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FREE TUESDAY april 21, 2015 high 57°, low 41° N • On the money Syracuse University has part- nered with Benefunder, an orga- nization that helps pair donors with professors working on research projects. Page 3 P • Fresh voice Local resident Josh Batstone reflects on his journey on NBC’s “The Voice,” and recounts the lessons he learned from the celebrity judges. Page 9 S • Showing off Alex Kline, an SU student, orga- nizes a yearly basketball charity showcase in his mother’s name that has featured SU players like Tyler Roberson. Page 20 the independent student newspaper of syracuse, new york | dailyorange.com By Jessica Iannetta staff writer Two Nu Alpha Phi fraternity mem- bers appeared in city court Monday afternoon to face charges in a hazing incident that almost cost a pledge four fingers. Tae Kim, 19, and Jeffrey Yam, 21, have both been charged with hazing in the first degree, a misdemeanor. They pleaded not guilty in court last month. The court appearance on Mon- day was a pretrial hearing where Kim and Yam’s lawyers had a brief preliminary discussion with the dis- trict attorney’s office. Nothing was decided and the case is still in the early stages, said James Hopkins, Kim’s lawyer. Hopkins declined to comment on Kim and Yam’s status at Syracuse University. The university has said the two students will be subject to the student code of conduct. Yam’s lawyer declined to com- ment on Monday. Kim and Yam were arrested on March 4 in connection with a hazing incident that police said hap- pened at about midnight on March 1 in Lower Hookway Park on East Colvin Street. Police said three Nu Alpha Phi pledges were told to per- form pushups and situps and roll in the snow for about 20 minutes for failing to correctly perform their daily duties. The pledges had no gloves on and after finishing the exercises were given hand warmers and told to walk back to the frater- nity, which was about a mile and a half away, police said. Students appear in court Nu Alpha Phi brothers are facing charges in hazing incident MAY 28 The day Tae Kim and Jeffrey Yam are due back in court ONE IN FOUR YOUNG ADULTS HAS A DIAGNOSABLE MENTAL ILLNESS. By Jessica Iannetta | staff writer W hen Kimi Skokin senses she’s about to zone out during class, her first reaction is an unusual one: she grabs a pencil. But not to take notes — to keep her hands occupied. “One of the big things is I’ll be like, ‘What are my hands doing right now?’” Skokin said. This hyper awareness is because of a disorder she first became aware of in middle school: trichotillomania, an impulse disorder that causes people to pull out their hair. The hair pulling is often brought on by stress but can also be an automatic reaction, something she does when she’s not really paying attention, said Skokin, a senior psychology and neuroscience major at Syracuse University. Being a college student with trichotillomania, commonly known as TTM, has been challenging, she said, especially since TTM also causes anxiety and depression. Skokin is one of millions of college students who arrive on campus every year with a mental illness or mental health con- cerns. In the last decade, these numbers have increased dra- matically at colleges across the country. In the 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers, 94 percent of directors reported an increase in students with severe psychological problems on their campuses. The same trend is true for depression and anxiety, the two most common mental disorders nationally and at SU. In the 2014 American College Health Association report, nearly a third of students said they felt “so depressed it was difficult to function” and more than half said they felt “overwhelming anxiety” sometime in the past year. Colleges see huge increase in demand for mental health services MENTAL HEALTH SERIES PART 1 OF 3 Editor’s note: This three-part series explores the role of mental health services on college campuses, both nationally and at Syracuse University. source: nami see mental health page 8 see nu alpha phi page 6
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P • Fresh voiceLocal resident Josh Batstone reflects on his journey on NBC’s “The Voice,” and recounts the lessons he learned from the celebrity judges.Page 9
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By Jessica Iannettastaff writer
Two Nu Alpha Phi fraternity mem-bers appeared in city court Monday afternoon to face charges in a hazing incident that almost cost a pledge four fingers.
Tae Kim, 19, and Jeffrey Yam, 21, have both been charged with hazing in the first degree, a misdemeanor. They pleaded not guilty in court last month.
The court appearance on Mon-day was a pretrial hearing where Kim and Yam’s lawyers had a brief
preliminary discussion with the dis-trict attorney’s office. Nothing was decided and the case is still in the early stages, said James Hopkins, Kim’s lawyer.
Hopkins declined to comment on Kim and Yam’s status at Syracuse University. The university has said the two students will be subject to the student code of conduct.
Yam’s lawyer declined to com-ment on Monday.
Kim and Yam were arrested on March 4 in connection with a hazing incident that police said hap-pened at about midnight on March 1 in Lower Hookway Park on East Colvin Street. Police said three Nu Alpha Phi pledges were told to per-form pushups and situps and roll in the snow for about 20 minutes for failing to correctly perform their daily duties. The pledges had no gloves on and after finishing the exercises were given hand warmers and told to walk back to the frater-nity, which was about a mile and a half away, police said.
Students appear in courtNu Alpha Phi brothers are facing charges in hazing incident
MAY 28The day Tae Kim and Jeffrey Yam
are due back in court
ONE IN FOUR YOUNG ADULTS HAS
A DIAGNOSABLE MENTAL ILLNESS.
By Jessica Iannetta | staff writer
W hen Kimi Skokin senses she’s about to zone out during class, her first reaction is an unusual one: she grabs a pencil.But not to take notes — to keep her hands occupied.
“One of the big things is I’ll be like, ‘What are my hands doing right now?’” Skokin said.
This hyper awareness is because of a disorder she first became aware of in middle school: trichotillomania, an impulse disorder that causes people to pull out their hair. The hair pulling is often brought on by stress but can also be an automatic reaction, something she does when she’s not really paying attention, said Skokin, a senior psychology and neuroscience major at Syracuse University.
Being a college student with trichotillomania, commonly known as TTM, has been challenging, she said, especially since TTM also causes anxiety and depression.
Skokin is one of millions of college students who arrive on campus every year with a mental illness or mental health con-cerns. In the last decade, these numbers have increased dra-matically at colleges across the country. In the 2014 National Survey of College Counseling Centers, 94 percent of directors reported an increase in students with severe psychological problems on their campuses.
The same trend is true for depression and anxiety, the two most common mental disorders nationally and at SU. In the 2014 American College Health Association report, nearly a third of students said they felt “so depressed it was difficult to function” and more than half said they felt “overwhelming anxiety” sometime in the past year.
Colleges see huge increase in demand for mental health services
MENTAL HEALTH SERIES PART 1 OF 3
Editor’s note: This three-part series explores the role of mental health services on college campuses, both nationally and at
Syracuse University.
source: nami
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see nu alpha phi page 6
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By Gigi Antonellestaff writer
Vivian Curry’s 13 tattoos tell the story of her self-exploration and spiritual journey after leaving the Mormon church when she was 18 years old.
The oil paintings tattooed on the front of both of Curry’s shins depict two Native American men. The one on her right leg, Curry said, rep-resents heaven and faith, and the one on her left leg represents hell and Satanism.
“I wanted to it to have a Native American theme to it because I am proud of my culture,” said Curry, who is a junior television, radio and film major.
Curry said the inspiration for the oil paintings came from an artist in Curry’s community who paints murals for local casinos and sells his prints. Curry took one of his paintings and adapted it to fit on her leg, she added.
Curry was raised as a Mormon on a reservation in Buffalo, New York. She described herself as being
a very devout Mormon when she was a young girl, having attended ser-vices every Sunday. Curry’s mother is extremely religious, she added, and was upset when she decided to leave the church. Her mother thought she was satanic.
“I like darker things, but I’m not satanic,” Curry said.
Curry got her first tattoo despite her mother’s opinion. It is a mother and daughter holding hands with a daisy, with the quote “endless love for all time and eternity” — an important quote of the Mormon faith. Although she got it rebellious-ly, she said it is symbolic of her eter-nal love for her mother.
Since leaving the Mormon faith, Curry has explored different reli-gions, but ultimately decided against abiding by an organized religion. It wasn’t until recently that Curry’s mother began to accept her tattoos and piercings.
“I do what makes me happy,” Curry said, “and if people don’t like it, I’m like, ‘Oh well, it’s not your body. It’s mine.’”
Junior’s 13 tattoos tell story of spiritual change
TATTOO tuesday | vivian curry
VIVIAN CURRY has two Native American men tattooed on her shins. The one on her right represents heaven and faith, and the one on her left represents hell and Satanism. doris huang staff photographer
In an April 20 article titled “Attendees discuss environment at Earthfest,” the groups that organized the event were misstated. NYPIRG, Students of Sustainability and the Sustainability Division hosted the event. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
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Back in courtHayes McGinley, an SU men’s lacrosse player, will return to court Tuesday for his mid-March arrest on two harassment counts.See Wednesday’s paper
Healthy mindsSU’s Counseling Center has seen an increase in those requiring mental health services without seeing much increase in funding or staff.See Wednesday’s paperN
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By Satoshi Sugiyama staff writer
The search committee to find Syra-cuse University’s next vice chancel-lor and provost has yet to meet, but members say they plan on launching the search in the near future.
Tej Bhatia, a professor of lin-guistics and a committee member representing the College of Arts and Sciences, said the committee will
officially launch soon and said Chan-cellor Kent Syverud’s charge to the committee “will provide guidance on the focus and direction of the search.”
“I would like to serve on this committee on principled grounds, namely whenever faculty or staff is called upon to serve, one should be willing to serve our academic com-munity to the best of our ability,” Bhatia said in an email.
