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Syracuse University shared its data for the 2014-15 AAUP report, which reflects average faculty salaries. SU declined to share the data last year.

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SU freshman LaNia Roberts, a Snapchat My Campus celebrity, gave a boisterous motivational talk about self-love Tuesday night in Grant Auditorium.

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S • High expectations

Syracuse soccer has become one of the best teams in the nation.

Now, after 13 players left the team, the Orange is welcoming in a dozen new commits.

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WAITING IT OUT MENTAL HEALTH SERIES PART 2 OF 3

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Athlete accepts plea deal McGinley pleads guilty to harassment charges

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

Syracuse University men’s lacrosse player Hayes McGinley will no longer face charges for punching two people on Marshall Street last month if he stays out of trouble for a year.

McGinley, a redshirt freshman midfielder, pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment in the second degree in Syracuse City Court on Tuesday afternoon.

In a statement released through his lawyer, McGinley

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The Counseling Center on Walnut Place is the main point of entry for Syracuse University students who need mental health services. In the last five years, the number of in-person appointments at the center has increased by about 66 percent. frankie prijatel photo editor

Counseling Center works to cut down wait times, provide better services despite rapid increase in demand Editor’s note: This three-part series explores the role of mental health services on college campuses, both nationally and at Syracuse University.

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

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n the edge of the Syracuse University campus, four blocks from the Quad, on Walnut Place, is a nondescript, mustard-colored house with a wide porch and worn gray steps.

A former fraternity house, students now know it, if they know it at all, as the Counseling Center. Each year, nearly 2,000 students walk through its door to speak to any of the center’s 17 counselors.

One of those students is Jasmine Taylor. A sophomore psychology major, Taylor transferred to SU last fall from Emerson College, a 3,700-student school in Boston about half an hour away from where she grew up.

“I come here, it’s out of state, it’s like five hours from Boston and this school is gigantic by comparison,” Taylor said. “I remember coming here and being kind of panicky and blown away that I would be living on a part of campus (Skyhalls) com-

pletely separate from where all the classes are.”

As she transitioned to life at SU, she started to struggle with anxiety and depression. In October, she went to the Counseling Center and saw someone weekly for the rest of the semester.

Since then, Taylor said she’s found her place on campus and hasn’t needed to go back to the center this semester.

But many others have. Student use of the Counseling Center has skyrocketed recently, with the number of in-person appointments increasing about 66 percent in the last five years. The center has already had about 750 more appointments this school year than all of last year.

As the Counseling Center has attempted to adapt to the increase, students have criticized the center for its long wait times, triage system and focus on short-term counseling.

Counseling Center director Cory Wallack said the staff has worked hard to reduce the wait time and the short-term approach remains necessary because of high demand. But both administrators and students agree the center needs more resources to properly help students and that there needs to be a university-wide conversation about mental health. see mental

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Student sues SU, companies Falling window pane leads to injury, expenses

By Annie Palmer staff writer

A senior architecture major has filed a lawsuit against Syracuse University, a construction corporation and a window repair company after a 50-pound, 6-by-3-feet window pane fell on her head.

On Jan. 13, 2014, Meishi Zhang was in Lyman Hall talking to her FST203: “Fine Pastries and Desserts” professor, when the window pane fell on her head, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Onondaga County Supreme Court. Now more than a year later, Zhang said

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WORK wednesday | mark bennington

Adjunct professor to release photo project

By Michaela Quigley staff writer

After Mark Bennington’s grandfather, an avid amateur photographer, died, he left his grandson with all of his cameras and lenses.

“One day, I looked up through the tears and literally saw these cameras,” Bennington said. “I thought, ‘Let me take photographs and take headshots of all my friends who were actors.’”

He brought the equipment to a camera store, where a worker helped him through the process. Bennington took headshots of his acting friends and brought the shots to his agency.

The company loved them, and his name became known in the field for his work with headshots. He now teaches photography in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. “(The photography world) is a really small place, and it can even be divided into subsections — like I was known in the world of headshots,” Bennington said. “Headshots in the world of photography is like you’re the soup chef at Denny’s.”

Bennington met David Alan

Harvey, a famous photographer for National Geographic. Harvey suggested that Bennington publish a book that documents the acting community in Los Angeles. A year later, he was planning a trip to India and decided to photograph Bollywood actors, in Mumbai, India, instead.

“I go to Mumbai and the doors just open. I just happen to meet someone who introduced me to a lawyer, who represents actors in Bollywood, who introduced me to a producer, who introduced me to everyone, who introduced me to a casting director, who gave me the keys to the city,” Bennington said.

People in the acting community gave Bennington a list of actors to feature in his book. Bennington spent much of his time in India watching movies to learn about the performers. He also called and emailed people constantly to get in touch with actors. His book is now being published by HarperCollins and will launch in India in six months.

“I love my creative life, but photography is my full-time thing,” Bennington said. “I will stick to that. It’s vibrant and busy.” maquigle@syr.edu

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Defender Bobby Tait has developed into a reliable man-down specialist for the SU men’s lacrosse team.

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Stick to the plan Sasaki Associates, the firm hired to help develop Syracuse University’s Campus Master Plan, will be on campus Wednesday.

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NEWS

The main event The David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics will host a symposium on “Sport and the Pursuit of Healthiness” this weekend.

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9,800 The number of tickets made available for this year’s Block Party concert featuring 50 Cent Tickets are now sold out, University Union announced Tuesday.

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Event tickets sell out No tickets remain for Friday’s Block Party

By Lydia Wilson asst. news editor

MARIA CONTRERAS-SWEET, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Tuesday at a press conference that Syracuse University is the recipient of another SBA grant, and that the SBA is furthering its relationship with the IVMF. justin mattingly asst. news editor

Cabinet member announces further partnership

By Justin Mattingly asst. news editor

For the second time in three weeks, a member of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet visited Syracuse University and highlighted new partnerships

with the Institute for Veterans and Military Families.

Maria Contreras-Sweet, head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and member of Obama’s Cabinet, announced at a press conference Tuesday morning that the university is the

recipient of another grant, and that the SBA is furthering its relationship with SU. The work done in collaboration between the SBA and the IVMF has trained about 25,000 transitioning service members, Contreras-Sweet said.

“The whole of this effort is about

helping those who have served our country as heroes and allow them to continue to serve our country now and provide for their families,” Contreras-Sweet said.

The IVMF and the SBA have worked

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University provides faculty salary data for AAUP

By Brett Samuels news editor

Syracuse University has provided its faculty salary data to both the local and national chapters of the American Association of University Professors after previously declining to share the information.

In 2014, SU declined to provide the data used in compiling the Committee Z Report — a public record of the average faculty member’s salary in each college — to the local AAUP chapter.

However, after discussions between Chancellor Kent Syverud and faculty

members about the reasoning and effects of the decision, SU’s data was included in the 2014–15 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey.

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs at SU, said in an email that the university based its decision not to share the information on the need to consider the legal landscape surrounding the sharing of faculty salary data. This was due to Syverud’s concerns. As a law school dean, Syverud has been aware that antitrust action has been brought regarding the sharing of law school faculty salaries among

law school deans, Quinn said.

Pat Cihon, the president of SU’s AAUP and an associate professor of

law and public policy, said Syverud spoke to the University Senate in December or January about openness and transparency. Following that meeting, Cihon reached out to In a 2014-15 national survey, data from SU him regarding the salary surveys. showed the following salaries for full-time, asso“So I wrote him a letter near the ciate and assistant professors and instructors. end of January saying based on your FULL-TIME words about shared governance and PROFESSORS transparency that your words are ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS encouraging, but, you know, will ASSISTANT you please take some actions to PROFESSORS back them up,” Cihon said.

INSTRUCTORS One way to do that, Cihon said he 0 30 60 90 120 150 wrote Syverud, would be to share

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Tickets to the 2015 Block Party event, hosted by University Union, have officially sold out, UU announced Tuesday.

This year’s Block Party will feature rapper 50 Cent with G-Unit, electronic dance music artist Kygo and hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd.

Block Party will take place Friday at the Carrier Dome, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Ticket capacity for the event was 9,800 seats, including an expanded floor section due to popular demand, according to a UU press release.

Mayfest and Block Party make up UU’s annual full-day spring music event. Mayfest will take place from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Walnut Park, leading up to Block Party.

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national news Here are a few national stories to note from this week.

