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N • Getting started

P • Deep-fried dream

Student Association officials discussed the success they’ve seen from some of their initiatives that have been launched this semester during Monday night’s meeting.

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Popular demand led Rich Lickfield to start selling apple cider doughnuts at a farmer’s market stand.

Now, he’s opened a full-time shop just minutes away.

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S • Raising the bar

Syracuse ice hockey’s Stephanie Grossi has a knack for raising the level of teams she’s played on. The junior forward already ranks highly in SU’s record books.

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Different route

SU students reflect on taking a gap year and their experiences

crime

Homicide case ongoing

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

Local police said Monday there are no updates on the homicide investigation in which a Syracuse University student was murdered.

Sgt. Jon Seeber, an Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said there is no update the sheriff’s office can provide to the public regarding the homicide, but the office is hoping to give one within the next few days.

SU junior Xiaopeng “Pippen” Yuan, 23, from Beijing, China was found dead Friday afternoon in the town of DeWitt. Authorities said they received 911 calls from residents in the Springfield Garden Apartments on see homicide page 8

TOP: JEZREL SABADUQUIA decided to take a gap year after being rejected from college and traveled around the world.

LEFT: GEORGIA EISENMANN said she enjoys going to Cafe Kubal because they use grounds from the same nonprofit coffee farmer that she worked with during her gap year in Guatemala.

Text by Haley Kim

Photos by Ally Moreo

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ezrel Sabaduquia was stuck.

It was 2014 during his senior year of high school, and he had been rejected from Babson College. He had applied for a full scholarship and had made it to the final round before he was cut.

“I was so devastated, because I was literally putting all my eggs in one basket,” Sabaduquia said.

He needed time to figure out what he was going to do, so Sabaduquia decided to take a gap year.

Sabaduquia began a whirlwind year of travel, visiting 11 countries and crisscrossing the globe. He toured Asia with his parents. He interned and stayed with a host family in Brazil. He visited his dream city of Copenhagen, Denmark, and enjoyed it so much that he is planning to return there to study abroad.

When he arrived at Syracuse University in the fall of 2015, he was mature, refreshed and eager to begin his education.

Gap years — which once were thought of as accessible only for the well-to-do or for those who weren’t actually intending to go to college — are becoming a more common option for American students as statistics prove that taking a break before college has benefits, in college and beyond.

Ethan Knight, executive director of the American Gap Asso-

ciation, said each year about 30,000 or 40,000 students take a gap year. The three most common reasons, according to Knight, that students take gap years are burnout from the competitive pressures to get into college, a wanderlust feeling to travel the world and a yearning to discover more about themselves.

And gap years could pay off in the long run as well.

Although Knight said the national average of people who are dissatisfied with their job is 56 percent, 86 percent of people who took gap years are satisfied with their careers.

“That 86 percent should be in the province of everybody,” Knight said.

There has been more media attention on gap years lately as well, with Malia Obama choosing to take a gap year before attending Harvard University in fall 2017. Alia Pialtos, director of USA Gap Year Fairs, said interest traffic on the organization’s website increased 400 percent the day of the announcement.

SU offered its own gap year program until this academic year, said Sarah Scalese, associate vice president of the division of public affairs.

The program listed was for international students to take up to three courses in London or Madrid, and experience “American university culture and coursework,” according to SU’s admissions website in September. The program is no longer listed on the website.

Although SU’s gap year program is no longer intact, the university offers Discovery Programs, which allow first-year students see gap

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Provost announces council

By Michael Burke asst. news editor

Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Michele Wheatly has launched an internationalization council tasked with furthering global engagement at SU, the provost announced Monday in an email to the university community.

The creation of the council comes in response to a recommendation of the Academic Strategic Plan Working Group on Enhancing Internationalization.

The group will work to provide “advice, information, feedback and support” on initiatives related to internationalization, Wheatly wrote in her email. Those initiatives include study abroad, international student recruitment, support and integration and regional studies programs, among other things.

This academic year, Wheatly said, the group will work to: Enhance SU’s ability to “cultivate, welcome, support and value” its international students, facilitate see council page 9

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TATTOO tuesday | joshua harris

Graduate student uses body as artistic canvas staff writer

Joshua Harris’s tattoo is all about evolution. The evolution of his own life, the evolution of the universe, the evolution of his faith. Even the design of the tattoo itself was an evolution, a process of thinking and planning over time.

The large completed tattoo, chosen at random by Baldwinsville, New York-based tattoo artist Jamie Santos, is a spiral sequence that contains a fern, a galaxy and a nautilus — a mollusk that looks like a cross between a snail and a squid — as well as other featured images.

All the symbols he has chosen are things that are early aspects of the evolution of the universe.

“Spirals exist universally, they exist in physical nature and we see life takes that same form, its like as the universe is constantly evolving life follows that same pattern,” Harris said.

The graduate student studying biochemistry gave lot of credit to Santos. Harris said he had no predetermined ideas for his large piece, deciding he would collaborate with his tattoo artist to figure out what would be added next.

“My philosophy behind tattoos is that, I feel some people go talk to the artist and they kind of talk to them like a machine,” he said. “But (tattoo artists) are the real artists. I want to

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JOSHUA HARRIS collaborated with his tattoo artist to design the tattoo which cover most of his torso. It revolves around a few key concepts: evolution and faith. courtesy of joshua harris

inspire you and let your art come out on my body — I’m just a canvas.”

The image in the center of Harris’s tattoo, called a Merkabah, represents his syncretic belief system. Harris said he works to find similarities between science and faith, and the Merkabah can be found in nature. The symbol is important in showing how he connects his belief in science and religion.

Reflecting on his own philosophy in life inspired Harris to get a tattoo in the first place. He said he doesn’t fully know who he is, because he is always changing, just as the universe is always changing, just as life itself is always changing. He said over time, his present and future tattoos will reflect that change.

Harris has plans to get many

more tattoos in the future, saying he has always wanted a colorful and out-of-control bodysuit. Tattoos are more than just a design to him; he said it is a cathartic experience for him and will remain as such.

“It’s an evolving philosophy and it only needs to make sense to me,” he said. dereyes@syr.edu

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Inside the cabinet Take a look at SA’s cabinet members for the 60th session and what they hope to accomplish in their respective positions.

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@universityunion OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCING our FIRST Bandersnatch of the year: Sam Feldt supported by Hotel Garuda!​​October 12th! Tickets on sale tomorrow!

NEWS

Security report SU released its annual security report on Friday. Take a closer look at the report and what the data means.

See Wednesday’s paper

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Meet the cabinet of SA’s 60th session

ALEC WILLIAMS

JAMES FRANCO

KELSEY FOWLER

KELSEY MAY

ASHLEY SUMMERS

senior, economics & political science chief of staff

junior, political science & history chair of academic affairs

senior, geography & political science co-chair of community engagement

senior, policy studies & geography co-chair of community engagement

senior public relations co-chair of public relations

EMILY ERGANG

KEELAN ERHAD

ANJANI LADHAR

DIASIA ROBINSON

MEG SHEHI

junior public relations co-chair of public relations

senior, retail management & eee co-chair of student life

senior chemical engineering co-chair of student life

sophomore international relations director of diversity affairs

sophomore computer science director of technology

JACK HARDING

TRACEY FORD

DREW JACOBSON

MALIK EVANS

ABDULAZIZ AL-SULAITI

senior, college of arts and science parlimentarian

junior, psychology & neuroscience chair board of elections and membership

sophomore computer science recorder

senior, advertsing & marketing comptroller

sophomore, policy studies & economics chair of judicial review board

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university union

Sam Feldt to headline concert

By Rachel Gilbert feature editor

House DJ Sam Feldt will headline the first show of University Union’s Bandersnatch concert series, University Union announced Monday night.

Feldt will take the stage in Schine Underground at 8 p.m. on Oct. 12 and Hotel Garuda, a DJ/ producer duo, will also perform.

