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N • Speech policy

Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud announced revisions to the university’s free speech policies, including antiharassment policies.

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P • Local learning

Environment columnist Victoria Chen discusses New York state legislation on animal adoption and how animal testing practices can become more humane.

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During one of the most unconventional elections yet, Syracuse is hosting a program with the hopes of engaging citizens with local government.

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GRADE SU deans keep high salaries after stepping down

There are at least NINE former full-time deans in faculty positions at SU.

$486,239

82% Former deans and administrators in faculty positions at SU make about 82 PERCENT of the salary they made in their positions as deans and administrators.

The average salary of SU deans in fiscal year 2014, of those that were available on the university’s annual 990 form

$496,831 The salary of then-Whitman professor Melvin Stith in fiscal year 2014, despite him having stepped down as dean in June 2013

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The number of current deans at Syracuse University Text by Michael Burke asst. news editor

Graphic illustration by Emma Comtois senior design editor

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nn Clarke and James Steinberg each stepped down from their positions as Syracuse University deans before this academic year and became faculty members, but it’s unlikely their salaries have changed significantly.

When SU deans and administrators step down, they keep most of the salary they earned in their administrative roles — about 82 percent of it, according to current and former members of the University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs. It’s a policy some say is unfair to

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This kind of openended compensation is not good for the institution in general.

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traditional faculty members and one that drains money that could be better spent elsewhere.

The budget committee expressed concerns about the policy at a Senate meeting in April, with then-committee chair Dawit Negussey calling the model unsustainable.

Current committee chair Bruce Carter, an associate professor in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said he has since been told by SU officials that the policy will be changed moving forward.

Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in an email that SU no longer uses the policy.

“The University now evaluates compensation for any faculty member prior to him/her taking on an academic leadership position,” Quinn said. see salaries page 6

S • High achiever

SU football receiver Amba EttaTawo was named Atlantic Coast Conference receiver of the week after a breakout game against Colgate — his first with the Orange.

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Task force not told about federal probe

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University officials did not notify the highly-touted Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual and Relationship Violence of the ongoing federal investigation into the university’s handling of a sexual assault case, according to members of the task force.

The Department of Education opened an investigation into SU on June 22 after a student filed a Title IX complaint with the department’s Office of Civil Rights. The Daily Orange reported last week that the investigation had been opened after obtaining documents through the Freedom of Information Act. Randi Bregman, executive director of the Vera House and member of the task force, said in an email that members of the task force weren’t made aware of the investigation prior to The Daily Orange’s report.

She declined a further interview.

A second member confirmed the task force hadn’t been notified of the investigation and agreed to an interview on the condition of anonymity because the member was not authorized to comment publicly on matters related to the task force.

The task force members received an email at 5 p.m. the day after The Daily Orange’s report, asking the members if they wanted to remain on the task force. In the email, which was obtained by The Daily Orange, there was no mention of the investigation.

The email was the first communication between SU and the task force since the spring semester, as the task force was largely disregarded over the summer, said the member.

Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, said in an email that SU didn’t notify the task force because the investigation is confidential by law.

The investigation and documents about it are public record.

SU Chancellor Kent Syverud appointed the task force in April 2015 after it was recommended by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Advocacy.

In the SU News release announcing the creation of the task force, Syverud said the members would “help to advance and implement further improvements in sexual violence prevention,

education and advocacy services on campus” in addition to looking “critically at our sexual assault and relationship violence services, policies and programs.”

The anonymous member of the task force said the task force was created specifically to have something in place for matters such as an investigation.

“Just so that there is some kind of oversight or knowledge about this issue apart from the administration,” the member said.

The member called SU’s decision not to notify the task force the latest example of the university failing to be fully transparent, something the current administration has often been criticized for since Syverud became chancellor in April 2014.

“After all this, you would think that the administration would understand that communication and transparency are really, really important to this university and the people at this university,” the member said.

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From 2014-15, the Title IX coordinator received 143 reports from students impacted by sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking and harassment

The task force member also said the task force “was not really in session” over the summer, when the investigation was opened, something the member said was a point of frustration for many on the task force. The member said the task force shouldn’t only exist for the academic year, pointing out that the sexual assault Advocacy Center was closed in late May of 2014, after the academic year had already concluded.

Additionally, the member said, the closing of the Advocacy Center and the controversy it sparked raised expectations for SU in dealing with issues of sexual assault — expectations the member felt SU failed to meet in not informing the task force of the federal investigation.

“The expectations are very different than for a school that has never had to publicly deal with this issue,” the member said. “I think people are just publicly aware and asking for more.” mdburk01@syr.edu

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Senior lands position with online media outlet staff writer

While Syracuse University student Courteney Larocca was in New York City for the Newhouse in NYC program, she had a mentor from the media world — Michelle Toglia, who is the sex and relationships editor for web magazine Bustle and a S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna.

“I also had my first ever internship with ELLE magazine, where I worked in the fashion section,” the senior dual magazine and sociology major said, “but I quickly realized that was not what I wanted to do.”

After discovering that fashion journalism wasn’t what she wanted to pursue, Larocca was offered an exciting opportunity by her mentor. Toglia took her to see the Bustle office and she “absolutely fell in love with it.”

Larocca loved the office so much that she asked Toglia about internships and was ecstatic that she could possibly have one there.

“At Bustle, they never treated me like I was an intern,” said Larocca. “I wrote about 30 stories during my time as an intern which included breaking news stories, evergreen stories, articles about the launch of Instagram stories, a Pokemon Go story, stunt journalism pieces and much more.”

A memory that Larocca will per-

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INSIDE N • Toxic paint

Lead paint has been found on the walls of some homes in the city of Syracuse. Local politicians have been working to bring attention to the issue.

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Syracuse’s field hockey team reached the top ranking this week after starting the season off 4-0. SU won the national title last season.

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COURTENEY LAROCCA was working for ELLE magazine when she realized fashion journalism was not her passion. She then found Bustle and now has a long-term job. fiona lenz contributing photographer

haps never forget was getting the chance to interview Chloe Lukasiak from “Dance Moms” for a profile.

One of Larocca’s favorite moments in her summer internship came when her editor called her into her office and offered her a permanent job with the publication.

Larocca now has a paid job with Bustle and will continue to write

stories throughout senior year and after she graduates from SU. Larocca believes that her success all comes down to her education.

“Throughout my years at Newhouse, my professors have always pushed me to be a better journalist.

There is so much to being a Newhouse student that I don’t think people get,” Larocca said. “The sup-

port I received absolutely paved my way for my summer internship.”

Larocca also had advice for any worried students out there who are scrambling to find an internship.

“If you put your mind to it and you take advantage of every opportunity that’s thrown at you, you will do totally fine,” she said. ssmore@syr.edu

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No tip Some restaurants across the U.S. are considering doing away with tipping and evening the disparate pay among staff instead.

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Violent crime Read how SU handled an incident of violence by a male student against a female student while they studied abroad in Poland.

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Apartment complex now open Luxury student apartments #BLVD404 open for first year

By Baylee Wright contributing writer

Jared Hutter said he thought Syracuse University students deserve better in their housing. Hutter, an SU graduate, teamed up with two other SU graduates to create luxury student housing near Marshall Street called #BLVD404.

I was in an apartment on Madison and (my friends from home) were in palaces.

Giving back A woman at the local The People's African Methodist Epsicopal Zion Church participates in a school supplies drive on Monday. The event was held at the church on South Salina Street in Syracuse. The church is the oldest black church in both Syracuse and the Central New York region, according to itss website.

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SU announces revisions to speech policies

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University will revise some of its policies related to free speech, including anti-harassment policies, SU Chancellor Kent Syverud announced Tuesday in an email to the university community.

Other revisions will include changing SU’s Computing and Electronic Communications Policy and clarifying how banners and signs may be displayed on campus.

In addition, Syverud said SU will maintain its policy of ensuring protests don’t disrupt campus life.

The changes will come in response to recommendations SU’s Working Group on Free Speech shared with the SU community in November 2015. Syverud’s announcement also comes

just days after the university was caught in an academic freedom controversy: A report surfaced on Thursday that an SU professor disinvited a filmmaker over fears that the reaction on campus to his film would be negative.

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The number of months between SU’s free speech workgroup submitting recommendations and Syverud announcing policy revisions

In his email Tuesday, Syverud said the Computing and Electronic Communications Policy will be revised to “more clearly define” when SU can access, review or disclose files and emails on its network. The revisions, Syverud

said, should both protect privacy and academic freedom “while also maintaining the University’s ability to ensure network security, campus safety, and compliance with legal and regulatory obligations.”

Syverud also said in the email that SU should maintain the right to ensure protests don’t disrupt daily operations of campus life or threaten the safety of campus community members. He added while the Quad “and similar spaces” can sometimes be used as forums for debate and assembly, not all campus spaces should be available at all times to non-SU community members.

