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Syracuse University students will have four more opportunities to receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine this week through health services.

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MAYORAL RACE 2017

HOWIE HAWKINS, a Green Party candidate, has lost 20 elections at the local, state and federal level. crystal fang contributing photographer

DOWN TO THE WIRE

LAURA LAVINE, a former LaFayette Central School District superintendent, is running for mayor as a Republican. josh shub-seltzer staff photographer

What voters need to know about the Syracuse mayoral election

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

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yracuse voters will choose their next mayor on Tuesday.

Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, independent Ben Walsh, Republican Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins are vying for the office.

Perez Williams and Walsh were nearly tied in the most recent poll, released Sunday. Walsh led Perez Williams by two percentage points. In the last poll, released in October, Perez Williams led Walsh by seven percentage points.

History will be made no matter which candidate is elected. Walsh, an independent, would be the first mayor of Syracuse

unaffiliated with any political party. Perez Williams would be the city’s first mayor of color. Lavine would be the first Republican woman elected and Hawkins would be the city’s first Green Party mayor.

Here is what you need to know about the candidates:

Juanita Perez Williams

If elected, Perez Williams would be the first Latina mayor in New York state and the first woman of color elected mayor of Syracuse.

She won the Democratic primary in September, beating Common Councilor Joe Nicoletti and City Auditor Marty Masterpole. Nicoletti later endorsed her.

The California native is a veteran of the United States Navy, and she formerly worked for New York state

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JUANITA PEREZ WILLIAMS, if elected on Tuesday, would be the first person of color elected mayor of Syracuse. codie yan staff photographer

BEN WALSH, who is running as an independent candidate, is the grandson of a former Syracuse mayor. codie yan staff photographer

How candidates would address major issues facing the city

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

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our candidates remain in the race for mayor of Syracuse, and everyone has different takes on how best to handle problems the city faces.

Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty among black and Hispanic people in the United States and some of the lowest test scores and graduation rates in the state. Residents also witnessed the deadliest year in city history last year after 31 people were killed, and officials must address a crumbling interstate that divides Syracuse.

Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, independent Ben Walsh, Republican

Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins have made their positions clear at more than 10 debates and forums over the last few months.

Here is a breakdown of the mayoral candidates’ stances on major issues facing the city of Syracuse:

INTERSTATE 81 Juanita Perez Williams

Perez Williams said she supports the community grid option, like most of the other candidates. The community grid would destroy the raised viaduct that splits the city and redirect highway traffic to Interstate 481. Perez Williams has said the viaduct’s original construction contributed to the high concentration of poverty in the city.

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Mayoral candidates, politicians protest Trump adviser

By Sam Ogozalek asst. news editor

A handful of prominent local politicians rallied beneath Syracuse’s AXA towers on Monday in cold, misting rain to protest a visit by Linda McMahon, one of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members.

McMahon, administrator of the Small Business Administration, met with Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) at the city’s Tech Garden to promote the

Republican Party’s new tax plan, a set of reforms criticized by Democrats and liberal groups for disproportionately benefiting wealthy Americans.

Mayoral candidates Ben Walsh, Juanita Perez Williams and Howie Hawkins attended the protest, standing on a set of steps leading up to the tech center only a day before voters head to the polls in Syracuse’s general election.

Republican candidate Laura Lavine did not attend the rally.

Katko previously said he supports

Lavine, CNYCentral reported.

Most protesters were members of the CNY Solidarity Coalition, a local organization that has staged multiple demonstrations since Trump’s election last year. Jonah MinkoffZern, campaign co-director for a campaign for the national government accountability group called Public Citizen, helped coordinate the protest Monday.

At-Large Common Councilor Helen Hudson and state Assemblywoman Pamela Hunter (D-Syra-

cuse) also spoke to crowd members, who clutched umbrellas and signs reading “Not One Penny In Tax Cuts For The Rich & Corporations,” chanting “we are the 99 percent.”

“You tell (Katko), you keep calling, you stand up. You say, ‘I simply can’t afford this,’” Hunter said, shouting into a microphone, pointing at The Tech Garden.

Katko has expressed concern about the Republican tax plan and, according to Syracuse.com, plans to gather a panel of local experts to

examine the documents. GOP leaders hope to pass the tax legislation before Thanksgiving.

The plan would cut the corporate tax rate significantly, reducing it by 3 percentage points per year from 2018 to 2022, among other things.

An analysis by the Tax Policy Center found Trump’s plan would reduce federal revenue by about $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years. And, in the decade after that, total revenue would fall by $3.4 trillion. see protest page 6

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Here is a map of polling locations near Syracuse University, where residents can vote for mayor, Common Council, county legislature and other positions. A ward is a type of voting district. Voters living in a ward must vote at a polling place within their ward. For a full list and map of polling locations in the city of Syracuse, see dailyorange.com.

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WCNY TV/FM, 415 W. Fayette St.

Erwin First United Methodist Church, 920 Euclid Ave. Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Place

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6TH WARD Ross Towers, 710-712 Lodi St. Dr. Edwin Weeks Jr Elementary School, 401 S Midler Ave. Villa Scalabrini, 825 E. Willow St.

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Southest Community Center, 401-425 South Ave. Elmwood School Building, 1728 South Ave.

15TH WARD McCarthy Manor, 501 Crouse Ave. Toomey Abbott Towers, 1207 Almond St.

St. Lucy’s Parish Center (Gym), 425 Gifford St.

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9TH WARD Institute of Technology, 258 E. Adams St.

SU Huntington Hall, University Ave. & Marshall St.

Pioneer Homes Coffee House, 1001 S. McBride St.

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Levy School Building, 111 Fellows Ave. P.E.A.C.E., 215 Bassett St. Hillside Work Scholarship Connection, 101 East Ave. Elmcrest Children’s Center, 960 Salt Springs Ave.

19TH WARD Seals Community Center, Kirk Park Reformed Presbyterian Church, 2517 S. Salina St.

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Members debate private prison divestment

By Catherine Leffert staff writer

At Monday night’s Syracuse University Student Association meeting, assembly members argued about a movement urging SU to divest from companies that invest in private prisons.

Janice Dowell, an SU philosophy professor, asked SA to write a resolution encouraging the university to divest from certain companies.

Chief of Staff Andres Laguna presented an analysis of a meeting with Dowell.

Some SA members said Andres should not have presented the subject because it was not an SA issue. Others said he was subjec-

tive and that he should have done more research.

what is sa?

The Student Association is the student government body of the university. SA is currently in its 61st session and James Franco is president. Outside of the cabinet, there are five committees and four boards, which report to the association.

Laguna presented pros and cons about the resolution. Parliamentarian Obi Afriyie and SA Historian John Jankovic argued it wasn’t Laguna’s right to present a

subjective view of the movement to SA. Laguna did not share any statistics or research citations during the meeting.

Divestment from private prisons is a “noble cause,” Laguna said. But he added it was not SA’s place to create a divestment resolution, that it would not directly affect SU students and that it could potentially put SA at odds with the administration.

He added that he thought the movement could prevent companies from hiring SU students and hinder job placement.

SA member Ryan Golden supports the idea of creating a resolution, stating that private prisons are the equivalent of establishments implementing “slavery

of prisoners.” Golden said SA is a voice for the student body, and he believes the student body should “be against slavery.”

Will Pritchett, another SA member, said he had experience visiting private and public prisons through an internship. He said the divestment issue is complicated. Pritchett questioned if SU should divest from a company such as Coca-Cola, for example, because it sold soda in a private prison commissary.

Other members had varying opinions on whether divestment would affect their job placement. Some did not want to be a part of the resolution. Others see sa page 6

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Faculty: Curriculum could have improved pass rate

By Meg Fitzgerald

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About 92 percent of Syracuse University College of Law graduates passed the state bar exam this summer, the university recently announced, marking a two-decade high pass rate.