Tickets, which cost $5 for anyone with an SU/SUNY-ESF ID, go on sale Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Schine Box Office in the Schine Student Center.

Hailing from the Netherlands, Feldt has made a splash on the house music scene. One of his most popular tracks, “Show Me Love,” currently has more than 15 million hits on YouTube.

The DJ will touch down in Syracuse between playing shows across the United States and Canada before moving back across the ocean to perform in Paris and London. rcgilbert@syr.edu

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student association

Meeting highlights launch of new initiatives

By William Muoio staff writer

Student Association officials on Monday announced the success from the launch of some of their recent initiatives.

The first-ever Mental Health Awareness Week began Monday with a presentation on co-occurring disorders presentation. SA Vice President Joyce LaLonde said

during SA’s Monday night meeting in Maxwell Auditorium that the presentation was informative.

This week there will be a variety of different events for Mental Health Awareness Week, culminating with a spirituality and mental health panel in Hendrick’s Small Chapel.

LaLonde said Syracuse Setbacks will be one of the most important events during the week. Syracuse Setbacks will feature faculty and

staff sharing stories about their personal setbacks and how they overcame them. This event will take place on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Stolkin Auditorium.

LaLonde also gave an update on the bike share program, launched last week saying all the bikes have been launched and “it has been successful ever since.” She said she will meet with Student Centers and Programming Services regarding the ability to

rent out more than one bike in a week.

Other updates from LaLonde included a reminder that Oct. 15 is Elect Her, a training session that trains college women to run for political office.

Also at Monday’s meeting, there were elections for SA boards. Alyssa Corona, a sophomore communication rhetorical studies and policy studies majors, was elected to SA’s see sa page 8

fast forward syracuse

Campus construction projects moving forward

By Satoshi Sugiyama asst. news editor

The National Veterans Resource Complex construction project planning is moving forward, said Pete Sala, Syracuse University’s vice president and chief campus facilities officer, in an email sent to the SU community Monday.

Sala said SHoP, the architecture firm that is responsible for the NVRC construction, has frequently visited the SU campus in the last two

months and met representatives from the Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction and the Office of Veterans and Military Affairs to begin schematic designs of the building.

In the email update, Sala said there will be two additional information sessions — one on potential campus restroom signage and another on future furnishings for the University Place promenade.

The time and the date of the sessions have not yet been announced.

The NVRC will be a multi-purpose facility equipped with a large auditorium for campus events and will be constructed at the corner of South Crouse and Waverly avenues.

Sala said demolition work of the Hoople Building will be taking place later this fall and the actual construction of the complex is scheduled to start in the summer of 2017.

In addition, Sala noted construction for a single-use accessible restroom on the second floor of Goldstein Student Center will start this

fall, and the design work that would transform the current multi-user restrooms into accessible singleuser restrooms and showers on all floors at Day Hall has begun.

Additionally, the Bowne Hall renovation project completion is expected to be in mid-December, Sala said.

The next Campus Framework forum will be held Oct. 29 at 11 a.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. Also, October’s construction information ses-

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Here is a round-up of the biggest news happening around the world right now: U.S.

TO A HALT The New York attorney general’s office said Monday that the state has ordered Donald Trump’s charity organization to stop fundraising after the state found his foundation was violating state law by soliciting money without authorization. source: the washington post

WORLD

SUSPENDED The United States has suspended ceasefire talks with Russia over Syria, saying that Russia has failed to follow its commitment to a ceasefire. The U.S. had previously warned it would stop the talks unless Moscow stopped bombing the city of Aleppo source: bbc

HURRICANE MATTHEW After hitting the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew moved toward Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba on Monday. The storm was expected to bring life-threatening rain and wind to Haiti into Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. source: usa today

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Students’ gap year choices should be affirmed with SU advising Sometimes the best learning experience comes from outside the classroom. In the transition period between high school and college, some students choose to take a yearlong break to travel or simply to figure out where they want to go next.

Apart from the self-determined gap years, programs such as those recommended by the American Gap Association are structured like study abroad programs, with academic programs, food and housing accommodations.

While SU no longer offers its gap year program — and when it existed, it was geared toward international students — the uni-

versity could help ease prospective and accepted students’ anxieties by becoming more involved in the decision-making process behind taking a gap year.

Advising new SU students in this way could create more opportunities by simply increasing awareness about gap years in the admissions process. There isn’t even a need to develop an entire new department; the initiative could just include gap year resources alongside those that already exist, like SU’s Office of Admissions. Simple moves, such as including it in conversations to touring students or including the option on SU’s applications, could get students’

wheels turning.

And whether in a brochure or a webpage, consolidating information on the logistics and finances of taking a gap year would allow students to make an informed decision on if it would be right for them. Having schoolsponsored academic resources outlining the possibly of a gap year would also push back on the misconception that students who take them will waste a year or set themselves up for uncertainty.

Apart from traveling, some students take the opportunity to build up their finances and build their resume with work and humanitarian opportunities. Students who

take gap years may also develop the valuable life skills that their peers stumble through post-graduation: balancing a budget, finding housing and learning how to navigate a professional workplace.

When students take a gap year, it is possible that they could arrive to school more prepared, driven and clear about what they hope to get out of college after walking across the stage. If SU put forth the effort to let first-year students know that it will welcome them back when their year of self-discovery is over, it could breed more successful and well-rounded students and alumni for generations to come.

letter to the editor

Red Tape SU demands protest, invites students to Quad event Content warning: sexual assault Syracuse University is under federal investigation for violating Title IX by mishandling sexual assault cases and failing to protect students. The problem extends far beyond just one investigation. Due to a lack of institutional transparency and the stigma surrounding gender-based violence, our understanding of this issue is based on our collective experiences of neglect, coercion, and trauma. We know that adjudication and hearing processes are insufficient and do not hold perpetrators accountable. We know that, like many other universities, sexual violence and rape culture are sadly common at SU; consent education programming has done

little to mitigate the overwhelming environment of misogyny, harassment, and coercion.

Bystander intervention at Syracuse University does not address the systemic failure to protect survivors seeking justice (we wonder when members of hearing boards will also be made to understand themselves as complicit bystanders) hidden behind a facade of campus framework improvements, confusing confidentiality policies, and circuitous bureaucracy.

In the style of Columbia University alum Emma Sulkowicz’s Carry That Weight project, and the No Red Tape campaign at Columbia University, we publicly stand and sit with our mattresses on the Quad on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 to symbolize the pain and

outrage of living in a university community that does not support sexual assault survivors. Of learning at an institution that lets perpetrators walk free while survivors, activists, and our families must bear the injustice silently. Of chanting “it’s on us” when we know that “us” rarely includes perpetrators and their protectors.

We are not here to propose solutions to a problem so exhaustive, and so embedded in student and administrative cultures. We respect the rights of survivors to seek justice on their terms. For those who have found solace in the current system, we hope they will join us and advocate in solidarity with those who could not. We call attention to the issue

and to the fallaciously redemptive narratives that dominate university public relations, both at this institution and others.

If you are uncomfortable with our grief and anger, we are glad it is not something you must confront every day. We challenge you to contemplate this discomfort that comes from participating in an institution that prioritizes its marketing and public imagery over some of its most vulnerable community members.

Survivors: we acknowledge you and your pain. You are not alone.

Signed, Red Tape SU #NoRedTapeSU #MattressesontheQuad #ICanHearYourSilence

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Three’s company Liberal columnist Cole Jermyn shoots down the idea of voting for third party candidates in this election season.

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OPINION

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environment

SUNY-ESF’s cues can inspire SU to comprehensive sustainability

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et’s not kid ourselves: sustainable practices are not alluring. For many, it’s a chore. But Syracuse University has the power to change that. Its neighbor, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has an excellent track record when it comes to student and faculty engagement that SU could follow.

SUNY-ESF received national praise for its campus-wide sustainability efforts with a Sustainability, Tracking, Assessment and Rating System Gold Rating in September.

