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Syracuse University curated an exhibit in Bird Library to honor the 35 SU students killed during the Pan Am Flight 103 terrorist attack 30 years ago.

Syracuse University moved up from No. 61 to No. 53 on the annual US News and World Report rankings, which were released on Tuesday.

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After originally not wanting to come to the United States, Roos Weers, a two-time All-American, ended up staying with Syracuse field hockey.

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Video led to fraternity probation

Judge rejects SU motion Students suing university will not be named in court documents

By Jordan Muller news editor

By Catherine Leffert asst. news editor

Syracuse University’s chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was put on disciplinary probation after SU investigated behavior that included ZBT members spitting into potential members’ mouths, Dean of Students Robert Hradsky confirmed in an email to The Daily Orange on Sunday.

In a separate email sent to The D.O. and several SU administrators just before 5:45 p.m. Saturday, an individual claiming to be a former ZBT member attached an eight-second video that shows a person laying on a wet floor while another person covers their face with a mop. That person in the video twists the mop on the other person’s face before removing it. Then, the person holding the mop appears to spit into the open mouth of the person laying on the floor while other people talk, yell and laugh in the background.

Near the end of the video, another person lays down on the floor. The clothes of both people laying on the floor appear to be soaked with liquid.

In a statement to The D.O. on Sunday, Hradsky said it’s believed that the video is from spring 2015.

The video was first brought to the university’s attention in spring 2018, Hradsky said.

The individual who sent the email and video Saturday had the username “David Tesher.”

“Membersof (sic) the house ask pledges to ‘open up’ as they forcibly spit in potential members mouths,” said “David Tesher” in the message.

David Tescher, whose name is spelled differently than the username of the individual who sent the Saturday email, is a current ZBT member and SU student, according to his LinkedIn profile. In an Instagram message to The D.O. on Sunday, Tescher said he did not send the Saturday email.

“No idea what you’re talking about,” Tescher wrote.

The Saturday email from “David Tesher” was sent to The D.O., Chancellor Kent Syverud, an email account linked to the “Syracuse University IFC Fraternity Recruitment” page and six officials in the university’s Board of Trustees office.

“I am afraid someone will get hospitalized or die within the next year if this major infraction of the Syracuse University Student Conduct Code is not addressed,” said the email from “David Tesher.”

Hradsky said SU’s Department of Public Safety investigated the video see video page 4

17 years later Local politicians and first responders attended a 9/11 memorial service in Forman Park on Tuesday morning. Attendees were silent for 17 minutes, which represents the amount of time between the first and second planes striking each of the World Trade Center towers. dan lyon staff photographer

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Leaders discuss initiatives and make their voices heard, Mason said. Rajesh Kumar, a doctoral candidate in computer science who served as GSO president during the 2016-17 academic Nick Mason, the sole newcomer to Syracuse year, said these efforts are imperative when it comes University’s Graduate Student Organization’s to communicating with the SU administration about 2018-19 executive board, said he found his way issues affecting graduate students. to the GSO “reluctantly.”

He pointed to increase graduate career Mason, a Ph.D. candidate in the Maxwell services and changes to childcare subsidies School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as efforts that both came partly through GSO joined GSO in the 2017-18 acaefforts. Increasing graduate serdemic year as a senator when vices, Kumar added, makes a difthe history department needed ference when attracting students a representative and no one else to SU, over similar universities.

This is deep, stepped up. After serving on the “I hope that the GSO and the meaningful work university Finance Committee, he said he administration will work to me, doing found the GSO experience more together to reach higher than their valuable than he expected. peer institutions,” Kumar said. the business of “It kind of changed my whole GSO approved a change in the grads. outlook on school here,” he said. graduate health insurance from GSO will hold its first senate an employee to student plan last Jack Wilson meeting of the year Wednesday April, and the vote was contengso president evening. Mason and President tious among graduate students.

Jack Wilson said that this year they will focus Wilson said GSO’s focus this year will be on impleon revitalizing GSO participation and graduate menting the plan correctly. civic engagement, advocating for graduate students He expressed pride in the new plan and how it affected by federal policy changes and executing will service graduate students that take part in it. plans set in place last year.

“I feel that the GSO did unequivocally a good “This is deep, meaningful work to me, doing thing in agreeing to this plan,” he said. “Employees the business of the grads,” said Wilson, a Ph.D. who are going to be on the employee plan this year candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences’ are now in ... paying half as much in healthcare psychology department. costs and a third as much in healthcare premiums.”

The GSO’s job is to advocate for graduate students see gso page 4

By Colleen Ferguson asst. news editor

A judge in a federal lawsuit filed against Syracuse University by nine students involved in the Theta Tau videos on Monday denied a motion filed by lawyers of the university to require the students be publicly named in court documents.

Five students involved in last spring’s controversial Theta Tau videos anonymously sued SU in April, claiming the university labeled them as “criminals,” according to court documents. Four more students joined the suit over the summer.

The students are requesting $1 million in damages each and that their disciplinary records be wiped clean, according to court documents.

The students are currently suing SU under the pseudonyms John Doe #1 to #9. Lawyers of the university filed a motion to publicly name the students in court documents in July.

The motion was denied by Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge David Peebles.

Lawyers for the students argued that the case involved highly sensitive and personal information and that if their names were tied to the controversy it would affect their future opportunities in the professional world. The university said in the motion that the students’ identities were already public and that embarrassment is not a sufficient reason to remain anonymous.

“I conclude that the overriding concerns associated with requiring plaintiffs to divulge their identities, as discussed above, weigh against granting defendants’ motion to require plaintiffs to reveal their identities and therefore trump the public’s presumptive right of access,” Peebles said in court documents.

The Theta Tau videos, released last spring, led to the permanent expulsion of Theta Tau from SU and a months-long student conduct investigation.

SU suspended more than a dozen students in connection to the videos, which showed people in the Theta Tau house using racial and ethnic slurs and miming the sexual assault of a person with disabilities. The fraternity, in a statement at the time, called the videos a “satirical sketch.”