Seven years ago, in 2010, SU’s College of Law had the lowest bar exam pass rate in New York after just about 70 percent of graduates passed the test — 16 percent lower

than the state’s average that year, Syracuse.com reported.

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A new law curriculum could be part of the reason why the college’s pass rate has improved, two professors said.

“This is a point of pride in the law school, and it’s unfortunate that we have to flunk people, but it’s more honest to flunk them so they are not wasting their time and money, and then later they don’t pass the bar,” said Antonio Gidi, a teaching professor at the College of Law. Greg Germain, a professor of

law, who said he was speaking as a faculty member and not on behalf of the school, believes the improved pass rate could be attributed to the creation of a structured curriculum for students with a GPA below 2.5, he said in an email. Those students represent the bottom 25 percent of the class, Germain said.

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Syracuse University students will have four more opportunities to receive a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine this week, an official from the Office of Health Services announced Monday.

The free vaccine will be distributed Tuesday through Friday in the lower level of the Office of Health Services between 8:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Students can register for the clinics on the health services website.

The university hosted multiple vaccination clinics last month.

The mumps outbreak at SU has affected more than 100 members of the campus community. Since the first student was infected at the end of August, there have been 37 confirmed and 76 probable cases of the disease.

Students with confirmed or probable mumps are isolated from SU’s campus for up to five days. Some have been housed in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center.

Last month, a Centers for Disease Control advisory board recommended people exposed to mumps in outbreaks receive a third dose of the vaccine. New York state law currently requires all students attending college receive two doses of the MMR vaccine. Students, though, can waive that requirement for medical or religious reasons. In early October, the university said 17 students had not submitted vaccination records.

All students who have contracted the disease at SU have been properly vaccinated, according to health services.

Two doses of the mumps vaccine can be 88 percent effective, according to the CDC. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18

regional news Here is a roundup of the biggest news happening in New York state right now.

TRUCK DESTRUCTION

A man stole a AAA tow truck Monday afternoon on Townsend Street near downtown Syracuse.

He was pursued by officers from the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office and struck multiple vehicles, including civilian cars, a Syracuse Police Department car and a firetruck. The driver of the truck was shot. source: cny central

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An Oswego County legislator charged with endangering the welfare of a child, unlawfully dealing with a minor and issuing a false written statement is still running unopposed for his seat on the legislature. Shawn Doyle was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage boy. He has not resigned and still remains in office. source: syracuse.com

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hen choosing a presidential candidate, I was drawn to Bernie Sanders because I value politicians who have plans of action. I don’t want to attach my vote to someone who makes campaign promises and then fails to fulfill them once they’re sworn in. I see the same drive Sanders had in Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh.

To me, Walsh is everything a mayor should be: innovative, inventive and honest. His platform encapsulates Syracuse’s pressing tasks: tackling the opioid crisis, improving public works, managing deer populations and inventing ways to have fun in the city. Walsh ran his campaign on a promise to help Syracuse “rise above” its current state, and he outlines three pillars to make that happen in a 14-page platform titled “Syracuse Rising.”

The first of those pillars is enhancing neighborhood safety and quality of life, and Walsh covers that goal thoroughly. He doesn’t just want to hire more police. He wants to hire more police, incentivize those police to live in the city, develop a homegrown pipeline of candidates through the Public

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Likewise, Walsh is a sensible, progressive candidate who knows what a budget is. With all of Syracuse’s economic hardship, that’s exactly what we need to make this city shine brighter.

Walsh supports incentivizing homeowners by making water and home interest rates affordable, which could also boost home-buying in Syracuse. Combining and cutting shared county and city services can help Syracuse cut its deficit, and initiating dual client training models that bring employers and potential employees together can create and fill jobs.

It’s this bipartisan platform that has allowed Walsh to gain endorsements from both sides of the aisle. In her endorsement of Walsh, Democratic Common Councilor Helen Hudson said, “Ben Walsh is a calm, quiet spirit, and for me, that’s

what we need in a leader.” The PostStandard’s editorial board endorsed Walsh, saying his campaign “appeal(s) to all parts of the city and enlist(s) Syracuse’s young people to join its older generation in the fight for the city’s future.”

A vote for Walsh is not a vote for a Republican or against a Democrat. It’s a vote for something more than the parties we define ourselves by. Walsh’s bipartisan, community-centered policies will lead to an efficient and cooperative city government. This brand of politics is rare, but Walsh, with no major party bindings, has been able to revive it.

Walsh’s vision for Syracuse is not the proverbial “shining city on a hill.”

Walsh’s Syracuse is a city on an iron pedestal: a strong city with the ambition to meet its lofty goals and the foundation to last for generations. It’s time for Syracuse to become better than what it has been, and it can get there with Walsh.

Jefferson Fenner is a sophomore broadcast and digital journalism major and political science minor.

His column appears biweekly. He can be reached at jfenner@syr.edu or on Twitter @jeffersonfenner.

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Lavine acknowledges root of city’s issues with focus on education

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yracuse needs a mayor who promotes ideas that directly address the issues plaguing its residents. Laura Lavine has proven herself to be that candidate.

Through bold, education-focused policies, the trailblazing Republican candidate has stood alone in her fight to rebuild the city and its future. She fights an uphill battle in a Democrat-dominated city, but her unorthodox ideas bode well for Syracuse’s future.

On the campaign trail, Lavine demonstrated just how well she knew the city she grew up in. She pointed out the detailed architecture of the abandoned homes in the neighborhood, highlighting the pride that went into their construction. But she also noted how these abandoned homes facilitate drug deals and prostitution.

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DETROIT VS. EVERYONE atmosphere of many Syracuse neighborhoods, Lavine has proposed rehabilitating these abandoned homes.

This bottom-up approach parallels Lavine’s overall policy agenda.

Unemployment, crime and a lack of jobs in Syracuse stem from a poor education system, which Lavine emphasized in her campaign. As a champion of school choice and charter schools with 40 years of educational experience, Lavine has pivoted to education to address the foundation of the city’s issues.

Lavine’s focus on school choice to revitalize education in Syracuse is common sense and practical.

A school system failing to help

residents achieve upward mobility needs competition in order to get better — competition that charter schools would provide. But Lavine’s charter school expansion agenda poses a threat to the teachers unions that stifle public school growth, which could be why the Syracuse Teachers Association refused to even interview Lavine for an endorsement.

If elected, Lavine also plans to take mayoral control of the school district to ensure positive growth in the school system. Lavine’s single, unified vision leading the school district and city could build off the successful Career and Technical Education model in Syracuse.

As the only candidate to make education a central theme in her campaign, Lavine is the best choice for a city with a struggling school system and high crime rates. After

all, while talking with Syracuse residents on the campaign trail, Lavine said most told her crime is their main concern in the city.

Education provides a long-term solution to crime, but to tackle it for now, Lavine proposes increasing law enforcement. This effort is opposed by the racial grievance community that argues policing is rigged against communities of color.

“Some of our community members have indicated they will not call the police because they don’t have a trusting relationship with the Syracuse Police Department,” Lavine said. “Officers don’t blame people for feeling like there’s a lack of trust because there aren’t enough of them to establish trusting relationships.”

With a record-setting 31 people killed in Syracuse last year, it’s clear there aren’t enough police officers patrolling our streets. But a city

plagued with crime may not see an increase in law enforcement under Juanita Perez Williams, the Democratic nominee for mayor. Perez Williams has said she would only fill as many police vacancies as the city could afford.

Syracuse spent $13 million on police overtime in the 2015-16 fiscal year, and its sky-high crime rate didn’t go down. There’s no room for fiscal responsibility at crime victims’ expense.

With a combination of education reform and stronger law enforcement to fight crime from multiple angles, Lavine’s plan would serve all of Syracuse. Her policies aren’t reflective of partisanship. They’re a matter of common sense.

Joshua Nelson is a senior political science major. He can be reached at jqnelson@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @joshqnelson.

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candidates and Syracuse University.

