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HOW IT GOES Upstart Syracuse can’t stop UConn from winning 4th straight title

CORNELIA FONDREN hugs SU head coach Quentin Hillsman as the time expired in the program’s first-ever national championship game and Fondren’s career. The Orange couldn’t stop UConn’s Breanna Stewart, a North Syracuse native. evan jenkins staff photographer

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

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NDIANAPOLIS — Cornelia Fondren walked off the court and hugged Quentin Hillsman. Then she hugged Alexis Peterson. And then she took a seat on the bench and watched the final minute of her career tick off the clock. She joined Brittney Sykes, Brianna Butler and Taylor Ford, the group that made up Syracuse’s best senior class in program history as their magical season of firsts came to an end one short of the ultimate prize.

Sykes stood on the sideline with tears in her eyes absorbing the moment.

“I was just taking in the last few seconds on the clock to realize what we accomplished

this year,” she said. “… We’re going to forever remember this feeling.”

As the confetti rained down from the rafters at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Fondren walked to the locker room with her jersey pulled up over her eyes. Peterson walked off the court with a smile on her face waving to the crowd. After setting record after record, it was Connecticut celebrating the most significant one on Tuesday night.

For the first time in men’s or women’s college basketball history, a team won its fourth consecutive national championship. No. 1 seed Connecticut (38-0, 18-0 American Athletic) beat No. 4 seed Syracuse (30-8, 13-3 Atlantic Coast), 82-51, to claim its 11th title in program history.

When Breanna Stewart, the North Syracuse native and former No. 1 recruit in the country, was a freshman at UConn, she said her goal was

to win four rings. Mission accomplished.

“Well, you come here to win the game, obviously,” said Hillsman, SU’s head coach. “I thought in spurts we played pretty good, but we have to be able to rebound the ball and do the little things to beat great teams.”

Within the first six minutes of the game, center Briana Day picked up two fouls. After each one, both she and Hillsman complained to the refs. But just like everything else Syracuse did on Tuesday, it didn’t matter. Nothing could derail the Huskies on its coronation night, even a 16-point third-quarter run.

Sykes hit the Orange’s first basket of the game, but on UConn’s next possession, Stewart answered with a mid-range jumper. Taylor Ford hit SU’s first 3 of the night, but on UConn’s next

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SU alumnus reflects on battle to reform huge party school A SOBERING REALITY

By Sam Fortier and Jordyn Weisberg the daily orange

FROSTBURG, Md. — From the outside, the dark house at the end of the street seemed ordinary.

It blended into the still residential area, another roof dusted with

light snow, quiet with the clock approaching midnight.

Inside, a four-way social between off-camGIBRALTER pus fraternities and sororities raged. The windows were covered with blankets and towels as about 50 people danced.

“Y’all came on a bad weekend,”

one partier said. “Usually it’s way more lit.”

The large off-campus frat house smelled of moldy keg residue. Supermodel posters dotted the walls.

Seventy-three empty liquor bottles served as décor. A red flag read: “Get dressed up to get messed up.”

Then came a knock at the door.

In a Snapchat video shown later, captioned “F*ck 12,” slang for police, officers dragged two kegs out to their

cruisers, leaving behind the one hidden in a closet. The night scaled down to a 20-person hangout. Partiers drank from red Solo cups, calmly sitting around a large living room talking and toasting. Four girls and one of their mothers, visiting for the weekend, puffed a joint in the kitchen. The only rise in action came from a spirited debate when one pledge asked: “If it guaranteed world peace, would you cut off your dick?”

To some, it was a disappointing end to a Saturday night. But for these students, it wasn’t just unlucky. They were feeling the effects a decade later from a hard-charging new president who cracked down on a school infamous for heavy drinking.

Frostburg State University by all accounts — community members, students and administrators

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WORK wednesday | angela montague

Sophomore runs vintage clothing shop online

By Danielle Bertolini staff writer

Angela Montague has always loved shopping for vintage clothing.

A sophomore retail and supply chain management major, Montague decided to take her passion a step further when she opened her own vintage clothing shop on Etsy in December 2014.

“I’m always looking for unique pieces,” Montague said. “It’s almost like treasure hunting.”

Montague’s shop, The Esme, is filled with high-waisted jeans, chunky heels and geometrically patterned sweaters. Montague finds these items in thrift stores, then curates them for her own shop based on both her fashion sense and a consideration of what will sell best. Currently, Montague’s favorite piece is a pair of lime green Levi jeans made from tough, vintage denim.

While working as a seasonal manager at a thrift shop in her hometown, Montague began to promote pieces via Instagram, acquainting herself with online sales. She then transferred this knowledge to Etsy, creating The Esme as a personal project.

“One day I was just looking through Etsy, and I was like, ‘I could do this myself,’” Montague said. “I had way too many clothes, so I gave it a shot.”

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ANGELA MONTAGUE sells vintage items such as high-waisted jeans, chunky heels and patterned sweaters on her shop, The Esme, which runs through Etsy. jingyu wen staff photographer

She chose Etsy as the platform for her shop because of its pre-established customer base for vintage clothing and its ability to reach an international audience.

Pulling inspiration from current trends both locally and internationally, Montague has learned what sells. She always keeps three aspects in mind when picking and selling clothing: price, quality and “uniqueness.” To ensure customer satisfac-

tion, Montague always includes the marked size of the clothing along with measurements, attempting to ease the difficulty of online shopping.

Montague strives to appeal to “the idiosyncratic individual looking for a statement piece.” However, she sometimes finds herself unable to part with the clothing she curates for the shop, instead keeping it for herself, at least for a month or two.

In the future, Montague hopes

to become a merchandise buyer for a fashion company and eventually open her own brick-and-mortar resale shop. She places great emphasis on customer satisfaction and takes pride in her ability to find different and interesting pieces she said.

“With thrift shopping there’s always a challenge to find something,” she said. “I like the thrill of the search.” dbertoli@syr.edu

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@ayshaseedat “I am a naturalized citizen & to have the honor to sit behind a sign that says United States was really incredible” @madeleine #SUAlbright

Global drinks The D.O.’s “A Sobering Reality” series on alcohol takes a look at what international students at SU think of American drinking culture.

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SPD finds marijuana, ecstasy 4 SU students arrested on several charges

By Sara Swann asst. news editor

MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, former U.S. secretary of state, spoke on Tuesday in Hendricks Chapel about being a woman in the male-dominated profession of politics during her Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility. moriah ratner staff photographer

Madeleine Albright talks career, challenges

By Ali Linan copy chief

Foreign policy interaction is like a game of billiards. It is a horizontal dynamic of trying to figure out which ball will hit which, making decisions based on the consequences of those collisions.

That is how former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright described the decision making process when it comes to foreign policy.

Albright, who was also the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government while she held the position of secretary of state from 1997-2001 under former President Bill Clinton, delivered the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility in Hendricks Cha-

pel on Tuesday afternoon. The lecture was moderated by James Steinberg, dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and former deputy secretary of state.

During the lecture, Albright discussed making tough calls, what it is like being a single woman voice in a male-dominated profession and the responsibility of former government officials to continue their work.

“We have a responsibility to understand what is going on, develop priorities and then decide to get involved (in foreign affairs),” Albright said, adding that the worst thing for the U.S. to do is to sit out of a conflict and then have to go in and pick up the pieces after.

“I am an activist,” she said.

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We have a responsibility to understand what is going on, develop priorities and then decide to get involved (in foreign affairs).

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she said was one of her worst days on the job — Aug. 7, 1998 — when the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were blown up by truck bombs. She said she had to do something she thought she would never have to: bring home bodies of foreign government officials with a

flag laid over them and explain to their families what happened.

She said making decisions in foreign policy is a “damned if you do and damned if you don’t ( job),” which makes coming to a conclusion the hardest part.

Albright’s love for foreign policy sprung from her childhood as the daughter of a Czech-Slovakian diplomat. A self-proclaimed “foreign-policy junkie,” Albright grew up in England during World War II and said she very much saw the difference between the U.S. being involved and the U.S. not being involved in the war. This experience influenced the way Albright saw foreign policy, she said.

Understanding the history also had an effect in her role as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations,

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Community members protest Albright lecture

By Delaney Van Wey asst. web editor

Members of the Syracuse University community endured the cold on Tuesday afternoon outside of Hendricks Chapel to protest former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who spoke inside as part of the Tanner Lecture on Ethics, Citizenship, and Public Responsibility.

The protesters brandished signs condemning Albright for her track record as a U.S. official. The signs read “‘There’s a special place in hell’… for war criminals” and “500,000 dead Iraq babies.”

Many chanted, “There is blood on your hands.”

Albright, who is also a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was the first woman to be secretary of state. She served under former President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001.

Albright has been protested before at previous engagements across the country and internationally. Her opponents often label her as a war criminal for her support of UN sanctions against Iraq and authorization of NATO bombings in Serbia.

