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N • all together nowNearly 144 alumni from across the nation sent in videos detail-ing their favorite campus mem-ories in honor of SU’s 144th birthday. Page 3
P • Just ripeOttos from the past reflect on the history and traditions of the colorful mascot. Page 9
S • and it beginsSyracuse went to the Final Four last year, and its quest to return starts in Buffalo on Thursday. Page 20
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By Jessica Iannettastaff writer
The history books remember 1964 for the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King
Jr.’s Nobel Prize win and the Freedom
Summer campaign in Mississippi.But other equally important
events that happened in 1964 never found their way into the history books. In December 1964, two men belonging to the Ku Klux Klan orga-nization broke into Frank Morris’
shoe repair store, trapped him inside and set the building on fire. He died four days later of third-degree burns that covered his entire body.
In February, the FBI closed Mor-ris’ case after concluding that the men likely responsible are dead.
Morris’ case is just one of many racially motivated murders that occurred in 1964. Fifty years later, justice remains elusive for him and many other victims of similar crimes being investigated by the Cold Case Justice Initiative. The CCJI, an interdisciplinary program at the Syracuse University College of Law, serves as an important link between the civil rights movement and the victims’ family members who decades later are still struggling with the aftermath of these crimes.
To emphasize this connection between past and present, the CCJI is holding a conference this weekend called “Looking Back, Moving For-ward: 50th Anniversary Commemora-tion of the civil rights movement 1964-
2014.” The three-day conference will include workshops and discussions on social justice issues and non-violent activism, a poetry jam and a dinner honoring civil rights icons including the Rev. C.T. Vivian and Diane Nash.
“This is not just a commemora-tion event. It’s not just to remember civil rights but it’s also to bridge the gap. There are still civil rights issues today and we need to recognize the civil rights issues and we also need ways in which to combat those issues,” said Susan Schneider, a sec-ond year law student who helped organize the conference.
Part of bridging this gap between past and present involves getting jus-tice for the victims of these decades-old cold cases, said Paula Johnson, co-director of the CCJI. Most of the CCJI’s work involves researching and identifying these cases on their own and then pushing the FBI to investigate or re-open these cases. Often, the FBI is reluctant to devote
By Jacob Pramukasst. news editor
The University Senate continued dis-cussion on Wednesday about teach-ing improvement and assessment recommendations outlined in a task force report released last June.
Robert Van Gulick, chair of the Committee on Instruction, didn’t pro-pose a motion to a vote. However, he outlined a variety of policies from the report that the Senate could consider to improve teaching methods and the stu-dent experience at Syracuse University.
By Tamara Rasamnystaff writer
Syracuse University plans to cut ties with all Bangladeshi merchandise producers who do not sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Ban-gladesh by June 30.
For about one year, the United Students Against Sweatshops orga-nization at SU has pushed SU to implement the accord on licensees in Bangladesh. Last week, the USAS accomplished its goal.
“As an institution the univer-sity is concerned with the working conditions at the factories produc-ing items which contain university trademarks,” Jamie Cyr, the director of auxiliary services and university trademark licensing, said in an email.
Bangladeshi garment factories have
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Senators discuss teaching
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Conference marks 50th anniversary of Civil Rights Movement
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Committee on Instruction outlines potential for programs, improvements
“Part of justice is remembering”
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john lewis, a U.S. Representative from Georgia, embraces Margarette B. Nelson in Atlanta at an event in 2010 where families of victims lost to Civil Rights Era murders converged. The conference was the first time the families met in one place. courtesy of cold case justice initiative
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By Tom Sharkeystaff writer
With the trend for craft beers and microbreweries exploding in the U.S., I’ve noticed a few of the big name beer companies spinning off and brewing more niche offerings in hopes of riding that wave.
Sam Adams has done it, Budweiser has done it and now I had the chance to try Miller’s attempt to get into the craft game with their new Amber Lager, called Miller Fortune.
Of all the cheap light beers that are apt for mass consumption, Miller Light is my least favorite. There’s something distinctly off-putting about its taste when compared to, say, Bud Light or even the watered down Coors Light.
I was hoping that Miller had taken a step in the right direction with Miller Fortune, but I wasn’t so lucky.
I bought a six-pack of Fortune, which cost me slightly more than a six-pack of Miller Light would have, but the premium price didn’t come with a premium taste. In fact, I could hardly tell the difference between Miller For-tune and a normal Miller Light.
I bought the six-pack with antici-pation of finishing it off in one sitting
(don’t judge me), and while the beer is light enough and bland enough for binge drinking, I simply couldn’t get past the flavor.
It’s hard to pin down what Miller Fortune tasted like, but for anybody who has experience drinking 40 ounc-es of cheap malt liquor or shotgunning Keystone Light, Miller Fortune wasn’t too far off from my experiences doing both of the aforementioned.
The beer had a distinctly golden color, but its taste was also metallic
— not a good thing. There were also hints of corn in the taste, just like plain Miller Light, and drinking Miller Fortune was so unsettling that I had to stop myself after three beers.
Don’t be mistaken by the clever label and marketing by Miller: their new Amber Lager offering is not a premium beer, it’s not micro-brewed and it’s definitely not on par with the craft beers that it seems to be trying to emulate.
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Miller Fortune’s taste didn’t live up to its packaging. For similar taste, it wasn’t worth the extra cost. nicole abrams contributing photographer
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O • Planning for failureEnvironment columnist Meg Cal-laghan discusses why the New York State Energy Plan needs revisions. Page 5
i nsi deN • All together now Miner announced a comprehen-sive development plan for the city of Syracuse. Page 3
P • Money talksHumor columnist Chelsea DeBaise tackles the hot-button topic of tuition prices on the rise. Page 13
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Bleeding orange “I’m going for Syracuse,
baby,” said Jimmy Fallon on picking Syracuse to win March Madness.
History retoldOn Monday, Syracuse University
will turn 144 years old. Though the uni-versity was founded many years ago, many of its inaugural qualities remain the same. See Monday’s paper.
Dreams deferredThe DREAM Act, a proposal
that would expand state-funded tuition assistance to undocu-mented students, didn’t pass in the New York State Senate on Monday. dailyorange.com
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Tricks of the tradeCAITLYN FERBER (LEFT) AND LINDSAY GIACALONE (RIGHT) both inclusive special education gradu-ate students, use an iPad during the “iPad Technology: Supporting Inclusion in Higher Education” event as part of the InclusiveU/P2P Lecture Series. During the event, Syracuse University students learned about how the iPad can help educators work with special needs students. This includes using a voice to text command service and Quizlet, an online website where students can create flashcards. The event was sponsored by the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. genevieve pilch staff photographer
Alumni reflect on campus memories in videos for SU’s birthday
Miner releases plans for multi-stage city redesign
By Jackie Frerestaff writer
A special day for Syracuse University is just around the corner, and many alumni are doing their part to join in the festivities.
To celebrate SU’s 144th birth-
day, about 144 alumni have created reminiscent videos of themselves. The videos, now on SU’s YouTube chan-nel, feature alumni who graduated as recently as a year ago, or as far back as the 1960s. Kim Brown, SU’s alumni program coordinator, calls these “self-ie videos” a great way to celebrate tra-
dition and the history of the university.“We’re nothing without our sto-
ries,” Brown said. “They’re our fami-ly. They’re our community. Everyone has a story to share.”
The idea for the videos originated on Jan. 15. SU staff members reached out to alumni at big events on campus,
Brown said. Some of the events were filmed at the Feb. 1 SU vs. Duke Uni-versity men’s basketball game.
Notable alumni such as Mike Tirico ’88 and Don McPherson ’87 created vid-eos that are featured on the Celebrate SU website. Brown said they also reached out to alumni with Facebook and Twit-
ter using the hashtag #CelebrateSU. “Mike Tirico’s video was great,”
Brown said. “But you don’t have to be of a certain status or have any sort of job in order to participate. We want to hear from anyone.”
SU staff members have taken road
By Rebecca Shafercontributing writer
When Syracuse Common Councilor Bob Dougherty rides a bike around his neighborhood, he notices some buildings that don’t seem to fit in with the other, more historical-look-ing residences around them.
Particularly on James Street, Dougherty noted that a number of historic mansions have been knocked down to make room for what he called “ugly” brick and steel buildings — although at the time these additions were considered progressive.
Zoning issues like this are just one of many aspects in the city of Syracuse that will be improved in the future thanks to revisions to the citywide comprehensive plan. Mayor Stephanie Miner announced the passage of Comprehensive Plan 2040 in a press release on Monday.
Comprehensive Plan 2040 is an update to Comprehensive Plan 2025, which the Common Council adopted in 2005, according to the Syracuse Planning webpage. The original plan was created to set goals for urban development within the city. The updates make for a less redundant and
more specific plan in a variety of areas.Rebecca Livengood, a member of the
Syracuse City Planning Commission, said the new plan will make the city’s policies more decisive and unified.
