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By Lydia Wilsonasst. copy editor

In a 1953 Post Standard article, Syracuse University’s campus was described as a “classic example of hodge-podge in architecture.”

Since its opening in 1870, it could be said that SU has thrived on this hodge-podge — not only in its archi-tectural style, but also in its accep-tance of all genders and races.

SU’s founders worked tirelessly to establish it as a model for an “Ameri-can College”: an eclectic campus,

with buildings to be constructed in wide-ranging architectural styles, hoping that it would be reflective of the inclusivity they preached from the beginning, the hodge-podge SU is famous for.

The Board of Trustees signed the university charter and certificate of incorporation on March 24, 1870. This day will be celebrated nationwide on Monday, signifying the university’s 144th birthday, but also as a reminder of how much it has grown since being just a few buildings on the Hill.

SU was founded as a Methodist

school. Tuition in its first year was $20, and $10 for sons and daughters of Methodist ministers, said Mary O’Brien, who has been an SU refer-ence archivist for more than 40 years.

Being a Methodist school meant that its doors were open to all from the very beginning. “People always ask, ‘When did you first allow women in, or when did you first allow minor-ities in?’ The answer to both of those is always,” O’Brien said.

While the Hall of Languages was being built on University Avenue,

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Michael Gbinije shook his head in silence. Usually one of the

most insightful players on the Syra-cuse roster, he was at a loss for words

after Syracuse’s magical season crumbled into an opening-weekend exit from the NCAA Tournament.

It’s almost impossible to think a team that spent nearly

a month as the No. 1 team in the coun-try could be eliminated by Dayton on the first Saturday of March Madness, but here he was, having just played his best game of the season, searching for an answer to how.

He remained quiet for a beat. And then another.

“I really don’t know,” he eventu-ally mustered.

From a 25-0 start to a 3-6 fin-ish, there is no easy answer for the Orange’s epic collapse, and that’s reason for concern. The first key to JERAMI GRANT (LEFT) puts his head in his hands following SU’s season-ending Round of 32 loss to Dayton on Saturday in the NCAA Tourna-

ment. The Orange started off the season 25-0, but collapsed down the stretch, losing early in postseason play. yuki mizuma staff photographer

ALREADY GONESU’s collapse remains inexplicable

144 years later, SU’s founding values, inclusivity remain

syracuse 53, dayton 55

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By Jen Bundy staff writer

Steven Pincus is a modern day renaissance man. He can confidently discuss Michelin-starred restau-rants, name drop jazz musicians from the 1940s and run off baseball statistics from his favorite team, the Cleveland Indians.

The junior emerging enterprises and entrepreneurship and business man-agement major said he likes to be on a schedule, which is necessary due to his penchant for leadership on campus.

He is currently president of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, vice president of the Syracuse University Entrepreneurship Club, treasurer of Otto’s Army and a U100 tour guide.

“I am definitely a go-go-go type of person,” said Pincus, who describes his daily style as “business prep.”

As a Los Angeles native, this driven attitude propelled Pincus to apply to colleges on the other side of the coun-try. He added that his personality just seems to fit better on the East Coast.

“The first time I ever saw snow was at SU. That winter was my first

snowball fight,” Pincus said.Traveling far from home has never

been a hindrance for Pincus, who spent his Fall 2013 semester study-ing abroad in Hong Kong.

As a business major, the trans-forming region was the obvious choice, he said. Pincus visited ten countries including China, Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia.

Besides traveling, another lifelong passion of Pincus is baseball.

From the age of three until he came to SU, Pincus had always played on a baseball team as a left-handed pitch-er, first baseman and right fielder.

“My first semester of college was the first time in my life I wasn’t play-ing baseball, I wasn’t on a team,” he said. “I wondered who am I going to lead? Who has my back?”

Pincus found the answer to those questions when he joined Phi Delta Theta, where he currently serves as president.

“The fraternity is definitely one of my proudest accomplishments. We’ve come a long way,” he said. “I have a team of about 100 people now.”