The group of protesters at SU, see protest page 8

The Syracuse Police Department recovered drugs and arrested four Syracuse University students at Castle Court during a recent investigation on March 30.

After executing a search warrant at 1017 Harrison St., SPD detectives recovered marijuana, ecstasy and Xanax pills, according to an SPD release sent on Tuesday morning.

Four SU students were arrested: Christopher Mancino, a senior management major in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management; Denzel Deranamie, a junior in the College Of Visual and Performing Arts’ Department of Transmedia and two other students.

SPD started the investigation in the Castle Court apartment after a large cardboard box containing 1.16 pounds of marijuana was intercepted by postal workers, according to Syracuse.com.

In addition to the marijuana, SPD found 900 Xanax pills, more than 12 ounces of marijuana and a small bag

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news to know Here is a round-up of news stories happening around the world right now: WORLD

CAUGHT SLIPPIN’ The Prime Minister of Iceland resigned on Tuesday after a massive leak from a Panamanian law firm allegedly showed he and his wife had millions of dollars in undisclosed offshore holdings. The findings from the leak — called the Panama Papers — were published Sunday night and implicated other world leaders, businesspeople and celebrities in the scandal. source: the associated press

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Members of the Syracuse community held signs protesting the Madeleine Albright lecture. moriah ratner staff photographer

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TWITTER BALL Twitter negotiated a deal with the National Football League to stream 10 Thursday Night Football games during the 2016 NFL season, the social media company announced Tuesday. The deal cost Twitter $10 million. source: bloomber

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Efficiency trumps transparency in case of NY state budget

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eading up to Friday’s deadline, New York state legislators tussled over the state budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year, with the liberal-leaning assembly and conservative senate leaving a trail of little progress and even less cooperation in their wake. Both parties looked far from willing to negotiate and the stagnant legislative landscape indicated the potential for a frustrating deadline extension.

But when Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) and Majority Senate Speaker John Flanagan (R-Suffolk) emerged from “the back room” late Thursday night, New York’s annual budget was delivered with bipartisan signatures.

In spite of the collaboration, the Center for Judicial Accountability (CJA) is now suing the state legislature for using the “three men in a room, behind closed doors” tactic of negotiation for privately politicking budget issues over the course of last week.

The nonprofit seeks out cases in the closeddoor processes of judicial selection and discipline on federal, state and local levels.

When political push comes to shove, collaborative progress trumps any breach in policy-making etiquette. Of course, everyone would like the government to be a little more honest about what they do with

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REPUBLICANS ARE PEOPLE, TOO its money. But shouldn’t taxpayers demand progress from the people elected to office?

These three men are appointed leaders for a reason. The deal was a bipartisan victory for the people of New York and this lawsuit only sullies a budget that is otherwise beneficial for the state.

The CJA’s lawsuit claims that the budget process was “unconstitutional,” “unlawful” and “fraudulent.” Yet contrary to CJA’s accusations, state legislators’ lead-footed approach to finalizing the new budget pushed Cuomo, Heastie and Flanagan toward an accelerated game plan as the fiscal year came to a close. The process was a power move for the better from these three leaders.

The senate finally approved a plan to gradually move toward increases in minimum wage, finalized appropriation for public schools to receive a record $24.6 billion in 2016 and established a plan to ensure tax cuts for middle income taxpayers in 2018.

While upstate minimum wage will increase slightly year-to-year, downstate wages will

spike to $15 an hour by 2018.

These proposals are huge wins for working-class New Yorkers down state, who will see their minimum wage rise 67 percent by 2018. Even Republican senators, who will likely lose love from voters in November for passing the budget plan, gained some breaks for small businesses upstate.

With Cuomo and Heastie leading the charge for the Democrats and Flanagan representing the Republican Party, there could be no more efficient way to iron out legislation in the waning days before deadline than for the three to meet privately. We’ve seen federal representatives flip-flop on issues, extend deadlines for weeks — even months — past their original dates. You hear moans about stalemates in Washington, with most whiners repeating the mantra that the government gets nothing done. These three got it done. These three did their job.

Just as Flanagan and Heastie have the authority to lead their respective parties, Cuomo has the constitutional power to make budget “recommendations as he may deem proper with respect to (Judicial and Legislative) budgets” under New York state law.

Donald Dutkowsky, an economics professor in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,

said Cuomo has taken steps toward increased infrastructural efficiency.

“He doesn’t like deadlocks,” said Dutkowsky. ”(Cuomo has) placed high priority on getting tasks done, whether it be with three men in a room or the group as a whole.

What’s important to him is getting the tasks done in a timely manner.”

Considering the legislative body was at a standstill before Cuomo, Heastie and Flanagan met last week, the governor’s power to both lead and advise on a budget plan are necessary and proper.

There might be some scuffles over its deliverance, but a budget plan has been approved, in which education will receive the most funding in the history of New York and minimum wage is set to raise to $15 per hour.

Both sides were heard. A bipartisan decision drafted and authorized by three men elected to lead their political bases serves the people better than a deadline extension.

It’s all about progress, and in the polarized American political spectrum, it would be criminal to hold productive politicians in contempt for their initiative.

Brian Hamlin is a sophomore communications and rhetorical studies major.

His column appears weekly. He can be reached at brhamlin@syr.edu.

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Keep drinks close, your friends closer

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hey say college flies by so fast it’s a blur — but maybe that’s because of the alcohol.

Drinking at Syracuse University has been especially prominent in the past few weeks with basketball successes prompting day-long parties at Castle Court. Despite the snow, the sun is finally coming out and ‘Cuse is more lit than ever heading into the last few weeks of the semester — a party culture in which students take pride and university authorities grimace.

But while drinking at SU is accepted as the norm and even encouraged as a rite of passage, the dangers of this behavior should be periodically discussed.

No matter how redundant the conversation around alcohol may sound, children don’t come out of the womb with a Bud Light in hand considering there are new drinkers constantly being initiated to the underage drinking club.

And given the risks, a little extra dialogue on the subject can’t hurt when every student has a different knowledge of alcohol. Some come from families that drink on the regular while others probably rely on what they remember from their middle school “DARE” program, making it crucial for students to take care of each other when going out.

An unfortunate caveat of college drinking is that many students have their first experience with alcohol while on campus — yet there’s this unspoken pressure to know exactly what you’re doing and to have a respectable tolerance right from the start.

For some, it’s a game of pretend because you don’t want to be the man or woman that goes to the bar and says, “I’ll have one alcohol please.” So even though we all have different limits, based on gender, weight and previous experience with drinking, there’s an expecta-

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tion to keep chugging.

That’s not to say that every time you go out, people will attack you and force liquor down your throat. But when a student is in an overwhelming social setting where everyone seems to be having fun, they may not want to be the sober party pooper. It’s not direct peer pressure, but it’s definitely “beer pressure” that lower inhibitions and encourages excessive drinking.

And it seems most students have been in this situation at one point or another. More than onethird of college students engage in binge drinking monthly and about 20 percent meet the criteria for an alcohol use disorder, according to a study released in March by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

It’s not likely that universities or authorities will have success in getting college students to stop binge drinking, much less drinking altogether. Massive tailgates at Castle Court rage on despite a ban placed in 2014, which is pitiful considering a rowdy handful of students appear to have more power than an entire institution and safety force.

It’s difficult for students to even take these regulations seriously when alcohol flows so freely on campus and getting a fake ID is as easy as taking a shot. (Does anyone even stop to think who those masterminds were behind those big fake ID group orders?)

It’s like being in a weird stage of limbo: There are rules, but students don’t follow them and authorities don’t enforce them. So why put on the façade?

Obviously, students have no regard for the federal minimum

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drinking age. But they should feel morally obligated to one another.

Friends shouldn’t just be there for the dancing and fun pictures — they should also be able to take care of you when things get out of hand. This unfortunately is not the case as every weekend, there’s always at least one group of kids struggling to help their very drunk friend. It’s sad to see kids in such a terrible state, blacked out and unable to even walk, but even worse is seeing their peers unable or hesitant to call for help.

These incidents prove that despite education initiatives like BE Wise awareness campaign, typical misconceptions about alcohol exist: Sleeping it off is possible, and calling for medical attention is unnecessary.

Despite an amnesty policy that guarantees protection from punishment if students seek care for a drunk friend, they may worry about expensive hospital bills, their parents finding out and being known as the person who couldn’t “handle” their alcohol.

Though there are education opportunities on drugs and alcohol in college, they often focus on personal health risks and not enough on peer responsibility. If you really embrace party culture, you’ll also embrace the people you party with — especially at a time to be particularly conscious of alcohol consumption, given that Mayfest and graduation are coming up.

So enjoy the party while it lasts. Alcohol may be soaked into SU’s culture, but taking care of each other should be, too.