Ten students involved in the Theta Tau videos filed a second lawsuit against the university in Jefferson County Supreme Court in August. Students in the state lawsuit are only requesting the university clear their disciplinary records. ccleffer@syr.edu | @ccleffert

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SU rises 8 spots in national rankings

By Daniel Strauss asst. copy editor

Remembering 9/11 ABBY CIESLEWSKI (LEFT) AND CAMERON STARK light each other’s candles during a vigil Tuesday at the Gamma Phi Beta house on Walnut Ave. On Sept. 11, 2014, two sophomores in the sorority who lost their fathers during the 2001 terrorist attacks hosted a vigil in the courtyard of Watson Hall. Since then, Gamma Phi Beta has hosted the annual vigil. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

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Syracuse pays legal fees for anti-gay protester

By Jordan Allen

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The Syracuse Common Council recently approved a six-figure payout to an anti-gay protester who sued the city for violating his First and 14th Amendment rights at two CNY Pride Festivals.

The city was ordered to pay more than $127,200 in legal fees and $1 in damages to Jim Deferio, a street preacher and anti-gay protester, who had been required to stand across the street from where the event was held in June at the Inner Harbor. Deferio is well-known for his preaching and often chants with a loudspeaker near Syracuse University’s Schine Student Center.

Free speech experts say Deferio’s lawsuit against Syracuse was justified.

Roy Gutterman, director of SU’s Tully Center for Free Speech, called the judge’s decision fair. He said Deferio “has a right to protest in a public space.”

“These types of cases are becoming more and more common, as are protests,” Gutterman added.

“It’s a case-by-case vision, but you don’t keep the peace by prohibiting someone’s rights.”

Syracuse police established a 40-foot buffer zone at the festival in 2014 and 2015 to keep Deferio away from the event. Deferio sued the city, and in 2016, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Kahn ruled that police could not enforce the buffer zone because it restricted Deferio from speaking to people freely in a public space.

Deferio declined to comment on the suit and referred all questions to the Center for Religious Expression, a Tennessee-based organization that represented Deferio in the lawsuit. The organization did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Deferio’s suit against Syracuse was not his first court battle against a city government.

In 2008, Deferio sued the city of Ithaca after police cited him for violation of a noise ordinance while he was

preaching, according to The Cornell Daily Sun. He was also involved in a 2008 suit against the city of Elmira, which is southwest of Ithaca, after the city’s police officers threatened to arrest Deferio and two other protesters at a gay pride event.

Thomas Keck, a political science professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, said that cities paying legal fees is common with cases like Deferio’s.

“Anytime two competing sets of protesters are there at the same time, the police are focused on the public safety and keeping the balance,” Keck said.

When Kahn ruled against Syracuse and its buffer zone outside the CNY Pride Festival, he noted similarities between Deferio’s case and that of a Massachusetts law establishing a 35-foot buffer zone outside abortion clinics, according to Syracuse.com. In the 2014 U.S Supreme Court case McCullen v.

Coakley, the court ruled that the law was unconstitutional because it restricted the free speech of pro-

testers on public sidewalks.

Similar buffer zones have also resulted in lawsuits. In 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the city of Miami in federal court after a “no-protest” zone outside the Miami Seaquarium prevented animal rights advocates from protesting on public sidewalks. The city had cited “safety concerns” as justification for the 25-foot buffer zone, but it backed down after the lawsuit.

David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a California-based organization committed to promoting free speech and government accountability, said a buffer zone could be constitutional, if it was made for safety and to separate two groups of opposing protesters.

“The police went out of their way to single Deferio out, which isn’t fair with their power,” he said.

“They explicitly moved him without a valid basis, claiming it was for safety and traffic.” jallen15@syr.edu

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Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies will host the university’s first “Un-Conference” Friday and Saturday in Hinds Hall.

The iSchool’s Center for Computational and Data Sciences is organizing the event. Alexandra Sargent, a project manager for the CCDS who is handling logistics, said in an email that an un-conference is a collaborative session that creates a brainstorming and networking

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TEALL AVENUE STABBING Syracuse police are investigating a Tuesday afternoon stabbing on Teall Avenue. Authorities were called to the scene at about 3 p.m. where a 16-year-old male was found with non-life threatening stab wounds in his back. Police are searching for the suspect. source: syracuse.com

iSchool to host diverse collaborative session

By Sajida Ayyup

Syracuse University was ranked No. 53 in the 2019 US News and World Report National University rankings released Tuesday, jumping eight spots up from last year.

In 2018, SU was ranked No. 61. SU is tied with Lehigh University and the University of Miami for No. 53 this year.

For the second year in a row, Princeton University and Harvard University ranked No. 1 and No. 2, respectively. Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago and Yale University all tied for No. 3.

SUN Y-ESF dropped nine spots from No. 97 in 2018 to No. 106 this year.

For this year’s rankings, acceptance rate was removed from the rankings methodology and the weight given to expert opinions and SAT/ACT scores was reduced, according to US News and World Report’s methodology page.

Two new social mobility indicators were added to the methodology to measure how well universities enroll and graduate students from low-income families. The rankings now weigh the graduation rates of Pell Grant recipients and the difference in graduation rates of Pell Grant Students versus non-Pell Grant recipients.

The weight given to student outcomes was also increased to 35 percent, up from 30 percent last year.

space in a less formal environment than a typical conference.

Sargent said participants benefit most from the un-conference due to its interactive nature. Attending faculty will have an opportunity to discuss their research ideas with colleagues from different departments, research and teaching interests, specialities and distinct experiences at SU, she added.

“Diversity is important for any event,” Sargent said. “We attempted to invite and include faculty members from every school within

Syracuse University — from Arts and Sciences to Whitman — and every school in between.”

