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N • Construction update

Pete Sala, SU’s vice president and chief facilities officer, detailed Archbold renovations and other campus projects in a campuswide email Tuesday.

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P • Keep it REAL

O • Beauty in the brains

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Syracuse University professors are organizing “REAL Talks” to facilitate candid conversations with students about social justice issues, including police brutality.

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Gender and Sexuality columnist C.C. Hendricks examines the underrepresentation of women in STEM industries and why you should care.

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S • One step closer

After a 78-73 win over Louisville on Monday, a basketball beat writer thinks SU’s season isn’t lost. But, it’s not time to guarantee an NCAA Tournament bid either.

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schools and colleges

‘WE HATE IT HERE’

Kavajecz hired in Norway

By Jordan Muller and Sam Ogozalek the daily orange

Tenants of Syracuse Quality Living apartments, Syracuse University students and other protesters rallied against unsafe living conditions in off-campus apartments in the Westcott Street neighborhood on Tuesday. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

Off-campus tenants march to protest poor living conditions near University Hill

By Casey Darnell design editor

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group of about 20 Syracuse University students and Syracuse Quality Living tenants marched Tuesday night to the company’s leasing office of to protest unsafe living conditions.

Tenants of SQL apartments said they have dealt with rodent infestations, broken appliances and ceiling leaks with issues only being fixed temporarily or not at all. The group delivered a second list of demands to the leasing office.

SQL tenant Phalande Jean set up a meeting with SQL’s landlord, Ravi Saluja, but the meeting was cancelled just hours before it was set to start.

“I have now been living the premises for a month now, and I just now got my furniture,” said Jean, who had to assemble the furniture herself after it was dropped off. see protest page 4

on campus

Mumps outbreak helped SU prepare for flu

By Bobby Manning staff writer

A mumps outbreak last semester at Syracuse University has helped the college prepare a sanitation strategy as a flu outbreak hits central New York particularly hard.

New flu cases in central New York more than doubled in the week that ended on Jan. 27, according to Syracuse.com.

“While mumps is completely different from flu, the blessing in disguise, I guess, is that we’ve been following the same diligent precautions for spread of disease,” said Ben Domingo, director of SU Health Services.

In some cases, Domingo said, health services referred students with chest infections and other complications resulting from the flu to local hospitals.

SU has not experienced any cases of meningitis, a brain infection or deaths due to the flu, Domingo said. Early last week, Domingo said he saw lots of flu treatment occurring at health services, before the number of patients experiencing flu symptoms slowed down later in the week.

Influenza B is more prevalent on campus currently, but health services has also detected the unstable

H3N2 virus, Domingo said.

Widespread flu outbreaks have affected every state in the United States in some capacity, according to reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Excluding Hawaii and Oregon, every state in the continental U.S. is experiencing widespread influenza activity.

This year there has been more see flu page 4

Kenneth Kavajecz, the former Martin J. Whitman School of Management dean who was arrested on prostitution charges in fall 2016, is teaching again. Just not at Syracuse University.

Kavajecz, who pleaded guilty to attempted KAVAJECZ patronizing of a prostitute in November, is now a visiting professor of finance at the University of Stavanger in Norway, according to his LinkedIn. He’s held the position since January, per his LinkedIn. On the university’s website, Kavajecz is listed as an external consultant in its business school.

Neither Kavajecz nor a University of Stavanger spokesperson responded to requests for comment Tuesday. The University of Stavanger, in the southern portion of Norway, was established in 2005. It has 12,000 students and 1,600 faculty, according to its website.

Kavajecz was removed from his position at SU in September 2016 after authorities said he agreed to pay $80 to an undercover police officer who was posing as a prostitute in a hotel near the Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

Louis Mannara, a Cicero-based defense attorney who represented Kavajecz in the case, requested more than 10 adjournments after the former dean pleaded not guilty to the charge of patronizing a prostitute.

Kavajecz eventually pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of attempted patronizing of a prostitute and received a one-year conditional discharge.

Kavajecz’s arrest shocked Whitman students. Under his leadership, Whitman climbed Bloomberg’s best business school rankings from No. 72 in 2013 to No. 23 in 2016.

His headshot and biography were still posted on Whitman’s faculty directory Tuesday morning. But as of about 4 p.m. Tuesday, Kavajecz’s information had been removed. The former dean’s salary was $496,448, according to SU’s 990 form for the 2014-15 Fiscal Year. Kavajecz was not listed on the university’s 990 form for the 2015-16 Fiscal Year.

The Whitman dean position was filled last May. Gene Anderson, a former University of Miami School of Business Administration professor, was appointed to Kavajecz’s former role. jmulle01@syr.edu @jordanmuller18 sfogozal@syr.edu | @Sam13783

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The Syracuse Area Music Awards announced the nominees and 2018 inductees for the Hall of Fame.

The show takes place March 2.

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S • Paolo’s back Paolo Ciferri played defensive midfielder for Syracuse last year. On Saturday, he’ll return to the Carrier Dome as a coach for Binghamton.

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Pay gap

Career advising

Professors say they are unsurprised by a pay gap between most men and women faculty at SU. See Thursday’s paper

A program announced by Chancellor Kent Syverud could improve career advising services.

See Thursday’s paper

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on campus

Sala details university renovations

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

In the chamber RYAN MCMAHON, chairman of the Onondaga County Legislature, listened to officials discuss a law that would prohibit people in the county from keeping their dogs outdoors for longer than 30 minutes in below-freezing temperatures. The law was tabled because some constituents thought it didn’t account for dogs accustomed to cold temperatures. leah degraw contributing photographer

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Legislators vote to table dog law after criticism

By Kennedy Rose asst. news editor

Onondaga County legislators voted to pull a local law protecting dogs from being kept outside in the cold Tuesday after receiving dozens of complaints from residents who said the law’s language was too generic and all-encompassing.

The law would have punished dog owners who knowingly leave their pets outdoors for longer than 30 minutes, when the air temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The law could put owners in jail for up to 15 days and fined $250.

“I think it’s fair to say that virtually every legislator approves the ideal in principle,” said Michael Plochocki, a legislator

from the 6th district.

With the law pulled Tuesday, lawmakers will now reconsider the legislation’s text in an effort to make it less broad, some officials said.

At the legislative session, several officials described phone calls with residents who owned “cold-resistant dogs” that don’t like coming indoors, even when temperatures are below freezing.

“It’s really not fair to owners — and more, not fair to the animals — if we just have a one-size-fits-all, ‘the second it’s 32 degrees everything must come inside (law),’” Plochocki said.

Kevin Holmquist of the 10th district insisted that the Legislature hold a public hearing so residents could have a say on the parameters see law page 4

of the law. Of the 22 phone calls he

received regarding the law, 21 callers

In February’s construction update email, Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala gave updates on major construction projects at Syracuse University, including accessibility upgrades to restrooms and updates to residence hall amenities.