Rashika Jaipuriar is a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major. Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at rjaipuri@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @rashikajpr.

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NY executive orders send powerful message New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order banning non-essential state travel to Mississippi is a powerful message the state government can send at a time of interstate conflict.

The order, which was signed Tuesday, requires state entities to review requests for statesponsored or publicly-funded travel to Mississippi that is not essential to the enforcement of state law, public health and safety. The ban follows the passing of a Mississippi’s law that allows businesses and non-profit groups to refuse service on the basis of a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Cuomo also barred nonessential state travel to North Carolina last week after the state passed a law that bars transgender individuals from using restrooms that align with their gender identities, fails to include sexual orientation and gender identity from anti-discrimination policies and forbids municipalities from extending protections to LGBTQ citizens.

Though the state’s call is rooted in financial measures to prevent New York funds from inadvertently going to states with discriminatory laws, the orders reinforce a symbolic message that New York is a progressive state that leads by example.

And the state should work to maintain itself as a power that voices its stance when necessary, but backs up the sentiment appropriately when faced with the opportunity.

In 2015, Cuomo banned non-

essential state travel to Indiana after that state’s legislature passed a controversial religious freedom law that did not prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ citizens. The measure was later amended to prevent it from being used to discriminate against LGBTQ individuals and the ban on travel was lifted.

As seen then and should be acknowledged now: When New York makes a statement, lawmakers listen. And though non-essential travel bans are more figurative than with the capacity to make tangible economic impacts, the state should be commended for expressing its resistance to discriminatory legislation in Mississippi and North Carolina.

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2016 ncaa tournament

SU community members gather to watch women’s team

By Rachel Sandler asst. news editor

Syracuse was down 27 points at the half against one of the best teams in women’s basketball history. The ESPN commentators on the halftime show said the chances of a comeback were slim, and the crowd inside the Sheraton Hotel watch party was starting to thin.

“I think we can still do it,” said Zainab Sanni, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, at halftime. “I’m still hoping for a win.”

Sanni’s friend, Victoria Mobolaji, also a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, was surprised by her optimism.

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arrests of crystal MDMA in a locked safe under Deranamie’s bed, according to Syracuse.com.

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frostburg themselves — was a legendary party school with 24-hour beer pong tournaments, dime beer nights, under-policed streets and overflowing cups.

In 2006, Frostburg hired Jonathan Gibralter, a Syracuse University alumnus, as president. The same year, a study revealed 54 percent of its students binged alcohol — 11 percentage points higher than the national average. Binge is defined as five drinks in a two-hour period for men and four for women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

When a drunk student nearly killed a community member, Gibralter launched a crackdown. Alcohol consumption rates fell, but students rebelled. The small, public college tucked into the rolling hills of western Maryland became a national story.

Students pushed parties underground, chose other drugs and had a tenuous relationship with the police, who suddenly had more power.

“The students hated Gibralter, collectively and across the board,” said Robert Webber, who attended Frostburg at the height of its party school status, from 1998 to 2002, and now serves as director of the campus’s student center.

Gibralter — last year named the president at Wells College in Aurora, New York — created an alcohol task force at Frostburg composed of school and city leaders as well as bar owners.

He synchronized the city and campus police departments so students arrested or cited by city police also faced university discipline.

He scheduled Friday classes to stop the weekend from starting Thursday night, mandated freshmen pass an online alcohol education course and started weekend programs to offer alternatives to drinking.

He announced these measures at a school-wide meeting about having “zero tolerance” for alcohol violations. Gibralter told USA Today that a man in the back stood up and yelled he came to FSU to have a good time. If Gibralter tried to stop that, he’d leave and tell others to do the same.

A shocked Gibralter said he didn’t know the school had an alcohol problem until he got there. When he drove down to visit campus in 2006, he and his wife felt “horrified” as they saw one student urinate on a parked police car and “hundreds” walking around drunk.

Within Gibralter’s first few months at Frostburg, a student leaving an off-campus party

“Really? You still think they can do it?”

Mobolaji said. “They have no chance.”

At the start of the Tuesday night game, more than 200 members of the Syracuse community packed into a ballroom in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center to see if the SU women’s basketball team could pull off one of the biggest upsets in basketball history.

They didn’t. The women’s team lost 82-51 to the University of Connecticut. But that didn’t stop the crowd from cheering earnestly for a win — with orange pom-poms in hand — even after UConn scored one after the other and Syracuse missed baskets.

When Syracuse did score or got a rebound, there were glimmers of hope from the crowd, with chants of “Let’s go Orange!” and “Defense! Defense!”

“It’s catch-up time,” Karen Hangerfield, an older Syracuse resident, kept saying as Syracuse fell 20, 25 and 30 points behind.

“Come on, you can do this!”

When SU scored 16 points in the third quarter, the crowd’s cheers reverberated through the room — the loudest it got throughout the entire game. But that wasn’t enough to put Syracuse ahead.

As the fourth quarter wore on and Syracuse fell further behind, more people

left. With about five minutes left, nearly a quarter of the crowd was gone. Those who remained cheered when Syracuse scored, but less enthusiastically. The time kept ticking down. UConn kept scoring.

“Regardless of the result, I’m proud of this team,” Sanni said. “I’m proud of how many people showed up.

“I’m feeling so Orange right now.”

Right before the game ended, people started talking among themselves. More people started leaving, putting on heavy coats to cover up their Syracuse sweaters and T-shirts, before heading out into the cold.

order (ADHD) — were found in Deranamie’s jacket pocket, according to Syracuse.com.

Seventy-two blue, heart-shaped ecstasy pills and two small bags of cocaine were found in a bedroom in the Castle Court apartment that appeared to be shared by two of the students, according to Syracuse.com.

Mancino, 22, was charged with crimi-

nal possession of marijuana in the second degree and unlawful possession of marijuana, according to the release.

Two students — both 22 years old — were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third, fifth and seventh degrees, according to the release.

Deranamie, 20, was charged with crimi-

nal possession of marijuana in the second and third degrees and criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth and seventh degrees, according to the release.

All four students are currently being held in Onondaga County Justice Center, according to the release.

punched a 45-year-old man. The man survived, but suffered permanent brain damage.

“If your only reason to come to college is to drink, then you should go somewhere else, this is not the place for you,” Gibralter said in a recent interview as he recalled his thoughts at the time. “I really believe this in my heart. People are going to drink. I’m not on a crusade against alcohol. I just don’t want you to die, and I don’t want your life to be ruined. I want your degree (from Frostburg) to mean something.”

Despite student’s reactions, Gibralter made progress. According to a study that measures student drinking every three years, Frostburg’s binge drinking rate has declined to the national average of 43 percent.

Jeffrey Graham, assistant vice president of student affairs and chairman of Frostburg’s alcohol task force, attributes the decline to Gibralter’s policies. The task force holds monthly meetings to develop strategies based on the National Institute of Health’s alcohol intervention matrix.

“We’re not trying to create a climate where students don’t drink alcohol at all,” Graham said. “That’s never been our position. We’re focusing on harm reduction to try to help students make those connections between heavy alcohol consumption and harms they experience.”

That education starts before students get on campus freshman year, with the online education program. When students arrive on campus, orientation leaders warn them of the party streets near campus, like Central Avenue and Maple Street. But nothing compares to Bowery Street.

“Do not ever go on Bowery Street,” an orientation leader told junior Zoe Harris when she first started at Frostburg. “That’s the party street and if you go there, then you will stay there forever ... or drop out.”

Five of the 25 students in her orientation group dropped out by the end of first semester, Harris said.

The local bars are the primary non-house party drinking spots. It’s also popular to make the roughly 60-mile trek west on Interstate 68 to West Virginia University, a legendary party school itself.

Donovan Burriss, a junior and Harris’ boyfriend, lives on Bowery Street. He’s heard about the wild times pre-Gibralter, when partying students clogged the streets, making driving impossible. At one recent Homecoming Weekend, off-campus fraternity alumni group hung up a banner: “Blackout or back out.”

That shows, Burriss said, alumni aren’t

used to the new Frostburg with its strict open container laws and stringent bar regulations.

But despite an overall decline in drinking, tragedy still struck.

In 2011, at a Maple Street off-campus party with a cover charge and unlimited drinks — exactly the type of party Gibralter tried to limit — a sophomore student reportedly tried to break up a fight around 2 a.m. when another student stabbed her in the head. Nineteenyear-old Kortneigh McCoy died, becoming Frostburg’s second student death in 19 months.

tarp. Another student said she had similar experiences and thought of the tarps as decorations, but soon realized they were there so partiers could hide from police.

When the police bust these underground parties, inside is chaotic. Partiers rush to the basement while someone yells, “The cops are here, shut up!” Then, depending on the police’s verdict, Burriss said, the parties usually begin again once they leave.