Jennifer Stromer-Galley, an iSchool professor and director of CCDS, who’s also helping to plan the event, attended an un-conference nine months ago that was held at Facebook’s headquarters. In an email, Stromer-Galley said she was disappointed to see “basically no academics of color as attendees.”

“I think our discussions were limited as a result, and important perspectives were left out,”

Stromer-Galley said. “I want to make sure we do better with our Un-Conference here at SU.” The themes chosen for the un-conference breakout sessions are democracy, digital media, decision-making and data analytics, Sargent said. She added that these themes were selected due to their broad sense.

Attendees are invited to lead discussions on the theme provided or on any questions they would like to address during sessions. If interests see ischool page 4

CUOMO BLASTS TRUMP At his campaign rally in Syracuse on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told voters that his goal is to block President Trump’s agenda in New York state. A new poll shows Cuomo more than 40 points ahead of primary challenger Cynthia Nixon. source: cny central

CRASH NEAR WALMART Emergency crews responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 11 near a Cicero Walmart on Tuesday afternoon. Dispatchers said one person was trapped in a vehicle, but the extent of the injuries was otherwise unclear. source: localsyr.com

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GSO’s responsibility goes beyond dialogue with the university’s administration, Mason said. GSO and its executive board need to be prepared to get involved in national politics to do their jobs successfully, he added.

One of GSO’s priorities this year, Wilson said, will be looking into helping international students. Because of a new President Donald Trump administration policy, visas for Chinese graduate students in STEM fields have to be renewed every year instead of every five years. Visas are also more expensive now, Wilson said,

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video and “charges were filed for violating the Code of Student Conduct.” ZBT is on disciplinary probation through December 2018 as a result of that investigation, Hradsky said.

Matthew Wiener, a junior in the School of Information Studies and ZBT’s president, acknowledged in a Monday text message to The D.O. that the video was shown to SU, but said “we have been dropped of charges from it.”

“That video was from an investigation last year where we were found innocent,” Wiener said in another set of text messages. “the (sic) information is false , (sic) proven false by the university (OSRR).” from page 3

ischool vary, they can switch to another breakout session, Sargent said.

Stromer-Galley found the format to be conducive to productive conversations at her first un-conference, she said.

“I found the format really stimulating,” she said. “Unlike a regular conference, there was a lot more spontaneous interaction and real intellectual conversation,

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which he found concerning.

“I want to see if there is more that we can do as a university to make (international students’) lives a little easier, even as Washington tries to make them harder,” Wilson said.

Mason is focused on increasing participation in GSO during his time as internal vice president, he said. The GSO Senate can have a maximum of 170 voting members, including academic plan senators, university senators and at-large senators.

But of the available seats, only about 40 of them were filled last year. Mason said that’s “about the usual.”

In an effort to increase civic engagement among graduate students, Wilson is in the

process of reaching out to the campaigns of Democrat Dana Balter and Rep. John Katko (R-Camillus), who are competing to represent New York’s 24th congressional district.

Of the roughly 6,600 graduate students at SU, 2,500 of them are voting-eligible U.S. citizens, Wilson said.

“If there was ever a moment to get graduate students into a culture of civic engagement, it is this year,” he added. “We are in a House race that is up for grabs in a House district that is up for grabs. So this is the moment.”

Discussions over the summer, Wilson said, were largely about internal improvements, including the use of an existing university system to allow for anonymous,

electronic complaints and follow ups.

Using this system is important, Wilson added, because it gives GSO members a chance to get the necessary information to act on complaints.

During any given year, Wilson said the GSO represents about 4,600 graduate students on SU’s Main Campus. This doesn’t include online graduate students or those that are participating in abroad programs, meaning upwards of 2,000 graduate students still lack official representation. “(We’re) looking at ways to see how they can be organized and get representation,” Wilson said.

Hradsky confirmed in an email Monday that the video led to ZBT’s disciplinary probation.

In a Saturday night email from Hradsky, responding to the initial email from “David Tesher,” the dean also said “similar alleged behavior” has since been brought to the university’s attention and ZBT has been placed under “investigative status,” a sanction separate from the disciplinary probation. Alleged conduct that occurred “last week” led to that investigation, Hradsky said Sunday in the statement to The D.O. The recent investigative status change at ZBT was not related to the video, Hradsky added.

Wiener, in a text message, said the investigative status “is due to a physical altercation by a member prior to school even starting and has NOTHING to do with any

sort of ‘hazing’ activity.”

While on investigative status, ZBT is prohibited from hosting activities and cannot recruit new members during the investigation or disciplinary process, Hradsky said.

Hradsky’s 9:05 p.m. Saturday email to “David Tesher” was sent to The D.O., the email linked to IFC recruitment and the following officials in SU’s Board of Trustees office: Lisa Dolak, Rachel Harms, Ally Mead, Tressa Sobotka, Brooke Wears and James Zullo.

The dean’s Sunday statement was sent to The D.O. as a response to questions about the video.

The investigation comes as SU conducts a “top to bottom” review of Greek life policies, activities and culture in the wake of the spring 2018 Theta Tau videos controversy.

The university permanently expelled Theta

Tau in April after videos surfaced showing people at the fraternity’s house participating in behaviors Syverud has called “extremely racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist, and hostile to people with disabilities.”

The controversy led to campus-wide protests, days of public forums and two lawsuits filed against the university.

Since the beginning of the 2017-18 academic year, SU has suspended or expelled four fraternities and one sorority because of conduct violations, according to SU’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

Seven other fraternities, including ZBT, are under investigation or sanctions for conduct violations, according to FASA.

which isn’t as easy at the typical conference format where people give 15 or 20 minute presentations.”

Sargent said 37 faculty members from different departments have registered to attend the un-conference. Brian McKernan, a professor at the iSchool with a research interest in the social significance of digital games, will be one of them. This will be the first un-conference he’s attended, he said in an email.