POLITICS

HANGING IT UP Michele Leonhart, director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, announced her retirement Tuesday in the wake of agents’ misconduct including their participation in sex parties with prostitutes supplied by drug cartels in Colombia. source: usa today

U.S.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Tuesday was the first day of the penalty phase of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial for the bombing of the Boston Marathon. A federal prosecutor told jurors that Tsarnaev is “America’s worst nightmare,” unrepentant and deserves to die for his crime. source: nbc news

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Drake has evolved into hip-hop icon through social media presence

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he age of constant connection to smartphones has made self-promotion a 24-hour task for celebrities, but Grammy-award winning rapper Drake uses technology as an aid to his success.

Look no further than the new search engine, Let Me Drake That For You, that retrieves stories featuring both the rapper and the specified keyword. The Drake search engine follows the recent launch of an app, Drizzy, which allows users to pick the perfect Drake lyric to share with a friend via text message. And don’t forget the Drake-themed iPhone game Runnin Through the 6, which lets the Toronto-born musician literally run and jump around his hometown. Drake-enthusiasts can even check the daily forecast on Drakeweather.com. Although these creations

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were not made by Drake or his team, they demonstrate his influence over the Internet.

Justin Bieber may have been the first musician to strike gold off of his presence online, but Drake uses the World Wide Web to fuel his own popularity like no one before. Thanks to tech-savvy and tactical marketing moves, the child-actor turned hip-hop-icon has dodged the pitfalls that most artists succumb to in this era of media immediacy.

He most notably embraced technology on Feb.13, when Drake used Twitter to drop a surprise album “If You’re Reading This It’s Too

Late” tweeting a link to the album on iTunes.

The former “Degrassi” star has sold over 774,000 copies of that album and briefly held the record for most single-day Spotify streams at 6.8 million, according to a April 13 Billboard article.

Last summer, Drake dove deeper into the tech world when he introduced an interactive app for his “Drake vs. Lil Wayne” tour. The arcade-inspired mobile app let users rapidly tap the screen in order to “power-up” either artist to determine who would open the night’s performance.

Drake separates himself from the competition by creating a unique and personal experience for his supporters. Instead of sticking to old marketing habits, Drake embraces the new platforms available to artists to grow their influence. His talent is unquestioned but, let’s face it, Drake’s

ascent to stardom wouldn’t have been as rapid if the music was all he had.

A tweet from his counterpart Kendrick Lamar is rare. Hip-hop star J. Cole chooses not to document his life on Instagram. But Drake doesn’t hesitate to use social media and technology the same way his fans do every day.

Behind all of his musical gifts there is a marketing mastermind. In his song “6PM in New York” Drake says, “If me and Future hadn’t made it rapping, we’d probably be out in Silicon (Valley) trying to get our billions on.” His track record proves he isn’t bluffing.

Aarick Knighton is a junior information management and technology major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at adknight@syr.edu.

letter to the editor

Syracuse SPJ takes issue with review headline in DO print edition The Syracuse University chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists takes issue with The Daily Orange for the culturally-insensitive headline on its Monday, April 20 print edition.

The headline and article under our scrutiny is “Viet-Nom Nom Nom: Ky Duyen Café offers variety of traditional Vietnamese cuisine for affordable prices” in The D.O.’s “From the Kitchen” page in the Pulp section. Although we believe that the editors’ intentions were not to offend Vietnamese people or any demographic group, the headline choice was tasteless.

It is one thing to play with words to draw readers in — wordplay is a quite useful design and communication skill. However, The D.O.’s editorial staff crossed a line with this headline choice. It is an example of a failed attempt at cleverness.

Because several of our members and officers have worked for The D.O., we know that this headline was approved by the head section editor and management staff, and at least five to six other staff members agreed with at this headline. It is disappointing to see that one of the most highly-regarded college newspapers in the U.S. would

deem this as acceptable.

The headline also brings up a bigger issue within the journalism industry — many news organizations make the mistake of letting these subtle comments and innuendos pass by and get put into their final product. They may seem small and unintentional, but it leads to ignorant, offensive and culturally-insensitive remarks marginalizing people that we report on and deliver news to. The Daily Orange can lead efforts to be a more inclusive news organization through various means, including diversifying its editorial

staff or holding workshops on how to report on underrepresented demographics.

For such a highly-regarded newspaper with a history of sending former editors and writers to big-name media organizations, the “Viet-Nom Nom Nom” headline disappoints us. We demand more and expect better from The Daily Orange.

Sincerely, Rachel Lockhart, Class of 2017 Max Antonucci, Class of 2015 Ellen Meyers, Class of 2017 Fatima Bangura, Class of 2017

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Liberal columnist Zach Goldberg decides which vice presidential candidate will be the best running mate for Hillary’s Clinton’s ticket.

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OPINION

Environment columnist Azor Cole suggests referring to the Earth as “Mother” contributes to its destruction, See Thursday’s paper

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SU rightly reinstates salary data report The university reinstituting the release of its faculty salary information is an example of Chancellor Kent Syverud’s ability to adapt.

Syracuse University’s decision shows that it values transparency and community concerns.

The data collected by the American Association of University Professors from SU and other colleges is compiled into local and national reports. These reports break down the average salaries of faculty members across colleges on campus, and are also used on a national basis to compare compensation distribution of various universities.

There is value in releasing the faculty salary data. It’s an example of transparency on behalf of the university administration. Returning to the practice is appropriate considering how widely discussed transparency was this past year.

The information released by the AAUP comes partially in the form of the Committee Z Report, a public record of the average faculty member’s salary in each college. For nearly 50 years SU has contributed to this report, but last year Syverud withheld the information due to legal concerns.

The chancellor’s concerns were understandable, considering his previous experience as a law school dean, yet it still upset many who recognize the value of the information.

Syverud reinstating this policy to release salary information also shows that he can take other people’s thoughts into consideration and has the ability to adapt. After more than a year as chancellor, Syverud is now learning what practices best fit the university.

In addition to addressing concerns of transparency, the information also has a lot of power; this information

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provides a comprehensive source that students, faculty and third parties can look to when comparing SU to other academic institutions. This data could be useful for students to better understand university finances.

Making this information public also assists the SU community by giving them more concrete numbers to work off of when looking critically at university spending. And comparing SU faculty earnings to the other universities across the country helps to keep the SU salary competitive. Considering Syverud’s desire to improve SU’s academics, offering a competitive salary would likely help attract the best professors.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board strongly encourages SU to continue to release faculty salary information for future AAUP surveys. It’s right that the university has returned to this established norm.

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SU should sell only domestic apparel due to environmental concerns

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irst came divestment. Then came Earth Day. Now is the time for Syracuse University to have its official apparel made exclusively in the United States.

As reflected by the efforts of student groups and past administrative actions, the university works to remain environmentally and socially conscious when addressing problems locally, nationally and internationally.

However, there is always room for improvement. For SU to only stock apparel that is made in the U.S. in the bookstore is to put the welfare of people and the planet before profits.

The university outsourcing SU apparel contributes to the environmental impacts that occur as a result of having to transport apparel to the U.S. It would be in the best interest of the university to act in a way that supports News Editor Editorial Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor Presentation Director Photo Editor Art Director Copy Chief Development Editor Social Media Producer Video Editor Web Developer Asst. News Editor

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our Earth by choosing to only stock official SU apparel and university merchandise that is made in the U.S. In choosing to import our collegiate apparel from foreign countries, SU is condoning the large amounts of energy involved in it’s transportation.

Melissa Cadwell, the marketing manager for the Sustainability Division at SU, said in an email it is important that clothing materials are also sourced in the U.S. because there are less environmental emissions from sourcing, procuring and selling the items in the U.S. “It is the right thing to do and there are finite resources that we are depletAsst. News Editor Sara Swann Asst. News Editor Lydia Wilson Asst. Feature Editor Jacob Gedetsis Asst. Feature Editor Kait Hobson Asst. Sports Editor Sam Blum Asst. Sports Editor Matt Schneidman Asst. Photo Editor Isabella Barrionuevo Asst. Photo Editor Logan Reidsma Design Editor Sydney Golden Design Editor Matthew Hankin Design Editor Chloe Meister Design Editor Momin Rafi Design Editor Max Redinger Design Editor Katherine Sotelo Asst. Copy Editor Jake Cappuccino Asst. Copy Editor Alex Erdekian Asst. Copy Editor Connor Grossman Asst. Copy Editor Danny Mantooth Asst. Copy Editor Paul Schwedelson Asst. Copy Editor Georgie Silvarole

ing,” said Cadwell in an email. “If we assume the items are sourced and made in the USA, I would like to believe the university is sending a strong message that it understands the implications of climate change and how the university can be a part of the solution...”