Additionally, the Office of Residence Life and deans from schools and colleges will work to update SU’s Campus Posting Policy to clarify how banners and signs can be displayed, as well as how build-

ing bulletin boards can be used, the chancellor said.

SU’s anti-harassment policies will be revised to “serve all members of our community and reflect key objectives,” Syverud said. Those objectives, he said, include promoting free speech and debate so long as it is peaceful; protecting community members from discrimination; defending protests and counterprotests; and not tolerating protests that disrupt speakers on campus.

“Academic freedom can only exist if the campus fosters a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints,” Syverud said in the email. “Students and faculty must have the right to speak and assemble to promote their views. I am committed to ensuring that Syracuse University vigorously protects these rights.” mdburk01@syr.edu

Researchers receive grant for astronomy study

By Sam Ogozalek contributing writer

A grant recently awarded to Syracuse University and California State University, Fullerton aims to promote greater student diversity in the study of gravitationalwave astronomy.

The five-year, $937,000 grant, “Catching a New Wave: The CSUF-

Syracuse Partnership for Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy,” is being funded through the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships in Astronomy and Astrophysics Research and Education program. The grant was awarded earlier this summer.

Although data detailing the proportions between different races

and genders studying and researching gravitational-wave astronomy is difficult to come by, in a 2010 data brief published by the NSF, white men dominated the scientist and engineering workforce. White men held 51 percent of all occupations.

In comparison, black women contributed 2 percent, with Hispanic men at 4 percent.

“We really don’t want to oper-

ate in a monoculture,” said Joshua Smith, associate professor of physics at CSUF, referring to a lack of diversity in astronomy and astrophysics.

Duncan Brown, SU’s Charles Brightman Professor of Physics, agreed with his colleague, saying the promotion of diversity is important due to a “vast untapped potential” of perspectives and ideas from see study page 6

Jared Hutter #blvd404 co-founder

The apartment complex is in its first year and is currently housing around 140 students, Hutter said.

Hutter began BLVD Equities as his first step into the world of real estate.

The private student housing complex is located on the corner of University Avenue and East Genesee Street, close to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Marshall Street and SU’s Main Campus. The name of the building

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national news Here is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening in the world: U.S.

GETTING WORSE Homicide cases reported in Chicago have hit 500 this year after a Labor Day weekend shooting left 13 dead. Police reported there were 92 murders in August, the deadliest month since June 1993. The third largest city in the United States has more murders than New York and Los Angeles combined. source: usa today

INEDIBLE RECORD Former Stanford University student Brock Turner was registered as a sex offender in Ohio on Tuesday. Turner was convicted of sexual assault and was released on Friday after serving only three months in jail, despite a judge’s ruling for six months in prison. His early release sparked public outrage. source: the washington post

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Change in university dean salary policy levels the playing field At a private institution like Syracuse University, the prospect of pay cuts may seem like an opportunity to allocate more resources elsewhere. But soon, the university will reduce the salary of officials who have stepped down in the interest of fairness to other faculty members.

SU recently shifted its policy in how it determines the pay grade of its administrative staff and faculty.

Originally, university deans and administrators could step down from their position and still receive 82 percent of their former salary as an ordinary faculty member, but SU Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Kevin Quinn said the university will now decide faculty salaries on a case-bycase basis.

Likewise, Bruce Carter, the chair of University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs, said the policy change will be in effect for those hired during and after this fiscal year.

So instead of getting 82 percent of their old salaries, newly-hired deans and administrators will now have paychecks on par

with the highest-paid faculty member of the college that they join when they step down.

It is for this reason that the university administration should be commended for changing its policy. This adjustment now closes the gap in the levels of faculty payment while also acknowledging the status of former deans.

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The percentage of former salary that deans and administrators would receive after stepping down before SU’s payment policy change

This move came due to concerns of university faculty members who felt the “82 percent rule” was unfair to other faculty members.

Most professors at SU receive pay raises based on the research that they do in their field. Deans and administrators can step down, not having done the same level of

study, and still receive a higher salary than their colleagues.

Now, with this change in the university’s payment policy, the pay grade plane across faculty members is more even.

Of course, former deans can be quite involved nationally and in the SU community, but they likely won’t have 82 percent worth of their responsibilities that they had as dean.

Essentially, whether they were once a dean at the university or not, faculty members should be compensated for exactly the level of work that they contribute to the university community.

Still, even if ex-deans don’t appear to par-

ticipate as much in SU administrative life on paper, their status is substantive in relation to their non-dean colleagues.

The university’s current policy of paying former deans and administrators the salary of the highest-paid faculty member of their college is valid. These faculty members tend to attract special attention from other institutions nationally as well as attention from other members of the university community.

Even after stepping down, the role of former deans and administrators is one of preserving institutional memory and continuing to enhance the school or college they once led.

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SU student finds filmmaker disinvitation detrimental to SU “There isn’t a BDS movement on our campus”. This was what I said to the Director Shimon Dotan, at the beginning of August, when I discussed with him the possibility of screening his documentary, “The Settlers” at the university. I had watched it earlier in the summer and as the President of LIME: An Israeli-Palestinian Dialogue Group, I thought it would be perfect to screen for an event. It was around this time that he had been invited and disinvited to the international Conference on Religion and Film, due to pressure from the Boycotts Divestments and Sanctions movement at the university.

Today, however, I stand corrected. It is true that there is no organized BDS movement at a student-level, but there is a BDS movement at Syracuse University.

It may not be present in the discourse of the students but it is in a minority of the professors. What disturbs me so greatly about the dis-invitation of Mr. Dotan is that professors, the very people who we entrust to educate us, sought to limit our education because of their own political ideologies and agendas.

When I joined LIME three years ago, I did so because I wanted to be a part of a dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict that was not marred by a political affiliation but was rather rooted in nonNews Editor Editorial Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Presentation Director Photo Editor Head Illustrator Copy Chief Development Editor Digital Editor Social Media Director Video Editor Web Developer Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. Editorial Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Feature Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Sports Editor Asst. Photo Editor Asst. Photo Editor

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partisan education. Our programming has always reflected these ideals, and I believe screening “The Settlers” will only add to the diversity of our events. In reality the dis-invitation of Mr. Dotan is not actually about BDS. Rejecting the screening of a documentary that is so highly critical of a movement that BDS seeks to end, is not only ironic but detrimental to the education of students and to the supposed agenda of the movement. The students who will attend the university’s film conference were denied the privilege of watching this relevant and insightful documentary because of a misguided and misinformed political agenda. The establishment that they came to for a liberal, diverse and non-discriminatory education has failed them. It is for this reason that I am proud that Mr. Dotan accepted LIME’s invitation to visit the university and screen his documentary. The students of Syracuse University deserve the opportunity to be exposed to other perspectives and ideas and I hope that the professors who did not want Mr. Dotan to come will remember that in the future.

Ronit Davis, President of LIME : An Israeli Palestinian Dialogue Group Syracuse University, Class of 2018 Public Relations, Newhouse School

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dailyorange.com @dailyorange sept. 7, 2016 • PAG E 5

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NY animal laws serve as starting point for humane testing

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hen you think about it, anti-animal testing activists are of the same mindset as the veterinarians in research labs: both want an improved quality of life for animals. Still, some animal lovers don’t see it that way.

The University of Missouri, a public institution, was in hot water last week when the media picked up that a Mizzou faculty member blinded six beagles during veterinary vision research and proceeded to euthanize them after the tests.

The news of this incident rekindled the debate on the ethics of animal testing in New York state — one that Gov. Andrew Cuomo started with signing the “Research Animal Retirement Act” in August.

The legislation requires privately-funded higher education research institutions to put cats and dogs no longer being used for scientific research up for adoption, either through private placement or nonprofit animal rescue organizations.

New York has joined Minnesota, California, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey and Maryland in the fight against the common practice of euthanizing animals who are still suitable for adoption after research.

Mizzou’s euthanasia was legal, but it wasn’t as ethical a decision as it could have been.

By contrast, New York is right to pass the law requiring animals to be put up for adoption because it makes the animal testing process a little more humane.

But the bottom line is despite the perception that all testing is

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GO GREEN & KEEP IT CLEAN negative, animal rights supporters should understand that justifications for it vary greatly. Lifesaving veterinary research should not be seen as cruel or selfish in the way that testing cosmetics on bunnies is.

And because neither type of animal testing will go away anytime soon, New York’s push for more inclusive animal adoption rightfully acknowledges that these animals deserve a good and enjoyable life, even after they retire from the lab.

Mizzou spokeswoman Jo Banken claimed the studies were in accordance with the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, and were also approved by the MU Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. And while Mizzou researchers were in the right to proceed with research that would benefit animals, the grey area came after all the reports were filed and no one considered giving the dogs new homes.