All four themes are topics that, McKernan said, have not only interested scholars

for years, but are also currently part of a broader public discussion of the issues, challenges and opportunities faced in the 21st century. He added that new technologies have provided tools for scholars to more fully investigate some of the major research questions related to all four of the un-conference themes.

“However, these new technologies also present some serious ethical concerns,” he said. “I’m looking forward to learning from and exploring these questions and issues with

other participants at the Un-Conference.”

Kevin Crowston, associate dean for research at the iSchool, will also be attending. His areas of interest include citizen science projects and research data management.

Crowston said in an email that he looks forward to meeting people with related interests but different backgrounds.

“If you’re exposed to people just like you, you’re not likely to learn something new or to have to think in a different way,” Crowston said.

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West Coast wildfires still affect Syracuse

SU leaders should address Zeta Beta Tau video

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he largest fires in California’s recorded history have caused six people to die, displaced at least 38,000 individuals and sent smoke drifting across the country.

A recent satellite image shows that smoke from fires in California traveled nearly 2,000 miles to Syracuse. The smoke’s presence should make people realize how extensive fires have been on the West Coast — even if the smoke doesn’t directly affect day-to-day life, residents should still care.

While this doesn’t happen every time there’s a West Coast fire, it’s not uncommon. Last year, at about the same time, smoke was visible because of very similar conditions.

Huiting Mao, associate professor of chemistry at SUNY-ESF, said it’s the westerly winds that allow the smoke particles to travel thousands of miles above the Earth, across the country. The winds create a wave pattern that can be seen on satellite imagery.

While it’s clear from the satellite imagery that there is, or at least has

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MAKE SIMPLE CHANGE been, smoke above us, Mao doubts it has been visible. The conditions of low wind and high heat tend to cause polluted air to sit in the basin of downtown Syracuse, leading to smog which is more obvious to people, she said.

So if the smoke isn’t visible, and it’s not even affecting flights, why does it matter?

“Why Is Nature Beneficial,” a paper from the Environment and Behavior Journal, examined the role nature can play in the personal lives of people. Participants spent 15 minutes walking in a natural setting, an urban setting or watching videos of natural and urban settings. In all three studies, “exposure to nature increased connectedness to nature, attentional capacity, positive emotions, and ability to reflect on a life problem.”

We need to know what’s happening in the natural world to spend

time in it. And we can use the fires in California to become better citizens: Knowing what stress other Americans are going through allows us to understand how we can help them.

This awareness can make us more educated as voters, and expose us to the perspectives of others. And, those with talents for creativity may even find solutions to problems facing other residents, such as a more effective way to fight wildfires.

Our lives are intrinsically tied to the environment.

As one of the safest places from natural disasters, it can be easy for Syracuse citizens to disregard the rest of the craziness in the world — but there’s a reason to care. The fires in California affect our country, our mental health and the lives of people who matter.

That satellite image proves it.

Peter Morrissey is a entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises and information management and technology dual major. His column appears bi-weekly. He can be reached at pmorriss@syr.edu.

letter to the editor

SUArt Galleries responds to criticism

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n response to the Letter to the Editor, “Artist disputes gallery exhibit’s authenticity,” the Syracuse University Art Galleries would like to comment on the authenticity claims of the Rodin sculptures currently on display.

Mr. Arseneau is well-known to the SUArt Galleries and to museums across the country. He wages protests about many exhibitions that include prints and castings made posthumously. In his opinion, he considers these works “fake.”

This is not an opinion held by the overwhelming majority of cultural institutions in the world including the College Art Association, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Singapore Art Museum and many other university galleries including the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

We are excited to present these sculptures as they reinforce our mission to offer the SU community

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a dynamic schedule of engaging and thought-provoking exhibitions.

As such, the SUArt Galleries has presented the full information, including the original creation date, casting date and foundry information regarding the Rodin sculpture we have on view this fall.

During his lifetime, Rodin at times licensed commercial foundries to cast unlimited editions of his works, resulting in thousands of sculptures. The concept of the “limited edition,” as it is known today, emerged at the beginning of the 20th century, when sculptors began to number their casts and a new desire for a “rare” work of art was born.

While some think posthumous casts take away from the purity of Rodin’s work, others are confident that Rodin fully understood both the process and the result of posthumous casting. In 1916, Rodin willed his entire estate, including his artistic

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property and the right to cast his works posthumously, to the nation of France.

Accordingly, since Rodin’s death in 1917, the Musée Rodin has been casting sculptures either from the molds left by the artist or from molds newly taken from his plasters. In 1956, the casting of each of Rodin’s works was limited by French law to twelve examples of each model. All evidence points to the faithful adherence to this limitation.

All the sculptures in the exhibition are on loan to SUArt from the Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Collections and was organized by the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which promotes and recognizes excellence in the arts and enhances cultural life internationally through its support for art exhibitions and scholarship and for the endowment of galleries and sculpture gardens at major museums.

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he Zeta Beta Tau video released by The Daily Orange on Monday night should warrant a public response from Syracuse University leadership. Yet SU has not condemned actions recorded in the video as part of a campus-wide statement.

This lack of response is concerning and unacceptable.

Four SU Greek organizations, including ZBT, have been placed under sanctions for possible Code of Student Conduct violations since the beginning of the fall 2018 semester, according to SU’s Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

And the exact details of what happened in some of those conduct investigations remains unknown. That ambiguity is potentially dangerous.

Here’s what is known: The Delta Tau Delta fraternity was suspended from SU in fall 2017 for code of conduct violations that included hazing. Alpha Epsilon Pi was suspended in spring 2018 for behavior that threatened the safety of a person participating in its new member process. ZBT’s disciplinary probation stems from an investigation into behavior that included ZBT members spitting into potential members’ mouths, Dean of Students Robert Hradsky confirmed to The D.O. earlier this week.

University community members should be able to rely on SU to directly and specifically inform campus of these investigations. A list of what fraternities or sorori-

ties are currently sanctioned, on FASA’s website, isn’t enough. SU leaders should prove their commitment to protecting students — that’s not possible without a clear, public channel of communication such as a campus-wide email.

