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N • Women in leadership Local women entrepreneurs discussed their experiences building startup companies during a forum in downtown Syracuse on Wednesday.

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O • Memegate

Technology columnist Brett Weiser-Schlesinger discusses the ridiculous political memes Russia used to influence the 2016 election, and why they’re so dangerous.

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P • Gobble ‘til you wobble

If you’re stuck in Syracuse for Thanksgiving Break, have no fear.

There are plenty of local spots to celebrate the holiday and get in on Black Friday shopping.

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S • Rise to prominence

Philo Germano walked onto the Syracuse cross-country team and, after early struggles, he broke out.

Germano became an All-American in SU’s national championship run.

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crime

SU student charged for child porn Grad student placed on interim suspension

By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

Her streets LATOYA ALLEN, the incoming District 4 Common Councilor, said she wants to strengthen areas in Syracuse’s South Side by promoting homeownership and improving public safety. todd michalek staff photographer

City Councilor Latoya Allen plans to revitalize neighborhoods near SU

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

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t was Christmas Eve, and Latoya Allen loaded dozens of stockings filled with shampoo, toothpaste and deodorant into her old Ford Explorer.

She jumped into the truck, which was packed with a handful of kids participating in a youth group program, and headed toward downtown Syracuse. Allen was dropping off stockings for homeless people.

These were the streets she had known her entire life. But something had changed.

A lot of the work I plan on doing, it doesn’t have anything to do with sitting on Common Council.

Latoya Allen district 4 common councilor-elect

“Times are different,” said Allen who, last year, didn’t know she would soon be representing portions of this area as one of the city’s common councilors.

Allen handily defeated two challengers in September to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination for the District 4 council race, and after that, won just over 68 percent of the vote in November’s general election to beat Independence Party candidate Quante Wright and Serena “Rahzie” Seals of the Green Party.

“A lot of the work I plan on doing, it doesn’t have anything to do with sitting on Common Council,” see allen page 6

A Syracuse University graduate student was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges, the New York State Police announced in a statement.

Bingdong Gu, a 22-year-old graduate student in the College of Engineering GU and Computer Science, allegedly promoted digital images and videos of children under the age of 10 years old engaging in sexual acts via the internet, according to state police.

Gu faces six felony charges, including three counts of promoting a sexual performance by a child and three counts of possessing a sexual performance by a child.

In a statement, an SU spokesperson said Gu had been put on interim suspension from the university.

The university declined to comment further because the investigation is ongoing.

Gu lived on the 100 block of Remington Avenue, west of South Campus.

New York State Police made the arrest in conjunction with the FBI Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force, a federal organization that investigates sexual exploitation of children.

The Department of Defense also assisted in the investigation, according to state police. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

city

Councilor-elects say Walsh faces tough term in office

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

A crop of young politicians will be starting terms next year on Syracuse’s Common Council as the city faces a looming budget crisis.

Joe Driscoll, 38, was elected earlier this month to represent District 5, which includes parts of University Hill. Driscoll, an Eastwood resident, has traveled across the world as a beatboxing musician and campaigned for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the 2016 presidential election.

His council bid was endorsed

by the Democratic and Working Families Parties. Driscoll is replacing Nader Maroun on the council.

Maroun is term-limited.

Tim Rudd, an Elmwood resident who won an at-large council seat in the general election, is a Syracuse University alumnus and former New York City budget analyst. He’s 35.

Rudd graduated from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2007 with a master’s degree in public administration. He was also endorsed by the Democratic and Working Families Parties.

Both Driscoll and Rudd have

never previously held elected office.

In interviews, the two councilor-elects detailed their stances on several city issues, including Mayor-elect Ben Walsh’s transition, Syracuse’s budget deficit, housing vacancies and SU’s relationship with communities in central New York.

Working with Ben Walsh

A couple weeks before the election, Driscoll endorsed Walsh, 38, in a Syracuse.com op-ed. The independent would bring a fresh perspective to City Hall, setting aside “petty” partisan politics, Driscoll wrote at the time.

But despite his support for

Walsh, Driscoll said he knows the new mayor and Common Council will clash over issues.

“People have shared their concerns about him, his close relationship with developers,” Driscoll said.

“I’m not saying I’ll agree with him 100 percent of the time, but I have the faith we’ll be able to disagree and still move forward.”

Driscoll said both Walsh and the Common Council shouldn’t keep a “scorecard of ‘who got vengeance on who.’”

Rudd said he wants Walsh to be specific when answering questions

asked by the council, including how the mayor-elect plans to fill Syracuse Police Department vacancies.

“I think his hypothesis is that ‘Me being apolitical means I will be functionally political with everybody,’” Rudd said. “And that’s what we’re gonna have to learn. I guarantee it won’t be easy. Can he do it? I don’t know. I hope so.”

Looming budget crisis, housing vacancies

During the mayoral race, it was Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins’ tagline: “I want to be the see common

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Apartments to be built in spring 2019

By Bianca Moorman staff writer

On a high note Syracuse University’s Wind Ensemble performed Wednesday under the direction of Bradley Ethington, the university’s bands director, at Crouse College’s Setnor Auditorium. The University Singers, a select choral ensemble, also performed during the Setnor Ensemble Series event. The singers performed under the direction of John Warren, director of choral activities. kai nguyen staff photographer

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SU announces progress on recommendations

By Jordan Muller asst. news editor

Syracuse University has made progress on campus climate recommendations made by the Chancellor’s Workgroup on Diversity and Inclusion, the university announced in an SU News release on Wednesday.

The initiatives outlined by the recommendations include renovations to the Schine Student Center and a campus-wide accessibility audit.

The workgroup, formed in October 2015, made a total of 33 recommendations aimed at bolstering

inclusive policies and promoting diversity across campus.

Here are the developments announced Wednesday on some of the workgroup’s recommendations:

• The form SU faculty members use to update their curriculum vitae was revised to allow faculty to share how they have included equity, diversity, inclusion and international knowledge and global issues in their teaching, research and service.

• A Schine feasibility study is being conducted to analyze ways the university could utilize existing space. Discussions

have included the possibility housing cultural centers such as the Disability Cultural Center, LGBT Resource Center, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Slutzker Center for International Services in Schine.

• A draft of the SU policy on Information and Communication Technology accessibility is being revised. The university has also purchased Blackboard’s Ally software, which makes digital coursework more accessible, and is expected to introduce the software in the spring. SU introduced a pilot program to ensure software and hardware

products meet the university’s accessibility guidelines.

• About 9 million square feet of university space is being analyzed in an accessibility audit.

SU’s Campus Planning, Design and Construction and other partners will evaluate the audit and make follow-up recommendations and plans.

• SU held the second annual Indigenous Peoples Day in October.

The university’s calendar, published by Hendricks Chapel, will note Indigenous Peoples Day as the second Monday in October. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

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Women entrepreneurs discuss ventures at forum

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

Three women entrepreneurs detailed their experiences working for startups and clean energy ventures at a Global Entrepreneurship Week forum Wednesday night near downtown Syracuse.

The event was hosted by Syracuse University’s Blackstone LaunchPad at the Syracuse Center of Excellence.

Amanda Chou is a public relations and political science dual major studying at SU. She’s also the chief marketing officer for Thrive

Projects, Inc. — a startup run by SU students and alumni that focuses on community sustainability.

As chief marketing officer, Chou is in charge of the company’s social media accounts and maintaining its brand identity. She’s the only woman team leader at Thrive Projects.

Chou said being a woman entrepreneur is difficult. It was a big challenge to show how marketing is not a softer side of business, she said.

She worked Thrive Project’s table at a Clinton Global Initiative University event, which she said showed her she can do things

by herself.

Thrive Project engineers have created the Solar Powered Auxiliary Relief Kiosk system to help bring sustainable energy to parts of Nepal. The SPARK system could help promote public safety in Nepal, Chou said.