In making the decision to not fiscally support these manufacturers, SU can successfully minimize its global transportation footprint.

Although SU would not be the first college to implement such a policy, it would be one of the pioneering institutions to do so. From hats to hoodies, Harvard University only stocks official university clothing that was made in the U.S. and capitalizes on that fact on its bookstore’s website.

SU has made improvements in the past when it comes to the way SU apparel is produced. After months of

student protest in 2000, the university administration agreed to sign onto the Worker Rights’ Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization that works to protect the clothing manufacturing workers whose products are sold in the U.S. SU was recognized by United Students Against Sweatshops in 2014 for its anti-sweatshop stance after the university enacted a policy requiring all of its licensees producing and sourcing goods in Bangladesh to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh in order to ensure safe workplaces.

Although SU purchases its sports apparel from companies that pay fair wages to their employees who work in facilities that meet safety regulations, not all official university items sold in the bookstore are sweatshop free.

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to the rights and safety of workers is meaningful, but we can take this a step further to grow into a university that is even more environmentally and socially conscientious.

Students should be able to wear SU apparel with pride knowing that the university made the decision to be responsible when it comes to the manufacturing of our clothing.

When factory-produced worker exploitation and pollution allows governments, corporate entities and institutions to decide who deserves clean air, water and basic human rights, Syracuse University must choose to not have a hand in the degradation of individuals and of our Earth.

Alexa Diaz is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at adiaz02@syr.edu.

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mental health ••• Walking into the Counseling Center can feel more like entering someone’s house than a university office, which of course is exactly the point.

To the left, a grand wooden staircase, a reminder of the house’s 19th-century origins, leads to the counseling offices upstairs. To the right is a waiting room, where soft music plays and comfortable chairs surround tables with boxes of tissues.

Put simply, the Counseling Center’s goal this semester was to make sure students spend more time upstairs than downstairs.

Last fall, which Wallack called the busiest semester ever, the wait time for an appointment after the initial telephone evaluation peaked at 11 days, Wallack said.

The wait time is now only two days, which the center achieved mainly by expanding its group therapy program and by trying to see students faster. Group therapy was expanded because more students were coming in with anxiety and research shows that treating these students in a group setting works well, Wallack said.

Hiring more counselors would also help with the wait time. The Counseling Center’s current ratio of students to counselors is about one counselor to 1,400 students, Wallack said, within the center’s required accreditation range. But Wallack said he would like to hire four or five more counselors to further decrease the ratio.

During the last five years, the center has had an increase of two counselors. Prior to that, the last staffing increase was in 2008, Wallack said.

The high demand also means the center has to use a triage system, which was implemented in

2011, to prioritize students with the most pressing needs. As part of the system, counselors conduct a telephone assessment, usually within 24-hours of a student’s call. Sometimes this leads to a student being directed to another campus office where their needs could be better met, Wallack said.

Still, Wallack acknowledges the system is often unpopular with students.

“I think for some students that’s a concern and they feel like they have to call and say they’re thinking about suicide or they’re not going to be seen as quickly,” he said. “I can tell you that’s not even close to true.”

••• The house on Walnut Place is the beginning of most students’ experience with mental health services but for some students, it’s not the end.

The Counseling Center provides only shortterm counseling, Wallack said, and generally won’t commit to seeing someone on a weekly basis. No official session limit exists but most students who use the services are seen five to seven times during an academic year, he added.

But for students with more serious mental health concerns, or those who want weekly counseling, finding help outside the center can often be a confusing or frustrating experience.

Mali Golomb-Leavitt, a senior psychology major and president of Active Minds, has been to the Counseling Center twice during her time at SU because she was struggling with depression. Both times she was referred to a psychologist located downtown. With no car, the only way Golomb-Leavitt could get there was by walking or taking the bus, she said.

When she was referred her freshman year, she didn’t even try to get downtown. She was referred out again last semester and this time she went to nonemergency medical transport to

see if they would take her.

Golomb-Leavitt was turned away because she didn’t have a physical health complaint. She tried walking downtown but stopped after a few appointments because it took too long.

Despite her experience, Golomb-Leavitt doesn’t blame the Counseling Center staff and said she believes they’re trying their best to help students despite limited resources. But she thinks the center could be more transparent about what services are offered and to whom.

“This is already a huge battle that we’re fighting by even stepping into the Counseling Center just societally, battling that stigma,” Golomb-Leavitt said. “So we shouldn’t have to battle any further than that.”

Only about 10 percent of students who visit the center are referred to outside resources, Wallack said. The most common referrals are to the Couple and Family Therapy Center and Psychological Services Center, which are both staffed by graduate students.

The Couple and Family Therapy Center doesn’t charge for therapy sessions and Psychological Services uses a sliding scale. Students who don’t have health insurance are never referred to outside places, Wallack noted.

SU doesn’t provide transportation for students who are referred out but tries to send them to resources nearby such as Psychological Services, located in Huntington Hall, he said.

SU does have caseworkers, housed in the Office of Student Assistance, who can help students navigate these different options, said Sarah Solomon, director of the Office of Student Assistance.

The office receives referrals from many offices on campus including the Counseling Center and Solomon said the need has increased in the past few years. The office currently has two caseworkers and while Solomon doesn’t have an ideal number of caseworkers in mind, “two is not going to do it,” she said.

••• One street west of the Counseling Center is

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Marshall Street, where five bars sit within blocks of each other. One block north are the Castle Court apartments, where parties were famously banned last semester. And surrounding the center on all sides are fraternity and sorority houses.

The Princeton Review named SU the nation’s top party school last August, and beyond the images of Mayfest keg stands and beer pong is a darker side. Substance abuse is one of the top reasons students come to the Counseling Center and often goes hand in hand with mental health problems, Wallack said.

That’s why prevention programs, such as the BE Wise campaign, play an important role in helping students before they find themselves in the Counseling Center, said Katelyn Cowen, director of the Office of Health Promotion.

The office is currently working to launch the pilot version of a holistic stress reduction center this summer with a full launch next fall, Cowen said.

Once the center is up and running, students will be able to receive help with sleep patterns and access mindfulness videos, yoga mats and meditation cushions. The center will also have biofeedback software, which helps people become more aware of the physical effects of stress on the body, Cowen said.

But beyond the resources SU can offer, there also needs to be an overall change in the mental health landscape at SU, a change that goes beyond just drinking less and finding better ways to cope with stress, Wallack said.

“So much of what we hear from the thousands of students who come in (to the Counseling Center) is a lot of conversation about feeling lonely, a lot of conversation about feeling how they don’t have connections,” he said. “So I’m constantly wondering about the social fabric of our campus and what that does and doesn’t do to contribute to isolation, anxiety and depression, (and) sexual assault.

“At the end of the day it’s a bigger task than 17 people in this building can tackle.” jliannet@syr.edu | @JessicaIannetta

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together on a number of programs, including Boots to Business, an entrepreneurial education initiative offered by the SBA as an elective track within the defense department’s program to help transitioning veterans. The program is available on more than 165 military installations worldwide, according to an SBA press release.

Her visit came three weeks after Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter came to SU to meet with university leaders and members of the IVMF. Contreras-Sweet said she is looking forward to continuing to enhance the relationship between SU and the SBA. The amount of the new grant to SU was not specified.

“It’s really nice to see (veterans) now, using those same skills to create jobs for our country,” she said.

So far this fiscal year, the SBA has given $12.7 million to veteran-owned businesses, surpassing last year’s total of $9.3 million, according to the release. Contreras-Sweet said there’s “no limit” to the extent to which programs for veterans can grow and said the program doesn’t require a cap.

Contreras-Sweet also spoke at the Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship symposium, held Tuesday in the Carrier Dome, and received a tour of the IVMF. After the press conference, around 11:20 a.m., she hosted a small business roundtable focused on integrating veterans into the small business community.