Here are the projects Sala detailed in his campus-wide email sent Tuesday afternoon: • Archbold Gymnasium: A $50 million project to transform the gymnasium into a 7,000 square-foot fitness center is underway. Interior space in the gym has been demolished and that work will become visible in coming weeks. The project is expected to be completed in fall 2019.

• Graham Dining Hall, situated between Flint and Day Halls, will soon have a completed fitness room with aerobic exercise equipment and free weights. It’s expected to open in early March.

The Hall of Languages’ two new accessible, single-occupant bathrooms are expected to open this month.

• Underground utility work in the Q-1 parking lot will begin in mid-February and continue into the summer months as part of a project to modernize SU’s utility infrastructure. The utility project will affect a lawn between the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and Crouse Drive.

• In an email to Newhouse faculty late last month, Susan Nash — the school’s director of administration — said that “our whole lawn facing the administration building will be dug up, sidewalks closed, loading dock disrupted, etc. (I don’t even have all the information yet).” krose100@syr.edu

state news Legislators also honored a local high school football and gymnastics team Tuesday. leah degraw contributing photographer

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

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national

Economics textbooks underrepresent women

By Jonathan Chau staff writer

Women are heavily underrepresented in economics textbooks, both in fictional and real examples present in teaching materials, according to a study recently reported by Inside Higher Ed. The study found the underrepresentation of women may not be causing the gender gap in economics, but that it’s not facilitating change, either. Jerry Evensky, an economics professor at Syracuse University, said

the gender gap is due to systematic consistency.

“If you write a textbook with a big publisher, you need to have a big name,” Evensky said. “Bigname economists are people who made their way in a male-driven field. So, they have been socialized to think in these terms and write textbooks that ref lect those concepts.”

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association last month, the study found 77 percent of textbook examples involve men, while 18

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Percentage of textbook examples involving women

percent involve women. The other 5 percent of textbook examples were gender-neutral.

The study found that 41 percent of made-up and ordinary people mentioned in the analyzed textbooks were women; 24

percent of public figures were women; 8 percent of economists were women; 7 percent of policy makers were women; and 6 percent of real business leaders were women.

Evensky said he chose examples representing a diverse group of people in his textbook because he’s aware of underrepresentation in textbooks.

“I try to use a lot of women examples,” Evensky said. “When I talk about discrimination, I talk about race and gender as see textbooks page 4

Ozzy Osbourne will perform at the Lakeview Amphitheater in September as part of his farewell tour, ending a nearly 50-year long career on stage. Tickets to the ‘No More Tours 2” tour will start at $29.50 for lawn seats, and will go on sale Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. The show is Sept. 1. source: local syr

TSUNAMI WARNING

A tsunami warning test was issued Tuesday morning on the East Coast, creating panic among some recipients. Though the alert was a test, some recipients’ messages did not indicate so. The alert comes weeks after a false ballistic missile alert was sent to civilians in Hawaii. source: syracuse.com

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protest Several women ran out of their SQL-owned apartment when they heard the protesters march by, throwing on shoes and coats to join the protesters.

“We hate it here!” one of them exclaimed.

“Our cabinets fell off the wall.”

The rally comes two weeks after a group of tenants delivered a list of demands to Saluja, who manages all 43 of the company’s properties.

A video of the first meeting in SQL’s leasing office was posted on Facebook. When asked by tenant Benesemon Simmons if he would look at the letter, at the time, Saluja said, “I’ll look through it.”

But he never responded to the letter, said Simmons, who is a Ph.D. student in the College of Arts and Sciences studying composition and cultural rhetoric. She has lived in four SQL properties since the summer of 2016.

“I’ve been in four properties with SQL so far, none of it ever being my fault,” Simmons said. “They don’t ever solve the problem, they just move you around.”

Simmons started the tenant’s association with her former roommate Susima Weerakoon, a human development and family studies master’s student at SU. Weerakoon has lived in two SQL properties since 2016.

Simmons and Weerakoon lived together at 303 Lexington Ave., which had a mice infestation, they said. The infestation became too much for Simmons after she found mice feces in her bed, she said.

After complaining to the landlord, Simmons was moved to 307 Columbus Ave., which is double her rent at 303 Lexington. At the new apartment, her toilet stopping working, Simmons said.

Maintenance did not respond until the fifth day, the same day her ceiling started leaking.

As a result, Simmons was displaced from her apartment for several days, she said.

Code enforcement records show that there are two open code violations at 307 Columbus Ave., according to information released by the city of Syracuse as part of the DataCuse initiative: violations of “interior surfaces” and “mechanical appliances.”

The two organizers both called SQL’s maintenance department “unresponsive.” The only way to request maintenance is to text a phone from page 3

law

were against the legislation because it was too broad, Holmquist said.

Plochocki said he spoke to a man in his district who owned two dogs, a Great Pyrenees and a husky, that never wanted to come indoors and resisted going into a garage in below-freezing temperatures.

The legislator also said he received calls from farmers who have dogs that protect animals from coyotes, meaning a dog must be kept outdoors.

Before legislators voted to pull the law, Brian Shapiro, the New York state director of the Humane Society of the United States, pleaded with the lawmakers to pass the law.

He said law enforcement should have a clear, objective standard for keeping pets outdoors, and cited a warning from the American Veterinarian Medical Association that states pets with thick fur coats are still at risk of frostbite or hypothermia.

Shapiro said the law has received support from Syracuse Police Department Chief Frank Fowler and Onondaga County Sheriff Eugene Conway.

Pauline Eggers, an investigator with the Skaneateles Police Department and veteran officer with the Syracuse Police Department, also urged legislators to pass the law. Eggers said she saw awful examples of from page 3

textbooks classic examples.”

By portraying most generic people in his textbooks as women, Evensky said he tries to perpetuate strong women in men-dominated occupations.

When giving an example of nurses and doctors in his textbook, Evensky labeled the nurses as men and the doctors as women.

“Students come up to me and ask, ‘Why

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Protesters marched from the Syracuse Center for Peace and Social Justice to Syracuse Quality Living’s leasing office, where they delivered a list of demands to the company Tuesday night. hieu nguyen asst. photo editor

the time, they don’t respond, Weerakoon said.

“When an issue happens, one strategy is to go to the leasing office and try to talk to someone directly,” Weerakoon said. “But often there is a line of people trying to talk about their issues, and you can hear office staff getting yelled at.”

Weerakoon said the tenants’ association, which includes at least 20 tenants, has been canvassing SQL’s properties to hear what other people are experiencing.

“You see a pattern here. We aren’t the only ones who have mice issues,” Simmons said. “A lot of people have mice issues. I’m not the only one with ceiling issues or roof issues.”

Code violation records show that one SQL property recently had 17 code violations, at animal cruelty while working in Syracuse.

In other business

• The Legislature’s chambers were packed with high school football players and cheerleaders Tuesday. The Skaneateles Lakers high school football team was honored for winning the 2017 New York State Public High School Athletic Association Class C title. The Legislature’s Gold Seal recognition for the team was sponsored by Plochocki, whose district covers Skaneateles, and Peggy Chase of the 9th district.

