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Chapter files legal action against SU

By Jordan Muller news editor

In new legal action, the Syracuse University chapter of the Theta Tau engineering fraternity is seeking to reverse its permanent expulsion from the university in Jefferson County Supreme Court, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Orange on Wednesday.

The request for judicial proceeding is the third legal action — and first by the organization — brought against SU since videos of people in the fraternity house performing skits using racial and ethnic slurs surfaced in April 2018.

Two lawsuits related to the videos, brought up by individual members, are ongoing in Jefferson County and federal courts.

LARRY MASON taught eight of the students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988. He has traveled to Lockerbie 16 times with students to take photos and help them learn about the tragedy. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

Professor uses photography to help move forward from tragedy

By India Miraglia asst. copy editor

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ight years after the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Syracuse University photography professor Larry Mason stood in Tundergarth Mains, an area right outside of Lockerbie, Scotland where the nose cone of the plane fell.

He wanted to stand in the spot to see what surrounded that location. It was raining that day, Mason recalled, and the lighting for a picture was poor. But just as he lifted the camera up to his eye, the rain stopped, the clouds broke and sunlight streamed into the area. Mason said that moment changed his perspective on Lockerbie forever.

After the bombing, Mason said, many people struggled with how to bring comfort to the SU community. He remembered wanting to help, but said he had trouble seeing past the victims: 270 passengers,

including 35 SU students returning from a semester abroad. The friends and families of those who died. The residents of Lockerbie.

Mason’s first trip to Lockerbie in 1996 helped him define his role in the aftermath of the tragedy, he said.

“I thought, ‘maybe my pictures can help to heal that community,’” he said.

He has visited Lockerbie 16 times since 1996 to take photos and teach SU students about the town’s history. Mason said photography has been a tool for him to help others learn about and remember the Pan Am 103 tragedy, as well as to see the town of Lockerbie as more than a crash site. He said he also hopes his photographs will help inspire people to honor the tragedy by bringing positive change to their community.

Mason remains dedicated to helping people remember, heal and move forward after the Pan Am 103 tragedy. But his role in doing so has

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SU community rallies for trans rights on Quad

By Casey Darnell asst. news editor

More than 40 Syracuse University community members rallied on the Quad Wednesday to protest a federal proposal that would require agencies to define gender as biological and unchangeable, effectively removing legal protections for transgender and non-binary people.

Transgender and gender nonconforming students who spoke at the protest on the Quad said they

were angry and scared, but not surprised, after hearing about the Department of Health and Human Services memo that outlined the proposed redefinition, which was initially reported by The New York Times on Oct. 21. Many students said being openly transgender is always terrifying, even on “liberal” college campuses.

“Trans people live and trans people deserve to be protected,” said Eli Blodgett, a sophomore stage management major. “We will

not be silenced.”

Blodgett, who identifies as transgender, disabled and queer, said the only way they have handled President Donald Trump’s election is to “turn trauma and pain into something you can do.”

The push to redefine gender is Trump’s latest move to limit legal protections for transgender people.

In February 2017, the Trump administration rolled back President Barack Obama’s order that schools and universities that receive

federal funding allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing. Trump also signed an executive order in March 2018 banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military, and the Justice Department has reversed protections of gay and transgender people in federal prisons.

Under the guidelines outlined in the memo, which was written in the spring, federal agencies relating to education and health care would see rally page 4

DEC. 6 Date of Jefferson County Supreme Court hearing in third legal action against SU

The suit, filed in mid-October, only names “the Tau Chapter of Theta Tau Fraternity” as a plaintiff. Court documents filed on Oct. 17 show that the chapter is seeking judicial relief through an Article 78 proceeding, which is generally used to appeal the decision of a New York state or local agency. If a judge rules in Theta Tau’s favor, the chapter’s permanent expulsion from SU could be voided.

Article 78 also allows judges to make decisions on the fairness of a private institution’s internal processes, including student proceedings, according to The Student Appeal, an online law journal.

James McClusky, a Jefferson County Supreme Court judge, is presiding over the case, according to court records. McClusky is also presiding over a lawsuit filed against the university by 10 students SU suspended in connection to the videos.

In the two other lawsuits filed against SU, lawyers argue that SU did not follow the rules laid out in its Code of Student Conduct relating to student suspensions and the disciplinary process. The judges in both cases are being asked to make a decision on the fairness of students’ punishment. see theta

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Reseacher details impact of technology

By Gabe Stern staff writer

Remembering together Syracuse University officials and scholars gathered at the Wall of Remembrance to participate in a wreath laying ceremony on Wednesday.

Joseph Holland (left, right photo) is one of two Lockerbie Scholars who represent the “Lockerbie Eleven,” residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, who died when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed over the town in 1988. corey henry staff photographer

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Grad student employees call for higher wages

By Richard J Chang contributing writer

Members of the Graduate Student Organization passed a resolution Wednesday to bring an inquiry to Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud about wages for doctoral students and graduate assistants.

GSO’s Graduate Employment Issues Committee analyzed SU’s cost of attendance and a calculation of living wages in Onondaga County from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Based on their analysis, GSO voted that President Jack Wilson and at least one representative from the committee should present a report to the chancellor to discuss university guidelines for graduate

student living wages.

Before the report is presented, the committee will create a detailed presentation of its findings. Several GSO members said they wanted to advocate for wages of graduate assistants and doctoral students to at least be a living wage.

The committee said the numbers are not concrete due to inconsistencies in MIT’s calculation, and the GSO Senate also didn’t have numbers from SU that showed a living wage or cost of attendance for graduate students.

Since the figures obtained from MIT were just an approximation, some senators were concerned about making claims of graduate students not receiving enough compensation to live.

Other senators argued that

advocating for the issue is the only way the university will release records of cost of attendance and living wage.

Vice President of Internal Affairs Nick Mason ended the discussion to lead a vote. The vote passed.

A second amendment to the resolution said that GSO policy states that all doctoral students and graduate assistants should be paid a living wage. Since many senators had left the room, the GSO postponed voting on this amendment.