The school was also ranked 2nd on Sierra Magazine’s 2016 “Cool School” list.

Since this is an area that SUNYESF clearly thrives in, SU should use its ties with the college to create a more sustainable campus. The biggest way SU could spark an environmental consciousness in its students on a day-to-day basis is by tackling the most prominent problem: reducing waste.

All too often, students may disregard the negative impacts of throwing away recyclables or putting non-recyclables in a recycling bin.

And as far as composting at SU goes, Syracuse University Food Services “collects fruit and vegetable matter discarded during food preparation”

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GO GREEN & KEEP IT CLEAN in all major units daily, according to its website.

On the other hand, SUNY-ESF received a high rating for its Sustainable Dining program, where students were the driving force behind the school’s pre- and postconsumer composting program.

Notably, SUNY-ESF students were the ones that took charge and founded the Syracuse chapter of the Food Recovery Network.

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Percentage of compostable food that ends up in landfills, according to the EPA

But the work didn’t stop there. In 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that about 96 percent of food that could be composted ends up in landfills or incinerators.

SUNY-ESF has campus-wide systems in place for pre-consumer food waste, like kitchen scraps, as well as post-consumer food waste — any food left on your plate, banana peels, napkins and so on.

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SU does collect pre-consumer and post-consumer waste from dining halls and has green buckets available throughout campus for collecting compost. SU can learn from SUNY-ESF’s example by expanding its system to the rest of campus. If composting bins were placed throughout Main Campus buildings, in residence halls and on South Campus, SU could divert even more organic waste from ending up in landfills with proper student education.

It’s the little things that add up, and all it takes is a genuine interest in protecting the environment mixed with school pride. The consistent encouragement that students, staff, faculty and administrators develop a culture of sustainability beyond the classroom is what makes SUNY-ESF so remarkable.

While SU has an active sustainability department and clubs like Students of Sustainability at SU, you won’t necessarily know about them unless you are a part of them or are actively seeking membership.

As a school, SUNY-ESF is known for its “singular focus on environmental discovery, learning, and sustainability.” Agreeing to use STARS shows that SUNY-ESF is truly passionate about creating more environmentally-conscious

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curriculums and programs that extend to student life.

Decision-makers on campus need to know that students are passionate about sustainable practices, and willing to use any new sustainable systems in place. But they must also be educated about them. Sustainability divisions on campuses have

become the expected norm, but students cannot assume that because it is there, the campus will automatically initiate sustainable practices.

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.

letter to the editor

Former SA member defends decision Published last week in the Daily Orange was a letter criticizing the Student Association Comptroller/ finance board for deciding to pull back the unused Fetty Wap artist fee from University Union (UU). The letter says that SU students will “suffer” from the decision and includes a call to action: “do your job,” addressed to nobody in particular.

First, it’s important to know that this money will indeed fund student-run events on campus.

It will support your First Year Players production, your Fashion’s Conscience show, your Caribfest, or any of the myriad programs we get to have in the spring. The students producing and attending News Editor Sara Swann Editorial Editor Caroline Colvin Sports Editor Paul Schwedelson Feature Editor Rachel Gilbert Presentation Director Clare Ramirez Photo Editor Jessica Sheldon Head Illustrator Delaney Kuric Copy Chief Kathryn Krawczyk Development Editor Alexa Torrens Digital Editor Jacob Gedetsis Social Media Director Benjamin Farr Video Editor Griffin Morrow Web Developer Shuai Wang Asst. News Editor Michael Burke Asst. News Editor Stacy Fernandez Asst. News Editor Satoshi Sugiyama Asst. Editorial Editor Joanna Orland Asst. Feature Editor Hanna Horvath Asst. Feature Editor Casey Russell Asst. Sports Editor Chris Libonati

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those programs need representation, too.

Second, SA did not violate its own financial code. The letter used a quote from the code about unused funds being allowed to stay in an organization’s account until the end of the semester. This is true. However, a mere page earlier in that very same document that, “The Comptroller shall have the authority to deny the expenditure of any allocated funds.” Basically, the money is not “UU’s to use” as the author argues, and any repurposing of funds has to be approved.

Of course, UU shouldn’t be blamed for Fetty Wap’s ding-dongditch. However, the concert hap-

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pened, it’s over now, and it seems a good time was still had by all, so my question is: what exactly is the case for not giving this money to other student organizations? Why can’t we trust UU to throw other good events as they had already planned to do well before the cancellation?

I posit that Fetty Wap’s artist fee can have greater impact on campus if it is spread across many organizations rather than rolled back to one. There is a case to be made for the other side of that debate, but it was absurdly presented last week.

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university lecture

Three speakers to be featured in fall semester series

By Stacy Fernandez asst. news editor

The University Lecture series at Syracuse University for the fall semester kicks off Tuesday, featuring three speakers.

Bre Pettis, one of the creators of 3D printing, will be the first speaker to appear in the series followed by Lynsey Addario, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and James Corner, the designer of the New York City High Line.

“The emphasis is on finding speakers that the entire university community would find interesting, compelling and provoking,” said Barbara Stripling, co-chair of the University Lecture committee and senior associate dean and associate professor of practice at SU’s School of Information Studies.

All of the lectures will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Hendrick’s Chapel and are free and open to the public.

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gap years to study abroad their first semester at SU, said Maurice Harris, dean of undergraduate admissions, in an email.

Knight said the pressure for students to immediately go to a four-year college right after high school is fading away. Despite societal norms that say students should go straight to college from high school, he said 90 percent of students who take gap years are back in school within a year.

Additionally, families and students are realizing that it can actually be more cost effective to take a gap year, Pialtos said. She added that investing in a gap year can help students find out what they want to do and be more mindful of their choices.

Sabaduquia, who is now a sophomore information management and technology major, applied to SU while he was abroad in Brazil. His parents had praised the school, and when he finally came to visit, even the rainy and snowy weather couldn’t deter him.

Yet the transition back to school wasn’t perfect. After traveling the world, it was hard to be stuck in one place for a long period of time, he said. Sabaduquia said the age and mentality difference between him and other freshmen made him take part in activities he wasn’t comfortable with to feel accepted. His first semester at SU was exhausting and socially challenging.

But after moving to a different residence hall, Sabaduquia was able to refocus. He rushed Phi Sigma Pi and applied to internships. Now, he is ready to continue his growth.

“Now that I’ve traveled so much, I just want to keep traveling and traveling,” he said. “There are so many places, so many experiences yet for me to experience, that I’m just ready to go on my next adventure.” ...

Georgia Eisenmann knew she wanted to

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construction sion will be held Oct. 19 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 113 of the Heroy Geology Building.

Here are the other construction updates Sala included in his email:

Center for Science and Technology siding replacement: The siding project is done and the contractor is preparing to paint the exhaust stack on the roof. The contractor will establish a fenced-in equipment area in the lower area of the Quad 4 Parking Lot. The work

Stripling said she thinks Pettis, one of the 3D printing creators, is really going to promote the audience to think in new ways about the possibilities of technology to empower everyone to create. She added that he will inspire people to not be afraid to try something new and take risks.

“He has continued to think about the intersection of technology and ideas in our society and I think he’ll push us to think quite a bit,” Stripling said.

Addario will give her lecture on Oct. 18.

She has pursued photography in dangerous places, such as Afghanistan, Stripling said. She uses her work to not only document but also to engage her audience in a personal way with parts of the world and experiences they never would have had on their own. Stripling said her work shows the true nature of developing empathy. Addario’s lecture, Stripling added, will likely inspire the audience to get involved and understand what others are experiencing.

go to Spain. After trying to plan logistics to spend a summer there, she thought, why not just take a whole year?

After applying and choosing to attend SU, Eisenmann decided to defer her application for a year, which was as simple as sending an email.

“It’s just something I realized I wanted to do,” she said.

