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By Sara SwannAsst. news editor
Sixty-six members of the Syracuse University, Colgate University and SUNY-ESF communities have signed a statement of solidarity for students at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.
Kanhaiya Kumar, the JNU stu-dent union head, organized a student protest at the university on Feb. 9 in response to the 2013 hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, a Kashmiri man convicted of the 2001 Parlia-ment attacks, according to BBC. At the protest, “anti-India slogans” were allegedly raised.
As a result of the protest, Kumar was arrested by Indian law enforce-ment on sedition charges, according to BBC. Five other students were also named for arrest on the same charges, but those students went missing before the arrests could be made.
The signatories from SU, Colgate and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry said in a statement that they stand in solidarity with the “comrades” at JNU against the “ongoing anti-democratic actions by the Indian state.”
“We demand an immediate end to the police action against students on campus, and withdrawal of all charg-es against Kanhaiya Kumar, Presi-dent of the JNU Students’ Union,” the petition reads. “We further demand that the Central Government put an immediate end to its prejudiced persecution of student activists on campuses across the country.”
The petition goes on to say that the signatories believe the arrest of Kumar was to root out dissenting voices on the JNU campus, a move intended to convert educational institutions like JNU into an arm of the authoritarian state, according to the petition.
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N • Father chargedThe father of the 21-month-old child who was the subject of an Amber Alert Sunday was charged in the second degree for the murder of his daughter. Page 3
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Driving forcesAs advocates lobby to bring Uber to Syracuse, critics
express concern over safety, insurance regulations
By Michael Burkeasst. news editor
The vote on the expansion of ride-hailing services to cit-ies such as Syracuse has been delayed as state lawmakers
have decided to prioritize other issues.Currently, those services can’t oper-
ate in Syracuse or elsewhere in the state, except for in New York City, because state law does not include ride-hailing services in its insurance regulations. Bill A.6090, which would change state law to provide insurance for those services and thus legalize them in the state, is sitting at the moment in the New York State Assembly’s Transportation Committee.
The vote on that bill — originally expected to occur last month — now might not happen until June because the assembly has prioritized the state budget, said Assemblyman John McDonald, a co-sponsor of the bill.
As the wait for the vote continues, pro-ponents of bringing ride-hailing services to New York state have argued that the
services would have positive economic effects and would increase safety by reducing drunk driving accidents.
But critics have expressed concerns that ride-hailing services wouldn’t need to play by the same rules as the taxi industry, primarily when it comes to providing workers’ compensation insur-ance to their drivers and administering adequate background checks and safety screeners for those drivers.
Lawmakers in the assembly have lis-tened to those concerns and will likely update the bill to address them, McDon-ald said.
“We will be reviewing and contem-plating what else we should add to this before we make ride-hailing legal in New York state,” he said.
The debate over the effectiveness of Uber’s background check process was thrown into the national spotlight on Sat-urday, when Jason Dalton, a 45-year-old Uber driver, was suspected of shooting and killing six people in Kalamazoo, Michigan, between transporting passengers.
One passenger, Matt Mellen, told
WWMT, a CBS affiliate in Michigan, that he was a passenger of Dalton’s about five hours before the first person was killed. Mellen referred a complaint to Uber because Dalton was driving 80 miles per hour and sideswiping cars — a report Uber confirmed to The Guardian.
But Uber did not review that report, according to The Guardian. An Uber spokesman told The Guardian that Uber’s safety screeners didn’t prioritize the report because it was about erratic driving rather than explicit violence.
Uber officials did not return an email requesting comment for this story.
The incident came less than two weeks after Uber announced on Feb. 11 that it agreed to settle two lawsuits and pay $28.5 million to about 25 million driv-ers after the lawsuits — Philliben v. Uber Technologies Inc. and Mena v. Uber Tech-nologies Inc. — accused the company of misrepresenting its safety measures.
The Philliben lawsuit criticized Uber’s “Safe Ride Fees,” which have been used in part to support what Uber claims are
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By Clare Ramirez asst. copy editor
For Giancarlos Kunhardt, his job is more than just work — it’s a glimpse into the industry he hopes to be a part of.
The sophomore art photography major works at Light Work, a com-munity gallery and photography studio. Though it’s located on Syra-cuse University’s campus at the back end of Watson Hall, the non-profit community lab is an independent organization and is a resource for artists both on and off campus.
Kunhardt’s day-to-day respon-sibilities vary between shifts, but most of the time he’s managing the lab’s printers, ensuring that they’re in good condition for those who come in and use them.
“You would think printing is very easy. It’s not, especially when it comes to fine art printing,” Kunhardt said. “Presentation is really impor-tant … This is a staff that spends hours, days and months just trying to perfect one image.”
As an aspiring fashion photog-rapher, Kunhardt alsogets experi-ence as director of photography for “Zipped” magazine. But being at Light Work has allowed him to net-
work with local artists and caused him to view fashion photography as less commercial and instead, more conceptual.
Once, Kunhardt said, he met an artist at a Light Work-hosted event who brought a 3-D image for submission. The artist also created the tool needed to view the image in 3-D, as opposed to, as Kunhardt said, “the red and blue things you’d get at a toy store.”
“I had never seen something like that before, and that actually inspired me,” he said.
Since then, Kunhardt has been trying to find the right balance between what he considers com-mercial fashion photography and fine arts fashion photography. He said his job has taught him the value and importance of presenta-tion, allowed him to network with artists and observe how they cri-tique their own work.
“As an artist, you can’t just look at your own work and say it’s perfect, because you did it. You need to learn ways that other people assess their work. It’s a way of acquiring other ways of critiquing your own art, because that’s how you get better.”
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GIANCARLOS KUNHARDT does not only work at the Light Work community gallery, but is also the director of photography for Syracuse’s “Zipped” magazine. claire ramirez asst. copy editor
INSIDE N • Price is right A grocery store is set to be built on Syracuse’s South Side for the first time in 30 years. Syracuse community members hope the store will revitalize the area.
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S • He’s back Syracuse quarterback Eric Dungey addressed the media for the first time since early November on Tuesday. He said he’s 100 percent healthy.
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national newsHere is a round-up of the biggest news stories happening around the nation:
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MORE THAN ONE Leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous church on the Utah-Arizona border, were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly misusing food stamp money. source: buzzfeed news
LICENSE TO OFFEND The Minnesota Department of Pub-lic Safety revoked this week vanity license plates that contain a slur against Muslims. The department apologized immediately. source: usa today
SCIENCE
SNAKE ON AN ISLAND The Massachusetts division of fish-eries and wildlife will start a colony of endangered venomous rattlesnakes on an uninhabited island in the state. source: the guardian
POLITICS
EMAIL SCANDAL A judge ruled Tuesday that top Hillary Clinton aides will have to testify under oath about the use of a private email server during Clin-ton’s time as secretary of state. source: the washitngton post
BLOCKED Republicans on the Senate Judi-ciary Committee sent a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday vowing not to consider a replacement nominee to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court. source: the new york times
BUSINESS
MEGA MERGER A merger proposal by tech com-panies Dell and EMC cleared the Federal Trade Commission waiting period on Tuesday. If the merger goes through, it will be the largest pure-tech merger of all time. source: business insider
HEALTH
MORE CASES The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Tuesday it is investigating 14 new cases of the Zika virus in the U.S. source: the washington post
WORLD
RESCUE TIME A Swedish teen was rescued by Kurdish forces in an area of Iraq controlled by ISIS, Kurdish officials announced on Tuesday. source: the new york times
SPD arrests man for murder of daughter
FRANK FOWLER, chief of the Syracuse Police Department, told members of the press on Tuesday that Ryan Lawrence, 24, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of his 21-month-old daughter. riley bunch photo editor
By Michael BurkeAsst. news editor
The Syracuse Police Depart-ment has arrested and charged Ryan Lawrence, 24, with second-degree murder in the death of his 21-month-old daughter, Maddox Lawrence, the subject of a recent Amber Alert, police said.