So while New York is more progressive than Missouri in this case, the Research Animal Retirement Act isn’t perfect.

Kathy Gilmour, director of Helping Hounds Dog Rescue in the DeWitt, NY pointed out the holes in Cuomo’s legislation.

“It is fantastic that the bill was passed,” Gilmour said. “But ultimately the bill does not ban the use of live animals for research testing.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently passed legislation requiring private institutions of higher learning to put research animals up for adoption once they leave the lab,

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Another aspect the Research Animal Retirement Act doesn’t address is how shelters themselves will accommodate this influx of post-lab animals. The law never mentions any funding designated to the already overcrowded nonprofit animal shelter organizations that will take in the research animals.

The ASPCA estimates that approximately 7.6 million companion animals enter shelters nationwide each year. Of those, approximately 3.9 million are dogs and 3.4 million are cats, and each year 1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats are euthanized.

New York state faces the same issue: While Helping Hounds has yet to receive any dogs from research facilities, according

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to Gilmour, Nick Pirro, interim director of the Central New York SPCA said even the Syracuse shelter is experiencing overcrowding. With over 400 animals in the agency’s care, “every spot in this place is packed.”

Instead of outright condemning its researchers, Mizzou’s misstep should be considered an opportunity to improve the current culture around animal testing and treatment. From an individual perspective, we can also donate our deceased pets to research facilities.

If this proposal seems absurd, please consider how your donation could save another animal’s life.

Sometimes, sacrifices like this need to be made in order to advance veterinary science. As

seen in the situation with Mizzou, it’s always best if this process can be made as humane as possible.

It’s for that reason that lawmakers and the activists that hope to influence them should work to find pragmatic solutions that balance the best interests of researchers, shelters, potential pet owners and the animals themselves.

It’s essential that we keep in mind that all animals are sentient beings and unnecessary harm done to any being should be considered unacceptable.

Victoria Chen is a senior international relations major, and an environment and society minor. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at vlchen@syr.edu.

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Restaurant industry considers eliminating tips

By Mary Catalfamo contributing writer

The restaurant industry has been wrestling with the idea of going gratuity-free in an effort to eliminate pay disparities between kitchen staff and servers — and alleviate what some call an awkward social duty.

Studies show tipping is a gratuity-free endeavor. Michael Lynn, a Cornell University Hotel School of Administration professor and tipping expert, has written more than 50 papers on the psychology behind tipping. A study conducted by Lynn at Cornell showed customers who received excellent service tipped only 1 percent more on average than those who didn’t.

“People tip out of a sense of social obligation, but they don’t want to admit that’s why they tip," Lynn said in a July 7 interview with the Huffington Post. "(Incentivizing service is) literally a story they make up to explain their behavior.”

Lynn’s findings suggest the real motivations for tipping are discriminatory.

Attractive and slender women tend to receive more generous tips, while white servers are also tipped better regardless of the customer’s race, the study found.

This social custom also faces financial opponents. Gratuities legally belong to the wait staff of a restaurant, undercutting the back-of-house and kitchen employees, according to the Huffington Post article.

Danny Meyer, a New York City restaurateur and owner of 13 successful gratuityfree establishments, found the solution in service-included checks. These bills add a charge for hospitality to the flat cost of the meal, amounting roughly to what customers would pay in total under the traditional system, according to the New York Eater website.

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#blvd404 is a combination of BLVD Equities’ name and the building’s address at 404 University Ave. #BLVD404 hopes to bring a new kind of housing to the students of SU, Hutter said.

Hutter, who studied entrepreneurship and finance, added that he was inspired to create this new era of student housing because he noticed that SU did not offer any luxury housing for students, and his friends from home had such luxury options at their colleges.

“I was in an apartment on Madison and (my friends from home) were in palaces,” Hutter said of his SU off-campus housing experience. #BLVD404 offers two-, three- and fourbedroom apartments that include all the luxuries that one may not expect with conventional college housing. The rooms are spacious while offering laundry, internet, high definition cable television and maid service. They also come fully furnished, and tenants have access to a fitness center, coffee

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study commonly underrepresented students.

CSUF, located on the outskirts of Los Angeles in Southern California, has had a longstanding relationship with the SU physics department.

Brown said he and Smith have been running an informal program between the two colleges for about five years, helping underrepresented students from CSUF pursue Ph.D.s at SU.

“We have been conditioned, after many, many years … to believe that the $25 chicken entrée is $25 … and then when we add the tip, we truly feel like it came out of a different pocket,” Meyer said in Freakonomics Radio podcast.

“We’re now asking people to shift that long-held thinking and to take it out of one pocket.”

A designated hospitality fee intended to raise wages and provide stability for servers typically comes at a higher price to restaurant patrons, as it did with Meyer’s most popular restaurant The Modern.

Although The Modern did well in the first month of its reincarnation, the subject remains an unfamiliar — and risky — one to most of the public.

“I think (a no-tipping policy) would put more pressure on us as a restaurant because we wouldn’t have that extra added income to give to our employees,” said Elizabeth Robinson, manager of the Bleu Monkey Cafe. “They would be relying solely on the sales that we make for our product. So I think we’d have to raise our prices, which would in turn affect our clientele.”

For others, it’s a culturally taboo idea.

Ton Tran, manager of Sweet Basil, said he’s never seen policies prohibiting tipping in Syracuse. But it’s not so unusual elsewhere.

“In Asia, there’s no tipping,” he said.

The concept of tipping in restaurants has undergone years of debate and reform.

Danny Meyer even penned a newsletter disavowing it in 1994, and the recent implementation of no tipping policies in eighteen of Joe’s Crab Shack locations was reduced to just four in May, according to the Nation's Restaurant News website.

Sixty percent of customers were dissatisfied, according to the seafood chain’s research, in part because “they didn’t want to lose control of incentivizing service.” mdcatalf@syr.edu

and snacks, lounges, recreation rooms and conference rooms.

“I thought of what students would want now,” Hutter said.

The apartment complex received attention last fall, when Syracuse men’s basketball head coach Jim Boeheim invested in the complex.

Boeheim made a visit to #BLVD404 to check out the memorabilia placed around the common areas. There is even a lounge named after him: The Coach Boeheim Lounge.

Hutter said he plans to expand BLVD Equities properties elsewhere, starting in the Midwest and on the West Coast. #BLVD404 offers a different off-campus living experience than most, he said. Students can even personalize paint colors and decor in the apartments with the permission from staff.

“I was very fortunate to start my first project at Syracuse,” Hutter said. “I knew the demographics of Syracuse, people could afford and would want high-quality housing.” bawri100@syr.edu

“(The grant) will take the informal program to the next level,” Brown said.

Jocelyn Read, an assistant professor of physics at CSUF and the principal investigator for the grant, said in an email that “most of the money we’ve requested will go directly to student support.”

Read said the grant would provide funding for CSUF student fellowships at SU while also “paying undergraduate and master student researchers at CSUF, and providing

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Carter said the change in policy will affect deans and administrators hired this fiscal year or later. If they step down, their salaries will reduce to that of the highest-paid faculty member in the school where they join the faculty, which Carter said is typically much less than 82 percent of an administrative salary.

But deans and administrators who were hired before this fiscal year will still keep 82 percent of their salaries if and when they step down, Carter said. Additionally, the former deans and other administrators already in faculty roles will continue to make 82 percent of the salaries they earned as administrators.

Ideally, the budget committee would like to see SU restructure contracts of current deans and administrators hired before this fiscal year so that when they step down, they don’t keep 82 percent of their salaries, Carter added.

“This kind of open-ended compensation is not good for the institution,” Carter said.

Deans’ salaries are generally among the highest at the university: Of the deans for schools and colleges listed on the university’s 990 form for the 2014 fiscal year, their salaries averaged to $486,239.

There are currently at least nine former fulltime deans working as faculty, in addition to former administrators. Sometimes, their salaries after stepping down might even surpass 82 percent of their administrative salaries.

Melvin Stith made $496,831 in the 2014 fiscal year as a professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, according to the 990 form. That was slightly more than he made as Whitman’s dean, according to 990 forms.

The policy of paying former deans inflated salaries doesn’t appear to be typical at other universities. University Senate budget committee members from several of SU’s peer universities — Cornell University, Georgetown University, Lehigh University,

Southern Methodist University and Tulane University — said they knew of no such policy at their respective universities.

Former deans and administrators entering faculty roles typically aren’t as qualified for higher pay as faculty members who have been in their positions for years, Carter said.

Pay raises for faculty members are largely based on their research productivity, he said. Former administrators are less likely to have been productive in their research, given the time commitment of being an administrator, Carter added.