Eisenmann spent four months in Spain, studying with other American students and living with a host mother. Then she spent another four months in Antigua, Guatemala, working on a coffee farm and living in a volunteer house.

Eisenmann, now a sophomore international relations major, said she was lucky her parents were supportive of her decision to take a gap year and travel.

Knight, the executive director of the American Gap Association, said gap years are thought of being only for the wealthy, and while he said some programs do cost thousands of dollars, others are accessible to people in any income bracket. Some programs will pay for food and housing, others give students a chance to make money and some colleges offer leadership awards for students who have taken gap years, Knight said.

Eisenmann’s gap year helped fuel her passion for travel and acquire friends all over the world, from her host mom in Salamanca, Spain to friends in Sydney, Australia and Juarez, Mexico. She now hopes to study abroad in Chile.

“I highly recommend taking a year off,” Eisenmann said. “... Once you wrap your head around the idea you don’t have to go right to college, (you realize) how much you could add to your life.” ...

Michelle Kincaid wanted to do something different — something that she was passionate about, something that would challenge her.

So she spent her gap year in Lima, Peru, where she stayed with a host family and worked as a tutor and music teacher at a local community center. She was there for nine months on

will be taking place in October and about eight parking spaces will be affected.

Crouse College masonry and sloped glazing repair: Masonry repairs and improvements to the Crouse College facade are concluded for now. The repairs and the installation of the new glass for skylights in Room 400 will be finished next spring and summer.

Falk College cafe: The renovations to the cafe on the second floor of White Hall are almost complete. There will be a delay in the completion of cafe construction and the opening of it.

Corner is closing out the fall series on Nov. 10. Stripling said the fact he created the High Line out of an old abandoned path is very impressive. She said she thinks his insights about architecture as a part of the community will be interesting, even to those without a background in architecture.

Stripling said the lecture series is a wonderful connection to real world issues and inspirations. She said she hopes everyone who attends gets some kind of personal connection from the lecture, because it’s not an event meant for people to just “get some facts.” She added that she hopes it opens doors to different pursuits for both SU students, faculty, staff and community members.

“We have made a conscious effort to find speakers who represent different subject matter, different ethnicities and different points of view,” Stripling said.

The speakers were chosen based on input from the University Lecture advi-

sory committee and feedback from the Syracuse community.

The committee was created last fall to take on Esther Gray responsibilities. Gray formerly organized the series, but retired last year. The committee represents all of the schools and colleges on the SU campus, and includes one student representative — Student Association President Eric Evangelista.

Everyone on the committee was responsible for “sending out feelers” about who they may be interested in bringing. The committee paid a lot of attention to student feedback and student interest when deciding who to bring on campus, Stripling said.

This year the fall and spring speakers were not announced in conjunction. The speakers for the spring will be announced later in the semester. The lectures are funded by Robert B. Menschel, who graduated from SU in 1951, and through partnerships with SU colleges. sfern100@syr.edu | @StacyFernandezB

MICHELLE KINCAID, a junior at SU, recalls her gap year experiences in Peru as she looks at a photo of the students she tutored.

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a grant from Omprakash, an organization that connects volunteers and nonprofits.

It was the “most influential year of my life,” she said.

In one of her first experiences tutoring, Kincaid, now a junior international relations and citizenship and civic engagement double major, was helping a boy with math homework.

Her Spanish was weak, and she was constantly flipping through a pocket dictionary to find words like “add” and “multiply.” By the time she helped the boy finish his homework, she was red in the face from concentration.

It was embarrassing to not be as prepared with the language as she would have liked, she said. She wanted to help, but needed to be aware of how much she could actually contribute, Kincaid said. It was a lesson of humility.

Kincaid said she has remained positive about her gap year experiences, even when things didn’t go perfectly. That perspective on her gap year helped her be open to criticism and change now, Kincaid said. After her gap year, she said she had never been

more motivated to return to school.

These sort of gap year experiences benefit students because they help them mature and get ready for college, said Marion Taylor, owner and founder of Taylor The Gap, a gap year consulting service, in an email.

Students also have a greater sense of knowing what they want to do after taking a gap year, said Holly Bull, president of the Center for Interim Programs, a gap year counseling organization.

Even if a student realizes they are ready for college, the process of figuring out what they want to do will have its benefits, she said.

“I think there is too much of a feeling of we are put in school, we have to go to school, ‘I ought to,’ ‘I should,’ rather than this full conscious, ‘Oh, I choose college,’” Bull said.

People don’t take gap years to goof off, Bull said. The year is a time to learn — a journey that doesn’t have to be linear, but allows students to zigzag back and forth to discover their interests and passions.

Said Bull: “(It’s) about lighting matches, not tending fires.”

It will be open to the public in early November.

Falk College (White Hall): There is a proposal to install architectural painted aluminum screening along the perimeter of the White Hall roof this fall. The installation will be done by mid-November. A similar project was completed on the roof of Link Hall last spring.

Huntington Hall: A plaster repair project is planned for the lower level of Huntington Hall. The project design is finished and the university is looking for bids from contractors. The work is scheduled to be performed later this fall during nonbusi-

ness hours. The plaster repair will occur in public corridors. The Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction will be communicating a schedule and the process of the work to the building occupants when a contractor is chosen.

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Irving Garage stair maintenance: Repair of the concrete stairs and railings is planned for the stairwell leading to the pedestrian bridge. The CPDC is looking for quotes for this work with the intent of completing the work this fall. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

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By McKenna Moore staff writer

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he United States Congress recently voted to override President Barack Obama’s veto on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The Daily Orange spoke with Matthew Schmidt, an assistant professor in national security and political science at the University of New Haven to get an understanding of the act, the veto and its significance.

The Daily Orange: What is JASTA? Matthew Schmidt: It is allowing U.S. citizens affected with the 9/11 bombings to sue government officials in a foreign state, which is normally not allowed because that is considered foreign diplomacy.

The D.O.: Why did Congress override the president’s veto?

M.S.: They say, “Look, we oppose this bill, but not because we don’t get the moral good or the people affected by the legislation, but because it’s moral bad for current and all future American service personnel and diplomats and any officials that are working overseas that would be subject to similar action taken against them. And even if they’re not guilty of anything, having these kind of court cases being willed against them as a technique of foreign affairs and diplomacy and that what Congress is doing is a violation of a core principle of international diplomacy.”

The administration is saying this is a

terrible idea. Especially since people who are going to conduct these cases here in the states aren’t going to win anything anyway.

The D.O.: Why are time and money being spent to come to a ruling that most likely won’t come to fruition in any way?

what is jasta?

JASTA stands for Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act is a law passed by the United States Congress. The act established the limitations of whether a foreign sovereign nation can be sued in U.S. federal or state courts.

JASTA is a revision to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act in relation to civil claims against a foreign state for damages, injuries or death that come from an act of international terrorism.

M.S.: Politics. In essence, this looks good for all sides. Obama is on the tail end of his term and Republicans would like to make him look bad anyway and Democrats want to say, “Look I’m not just an Obama guy.”

They get to look like they’re independent, like they’re on the side of average Americans that got hurt.

My guess is that the administration is working very hard to head off anyone doing this kind of thing to Americans. They probably have some expectation that they’ll be successful in doing this. Because those

countries don’t have an interest in blowing up the diplomatic norms.

The D.O.: Why is it such a spectacle for the media if it’s all just politics?

M.S.: Because it’s about politics. It’s on a national stage because putting it on a national stage benefits as many politicians as possible on both sides of party. If that weren’t the case, it would be more of a technical matter, but it’s more a matter of political posturing.

The D.O.: Why did Obama veto the bill if he knew what would happen?

M.S.: He probably looked at it and said, “I have to be the adult in the room and I have to protect the capability of people to do their work and I have to protect the capability of my successors in this office to do their work and we can’t have our people running around subject to all these lawsuits.”