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student speakers have been officially selected for the event on April 9. See Tuesday’s paper

Can’t get enoughRapper J.Cole electrified Syra-

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By Georgie Silvarolecontributing writer

In the Comstock Art Facility’s park-ing lot, students have a rare opportu-nity to witness the pouring of molten basaltic rock — heated to a piping 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit — onto ice, water or basaltic rock.

The molten rock, or lava, makes up part of the Syracuse University Lava Project, which will offer a sev-en-week, massive open online course for students to learn more about the trade starting April 7. The course, titled “The Subject is Lava,” was cre-ated by professors Jeff Karson and Bob Wysocki, who also created the SU Lava Project four years ago.

“The Subject is Lava” will follow Karson and Wysocki’s projects in exploring the nature and study of lava. The MOOC will aim to be a combina-tion of traditional learning and experi-mental discovery, Wysocki said.

Wysocki, an assistant professor

of sculpture in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, understood lava flows were a natural part of landscape formation and looked to recreate lava that imitates natural volcanic activity in a controlled envi-ronment, he said. He took his idea to Karson, a professor and chair in the Department of Earth Sciences.

“He first thought I was crazy,” Wysocki said, “and then he realized I was crazy in the right way.”

The internationally recognized SU Lava Project, which has received attention from the British Broad-casting Corporation and Discovery Canada, is now in full swing.

“My hope is that this MOOC exists somewhere between the classroom and Discovery Channel,” he said.

He added that the interdisciplin-ary course, which looks at lava made with no added materials as both a science and a form of art, would appeal to a larger audience. Kar-son said that although some classes

and groups have witnessed lava, the SU Lava Project reaches the widest audience in an educational setting

through the MOOC. “We’re doing this for a combination

By Kristen Eskowstaff writer

With the housing selection process for the 2014–15 school year under-way, some students are using a new roommate finder system on MySlice if they do not yet have someone to live with on campus next year.

The system opened Jan. 18 and was available daily through March 19. Now that the housing selection process has started, the roommate finder is only open on weekends since the room selection page and the roommate finder page cannot be active at the same time, said Eileen Simmons, director of housing.

Last year, the housing office opened a Facebook page for Syra-cuse University students to use to find roommates. The new system on MySlice allows for more con-tinuity as each student answers a questionnaire before searching for a roommate, Simmons said.

“The Facebook page had no connection to our housing sys-tem,” Simmons said. “And not all

Online class examines lava as science, art form

Roommate finder helps students locate others to live with for 2014–15 year

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Unspoken wordsDEMARCUS WOODS, homecoming king of the class of 2014, performs a passionate miming routine to the song “Encourage Yourself” by Maurette Brown Clark at Titambirei, the eighth Annual Pan Africa Night in Goldstein Auditorium Sunday evening. Titambirei was sponsored by SU’s African Student Union. This type of performing takes a nod from traditional preaching by a pastor in church. Woods wore a black pastor-like robe, white gloves and face paint, and lip-synched through the audience, throwing his arms and body around to express the lyrics to the audience. The night featured awards, dance, spoken word poetry, miming and a fashion show. emma fierberg asst. photo editor

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While industries, businesses and the government all celebrate technologic innovations, they’re starting to show

their grim drawbacks for the middle class.By 7 a.m. each weekday a VahHool bus is

already roaring through the slanted streets of San Francisco. At each of its stops, a diverse selection of Stanford and Berkeley grads pours into its seats and, eventually, the bus will arrive in Silicon Valley, where engineers, computer scientists and digital marketing experts make their way into the offices of Google, Facebook and Apple.

Each day these buses operate like clockwork, installed by those tech companies under the belief that happy employees are efficient employ-ees. Those fresh college graduates with STEM degrees working in Silicon Valley can expect to make more than $107,000 a year, according to a Jan. 29 Forbes report.

Bringing innovators and math majors together in one place has consequences. Tech sectors have hiked up housing costs, making it “unaffordable for anyone without a six-figure salary,” according to a Jan. 25 Guardian article. It added that almost all workers in

blue-collar industries simply can’t afford to live in San Francisco anymore.