“It gives a set of standard goals and policy measures that make all the other policies and plans that come out of this hang together,” she said.
The original plan was “very, very broad in statements about the visions that the municipality had,” said Andrew Maxwell, director of the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency.
The revision was drafted in 2012. After the Planning Commission approved the new plan in January 2013, it was passed to the Syracuse Common Council to await adoption.
The reason for the delay is that there were a few councilors who thought that the proposed plan was leaving too much out, Dougherty said.
The plan includes six main com-ponents: Land Use & Development, Sustainability, Public Art, Historic Preservation, Transportation — including bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure — and a Parks Recov-ery Action Plan to be added later.
“This plan will impact pretty much
break down:
Parks and open space
Syracuse biking
Historic preservation
Sustainability
Public art
Pedestrian infrastructure
Land use and development
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Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner announced the Comprehensive Plan 2040, which addresses a broad range of areas related to economic and urban development and improvement.
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Digitally-inspired taxi companies have been spreading quickly during the past five years, but this week, the services have hit
a roadblock.Overwhelmingly popular across the nation’s
biggest cities, “rideshare” companies, also called Transportation Network Systems (TNCs), like Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, operate mobile apps through which customers can effectively hail a cab at the tip of their finger. Each company employs its own drivers — who drive their own cars — and manages a system where the driver will pick a cus-tomer up in a matter of minutes, guaranteed.
With Uber valued at $3.5 billion and Lyft at $700 million, according to a March 9 Verge article, it’s clear that the marriage of innovative technol-ogy and the taxicab was an opportunity waiting to be explored. These and other TNCs alike are expanding to more cities as demand increases — consumers are looking for a more enjoyable and personable experience when they hitch a ride home or out to the clubs.
But rideshare companies were dealt an unfa-miliar blow in Seattle on March 17 when the city council passed legislation that will prohibit any of
the companies from operating more than 150 cars at a given time.
Seattle’s new regulation on these companies is a threat to their business plan. A company like Uber needs to have a glut of drivers on the road if it wants to guarantee short waiting times, especially on weekends and other nights for going out. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told GeekWire on March 14 that the new rules could “incapacitate Uber and make it unusable.”
Those working at rideshare companies are pointing fingers at the council for corruption. Side-car CEO Sunil Paul said in a March 18 interview with Bloomberg, “the only rationale for (the cap) is to protect the existing taxi industry.” Even Seattle city council member Tim Burgess told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a March 17 article that imple-menting the cap, “would be like prohibiting Netflix to protect Blockbuster.”
But the distinction between the two industries
isn’t just about who provides better service, it’s about insurance. What happens when an Uber driver causes an accident or hurts someone?
If a TNC driver causes an accident, it is common procedure to charge the insurance company of that driver. But since Uber, Lyft and the like face no regulation regarding insurance, there’s an ongoing question: who pays, the TNC or the driver?
KQED, an affiliate of NPR, said in a Nov. 19, 2013 report that drivers might get dropped from their plans if their insurance companies find out they are transporting passengers for pay. That report also showed evidence that many Lyft and Uber drivers go to extensive lengths to hide the fact that they are an employed rideshare driver, especially in the case of an accident, out of fear that their coverage will be dropped.
So what happens if an insurance company won’t cover a Lyft or Uber driver who does cause an accident? A March 14 Seattle Times article shows that “Uber will provide contingent cover-age that would pay up to $50,000 for injury to one person, $100,000 for injuries to all persons and $25,000 for property damage.” Seattle taxis, by comparison, are required to cover up to
$300,000 for injury. And Uber only introduced this plan to extend coverage once talks of regula-tion were getting finalized.
This problem doesn’t only exist in Seattle. Ever since ridesharing became popular, many big cities, notably Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and New York, are grappling with the kind of tough decision that Seattle just made. On one side of the ring you have the innovative consumer favorite TNCs with ticky-tacky insurance plans; on the other side, the traditional taxis who don’t want to get undercut by startups dodging costs.
Is it fair that one industry gets bogged down with city regulation while the other gets off by vir-tue of being “new?” And even if the fine print raises questions about insurance, the Seattle council seems quite comfortable with undermining com-petition. Regardless of the decision, Uber & Co. won’t be letting Seattle escape — their continuing growth indicates that they may soon be stronger than any legislator can hope to contain.
Phil Kramer is a freshman advertising and marketing management major. His
column appears weekly. You can reach him at [email protected].
business
Seattle legislation hinders progress of smartphone taxi companiesPHIL KRAMER MORE THAN MONEY
Hunger is real and it is all around us. When people generally think of hunger, they know that it’s happening, but often distance them-selves from the reality of it. The truth is that throughout our daily routines we most likely pass multiple individuals who have struggled or are struggling with hunger. This is a truth that we need to start acknowledging and that we need to start combatting.
According to the Food Bank of Central New York, they provide more than 11 mil-lion meals to New Yorkers every single year. Sixty-three percent of emergency food program clients have a high school or college education. This indicates that even highly educated individuals of this country are struggling to access and pay for food. Among the thousands of Americans who depend on charitable food programs in central and northern New York, 42 percent of them choose between paying for food or utilities. This number portrays the fact that nowadays, people may not have the economic stability to afford the essentials necessary to live a healthy life.
The New York Public Interest Research Group’s (NYPIRG) Hunger and Home-lessness campaign raises awareness and advocates for individuals that are victims of hunger and its effects. This campaign works on educating the public and students at SU/ESF that hunger is real and all around us. NYPIRG is hosting a hunger banquet this Thursday, March 20 from 6 p.m. to 8
p.m. at the NYPIRG office (732 South Crouse, 2nd floor).
This event is a simulation to show that hunger often strikes randomly and unexpect-edly. Free dinner and free knowledge will be provided. Local experts and individuals that have been personally affected by hunger will speak about their personal stories and/or expertise with respect to hunger in the Syracuse area. This event will allow students and the community to see hunger for what it truly is.
In the weeks following the event, NYPIRG is looking forward to hosting a food drive and doing volunteer work in the Syracuse area.
Matt OlsenNYPIRG Intern
Hunger and Homelessness Campaign
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NYPIRG hosts hunger banquet to raise awareness on food issues
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New York State Energy Plan draft needs revisionsThe state of New York’s future
energy is being drafted as you’re reading this. On March
6, the New York State Energy Planning Board held its final public hearing for the 2014 New York State Energy Plan.
While many took the opportunity to express benefits and concern on the draft plan, the remaining public should take advantage of an extended public comment period to remark on the plan’s vague and lofty goals.
The draft plan, first released on Jan. 7, is a long-winded work split into two volumes, with one volume focused on 15 key initiatives and the second concentrated on background detail, including energy use, sources and environmental effects. While the document is lengthy, it lacks detail to back up its extremely high goals.
Of these goals, the highest standard set is a proposed 80 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from lev-els in 1990 by 2050. While this goal is completely necessary to combat global climate change and create a secure energy future for New York, the lack of detail on how our state will reach these goals is not only problematic, but seems to be setting the stage for failure.
In addition to this lack of detail, other plans within the draft seem to contradict this decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. One contradiction commits New York to continue natural gas consumption at or above current levels. While natural gas usage is believed by some to be a transition fuel to greener power, natural gas is still a fossil fuel, which will make achieving the reduction goal more difficult.
Even with cleaner combustion practices and technology, methane emissions are even stronger green-house gases than more abundant carbon dioxide emissions. It seems clear that our state cannot increase the levels of usage and reduce emission at the same time. Even if switching to natural gas means reducing other fos-sil fuels, it will just mean that we will be switching to different emissions.
With these shortcomings, there
is a lack of detail about several other parts of the plan. With the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, the plan proposes to increase nuclear power generation levels above what they are today by 2030. This proposal seems extremely lofty due to the divided pub-lic opinion on nuclear power, as well as the nuclear retirement schedule for New York.
By 2050, all nuclear reactors’ licenses will expire. Some reactors have even sooner expiration dates, such as the December 2015 expiration of Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, NY.
With these expirations, nuclear power is still a highly contested topic throughout New York and the entire country.
Though 30 percent of our state’s energy does come from nuclear power, with looming expiration dates and low public approval of nuclear power, it is unclear how New York would increase this power source.
While the New York State Energy Plan is a draft, extremely lofty goals and vague or absent details decrease the feasibility of the plan. As these issues are problematic for the future of our state, it is imperative that the public comments on the plan. It is especially pertinent for students to play a part, as the plan will greatly affect our future.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has recently extended the comment period through April 30, with options to comment via mail or online. Make sure to check out the plan, available online, and have your voice heard before the draft becomes final.
Meg Callaghan is a senior environ-mental studies major at SUNY-ESF. Her column appears weekly. She can
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Syracuse University is taking responsibility for its merchandise and initiative on human rights issues. The school did so when it decided to cut its ties with factories in Bangladesh that are not signed on to the Accord on Fire and Build-ing Safety.