He has a different responsibility in his role as president than they do. Congress might be correct in seeing that their responsibility is to their constituents to take this action and the president says, “Well, my responsibility is not to my constituents from New York or from New Jersey or Maryland or Virginia, but to the entire nation. And not just to the Americans in the nation today, in 2016, but to the Americans that will be here in 2025, they have a right to expect that their foreign policy can be conducted efficiently by their officials and not be hamstrung by a bunch of these frivolous lawsuits.” mpmoor02@syr.edu

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homicide Caton Drive who reported they heard gunshots in the area. Yuan was studying mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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council “distinctive global learning experiences” and facilitate international research partnerships and joint or dual degree programs.

As the group considers other initiatives it will pursue in the future, it will create task forces to help accomplish them, Wheatly said in the email.

Associate Provost for International Education Margaret Himley and Provost Faculty Fellow for Internationalization Mehrzad Boroujerdi will co-chair the council.

Including Wheatly, here are the others serving on the council: • Michael Speaks, School of Architecture dean • Paul Fitzgerald, professor and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences • Joanna Masingila, School of Education dean • Can Isik, professor and senior associate dean of Engineering and Computer Science • Kathy Allen, assistant dean of the School of Information Studies

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Board of Elections and Membership.

Domenica Vera, a senior political science major, and Matthew VanDemark, a senior music industry major, were voted onto the

per the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office.

Tony Callisto, SU’s Department of Public Safety chief, referred all inquiries regarding the investigation to the sheriff’s office and said DPS is participating in the investigation because the homicide victim is an SU student. ssugiyam@syr.edu | @SatoshiJournal

• Aviva Abramovsky, professor and associate dean of the College of Law • Ravi Dharwadkar, Whitman professor • Devashish Mitra, professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs • Hub Brown, professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications • Diane Murphy, dean of the David. B Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics • Lucinda Havenhand, associate dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts • Peter Vanable, interim dean of the Graduate School and vice president for research • Deb McGraw, interim director of English Language Institute for University College • M. Dolan Evanovich, senior vice President for enrollment and the student experience • Anjani Ladhar, Student Association representative • Peta Long, Graduate Student Organization representative • Candace Campbell Jackson, senior vice president and chief of staff mdburk01@syr.edu | @michaelburke47

Judicial Review Board.

While continuing with previous projects like preferred names on MySlice class rosters, CoChair of Student Life Anjani Ladhar said she also plans to introduce menstrual hygiene products along non-residential bathrooms on Oct. 28. wgmuoio@syr.edu

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GO NUTS FOR DOUGHNUTS Regional Donut Authority serves up hot doughnuts at market stand, Liverpool shop

By Kathryn Krawczyk copy chief

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t’s one of the first Saturdays of fall in Syracuse, one of the first where the morning brings relief instead of another heat wave.

Shoppers at the Central New York Regional Market have traded shorts for sweaters as they fill the market’s long, green-roofed sheds to capacity. They’re making their way between the dozens of fellow shoppers, throwing out an “excuse me” a nd squeezing through to search for which of the many vendors is selling the best eggplant.

But off to the side of the C Shed, some shoppers have made their way out of the bustle, forming a winding line for something different — a warm apple cider doughnut from Regional Donut Authority.

Shoppers like Sam Weber, who said she’s carb-loading before she starts looking for vegetables.

Like Spencer Burgess, who said he needs a

doughnut and a few cups of coffee to fully wake up on the chilly morning.

Whatever their reason, market shoppers will wait five, 10, even 15 minutes to get a doughnut. There’s a line even though the stand can fry up to 672 doughnuts per hour.

The stand has been a market staple for nearly six years, and in July, it expanded into a fulltime shop just minutes from the market.

At the front of the line, customers are greeted by owner Rich Lickfield, who mans the stand every Saturday. He hands off a doughnut — freshly coated in cinnamon sugar and still hot from the Donut Robot Mark V doughnut maker — and quickly moves to the next customer.

Thirteen years ago, Lickfield was serving up something different at the market: pizza.

Lickfield opened the stand to promote his fulltime pizza shop.

“We figured you can spend a lot of money on advertising … Or you can spend less money on rent at a place like that and make money off your advertising,” Lickfield said. “(You) get your product actually in people’s mouths and make a couple bucks doing it.”

At the time, there was also a successful doughnut stand at the market. But when the owner decided to stop selling at the market, it was a noticeable loss. Lickfield said marketgoers constantly asked him if the doughnuts were coming back.

The market went two years without any doughnuts before Lickfield decided to take a risk and fill the void himself. He didn’t have a doughnut recipe, but figured he’d give it a shot.

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Yeast-raised Doughnuts vs.

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• Mix batter to make dough • Roll out and form doughnuts • With Rich Lickfield’s special recipe, the doughnuts are ready to fry instantly

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Every Saturday at the CNY Regional Market, Rich Lickfield opens up the Regional Donut Authority stand. The stand opened nearly six years ago, and since then the business has taken off. To get their hands on a hot, sugar-coated doughnut, customers form a line that winds out from underneath the sheltered market shed. sara swann news editor

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doughnuts been in the food business for years, with Sue currently working with Syracuse University Catering Services. Their son Logan is also a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science.

With a full-time job, Sue said she’s only occasionally around to help at the stand or shop on weekends, and Logan works at the stand every Saturday. So overall, making the doughnuts and running the stand is up to Lickfield. Coming up with the initial recipe was Lickfield’s job too.

Lickfield started by creating a batter and then began doing taste tests, asking people to try the same doughnut recipe made with and without apple cider. Everyone preferred the cider doughnuts, and even though it’s a little more expensive, to Lickfield it was a “no-brainer” to keep cider in the recipe.

“If you don’t tell somebody that it’s in there, they don’t know it’s in there — they just know the doughnut tastes good,” Lickfield said.

Since then, Lickfield has taken the batter recipe a step further. It usually takes about 10 minutes for doughnut batter to rise so it can be fried. Lickfield’s created a batter that’s ready to fry instantly.

With its seemingly never-ending line, Regional Donut Authority took off in a way Lickfield’s pizza stand never did. So after five years in business, he was ready to expand.

“We decided to take a shot and open a shop and give Dunkin’ Donuts a run for their money,” Lickfield said.

The Regional Donut Authority storefront sits in Liverpool, New York, marked by a fluorescent sign spelling out the store’s name in a retro typeface. It sets the theme for inside the shop — records

Syracuse University Connections • Regional Donut Authority offers a 10 percent discount with an SUID • Rich Lickfield’s son Logan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences • His wife Sue works with SU Catering Services • A second permanent shop is in the works and Lichfield is hoping to open it near the SU campus.

hanging from the ceiling and an antique cash register in the corner greet anyone who walks inside.

Behind the tiled counter, Kristen Smith, an employee at the shop, puts the finishing touches on a few doughnuts sitting on wax paper.

“This is a chocolate raspberry drizzle with buttercream frosting,” she explained as she squeezed icing onto the doughnuts.

At Regional Donut Authority’s full-time shop, there’s more than just the apple cider doughnuts that made the shop famous.

In front of Smith, there’s an assortment of toppings — crushed Butterfingers, rainbow sprinkles, pretzel pieces — reminiscent of an ice cream shop. Inside the small doughnut case, which only stocks a few freshly-made doughnuts, there are creations that Lickfield has dubbed “New Fangled Donuts.”

Whenever he has a few hours, Lickfield will start experimenting. For one of his most recent special doughnut flavors, he took some lemon icing fruits, which create a lemon flavor in icings and glazes. He mixed them into some doughnut batter along with some poppy seeds, topped the finished fry cake with a lemon glaze, and created a new lemon poppy flavor.

This creative freedom is part of what sets

672 The number of doughnuts the Donut Robot Mark V can turn out in an hour

him apart from chains like Dunkin’ Donuts.

“You don’t have to be limited by what’s available from your vendors; you can just mix stuff together,” Lickfield said. “We just play.”

