthpiece to spout off on the ingenuity of Nashville and his efforts to rise above it.

The album begins with “The Outsiders,” a Southern rock track featuring his signature North Carolina drawl that sometimes turns into a snarl. Church isn’t afraid to get down and dirty with his vocal delivery, which is appropriate, considering a major theme of the album is that he’s a country rebel.

The music on “The Outsiders” toes the line between commercial and something a lot more interesting. The track is pretty much straightforward Southern rock until the end, when a metal influence sweeps in before the song surges into a blues rock guitar solo that would make Pearl Jam fans smile.

Mainstream country, Southern rock, metal and blues. It may seem like too much to process for one four-minute song, but it makes perfect sense behind Church’s dynamic voice.

That variety persists throughout the album, adding Dixieland jazz, spoken word poetry and even hip-hop (though nothing as overt as a Nelly cameo) to the mix.

“Cold One” features a steel guitar and sounds like something a group of New Orleans boys would play on their front porch. It shifts into double time with lightning fast guitar solos and even a trombone when it slows back down. It’s updated mountain music that shows Church’s sincerity as a country artist, not a pop star singing over some banjos.

As if the music wasn’t enough to speak for

itself, Church talks up his rock ’n’ roll cred on “That’s Damn Rock & Roll,” where he sings, “It ain’t a middle finger on a T-shirt the establishment’s tryin’ to sell, it’s a guy with the balls who told the establishment to go to hell. It ain’t about the money you make when a record gets sold, it’s about doin’ it for nothin’ ‘cause it lives in your soul.”

Unfortunately, Church is all too aware of the business side of the music industry. It’s obvious from tracks like “Talladega” and “Give Me Back My Hometown” that Church is out to sell albums — either because he wants to or because he wants to hold onto his record deal.

These two tracks in particular are throwaway radio single gold (“Give Me Back My Hometown” actually was released as the second single in January), but anyone could have performed them. There’s no personality, no indication that Church is the artist, aside from his distinct voice.

Church calls out the music industry best on “Devil, Devil (Prelude: Princess of Darkness),” an 8-minute long journey through spoken

in sync If you like this album, check out these tracks:

1. “My Kinda Party” by Jason Aldean 2. “What was I Thinkin’” by Dierks Bentley 3. “These are my People” by Rodney Atkins 4. “My Love Goes On and On” by Chris Cagle 5. “Uncaged” by Zac Brown Band

word poetry that personifies Nashville as a sexy but dangerous woman.

Church explains that Nashville will make or break an artist, but “it all comes down to

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money. Not romantic art of days gone past. If you forget that rule, you can bet your backside she will bury it in your ass.”

It’s an interesting dilemma he’s facing. He puts out singles that will sell albums, but he sneaks in unusual music and lyrics about the dark side of a big record deal, as if to apologize for and explain away the filler on the album.

He’d likely never admit to padding his CDs with singles, but it’s hard not to believe that’s what’s happening when “The Outsiders” features a handful of great, genuine country songs as well as a handful of generic radio hits.

It’s also a dilemma for the listener, the lover of pure country music. He sings about having the balls to stand up to the establishment, but

there’s such a clear distinction between his singles (boring) and the rest of his songs (exciting) that it’s pretty clear he’s not standing up as tall as he could. His only other options, though, are to get out of his contract and release music independently or just churn out albums that aren’t compelling at all.

It’s hard to blame him for toeing that line between artist and moneymaker, and in all it’s not a total tragedy. “The Outsiders” is a pretty solid, varied country album with some filler. That’s no crime. But it would be nice if one day Church had it in him to leave the big music business of Nashville behind and truly let himself loose.

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College Humor Live to bring laughs to Schine Auditorium

By Alfred Ng asst. feature editor

Comedians from CollegeHumor will be bringing laughs to the Syracuse University campus this Wednesday, in a show hosted by University Union.

The act will feature Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, from the web series “Jake and Amir;” Streeter Seidell, the editor-at-large of CollegeHumor and SU alumnus Dan Gurewitch.

SU will be the only campus stop on the CollegeHumor Live tour, Hurwitz said.