Perez Williams was endorsed by a number of lawmakers, including Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo and former Vice President Joe Biden. Syracuse University’s College Democrats also endorsed her.

Ben Walsh

Ben Walsh is the sole independent candidate for mayor. He is liked by both Republicans and Democrats and also swept the Independence Party ballot line from under its designee, Laura Lavine, during the primary election.

He has received more than $440,000 in campaign donations, and much of that money has come from real estate developers. His ethics have been questioned by Perez Williams, from page 1

issues Ben Walsh

Walsh frequently expressed support for the community grid option. In early October, he held a rally off Almond Street, calling on the New York State Department of Transportation to release an independent consultant’s report on a contentious tunnel replacement option.

Laura Lavine

Lavine has yet to take a clear stance on the crumbling infrastructure, saying she is waiting for the tunnel report before making a decision on what she supports.

Howie Hawkins

Hawkins supports the community grid option, which he said would support more mixed-use and mixed-income construction.

CRIME Juanita Perez Williams

Perez Williams has called for the hiring of more police officers and the establishment of job training programs for city youth to combat high crime rates.

Ben Walsh

Walsh pushed for more community policing and said he would hire more police officers to fill open positions at the understaffed Syrafrom page 1

protest McMahon spoke to Katko and Tenney in a small tech garden theatre just outside the downtown office of Syracuse University’s Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Women’s Business Center. WISE has received funding from the Small Business Administration.

The administrator also traveled to New Jersey over the weekend to lobby for the plan.

Perez Williams, in a speech, said while growing up poor she benefited from government initiatives including food stamps, the Head Start program and child nutrition programs.

“We’ve got to stop the targeting of Americans,” Perez Williams said. “This tax scam is just another way to marginalize people and help the 1 percenters.”

Walsh, meanwhile, standing on The Tech Garden’s steps, gestured at the nearby Marriott Syracuse Downtown hotel, formerly known as Hotel Syracuse. Left vacant after years of bankruptcy court proceedings and sales, the iconic building was reopened by from page 3

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expressed that the movement was unrealistic in its purpose.

The discussion was tabled after more than 20 minutes of open discussion, which grew to yelling battles at certain points. Divest Syracuse will be revisited in SA if or when Dowell — the founder of the movement on campus — comes to speak at a meeting.

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SA also voted to allocate $7,500 to fund flights to Puerto Rico for the upcoming Hurricane Maria relief trip, scheduled during Winter Break. Hendricks Chapel has said it will match SA’s funds. SA will interview 51 of the 193 applicants. Organizers will select 23 student volunteers and seven alternates.

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who said she would ban businesses that seek government contracts from donating money to candidates’ campaigns.

Though he is the son of a Republican congressman and grandson of a Republican mayor of Syracuse, Walsh stuck to his independence.

Walsh attended the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has headed several local economic development programs and has also worked under Mayor Stephanie Miner as deputy commissioner of neighborhood and business development.

Laura Lavine

Lavine is the former superintendent of the LaFayette Central School District and has lived in Syracuse all her life. She has worked in school systems for more than 40 years, but her proposal for mayoral control of the school district barred her from being interviewed by the city school district’s teachers’ union.

She polls third behind Walsh and Perez cuse Police Department.

Laura Lavine

Lavine also supported community policing policies, similar to Walsh, and supports hiring more police officers to fill SPD vacancies.

Lavine said she wants jobs that can be performed by civilians to be done by civilians, following an evaluation of the department.

Howie Hawkins

Hawkins has linked crime to concentrated poverty and poorly performing schools. On the campaign trail, he also promoted community policing and youth outreach programs to bolster employment opportunities.

SCHOOLS Juanita Perez Williams

The Democratic candidate said the Syracuse City School District must improve graduation rates and find cost-effective ways to transport students to and from school. The city spends more than $20 million a year on transportation.

Ben Walsh

Walsh, with one child enrolled in the SCSD, said he believes the district is already going in the right direction, and he would work with the district to continue in that direction.

Laura Lavine

Lavine, a former superintendent of the developer Ed Riley last year.

That renovation project, in total, received millions of dollars in tax breaks, incentives and federal historic tax credits. Walsh said he’s concerned that Trump’s tax plan might completely eliminate the federal Historic Tax Credit program.

“I hear you loud and clear,” Walsh said. “I will speak truth to power in my position, whether it’s as mayor or whatever other position.”

Hawkins, whose voice echoed off nearby buildings, criticized Trump for sending McMahon to Syracuse.

McMahon, who donated $7 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign, was a controversial cabinet appointee. She’s a former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO and married to billionaire Vince McMahon, a friend of Trump’s.

“Let’s be clear about one thing. Donald Trump doesn’t care about us,” Hawkins said.

“I got an appointment with Social Security and Medicare because I turn 65 next month … I’ve been paying in for 51 years of working to that system. And now I’m worried I won’t get what I was promised.” sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783

Chair of Student Life Elizabeth Sedore said SA will soon begin a coat drive for the Syracuse City School District, specifically refugee students, who may not have access to proper winter wear.

Co-chair of Diversity Affairs Khalid Khan and President of SA James Franco independently mentioned meeting with the Department of Public Safety to address continuing concerns among the student body. Franco announced to SA that there had been a 21-year-old stabbed on the 800 block of Sumner Avenue two weeks ago.

Many of the SA members had not heard about this and believed it should have been DPS’ responsibility to notify them. Khan mentioned creating a subcommittee devoted to DPS engagement within the Diversity Affairs committee. ccleffer@syr.edu

Williams and is the only Republican running in the mayoral race. There are more than three times more Democrats in Syracuse than Republicans, she said.

She ran unopposed for the Republican line on the mayoral ballot, but lost the Independence Party and Reform Party lines to Ben Walsh in the primaries.

Lavine focused her campaign on education reform and decreasing crime. She said she supports hiring more police officers for the understaffed Syracuse Police Department.

She has been endorsed by Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and Onondaga County Sheriff Eugene Conway, along with other prominent New York Republicans. She has also been endorsed by the Syracuse University College Republicans.

Howie Hawkins

Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, has lost more than 20 elections since the 1990s. He LaFayette Central School District, said she wants mayoral control over the SCSD. The move would eliminate elections for the school board and allow Lavine to appoint board members with the help of the Common Council. Lavine was denied an interview with the local teachers union for a possible endorsement.

Howie Hawkins

Hawkins called for desegregation of the school district and consolidation with neighboring suburban school districts.

POVERTY Juanita Perez Williams

Perez Williams has said alleviating poverty would be her main priority if elected. She said she would support affordable housing initiatives and create job training programs to employ city residents.

Ben Walsh

As a former city official who oversaw the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency, Walsh said he would use economic development to combat poverty.

Laura Lavine

Lavine, focusing on education policy, said improved school districts and graduation rates would help prevent crime and reduce the city’s high rate of poverty.

has run on a “Sustainable Syracuse” campaign, which promotes public ownership of utilities, community hiring initiatives and sustainable energy.

He moved to Syracuse in 1991 and has lived on the South Side since then. He prides himself on living in one of the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods and being a longtime advocate for progressive initiatives.

He has run for mayor of Syracuse twice, governor of New York once and other local positions multiple times. He said he keeps running because constituents keep encouraging him.

The Green Party candidate attended Dartmouth University and joined the United States Marine Corps, but never saw combat.

Hawkins, like Perez Williams, is also from California. He is the secretary and treasurer for the Eat to Live Food Cooperative on the South Side and unloads trucks for UPS in the evenings. krose100@syr.edu

Howie Hawkins

Hawkins proposed a “Marshall Plan,” which includes a public jobs program funded by New York state, to address poverty. Similar to Walsh, he also said he would encourage mixed-use and mixed-income development in the city.

CITY-COUNTY MERGER Juanita Perez Williams

The Democratic candidate said she is against the city-county merger, like all other candidates, because it would undermine Syracuse residents. She added that the move would put residents in debt.