The New York State Police recov-ered the body believed to be Maddox from the Onondaga Creekwalk at the intersection of Bear Street and Van Rensselaer Street in Syracuse on Tuesday, SPD Chief Frank Fowler said at a press conference Tuesday. Police couldn’t say for certain that the body is Maddox because further
DNA testing must be conducted, Fowler said.
But Fowler added that based on the recovery of the body, inter-views with witnesses and other information, police were confi-dent enough to charge Ryan with second-degree murder.
An Amber Alert was called Sunday morning after Ryan and Maddox were reported missing Sat-urday night by Morgan Lawrence, the mother of Maddox and wife of Ryan. Ryan had left behind a mes-sage that caused Morgan to become concerned, Fowler said, but Fowler declined to elaborate on the con-tent of the message.
On Monday around 1:30 p.m.,
police received a 911 call from a caller who saw a person walking on Down-er Street in Baldwinsville matching the description of Ryan, Fowler said. Shortly after Ryan was stopped by the Village of Baldwinsville Police Department, SPD arrived and iden-tified the person to be Lawrence, despite him wearing a disguise, Fowler said.
Fowler declined to elaborate on what the disguise was.
Lawrence was then transferred to SPD, where an investigation was conducted by detectives in the Crim-inal Investigations Division, Fowler said. That investigation led police to the Onondaga Creekwalk, where the body believed to be Maddox was
discovered the following day.The investigation is ongoing,
Fowler said, adding that the state police and the FBI have aided SPD in the investigation. Law enforce-ment officials from all three agen-cies joined Fowler at Tuesday’s news conference.
“This is a tough investigation for all involved,” Fowler said. “When you’re talking about a child, you’re talking about a spe-cial situation. … We’re supposed to protect our children.”
Ryan Lawrence is currently being held in the Onondaga County Justice Center and is likely to be arraigned tomorrow morning, Fowler said.
Trump gets huge win in Nevada GOP caucusnew hampshireiowa Feb. 1
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton marginally beat Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) by about .3 percent, according to 2016 Election Central.
Republican: Ted CruzDemocrat: Hillary Clinton
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Business mogul Donald Trump had a landslide victory over his competitors, while Sanders took home the win in the neighbor of his home state, Vermont.
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In the Democrat-only Nevada caucus, Clinton took the win. In the Republican caucus, Trump beat Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
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Political, social views can be adjusted during times of crisis
Young conservatives should be open to adapting their views on health issues in times of emergency, no
matter what moral dilemma they may face. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that there are 14 confirmed cases of the Zika virus in the United States that were sexually transmit-ted, which includes two pregnant women. The news comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak an international public health emergency earlier this month and cited that that four million people could be infected by the end of the year. A crucial aspect of Zika is the danger it poses for pregnant mothers. The virus, which is transmitted through mosquito bites and unprotected sex, is linked with microcephaly and has been proven to lead to severe underdevelopment in newborns. The disorder induces symptoms that can be life-threatening in some cases, including seizures, developmental and intellectual dis-abilities, and hearing and vision problems. As of Feb. 17, 11 people have tested posi-tive for Zika in New York, one of whom was
from the Orange County region, as reported by The Daily Gazette. As the virus spreads, and conse-quently the debate regarding abortion and a women’s choice regarding her body, young conservatives can be the greatest voice for change when it comes to supporting Planned Parenthood and centers like it in dire straits. It should be recognized that it’s possible to still be pro-life while mak-ing exceptions in times of a medical crisis, considering these organizations can do a lot of good on the world stage. “The extreme worry is for women who are pregnant — the CDC has some recom-mendations,” said Robert Rubinstein, a professor of anthropology and international relations at Syracuse University. “There are some promising technologies on the hori-zon, but none have been released yet.” Until these resources become available, women’s health centers can provide contra-ceptives so that pregnancy can be avoided in areas where Zika is prevalent. And if a mother gets the tragic news that her child will have developmental disabilities from micro-cephaly, conservatives should support the opportunity for women to have an abortion. This type of claim was disregarded, though, when the issue was brought up to the Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops, which called abortion unjustifi-able. Some Brazilian legislators have even proposed strengthening laws so that women who abort fetuses with microcephaly would be sentenced to jail for more than four years. But the measure that has been right-
fully met with pushback, considering there are more than 4,000 suspected cases of the disease in the country, according to TIME. But the threat of Zika knows no borders, and young conservatives should do their part in emphasizing safety and combatting the virus by considering temporarily reassessing their position on Planned Parenthood. Maybe Planned Parenthood isn’t a total-ly ethical organization, but The Washington Post reported that abortions are only 3 percent of the services Planned Parenthood offers. The organization’s centers have also been at the center of treating and educating people of all ages about sexually transmit-ted diseases and prioritize making forms of birth control readily available. Even Pope Francis, the face of the Catholic church, has encouraged the use of contraceptives to curb the Zika virus. He noted that birth control should only be allowed in special cases, reinforcing the fact that there are times when society’s fierce pro-life advocates should reform. In regard to the Pope’s suggestions, Maggie Byrne, a campus minister at Syra-cuse University, said that contraception does not fall in the category of an absolute evil because there is a difference between ending a life and avoiding it. “(The Pope’s) statement does simply that in situations such as these, using contracep-tives may be permissible and that those with well-formed consciences should carefully discern whether to use contraceptives,” said Byrne in an email. “It is not absolutely wrong to avoid becoming pregnant and in this situation, it is advisable to do so.” Two law professors from Georgetown University, a Catholic and SU peer institu-tion, have also defended Planned Parent-hood’s work and made the case that women
at risk all over the world should be allowed to use birth control and have access to abortion. And these professors are absolutely right. With the number of U.S. cases that are linked to unprotected sex, more conservatives should be conscious of this reality to embrace the use of contraceptives and the organiza-tions that ensure they are accessible. Increased conservative backing until the virus is no longer a threat will allow these to services remain available across the board and should be met with support in New York state. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has made free Zika virus testing available for pregnant women who have traveled to areas where it is preva-lent, no matter if she has symptoms or not, a move Rubinstein believes is warranted. “It would make tremendous sense for pregnant women who have traveled to have access to testing,” Rubinstein said. “All 11 cases in New York were travel-oriented. There were no locally acquired cases of Zika in the continental United States.” The availability of free testings will encourage pregnant women who have traveled to make sure that their baby will be healthy. The Zika threat is real and pregnant mothers who test positive, regardless of whether or not they choose to abort, deserve cooperation across each political aisle. Older and more traditional conserva-tives may have yet to realize that supporting women’s health organizations at times like these is the right thing to do. And it’s up to future generations to forge ahead and stand for what’s right when the country is faced with a mounting health crisis.
Kyle O’Connor is a sophomore sport management major and political science
minor. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at [email protected].