“It at least creates the impression that it’s sort of grossly unfair for somebody to be paid at that rate when they didn’t have the grants or the publications or whatever the markers are for the given school or college,” he said.

Considering that SU’s budget is about $1 billion, paying former deans and administrators high salaries is “kind of just a drop in the bucket,” said Johanna Keller, an associate professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and former budget committee member.

But, Keller added, it’s a larger issue when considering the university recently bought out 254 staff members, many of which theoretically could have been kept if the policy didn’t exist.

She called the policy a “golden parachute” for deans and administrators. "(It awards) those on top at the expense of those underneath, those who do the work," she said.

SU officials have appeared to acknowledge and respond to criticisms of the policy.

In a recent meeting with the budget committee, Michele Wheatly said if she were to step down as vice chancellor and provost, her salary would be reduced to that of the department’s highest-paid faculty member, according to Carter.

The same would be true for any other administrator or dean hired this fiscal year or in the future, Carter said.

“That’s what we’ve been told,” he said.

“Because we don’t have salary information for everybody, we don’t really know.” mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

#BLVD404, a luxury student apartment complex on University Avenue, is open for its first year to Syracuse University students. A group of SU alumni are the founders of the apartment complex. sam ogozalek contributing photographer

stipends for the community college student summer program.” Brown added that these fellowships would be three years long each.

Community colleges in the Los Angeles area, including Citrus and Cypress community colleges, frequently see students transfer over to CSUF or participate in summer research programs.

“Our fundamental goal is to include students from underrepresented groups in our research community and support them

through to achieving a Ph.D.," Read said.

Brown and Smith said any underrepresented group in astrophysics and astronomy, including black people and women, can benefit from the grant as well.

Issues ranging from a lack of role models, systemic racism and financial constraint all play a part in a complex range of deterrents for underrepresented students, Brown said.

“All of this helps science,” Brown said. sfgozal@syr.edu

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Syracuse does not receive grant to deal with lead paint issue Text by BreeAnna Poshek staff writer

Illustration by Destiny Tudor contributing illustrator

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itizens in the Syracuse community are left behind to deal with the lead paint issue in dated homes as government officials engage in finger-pointing over the city’s prior lead program mismanagement.

As of Aug. 4, 2016, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development denied the city’s request for a $2.9 million grant to reinstate Syracuse’s lead paint program, according to Syracuse.com. No details have yet been released as to why its application was denied.

This is the second time the city’s application was denied. Its application was deemed “deficient,” said Paul Driscoll, the city’s commissioner of neighborhood and business development, in a March 20 Syracuse. com article. Driscoll added that the department took issue with the fact that Syracuse’s application did not break down how many projects would be done in owner-occupied homes versus investor-owned homes.

This issue has been ongoing since federal officials demanded Syracuse repay $1.5 million in grant money in January 2013, according to a May 6, 2014 Syracuse.com article. During a site visit, HUD cited an issue with the fact that Syracuse officials “presumed” lead paint was present in some homes without proper testing.

According to Syracuse.com, city officials argued they had been allowed to utilize their own discretion regarding testing in the past and were not well informed that rules had changed or were to be more strongly enforced.

“If you’re going to change it, we’ll change. But don’t go back in time and exact money from us,” Driscoll said in the Syracuse.com article.

After many months of debate between HUD and the city, the government agency upheld its decision that Syracuse would need to repay the $1.5 million on the basis that they had provided rules about testing in various documents, according to Syracuse.com.

Onondaga County also receives federal funding for houses facing issues of lead paint poisoning, some of which is utilized on houses

in Syracuse, but it cannot fill the void, said Robert DeMore, director of the county’s community development division, in the March 20 article on Syracuse.com.

HUD’s most recent denial for funding has caused some controversy between Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Rep. John Katko (R-NY).

Miner publically called out Katko in August, claiming he failed to help the city with a series of serious issues in the last few months, such as the recent decision regarding flood insurance, funding for police body cameras and this lead paint program, according to Syracuse.com.

Representatives from both Miner and Katko’s offices did not respond to requests for comment.

Miner’s comments come just three months before the election for New York’s 24th Congressional District representative. Miner has been vocal about her support for Katko’s opponent, Democrat Colleen Deacon. However, in the Aug. 16 article on Syracuse.com, she also emphasized that her issues with Katko’s lack of communication date all the way back to when he was first elected.

“He has not called me or anyone on my staff to say, ‘How can we help?’” Miner said, in the August interview with Syracuse.com.

Katko’s staffers have sent five letters of support regarding Syracuse’s grant applications since February of 2015, said Erin O’Connor, a representative for Katko, in the August interview with Syracuse.com.

O’Connor called out Miner regarding her focus on the election rather than the people of Syracuse, saying “The mayor should focus on the city’s needs, instead of a congressional race that she declined to participate in,” in the article on Syracuse.com.

The conversation among these government officials has left Syracuse citizens without answers.

This lack of answers is of major concern, considering Syracuse had the nation’s largest percentage of children with lead poisoning between 2009 and 2015, according to a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Lead poisoning can cause a wide variety of serious health issues such as brain damage and developmental disabilities, especially in children, according to the New York State Department of Health. blposhek@syr.edu

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Fall flicks

Bon Iver uses auto-tune in his new song, “33 ‘God,” and that’s OK. Music columnist Emera Riley looks at how it works for him.

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Late night

Though September is usually the month of reject movie releases, it could be changing. Take a look at the rise of September movies.

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PULP

“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is celebrating one year on air, and TV columnist Kyle Stevens reflects on how far it’s come.

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Syracuse program plans to pair citizens with local government Text by Hanna Horvath asst. feature editor

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ith the election right around the corner and political discussion heating up, a local program is hoping to connect the Syracuse University community and the city of Syracuse with the local government through discussion and hands-on engagement.

Citizens Academy, which runs from Sept.7 until Nov. 2, is a collaboration with SU’s University College and F.O.C.U.S Greater Syracuse, a nonprofit dedicated to engaging Syracuse citizens with the government. The program — a series of eight classes teaching citizens about the ways local government is organized and funded — aims to create passion about local politics among its attendees.

“It’s for those who want to learn more about their community. It’s about

improving the quality of life, leaving behind a better world than before,” said Frank Moses, the manager of F.O.C.U.S. Each free class, held Wednesday nights from 5:30 to 8:30, includes a panel discussion hosted by local officials and a Q&A, and includes a light dinner. Each class is held in a different location, with the hopes of showing participants areas of the city they have never been and engaging them with local government-funded facilities, Moses said. Participants have the option of touring the facilities, including Syracuse City Hall and Onondaga County Justice Center, before the class starts.

Class topics vary and focus on the different branches of the local government.

Session themes include land planning, community development, water and waste management and law enforcement and public service, Moses said.

The program began accepting applications in late July and received more than 100 of them. Moses’s goal was to find participants that genuinely want to learn

more about their own community and help make their government stronger.

One of the questions on the application was about how the participant would apply the information they learned in the seminar to real life.

Short answer application questions helped Citizens Academy obtain the most diverse class possible, thus facilitating better discussion, said Moses.

“We wanted to get a mosaic of the community, so they can learn from each other,” he said.

This year’s class size is capped at 35 people, which keeps the discussion moving and allows people to participate in one-on-one learning and discussion. The median age for the program this year is about 30 years old.

Moses said the hope is for citizens to build relationships with the public officials and department heads that they meet, and in turn give the government feedback about what services they want the government to provide. see citizens academy page 12

New Indian restaurant appeals to international tastes

By Deniz Sahinturk staff writer

Raj Kumar, owner of the soon-tobe-open Royal Indian Grill on Marshall Street, has one main objective: to make his customers happy.

So when SU students who frequented his wife’s restaurant, Dosa Grill in DeWitt, asked him to

open a place closer to campus, he couldn’t say no.

Although his family is known for Dosa Grill, Kumar said this will be their first direct interaction with the SU campus.

Kumar’s wife opened Dosa Grill five years ago, and it quickly became popular among international students. Kumar said it

gave them a taste of home while studying abroad in a foreign country. However, the commute to DeWitt to get food was becoming tedious for them.

“The students were complaining because driving up to Dosa Grill gets hard, especially when it’s winter and the roads are covered in snow,” Kumar said. “And

if they don’t own a car, coming up becomes much more harder.

We had many who asked us many times to open a closer branch and now we’re on Marshall Street.”

Royal Indian Grill, now in the place of Red Bowl Cafe, may be a new face to Marshall Street, but Kumar is by no means new to the restaurant business. His family

runs almost 20 restaurants in the New Jersey area. Kumar opened his first restaurant, Minar Fine Indian Cuisine, 14 years ago near Utica College in Utica, New York.

He also owns another restaurant, also named Royal Indian Grill, in Hamilton, New York.

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Looking back on Colbert’s first year hosting late-night show

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he Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” is celebrating one year of being on air on Sept. 8.