At the WiSE symposium, Contreras-Sweet spoke about how women should be thinking about growing companies to scale, and said the field has been mostly male-dominated and that the SBA wants “women to get in the game.” jmatting@syr.edu | @jmattingly306

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The Gear Factory, a century-old auto parts factory repurposed as artist studios, is currently undergoing renovations following a 10-year period in which a new owner had the intent to renovate, but couldn’t afford it. Planned renovations include putting windows on the outside and adding new stairs and sprinklers to the building. courtesy of rick destito

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enovations have begun on the infrastructure of The Gear Factory, a century-old auto parts factory repurposed as artist studios, 10 years after the building was purchased with the intent to renovate.

When the owner of the building, Rick Destito, purchased the building in 2005, he began to look for ways to make renovations possible.

“If I had the funds to renovate 10 years ago, I would have,” Destito said.

With the desire to create a vibrant community, Destito purchased The Gear Factory,

located on South Geddes Street on the city’s Near Westside. Shortly after, he began to set up meetings to discuss the massive renovation. He created a group site, which would eventually garner almost 600 members.

“I would ask people — what do you need this space to do?” Destito said. He worked with tenants to plan renovations on the recording studios. He also crowd sourced the general concept to the surrounding area to see what community opinion looked like.

Renovations include putting windows on the outside and adding new stairs and sprinklers.

The exterior of the building will feature tall windows on the outside, and the covering of

exposed cinder block. The interior will mostly feature infrastructure improvements, such as new sprinklers and stairwells and improved rehearsal studios. Overall, the entire project will cost around $1.2 million, he said.

He raised money to improve the 65,000 square feet of space by renting out rooms as music rehearsal studios to local artists. There are now around 20 tenants, which include musicians, painters, sculptors and graphic designers, who Destito said won’t be distubed by the renovations..

“I had the general idea of renting out this space to artists when I purchased the place, but in 2006 I got connected to the art community,” Destito said.

Destito has lived locally his entire life, even-

tually leaving the area to travel around the world.

While abroad, he said he realized “how much I actually love it up here.”

The renovations are projected to be completed by the end of the year. Overall, Destito is confident that people working in The Gear Factory will be more pleased with the building than they would’ve been before the work was done.

Destito said he thinks these renovations are not only important for the building itself, but are important for the surrounding area and city.

“If I can do good here, then the area can do better,” he said. “If the surrounding area does better, I can do better too.” hrhorvat@syr.edu

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mcginley apologized to everyone involved in the Marshall Street incident.

“I take my role as a student athlete very seriously and I pray I am given a second chance,” he said in the statement. “I am working very hard to regain respect from everyone in my life.”

McGinley, 20, was arrested on March 14 and indefinitely suspended from the lacrosse team the next day for an unspecified violation of team rules. Police said McGinley, who was drunk, tried to get into the car of an Insomnia Cookies’ delivery worker on Mar-

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lawsuit her eyesight has been seriously compromised — including partial loss of her peripheral vision — and she will graduate in the fall, rather than this spring.

Since the incident, Zhang said in an interview she has incurred medical expenses costing at least $20–30,000 causing her to hire an attorney and file a lawsuit against SU, The Hayner Hoyt Corporation and Upstate Insulated Glass Inc. Both Central New York-based companies were hired by SU to replace windows in Lyman Hall, according to the lawsuit.

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the salary surveys. Cihon said he received a call from Syverud a couple weeks later saying he would do that.

Cihon partly attributed the decision to

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shall Street. An argument ensued in which McGinley punched the delivery worker and another co-worker, police said.

After McGinley punched the delivery worker, a Sliders employee punched McGinley, knocking him to the ground. Police did not arrest the Sliders employee after determining he used force to defend another individual, which is legal in New York.

In addition to a one-year conditional discharge, McGinley must also stay away from the two people he punched for a year. Following the incident, the two victims had a full order of protection against him, which prevented him from going to Insomnia Cookies or Sliders.

At court on Tuesday, McGinley’s lawyer, Eric Jeschke, argued the order should be downgraded to a partial order of protection because McGinley doesn’t know what either of the victims look like because he was drunk during the incident. The judge granted this request and McGinley is now allowed to go to Insomnia Cookies and Sliders, but he’s “not going to,” Jeschke said.

Jeschke said he didn’t know McGinley’s status on the lacrosse team or at Syracuse University.

McGinley may also have to pay restitution to the victims for any bills they incurred because of the incident, such as hospital bills.

The exact amount of the restitution will be

decided at a later date, Jeschke said.

Jeschke was himself a midfielder on the SU lacrosse team in the ‘80s and played with current Syracuse lacrosse head coach John Desko’s two younger brothers. Jeschke said one of his former teammates is friends with McGinley’s father and that’s how McGinley got his name.

McGinley appeared in four games for Syracuse this season and recorded three shots. He is the nephew of actor John C. McGinley, who is best known for playing Dr. Perry Cox on the TV show “Scrubs.”

Neither representatives from Hayner Hoyt nor Upstate Insulated Glass were immediately available for comment. Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, said he could not comment on pending litigation.

Clifford Zelen, Zhang’s attorney, was also not immediately available for comment. Chris Uyehara, a professor Zhang said was with her at the time of the accident, was also not immediately available for comment.

Zhang said that she first went to SU Health Services and then the Crouse Hospital emergency room because she felt nauseous. She later was referred to the Upstate Concussion Center at the Institute for Human Performance, where she was told she

had post-concussion syndrome. By March 2014, Zhang said her vision was so impaired

time student, she said.

She now struggles with “seeing double,” and said doctors have told her she reads at the speed of a sixth grader. Zhang said she’s unsure if her eyesight will ever return to normal.

Originally, she said she was uninsured and paid for medical expenses out of pocket, but SU was later able to provide her with some insurance coverage. The high costs of hospital, eye doctor and psychiatric visits were what pushed her to hire a lawyer, Zhang said.

“In a brain injury, it’s just very emotional,” Zhang said. “I wasn’t myself when I was recovering, and now I feel better, but my vision might be permanent.”

share the information to Syverud hearing negative reactions from faculty, including himself, after SU declined to provide the data. He added that the decision could be a result of Syverud getting familiar with the routine and getting more comfortable after vetting his initial concerns.

The data is used for two surveys — the local report and the national report. The local iteration shows the average salaries of faculty among the various schools on campus, and in some cases breaks down into salary based on departments, Cihon said. It can be used to show faculty how their pay compares to the

I wasn’t myself when I was recovering, and now I feel better, but my vision might be permanent.

Meishi Zhang senior architecture major

that she dropped all of her classes and went home to New Jersey for the remainder of the semester. In the fall, she came back as a part-

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average in their college.

The national report breaks down the average salary of professors, associate professors and instructors at schools across the country.

This can be used to see how SU averages stack up against its peers, Cihon said. blsamuel@syr.edu | @Brett_Samuels27

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LANIA ROBERTS, most recognized on campus for her “Weather by LaNia” Snapchats, gave her first motivational speech, “Loving Yourself Uncondtionally,” in Grant Auditorium on Tuesday night. She shared stories about herself and her journey to self-love. kadijah watkins staff photographer

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ecognized throughout campus for her “Weather by LaNia” Snapchat segments that have garnered over 5,500 daily views on the Syracuse Campus Story, freshman painting major LaNia Roberts comes off as an example of positivity.

But it wasn’t always that way.

In seventh grade, an 11-year-old Roberts looked at herself in the mirror and asked, “Why do I have to be so ugly?”

Her question was sparked by a group of boys sitting on the bus ride back home. They were talking about her, once again. This was what really broke her, she said.

At this point, she said she couldn’t look at herself in the mirror, call herself beautiful and believe it. But on Tuesday night, Roberts stood onstage in Grant Auditorium to deliver her first motivational speech titled “Loving Yourself Unconditionally.”

When the talk began, Roberts jumped onstage and began to dance to the song “I”

by Kendrick Lamar. The crowd, which filled most of the auditorium, cheered her on.

“It takes a sense of fearlessness to come up here and speak to you all today, because there was fear in this, you guys,” Roberts

ROBERTS hugs a member of the audience during her motivational speech. Attendees lined up to meet the Snapchat celebrity. kadijah watkins staff photographer

said. “I’m putting my flaws out there and letting them be known.”

On Jan. 1, 2012, Roberts looked in the mirror of the bathroom and asked herself, “What do I want my New Year’s resolution to be?”

Little did she know her resolution would lead her on a “road” to self-love.

She said she resolved to lose weight, because if she lost weight she could be like the popular girls. Her second resolution was

to start loving herself more. So, she joined the track team and lost 50 pounds.

That year, Roberts met her resolutions. She lost weight and she could stand in front of the mirror, call herself beautiful and believe it.