Every school and college within
SU is represented by faculty mem-bers on the committee, except for the Martin J. Whitman School of Man-
agement and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. The undergraduate student representatives on the com-mittee have not been named. Syverud
said at the University Senate meeting that he plans to meet with the senate to discuss possible nominations for the chair of the committee.
The committee is composed of fac-ulty, staff, students and members of the Board of Trustees. A chair for the committee has not yet been named.
Charles Driscoll said when Syverud asked him to serve on the committee, he felt honored. Driscoll,
By Danny Mantoothasst. copy editor
Syracuse University has partnered with Benefunder, an online platform that connects researchers across the country with donors looking to con-tribute to their research.
Sara Wason, executive director of foundation relations at SU, said
Benefunder reached out to faculty members to inquire whether or not they were interested. Professors from various areas will represent SU on Benefunder, including people from aerospace engineering, psy-chology, biomedical engineering, the arts and neuroscience, she said.
SU signed a “master agreement” with Benefunder, Wason added,
which allows for 20 professors to connect with possible donors through the platform.
The way Benefunder works is donors go to the website, search for their preferred research area and connect with a researcher through the organization, which distributes the donation to the researcher. Wason added that the minimum
donation is $25,000.“At SU, we’re really trying to look
at some more creative ways of how we get research funded because research is so important to our mis-sion,” Wason said.
With federal funding remaining stagnant in recent years, SU had to explore different avenues to fund
Sound of silenceOn Monday, 1,100 backpacks were placed on the Syracuse University Quad to visually represent the number of college students that are lost to suicide each year. Send Silence Packing is a national movement that travels to numerous college campuses to display the backpacks and raise awareness about suicide prevention. Each backpack includes a personal story about a student lost to suicide. frankie prijatel photo editor
By Justin Mattinglyasst. news editor
Walnut Place and Walnut Avenue will be closed to parking Friday due to Mayfest.
Syracuse University’s Mayfest is scheduled to go from 1–6 p.m. in Walnut Park on Friday and will feature live music and food. There will also be limited parking on Wednesday and Thursday.
Parking and Transit Services is offering alternative parking at the Harrison lot, located off Harrison Street on all three days, according to an SU News release. University Garage will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesday and Thurs-day and 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday.
Mayfest will feature music, food and drinks and is free for students with an SU ID. The event will lead into Block Party, which will take place later Friday night and will feature rapper 50 Cent.
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Streets to close for Mayfest
Search committee members plan future meeting
Benefunder to assist professors’ research projects
Parking prohibited on Walnut Place, Avenue
1,100The number of backpacks placed on the Quad from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday as part of Send Silence Packing, a national exhibit that came to SU.
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see benefunder page 6
13The number of mem-bers on the search com-mittee for a new vice chancellor and provost
Here’s a look at some additional business discussed at Monday night’s SA meeting.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
In addition to elections taking place during the meeting in Maxwell Auditorium, a couple bills were discussed.
BILL DISCUSSION A bill calling for an increase in stipends for members of the cabinet was further discussed by the assembly at Monday night’s meeting.
CABINET REFORMATION ACT Parliamentarian Stephen Thomas presented the Cabinet Reformation Act of 2015, a bill that would give the SA president the choice of forming a committee to thoroughly interview cabinet applicants before proceeding to assembly approval, according to the bill.
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Here’s something we’ve been seeing a lot: A celebrity sends out a stupid tweet and quickly deletes it minutes after
posting. Most recently, one of Conan O’Brien’s writers, Andrés du Bouchet, sent out a string of tweets about the state of late-night comedy.
“Comedy in 2015 needs a severe motherf*ck-ing shakeup,” du Bouchet, wrote. “No celebrities, no parodies, no pranks, no mash-ups or hashtag wars.” Du Bouchet was obviously talking about the other shows near Conan’s time slot that play games, lip sync, dance or pretty much do any-thing silly they can get a 6-minute clip out of for their YouTube channels.
“Prom King Comedy. That’s what I call all this sh*t. You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal. F*ck,” du Bouchet wrote. I don’t share his self-righteous attitude about comedy, especially not late-night comedy. I don’t think
ownership of comedy is a thing. I also think that it’s awfully high and mighty for one of the his-torically whitest, straightest and male-centric forms of comedy to talk about “appropriation.” In this tweet, du Bouchet effectively dampens his otherwise sound criticism. But the thing about it is, du Bouchet’s not that wrong.
These kinds of frivolous, celebrity games can’t be the future of late-night.
He got a lot of heat for his comments, including some from his boss, O’Brien himself, who tweeted, “I wish one of my writers would focus on making my show funnier instead of tweeting stupid things about the state of late-night comedy.”
And increasingly, the state of late night comedy is recurring bits like Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets where celebrities read scathing tweets aimed at them into a camera, or Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle, where celebrities lip sync to pop songs to see who can out perform the other, are being made so audiences can share them furiously, but not that night. In fact, entertainment news websites depend on these silly videos from the night’s shows to kick-start that day’s web traffic. Industry experts and late-night producers have dubbed it the “morning after effect.”
These bits can often times be formulaic: James Corden plus car plus random pop diva plus 45 minutes driving in LA makes for a great video every time. Corden, who has a back-ground in British theater, has said that he isn’t a comedian, and so he and his staff focus on “fun, before funny.” Rob Crabbe, a former producer
for Fallon, says recurring routines “give you some structure so you’re not trying to reinvent the wheel every day.”
I don’t want late-night to turn into a back and forth YouTube battle to see who can make celebrities look sillier. The first lady dancing with Fallon can only hold my attention for so long. Yeah, it’s funny for a little while, you send the link to your mom but then you leave the video feeling inexplicably empty.
Du Bouchet was right, 2015 comedy needs a shakeup. We don’t need to ban lip syncing, mash-ups or karaoke, because they might end up being late-nights saving grace. Let’s at least agree to use comedy, not celebrity, to focus on funny, before fun.
Eric King is a sophomore magazine journal-ism major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] and followed on
Twitter @erickingdavid.
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Late-night TV trend of content created for viral videos cannot persistERIC KINGEATING CULTURE VULTURES FOR BREAKFAST
Ask a jealous ex or a school administra-tor if there’s any excuse for cheating and they’ll likely say no. Ask the same
question to a student or Casanova and they’ll likely respond: define cheating.
For many, cheating constitutes as an unequal advantage that rigs the fair playing field. The most recent and notable instance of cheating came last week when several teachers at an Atlanta public
school were sentenced to prison on racketeering charges. They were convicted of participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to artificially inflate students’ standardized test scores.
The trial lasted six years and resulted in three educators being sentenced to seven years in pris-on, a decision that left many wondering whether the teachers deserved such a harsh punishment.
A 2013 grand jury indictment said those involved in the conspiracy did so to win bonus-es, protect their jobs or please their superiors. Regardless of why the faculty engaged in inflat-ing test scores, they are not the ones to blame. Any reason for such activity speaks to the flaws of our current education system, not the educa-tors themselves.
Violations are not exclusive to just primary education. During Syracuse University’s 2013–14 academic year the office of Academic Integrity reported 220 violations, 55 of which were upheld to hearings. Of those hearings, 82 percent of stu-dents were held accountable for the charges. This was a drop from the previous year where 272 viola-tions were reported and 69 hearings were held.
“Students found in violation of the policy usually receive grade-related penalties. Occa-sionally students are suspended. Expulsion is extremely rare as the primary goal of the policy is to promote academic integrity and to educate students,” said Margaret Usdansky, director of the Office of Academic Integrity, in an email.
The number of violations is small in compar-ison to the student body, but in a competitive environment like this, the pressure to perform often leads to student misconduct. The com-petitive nature of the education system, which pressures teachers such as the ones in Atlanta to rig test scores for higher school rankings and students to cheat for their own class standings, fosters an environment where performance outweighs educational values.
In New York City, 93 percent of students in failing public schools are students of color and 82 percent of students in those schools are eligible for free or reduced price lunch, according to NewYorkState.gov. Low-income neighborhoods are prone to having more failing schools than higher income neighborhoods.
When critiquing the education system it is important to address how schools are funded. Currently, the majority of funding for schools comes from the state. The financing of local schools was altered extensively during the 1970s
by a series of legal and legislative challenges to use of property taxes and as the principle fund-ing source, according to a 1986 study conducted by the University of Rochester.
In simple terms, a school’s funding depends on the wealth of the district it is in. This can leave many schools at a disadvantage, especially schools in low-income neighborhoods. Schools’ federal funding depends on how well the school performs, and if they do not meet expectations, they can lose funding.
This creates a pressure for faculty who want their students to do well, especially if they want the school to keep running. Yet, does this excuse cheating? In short, no. But if we look at cheating as an unfair advantage, then most of the educa-tional system cheats. Because of socio-economic factors, some students will always have an unfair advantage or disadvantage.
While money seems like a quick fix, merely giving schools money to improve their status does little to help the problem. The real solu-tion rests in how the money gets distributed among public schools. As for millennials, the takeaway should not be to cheat, but rather to beat the system.
Laritza Salazar is a sophomore newspaper and online journalism major. Her column
appears weekly. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Education system puts emphasis on performance over learningLARITZA SALAZARWHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND Y
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Mental health concerns require visibilityThe Syracuse University communi-ty could not ignore the magnitude of the Send Silence Packing exhibit that was on the Quad Monday. SU should recognize that mental health and suicide are issues that cannot be overlooked and Active Minds should continue in its efforts to bring awareness to these concerns.