“The SPARK system, at the end of the day, will turn on the light in the dark,” Chou said.

The company, Chou said, works with communities in Nepal but also partners with nonprofits such as InterFaith Works in Syracuse to help marginalized communities, including recently settled

immigrants. Thrive Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

“We work to bridge the gap because we believe that SU students are a huge resource here in the Syracuse community, and we have to tap into that,” she said.

Karen Livingston, an adjunct professor of sustainable enterprise at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, also spoke during the forum. She teaches students to incorporate sustainable systems into their business ventures.

“I accidentally became an see forum page 6

A newly proposed 72-unit student housing development on East Genesee Street is moving forward and should be completed by spring 2019, a developer said.

Construction on an apartment project at 1037 E. Genesee St. will start in spring 2018, said Norm Swanson, the property’s owner. The housing will not target undergraduates. Instead, Swanson’s development will be specifically designed for graduates and “professionals.”

“We basically bought the property up to University Avenue and we have been waiting to build some apartments that are like Skyler Commons,” said Swanson, president and owner of the Woodbine Group and 1037 East Genesee LLC, the project’s developer.

The property is across the street from the Genesee Grande Hotel, which Swanson also owns.

It’s the former site of a Ronald McDonald House.

Swanson said the development will target graduate students because he has been involved in similar projects that drew their attention.

His company’s plan has received the approval of the Syracuse Landmark Preservation Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals, Swanson said.

“We had to present drawings, a floor plan and we began to make changes,” Swanson said. see housing page 6

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REAL ESTATE SCHEME A Syracuse company, Joseph Funding Company, was sued

by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for tricking homeowners into signing their homes over to the company while remaining responsible for their mortgages. Rebecca Ausby and Joseph Holman, owners of the company, both do not hold real estate licenses. source: syracsue.com

RAISE THE AGE The Onondaga County Legislature is revisiting raising the minimum age of purchasing tobacco products from 19 to 21. The move would prevent anybody under 21 from purchasing cigarettes, rolling papers, pipes, electronic smoking devices and more. source: cny central

CONCERT COSTS Live Nation spent more than $1.7 million to book acts at the Chevy Court this year. Earth, Wind & Fire walked away with the most money, $200,000, and played the show with the secondhighest attendance in 2017. source: cny central

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Despite lawmakers’ views, grad school scholarships are essential

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irst, Republican tax reform came for homeowners and New Yorkers. Now, it’s coming for graduate students.

The GOP has two tax plans. One is making its way through the House while the other travels through the Senate. Both reveal a significant disconnect between how the government and students view the value of graduate school.

There’s a proposed tax on university investment income if the school’s endowment exceeds more than $250,000 per student, per The Washington Post. There’s another proposal to streamline three college tax credits and eliminate the college loan interest deduction of $2,500, which can be valuable to recent graduates whose entry level jobs may not pay much.

But the most concerning detail affirms that lawmakers consider scholarships a gift instead of the only way many graduate students can pursue higher education. The House wants to eliminate a tuition waiver that allows graduate and Ph.D. students to exclude scholarships from their taxable income — a

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IT STARTS WITH A DOLLAR waiver that saves them thousands in taxes.

Some graduate and Ph.D. students receive scholarships that cover more than just tuition. As part of their graduate scholarships, students are often hired for research or teaching positions and receive a stipend. These stipends would become taxable under the GOP’s new plan.

For example, if a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University qualifies for a fellowship, they can receive a full tuition abatement — which is similar to a scholarship — in addition to a $14,000-per-year stipend to cover living expenses. Those graduate students are required to work as teaching assistants.

Under the new bill, those students would have to pay taxes on their stipend and tuition as if they were income.

Tuition for graduate students costs $1,500 per credit, per SU’s website. Most

Newhouse graduate degrees require 36 credits, meaning they’ll have to pay about $54,000 for their degree.

GRADUATED INCOME $1,500 per tuition credit x 36 credits = $54,000 Newhouse degree $14,000 per year stipend x 4 years = $56,000 total stipend $54,000 degree x $56,000 stipend = $110,000 total scholarship value Paying an estimated $35,432 in taxes leaves graduate students with only $20,568 from their stipend over four years But if it’s covered by a scholarship, it’s taxable under the new GOP plan.

Newhouse graduate students with a fellowship would pay income tax on that tuition plus the $56,000 they make from a stipend over four years — a total of $110,000. SmartAsset calcu-

lates that these students would actually have to pay more than $35,000 in taxes over four years, making 62.5 percent of their stipend useless.

This plan would likely hurt enrollment in SU’s graduate programs, said Leonard Burman, a co-founder of the Tax Policy Center and a professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at SU. “A large tax on SU grad students would either require Syracuse to increase its financial support significantly or would greatly reduce the number of students who could pursue graduate study here,” Burman said. “Given that SU is not a rich university, the latter is the far more likely outcome.”

There is no doubt that if the House plan is adopted, universities would have to change their graduate student pay structures. They might consider eliminating stipends since a big chunk of them wouldn’t even end up in students’ pockets. Or, they may be forced to dip into financial aid funding to help grad students make ends meet. Top private colleges like Harvard University and Yale University could use their large endowments

and make it work. But the plan would squeeze middle-tier universities and their students.

Thankfully, the House tax plan nearly double the standard deduction for single filers, which would help bring down how much of students’ income can be taxed. That would allow graduates to pay less taxes and net some income, but not enough to make their wages livable.

Even with today’s untaxed scholarships, graduate school isn’t completely affordable. One in ten students graduated with more than $153,000 in debt, according to a 2014 study from New America.

With more money going to the government and less going to students, debt will likely climb and education will become less accessible. GOP lawmakers must stop seeing scholarships as handouts and start seeing them for what they really are: a pathway to better education and better careers.

Adam Friedman is a junior broadcast digital journalism and economics dual major. His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at arfri100@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @friedmanadam5.

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Russia figured out our meme-loving discourse to influence election

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et’s dispel a few myths about Russia and the 2016 presidential election.

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Yes, the Russian government may have manipulated the election.

Yes, fake news — the deliberately misleading kind, not the kind you denounced because you don’t agree with it — likely influenced votes cast and political opinions held during the election cycle. And yes, we are more susceptible to online deception than we thought.

In late October, a Senate judiciary committee questioned representatives from tech mammoths Facebook, Google and Twitter on a series of newly discovered social media posts from various Russian accounts.

From photoshopped celebrity endorsements to claims of being Bill Clinton’s illegitimate child, these posts are downright ridiculous. They don’t seem like they’re capable of influencing an election.

The scary thing? They did.

Until this investigation surfaced, people on one side of the aisle believed fake social media posts were specifically targeted at the other side. But loads of the posts have since been made public, proving the opposite is true. A buff, rainbow Bernie Sanders supposedly defends LGBTQ rights, and Jesus

arm-wrestles Satan to prevent Hillary Clinton’s election.

To someone who’s the least bit informed, the posts frankly look a little silly. But as Russia knows, American political discourse on the internet has actually become this ridiculous.

Instead of turning to legitimate news sources like The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, people have started finding sources that confirm their own beliefs.

Regina Luttrell, a professor of public relations at the Newhouse School with an interest in social media habits, said she’s hardly shocked by how easily these internet trolls were able to fool people.

Luttrell said people on the social sphere create their own “filter bubbles” that determine the experience they receive on social media. If we subscribe to page updates from liberal-leaning pages, we’ll get a lot of liberalleaning posts on our timelines.

Subscribing to conservative-leaning pages can just as easily create a biased, one-sided timeline.

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That’s where fake news propagates.

“As consumers we can choose what we see, don’t see, subscribe to or don’t subscribe to,” Luttrell said in an email. “When the only source of information people had was the evening newspaper or the 6 o’clock news, we saw less of this. Journalists were our main source of information, and we relied upon them to be unbiased. Today, anyone with an internet connection can create content and with enough influence, can be considered reputable.”