• Plochocki said he attended Marcellus High School, Skaneateles’ arch rival in football, but was still proud of the team for winning New York’s championship.

It was the first time in the Skaneateles school’s history that its football team won the state championship.

• The Kirk Park Colts Family Cheer Program was also honored for making it to the Pop Warner National Cheer and Dance Championship two years in a row. The team placed in the top 10 in the national championship, and though the Gold Seal is usually given to teams who win state championships, the team was honored Tuesday because they worked hard and placed first locally and in other top 10 spots regionally and nationally, 16th District Legislator Monica Williams said. krose100@syr.edu

does she have to be a doctor, and why does he have to be a nurse?’” Evensky said. “If it was the other way around, no one would say anything.”

Hua Jiang, an associate professor of public relations at SU, said that unlike other industries, public relations is dominated by women both studying and practicing PR. “There are certain chapters (in public relations books) that talk about the feminization of the profession, so definitely there

St., records show. Code violations included accumulation of rubbish and garbage. That particular violation was closed last year.

SU graduate student Eli Gebler lived in that property last fall. Gebler said the apartment was “a nightmare from the beginning.”

On the day he moved in, the sinks started leaking, he said, and the ceiling started leaking soon after.

“I would call code enforcement, and Ravi would just get the same people who had done the problem improperly to come back and do it again,” Gebler said.

In an interview Monday, SQL leasing manager Stephanie Brown apologized to tenants who she said think maintenance is unresponsive. from page 1

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flu hospitalizations than there have been in recent years, according to the CDC. The flu vaccine this year, estimated to decrease infection likelihood only 10 to 33 percent, and the emergence of the challenging H3N2 strain resulted in a massive uptick in flu cases, said Emily Martin, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

All 62 counties in New York have reported widespread flu activity, or more than 10 cases per 100,000 people, according to the New York state Department of Health.

“It’s an extraordinarily genetically diverse virus,” Martin said of the H3N2 virus. “It makes it challenging to predict what’s going to happen with H3N2 well enough to get the right virus into the vaccine.”

This year’s flu isn’t more dangerous, Martin said, but the number of infections creates more pressure on health care systems, which can cause more flu-related deaths.

Fifty-three children have died in the U.S. as of Feb. 2 of the flu, according to the CDC. “All the states are … having widespread activity at the same time … usually each state sort of goes through their own evolution of their cases increasing and then peaking and coming back down in a variety of patterns,” Martin said. “This year are a lot of images of women,” Jiang said.

Jiang said the “glass ceiling effect” is apparent for women in the industry. She said men mainly hold executive positions in public relations. She added that textbook writers should be conscious of and sensitive toward the issue, saying professors should provide insight on diversity issues in their profession.

“I’m not saying we should overemphasize women, but at least we should talk about both men and women honestly,”

when they think maintenance is going to come and when the call is actually accepted,” Brown said.

SQL usually responds to maintenance requests within 24 hours, she said.

When asked about the rally, Brown said she was unaware that it would be happening but respected the tenants’ right to congregate.

“We’re really sad that the ball was dropped both in communication and with us failing to meet their demands, their requests, so we’re just really sorry about that,” Brown said. ­Asst. news editor Kennedy Rose contributed reporting to this story. cdarnell@syr | @caseydarnell_

they’re all at their peak level at the same time. We don’t know why.”

In response to the outbreak, health services has added two evening health providers and two additional providers on Saturdays.

SU has also offered a quadrivalent vaccine that targets four flu strains.

There’s no way of knowing when flu season will peak, but strains often hit in consecutive waves, Martin said.

“I haven’t seen any slowing yet,” she added.

Further complicating the impact at SU, some students are from countries that aren’t accustomed to widespread flu or don’t request flu shots.

Paula Chirinos, a sophomore who contracted flu in November, never got a vaccine and said she mistook the disease for a cold because flu is not widespread in her home country of Peru.

Sophomore Quinlan Hooker, from Dubai, said flu vaccines are available there, but he never got one. He never contracted flu before and missed the entire second week of classes with a fever just over 102 degrees Fahrenheit, he said.

“I’d have 10 blankets on me and still be cold,” Hooker said. “Then I’d just pass out from exhaustion and then wake up and two hours later, I’d be drenched in sweat and take a shower. It was a whole cycle full of discomfort.” rpmannin@syr.edu

Jiang said.

Evensky said the solution starts by altering the way society perceives gender.

“If you make people aware of the structures that reinforce these roles, roles become questionable,” Evensky said. “If we liberate ourselves from those roles, we get the benefit of the creativity and imagination of women and men in leadership positions rather in economics, political science or other fields of study.” jnchau@syr.edu

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Improving student life requires dialogue The Daily Orange Editorial Board met Monday with Chizobam Nwagwu, a Syracuse University senior and undergraduate representative to the SU Board of Trustees, to discuss the necessity of transparency by the administration to enhance the student experience.

Nwagwu visited The D.O. to gauge the editorial board’s input on issues the Board of Trustees should be briefed on in her report at the semester’s end. Nwagwu, a senior policy studies and neuroscience dual major, has also sat down with registered student organizations based on SU’s campus for their thoughts.

Board members discussed the importance of open forums that foster dialogue between students and administration members. This is especially important for university programs that focus on the student experience, including the Invest Syracuse program — which entails a tuition premium and rising tuition rates to fund the Academic Strategic Plan — and the Campus Framework

plan, which will dictate the future of the university’s infrastructure.

These open dialogues should be held to address greater cultural and institutional issues at SU, including limited access to mental health resources, a lack of physical accessibility and sexual assault awareness and prevention. The bulk of the board’s discussion with Nwagwu centered on the need to reasonably equip the university’s Counseling Center, the LGBT Resource Center and the Title IX investigation office.

Because the Board of Trustees’ decision-making process focuses on the longevity and success of the university, it’s crucial trustees understand the student experience. Trustees govern a university meant to foster strong individuals, which requires understanding that strategic plans for SU’s future have the opportunity to help correct longstanding cultural issues on campus.

As a small pool of students, The D.O. Editorial Board acknowledges its own limitations when speaking

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gender and sexuality column

There’s beauty in the brains for STEM

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or women in STEM, shooting for the moon is just as tough as breaking the glass ceiling.

There have long been wage discrepancies in academia, as seen in Syracuse University’s latest faculty salary report. And, as with most forms of gender discrimination, women of color are more vulnerable to these biases. Speculation surrounding these biases permeated the recent removal of astronaut Jeanette Epps, a Syracuse native, from a NASA space mission set for June. Epps would have been the first black crew member on the International Space Station.

The gender gap in STEM fields is among the most persistent — and consequential — gender divides.

While STEM degrees and jobs have grown, the number of women joining and staying in them has not. In 2015, women made up 51 percent of the population but held just 24 percent of STEM positions in the United States, according to the Economics & Statistics Administration. This number has also dropped over time; women held 32 percent of STEM positions in 1990, according to the Pew Research Center.