The crackdown has led to drug usage increases, several people said, and Cumberland, Maryland, a 10-minute drive from the FSU campus, is a distribution port.

“Ten years ago, if we got a call on campus, it was alcohol,” said Ed Douglass, who’s been a Frostburg EMT for 41 years.

“Now, sometimes, it’s mixed (with cocaine).

(Cocaine use) has definitely increased in the last few years.”

EMTs are equipped with Narcan, a drug that combats an opiate overdose, because of the national rise in heroin use and proximity to Cumberland.

As Gibralter tried to increase student awareness of risk and safety, he said FSU retention rate rose from 67 to 80 percent.

“When I got to Frostburg, almost 30 percent of our students were leaving after the first year,” Gibralter said. “Many reported that the reason they were leaving was because of the alcohol culture.”

If Gibralter came to Syracuse University, he said he would form a university-wide task force and bring together faculty, staff, students, bar owners and police to devise a solution to reduce drinking. He also said it’d be a “disservice” to say SU isn’t making efforts to curb its drinking culture.

SU also has a fundamentally different culture than FSU and Wells, he said, because the alcohol at the Carrier Dome, on Marshall Street and in the fraternity houses is closer to campus.

When Frostburg alumni return to campus, they may not know Gibralter’s name, but they learn his policies quickly. Their alma mater no longer tolerates large parties. Walking around with an open container won’t fly.

One student remembers her friend’s father at Homecoming, chanting old slogans and swilling alcohol like times gone by.

Then campus police approached. The father stood on a street once immune to these authorities. But no longer. They left him holding a ticket.

Then he turned, and yelled to no one in particular: “This isn’t the Frostburg it used to be.”

For the first time ever, the (departments) actually started sharing information. Prior to that, they would be very protective and wouldn’t share.

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Gibralter knew he needed a different approach. He erased jurisdictional boundaries. He created a joint law enforcement team with a local criminal investigation task force and university, city and state police.

“For the first time ever, the (departments) actually started sharing information,” Gibralter said. “Prior to that, they would be very protective and wouldn’t share.”

According to an FSU survey, 62 percent of students reported seeing police officers patrolling multiple times every weekend evening.

In early March interviews, more than 25 students — different racially, socially, in Greek life affiliation and drinking habits — said police presence is excessive and targeted.

Graham said there are “certain tensions” with a “mostly-white police force” and a student body that draws heavily from Baltimore.

Frostburg’s black population is 31 percent.

“There often develops mistrust with (the black community) and police force,” Graham said. “We do everything we can to reach across the aisle and tell individuals that they’ll be treated equally, but also we’ll stick to our policies and enforce them regardless of background.”

Today, the existing party scene has been forced to move behind the curtain — literally. Burriss recently attended one party with the backyard covered by a huge black

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10 percent of homes in Onondaga County still have lead pipes supplying drinking water

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ut of the 93,000 homes that the Onondaga County Water Authority serves, 10 percent — or 9,300 — have lead pipes, which poses a risk to drinking water.

The Onondaga County Water Authority (OCWA) maintains and supplies water to residents in Onondaga County. Michael Hooker, executive director of OCWA, said that while the safe threshold for lead levels in water would be zero, regulations require 90 percent of homes must have lead levels below 15 parts per billion.

In 2014, OCWA took a sample of 123 homes and found that 90 percent of its homes had lead levels below 3.6 parts per billion, Hooker said, and one sample had levels at 20 parts per billion.

“I think that after what happened in Flint, everyone is aware of (this issue),” Hooker said. “When we look at the sample results, we are well in the parameters in what we are doing.”

According to OCWA’s 2014 Consumer Confidence Report, OCWA is responsible for drinking water but not the materials used to construct the pipes, which is generally where the problems with lead occur.

Hooker said OCWA’s responsibility is to coat the pipes with orthophosphate, which creates a buffer between the pipes and the water. OCWA will fix and replace pipes for any problems that

occur on their side of control. If it is on the customer’s side, OCWA will notify them.

“We work hand in hand,” Hooker said.

After each sample, Hooker said OCWA sends its customers a report for their home and the OCWA system in general. If customers find they have lead pipes or a possible problem with contamination, the primary action they can take is replace their water service. The cost to replace lead pipes varies on the customer’s service, but would probably be around $2,500, he said.

The other problem with lead, Robinson said, is that it doesn’t break down — once it is in the environment, it’s there to stay.

While scientists are still learning about the consequences of lead poisoning, Robinson said developing children seem to be in the most danger. There is concern that lead can affect neurological development, possibly leading to the development of attention

9,300

The number of homes with lead pipes that the Onondaga County Water Authority serves

I think that after what happened in Flint, everyone is aware of (this issue).

Michael Hooker executive director of onondaga county water authority

Most of the lead pipes in homes are constructed before 1940, Hooker said. While lead has been banned since 1986, he said older homes still contain these pipes.

Jonnell Robinson, an assistant professor of geography at Syracuse University, said besides water, lead can be found in soil, paint from older homes and residue from lead in gasoline.

“Typically in the realm of public health, the word on the street is no level is safe,” Robinson said. “We don’t want to ingest lead ever.”

deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), she said.

Aggressive behavior has also been linked to lead exposure, she added.

Even in the womb, babies can be affected if mothers ingest lead because it can pass through the placenta to the baby, she said.

Robinson said the risk of lead poisoning is lower for adults, since their neurological systems are already developed.

To prevent lead ingestion from water, customers can run their water for 30 seconds to a few minutes each morning so they are not using water that has been sitting in the pipes all night, Hooker said. Additionally, customers should never use hot water out of the tap for cooking. hykim100@syr.edu

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albright a title she held from 1993 to 1997. Albright described trying to get reform to happen in the UN as a “rubik’s cube of activity.” “(The U.S.) needed to figure out how to use (the UN) better and the U.S. needed to be more active in moving the reform process forward,” she said.

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The number of women who have been United States Secretary of State

When it comes to breaking glass ceilings, Albright recalled a moment when her then-seven-year-old granddaughter asked

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protest which comprised about 20 community members, brought up similar points on Tuesday.

“I think it’s a disgrace that Madeleine Albright was invited to speak on ethics,” said Laura Jaffee, a second-year doctoral candidate in cultural foundations of education at SU. “Her role in supporting U.S. military intervention globally has been profoundly damaging.”

Jaffee, a member of the Syracuse ANSWER Coalition that helped organize the protest, said she was against Albright’s appearance at SU because of her general support of U.S. military intervention during her tenures as secretary of state and ambassador, as well as her support of actions in Iraq and Serbia.

The sanctions on Iraq were supposed to bring down Saddam Hussein, the then-

why it was such a big deal for her grandma to be secretary of state. Albright said that in her granddaughter’s mind and short understanding of history, only women held the position.

Albright then joked that maybe now, little boys can look to current Secretary of State John Kerry and be inspired.

Albright said that while she was secretary she had more problems working with men in the U.S. government than with men in foreign governments. She said she thinks this was because many men in the U.S. government thought they deserved the role of secretary of state over her.

Abroad, Albright said she had no problems working with foreign government officials mostly because “they knew they had to deal with (her)” and they wanted to work with the U.S. The former secretary of state also recalled

working under Clinton, who would say, “‘I want to hear what Madeleine has to say.’”

president of the country, but they drained Iraq of resources and ended the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who otherwise should have lived, according to a report from the Global Policy Forum, which based its numbers off a widely-publicized UNICEF report.

A report from scientists with the Food and Agriculture Organization put the number of child deaths as high as 576,000, according to The New York Times.

The NATO bombings in Serbia were supported by the U.S. during Albright’s tenure as secretary of state and carried out under the premise of ending ethnic conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, according to Time. Opponents say the bombings killed thousands of civilians, along with destroying hospitals and schools.

Numerous SU campus organizations came together to demonstrate against

Albright’s lecture, Jaffee said, including the International Socialist Organization, the Palestine Solidarity Collective, the Syracuse ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

She said the groups also collected about 60 or 70 signatures on a petition against Albright’s engagement at SU. In addition to chants and signs, protesters read from papers and delivered speeches in front of the chapel. People continuously streamed into the event in Hendricks Chapel, usually taking a flyer but only glancing at the protesters.

Dana Cloud, a professor of communication and rhetorical studies and a member of the International Socialist Organization, was among the protesters. She said Albright’s speech at SU showed “heinous irony” because of her lack of concern for humanitarian issues.

(The U.S.) needed to figure out how to use (the UN) better and the U.S. needed to be more active in moving the reform process forward.

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She said the respect she had from Clinton made it easier to be the only woman in the room and to have her opinion heard.

When it comes to her role now, Albright said it is the responsibility of former gov-

ernment officials to use their knowledge in order to be available for advice and to speak out about their opinions.