This bubble played a large part in helping fake news to spread in the 2016 election. With nobody to reputably fact-check, people believed fake stories confirming whatever biases they already had.

The most shocking of the posts photoshop celebrities like actor Aziz Ansari onto ads encouraging people to “vote from home” via text message. Voting by text isn’t possible in the United States, yet there’s no telling how many people were misled into thinking these posts were legitimate.

These are all signs of a meticulously planned attempt to manipulate how we think. The plan’s success shows that Russia may know how we tick on social media even better than we do.

This whole phenomenon boils down to an inherent distrust of traditional media in the U.S. Numbers have improved recently, yet only 48 percent of people surveyed in an October Reuters/Ipsos poll declare any level of trust in the press.

Luttrell sees this as a problem that could be fixed with better media literacy.

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Percentage of adults who had “a great deal” or “some” confidence in the press rose from 39 percent in November 2016 to 48 percent in September 2017 source: reuters/ipsos poll

“Going forward, we have to educate the general population,” Luttrell said. “We have to increase people’s ability to think critically rather than take what is on the internet at face value.”

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ship of blind trust with every news article and source out there.

It simply means we need to better distinguish between actual, hard truth and manipulatory posts seeking to divide and mislead people rather than inform them. We can start with collectively better learning how to read news in the internet age.

Russia knows our online political discourse is broken, and the country took advantage of it in the most egregious way possible. These posts weren’t created by people passionate about any particular issue or position. They were created to take advantage of our existing disagreements and divide us even further along those lines.

Disagreeing on opinions is healthy in a working political environment. Debating over facts when everyone is working off the same factbook is even better. But political discussion on the internet is utterly broken, and only a purge of fake and misleading information — beginning with us users — can eradicate it from future election cycles and beyond.

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allen Allen said. “Because it’s things I naturally do without this position.”

For the last seven years, Allen has run the Precious Lily & Brotherhood Foundation, a South Side youth mentoring program that helps kids learn manners and work skills. The stocking trip across Syracuse last Christmas Eve was a foundationsponsored event.

The councilor-elect has lived on the South Side for most of her life: down Elk Street, McKinley Street and Colvin Street, among other spots.

Walking down Midland Avenue on Monday, Allen looked at a small yellow house near the West Taylor Street intersection. In high school, a girl living there had made Allen’s prom dress. That was in 2003.

Allen thinks a lack of homeownership has hit neighborhoods here hard, she said. When she was growing up, everyone knew everyone else. Allen could walk across the road to see friends and eat dinner with their families. She biked around the South Side. Kids don’t do that anymore, Allen said.

“My oldest son is 14. He doesn’t really walk anywhere (now),” Allen said. “He’s tall.

I wouldn’t want him to be mistaken for an adult in any situation. He doesn’t really walk to many places.”

As a councilor, she wants to make sure District 4’s neighborhoods are safe. Young families want to buy property, and that sense of community is reestablished in some way.

Stabilization is key.

But not just on the South Side, she said, a traditionally low-income section of the city known for old housing stock and a high crime rate. District 4 is an ethnically and financially diverse jurisdiction that stretches across the Interstate 81 corridor, encompases most of the Euclid neighborhood and Syracuse University’s Main Campus.

Informing residents about homeownership from page 1

common council next mayor of Syracuse, not its last mayor.”

“It kinda gave me chills every time I heard it,” Driscoll said. “I got upset whenever he would say it, because I love this place.”

Syracuse’s projected budget deficit for the 2017-18 fiscal year is $16.5 million, finance records show. Driscoll said Walsh faces “the most challenging years ... in Syracuse’s history” and hopes the mayor-elect fights to keep the city away from state control.

Buffalo was placed under the watch of a New York state-appointed financial control board in 2003 after facing a potential budget gap of hundreds of millions of dollars. A financial control board makes all major financial decisions for a city.

Some politicians, including Driscoll, fear New York officials could take over Syracuse’s financing within the next few years.

Destabilized neighborhoods with high rates of poverty are already an issue in Syracuse, Rudd added. He said vacant, visibly crumbling houses are scattered across the South Side.

But there’s a hidden danger spreading throughout the entire city, he said, that officials need to address. from page 3

forum entrepreneur … I fell into entrepreneurship,” Livingston said.

Livingston started her career as a certified public accountant, expecting a linear path to success: going to school, getting a job and climbing the corporate ladder, she said. As a CPA, Livingston said she took few risks. But as an entrepreneur, she learned to take bigger from page 3

housing Swanson said a building on the property had fire code violations, giving the developers an opportunity to demolish the building.

This has allowed the company to make room for the proposed 72 units of new apartments, Swanson said.

It will take developers about eight months

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programs offered through the nonprofit Home HeadQuarters organization and the Syracuse Educational Opportunity Center will be some of her priorities as councilor, Allen said.

Encouraging families to explore housing options on the Hill, though, will also be important, she said. As students increasingly opt to rent new luxury apartments, other homes near campus might be left vacant, Allen said.

“I would love for those houses to go back up on the market,” Allen said.

Lamar Hathaway, a friend of Allen’s since the eighth grade, grew up with the councilorelect. They both attended Clary Middle School and Corcoran High School. Hathaway now works with Allen’s youth organization.

Hathway, on election night, sat with Allen and a small group of friends and family at the Insourcing office space on West Fayette Street, waiting for the results. He pulled Allen aside after the victory. “‘You have no idea how proud (I am) of the growth that I’ve seen in you,’” Hathaway told her. He had served as Allen’s campaign manager during her unsuccessful run for a Syracuse City School District Board of Education seat in 2015.

He has helped coordinate Precious Lily & Brotherhood Foundation events such as trips to local nursing homes, where kids give out holiday gifts to residents whose families live outside of Syracuse.

Allen, who’s raising her two sons Raquan Pride Jr. and Mekhi Mike while working a night job, said the foundation has become a huge part of her life. She’s always thinking of ways to improve the organization.

“These people work without cameras, without accolades. They don’t get paid for what they do,” said Khalid Bey, an at-large councilor-elect, who currently represents District 4.

Allen’s work as a community organizer increases her likelihood of performing well as a common councilor, Bey said. She has a good understanding of the issues facing District 4, Bey said, particularly the need for policies supporting neighborhood preservation.

LATOYA ALLEN has lived on the South Side for most of her life. She runs a local mentoring program for the city’s youth. todd michalek staff photographer

Along Midland Avenue on Monday, Allen stopped walking. It was the border of District 4, by Tallman Street.

A house where Allen spent part of her childhood was a few blocks away. The Southwest Community Center was a short walk away.

That’s where she first met Bey, while helping organize an obesity awareness run.

“I just really enjoy helping people,” she said.

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“If you were to look at the demographics of the outer neighborhoods, the crisis is bigger than anyone has ever imagined,” Rudd said. “Because the houses look OK right now.

But they’re full of older people with no kids, who are aging in place, who are not going to stay there forever. And there’s no demand for young people with jobs to move in.”

SU’s city relationships

As a councilor, Driscoll wants SU students to feel comfortable throughout the whole city and not just the “oasis” of Marshall Street, he said. Informing the campus of Syracuse art and music events is key, Driscoll said.

The District 5 councilor-elect would also like to see SU investing in community partnerships modeled off a universitysponsored co-op in Cleveland. That co-op, called the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative, aims to create living-wage jobs in lowincome neighborhoods.

Case Western Reserve University helps fund Evergreen.

Rudd, meanwhile, said the city should look to support SU’s growth. It’s the biggest economic engine in central New York, he said.

“I definitely agree with (SU’s) current vision of moving away from South Campus, building on Main Campus, making it more

dense,” Rudd said, referencing Chancellor Kent Syverud’s major Campus Framework project, which includes phasing out South Campus housing.

Syracuse once exported manufacturing products to other countries, he said. Now,

Syracuse is exporting education to other countries through SU, as international students travel to the United States for college.