SU should not stop at just cut-ting ties with factories in violation of worker rights. The university should push on, and attempt to reform the industry.
On Sept. 17, the United Students Against Sweatshops chapter at SU demanded that the university cut ties with these companies. This movement came as a result of the collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangla-desh, which killed more than 1,100 garment workers in April 2013.
Currently, SU licenses the rights to create SU apparel to 29 factories
in Bangladesh, according to the Worker Rights Consortium. Out of those 29 factories, nine have yet to sign on to the accord.
Factories have until June 30 to sign the accord before SU terminates its contracts with the manufacturers. SU should end its partnerships with the factories that do not sign, as worker’s lives should not be endangered so people can wear SU branded products.
By openly cutting ties with fac-tories with unsafe work conditions, SU sends an open message to both other universities and factories overseas. It encourages other universities to follow and warns factories that this type of behavior will not be tolerated.
Because merchandising is a very lucrative business and SU has influ-ence in the industry as a result of
the Orange’s success, the university should be using this to its advan-tage. It has a responsibility to check on workplace conditions to ensure safety behind what’s sold with a Syracuse logo.
While it is beneficial that SU is cutting ties with companies not signed on to the accord, it should pursue the issue further. If compa-nies simply move out of Bangladesh to avoid signing on to the accord — like VF Corporation, which SU licenses, did — workers may remain under unsafe work conditions.
SU cannot think simply cutting ties with factories will solve the issue of an unsafe work condition. The university should not wait until unsafe work conditions are brought to light after a tragic disaster, and instead try to prevent them from happening in the first place.
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By Claire Moranstaff writer
Images of college students drinking alco-hol and images of dogs seem like two of the most common things on social media
today. Two students from State University of New York College of Brockport merged them together at a party March 8.
The students have been charged with tor-turing and injuring an animal after posting a picture of themselves on Twitter holding a dog up over a keg and forcing her to drink from the tap, according to a March 11 USA Today article. One student was seen holding the dog up and the other student posted the picture on the SUNY Party Stories Twitter account.
The article cited a press release from Brock-port Police Department that described the event.
“Through a joint investigation between the SUNY Brockport Police, the Brockport Police Department and the Sweden Dog Warden, it was learned that a dog was held upside down and apparently forced to consume beer from a keg during a party that occurred on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at a house located on Monroe Avenue in the village of Brockport,” the press release said.
Kristin Simon, a senior cruelty case worker at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said young people think they can post photo-graphs of themselves violating the law and see it as funny, when in reality, it’s not.
“I think that’s what makes this the height of idiocy is that they posted a photo online show-ing what they did to this animal,” Simon said.
The dog was a black Labrador retriever named Mya and has since been returned home. The Swe-den Dog Control held her for a few days to do health tests, but returned her to her owners on March 11 after she was found to be in good condition.
Kathryn Beaumont, a Sweden Dog Control Officer, said that the dog’s owners were not involved with the incident.
John Follaco, SUNY Brockport’s public rela-tions manager, said he can’t reveal information about student disciplinary action because of privacy laws, but added that the students are under investigation by the university.
“We are investigating the matter and we will take appropriate action once the details sur-rounding the photo are learned,” Follaco said.
According to the Brockport Police Depart-ment website, Brockport police arrested Shane P. Oliver and Robert A. Yates and charged them with misdemeanors of torturing and injuring animals under the Agriculture and Markets Law. The website lists a court date in April, but the investigation is still underway.
“The most important thing that can happen is for charges of cruelty to animals to be filed to set an example,” Simon said. “Our college years are formative years and that’s when we’re learn-
ing a lot of hard lessons about the consequences of our actions and I think that this needs to be something that these young men regret for a long time and remember for long time.”
Simon said she has seen instances of people try-
ing to intoxicate animals before, but they usually don’t involve photographs posted on social media.
“I think it’s important that if a person sees anything on Facebook that they think is cru-elty to animals or it just feels wrong, they
should definitely report it to their local law enforcement and if they aren’t satisfied with the response there, they should reach out to PETA and we’ll look into it,” Simon said.
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BARKING UP THE WRONG TREESUNY-Brockport charges students with torturing an animal after posting photo of dog drinking from keg
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the time and resources needed to fully examine these cases, she said.
In 2008 Congress passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which called on the Department of Justice to “expeditiously inves-tigate unsolved civil rights murders” and “provide all the resources necessary to ensure timely and thorough investigations in the cases involved.”
The bill also authorized the Attorney General to request up to $10 million each year for this purpose from 2008–2017. No Attorney General has ever requested the full $10 million authorized in the act, according to an NAACP resolution calling on the U.S. Attorney General to fully implement the act.
Instead of doing full investigations, the FBI has only been doing “paper reviews,” said Janis McDonald, co-director of the CCJI. This means that the FBI reads the original 1964 written report, determines if the main suspect is dead and if so, the FBI usually closes the case.
However, even though the person who pulled
the trigger may be dead, there could still be other individuals alive who ordered the suspect to carry out the murder. Much of the CCJI’s work involves identifying these individuals, fighting for the FBI to interview them and talk to family members of the victim, McDonald said. But too often the first contact many of the victim’s families have with the government is when the FBI comes to deliver a letter stating that their case has been closed, she said.
The FBI started with a list of 120 cases to inves-tigate, which was only a partial list to begin with, McDonald said. The agency later added four cases to the list, including two that the CCJI advocated for. In the first few years after the Till Act was passed, the FBI closed almost half of the cases. The FBI has not yet issued a report for 2013, but McDonald said there are likely only about 20 cases that are still open. There have been no indictments issued in connection with these cases and only one grand jury hearing, she said.
“One has to question: where is all of the might and the resources that the government can bring to bear? When they want to get somebody, invari-ably they do,” said Johnson, the co-director.
But justice for these victims does not always mean finding the killers or guilty parties and convicting them, Johnson added. Part of jus-tice is remembering the victims and making sure that people never forget about these indi-viduals and how they died, she said.
What many people don’t realize about cold cases is that while the incident may have hap-
pened decades ago, each victim has children and grandchildren who have to live with the reality of these murders every day, McDonald said.
“People grow up in families where genera-tion to generation they pass on this wound and this anger and this frustration with people not
understanding or even trying to listen,” she said.Getting people to listen and starting a dia-
logue about race in America is another goal of the conference. Both Johnson and McDonald note that Americans are often afraid to talk about race and stressed that it’s necessary to confront these types of issues in society.
But conference organizers are not just ask-ing attendees to remember and be aware of these issues, Johnson said. They also want attendees to do something about them.
The conference will cover a wide range of sub-jects that both directly and indirectly relate to civil rights issues, giving people plenty of topics to learn about and respond to, Johnson said. Some of these topics include a master class in nonviolent activ-ism and workshops on racial, gender and social economic justice, violence in communities, social media in social justice movements and access, equality and diversity in higher education.
“The conference is about activism,” John-son said. “So we are encouraging people to get information, to become more aware, but we’re also saying to them: do what you can do.”
“We highlighted a number of issues we thought merited specific attention,” Van Gulick said after the meeting.
The Committee on Instruction met five times to sift through recommendations made in a 70-page report from the task force on Advancing New Peda-gogies, Van Gulick said. Vice Chancellor and Pro-vost Eric Spina asked the committee to assess the report after the task force ended “abruptly,” he said.
Van Gulick thanked Spina, who, along with Chan-cellor Kent Syverud, attended Wednesday’s meeting, for encouraging discussion on the topic. Many of the recommendations focused on effectively facing
issues associated with teaching in the digital age. “We don’t really know how to adapt our
existing practices and our decision-making to the future of online education,” Van Gulick said. “We’re not saying there are any problems or anything wrong. All we’re saying is, ‘Some-body needs to pay attention to this.’”
The report addressed the need to assess problems associated with online education, like intellectual property rights and academic integrity. Van Gulick provided an example of a professor potentially designing a course or pro-gram with university funding and then bolting to Duke University with the idea.
He also mentioned that academic integrity could become suspect as more courses go exclu-sively online. He added that knowing students’
faces and personalities allows professors to know the work they’re capable of completing.
“Do students feel the same way about aca-demic integrity when they’re displaced by technology?” Van Gulick said.
Many senators voiced concerns with low student responses to online teaching evalua-tions as the discussion moved to technology. Sam Gorovitz, a professor of philosophy, said that he designs an evaluation rather than use SU’s. He added that students can’t turn course evaluations in until the final exam because they haven’t completed their course experience.
As many more individuals in the auditorium got carried away with discussion of the online evaluations, Douglas Armstrong, who filled in as Senate moderator for Bruce Carter, reined in dis-
cussion by noting that evaluations were not men-tioned in the Committee on Instruction’s report.
Part of the committee’s report addressed a recommendation for creating a teaching and learning center that would “provide support and resources” for new projects that would improve instruction and assessment of teach-ing, according to the report. The university may shy away from funding a center because it may feel that money is better served flowing to improving current programs, Van Gulick said.