Hurwitz and Blumenfeld joked about their first visit to the snow covered campus, saying they would be bringing “bathing suits and tank tops” for the spectacular weather at SU. “It’s going to be funny, everybody’s going to have a good time and we hope we can get as many people there as possible — the more the merrier,” Blumenfeld said.

He added that people should go to the comedy show on Wednesday instead of the Syracuse Orange vs. Boston College Eagles game at the Carrier Dome, because “it’s funnier than a basketball game.”

The show will be similar to the Jake and Amir videos, CollegeHumor’s longest running series which won a Webby Award for Best Comedy in 2010. In the videos, Hurwitz usually plays the straight-man persona as a foil to Blumenfeld’s over-the-top, hilariously clueless character.

Hurwitz said after the show, he plans on heading to Chuck’s Cafe, calling it a “famous bar in Syracuse.”

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he said with a laugh. “I’m going to upchuck at Chuck’s.”

Seidell, the editor-at-large of CollegeHumor, will have a 30-minute stand-up routine at the show. Seidell has previously been featured on MTV, Fuse, Jimmy Kimmel Live and VH1 for his comedy. His work has also been published in The New York Times, Wired magazine and Mental Floss magazine.

The CollegeHumor comedy group was the highest demanded act from UU’s survey, beating out Comedy Central and the Onion, said Chloe Quackenbush, the co-director of performing arts.

“We felt the CollegeHumor cast appealed most to the demographic of college students,” she said. “I think the type of comedy that they do, our generation just gets more. They’re closer to us in age, where the things that they talk about are pretty relevant to the everyday life of an average college student.”

Quackenbush said she was a fan of Jake and Amir herself, and owns a T-shirt with the phrase “Oh Sheesh Y’all, ‘Twas a Dream,” a reference to a catchphrase from the videos.

She added that she’s been a fan of CollegeHumor since she was in high school.

The show starts at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium on Wednesday. Tickets are still available for all SU students, staff and faculty for $5.

Hurwitz, after hearing SU is the No. 5 party school in the country, said he’s excited to visit.

Said Hurwitz: “Well, we’re the top two party people in all of America.” alng@syr.edu | @alfredwkng

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Former SU captain Marty plays for Swiss in her 3rd Olympics

By Matt Miselis staff writer

Five years ago, Stefanie Marty took the ice as a member of Syracuse’s inaugural team.

Four years ago, she scored an Olympicrecord nine goals as Switzerland’s star forward in the Vancouver Games.

And Saturday, she notched her first tally of the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia — her third Olympics at just 24 years old.

“What an awesome experience it must be for her,” SU head coach Paul Flanagan said. “Three Olympics is pretty amazing. It’s a credit to Stefanie with her training.”

After playing at Syracuse for two seasons, Marty is now in her third Olympics. The Swiss advanced to the semifinals after a 2-0 win over Russia on Saturday, but fell to Canada and will face Sweden in the bronze-medal game Thursday.

While at Syracuse, Marty trained with the goal of becoming an Olympian and has transferred that work ethic to the ice in Russia.

Marty’s career began at the University of New Hampshire, where she stayed for one season before leaving for Syracuse.

Flanagan reminisced about the time when she first visited Syracuse, a critical moment in the program’s history.

“For me as the coach, not having anyone, when Stefanie transferred in here, it gave us immediate credibility,” he said.

When Marty began her sophomore season with SU, she quickly proved her worth when she was named co-captain. She led the team in points with 22, and was second on the team in goals with 10.

“She was our first captain. We’ve missed her ever since she’s left,” Flanagan said.

It was evident in the locker room that Marty held her teammates accountable. But she would also be the first to express disappointment in her play if it didn’t meet expectations.

Caitlin Roach, who was a freshman during Marty’s final season with Syracuse, said Marty’s success in Sochi is a testament to her dedication to the sport.

“It’s awesome seeing someone out there represent the Orange during the Olympics,” Roach said. “She was just really a hard worker, both on and off the ice.“ Marty’s goal was to sustain the necessary training that would elevate her to compete with the best hockey players in the world at the Olympics.

Flanagan said that Marty was in the weight room every single day, providing an example for the younger players to follow. Her combination of elite offensive prowess and pursuit of excellence was the exception, not the norm.