Albright also encourages former government officials to write books, because although she said they are versions of one’s own history, they also allow for other people to study and compare histories. Albright penned her own memoir “Madam Secretary,” which was published in 2003.

As for fighting gridlock, Albright advocates for respect and civility across the aisle, adding that she believes it to be necessary.

“You don’t have to agree with everyone on everything,” she said. “The most important element of democracy is compromise. What is important in making a decision-making system work is having the opportunity to discuss views, even if they are opposing.” avlinan@syr.edu

“I think it makes SU look hypocritical and sort of tone-deaf to the implications of inviting Madeleine Albright to speak,” Cloud said.

Although Albright later retracted her statement, she told 60 Minutes that the consequences of the Iraq sanctions — including the potential death of hundreds of thousands of children — were “worth it.”

Cloud said she was not completely surprised that Albright, who she called “hawkish,” was asked to speak because of SU’s general support for military organizations and military research. Cloud said she finds the widespread militarism on campus troubling because she said she believes SU is supposed to be a place for education.

Said Cloud: “When the military dictates the terms of some education and of the knowledge that is produced here, it’s not knowledge for humanity, it’s knowledge for empire.” dovanwey@syr.edu

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hil Memmer sat amongst an audience of 70 people about 10 years ago, listening to the last reading of poet E.W. Snodgrass’ career.

Everyone knew of the writer’s terminal lung cancer and, as the reading drew to a close, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.

That “magical evening” is just one of many memories Memmer has from his time running the Visiting Author Reading Series at the Syracuse Downtown YMCA.

keep reading Syracuse University has its own reading series, separate from the YMCA’s series.

The Raymond Carver Reading Series.

Here are the dates of the series: • •

Author Colum McCann - April 13 Author Dana Spiotta - April 27

A writer himself and lover of the written word, Memmer realized in 2001 that there wasn’t a place in Syracuse dedicated to poetry readings. This thought is what inspired him to start the reading series, which brings in authors to read their work, both old and new, to audiences from the Syracuse area.

This April marks the 20th annual Nation-

al Poetry Month and to commemorate the month-long observance, Syracuse University, the Syracuse Downtown YMCA and other organizations in the area are offering poetry reading series.

Since its conception, the Syracuse Downtown YMCA program has grown, now bringing in about 20 to 25 authors per year with an average audience of about 30 people.

New authors reach out to the YMCA each week, so they aren’t able to book every author who applies.

“If we could book everyone who approached us, we would probably have something like 110 readings a year,” Memmer said.

The program, Memmer said, is “reasonably well known throughout the state and beyond.” This means that, while about a third of the readers are from within an hour of the city, they sometimes fly in authors from as far away as Texas.

The authors range from brand new writers to Pulitzer Prize winners, and Memmer said the program’s audience is just as diverse. Attendees range from suburban lawyers and doctors to those who seek temporary shelter at the YMCA. Typically, audience members are collegeaged and older, but Vince Gotera, a recent author at the series, said he was impressed to see a high school student at the reading.

Gotera read work from his books “Dragonfly,” “Ghost Wars,” “Fighting Kite” and other recent poems. He’s currently editor of the North American Review, the oldest literary magazine in the United States.

open book These poets and authors will visit the Syracuse Downtown YMCA for its Visiting Author Reading Series. All events are on Fridays at 7 p.m.

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Poet and playwright Joan Murray April 8 Poet John Hoppenthaler - April 15 Poet and author Lee Upton - April 22 Poet and author Christine Gelineau - April 29 Poet Phillis Levin - May 6

The program, which is funded through a combination of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, Onondaga County, workshop fees and individual donations, will host poet Joan Murray on Friday, April 8.

Murray recently won the Pushcart Prize, a national award given to the best poetry, short fiction or literary essay.

Murray, who referred to the program in an email as “long-standing and very highly regarded,” plans to read from her newest book, “Swimming for the Ark: New & Selected see ymca page 10

hen I found out Culture Club was touring, I broke into a nervous sweat. Not because I had any plans to see them, of course — I just didn’t want anyone to somehow figure out my Spotify history. No one was ever supposed to EMERA know.

RILEY INDIE HIPSTER But now, MUSIC SNOB I have a confession to make. I love bad ‘80s pop. Not The English Beat. Not Queen. Not The Cure. Like, really bad ‘80s pop. And it’s OK. This whole thing technically started when I first heard, “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes, which was released in 1992. Technically 4 Non Blondes isn’t actually an ‘80s band, but they were my gateway. The first few times I listened to the song, it was mostly in an attempt to be ironic — but then I started to dig it. The crazy hat, the big red mouth, the ridiculous lyrics. It struck something in me.

Something dark.

It also led to the harder stuff: Jermaine Stewart’s “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off,” Billy Ocean’s “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car” and Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon.” The songs are filled with cheesy lyrics. The videos are over-the-top ridiculous homages to an era I never experienced and often do not hold up to the test of time.

Some bands are mostly one hit wonders, and trying to explain to someone why I know every lyric to “Your Love” by The Outfield is not an experience I want to repeat. I also enjoy getting Rick Roll’d.

But I am not the only one that harbors a secret love. Every person who listens to music has something they hide in playlists, whether it’s the “High School Musical” soundtrack, Taylor Swift’s “1989” or German death metal. It’s not like you even listen to it constantly either, but occasionally you need to get your head in the game and chill out to the sweet musical stylings of Corbin Bleu.

But here’s the cool thing about guilty pleasures — it’s a musical “get out of jail free” card. No one is going to judge you for your embarrassing musical loves because everyone has one. Alice Cooper loves “My Sharona.” Marilyn Manson loves Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River,” There are pages and pages on the internet of people confessing their secret music loves.

Not everyone can listen to great music all the time. Great music is complicated, sometimes even see

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Music reviews set the precedent for which artists will be popular

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’ve always looked at music reviews as a way to determine what new albums and songs are worth my time.

I like keeping up with what’s the latest and greatest in music, but listening to everything and anything that’s new is near-impossible with the amount of music that comes out every week.

Even though every listener doesn’t discover and filter out music this way, people go through the same process subconsciously.

Today, most younger people find new music based on what their friends are sharing, or consume music from artists they’re already familiar with.

We don’t “discover” music ourselves — we listen to what’s handed to us by likeminded people.

Whether we know it or not, we’re all participating in what I call this “mass filtration process” through reviews. In other

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Poems 1990-2015.” She said she is especially excited to be appearing in the series during National Poetry Month.

One literary project that has transcended from the SU hill to the downtown YMCA is “Stone Canoe,” a literary journal that was started at SU’s University College and published there for its first eight issues.

The journal is now run by the downtown YMCA’s Writing Center, an organization that offers literary workshops and resources for the Syracuse community.

When the university was unable to continue funding the project, it was picked up

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words, the modern idea of “music discovery” — this mythical idea of organically stumbling upon your new favorite artist through the Internet — is a lie.

Internet music discovery through popular consensus limits what we listen to as well. If you only find new stuff to listen to through Pitchfork reviews, you’re probably missing out on a lot of more underground hip-hop and R&B, and near-entirely missing out on classical or world music.

Even if you avoid music reviews entirely, the mass opinion created by these tastemakers comes into play in the public eye with what’s considered “great music.”

A lot of people otherwise entirely dis-

by the YMCA. They are able to pay for it through a combination of grants, advertisement sales and proceeds from selling the journal itself.

“Stone Canoe” publishes on a yearly basis, and just released its most current issue in March. The YMCA published the ninth issue on behalf of Robert Colley, founder of the magazine, but created the entire tenth issue of this “gorgeously produced, very heavy” publication, Memmer said.

The journal also accepts a variety of entrees, including short fiction, creative nonfiction, short plays, poems and works of visual art. To submit to the “Stone Canoe,” entrants must be a current or former resi-

interested in hip-hop probably would’ve ignored Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” without the music press’s collective excitement over the album, for example.

However, warts and all, I love music reviews and what they do to aid my constant search for new music. Like many people, I have limited time at all to listen to music, and even less to search for great music.

Having professionals to find the good stuff for you is easier than looking on your own for the latest undiscovered gem, and it’s almost too easy to fall into that trap.

Here’s the big secret I’ll let you in on: Even the “music tastemakers” find their new favorites from someone else. The next big thing doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere.

Heck, more than a few of my friends look up to me like I’m some music discovery guru, and I know I don’t put in that much effort at all. Because, let’s face it,

dent of upstate New York.

The YMCA advertises the publication through social media, online and in national magazines like “Poets and Writers.” Memmer said this allows them to reach a combination of writers and artists, but also just general readers.

Memmer also said “Stone Canoe,” the YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center and any similar programs are important to the community due to the power of the written word.

“The literary arts are, of course, a crucial part of arts in general,” he said. “And storytelling has been, for as long as we all know, a very central part of human experience.” mcbuck01@syr.edu

sticking to a routine of checking a few reviews and discovery engines doesn’t require much hard work at all.