Van Gulick said when the Senate starts look-ing into the concerns, assessment might fall to a variety of committees, including the Com-mittee on Instruction and the Committee on Academic Affairs.
recently been hit with hardships, including a fire in the Tazreen factory and the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory. According to the website detailing the accord, the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh focuses on making these factories safe for workers and deals with the current challenges the garment industry faces.
On April 9, Bangladeshi workers will stop by SU and share their stories and speak about their experiences in Bangladesh.
Jose D. Godinez, a sophomore entrepre-neurship major, brought the USAS chapter to SU during his freshman year. He traveled to Bangladesh last summer with other students from universities across the U.S. and met with Bangladeshi factory workers.
“It was very personal to me, and I wanted to make it personal for the school administra-tion too,” he said.
Godinez spoke to a factory worker who had lost his wife in the Tazreen fire.
“It was really hard to take in,” he said. “But at the same time, it was motivation for me to come back and really make sure that the clothes we buy in our bookstore are made with a certain level of standard and that work-ers aren’t risking their lives to make (them).”
Mehak Ali, a sophomore public relations and psychology major, is also a member of USAS at SU. Ali was born in Pakistan, a country where facto-ries bear similar conditions to those in Bangla-desh. It sparked her interest in the organization.
“I think that if we raise the issue enough and make a difference in one country, we can make a difference in sweatshop conditions
beyond Bangladesh,” she said. SU is a member of the Worker Rights Consor-
tium and the Fair Labor Association, Cyr said. “The working conditions and rights of indi-
viduals has been and continues to be a point of emphasis for Trademark Licensing,” Cyr said.
Cyr said he hopes that all the producers of merchandise in Bangladesh sign the accord, but the licensees who do not agree to the accord will no longer be able to produce SU merchandise.
Although the number of licensees that will agree to sign the accord is unclear, Cyr said the price of SU apparel will not drastically change, if at all. Currently, there are 29 fac-tories in Bangladesh that have the rights to create SU apparel and nine of them have not yet signed the accord, according to the WRC.
“Due to the small percentage of Syracuse licensees producing in Bangladesh the new requirement will have little if any impact,” he said.
However, there are ways to get around signing the accord. Cyr said since it is strictly specific to Bangladesh, licensees can move to other countries and still maintain relations with the university.
For example, one of the licensees SU has a contract with, VF Corporation, owns brands such as JanSport and North Face, Godinez said. When the Worker Rights Consortium attempt-ed to inspect VF factories in Bangladesh, uni-versities had to get involved to allow the WRC into the factory. The WRC noted many viola-tions. However, instead of improving factory conditions, VF simply removed its collegiate merchandise production from Bangladesh.
“The fact that VF is now pulling all their col-legiate apparel outside of Bangladesh is just so they don’t have to sign the accord,” Godinez said. “I mean, I just don’t think we as a school should be having any kind of relationship with them, period.”
trips to cities with a high population of alumni and filmed the mini memoirs. Brown said her inbox is flooded daily with emails from alumni who recorded themselves on their iPhones.
Sam Edelstein, SU assistant director of regional programs, said the number 44 plays a big role in the birthday celebration.
“Alumni have twitter usernames with 44 in them,” Edelstein said. “Their license plates have 44 in them. Our phone numbers all start with 44. Our zip code is 13244. It’s just a part of Syracuse.”
Alumni are excited to tell their stories, Edel-stein said. He added that it’s also a good way to see where alumni are going to go in the future using their SU tradition.
Jeff Lutz,’06 graduate and treasurer of the SU Alumni Club of Michigan, said he talks to other
alumni and feels like he never left Syracuse. Dur-ing his time at SU, he created a curling club and competed in multiple national championships.
In his birthday celebration video, Lutz talk-ed about his fondness of his time at school and the memories of his team.
“The one thing that I love the most about being an alum of Syracuse is that you go anywhere, you look online, you walk down the street, you meet other alums and you all have a similar passion,” Lutz said.
T.J. Basalla, an SU graduate of ’06, said he loves SU and is extremely enthusiastic about his alma mater. His favorite memory as a stu-dent was watching the Orange win the national championship his freshman year. He added that he feels like he never left the school.
“I don’t know where I’d be personally, pro-fessionally and everything without Syracuse,” Basalla said. “This was just a simple way to wish happy birthday to a school that changed my life.”
everyone in the city community in a different way,” Maxwell said.
Maxwell, Livengood and Dougherty are all par-ticularly interested in the zoning update.
“Our zoning code is a mish-mash of poli-cies that have been put in place sort of piece-meal over the course of decades, really,” Maxwell said.
The new plan which will help the public better understand zoning implications, he said. Max-well calls the zoning overhaul, which he pre-sumes to be an ongoing project for the next two years, an “exciting opportunity for the entire
community, and we’re looking forward to it.”Maxwell said that a challenge has been mak-
ing it understood why it is beneficial for the city to have a comprehensive plan. He hopes that the community will understand that the plan’s content will make planning in the city more predictable and cost-efficient.
“Especially in an era of such fiscal restraint, we’re being intentional in the ways we’re using the public’s dollars,” Maxwell said. “It’s impor-tant to look ahead.”
Having an all-inclusive plan for the city is just smart, Dougherty said.
“We’re going to be doing things smarter,” said Dougherty. “If we do things smarter, it’s going to save us money.”
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The visible Otto the Orange is a blur of spastic energy — pinballing through the Car-
rier Dome stands, bouncing around bleachers and somersaulting with cheerleaders, his face caught in a per-petual sly smirk.
Meanwhile, the invisible Otto — the student sworn to secrecy in the costume like some kind of citrusy comic book hero —is sweltering under the suit, which Aaron Frank, a former Otto, paralleled to “being in a 130-degree sauna with no air and 100 percent humidity.”
“It’s like being Peter Parker and Spiderman,” said Frank, who served
as Otto during 2010 and 2011. “With great power comes great responsi-bility. Being in the field and seeing 30,000 people, you know at least one is watching. You go from zero to 3,000 in half a second.”
If Otto on the outside always had a big grin plastered to his face, so did Frank, who said smiling widely kept his energy levels up in a costume that, on a few occasions, pushed him towards the brink of fainting.
“One game, I did six or seven som-ersaults in a row, and almost passed out,” Frank said.
Otto’s name has become synony-mous with all things Orange sports culture, but more than 22 years since sporting the suit, Mitch Messinger is still waiting on his royalty check.
“A group of us came up with the name at cheerleading camp in Ten-nessee,” said Messinger, who went out for the Otto gig in 1990, “The name spread like wildfire.”
Before Messinger first enlisted in the Otto ranks, Otto was known epon-ymously as just “The Orange.” The mascots christened each new Orange costume with nicknames: Clyde was one costume. Woody was another.
When Messinger and his concur-rent costume-sporters earned the chance to name the newest costume, they kicked around the idea of nam-
ing it Opie.“We thought that it might rhyme
with dopey,” Messinger said. So the group of mascots named
the costume Otto, and the name just stuck. The anonymity of wearing the rotund Otto get-up — current mas-cots aren’t allowed to divulge their Orange alter ego — allowed for Mess-inger to play up the persona.
Though Messinger kept his lips tight about his role, he said he’d wear Syracuse boxers over Otto’s usual
shorts to let those who knew his secret that he was the one in the costume. That included his grandparents, who he fondly recalls seeing him be Otto at a Big East tournament.
“I could be as wild or crazy as I wanted to be,” he said. “As Otto, I
could just go up to a stranger and mess up their hair. If I did that as Mitch, I’d probably go to jail.”
Even though Otto’s identity is shad-ed in an aura of mystery, Doug Serton, a 2004 alumnus, said it’s not exactly the best-kept secret on campus.
“The pie in the sky tale is that the mascot is supposed to be secret,” Serton said. “But you carry the suit to Manley. People know.”
Serton’s Otto experience was more trial by fire than anything else — a sports enthusiast back at school early from break, and with the cheer-leading captain living on his floor, he was asked to jump into the suit for a Saturday night basketball game.
“I had no idea what I was doing,” Serton admitted.
Serton spent 2003 as Otto, the same year as Syracuse’s magical run through the NCAA national tournament. Dur-ing a post-championship pep rally in the Dome, Serton-as-Otto outran most members of the basketball team dur-ing their victory lap around the Dome, walking with Carmelo Anthony as he held the trophy.
“I remember the feeling of walk-ing out of the tunnel for the first time,” Serton said. “You have tunnel vision, so you can’t see the magni-tude of the Dome.”
The pie in the sky tale is that the mascot is supposed to be secret. But you carry the suit to Manley. People know.
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careening around the Dome, they see the vibrant mascot up to his usual antics. When Otto looks back, well, odds are he can’t see much at all.
“It’s nearly impossible to see from the nose down,” said Alaina Mallette, a 2013 alumna who spent a stint as Otto, “If anyone was short-er than 5 feet tall, I couldn’t see. If Otto’s bump-ing into things, it’s not us being silly.”