After a brief warming period to kick off the new version of the classic David Letterman show, the ratings quickly dropped and critics’ opinions followed. Something about Colbert’s interview style was off, his in-show relationship with band leader Jon Batiste seemed forced and the transitions between segments and guest appearances were not working smoothly.

The lukewarm reception to the show gave a lot of people the impression that the Colbert we loved was never to return. People adore Colbert, so why was he not a hit right away?

Jimmy Fallon took over The Tonight Show early in 2014 to a huge cultural welcoming.

He reinvented the late-night show with a YouTube re-watch the next morning, each of his segments gathering multiple millions of views. His show seemed perfect for the new generation of late-night talk shows.

Jimmy Fallon pre-2014 was not any more lovable than Stephen Colbert pre-2016, but Fallon had a few major advantages over Colbert that gave him the explosive start that Colbert could not match.

Fallon hosted Late Night, NBC’s other nightly talk show which comes after The Tonight Show at 12:30 in the morning. There, Fallon had his same team of writers, producers and his band, The Roots, alongside him for five years. But in 2009, when Fallon took over the show after the great Conan/Leno fight, the show sucked. Fallon looked unprepared for every interview and seemed unable to shake the idea that they were actually making a television show.

They were given the benefit of the doubt from the network and viewers, because Fallon had never done anything like this before and seemed like a fun dude. Plus, as the second talk show of the night, there was a much smaller audience and a smaller risk. Fallon was allowed time to find himself and the show and developed it into something big and cool, enough to force Leno out. Fallon’s show changed from a post-primetime, hour-long

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indian grill the Royal Indian Grill for the first time will have to wait roughly another week for it to open. For those customers who have never tried Indian cuisine, they have a chance to experience different styles.

All you can eat lunch buffet: $7.95 per person Entrees: between $11 - $15 Appetizers and desserts: under $5

“We serve Southern Indian cuisine, Northern Indian cuisine and Indo-Chinese cuisine,” says Kumar.

He added that they have three chefs working in the kitchen, each specializing in one region, in order to make their food as authentic as possible. They have just finished perfecting their menu, and it includes

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JUST LIKE, MY OPINION MAN talk show with a band in a television studio to a primetime, hour-long talk show with a band in a television studio.

Obviously, Stephen Colbert also hosted his own show prior to displacing a network legend. The Colbert Report produced 1,447 episodes between 2005 and 2014. That show is why CBS and America fell in love with the man. Colbert’s trouble switching from the character Stephen Colbert to himself for The Late Show is overstated. He knew how to perform, and man, did he know how to interview.

The difference in his persona was never the problem. It was the show’s.

Stephen Colbert had no band to interact with, no huge theater and a simple three segments to get through for a half hour, four times a week in a small studio. He now hosts an hour-long network talk show five times a week in the same theatre where The Beatles were introduced to America.

Late night talk shows take a while to find themselves, but nobody ever cares to remember that. Colbert is the biggest example, but it was true for Seth Meyers, who could not shake the Weekend Update feel of his show at first. He was unfairly compared to Fallon, his predecessor, at Fallon’s height of popularity.

After two years, Meyers is now the best interviewer after 11 p.m.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, like all talk shows, changed rapidly as the team behind the show found out what worked and what did not. They brought back Stephen’s character, went live for the Republican and Democratic conventions, and ditched a few boring sketches. His relationship with the band now feels playful. He looks like he is having fun again.

Forgive him if his show took a year to get comfortable.

Kyle Stevens is a sophomore advertising major. You can email him at ksteve03@syr. edu or reach him on Twitter at @kstevs_.

food items from each of the different regional cuisines offered.

The menu is fairly comprehensive, and hardly one that can be fully experienced in just one visit. Appetizers, specialty main courses, desserts and specialty Indian soft drinks are all included as part of the menu. There is also a separate menu of Southern Indian food.

The most noteworthy items on the menu are the bone-in goat and lamb specials, and freshly made Tandoori breads. Soft Indian beverages, especially yogurt drinks and Indian desserts are worth a look as well.

Though the restaurant doesn’t open for another week, the interior is fully set up and ready to welcome and serve customers.

Upon entering, customers will be greeted by a warmly-decorated dining room with neatly-picked decor. On carpeted floors rest dining tables covered with tablecloths and dinnerware already set on the table. There is also another dining room located downstairs. Overall, Royal Indian Grill seems warm, welcoming and the perfect place for a cozy lunch or dinner.

Whether you’re grabbing a quick bite, having a laid back and fancy dinner or looking for a fulfilling buffet experience, the Royal Indian Grill caters to all different types of diners. dsahintu@syr.edu

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ALEX MAIMAN began creating music in his makeshift studio in his apartment junior year. He now has released two songs on the music platform, SoundCloud, and plans to release a collection of 10 songs in the near future, which will be a mix of R&B, rap and house music. nalae white contributing photographer

Senior channels Kanye West while creating music in bedroom studio

By Leah Meyers staff writer

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lex Maiman is adding to the noise that escapes the parties and bustle on Comstock Avenue. With just his laptop and a keyboard, Maiman produces his own music tracks.

Although he’s only released two songs so far, Maiman, a senior psychology major, is working on a collection of 10 complete songs.

His songs are a mix of R&B, rap and house music: a genre called progressive trap.

Maiman’s music producer name is kahLev, which means Caleb, his middle name, in Hebrew. Listeners can find the songs he creates and releases on SoundCloud.

“I’m a producer at heart, but have been experimenting with my voice a lot too,” Maiman said.

So far the two songs he’s released are called “Kobe” and “Side Hoe,” both composed and recorded solely by Maiman, who’s never been part of a choir or a cappella group.

The song, “Side Hoe,” was released in April, and now has over 1,000 listens on SoundCloud.

“Kobe” was released in June.

Maiman said one of his earliest influences is rapper Kanye West, after becoming acquainted West’s sound with at the age of 12.

West’s “Graduation” was the first record he ever bought, Maiman recalled.

The record showed Maiman how impactful using a lot of different instruments in music could be. He also said that West taught

him the importance of melodies, and also about fitting the right melodies with the right instrumentals. “[West] combines all different elements into his music,” Maiman said. “Elements from everything like classic rock to blues and soul, he makes it consistently work and has impacted the culture with almost everything he’s done — for better or for worse.”

1,000+ Listens on SoundCloud for “Side Hoe”

In Maiman’s opinion, West’s albums are consistently better than any other rapper’s.

Maiman said he also values West’s work ethic, and how West knows that good things come out of hard work and patience. He said he was impressed by how each of West’s expresses his talent from start to finish. For this reason, Maiman does not want to release new music, and therefore the new collection, until everything is perfect.

When he was growing up, Maiman also

began listening to classic rock artists like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. The balance between West’s R&B and Led Zeppelin’s rock formed the basis for Maiman’s sound.

Currently, Maiman already has 30 different beats produced, but for his 10-song collection, he still needs to piece together the details that will form this upcoming project.

Maiman is now writing lyrics that are a complete reflection of his life up until this point, he said. Common themes in his music are hardships and big moments he’s experienced, which he expects are relatable.

Maiman said he’s trying to steer away from the subjects mainstream rap music seems to rotate around — sex and clothes — and would rather represent his life on a deeper level.

“I want to connect to other people in a really personal way, by being real.” Maiman sad.

Although Maiman has never performed his music for a public audience before, he aspires to in the near future.

Last year, Maiman transformed his entire bedroom into a music studio, with his keyboard, microphone and laptop. His roommate, Mike LaGuardia, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, remembers how Maiman would sit there for hours every day, working on his music.

“He’s really talented,” said LaGuardia. “He departs from the mainstream norm and pretty much has made his own sound, which is pretty challenging as an aspiring artist.” lmeyers@syr.edu

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Bon Iver’s new single proves Auto-Tune can be used to enhance

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he new single, “33 ‘GOD,” from Bon Iver’s upcoming album, “22, A Million,” is a surreally fantastic song, exploring religion through strange sounds and Justin Vernon’s now-classic falsetto.

It’s hard to understand — the lyrics hint, but don’t say. It’s an odd song, beautiful and reverent, relying heavily on Vernon’s voice to create its holy effect.

It’s also heavily auto-tuned.

Layered in the background a high-pitch trill wails, “I know so well, that this is all there is.” It acts directly against Vernon’s voice, while simultaneously complementing it. It’s there to create a dichotomy, a song about God questioning whether or not there is religion.

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INDIE HIPSTER MUSIC SNOB It’s beautiful and exactly what the song needs.

Unfortunately for musical artistry and integrity, not everyone uses Auto-Tune in the same way. Instead of improving a song, it’s often used as crutch for lack of talent instead, giving it a generally negative connotation. Pop stars like Selena Gomez, Katy Perry and Lana Del Rey have been called out and denounced for unfortunate performances where vocals seemed pitchy, out-of-tune, and not anything like the album they were selling.