The bay area’s disheartening transformation represents the opening seconds of what many experts believe will be a new era of worldwide change. Innovation, which is universally cham-pioned by almost all institutions, is revealing its unforeseen side effects.

The startup boom has shown that a 20-25-year-old Stanford or MIT graduate, draped in a hoodie and hoisting an engineering degree, is the new face of capitalism in America, and a scapegoat for cries of inequality that the U.S. isn’t ready for.

While gentrification by start-ups is pushing people out of their homes and neighborhoods today, in the future, innovations could also be pushing people out of their jobs.

A Sept. 2013 paper by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne out of Oxford University suggests that as many as 47 percent of American jobs could

be at risk of “computerization” within “a decade or two.” Essentially, these economists are sug-gesting that many of today’s low paying jobs will be taken over by more efficient and, ultimately, cheaper machines.

The mantra that “tech creates new jobs” might be true, but those jobs are going to top col-lege graduates with STEM degrees, and not the middle class.

Admittedly, the ones forecasting a robot revolution are usually also the ones at the head of the technology industry, with millions of investments in that sector. So it’s fair to take their word with a grain of salt. Computers, on a grand and practical scale, don’t yet have the decision-making abilities that make human labor such a valuable employment asset.

But with Google developing a self-driving car, McDonald’s rolling out automated ordering sys-tems and Walmart employing in-store apps that will do more for a customer than sales associates can, there is undoubtedly reason to be wary for the future of many, many jobs.

This route toward digitalization isn’t going to stop. That would be like switching from an iPhone to an old Nokia. Innovation may kill

some jobs, but it has the potential to cure the sick, educate those eager to learn and shed light on important issues, among various benefits.

We should be asking ourselves the question of whether it’s fair to tell all these Americans that their skills have no value anymore because of the new machine that can do what they do, but better. When people start getting their arms twisted out of their salaries because a robot can replace them, they will have to grapple with the realization that they lost their way not because of corruption or mismanagement, but because someone else understood computers better than they did and capitalized on an opportunity.

Our teachers and leaders have emphasized better math and science education for years. But now, tomorrow’s middle class is getting hol-lowed out by the inventions of today’s brightest and most ambitious students. When the Ameri-can public finally confronts this reality, this country will see the ultimate test of its citizens’ beliefs in capitalism and opportunity.

Phil Kramer is a freshman advertising and marketing management major. His

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Technology innovations could widen inequality gap in homes, jobsPHIL KRAMER MORE THAN MONEY

Usually, when a celebrity stamps his or her name on something, nothing but positivity emerges. Whether it’s

a commercial product or a social justice cam-

paign, getting a celebrity endorsement can help increase its popularity and success. This has been true for feminism, until Katy Perry decided to join the bandwagon.

When celebrities like Beyoncé or Ellen Page say they’re feminists, it encourages their many fans to look into feminism and what being a feminist means. That’s because these celebrities and many like them know what feminism is and act it out in an authen-tic way.

However, when Katy Perry told “I Wake Up With Today” host Karl Stefanovic on March 16 that feminism “just means that I love myself as a female and I also love men,” after she told Billboard Magazine that she wasn’t a feminist in 2012, it had the opposite effect.

I personally don’t believe there is one way to be a feminist, however if one goes from rejecting feminism to earnestly accepting it without understanding what it is, feminism comes off as one thing: a trend.

This brand of feminism — accepting the label without actually understanding or doing things to help women — is not good news for the feminist community. If people think that feminism is just a meaningless label, they may become complacent.

Women see so much injustice in the world: illiteracy, sexual and physical abuse, poverty and so much more. The point of the feminist movement is to try to combat this. It would be a shame if people begin thinking there is no work to be done.

For people with high media intake, celeb-rities are like their teachers. If someone like Katy Perry said feminism is simply loving everyone in the world, a lot of people would start believing this as well. This doesn’t mean that Katy Perry is responsible for molding young minds, but people like her shouldn’t take the initiative to accept this label just because everyone else is doing it.

When celebrities go around saying that they’re feminists without actually doing any-thing to better the lives of women around the world, their fans will follow suit. Stamping

the label feminist onto oneself will coincide with buying a popular piece of clothing or the latest iPhone.