Mallette, whose friend convinced her to audition for Otto, was sitting in Thornden Park on a warm spring day when she was blindsided by a surprise stop from the mascot, who walked over to hand her a slip of paper. The note remarked Otto’s congratulations on Mallette joining the team.
It wasn’t until mascot camp — yes, that’s a real thing — when Mallette first sported the costume. Mascot camp was a crash course on all things Otto.
Like Messinger, Mallette tried impressing her family with her Otto antics. She said her mom’s favorite of her signature Otto moves was when she stole a cheerleader’s pompoms and held them against Otto’s back end, which, well, made it look like Otto was having some seriously glittery bowel movements.
“It would look like Otto was pooping pom-poms,” she said, laughing.
When game days roll around, past mascots still watch the visible Otto racing around the Dome — the invisible Otto embracing the zaniness that comes with embodying a sentient, smiling orange.
“I still absolutely watch Otto at games,” Messinger said. “My 10-year-old daughter knows daddy was Otto, so I point to her, “Look Jillian, that’s what Daddy used to do.”
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Orange Pulse Charity ShowcaseWhere: Goldstein AuditoriumWhen: Friday, March 21, 8 p.m.How Much: $3 for students,
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By Meredith Newmansocial media producer
This year, the Orange Pulse Dance Troupe will be honoring the life of one of its own during the 11th annual charity showcase
this weekend.The dance troupe, which is a non-audition
based dance group, will celebrate the life of Katlyn Bennett, an SU and Orange Pulse alum who died last June from anorexia, said Sara King, Orange Pulse’s president. The troupe will donate all ticket sale proceeds to the char-ity KMB for Answers, which was started by Bennett’s mother following her death.
“We thought donating the proceeds to KMB for Answers would be a really great way to bring the community together, while rais-ing awareness and informing people about an issue that affects a lot of people,” said King, a senior biology and forensic science major.
The showcase will be held in Goldstein Audi-torium this Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets will be $3 for Syracuse University students and $5 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the Schine Box Office.
Since Orange Pulse is a philanthropic stu-dent organization, every year the troupe hosts a showcase that will benefit a specific charity or organization. Previous beneficiaries of the showcase include Dr. King Elementary, the American Cancer Society and the Make a Wish Foundation of Central New York, according to Orange Pulse’s website.
Bennett attended SU for both undergraduate and graduate school, earning a bachelor’s degree in information management and technology in 2010 and a master’s in information management.
With the passing of Bennett, King said the
dancers hope to help anyone affected by the disease and to help find better support and treatment. The donations will go specifically toward women suffering from the disease
and their families.This year’s theme for the showcase will
be “Dancing in the Dark,” and will feature 140 dancers and 17 choreographed numbers, King said. She added that the executive board, which consists of 16 members, wanted to have
a general theme so the choreographers could be more creative.
The troupe has a wide range of dancers, including those who specialize in tap, ballet, jazz, Irish step dancing, hip-hop and contemporary.
King added that the executive board has been “really big” with its public relations this year, and has been pushing to increase its presence on Facebook and Twitter. Orange Pulse has reached out to more than 5,000 people on social media, King said, and the group hopes they can fill as many seats as possible this weekend. Orange Pulse has also reached out to SU’s Panhellenic Council, the School of Information Studies, as well as Wegmans to sponsor the event.
“Our organization is really up-and-com-ing,” King said. “People should expect to see a really great show.”
nypirg hunger banquet
Where: NYPIRG office, 732 S. Crouse Ave. (2nd floor)When: Thursday, March 20 at 6 p.m. How much: Free
The New York Public Interest Research Group is hosting a hunger banquet to raise awareness about the issue of hunger. The banquet is part of the organization’s cam-paign focusing on hunger and homeless-ness. Students will be assigned a level of poverty, and will eat dinner accordingly. Three community members will speak at the event: Ginny Yerdon, Hendricks Cha-pel’s events coordinator; Elijah Harris, who will speak about his personal experiences; and Lynn Hy, the director of philanthropy at the Food Bank of Central New York.
civil rights poetry jamWhere: Community Folk Art Center, 805 E. Genessee St.When: Friday, March 21, 8 p.m.How much: Free
More than 15 poets will read poetry at this Civil Rights-themed open microphone night, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. The event is hosted by Syracuse University’s depart-ment of African American studies, and follows an introduction to a curated exhibit at the Folk Art Center called “Making the Movement: Objects, Objectives and Civil Rights.”
robert randolph and the family band
Where: The Westcott TheaterWhen: Thursday, March 20 at 8 p.m.How much: $25
Feeling funky? Robert Randolph and the Family Band, a prominent funk-blues-rock fusion group, will bring their signature sound to the Westcott Theater on Thurs-day night. The band has worked with clas-sic guitarist Eric Clapton and has covered Led Zeppelin with O.A.R. Randolph also appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, ranking at the No. 97 spot.
Orange Pulse will host its 11th annual charity showcase this weekend. All of the ticket proceeds will be donated to KMB for Answers. photo courtesy of sara king
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If you search for tickets to the J. Cole concert at the Carrier Dome on Ticketmaster, you’ll be greeted with a yellow exclamation mark and a warning: “NOT MANY LEFT.”
Even though the annual spring concert sponsored by the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity has moved from Goldstein Auditorium to the much larger Carrier Dome, it appears they’ve had no trouble selling seats.
“I think they went on sale at 10 a.m.,” said Tom DiTrani, a junior bioengineering major who will be seeing J. Cole for the fourth time. “I got mine at 10:01, I think. I didn’t waste any time.”
J. Cole will be performing with opener Elle Varner on Friday. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and
the show starts at 7:30 p.m. A student presale for floor tickets went up at 10 a.m. on Feb. 10. Now there are only $30 tickets left, which are available to the general public.
The concert is in conjunction with Phi Beta Sigma’s 100th year of service. The fra-ternity has raised more than $30,000 over the past two years of concerts held in Goldstein auditorium — they brought Big Sean last year — which they donated to causes like helping those suffering from the severe drought con-ditions in the Horn of Africa.
This year, proceeds will go to the March of Dimes and Sigma Beta Club, the fraternity’s men-torship program for middle and high school stu-dents, as well as several other local foundations.
Ayinde Emers-George, vice president and public relations chair of Phi Beta Sigma, said
they wanted to book the Carrier Dome as a way of drawing attention to the fraternity’s 100 years of service.
“We are celebrating 100 years of service, and I wanted to make sure that that was known and that as many people as possible were invit-ed to celebrate this milestone with us,” Emers-
George said in an email.Emers-George also said that after hosting
two back-to-back sold out concerts in Gold-stein, moving to the Dome was the next logical step. Phi Beta Sigma also looked into moving to the OnCenter.
Khamini Harinarain, a junior civil engi-neering major, said she saw Big Sean last year and is excited the J. Cole concert will be held in the Carrier Dome.
“I think it’s great that they get so many people to come out,” she said of Phi Beta Sigma, adding that the move to the Carrier Dome means they’re able to sell more tickets and raise more money for good causes.
But even without the charity, students are excited about seeing the rapper at the Dome.
“I’ve been a big fan ever since his debut mixtapes,” DiTrani said. “I feel like his lyrics paint a picture. He’s different than most rap-pers out there now. He doesn’t necessarily rap about things I can relate to, but he talks about overcoming things.”
Emers-George said Phi Beta Sigma decid-ed on J. Cole because of his popularity, espe-cially after his latest album, “Born Sinner,” which came out last June, and this year’s Grammy nomination for “Power Trip,” for best rap/sung collaboration. He added that
they booked Elle Varner because she is a good complement to J. Cole and because they wanted to do something different.
“We have never brought a female or R&B artist, so we thought this would be the perfect time to stick with what we have done in the past, but also expand by trying something new,” he said.
While DiTrani has a good idea of what to expect since he’s seen J. Cole three times already, Harinarain said she’s excited to be seeing the rapper for the first time.
“I’m hoping he plays a lot of his big songs and stuff off his new album,” she said.
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Phi Beta Sigma to host J.Cole as part of 100-year celebration
GREATEST HITSNot sure what you’ll hear at J. Cole’s concert this Friday? No worries — here’s a look at the rapper’s biggest hits, in order by appearance on the Bill-board Hot 100.
1. “Work Out” from “Cole World: The Sideline Story.” Peaked at #13.2. “Power Trip” featuring Miguel, from “Born Sinner.” Peaked at #19.3. “Crooked Smile” featuring TLC, from “Born Sinner.” Peaked at #27.4. “Can’t Get Enough” fea-turing Trey Songz, from “Cole World: The Sideline Story.” Peaked at #52.5. “Nobody’s Perfect” fea-turing Missy Elliot, from “Cole World: The Sideline Story.” Peaked at #61.6. “She Knows” featuring Amber Coffman, from “Born Sinner.” Peaked at #90.7. “Who Dat,” non-album single. Peaked at #93.