KYLE O’CONNORCALM, COOL AND CONSERVATIVE
THEO HORNIT’S NOT PERSONAL, IT’S BUSINESS
There are safety risks that coin-cide with every service, and Uber is no exception. Syracuse University Student Association President Aysha Seedat is set to lobby in Albany this spring as part of an ongoing effort to introduce ride-hailing services, such and Lyft and Uber, to New York state. The services are currently only legal in New York City, as they are not included in state insurance regulations. But the proposed growth of the industry has come under fire from critics who argue that leading company Uber’s lack of comprehensive background screenings of its drivers is a sub-stantial source of concern. While improved safety measures are never a poor investment, Uber’s current policies should not be observed as a considerable impediment to the statewide expansion of ride-hailing services. Standard background checks are not a guarantee that an individual will not commit a crime. And each time a ride-hailing customer steps into a commercial vehicle they are making a conscious decision to accept the risks that may come with the service. To discredit the transformative opportunities ride-hailing services would bring to greater New York state would be a disservice to com-munities such as Syracuse where the prospective economic boost and increased convenience would prove to be transformative for the university community and local residents alike. On a collegiate basis, the inte-gration of ride-hailing services would provide a safer and more
affordable alternative to improve student life: a way home after a late night at the library or a night without a designated driver. Holes have definitely been poked in the practices of ride-sharing services, considering Uber has faced multiple lawsuits and the website whosdrivingyou.org outlines “the risks of Uber and Lyft,” in a compilation of 100 total cases of deaths, assaults, kidnap-pings, committed felonies, DUIs and other incidents that it attri-butes to Uber and Lyft drivers. The services, particularly Uber, are under heightened scrutiny following the shootings in Kalama-zoo, Michigan, on Saturday in which Jason Dalton, a 42-year-old Uber driver, is suspected of shoot-ing and killing six people between transporting passengers. Uber should consider estab-lishing stricter safety practices and ensure that disclaimers are made clear, but the fact of the matter is that the tragedy is not the fault of the business itself but is rather the result of human error. In no way are the actions of the Dalton — who passed a background check — a holistic reflection on ride-hailing services as an industry. These dangers that take lives and endanger others are not limited to ride-hailing services, and ride-hailing customers have the right to make their own deci-sions as the foundations of both free market and free choice. It is human nature to con-sider the outcomes of a decision before making a conclusion. And in the legal discussion of bringing ride-sharing services to Syracuse, it is clear that the pros far outweigh the cons.
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Power plant battle hurts NY economy
Facing multiple power plant closures and pre-dicted shortages, the New
York state government’s involve-ment in electricity is a lightning rod for criticism. Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued a letter earlier this month to the Public Service Commission (PSC) request-ing a formal investigation into the business practices of Dunkirk Power LLC and its subsidiary NRG Energy Inc. Moving to ultimately bar the company from New York, the probe is the latest jab at an industry spiral-ing out of control. Central New York’s electrical quagmire dates back several years. When NRG announced its intentions to shut down the Dunkirk power plant in 2012, there was a risk of caus-ing an unstable power grid, according to a PSC evaluation reported by Syra-cuse.com. The PSC then entered into a deal with the plant’s owner, NRG Energy, where National Grid custom-ers have paid more than $110 million dollars since 2012 to subsidize the plant and keep it open. The plan to levy National Grid customers to pay for the Dunkirk plant seems obtuse in its logic, consid-ering the state is essentially expecting NRG to have a complete change of heart after being confined to Dunkirk for years. To make matters worse, the state demands that consumer dollars pay for NRG’s forced stay of execution is a deliberate decision to spread the pain of this subsidization over the greatest area. But these efforts only serve as a temporary solution to a larger problem, ultimately amount-ing to a waste of money. Cuomo made a separate deal in 2013 with NRG to impose more subsidies on National Grid custom-ers to convert the Dunkirk plant from coal to gas. But the payments never began due to a pending lawsuit suit filed by rival Entergy Corp in 2015 over New York’s sub-sidization of NRG. The case poked holes in the legality of deals past and future and factored into the announcement of the closure of the Dunkirk plant in January. The whole ordeal is a compli-cated mess, the irony of which is palpable as hundreds of people will lose their jobs and hard-earned paychecks to a measure
that was aimed at saving both. By forcing Dunkirk to stay open, New York has unleashed a storm on the state that has turned a minor problem into a catastrophe that will leave many woefully jobless. Looking first to the initial deal made by Cuomo and the PSC to keep Dunkirk open, we see Entergy’s law-suit stands on solid ground. An analy-sis made by National Grid advised PSC that repowering the Dunkirk plant would be anywhere between three and seven times as costly as simply upgrading transmission lines to pick up the slack. If this informa-tion is true, then the state’s decision is as embarrassing as it is careless. By financing NRG, the state gov-ernment would be artificially fixing power prices in central and western New York and ultimately causing, as Entergy claims, smaller com-petitors to close its plants. Whether correlated or not, numerous plants in the area have announced its shut down leading to a potential power shortage for the upstate region. Subsidizing any solution will hurt local economies such as Syracuse that utilize National Grid’s electricity. And when businesses are forced to pay higher costs for their electricity, that cost is often tacked onto the good or service they provide. All this damage to local economies was done for naught as the plant is closing, and central New York is in the same position it was in 2013. As for NRG and its clash with the state, the company has not broken any laws as of yet. Breaking the conversion agreement with the governor is the closest the company has come to any wrong-doing. Though this move is a bit disingenuous, it’s most likely the smartest decision for the company as continuing to invest in Dunkirk while the state’s contribution to the project could be cut off by legal suit could be a dangerous invest-ment — all for a plant the company planned on mothballing years ago. Though the governor’s office certainly should not be chastised for its goal of a cleaner energy source, its
path to achieving this is the subject of much exasperation. The state’s single-minded pursuit of clean ener-gy has the potential to leave disaster in its wake if it cannot transition the workers already in the industry to adapt to the changing technology. Matt Huber, an associate professor of geography in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citi-zenship and Public Affairs, weighed in on the situation facing the indus-try as a whole and was adamant that whatever path the state takes in future energy production, they need to look out for workers. “The state needs to have a plan in place for retraining workers so people aren’t left out in the cold if newer energy plants are created,” said Huber. But this will not matter if the plants these workers operate in are being shut down in droves. Cuomo has lambasted Entergy for its shut-down of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego, New York, citing the job loss of 615 employees. Ironically, the prospect of regional unemployment does not seem to deter the state, considering Cuomo is seeking to bar NRG from New York and is pushing to close the Indian Point Energy Plant sim-ply because he considers 25 miles away too close to the city. Though the intricacies of power, supply and demand certainly play a heavy hand in Albany’s decision-making, the choice to subsidize a plant at higher costs rather than improve transmission infrastructure is flat-out irresponsible. The damage done to the energy market by this price suppression has many ener-gy companies rightfully heading to greener pastures. Meanwhile, many of National Grid’s customers are left scratching their heads on what exactly they’ve been charged for over the past four years. If anything, the trainwreck of the power plant wars should serve as a cautionary tale of the state government interfering with utilities only to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Theo Horn is a sophomore political science and
public policy dual major. His column appears weekly.
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“industry leading background checks.” The lawsuit pointed out that Uber does not con-duct fingerprint checks of its drivers.
Uber announced in the Feb. 11 state-ment that it was renaming the “Safe Ride Fee” a “Booking Fee.” But in a statement Monday, Uber maintained its criticism of the practice of fingerprinting, according to The Boston Globe.
Mark Ilacqua, the president of Suburban Taxi in Syracuse, said in an email that all of Suburban’s drivers are required to be fingerprinted.
Separate from the Philliben and Mena law-suits, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón and Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey filed a similar lawsuit in Decem-ber 2014, and Gascón said in August 2015 that they found “systemic failures in Uber’s back-ground checks,” according to sfgate.com. That lawsuit is still pending.
The website whosdrivingyou.org, a site that aims to highlight “the risks of Uber and Lyft,” has documented more than 100 total cases of deaths, assaults, kidnappings, committed felonies, DUIs and other incidents that it attri-butes to Uber and Lyft drivers.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washing-ton, D.C. and an Uber critic, said Uber gener-ally avoids the same strict regulations that taxi industries must adhere to.
“Uber’s strategy is to say, ‘We’re Uber, we don’t give a damn,’” Baker said. “... But there are legitimate public interests in ensuring that drivers are competent, that they don’t pose a threat to passengers.”
McDonald said he supports strict back-
ground checks for ride-hailing service driv-ers. He added that the state assembly will attempt to determine the best way to enforce those checks.