Send Silence Packing is a traveling exhibition of 1,100 backpacks, which represent the number of students who die annually from suicide. The backpacks are donated in memory of the individuals who have died and include their photos and personal stories. The exhibit began in 2008 and had previously had come to SU in the spring of 2012.
Hearing that 1,100 college students die from suicide every year is upset-ting, and seeing 1,100 backpacks in memory of those students is haunting. The exhibit was reminiscent of the
Remembrance Chairs that are placed on the Quad during Remembrance Week to honor the students who died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. Accordingly, the atmosphere on the Quad was solemn and reflective.
There is a need for increased visibility for matters concerning mental health on college campuses. Several student organizations, including Active Minds, have been vocal in requesting another campus psychiatrist over the past year. Mental health resources must be available for students, but students must also look after one another and recognize that they can turn to one another for support.
The backpacks were on display from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and in such a high traffic area, the exhibit reached a large number of people. In addition to students, faculty and staff, there were many prospective students touring
campus with their families on Monday.Banners and tables that provided
more information for people who wanted to learn more accompanied the backpacks. The exhibit gave passersby the option to choose to engage by stopping and reading the individuals’ stories, and at the same token could not be overlooked by even the most casual participant.
Send Silence Packing pushes students to recognize the ability they have to combat mental health and sui-cide, as well as starts a dialogue about the enormity of the issue.
Active Minds should continue to advocate for students who seek mental health services and to combat the stigma surrounding mental health. The group should also consider doing events similar in nature, which don’t just spout statistics but humanize a topic that can be difficult to talk about.
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At age 73, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is, interestingly enough, still a junior senator
from Vermont and now toying with the idea of running for president. First elected in 1988, the self-pro-claimed democratic socialist has never come close to losing re-election — the closest time was in 1994 during the Republican Revolution.
Him and his colleague, Sen. Patrick Joseph Leahy (D-Vt.), have been leading advocates of the progressive liberal movement for years in Washington. Although he runs as an independent, Sanders has caucused with the Democrats since his first term in office. If he were to run, it would be an uphill battle, and it would have to be on the Democratic ticket.
But, a Bernie Sanders bid for
the presidency may, ironically, be what’s best for the country.
Progressive liberals have been clamoring for Elizabeth Warren to run. Even after Warren explicitly stated she wasn’t running at the end of March, a campaign to convince her otherwise has been canvassing, collecting donations and spreading the word throughout the country. This, unfortunately, doesn’t bode well for Sanders’ name recognition.
It’s clear that Sanders’ main obstacle is his socialist thinking, but frankly, I think in due time it could become his greatest triumph.
Americans are frightened by change, along with any conceptual or ideological difference.
Although Sanders is no Eugene V. Debs, founder of the Socialist Party of America, and will no time soon be starting a new Socialist Party of America, he is a different brand for America — a lighting rod if you will. Sanders has continually praised the Scandinavian-style of socialism and his policy beliefs and ideas are inherently socialist in nature.
But here is the thing, this ideo-logical fear many Americans have of Socialism has become entirely irrational. No longer are we facing a world where debates about the mer-its of Marxism, Communism and Socialism are a “threat” to America.
The thing that separates Sanders from the rest of the pack is his true
feeling of independence. Sure, he caucuses with the Democrats and will most likely run for the Democratic ticket, however, his willingness to cross all party lines to express his beliefs is refreshing.
Honestly, it’s exactly what Amer-ica has been clamoring for — some-one who acts on the basis of what is good; not party lines.
Sanders has recently called Hillary Clinton out on America’s upcoming free trade decision, and, of course, maintains his criticism of big campaign finance money used by many Republican candidates.
Sanders believes we need a true, political revolution; one that involves universal health care, public funding of elections, climate change progress, criminal justice reform, civil rights improvements and breaking down
“the billionaire class.”As Sanders holds small gather-
ings across the Northeast, liberals are facing reality. According to CNN Sanders supporters are skeptical of his chances, “He is not going to get the nomination,” says a Sanders supporter, “We all know that.” Unfortunately, it is true that Sanders is a long shot. His Indepen-dent status does him no help.
However, if Sanders can better his name-recognition and truly ignite this political revolution, Americans may soon begin to realize the Ver-mont senator could be a refreshing leader — all at the age of 73.
Eric Dunay is a freshman in the School of Architecture. His column appears weekly. He can be contact-
ed at [email protected] or on Twitter @ERock_28.
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a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, is now among the 13 mem-bers the University Senate approved Wednes-day to be on the selection committee.
Driscoll, who is also a representative from the College of Engineering and Computer Sci-ence, said in an email that the committee has not met yet as a group and, as far as he knows, the committee members have not received a specific charge from the chancellor.
Driscoll, however, said he heard some feed-back regarding credentials of candidates.
“Colleagues, students and staff who have
spoken with me hope we can find someone who is bright, thoughtful, a good listener, who would be a good spokesperson for the univer-sity, has experience and understands the vari-ous components of a major university,” he said.
He added the committee is also looking for-ward to seeing applicants who are skillful in managing resources and have the respect of the university and the local and national community.
“The provost is one of the most important persons and leaders at the university,” Driscoll said. “If the provost is successful, the university will move forward to effectively accomplish our mission and advance toward our vision.”
Patrick Neary, a committee member and president of the Graduate Student Organiza-
tion, said it is important for graduate students to have a voice in the selection process. That’s
because graduate students bridge the gap
between many roles found at SU, he said. Neary said the new provost should be a per-
son who can take into account classroom and research needs for the university’s students.
“Graduate students in particular are a very diverse group — many students are in profes-sional schools, taking courses and looking for networking opportunities and work experience,” Neary said. “We are looking for a provost that can blend all this together, working on strategic coordination between schools and colleges.”
Neary added that he is hopeful that the new provost will facilitate communication and leadership as the university develops projects relating to the Fast Forward initiative.
One of the pledges, Joseph Gallo, went to Crouse Hospital the next day, police said, and was told he had severe frostbite on his fingers and might lose his ring and pinkie fingers on
both hands. Police later said Gallo will not lose his fingers.
The other two pledges involved in the inci-dent refused to cooperate in the investigation, police said.
Last month, a city court judged ruled that Kim and Yam could attend classes they had
with Gallo but otherwise had to stay away from him.
SU suspended Nu Alpha Phi, an Asian-in-terest fraternity, on March 2, meaning the fraternity can’t participate in any fraternity--affiliated activities on or off campus, including recruiting new members, hosting activities
and participating in activities supported by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.
The suspension will continue until SU fully investigates the incident and any resulting conduct charges are resolved.
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research and at some significant levels.This gives SU a chance to reach beyond
alumni who may not be interested in cer-tain areas of research, Wason added. With Benefunder, donors in the general public can connect with researchers studying some of the world’s biggest problems, no matter which school or institution they work for, she added.
Wason said Chancellor Kent Syverud is
hoping to increase undergraduate research and research opportunities for all students, and that this is one way SU plans on achieving those goals.
“This certainly is in line with the new Aca-demic Strategic Plan and one more way we can help increase our impact in research,” Wason said.
SU joins Rutgers University, the University of California, San Diego and the International Computer Science Institute on Benefunder, Wason said. Benefunder currently features over 600 researchers from across the country,
she added.One example of Benefunder reaching out
directly to SU is when the organization con-tacted Susan Parks, an assistant professor of biology, about possibly participating in its new platform. Parks had won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is how Benefunder found her, she said.
She said she thinks Benefunder is a great way for professors and researchers to involve students with side projects that don’t often receive federal funding.
Her lab studies acoustic signaling, she said. Parks mentioned that her work primar-ily focuses on humpback whales and how communication impacts their aquatic envi-ronment, and this research earned her the presidential award.
Parks emphasized that the university has given itself an opportunity to enhance its sta-tus as a major research institution through Benefunder, in addition to the opportunity it has provided for the participating researchers.
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If the provost is successful, the university will move forward to effectively accomplish our mission and advance toward our vision.
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By Katelyn Faubelstaff writer
Four candidates have officially declared their intention to campaign for the 2016 presidential election, though professors
said they believe certain candidates are in better shape than others heading into election season.
With three Republican candidates and one Democratic contender announcing their involve-ment in the presidential race more than a year-and-a-half before the general elections in Novem-ber 2016, the analysis on all of the candidates has just begun. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) became the most recent candidate to put his hat in the ring, officially announcing a run last Monday.
“By the end of the summer, we should have all the candidates declared,” said Raj Patel, president of the College Democrats at Syra-cuse University. “Some are still putting a team together; they do it strategically. Once they fundraise money, they’re established and can
push for campaigning.”Patel said it appears as if no Democrat
stands a chance to challenge Hillary Clinton as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party.
Patel said with the main issues of the 2016 presidential race being immigration, the nuclear deal with Iran and the fight against the Islamic State group, knowing where the candidates stand “will be a lot better for their campaigns.”
“Once all the candidates say what they plan to do during the presidency, it will kind of define them,” Patel said. “It’s all about what you say about the issues. Marriage equality, international relations, Cuba and building relations with Iran will be talked about.”
Patel said he thinks Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex) and Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) are the frontrun-ners for the Republican Party. He added that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) “can’t get along with Republicans and Democrats” and Chris Chris-tie (R-N.J.) is not extremely well liked by the public “because he has had some scandals.”
Members of SU College Republicans could not be reached for comment.
Christopher Faricy, an assistant professor of political science at SU, said in an email that Jeb Bush is winning the invisible primary “by rais-ing the most money, gaining the most endorse-ments and having the most name recognition.”