Combating underrepresentation issues in STEM — including gender stereotypes, a lack of encouragement for women’s interest in STEM and sexual harassment in the workplace — begins with the

acknowledgement of the underlying power dynamics and biases that inform the gender gap.

Sharon Alestalo, the program director of the SU WiSE chapter, which supports women student and faculty development in STEM, recognizes this.

“Systemic and personal bias continues to operate in our organizations, communities and nations, inhibiting large portions of our population from realizing their potential,” Alestalo said.

Nurturing women’s interest is integral to equal representation.

Yet, recruiting more women to pursue STEM careers only addresses part of the problem, as women are more likely to leave STEM positions than their men counterparts.

“This exodus is frequently referred to as the ‘leaky pipeline’ and holds true from grade school through attainment of a faculty or professional position in STEM,” Alestalo said.

The biases that prevent young women’s pursuit of STEM careers also inform the rampant discrimination they experience once they enter these fields. The #MeToo

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C.C. HENDRICKS WRITING TO RESIST

letter to the editor

Combatting abuse requires awareness I believe that most of us Americans have been victims of bullying and/or some form of abuse at some time in our lives. As a former counselor and therapist, I worked with and tried to help many victims of everyday bullying, as well as various other forms of abuse.

I found that their biggest problem and issue they dealt with was that they did not stand up to their bullies and abusers. The best question that I have ever heard a counselor or therapist ask their clients and patients relative to this was the following: “What parts of yourself don’t you love that allows you to let this bully or abuser to continue to mistreat and abuse you?”

This question prompted many people to finally make some serious changes in their lives and to walk away from and leave their abusers.

Stewart B. Epstein Rochester, NY

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movement has resulted in heightened awareness of the ubiquity of sexual harassment across industries, including STEM fields.

The challenges women in STEM face require intersectional solutions, as organizations here in Syracuse acknowledge through their work.

WiSE sponsors a Women of Color in STEM program, and the upcoming “This Girl Can” program is sponsored by the Onondaga County YWCA. The work of these organizations, along with the continued dismantlement of gender stereotypes, is critical in closing the STEM gender gap.

It will involve creating more opportunities for women — especially women of color — in STEM, along with calling out the inequities that plague virtually every discipline.

Gender underrepresentation in STEM is not just a women’s issue.

Having a diverse STEM workforce is vital in the generation of ideas, technologies and economic systems that serve a variety of populations and interests.

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mid the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, Syracuse University faculty have created a forum to examine rape culture and other issues related to social justice and civic engagement.

The lecture series, called REAL Talks, was launched by assistant professors Susan Thomas, Biko Mandela Gray and Chris Eng — who arrived on campus last fall feeling like outsiders — to strengthen the SU community.

The professors will lead the lunchtime discussions, which aim to be R-E-A-L — or “resist exclusion through activism and leadership.”

Professors to foster social justice forums with students

The monthly lectures include “State Violence” in February, “Economic Injustice” in March and “Rape Culture” in April.

Even in justice-oriented spaces, the professors said, there’s hierarchy, and scholars aren’t always on the front lines.

When they have been, the professors said student activists sit and listen to seasoned intellectuals without the chance to engage in a dialogue.w Together, the professors are looking to shift the paradigm.

“We come here and we’re excited. We’re new faculty. We’re, you know, new faculty of color,” Thomas said. “And it’s not that the campus is unwelcoming, but we were all quick enough to recognize that there’s a see real

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Music award nominees announced Students intern with NBC for the Olympics

By Colleen Ferguson feature editor

The Syracuse Area Music Awards announced its 2018 Hall of Fame inductees and nominees for this year’s SAMMYS on Tuesday.

Nominees in various categories, along with six Hall of Fame inductees, the Music Educator of the Year recipient and the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, were announced at Tuesday’s press conference at the Palace Theatre. Sixty nominees were named in 14 recording categories.

“We’re really excited about this year’s inductions,” said chairperson Liz Nowak. “We have a really good crew and it’s really diverse.”

Inductees and award winners

will receive their honors early next month — the Hall of Fame Induction will take place March 1 at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, and the SAMMYS Award Show will be held March 2 at the Palace Theatre.

Five musical groups will perform at the show, including Hall of Fame inductee band DOVE. All 14 award categories will be presented, and The Brian Bourke Award for Best New Artist will also be announced.

The Best New Artist will, as usual, receive six hours of recording time from SubCat Studios.

This is the 25th year of the SAMMYS, which was founded in 1992 and had its first ceremony in 1993.

The SAMMYS committee formed “to honor the musicians who work so hard to imbue the local music scene

with their artistry,” according to the awards’ website.

Nowak said one of the most noteworthy aspects of this year’s inductions is not every Hall of Fame inductee is a musician or musical group. She pointed to 2018 inductees Stacey Waterman and Dave Frisina.

Waterman works behind the scenes to produce local and national-level shows, according to the website, and radio host Frisina gives local artists a platform through his show “Soundcheck.” For Nowak, these types of behind-the-scenes efforts are just as important as the musicians’ work.

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By Jordan Lazinsk staff writer

The Winter Olympics officially begin on Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Almost 3,000 athletes from 92 nations across the world will be present. This year, eight students from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College will get to find out what it’s like to watch the games in person.

They’ve earned the opportunity to intern in South Korea with NBC during the Winter Olympics.

Another 21 student interns from the Park School will be stationed

at the NBC Sports headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, assisting with the broadcasts of the games.

The internships are all part of an opportunity that few communications schools across the country — one being Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications — are presented with.

Diane Gayeski, who has been the dean of the Park School for the past eight years, said since the 2006 Olympics, Ithaca has sent students to every winter and summer games. see olympics page 8

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real talks problem with the way they think about difference on campus.”

The idea for the series was born after the professors felt some discord at a faculty orientation in fall 2017. Thomas and Eng noticed that Gray felt targeted at the meeting for his activism, and spoke with him afterward about the tension. This encounter set the table for the REAL Talks series.

“We started thinking the day after this meeting happened,” Gray said. “We were sitting with each other and we said, ‘Well, is there any way we can organize something?’

We were throwing ideas around and nothing quite shook out.”

Eventually, Thomas was the one to get the ball rolling.

“She spearheaded this really brilliant effort of trying to bring something — we thought was going to be small — together,” Gray said. from page 7

olympics NBC selected Ithaca as part of a select group of schools to offer Olympic internships due to its high national rankings and previous interns who worked with the company.

Gayeski said several students from the Park School have interned with NBC in the past through the college’s New York City and Los Angeles programs.

The application process for an Olympic internship this year consisted of a video interview, said Gayeski, and officials from Ithaca and NBC exchanged information so that the school could coordinate with potential applicants.

After NBC notified interns of their selection, they were assigned roles and informed whether they would be based in South Korea or Connecticut for the Olympics.