“We’ll need to make the services compli-ant,” McDonald said. “...If a conviction of some sort came across that would trigger their inability to drive, there needs to be a process to follow up on that.”
In addition, Ilacqua, the president of Sub-urban Taxi, said if ride-hailing services were to operate in New York state, companies such as Uber and Lyft should have to supply their drivers with auto insurance and workers’ com-pensation, a type of insurance that provides workers with wage replacements in the case of work-related injuries.
Lyft and Uber do not provide their driv-ers with workers’ compensation, according to Forbes, since its drivers are considered independent contractors. But in New York state, taxi companies pay most of their driv-ers workers’ compensation, according to the state’s website.
“The insurance costs alone for operating a for-hire taxi can be upwards of ($8,000-10,000) per vehicle for for-hire auto coverage and workers’ compensation,” Ilacqua said. “Any changes in the state transportation laws for Uber & Lyft must also apply to all existing for-hire transportation companies.”
Syracuse University Student Association President Aysha Seedat said she supports those ideas and creating a “level playing field” between ride-hailing services and the taxi industry.
This spring, Seedat will travel to Albany to lobby in support of Uber, with the intent
of bringing it and other ride-hailing services, such as Lyft, to Syracuse.
Seedat, who spent much of last semester drafting a letter that was sent to the state assembly pledging SA’s support for Uber, is one of the founding members of an official Uber coalition of New Yorkers who want to see ride-hailing services brought to the state. Other members include members of the disability community, clergy members and mayors, including Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.
In an email, Miner highlighted safety as a main benefit of bringing Uber to Syracuse.
“Whether it’s the grandmother who needs help getting to a doctor’s appointment, the workers who need a reliable and affordable way to get to their job, or the college students (that need) a safe ride home after a night out with friends, Uber has a lot to offer our great city,” she said.
SA’s letter to the state assembly cited a report conducted in January 2015 by two Temple University professors, who found a “significant drop” in the rate of alco-hol-related motor vehicle homicides from 2009-14 after Uber was introduced in 14 California counties.
The study found that Uber reduced drunk driving-related deaths by between 3.6 and 5.6 percent in the state of California.
Adding to that potential benefit, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes and Chung-Chin Liu — both economics professors at SU — each said Uber would benefit the Syracuse economy.
Flores-Lagunes said introducing ride-hail-ing services would create an efficient market that would increase demand for transporta-tion services because the ride-hailing services would be more reliable than taxis.
“Imagine the following scenario: You are thinking about going out. In principle, you don’t want to use your own car, but you know that right now you need to call the cab com-pany,” he said.
“You might not get the cab for a while, and so you decide to take the car. So that is one transaction that did not happen because the system is not as efficient as it could be,” he continued. “In the other scenario with Uber around, you know it is more convenient and it is more efficiently provided, then you would be taking an Uber to your destination.”
Flores-Lagunes said some taxi companies will inevitably have to lay off workers and some companies might go out of business, but he added that the net impact will be positive because of the increase in demand and the jobs that ride-hailing services would create. Uber estimates that in the first year of operating in Syracuse, 700 jobs will be created as a result of ride-hailing services, according to a report from the company.
Liu said the taxi companies would also likely become more efficient because the com-petition would force them to do so.
Seedat said she will highlight those factors and the potential to reduce drunk driving accidents when she lobbies in Albany. Her purpose of being there, she said, will be to offer the student perspective on the issue.
McDonald said because the bill has been designated as a post-budget item, he’s not worried about its delayed progress in the assembly.
McDonald said he expects the bill to ulti-mately be passed and go into effect this year.
“We recognize that there is need, and there’s also an opportunity,” he said. “And we’re trying to do it fairly.”
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AYSHA SEEDAT, president of Syracuse University’s Student Association, will be going to Albany to lobby for ride-hailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, to be allowed in upstate New York, and particularly Syracuse. chase guttman staff photographer
In the other scenario with Uber around, you know it is more convenient and it is more efficiently provided, then you would be taking an Uber to your destination.Alfonso Flores-Laguneseconomics professor at SU
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A Price Rite grocery store will be built on the South Side of Syracuse on the corner of South and Bellevue avenues. The area is considered a “food desert,” meaning that it does not have a grocery store with access to healthy items, such as fresh produce. The store is expected to help revitalize the South Side. riley bunch photo editor
FRESH ADDITIONSouth Side ‘food desert’ to get grocery store for the first time in 30 years
By Haley Kimstaff writer
A new grocery store, Price Rite, will be built on the South Side of Syracuse in an area known as a “food
desert,” or a place without access to grocery stores.
The Price Rite, which will be on the corner of South and Bellevue avenues, will receive tax relief for 10 years, said Walt Dixie, executive director of Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Inc., a nonprofit organization based in Syracuse’s Southwest side.
For the first seven years, there will be no taxes at all on the property, Dixie said, but for the remaining three years of tax relief, the amount of taxes on the property will be at a slightly lower than average rate, he added.
The tax agreement was introduced to a Common Council meeting on Feb. 8 by Councilor Khalid Bey, who rep-resents the neighborhood where the
Price Rite will be built. The council approved a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) Agreement among the city of Syracuse, the City of Syracuse Indus-trial Development Agency (SIDA) and Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Inc., according to the meeting minutes.
Bey said the proposal was approved because the South Side has not had a grocery store for the last 30 years. Bey, who lives in this area, said people have to travel a few miles to reach the closest store.
Dixie said the tax relief agree-ment makes it much easier to con-struct the store.
“That structure will make it affordable for the developer to build,” Dixie said. “Today’s economy, there is no model to build supermarkets in neighborhoods.”
The new store will provide more than just economic relief to a low-income area, Bey said.
“Well I think the hidden value of this kind of effort is the conve-
nience of having easy access, even for those who could walk to the store,” Bey said. “So the benefits, on top of the jobs and easy access, is the cost savings. Some people don’t have to budget in the cost of transportation.”
Jonnell Robinson, an assistant professor of geography at Syracuse University, said the new Price Rite will make it much easier for families to have access to a complete food basket.
“Price Rite is going to be phe-nomenally helpful,” Robinson said. “Thinking about a family that doesn’t have access to private transporta-tion, if it is in your neighborhood, in your activity pattern, it’s much easier to go the grocery store.”
Bey said instead of grocery stores, the South Side of Syracuse has an abundance of corner stores that sell junk food. Giving people access to fresh produce will provide an opportunity to live a healthier lifestyle, he said.
Jubilee Homes of Syracuse Inc.,
plans to construct the 34,840 square foot store over the next six or seven months, Dixie said. The goal is for the store to be ready before Thanksgiv-ing, he said.
The project will cost about $5.3 million, according to the Common Council meeting minutes. Dixie said the state, county, city and private developers are all investing in the Price Rite.
The site once housed an old super-market that closed in 1970, and Price Rite will renovate and expand this building, according to Syracuse.com.
The project will create 85 new jobs, according to the meeting notes.
Dixie said once the store is established, it will be able to boast more than 100 jobs. He added that the Price Rite will hopefully begin a movement for revitalizing the area.
“It’s in the main artery of South Avenue,” Dixie said. “We hope there is a ripple effect.”
The nature of the student protest held at JNU, the petition reads, was not violent by nature. According to the petition, the peace-ful protest was similar to previous protests that have been held at the university in the past several decades.
“Dissent is an essential part of a healthy democracy. We therefore strongly condemn the Indian government’s response to the students’ protests and demand that the state refrain from authoritarian behaviour,” the petition reads.
Graduate students from SU created the peti-tion after one of them received a request from a friend at JNU for a statement to be made.
The students declined to give their names because they said the statement
belongs to all 66 signatories and not just themselves.The statement, the students said in a joint email, affirms their belief in the right to democratic dissent.