“How should we be building around (SU)?”

Rudd said.

risks, Livingston said.

She initially became interested in entrepreneurship ventures when she was trying to get solar panels installed at her home. The first company she hired went bankrupt before installation, she said, and the second company installed the panels improperly.

Livingston said she cared about sustainability and believed in solar energy as a viable source of power, so she decided to create a better way to install solar energy.

Entrepreneurship came naturally to her, she said.

“I started thinking about things like, ‘Oh, I was that kid where those in my grade school wanted to play house, and I came up with something called mergers and acquisitions,’” Livingston said.

Amy Casper, CEO of Ephesus Lighting, a Syracuse-based solid-state lighting company, also spoke Wednesday.

Ephesus Lighting is used by many sports

arenas. The company’s products were used in the 2015 Super Bowl game.

Casper has worked for Motorola, Lockheed Martin and WaferTech/TSMC in the past.

She said an entrepreneur must always create a new path, looking for untapped markets.

There was no sports lighting industry before Ephesus, she said.

“You can change the market with a great idea. We did,” Casper said.

to complete the apartments, he said. Swanson said the building will look similar to Skyler Commons. The new building’s color will be different, though.

“We will be matching the colors to the house that we are preserving,” Swanson said.

“That will be off-white, a tan and a brown.”

Swanson’s development is different than other luxury housing projects around the Hill, said David Mankiewicz, senior vice

president of research, policy and planning at CenterState CEO, an economic development strategy company.

“It’s significantly smaller in terms of numbers of beds, so it won’t have as great an impact; it is already student housing, so there is not as much new inventory being added, and the developer is local, with a long track record of making investments, and holding onto those investments in University Hill,”

Mankiewicz said in an email.

Swanson said that instead of having threeto four-bedroom apartments like Skyler Commons, his development will include onebedroom apartments. He said rent will be about $1,500 per month.

“It is a good location because of transportation, (with) more easy access to the university, hospital and public housing,” Swanson said.

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International students to gather for holiday dinner

By Myelle Lansat

asst. digital editor

There’s always a mad dash to hit the road and travel home after the last class lets out for Thanksgiving Break, but some students don’t have that option.

Many international students are unable to leave campus because home is more than a day’s travel away. With this in mind, Syracuse University will host its 33rd International Thanksgiving Celebration at Hendricks Chapel on Thursday night.

International students comprise 19 percent of the SU student body, and the dinner is on track to serve more than 450 students with a staff of 57 table hosts, said Rev. Brian Konkol, dean of Hendricks Chapel. As a former international student in South Africa, Konkol finds the dinner gratifying.

“On a deep personal level, to be able to host international students in some ways for me feels like paying it forward in response to those in South Africa that were so hospitable to me,” he said.

The dinner will feature traditional holiday foods with respect to international appetites. Kosher and halal turkey will be available along with vegetarian stuffing and gravy, beans and rice and pumpkin pie.

Proper American culture is something that we as international students aren’t close to.

Kavita Duta graduate student

Graduate student Mirjakhon Turdiev has lived in Syracuse with his wife and three children since 2014. Turdiev and his family are from Uzbekistan and never celebrated Thanksgiving until coming to

the United States.

“There were differences and difficulties for my family, especially because none of them spoke English,” he said.

Turdiev’s first Thanksgiving was an authentic celebration at a family friend’s home in Syracuse. When his family saw the turkey, mashed potatoes and a fully set table, Turdiev said he considered it to be their first real experience in the U.S. This year, Turdiev and his family and friends want to blend their cultures with the Thanksgiving meal. He said an international Thanksgiving table wouldn’t have turkey as the main dish, but rather a mix of cultural foods and tastes from all over the globe.

“As international students that come from my country, it’s a break time and some students will stay in Syracuse to keep studying and catch up with assignments, including myself, and we’re thinking to observe or celebrate in a mixed form,” Turdiev said.

Turdiev will attend the Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Hendricks and said he looks forward to learning about and meet-

ing different students and cultures.

For many international undergraduates, the campus will feel empty during the break. Home is 7,192 miles away for freshman Paritosh Jain, and this will be his first Thanksgiving celebration in the U.S. While he stays on campus over Thanksgiving break, his family in Delhi, India, is looking forward to his return in December.

“Honestly I just feel kind of sad that I’m here for a week alone and I don’t have a lot to do, so I’m going to plan something out,” he said.

Jain knows of one floormate also staying on campus, but a week of solitude hasn’t deterred him from taking advantage of the break.

“I would do a solo trip to Niagara Falls, maybe, I’m not sure,” he said. “Check out the city and check out different parts and explore it myself.”

Taking advantage of all that Syracuse has to offer is a common goal among international students staying on campus.

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7 things to do over Thanksgiving Break in Syracuse

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If you’re stuck on campus with nothing to do over Thanksgiving Break, don’t fret. Here’s a list that will surely satisfy all your Thanksgiving needs in Syracuse. From holiday meals to exercise classes to help you burn off the extra calories, campus-bound students don’t have to be bored during break.

Happy Planksgiving Challenge

Bodhi Barre is challenging the community to plank at its studio, before or after class, for as long as possible. Efforts will be timed and participants will automatically be entered into a drawing for a free month at Bodhi Barre. The winner with the longest time will receive an

hour-long massage voucher to Massage Envy.

Those with the subsequent longest times can win other prizes, like gift certificates, T-shirts and free passes to local restaurants. Participants can modify their plank positions as necessary but will be part of a separate category. The studio will take the best times from each participant.

When: Sunday to Nov. 25 during studio hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon Where: Bodhi Barre, 3530 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse NY 13214 Cost: Free

Thanksgiving dinner for veterans

Clear Path for Veterans will host its annual Thanksgiving dinner, which is free for vet-

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erans and their immediate family members.

Clear Path will also host three one-hour meal services on Thanksgiving Day from 11

a.m. to noon, noon to 1 p.m. and 1-2 p.m. Each session can serve 100 guests, so reservations are strongly suggested. Reservations can be made by visiting or calling the front desk at 315-687-3300. Reservations must be made

by Thursday. Any remaining spots after Nov. 16 will be open to the general public for a donation of $20 per person.

When: Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23; times vary Where: Clear Path for Veterans, 1223 Salt Springs Road, Chittenango NY 13037 Cost: Free for veterans and their immediate families

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Where to spend your holiday break if you don’t have a car The holiday season is approaching, and although school is taking a break, the city of Syracuse is not. For those who are aren’t going home for turkey and potatoes and don’t have access to a car, fear not. There are opportunities close to campus that are accessible via public transportation.

from Dunkin’ Donuts.

CNY Jazz will also host a concert by internationally known blues guitarist King Solomon Hicks on Sunday at the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center. Doors open at 4 p.m. and student tickets are $10. Larry Luttinger, CNY Jazz’s executive director, said the show is also a cabaret, so people can enjoy food and drinks.

CNY Jazz shows

Everson Museum exhibits

By Sarah Allam staff writer

For the musical buffs just a little too far from home, upstate New York offers several concerts and interactive events, including those hosted by CNY Jazz. The arts foundation has a collection of shows in the next week to view or participate in.

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Cost of a day pass for the Centro buses, which can be used throughout the city of Syracuse

The scholastic Jazz Jam will be held at Le Moyne Plaza on Saturday from 2-5 p.m. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to bring an instrument and participate in the open mic show. A professional group, the CNY Jazz Orchestra, will perform as well, and guests are welcome to join in with their rhythm.

You can hang out at this casual show with some pizza from Cam’s Pizzeria or a treat

Just a short walk from campus, the Everson Museum is offering a number of exhibitions through Thanksgiving break for interested students. The exhibits include photography installations, portraiture, historic drawings and ceramics shows, among others.

The ceramics show “From Funk To Pun,” welcomes works from 25 West Coast artists and the Everson’s private collection of sculptures by East Coast artists, said Peter Held, the museum’s curator.