While many of the jobs that the interns in South Korea will be undertaking are cur-

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“To have conversations about exclusions and inclusion on campus.”

Thomas broached the idea of hosting student-oriented talks at a cultural foundations of education meeting, and the response was immediate in regard to department support, she said. The reaction was just as prompt from the other SU programs she reached out to.

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Among the series’ supporters are the Office of Multicultural Affairs, SU’s Cultural Foundations of Education and faculty in the English, religion and women’s and gender studies departments. The series is backed by rently undisclosed, Gayeski said in the past students on-site were stationed at a particular sport or venue and would help with the logistics of a large-scale broadcast.

Interns in Connecticut have just as important of a job, Gayeski said, explaining that NBC records a lot more material than what actually ends up on-air. For this reason, many students in Stamford work on editing highlights of events, logging tapes for future reference and creating digital packages for NBC’s online coverage.

Students interning in Connecticut often spend three weeks away from campus, and interns in South Korea can expect to be away for five or six weeks, Gayeski said. This commitment can be an academic burden for some students.

“At many other schools,” Gayeski said, “if students want to go they actually have to drop out of school for the semester and just do the internship.”

Gayeski said Ithaca supports its students

SU’s Intergroup Dialogue Program, the SU Humanities Center and the School of Education as well.

Thomas said she was aware of social justice dialogues already taking place on SU’s campus. It was just a matter of providing additional forums for students and, as Eng added, a means to put activist groups “in conversation with one another.”

“You can just feel this need. It’s palpable,” Thomas said. “This need to have these conversations.”

REAL Talks was the product — the “confluence,” Thomas said — of the desire to bridge the gap and strengthen SU as a community. Though SU students face the same kinds of roadblocks and microaggressions, Thomas said she can only speak to what she and her colleagues experienced as faculty.

Eng said there are moments when everything in the community seems to be progressive. There’s a larger climate, he noted, that

fosters these moments.

“The university is not a self-contained, isolated space,” Eng said. “It’s embedded within all of these larger, material contexts. That’s something that we want to explore.”

Thomas acknowledged that issues of inclusion and exclusion affecting SU are bigger than the university. But Thomas, who said SU is a microcosm of these issues, emphasized the importance of taking stock of where the university stands.

“Part of what we hope to do with this, by bringing folks together, is to say, ‘It’s not just about the administration,’” she said. “It’s also about: What vision do we have when talking about these issues? What vision do we have when we talk about the notion of ‘university community?”

Said Thomas: “Yes, absolutely, it’s the administration that has power. It’s the administration that gets to make these decisions. But you know what? We actually have power, too.”

going to the winter games, and works with each individual student to see how they can remain full-time while interning.

School can afford to spend several weeks away from the Ithaca campus while not having to take a semester off.

“We believe that it’s a great opportunity,” Gayeski said. “It’s quite a bit of work to do this, but we feel it’s definitely worthwhile.”

Some NBC interns from SU are taking a leave of absence in order to participate in their internships. One of those SU students is David Edelstein, a junior broadcast and digital journalism major who will be stationed in Stamford for his internship.

“In my mind, it was something that I was going to have to do,” Edelstein said. “It just only made sense to take a leave of absence.”

As he prepared for his Olympic internship, Edelstein said he was thankful not only for the opportunity to work with NBC in Stamford, but for those that helped him get to where he is.

“I’m only in the position that I’m in,” Edelstein said, “because other people have been there to support me along the way.”

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Number of students from the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College interning for NBC during the Winter Olympics

One way Ithaca and the Park School helps make this happen is by offering condensed courses solely for students returning from internships. These intensive courses deal with the students’ experiences from the Olympics.

As a result, Olympic interns from the Park from page 7

sammys how it got put together, and it’s a lot of work,” Nowak said. “It’s a huge part of the industry.”

Maryjo Spillane, a Syracuse University alumna, was also inducted to the SAMMY Hall of Fame this year. Spillane, a tour and production manager, has worked in the concert industry for more than 25 years. Some of her past clients include Kelly Osbourne, Slayer, Dolly Parton and Lady Gaga.

A full list of the SAMMY nominees can be found online. Besides these categories, there’s also a People’s Choice award. Those interested can vote for their favorite artist or band, favorite live music venue and favorite local festival or music series.

Past winners have said getting honored with this award isn’t just about being a fan

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favorite, but also about area musicians coming together for community building. The three People’s Choice awards will also be presented March 2.

Votes can be cast once a day, every day, for this year’s People’s Choice. As of Tuesday, 61,500 votes had been cast online, which Nowak says is typical at this point in the competition. Last year, more than 100,000 votes were cast for the People’s Choice award.

Each category for 2018 is down to the final eight nominees. The fifth round of voting ends Sunday.

Tickets for the Hall of Fame induction are $25 and can be purchased at syracuseareamusic.com. Tickets for the SAMMYS are $20 and are available at the same site, as well as at Sound Garden on West Jefferson Street. cefergus@syr.edu

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Greenville basketball takes more than 100 shots per game

By David Schneidman staff writer

Three years ago, someone in the Greenville Athletics office came to men’s basketball head coach George Barber with a plan to restructure the program. Administration wanted a JV team to give those who practiced each day but saw no game time an opportunity to play competitively.

Barber was not ready to give up such a large chunk of his players. He told the higherups he would find a way to give playing time to every player on the roster each game. Not knowing a system that allowed for such a play style, Barber began to research.

He stumbled across a book, entitled “Coaching the System: A complete guide to basketball’s most explosive style of play” by Gary Smith and Doug Porter, which preached a high-energy, free form brand of basketball, suited for 15 players or more.

Since the start of the 2015-16 season, Barber has coached “The System” at Greenville, a method designed around quick possessions on both sides of the ball, lots of shooting, tenacious on-ball defending and offensive rebounding. Running the scheme has helped the Panthers (13-8, 10-4 SLIAC) lead Division III in points (127.1), assists (24.4) and steals (18) per game this season.

Centered around reaching specific statistical goals every game, Greenville has showed how such an extreme, high-paced version of

the game, while unorthodox, can work.

“You have to throw out a lot of the things that you know about normal basketball,” assistant coach Stephen Groves said. “They don’t apply when you play our style.”

For the Panthers, the most important step in running “The System” is pace. Everything they do — running plays, crashing the boards, defending — is done relentlessly. To ensure a fast pace of play, Barber orders his team to try and keep its possessions, both offensive and defensive, to 12 seconds or less, as well as keeping fresh legs on the court by constantly substituting players in his 16-man rotation.

Each game, Greenville aims to shoot 100 shots, including 50 threes. More importantly, Barber wants his team to put up at least 25 more shots than the opponent, he said.

By taking shots early in the shot clock each possession, the Panthers easily reach the goal every game, averaging 105.8 field goal attempts per game and 56.6 three-point attempts. As soon as the ball crosses half court, Greenville runs a pick-and-roll to try for an open look from 3-point range. Any player who gets a look is expected to shoot the ball, and if they don’t, they’re scolded.