At first it will be immensely popular — everyone will adapt this new definition of a feminist — but then, like all other trends, it will die off. People will begin to resent its popularity and reject it, but they will be rejecting authentic feminism that helps women along with it.

It’s great when celebrities bring serious topics into discussion. In our reality TV-driven world, that can often be the push we need. However, it’s important that celebrities are fairly educated on the topics they’re bringing up and realize the effect that their words can have on others. This is especially true for Katy Perry who is a huge figure for women and girls around the world.

I’m not saying that celebrity endorsement will be the end of feminism or that celebrities can’t be real feminists. I just think that it’s important for celebrities to acknowledge the very real power that they have and to use it responsibly. It’s great that Katy Perry brought up the topic of feminism, but hopefully it won’t turn into just another trending topic.

Mandisa Shields is a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at  [email protected] and followed on Twitter @mandisashields. 

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Media needs to look past Obama handling UkraineDespite Russia and Crimea

being one of the biggest sto-ries for the past few weeks,

the conservative media is better off cutting its losses at this point and focusing more on domestic coverage.

With Vladimir Putin recently annexing Crimea, some of the tension is finally fading. Conservative outlets have been saying President Barack Obama has been too cautious, and Putin has simply done what he wants without fear. Popular pundits like Bill O’Reilly and some commentators like Rudy Giuliani are saying that Putin can accomplish whatever he wants and is using this contrast to drive home how weak Obama is.

This could be genuine criticism, but the problem is the focus has mainly just been on the comparisons of how weak Obama looks next to Putin. For example, on a Sept. 13 episode of Fox News’ “The Five,” Eric Bolling praised Putin walking around shirtless and bashing Obama for wearing “mom jeans.” These silly talking points shouldn’t be put in such a serious context, as they only give liberals more fodder to make fun of.

The conservative media has also frequently said Obama is too much like a “dictator,” but with all these contrasts of how much better a leader Putin is than Obama, it’s implying that Obama should be more like Putin This doesn’t work out well, though, since Putin is much more of an actual dictator than Obama, If Fox News really wanted Obama to be more like Putin, he’d send the military forces to shut down their headquarters, which I doubt is what they want.

There’s also not much to gain from criticizing Obama’s actual handling of the issue. Even if Obama’s options were either sending troops to Ukraine with a cautious or assertive approach, neither one would have a good result.

First of all, Obama would never even consider sending serious mili-tary forces to Ukraine. This would be a major risk of starting A Democratic

president who successfully ended the Iraq War and generally prefers sanc-tions to force, this would never accept this solution.

A softer approach to handling Russia wouldn’t work either. Just look back to how President George W. Bush handled the Georgia conflict in 2008, when several separatist regions in Georgia were looking to become sovereign and possibly join with Rus-sia. The soft approach didn’t do much then, and it won’t now.

There are plenty more realistic issues to criticize the president about. For example, the Affordable Care Act still doesn’t have enough young enrollees so close to the final deadline, and the administration has said if it doesn’t reach the 7 million enrollee target, premiums will be going up. Or they could point out that having so much of the health care costs relying on young people, struggling enough in today’s economy, is bad enough on its own. Or how Republican David Jolly won the Florida special election against major odds by focusing on attacking the law’s flaws, which shows what a major threat the ACA will be to Senate Democrats in the midterms this year.

The Ukraine crisis with Russia was a major distraction for conser-vative outlets that kept them from being an effective opposition to the president. Instead, they wound up focusing on a story with no serious potential. There wasn’t much to be gained by comparing both sides of the aisle. While there’s plenty of news like that out there, it wasn’t, and still isn’t, in Ukraine. 

Max Antonucci is a junior newspa-per and online journalism major. His column appears weekly. You can find

him on Twitter @DigitalMaxToday or email him at [email protected].

Starbucks Coffee Company serving alcohol in more locations will be a smart move for the massive coffee chain, but the site on Marshall Street and University Avenue should not be one of these locations.