I’m hoping he plays a lot of his big songs and stuff off his new album.
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Syracuse University recently announced that the school would be raising tuition prices for upcoming years. I was totally surprised and
not at all expecting this inevitable thing that has pretty much been happening exponentially for the past 50 years. What a hum-dinger!
I understand that people have their reasons for getting up in arms about this whole tuition cost situation. It’s money coming from our pockets (I’m sure there aren’t any people at SU whose par-ents help them out with tuition) and so it is natural to get a little upset. But let’s try to keep things in perspective — there are plenty of areas of SU that could use a little extra financial help.
To start off with, there are the basketball and football teams. It breaks my heart to see these athletic scholars having to walk around draped only in one or two outfits sponsored by Nike. And from what I understand, some of these people only get one hired tutor.
What, are we living in a Hooverville? A full ride to SU is chump change, considering what they could have gotten had they been allowed to go pro — pour some tuition money in their direc-tion. And the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications only has one state of the art building at the moment for their students. Only one! Why should the future titans of broadcast have to spend 80 percent of their days holed up in buildings that look like they came right out of pre-Soviet era Minsk?
On the flip side, there are a few places on cam-pus where clearly things are as good as they can be and putting more tuition money into their funding would be an utter waste of time and money.
For example, busing. From my understand-ing, Connective Corridor and the South Campus buses consistently operate as if they are part of a well-oiled machine. I don’t think I have ever heard a student complain about the bad bus system here — if anything, they usually sound overwhelmed by its efficiency! Decision-makers, don’t go improv-ing this part of campus life. It’s already covered.
The dining halls also really seem to be maxed-out in terms of quality. So people with legitimate, often times very dangerous allergies and an agenda of eating healthy want the dining halls to start carrying more options for them? Boo-hoo. We’re not Rockefellers, people. Take a slice of Sbarro pizza and stop complaining.
Same goes to you, students who take issue with the dorms, and the never properly work-ing heating system that allows students virtu-ally no control over whether or not their room is freezing or boiling-lava hot. This is college, not some fancy hotel.
Tuition raising will only be a scary event if the university chooses to foolishly throw money into its already stellar areas, and forget to push money toward those who are clearly hurting for financial help.
Chelsea DeBaise is a senior writing major at Syracuse University. She can be reached via
email at [email protected] or on Twitter @CDe-Baise124.
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tournament twice, but as has been the case for all five of the program’s past tournament games, the Orange didn’t advance.
On Saturday, No. 6-seed Syracuse (22-9, 10-6 Atlantic Coast) will have another opportunity to make history when it faces No. 11-seed Chat-tanooga (29-3, 18-0 Southern) on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Lexington, Ky., on ESPN2.
“This is where you make your name,” SU guard Brittney Sykes said. “Yes, last year we made our name. We dipped our toe in the water, but now we’re trying to run through the water.”
Sykes said that after the Orange lost to Creighton as a No. 7 seed in the first round last
season, the feeling in the locker room was more of motivation than disappointment.
It hurt to come up short, but SU already wanted another opportunity to get back for another shot.
And now it has that. “We’ve been there. We’ve felt how it tasted,”
Sykes said. “We’re more hungry to be there than a team who’s going for the first time.
“We have to play 20-plus games just to get back to that same spot and change history.”
On Wednesday’s practice at the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center with the team’s flight to Kentucky a day away, Hillsman was barking out instructions about what his team could see against Chattanooga.
Thirty-four does this. Eleven does that. Make sure you don’t leave 44 open. He’s been preparing
nonstop for the past 48 hours, and he’s making sure his players know as much as he does.
“I feel like there is a bigger picture, but all of us are always focused on the first game,” SU guard Rachel Coffey said. “You want to get the first game done, then after that you worry about the second game.”
Coffey makes it sound easy. But in the 43-year history of the program, there never has been a “second game” to play.
On Monday, Hillsman went up to the sec-ond level of the Melo Center to watch the men’s basketball team practice. He wanted to watch Jim Boeheim, a coach that has led his team to 52 NCA A Tournament wins and the 2003 national championship.
He saw him go through his game prep. He looked at the banners up around the center,
almost all of which reflect Boeheim’s legacy and the team he’s built.
Saturday, he has another chance to capture a program-building win and possibly raise a banner in the Carrier Dome.
It’s a program Hillsman has built almost single-handedly, but the hard work is not yet tangible.
A win in the NCAA tournament isn’t the end goal, but a start — and he’s willing to lose sleep over it.
“Obviously you’re going into a situation where you play this game, and you win you play again, and you lose and you’re done,” Hillsman said. “So that kind of revs up the intensity a little bit.
“I know we are more prepared at this point than we’ve ever been going into an NCA A tournament game.”
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David Brown would wake up some nights with a sharp pain in his leg and tears streaming down his face.
Then a sophomore, the Western Michigan guard had just finished surgery on his season-end-ing ACL tear, and was back home with his family.
Many nights he’d struggle to fall back asleep.“It was late nights of me crying,” Brown said.
“And late nights of me thinking if I could ever come back and play the game of basketball again.”
Brown suffered an ankle injury in high school, and two ACL injuries in college. In his own words, he came back from something that most wouldn’t even dream of.
And he hasn’t just come back, but reached an elite level. He leads the Mid-American Confer-ence in scoring at 19.4 points per game, and has started all 29 games this season after just four in his previous four years with the team.
“It’s not an easy thing. And literally there were blood, sweat and tears,” Broncos head coach Steve Hawkins said. “All the doubts about ‘Am I going to be able to realize my dream of a decent career.’
“We really thought he was not going to be back after the last one.”
Brown was a star at Hononegah (Ill.) High School. He averaged 17 points per game as a senior, led his team to a school record in wins and captured multiple conference champion-ships. His head coach Mike Miller could only recall two other players from the program that had went on to play Division I.
After coming to Hononegah as an under-whelming freshman that couldn’t hit a free throw, he left a prolific scorer. Brown would spend his lunch hours going into the athletic office to watch both game film and films on
coach tips. By the time he was a senior, big-time pro-
grams like Florida and Kentucky were calling Miller to ask about him.
But a sprained right ankle changed all of that. His stock fell. The high-profile offers were no longer on the table.
“As soon as you go down with an ankle injury, it’s unbelievable how quickly a big-time school will stop calling, and take back their scholarship,” Brown said. “But that’s some-thing Western never did. Western called me every day.”
WMU knew the type of player that Brown could be. Everyone at Hononegah knew the type of player he could be, but when he finally got to college, years of constant injuries pre-vented him from proving that to everyone else.
After playing sparingly in his first year, Brown re-injured his right ankle as a sopho-more and took a medical redshirt after play-ing in nine games. The next year, he tore his ACL and two menisci in his right knee against Duquesne on Dec. 17, 2011.
And last season, he missed the first 13 games of the Broncos’ season with a torn MCL.
“I’ve kind of come to learn that everything’s possible with David,” Miller said. “But it’s a sit-uation where I think he was concerned, I think everybody was concerned that things might not work out. It seemed like he was snake-bit.”
But this season, all the injuries, setbacks and sleepless nights crying came to an end.
In the MAC tournament semifinals against Akron, Brown finished just 4-of-15 from the field. In the finals, he bounced back to score 32 points and lead the Broncos to their first NCAA Tournament in 10 years.
“Those two games probably epitomize who he is,” Hawkins said. “He has a bad shooting night, or someone does a good job on him, he’s
able to bounce back pretty quick. He’s a confi-dent player. You’ve got to have somebody like that on your team.”
What’s been a career full of disappoint-ment and pain has somehow culminated in an NCAA Tournament for Brown. He’s been getting messages from his friends back home about how they’re excited to watch him play against Syracuse.
Miller said he was cancelling his science
class Thursday and driving up all night to watch Brown take the court.
For Brown, playing in this game means more than just reaching the NCAA Tournament.
It’s about the journey he took to get there. “It was something that I always dreamed
about,” Brown said. “And when it happened it was breathtaking.
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DAVID BROWN attacks the basket. The senior has battled injuries throughout his career, but is the top scorer for WMU as it heads into the NCAA Tournament. courtesy of gs photo
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3SYRACUSE (27-5, 14-4 ACC) VS 14WESTERN MICHIGAN (23-9, 14-4 MAC)
FIRST NIAGARA CENTER, 2:45 P.M., CBS
20.9% Western Michigan’s turnover percentage this season
PREDICTIONS
STARTING LINEUPS
BIG NUMBER
FREE THROWS
TYLER ENNIS
C.J. FAIR
RAKEEM CHRISTMAS
JERAMI GRANT
TREVOR COONEY
AUSTIN RICHIE
CONNAR TAVA
SHAYNE WHITTINGTON
TUCKER HAYMOND
DAVID BROWN
Tyler Ennis has scored 18.3 points per game in SU’s last three contests.