“Little did I know that love was so conditional,” Roberts said. “It was like accepting the terms and conditions that you check when you’re making a new Facebook or something.” see lania page 12

uch like abstinence-only sex education, telling college students not to drink or do drugs is pointless. Some will drink more than others, some will do more drugs than others and some KATE will comBECKMAN bine the two KEEPING IT substances CLASSY more than anyone else would ever think about doing.

And with Mayfest taking place this Friday, there are going to be a lot of substances floating around the outer Syracuse University area, regardless of whether students are told not to do it.

So instead of saying, “Hey, drugs and alcohol are really bad and will destroy your life,” we should take a more educational approach. A kind of approach that says, “Hey, maybe don’t pop a Molly and take 10 shots.”

Different people have different tolerances. And a lot of how much you can drink depends on how much you’ve eaten that day and how much water you drink along with alcohol. Let’s make the goal when drinking not to go to the hospital, though.

As much fun as it is to get your stomach pumped the week before finals, there are probably more productive ways to turn up. According to WikiHow’s article “How to prevent alcohol poisoning,” avoiding a trip to the hospital really has to do with common sense. One thing WikiHow recommends is drinking a lot of water while you drink alcohol. By drinking water, you dilute the alcohol as it absorbs into your bloodstream so you’re less likely to literally be poisoned.

Last year at Mayfest, I carried around a water bottle that was — plot twist — actually filled with water. Drinking water as you drink alcoholic drinks will keep you hydrated and hopefully keep you out of the hospital. But when you’re taking shots, keep see beckman page 12

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"Who is Syracuse" is a series that runs in The Daily Orange every spring. It highlights individuals who embody the spirit of Syracuse University. Members of the SU community were encouraged to nominate people they thought fit this description.

This series explores their stories. PART 3 OF 4

MAX MALIKOW, a Syracuse native, has owned a therapy practice in the area since 1996. He now teaches two classes, “The Human Predicament” and “Understanding Suicide,” at SU. The classes are taught discussion-style and based on his books and his 30 years of therapy experience. sam maller and drew osumi staff photographers

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here’s a poem hanging in Dr. Max Malikow’s study, written by Betty Sue Flowers — “Pain is a mechanism for growth that carves out the heart to make room for compassion.”

It fits the setting. His office where he performs therapy and counseling overlooks a quiet neighborhood in the Northside of Syracuse. About 15 people come every week to talk out their problems with Malikow. Some patients, he said, come from 2 1/2 hours away to see him for their appointments.

Malikow, a Syracuse native, teaches at Syracuse University twice a week. His two classes, “The Human Predicament” and “Understanding Suicide” are taught based on his books and experience. The professor has spent 25,000 hours over 30 years practicing therapy, which amounts to three years of his life spent helping patients.

“We learn a lot looking backwards,” said Malikow, referencing one of his favorite philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard, “and looking backwards, I think I was always curious about why people behave the way they did.”

His curiosity led him on a journey when he quit being a high school teacher to go to a semi-

nary. There, he found his faith in Christianity and became an associate pastor upon graduation.

Malikow’s sermons were centered on making change in his listeners’ lives. He preached from an index card because he believed that if he read from the Bible, then the people at the sermon may as well just read the holy text themselves. He teaches the same way — discussion style, no lectures.

“I do take every effort to think, ‘How can I make this helpful to people?’” he said.

Eventually, Malikow said he realized the best part of his pastoral work was the counseling.

That’s why he left the church to get his doctorate at Boston University. It was there that he met one of the biggest influences of his life, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

Malikow said he was floored by Wiesel’s kindness as a professor. He learned all of his students’ names, and would stop lecturing as soon as a student raised his hand. Malikow asked Wiesel once if his kindness came from his time at Auschwitz.

Malikow recollected Wiesel saying, “Max, I have seen corpses piled as high as the ceiling in this room. And I vowed that if I were to survive and get out of that place, that I would always treat everyone with respect.”

It was those ideals Malikow held dear when he established therapy practices twice in his

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life — once in Boston, and once again in Syracuse when he moved back in 1996.

Malikow was again moved deeply by someone he met years later when he returned to upstate New York. He describes a patient of his — who he gives the initials SC when referring to her — as someone “who has looked into the

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depths of life and retained her grace.”

“She had a profound effect on my life, not because of her brilliance, but because of her kindness,” said Malikow.

Malikow takes after his influences. His classes are taught in a small room, with the professor sitting at a round table alongside his students. Malikow serves more as a friend and a guide to his students rather than a lecturer.

“He’s not like any other professor I had because he’s more personable,” said Crystal Hendriks, a

freshman psychology major. “I’ve never had a professor be able to listen so well when you have a comment and make you feel confident about the class and how you’re doing.”

His classes, which are always full, take place at 8 and 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.

“I know I can schedule him for a class at 8 in the morning, and students will show up,” said Hanna Richardson, associate deputy director of the Renée Crown Honors Program.

In one of his classes, Malikow sat relaxed at the head of the table, while his students sat at attention, seeming to hang onto every word. He began introducing psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s concept of tragic optimism. Frankl was 16 years old when he sent an essay to Sigmund Freud, who published it three years later in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Unavoidable tragedies, Frankl said, must be used to give meaning to life.

The professor broke down for his students how Frankl suggested people deal with pain, guilt and death.

“Heavy stuff for 16,” Malikow said to his class. “When I was 16, I was thinking, when’s the next Yankees game?”

His students laughed, and then dove back into the theory. mrafi@syr.edu | @Mominat0r

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RACHEL WOLSKY spreads her Syracuse pride through her involvement as a resident adviser, orientation leader, CitrusTV anchor and member of Otto’s Army. Last year, she camped out for two weeks with Otto’s Army to see the men’s basketball team defeat Duke during overtime. sam maller and drew osumi staff photographers

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hen Rachel Wolsky was a freshman, she lived in Booth Hall, a dorm that didn’t have many other freshman or any orientation leaders.

But even then, Wolsky had a driving spirit and enthusiasm for Syracuse University.

Wolsky went from the eighth floor to the first floor of Booth, knocking on every door, introducing herself and arranging for everyone interested to meet on the first floor and get to know each other.

“Because of that moment, even though there are people who probably still to this day think I’m a weirdo, I made some amazing friends,” Wolsky said. “I just put myself out there, and I think that set the stage for how the next four years went.”

Wolsky, now a senior, has spread her orange spirit as a resident adviser, orientation leader, CitrusTV anchor and member of Otto’s Army during her time at SU. “I’ve really gotten to pump students up and suck them into the university and make them love it as much as I do, and that’s what I hope for every student here,” Wolsky said.

As a member of Otto’s Army, Wolsky has attended about 50 basketball games, including last year’s Duke home game, which was her favorite.

After camping out for two weeks, Wolsky said she spent 16 hours with Otto’s Army in the

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Carrier Dome for College GameDay and then watched SU beat Duke during overtime.

“I was sobbing at the end of the game. It was an amazing feeling of ‘I love this school and I love these people,’” Wolsky said. “If that’s not the epitome of fandom, I’m not sure what is.”

Wolsky, who is double majoring in broadcast and digital journalism and information management and technology, said SU helped

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her realize what she wants to do.

Through the School of Information Studies, Wolsky took a trip to Silicon Valley and toured 26 tech companies. There, Wolsky met an SU alumna working in user interface and user experience.

“You interview users of a product, watch them interact with the product and design products based on what’s easiest for them,” Wolsky said.

“Communication in the tech industry is important. I’ve discovered that I want to bridge that gap.”

Eliza Lennon, Wolsky’s roommate and close friend, said she is a leader in everything she does.

Wolsky is now a teacher’s assistant for an introduction to web design class, and Lennon said her roommate has mentored a lot of students.

“People see her incredible enthusiasm for what she loves, and I think that pushes them to follow their own paths and make decisions in that respect,” said Lennon, a senior broadcast and digital journalism major.

Wolsky said that in her time at SU, she’s led by example to show every student the opportunities SU offers.

“I’m graduating in three weeks but I’m not scared to do so, I’m excited,” Wolsky said. “I wish that every single person who leaves this university has that. If I can set them up to do that, then that’s exactly what I want to do.”

Jonathan Hoster, an undergraduate recruitment specialist in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, said he remembers Wolsky’s enthusiasm for SU and in general.