Other business:

Graduate students are only allowed to purchase Orange After Dark tickets the day of the event, but undergraduates may purchase tickets ahead of time and

often leave events sold out. GSO members said they hope to eventually meet with the Office of Student Activities to allow graduate student inclusion.

GSO passed a resolution to fund half the cost of 50 street signs to be placed on roads with off-campus student housing, and 15,000 safety cards to be placed in buildings accessed by graduate students. With permission from the city, signs will be placed on every street corner of Euclid Avenue and Clarendon Street blocks.

The total cost for this project is $2,900, which will be split by GSO and SU’s Student Association. A GSO senator will approach SA on Monday with a proposal to each fund half of the effort. rjchang@syr.edu

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Boxer hopes to expand programs for at-risk kids

By Dakota Palmer staff writer

Syracuse’s Common Council will vote Monday to approve a local athletic center’s purchase of a taxdelinquent property.

Ray Rinaldi, a former professional boxer, runs the North Area Athletic and Education Center. At Wednesday’s council meeting, he asked councilors to approve his purchase of a property so he can expand the center’s youth intervention program.

Rinaldi has housed programs for at-risk kids for nearly 30 years, including boxing, GED and computer classes and counseling, he said. Councilor at-large Tim Rudd proposed an agreement with Rinaldi’s athletic club to purchase the tax-delinquent property at 301-303 S. Geddes St. for $5,000.

“These are kids that are kicked

out of school, on probation, parole, whatever excuse they use — I get them, and I get a lot of them,” Rinaldi said. “We can prove that within three weeks, you can change a complete attitude.”

We can prove that within three weeks, you can change a complete attitude.

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Rinaldi would like to purchase the new building so he can add more programs for the kids. He said a few years ago, two people from Tokyo came to visit his facilities to create a model for at-risk kids in Japan.

He teaches many of the chil-

dren how to box, and in a five-year span, the club has seen more than 6,200 kids at its two locations, Rinaldi said.

“The same kids that are fighting in the streets are friends now,” Rinaldi said.

Syracuse Police Department Chief Frank Fowler spoke on Rinaldi’s behalf.

“Any time the community can invest in this gentleman and what he’s doing on a daily basis, I think we should jump at that opportunity,” Fowler said.

New York state Assemblyman William Magnarelli was also at the council meeting to speak for Rinaldi. Magnarelli said he’s been supporting Rinaldi through his work in the state assembly for two decades, and he wants to see the program continue.

“What he’s doing is good,” Magnarelli said. “It’s a good program, and anything you can do to help

him would be appreciated.”

Other business

Fowler was at the council meeting primarily to answer questions about the SPD’s request for funds to compensate the people who train police recruits.

The training will take place for five days in mid-November and will focus on defensive tactics.

Councilor Joseph Carni, of the 1st district, raised concerns about how this training will benefit recruits from outside of Syracuse.

“I still can’t believe we haven’t come up with something to be compensated for allowing other people to train with us,” Carni said.

Fowler said there is not currently a system in place to reimburse the city for training people outside of the city, but he said it would benefit the city to have a system to do so. dapalmer@syr.edu

Lee Rainie, a researcher at the Pew Research Center, spoke on Syracuse University’s campus Wednesday night about how technology has been “injecting itself” into every aspect of people’s lives.

Rainie is the director of internet and technology research at the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, where his group examines the social impacts digital life has on modern society. He spoke to more than 50 students in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications about the impact that technology has on trust, facts and democracy.

Rainie said during his 20 years at Pew, he has seen the internet’s rise lead to a drop in public trust in large institutions, such as churches, big businesses, banks and the media.

“Technology is more or less a problem in the context of trust,” he said. “It’s allowing people to create their own realities. It’s allowing people to find others who live in those potentially alternative realities.”

People are now more reliant on themselves for information because they can find their own facts online, he said. They can pick and choose where they get information, largely from media companies that match their social ideologies, tastes and cultural interests.

But the declining trust in institutions is much older than the internet, Rainie said. With events like the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, people questioned powerful institutions. Now other religious and business institutions are facing the same issue of consumer mistrust, he said.

Rainie previously worked for the New York Daily News and is the former managing editor of the U.S. News and World Report.

When Rainie wrote stories, he had a vague sense of conversation, he said. He never interacted with his audience during a story, but when he talks to journalists now, he said they have their audiences and critics “at the top of their minds.”

“Everyone who’s got access to a smartphone or a wireless connection has a chance to be in your grill about something that you’ve done,” he said.

Roy Gutterman, a Newhouse professor and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, moderated the discussion. About 15 minutes into the panel Gutterman asked, “Aren’t facts just facts?”

Rainie cited a longstanding debate about whether facts are social constructs. The amount and the speed of information exploded after the printing press was created, and Rainie said that many of the supporters of this information were the “fake news” of the time — those who believed in practices such as witchcraft and alchemy. gkstern@syr.edu

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mason changed as the SU community’s connection to the tragedy has evolved in the last 30 years.

Chancellor Kent Syverud appointed Mason as the university’s Remembrance and Lockerbie Ambassador in January. Mason said the position has affected how he views his role in helping the SU community remember the tragedy.

“In the early parts of my working toward remembrance, it was just a personal remembrance,” Mason said. “Now I realize I have a responsibility to develop the next group of people at SU who will carry on that legacy.”

Mason said he believes SU’s tradition of remembrance began only hours after the crash occurred on Dec. 21, 1988, at a small service held in Hendricks Chapel.

The campus was empty because it was an exam week, which made it difficult for him to begin grieving, he said. Everyone Mason thought he needed to grieve with were no longer on campus, he said.

He didn’t attend the service himself. At the time, Mason was a photographer for the United Press International. He had been asked by the state bureau chief to photograph the service, but he felt he should not go because he knew some of his students died in the bombing. “‘If I go to Hendricks Chapel, I shouldn’t be a photographer. I should be grieving with everybody else,” Mason recalled telling the bureau chief.