Trevor Cooney is shooting just 10-for-51 (19.6 percent) from 3-point range in Syra-cuse’s 2-5 slump
Jim Boeheim is 25-5 in NCAA Tourna-ment opening-round games.
The last time Western Michigan played in the NCAA Tournament (2004), the Orange was reigning national champions.
Rakeem Christmas has picked up 24 total per-sonal fouls in the last seven games, playing just 24.3 minutes per contest.
STAT TO KNOW
SYRACUSE 68, WESTERN MICHIGAN 55 Cowboy upThe Broncos have the talent to beat SU’s zone, but not the depth. The Orange gets just what it needs — a win to get back on track.
SYRACUSE 73, WESTERN MICHIGAN 55 #softnosedThe Orange doesn’t need to do much to dispatch of an over-matched opponent.
SYRACUSE 74, WESTERN MICHIGAN 56 Controlling the controllablesSyracuse doesn’t let the Bron-cos get confident early and pulls away late.
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Orange will enjoy home-court advantage vs. WMU in Buffalo By Trevor Hassasst. sports editor
BUFFALO, N.Y. — When Syracuse took the floor for an open practice Wednesday, it did so to a round of applause.
The spacious First Niagara Center was largely empty, but Syracuse fans scattered the area near the court and watched No. 3-seed SU prepare for its second-round NCAA Tour-nament matchup with No. 14-seed Western Michigan on Thursday at 2:45 p.m.
The Syracuse-heavy crowd will return tomor-row for the Orange, which finds itself much closer to home this year after traveling to San Jose, Calif., for its second-round game in 2013.
“Having a big fan base to support you at the game is definitely exciting,” C.J. Fair said on Sunday. “We’ve just got to go out there and play and give the fans something to cheer for.”
For Western Michigan head coach Steve Hawkins, playing in New York is another element he has to deal with. He said he’s talked about it with his team, but hasn’t prepared any differently than he normally does in that regard.
Hawkins said Syracuse travels well regardless of the location, and that he understands the mys-tique and intrigue of the Carrier Dome. SU games are on TV all the time, and Hawkins knows his team is the underdog in every sense of the word.
“You certainly understand what their fan base is all about and then how well they travel,” Hawkins said. “Basically, this will be a road game.”
Though he looks at it as a road game, Hawkins said he’s more concerned about the NCAA Tournament atmosphere. It’s the Bron-cos’ first trip to the Big Dance since 2004, and his players have never played on a national stage like the one they’ll experience Thursday.
Said Hawkins: “What’s at stake in the NCAA Tournament and everything that’s involved there, all of this, is what I’m more concerned about.”
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realizes — he called the problem “well-doc-umented” — and it could make No. 3-seed Syracuse susceptible to an early exit from the NCAA Tournament when it opens play against No. 14-seed Western Michigan (23-9, 14-4 Mid-American) on Thursday at 2:45 p.m. in the First Niagara Center.
But Boeheim also likes to point out that his team won 27 games and finished the season ranked No. 14 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, despite its incompetence from beyond the arc.
“Our offense isn’t going to be there every night and our defense is kind of our advantage,” SU forward C.J. Fair said after the selection show Sunday. “If we play the defense we’re capable of playing, then we can definitely make another Final Four run.”
That was the identity that the Orange rode to the national semifinals a year ago. In 2012-13, Syracuse ranked 80th in the nation in points per game and 127th in field-goal per-centage going into the NCAA Tournament.
The Orange’s numbers this year are a bit more staggering — 253rd in points per game and 201st in field-goal percentage — but the premise is the same. Defense feeds offense, and right now the defense isn’t playing par-ticularly well either.
“I think our offense feeds off our defense and our defense wasn’t great against N.C. State,” Fair said. “If we come out with the same defensive presence we usually have, I think that can help our offense and that takes away the confidence of the opposing team.”
As expected, SU’s offense has struggled in its losses, but the defense has been surpris-ingly ineffective. In four of Syracuse’s five losses, its opponent shot at least 46 percent against the Orange’s Top-10 scoring defense.
The only loss Syracuse suffered while holding an opponent to worse than 46 percent shooting was against Boston College, which Fair compared the Broncos to on Wednesday.
In that game, the Orange’s bad offense bottomed out. It shot a season-worst 32.3 percent and made just 2-of-12 shots from 3-point range.
It’s been a prolonged struggle for alleged sharpshooter Trevor Cooney, but now is as good a time as any for the guard to get going.
“Going forward, we need to get a lot bet-ter,” Cooney said after the loss to NCSU. “We have stuff to work on.”
The redshirt sophomore suffered an ankle injury during the loss and actually hit his only 3 of the game moments after sitting out to rest the injury. But Cooney practiced at full speed Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
He’s struggled during ACC play, but he’s still shooting 37.7 percent from 3 this season and is the closest thing SU has to a danger-ous long-range shooter.
But shooters, like teams in March, can get on a roll in a hurry. Syracuse lost 5-of-6 to end the regular season last year and made a run to the Final Four.
And while this year isn’t the same sce-nario — the Orange played well at the final Big East Tournament — it’s an example for Boeheim to point to.
March is all that matters.“The Tournament’s a different thing,”
Boeheim said. “You can start playing well in one game, and all of a sudden you can get on a roll.”
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By Josh Hyberstaff writer
Week after week, Syracuse’s problems at the faceoff X are talked about ad nauseam. The Orange continues to struggle, and more and more questions are asked.
SU has only won more faceoffs than its oppo-
nent in just two games this season and at this point, it’s about becoming more methodical and successful in every other facet of the game.
“You have to be efficient offensively, and when we do get our stops on defense, we’ve got to clear the ball,” Syracuse head coach John Desko said following last weekend’s 12-10 vic-tory over Johns Hopkins. “Every possession
becomes important to us when the other team is winning faceoffs like that.”
Offensive and defensive efficiency will be a focal point this weekend when the Orange (4-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) faces Duke (7-2, 1-1) on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. in a rematch of last year’s national championship game. The Orange will look to manage the nation’s premier faceoff specialists, Brendan Fowler, who set the NCAA single-season faceoff record with 339 victories last season and is winning 60.9 percent of his draws this year.
Derek Maltz, Kevin Rice and Brandon Mul-lins agreed with Desko that there’s more of an emphasis on the other areas of the field when the team is struggling at the X.
Despite losing 21-of-25 draws against the Blue Jays, the Orange still managed to pull out a win because it scored on more than half of its posses-sions. Syracuse’s 38.9 percent shooting percent-age ranks second nationally, and only eight teams in the country turn the ball over less.
“I think we have a pretty good offense, but we’re efficient because we have to be, and our guys know we have to be,” Desko said. “Sometimes we need to get into a flow on the offense to rest the defense.
“When you haven’t won faceoffs and the defense on the other end is playing defense after every goal, we need some possessions just to give them a little break.”
Maltz said the SU coaching staff has harped on taking care of the ball and valuing posses-sion this week. It’s always an emphasis, but especially this weekend against Fowler, who dominated the second half of the title game.
“He’s excellent, as we’ve seen in the past,” Desko said. “We have to make sure that we’re efficient in all other aspects of our game.”
Not having the ball as much also changes the mind-set of the SU attack. Syracuse is more selec-
tive in its shot attempts, and has held the ball for longer stretches to give the defense a rest.
They’ve also, at times, held back from push-ing fast-break opportunities.
“There’ll be times where we can push a four-on-four or a five-on-five, but if it’s really not that great of an opportunity, we’re going to have to pull it out,” Maltz said. “If we take a shot that misses and we don’t get the backup, or the goalie makes a save or we throw the ball away, Duke’s getting the ball right back.”
Winning 39.5 percent of faceoffs also means the Syracuse defense is being tested often. But the unit has caused 40 turnovers, and cleared at nearly an 86 percent rate at Johns Hopkins.
Mullins said SU’s defense has been working on clearing the ball so that when they do get stops, the offense will have opportunities.
“At this point, it’s nothing new to us. What-ever happens in the game, we’re ready for it,” Mullins said. “If we’re not winning faceoffs, we’ve got to get the ball back by playing defense. That’s definitely an emphasis.”
But the Orange sees the bigger picture. Desko talked about how frustrated he is know-ing that the Orange could have won more games by winning just a few more draws, especially against the country’s best teams.
This weekend will arguably be the team’s biggest test, and Maltz knows the long-term significance the contest could have.
“We realize how important this game is for the conference,” Maltz said. “As talented as a conference as the ACC is, I don’t think a team that goes 0-3 in the conference will be a part of that top four.
“We want to make it to the end of the season and play in the ACC playoffs.”
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By Trevor Hassasst. sports editor
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Baye Moussa Keita often says that he tries to play every game like it’s his last.
It’s a figure of speech, but a mentality the senior center tries to embody.
But on Thursday, that figure of speech could become reality. Keita and fellow senior C.J. Fair may end up playing their last game in a Syracuse uniform.