Finding new music is as easy or hard as you make it for yourself. But once you get into a familiar routine of looking through reviews and filtering out ones that get below a certain score, or paying attention to new releases from a certain artist, producer or label, it’s cake.

As unromantic as it might seem to only listen to new music that gets a 4/5 or above from NME or a “Best New Music” tag from Pitchfork, that’s a big part of how the process works, and it lightens the load for a lot of heavier music listeners.

Brett Weiser-Schlesinger is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major. His column appears weekly in Pulp.

He can be reached at bweisers@syr.edu or @brettws on Twitter.

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exhausting. After all, if it is great, generally I am not half-listening to it. It’s got my full attention.

We can’t constantly to be listening to the pinnacle of music all of the time.

So, embrace bad ‘80s pop. Blast “High School Musical.” Revel in German death metal. It’s okay to love stuff that kind of sucks — in fact, it’s really, really fun. And if you see in me with dark sunglasses at a Culture Club concert — I have no regrets.

Emera Riley is a sophomore magazine journalism major. You can email her at elril100@syr.edu or follow her @emerariley on Twitter.

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Members of jazz-funk collective Casaroja savor their last few months together

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ne night each week, Room 201 of Syracuse University’s Shaffer Art Building transforms into a practice space for Casaroja.

Casaroja is the band appropriately named for the big red house on the corner of Beech Street and Euclid Avenue where it frequently plays shows. Their practice space might as well be considered a comedy club.

Each member of the jazz funk collective is just as much of a jokester as he is a musician.

During practice, the band doesn’t seem to be able to go a few minutes without a witty comment. At one point during last week’s session, while trying to sit still for a photograph, one member complained of an itchy mustache, only to have his comment upstaged by another whose bare upper lip itched even more.

Matt Berger, Matt Kingsley, Sam Roux, Jon Kane, Nick DiNardo, Shaun Kinney and Ludo Coudert make up Casaroja. Each is a member of the SU community, either as a student or employee of the university.

As students in the Setnor School of Music, some of the guys in the band already knew each other. But it wasn’t until last fall that they started playing together — the band has the Westcott Street Mexican cafe Alto Cinco to thank for initiating their meeting.

Alto Cinco hosts Tuesday night jam sessions where musicians can come and do just that: jam. That’s where they realized they had a common interest in fusion group Snarky Puppy, a band Roux said is only for “music nerds.”

“You know more about someone if they

2 1.MATT KINGSLEY said the band plays music that is somewhere in between covers of songs and original work. evan jenkins staff photographer 2.(TOP FROM LEFT) SAM ROUX, LUDO COUDERT, (BOTTOM FROM LEFT) MATT KINGSLEY, JON KANE, MATT BERGER, SHAUN KINNEY named their band after the red house on the corner of Beech Street and Euclid Avenue. photo illustration by evan jenkins staff photographer

listen to Snarky Puppy,” said Roux, who is the coordinator of the ACCESS program.

“A very specific kind of person listens to that band.”

With that instant connection, they decided to get together for some jam sessions apart from the ones at Alto Cinco.

They noticed there was more than a similar interest — they truly meshed together.

“Once we all started playing together at these jams we started to realize we have some flow together,” Roux said.

That creativity has led to some original songs coming from Casaroja, such as the band’s ode to Bill Nye called “Science Rules.”

Roux admitted the phrase “jamming” gets overused, but that’s truly how they create. One of their songs started with a trip

to the studio and Kane banging out a quick drumbeat. Roux then added a catchy baseline, and Kingsley played some guitar. Once the horns of Coudert and Berger started blasting, they had their song.

“I think the whole aspect of us being in the room and the recording still going at the same time kind of makes you play to a higher level,” said Kane, an audio arts graduate student. “You have to make a certain amount commitment in order to go for it.”

Sitting in on one of their practice sessions, it’s hard to tell Casaroja has been playing together for only a few months. The camaraderie between them is apparent — they just have fun together.

When Kane mentioned that Coudert, a senior music major, just started playing

the trombone as a member of Casaroja, Coudert corrected him and sarcastically said, “No, no. Next month I’m starting to play the trombone.” The whole band erupted in laughter.

It is these kinds of moments the band wants to enjoy while they still can. When May rolls around in just a few short weeks, many of Casaroja’s members will be graduating, and they see no way the band will survive long-term. Roux said it’s not an ideal situation, but they can still benefit from their short time together.

“We’re spending all this time and energy to make this music that won’t last far beyond the next month and a half,” said Roux. “But at the same time, that’s a really cool experience because you’re getting all this other knowledge from all these other musicians. And then when we go off and do our own things musically, we have all that knowledge to spread to the next people we work with.”

Then in vintage Casaroja fashion, Berger teasingly added what kind of legacy the band will leave behind: “It’ll last in the hearts and minds of all the children.”

The band is trying to play as many shows as possible before their forced demise. This Saturday night, they’ll be playing at Otro Cinco downtown. They’ll join Second Line Syracuse, a brass group consisting mostly of Setnor faculty looking to raise funds to record an album. Kane said they’ll play some covers and originals, but a lot of what they do is somewhere in between.

That in-between sound is something Kingsley, a senior music major, said defines the group.

“We’re trying to play Casaroja,” he said.

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connecticut possession Moriah Jefferson beat the buzzer with a 3 of her own while falling down.

At the end of the first quarter, SU was already down by 15.

“I don’t think it was nerves at all,” Sykes said. “We came into the game just as confident as UConn was. We were just rushing some shots and we weren’t really getting our defense set up.”

A month ago, Peterson said Syracuse could compete with the best team in the country. After winning 16 of its last 17 games, the Orange couldn’t. Seemingly every time SU made a successful play, it was followed up with an unsuccessful one.

Connecticut picked apart Syracuse’s fullcourt press, its half-court 2-3 zone and dominated by getting fouled and making 20 shots from the free-throw line.

Utilizing that same full-court press defense and quick-strike offense, Syracuse turned things around with a 16-0 run in the third quarter.

“We’re never going to be the victim,” Hillsman said. “Victims lay down.”

But even that run wasn’t enough to stop the Huskies from winning their 73rd consecutive game. It only trimmed a 33-point deficit to 17.

Hillsman described the matchup on Monday between two teams, “one that’s great, one that’s trying to be great.” While his team was for a stretch, only UConn achieved what it wanted.

“Streaks are meant to end,” UConn head coach Geno Auriemma said on Monday before pausing. “Some day.”

Tuesday wasn’t that day.

After losing to No. 2 Notre Dame by 11 points in the ACC championship game, Hillsman boldly proclaimed that his team could still be playing one month later.

“Everybody starts off 0-0,” Hillsman said, “so we should get two games at home, we play pretty well at home. We should have moved up somewhere 4 seed, we should be a pretty high 4 seed, go on the road to a very favorable matchup, win those two, Final Four, win that one, championship game, win that one, cut down some nets.

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Syracuse’s communication helps defensive play pick up

By Sam Fortier asst. copy editor

Gary Gait said he saw a team that lacked hustle, energy and failed to adapt to the situation the Orange faced as a team trailing on the road.

But for the Syracuse head coach and junior defender Haley McDonnell, the one prevailing thing that doomed the team most was a lack of communication. That led to a 13-8 upset loss on the road for then-No. 3 Syracuse during Spring Break to then-No. 16 Boston College.

“Even while the game was going on, we knew we needed to reconvene and (figure it out),” McDonnell said. “… We weren’t as focused as we needed to be and it showed on the field. (Our team) didn’t prepare as well as we needed to for that game.”

Since B.C., No. 4 Syracuse’s (10-3, 3-1 Atlantic Coast) lowest point this season, it has returned to its typical level of play. The SU defense shut down two of the conference’s best scorers, held one team to half its average scoring output and spurred a three-game winning streak. It’s all because of one fix that increased talking and decreased goals allowed.

“I think they’ve responded really well (to the Boston College game),” Gait said. “A lot of it is with energy and hustle (picking) up … but the number one thing is communication.”

That’s keyed the winning streak that began against No. 4 Notre Dame and continued against No. 14 Duke and unranked Connecticut. The Orange defense held each of those teams under their averages for shots and goals in each game. Against Duke, attacks Kyra Harney and Kelci Smesko, two of the ACC’s top five goal-scorers, combined for only one shot.

In those games after BC, Gait said there’s been a noticeable difference in communication on defense. He said the lack of talk before con-

tributed to being unable to anticipate groundballs, losing speed on defenders with bad angles and those things put SU in tough situations.

The communication, according to McDonnell, could be as simple as saying, “Hey, I’m on your right,” when running back in the defensive zone. Or it could be about rotation in Syracuse’s zone ‘backer defense. Whatever it need be, McDonnell said, the team just needs to talk.