Print and poster show

The Dowling Art Center is hosting a limited edition print and poster show, so if your walls are empty, you’re in luck. Prints done through etching, lithography, silkscreen and other methods will be on display and for sale on Saturday and Nov. 25 from noon to 4 p.m.

“We offer prints from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s,” said John Dowling, owner of the center.

“Our theme this year is ‘signed and dated,’ so all prints are signed by the artist.”

Prints by master artists like Joan Miro, Henri Matisse and Robert Hoppe will be on display. Seize this opportunity to find print

KING SOLOMON HICKS is one of several artists set to perform at CNY Jazz Central’s annual holiday series.

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and poster treasures that you can purchase to bring home.

Local Thanksgiving meals

A number of restaurants in Syracuse offer dinner on Thanksgiving. Close to campus, 1060 Restaurant offers a buffet that costs $34.95 per person. The buffet will be open from 1-5 p.m.

Cathy’s Corner Cafe also offers pick-up and delivery on Thanksgiving until 2 p.m.

You can have all the courses of a traditional Thanksgiving meal down to the cranberry relish and homemade stuffing from the comfort of your own dorm.

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dinner management. For Dutta, traveling home to Pune, India, is an 18-hour journey — if she takes a direct flight. While spending the break at SU, Dutta plans to attend her first Thanksgiving dinner at Hendricks and explore the area with her husband.

Dutta is eager to attend a real Thanksgiving celebration, as her knowledge on the feast is limited to television and movies.

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Lancaster, Madison, Westcott and many other areas

Hotel & Conference Center for a Thanksgiving dinner spread at Rachel’s. The menu will include a cheese and bread station, an assorted salad bar, carving and entree and dessert stations. Some dishes include sweet potato and orange salad, prime rib with au jus, maple syrup glazed pork loin and a roasted fall vegetable medley. Parking in the lot is free. To make reservations, call 315-477-8205.

When: Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23 from 1-7 p.m.

Where: Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center, 801 University Ave., Syracuse, 13210 Cost: $32

Black Friday shopping

For some post-Thanksgiving blues retail therapy, stop by Destiny USA for all your Black Friday shopping needs. The mall is less than a 10-minute drive from campus and has more than 200 retail locations. For those who want to visit the mall on a different day, Syracuse University offers a bus service that runs from various locations around campus including College Place, Archbold Gymnasium, Sadler Hall and Brewster/Boland/Brockway Hall.

Bus service will not run on Black Friday.

When: Nov. 24 Where: Destiny USA, 9090 Destiny USA Dr, Syracuse, 13204 Cost: Mall entry is free

Black Friday Burn

Pulse Fitness Studio Syracuse is leading a 90-minute workout for people looking to burn off all those Thanksgiving calories. The class will

The Freshman Tour, which travels to 45 universities from Oct. 8 to Dec. 10, will make a pit stop at Spark Contemporary Art Space on Nov. 26.

The one-day pop-up shop will feature merch from Missguided and giveaways from Pier 1 Imports, Lyft, DIFF Eyewear, KIND Snacks, StudentUniverse and Solé Bicycles.

The event will be held from 2-9 p.m. at Spark, which is located about 15 minutes from campus at 1009 E. Fayette St. The event will also feature live DJs, a Silent Disco Listening Party from Zaena & Jason Maek and an artist meet-and-greet. ssallam@syr.edu

said. “Proper American culture is something that we as international students aren’t close to.”

The Hendricks Thanksgiving celebration will display traditional American culture and serve as an extension of the SU family. With his first Thanksgiving celebration at the university, Konkol wants to expand the meaning of family and be hospitable to those whose homes are thousands of miles away.

“This is a time of year when a significant number of people tend to spend time with family, and our international students remind us that the concept of family is by no means bound to biology and genetics,” Konkol said. malansat@syr.edu

start with 45 minutes of Zumba followed by 45 minutes of TNT, or Tight-N-Tone, a Pulse-specific workout that targets the entire body with dumbbells, bands and body-weight exercises.

When: Nov. 24 at 11 a.m.

Where: Pulse Fitness Studio Syracuse, 713 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, 13204 Cost: $10 drop in; one punch from Pulse Punch Card with no additional fee for members

Antiques show

A Syracuse holiday tradition for nearly 40 years, the Syracuse Thanksgiving Antiques Show will host more than 200 exhibitors at the New York State Fairgrounds Center of Progress Building.

Find the perfect holiday gifts for friends and family members. The exhibits offer a selection of antiques with arts and collectibles.

When: Nov. 25 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Nov. 26 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Where: New York State Fairgrounds Center of Progress Building, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse, 13209 Cost: Admission is $7 and parking is free

SKY Armory Night Market

The market features live music, food, cocktails, and a range of artisan products. Products include artworks, hair products, clothes, jewelry, essential oils, candles, wines, pet beds, mugs, vinyls and books.

When: Nov. 25 from 3-10 p.m.

Where: SKY Armory, 351 S. Clinton St., Syracuse, 13202 Cost: Tickets are $5 each with a free tote bag, while supplies last Staff writer Maggie Peng contributed reporting to this story. rhsachs@syr.edu

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events bar Thanksgiving is around the corner, which means your final projects, exams and essays are as well. To treat yourself for all your hard work, venture into the tundra of Syracuse and enjoy these holiday-inspired events.

STRATHMORE ARTISANS 9TH ANNUAL ARTS & CRAFTS SALE Once started as an opportunity for Strathmore-based artists to network and sell their artwork, the Artisans 9th annual Arts & Crafts Sale has expanded this year to include creatives from outside the local area. when: Thursday to Friday, 4-9 p.m.; Saturday, 12-9 p.m.; Sunday 12-5 p.m. where: Syracuse Oncenter cost: Free for guests, $20-$40 for vendors to table THE FUNK GIVES BACK: NY STANDS WITH PUERTO RICO Enjoy afternoon music by Joe Driscoll, FLOTUS and Addison Gates at Funk ’n Waffles in downtown Syracuse. Tickets are $10, and all proceeds will be donated toward hurricane relief efforts in Puerto Rico. when: Saturday from 2-5 p.m. where: Funk ‘n Waffles, 307-313 S. Clinton St. cost: Tickets are $10 JOHN CARPENTER John Carpenter, also known as “Master of Horror” is a film director, musician and producer. Carpenter will perform the original score from “Halloween” and “Escape from New York,” movies that he also directed. when: Saturday at 6 p.m. where: The Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. cost: $50-$225 JIMMY WEBB: THE GLEN CAMPBELL YEARS

The Gift Box hosts an annual holiday event in which local artists are invited to sell their work alongside the store’s goods.

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hopes people will support small businesses like hers.

This year’s Open House will feature new attractions like a local vendor serving hot dogs and hamhe Gift Box has been a go-to holiday spot in burgers. The gift shop will also have fresh holiday Syracuse for more than 30 years. wreaths and a tasting bar for its new spreads and dips.

Owner Jan Constas took over the business The Open House is a chance for the employees in 2000, and she has hosted its annual Open House the to reconnect with their old customers as well as weekend before Thanksgiving for the past 14 years. meet new ones.

The Gift Box, located at 4317 Fay Road, will pres“It can be crazy but it’s fun,” said Kathleen Anthony, ent its annual Open House this an employee of 12 years. “We actually weekend, selling its original have friendships with them. We know products as well as those from their stories and they know ours.” local artists. It will be open FriThe Gift Box also collaborates day from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with the Food Bank of Central We actually have Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

New York during the holiday seafriendships with and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. son. The shop started collecting “The role of the Open House nonperishable items for the food (our customers). We is to kick off the holiday season,” bank in early November. know their stories Constas said. “It’s our busiest time “Everyone likes that too since it’s of the year. It is truly wonderful.” the season of giving,” Constas said. and they know ours.