Faricy said that after Bush, Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) is in the best position, as he is “popu-lar among Republicans and has the potential to raise lots of money but is still nationally unknown.” He added that the other candidates, such as Paul and Cruz, have “little to no chance” because of extreme policy positions.
Kristi Andersen, a political science profes-sor at SU, said in an email that Bush appears to be the front runner for Republican candidates, due to his “relatively broad appeal and his ability to raise lots of money.”
Although Andersen said there is no way of knowing at this point if any Republican candi-date will become president, she said she thinks
Clinton will be one of the final two candidates for the 2016 presidency.
“At this point there are no obvious challeng-ers to Clinton,” Andersen said. “As time passes, it will be increasingly hard for anyone else to have a chance, as Clinton signs up more donors and supporters.”
Andersen said that even though Cruz, Rubio and Paul have publicly announced their candi-dacy, there are as many as 20 people who have expressed interest in running or have been talked about as possible candidates for the presidency.
She said that for Republican candidates, Cruz appeals to the most socially conserva-tive part of the Republican Party and Paul appeals to libertarians. Rubio, on the other hand, “wants to position himself to appeal to a broad range of Republican voters.”
“It’s too early to tell who is doing it right or wrong at this point — we need to see more of the campaign,” Andersen said.
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By William Norrisstaff writer
The Syracuse University Student Association assembly elected its Board of Trustees rep-resentative and reflected on this semester’s accomplishments at Monday night’s meeting.
Residence Hall Association president-elect Nedda Sarshar was elected as the SA Board of Trustees representative at the meeting in Maxwell Auditorium. Sarshar, the current director of civic engagement for RHA, was selected out of three candidates after a series of assembly discussions and voting.
Sarshar and two other candidates fielded a series of questions from assembly members regarding qualifications and understanding of the position before leaving the room so the assembly could discuss.
Sarshar, a sophomore writing and rhetoric, and citizenship and civic engagement dual major and former SA representative, said during the meeting that through her experience with RHA, she has been able to build a huge network and reach out to a large amount of students, some-thing that could be helpful for the position.
Sarshar said the Board of Trustees represen-tative role involves communication with admin-
istrators, something that her current role in RHA already requires her to do on a daily basis.
After candidates left the room, a series of discussions took place addressing what the candidates had to offer, experiences assembly members have had with candidates and per-sonal endorsements, as well as concerns.
In addition to elections, co-directors of public relations for SA Lyle Weston and Nicole Sherwood presented during the meeting on what the public relations committee accomplished this semester.
The public relations committee worked with every SA committee and helped to promote ini-tiatives such as Chat & Dine and The Cuse Con-
ference, according to the presentation. Some of the other accomplishments the public relations presentation highlighted included the creation of a weekly blog and two newsletters, tabling events and home college meet and greets, as well as an increase of followers on social media.
SA President Boris Gresely also addressed some of the events that took place on campus this past week during the meeting. Gresely thanked members of SA for their help in mak-ing The Cuse Conference happen, something Gresely said the organization has been trying to make work for a long time.
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mental healthExperts say the increase in mental health
concerns is due to a variety of factors including colleges becoming more accessible, heightened stress levels among students and a lessening of the stigma surround mental health. Regard-less of the reason, the increase has left the nation’s often underfunded and understaffed college counseling centers struggling to deal with the large numbers of inquiries and forced them change the ways they help students deal-ing with mental health concerns.
The increase has been felt at SU as well. In the last five years, student use of the Counsel-ing Center has increased by about 58 percent, said Cory Wallack, the center’s director.
The rapid increase in students seeking mental health services, which can also be seen inter-nationally, is difficult to attribute to just one factor, said Elizabeth Gong-Guy, president of the Association for University and College Coun-seling Center Directors and executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Colleges today are more accessible and students who might not have pursued higher education 15 or 25 years ago are now coming to campus, Gong-Guy said. Early intervention is also more common with students seeking help for mental health concerns in high school or even younger, she said.
College students are also more stressed than they were even a decade ago. And because of a reduction in the stigma associated with mental
health, more students are going to college coun-seling centers for help, Gong-Guy said.
But while the stigma surrounding mental illness may have lessened, it is still very much a problem, said Janelle LeMon, president of the SU chapter of the National Association for Mental Illness.
“Can I tell my friends? Can I tell my par-ents? What are they going to think?” she said. “People throw around the word crazy a lot but we need to think about how we’re using it.”
Skokin, the student with TTM, agrees. It took her years to accept that she had TTM and even longer before she felt comfortable talking about it.
“I was embarrassed to embrace it as part of my identity for a long time,” she said.
Not many people have even heard of TTM and few resources are available, Skokin said. She’s never been officially diagnosed and, like many with TTM, hasn’t seen a psychologist because there are only about 200 in the entire country who are knowledgeable about the dis-order, Skokin said.
Although Skokin has never been to the Counseling Center, many students at schools across the country are going. To cope with the increase, many counseling centers are using technology or providing other forms of therapy besides one-on-one counseling, such as group therapy, Gong-Guy said.
Centers are also reaching out to their cam-pus communities to raise awareness of mental health concerns and how to get help. Most colleges also offer “gatekeeper training,” which aims to educate faculty and staff about how to recognize and assist students with mental health concerns, Gong-Guy said.
The Jed Foundation, a national organiza-tion that works to promote emotional health and prevent suicide on college campuses, recently partnered with the Clinton Founda-tion to launch an initiative called The Campus Program that helps colleges evaluate the men-tal health services they offer.
Wallack, the SU counseling center director, is on the foundation’s board of advisers, but SU
is not currently participating in the program. One nearby school participating in the pro-
gram is Cornell University. Cornell has culti-vated a reputation as a top school for mental health services, a reputation that was added to last year when the Jed Foundation gave Cornell the “Jed Campus Seal of Approval,” an award given to colleges that demonstrate strong, comprehensive solutions to students’ mental health needs.
Part of that reputation, though, was born out of tragedy. During the 2009–10 school year, six Cornell students committed suicide, forcing the university to re-examine mental health services. The school had planned to cut mental health services funding that year, but following the suicides the university chose not to decrease the funding, said Gregory Eells, director of Counsel-ing and Psychological Services at Cornell.
Several mental health programs at Cornell have been replicated at other schools including the “Let’s Talk” program and the Empathy Assistance and Referral Service. “Let’s Talk” involves stationing counselors at about 10 dif-ferent sites around campus for drop-in hours. The EARS program is a student-run initiative that offers peer-to-peer mentoring and sup-port from trained students.
While these programs have helped raise the level of awareness about mental health at Cornell, back at SU, Skokin is hoping to increase knowledge and awareness of TTM through original research.
These days, as she wraps up her senior year at SU, Skokin spends a lot of her free time in the Brain and Behavior Lab, located in the CNY Medical building just a block off the SU cam-pus. She’s working on a study that examines the relationship between TTM and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
On a rainy Thursday afternoon in March, she bustled around the small lab office filled with posters of past studies as one of her study participants wrapped up a test.
“A lot of good research comes down to find-ing the right form,” Skokin said as she flipped through a red accordion folder before debrief-ing the person.
Because so little research is done on TTM, Skokin is hoping the study will help make a name for her in the TTM community. She said she hopes to continue her research and eventu-ally get a doctorate in clinical psychology. The end goal is to be able to treat patients who have TTM like her.
“That’s a given,” she said of her end goal with a laugh. “I’m in too deep now and I can’t get away from it.”
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People throw around the word crazy a lot but we need to think about
how we’re using it.
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association for mental illness
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Laugh it outThe SU chapter of Delta Kappa Alpha, the film fraternity, hosted a comedy night that featured student groups and acts. See dailyorange.com
Smiling weatherLaNia Roberts, known for her “Weather by LaNia” Snapchats, will give a motivational speech at Grant Auditorium on Tuesday.See Wednesday’s paper
@Caitlin_009@BatstoneJosh i can’t wait to go to your show! I’ll once again be your biggest fan (and friend)
Freshman to discuss self-love
By Clare Ramirezfeature editor
Earlier this month, LaNia Roberts had a feeling that “something big” was going to happen in her life.
“I told my friend, ‘I’m getting that overwhelming feeling,’” the freshman painting major said. “‘I don’t know what it is, but it’s going to happen.’”
But Roberts wasn’t talking about the campus-wide fame she’s received from her “Weather by LaNia” Snap-chats that appear on the social media app’s Syracuse Campus Story.
Roberts’ feeling was in reference to a motivational speech that she’s giving in Grant Auditorium on Tues-day, entitled “Motivation by LaNia: Loving Yourself Unconditionally.” The free event will start at 8:30 p.m.
Roberts’ speech will touch upon her previous experiences of coming to college, finding unconditional self-love and its importance in peo-ple’s lives.
“We — ourselves — are the only thing that is guaranteed we’ll have for the rest of our lives,” Roberts said. “If you spend the rest of your life not loving what you have guar-anteed, then what are you doing?”
Preparing for the talk, particu-larly booking a place for it, present-ed Roberts with some challenges. Because she isn’t representing or affiliated with a student organiza-tion, it was hard for her to be able to reserve a space for her talk.