Ben Walsh

Walsh supported some cost-saving measures but said he was against consolidating the Syracuse and Onondaga County governments into one legislative body.

Laura Lavine

The Republican said she does not support the merger because it ignored SCSD concerns.

Howie Hawkins

The Green Party candidate also opposes the merger, claiming it will take power from city residents and concentrate segregation in schools and public housing. He has said he supports some consolidation across municipalities, though. krose100@syr.edu

Mayoral candidates Ben Walsh, Juanita Perez Williams and Howie Hawkins protested Linda McMahon’s visit to Syracuse on Monday. sam ogozalek asst. news editor from page 3

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rate of our students in relation to our peer law schools,” Germain said. “The college hired a statistics expert to perform a statistical analysis to see if we could find what student attributes correlated with bar passage.”

That expert found an “extremely high” statistical correlation between first-year grades and bar passage, Germain said. This review led to the development of curriculum for students at risk of failing the exam, the professor said.

The curriculum requires students to take eight upper division courses on material frequently part of the bar exam and a course on foundational bar exam skills.

Gidi, the teaching professor, said the school created a curve and became more rigorous for students who were failing classes.

“Everybody that graduates today could pass the bar. They may not pass the bar, but they are apt to,” Gidi said.

The curriculum also generally requires students with a GPA below 2.2 to “repeat the highly-tested first year courses in which they had received very low grades.”

While the curriculum has proven unpopular for some students interested in taking elective courses, Germain said he believes it is “unfair to the students to continue graduating people who would not be able to obtain admission to the bar” and that the low bar exam pass rate “was also hurting the reputation of the school.”

“I felt that we had to try to improve the performance of the people in the bottom of the class by forcing them to focus on the fundamentals,” Germain said. mkfitzg@syr.edu

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reen melts for no one. With her suggestive smile and flirtatious looks, she could lead the CFS 425: “Lust, Love and Relationships” class. One of the more popular courses on campus, the class studies the foundations of what makes a relationship healthy and unhealthy.

“The ingredients of the class include understanding who we are attracted to and why, what are the qualities of a good relationship and how to build a healthy relationship that works,” said Joseph Fanelli, the professor who teaches the child and family studies class, in an email.

But don’t let its title fool you, because the class isn’t a series of lectures on “how to achieve a simultaneous orgasm,” Fanelli said, but rather provides a deeper understanding of love. While it’s open to all years, the three-credit course’s primary audience is upperclassmen.

The class is in a lecture setting but relies on discussion to open up students to discussing personal experiences. Students discuss their difficulties in relationships and open the dialogue for others to learn. If you’re like Green, you’ll practically teach the class in standing up for yourself but learn about your own vulnerability.

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PSY 379: “The Social Psychology of Stigma” Tuesday and Thursday, 2-3:20 p.m.

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ull of confidence, Blue knows how to handle everyone around him. He looks at people and understands what’s going on by the groups they associate themselves with.

Although he may feel like he already knows how everyone feels, Blue will probably take PSY 379: “The Social Psychology of Stigma” to get an easy grade as Mr. Know-It-All. Next semester, professor Sara Burke will teach the class, which is aimed at questioning and understanding how those targeted by social stigma experience it.

“We’ll be talking about how prejudice manifests against a lot of different types of (targeted) groups,” Burke said.

She added that the class will focus on “the negative consequences this could have for members of those groups.”

The class will discuss stigma in terms of race, sexual orientation, gender, ability, body size and age.

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ANT 367: “Gender in a Globalizing World” Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

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s. Brown has a high IQ and a hidden talent of always being right, and her best attribute is her big, beautiful brain. Like Ms. Brown, ANT 367 examines issues of gender, women’s rights and feminist theory, but with a little less sass.

“Gender in a Globalizing World” will analyze what’s happening around the world and how globalization affects people in different places, said Farhana Sultana, an associate professor of geography. Sultana, an internationally recognized scholar who has worked on three continents and for the United Nations, will lead the course next semester.

The course, she said, “teaches students how to take a very gendered and feminist lens in understanding things that you see in the news all the time.” It has a reading-and-writing-driven seminar and will teach students to apply critical analyses of what’s going on in the world, Sultana said.

The class reinforces the historical genealogies of issues so students have a foundation to talk about present-day processes and policies of globalization.

ANT 367 is cross-listed with WGS 367 and GEO 367 and fulfills both the writing intensive and critical reflections of ethical and social issues requirements.

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Heather Warren didn’t plan on joining SU’s gymnastics team, but she couldn’t resist her passion.

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EEE 370: “Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises” Monday and Wednesday, 12:45-2:05 p.m.

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he go-getter and man with a plan, Red is always thinking of his next move.

His confidence and knowledge drive him to take control of a situation and make the most of it.

Like Red, entrepreneurs can learn by experience and make something from their ideas in EEE 370: “Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises.”

Professor Alex McKelvie, who teaches the course this semester, said that 80 percent of the course’s students come from outside of the Whitman School of Management, so people of different backgrounds and interests come together to learn about how to start a business.

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“It creates a really cool dynamic where people are learning from each other, and we’re learning about entrepreneurial opportunities in different industries and different backgrounds,” McKelvie said.

The foundation of the successful Syracuse University small businesses start in this introductory course since the course focuses on how to use resources and talk to customers.

McKelvie said that in the first class, he tells the students that they have to create a business in nine days with limited resources, which makes students take action and talk to customers from the beginning of the course and business.

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COM 337: “Real News, Fake News: Literacy for the Information Age” Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-4:50 p.m.

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lways aware of his surroundings, Orange makes sure he’s up-to-date with everything going on, but sometimes to a fault. Paranoid of the “fake news” epidemic, Orange never eats or sleeps.

Maybe he could push that paranoia aside if he were to take COM 337: “Real News, Fake News: Literacy for the Information Age.” Professor Tom Boll teaches the course this semester and will teach it again in the spring. Boll said students in the class learn skills to differentiate reliable and unreliable information.

Boll said learning to think critically is important because everyone is a publisher when they belong to social networks and are online.

“You need to learn critical thinking about what’s going on in the world today and in the news to be able to figure out what’s news and what’s not,” Boll said.

“Because people will try to trick you, and we don’t just have the three (main TV news) networks anymore.”

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YELLOW FST 222: “Intro to Culinary Arts” Tuesday, 5-8:30 p.m.

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f you, like Yellow, align with the more mellow crowd or just want an outlet class to balance your heavy course load for the coming semester, a cooking class is what you need.

“The class is designed to be educational and fun,” said Mary Kiernan, an associate teaching professor of culinary arts. “Everybody needs to learn to cook. (Students) are about to be turned loose into the world where there probably isn’t a meal plan.”

The class is geared toward upperclassmen.

Students will study ingredients and various preparation and presentation methods.

And for the upperclassmen who don’t struggle with making toast, FST 412: “Wine Appre-

ciation” is a buzzy alternative to this cooking course. But don’t be mistaken: This class includes some heavy learning material that you will be tested on. So make sure you not only like drinking wine, but learning about it as well.

Falk’s kitchen facilities are commercial but everything taught can be applied to a domestic cooking space, and even studio-sized appliances. Learn how to develop a menu that complements each season, spice and scent, or how different cultures prepare their signature dishes throughout the semester. If you don’t have a kitchen, this is the perfect place to prepare. Be mellow with fellow yellows.

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syracuse spotlight

Student hopes gymnastics club team can reach nationals

By Kayla Anderson staff writer

Heather Warren has been doing backflips since she was 7 years old.

The sophomore architecture major competed in gymnastics all through junior high and high school. She even qualified for nationals her senior year. Warren has now been a member of the Syracuse University club gymnastics team for two years.

“It’s the closest you’ll ever get to flying,” Warren said. “I never committed myself to anything else because it’s the only thing I’ve ever wanted to do.”

Before coming to college, Warren thought she had reached her goal and was ready to pursue something new in college.