Constas has had the help of her “A lot of people also donate money. mother to ensure the event runs People really like to give to the comKathleen Anthony the gift box employee smoothly. Upon arrival, her mother munity during the holiday.” welcomes visitors with fresh cookBetsy Guilfoil has worked at ies and warm cider to enjoy while browsing through The Gift Box for four years. She said she loves their latest items. everything about this time of the year for the store The Gift Box is filled with purchased, handmade or because it is the friendliest environment. locally sourced items. Ten local artists display their “It is almost like a party or a reunion,” she said. “It work including knitted pieces, paintings, stained glass is all of the loyal and great customers that come in. and woodwork. Constas supports the local artists by Every year is even bigger than the last.” displaying their artwork, and, in turn, she said she mlpronte@syr.edu

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American songwriter Jimmy Webb will pay tribute to Glen Campbell, a friend and musician who passed from Alzheimer’s disease. Webb received his first gold record when he was 18 years old and was the youngest inductee to the National Songwriter Hall of Fame. He is also the only musician to ever win a Grammy in the music, lyric and orchestration categories. when: Saturday from 7:30-10:30 p.m. where: The Palace Theatre, 2384 James St. cost: Tickets are $35 CNY JAZZ CABARET: KING SOLOMON HICKS After nine years as lead guitarist in the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York, King Solomon Hicks will head to central New York to perform in the CNY Jazz Cabaret as part of its 2017-18 season. Hicks has also performed at the Iridium and Minton’s Playhouse in Manhattan and with artists like Ne-Yo, Tony Bennett and Lee Ritenour. when: Sunday from 5-8 p.m. where: Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center, 801 University Ave. cost: Tickets are $30 advance sale and $35 at the door

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bennie From his days playing hockey to becoming a two-time cross-country All-American at Syracuse, Bennie has put his team before himself. On Nov. 18, he’ll do the same as the Orange aims to capture its second national championship in three years. For Bennie, who has been Syracuse’s second-best runner since his sophomore season, Saturday’s race is an opportunity to show how important he is to the Orange.

Much of that selflessness comes from his beginnings in sports and mirroring his brothers, Graham and Jeremy. When Bennie started high school, all three ran cross country and played hockey together. He is the youngest of the three, but was determined to keep up with his brothers.

Bennie challenged himself to be just as fast as his brothers, so every day he put in extra work, Graham said. Age didn’t make a difference in Bennie’s mind. He just wanted to be right alongside Graham and Jeremy when the race finished.

“He wasn’t overtaken by the need to be the number one,” Wachusett cross-country head coach Brian Wallace said.

As high school sped by, it became apparent that Bennie was a special talent. In fall 2011, his junior year, Bennie qualified for nationals after a “surprising” performance at regionals, but he never planned on making it to Oregon. So, as an assistant captain, he opted for hockey tryouts.

A year later, Bennie had asserted himself as one of the top talents in the northeast and even in the country. The senior easily qualified for nationals, but again passed on the opportunity.

“He could make a personal decision,” Gra-

ham said, “and go out there and run another cross-country race to bolster his running career. Or he could make a leadership decision, be selfless, and go to hockey tryouts, and set the stage for the young guys coming in.”

When hockey ended and outdoor track began, Bennie recommitted himself to running.

In 30 years of coaching, Wallace never had a 4x800-meter relay team that ran below eight minutes, he said. Six or seven times, he said, his teams finished between 8:00 and 8:02. It was up to Bennie to break the eightminute barrier.

At the Massachusetts state meet in spring 2011, Wachusett’s 4x800 team, led by Bennie, clocked a 7:53 to win the event. After three decades, Wallace finally saw his relay team finish under eight minutes. But Bennie wasn’t finished.

One week after breaking eight minutes, Wachusett ran a 7:48 to qualify for nationals.

Two weeks later at nationals, the team ran a 7:36, setting the new Massachusetts state record which still stands today.

Bennie ran wherever he was needed. Sometimes he anchored to close the race while other times he would run the second or third leg to bust the race open, his mother, Lisa, said.

“The kind of person he is,” Wallace said, “just having the ability to rally his teammates to get better each week … He’s got such a will to get his job done as a teammate.”

Bennie showcased those qualities when he arrived at Syracuse in fall 2013. Upon arriving to Syracuse, the gold standard on its roster was Martin Hehir. At the time, he was the fastest Syracuse runner in modern team history and did everything the right way, Bennie said.

During his redshirt- and true-freshman years, Bennie looked at Hehir like he did his brothers, observing what Hehir did and apply-

ing it to become a stronger runner. Quickly, However, Bennie isn’t just chasing anyBennie got faster, but so did then-sophomore more. With younger runners looking to him Justyn Knight, who became SU’s top run- as the model that Hehir was years ago, Benner that year, ahead of Hehir. Knight wasn’t nie is now being chased. While Bennie is the only runner to eclipse Hehir. From 2014 now a leader for Syracuse, he’s less vocal to 2015, the gap between Hehir and Bennie than other seniors on the team like Knight essentially vanished. and Philo Germano.

Before the Coast-to-Coast Battle in Bean“His words carry a lot of weight,” Fox said, town at the end of September in 2015, SU assis- “because he doesn’t waste them.” tant coach Adam Smith remembered talking Last week, Syracuse ran its championship to head coach Chris Fox about Bennie possibly workout on Sweet Road in Manlius. The sixbeating Hehir. mile course tests runners to their limits. Some “Fox kind of looked at me like, ‘I don’t think runners on the team had an “A” day, Smith so dude,’” Smith said. said. Bennie didn’t. He didn’t have an awful Both runners finished the race in 23:55.0 day, but didn’t have a great day. It was a solid and Hehir was given third place. Bennie offi- “B-plus,” Smith said. cially finished fourth.

But Bennie was the first person applauding “That was the first time we thought Colin the rest of his teammates that day, telling might be for real,” Smith said. those who had great workouts to keep it up Five weeks later, Bennie beat Hehir at the and helping to coach runners who had off days Atlantic Coast Conference championship like he did. Even on a “B-plus” day, Bennie is as before finishing one spot ahead of Hehir when consistent as it comes for SU. Syracuse won the NCAA championship on “There are no days off,” Bennie said. “Rings Nov. 21, 2015. are fun.”

The 2015 season solidified Bennie’s posiBennie has been Syracuse’s No. 2 for tion as one of Syracuse’s top runners and the better part of three years and hasn’t showed the importance of his consistency. missed a beat. Many opponents know of That year, Bennie finished in the top 10 in Knight because of his talent, but also his every event he raced in. Heading into NCAAs, flare. Bennie and Knight are complementhe coaching staff wanted him to aim for the tary, like “Yin and Yang,” Lisa said. Knight low 20s, Smith said. Bennie finished eighth. draws the attention, while Bennie f lies Having bested his brothers and Hehir, Ben- under the radar. nie needed someone new to chase. Knight But that’s how Bennie would rather have became that someone. it be. When runners are nervous before a big In the two years since SU’s national race, Bennie is the one that calms everyone’s title, Bennie has never beaten Knight, but nerves, Hehir said. And when the race comes the two have become one of the country’s to an end, he’s always in front of those who top pairs. forgot about him.

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germano On that morning of Nov. 10, 2012, Germano eyed the SU logos from far away. Deer felt if Germano could finish in the top 10, he might draw attention from Syracuse assistant coaches Brien Bell and Adam Smith.

The gun fired. Germano chugged and crossed the finish line in 13th. His final time of 16:03.4 was six full seconds behind 10th place.

Deer remembered looking over at his senior, eyes locked on Bell and Smith. They never approached him.

“I was mainly just disappointed about the race,” Germano said. “I had bigger goals.”

Despite the letdown, the race qualified Germano for regionals, where he then earned a spot at nationals.

Even though he wasn’t recruited to play at Syracuse, Germano walked onto the team his freshman year. When Bell and Smith didn’t approach him, he kept his head up and called Smith about joining the team.

