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feb. 19, 2015 high 6°, low -6°
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N • Frozen
P • In focus
The extreme cold temperatures during the past couple weeks have affected the way SU is managing its building temperatures and energy across campus. Page 3
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Klementia Dymyd shares her experience documenting the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity exactly one year ago. Page 9
S • In the cards
Syracuse picked up its biggest win of the season, defeating No. 12 Louisville, 69-59. Michael Gbinije had 18 points in the Syracuse win on Wednesday. Page 16
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1 petition filed for SA president Friday marks deadline to file petition to run for president, vice president in spring elections By William Norris staff writer
RAKEEM CHRISTMAS prepares to shoot a free throw against No. 12 Louisville. After combining for 18 points in SU’s last two games, he scored a game-high 29 points and went 11-for-13 on free throws to help the Orange beat the Cardinals 69-59. chase gaewski staff photographer
Christmas answers call in Orange’s best win of season
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t was obvious to Michael Gbinije that Rakeem Christmas wasn’t happy after Saturday’s loss. The Syracuse big man had disappeared against Jahlil Okafor, Duke’s phenom and the potential national player of the year, and stumbled to his worst performance of the season. But Christmas insists that the debate of his stature among the
PHIL D’ABBRACCIO THE REAL SLIM SHADY
country’s most prolific big men isn’t what drove him to respond the way he did Wednesday night. “I don’t really care about all that. I just try to help my team win,”
Christmas said. “I knew I had to put that game behind me and that’s what I tried to do. “And that’s what I did.” It was Christmas’ team again. The script throughout the Orange’s nonconference schedule and its early Atlantic Coast Conference slate was re-enacted in the form of his most efficient game yet. After
two subpar outings — the latter of which on a national stage — he outshined Louisville’s Montrezl Harrell with 29 points as Syracuse (17-9, 8-5 ACC) finally got the best of a ranked team, the victim being the No. 12 Cardinals (20-6, 8-5), 69-59, in front of an overjoyed audience of 26,160 in the Carrier Dome. see d’abbraccio page 12
Organizations plan vigil to honor shooting victims By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor
The Student Association will be holding a candlelight vigil on Thursday in remembrance of three Muslim students who were shot and killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The vigil, which is in collaboration with the Muslim Student Association and Hendricks Chapel, will take place at 5 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. Last week, the three students were shot and killed near the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus. The father of one of the
victims called the killings a “hate crime,” and the FBI announced an inquiry into the case late last week. Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was indicted Monday on three counts of murder and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling. The event will begin with a purifi-
cation and a welcome by Dean of Hendricks Chapel Tiffany Steinwert. Muslim Chaplain Richard Russell will then recite Islamic prayers for loss in Arabic and English. Yusuf Abdul-Qadir will deliver a keynote speech, before a student testimonial on Islamophobia. see vigil page 6
One Syracuse University student has turned in a petition to run for student body president and vice president as of Wednesday, said Board of Elections and Membership Chair Paulina Colon. The deadline to turn petitions in is Friday. Janine Bogris, the vice chair of elections for BEM, said that all of the petitions that the board printed have been taken and that it is common for people to hand in petitions closer to the deadline. Colon said that running for these positions requires receiving 500 signatures, and students are given less than a month to compile the signatures. “They are coming,” she said of the petitions. Bogris added that SA has been posting about the petitions on all of the organization’s social media and that SA President Boris Gresely sent an email to the student body with information about when the petitions were due. This semester marks the first time that the SA president and vice president will be elected in the spring. Elections were previously held in the fall, but a change in the SA constitution in the fall of 2013 made it so that the presidential term aligns with the academic calendar. As for turnout in this April’s elections, the organization has bigger expectations for this year’s elections. “We are expecting that the student body will get more involved and we will have a higher voting percentage than last year,” Bogris said. wrnorris@syr.edu