“You have an obligation if you catch the ball and you’re open to shoot the ball,” Groves said.

“If you don’t, that’s when you get in trouble.”

As expected with such a high number of shot attempts, Greenville owns an undesirable 42.1 field goal percentage, ranking 329th

in Division III. To account for its misses, the Panthers send four players to crash the boards after every shot. The second statistic GU tries for each game is to grab 35 percent of all available offensive rebounds.

While its average of 22 offensive rebounds per game provides plenty of opportunities for second chance points, Greenville makes up for its low field goal percentage with points in transition. The Panthers lead Division III with 18 steals per game, largely due to a tireless full-court press and constant lineup rotation.

You have to throw out a lot of the things that you know about normal basketball.

They don’t apply when you play our style.

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“Teams get tired,” said Johari Dix, the team’s leading scorer. “You look at the teams, they’re all hands on knees, and us, we’re ready to go back in.”

Despite its unorthodox nature, Green-

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place of usual starter, senior goaltender Abbey Miller, and saved 32 of 37 shots.

This was the freshman’s third start of the season and her first since Jan. 9, also

By Eric Storms staff writer

Angelo Goss started taking track seriously in high school after a phone call from a college coach trying to recruit him. The call came from a coach at Florida International University who was interested in Goss running hurdles for the Panthers.

For Goss, the call changed his outlook. He had never thought about GOSS going to college.

“I started loving track,” Goss said, “watching track, learning more about each event.”

Goss, now a senior hurdler at Syracuse, took a winding path to where he is today, with stops in Kansas and Alabama along the way. But to get to a Division I college to run, Goss needed to get his grades up. And so, he found himself at Coffeyville Community College in Coffeyville, Kansas.

At Coffeyville, Goss found plenty of success. He became a National Junior College Athletic Association national champion in two events in 2015, winning the 60-meter hurdles indoors and the 110meter hurdles outdoors. Junior college championships gave Goss his Division I shot, and he joined the Alabama Crimson Tide in fall 2015.

During his time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Goss dealt with injuries, but finished 11th in the 60-meter hurdles in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship in 2017 in his second year with the Crimson Tide. He earned second-team All-American status.

However, something was not quite right.

“I wasn’t really focused at Alabama,” Goss said. “So, the head coach (Dan Waters) sat down with me and said you know, ‘You’re not focused here, I need you to go somewhere to be more focused.’”

In his search for a new school, Goss eyed Syracuse. Dave Hegland, SU’s assistant coach in charge of hurdling, loved Goss’s ability, calling him “a stud” and “a proven commodity in the college ranks.”

Hegland also cited Goss’ personality, particularly his easy-going manner, and the fact he’s an experienced runner.

“He’s a good technical hurdler,” Hegland

said, “certainly an easy guy. You definitely want that guy.”

Goss, knowing Syracuse’s history of track success, believed in what the program could do for him. He also got the sense it could be the place he could stay focused and get better.

“A lot of good hurdlers came through here,” Goss said. “I want to be like the rest of them and be successful.”

So far this season, Goss has not disappointed. He finished first in the 60-meter hurdles at the Albany Great Dane Classic on Jan. 13 with his best time of the season: 7.69 seconds. He followed that with a firstplace finish at the Upstate Challenge on Jan. 20 and second-place finish at the Harvard Crimson Elite Invitational on Friday Goss said he believes his transition to Syracuse has gone well and he likes training on an indoor track as opposed to the grass at Alabama. He’s also had guidance from his teammates and volunteer assistant Freddie Crittenden III, who graduated in the spring as a five-time All-American.

“The team, they helped me out a lot,” Goss said. “Teaching me what I need to do, about my diet, sleep and pretty much technique over the hurdles and stuff.”

Goss’s teammates have learned from him, as well. David Gilstrap said he has the most wisdom to give about Syracuse hurdling, but Goss has more wisdom about hurdling overall from his age and experience. Goss offers advice about what has and hasn’t worked for him in the past, Gilstrap said.

“I feel like he’s transitioned very well here,” Gilstrap said. “I like him a lot. He’s a very good training partner, very good competitor. He definitely helps push our hurdle group to where it should be.”

Goss committed to a health routine including getting eight hours or more of sleep, consuming his protein and taking vitamins every day.

After battling injuries at Alabama, Hegland is impressed with Goss’s health.

SU has been conservative with Goss’s training, Hegland said, because injuries are really the only thing that could slow him down.

“Talented people, you just got to get them to the line,” Hegland said. “He’s that kind of guy.” estorms@syr.edu

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ciferri learned the techniques Williams used to become one of the best faceoff specialists in the country.

Talking to Williams was an added bonus.

“Conversations and conversations and film and film,” Ciferri said. “That’s where I learned what I know, and hopefully I’ll be able to apply that to give us a little advantage on Saturday.”

The biggest advantage for Ciferri comes from being a captain and fifth-year player under Desko. He’s familiar with the system and run-and-gun style Syracuse runs, and he defended current SU players like Jamie Trimboli and Matt Lane, among others, in practice.

He was also the veteran who offered advice to many of Syracuse’s now-starting defenders. Ciferri still keeps in contact with most of the team, even joking around with them over text.

“He must’ve seen the tape (on me),” said redshirt sophomore and defensive midfielder Nick Martin, “because he texted me saying, ‘Hey, you gotta pull that one in transition.’

Because I didn’t shoot when I had a decent look … It’s gonna be fun seeing him.”

The hardest task come Saturday, Ciferri said, will be learning about and watching

ville’s players have bought into “The System.”

Players on other teams usually get frustrated when they are taken out after a couple of minutes, Dix said. But it is accepted by the Panthers as they know constant rotation is a key to their success. Substitutions occur so often that no player averages more than 20 minutes per game, yet 12 players average more than 10. At the end of a close game, Barber abandons his substitution system and leaves his five best players on the court.

Although no other team in the SLIAC averages more than 90 points per game, the Panthers rarely win in blow-out fashion. This season, teams playing Greenville average 122.6 points per game.

Its opponents drastically change their game plan by shortening possessions, taking more threes, and increasing their pace. GU’s opponents must play more like the Panthers to be able to match their scoring, Groves said.

When Barber adopted the unusual style of play, it took time for his team to execute it effectively, and it went 13-13 in its first season under the new method. Three years later, the Panthers have learned exactly how to run it, making them the highest-scoring, and one of the most unique teams in the country.

“You hit the formula, you go for the formula. That’s the standard,” Barber said. “I told (Smith and Porter) they were crazy. But they were right.” ddschnei@syr.edu

against Cornell.

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the freshmen. Tucker Dordevic has started every scrimmage at midfield, and Brendan Curry is on the second midfield line. There’s little information available outside of wordof-mouth and players’ recruitment processes, Ciferri said, so seeing how players perform on the big stage leads to mid-game adjustments.

For many players, playing against a former teammate who is now a coach is a first.