The repercussions of hazingrelated investigations or abusive attitudes in Greek organizations are not limited to individuals directly involved in those incidents.

As the Theta Tau videos prove, the entire campus can be affected by behavior in Greek groups. Students deserve to know, more specifically, what’s happening regarding Code of Student Conduct investigations related to Greek life.

SU has failed to show, beyond a doubt, that high-ranking administrators, such as Chancellor Kent Syverud or Hradsky, are committed to change.

Holding forums and creating surveys won’t be enough. It’s imperative that SU do more to make up for the lack of public reassurance regarding these recent events at the beginning of the fall 2018 semester.

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n Bird Library’s sixth floor, a piece of Syracuse University’s original Wall of Remembrance sits inside a case. Not far away, there’s a sculpture of Helen Tobin, the mother of SU study abroad student and Pan Am Flight 103 victim Mark Tobin. The sculpture depicts her bent over, her hands on her face: The moment when she learned her son was killed on Dec. 21, 1988.

A few yards away, a London Bus and Tube guide from the suitcase of Sarah Phillips — a study abroad student through SU — is on display. The text on

Pan Am Flight 103 exhibit honors 35 SU students who died 30 years ago

the cover is faded, but legible. On the other end of the floor, a panel honors the victims of the tragedy that affected SU 30 years ago, displaying each of the 270 names and hometowns.

Syracuse University’s “We Remember Them: The Legacy of Pan Am Flight 103” exhibit at Bird Library, on view from Sept. 13 through June 12, 2019, displays the history and gravity of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988. All 259 people on the plane, along with 11 residents on the ground, were killed. 35 Syracuse studyabroad students returning home from a semester in London and Florence were see pan

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Refugee wants to travel back home Talking Heads’ lead singer to perform

By Haley Robertson asst. feature editor

Salat Ali came to the United States from a refugee camp when he was 11 years old. Next month, he’s returning to the camp to reunite with his mother for the first time since he left 13 years ago.

“I don’t even know how I feel, I don’t know what that reaction is going to be like,” Ali said. “But I know that if I see my mom cry, I’m going to cry too.”

The reunion will be filmed as part of a documentary, which the

production team is still raising funds for. A fundraiser is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 15 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at With Love Restaurant on North Salina Street. The dinner is cash-only, pay-what-youwill and will feature Somali and Ethiopian food.

Adam Sudmann, program manager at With Love Restaurant, said he hopes the event will be like a party — with Somali music, paper plates and crowded spaces. He said he hopes to create a space where people from all walks of life can come together for a meal and sup-

port a common goal.

“Most folks in Syracuse don’t understand what it means to be a refugee, but you understand what it means to miss someone … to lose someone,” Sudmann said.

Ali’s journey will be documented by Ellen Blalock, a photojournalist and former multimedia journalist at The Post-Standard.

The production team also includes Tim Brachocki, co-founder of Syracuse Alternative Media Network, and Linda Herbert, an award-winning independent producer. Both see with

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Musician and visual artist David Byrne will perform at the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse on Sept.

12, bringing with him the visual thrills and lyricism that have defined his 40-year career.

Byrne fronted the new wave band Talking Heads in the ‘80s before striking out on his own. The show

will feature songs from his new album, “American Utopia,” as well as classics from his earlier works.

“American Utopia,” released in March, is credited as a solo album but was co-written with longtime Byrne collaborator Brian Eno. More than a dozen musicians contributed to the tracks, including TTY, Happa, Isaiah Barr, Daniel Lopatin and Sampha. In a statement released with the album, Byrne said the see byrne page 9

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with love Brachocki and Herbert teach in the Electronic Media Communications Department at Onondaga Community College.

Herbert and Brachocki have worked all summer to seek partnerships with other organizations who wish to support Ali’s project.

“Everybody wants to work together to just really put a face and a voice to the refugee experience,” Herbert said. She’s seen an outpouring of support for the project — citing the travel ban as a catalyst for activism in the Syracuse community.

Ali and the production team don’t want this documentary to generalize the refugee experience, but rather use Ali’s experience as a “microcosm” for a “spectrum of experiences,” Brachocki said. By sharing his personal story, Ali aims to humanize commonly perceived refugee narratives.

Most folks in Syracuse don’t understand what it means to be a refugee, but you understand what it means to miss someone ... to lose someone.

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Ali’s parents met in Dagahaley, a refugee camp in Kenya, after they both fled the Somali Civil War. Two years later, Ali was born in the camp.

His parents divorced when he was six years old, which lead to the United Nations recognizing his parents as two separate families. Ali’s father raised him and his brother, earning only 100 to 200 shillings a day as a laborer — the equivalent of $1 to $2.

“As the years go by, I start to see the scars on my dad … there was a point where my dad couldn’t even mentally hold onto his situation anymore,” Ali recalled. “And if anything, my dad has the strongest resilience in the world.

As the older sibling, Ali was responsible for taking care of his younger brother while his father worked. He was given strict rules about where he wasn’t allowed to go in the camp, but Ali rarely listened. His adventurous nature lead him into some situations that “weren’t pretty.”

Ali’s father’s side was chosen to come to the U.S. when he was 11 years old — his mother stayed in the camp.

“It was a huge hope when my dad saw our name on this board. We couldn’t read at the time, actually, and someone else told him,” Ali said. “The whole village knows everybody, and there’s one guy that could read and said that his name was on there.”

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byrne album title is not ironic, but instead about “our longing, frustration, aspirations, fears, hopes” for our potential.

“Some of the verses, especially, are kind of dystopian, or not exactly cheerful,” Byrne told The New York Times in March. “But they’re countered by the choruses, which seem to give a sense of hope.”

Joining Byrne onstage will be a 12-piece band that will also perform as dancers. The show is choreographed by Annie-B Parson, who previously worked with Byrne in 2012 for his world tour with St. Vincent. The performers, including six percussionists, carry their instruments across an empty stage as they form intricate patterns in support of the songs.