Dennis Floss, a staff photographer at a Rochester newspaper at the time who had shot events with Mason, did photograph the memorial.

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rally determine gender “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable,” according to the Times article. Rowan McGrath, a SUNY-ESF student and member of SU’s chapter of the International Socialist Organization, held a

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said. “There was a clear sense that folks were sharing each others’ pain.”

Mason said that, as soon as he heard the news of the tragedy, he knew he must have taught students on the plane. The memories of those students are memorialized during SU’s Remembrance Week, held annually during the last week of October.

What is now known as Remembrance Week was not developed until the mid-1990s. Judy O’Rourke, an assistant in SU’s undergraduate studies department at the time, said the week was created by Remembrance Scholars, a group of 35 individuals chosen each year to represent the SU students who died.

The scholarship was created in 1990, and many of the first Remembrance Scholars knew people on the plane.

By the 1995-96 academic year, few scholars had direct connections to the flight, O’Rourke said. She said the students were concerned that future generations would not know the meaning behind being a Remembrance Scholar.

“If we don’t do something very personal with this, if we don’t make some change in the program, it will just become a scholarship,” she recalled them telling her.

The Lockerbie Scholarship, which brings two students from Lockerbie Academy to SU every year, was also created to expand the SU community’s awareness of the bombing, said philosophy professor Samuel Gorovitz.

Gorovitz, who at the time was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the idea for a scholarship was formed after he visited Lockerbie and saw the “horrible consequences” of the crash himself.

He and his host—Sir Neil McIntosh, who coordinated an emergency council planning

after the bombing— decided the Lockerbie Scholarship should be created to ensure the connection between Syracuse and Lockerbie did not fade with time, he said.

Now Mason, as SU’s Remembrance and Lockerbie ambassador, said he is working to ensure that those traditions and histories are institutionalized within the SU community.

He recently returned from his 16th visit to Lockerbie, which he attended with SU students. Showing students the sight of the crash is meant to connect them with this history of Lockerbie and Pan Am Flight 103 to prepare them to be leaders of remembrance in the future.

“I looked around at these students, who are 30 years removed from Pan Am 103, and there sort of wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” Mason said. “They felt it, they felt the power of the places where we were.”

And Mason hasn’t forgotten his photography roots in his mission to inspire a new generation of remembrance. He spent the last few months creating an exhibition of more than 120 of his own images. The exhibition is spread over 17 different buildings, including 10 schools and colleges at SU, the Lubin House in New York City and the Faraday House in London.

The size of the project, Mason said, reflects his realization that as an ambassador he is working for the whole university and that he has a responsibility to reach everyone.

“I never had anyone tell me to be involved in Remembrance,” Mason said. “It was just people who had interest and a good conscious, and wanted to do something because it needed to be done.”

sign that read, “We have existed long before the laws that limit us.”

“Gender non-conforming people have existed all throughout history,” McGrath said. “We have even existed in societies that don’t like us.”

Alyeska Dronsfield, a freshman women’s and gender studies major, is from North Carolina, the state that passed the “bathroom bill” that banned transgen-

der people from using the bathroom that matched their identity. At the rally, she said people in her hometown of Durham used the slogan “I’ll go with you” during the controversy in 2016, meaning they would accompany trans people to the bathroom if they felt unsafe.

“And that is the philosophy I’m going to carry through with any struggle with trans

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theta tau “Syracuse University does not comment on the specifics of pending litigation,” said Sarah Scalese, SU’s senior associate vice president for university communications, in an email. “We stand by the action we took and remain steadfast in our commitment to defending the standards of conduct on our campus.”

In addition to permanently expelling the fraternity chapter, the university suspended 14 students in connection to the videos and put Theta Tau’s vice regent on probation. The fraternity chapter at the time called the videos a “satirical sketch.”

Karen Felter, an attorney at the Syracuse-based branch of Smith, Sovik, Kendrick and Sugnet law firm, filed the request for judicial intervention on behalf of the chapter, court documents show. Felter is also representing students in the two lawsuits against SU. Felter did not respond to a request for comment on this story Wednesday night.

It is unclear whether Theta Tau’s national organization is involved in the latest court action. A call and email to Theta Tau’s national office on Wednesday went unreturned.

A hearing on the legal action filed by the SU Theta Tau chapter is scheduled for Dec. 6 in Jefferson County Supreme Court in Watertown, according to court records. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

people. I will go with you anywhere, anytime if you need me,” Dronsfield said. “That is what all cis people should do.”

Shortly after Dronsfield spoke, a person walking by yelled, “Go Trump!” People in the crowd responded by shouting obscenities at them.

“That’s a lot of hate,” the person said.

“Hell yeah, it is,” McGrath yelled back. cdarnell@syr.edu | @caseydarnell_

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Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy is vital

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andra Day O’Connor recently announced her dementia diagnosis, prompting me to look back at her career and try to put into words her influence. As the first woman to be confirmed on the Supreme Court, the highest judicial authority in the country, Sandra Day O’Connor made history. She was appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1981 and resigned in 2006.

Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that O’Connor was a “towering figure” and “role model not only for girls and women, but for all those committed to equal justice under law.”

She paved the way for not only women’s presence in the judiciary but also in politics.

When she was asked about her role as the first woman to serve on the highest court in America she

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would often reject the assumption that she had to do anything different than any other justice. She once noted “the power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.”

O’Connor sought to prove that women were capable of serving on the court and being exceptional justices — she was a model of what the founding fathers hoped for when deciding to make terms for justice indefinite.

Even though she’s a conservative, she didn’t employ politics in her decisions. She stayed true to the constitution. And she regularly ruled against the party’s opinion

in order to ensure the constitution was upheld.

We’ve seen increasing polarization and political terrorism in the past two years, so we can all look on to O’Connor’s career to remind ourselves of political reasonability.

O’Connor is a role model for this in a time where it’s hard to find.