Hoster and Wolsky met at a leadership camp when she was in high school. At the time, Hoster worked in the Office of Admissions at SU, and he later conducted her admissions interview.

“She definitely bleeds orange,” Hoster said. “It will be exciting to see what she does as an alumna.”

Wolsky said a peak of her college experience happened this year, when she hosted Home to the Dome as an orientation leader. Looking at the freshmen in front of her, she remembered attending Home to the Dome herself and seeing the enthusiastic orientation leaders for the first time.

“I was like, ‘Who are these people at the front of the Dome yelling at me about these cheers? I want to be them,’” Wolsky recalled.

As a senior, Wolsky came full circle, welcoming the freshman class and introducing them to what she called “the giant orange family” that is SU. “There’s a spirit about SU, it’s a vibe, this orange warmth,” Wolsky said. “It sucks you in, and once you’re in you’re not getting out. It got me the day I stepped on campus and it’s stuck with me since.” lawilson@syr.edu

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lania It was the summer before her junior year of high school that Roberts gained the weight back.

“Every pound that I gained, I lost a pound of love,” she said. “So you can do the math of how much love I lost for myself. I would look

Every pound that I gained, I lost a pound of love. So you can do the math of how much love I lost for myself.

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at myself in the mirror and say, ‘Oh my gosh.’”

Instead of focusing on herself physically, Roberts decided to focus on herself as an artist.

She applied for a program at The Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts and was accepted to a class of 222 out of over 1000 applicants.

It was here that she started taking risks, and her first risk was telling a man, who she joked was her husband, that he was “the most

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beckman in mind that according the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, having a blood alcohol content of over 0.30 percent is life threatening. Using a BAC calculator to hypothetically calculate a scenario, I found that as a 125-pound woman, taking 10 shots

beautiful man on this damn earth.”

“Then he said ‘LaNia, you can’t be telling me this. I’m an RA.’ So I said, ‘Shoot, honey I just did — what’re you going to do about it?’” Roberts said.

“Suddenly this confident girl took over and I was like, ‘Shoot, you keep doing your thing, honey.’”

The real change, though, came in college. On Jan. 1, 2015, Roberts said she stood in her bedroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She was getting ready to go out with her family when she realized her jeans weren’t fitting her quite how they should.

She had an epiphany at that moment.

“My love-handles was poking out a little bit, so I looked in the mirror and said ‘Oh, that doesn’t look too good,’” Roberts said. “’But somebody’s going to love them someday.’”

Roberts calls herself an independent woman, but she was depending on someone to validate that for herself, she said. Then, she decided it was time to love herself unconditionally.

She ended her talk by saying she understands what it is like to be bullied, to not feel good enough and to feel “damn right sad.” But she also knows what it’s like to be the exact opposite.

Said Roberts: “Love yourself unconditionally, people, because you are the only thing that you are promised your entire life.” kasotelo@syr.edu

of 80-proof vodka would leave me with a BAC of 0.33 percent. So as they say, drink in moderation.

For some people, though, alcohol is only one part of the Mayfest equation. Obviously people are going to smoke weed, which, although has some health risks associated with it, is not likely going to put you in the hospital or kill you. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the health risks of weed aren’t much more serious than alcohol, with short-term risks include impaired body movement and memory, altered senses and sense of time and changes in mood.

It’s the other drugs that you might want to rethink doing, especially if you’re feeling particularly YOLO this Mayfest.

Molly — technically called MDMA — is sometimes considered extremely dangerous and sometimes not. According to drugpolicy. org, “most of MDMA’s potential harms derive from the setting of its use,” meaning that because the drug is a stimulant, people are more likely to do crazy things, but that an overdose is “extremely rare.” However, there have been a number of high profile overdoses, most recently when 11 students at Wesleyan University were hospitalized for overdosing on Molly.

Cocaine, another stimulant, has a risk of overdose, especially when the user doesn’t know the potency of the drugs they’re taking.

Side effects of a cocaine overdose are heart arrhythmia, elevated blood pressure or sudden death.

Reading a column about the dangers of drugs and alcohol probably won’t stop anyone from going hard at Mayfest. But if you take anything away from this, it’s maybe go a little less hard than you would have and think about the fact that getting hospitalized would really suck. Don’t let this Mayfest be your last. Unless you’re graduating, in which case — try and make it to graduation.

Kate Beckman is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every week in Pulp. You can reach her at kebeckma@syr.edu or follow her on Twitter at @Kate_Beckman.

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fter hours bent over their sewing machines in The Warehouse, students in Syracuse University’s fashion design program are ready to show off the collections they’ve spent all semester creating. The Senior Collection Fashion Show will be held Thursday in Goldstein Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Daily Orange talked to three senior fashion design students about the inspiration behind their collections, their design concepts and their post-graduation plans. camadi@syr.edu

SOPHIA JUKER Sophia Juker grew up around shoes. Her mother co-owns Yarid’s Shoes, a family-owned shoe store, and introduced her to the world of fashion.

“She would take me on their shoe-buying trips to New York and I’ve always loved shoes,” she said. “She kind of steered me in that direction and has always been a great support and a great eye because I can send her my things and she’ll give me her honest opinion.”

Growing up, Juker spent a lot of time at The Greenbrier hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia where Yarid’s Shoes is located. Juker’s collection is inspired by the prints and colors used in the interior design of the hotel. She designed

LUNG UNG Coming from a household with four sisters, Lung Ung, who is the only male student in his graduating class, is accustomed to being the only guy in the room.

Ung said he wanted to create a collection that celebrates the essential wardrobe of a woman and what she would wear on a daily basis.

“I’m using the idea of deconstruction, so like basically (designing) the basic pieces every woman should have in her closet (with) something a little off about it, but in a good way,” he said. “The idea of the whole thing is ironic — going against what people would think as the normal.”

TIFFANY WU After spending hours browsing through Pinterest for design concepts, Tiffany Wu decided on inception, the idea of what is displaced between reality and fiction and the use of multiple layers and repetition.

“I kind of want to skew the audience’s view of how they see a traditional garment and kind of challenge it,” she said. “When you unzip something, it’s another layer and it shows another zipper.”

Her resort collection blurs the line between functional and decorative with zippers that open up to pockets and others that serve purely

garments that she imagines a young lady would wear on a summer vacation at The Greenbrier.

Juker’s vibrant collection features multipurpose garments such as a reversible skirt with a tropical floral print and a dress that can fold into a poufy pink skirt. She believes her collection will stand out for being girlier than the rest.

“It’s not like frilly and cutesy but compared to right now I feel like there’s a lot of minimal and clean lines,” she said. “Mine is definitely not like that. It’s like bold, colorful, crazy fabric so I think it sets me apart.”

After graduating, Juker will be continuing the family business with a job at Sam Edelman, the famous footwear brand.

The resulting collection juxtaposes feminine pieces like a full, red chiffon skirt against an edgy black bustier and topped off with a red bomber jacket. Ung’s design style is detail-oriented and tailored with some streetwear influences.

He said his design style has definitely changed a lot over the past couple of years from very elaborate to a tamer overall look.

His finale piece is a twist on the classic little black dress.

“It’s going to transform into a big white dress,” he revealed. “She’s going to walk down the runway in a little black dress at first and she’s going to rip it off, and it’s going to turn into a white dress.”

decorative purposes. Some garments in her collection include a mint green boucle dress that zips down to the hem to reveal a second layer with another zipper. In addition she will present a vest that has a three-in-one pocket — a pocket, inside a pocket, inside another pocket.

Wu describes the collection as sophisticated and a little edgy with a touch of elegance.

She designs women’s clothes that embody these characteristics and exude confidence.

“I want them to use my clothes as a coat of armor,” she said. “I want them to be proud of themselves and celebrate the woman that they are.”

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soccer tight with then-No. 4 Notre Dame in the fifth game of the season or even when it knocked off then-No. 2 Virginia in the ninth.

It was before the Orange even stepped on the field for a regular-season game.

“I would even put it back to preseason,” Bono said. “We had a great senior group that knew this was their last year and they really wanted to make something of it.”

That senior class, whose core included Skylar Thomas, Jordan Murrell, Tyler Hilliard and Chris Makowski, were what McIntyre called the “cultural architects” during his tenure.

That culture was something that transformed this past season, whether it showed by

know that a bunch of guys made in through to the professional level.”

And talent is exactly what McIntyre and his staff have attracted. But in the midst of all the departures, Gomez and several other commits in a group chat were shocked and didn’t know what was going to happen next.