On March 20, Starbucks announced it would be expanding its “Starbucks Evenings” feature, which offers beer, wine and extra dishes after 4 p.m., to thousands of locations across the country within the next few years. It currently has 26 locations that serve alcohol, out of the approximately 11,000 Starbucks in the United States.

Starbucks is expanding its late-night menu to more locations because of its success in the 26 trial locations, but a “Starbucks Evening” on the university hill might not have the

same results. The Marshall Street location’s

main function is serving as a place for students to study quietly or meet up with others. For a college campus, Starbucks typically represents a place where students spend hours doing work while getting a caffeine fix.

Introducing beer and wine after 4 p.m. would disrupt the establish-ment’s environment. While the deci-sion has been financially beneficial for Starbucks in other locations, it does not fit the identity that has been defined by students at Syracuse University.

Alcohol at the Marshall Street Star-bucks would not be a popular addition given the various options already available near campus. In the same

area as popular bars such as Chuck’s Cafe, Faegan’s Café & Pub, DJ’s On the Hill and others, Starbucks is unlikely to be a student’s go-to choice when it comes to drinking.

With a region so dominated by already established bars, serving alco-hol at Starbucks may not be financially beneficial for the company. Although it is profitable in other cities, SU would not be a strong candidate for the “Star-bucks Evening” program, as students will be more likely to go to bars for a beer than to a coffee shop.

The Starbucks on Marshall Street and University Avenue should remain the way it is — alcohol-free — because it is established as a quiet space in an environment already so saturated with better options.

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The Syracuse University’s men’s basketball team may have been knocked out of March Madness, but the team is in good company.

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s mascot, Oakie the Acorn, lost in the second round of the 2014 Mascot Madness competition. SUNY-ESF competed against 43 other SUNY schools, but lost to SUNY New Paltz’s mascot, Hugo the

Hawk, after voting for the second round closed on Sunday at 4 p.m.

The competition began last year, said Karen Moore, SUNY-ESF’s special projects coordina-tor. The competition uses a bracket system and the seeds are based on how many athletic teams each school had. The competition involves sev-eral rounds and will end in April, she said.

Students can vote for their favorite mascot online, she said, adding that if they go onto the website, they can vote once every eight hours from any electronic device.

The competition attempts to raise aware-ness for the SUNY athletic programs in a fun way, Moore said.

“It also raises awareness that ESF has sports programs now, which many people are not aware of,” she added.

Moore said ESF promoted its mascot Oakie by posting updates on his Facebook and Twit-ter account, such as a video of him training for the competition. There is also a story on the SUNY-ESF webpage and several emails have been sent out about it, she added.

Kerri Yandrich, a senior environmental studies major, said SUNY-ESF lost to the SUNY in her hometown, SUNY Farmingdale, last year, adding that it was “a very close competi-tion and very exciting.” She said she voted twice for this year’s competition.

“I’m really excited that more people are aware of the contest this year,” she said. “It’s a friendly competition and it’s fun to vote along-side friends at other SUNY schools.”

Some students have shown more apathy for the competition. Zach Belis, a senior environ-mental studies major, said he saw a post about it on social media but didn’t vote.

“I don’t really care,” he said. “It doesn’t have to do with anything. It doesn’t add or take away from my experience at SUNY-ESF. It’s just an online popularity contest and whatever school has the highest student population will prob-ably win.”

David Bullis, a graduate student studying

ecology, admitted that he didn’t know much about the competition, except that it involves a bracket system.

“I’m not a fan of Oakie,” he said. “I don’t feel like this competition will benefit ESF at all.”

Others really wanted to see Oakie win. Emma Putman, a senior bioprocess engineer-

ing major, said that she has been voting from her phone and different computers several times a day.

Putman is also a member of the cross-coun-try team and said Oakie cheers the team on at races and supports athletes.

“He encourages spirit in the spectators and fans and I really want(ed) to see him win,” she said.

Chris Esworthy, a junior studying biochem-istry, said he was very excited when ESF beat Erie Community College and SUNY Delhi in the previous round.