The court ought to be an example of how discourse can be productive, and O’Connor was a big part in maintaining that. In the wake of her announcement, it’s imperative that we consider how important it is to put people with integrity in positions of power, and how much it pays off.

Harrison Garfinkle is a communication and rhetorical studies major. His column runs biweekly. He can be reached at hgarfink@syr.edu.

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SU sophomore calls for snow-free walkways

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s winter is creeping in, an issue that I faced last year is beginning to worry me once again. Being a student at Syracuse University, I am constantly walking everywhere. Whether it is to class, to friends, to get food or to go to the hospital I shadow at. Through the months of November to March, I have a fear that I will not be able to get there safely.

Due to the large amount of snow we receive in Syracuse, the sidewalks, if there even are any, are covered in snow. Because of this, I am forced to walk in the street packed with cars. On top of that, there is snow and ice on the roads making cars slide all over. It is extremely

dangerous to be walking on the streets with cars sliding all over.

SU is an extremely populated university and it is important to put student and faculty safety first. It is not safe to be walking where our lives are at risk. I understand that this is an issue that has persisted for a while now and I believe it is time to finally address it. I know I am not the only one who feels unsafe walking on the roads of Syracuse during those months, especially at night.

Please put this into consideration, as students and faculty deserve a safe place to walk.

Kara Gingerelli Sophomore at Syracuse University

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When the stars align Each year, Light Work awards three artists grants to pursue their visions

By Hattie Lindert

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or more than four decades, Light Work has offered yearly $3,000 grants to central New York artists. The grant — which has since been awarded to more than 100 artists — was established to help local artists create new work, as well as further their existing projects. This year, three photographers have been honored: Nydia Blas, Michelle Gabel and Jerry Lim. Their diverse bodies of work will be displayed in the Light Work Hallway Gallery from Nov. 1 to Dec. 13.

NYDIA BLAS

When Nydia Blas went back to school for her college degree, she thought it “super irresponsible” to study photography. A young, working mother raising two children, she thought she should pursue something more practical — something that could sustain her family, she said. But on a trip to Guatemala, the proclaimed irresponsibility of photography was quickly outweighed by Blas’ passion for it.

“When I was there I couldn’t stop taking photos,” Blas said. “After that I was like ‘Oh, I have to study photography again.’”

Today, Blas’ work revolves around themes of race, gender and sexuality. When she was an undergraduate at Ithaca College, one of her childhood friends was shot and killed by police.

This experience inspired her to use photography as a tool to illustrate the issues that matter to her, she said.

“It really shook me up, and it really made me want to make connections between the actual things that I experienced in the world,” said Blas.

Like Gabel, Blas said her most intimate portraits rely on creating an off-camera relationship with her subjects. For her series, “The Girls Who Spun Gold,” Blas photographed a group of young women she had grown close with through the Southside Community Center, a historically black community center in Ithaca. Blas has served as executive director of the Southside Center since January. For some images in the series, Blas turned the camera on herself.

With the funds from the grant, Blas hopes to expand upon “The Girls Who Spun Gold.” Blas said she plans to make a short video of the girls she works with at the Southside Center. She has also envisioned a printed book of the series.

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“The exciting thing about photography is that there’s literally no wrong answer,” said Blas.

“You are bringing yourself to the work, and what you see in the work is just dependent upon your experiences in life. That’s beneficial to you no matter who you are.”

MICHELLE GABEL

Michelle Gabel, a freelancer based out of Fayetteville, finds her inspiration in other people.

Her work creates raw and vivid pictures of the worlds of others — a woman going through cancer treatment, a child violin prodigy and an elderly man grieving the loss of his wife, among others.

“I find people just fascinating,” Gabel said. “I feel very honored for however the stars aligned, they allow me into their lives.”

Since 2014, much of Gabel’s most intimate work has focused on one subject in particular: Michelle Fox of Camillus. In 2014, Fox suffered an accidental

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shotgun blast to the face, leaving her blind and the upper half of her face collapsed. She now wears a facial prosthesis, a wax mask handmade to recreate her eyes, nose and upper lip.

Gabel originally began working with Fox while she was a photojournalist at the Syracuse Post-Standard, on assignment. Since then, the two Michelle’s lives have remained intertwined — Gabel asked Fox to be the subject of her master’s thesis at Syracuse University. Fox agreed, and now Gabel said she considers Fox to be a close friend. Gabel hopes receiving the Light Work grant will allow her to continue to share Fox’s story with the world.

“Michelle really wants to share her story,” said Gabel. “I plan to be in Michelle’s life for as long as her and her family want me to be in their lives, and the grant helps me continue this project and collaboration.” see grants page 8

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Composer to present at Hendricks Otro Cinco kicks off weekend music series

By Lyle Andrew Michael contributing writer

Vân-Ánh (Vanessa) Võ, an Emmyaward winning composer, will visit Syracuse University for the first time to perform “The Odyssey: Stories of the Boat People” at Hendricks Chapel on Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Võ is from California and is also a filmmaker and recording artist.

The concert is organized by the Society for New Music (SNM) in collaboration with Syracuse Symposium, as part of its series on

“Stories” by the SU Humanities Center.

“I am very excited to be among students, as they are the ones to bring about a change,” Võ said.

Võ will perform her 40-minute multimedia composition which was created in 2015 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Originally from North Vietnam, Võ said she wanted to represent the struggles of the two million refugees as they fled the communist North regime. She described the piece as a tribute to their resilience and hope and to the human spirit of the

Vietnamese boat people.

“The first section depicts the odyssey of the refugees from Vietnam to America who travelled by boat at the time of the war. It will showcase theatrical music with audio of the interviews,” Võ said.

The second section depicts the culture of Vietnam in America today, as Võ believes there is such a strong community. She will be playing the traditional instrument she is best known for — the dàn tranh zither — as she performs with see concert page 8

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This Friday night, mics and monitors will replace a few bar tables at Otro Cinco, and live music will replace the usual ambiance.