About two weeks ago, Roberts was in the library when she asked two girls to watch her belongings before
BEHIND THE
Local resident Josh Batstone reflects on experience on NBC’s ‘The Voice’
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I just wanted to give a talk even though I didn’t even know what it was going to be about.LaNia Robertsfreshman painting major
By Jacob Gedetsis asst. feature editor
On one of the first warm nights of spring, 18-year-old Josh Batstone sat on the corner of South Franklin Street and West Fayette Street in downtown Syra-cuse, strumming his guitar and singing for a crowd
much smaller than the one he had grown accustomed to.The Fulton native recently came back to the area after spend-
ing several months on the set of NBC’s “The Voice.” The singing competition’s average TV audience is over 10 million, but on that spring night, Batstone was content with the small crowds coming out of Armory Square storefronts such as Pastabilities and Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub and Restaurant, stopping to listen for a few moments, then walking away into the dark.
“It’s still humbling because I know people still care,” Batstone said. “It’s not like, ‘Oh he was on “The Voice,” now throw him in the trash.’ It’s very intimate and sincere, the comments that I get back and the reaction.”
Before he sets out in June to live in New York City to pur-sue his dream of becoming a recording artist, Batstone is in the Syracuse area, booking shows and attending promotional events. He’s bounced back from what he called a post-produc-tion depression after being eliminated in the second round of “The Voice.” He will play his first major show in the area since his elimination on May 1 at the Fulton War Memorial.
The experience of performing on the show and getting eliminated from it has served as a coming-of-age experience for Batstone, both personally and professionally.
He remembers how nervous he was on the show’s blind audition, the portion of the competition when contestants first sing for the celebrity judges. If the judges want them on their respective team, they press a large red button that will turn their chairs around to face the performer.
But before stepping on stage in front of millions of viewers, Batstone worked with Michael Hanley, a voice instructor at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. They tirelessly practiced Batstone’s audition song, “Amnesia” by 5 Seconds of Summer. Hanley said he had Batstone sing the song through a straw to concentrate on his voice control.
“We worked on the lead up to it, I can remember him in my studio and I was trying to reorganize his thoughts, telling him that big note in the middle was the goal — the landing point.” Hanley said.
He landed the note in his blind audition, moments before two of the judge’s giant red chairs whipped around to face the young performer.
Snapchat star LaNia Roberts to give motivational speech
JOSH BATSTONE said he enjoyed learning from the judges on “The Voice.” He said Pharrell seems like a “total gangster, badass dude” but that he’s actually “the sweetest.” Batstone hopes to work with Pharell again soon. renee zhou staff photographer
By Jen Bundystaff writer
Last fall, freshman Tracey Ford walked into Maxwell Auditorium to attend her first Student Association meeting.
She sat down before realizing that she wasn’t where she was supposed to be.
“Everyone was saying yay or nay,” she said. “I was so confused.”
But the experience didn’t stop Ford, a psy-chology and neuroscience dual major, from officially joining SA and becoming an elected member. Ford also recently won re-election as an Arts and Sciences Assembly representative.
If someone asked Ford about campus issues in the beginning of her freshman year, she may have mentioned the food in the dining hall. But after becoming involved in SA, she’s gained a new perspective of issues on campus.
“I never thought in a way that highlighted what could be improved, and now I think that way in everyday life,” Ford said. “I don’t want to be the person who only sees flaws in everything. I want to see the issues, but also see the solutions.”
Since coming to campus, Ford has already made her mark as a member of SA and the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Team.
Syracuse University was the only college Ford applied to. She admitted it was a bold decision, but she has no regrets.
“SU was the only school where I could see myself. I felt comfortable immediately,” Ford said. “People always say you just have a feeling, and I just had a feeling I was meant to go here.”
Ford currently serves on the Academic Affairs Committee in SA and has worked on initiatives to expand study spaces on campus and to make class syllabuses public. Some of the issues that are the most important to her include the cam-pus’s tendency to self-segregate and the commu-nication between faculty, students and staff.
Katherine Desy, the director of Academic Affairs for SA, said Ford is always front and cen-ter when it comes to policies, promoting initia-tives or simply tabling in Schine Student Center.
“Tracey is not just in SA to put it on her resume. She is in SA to get something done and do something good,” Desy said.
She also said one of Ford’s original ideas was to
create a freshman orientation packet that outlined student resources on campus, from tutoring ser-vices to the Writing Center.
“She is a great person, and her compassion for other people really stands out. She is defi-nitely going to be successful not only in SA, but in life,” Desy said.
Ford’s roommate, Sonya Fowler, an unde-cided freshman in the College of Arts and Sci-ences, said she remembers her first impression of Ford was that she was cool — but she never realized how much of a go-getter Ford was.
“She got me involved, she would ask me to come to events with her,” Fowler said. “I’ve definitely done more and learned more about things on campus because of her.”
When Ford first came to SU she wondered if she could befriend everyone on campus. While she now realizes that it’s a naive thought, she still aims to experience as much as the SU cam-pus has to offer.
“I really just want to explore everything and meet everyone,” said Ford. “It is important to be involved in your education — I want to be active in every part of it.”
As a member of the Dean’s Team, Ford spent time in the Carrier Dome to help out with a recent event for accepted students.
Ford saw herself in the prospective students, intimidated and shy. But this year she could con-fidently share her own SU experience in the hopes of convincing someone else to make the same, life-changing decision that she did.
Ford said she loves sharing her own SU sto-ries with incoming freshmen and filling them in on all of the great qualities the campus has. She is already looking forward to the future.
“I am going to be here for the next three years,” she said. “I want to leave a mark. I want to leave SU better than I found it.”
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I WANT TO SEE THE ISSUES, BUT ALSO SEE THE SOLUTIONS.
Tracey Fordsa arts and sciences representative
TRACEY FORD
SYRACUSE?WHO IS
TRACEY FORD joined Student Association last fall. She recently won re-election as an SA representative for the College of Arts and Sciences. The freshman psychology and neuroscience double major serves on the Academic Affairs Committee, and wants to provide solutions to the problems she sees on campus. sam maller and drew osumi staff photographers
Freshman aims to change university through Student Association action
"Who is Syracuse" is a series that runs in The Daily Orange every spring. It high-lights 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 2 OF 4
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SYRACUSE?WHO IS
BILLY CESKAVICHBILLY CESKAVICH is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Studies who received his undergraduate degree from SU last spring. Ceskavich has been involved in many groups in his five years at SU, from being president of University Union to being a member of the iSchool Board of Advisers. sam maller and drew osumi staff photographers
Graduate student shows SU pride with active involvement
By Jackie Frerestaff writer
Billy Ceskavich doesn’t consider himself the average Syracuse University diehard fan. He doesn’t attend every basketball
home game or know every Otto’s Army cheer.Ceskavich bleeds orange in another way —
by taking part in everything he can on campus.“Both of my parents went to SU. I know people
who say, ‘Oh I was a legacy,’ and I totally wasn’t. I was really stubborn,” he said. “I love Syracuse, but not in the super, super spirited way.”
Ceskavich, currently a graduate student in the School of Information Studies, completed his undergraduate degree in information manage-ment and technology and political science just last year. But his time as an undergrad was spent more than just double majoring — his laundry list of activities and awards speak for themselves, and they still do as he continues his work in the iSchool.
President of University Union, Remembrance Scholar, iSchool Board of Advisers member, work-ing at Telefund calling alumni, recipient of the RvD IDEA Award and recipient of the engagement
fellowship are just a few of the things Ceskavich has completed during his five years at SU.
Ceskavich doesn’t stop during the summer — he worked at Evernote and Twitter as an intern the past two years.
“I was all over the place as an undergrad, I guess. I did so much, but for me, I just found things
I liked and did them,” Ceskavich said. “Now, I’m just more focused. Sometimes I think I’m lazy, but I guess you could say I’m pretty productive.”
But Ceskavich didn’t always know what he wanted to do with his time at Syracuse. He said his undergraduate life was filled with doing fun things that didn’t really affect his professional life.
It wasn’t until an iSchool-sponsored trip to Silicon Valley that Ceskavich knew he wanted to
work for a startup company. During his weeklong spring break trip, Ceska-
vich and a group of students visited different tech companies like Twitter and Google to explore dif-ferent career paths they could take once they grad-uate. It was there that he made lasting contacts and friends that he said he could only ever dream of.
“That trip changed my life. It really did. It solidified what I wanted to do,” Ceskavich said. “It just opened my eyes to the tech world, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, wow, I can work for a company like this.’ So I did.”
Mike Smith, a Class of 2013 alumnus, met Ceskavich on the trip and has been friends with him since. Smith said it’s been fun to watch Ceskavich progress throughout his time at SU and become involved in community projects and even attempt to start his own company.
Although Ceskavich is an incredibly busy person, Smith said he takes it all in stride. He added that Ceskavich is never cocky, and doesn’t get nearly enough praise for the amount of things he does on a daily basis.
“He’s not the type of person that would go bragging about himself and all of his awesome
accomplishments, but he’s the kind of person worth bragging about,” Smith said. “He’s just an advocate for the university.”
Ceskavich said he couldn’t have imagined going anywhere else, and that SU has opened up connec-tions to people all over the country. Ceskavich even has Seth Meyers’ cell phone number in his phone and called him a “chill guy” from working with him a few years ago through University Union.
Tom Charles is a graduate student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and a close friend of Ceskavich. The two of them received the same engagement fellowship and co-founded their company together during their senior year at SU.
Although their company folded, Charles said he learned a lot from the experience. He added that Ceskavich is a leader professionally and personal-ly, and never asks for anything in return — a quality Charles finds rare in most people.
Said Charles: “Billy Ceskavich is probably going to take over the world at some point. He’s the kind of person that I’m going to be happy to keep close to me. If he starts his own company in the future, I want to be the person he calls.”