Auto-Tune, after all, is essentially a musical tool. It is used for a specific purpose: to create a certain sound on album that cannot be achieved through human voice alone. Used at its very best, it should enhance an album, adding something to it that wasn’t there before.

When used by pop stars to supplement a lack of singing ability, it makes live shows seem worthless and creates the idea that Auto-Tune is a fix-all instead of just an enhancer.

Music is made to be consumed live.

Recorded albums are great, but there’s a certain element of the music that cannot be captured unless the music is live. When an artist is better live than pre-recorded, it makes going to shows worth it. Without that,

music becomes just about buying an album, not about experiencing it together, as a group.

“33 ‘GOD” is a great song for many reasons. Because it’s melodic, because it’s haunting, and yes, because it uses AutoTune. And there is no trickery — it’s pretty apparent that the portion of the song was not created with a human mouth. Vernon can sing, and “33 ‘GOD” with its Auto-Tune actually showcases this.

Pop stars please take note — Auto-Tune can be used to create something beautiful, instead of just something false.

Emera Riley is a junior magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly in Pulp. You can email her at elril100@syr.edu.

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September could be the next great film month

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here are many great things about September. The seasons are changing, leaves are changing colors, and pumpkin spice lattes are filling up everyone’s Starbucks cups. Yet despite this wonderful time of the year, there is one area where September historically falls very short: the film department. Historically, September is one of, if not the weakest, months for film out there.

Why is this the case? In simplest terms possible, it’s just about supply and demand. The summer is obviously the high point in demand for the film industry, as the biggest movie-going audience, teenagers, are out of school. Therefore, we are attacked with big budget blockbusters left and right in May through August. But come September, the dust has settled.

Movie studios don’t think people are going to be seeing movies this month, so what movies do they release? The ones they don’t believe in. Once we get into October, the great

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DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY Oscar-contending fare starts to get released slowly but surely. As unfortunate as it is, when a studio sees they have a real stinker on their hands, the clear place to put it in the puzzle of release schedules is September.

This unfortunate history of September is where we’ve been, but luckily for both Hollywood and audiences, it might not be where we’re permanently headed. After decades of sloppy Septembers, it seems that there is really a change in our midst. This change started last year, where September gave us successful films such as “The Visit,” “Sicario,” “Black Mass,” “The Intern” and “Hotel Transylvania 2.” The change become noticeable when you compare that with 2014, which gave us “Dolphin Tale 2” and “The Equalizer.”

When you look at this line up of films released in September, there is one notable trend, minus “Hotel Transylvania 2,” a seasonal exception: these are adult movies. While “The Visit” was a horror movie that maybe appealed to teens, the rest of these films were mature movies that were not meant to be seen by groups of teenagers on a Saturday night.

Instead, they were catering to older audiences who might not even rush out the opening weekend, but over time will build a healthy audience.

This year we have some exciting adult fare such as “Sully,” “Snowden” and “Deepwater Horizon” to look forward to. Sure, there are still your horror movies — another September classic — and a few animated picks, but this month is dedicated to the grown-ups who like to see a captivating story on screen.

In this age of sequels and franchises, I’d say September is now more important than ever.

Erik Benjamin is a television radio, and film major. He can be reached at ebenjami@syr.edu.

Though Citizens Academy’s purpose is to teach individuals about the community, there is an underlying hope that citizens will take the knowledge they acquire and get involved.

This could include voting in the next election, volunteering for a campaign or even running for office themselves, said Eileen Jevis, spokeswoman for the University College of Syracuse University.

“We try and choose people we feel will most benefit from a program like this one,” said Jevis.

The program is open to Syracuse University students, but Jevis said they tend to lean towards people that live in the wider community and are planning to live in Syracuse for a long time, as the program is focused on local politics.

However, Syracuse students have expressed interest in such a program, simply because they want to know more about the politics of the city they live in.

“I would definitely apply for Citizens Academy,” said public health junior Catherine McInerney, “I think it’s important for students to know what going on in their community, because decisions the government makes can affect us students.”

Though most don’t go into politics after completing the program, alumni of Citizens Academy say that they definitely feel more involved and connected with their community, and more inclined to participate in local government.

Ahmeed Turner, the director of Say Yes to Education Syracuse Scholarship, said in the program’s brochure that the experience was “eye-opening” and gave him a “broad perspective learning the inner workings of government.”

As an alumnus of the program himself, Moses said it is all about connecting with your community and figuring out what issues are most important to those living in the city.

The timing of these classes are also no coincidence. Citizens Academy hopes to take the fervor of this year’s unconventional general election and apply it to local politics.

With the tagline ‘Your Community, Your Future,’ Citizens Academy believes it is providing the Syracuse community with an essential purpose, and after 10 years, has no plans to change or leave anytime soon.

“I cannot stress enough how important this program is for Syracuse residents,” Moses said. “It’s essential information really everyone should know.” hrhorvat@syr.edu

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Ervin Philips shines at thin inside receiver position

By Chris Libonati asst. sports editor

By the end of Syracuse’s matchup with Colgate, Ervin Philips’ accomplishment had fallen to the back of several others. He had tied Art Monk’s single-game receptions record at 14, a Syracuse record that had stood for 39 years.

Amba Etta-Tawo’s 210 yards were impressive, but scoring the first touchdown of the Dino Babers era was even bigger. On his first carry, Moe Neal ran nearly untouched through the hole and then dragged a defender a few yards en route to a 49-yard score.

The Orange’s defense stifled Colgate for three and a half quarters.

The win itself understandably eclipsed Philips’ career high.

Because of the way Colgate played — it sagged off the inside receivers for parts of the game — Syracuse took advantage of the athleticism gap between the Raiders (0-1) and Orange (1-0). Philips was the main beneficiary. But to get to that point, Philips has had a long road through position changes.

Philips and his fellow inside receiver Brisly Estime have been moved around from position to position during their careers. The former has played running back, H-back and now inside receiver, which suits his skill set well.

Since spring practice, Estime and Philips have practiced exclusively at receiver. Behind them, Syracuse has promising freshmen Sean Riley and Scoop Bradshaw, who switched from defensive back during training camp.

“It’s comfortable, it allows me to sharpen up my game, it allows me to improve at a faster rate,” Philips said of finally playing at one position, “and it allows me to focus on one thing.”

Philips’ emergence is key for Syracuse. The Orange has a lot of potential and fewer proven commodities. Steve Ishmael, Etta-Tawo, Estime and Philips all have flashed their skill set in their careers but none have done so consistently.

In 2014, Philips showed promise with 251 rushing and receiving yards on limited touches and then 520 yards and eight touch-

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satellite camps stressed that he would focus on recruiting in the Northeast more, and that factored into his decision of where to host the camp.

“We weren’t going to have my first camp outside the state of New York,” Babers said.

“That’s how much it meant to me.”

Recruits have taken advantage of these camps. A camp at Paramus Catholic (New Jersey) High School, which was hosted by Michigan and also had coaches from 40 other schools, Syracuse included, drew 650 players.

For reasons ranging from exposure to financial convenience, recruits have been raving about the camps.

“For some kids it’s hard to drive out to each camp in different states, that’s a lot of money for some people,” said four-star Class of 2018 defensive end Tyreke Smith. “When they have satellite camps where multiple schools can come to one camp in the area that the kids are, that makes it a lot easier.”

Smith attended the Raw Talent U camp, which was hosted at Cleveland Heights (Ohio) High School and headlined by Ohio State and Michigan. Smith picked up 13 offers, including one from Syracuse, even though he hadn’t played football since the seventh grade.

Former NFL linebacker Mac Stephens coaches Cleveland Heights and said he encouraged all his kids, freshman through seniors, to

ERVIN PHILIPS has played running back, H-back and now inside receiver. Last week against Colgate, the junior wide receiver tallied 87 receiving yards, more than one-third of his freshman year total.

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downs on more touches last season.

Against Colgate, Philips tallied 87 receiving yards, more than a third of his freshman year stats. Much of that production came on the first drive as SU worked its way down the field. Without a cornerback in front of him, Philips was able to take screens for solid gains. In all, he piled on four catches for 35 yards on the drive.

Philips’ emergence is key for another reason, too: SU’s lack of depth. Other than Estime, Riley and Bradshaw are the only two other options on the inside. Luckily for SU, inside receivers need less technical work than outside receivers, who have to pin down technique because they have less room to work.

“(Riley’s) extremely talented,” Babers said. “… He will get an opportunity to play this year, but he’s young, he makes mistakes and the more he limits his mistakes, the more opportunity he’ll get to play.”