Otro Cinco, a casual bar and restaurant on South Warren Street, is kicking off their new Late Night Music series this weekend. The series

will feature new artists each week to play live music. This Friday, Full Body and Elton DeJohneres will perform. The show starts at 11 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

“If folks wanted to sit in the back and eat a big plate of nachos, hang out or they want to be up in the front with the band, there’s space to do both,” said see otro

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“loud romantic rock,” is a Rochester-based four-person band. The group started in 2014 as two vocalists, Dylan Vaisey on guitar and Zach Hallenbeck on bass, before the duo was later joined by drummist Jack Chaffer and guitarist Jacob Kotler.

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otro cinco Jonathan Graham, who became the Late Night Music organizer about a month ago.

He started out in the kitchen of Otro Cinco before moving on to bartend in the front.

While Otro Cinco has welcomed touring bands and local musicians in the past, this series will host shows on a consistent basis, Graham said. He also works with SPIT FAM Tapes, a local music label and booking collective — he books shows for houses around Syracuse and occasionally coordinates gigs at the restaurant.

“The cool thing about that restaurant is the folks who work there are pretty diverse,” Graham said. The owner of Otro Cinco Johanna Yorke has been supportive of the staff, Graham said, whether it’s giving them time off to play shows or to do an opening.

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concert a quartet made up of SNM musicians.

Neva Pilgrim, an award-winning soprano and co-founder of SNM — an organization established in 1971 to enhance the musical community in central New York – is always on the lookout for new artists who have an interesting story to share.

She found that in Võ, she said.

“We hosted her last year and found she would be perfect for our series. She is a terrific composer and master of her art,” Pilgrim said.

“This composition is just beautiful. With the lighting and acoustics of Hendricks, it will be so eVõcative.”

The chapel will be filled with the sounds of Võ’s music, videos and images along with the All Stars’ percussion and taiko drums, accordion, piano, cello and guitar, Pilgrim mentioned.

“It is a great opportunity to work with the Society, to share music and culture like this,” Võ said. “Old sounds through new music.”

Võ said she finds no greater joy than telling the stories of her people through her music.

The cool thing about that restaurant is the folks who work there are pretty diverse.

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The name “full body” implies owning your body and having a loud attitude, Vaisey said. As a loud band, the group said that they bring earbuds to most shows and hand them out to the audience.

Apart from the 2009 Emmy-award winning composition for the documentary, “Bolinao 52,” Võ’s 2003 score for “Daughter from Danang” earned her an Academy Award nomination.

“I believe the differences between the Vietnamese people can be overcome with the boat people as inspiration, through music,” Võ said.

Vivian May, the director of the Humanities Center, emphasized the importance of this event. In an email, she said audience members will be captivated by the performance and its reflection of important historical events. She encourages attendance because of the piece’s conveyance of a sociopolitical issue that is both “timeless and timely in this current historical moment.”

Syracuse Symposium will also host Võ as a guest of the Composers Seminar at Setnor School of Music on Oct. 30, at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Oct. 31 and for the religion department and the SU Student Buddhist Association on Nov. 1. The events are free and open to the public. lymichae@syr.edu

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The band will play songs from its new album — expected to be released early next year — but Friday night’s audience can also look forward to hearing three songs from their 2017 album “What’s Good?” released by Sad Cactus Records.

Elton DeJohneres is a grunge, Syracusebased indie rock band featuring vocalist Chris Flack on guitar, vocalist Tanner Pechin on bass and drummer Javan Levey. Flack said that the band has experienced several lineup changes and restarted this past summer as a “reincarnation of an old band.”

The name “Elton DeJohneres” is a play on the names of celebrities Elton John and Ellen DeGeneres, inspired by a random subway sign Flack saw in New York. The band likes to play with various dynamics in its music, switching between louder sounds and quieter rhythms. Flack even joked about the band’s music being “Nirvana rip off,” a ref lection of their genre and source of inspiration.

“It’s a really cathartic experience,” Flack said, describing live music as a form of therapy for the members.

Elton DeJohneres will perform “Burst Out,” “Bad Stuff” and “Olde Me,” three staples from the band’s 2017 album “It Sounded Good in My Head.” Similar to Full Body, the band will play more unreleased, unrecorded pieces from its future LP, as well as a few covers.

Both bands have performed in pockets of Syracuse’s music scene and knew Graham prior to Otro Cinco’s live music series. Graham said that now with the support of the restaurant, he can provide more stability for bands performing in the venue while still creating a comfortable atmosphere for customers.

“It’s a cool juxtaposition to be able to go and see a band in a space that’s that beautiful and with a staff that wants people to feel safe and feel comfortable in,” Graham said.

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For Jerry Lim, photography isn’t so much a single passion as it is part of an arsenal of artistic pursuits. Lim began as a painter and earned his degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in sculpture. He said he only began to pursue photography seriously a few years ago, after reading “The Americans,” a book by photographer Robert Frank.

Lim’s inspirations are as diverse as his use of mediums. He said he’s been inspired by musical compositions, photography, sculpture and painting alike.

“I appreciate anything where someone has committed their life to it,” he said.

For his most recent work, Lim went to the Japanese town of Imbe to create a series surrounding Bizen, an special form of pottery that has been produced in the town for more than 1,000 years. In his application statement for the grant, Lim said the series

I’m trying to be less of a purist in a way and let things happen and see if it works.

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“looks at this ancient way of life and how it exists in a present filled with uncertainties.”

As an artist, Lim frequently combines the different mediums he has worked with.

Lim is also a guitarist and has released multiple albums online — one of his photo series is paired with a soundtrack of acoustic steel string guitar. Another series is presented with poetry.

“I’m trying to be less of a purist in a way and let things happen and see if it works,” Lim said with a laugh. “Why keep it all separated in a way, when so much of it overlaps all the time for me?” hklinder@syr.edu

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In the middle of Carnegie Mellon University is a concrete fence that used to divide the college before it became co-ed. The fence is used as a billboard for students. It has been painted black with white Stars of David to mourn the lives lost in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting on Saturday. courtesy of chani silverman

Campuses in Pittsburgh mourn massacre victims

By Lydia Niles feature editor

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he Tree of Life Synagogue, where Saturday’s massacre occurred, is less than a 10-minute drive from both the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Mellon University campuses.