In a press release, Byrne called the show his most ambitious since the performances documented in the Jonathan Demme-directed film, “Stop Making Sense.”

The film may be Byrne’s best-known work, but he told the Washington Post in May that the old songs work well with the new material.

“I think that the songs as they were written, most of them, have enough wiggle room in them that you can have application throughout the years,” he said in the interview. “So, I

leading up to the departure. When the day finally came, the family got on a bus to Nairobi with one suitcase. The three of them stayed in Nairobi for a week before getting on a plane.

“My dad was very, very protective. He didn’t know what he was getting himself into,” Ali said. “But he knew that staying in that camp was not something he wanted for the rest of his life.”

At each stop, there were fewer and fewer people on the plane who spoke Ali’s language.

At the Syracuse Hancock International Airport, Ali’s father didn’t know what to do when they saw their suitcase circling around and around on the baggage claim belt.

They heard a Somali word behind them.

Ali’s father was nearly in tears because there was finally someone who spoke their language. They were then escorted to their apartment in Syracuse.

Ali was surprised to learn that the visions of America he had heard in the camp were only fantasies. He had been told that all of the houses were made of glass and that he’d never see a tree again. Ali remembers walking outside his apartment and watching the cars go up the hill — watching to see if any could actually fly.

He started fifth grade without knowing a single word of English. But that didn’t stop him from making friends with everyone he met.

“I was so excited. I’ve never been that excited in my life,” Ali said. “I had a backpack on, I was saying I’m going to be friends with black, green — I don’t care who you are, I’m going to be friends with you.”

But school was difficult. A friend helped him translate, but the only subject he could somewhat understand was mathematics.

The food didn’t taste right, either. The fruit wasn’t ripe enough, the water tasted funny and everything felt “rushed.” His groceries at home were from neighborhood corner stores — not straight from the tree like back home.

The first time Ali felt very comfortable in his new home was when he finally learned to read in eighth grade. He said his teacher was the most kind and patient person he’s ever met.

When Ali decided he wanted to continue his education after high school, he didn’t know where to begin. He found guidance from On Point for College, which helped Ali tour colleges, look for scholarships and buy dorm supplies. Ali enrolled at Cazenovia College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

The idea to create a documentary came to Ali during his last semester of college while taking an independent study course. When the project idea reached Herbert months later, she was instantly on board.

Ali is scheduled to leave for Kenya on Oct. 20. In addition to being accompanied

by Blalock, Ali will film his own video diary on a phone.

“My reason for doing this is that I feel lucky, I feel privileged and I feel like I have a platform,” Ali said. “I guess I have the strongest voice as a refugee to say something.” hrober03@syr.edu

can integrate older stuff along with newer stuff and it seems to work for the most part.”

Reinterpretation marks much of Byrne’s music. Byrne sent initial recordings to a wide range of musicians, who remixed and edited them according to their own vision of the material.

It’s a process that has continued even after the album released. The official video for the first single, “Everybody’s Coming To My House,” was shot by students at the Detroit School of Arts and features the school’s Vocal Jazz Ensemble performing the song.

“I felt that their version of the song was more moving and, emotionally, completely different from mine,” Byrne said in an interview with “The Daily Show” about his decision. “With them, the thing is, ‘Yes, everyone is welcome!’ A totally different vibe. And I thought ‘Why didn’t I get that?’”

The video ties into Byrne’s larger vision of both “American Utopia” and his ongoing project, Reasons to Be Cheerful, a website dedicated to highlighting news and ideas to inspire optimism.

Tickets for “American Utopia” start at $41 and are available through Ticketmaster. Byrne will perform at downtown Syracuse’s historic Landmark Theatre on Wednesday, Sept.12 at 7:30 p.m. For more information about David Byrne or the tour, visit davidbyrne.com. nkbuntai@syr.edu

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pan am among the victims.

During the past year, Pan Am 103 Archivist and Assistant University Archivist Vanessa St. Oegger-Menn collected materials from the Pan Am Flight 103/Locker Air Disaster Archives.

The university honors and remembers the lives of the 35 students every year with a series of events called Remembrance Week, held in October. With the 30th anniversary of the tragedy approaching, this new exhibit paints an intimate portrait of the event, those affected by it and the ways grief and everyday life mix. It’s a profound exploration designed to sustain and extend public memory.

“This is one of our treasures in the archives,” said Dean of SU Libraries and University Librarian David Seaman. “It is a remembrance and a celebration, a reflection of the strength of our university and a striking, living display, not just a plaque or memorial. We hope that comes through in the exhibit.”

One of the challenges curators faced was constructing an exhibit honoring an event of this magnitude.

When Pan Am Flight 103 exploded, meteor-like objects fell to the ground below.

Eleven people died in Lockerbie, Scotland because of the wreckage that fell from the sky. Many of the fragments — including the plane itself — along with clothing, shoes, books and bags were recovered. These are among the thousands of collected artifacts, many of which were considered for display in the new exhibit.

But the remnants from the plane itself are not on display. St. Oegger-Menn occasionally cried while gathering artifacts, reading letters and deciding whether an artifact would be appropriate. While the plane and other moving objects would offer striking visuals, they’re left out, St. Oegger-Menn said, because the museum must speak to competing audiences: families of victims, those who were on

or near campus that day, students not yet born and other members of the university community.

The exhibit is intended to be a display of the tragedy, but, more importantly, to depict the shock, connection and understanding that followed, St. Oegger-Menn said.

“You want to inform and you want to be factually accurate, but you don’t want to be crass in any way,” St. Oegger-Menn said.

“You want to be respectful of the fact that they were people.”

Many of the families of Pan Am 103 victims will see the exhibit. Some will attend the opening, while others will visit during SU’s Remembrance Week.

The exhibit provides background on how families found out that their loved ones had not survived. There are documents from the trial and a breakdown of the immediate reaction.