And for Desko, it’s more about coming out and taking home a win in Syracuse’s first game of the season.

“You want to show (Paolo) who the coaches are and who the players are,” Desko quipped.

Desko also said it’s rare for players to join a college coaching staff a year after graduating. But Ciferri has always wanted to coach; that’s why he took a liking to shadowing Donahue and spoke with many former players to understand areas of the game he was relatively unfamiliar with.

“I can’t see myself separating myself from the game,” Ciferri said. “If I can’t play as much as I used to, then I figure the next best thing is coaching.

“I feel like I have a high-level lacrosse mind, and it’d be a shame to waste it.” csdistur@syr.edu | @charliedisturco

PAOLO CIFERRI became an assistant coach at Binghamton after spending five years as a midfielder for Syracuse.

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ice hockey

Syracuse’s defense key for final stretch of CHA games

By Adam Hillman staff writer

Following a three-goal victory over conference leaders Mercyhurst on Jan. 26 that brought Syracuse within three points of first place in College Hockey America, Paul Flanagan was ecstatic with the play of his team.

Stopping the Lakers from scoring a goal on six power play opportunities, the Orange defense once again displayed its dominance in conference.

The win capped of a three-game stretch in which Syracuse allowed just four goals. In the two subsequent games following the upset victory, Syracuse (9-16-2, 8-5-1 CHA) reverted back to its old defensive woes, allowing eight goals in the last two games.

Syracuse has allowed two goals per game in conference play compared to 3.36 against non-conference foes. While the Orange, for the most part, has held teams in check during CHA play — the exception being the most recent game against Mercyhurst — it has struggled to stop attackers out of conference. If the Orange is to make a run in the CHA down the final stretch of the regular season and in the conference tournament, it will hinge on the play of its defense.

“The goals in the past few games have come off rushes, so we just want to be more proactive with our defensemen,” head coach Paul Flanagan said. “We cannot back up or sag into our zones.”

On Oct. 21, in a matchup against thenNo. 9 Northeastern, Syracuse struggled against a quality opponent. Late in the second period, Huskies’ junior forward Denisa Krizova picked up the puck in front of the blue line after a blocked shot. She slapped the puck into the top left corner, past junior goaltender Maddi Welch, who couldn’t find the puck among the crowd in front of the net.

LINDSAY EASTWOOD and the rest of the Syracuse defense have allowed an average of two goals per game in conference play, about a point and a half less than the 3.36 goals let up in nonconference games.

phil bryant staff photographer

The Northeastern goal was a trend — letting top-tier opponents run away in games — for Syracuse throughout non-conference play, as it has not stopped non-CHA teams from scoring.

SU, after starting the season winless in its first five games, has rebounded in conference play, largely in part due to the defense’s success. An obvious difference for SU out of conference is the tougher competition, freshman defender Jessica

DiGirolamo said. Syracuse played five of the top six teams in the nation, along with Providence who received votes in last week’s USCHO.com poll.

After allowing four goals in back-toback games to Mercyhurst and then-No. 2 Clarkson, there has been a clear emphasis on fixing the issues so evident in the past games in practice. The team has focused on using the forecheck to prevent oddman rushes, sophomore defender Lindsay

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Iona — and those were not the foundation of a successful at-large bid. Now, things have changed.

“While this probably is not a vintage Louisville team,” he said, “this win is still more than something last year’s Syracuse team was able to accomplish away from home. Still, I see Syracuse as very, very borderline.”

After No. 2 Virginia smothered Syracuse on Saturday, and Syracuse beat itself at Georgia Tech three days before, head coach Jim Boeheim understood the particular importance of the UofL game.

Previously, Boeheim had stressed the magnitude of different games throughout the season in private, like in a lengthy coaches meeting after Wake Forest. But he publicly dismissed concerns, like after his team missed shots at the end of regulation and the first overtime and eventually lost at Florida State.

“Who cares?” he said then about a slow start to conference play’s impact on the team’s postseason chances. “You got a whole (ACC) season … Anything can happen. Who cares? It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter.”

As recently as the UVA loss, though, Boeheim felt the urgency. After that game, he gathered his players and told them straight-up how big the Louisville game was. For at least one night, his team responded. And though Boeheim appeared more relaxed than he had since the start of conference play at the podium in Louisville, he understood the pressure hasn’t subsided.

When asked about the importance of getting a road win, he said, “We need wins. We need wins anywhere. Road’s good. We need wins. … We let a couple slip away (earlier this season) and this makes up certainly for one of those. We’re fortunate to come in here and get this win.”

Causes for concern still bubbled up in the victory: Syracuse has seven scholarship players available. It barely tip-toed past foul trouble. Its third scoring option, Oshae Brissett, shot well from 3 but still struggled to finish at the rim. SU knew from the scouting report

TYUS BATTLE AND FRANK HOWARD combined for 47 points against UofL, fulfilling SU’s expectations from the backcourt. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

that Louisville would use its size to abuse the low-post, but it still couldn’t stop them.

In the end, though, the Orange won.

Freshman forward Marek Dolezaj played perhaps the best game of his career and the guards, Frank Howard and Tyus Battle, combined for 47 points and were everything they needed to be.

“We’ve got a team full of soldiers and we’ll keep fighting ‘til the end,” Howard said about this game’s impact on the NCAA Tournament. “No matter what everyone says, (we’ll fight). That’s what the people want. People want wins.”

The most important thing this win does is provide Syracuse with a second ACC road win, its first against a competitive team and its first in a challenging environment.

“It’s one less thing they have to do in the last closing stretch or ACC tournament,” Stevens said. “It alleviates the pressure of those (remaining) road games. It’s one piece of the puzzle they don’t have to worry about later.”

Sophomore guard Tyus Battle knows this as well as anyone. He started in the second half of last season on an 18-14 team that the selection committee gave the thumbs down because of its lack of road victories. When asked about the importance of this Louisville win, he at first demurred, saying, “Any ACC win is good … to make an NCAA push.” But then he acknowledged its importance. “(Road wins) mean a lot,” he said. “Not too many teams win too much on the road in the ACC, so this means a lot. Road wins, those are really key.”

Eastwood said.

“We’ve been working a lot on breakouts,” DiGirolamo said. “We’ve been doing a lot of odd-man rushes, and we are also doing three on twos and two on ones to get everybody moving. ” Down four points with six games to play, SU’s defense will need to play like it did in its win against Mercyhurst, not its most recent shellacking. adhillma@syr.edu

The catch: This UofL win only brings SU’s road wins total to two, matching the number of road wins from last season. To nudge even further into the Tournament field and off the bubble, Syracuse needs one more road win out of its three remaining at Miami, Duke or Boston College.

No matter the location, wins will not come easy down the stretch. Yes, Louisville is a Top 25 team in the nation for defensive efficiency, according to Kenpom.com, but Syracuse’s offense exploded after UofL interim head coach David Padgett inexplicably decided to employ a full-court press against one of the nation’s worst half-court offenses.