“I wonder what they’re going to do because right now we have like a five-man recruiting class,” Gomez recalled thinking. “Out of nowhere, there’s just a bunch of more guys.”

That total has capped at 12 and it’s the No. 8 recruiting class in the country according to College Soccer News. It’s something McIntyre

said is a product of him having a tangible 16-win season to show recruits rather than just saying he hopes for one.

Now that the groundwork for national prominence has been established, McIntyre acknowledged it’s a challenge to fulfill the newfound expectations surrounding Syracuse soccer, but ones he is willing to embrace.

And just more than a full season after SU’s top recruit sat in his future coach’s office, those lofty expectations have now become more realistic.

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And the manifestation of that buzz surrounding the program was the result of a simple motto: “Why not?”

Bono said that exact phrase nine times in 37 seconds in an interview on Tuesday, explaining how the team used that mentality in 2012 to forget a 3-12-1 campaign the season before.

It did the same to try and emerge into the ACC in 2013. And after a mediocre 2013, Bono said the mood was, “Why not turn it around?”

Syracuse made the ACC tournament semifinals, the NCAA tournament third round and was ranked in the Top 10 last season.

On one end, it’s given six players the exposure to turn pro, which Bono called “unheard of” from a college program after one season. In addition to himself, Thomas and Murrell going to the MLS, Nick Perea, Stefanos Stamoulacatos and Emil Ekblom are playing professionally elsewhere.

“People were starting to take Syracuse soccer more seriously,” Ekblom said. “More talent wanting to go to Syracuse now that they

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SU freshman Donahue looks to build on family’s success

By Chris Libonati staff writer

From a young age, Riley Donahue has been around Syracuse lacrosse.

As a 4-year-old, Donahue rode the men’s team’s bus to the final four with her father, assistant coach Kevin Donahue.

Spending time in lacrosse with him and at his former high school, West Genesee (New York) High School, helped build her foundation for lacrosse.

“I feel like those are big moments of my childhood,” Donahue said, “because I thought that was so cool.”

While those moments have been critical to her development as a lacrosse player, Donahue is going down her own path. Kevin Donahue was an All-American in 1979 and since then, three of Donahue’s uncles and two brothers — including her brother Dylan Donahue, who leads the SU men’s lacrosse team with 52 points this season — have played lacrosse at SU. Donahue is the third-leading scorer for Syracuse women’s team this season and has overcome a rough two-game stretch against Notre Dame and North Carolina. In the last two games, she has three goals and three assists, helping the No. 7 Orange (11-6, 3-4 Atlantic Coast) pick up two consecutive wins. She is the only freshman to start and play in every game this season.

“I came here not just because they were here, just because I wanted to come here,” Donahue said. “It just felt right. I couldn’t

imagine going anywhere else even if they didn’t go here.”

During Winter Break, SU head coach Gary Gait saw her working with Kevin Donahue in Manley Field House. She was working on improving her shooting and the first steps of her dodges. At times her father took her behind the net to give her a different perspective of the field.

Donahue and her brother came to campus throughout Winter Break to work out. While they did so separately, he helped her with her shooting. Kevin Donahue said that Riley understood what it would take to play because her brother provided the pattern.

“She knew how hard it was going to be when she got here, she knew she had a great opportunity to play here and she knew how hard she had to work,” Dylan Donahue said. “So I think she just took control of it herself.”

And she has.

She missed four shots in SU’s loss against UNC, and worked after practice later the next week, peppering goalie Melina Woon Avery with shots as defender Kathy Rudkin fed her passes. Donahue had worked on shooting the ball earlier on free positions.

In her last two games she’s converted on three of five shots. Against Albany, she caught a Kayla Treanor pass at the beginning of the second half as she moved to the right of the crease.

Donahue moved her stick left and bounced a shot into the top left corner.

Her father has seen improvement in her ability to move without the ball since she was

in high school. Donahue said she has learned how to cut backdoor behind players.

“She’s really been trained well how to move off-ball, in particular,” Kevin Donahue said.

“She didn’t have to do that in high school.”

Even her number is a derivative of her family’s number. Until this season, Donahue wore No. 17 because her brothers wore the number. When she was younger, she always wanted to wear No. 4 and her family laughed about it. Now she wears No. 47— a little twist on a family tradition.

And the postseason could give Donahue a

chance to put a twist on the family’s legacy, too.

She could add her own conference or national championship to the Donahues’ mantle. She could help win the school’s first women’s national championship in any sport.

But one thing is certain — this bus ride will be hers.

“That would be everything,” Donahue said.

“I feel like I’ve always wanted that moment and just because of going to so many of theirs, I was just thinking that could be me someday.” cjlibona@syr.edu

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Doubles team Safdar, Salazar work to regain winning form

By Kevin Pacelli staff writer

The score was 15-15 in the first game of Valeria Salazar and Komal Safdar’s last regular season match as doubles partners.

Safdar returned a volley, but Syracuse received a lofty hit up next from Georgia Tech’s then-No. 16th-ranked VS Louisville at Cary Tennis Park Kendal Woodard and Tuesday, noon Paige Hourigan duo that gave the Yellow Jackets the point.

A few points later, Safdar poached again, the ball went out to give Georgia Tech a break and a 1-0 lead.

It was yet another unforced error for Safdar and Salazar, who boasted an 8-2 record before last weekend’s roughing.

“I think those little things is what really makes the difference between a win and a loss,” Safdar said.

Despite strong play through most of season, Safdar and Salazar lost two consecutive doubles matches against North Carolina State

and Georgia Tech to close out the regular season. The tandem will try to regain its form as Syracuse (8-12, 3-11 Atlantic Coast) plays its first-round ACC tournament match against Louisville (11-15, 2-1) on Wednesday at noon in Cary, North Carolina.

Usually we just come out and we almost scare our opponents because we just serve them off the court and volley them off the court... I think just the first few games we let them take control (on Sunday).

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An inability to finish at the net was just one issue that contributed to Salazar and Safdar’s subpar weekend. They missed multiple first serves, a prominent issue at the start of their

match against N.C. State.

Salazar missed five first serves in the first game of the match. Two of those were on points in which the pair strategically lined themselves up vertically. But with the lack of success, the Orange reverted back to a more conventional formation.

Senior Amanda Rodgers said part of what makes them a strong team is their ability to mix up their strategy.

Missed serves, though, made that more difficult.

It was not typical play from Salazar, who normally is a stronger and better server. These mistakes, along with the ones that Safdar made at the start of the Georgia Tech match, made it difficult for them to make a strong first impression on their opponents.

“Usually we just come out and we almost scare our opponents because we just serve them off the court and volley them off the court,” Safdar said. “… I think just the first few games we let them take control (on Sunday).”

Salazar admitted that their play as a team was more erratic this weekend, and she also said she struggled with returns, noting her footwork wasn’t as strong.

Safdar said that the pair would practice returns

in the little time they had leading up to the ACC tournament, and Salazar said they would work on getting more balls in play in general.

Both said that they would also practice being aggressive with their net play.

“Sometimes we play cross-court points,” Salazar said, “and then the one at the net has to poach.”

Syracuse head coach Younes Limam could only credit SU’s opponent on Sunday, and wants to talk to his whole team before it embarks as a No. 12 seed in the conference tournament.

“They played a little bit better than us,” Limam said. “And yeah, that was the difference.”

Safdar and Salazar see their own play had flaws in these two losses and pointed to themselves more after the weekend.

But Safdar intends to leave those behind her as she and Salazar prepare to play against Louisville, a team against which the Orange secured the doubles point in their last meeting on March 27.

“I think the biggest thing is just to know that we have the shots and we can play tennis obviously,” Safdar said. “These last two matches I don’t think are reflective of our talent or what we can do, and we just need to go back to our old tennis matches.” kjpacell@syr.edu

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Defender Tait finds niche as man-down specialist for SU

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

Bobby Tait knows that only a handful of players will find a prominent role on a team like Syracuse.

The lanky defender stands at 6 feet, 5 inches and weighs 216 pounds, but his physical frame isn’t enough to crack the Orange’s starting back line. When a defender gets sent to the penalty box, though, SU needs size, speed and a high lacrosse IQ to make up for its man disadvantage.

Enter Tait, who’s found a less-heralded niche as Syracuse’s (9-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) primary man-down specialist.

“I’ve been doing it for a few years now and it’s just kind of been always the way,” Tait said.