Another case explores the connection between Syracuse University and the town of Lockerbie, including a pamphlet that reads, “We need mentors for youth clubs,” and “Do you need a structural engineer to come and look at your property?”

Nearby against a wall, a quilt — produced in 1998 by the Remembrance and Lockerbie Scholars — includes 35 squares, each representing the 35 SU students killed.

The Dark Elegy, a collection of sculptures created by Suse Lowenstein, is also on display. Lowenstein’s son, Alexander, was killed.

“Suse was a sculptor before Pan Am 103, so she turned to her art to find some sort of release.”

Her sculptures depict women relatives of the victims, recreating the initial moment they found out what had happened.

The selections on display offer a reminder of the power authentic artifacts have that can help us understand, connect and move on. They make Pan Am 103 Flight last, so the exhibit’s onlookers may remember them.

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weers which complicated her learning process both on the field and in the classroom, Rob said. She struggled learning Dutch from a young age, and often confused her lefts and rights on the pitch.

“It was like she was never, never going to learn it,” Rob said.

Weers played in the Netherlands for her brother’s club, Kampong, for five years. She practiced four nights a week and played matches on the weekends. Two years prior to Syracuse, Weers traveled to both Spain and England for six months each. She returned home for one year before graduating high school, still unsure if she wanted to play NCAA field hockey.

She had considered playing for Albany until Bradley came to visit Weers’ Netherlands’ teammate, Alma Fenne.

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cordy the conversation “private” and didn’t elaborate. Babers added that if you watched Cordy through space, he didn’t look comfortable.

That wasn’t the case against Wagner. On the first play of the Seahawks’ third offensive drive, running back Ryan Fulse nearly broke loose. The Wagner offensive line mauled both SU’s front-seven, leaving a wide hole by the left tackle. Cordy, who started the from page 12

subbing The Orange refer to substitutes as “game changers” to instill the expectation that they will have an impact when they enter the game.

Brackett fulfilled the “game changer” role with a game-winning assist against Northeastern, and others have done the same.

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that point, SU wasn’t recruiting another back.

Fenne originally planned to attend Boston College, but those plans fell through. She then committed to Syracuse.

Weers decided, with some persuasion from Fenne, that she would play at Syracuse.

She emailed Tara Zollinger, then an assistant of Bradley. They set up a Skype call, and Bradley offered Weers a spot on the team.

The two sides scrambled to acquire a visa

for Weers in time for her to make preseason with SU. With just one day to spare, Weers received her papers and arrived in Syracuse two days before preseason.

That fall, Syracuse won the national title.

Still, Weers had difficulty adjusting to life and field hockey in the United States. She fell behind in class work and couldn’t travel for a road trip. She failed a fitness test in the preseason and struggled to learn English.

Weers needed time, and the offseason, to decide if she wanted to continue stateside.

In the Spring 2016 semester, Bradley gave her second recruiting pitch to Weers, this time in person, not over a Skype call from 3,638 miles away.

“I had the best recruit in the country on my campus,” Bradley said. “I pretty much left her alone, and left her to decide.”

Weers’ choice came at the end of the semester: she’d stay. For three years, she built on the things that once plagued her. Within

European culture, there isn’t as much of an emphasis on fitness, Bradley said. Rob said that her club teams growing up did very little strength training off the pitch.

However, this summer heading into Weers’ senior year, Bradley noticed a significant difference in Weers’ conditioning during preseason. Weers passed her fitness test for the first time, a product of working out at at home more in between seasons.

After Syracuse’s 3-0 loss to Connecticut on Sunday, Rob sat down on the bench next to the field at J.S. Coyne Stadium. Weers finished her postgame interviews with media and walked to the bench.

She sat down in between her parents, wrapped her arms around their shoulders and smiled.

“I’ve always been very open about my opinion about staying or leaving here,” Weers said.

“And I’m happy I stayed.”

play about 10 yards from the line of scrimmage at the safety position, rocketed toward Fulse. He wrapped up Fulse at the ankles and rolled him over, holding the running back to a 2-yard gain. “(When he’s relaxed) he goes from being a small guy that shouldn’t be out there to a guy that all the short guys are rooting for because he’s out there playing with the big dogs,” Babers said.

In the season opener against Western Michigan, Cordy started at punt returner but

didn’t record a return, nor did he break up a pass. Against Wagner, he did both.

More than five minutes into the second quarter, Cordy lined up across the inside receiver in a two wide receiver set. As his receiver ran vertically down the field, Cordy broke on an outside comeback route. He arrived simultaneously with the ball and ripped it out of the Wagner receiver’s hands.

Unlike the week prior, Cordy wasn’t late.

Two plays later, on fourth down, Cordy caught a punt at the SU 23-yard line. He

ran two steps to his right before cutting up the field past a diving defender. He then bounced the run outside once more and down the Syracuse sideline, before cutting to the middle of the field for the tail end of a 34-yard return.

The Carrier Dome fans, some standing, roared throughout the return. Teammates ran over and congratulated Cordy.

After the Wagner game, Cordy said: “That was me right there.”

I’ve always been very open about my opinion about staying or leaving here.

And I’m happy I stayed.

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goal,” sophomore Kate Hostage said. “It’s your job when you go in to raise the level of play.”

A substitute appearance is also a chance for a player who has fallen out of the starting lineup to earn their way back in, Hostage said.

In her only two appearances off the bench this season, Hostage scored the game-winning goal in wins over Connecticut and St. John’s.

She was in the starting lineup in each of the team’s other five games.

While Wheddon’s constant rotations haven’t resulted in an abundance of goals or

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clean sheets, they have directly played a part in all three of SU’s wins this year. SU’s players are aware that if they do not perform, their opportunities to play will dwindle. If they make an impact, like Brackett and Hostage have done, they may find themselves in the next game’s starting lineup.