“While the events that took place at JNU are contested, and while signatories to the statement might also vary in their allegiances to the sentiments expressed at the protest meeting under the scanner, there is agreement on the right to free speech in a
democracy,” the students said.One reason why the graduate students
said they started the petition is because as Indians living abroad but with close links to India, they feel helpless in their inability to aid those struggling.
They added that it is important for this issue to receive international attention.
“The world seems to have this image of India being a ‘democracy’ and while in theory
it is, it does not always function that way,” the students said.
The students said they hope the statement of solidarity will strengthen the student move-ment at JNU, put adequate pressure on the Indian government to drop all of the charges against the student activists and stop the fur-ther suffocation of university campuses.
The statement put forth by the SU, Col-gate and SUNY-ESF communities was also part of a larger country-wide struggle for freedom of speech as similar incidents have occurred at other universities in India over the past two years, the SU students said.
Educational institutions in India are tar-gets for the current Hindu fundamentalist government’s dissension “crackdowns,” the students said.
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Students to participate in weekend wellness retreatBy Ali Linancopy chief
Nineteen Syracuse University students will go on a retreat in the Adirondacks this week-end to search for contemplation, inspira-tion, fellowship and the answers to life’s biggest questions.
The SOULscape weekend getaway, which will take place from Saturday to Sunday, is an opportunity that allows students to take part in in-depth discussions that focus on their physical and mental well-beings.
SOULscape is sponsored by Hendricks Chapel and the Office of Health Promotion, both of which take care of all expenses, includ-ing transportation, accommodations and meals, according to an SU News release.
“SOULscape is a chance for students to hit the reset button on their lives, where almost
everything feels better and there is a sense of clarity on who you are and what you want to accomplish,” said Sean Martinelli, the Class of 2015 SU alumnus who founded SOULscape. Marintelli will also be one of two leaders for the weekend retreat, according to the release.
The retreat is formatted to encourage con-versations between students so that they learn about themselves through interacting with their peers, he said.
This semester marks the third time the get-away has been held, and it has occurred once a semester so far, Martinelli said. The retreat will be held at the Minnowbrook Conference Center in Blue Mountain Lake, a rural hamlet located about 131 miles from the SU campus.
SOULscape is the brainchild of Martini-lli and is an extension of Soulful Sit-Downs, the weekly on-campus conversation series that encourages students to “seek a higher
expression of themselves, and develop a deeper understanding of their life’s pur-pose,” according to the Office of Health Promotion website. Martinelli said he established Soulful Sit-Downs during his freshman year at SU.
“I was inspired because when I came to campus, at the end of the day, I felt that there was a need for deeper conversations … (for people) to get to really know people, not just surface who someone really is,” he said.
“There is an invisible thread that runs through every person,” Martinelli continued. “The person next to you may not look the same or have the same beliefs, but they are more alike than different. There’s a commonality.”
Jill Catherine, the second leader for the retreat and former communications direc-tor for the Division of Student Affairs at SU, said she decided to take part in the week-
end because it aligned with her and her work world. Catherine is the founder of 44Hearts, a nonprofit organization aimed at helping to “contribute to consciousness by revolutioniz-ing the way we relate to our bodies,” according to its website.
“College can be very loud, (and students) can be easily influenced by their peers,” Cath-erine said. “(This weekend allows students) to take a step back and start making decisions for themselves,” she said.
In addition to dialogue, activities during the weekend include meditation and yoga to further help students “find a vision for their (lives),” according to the release.
Martinelli said it is not a weekend of “ice-breakers,” but it’s about connecting people and trying to get them to see that “invisible thread.”
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speaking outStudents protested at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi in response to the hanging of Mohammed Afzal Guru, who was a symbol of perceived injustice.
The JNU students who protested were arrested on sedition charges by the Indian government.
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By Tobi Thompson contributing writer
A soft clicking sound: the sound of pressure. The sound of time ticking down before the film cartridge is full.
The goal is to film something in three minutes and 20 seconds. No other directions or requirements. It sounds simple but there are no edits, no rewinds and no deletes, just one take with a Super 8 camera. Participants don’t see their films until they’re screened in front of an audience at the viewing party known as the One-Take Super 8 event.
Today, the idea of a camera without memory or playback abili-ties seems nearly foreign. Registration closed on Oct. 31 last year, and participants have been working since then to prepare for the event, which will be held March 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Westcott
Community Center. The Syracuse One-Take Super 8 event brings together amateur
and professional filmmakers. The event provides vintage Super 8 cameras for everyone to create a three minute and 20 second film of their choosing.
The Super 8 camera was introduced in the late ‘60s, but its popularity died out by the early ‘80s, so using them today can be difficult. Jason Kohlbrenner, a co-organizer for the One-Take Super 8 event in Syracuse, explained that cameras can be fine one day and break the next.
“Everything about them is vintage,” Kohlbrenner said. “It’s dif-ficult because you have no guarantees.”
But this doesn’t deter filmmakers. This year, there are 29 sub-missions for the ninth annual Syracuse event. A lot of the submitters
By Molly Berger staff writer
With the help of an anonymous donor, the Syracuse University Singers were able to travel over-seas in 2015. They didn’t waste the opportunity. While abroad, the University Singers competed, and ultimately won, the Florilège Vocal de Tours choral competition in France.
Almost a year later, the Uni-versity Singers are preparing to travel to Varna, Bulgaria, in May to compete against five other choirs in the European Grand Prix for Choral Singing, a competitive international choral competition.
University Singers is SU’s most select classical voice ensemble, and before France, its members had never participated in a sing-ing competition. Nick Godzak, a senior music education major and member of the chorus, said there was a catch to the donation.
“We don’t know who it was, but they said that the only thing that this money can be used for is to take University Singers interna-tional,” Godzak said.
So the singers applied and were accepted to compete in the Flo-rilège Vocal de Tours.
Before the competition, Godzak said the group toured historic locations and held concerts in Europe. Then, the University Singers faced about 12 other groups from all across Europe in Tours, France. SU’s choir won the competition, which meant they will move forward to the European Grand Prix this upcoming May.
Rachel Heyman, a senior music education major and a member of the chorus, remembered how excited the entire group was when they won.
“When we found out that we won, we all jumped to our feet, and I cried,” she said.
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Singers to compete overseasUniversity Singers will travel to Varna, Bulgaria
ONE TAKE WONDERFestival participants cannot edit movies before submission
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In 2015, the University Singers traveled to Tours, France, to participate in the
Florilège Vocal de Tours choral competition.
They won after going up against 12 other groups,
and will progress up to the European Grand Prix
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are repeat filmmakers from previous years, Kohlbrenner said.
“You see the growth,” he said. “You see that person who is just looking at things abstractly or something like that, and then the next year it has more of a story to it. And then you see them developing some sort of style to their work.”
Lucas Renswick, a Syracuse resident who saw a flyer for the One-Take Super 8 event five years ago, has participated in every fes-tival since.
In his first year, Renswick teamed up with friends to film a zombie movie. He said they took the name of the event to heart and filmed the entire story in one shot. Since then, he learned to stop the camera and change the scene or anything physical.
A few years later, they added a prequel to the initial zombie film. And this year, the group is adding a zombie element to its story once again.
Despite the inability to rewind or edit, he said as long as the event still exists, the chance to continue the story is there.
“My favorite thing about the Super 8 fes-tival is trying to get back to the practical-ity of filmmaking: getting scene by scene by scene and making sure that the soundtrack would have to line up with each individual feel of the scene, and what kind of motif I’m going for,” Renswick said
For Super 8 first-timers film graduate student Ioana Turcan and photographer Sean Henry-Smith, the process was differ-ent than what they were used to.
Turcan had used 35mm cameras before, but nothing like the vintage Super 8. Henry-Smith had never even worked with motion film before this festival.
“It was a challenge thinking about the moving image versus a still, but it’s a fun process in terms of using the Super 8 cam-era,” Henry-Smith said.