“I didn’t know Syracuse had a club team when I got here, and I wasn’t looking to join,” Warren said. “I thought I would try something new, but I’ve done gymnastics for my whole life, so I went to one practice. I got pulled back in.”

This weekend, the team had its last ever home meet at Archbold Gymnasium. As part of the Campus Framework, the team’s old gymnastics gym is being renovated for other use.

“It’s small and hot, but it’s our gym. You learn to love it because you spend so much

time there and make so many memories,” Warren said.

She said her favorite part of the old gym is the murals on the walls from when SU had a Division I men’s gymnastics team. The murals will go down with the gym. Warren said she is disappointed to see the history will be gone.

The team plans on reaching its goals this year even without the gym. Beginning next semester, the team will drive to a practice gym downtown and begin preparing for National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs Nationals.

“Everything we do is to prepare for nation-

als,” Warren said.

The SU club team hopes to qualify for the team finals this year, she added, so she works hard to improve her all-around score.

Rather than stressing about being on a competitive team, Warren sees gymnastics as a way to relax. When she is not working on projects in the architecture studio, Warren usually does a gymnastics workout. In the upcoming years, Warren plans to continue competing with the SU club team.

“We are all so close and we get along well,” she said. “I love gymnastics, but it’s the people on the team that make it great.” kander01@syr.edu

nonprofit

Syracuse Rescue Mission receives $200,000 donation

By Maggie Peng staff writer

Syracuse Rescue Mission Alliance’s Food Services Center serves three meals a day, every day of the year.

Located at 155 Gifford St., Syracuse Rescue Mission has been fundraising for a renovation for an expansion and resources.

The mission recently received $200,000 from the KeyBank Foundation, a nonprofit organization funded by KeyCorp with “neighbors, education and workforce” as its service priorities.

The Food Services Center prepares about 700 free meals per day and almost 250,000 meals per year. But the center only holds about 80 people at a time, and its limited storage space has forced the center to turn away donations, at times.

Rescue Mission’s goal is to raise $1 million by the end of 2017 for the renovation.

Carolyn Hendrickson, the chief development officer at Rescue Mission, said the $200,000 grant has pushed the organization

significantly closer to that number.

“We have raised over $3 million so far (over the past years),” Hendrickson said.

“This will bring us up over four, and then we’re just about there.”

The expansion project is expected to begin at the start of 2018, Hendrickson said, and will allow the center to have two serving lines, tripled seating capacity, doubled storage space and a new dining area for families and children.

One of the center’s main commitments is staying open during the entire renovation.

Hendrickson said the first step would be to move the loading dock from the front of the building to the side so the center can continue running during construction.

The project will also allow students to enroll in an on-site food-service training program offered with the Syracuse City School District. Graduates of the program attain ServSafe certification that helps them secure jobs. Their participation also reduces labor cost for the Food Services Center.

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this project,” Hendrickson said. “Not only is it feeding those in need, but it’s also helping people learn skills for future employment.”

The Engagement Program at Hendricks Chapel goes to Rescue Mission every other Friday to volunteer: the Food Service Center, the Crossroads Adult Home, the Alice C. Barber Day Center and the Kiesewetter Emergency Shelter.

“They’re very regimented,” said Alexis Bradford, the graduate assistant for the program, about food services. “(SU volunteers) have to work according to what’s going to best fit what they need to do to service the community.”

In addition to the upcoming expansion of food services, Rescue Mission will also launch a $16.7 million plan to revamp its 68-unit adult home and more than double its permanent housing units on campus by the end.

State grants and tax credits fund the project that will likely begin late 2018, according to the mission’s website. Rescue Mission finished its largest building project in 2015 when it opened the Alice C. Barber Day Center and

Kiesewetter Emergency Shelter.

The day center and emergency shelter provide emergency shelter to women and contained dormitories, basic amenities and resource centers for employment, education and health services.

Rescue Mission has an annual budget of about $20 million, according to its website, and 52 percent comes from sales from the nonprofit’s 15 Thrifty Shopper stores plus 3Fifteen store.

Hendrickson said the nonprofit’s model may be a bit different from others. Only 11 percent of revenues comes from government funding and the rest is composed of traditional fundraising through special events, direct mails and donations from private foundations.

“I think because we have a central campus … and we have a lot of people on our campus, it became kind of a hub in the community to provide three meals a day,” Hendrickson said. “It’s really part of the continuum of care that we offer to end hunger and omelessness for people.” jpeng04@syr.edu

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SAFETY Central Michigan University students aim to replace emergency blue light phones with app

By Jordan Lazinsk staff writer

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HAILEY POLIDORI AND BRYAN CARAGAY discuss Guarded Safety, an emergency communication app they developed at CMU. courtesy of bryan caragay

POLIDORI presents Guarded Safety at the “5x5 Night” pitch competition. Her app won the $5,000 grand prize. courtesy of bryan caragay

right blue beacons can be found scattered throughout hundreds of college campuses across the country.

The lights rest on top of emergency alarm stations that function as part of the Blue Light Security alarm system. Two seniors at Central Michigan University found a way to fit the 7-foot structures into a pocket.

Bryan Caragay and Hailey Polidori created Guarded Safety, an app that can provide campuses the same safety technology as blue lights, a system of emergency communication that more than 92 percent of college campuses use, including Syracuse University.

“We took an outdated safety system, and basically made it into a mobile and more efficient app for your phone,” said Caragay, a junior studying computer science.

The business partners were inspired to revamp the safety systems on college campuses in their freshman year.

Polidori had a class that ended at 9 p.m., and routinely felt unsafe when walking home at night.

Caragay said Polidori constantly called her parents while walking back to her dorm for fear of walking alone.

“It made me think,” Caragay said.

“There has to be a better system out there than these poles with buttons on them, especially with the technology we have nowadays.”

Polidori joined Caragay, a veteran computer programmer, to create Guarded Safety. Now the two are at the forefront of college campus safety.

In October, the partners won the $5,000 grand prize at the monthly “5x5 Night” pitch competition, organized by Grand Rapids-based startup and ecosystem facilitator Start Garden.

Start Garden provides entrepreneurs and businesses in the greater Grand Rapids area with access to the many business opportunities and resources available to the community.

“The benefit of that is the opportunity to work in a space with other entrepreneurs who are in some cases doing similar things,” said Laurie Supinski, head of community relations for Start Garden.

They aim to provide opportunity to the community of Grand Rapids, and one of their efforts include monthly pitch competitions. Its name, “5x5 Nights,” comes from the fact that five competitors are given five minutes to present five slides to five judges, who decide a winner

for a grand prize of a $5,000 grant.

“Before a community can be friendly to businesses, it needs to be friendly to ideas,” said Mike Morin, Start Garden’s director and chief executive officer.

Morin is no stranger to college safety systems like Guarded Safety. Before joining Start Garden, Morin served as the president of the Code Blue Corporation, the largest manufacturer of blue light systems on college campuses in the United States.

Morin explained that while blue light phones provide a level of safety, they only work if someone is able to physically reach the unit, all the while carrying a device in their pockets that “can provide a broader level of coverage.”

Before a community can be friendly to businesses, it needs to be friendly to ideas.

Mike Morin start garden director and chief executive officer

Now developing an Android platform as a counterpart to their existing iPhone app, Caragay and Polidori have already made a deal with Central Michigan to provide their safety services to all CMU students.

They said they believe the app can provide services to colleges as a replacement for blue light phones. Describing the features of the app, Caragay said that Guarded Safety is unlike any other safety system for college campuses because the app uses interactive maps to share data with their partner schools. The data can be used to determine where students are more likely to be in danger, and in turn can allow colleges to make their campuses safer.

Another feature of Guarded Safety is the “Shake-to-Fake Call,” which allows users to shake their phone to create a fake phone call in a dangerous situation.