That’s largely because the importance of defensive communication extends beyond the defenders. SU goalkeeper Allie Murray’s unusual aggression in net puts SU at risk of allowing open-netters, which assistant coach Regy Thorpe said he’s OK with in February, but to limit those opportunities the defense needed to talk.

Gait saw that against Connecticut, when the defense was “dialed in.” He said they pressured shooters, yielding no easy shots, and allowed Murray to make easy saves.

“Getting that first save (against UConn) is huge to building her confidence,” Gait said.

“She got seven saves in that first half and a lot of it is because there was pressure on the shooters (through communication).”

In the first win of the streak, against Notre Dame, Murray saved one shot and two were forced wide of the net by the defense in the last 24 seconds to preserve a one-goal lead.

It’s a run that’s sprung from team dissatisfaction one afternoon in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, over Spring Break, a day when McDonnell said the team knew it was much better than what it showed.

“We just talked about the way it was (in the locker room),” Gait said of the BC postgame team talk. “’You got outhustled and you got outworked. Remember this, learn from it and let’s move forward.’” sjfortie@syr.edu | @SAM4TR

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Increased focus on defense bolsters unit in 2016 season

By Matthew Gutierrez staff writer

Jocelyn Cater said Syracuse’s defense last year let the team down.

But this season, SU has backed up its pitchers well. The Orange has committed just 42 errors in 33 games.

“As soon as somebody hits one off you,” she said, “there’s a million different things going through your head. But I actually don’t really turn around anymore because I know (the play) is going to be made.”

On the season, the Orange boasts a .958 fielding percentage, better than No. 8 Louisiana State (.955) and No. 21 Minnesota (.956).

It’s a consistent defense that has bolstered a strong pitching staff and helped Syracuse (17-16, 4-7 Atlantic Coast) win five of its last seven games, including two over No. 19 Notre

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happy the program took the next step to reach its first national championship. Unfortunately for Syracuse, Stewart tripped SU as it tried to step up to college basketball’s mountaintop.

In the first 68 seconds, Brittney Sykes drove the paint on SU’s second possession and her shot was met by Stewart’s hand.

The 6-foot-4 UConn guard drove down the court and hit a 3 in the Sykes’ face to give the Huskies an early 4-0 lead.

She hit two more 3s than Brianna Butler and nabbed seven more rebounds the Orange’s best big, Briana Day. Everything Syracuse did, Stewart did better. And it wasn’t close.

Dame. In 21 innings against Georgia Tech on Saturday, Syracuse committed no errors.

“We made a huge emphasis in our practice starting in the fall talking about the fact that we always want to make the routine play,” SU head coach Mike Bosch said. “And on occasion, make the ESPN play.”

Bosch has had SU practice more defense, spending 20 to 30 minutes on basic mechanics for infielders and outfielders. Infielders usually begin by fielding routine grounders.

They won’t make throws until they’ve honed their ability to charge the ball and field it while staying low to the ground.

Then, they’ll devote another block of practice, varying from 30 minutes to an hour, for specifics. A drill called, “two-sevens,” is designed to make infield practice as realistic as possible. It begins with infielders playing at their normal positions.

From the time the ball comes off a coach’s bat or a machine, infielders have 2.7 seconds to charge the ball, field it and make the throw to first base. When the stopwatch reads 2.7, the ball should be in the first baseman’s glove.

“Make it as game-like as possible,” assistant coach Alisa Goler said, “so in the game, they feel like they’ve already done it.”

A former standout at Georgia, Goler works primarily with SU infielders. During practice, she leads them in glove work, including short hops. She’ll simulate hard grounders up the middle and in the hole or slow rollers in front of the base paths with a machine. Players shift from their primary position to other positions during the drill.

“I want them to be uncomfortable,” Goler said. “In a game, there’s times when you’re uncomfortable.”

SU ranks just seventh in fielding percent-

age in the ACC, but its .958 percentage is just shy of North Carolina State’s .959, Louisville’s .961, Boston College’s .961 and No. 8 Florida State’s .962.

Strong defense has supported the SU pitching staff, which walks an average of just one batter every three innings. More strikes put more balls in play, creating work for the defense.

For the final out of SU’s 5-2 win over Notre Dame, second baseman Alicia Hansen dashed to her right to field a grounder toward the middle. She stretched her arm and backhanded it, planted and threw out the runner.

Groundballs that used to be hits for Syracuse opponents, Bosch said, have been eliminated. Now, SU makes plays on those.

“In the past couple years, we would have struggled with that type of thing,” Cater added. “Now, we’re totally solid out there.”

She finished her career game with more tallies on her stat line than anyone else. Her 24 points, three 3s and ten rebounds were more than anyone else on the floor Tuesday night.

ball back before Moriah Jefferson stole it.

of her team’s shooting struggles, seemingly shaken by college basketball’s biggest stage.

Peterson missed a 3 after Butler. Sykes clanked a jumper. Butler missed a 3 before Sykes finally scored Syracuse’s first points.

After 12 attempts from deep in the first half, Syracuse pumped its brakes. Peterson shot mid-range jumpers, and Butler took one 3 in the first 15 minutes of the second half. Shooting less improved SU’s field-goal percentage, but didn’t push the scoreboard anymore in SU’s favor.

“Well Coach Q told us any shot we get is a good shot when you’re going against a good basketball game,” guard Cornelia Fondren said. “Any shot we took we had to take it.

“But we weren’t making shots.”

Syracuse struggled to put together scoring runs because it didn’t have the ball. The Orange was bruised on the boards. UConn earned a 43-27 advantage in rebounds.

With 3:43 remaining in the first half, Bria Day was the only Syracuse player with more than one rebound with two. Morgan Tuck and Stewart bullied SU under the basket, finishing with a 17 rebounds, and even the chances Syracuse had it usually couldn’t hold on to.

Isabella Slim and Briana Day fumbled the

Syracuse got here using its blueprint of fastpaced scoring and press defense. The press causes turnovers that the Orange have turned into transition 3s. It took more deep shots than any team in the ACC and made the most.

Led by Brianna Butler shot 1-of-4 from 3, SU shot wildly to overcome the Huskies lead.

SU finished the first half 2-of-12 from 3, with the other coming from Taylor Ford.

“We were just excited,” Maggie Morrison said. “I think we were trying to get some of our excitement out. Playing a little too fast, taking quick shots.”

Butler’s shooting served as a microcosm

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Roundtable: Summing up SU’s season, to stay or to go 1. How would you sum up this NCAA Tournament run?

Sam Blum: This NCAA Tournament run was about second-half domination. Syracuse won each game by going on massive second-half runs. And when you look at the game against UNC, being unable to replicate that is what inevitably ended the season. But I think the dynamic of this NCAA Tournament run was so fantastic because Syracuse really played up this “us against the world” narrative. And I think it really worked for them. They were a team on the brink of not making the Tournament, and made it to the final weekend.

They overcame a lot of in-season adversity and peaked at the perfect time. This team was playing against the odds, and they played pretty well from that position.

Jesse Dougherty: Madness. Really no other way to say it. Every year there are reminders of why the NCAA Tournament has been branded as such, and Syracuse was that reason this year. Middle Tennessee pulled off a colossal upset, Northern Iowa did some pretty cool and pretty terrible things, and there were a lot of other interesting stories across the board — but Syracuse? A 10 seed in the Final Four after it was pretty much determined that the Orange would either have to go through a playin game or even play in the NIT? Madness.

That’s about it. Madness.

Matt Schneidman: There’s not much that can sum up the run Syracuse made in the NCAA Tournament, but I guess “unexpected” might do it justice. From a team that was on the outside of the field looking in among most projections, a run to the Final Four, even if it is a storied program like Syracuse, has to be lauded. At times it was Tyler Roberson who dominated. At times Michael Gbinije. And of course, the most memorable takeover in recent SU history came from Malachi Richardson in the second half against Virginia.

The Orange’s tear through teams that were favored came to screeching halt, and that may take away form everything that happened in the four games prior. But it shouldn’t. Syracuse was one game away from making history as the lowest-seeded team ever to make a national championship game. There aren’t many words that can sum that up.

then three more after that. Jim Boeheim said after the game that he’s never been prouder of a group of players. And while he tends to speak in hyperbole, I really believe that to be true.

There’s very little that can compare to what this team went through, and what it accomplished in spite of that.

J.D.: It can’t be considered the most successful, quite simply because Syracuse won the whole thing in 2003 and will be the peak of the program’s history until a second title is captured.

But it was undoubtedly the most unlikely Final Four run the Orange has ever had, which is why Jim Boeheim continually said how proud he is of all this team has accomplished. It’s not just that SU had a bad start to conference play and then finished 1-5 before sneaking into the Tournament. It’s that it really wasn’t your typical good college basketball team — at least one worth of lasting this long — with limited talent off the bench, not too much size inside and two fifth-year seniors in the backcourt instead of blue-chip recruits. But Syracuse clicked when it mattered most, and that’s what’s important in the grand scheme of things.