Their film features Turcan warming up to box. The team spent a couple of hours prepping the scene with lighting and getting all the motions, but once the film started, Turcan could feel the pressure of the three minute and 20 second spotlight.
But it wasn’t the focus that stressed her. It was the sound of the Super 8 running.
Henry-Smith said he loved the clicking
sound, but Turcan said it reminded her of how quickly the time ticks by.
“You have to rehearse so much for that, and it’s just that,” Turcan said.
This year, the organizers were able to put the OTS8 event on thanks to their suc-cessful Indiegogo campaign. With initial donations, organizers were able to secure a venue, replace cameras that broke or failed during filming and cover the $50 cost for
film and processing. Soundtracks are played from a separate
device while the films are rolling. Some film-makers opt for live performances or poetry readings while their films play.
Kohlbrenner said sometimes films are underexposed or overexposed, so the only visual is light fragments here and there, or nothing at all. In that time, the audience will cheer, whistle, clap and roll with the unpre-dictable nature of the event.
“Sometimes we’ll do a quick scan (to check exposure), but we don’t really want to prep ourselves,” he said. “These are all virgin films and they come out how they come out.”
No matter the film’s content, nothing matches the feeling the audience gets from watching the pieces together in one screen-ing. Kohlbrenner said the event itself is better as a whole than watching just one film by itself.
“The best part about it is, it doesn’t mat-ter how versed you are at making a film,” Kohlbrenner said. “You have no idea what this old camera and this film that you can’t rewind is going to produce. And so that’s what’s exciting.”
Heyman added she was especially amazed at the fact that the University Singers were not just competing against other collegiate choirs, but rather professional choirs from around the world.
Last year’s Grand Prix competition took place in Tours, France, so the University Singers were able to watch it. This year, the singers will be performing in this same com-petition from a stage in Bulgaria.
Before heading to Bulgaria, the group
plans to do something similar to what they did in France, going on tour and holding con-certs in different churches and receptions, Heyman said. To help them out with any language barriers, she said the group will have a tour guide who speaks the language.
Senior music industry major Kailey Smith said she was proud to make the anon-ymous donor and the group’s conductor, John Warren, proud after the singers won the competition last year.
“It proves to us that we are just as distin-guished as professional choirs from around the world, and we haven’t even finished our collegiate careers yet,” Smith said.
Godzak also said the chancellor is donat-ing funds to support the University Sing-ers’ trip, but they still need to collect more
money to fully finance their expenses. They have reached out to SU alumni, specifically those who graduated from the College of
Visual and Performing Arts. Addition-ally, members are individually contributing money towards their trip.
Smith noted that the singers show deter-mination and perseverance as the trip draws closer. Even though they know they can compete, they are working even harder to come out on top.
“We’re pretty much just in competition mode and rehearsal,” Heyman said. “We’re all working really hard to make sure that we can do the best that we can and represent the university, the Setnor School of Music and America in general.”
super gr8 historyKodak first manufactured the Super 8mm camera format in 1965. Though in 1973, Super 8 film was modified to be able to record sound, the One-Take Super 8 Event still has filmmakers record on a separate device. By the ‘80s, the Super 8 format had died out and were no longer being manufactured. But in January, Kodak announced they’ll be bringing back the iconic camera in a new limited-edition design.
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By Joe Bloss contributing writer
L ike almost every Syracuse University senior, Morgan Cavalcanto is hoping to get a job after graduation. But if that doesn’t work out, the acoustic cover artist said
she may just pursue music full time. “I would totally be down for the struggling musician life,
paying off loans and all that,” she said with a laugh. So far, the public relations major has made a name for
herself by putting a personal spin on some songs from the biggest names in music — such as Adele, Sam Smith and Maroon 5 — and then uploading them to SoundCloud. She’s also performed at venues around campus, gracing the stage at Funk ‘n Waffles multiple times.
Friends like Noelle Hedgcock, a fellow senior public rela-tions major, appreciate her cover songs.
“I think it’s so cool how she’s able to take these hits and make them her own,” Hedgcock said.
Since people constantly mispronounce her name, Cav-alcanto chose the stage name Morgan Canto — dropping the first two syllables. Canto also translates to “I sing” in Spanish and Italian.
Cavalcanto said her love for music, and more specifically the guitar, began when she was in kindergarten in Marlton, New Jersey. Her teacher would play the guitar while singing about the weather, and she would go home and try to do the same on her sister’s violin.
“Of course, I broke a few strings since a violin can’t take violent strumming,” Canto said.
To put an end to these destructive jam sessions, Caval-canto’s parents bought her a plastic guitar. It wasn’t until she was 10 years old, when she moved to a new school that offered lessons, that she began to began taking lessons on her uncle’s old guitar.
During her time in high school at the Girard Academic Music Program in Philadelphia, Cavalcanto started to do more with vocals. There, students are required to partici-pate in chorus. On top of that, Cavalcanto began singing lead vocals in a cover band called No Idea, where she realized she
enjoyed being the center of attention. Cavalcanto’s music instructor had assembled the band
from a bunch of his students into a group that had every-thing from guitar to trombone.
“It was a weird little band,” she said, jokingly. “We were deemed to fail.”
Cavalcanto was right — No Idea didn’t last long. They played twice at the Epiphany Italian Festival in Philadel-phia, and then fell apart when members started to focus on getting into college.
Anthony Cedrone, now a film major at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, played piano for No Idea. He remembers being impressed with Cavalcanto’s creativity.
“She would come in and show us these original songs, which was impressive since we were just a cover band,” he said.
Despite the band’s short existence, Cedrone has fond memories of their time together.
After the demise of No Idea, Cavalcanto took interest in musical theater, playing a role in GAMP’s production of
“Hairspray.” Besides that, she didn’t do anything music-related again until after her freshman year at SU. That summer, a combination of boredom and Justin Timberlake’s performance of “My Love” at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show inspired her to get back to making covers.
“I’d grab my keyboard out of the corner of my room and say, ‘Let’s do a cover song!’” she said.
When Cavalcanto got back to campus, she started playing at some open mic nights. This past fall, several groups on campus reached out to her asking if she would perform at their events.
“I take that as the biggest compliment,” she said. “I’m so gracious that anybody would want me to perform.”
Last semester, Cavalcanto was part of the social justice-inspired “Jammin’ For Justice” concert. The event was orga-nized by junior political science and sociology major Alexis Rinck, who said the concert needed a performer who would bring a soothing voice to round out the range of sounds.
“We had rock bands and ukuleles,” Rinck said. “But we didn’t have Morgan Canto.”
COVER GIRL
MORGAN CAVALCANTO was the lead singer of a cover band, No Idea, in high school that ended up falling apart not too long after it formed. After taking a break from music, she picked up the guitar again and, channeling her old band’s signature style, records solo covers. evan jenkins staff photographer
Morgan Cavalcanto uploads covers to SoundCloud and she performs around Syracuse
cover upCanto has covered a variety of songs such as:
• “She Will Be Loved” by Maroon 5• “Stay With Me” by Sam Smith• “Make You Feel My Love” by Adele• “Jealous” by Nick Jonas • “My Love” by Justin Timberlake• “Sexy Love” by Ne-Yo
I would totally be down for the struggling musician life, paying off loans and all that.Morgan Cantosinger-songwriter
498The number of plays on Cavalcanto’s most popular
cover on SoundCloud, “My Love” by Justin Timberlake
14The age when she began to write her own songs and when she started to play guitar and sing for her high
school cover band
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Ford battles inconsistency as role player for SyracuseBy Paul Schwedelsonasst. sports editor
It took less than a minute for head coach Quentin Hillsman to reference Syracuse’s depth during the media day press confer-ence on Oct. 16. His starters don’t jog out when their names are announced over the loudspeaker before each game because he says he has seven starters.