But not being a big-name business can be a challenge. Restaurants can’t operate a drive-thru in Liverpool, Lickfield said, but a Dunkin’ Donuts opening near Regional Donut Authority recently was approved to open a drive-thru.

With a drive-thru, Lickfield feels he could triple his business. He said about 22,000 cars drive by the shop every day, but so many still haven’t noticed the business or stopped in.

And while the market stand is established and has a following, those customers don’t always make their way to the full-time shop.

“We get so many people that come to the market,” Lickfield said. “If I could get 10 percent of them to come here, this place would be wildly successful.”

Just then, the door jingles and another customer files into the line at the counter.

“There’s all these people here, I gotta go help them,” Lickfield said.

And he steps back behind the counter, ready to serve up a few more of his fried creations. kjkrawcz@syr.edu

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HANDS ON Junior fashion design major Helena Elston talks inspirations, career goals and thrift stores

By Adelaide Zoller staff writer

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lmost every day, Helena Elston walks into the Nancy Cantor Warehouse that overlooks downtown Syracuse, takes out her design kit, and gets to work. The junior fashion design major took some time out of her busy, hectic day to talk fashion, her inspirations and thrift shopping.

The Daily Orange: So how did you get into fashion design?

Helena Elston: I was always into clothes. In high school I was always about self-expression and I loved putting funky outfits together. And then, my senior year, there was a Project Runway competition where we all made a dress and used the same pattern, but we could design it however we wanted. I think there were like 20-something people that did it and there was a big fashion show at the end where they had judges come in. I won the competition. They put my dress in a store window back where I’m from and I was like, “yeah I want to do fashion, I want to be in the industry.”

The D.O: Where do you shop now?

H.E.: I love Urban Outfitters and Free People, but I really try and limit myself because I feel like a lot of people have the same clothes. I’ll go out and buy like a plain black shirt and then I can match it with anything. Then I’ll buy really random things that are really funky and you’re like “where would I ever wear this?” I like to match that stuff up, like things that people wouldn’t expect.

The D.O.: What about thrift shopping?

H.E.: Oh yeah, absolutely. I actually just bought the best jacket. It’s this really awesome suede jacket with all of this fur inside. It’s beautiful and it’s a Lord & Taylor jacket and I bought it at Goodwill here in Syracuse for like $15.

The D.O.: How has the fashion design program here at SU influenced you as a designer?

H.E.: I think what’s really important about the program in itself that makes me a better designer is the fact that we’re one of the first schools to do plussized dress forms. Emme is a plus sized model and she paired up with Syracuse and had Wolf Form donate $50,000 worth of plus sized dress forms. I think it’s really interesting because we’re going to get so much press this year, especially from Women’s Wear Daily and other designers might come in and see the work.

The D.O.: Where do you draw inspiration on campus?

H.E.: Honestly I think what has most changed my style and overall fashion is the people I’m surrounded by. I have some of my best friends in the fashion program and we bounce ideas off each other. We don’t all dress the same, but I think that we give each other so much inspiration and we help each other along the way.

The D.O: Who are your biggest inspirations in the fashion world?

H.E.: I love Gucci. I don’t know if I would buy anything because it’s so expensive. I’m not sure how I feel about high couture but I think their designs are really beautiful. I think since their new creative director stepped in, I really love everything I think it’s all new and trendy. Another sole designer that I love obviously is Alexander McQueen. If you ask any designer, I feel like they love him no matter what. It’s very natural to love him — his stuff was just so revolutionary.

The D.O.: You said you’re not sure about high couture. So what level do you want your clothing to be on?

H.E.: See, I don’t even really know if I want to be a fashion designer yet.

I don’t really love sewing so I definitely don’t want to be a seamstress. I don’t really know where I’m going to be. I don’t know if I’m going to do like high fashion or ready-to-wear. I don’t know if I want to necessarily design or if I want to be a buyer. I think I just have to explore my options.

The D.O.: What about internships?

H.E.: Well actually two summers ago I worked for a woman who created the company called NYC Sex Trash — it sounds kind of crazy — but I just worked with her one-on-one and she makes custom lingerie. Like she’s made it for Lady Gaga, Madonna, Britney Spears, so that was really, really cool. That was hands-on design work. I was sewing there, learning a lot about the industry. Then this past summer I was working for a PR company called Siren as a social media intern so I saw it from a different angle, like what goes into getting your products and everything out there.

But I think next summer I’m definitely going to do something where I’m working in the fashion house being hands-on with a bigger company. arzoller@syr.edu

HELENA ELSTON interned with NYC Sex Trash, a small company that produces high-end lingerie for celebrities including Lady Gaga, Madonna and Britney Spears. connor bahng staff photographer

Elston isn’t sure if she wants to be a fashion designer after graduation, though she does love curating her own personal fashion sense, which she finds in thrift stores. connor bahng staff photographer

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grossi “She’s actually kind of upped (her role) where she’s an assistant captain and I think just kind of assuming a leadership role as well,” Flanagan said. “… She’s a dynamic player.”

In high school at Shaftesbury Prep in Winnipeg (Canada), Grossi had the same abilities. Shaftesbury Prep head coach Eugene Kaminsky recognized that immediately. Pressed with taking over a start-up hockey program, he had to identify key players to lift the program off the ground.

I knew she’d make us better but I never knew that she would be someone who we would just really rely on.

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“You could see right away that she had a knowledge of the game,” Kaminsky said.

“Unfortunately the only drawback to her was her size … to Stephanie’s credit she used that as an advantage for her to be able to work harder to get to where she needed to get pucks, use her other skillsets.”

Grossi arrived at Shaftesbury to further progress in skill development and face off with the best competition in Winnipeg and Manitoba, Canada. Before long she was the program’s cornerstone player, setting the school’s records at 88 points and 51 assists in two seasons.

Around a similar timeframe, Grossi helped thrust another program, the Manitoba Under-18 team, into the national spotlight in Canada.

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Compared to Ontario and other provinces, there were fewer players at their disposal and the talent pool was not as strong.

To compensate for that, Grossi empowered her teammates. Some players such as Justine Fredette (Connecticut) are now playing at the Division I level, too, and Kaminsky credits that to them learning from Grossi’s habits.

“That was a big moment for us,” Grossi said of Manitoba’s Under-18 team. “We lost and got silver but that was really special, just getting to the gold medal game.”

During Grossi’s recruitment to Syracuse, Flanagan didn’t realize the full potential of whom he was scouting. He received regular recruiting tips from assistant Brendon Knight. He traveled to Calgary in Alberta, Canada, watching Grossi play three times in two days.

As with Kaminsky, the hockey mindset she possessed protruded immediately to Flanagan. With most incoming players, he recognizes an inability to learn and consistently execute a defensive system. Grossi, meanwhile, knew where to be and when, helping the team bring the puck out of its zones, Flanagan said.

A year later, Grossi stepped into Syracuse’s lineup and just over a month into her collegiate career she recorded two assists in the program’s first-ever win over 10-time CHA champion Mercyhurst.

“I knew she was a very smart, real cerebral player who had real good skills,” Flanagan said, “... I knew she’d make us better but I never knew that she would be someone who we would just really rely on.”

Entering her junior year, she is that player.

Before ever playing in a hockey game at 5 years old, Grossi told her parents she wanted to spend a year power skating. That set up one of the fundamentals she would need to evade defenders and create offense.

There’s a change in gear Flanagan sees

in Grossi that others don’t have. While her straight line speed isn’t elite she’s “as fast as anybody” in terms of lateral quickness, Flanagan said.

RECORD PLAYER Stephanie Grossi has already made a dent in Syracuse’s record book through two seasons. Here’s a list of accomplishments she’s reached entering this season.