“She always had that drive that she would be an Olympian,” Flanagan said. “She had that drive to do the extra things. For some of our girls, it’s hard to get them to understand that because a lot of them don’t have the Olympic dream.”

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STEFANIE MARTY was a captain during her three years at SU. She now plays for Switzerland, and is participating in the Olympics for the third time. daily orange file photo ing in the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy, at the age of 17. Now in her third Olympic Games, her success is leaving lasting impressions on former teammate Margot Scharfe, who watches from Syracuse.

Scharfe earned the honor of team captain, which was held by Marty for two straight seasons. As the new leader of this program,

Scharfe can’t help but attempt to emulate the role of the former Syracuse standout.

“She was an inspiring player to play under, so I was really lucky as a freshman to have her as a senior,” Scharfe said. “I can honestly say that she’s the hardest worker I ever played with.” mjmiseli@syr.edu

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Interim coach George adjusts after replacing Jensen at helm

By Matt Miselis staff writer

RAKEEM CHRISTMAS shoots over N.C. State’s Jordan Vanderberg. The junior has played more this year due to injuries to SU’s other centers. yuki mizuma staff photographer from page 16

christmas Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ teleconference Monday. “Christmas realizes that he can play longer, and that in playing longer, he’s realized that he can play better.

“I think it’s been a blessing, a big blessing, in disguise.”

Christmas turned-in likely the best performance of his career in the Orange’s 56-55 win against North Carolina State on Saturday. He scored a team-high 14 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and blocked a careerhigh seven shots. With 210-pound forward Jerami Grant playing the role of backup center, Christmas stayed out of foul trouble for his second straight 35-minute outing.

After the game, he said he’s just focused on

keeping his body and arms straight up.

“He won the game the other night,” Boeheim said. “He was the key factor in the game the other night, and that was the first time he’s been the key factor in a game since he’s been here.”

With Keita expected to return soon, Christmas’ minutes will likely shrink again. But Boeheim said he sees the confidence the additional playing time has instilled in Christmas.

Supporting cast or not, it’s clear that that experience could pay dividends come tournament time.

Said Boeheim: “We’d like to get Keita back, and we think we will pretty soon. But I think it’s been a help for Christmas because I think he’s realized that if he can avoid a couple little fouls, then he can be in the game longer and he can be more productive.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

When Syracuse head coach Luke Jensen resigned on Jan. 29, the program was two days away from a road trip to Columbus, Ohio, to face Ohio State.

Assistant coach Shelley George, who coached under Jensen for seven years, finally received her chance to direct the program. George’s familiarity with the players led to an easier transition for the interim head coach. And now she has the challenge of helping her young squad prepare for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

In her mind, the expectations for Syracuse should not be tampered despite the coaching change early in the season.

“I want to win matches, and see the girls get better every day at practice,” George said. “I want to see competitors and see better fighters.”

So far, George has led her program during one of the more difficult starts in program history, as the Orange is currently winless as it enters conference play this weekend.

But even with the slow start, George has done a good job building relationships with the Orange’s younger players and strengthening the pre-existing ones.

Junior Breanna Bachini has been accustomed to George for three years now, which is why she feels that the change at head coach hasn’t been too difficult.

Bachini is appreciative of the connection that she has formed with George during her time with the program.

“It doesn’t feel like too much of a big transition,” Bachini said. “My relationship with coach George has been very good, so it has been very natural.”

Junior Amanda Rodgers views the coaching

change as an easy transition for returning players as well. Rodgers also said George’s ability to provide comfort to her players both on and off the court has stood out early on.

“She’s more of like a mom,” Rodgers said.

“She’s more understanding and you can talk to her because she’s a woman.”

George is quickly making her presence known as the interim head coach, despite the uncertainty surrounding the coaching situation beyond his season.

Her focus lately has been telling her younger players to close out matches when the opportunities arise.

“We work on it every week,” George said.

“We’re always looking to get better each week and learn from our losses.”

Through the early weeks of her reign as interim head coach, George is seeing her players provide the same amount of effort they showed for Jensen at the start of the year.

Bachini doesn’t believe the team atmosphere has been different with a new leader at the helm.

“Every single day we come to the practice, we’re under the mindset that we’re going to play our absolute hardest,” she said. “Our mindset has not changed.”