With one regular season game left, though, only five Syracuse players average 15 or more minutes. Last season, six players, including forward Taylor Ford, did that.
In her senior year, Ford’s minutes and subsequent production have dropped off while she battles a nagging back injury. When she produces, she can help push No. 18 Syracuse (22-6, 12-3 Atlantic Coast) over the edge against top teams. When she doesn’t, the Orange leans on its typical go-to players. While it hasn’t cost SU, who is riding a program-record eight straight conference wins, Ford’s mercu-rial play could spark a deep postseason run or help prevent it.
“She’s probably more like six or seven (in the rotation). She’s definitely a player we need in our rotation,” Hillsman said. “It’s one of those unfortunate things. There’s no scheme for injury.”
As a junior, Ford averaged 6.5 points and 4.8 rebounds in 20.7 minutes emerg-ing as a serviceable defensive stopgap and a capable long-range shooter. Without legitimate time off to rest, the forward’s been limited to a secondary role averaging 3.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 11.5 minutes per game. Her field-goal percentage has dropped from 37.2 percent over the past two years to 31 percent this season.
Ford said her injury hasn’t factored in her decreased production, but Hills-man said balancing her playing time has challenged him. Just twice this season, Ford has played more than 20 minutes. Against Coppin State on Dec. 9, she scored 21 points. Three days later, she scored just three.
“Are we going to be able to have a lot of depth,” Hillsman asked at media day while rattling off questions that would determine the season’s outcome.
Hillsman regularly uses six players off the bench, but only a couple of them play significant roles each game. Ford has twice, but has been ineffective in the others.
Against then-No. 10 Florida State on Thursday, Ford poured in 15 points in the
10-point win. The Seminoles were the highest-ranked opponent Syracuse has beat this season and the victory helped clinch a double bye in the ACC tournament.
When Ford plays up to her potential, she gives the Orange another shooter off the bench for a team that wants to take every open shot.
“You have to pick your poison with them,” FSU head coach Sue Semrau said after Ford knocked down five 3-pointers.
Then three days later, Ford picked up three fouls in nine minutes, didn’t record a point against Pittsburgh as her inconsis-tent play resurfaced. Ford is third on SU in rebounding rate, according to WBBState.com, which measures rebounds per pos-session. But her overall numbers are low because she hasn’t been on the floor as much as she used to.
Hillsman said the back injury has specifically restricted Ford in shooting, defending and boxing out.
“I’m upset I’m not producing as much and helping the team out,” Ford said.
On Thursday, Syracuse won its third game against a ranked opponent this sea-son, a feat that hasn’t been done since 2001-02. On Monday, Syracuse reached No. 18 in the AP Poll, its highest ranking in program history. A win on Thursday would secure top-three finish in the ACC.
Ford has flashed glimpses of the key play-er she could be, but she’s still facing a trouble-some situation that she has no control over.
“It’s hard to do everything when your back’s hurting,” Hillsman said. “It’s hard to go to the bathroom when your back is hurt-ing. It’s just tough to overcome.”
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last shotSenior forward Taylor Ford only has a handful of games left in her career. Her statistics have dropped off this season as she deals with a nagging back injury.
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Hannah Dossett transfers basketball skills to diamondBy Matt Feldman staff writer
As a teenager, Syracuse freshman Hannah Dossett imagined herself becoming a college basketball player.
She had it all figured out. She would attend school to play basketball, and her sis-ter, Brooke, would go to school for softball.
Now the sisters laugh at how their ath-letic careers have culminated.
Hannah is the starting third baseman for the Syracuse softball team, and Brooke is a sopho-more guard for the Vincennes University Trail-blazers, a junior college program in Indiana.
“We kind of grew up a little, and my sister decided she wanted to play (college) bas-ketball, and I was like, ‘Well I want to play (college) softball now,’” Dossett said.
Dossett played varsity basketball as a seventh grader, started varsity as an eighth grader and even after landing a scholarship offer from the Orange, Dossett decided to play her senior year of high school basketball. She is currently hitting .333 with seven RBIs, and assistant coach Alisa Goler considers her “one of (SU’s) top corner players” in the field.
In her six years with the Gallatin County (Kentucky) High School girls basketball team, Dossett scored over 2,300 points. Dos-sett led her varsity basketball team to two state final four appearances, the first of their kind in school history.
“I had several Division I colleges ask about her and want to recruit her,” Holly Roberts, Dossett’s aunt and former basket-ball coach, said, “but she made it clear she was going to focus on softball in college.”
Cincinnati, Western Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky all showed interest in Dossett for
basketball, but for the two-sport star, there was only one sport she wanted to play in college.
As good as she was at basketball, Dossett was just as good at softball. She earned All-Eighth Region honors, led her team with a .580 batting average in her senior season, and also led the team in stolen bases. Even before she joined SU’s softball program, the coach-ing staff knew that Dossett was a pure athlete.
While recruiting Dossett, Bosch travelled to a showcase in Orlando, Florida, where he immediately noticed her athleticism. She hit a gap shot to right-center, ran the bases well, and played multiple positions.
Once Dossett joined the team in the sum-mer, the staff immediately started adjusting her hitting. According to Goler, it’s some-times not easy for freshmen to make major adjustments, especially with a new coaching staff and a new environment.
Goler remembers getting a call from Bosch one day in the fall while she was out of town recruiting. He told her that in the team’s home run derby, Dossett hit 17 home runs.
“I was like, ‘Wow, where was she hitting from, the pitcher’s mound?’” Goler joked.
The coaching staff said Dossett’s adapt-ability comes from her two-sport back-ground. Bosch said she is always in the cage or on the field looking for extra practice.
In last Saturday’s game against Purdue at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge in Atlanta, Dossett teased what’s to come this season. She sent two bombs over the outfield wall and also made a couple of spectacular plays in the field.
“The kid works hard, puts her nose down, and does some really solid things,” Bosch said, “She has a lot of that ability because she was such a great basketball player.”
old. The International Tennis Federation selected her to participate in tournaments in South America and Europe when she was 13 and 14, respectively. Eventually, she outgrew the little competition Mexico had, Garza said.
“She knew all the girls,” Garza said. “Every tournament was the same girls. Here you have more tournaments.”
The lack of competition pushed Salazar’s parents to move for her tennis career, so the then-14-year-old spent a month in the U.S. without her parents playing at CourtSense, a facility in New Jersey, as a trial run. When she returned home temporarily, Salazar told her mom how she lived in the Garden State because her home in Mexico was mostly sur-rounded by a desert climate.
The U.S., Garza said, has better facili-ties, more players and improved instruc-tion. Salazar practiced on a bigger variety of courts in the U.S., including hard surfaces, clay, green clay and grass.
Traveling to tournaments and practic-ing took up so much of Salazar’s time that she had to be home schooled. Salazar was serious and shy, she said, and didn’t make many friends in New Jersey. About once each month she’d play a tournament, the main source of friends.
But Salazar started dealing with shin splints and plantar fasciitis that threatened to take that away. Every two weeks, she was injured and felt she couldn’t play professionally.
“It was a really sad time for her,” Saul Salazar, her father, said.
Salazar gave up all her friends from Mex-ico to move to the U.S. to play tennis. She did little outside of tennis practice, traveling and home school and called it “kind of boring.”
Upon arriving at Syracuse, Salazar strug-gled initially with school because she spoke mostly Spanish at home with her parents. She had attended an American school in Mexico and spoke English there, but she wasn’t forced to speak English the way she was at SU. Some-times she would call her mother to talk Span-ish at night. Being home schooled, she didn’t have to go to classes. At SU she did.
Last season, Salazar realized she couldn’t run a mile anymore, Garza said. During one match, Garza recalled her daughter trying to play but a trainer told her she shouldn’t. For the only time in Salazar’s career, according to Garza, she lost because she had to pull out of a match.