“It’s just kind of my role on the team and I’m glad to fill that role.”

It’s a specialty position that requires pinpoint anticipation of what another team’s man-up unit will do. That entails studying film throughout the week and identifying which players have which tendencies on the opponent’s man-up.

Add the ability to quickly rotate from open man to open man, disrupt passing lanes and adjust to different kinds of man-down defenses.

The physical and tactical arsenal Tait possesses has found him a home on a unit that ranks 13th in the country, and first in the ACC in goals allowed per man-down disadvantage.

“I think him having that extra range and having good knowledge, good preparation of what other teams like to do…“ head coach John Desko said. “He’s got a great wingspan, which

helps to knock down balls and get your stick in the passing lane.”

SU has five or six guys who can serve as a defender on a man down, assistant coach Lelan Rogers said. He named short-stick midfielder Tom Grimm, long-stick midfielders Peter Macartney and Scott Firman, as well as starting defenders Brandon Mullins, Jay McDermott and Sean Young.

But all six have primary roles that aren’t on the man-down defense.

“So I think probably most of them would probably call him the specialist,” Rogers said of Tait.

The redshirt junior has played in all 11 games this year and his only stat is two ground balls. In 21 games played prior to this season, Tait has amassed eight ground balls and only one caused turnover.

The title of man-down specialist certainly isn’t a glamorous one, especially on the stat sheet, but that doesn’t stop Tait from opening eyes outside of the box score.

“If you come to any practice, you see Bobby, he’s always picking off passes,” Rogers said. “The great thing about Bobby is he’s got great length.

He’s our tallest defenseman, you put a stick in his hand with his 6-foot-5 frame and put a pole in his hand, it obviously covers a lot of ground.”

On the man-down defense, a number of different formations can be used to counter a man-up offense. A rotation style, five-man zone, four-man zone with a lock-eyed crease or a defense which puts a short stick or a long pole on the perimeter to lock someone down were

BOBBY TAIT (40) has found success as Syracuse’s man-down specialist this season. It’s a position that requires size, speed and a high lacrosse IQ. frankie prijatel photo editor

all on Rogers’ list.

During the week, Rogers and volunteer assistant Steve Scaramuzzino help the mandown defense extensively scout the upcoming opponent’s man-up offense. That means knowing which personnel is going to be where for another team, which players will move where off the ball and which ones pose shooting threats from short and long distances.

“It’s a lot of just being in the right place at

the right time and knowing the rotation,” Tait said. “Obviously having one less guy, you’re going to have to cover two at a lot of points.”

It’s hardly a simple role despite the fact it’s technically not even an official title.

Tait remains a “defender,” but the responsibility he undertakes is much more complex.

Said Rogers: “He’s really the quintessential man-down guy, if you would.” mcschnei@syr.edu | @matt_schneidman

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softball

Syracuse blows 3-run lead in 7th inning, falls to Hofstra

By Jack Rose staff writer

Despite taking a three-run lead into the seventh inning, Syracuse (17-26, 1-13 Atlantic Coast) fell 6-4 to Hofstra (26-11-1, 11-3 Colonial Athletic) in eight syracuse 4 innings in Hemphofstra 6 stead, New York.

Both teams were held scoreless until the fifth inning when each scored a run. SU left fielder Annie Toczynski opened the scoring with a solo blast to left field.

In the sixth inning, Julie Wambold stepped to the plate with runners on second and third and promptly singled up the middle, scoring one. After a groundout, designated player Rachel Burkhardt singled down the rightfield line, scoring two more.

Sydney O’Hara replaced Jocelyn Cater on the mound to start the seventh, holding a 4-1 lead. But O’Hara managed to get only one out while allowing two hits and two walks, including a two-run home run.

Cater came back into the game with runners on first and second and walked the first batter, loading the bases. After designated player Megan Patierno fouled out, Cater walked first baseman Brittany Allocca to tie the game.

Cater struck out the next batter for her 11th punch-out of the game, sending the game into extra innings. Corinne Ozanne led off by getting hit by a pitch, but the next three Orange batters were retired.

After Cater got the first out of the bottom half of the eighth, left fielder Chloe Fitzgerald singled. Center fielder Caryn Bailey followed three pitches later with a walk-off home run to left.

In all, Cater allowed three runs, seven hits and six walks in seven innings. Though SU tallied seven hits for the game, only five Orange batters reached base in the game.

Syracuse returns home for its final games of the season with a three-game set against Virginia (15-36, 4-17 ACC), beginning with a doubleheader on April 25. jlrose@syr.edu

too much pride Syracuse gave up a late lead in its 6-4 loss to Hofstra on Tuesday.

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Syracuse is experiencing a culture change now that the Orange has had success on a national stage after being ranked No. 1 for two weeks last season. SU is losing 13 players from the 2014 team but bringing in 12. This year’s recruiting class is ranked No. 8 in the country by College Soccer News.

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Syracuse soccer experiences offseason effects following record year in national spotlight

By Matt Schneidman asst. sports editor

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hris Gomez sat in Ian McIntyre’s office as a high school junior. In his first visit to Syracuse, Gomez remembers the head coach asking what he wanted to accomplish.

Gomez expressed aspirations of winning the Atlantic Coast Conference title and at least making the third round in the NCAA tourna-

ment, but recalls McIntyre responding, “Those are lofty goals. We can obviously compete, but those are lofty goals.”

Now, less than two years later and after the best season in SU soccer history, those benchmarks don’t seem so distant anymore.

“Now the mentality is, you know what, every year we’re going to com-

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Syracuse head coach John Desko said Hayes McGinley needs to go through the “university process” before SU can decide on his future with the team.

“Hayes has been through quite a bit, done a lot on his own to make sure he’s learned a lot from the situation,” Desko said on Tuesday afternoon. “And I think he has, I think he’s learned quite a bit, and he’s got to go through a little bit more of a process.”

coach’s fifth year, SU is developing into a top-ranked program.

This offseason has seen Syracuse lose 13 players to the professional ranks, graduation, and other schools, among other reasons, but its incoming class boasts a dozen recruits to counter that. Six have left to start a professional career. The mass additions are a result of the product McIntyre now has showcased to recruits, something he didn’t have at his disposal before.

And though the feel around the program is still the same for the head coach, there’s no denying one season changed the perception of a once-irrelevant team.

“I think we’re moving in the right direction,” McIntyre said. “It was a wonderful ride and a great journey.”

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McGinley decision will come after ‘process’

By Sam Blum

pete for that ACC title,” said Gomez, SU’s top-ranked recruit in the Class of 2015, according to College Soccer News. “We should be winning it and we can obviously compete for the national title now.”

The 2014 season changed Syracuse soccer. The Orange has ascended from a national bottomfeeder at the beginning of McIntyre’s tenure to the borderline of the ACC tournament and now, after the head

The redshirt freshman midfielder has been indefinitely suspended since March 15 for an unspecified violation of team rules, stemming from an arrest for punching two people. On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree harassment and was placed on one-year conditional discharge. He also has an order of protection from the two victims.

McGinley apologized in a printed-out statement. He assured he is working to correct his “alcohol situation.” sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

Concussions end Johnson’s SU career

By Connor Grossman asst. copy editor

Rising junior defensive lineman Isaiah Johnson will not return to the Syracuse football program for his third season, according to an announcement by Syracuse Athletics on Tuesday.

SU’s team physician examined Johnson’s concussion history, per the release, and has medically disqualified him from participating in any future contact sporting events with Syracuse.

The 6-foot-4, 287-pound lineman played in all 12 games for the Orange last season, registering five tackles, one sack and one forced fumble,

which came in SU’s 31-15 loss against Notre Dame on Sept. 27, 2014. In two years with Syracuse, Johnson totaled 10 tackles and one interception.

Johnson’s first concussion at SU came against Florida St. on Nov. 16, 2013, when he sacked Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston. A freshman at the time, Johnson didn’t practice

the rest of that week and had trouble recalling the sequence of events.

“After that, it just went blank,” Johnson said at the time to The Daily Orange, talking about his sack. “They said I celebrated, played another play after that, but I don’t remember.” cgrossma@syr.edu @connorgrossman

forced out Defensive lineman Isaiah Johnson has become the third Syracuse football player in the last 18 months to have his career ended by concussions.

Name Position Tyler Marona Defensive end Kyle Knapp Offensive lineman Isaiah Johnson Defensive end

Date October 2013 April 2014 April 2015