George is not dwelling on this situation, nor does she intend for her players to be phased by the coaching change early in the season.

Amid the rapid change that is affecting her and the program, George is showing confidence in her ability to anchor Syracuse in what is arguably the nation’s best conference.

“I’m really embracing the challenge. I’m excited for this,” she said. “I love these girls, I love this team and we’re just trying to all get better each day we’re out there on the practice court.” mjmiseli@syr.edu

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Ndiaye adapts to American game, shines as 7-foot-6 freshman

By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

In 2010, Mamadou Ndiaye came to the United States knowing he wanted to play professional basketball.

What he didn’t know was how to play the sport in an organized setting. Ndiaye grew up in Senegal playing soccer like everyone else, and had only picked up a basketball to mess around with his friends.

He also didn’t know that he had a tumor on his pituitary gland, which could explain how he had grown to be 7 feet, 5 inches tall, but was also debilitating his eyesight by the day.

He was lost — an entire ocean and 45 U.S. states separated him from his home.

“Mamadou had a lot of complications and a lot of stuff to get through,” said Russell Turner, who coaches Ndiaye at the University of California, Irvine. “But once he adapted and figured it all out, he could focus on his game.”

Ndiaye received medical help, polished his game and found himself as one of the most

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nandins teammate and longtime friend Mary Dombrowksi thinks the transition has been seamless.

“It’s nice to have her as a coach because I can still go to her for advice about what it may be,” Dombrowski said. “She has drawn the line a few times with all of us though, reminding us that she’s the coach and wants us to respect her that way.”

While Morgan demands respect from her play-

dominant high school basketball players California has seen in recent years.

A freshman at UC Irvine, Ndiaye has grown to 7 feet, 6 inches and he’s widely believed to be the tallest player in the country. As the starting center for the Anteaters, he tends to make the game look easy, reaching out his rangy arms to deftly block shots or place the ball in the basket jumping no more than an inch or two off the ground. Yet there was a time when he didn’t know where he’d end up and adapting to the American game was a challenging task.

Ndiaye’s path to college basketball makes him the player he is, and he’s now know for his advantaging size and astounding 3.4 blocks per game — making him the seventh-best shot blocker in the country.

“There was a big learning curve,” Ndiaye said. “But now I think I have gotten it and it’s going really well.”

When Ndiaye first got to Stoneridge Preparatory School in Simi Valley, Calif., a physical examination revealed the tumor he didn’t

know he had. Stoneridge couldn’t afford the surgery, but charitable donations could and he was soon taken in by a couple in Huntington Beach, Calif., who became his legal guardians.

Their house was down the street from Brethren Christian High School, which was where he’d make his name.

“I didn’t know much about him before he got here,” said Jon Bahnsen, Brethren’s head coach. “But he moved in a few blocks away and we had maybe the most dominant high school player I’ve ever seen.”

Ndiaye towered over all of his teammates.

He didn’t speak much English and the athletic department had to make special arrangements for him to have his own room and king-sized bed whenever they traveled.

But other than that, Ndiaye fit in right away.

His natural skill and size made sure of that.

As soon as he stepped onto the floor for the Warriors, he excelled on the offensive and defensive blocks.

Versatility, potential and the 90 inches separating him from the ground drew attention

from top programs — most notably Georgetown — but Ndiaye opted to stay close to home.

“It was all I knew — California and UC Irvine,” Ndiaye said. “And the beach reminds me of Senegal.”

Standing on the sideline at his first college practice Ndiaye was exceedingly nervous. The scrimmage playing in front of him was a faster game than he had ever seen. The players were bigger than the kids he posted up and swatted in high school. He wasn’t sure if he belonged.

But then Turner subbed him in and he blocked a teammate on his first defensive possession. That was his first step.

A month later, in the Anteaters’ upset of Washington, he nearly posted a triple-double with 18 points, eight rebounds and nine blocks.

That was his second step.

“He’s no doubt going to play in the NBA one day,” Turner said. “And a guy with his size and skill is going to be great there.”

If Ndiaye lives up to his coach’s lofty expectations, his next steps could make history.

ers, Matt doesn’t hesitate to joke around with his younger sister.