The shooting, which is considered the deadliest antiSemitic attack in U.S. history, killed 11 worshippers and injured six others on the Jewish Shabbat. But as people across the world mourn the tragedy, interfaith leaders, Rabbis, university administrators and students on these campuses are mobilizing.

Rabbi Shmuli Rothstein, the co-director of Chabad at Pitt, said that Saturday was “a very long day,” but that the community and university’s support has helped.

Rothstein said administrators at Pitt reached out on Saturday afternoon and arranged for a counselor to help at their center.

Less than a week later, Rothstein is looking ahead to channel the sadness into something proactive. Instead of mourning the tragedy, he said, Rothstein is working with students to take that energy and bring light to it.

“In Judaism, when it comes to losing someone close to you, you have the mourning period … and at the same time we want to make sure that positivity comes out of it,” Rothstein said.

While his focus at the moment is on the students, Rothstein is working on a series of steps that he hopes will help everyone. The first step is making sure “things are more secure” so that “these situations don’t happen

again.” The next plans include ensuring students have full access to counselors, as well as facilitating the student body to come together. Rothstein is currently organizing opportunities to do a single good deed, something that is specific to Judaism.

For Lena Vodovotz, a senior microbiology major at Pitt, it’s also about moving forward one step at a time.

Vodovotz said she woke up to several texts on Saturday notifying her of the shooting, one of which came from a friend who was working at the hospital treating the victims. Last weekend was difficult for her, she said, and it was even more difficult when Vodovotz heard students going out later that night for “Halloweekend.”

“I could hear people going out,” Vodovotz said. “People were either not affected by it or were dealing with it in a different way from me.”

But, like others in the Jewish community, Vodovotz and her family have decided to look forward. Every Sunday night they eat dinner together at a Chinese restaurant that’s down the block from the Tree of Life synagogue. In unity and strength, the Vodovotz family still went to dinner on Sunday.

Rev. Brian Bennett, a campus pastor at Pitt and a member of CMU’s Council of Religious Advisors, said everyone on campus is clearly affected. Bennett said he opened up the Lutheran University Center for students on Saturday evening and kept it open through Sunday afternoon “just to be around others and just feel safe.”

He said different faiths across campus addressed the massacre in services and gatherings.

“It’s something that folks in Pittsburgh don’t expect,” Bennett said. “It’s usually a pretty quiet area, especially the area around the universities here.”

While it’s normal for students to be angry at this time, Bennett said he is advising them to find positive outlets to cope. Right now, he said, students should be looking

for ways to help the Jewish community — whether that is encouraging them to seek counseling, attend Shabbat or fundraising for the Tree of Life Synagogue.

Just a few blocks away, students leaders of faith at CMU are following similar plans of action. Chani Silverman, the co-director of Chabad on campus at CMU, said university administrators quickly reached out to all of the Jewish organizations on campus and arranged a meeting to find ways to show solidarity.

On Monday night, students and community members came together to paint a fence in the middle of campus.

The fence, which was originally put in place to separate CMU before it was coed, serves as a billboard for students, Silverman said. The concrete structure was painted completely black, with the Star of David painted white on each end and handprints all over.

Moving forward, Silverman said she’s working with students to ensure the shooting doesn’t hinder their faith.

If the community doesn’t focus on moving forward, she said, we’re “surrendering.” Silverman and her husband, Rabbi Shlomo Silverman, are suggesting that students take their grief and see it at as a “springboard.”

“Just like when you have a dark room, you have to turn on a light that dispels the darkness,” Silverman said.

While those outside of the Jewish faith are also mourning, Rothstein said the best way to help is encouraging those in the Jewish community to engage in their faith right now. Non-Jewish students should encourage their Jewish friends to go to Shabbat at a local synagogue or Jewish organization and wear their Star of David — expand their identity, he said.

“Everyone can get there. We can work on how we treat each other,” Rothstein said. “If you know someone … that has different customs, encourage them to explore those customs and be there for them.” lnilesst@syr.edu

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Julio Fulcar rolled three times on his side into the right crossbar of the Virginia Tech goal. Seconds earlier, he sent a ball trickling just over the head of the Hokies goalkeeper, but overshot the goal. It was his second close try of the second half, he didn’t convert on either. Fulcar perched up his head and slammed his hand to the ground three times before he rose gingerly and pulled down on his jersey. The frustration washed over Syracuse, who ended its hopes of a conference tournament run hardly giving itself a chance.

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security Orange. Freshman Buddy Boeheim calls him “copper,” referring to Clay’s role in DPS. The Oswego, New York, native, who now lives in Baldwinsville, walks Boeheim out of the Carrier Dome to his car after games, shares a laugh with players on the bench, and helps them deal with the rigors of a college basketball season. When Syracuse arrives at team hotels, Clary gets a list of each player’s room assignment for security reasons. He has every player’s cell phone number.

“He’s been really helpful for our team,” Boeheim said. “He travels with us a lot, if there’s a potential for something, he’s always right there. As a coach, I’m responsible for what they’re doing late at night, but you need somebody around them who can guide them.

He’s so good with them.”

Clary sits behind Boeheim on the bench when the Orange hit the road. For home games, he sits only a few feet away from the players. Over several seasons, he’s been to hundreds of regular-season games and two

3-1, in the first round of the ACC Tournament to Virginia Tech (10-5-3, 3-4-1). Though the Orange outshot the Hokies 23-11, mistakes plagues SU and gave Virginia Tech wide open chances. “We were punished for a poor first half,” McIntyre said.

The Hokies presented a challenge early on.

Just 10 minutes into the game, Virginia Tech had broken into the Syracuse box several times.