“There’s a tremendous amount of promise in potentially integrating their technology with those blue light technologies to make an even more powerful system,” Morin said. jslazins@syr.edu

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Syracuse needs to figure out defense before NCAAs

By Billy Heyen

asst. digital editor

On Sunday night, 11th-ranked Syracuse (12-6, 2-4 Atlantic Coast) learned it would head to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to play No. 3 seed Michigan in the NCAA tournament on Saturday. By then, the Orange needs to decide who its third back is if Lies Lagerweij remains at forward.

It’s crucial because Michigan scores 3.29 goals per game on the season.

“You know, they’re hockey players, you play the game of hockey,” SU head coach Ange Bradley said. “You don’t play a position.”

Although many of Syracuse’s players have shown an ability to play multiple positions, the Orange maintained a stable backline for much of the season. To begin the year, SU had Lagerweij, Roos Weers and Claire Webb in the back. But once Jamie Martin returned from injury on Sept. 17, Webb shifted into the midfield and Martin joined the two first-team All-Americans on defense. Beginning with Syracuse’s game against Drexel on Oct. 15, though, Lagerweij has been shifted up to play forward, her original position at Syracuse. Webb has remained in the midfield, thus opening a spot on the backline.

“I like having Lies up front, I like having her in back,” Weers said. “For me it doesn’t really matter.”

In its win over Drexel, Syracuse used a few different options in back. Annalena Ulbrich played more minutes than normal and Stephanie Harris played her career-high in minutes, mostly at right back. The following week, in an Oct. 22 loss to Penn, Lagerweij missed the game with an undisclosed injury and regular

midfielder Florine Hogendoorn played center back. For its Senior Day victory over Pacific on Oct. 28, Lagerweij again spent the majority of her time at forward, with Ulbrich filling in alongside Weers. And in the first round of the ACC tournament, during a loss to Louisville, Ulbrich again spent time on defense while Lagerweij played up top. “(The moving pieces on defense) are always part of the D-unit, as we call it,” Weers said.

“We take pride in it, we practice with each other ... so everybody is used to playing there who played there.”

When Lagerweij, a senior, and Ulbrich, a redshirt junior, were freshmen, Ulbrich started the majority of the season at back only to have Lagerweij move from forward to take her spot after Ulbrich suffered a season-ending injury. Ulbrich never reclaimed her spot after Weers stepped into a starting spot as a freshman the following year. So, Ulbrich hasn’t played much since Lagerweij and Weers became stalwarts on defense for Syracuse.

Hogendoorn was the other player used at center back while Lagerweij wasn’t playing defense. Prior to the game at Penn, Hogendoorn had seen most of her minutes in center midfield. But Bradley and midfielder Laura Hurff felt her performance that day was fine, and Hogendoorn wasn’t unfamiliar with the position.

“She played defense back home (in the Netherlands),” Weers said. “Playing midfield is different than playing back. But it’s just communicating with each other.”

In the four games in which Lagerweij has played just sparingly at back, the Orange has allowed three goals twice and shutout its

Syracuse’s defense has been switched around all year. It needs to find a set that works if it wants to compete in the NCAA tournament. jordan phelps staff photographer

opponent twice. round of the NCAA tournament, its defensive The one aspect of the game SU seems grouping will need to be solid. Whether by to struggle at slightly more without Lager- using Ulbrich, Hogendoorn or a new formaweij in the back is breaking an opponent’s tion, or even reinserting Lagerweij at back, high press. Lagerweij and Weers whack the Syracuse will deploy a lineup that hasn’t ball accurately side-to-side until it can be cemented itself in the last four weeks. pushed upfield. But on occasion, especially “It’s just getting comfort and chemistry,” against Pacific, Ulbrich appeared to hold Bradley said. “They’ve been training together the ball too long and created a few almost a lot of them for a long time.” interceptions for Pacific. If the Orange was the Carolin Hoffmann, a Syracuse forward, To solve Sudoku puzzle, each row, column to beat Michigan and meet up with Louis- said it on Sept. 20: “Defense wins championbox must contain the numbers 1 to 9. ville for a third time in the quarterfinal, SU ships.” The first step for SU toward winning its would need to handle Louisville’s extreme second national championship will be figuring pressure to compete. out who it’ll have playing at back.

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sidibe adjust quickly enough to Division I basketball.

At only a tad more than 200 pounds, whether he can body up more experienced collegiate players. And whether he will pose an offensive threat.

“He’s a good player,” said SU assistant coach Allen Griffin, who works primarily with the bigs. “It’s going to be a process for him.”

Sidibe’s backstory suggests he might just be able to help Syracuse hold its own in the paint. The way he guards the basket, with little emotion, belies the fierce passion for why he plays. He is driven by his family an ocean away in Africa. He said he will do everything in his power to be a productive college big. Hopefully, he said, he will play in the NBA, earn a hefty payday and send some of it back home.

For now, Sidibe looks to endure this new set of challenges the way he managed his transition to Spain and then to the United States.

When he arrived in Spain at 13, Sidibe learned Spanish and English while training several hours per day on the court. He had played soccer as a goalkeeper, mostly, and had only shot baskets at a “junky” court near his house for about one year, said Lopez, his coach in Spain at the Canterbury School.

Sidibe lived with Lopez, his wife and his son. He learned Spanish and English at the bilingual school, adding two more languages to his repertoire of French and native Bambara. He worked out two or three times per day, spending long sessions on the court. He recalibrated his diet, which was mostly rice in Africa, to meat, pasta and paella, Lopez said.

He ate meals with Lopez’s family and shared a room with his son. Sidibe gained about 50 pounds in two years, while learning two lanfrom page 16

thorpe “Physically, I feel pretty ready,” Thorpe said. “Right now my ankle is still working back to 100 percent.”

Backcourt mate Frank Howard, who scored 19 points, said Thorpe can create his own shot, get to the basket in one-on-one situations and “help me get off ball a little bit.” Howard acknowledged that Thorpe’s ankle is clearly preventing him from being at full strength, though he said Thorpe played well given his status.

Thorpe knocked down one second-half 3-pointer, shot 2-for-6 from the field and earned one trip to the charity stripe. By the time his early jitters faded, he flashed a few smiles. He perked up from the SU bench several times amid SU’s 60-point second half. When freshman forward Bourama Sidibe blocked a shot around the 3-point line, causing the ball to float up and land in the SCSU bench, Thorpe giggled with Howard.

“He’s good with the ball,” Boeheim said. from page 16

dungey practice the other guys.”

Those “other guys” include Mahoney, who completed 7 of 12 passes for 36 yards against FSU while Dungey sat out, and true freshman Tommy DeVito, who hasn’t seen the field yet.

If DeVito, an Under Armour All-American and Elite 11 quarterback, stays on the sidelines for the rest of the year, he would redshirt and enter next season with four years of eligibility remaining.

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Mississauga, Ontario struggled early, much like everyone else on the team. He missed two 3-pointers badly and got called for early fouls.

But Brissett rebounded nicely in the second half to put together a solid all-around game.

He was scoring a number of different ways. He knocked down a 3-pointer to start the second half. On one play, he drove left from the right wig, hop stepped into the paint and showed the ball high on a pump fake. As his defenders bit on the fake, Brissett went up and under for a layup. Later in the half, he got the ball in the low right block. He faked middle, and as a second defender came he spun baseline for the layup.

Brissett also showed a good amount of hustle for Syracuse. He picked up two offensive

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guages and the game of basketball, Lopez said.

“Santi was like a father to me,” Sidibe said.

“He taught me everything.”

It didn’t take long for Lopez to recognize the Division I potential in Sidibe. Through mutual friends, Lopez eventually put Sidibe in touch with coaches in the U.S. In 2015, Sidibe landed at St. Benedict’s, where former SU guard and first-round draft pick Tyler Ennis graduated from in 2013.

The difficulty of the initial adjustments were lessened because Sidibe had already learned English in Spain. But he had to take the SAT as well as college-level classes. St. Benedict’s suggested Sidibe stay for a “prep year,” an extra year of high school, or enroll in a junior college so that he could both learn more English and improve his SAT scores. He resisted.