I DID SO MUCH, BUT FOR ME, I JUST FOUND THINGS I LIKED AND DID THEM.Billy Ceskavichsu graduate student
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“So I hit the note in the middle, and it was super good and in my mind I was going ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes,’ and I had my hand in the air, and Blake (Shelton) turns around and I’m like ‘What?’ I freaked out, ‘What the heck is going on here?’” Batstone said. “I am walking around the stage and Adam (Levine) turns around seconds later, and I finished the song not very strong — it was really scary.”
Batstone decided to join Team Adam, because of the musician’s pop genre, and because he felt they connected on a personal level from the start.
During the rest of Batstone’s time on the show, Levine, who is the lead singer of Maroon 5, took Batstone “under his wing.” They worked on Batstone’s performance and trying to con-trol his boisterous stage presence.
“It was really cool hanging out with Adam Levine, obviously, and I’d be talking with my friends or something like that and I would get a phone call and I’d have to be like ‘Hey it’s Adam, one second guys,’” Batstone said with a laugh. “‘I got to take this.’”
Despite being eliminated early in the compe-tition, Batstone said the lessons he learned are innumerable. He credits his development as an artist to his fellow contestants, “The Voice” coach-es and the celebrity guests who visited the show.
One of Batstone’s favorite moments on the show was when Ellie Goulding came to the set to help coach the contestants. After practicing with the team, Goulding talked to Batstone individually.
“She told me, ‘You got to get off this show, you have to make a career outside this show,’” Batstone said. “When Ellie Goulding tells you to do something, you just do it. That’s not why I am off the show, and I probably wouldn’t have taken
that advice, but now that I am off the show — it’s OK — because Ellie Goulding told me it was.”
After his elimination Batstone said his girlfriend, Chloe Rodgerson, helped him over-come his post-production sadness. Now he sees the show as a launching pad for his career.
Rodgerson, an actress living in France working as an au pair, said in an email that the couple is constantly making each other better. They prac-tice her lines over Skype, and Rodgerson talks to him about the songs he writes for her every night.
“Josh usually writes the song after I’ve already gone to bed, so I always have a new song to wake up to the next morning,” she said in an email. “This is really good songwriting practice for Josh, and they are always so sweet and they really make my day.”
Batstone said his girlfriend encouraged him to be a musician outside of the TV competition.
Shortly after getting eliminated, he changed all of his social media profile pic-tures from his picture on “The Voice.”
The show gave him freedom to pursue his professional career without going to college, which he said is exciting and terrifying. The high school senior wanted to attend Syracuse University for musical theater, and said leaving drama behind was not an easy decision.
His mother Nicole Batstone agrees with his choice, and said school will always be there. Nicole acts as Batstone’s unofficial promoter and agent, driving him to signings in the car they share and helping to organize his upcoming concert.
“It is an emotional ride, it was fun for me to be able to experience that with him,” she said. “I mean let’s face it, he’s a teenager, he doesn’t want his mom following him around everywhere.
“(‘The Voice’) was a great way to kind of send him along to adulthood.”
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By Isha Damlestaff writer
Everything about Lee Terrace is local, from its name to its members.
The band’s name comes from the street in Syracuse that guitarist and vocalist Kevin Metzger and bassist and vocalist Mike Sloan lived on. Every member of the band grew up in the area, and they’ve been performing in the city since 2007.
The band formed after Sloan approached Metzger, a senior musical performance major at Syracuse University, and asked him if he wanted to jam. Drummer Pj Sweeney joined a few months after, and keyboardist and vocalist Ian Doherty joined in 2012 when he returned to Syracuse after graduating college.
“I think we’re different in the fact that we’ve been playing so long,” Sloan said. “We joke about it now, but we were pretty rough in the
old days. It wasn’t till recently when we got our new keyboardist that we actually felt like we made some progress in terms of making an impact on the music scene in Syracuse.”
The band has performed in Syracuse for the past eight years and is a self-described “improg” band, which they define as a combination of improvisational and progressive rock.
Every band member is from a different part of Syracuse, and Metzger said the music scene has dramatically changed since the band’s beginning. He said the opening of The Westcott Theater “cre-ated a lot of avenues for local music in the city.”
“When we were coming out, we were just kids. The music scene in Syracuse wasn’t that big,” Metzger said. “We’ve all grown a lot musi-cally, we’re all much tighter with each other as musicians, we’re writing and playing more complex songs than we were in the past.”
He also said the local climate has directed the
type of music the group writes. Some of the band’s earlier songs are about natural parts of the region, including “Crystal Canyon,” about the area by Green Lakes State Park, and “Montezuma Soul,” about the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge.
Like most friends, the band members have inside jokes with one another, and this translates into their music — songs with unique names like “Swagger” and “Tales of Ted” represent their jokes.
“It’s always been completely natural and we have a good time doing it,” Sloan said. “It’s not even work — it’s more like hanging out, making music together.”
Lee Terrace released an album called “River the By Down” three and half years ago on iTunes and Spotify. The band also has free music avail-able on SoundCloud and put several live perfor-mances on the Live Music Archive. To date, the band has released two EPs and one album, and hopes to release a four-track album, which the
band will record at SubCat Studios. Metzger said he is moving to Boston in August
to study classical guitar at the New England Conservatory of Music, and said the band will continue — the band has been togteher for eight years — just down different avenues.
Lee Terrace will play an acoustic set on April 23 at Alto Cinco. The band will also perform at Funk ‘n Waffles downtown and The Westcott Theater this summer before Metzger moves to Boston.
In the past, the band has opened for artists like The Radiators, Perpetual Groove and TR3, which features Tim Reynolds, who is also known for his duo with Dave Matthews. Metzger said it is experiences like these that have been the most rewarding part of being in Lee Terrace.
Said Metzger: “I just want people to know that we really are all the best of friends in this band, and we have worked so hard.”
(FROM LEFT) IAN DOHERTY, MIKE SLOAN, KEVIN METZGER AND PJ SWEENEY are the current members of Lee Terrace. The band has performed around the city of Syracuse for the past eight years and is a self-described “improg” band, which the members define as a combination of improvisational and progressive rock. kadijah watkins staff photographer
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Members of local Syracuse rock band Lee Terrace aim to release album over summer
I have never been one for fashion trends. Growing up in an impoverished Kentucky home meant wearing hand-me-downs,
yard sale junk and whatever Wal-Mart had on its clearance racks. There was no such thing as being picky when you had no money. Today, you could spend an eternity digging through my closet, but would never find a single brand name item. Nothing has changed. Simply put, I just don’t do fashion. Never have, never will.
Yet being incredibly stylish means practically everything to Singaporeans, everything. I have never met such image-conscious people in my entire life. From top to bottom, it seems as though everything has to be perfect all the time. Granted, these are super attractive people, but is it really worth all that trouble, time and — most of all — money, just to flaunt it to total strangers? For some reason, this really gets to me.
Clothing, along with basically every other item in existence, is terribly expensive in this country. Locals insist on buying overpriced garments because social acceptance is highly val-ued. And it’s true: what better way to garner said acceptance than through clothing on your torso?
American Eagle and Hollister are nice, but the coolest Singaporean guys are sporting Abercrombie & Fitch. That plain-colored T-shirt you bought for $50 with “New York” italicized and embroidered on the chest — a necessity, of course. Vintage gym wear is also huge among guys. It gives off that “I-just-worked-out-really-hard” vibe. You’re also viewed as fashion for-ward if you’re rocking the jorts, or jean shorts. I know, I thought we ditched those things in the ‘90s. Turns out, we sent every pair to Singapore.
Women, on the other hand, just go straight for the dresses and skirts, as well as “cute tops.” Singapore is approximately 85 miles north of the equator. Needless to say, it’s humid and gross here all year. From discussions I have had with locals, women just wear whatever fits them well, looks good on their bodies and makes them feel comfortable in the blistering heat. In other words, women enjoy shopping for the purpose of shopping, whereas men are the ones who genu-
inely enjoy filling their wardrobe with logos.Others tell me it’s not even what you buy, but
how you wear it.“Just don’t overdo it. Dress modestly and look
hot doing it,” said one young female shopper on Orchard Road, Singapore’s main retail hub. “You don’t need a bunch of name brands to compete with these other girls.”
Women will accessorize with small bracelets, wristwatches and crucifix necklaces. Dresses almost always come to the knees and shirts cover the full abdominal area. This isn’t the place to show off your butt and Spring Break tramp stamp. So, how do ladies wear it? Humbly is a good word. Guys, however, go all-out sexy beast mode. Cut-off shirts for the biceps, rolled up shorts to show off the glutes and the fancy haircuts.
And that’s another thing I will never under-stand about the fashion trends here — the typi-cal Singaporean male’s choice of hairstyle. You see all sorts of things throughout the day, but the most common is this one style with the sides shaved off and the top of the hair gelled back or combed over to one side. It’s almost birdlike to me, very Miley Cyrus. But what’s the point? And who really has the time? According to locals, this is apparently the norm after a guy finishes com-pulsory National Service. But I still don’t get it.
The point is there’s a huge difference between dressing to feel good about yourself and dressing solely to impress everybody around you. Sure, the latter is socially acceptable at times, but I feel this is no way to live your life. I support having your own style and not following the social current even if it’s much easier. My time in Sin-gapore helped solidify this lifelong sentiment.
Zachary Gipson is a senior majoring in economics and linguistics. He is striving to fit in with the fast-paced locals of Singapore. To chat about life abroad, shoot him an email at [email protected].