Bradshaw is still working his way into the rotation. Add in that Riley is a freshman, and SU has both its most shallow depth in its most explosive position group.

“They’re young guys,” Philips said. “… Scoop has been on the defense so he’s rough around the edges, but he’s definitely improving.”

When Philips flicks on his own tape from previous years, something he did about a week prior to SU’s matchup with the Raiders, he sees a different receiver.

“I think I improved on getting myself open in press coverage or just making difficult catches,” Philips said.

The receiver on Philips’ game tape is not the same inside receiver anyone watching Syracuse’s matchup against Colgate saw. Since Babers has come in, Philips has adjusted to his new position and, based on the matchup with Colgate, succeeded within the role.

He used the space the Raiders gave him effectively, looked shifty and didn’t drop any passes.

“I think it fits me because I get the opportunity to be in the slot and do some things,” Philips said, “get some mismatches.”

attend the camp when he found out about it.

Stephens said that he thinks the camps are great for high school recruits and that the only drawback on them is the price.

“I think especially in the first few weeks of the high school football seasons, let the kids focus on school,” Stephens said. “They’re trying to get comfortable in their high school football seasons … come Sept. 1 it’s just a free-for-all.”

In the ACC’s rationale submitted to the NCAA about why satellite camps should be banned, the conference argued that “many of these non-institutional camps are…used for access to prospects at a time that is not an active off-campus recruiting period.”

Still, recruits and coaches like Stephens are praising the extra work and teaching that D-I programs are providing.

Class of 2018 wide receiver Sean Ryan, from Erasmus Hall (New York) High School — the same high school that hosted the Brooklyn satellite camp — lauded the SU coaching staff. He also received a scholarship offer after the camp.

Ryan said that his head coach, Danny Landberg, encouraged all his players to attend the camp. Ryan said the main reason he went was to improve his skills and meet the SU coaches, but he knew going in that he’d be able to come away with a scholarship offer if he put on a good performance.

Class of 2018 and Christ the King (New York) High School product Jarrett Paul also

attended the Brooklyn camp and said that his biggest takeaway was getting to formally meet his two recruiters, SU assistant coaches Mike Hart and Nick Monroe.

It meant a lot to Ryan and Paul that Syracuse would come host its inaugural camp in New York City, which isn’t typically known as a hotbed for college football players.

“It shows me that their focus is first in New York,” Paul said. “I really liked Syracuse a lot because I’m a New York City kid and, you play for Syracuse you’re basically representing your state.”

There were Orange coaches at a number of different camps this summer, but the one in Brooklyn was the only one that Syracuse headlined and hosted.

Ryan attended two other camps. Ohio State was the biggest school and hosted the biggest camp of the three he attended, and the other was headlined by Temple. He felt he got the best experience out of the SU camp because of the dedication the coaching staff put in to training him.

“A lot of camps, they give you a lot of drills and they just want to see your athleticism,” Ryan said. “At Syracuse camp, they were really training us, training us to be elite receivers.”

The only other camp Paul attended was the one at Paramus Catholic. He said that while SU coaches were present at both camps, he didn’t really get a feel for the Orange’s brand at that camp.

“It was mostly Michigan,” Paul said in terms of which school stood out. “Because you know you had (head coach Jim) Harbaugh, he’s at the camp running around doing a bunch of wild stuff.”

To that end, Stephens stressed that it’s not so much the brand of the bigger schools that matter as much the relationships that D-I coaches manage to build with recruits and high school coaches. Still, he admitted that schools such as Ohio State, especially in Cleveland, stick out over the rest.

The camps’ influence has a limit. Ryan, Smith and Paul each said that attending them doesn’t make up for taking visits to schools they’re interested in. Overall, it’s just one of many factors that go into a commitment decision.

Because of the back-and-forth nature of how these camps got allowed, their future is somewhat murky. The ACC, like other conferences, has been evaluating satellite camps.

But Babers isn’t worried about that. He sees the value these camps are bringing to his program and recruits and has bigger pictures for the future.

“When we do our camps by ourselves they’re different than some of the other things you guys see,” Babers said. “I’m telling you right now, this camp will grow and grow and grow and the ability will get better and better and better.”

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Hendrix finds success after restarting football program

By Matt Feldman staff writer

The Hendrix College Warriors were down 44-43 to Westminster College with just one second left in the fourth quarter. The first game of the 2013 season would come down to a last-second field goal attempt, as freshman kicker Steve Crenshaw drove his right foot through the ball from the 15-yard line.

The ball sailed through the uprights and nearly 3,000 fans at Young-Wise Memorial Stadium saw what no person had seen since 1960 — a Hendrix football victory.

The Warriors program was revived in 2013 after a 53-year dormancy that began when the team was discontinued from Hendrix College in 1960. Since 2013, the Warriors program has transformed from the lowest-ranked Division III football squad to a trip to the playoffs in 2015.

“A lot of people expect new programs to not even fight for a win,” running back Dayton Winn said. “Our coaches said that we’re trying to win, and we were gonna do that from the start.”

In the 1940s, schools in Arkansas began giving players scholarships for tuition and even reportedly paid some players directly for their participation in athletics, according to “Hendrix College: A Centennial History” by James E. Lester Jr. By 1955, Hendrix had only 22 players on its roster as the university prioritized academics.

And then in 1960, it was gone for good.

Then, in 2013, the school decided that football would bring more students to the school and make money, it said in a release.

Hendrix, located 35 miles north of Little Rock, Arkansas, hired Buck Buchanan to lead the program. It became Buchanan’s full-time job to revive a team left dormant for so long. He had helped restart the football program at Louisiana College in 1999 as an assistant coach, and it was time for him to do it again at Hendrix.

His first task was to recruit a team of just 52 players. Winn, a part of the initial 2013 recruiting class, said the small team made it a lot easier for the program to transition.

“It was really the student part first,” Buchanan said. “That’s what was most important to us, especially as the program was starting out. We wanted to build small and grow from there.”

With the transition came challenges for the small team, so in order to help build cohesiveness, the players would go over to quarterback Seth Peters’ house on Thursday nights, Winn said. Peters’ parents would cook the team dinner, and the players would sit around the house and watch Thursday Night Football.

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After reviving its football program in 2013, Hendrix was ranked No. 32 in the D3football.com preseason poll entering the season

“We would do activities like bowling, team bonding, go watch a movie, that kind of stuff,” Winn said. “That would definitely be the most memorable stuff off the field.”

The 2013 Hendrix team wasn’t initially well received by other Division III coaches — the Warriors were ranked dead last in the 2013 Division III poll. It was a ranking that Buchanan said the team didn’t necessarily deserve, but a ranking that made sense for the new program.

But with the poor ranking to its name and a roster half the size of most collegiate programs, Hendrix won its first game. Buchanan called it “the best moment” in the past four years.

“That was an unbelievable experience, so yeah, that’s the top,” Buchanan said.

In 2015, two years after posting a 3-7 record, the Warriors rose up again, blazing

DAYTON WINN has helped Division III Hendrix, revived in 2013 after a 53-year dormancy, to back-to-back winning seasons. courtesy of hendrix athletics

an 8-2 regular season record and winning the Southern Athletic Association title.

With the conference title, Hendrix received a bid to the Division III playoffs.

It was the first time Hendrix was given a playoff invitation in school history, and even though the Warriors lost the opening game, Buchanan still said the postseason run “was very special” for his young Warriors squad.

As the program grew, the small recruiting class from 2013 grew as well. Winn went on to lead all of Division III with 2,732 allpurpose yards in 2015. He also led the country with 248.2 all-purpose yards per game.

Peters earned first team all-SAA honors and threw for 2,811 yards, which ranked No. 16 in the country. “(Winn and Peters) are two of the best

players in Division III, and they automatically give us recognition,” Buchanan said. “They’re showing that Division III is real football, and that was crucial to get us started. That’s increasing (Hendrix’s) brand as a college.”

The Warriors roster that started with 52 players in 2013 now sits at 101 players, and the team that was once ranked last out of over 200 Division III teams at the beginning of the 2013 season is now ranked No. 32, receiving 29 votes in the D3football.com 2016 preseason poll.

“I’m looking at these guys (who started the program), and they’re not freshmen anymore,” Buchanan said. “I told them four years ago that they would look up one day and be seniors, and here we are. It’s hard to believe that all of this has happened so fast.” mjfel100@syr.edu

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Roundtable: Running game, Etta-Tawo, how to beat UofL

By The Daily Orange Sports Staff

Coming off its 26-point season-opening win against Colgate, Syracuse gears up for No. 13 Louisville on Friday night. The Orange last beat the Cardinals in 2012. Heading into the contest, beat writers Chris Libonati, Jon Mettus and Matt Schneidman answered three questions about SU.