M.S.: This year’s run was arguably the most impressive given the double-digit seed attached to Syracuse’s name, but nothing can top the 2003 national championship. That game com-

bined the most memorable player in Syracuse history with the most memorable play, so a national title this year is the only thing that could top it. Second-best certainly isn’t bad, especially for a team that could’ve been torn apart by sanctions and suspensions, but one that endured it all and defied the odds en route to teetering on the brink of history.

3. Will Malachi Richardson and/or Tyler Lydon leave? Why? S.B.: I think it logically makes sense for Tyler Lydon and Malachi Richardson to leave. Neither is fully polished, but both have seen their stocks rise with NCAA Tournament performances. Would either be able to be an impact player at the next level? It’s tough to say. But there are always other factors at play here and so it’s really difficult to guess what either player will. The chance to play in the NBA and get paid to do it is a hard allure to pass up. If I had to guess, I’d say that Richardson is in the NBA and Lydon stays for another year.

J.D.: Both of them will likely test the NBA combine and whatnot (because I’m personally not able to find a reason why any talented underclassmen wouldn’t), and I’m not too sure what each player will do from there. From being around both players all

season, I’d guess that Richardson is more “NBA-ready” while Lydon may need another year to diversify his game and continue to go off the dribble. That said, both players had great Tournaments and entering the NBA Draft this season could allow them to ride that “unknown factor” to a decently-sized rookie contract. The short answer is we’ll see, because there are so many outside factors that make this very hard to predict.

M.S.: The yearly circus of asking underclassmen if they’ll declare for the NBA Draft and taking their answers for much more than they are occurred again last night. Tyler Lydon said he plans to return as of what, 20 minutes after his season ended? Nothing to read into there. And Malachi Richardson declined comment. Oh no! Does that mean he’s leaving? In the end, I think Lydon stays and Richardson goes. The former needs to get bigger and develop more of an outside game to fit the bill of the stretch four he’d likely be in the NBA. But Richardson, especially after showcasing his finishing ability and outside aerial display, will declare for the draft. The only question that remains is if he hires an agent or takes advantage of the new rule that would allow him to return if he doesn’t like his post-combine evaluation.

2. Where does this year’s run rank alltime in Syracuse’s Final Four runs?

S.B.: Obviously nothing will ever top winning a national championship. Until another Syracuse team does that, the 2003 team will stand above the rest. But the fact that the Orange is the first-ever No. 10 seed to make the Final Four says a lot about just how special this team is. They weren’t supposed to win the first game against Dayton, let alone that one and

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evans hoping he’s getting more comfortable with the unit as the year goes on.”

Against UND, Evans noticed his defender ignoring him when he didn’t have the ball. He scored three third-quarter goals, his best quarter of the season.

Evans can move off ball when he isn’t dodging effectively. When he’s not scoring, Evans makes the plays most fans won’t notice.

But generating offense on his own is the part of Evans’ game he said is most lacking.

“I think I can assert myself as a dodger a little bit more,” Evans said, “and produce for myself a little bit more.”

Evans has stayed after practice to work on his shooting, senior attack Dylan Donahue said.

He’s still the same player that scored five goals in an NCAA tournament game last season.

But so far, he hasn’t found his groove.

“He works hard and he’s never happy no

MICHAEL GBINIJE played his last game for SU in the Final Four. Despite not making the national championship game, SU outplayed experts’ expectations in the NCAA Touranment by moving on to the Final Four. logan reidsma senior staff photographer

matter how well he plays,” Donahue said.

Evans committed at least two turnovers in five games. UND was his best goal-scoring game of the season, and only committed a single turnover.

Instead of forcing the ball and trying to make something happen, Evans said he “probably should” settle the ball and pass it off to teammates when the pace of the game increases.

“I think it’s limiting turnovers and mistakes within the offense and finishing the ball a little bit better,” Desko said of what Evans can improve on.

Evans has had opportunities to score, but he hasn’t as much as he could. His 35.1 shooting percentage is less than it was last season at 36 percent, but that was in a limited midfield role.

Before facing Notre Dame, Evans said he hadn’t had the game where he feels 100 percent comfortable.

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2 players transfer from SU Christian White and Kaleb Joseph to flip schools

By Sam Fortier and Paul Schwedelson the daily orange

Kaleb Joseph to transfer from Syracuse

BRITTNEY SYKES (20) AND BRIANNA BUTLER (13) walk off the court after UConn crushed the Orange, 82-51. Syracuse made its deepest run ever in the NCAA touranment. SU had won 16 of its last 17. evan jenkins staff photographer

UConn cuts off Orange’s run through the NCAA tournament Here are three takeaways from Syracuse’s season ending loss in its first-ever championship game.

By Connor Grossman asst. web editor

NDIANAPOLIS — Brittney Sykes jogged off the court with 2:37 remaining in Syracuse’s season, and looked straight in the eyes of her head coach. Quentin Hillsman held the sides of her head and spoke softly to his embattled veteran guard, possibly playing the last game of her career, then kissed her on the forehead and sent her down the bench.

“It was surreal,” Sykes said of exiting the court after sharing a moment with her head coach. “He was proud of me, there’s not much you can say right then and there.”

It provided picturesque finality to a game that seemed out of reach from the moment Syracuse lost the opening tipoff.

Connecticut (37-0, 18-0 American Athletic) ended Syracuse’s (30-7, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) miracle March run, winning its fourth straight national championship, 82-51.

Breanna Stewart, the North Syracuse native, played her hometown team Tuesday for the first time since the 2013 Big East tournament. After winning the opening tip by a hands-length over Briana Day, she never relented her stranglehold on the last game of her illustrious career.

“She has accomplished something that nobody else in NCAA women’s basketball has,” Sykes said. “And that’s four consecutive (championships).

“Her last one just happened to be against us, and yeah, it stings.”

The Connecticut senior class swept a career of championships.

Stewart spurned an offer to play for SU out of high school, but called this game a “full-circle” type of moment for her career and was see

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Evans shows potential after return to old position

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

Jordan Evans was starting to have some fun. After two years of frustration at a position he wasn’t used to, he scored two flashy goals in a preseason scrimmage against Brown.

But two months later, Evans still isn’t at the point he wants to be.

“I think I could probably be helping out a little more than I have been,” Evans said.

He flashed his potential with a three-goal performance in a blowout loss to No. 2 Notre Dame on Saturday.

But Evans still leads No. 9 Syracuse (5-3, 1-2 Atlantic Coast) in turnovers and is feeling his way through a season that started with excitement for

his move to his more natural attack position. Evans and the Orange will get a chance to end its three-game losing streak at Hobart (5-4, 1-1 Northeast) on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

At the start of the season, Evans was enthusiastic for his return to attack, where he played as the No. 1 recruit in the country. Through the first seven games of the season,

before this past weekend, he had only scored 10 goals and was merely a cog in the ninth-best scoring offense in the country.

“We’re getting some points out of him, we’re getting some production,” SU head coach John Desko said. “We’d like some more, I think he’d like some more, too. We’re just see evans page 15

Syracuse sophomore point guard Kaleb Joseph will transfer, a source confirmed to The Daily Orange on Tuesday morning. He will have two years of eligibility remaining at his next school.

After averaging 27.3 minutes per game for SU during his freshman year, Joseph spent most of this past season on the bench. He didn’t appear in a single game after Feb. 27.

Fifth-year senior Michael Gbinije took over for Joseph as SU’s starting point guard and played 37.9 minutes per game. When Gbinije subbed out or went back to playing his more natural forward position, freshman Frank Howard assumed the point guard role.

Joseph played in just six conference games this past season and averaged 0.8 points per game. As a freshman, he averaged 5.9 points and played in all 31 games. Before the season, head coach Jim Boeheim said, “Kaleb’s made the biggest offseason improvements physically of anybody that I can remember.”

SU guard Christian White transfer to Pace Christian White, a walk-on guard for SU, will transfer to Pace University, he announced via Twitter on Tuesday.

The Rochester, New York, native and former Aquinas Institute star began his career at Monmouth where he appeared in 44 games and averaged 2.5 points per game. White transferred to Syracuse for his junior season, and played seven minutes, scoring three points. Pace finished 9-19 in Division II last season.

White’s transfer is not a surprise because, per Syracuse.com, White chose not to play in any games in order to preserve his final year of eligibility for graduate school.

The walk-on had an eventful last year with the Orange while the team made an unlikely run to the Final Four. White also took a tumble while celebrating with the team’s leading scorer, Michael Gbinije, during the Gonzaga game which helped key the Orange’s run. sjfortie@syr.edu pmschwed@syr.edu