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going to the restroom. One of them recognized her as “LaNia from Snapchat,” so Roberts began telling them about the motivational speech she wanted to give.
“But I didn’t even know where it was going to be, I had no clue,” Roberts said. “I just wanted to give a talk even though I didn’t even know what it was going to be about.”
It turned out that one of them, Chanae McK-innie, was a part of the Gates Millennium Schol-ars Program, a recognized student organization on campus. When Roberts told McKinnie that she had problems that kept her from booking Grant Auditorium, McKinnie reached for her laptop. McKinnie booked Grant Auditorium for Roberts, who was thrilled.
“As a motivational speaker on campus, me, myself and the organization is just all about that,” said McKinnie, senior electrical engineering major. “We just believe in the message of empowering people.”
The trend continued for Roberts when she
met Sana Alseayed. Roberts asked Alseayed for directions to Chase bank, and Alseayed recognized Roberts as “the girl on Snapchat.”
Meeting Alseayed ended in an offer to print the flyers for the event, Roberts said.
Malcolm Ransome, a freshman industrial and interaction design major who met Roberts through a class, designed the flyer for Roberts’ event. When Roberts called Ransome around 2 in the morning asking if he would design the flyer, he agreed and they met up to discuss the process.
“I think it’s cool,” Ransome said of Roberts’ speech. “And I’m wondering what it’s about — I mean, I know what it’s about, of course — but I really want to see it.”
Roberts said she has been spreading the word by telling everyone she knows. She’s hand-ing out the flyers, posting on Snapchat and doing her best to make sure people will come.
“Everyone’s telling their friends, every-one’s helping me and I find it so awesome that the word is getting out so fast,” Roberts said. “I’m having no doubts in my mind that this is going to be huge. “
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year-round basketball season. Kline went to Gurick, who was his eighth-
grade math teacher, and told him he wanted to be a manager for Pennington. The next year Gurick gave him a job filling up water bottles, washing uniforms and handing play-ers towels.
He fell in love with being around the game and Gurick said Kline became the best man-ager he’s ever had.
On New Year’s Eve in 2012, Kline had just gotten home from a Temple-Bowling Green game in Philadelphia when his phone rang. He was close to wrapping up an Under Armor sponsorship with two Mary Kline Classics in the books, but the voice on the other end was offering him Nike’s allegiance.
“Yeah, I think we can probably work some-thing out,” Kline remembered saying, and added that that’s when he realized it was more than a high school all-star game.
For the first game in 2011, Kline said he had to beg some players to come and saw it as a favor to him. Now he has prospects seek him
out and ask to play in the game, some of which he has to turn down.
The showcase has added an underclassmen game — for sophomores and juniors — to go
along with the senior game. Players get a jersey, sneakers, shorts and a backpack. And after putting together a game of Northeast pros-pects in the first year, the 2015 rosters include players from Virginia, Michigan, South Caro-lina and Florida, and others committed to play at Stanford, Texas, UNLV and UCLA, among
other power-conference schools. It’s all laid out in organized spreadsheets
on Kline’s computer. One for the roster break-down, another for shirt sizes, family tickets, travel plans and so on — a puzzle looking to cure cancer one jump shot at a time.
“I have learned so much about basket-ball and about life from Alex,” said Franklin Howard, who played in the 2014 Mary Kline Classic and is committed to Syracuse for next season. “Playing in the classic was special because I was able to connect with other players and also play for a great cause.”
But even with all the growth in the last four years, Kline doesn’t have a clear vision for where he wants the event to go.
He sees the McDonald’s All-American game and Jordan Brand Classic as great showcase events muddied with politics on and off the court. He wants the Mary Kline Classic to keep its innocence and never lose sight of its goal of saving lives. He doesn’t know where his career will take him but loves the idea of people inadvertently saying his mother’s name for decades to come.
Yet he’s a self-coined pragmatist who knows he may not be able to do it forever.
So for now, the future for him and the Mary Kline Classic can be boiled down into three steps: four down, another to go and unlimited opportunities ahead.
“You know no one’s really patient, whether you’re young or old, everyone wants instant gratification, and I think the same thing goes for cancer research,” Kline said.
“We’re all looking for a cure tomorrow, but who knows when it’s going to come? All we can do is keep chipping away at it. I never thought we’d get here so let’s see where we can go.”
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I have learned so much about basketball and about life from Alex. Playing in the classic was special because I was able to connect with other players and also play for a great cause.
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went up to men’s lacrosse trainer Troy Gerlt and gave him a hug.
“Going out to practice that day, I definitely had a glow to my face,” Evans said. “Everyone was coming up to me saying congratulations.
“It turned my mind around, it turned my men-tal stability around as far as wanting to get back.”
But Evans couldn’t even run at the time. He worked every day for two hours building up the muscles around his knee, the same reg-imen someone with a torn ACL would follow.
His persistency in his workouts cut a one-month prognosis in half to just two weeks of rehab. Evans played limited minutes early in the season as he struggled to trust that his knee could hold up under the pressure of sprinting and dodging.
It wasn’t until that opening possession for him in the Albany game when he felt fully able again. He parlayed a successful few weeks into his first career start on Tuesday against Hobart.
“I think he’s getting more comfortable and faster out there,” midfielder Nicky Galasso said. “I think he was a little bit hesitant with the knee at first but now he’s producing a point here and there in games.”
Galasso praised Evans for recently showcas-ing his ability to dodge defenders from behind, something both midfielders are familiar with from playing attack as younger players.
The early success against the Great Danes prompted Evans to experiment with trying full-speed dodges again on the short-stick defenders guarding him.
The score sheet would indicate he’s suc-
ceeded in exploiting the short-stick defender recently, and he said when he hasn’t, his fel-low second-line midfielders have been there for him to distribute to.
“He’s always had great vision,” Weston said of Evans. “It’s very easy to play with him, he always has his head up and we know where each other are.”
Evans has established himself as a main-stay on a strong second-line midfield unit that will be asked to step up to the first line next season. Head coach John Desko said he believes Evans is now playing his best lacrosse of the season.
Evans echoed much of the same thought, and he’s glad he can start a new chapter of his career and not repeat the same one from last season.
“I’ve had to deal with these things both years now,” Evans said. “so I’m just lucky that it didn’t keep me out.”
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By Jack Rosestaff writer
AnnaMarie Gatti’s father wouldn’t let her play softball when she was a kid.
Growing up in small Scottdale, Pennsylva-nia, there wasn’t a local softball team for her to play on. She had to plead with her father to let her play.
“To this day he’ll apologize to me and he’s like, ‘You proved me wrong,’” Gatti said, “because he just didn’t know because it wasn’t heard of.”
Gatti was one of the highest-ranked prospects ever to come to Syracuse (17-25, 1-13 Atlantic Coast) — which travels to Hofstra (25-11-1, 11-3 Colonial Athletic) for a Tuesday 3 p.m. matchup — but has pitched to the tune of an 8.67 ERA.
After convincing her family to let her play at 10 years old, she joined a slow-pitch team, and then moved up to fast-pitch to become a pitcher. She began practicing daily in the backyard with her dad and played for more than a dozen travel teams en route to SU.
“We worked every single day in the backyard for hours,” Gatti said. “Just pitching, nothing else.”
It carried over from the summer to the school year, and softball practice in the back-yard came before anything else. Gatti found her way onto many different Pittsburgh-area
travel teams before joining the New Jersey Inferno, where future SU teammate Corinne Ozanne was already a star.
“For some reason, something clicked, she looked up to me and wanted to follow in my footsteps,” said Ozanne, a shortstop at SU.
But while Ozanne spent an hour and a half trav-eling to practice, Gatti spent six — one way.
Ross first saw Gatti pitch when she was a mem-ber of the Inferno and immediately took notice.
“She had command of her change-up then and she had (a) good mix of speeds,” Ross said. “And we knew with the build and the power that she already had naturally, that change-up was going to make her a really good pitcher.”
Gatti’s drop ball and change-up were per-fected by Mike Bosch, her personal pitching coach before becoming SU’s current pitching coach. Ross said her change-up is one of the best she’s ever seen at Syracuse.
She can top out around 65 miles per hour while her change-up, thrown with the same arm speed and four-fingered grip, drops into the mid-50s.
“It’s my bread and butter,” Gatti said.To throw a drop ball, she leads with her knuck-
les toward the catcher and flicks the ball toward the plate, stopping her arm motion around her waist. For the change-up, the arm continues and Gatti flips her hand, causing the ball to spin vio-lently and slow down.
The mix of speeds and pitches Gatti boasted early in high school got her noticed by one of the top-ranked travel teams in the country, The Beverly Bandits in Chicago, before her
senior year of high school.So Gatti traded the six-hour car rides with her
parents for lonely plane rides, and one future SU teammate in Ozanne for another in Maddi Doane.
“She basically had her own room at my house,” said Doane, an Illinois native.
But joining one of the best teams in the coun-try, full of players who knew each other for years, wasn’t easy for Gatti. It showed in her pitching.
“I would throw a lot of passed balls in the fall,” Gatti said. “I just literally could not throw a strike in the fall because I was that nervous.”
With each poor performance, Gatti worried her team wouldn’t want her. When she returned
to Chicago for the summer and moved in with Doane, Gatti grew close to her new roommate and fellow teammates.
Now in Syracuse, Doane is one of SU’s best hitters while Gatti has struggled to recover from an ankle injury.
Usually brimming with confidence, Gatti admitted this season hasn’t gone as she planned. But she’s going back to Chicago this summer with Doane, hoping to regain her form.