1. Is Syracuse’s poor running performance against Colgate a cause for concern?

Chris Libonati: If Louisville runs with a three-man front the whole game, I think there are going to be options for Syracuse. What Colgate tried against Syracuse was to have its linebackers shade in and also guard passes in the slot. That was wildly unsuccessful against the pass for Colgate because of its lack of athleticism, but the Raiders were still able to pack the box. This week those outside linebackers will be Devonte Fields, who played defensive end at TCU before transferring to UofL, and James Hearns.

I don’t think the Cardinals want either of them on Brisly Estime or Ervin Philips, and I also think Syracuse is going to spread it out with four wide receivers more because it might force some of Louisville’s pass rushers off the field in favor of a nickel or dime package. In short, this week, I think SU is going to try to run more. Will it be successful? I’ll say SU averages right around 4 yards per carry.

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Excluding Moe Neal’s 49-yard touchdown run, Syracuse averaged 2.0 yards per carry in a 33-7 Week 1 win against Colgate

Neal’s 49-yard touchdown run on his first-ever touch, SU didn’t register a rush of double digits apart from a 12-yard scramble by Eric Dungey.

And with DeAngelo Brown, Keith Kelsey and Devonte Fields coming to the Carrier Dome on Friday, there is certainly reason for concern.

2. What must the Orange do to beat Louisville?

C.L.: Run the dang ball. If I’m Syracuse, I want Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson on the sideline as much as possible. No reason to get demoralized by a big play when you can just grind Louisville out. And grinding the Cardinals doesn’t necessarily mean long drives in terms of time. Dinking and dunking should work for SU just fine. That said, I don’t really know what you can do against Jackson defensively. Just keep bending and hope the offense can keep pace, I guess.

J.M.: Everything. Syracuse has to do everything right. Offense, defense, special teams, clock management — you name it. Louisville smacked Charlotte around in its season opener, a 7014 drubbing. And Louisville blew out Syracuse last year, too. One game against an FCS opponent is not enough time to work out the kinds of new systems. The Orange has basically no room for error.

M.S.: Somehow contain Jackson, which is miles harder than it sounds. The dualthreat sophomore can beat you in so many ways, and he could very well leave the Syracuse defense scrambling all over the field. He ran for over 100 yards and two touchdowns against Charlotte, but he also has two of the conference’s best receivers in Jamari Staples and James Quick. If you think Syracuse’s offense is explosive, just wait until you see Louisville. With the current state of the SU defense — young and flawed — it will take a herculean performance from it to keep this game close against Jackson and company.

Jon Mettus: Not yet. Colgate packed the box and was determined to stop the run.

Syracuse head coach Dino Babers was hard headed, by his own assessment, and didn’t want to throw the ball all game despite having success in the air. So, he lined his team up in full house-like sets and tried power running with two linemen in the backfield.

Most other teams will pay more attention to Syracuse’s passing game and open up at least a little bit more room. Check back in a few weeks for a better assessment.

Matt Schneidman: Colgate’s front seven is one of the strongest in the FCS, but that’s the FCS. Friday brings Louisville, which boasts two linebackers and a defensive tackle on the preseason All-ACC team. It’ll be a whole different animal for Syracuse’s rushing game, and Dontae Strickland especially will have to do better than 21 yards on nine carries. Apart from Moe

3. Is Amba Etta-Tawo SU’s definite answer at the second outside receiver position?

C.L.: I think he’s the starting second outside receiver all season, but I’m not sure he’s “the answer” or anything like that. His speed is definitely going to work in his favor, but I don’t know how much he’s going to get one-on-one coverage really. I tend to think he’ll get zones and a safety over the top, which would help negate that. What I saw from SU was an effort to feed him the ball so teams have to respect Etta-Tawo and Steve Ishmael. You’ll see a much more even distribution in the future.

J.M.: Definite? No. But he could be. EttaTawo is arguably Syracuse’s best deep threat.

He has plenty of size and speed to use to his advantage. I need to see a few more games to

MOE NEAL reaches the end zone on his first-ever touch, a 49-yard touchdown run in SU’s win over Colgate. michael santiago contributing photographer

evaluate how consistent he can be, but EttaTawo could overtake the No. 1 outside receiver spot from Ishmael if he lives up to his talent and the expectations set after game one.

M.S.: I think Etta-Tawo is SU’s definite answer at the first outside receiver position. He has more speed than Ishmael and proved Friday that he can catch any ball thrown his way.

He’ll develop into Dungey’s favorite consistent deep threat, and having Ishmael as a first/second guy who can also catch the ball anywhere is by no means a hitch or an insult to Ishmael. He just doesn’t have the same downfield speed as the Maryland grad transfer, which makes the Orange’s receiving corps — don’t forget Ervin Philips — as lethal as it’s been in recent years.

48.1% Redshirt senior Amba Etta-Tawo caught 12 passes for 210 yards on Friday against Colgate. He accounted for 48.1 percent of Syracuse’s receiving yards.

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Talkin’ shop

Hendrix College’s football team has found success after restarting its football program that was dormant for 53 years.

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Syracuse football beat writers discuss SU’s running game, Amba Etta-Tawo and the upcoming Louisville contest.

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Inside job Ervin Philips is the shining star for an inside receiving corps that is lacking much-needed depth for Syracuse football.

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Etta-Tawo earns ACC accolade

By Jon Mettus asst. sports editor

SPACE INVADERS Satellite camps open new avenues for Syracuse football to recruit, extend brand Text by Tomer Langer asst. copy editor

Illustration by Marisa Rother head illustrator

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EW YORK — It seemed like just another Syracuse football practice. SU apparel, such as the gray T-shirts with “Syracuse Orange” written in block letters, was abundant.

Head coach Dino Babers stood off to the side of the field with his hands folded across his chest. Cooffensive coordinator Sean Lewis was at the center with a whistle as he conducted warm-up drills.

Outside of that, things were different. A high school football field that doubled as a baseball field replaced the Ensley Athletic Center. Bodegas and other small businesses were a few blocks down instead of the Women’s Building and the road up to the Mount. The F train ran by the practice every couple of minutes rather than the Centro buses.

“It’s all about development and getting our brand out there,” Babers said.

On June 11, about 150 high school football players showed up to the first-ever satellite camp hosted by SU in Brooklyn, New York.

Because of changes in the college football landscape, Syracuse coaches can host satellite camps of their own and assist in others. These camps allow the coaches to see recruits in person. For

SU, it helps the program’s brand outside of Central New York. It was an effective tool for the Orange all summer and has impressed some recruits.

Satellite camps are when coaches from Division I schools, such as Syracuse, go and coach camps for high school recruits at places outside of their respective campuses.

what are satellite camps?

Instructional camps for high school players held by Division I coaches at campuses that are more than 50 miles away from their own.

They had been banned in the Atlantic Coast Conference. On April 8, the NCAA Division I Council announced a nationwide ban on the camps. On April 28, the NCAA Board of Directors overturned that decision, which eventually led to the ACC dropping its conference ban.

Before the change, NCAA rules mandated that D-I programs could not host camps anywhere outside of a 50-mile radius of their respective campuses. There have not been rules that prohibit the coaches of those schools from acting as guests in another school’s (either high school or smaller college) camp.

At his introductory press conference, Babers see satellite

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Syracuse redshirt senior Amba Etta-Tawo, who transferred from Maryland to play at SU this season, was named the Atlantic Coast Conference receiver of the week. Etta-Tawo caught 12 passes for 210 yards — both career highs — and a touchdown in a 33-7 win over Colgate.

His highlight reel included a 40-yard acrobatic catch along the sideline where he managed to land one foot in bounds with a defender draped all over him. He had combined for just 438 receiving yards in his last two seasons — 222 in 2014 and 216 in 2015.

Syracuse’s next game is against Louisville at 8 p.m. on Friday in the Carrier Dome. jrmettus@syr.edu

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SU moves up to No. 1 in rankings

By Charlie DiSturco staff writer

Syracuse has recaptured the No. 1 ranking in the NFHCA Coaches Poll, a spot it had when SU won the national title last November.

The Orange has started the season 4-0 with wins against then-No.4 Maryland and an overtime victory over thenNo. 13. Liberty.

Meanwhile, North Carolina, the previous No. 1 team, is 3-1, losing the season opener 1-0 to Michigan.

Syracuse received 25 firstplace votes and finished with 788 points. Following SU is Duke (712 points, one first-place vote) and North Carolina (707 points, seven first-place votes). Penn State received the other eight firstplace votes, coming in at No. 5 in this week’s rankings.

The Orange doesn’t have an easy path to stay atop the rankings, as SU will face both Duke and North Carolina, as well as six other ranked teams.

The Orange will play its home opener Friday, Sept. 9 against No. 18 Boston College. Syracuse will face No. 14 Stanford two days later. csdistur@syr.edu