Her time at Syracuse was being marred by injuries the same way her professional career had been. To diagnose the then-sophomore she had scans, an X-ray and MRIs performed to rule out other injuries. A needle test determined the pressure in her fascia was too high.
That prompted her surgery in May of 2015. After sitting out for three months afterward, Salazar has slowly worked back. Her legs have moved her forward, allowing her to go 11-4 so far this season. They’re no longer setting her back.
“She’s been so much better right now,” her father said, “and she’s playing so much better.”
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She’s been so much better right now, and she’s playing so much better.Saul Salazarvaleria’s father
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Kelzi Van Atta seamlessly transitions to attack for SU
KELZI VAN ATTA had never scored a collegiate goal until she posted three deciding goals in a 9-6 win over Binghamton on Feb. 14. hannah wagner staff photographer
By Tomer Langerasst. copy editor
Three out of Syracuse’s four games this year have been blowouts. In the only close one, a 9-6 victory against Binghamton, All-Amer-icans Kayla Treanor and Halle Majorana didn’t take the field. Other prominent offen-sive role players like Nicole Levy and Riley Donahue struggled to convert on offense.
In need of someone to step up, Kelzi Van Atta notched a hat trick, the first three goals of the sophomore attack’s career.
“Once we were able to pull away and succeed with goals and turnovers and all of that, it was definitely it was a good feeling,” Van Atta said.
Van Atta was the reason that Syracuse (4-0) managed to pull away. She worked hard before this season to convert into an attack after not playing much as a midfielder last season.
The switch started early on in the fall while Van Atta refined her skills with assis-tant coach Michelle Tumolo. As a midfielder, she had some experience playing in the opponents’ attacking zone, but the skill sets needed are a bit different.
“I guess on midfield a lot of it can be transi-tions and you still have to take the ball hard and know where to go,” Donahue said. “But sometimes on offense it’s knowing exactly where to be and clearing space more.”
Van Atta’s speed and athleticism, which directly relate to her dodging ability, will help her transition the most, Richard Cur-tis, her varsity head coach at Brighton (New York) High School, said.
On Sunday against Marist, Van Atta stood adjacent to the goal and sized up her defend-er. She took one explosive step to the right, curled all the way around and fired the ball in the net for her fourth goal of the season.
Van Atta also worked on her free-position shot before the season. Assistant coach Regy Thorpe praised her for going full speed in practice and putting in work after some players had already left the field. It paid off, as Van Atta scored two of her goals against the Bearcats on the free position.
As part of playing closer to the goal, Van Atta felt she needed to lean more on her stick skills, something she’d been able to rely on in the past. Those same stick skills were the reason Curtis called her up to play for the varsity team when she was in eighth grade.
Curtis said Van Atta will be able to make the transition to attack because she was a quick learner in high school. Whenever he told his ver-satile star to do something different, she did it.
“You didn’t have to shake things five different times, which was nice,” Curtis said. “You could teach it to her once and then she would get it.”
Some players need to fake a defender out, but Van Atta’s quick first step helps her blow right by them. Coupled with her stick skills, the two skills have helped Van Atta’s fit on SU’s second-line attack.
“We made the move in the fall, and we thought she stepped up and did a great job,” head coach Gary Gait said. “We’re excited that she did make the move.”
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Serving it upBrianna Butler is Syracuse’s second leading scorer. She’ll be key for the Orange’s matchup with Boston College.See Thursday’s paper
On a roll?Taylor Ford has been inconsistent this season for Syracuse. The Orange could use her help off the bench down the stretch.See page 12
Slam DunkHannah Dossett has proven to be a great find for head coach Mike Bosch. She’s used her basketball background on the softball field.See page 14
football
QB Dungey is ‘100 percent healthy’ at start of spring practiceBy Matt Schneidmansports editor
Eric Dungey didn’t see the movie “Concussion.” It wasn’t deliber-ate, he just prefers Netflix. And 113 days since last addressing the media, the rising sophomore quar-terback avoided delving into his own head injuries while professing a flawless bill of health.
“I never really thought about that,” Dungey said, regarding if one more hit to the head would’ve changed his career. “I think it’s more talk and
rumors … I’m 100 percent healthy and I’m looking forward to this season.”
The last time Dungey was dressed and in a game, he was being helped off the field after taking a fourth-quarter hit to the head against Louisville on Nov. 7. It was the fourth noticeable hit to that area he had taken in the season on top of ones against Central Michigan, Virginia and Pittsburgh. He missed the last three games of the year as walk-on Zack Mahoney manned a Syracuse offense that sput-tered to a 4-8 finish.
Tuesday morning marked the
first day of spring practice for the Orange under its new coaching staff, and Dungey spoke inside the Ensley Athletic Center following his first action in an offense that will put him at less risk.
“With this new offense I’m not really taking the load as I did last year,” Dungey said. “I’m not going to be running nearly as much.”
Dungey was listed at 202 pounds last season but now weighs 216, he said. He’s trying to reach 225 by the start of the season and was visibly bigger in his upper body on Tuesday.
“I mean have you seen it, he’s huge!” wide receiver Steve Ishmael said. “I’m like, ‘Man, I’m jealous of you.’ He’s going to be able to take a lot more hits.”
As a freshman, Dungey threw for 1,298 yards and 11 touchdowns while running for 351 yards and five scores. First-year head coach Dino Babers has said Syracuse won’t huddle, and that its high-powered offense that has roots in Baylor’s up-tempo system will open eyes in the Carrier Dome.
Its maestro, the player with
parts of only eight college games under his belt, didn’t ever think that one more hit to the head would’ve prevented him from directing that new-look offense. That, to him, was all talk and rumors.
And his coach, at least for the time being, expressed none of the hesitation or critique that clouded around him last year.
“I can’t predict the future,” Babers said. “I just know that he was out there today and looked good.”
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By Chris Libonatiasst. sports editor
When a surgeon sliced from Vale-ria Salazar’s knee to her ankle in May of 2015, he cut through her skin and a layer of tissue enclosing her muscle.
Since her freshman year, Syracuse’s No. 2 singles player has dealt with pain in her lower leg and foot. No trainer offered a reason for the pain and instead, she sat on training tables for about an hour before her matches. She iced her legs and got massages before and after, her mother Lourdes Garza said.
Last season, a trainer suggested Salazar might have compartment syndrome, which is when fascia, tissue around the muscle, grows too tight and prevents the muscle from contracting. Three doctors then diagnosed her with a form of compartment syndrome caused by exercise. The last doctor sent her to have a procedure meant to fix the condition.
By slicing her leg open, the surgeon relieved the pressure in her leg and the inju-ry’s stranglehold on her career.
“I was practicing during winter break and that was the first time where I was actually practicing three, four hours per day without symptoms,” Salazar said, “and that hadn’t happened before.”
Salazar, a junior, is one of three Syra-cuse (7-1) players returning to the team this season. Nearly the whole roster is new and while head coach Younes Limam doesn’t have captains, Salazar may be the closest SU gets to having one. Occasionally, she’ll lead
stretches and give the team some direction. Salazar is 11-4 this season after having fin-ished below .500 over two seasons.
While she’s not 100 percent yet, she’s get-ting there. So far, Salazar has only missed one singles match this season after not playing for three months because of her surgery. Now, she moves forward without the pain of a syndrome that sometimes numbed her legs, making it difficult to climb stairs and run. Though she didn’t play professionally, she continued her career at Syracuse after moving from Mexico to New Jersey solely for tennis.
“I feel more comfortable on the court because (last season) maybe I feel so bad because I can’t run,” Salazar said, “or some-times I lose and I can’t move. So I felt a lot of pressure from that, not playing my best.”
Salazar moved from Mexico, where she started playing tennis young, to the United States when she was 14. She won one of her first national tournaments when she was 10 years
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