• Third most points in a season (36 in 2015-16) • T-First most goals in a season (19 in 2014-15) • Second most goals in a season (22 in 2015-16) • Fourth highest plus/minus in a career (+32)

The Orange was 11-15-10 in Grossi’s first season. She has since become a foundational player for the program. She kills penalties,

takes faceoffs, and the offense relies on her scoring load.

“She sees things,” Flanagan said. “She doesn’t have eyes in the back of her head. I’m still looking for a player that does, but she senses and can see things that kind of keep her out of harm’s way.”

With Grossi, every situation on the ice centers around recognition. She routinely slides to the ice at the precise moment needed to interrupt an opponent’s shot. That hockey mindset, firmly engraved in her as a Winnipegger, combined with the extra fundamental focus she sought out distinguishes her. She finds ways to take advantage of the game, Kaminsky said.

She expects this team to be in the CHA championship, but her ultimate goal is the NCAA title game. The pinnacle of hockey is what she has fought to climb her whole life.

And she wants to carry Syracuse with her. rpmannin@syr.edu

STEPHANIE GROSSI, a junior and native of Canada, has empowered her teammates since her freshman season at Syracuse. In her first year, she helped the Orange to its first win against perennial power Mercyhurst. sam ogozalek staff writer

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Dino Babers: ‘Right now is not the time to eat the batter’

By Jon Mettus asst. sports editor

Babers said. “Right now is not the time to eat the batter. Wait for us to bake the cake.”

Dino Babers held his weekly press conference Monday morning ahead of Syracuse’s matchup with Wake Forest at 7 p.m. in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Orange is coming off of a 50-33 loss to Notre Dame at MetLife Stadium on Saturday.

Here are three things he said.

I think when it’s all said and done, you guys will like the cake that we’re baking.

“You guys will like the cake that we’re baking”

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Babers compared the process he’s undergoing in trying to turn the Syracuse football team around to baking a cake. He believes the process is working and that even though there are “certain things that are not there yet,” he’ll either develop those aspects of the team or bring them in.

“I think when it’s all said and done, you guys will like the cake that we’re baking,”

Dino Babers

The team’s confidence is “in the middle” Babers has displayed a variety of emotions this season, saying he and the team was down after the South Florida loss, then speaking about pride and being happy after the win over Connecticut. After the loss to Notre Dame on Saturday, Babers said the team’s

confidence is “somewhere in the middle.”

“I think that we have an opportunity to be good,” Babers said. “We’re fighting uphill. We’ve had a lot of injuries. We’ve got a lot of young people playing and we still have an opportunity to be good. We just have to circle the wagons and keep believing in what we’re doing and I think we’ll have a chance.”

Syracuse is off to a 2-3 start and might not be a favorite in another game this season.

There’s “a lot of stuff” the defense can’t run because of personnel Babers has frequently mentioned the number of injuries his defense has suffered and inexperience of the healthy ones.

Against Notre Dame, the Orange was down three starters on the defense. Defensive backs Antwan Cordy and Juwan Dowels are out for the season. Defensive tackle Kayton Samuels did not play. Safety Kielan

Whitner did play after missing the previous two games.

Then linebacker Parris Bennett went down with an apparent left ankle injury and had to be carried off the field and into the tunnel.

Babers said that what he can run on defense is limited to the personnel that he has and that there’s “a lot of stuff” he can’t run with the defense right now.

“There’s certain things you can’t do because the personnel is not capable of doing it,” Babers said. “And then if you ask somebody to do something they’re not capable of doing …” he finished before cutting himself off.

The Syracuse defense is among the worst in the nation, giving up 37.6 points per game (112th out of 128 ranked teams) and 504.2 yards per game (122nd). jrmettus@syr.edu | @jmettus

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Welch’s fruit snacks fuel Syracuse amid historic start

By Matthew Gutierrez asst. copy editor

Jukka Masalin is Syracuse’s fruit snacks culprit. Nestled somewhere in the associate head coach’s office lie a stash of hidden packets. They are beloved, weigh up next only a few ounces and fit easily AT Albany Tom & Mary Casey into pockets.

Stadium Yet they are Tuesday, 7 p.m. off limits to players. Only on special occasions, namely road trips, does Masalin grant players their favorite treat.

Syracuse loves fruit snacks. Coaches rely on the treats to get them through the afternoon drag. Players eat them between class, during road trips and before games. The Orange (8-1-1, 2-1-1 Atlantic Coast) will once again devour packages on its two-hour bus ride east to Albany, New York for Tuesday’s matchup against the Great Danes at 7 p.m.

“On away trips, that’s always a fan favorite,” said senior midfielder Oyvind Alseth. “When a new pack is open, you have to be near the front of the line if you’re hoping to get some of that because they go quickly. A lot of my teammates are very, very fond of the fruit snacks.”

For years, Masalin has trekked to local Wegmans stores, BJ’s Wholesale Club in East Syracuse and Costco Wholesale in Camillus to replenish his supply. He usually buys them in bulk because “these guys eat like horses,” he said. “I have to feed them all the time. That’s the problem.”

The Orange goes through boxes of them.

The team is “always” munching on fruit

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byrne enough to contribute immediately, but told Byrne to just “keep doing what you’re doing,” that things would work out for him. He knew Byrne would be ready coming from St. Thomas Aquinas, which he said had practice regimens on par with some collegiate programs.

“It’s more comfortable and they’re used to it,” Casullo said. “They’re college ready.”

He credited Dino Babers’ offensive scheme, as well as the work by co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Mike

snacks — sometimes instead of studying.

Manley Field House’s Grab N’ Go, a cafe for athletes, offers a variety of snacks, but there are no fruit snacks there. Players must either buy their own or sneak into Masalin’s office.

“We’re not supposed to know where they are,” forward Sergio Camargo said. “Even though I’m a transfer, I’m a senior and closer to the other seniors, so we know the inside and outs. Every once in a while I go in there and steal some.”

Since the packages are light, players bring bags on their carry-ons at the airport, passing through security just fine.

The snacks are not for everyone. Camargo is a fan, but notes he’s “more of a fruit and nut kind of guy,” so he limits his fruit snack consumption. Sophomore goalkeeper Hendrik Hilpert abstains altogether.

“I have to watch my weight,” Hilpert said.

“The other players can have a little more fun with that stuff.”

They go through several boxes every couple of weeks and hoard them in their rooms. Senior forward Chris Nanco, who already has four goals, always has a few packets in his backpack because he never knows when he might need to nibble. Even his head coach has taken part.

“I’ve indulged like my 9-year-old daughter,” Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said.

“There’s a little bit of sugar in there, so it’s not ideal. But I can indulge.”

They have 11 grams of sugar per mini package. Fruit snacks were originally intended for backpackers because they are a lightweight, convenient, high-energy food, according to Welch’s website. They also can enhance soccer players’ energy levels, said Jane Burrell Uzcategui, an instructor

of nutrition in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

The snacks, which contain 80 calories and 20 grams of carbohydrates, usually are a wise choice for players, she said.

“Soccer is the kind of sport where having a carbohydrate-rich diet helps athletes restore and play at higher intensity,” Uzcategui said. “They’re a good choice for a little pick-me-up. But if they’re not playing the whole game, they don’t need them. It’s for the ones playing all of the game, the ones needing more calories.”

Their effect is like that of Gatorade, Uzcategui said. The snacks work especially well for athletes who grow anxious before games and have difficulty eating. During

Lynch, as to why Byrne has looked good through three games so far.

Former head coach Scott Shafer’s staff recruited Byrne as a tackle and redshirted him at the position. But this past training camp Babers’ coaching staff decided to test him out at center.

Babers cited Byrne’s athletic build — being “long-bodied” and his ability to move well — as part of the reasons the coaching staff decided Byrne could physically play the position.

“It was an opportunity for him to get on the field a lot faster,” Babers said. “When we made the move we didn’t think he’d have to

go this year.”

Byrne said learning to play center proved to be challenging because of all the extra checks and calls that had to be made. But Casullo cited Byrne’s intelligence as to why he could find success in a tough transition.