“His (personal records) weren’t anything jaw-dropping,” Smith said. “(But he’s) the kind of guy we look for. A good, team guy that wants to work hard.”

Germano wasn’t prepared for what would happen.

••• ermano raced around the indoor track at Penn State in February 2014, quickly losing ground on the lead pack. Lap-bylap, he dropped deeper. When the 5,000-meter race was over, Germano crossed the line in 13th out of 22 participants, last among all Syracuse runners. He was just a freshman walkon who redshirted the cross-country season, but that didn’t wasn’t an excuse for him.

“I absolutely blew up,” Germano said.

Syracuse head coach Chris Fox and Bell pulled the freshman aside. It was his first race for Syracuse. But like himself, the coaches expected more out of him.

“He wasn’t Division I ready,” Germano’s father Phil said. “Not even close. What it took to work out and prepare for the program, he was not ready for that. But he had the will and desire.”

After that race, Germano’s mindset changed. He turned into a “sponge,” said thenSyracuse star Martin Hehir.

Gradually, Germano improved. He lagged behind less and less during workouts as he adjusted to the “professional” environment his coaches established. At the end of his true freshman year, Germano was still one of the slowest runners on the team, but he felt stronger, and that strength carried into the summer, until he hit another obstacle.

Germano spent that summer working as a lifeguard at Lincoln Park Pool. In between shifts, some of the lifeguards played soccer in a field next to the pool. Divots littered the field.

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knight “Sometimes you have your day,” Syracuse assistant coach Adam Smith said, “and that day was Tiernan’s day.”

Cheserek and Tiernan were both experienced runners in their last year of eligibility. Knight was one of the favorites, but not the favorite. In all cross-country disciplines, outdoor and indoor track, Knight has had his share of chances to claim an individual national title, but hasn’t won one yet.

Knight is the best runner in Syracuse history, with two top-five finishes in three years at the national championship. When Knight began his college career, Syracuse was a middle-of-the-pack finisher at nationals, unable to get over the hump. Knight turned the team into a perennial top-three team and national champion in 2015. He has carried the program on his back while making his teammates better. But he has never captured an individual cross-country championship. On Saturday, he has one final opportunity to do it.

“I don’t go into any race racing for second,” Knight said.

In 2016, Knight missed qualifying for the Olympics by 0.1 seconds, his mother Jennifer said. That November, Tiernan beat Knight at the national championship. Come 2017, he qualified for the World Championships in the 5,000meter. When it turned to race time, a familiar face lurked in the finals. It was Tiernan.

With five laps to go, Tiernan moved into the lead, quickening the pace by two seconds. But

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On a hot summer day, Germano juked and ran to make a play on the ball. He kicked. His body went one way and his foot the other.

“I heard a pop,” Germano said. “I kept trying to run on it. I was like ‘this isn’t real. This isn’t happening. It’s still good right?’”

But it wasn’t. Germano damaged a ligament in his left foot. Just as he was beginning to gain steam as a runner, his redshirt freshman season ended as more of a rebuild from his injury. The first day he arrived on campus was his first day running that season, Germano said. Others had been training all summer, he couldn’t.

Germano spent a great deal of that redshirt freshman season unable to contribute, watching his teammates travel the country and run against the nation’s best.

“I’m already bottom of the pack,” he said.

“And now I’m injured.”

It was another season of disappointment for Germano, struggling to grasp with another missed opportunity to show he belonged.

Instead of racing, the injured Germano helplessly had to watch his team compete, his sister Sara said.

Once healed, he promised himself he would never feel helpless again.

••• ermano couldn’t believe it. Eighty-ninth at Wisconsin. He was furious. After battling back from injury the year before, he spent the summer in Syracuse training, and this race didn’t prove it.

“That’s not what I wanted to do if I wanted to secure a spot,” Germano said, “to even run at nationals.”

When the team arrived back in Syracuse, the first thing Germano did was shave his head. Rather than sport the flowing locks he had the entire year, he cut it all off.

“I wanted something to blame,” Germano said. “I thought short-hair Philo was going to be better than long-hair Philo.”

Everyone could see the change in appearance. He was more “hairodynamic,” a phrase Hehir coined. But Germano did something else that day, something no one else knew until after the season.

“He didn’t want to be the guy that kept Syracuse from winning a national championship,” Phil said. “He’d just say ‘I don’t want to be that guy that holds us back.’”

On the corner of his desk, sat a small post-it note. He wrote on the paper: “You are an All-American.”

And improbably, he transformed into one.

The ACC Championships took place in Tallahassee, Florida, just two weeks after Wisconsin. It was a hot morning at the end of October. Syracuse lined up in the pole position, Justyn Knight, Hehir and Colin Bennie up front, while Germano stood in the back of the remaining three SU runners. But he didn’t

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Knight didn’t budge. He stayed with the pack, gradually chasing down the man that beat him a year earlier.

Tiernan couldn’t maintain his pace, and Knight only sped up, inching closer and closer.

Knight finished in ninth place in his first appearance on the world stage. Tiernan took 11th.

“If he doesn’t win,” former SU runner Martin Hehir said, “he’s just going to come back with a vengeance.

Knight’s talent makes him one of the most well-known runners in the world. As one of the nation’s most dominant athletes, he’s commanded attention from everyone, including his teammates. They want to run with him.

Everyone’s always wanted to run with him.

When the St. Michael Catholic (Ontario, Canada) High School runner was just beginning to rise to local stardom, his head coach, Frank Bergin, found him waiting at the track after practice. Everyone else was gone, and Bergin was on his way out, but Knight was waiting for two kids from the nearby elementary school, who couldn’t have been older than 11, Bergin said. The two had seen Knight run and asked him to run a lap with them after school. So Knight waited and ran with them.

“I remember just going ‘wow.’” Bergin said.

“That’s Justyn.”

Once Knight arrived on Syracuse’s campus two years later, he made an immediate impact, running in the national championship his true freshman season.

By his sophomore season in 2015, Knight emerged as one of the best runners in the country. Hehir had always been the runner that

stay there.

The race opened quickly, with teams sprinting ahead to reach the front of the bottlenecked course. Right up front ran Knight, Hehir and Bennie along with veterans Joel Hubbard and Dan Lennon. In the mix with them was Germano.

“I’m looking at Fox like, ‘I almost feel like Philo’s too aggressive here,’” Smith said. “‘We’re going to want to tell him to hold up.’”

But Fox let him run, and Germano didn’t let them down. He finished fourth for SU and 15th overall, earning Syracuse points for the first time in his career.

The next week, Syracuse ran Sweet Road, as the team does before any important race.

The instructions were simple: four-and-a-half mile tempo run, followed by a 90-second break and then one hard mile to finish it off.

Germano had never had a great Sweet Road workout before, and as the coaches put it, that six-mile road is where champions are made. When the runners began crossing the last marker, Knight, Bennie and Hehir came in one-two-three, followed by Germano just ahead of Hubbard.

“Fox and I were at the end of that mile like, ‘something’s happening here,” Smith said.

“We knew he had something big in store.”

Prepping for the national championship the following week, Fox’s goal for Germano was to be around 75th, Fox said. But Germano had higher expectations.

The biggest test awaited at nationals. The race began like ACCs. The course thinned, and it was a race to the front to avoid getting caught in the back. Germano did just that, mixing in with his teammates toward the front. But as the race continued, he slipped. He took the first mile too fast and struggled to maintain his position.

He bobbed in the 50s range and remained there for a few miles. Then, with 2 kilometers left in the race, Germano picked up speed.

Gradually, over the next kilometer, he moved up, passing Hubbard to cement himself as SU’s fourth man.

With about 800 meters left, runners reached the top of a hill before descending into an open straightaway. It looked like Saratoga three years earlier. When Germano hit the top of the hill, he saw Bell, who screamed, “We’re up by three points!”

“That’s just enough to make you go, first of all, ‘Oh my God we can do this,’” Germano said, “and second of all, ‘This is way too close.’”