“You have to work a little harder because you did come off the bench,” Ness said. “For the coaches, you weren’t their first option so you have to prove yourself to stay on the field.” ddschnei@syr.edu

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Roos Weers wanted to leave SU – but stayed through senior year

ROOS WEERS won a national championship with SU just months after leaving her home in the Netherlands. Through three seasons with the Orange she has been named an All-American twice. molly gibbs photo editor

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n a nearly freezing November day in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2015, then-freshman Roos Weers stood next to her teammate, Lies Lagerweij, and smiled.

Head coach Ange Bradley sat rested upon her two backs’ shoulders. Weers and Lagerweij donned white shirts which read: “NCAA Division 1 Field Hockey National Champions.”

Weers had helped SU to a national championship as a freshman, a 4-2 win against North Carolina, and has started each season since. A two-time All-American and current team leader in career goals, Weers leads No. 12 Syracuse (3-2, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) as a defender and an attacker on penalty corners. It’s a list of achievements that almost never was.

Weers contemplated leaving Syracuse after the national title. She didn’t want to commit more time away from her family, friends and home life. She initially planned to spend one year at Syracuse. Instead, she stayed to challenge herself.

“Ange explained to me what she thought that I could develop,” Weers said. “I think that was something in the beginning that was a bit scary and it made me uncomfortable.”

Growing up Weers preferred the power and force of sports, her father, Rob, said. He said she “was never a typical girl. She never played with dolls.” At her high school graduation, all of the girls wore long dresses and high heels. Yet, Weers walked toward the podium in a short dress and sneakers.

As a young girl, she played games with the boys, creating the rules and directing the game.

“Roos was always like a little mother. She always organized things,” Rob said. “If they played a soccer tournament, Roos was organizing the teams at 7 years old, taking initiative.”

Weers struggled to learn field hockey. Unlike her brother Bram, who picked the sport up easily and still plays professionally, Weers couldn’t properly hit the ball. She stood with her legs apart, but instead of placing the ball in between her feet, she positioned the ball next to them.

Over and over again, Rob explained to Weers how to strike the ball. Each time, she failed. Weers has dyslexia, see weers page 10

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Cordy finds footing after multiple injuries

By Josh Schafer sports editor

As Antwan Cordy peeked into the backfield, a Western Michigan slot receiver cut toward the sideline.

By the time Cordy flipped his hips back around in pursuit of the wheel route, it was too late. Jayden Reed ran free down the sideline for a 37-yard Broncos gain on its first offensive play of the second half.

“You got to find out if Cordy is right,” CBS commentator Corey Chavous said on the broadcast.

“Right now he’s struggling to stay

with Reed.”

The next play, Cordy watched as D’Wayne Eskridge came out of a comeback route and shook off SU’s Scoop Bradshaw along the sideline. Cordy arrived late, and his push did nothing to prevent Eskridge from scoring.

Cordy admitted later he thought the defensive back was going to make the tackle, and he should’ve been there himself.

“That was some Cordy that I never saw before when I saw film,” Cordy said. “I was mad at myself.”

Cordy’s return to the starting

lineup after missing the majority of both the 2016 and 2017 seasons due to injuries was littered with defensive mishaps in Western Michigan’s 28-point third quarter. A week later, in the home opener against Wagner, Cordy recorded a solo tackle, a 34-yard punt return and a pass break up. When Syracuse (2-0) welcomes Florida State (1-1, 0-1 Atlantic Coast) to the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Cordy will play in the third game of a season for the first time since 2015.

“He did a much better job moving through space the second game,”

Syracuse head coach Dino Babers said. “You could see that he was a lot more comfortable and a lot more relaxed and that’s good because we need him relaxed. Because when he’s relaxed and he’s comfortable he’s really really talented.”

Cordy said he was “nervous as hell,” entering the first game of 2018. He acknowledged the pressure coming back off the injury and tried to be too perfect, often overthinking assignments. Babers said he met with Cordy following the game, though Babers called see cordy page 10

In her first two seasons at Syracuse, Sydney Brackett was one of head coach Phil Wheddon’s most reliable players. As a freshman, Brackett started all 19 games. In her second year, she started 17 of 18. The sole game she didn’t start — a 1-0 loss against Wake Forest on Sept. 21, 2017 — was due to sickness.

When Wheddon revealed the starting lineup for SU’s matchup against Northeastern on Sept.

2, Brackett’s name wasn’t listed.

Before the game began, the junior approached the 11-year Syracuse head coach for an explanation. “(We talked about) what’s best for the team in a given game is what’s best for the team in a given game. So no hard feelings,” Brackett said. “The team is the superstar at the end of the day. I’m going to do whatever I can do to adjust things and be on the next roster that’s lining up, that’s what I’m going to do.”

Against Northeastern, Brackett entered the game as a substitute, and, with eight minutes remaining, assisted Georgia Allen’s gamewinning goal in a 1-0 win. Four days later, she was back in the starting lineup for a clash against No. 11 Penn State. Brackett is one of 12 players to appear off the bench for Syracuse (3-4). Wheddon rotated 19 pieces in and out of the lineup this season in an effort to find more production.

You have to work a little harder because you did come off the bench.

Laurel Ness su women’s soccer defender

Since the Orange’s season opener versus La Salle when Wheddon substituted in three different players, the SU head coach has used at least five reserves in the following six games. In Syracuse’s two biggest losses — 4-0 defeats to Penn State and Harvard — Wheddon used seven and eight substitutes, respectively, SU’s two highest totals of the year.

The Orange implemented “nonnegotiables,” redshirt freshman Laurel Ness said, that every player has to follow to stay on the field, including giving maximum effort and maintaining a winning, team-oriented attitude. When Syracuse players don’t follow the “non-negotiables,” they get pulled from the game.

“Some of the most basic things are ones that don’t require technical skill that you can control no matter how bad your touch is or if you’re having an off day,” Ness said. “It’s something I really like that we’ve instilled. No matter what, you have to work your hardest on the field.” see subbing page 10