With Padgett extending the court — which forced a single Syracuse turnover — the Orange piled onto the Cardinals’ worst defensive stretch of the season. In its last four contests, including against the Orange, the usually stingy Cardinals have allowed opponents to shoot 45 percent from the field or better in each game.

None the above invalidates a young Syracuse team hamstrung by injuries and foul trouble gritting out a win in one of the ACC’s toughest venues. It provides context on why this offensive outburst likely will not be the new normal. It illustrates the need for Syracuse to avoid stagnation by moving the ball, to try and beef up its interior defense, to creatively solve the problems its short bench presents with foul trouble.

But, just as the game ended on Monday night, none of those thoughts mattered. The only thing of any importance to fans was the win.

In the KFC Yum! Center, one of the few fans in an orange jersey leapt in the crowd and hustled down the arena’s steps toward the court. He wore No. 15 and clapped furiously, his eyes following the Syracuse team as it walked off the floor. Another fan passed him walking in the other direction.

“Long way to go,” he said.

“Yeah,” the first fan said.

Then, as if he hadn’t really heard the second fan at all, he kept clapping.

sjfortie@syr.edu | @Sam4TR

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Shooters shoot

Final stop Angelo Goss spent time in two states before getting to SU for his final track season.

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Greenville men’s basketball shoots more than 100 shots and 50 3s per game.

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S PORTS

Getting defensive Syracuse ice hockey needs to find defensive success to finish conference play strong.

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men’s basketball

Battle on award shortlist

By Billy Heyen

asst. sports editor

Tyus Battle was named as a finalist for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year award on Tuesday. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame named a watchlist of 20 in October and chopped the list in half today.

Battle ranks second among Atlantic Coast Conference players in scoring with 19.7 points per game, trailing just Duke’s Marvin Bagley III (21.4). In Syracuse’s (168, 5-6 ACC) win against Louisville on Monday, Battle scored a gamehigh 25 points.

OSHAE BRISSETT and Syracuse are in a better position to play their way into the NCAA Tournament after a win against Louisville on Monday at the KFC Yum! Center. alexandra moreo senior staff photographer

There’s still time SU’s win against UofL offers a glimmer of hope

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OUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s not presumable, or even probable, but Syracuse’s win last night proved it was possible.

SU (16-8, 5-6 Atlantic Coast) beat Louisville (16-8, 6-5), 78-73, on Monday night in the KFC Yum! Center more than two days after its worst offensive performance in Carrier Dome history. It showed this team possesses the ability to possibly climb out of the deep hole it dug for itself.

It showed a glimmer of hope for this

SAM FORTIER

PURELY FOR SPORT team to end up in the NCAA Tournament. Just a glimmer.

This is still the team that dug the hole in the first place, the same team with the same issues from a week ago in Atlanta and the same team that ranks near the bottom of the country

in many offensive categories. One night catching fire from the field isn’t a cure-all.

Syracuse’s position on the bubble is unclear because so many games remain, but this win unquestionably gave it more room for error. Bracketologist Patrick Stevens stressed it was too early to compare resumes, but he said before the UofL game, the Orange had only beaten two teams likely to make the Tournament — Buffalo and

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Tyus Battle is second in the ACC in scoring with 19.7 points per game

Joining Battle on the list of 10 finalists is his ACC counterpart from Duke, Grayson Allen. The other eight finalists are Allonzo Trier (Arizona), Chandler Hutchinson (Boise State), Marcus Foster (Creighton), Rob Gray (Houston), Kendrick Nunn (Oakland), Carsen Edwards (Purdue), E.C. Matthews (Rhode Island) and Fletcher Magee (Wofford).

The three previous winners of the award were Malik Monk (Kentucky) in 2017, Buddy Hield (Oklahoma) in 2016 and D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State) in 2015.

Five finalists will be presented to West and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee in March. The winner will be honored at ESPN’s College Basketball Awards on April 6 in Los Angeles. wmheyen@syr.edu | @Wheyen3

men’s lacrosse

ice hockey

Paolo Ciferri returns as assistant Syracuse trounced

by No. 6 Cornell, 5-0

By Charlie DiSturco senior staff writer

Syracuse escaped with a 9-8 victory over Binghamton in April 2017.

The game followed a trend of close fou r t h- qu a r t er comebacks from the Orange and was one of 11 onegoal games that year. This year, though, Binghamton returns CIFERRI to the Carrier Dome to open the season with an extra edge.

Instead of playing under Syracuse head coach John Desko, former defensive midfielder Paolo Ciferri is now an assistant coach at Binghamton. Ciferri said the Bearcats are “hungry” for revenge and that he knows the tendencies of his former teammates. That in

turn helps Binghamton slow down a young SU offense that sports just three returning players on its starting line.

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Number of one-goal games Syracuse had in 2017

“It’s a big emotional feeling here, always going to be great to go back to the Dome,” Ciferri said. “… But I’m looking forward to getting the opportunity to take down the Orange now.”

Since being hired by Binghamton head coach Kevin McKeown, Ciferri has been assigned to three units. He assists with the defensive unit with McKeown, who also serves as the

“defensive coordinator,” and heads both the faceoff and riding units.

The riding unit counters the opposing team’s clears.

To understand how to coach the faceoff unit, Ciferri “shadowed” SU assistant Kevin Donahue at times last year. He already knew the role of the wings during faceoffs because he manned that position for a few years at Syracuse, but faceoff specialists remained a relatively unknown area.

So, Ciferri paid attention to what Donahue would point out to Syracuse’s faceoff specialists and brought over drills to develop certain faceoff techniques. Most of the drills Ciferri now runs at Binghamton were picked up from Donahue, Ciferri said.

He even sat down with former Syracuse faceoff specialist Joe DeMarco and spoke with two-time Tewaaraton Nominee Ben Williams about different tactics. From DeMarco, Ciferri see ciferri page 9

By Adam Hillman staff writer

No. 6 Cornell (15-7-3, 11-5-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference) drubbed Syracuse (9-17-2, 8-5-1 College Hockey Association), 5-0, on Tuesday at Lynah Rink in Ithaca. After the last game of its nonconference schedule, SU finished with one win and 12 losses outside of the CHA. SU struggled to begin the game, allowing three goals in the first period. After two goals from Cornell sophomore Kristin O’Neill in the first 15 minutes, Syracuse’s lone penalty in the period turned into a Cornell powerplay goal via junior forward Diana Buckley.

Halfway through the first period, Orange freshman Emma Polaski hit the post on one of Syracuse’s three shots in the first period.

In the second period, two goals in a span of six minutes pushed the Big Red lead to five, an insurmountable deficit for SU. O’Neill completed her hat trick with six minutes remaining in the period.

While SU had one more powerplay opportunity than Cornell, it could not convert any into goals. This is the second time in three games that SU has not scored.

Freshman goaltender Edith D’Astous-Moreau started in see cornell page 9