In the 17th minute, Virginia Tech’s David Sanz finally broke all the way through and took a deflected corner off his chest. Before it hit the ground, he volleyed the ball into the back of the net. The rest of play that followed featured sloppy Syracuse passes, a lack of possession and tumbling pursuits of the ball from

SU goalkeeper Hendrik Hilpert.

Later the in the game, Hugo Delhommelle sent a free kick into the head of an SU player and Buchanan was free for the cleanup, but his strike sailed high and hit the top bar. It bounced up again and Buchanan was called for a penalty in the box, stopping the chance.

When Sondre Norheim tried to pull off a routine header to Hilpert in the 55th minute, Virginia Tech’s Kristo Strickler cut the pass off in midair and gave Virginia Tech its second goal of the barrage, which made a bounce-back “very difficult” for the Orange.

“It’s one of those things,” McIntyre said. “It can happen.”

Despite 21 shots in the second half, the

Orange fell short of every opportunity as the Hokies pushed ahead.

A late Ryan Raposo goal had the Orange scurrying to start again, but with five minutes remaining, was too late. As Quashie raced ahead of Orange defenders in the final minutes of the game, he had a chance to ice a game that was long past SU’s grasp. He rolled a third Hokies goal to the right of Hilpert, backpedaled and grinned.

“We were throwing guys forward,” McIntyre said of the final goal, “and got ourselves caught.”

Again and again, as they have for the entirety of the season, Syracuse’s conference opponents continue to come out on top.

Final Fours. He’s embedded in the program’s daily operations, from recruiting to practice to game day. Clary was one of the first people senior point guard Frank Howard met when he arrived at SU as a freshman.

“He’s always around for us,” Howard said.

“But he doesn’t make exceptions for us just because we’re on the basketball team, either.”

Clary keeps an eye over SU players because, in the few years surrounding 2010, he said the program was “having some problems with our players.” Stan Kissel, a former director of basketball operations, asked Clary to travel with them. Kissel noticed “certain players were giving us a hard time,” Clary recalled.

Senior center Paschal Chukwu says he waves to Clary when they pass on campus, and he enjoys sharing laughs with the “team cop” on road trips or in the locker room. Clary jokes with the team’s equipment manager, Dan Shworles. After games, he roams in the locker room to ensure players pack up and leave the venue safely.

At Clary’s office in Sims Hall sits a Syracuse basketball backpack, a part of the net he cut during SU’s 2016 Final Four run and a signed

Joe Montana photograph above his computer monitors. Montana, an NFL Hall of Famer, mailed Clary the photograph in September 2013, after he attended a Syracuse-Tulane football game in the Carrier Dome. Montana was watching his son, Nate, Tulane’s thenquarterback. But fans near Montana’s seat behind Tulane’s bench got rowdy.

“Hey, we hope your son breaks his neck,” Clary recalled a fan yelling to Montana at the Carrier Dome.

Clary walked over to Montana and his wife and escorted them to a box. After the game, he walked Montana to the visitor’s locker room so he could speak with Nate. Montana was so appreciative of Clary’s efforts that he mailed him the signed photograph.

Growing up, Clary wanted to be a cop — the idea of protecting others seemed cool, he said.

First, he enlisted in the Air Force and was stationed in Missouri. He spent a few years protecting military bases in Korea, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. In 1996, he started his law enforcement career in Syracuse.

Before his current role with the program, he’d walk into Manley Field House or the Carmelo K.

Anthony Basketball Center just to say hello.

“It used to be that DPS would go to practice and the players right away are like, ’Oh man, who’s in trouble? Why is DPS here?’” Clary said. “I’d be like, ‘Nobody’s in trouble, I’m just hanging out, watching practice.’ They’ve gotten used to it now.”

Last season, former Syracuse forward Matthew Moyer said Clary was one of his biggest mentors. Moyer struggled during Syracuse’s loss at Florida State last January when the Orange faced a 10-point deficit at halftime. In the locker room, Boeheim “got into me” for a few mistakes, Moyer said.

Before Syracuse returned for the second half, Clary walked up to Moyer and tapped him on the shoulder.

“Matt,” Clary said, according to Moyer.

“Don’t worry about that. Go out there and just play.”

“He’s helped me become a young adult,” Moyer, now a forward for Vanderbilt, said later. “Coach Boeheim can be tough sometimes. Coach Clary’s a guy who can come in and cheer you up, always with a smile.”

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And Kendra came and she’s really better than I expected with her not playing this position the whole season. We got to be happy.”

The complete team performance comes in the middle of a hectic travel week for the Orange that Yelin said has left his team “extremely tired.” After coming back from a road trip this past weekend, the Orange had to play their only Wednesday game of the season. On Thursday morning it will leave for Virginia Tech who it plays Friday, followed by a trip to Georgia Tech for a game Sunday.

Yelin emphasized he wants his team to try to get as much rest as possible but said: “Unfortunately we don’t have it.”

Although players like Saada, Lukacs and Witherspoon were able to carry the load on Wednesday night, the Orange hope its star player will return soon.

“We saw the doctor and he had some suggestions and our trainer’s working with her,” Yelin said of Shemanova. “So we’ll see how we’re going to come, how she’s going to feel and if not she will definitely see the doctor and maybe he will come up with something for her.

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finished on a strong 7-5 run to win 25-21.

In the third set, however, Syracuse lost 25-22 to Boston College despite once holding a 22-21 lead. The Orange came out firing in the fourth set, however, easily putting the match away with a 25-13 win.

“Third set, we got a little comfortable knowing we could take this team,” Amber Witherspoon said. “I think in the fourth set we realized how we didn’t want to be in a position where they got the lead and they could really take flight on us. The fourth set was “OK, put it away. No more playing. Let’s get it done.’”

Witherspoon and her seven blocks helped Syracuse dominate Boston College at the net, as the Orange finished with 15 blocks to the Eagles five. Syracuse was also able to outhit Boston College .333 to .149 and forced 32 attack errors while only committing 14.