“Bourama is very, very, very self-conscious of being successful,” said Art Pierson, an assistant coach at St. Benedict’s. “He never gets outmatched in anything he does.”

For his college application essay, Sidibe weathered multiple drafts. He wrote about his travels, leaving home for Spain at 13, then to the U.S. He wrote about how it made him more responsible and how he speaks four languages.

Sidibe stowed away time to study for the SAT nearly every day and improve his scores, which were “rough” at first, said Stephanie Kranz, his math teacher. The wordiness of the test, Kranz said, did not help a student who had moved to the U.S. at age 16.

One day in math class, Kranz, a Syracuse alumna, asked Sidibe to get head coach Jim Boeheim to autograph the Syracuse flag hanging in her classroom. On one of his first recruiting visits, Sidibe brought the flag with him. The day Sidibe returned, Kranz asked if Boeheim had signed it. Sidibe said no, then hung up the

flag. On it was Boeheim’s signature.

“I thought you said he didn’t sign it,” Kranz said.

“I thought you asked if I had signed it,” Sidibe replied.

As his English improved, his wit off of the court became apparent on it. Sidibe knows he is sometimes “over-quick” with the basketball. He was called for a few traveling violations in the first exhibition game last week. His strength is shot-blocking, former coaches said, while he can improve on staying firm with the ball and playing with his back to the basket.

Still, he compensates for his thin build with an inner aggression and ever-evolving skill set.

In a 2015 game for St. Benedict’s at Montverde (Florida) Academy, one of the top high school programs in the country, Sidibe led a near-comeback in the fourth quarter. St. Benedict’s head coach Mark Taylor said Montverde broke a full-court press three consecutive times, but there was Sidibe as the last resort. He pinned three-straight layup attempts on the backboard, each of which produced a transition basket at the other end.

Later in the season, in a state playoff game, Sidibe scored 18 points and grabbed 17 rebounds against a pair of 6-foot-11 Division I commits.

St. Benedict’s played one for the most difficult schedules in the country, Taylor said, but Sidibe never shied away against bigger players with more recruiting attention. In an AAU game, Sidibe stayed competitive against future No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons. Teammates began to call Sidibe, “The King,” former coaches said.

“He doesn’t say anything,” said Taylor, “but boy he takes care of business at the rim.”

With his ability to block shots, rebound and as he developed as a scorer, Sidibe was recruited by Memphis, UCLA, Seton Hall, Oklahoma

State and Texas Tech. Syracuse didn’t “get on to him” until after his junior season, later than most other schools, Taylor said. But SU assistant coach Gerry McNamara made several trips to visit him. Former assistant Mike Hopkins also made two visits and was impressed with shot-blocking ability, Taylor said.

When he arrived at Syracuse, Sidibe was shy, just like he was when he first got to Spain and St. Benedict’s. But redshirt freshman forward Matthew Moyer said Sidibe broke the ice during a team trip to the Jersey Shore this summer. Sidibe cracked jokes that loosened the team and established himself as comfortable in yet another unknown territory.

Meanwhile, Sidibe keeps his family at the forefront. It is the key motivator in his life.

Every time he flies home to Mali, he brings with him extra clothes and uniforms for his family to wear. This summer, he spent nearly all of the money he had saved to travel back home. He paid fees to check three extra bags, which he stuffed with dozens of shirts and sneakers for his family. He knows he came “from nothing,” Lopez said, and he wants to repay his family.

“What pushes Bourama is the fact that he’s so happy to be in America,” said Brandon Pierson, an assistant at St. Benedict’s. “He’s so happy to be here and make an impact and help out at home.”

The transitions Sidibe has made were difficult. This one at SU will be, too. A few months into college, Sidibe doesn’t always know how to articulate what he thinks. He is learning more English and how to communicate on the court. His unpredictable life has led him from a village in Africa to Spain to central New York, where the Orange will count on the outstretched arms that got him here.

“I’m excited,” Sidibe said. “I’m ready.”

“He doesn’t have his explosiveness and he needs that. It will probably take some time.”

Only the center rotation is set All nine scholarship players played at least 12 minutes in the game, with no player eclipsing Tyus Battle’s team-high 29 minutes. Boeheim is still looking for the right group to emerge.

“We just have to keep giving everybody an opportunity and see,” Boeheim said. “I think our centers are set. We know what we’re going to do there. Now we’ve got to figure out what else we’ve got. And it’s (going) to take a little bit of time I think.”

Boeheim was largely happy with how his centers played in the exhibition. After men’s basketball media day Boeheim said he wanted the two centers, Paschal Chukwu and Bourama Sidibe, to split the minutes at center. They did basically just that with Sidibe playing 20 minutes and Chukwu 18.

Chukwu got the start but was subbed out after the Owls made two 3-pointers from the same spot in the left corner. Boeheim said that Sidibe is better than Chukwu at closing out in

the corners. Despite that, the SU head coach was happy with what he saw from his sisters.

“Paschal and Bourama are doing a pretty good job inside,” Boeheim said. “I think they had about 19 rebounds tonight between them.

Blocked some shots, I think they’re doing what we would like them to do.”

SU better equipped for press this year Boeheim hasn’t had the most straightforward relationship with pressing on defense.

Two years ago in the Elite Eight, it fueled Syracuse’s improbable second-half comeback against Virginia. But the Orange didn’t use it much last year, as Boeheim said that he thought good teams would figure out how to crack it.

Syracuse used the press to get back in the game after a slow start in the first exhibition matchup against Southern New Hampshire.

SU deployed it again early and often throughout this second preseason game.

“We couldn’t score,” Boeheim said. “So we might as well try and get a turnover and see if we can get something that way, that would help.”

Even though the offense’s struggles was the

initial cause for the press to be used, Boeheim said he does think that the Orange will be able to use the press more because it has two capable shot blockers.

The only player who averaged more than one block per game last year was 6-foot-9 Tyler Lydon. Sidibe and Chukwu are both taller and better shot blockers.

Twice, Sidibe played center field on the press. When the inbound pass would go over the top toward halfcourt, Sidibe stepped up and broke it up. On one play SCSU was throwing in from midcourt. The Orange was caught cheating into the backcourt and Owls player Luke Beesley slipped past the SU defense. He went up for the dunk but Chukwu hustled back, met him at the top of his jump and swatted the ball away.

“We’ve been working on it, we’ve spent a lot of time on our press,” Boeheim said. “Just think of all those plays they either stopped or went back. Or we got a block. Or they missed a shot. And we didn’t have that last year.”

and miss extended time, as he did last year when he did not play during the final four games of SU’s season, someone would have to fill in.

Could DeVito be that someone?

“If we think that gives us the best opportunity to win based off weighing all the situations,” Babers said, “yeah.”

Babers has taken that stance since DeVito arrived. He doesn’t see it as “burning” DeVito’s redshirt, but rather as “an opportunity to step up and help the family.” DeVito has been practicing, Babers said, and “would be OK” if he played. The preparation for DeVito has

been the same as any other SU quarterback, Babers said.

Still, SU’s ideal world has Eric Dungey running the offense for at least the rest of 2017.

After returning from the injury against FSU, Dungey threw two touchdowns and rushed for another while amassing a career-high 109 yards on the ground. The banged-up performance led Dungey’s teammates to laud him for his toughness after the game.

“I’ve never seen anybody that’s as reckless, the way he gives up his body,” Babers said Monday. “... (Dungey) healthy is our best opportunity for a win.”

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rebounds, scoring the first bucket of the game for SU off of one. He picked up a steal off the press in the second half. As the SCSU player tried to inbound the ball deep toward halfcourt, Brissett leapt with one hand to pick it off.

The forward ended with 16 points, five rebounds, two assists and two steals.