Galloping down the hill, he picked out Colorado’s Ammar Moussa. Colorado entered the race looking for its third-straight national championship, and Moussa, the year before, finished in fifth. All he had to do was beat Moussa.

He zeroed in. An entire pack of runners remained between Germano and Moussa.

One-by-one he picked off his competition, inching closer to that Colorado jersey.

Germano’s mother and sister, Sara, watched just feet from the finish line. They hadn’t expected Germano to be in the position he was in.

“You see this short kid with a beard,” Sara said, “and I’m like, ‘That can’t be Philo. He shouldn’t be here already.’ And I think I turned to my mother and I was like ‘Is that Philo? Why is he here already?’”

When she saw him that early, Sara thought that meant Colorado might have won.

But Sara didn’t know she was seeing the crucial part of the race that might decide that.

Germano was on a mission to track down Moussa. Step-by-step he inched closer, until just three steps before the line, he edged out the All-American. “‘Yes! I got Ammar,’” Germano remembered thinking. “I really didn’t know where I was but I was like, ‘I got him.’”

In the final 2 kilometers, Germano soared from 53rd to 39th, making him an All-American. But more importantly, he dropped 14 points off Syracuse’s score.

In the tent afterwards, SU awaited the results. The scoreboard kept switching the leads and the positions. Finally it held for a few moments, and didn’t change.

Syracuse 82, Colorado 91.

The tent went berserk. Sara raced in after the announcement to find her brother. She told him his finish. He couldn’t believe it.

The coaching staff wanted Germano around 75. Had he finished even in 53rd, SU loses. Those 14 points won Syracuse its first national championship in 64 years.

“He has always thought of himself as elite,” Fox said, “even if other people haven’t, including me. And he’s proven it every time.”

After the race, Germano called his father, who was watching from home. With tears rolling down his face and a shaky voice, he told Phil that he was an All-American.

“It was the happiest that Philo ever was in his life,” Phil said. “I’ll never forget that.”

teammates modeled themselves after. Soon, even for Hehir, that runner became Knight.

One of the reasons that Hehir excelled so much as a senior, Smith said, was because Knight took the pressure off Hehir and let him run freely.

and how to prepare for the fall.

Syracuse head coach Chris Fox traveled to London this summer for Knight’s race. As soon as it was over, Knight found his coach. “‘Let’s get ready for cross-country,’” he said to Fox. Throughout this season, Knight has worked to ensure his teammates are ready to battle at NCAAs. He sets the tones in workouts, checks in on how his teammates train and recover and takes on his own coaching responsibilities as the team’s leader. All his preparations have lined up for this Saturday, when Knight has one final attempt at a cross-country crown.

“I think it’s a pretty fitting final chapter for him to put his mark on,” Hehir said. “The fact that he hasn’t won a title yet chomps this up to make it even sweeter. It could be a storybook ending.”

Knight loves the pressure and the spotlight, but he’s had to adjust to it. Being the favorite is something he’s struggled with in the past.

After he rose to prominence in 2015, the lights shined brighter and the microphones in his face multiplied. He felt overwhelmed. But he’s learned to embrace it and use the added attention to take the pressure off of his team.

No matter the finish, Saturday’s race will bring an end to the greatest cross-country career a Syracuse runner has ever had.

“I’m 30 years old and I don’t think that I will ever have another Justyn in my coaching career,” Smith said. “He is a once in a lifetime talent.”

And on Saturday afternoon, he can capture the one thing that’s eluded him.

If he doesn’t win, he’s just going to come back with a vengeance.

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“Justin’s transformed the program and he’s taken us to a place where we couldn’t have been without him,” Hehir said. “That’s meant a lot for the program and for the future of the program.”

The pair, along with emerging star Colin Bennie, led Syracuse to its first national championship in 64 years. When Bennie arrived at campus, like many, he copied Hehir’s model.

But in 2015, he mimicked Knight.

“Justyn being the guy to keep with,” Bennie’s mother Lisa said, “is the best training situation Colin could be in.”

The entire time Knight trained for worlds, he checked on his teammate’s summer training, Jennifer said. In between workouts this summer in Vaughan, Ontario, Knight’s phone would be littered with messages from younger runners asking how his training was going, but also asking questions about their own training

••• wo years after that legendary kick, Germano has cemented his legacy yet he doesn’t feel done.

Germano wasn’t recruited to SU. He didn’t succeed when he first arrived. He faced injury and struggled to build himself from at one point being Fox’s slowest runner.

“Seeing what Philo’s done,” Hehir said, “should be a huge inspiration to other runners out there who don’t think they’re good enough.”

But much of that is because of the obstacles that he had to overcome to achieve his dream at his dream school. Anywhere else and none of it may have been possible.

“Twenty years from now, Philo will never say, ‘Gee dad, I wonder how good I could’ve been,” Phil said. “He knows. You can’t ask for anything more than that.”

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PHILO GERMANO wasn’t recruited by Syracuse. He walked on and didn’t register a point for SU until his sophomore season. That same season, Syracuse won its first national championship in 64 years. Now, two season later, Germano will run a trio that hopes to bring SU its second title in three years.

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Colin Bennie has been a consistent threat for SU

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hile the best high school runners in the country raced in Portland, Oregon, at the cross-country national championship, then-high school senior Colin Bennie watched freshmen take slap shots in Wachusett, Massachusetts. Bennie, a hockey captain for Wachusett Regional (Massachusetts) High School, qualified for the race in Portland, but opted to skip it for tryouts for the second-straight year.

“It doesn’t matter what sport it is,” Bennie’s brother Jeremy said. “From day one it’s always been about the team.”

Few knew Bennie skipped nationals, said Wachusett hockey coach Matt Lane, but that’s the way Bennie works. He did what he felt needed to be done for the team, not himself. see bennie page 12

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n fall 2012, Albany High School head coach John Deer stood by the finish line of the New York Section II race in Saratoga. On both sides of him stood University at Albany SUNY cross-country coaches. Much of the last mile was hidden by trees. But the last 600 meters opened into a wide field. Deer watched and waited for his best runner, Philo Germano, to appear.

From the finish, the crowd barely made out one runner hustling down the hill. He was small but speedy.

Deer remembered UAlbany coach Roberto Vives saying, “Is that Philo?

It’s Philo! It’s Philo!”

Albany had never had a champion before, and Deer said at the beginning of that year it wasn’t expected to have one. The now-senior All-American at Syracuse was never expected to be the accomplished runner that he is. A walk-on wasn’t expected to lift the Orange to its first national championship since 1951.

Germano knew he could. On Saturday, Germano looks to help Syracuse win its second national championship in three years and third in total. This, all from a runner who wasn’t even supposed to be here to begin with.

••• ermano had always been a two-sport athlete: running and baseball. In the beginning, he ran cross-country to get in shape for baseball, but he had never been a great runner.

That changed during his junior year of high school. He became one of the best runners in Section II, and decided to drop baseball to focus on running. The following year, he validated his decision by winning the Section II Championship.

On that cold November day, Germano crossed the finish line first. While everyone else celebrated, Germano instantly looked toward the following weekend in Elma, New York where Syracuse would scout the state meet.

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JUSTYN KNIGHT finished ninth at the 5,000 -meters in the 2017 World Championships.

Justyn Knight has one more accomplishment to add to his resume

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or two years, across three seasons, Justyn Knight couldn’t beat Oregon’s Edward Cheserek. No one could. Cheserek, or “the King” as he was called, finished his college career as a 17-time national champion in 21 possible events. But, at the cross-country national championship last year, Knight finished ahead of him.

Then he ran into another problem: Villanova’s Patrick Tiernan. Knight prefers a sit-and-kick type race, where the runners don’t burn themselves out during the race, but then sprint ahead at the end. Tiernan set the pace that day, and made sure he didn’t let Knight kick. Instead, he burned the last mile, forcing Knight to chase, preventing a strong kick. see knight page 14