Yelin was pleased with his players who took on bigger roles.

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battle ball handling himself. But then, Battle knew Boeheim wanted him to score. He’d receive a down screen and attack the basket.

In SU’s two exhibitions, though, Battle’s movement has been more side-to-side, drive and kick to Hughes, Buddy Boeheim or Brissett on a wing. After Wednesday’s win, Battle spoke about the importance of the point guard recognizing the hot hand, and Hughes’ 21, Brissett’s 14 and Buddy’s 13 were due in large part to Battle’s facilitation.

“This year, other guys score the ball and any player can get going on any given night,” Battle said. “And when they get going, we want to give them the ball.”

Yet Battle’s progression in reading the floor from the point is encouraging, he said Wednesday. He said he’s seeing plays develop and is hitting players with passes he may not have made a year ago. He also said he’s more

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confident in his ball handling, which was suspect during his first two seasons at SU. His ball-handling development could make him more of a threat when he returns to his usual role.

“He’s a pretty good ball handler,” Boeheim said. “It’s hard to make that switch, he’s always been a scoring guard. I think he’s done a good job of it but he’s still more of a scoring guard. I think the thing he did tonight, what he’s gotta do is get to the basket, that’s what he does best.”

When Battle checked out with 8:36 to go on Wednesday, he sat down with Howard and Carey to his left on the SU bench. They laughed on and off for the rest of the game. Battle said that at that point, the guards weren’t talking about playing point, just “playing around.”

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fter what Jim Boeheim called the “worst call of the year” — after he ripped off his jacket in disgust, after he berated officials, someone needed to escort him off the court.

It was Feb. 22, 2014 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Orange trailed Duke by a basket with just over 10 seconds left when C.J. Fair drove along the baseline and met Duke’s Rodney Hood in front of the basket.

Fair hit Hood, who fell back on the floor.

The officials called an offensive foul on Fair, prompting Boeheim to jolt off his seat.

Andrew Clary jolted up, too.

“I was like, ‘Oh my! This isn’t going to

be good,’” Clary, a member of Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety, recalled. “So I bounced off and tried to stay close to him when he ripped off the jacket.”

Wearing a gray suit, Clary walked along Boeheim’s right side, then behind him, as both headed toward the Syracuse locker room while Blue Devils fans screamed.

Clary, 48, is the man who not only keeps Boeheim safe, but also the entire Syracuse men’s basketball roster and staff. He sits behind the team bench during every game and travels with SU ensuring players abide by the 11 p.m. curfew in the team hotel, usually a Marriott.

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On Wednesday night, Syracuse faced one of its worst fears: an injury to its star player.

Late in the second set, leading scorer Polina Shemanova was forced to the sidelines with an injury and didn’t return. However, behind 20 kills from Ella Saada, 12 from Christina Oyawale and eight from Kendra Lukacs, the Orange (14-7, 10-3 Atlantic Coast) still produced on offense and dispatched Boston College (13-12, 3-10) in four sets, 3-1 in the Women’s Building.

“I still played my game and tried to do my best,” Saada said of taking on a larger role in Shemanova’s absence. “All of us, Polina is a good player, she can’t play now. We all had to step up and do our job.”

Head coach Leonid Yelin said Shemanova hadn’t been feeling “good” for the last few matches.

Upon arriving in Louisville Saturday, she couldn’t do anything other than work out with a trainer. She recovered for the game Sunday, but Yelin believes it took a toll on her.

The five-set match Sunday lasted about three hours. Shemanova played her usual large role, leading the way for SU with 19 kills.

“Coming, flying back after playing three hours, flying back didn’t help,” Yelin said. “Monday we had all day off and Tuesday we didn’t use her. It’s not enough time to recover.

It looks like this time it’s, I hope it’s she’ll recover and maybe just get taped a little bit more. I don’t know.”

Still, the Orange played well enough to win in four sets. SU won the first set 26-24 with Shemanova, but she didn’t look like the same player she’s been for the Orange all season long, finishing with a -.154 hitting percentage and only two kills. Upon her leaving in the second set, Syracuse see boston

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men’s basketball

Battle settles in as point guard

By Billy Heyen and Matthew Gutierrez the daily orange

Late in the first half Wednesday night in Syracuse’s 89-52 exhibition win over Le Moyne, Tyus Battle dribbled and handed off to Elijah Hughes, who pulled up to knock down a 3. Battle, after two exhibition games against Division II opponents as Syracuse’s point guard due to injury, is settling into his temporary role — last season, when a Syracuse point guard dribbled toward the right wing for a handoff, Battle usually took the ball to attack left.

He finished with five assists and no turnovers against Le Moyne.

“I was low on turnovers, tried to find the open guy, tried to make

the right play,” Battle said. “So I’m getting more comfortable with it as time goes on.”

Battle, a 6-foot-6 junior, exemplifies the modern shooting guard. His size gives him the length he needs to blow by defenders with a quick, long first step. He operated most of last season, during which he averaged a team-leading 19.2 points per game, from the wings, where he could work off high screens to showcase the one-on-one ability that made him a near-NBA Draft pick.

The former five-star recruit decided to come back to No. 16 Syracuse for his junior season. But he didn’t anticipate moving down from shooting guard to the point.

A series of injuries set him up as the Orange’s point guard, at least for

now, with returning starter Frank Howard, freshman Jalen Carey and sophomore Howard Washington all sidelined with injuries in varying degrees. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said Wednesday night that he’s “not a doctor,” and doesn’t know exactly when his point guards will return to game action. SU’s regular season starts Tuesday, Nov. 6.

“We’ll see how the health of our point guards is over the next few days, but at least now we’ve had two games where we’ve played with Tyus handling the ball,” Boeheim said. “That’s good for us.”

Because Syracuse’s offense a season ago centered on three players — Battle, Howard and forward Oshae Brissett — Battle did a lot of see battle page 10

TYUS BATTLE Wednesday.

dribbles in the Le Moyne scrimmage on alexandra moreo senior staff photographer