Division II counterpart than the team that’ll try to surprise in the Atlantic Coast Conference this year.

who was cutting in from the baseline. Moyer caught it in stride and rose up for a slam, letting out a roar on his way down.

Much like in last week’s preseason game, the two centers Chukwu and Sidibe racked up the blocks against a much smaller Southern Connecticut State team (the tallest player on the team is 6-foot-7).

But the Orange actually had a few nice offensive highlights in this game. The best one came late in the second half. Graduate transfer Geno Thorpe — playing for the first time after sitting out the last exhibition game with an injury — cut from right to left and attacked the middle of the paint in transition.

As Thorpe sucked in the defense he set up a perfect bounce bass for Matthew Moyer,

One way to try and beat Syracuse’s 2-3 zone is to try and find the soft spots behind the arc, mainly in the corners. If a team exploits that too much, though, the Orange will usually adjust.

That didn’t happen to start the game. The Owls made three 3-pointers in the first three minutes of the game, each one coming from the right corner. Chukwu came out following the second one after missing a rotation, but that didn’t matter as another one fell a few minutes later. The shots led to an early timeout from Boeheim.

Dud: The entire team in the first half

It’s not fair to pick just one player for this, since the entire team played at an embarrassingly poor level for the first 15 minutes.

The Orange got lost on defense and couldn’t knock a shot down.

The team’s leader, Tyus Battle, couldn’t get any of his jump shots to fall. Centers Paschal Chukwu and Bourama Sidibe each struggled to push a much smaller Owls team off the boards.

It ended up not mattering, but for much of the first half, the Orange looked more like its

Highlight: Matthew Moyer’s dunk late in the second half

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• Syracuse’s Nov. 18 game at Louisville will kickoff at 3:30 p.m., the ACC announced Monday. The game will be televised on ESPN2 or ESPNU, depending on what happens in the league’s games this weekend.

• SU has thrown an interception on the first drive of all four road games this season.

When asked if SU’s struggles to start strong are based on anything or if they are just a happening, Babers replied: “It better be a happening because we’re doing a lot of things for that not to happen.” jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss

Lowlight: The first three minutes of the game

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Anchor down Sidibe traveled 3 continents before finding stability at SU

By Matthew Gutierrez senior staff writer

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BOURAMA SIDIBE has traveled all over the world to find a home at Syracuse. He could anchor the front court at SU for a long time to come. sam lee contributing photographper

he future of the Syracuse frontcourt arrived in Spain at the age of 13 with barely a year of basketball experience to his name. Santi Lopez, a former coach, measured him at 6-foot-6 and 147 pounds. He struggled to stitch a sentence together in either Spanish or English, yet he left his home in one of the poorest countries in Africa for a better education and a shot at basketball opportunity.

Flash forward seven years to fall 2017. Syracuse has not played in the NCAA Tournament in two of the past three years and, unless Bourama Sidibe and junior Paschal Chukwu protect the rim with consistency, Syracuse could miss out on the Big Dance again. Sidibe, a former three-star recruit originally from Mali in Africa, brings a presence to the Syracuse frontcourt and will play about 20 minutes per game, said head coach Jim Boeheim. In that time, the Orange will need every bit of the 20-year-old freshman’s 6-foot-10, 205pound frame to alter shots at what is Syracuse’s most unproven and least experienced position.

The Orange has lost 98 percent of its minutes at center from a year ago, per Kenpom.com, which puts the onus on Chukwu and Sidibe against some of the best frontcourts in the country. Sidibe’s experience playing competitive high school-level basketball in Spain, plus his two seasons in a premier basketball program at St. Benedict’s (New Jersey) Preparatory School, have provided him a platform on which to build.

But there are plenty of legitimate questions, including whether Sidibe can see sidibe page 14

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Dungey ‘good to go’ Saturday

By Joe Bloss

senior staff writer

Against Florida State on Saturday, Syracuse (4-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) played three offensive series without Eric Dungey while the training staff tended to the junior quarterback’s unspecified leg/foot injury.

Backup Zack Mahoney entered. On the first of those three drives, SU started at the Seminoles’ 38-yard line and didn’t score. The other two resulted in three-and-outs.

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After missing seven games in his first two seasons at SU, Eric Dungey hasn’t missed one yet this year

Dungey wore a boot on his right foot after the 27-24 loss to FSU. The Orange play Wake Forest (5-4, 2-3 ACC) this coming Saturday and need to win two of the remaining three games left on the schedule to lock up a bowl bid. Dungey would help.

“He’ll be ready to go,” head coach Dino Babers said during his weekly press conference Monday.

At first, Babers answered yes to a question that asked if he was still awaiting further medical assessments regarding Dungey; SU does not typically disclose injury-related information until the weekly injury report issued Thursday night. But later, when pressed on how he would manage his starting quarterback during practice this week, Babers supplied a few more details.

“He’s not going to be able to do all the reps,” Babers said, “but he’s got a lot of game experience. We’ll just see dungey page 14

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Thorpe debuts in Syracuse win

Superlatives from SU’s 84-59 win over SCSU

By Tomer Langer and Matthew Gutierrez the daily orange

Geno Thorpe’s introduction for his graduate season at Syracuse involved an untucked jersey. As Thorpe entered SU’s second and final exhibition game, an 84-59 win Monday night over Southern Connecticut State, he lightly jogged out to midcourt five-and-a-half minutes into the game. He fidgeted with his white jersey, then tucked it in before scurrying to find his defensive assignment as the Orange trailed by eight to a Division II opponent.

The untucked jersey epitomized Thorpe’s play Monday night in his Syracuse debut: He was slightly off, a step or two slower than he would prefer on drives and one-on-one matchups, but he tacked together

a few plays to cap off a fairly productive outing. Within his first few minutes at SU, he forced a pair of steals and dropped in a layup, helping the Orange begin to claw back from an early deficit.

Thorpe, who turns 23 on Wednesday, is Syracuse’s most experienced player. In his first SU game, he scored six points, dished out four assists and grabbed four steals across 22 minutes on the floor. Yet head coach Jim Boeheim said Thorpe is still healing from an ankle injury that decelerated his progression into the SU backcourt.

“He just doesn’t have his push off of his ankle yet,” Boeheim said.

“He’s just has a couple of days of practice really, in the last 14, so I think it will take him a while.”

A year ago, Thorpe led South Florida in scoring. His 15.1 points

per game would have placed second on SU, though he did not play in Syracuse’s first exhibition because of his ankle injury.

Against the Owls at the Carrier Dome, four days before Syracuse’s season opener against Cornell, SU needed life early. In the first half, Syracuse swapped out of its halfcourt 2-3 zone into a full-court press for the second consecutive game. What resulted was a Thorpe steal that produced a layup at the other end.

Later, he showed that he is not at his full self. On a left-handed drive from the left wing, the ball slipped out of Thorpe’s hands and drifted out of bounds. He clapped his hands. He then missed three of his four 3-point attempts, as well as a layup. see thorpe page 14

By Tomer Langer

senior staff writer

Syracuse won its second and final preseason game, 84-59, against Division II Southern Connecticut State Monday night in the Carrier Dome. The Orange never led in the first half, going down 11-0 early and trailing by as much as 15 late in the first half. A 12-2 run made it a 5-point game at the half but SU greatly improved its shooting in the second half to win the game.

Here are superlatives from the game.

The big moment: Back-toback 3-pointers to start the second half Syracuse struggled to get anything

going in the first half. The Orange shot 8-of-31 in the frame and had only one assist. A 12-2 run to end the half made it a more palatable 5-point deficit.

The Orange came out much better in the second half, though. On the first play, Frank Howard drove middle and kicked out to Oshae Brissett on the right wing, who knocked down a shot from behind the arc.

Tyus Battle missed a shot on the next possession but after an offensive rebound, Frank Howard got the ball in the left corner and knocked down a 3-pointer himself. It tied the game up and marked the change that SU needed from the lackluster first half.

Stud: Oshae Brissett The freshman forward from see scsu page 14