“Why is your glove on your foot?” Matt sometimes jests to Morgan after a defensive miscue.

But the family dynamic on the SU softball doesn’t end with Matt and Morgan.

Lindsay Nandin is the director of operations for the team and is also Matt’s wife. She also pitched for the Orange from 2005-09. Morgan introduced Lindsay to Matt while Lindsay was an assistant coach for two years after she graduated.

Matt recognizes that there is a certain novelty

to the situation.

“It’s pretty funny looking at the coaching roster and you have all of us with the same last name,” Matt said. “I’ve never seen something like this, so maybe we’re starting something new here.”

The Nandin siblings were able to grow closer with greater distance apart from each other once Morgan went to college.

Now, having Matt on the coaching staff has added a new level of comfort ability and familiarity for her and is enhancing her budding coaching career.

“I didn’t really notice how much I looked up to him when I was younger,” Morgan said. “I was too busy getting mad at him, but once I got to college I realized I’ve looked up to him my whole life.”

Morgan and Matt come from a tight-knit family, one that Lindsay later joined. And as they’ve united on the Syracuse staff, the whole program feels just as close.

“I feel like we’re all part of the same family,” Ross said. “It really feels that way and I know the girls feel that way, too.”

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Boeheim: Injury aids Christmas

By Stephen Bailey sports editor

In only a few weeks, No. 1 Syracuse went from having three viable centers to one. DaJuan Coleman underwent seasonending knee surgery on Jan. 28.

Baye Moussa Keita sprained his right knee on Feb. 9 and hasn’t played since.

Rakeem Christmas, once the main recipient of ire from head coach Jim Boeheim this season, has been forced into playing maximum minutes in the last two games.

And he’s thrived.

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Injuries to DaJuan Coleman and Baye Moussa Keita have forced Rakeem Christmas to play more at center.

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Before Coleman’s injury MORGAN NANDIN graduated from SU after a four-year career as a shortstop for the Orange and is now a student coach for Syracuse. Her brother Matt played and coached baseball for Le Moyne College, but has also joined the SU coaching staff for this season. stacie fanelli staff photographer

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oing back to their earliest days of driveway basketball, siblings Matt and Morgan Nandin have been vehemently competitive with each other.

Ever since parents Robert and Marilyn Nandin forced Matt to let his younger sister tag along with him and his friends to play basketball, Ping-Pong or any other sport, the siblings always bonded through athletics.

After playing four years at Syracuse and graduating in December, Morgan is now a student coach. And after being convinced by SU head coach Leigh Ross, Matt joined the staff before the season, as well.

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Now that the siblings are both coaching the Orange and the program is starting to share a chemistry akin to theirs.

“I think they have such a neat, close relationship,” Ross said. “It’s not your typical brother-sister relationship, because they have such a love for the game, that’s their big bond for them.”

“I think that Matt challenges Morgan, and I bet that’s why Morgan in part was such a great player for us.”

Marilyn couldn’t help but laugh when asked about the open competitiveness of her kids going back to their

youngest days.

She recalled one of the first times Morgan was finally able to beat Matt one-on-one in basketball. At the end of the game, Matt dropkicked the basketball down the street in frustration.

“But it was always like that,” Marilyn said. “It was always an argument on who was going to win, who was better and who did what the best.”

The Nandins have family history on the diamond. Matt and Morgan’s father Robert played for the Syracuse Chiefs and Marilyn played softball throughout her childhood.

Morgan played under Ross for four years as a shortstop for SU, graduating this past December. Matt was an assistant baseball coach at his alma mater, Le Moyne College.

Ross got to know Matt through Morgan, and eventually took her daughter to get lessons from him.

“I would watch Matt coaching my daughter and tell him, ‘Matt, you are so good, you’d make a great softball coach,’” Ross said.

Then Ross, trying to imitate Matt in the deepest, manliest voice she could muster, said, “No. Nah, I could never coach girls, I’m only a baseball guy.”

When Matt told his parents he was going to coach at SU, his mom thought he was playing a joke on her and started to laugh.

Morgan, however, always knew she wanted to be a softball coach. For Syracuse’s shortstop from 2010-13, coaching is a different role, but her former

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