Said Ross: “Potentially, she could be one of the better ones that comes through here, one of the best.”
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Syracuse target Washington to transfer high schoolsBy Paul Schwedelson asst. copy editor
Four-star Syracuse target Robert Washing-ton is transferring from SouthLake Christian (North Carolina) Academy to East Gaston (North Carolina) High School, according to The Charlotte Observer.
The Class of 2016 running back will announce his college decision on Saturday at 3 p.m., he said via Twitter. Washington has narrowed down his list to six schools, which includes Syracuse, Alabama, Michigan, Flor-ida, North Carolina and Texas Christian.
Komica Coote, Washington’s mother, said the transfer to the public school is due to a “family matter,” not anything to do with SouthLake, a private school, per The Char-lotte Observer.
“I will do what I can, and run the ball as well as I can,” Washington told the Observer. “One player can’t change everything, but one player can affect the efforts of his teammates. They haven’t really had leaders in the past and if I do what I can, I can try to help transform the team into a playoff contender.”
Washington, listed at 5 feet, 10 inches and 215 pounds, has received offers from 41 schools and is ranked as the 21st-best Class of 2016 running back in the country, according to Scout.com.
If Washington commits to Syracuse, he would join former Indianapolis Colt Delone Carter (Class of 2006), Doug Hogue (Class of 2007) and Averin Collier (Class of 2008) as the only four-star running backs to choose SU in the past 10 years, per Scout.
Sophomore Ervin Philips, senior Devante McFarlane and senior George Morris II are the only running backs currently on the Orange’s roster. In the Class of 2015, three running backs have pledged to SU — Dontae Strickland, Jordan Fredericks and Tyrone Perkins — all of whom are rated as three-star recruits on Scout. Syracuse has two players in its Class of 2016 and neither one is a running back.
In his junior year at SouthLake, Washington ran for 2,233 yards and 27 touchdowns on 239 carries, according to MaxPreps.com. As a sophomore, he ran for 2,512 yards and 28 touchdowns on 219 carries, per MaxPreps.
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Robinson becomes comfortable, consistent in junior seasonBy Matt Alexanderstaff writer
Rebecca Robinson remembers the 400-meter run during her first outdoor track meet as a freshman.
She finished in about 56 seconds, a slow time Robinson knew she was better than.
Just a week later she clocked in at 53.8 — a personal record.
It was this inconsistency that plagued Rob-inson throughout her freshman year at Syra-cuse. She missed being home and struggled to adjust to her new college environment. Now a junior, Robinson has finally settled down, attributing her newfound consistency to an increase in maturity.
She’s focused on the subtleties of her daily routine and leaned on her soccer background to help her improve her sprinting and endurance.
“Her progression has been pretty linear,” assistant coach Dave Hegland said. “… Becca’s gotten herself to a pretty high level.”
At Arlington High School in Massachusetts, Robinson’s main sport was soccer, where she played forward on varsity all four years. Robin-son didn’t start running track until high school.
And despite being a strong runner, she never received any substantial training.
Miles Robinson, Rebecca’s brother who’s signed to play soccer at Syracuse next fall, said that the proper instruction his sister received once she got to college versus what she had in high school greatly helped her.
“It was pretty much just these random adults coaching track but they didn’t really know much about it,” he said. “Then she finally got actual training, so I think that helped her a lot.”
But Robinson’s development isn’t confined to her accomplishment on the track. She has always had the athletic talent and versatility necessary to succeed, but establishing consistency also meant growing as a person.
As a freshman, Robinson missed home and grappled with managing the new stresses and nerves that came with being a Division I ath-lete in college.
“I remember her freshman year she was having trouble adjusting to the whole track and school thing and being away from home,” said Shaina Harrison, Robinson’s close friend and roommate.
Harrison said Robinson’s transformation
is a result of Robinson discovering herself as a runner, being able to validate her times through continued consistency.
Two years later, Miles said he thinks Robin-son almost prefers living at Syracuse. He has seen a change in his sister — one that doesn’t pertain solely to her race times.
“I think she’s definitely become more of an actual adult,” he said.
Robinson specializes in the 400-meter run, where she holds the indoor school record, but also runs the third leg of the 4x100.
She attributes this versatility and the endurance and short burst speed needed in these events to soccer — both of which have played vital roles as she has worked to become a smarter runner.
Robinson said endurance is one of her strengths. While she may not have the outright speed to match the other girls in the 400, Robin-son counters with her ability to maintain a steady pace the first 200 meters before picking it up in
the second 200.“She’s got a soccer background, so she’s pretty
explosive,” Hegland said. “She also got real good endurance from that.”
Since underperforming early in her career, Robinson has become the epitome of reliability.
She’s progressed steadily across the board, from her lifts in the weight room to her 30- and 300-meter sprint times in practice.
“She’s just at a high consistent level,” Hegland said. “She hasn’t really had any bad races all year really.”
Robinson has even eliminated the inconsisten-cies from her daily routine. She tries to go to bed by 11 p.m., stocks up on protein and better manages her stress than when she was a nervous freshman.
She looks at things more holistically, trying to observe the bigger picture.
“I’ve matured, not only as a runner but as a person in general.” Robinson said. “Freshman year obviously was hard, as it is for most people, but I’ve definitely grown out of that.”
By Jesse Doughertystaff writer
Alex Kline slumped down in a folding chair next to the court, his hair mussed and
sweat staining his red T-shirt. There was no air conditioning in
the Pennington (New Jersey) High School gym. There wasn’t enough parking. Seventeen college-bound recruits played for a crowd thinned by the scheduling of the event — right in the middle of Memorial Day Weekend — and a 16-year-old Kline just wanted the day to end.
Looking back four years later, Kline sums up the first Mary Kline Classic in one word:
Deflating. “I get a complaint the next day
from a father. He said, ‘You prom-ised us dinner and we got cold pizza. My son didn’t get MVP and he led the team in scoring,’” Kline remem-bered. “And that’s the first call I get after the event.
“I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kid-ding.’ I didn’t know if I could do it again after that.”
He was a year into becoming a wunderkind with his basketball recruiting blog, now TheRecruit-Scoop on Yahoo!. He started the event to raise money for his mother, Mary
Kline, who died from brain cancer when he was 10. And after pushing through what Kline calls a “humble beginning,” the Mary Kline Classic has raised $104,000 for brain cancer research and the fifth annual event is set for May 30 at West Orange (New Jersey) High School.
Kline, a junior broadcast and digital journalism major at Syra-cuse, has molded the Mary Kline Classic into one of the top high school basketball showcases in the country and unveiled another impressive roster on Sunday night. But beyond the big name recruits and name-brand sponsors, the event has helped Kline achieve a decade-old goal of using basketball to connect with athletes, educate his expanding community and keep his mother’s name alive.
“Alex Kline isn’t 20 years old. He just isn’t,” Bernie Gurick, Pen-nington’s head coach, said. “The passion he has and what he’s done with his cause in the last five years is just remarkable.”
In middle school, Kline had a hard time making friends and grav-itated to the athletes.
But when he asked them to hang out on weekends they always told him they were busy. He’d sit at home and assume they were lying because they didn’t like him. Then he real-ized that they were constantly going to tournaments and practices and he wanted to get involved in the
SSPORTS dailyorange.com @dailyorange april 21, 2015 • PAGE 20
Staying consistent Rebecca Robinson had trouble being steady as a freshman. But she’s grown more comfortable on and off the track.See page 19
The decision Four-star recruit Robert Washington will reveal his college football intentions on Saturday. SU remains high on his list. See page 19
Strong island SU softball travels to Hofstra for a Tuesday matchup. SU has already been eliminated from postseason contention.See dailyorange.com
ALEX KLINE created the Mary Kline Classic basketball showcase in memory of his mother. Kline’s close rela-tionships with recruits have increased the event’s popularity going into its fifth year. courtesy of alex kline
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men’s lacrosse
Evans returns to form
By Connor Grossmanasst. copy editor
Jordan Evans picked up a ground ball and ran away from the crease. He came to a halt in three hard steps and swiveled his body around and through the two Albany defenders chasing him from behind.
He tossed a cross-crease pass to Nick Weston, who fired his shot in the back of the net. Evans thought to himself after he made his move on the defenders, “I’m back.”
“It’s not easy to come back from an injury that early and be as explosive as you were,” Weston said about Evans. “I definitely think he’s making his way back to where he should be.”
Evans’ left knee buckled while running on the turf field just a week before the season-opener, and he thought his season was over. Doctors revealed the injury was minor, and the sophomore midfielder is finally playing with confidence, notching five points in No. 4 Syracuse’s (9-2, 2-2 Atlantic Coast) last three games.
The initial 48 hours after the injury were déjà vu for Evans and the coaching staff as they waited to hear the diagnosis. The 5-foot-9 midfielder missed part of last season with a left ankle injury and didn’t live up to the hype as the top-rated freshman in college lacrosse.
So when shown the MRI results that his knee injury was minor, he
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SU midfielder bounces back from knee injury, hits stride on 2nd line
Syracuse has had seven prospects participate in the Mary Kline Classic since 2012. Two SU recruits will play in the charity event this May.
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Alex Kline isn’t 20 years old. He just isn’t. The passion he has and what he’s done with his cause in the last five years is just remarkable.
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It’s not easy to come back from an injury that early and be as explosive as you were. I definitely think he’s making his way back to where he should be.Nick Weston su midfielder on jordan evans
SHOWSU junior Kline attracts top recruits, organizes yearly Mary Kline Classic HS showcase for cancer research
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