Byrne has always been a vocal leader who’s played with a chip on his shoulder, Casullo said. Babers emphasized he had certain personality traits that made the coaching staff think a move to center would work out.

“Let’s just say if he was a movie star, he’d be riding a chopper with his sleeves of his jacket chopped off and a bunch of tattoos,” Babers said.

games, Uzcategui emphasized athletes should strive for 30-50 grams of carbs every hour. Three packets an hour will suffice, but Uzcategui said nothing should replace water consumption.

One of the snack’s notable pitfalls is its stickiness. It’s “not good” for sugar to sit on teeth, Uzcategui said, as high consumption can lead to cavities. But the snacks are convenient and easy to digest — enough of a draw for SU. “Look, we’ve got a volunteer assistant and a graduate assistant,” McIntyre said.

“These guys don’t eat much, so we use fruit snacks to get them through the day.

“It may not be a guilty pleasure, but it is a pleasure we enjoy.” mguti100@syr.edu | @Matthewgut21

Fruit snacks have become a mainstay for the Orange. SU players will munch on their favorite snack Tuesday en route to Albany. tony d. curtis staff photographer

There have been moments where Byrne has struggled. A couple of snaps to Dungey haven’t been on target, and the offensive line as a whole has committed some crucial penalties that have pushed back Orange drives.

But he’s also still learning and improving every week. And after finding playing time at a foreign position, Byrne is finding his niche.

“Sometimes you gotta take a step down and learn a lot of things before you come to college and that’s exactly what I did,” Byrne said. “… I did my job and I can always get better and do better.” tdlanger@syr.edu | @tomer_langer

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Trotter follows in mother’s footsteps on collegiate stage

By Nick Alvarez staff writer

While in college, Melissa Trotter-Hardy needed help raising her daughter. In between attending volleyball practice and night classes, Trotter-Hardy’s coach at Henderson State University, Rhonda Thigpen, would look after her daughter.

Thigpen would take the newborn girl to volleyball practices and church, and even became her godmother.

“She became the little sister of the program,” Thigpen said. “Her mother worked around campus, and you would see Jalissa (Trotter) in the gym with a ball.”

Trotter developed a love for volleyball that stuck with her throughout her life.

Nineteen years later, Trotter still finds herself on collegiate volleyball courts, playing as the starting setter for Syracuse.

Both Trotter’s current head coach, Leonid Yelin, and Thigpen believe her competitive edge comes from her mother. Thigpen remembers picking Trotter up from school and seeing her goddaughter challenge other kids in races.

Trotter brings that mindset every time she steps on the court for the Orange (3-11, 2-2 Atlantic Coast). She’s become a versatile force for SU, filling in the team’s need for a setter, even though it’s not her natural position. She leads the team with 266 assists and averages 6.19 assists per set.

“That’s all I ever was around … her

playing volleyball, her coach and her teammates,” Trotter said. “I’d just sit on the side and play around with the ball. I kind of became addicted to it then.”

As a child, Trotter attended several volleyball camps offered by her godmother.

At the camps, she learned a mindset that she believes allows her to succeed on and off the court: M.T.X.E., Mental Toughness Xtra Effort.

In high school, Trotter-Hardy would drive her daughter over two and a half hours every day from their home in Texarkana, Texas to Dallas for volleyball practice.

Last year, Trotter’s freshman year at Syracuse, she wrote Thigpen a letter. In it, she thanked Thigpen and Trotter-Hardy for everything they had done to help get her to Syracuse. If not for them, Trotter said she would not have made it to SU. Trotter has demonstrated her growth as a player. In the third set against Boston College on Sept. 23, Trotter rose up and struck a ball with a force that elicited an audible gasp from the Orange crowd.

In that match for Syracuse, Trotter made an impact as she led the team with 19 assists.

Trotter-Hardy and Thigpen are what got Trotter into volleyball. They ushered her every step of the way through the sport.

Every time Trotter steps on the court for SU, she strives to make an impact akin to the mark that Trotter-Hardy and Thigpen left on her. nialvare@syr.edu

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PUSHING FORWARD

Stephanie Grossi has elevated most teams she’s been on and looks to do same with SU

By Bobby Manning staff writer

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tephanie Grossi’s emotions were still running high. Two weeks had passed and nothing changed. Two weeks since the worst loss of her career and she still hadn’t moved passed it.

Anger fueled her this offseason. After a gut-wrenching overtime loss in the College Hockey America championship, Grossi remembered the pain.

“Going from that high back to low of losing,” Grossi said. “... Any time, a tough workout, a tough skate.

You’re like ‘This year I want to win’ and you can feel … what it felt like to lose. And you never want to feel that again.”

It took over two weeks for Grossi to become proactive. Throughout the summer, she improved her shooting stance, getting shots off her front foot. She worked on shooting quicker and stickhandling less.

Grossi’s discerning vision of the game solidifies her aim to reach the highest level of play. Since she was 5, she has taken the initiative to get ahead.

Throughout her career, her play has repeatedly raised the levels of teammates. The Orange has never won the CHA but received five of the six first place votes in the preseason CHA coaches poll.

Grossi could be the player to lift SU somewhere it’s never been.

“It’d be nice to see her continue on the path of leading our team in scoring, being a first-team College Hockey America all-star, lead us to a championship,” SU head coach Paul Flanagan said.

Grossi accomplished all but one of those feats in her sophomore season. Thirty-six points led all Syracuse scorers and earned her a CHA nod, but what sticks with her is where last season reached its screeching halt.

In the season-opening exhibition against the University of Montreal she displayed her reworked shot.

Down 2-0 in the second period, several feet of space opened up in the defensive zone. She released her shot quickly. It careened off a defender’s stick and bounced into the net for the Orange’s first goal in an eventual 3-2 overtime loss.

STEPHANIE GROSSI has raised her teammates’ play throughout her hockey life. Now, the junior looks to lead Syracuse to a College Hockey America championship, a feat the program has yet to accomplish. sam ogozalek staff writer

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After making his first collegiate start against South Florida, center Colin Byrne received praise from starting quarterback Eric Dungey, despite some low snaps. After the next game against Connecticut, head coach Dino Babers first said he couldn’t single out an offensive lineman who impressed him. He then said he was excited about the job Byrne did in his second start.

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tackle, this wasn’t the way he, or anybody else, envisioned how his SU career would unfold. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t ready.

“I was up for the challenge and it’s worked out for me in the best way possible,” Byrne said.

After sitting out a year and changing positions, Byrne has made an impact on Syracuse’s season.

With no timetable for the return of incumbent starter Jason Emerich, it’ll be the redshirt freshman who’s tasked with leading Syracuse’s (2-3, 1-3 Atlantic Coast) young and inexperienced offensive line.

Three out of Byrne’s four seasons at St Thomas Aquinas (Florida) High School resulted in state championships at the powerhouse school which played against top competition. But when he got to Syracuse he ended up having to redshirt, something he wasn’t planning on doing.

“I came to Syracuse and I sat my freshman year, and that was a little disappointing,” Byrne said.

“But you just gotta drop the ‘E’ and gotta go. Drop the ego.”

Former Syracuse assistant coach Bob Casullo thought Byrne was good

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Robinson called up to U-20 national team

By Matt Schneidman senior staff writer

Sophomore defender Miles Robinson has been called up to the United States Men’s Under-20 National Team and won’t be available for Syracuse’s game at Albany on Tuesday.

Robinson is tied for the team lead with four goals and also has an assist this season. He’s anchored the middle of an SU back three that has allowed only

six goals this season.

Freshman Mo Adams will start at center back in Robinson’s place, Adams said Monday afternoon.

Adams has started all 10 games at center defensive midfield.

SU hasn’t won in its last two games after winning its first eight. After facing the Great Danes on Tuesday, Syracuse travels to Louisville on Friday to play the Cardinals, another top 10 team. mcschnei@syr.edu