The No. 3-seed Orange (27-5, 14-4 Atlantic Coast) will try to ensure that’s not the case when it takes on No. 14-seed Western Michigan (23-9, 14-4 Mid-Atlantic Conference) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at First Niagara Center in Buffalo.
“We went down to Greensboro, and it didn’t end up the way we wanted,” Keita said. “Now we’re going to play this tough because it could be our last basketball game in college.”
Fair, a player who could have bolted for the NBA last summer, has evolved from a timid freshman who averaged 6.4 points per game to a more vocal — though still reserved — senior who is a Second-Team All-American.
As a freshman, Fair sat in the wings as Rick Jackson, Kris Joseph and Scoop Jardine led Syracuse. The next year his minutes saw a spike, but he was still only SU’s fifth leading scorer. He was just waiting his turn.
Last year, Fair led the team in scoring and minutes. He had the resume to go pro, but he came back for another year. Now he’s starring
for a team looking to make the Final Four for the second consecutive season.
“Coming in as a freshman, you don’t really know what to expect in college,” Fair said, “and then sometimes it can be a rude awakening for some players. For me, I wasn’t playing that much, and then as time went on, I had to grow up and adjust, and I think it made me mature in a fast way.”
The rarely brash, headband-wearing for-ward sported a GoPro during practice Wednes-day afternoon to record footage. It was his deci-sion, not the NCAA’s. Fair wanted to document his last push for a championship.
Though the GoPro looked uncomfortable to those watching, it served as a sense of com-fort for Fair, who is trying to cherish his last moments as a college superstar.
“It could be my last game,” Fair said. “But, you know, as a team, we want to prolong this season and not get it cut short.”
Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim has said that this year’s Tournament is particularly wide open. Like many pundits, he thinks Mich-igan State and Louisville have a legitimate chance to win it all.
But he also said the field is deep. There’s no such thing as an easy win in March Madness anymore. And he knows Western Michigan won’t be a cinch.
Especially considering Broncos seniors David Brown and Shayne Whittington — who are also playing to extend their careers — are players Boeheim said could play anywhere in the country.
“You get guys that develop as players at schools like Western Michigan,” Boeheim said, “and they’re as good as anybody we have and anybody that we’ve played against. Our players understand that, we understand that.”
Fair and Keita said it doesn’t matter that many media members are saying Syracuse is overrated. It doesn’t matter that SU is heavily
favored over Western Michigan, either.The past is irrelevant for Fair and Keita.
Senior Day was a time to look back. Now it’s time to look forward.
Said Keita: “Just like I said before, every game, we can play from one game to six games, and our goal is to play all six.”
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JOSH DIONNE throws his hands up in celebration as Brian Megill falls to the ground during Duke’s NCAA championship victory over SU in May. spencer bodian staff photographer
C.J.FAIR wears a GoPro camera on his chest during SU’s practice. He and fellow senior Baye Moussa Keita have one more shot at an NCAA title. yuki mizuma staff photographer
Riley in the middle.Those matchups have allowed the 14th-seed-
ed Broncos (23-9, 14-4 Mid-American) to develop an inside-out game, which they will bring into their NCAA Tournament second-round game against No. 3-seed Syracuse (27-5, 14-4) on Thursday at 2:45 p.m. Shayne Whittington, a 6-foot-11 senior center, will be operating in the paint, while senior guard and leading scorer David Brown heads a cast of capable shooters.
But even Hawkins knows that just because the EMU zone looks the same as SU’s, doesn’t mean it is.
“They don’t let you take the ball to the spot that you’d normally take it or that you want to attack a zone from,” Hawkins said. “They don’t allow the ball to get there.
“I heard a quote from (ESPN analyst) Jay Bilas not too long ago about how there has probably been less talk about brain surgery than there has been about how to beat Syra-cuse’s 2-3 zone. And I can see why.”
In the first matchup against Eastern Michi-gan, Western Michigan managed just 37 points. The Broncos made just 12 field goals, shot 25 percent from 3-point range and crumpled behind a 3-for-12 performance from Whittington.
But in the rematch, Whittington connected on 8-of-15 for 22 points and 11 rebounds. WMU shot 5-of-16 from beyond the arc and scored 75 points to the Eagles’ 67.
“They have the tools to compete,” Murphy said of Western Michigan, “but I think ulti-mately the length and the athleticism of the zone will bother them much more than they’re probably anticipating.”
Still, the Broncos proved to be a team capable of beating a good zone, and SU forward C.J. Fair com-
pared them to ACC bottom-feeder Boston College.BC had then-undefeated Syracuse down eight
with 14 minutes to go at Conte Forum on Jan. 13, and beat the Orange 62-59 in overtime on Feb. 19.
“Then they’ve got a good inside presence with a couple of post players, so it keeps your defense honest,” Fair said. “You’ve got to respect the 3-pointer, and you’ve got to battle with them inside.”
After Whittington, Western Michigan doesn’t
have the size and length to match up with Fair, Rakeem Christmas and Jerami Grant. And after Brown — who averages 19.4 points and dropped a career-high 32 in the MAC tournament cham-pionship game — the Broncos don’t have a domi-nant perimeter threat.
But the two are capable of breaking down the Orange’s zone. They’re the keys. And they bring a different experience level than most opponents Syracuse is used to opening the NCAA Tournament against.
Said Hawkins: “Normal zones we were able to carve up pretty good. And this is not a normal zone.”
[email protected] | @Stephen_Bailey1— asst. copy editor Sam Blum and staff
writer David Wilson contributed reporting to this story.
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zone
They don’t let you take the ball to the spot that you’d normally take it or that you want to attack a zone from. They don’t allow the ball to get there.
Steve Hawkinswestern michigan head coach
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NCAA TOURNAMENT
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thursday, 2:45 p.m., cbs
MICHAEL GBINIJE AND TYLER ENNIS exchange handshakes prior to Syracuse’s game against N. C. State on Saturday. SU’s offense has slumped for most of the last few weeks, but has the chance to start fresh Thursday in the second round of the Big Dance. yuki mizuma staff photographer
SADDLE UPNo. 3-seed Orange opens NCAA Tournament vs. No. 14-seed Broncos
By David Wilsonstaff writer
BUFFALO, N.Y. — As shot after shot clanged off the rim, an issue that plagued Syracuse all
season exacerbated into a fatal flaw.The Orange had chances to avoid
another upset and a first-round exit in the Atlantic Coast Conference on Friday, but SU missed six shots on the final possession of a stun-ning loss to North Carolina State. Its shooting percentage for the day
plummeted from an already poor 36.7 percent to 32.7.
“We shot the ball badly and it’s hard to recover when you’re not shooting the ball well,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said after the Orange’s 66-63 loss to the Wolf-pack. “It’s very difficult to win when the ball’s not going in the basket.”
The problem for SU (27-5, 14-4 ACC), though, is that Friday has become the norm rather than the exception. It’s something Boeheim
men’s basketball
WMU faces familiar 2-3 defense
women’s basketball
Hillsman prepares to face Mocs
By Stephen Baileysports editor
It’s about that time of year when the nonconference opponents return, and Syracuse’s 2-3 zone buckles down.
The Jamie Dixons of the coach-ing realm that know the intricacies of Jim Boeheim’s zone are placed in other regions, and less-prepared substitutes fall victim to the Orange’s signature defense.
But Western Michigan isn’t one of those teams. And Steve Hawkins isn’t one of those coaches.
“If there is one tiny advantage of going into this Syracuse team, it’s the fact that we have faced a similar zone,” Hawkins said over the phone Tuesday.
The Broncos have faced confer-ence foe Eastern Michigan’s 2-3 zone twice. Run by former SU assistant coach Rob Murphy, the EMU defense is a near replica of Boeheim’s brain-child, complete with the best field-goal percentage defense in the nation and 7-foot SU transfer Da’Shonte
By Sam Blum asst. copy editor
Kyan Hillsman wanted snacks. Quentin Hillsman wanted sleep.
After Syracuse found out it would be playing Chattanooga in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Hill-sman, SU’s head coach, guaranteed a win. He planned to watch 80 percent of the Mocs’ 32 games this season.
And every day this week Hillsman has gone to bed just before 3 a.m., only to be woken up three hours later by his hungry 3-year-old son.
“It’s tough when you’re up all night watching tape,” Hillsman said. “And your son’s alarm clock is between 5:10 and 6 a.m.”
Hillsman has been in this situa-tion before. He’s been to the NCAA
see western michigan page 16 see chattanooga page 14
see zone page 19
Unlikely comebackWMU leading scorer David
Brown overcame many injuries. Page 14
One more time?C.J. Fair and Baye Moussa Keita play to extend their
careers. Page 18
No regrets SU coach Jim Boeheim
reflects on the ACC move. dailyorange.com
Orange visionCheck out photos from
SU’s practice Wednesday. dailyorange.com
COLD AS ICETrevor Cooney has made just 19.6 percent (10-of-51) of his 3-pointers during SU’s 2-5 slump entering the NCAA Tournament.
COONEY