“I think it’s important that we get ESF’s name out as much as possible,” he said. “It’s a small school and doesn’t get as much exposure as I think it should. This is one little way to get ESF’s name out there.”

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illustration by natalie riess art director

It’s just an online popularity contest and whatever school has the highest student population will probably win.

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mad about mascotsHere are other SUNY mascots participating in the Mascot Madness competition.

• Hugo the Hawk SUNY New Paltz• Mustang Morrisville State College• Senator Sam SUNY Ulster• Baxter Bearcat Binghamton University• Blaze the Red Dragon SUNY Cortland• Ellsworth Eagle College at Brockport

classes met in the upper floors of a building downtown in what was called the Myers block. Classes continued there until the Hall of Lan-guages was opened in 1873.

At the faculty’s inauguration in 1871, the Rev. Jesse Peck, then-president of the Board of Trustees, made the founders’ intention of inclusivity evident in his speech.

“The clear and well defined purpose of the trustees (is) that there shall be no invidious discriminations here against women or person of any nation or color,” Peck said. “Brains and heart shall have a fair chance, and we propose no narrow-minded sectarianism.”

The first graduating class at SU was comprised of one woman and four men. Mary Huntley was the woman. She later became a teacher after earning her masters’ degree from SU in 1875.

Their gradation was in 1872, after only two years of attendance. Once admitted, students were tested and placed in different grades depending on how much they already knew.

The Hall of Languages opened its doors in 1873 after two years of construction. The iconic building received its name as part of an origi-nal construction plan, which involved halls of math, science, history and others.

In 1873, SU also founded the College of Fine Arts — now the School of Visual and Perform-ing Arts — becoming the only college to grant four-year fine arts degrees in the country.

However, SU was hit with an economic down-turn in the midst of the Panic of 1873 that hindered further construction, and the Hall of Languages was the only building on campus for 14 years. O’Brien said SU barely held on financially.

Almost all of the first chancellors faced eco-nomic problems.

“They had great ambition, but because money is money, they had to scale back,” O’Brien said.

From then on, the development of new buildings at SU and styles of architecture became dependent on the funds and styles of

several commissioned architects. The hodge-podge of architecture was becoming clear, yet even so, a pattern began to emerge.

During the late 1880s, the first buildings to follow the Hall of Languages were constructed: Holden Observatory, Von Ranke Library — now Tolley Humanities Building — and Crouse Col-lege. Together these buildings created a row of Romanesque style architecture on the South side of University Place.

John Archbold, a member of the Board of Trustees, recruited James Day to be SU’s

fourth chancellor. Because Archbold liked Day so much, he would fund whatever Day needed if he took the job, O’Brien said.

When Day became chancellor in 1894, SU had five buildings. With funding from Archbold and others, 22 more went up by the time he left, including Carnegie Library and Archbold Gym-nasium. By the time he retired in 1922, enroll-ment increased from 777 to 6,422 students.

In 1900, Winchell Hall became the first dormitory on campus, named after Alexander Winchell, the first chancellor of SU. Until then, students lived in sorority or fraternity houses, rented in the city of Syracuse, or lived with their families. Winchell Hall was torn down and replaced by the Schine Student Center in 1984.

In 1928, the university created a master plan for even more buildings to be constructed. Architects John Pope and Dwight Baum were commissioned, and presented designs based in classicism that emulated famous architectural designs of Washington, D.C.

However, stalled by the Great Depression, SU only built Maxwell, Hendricks Chapel, and a third medical college which no longer belongs to SU.

Then, after World War II, the enrollment at

SU increased rapidly, O’Brien said. “The university was growing in leaps and

bounds, they needed buildings and they needed buildings quickly,” she said.

To try and meet SU’s growth spurt, O’Brien said the university built Booth, DellPlain, and other halls, which were “basically brick rect-angles.” Donors also had an influence over the nature of the buildings — they were “putting their wallet on the line,” she said.

But above all, SU has shown a reverence for the past.

In 1979, the Hall of Languages was either going to be torn down or majorly renovated. The entire building was gutted and given a brand new interior, with very few alterations made to the outside.

Until 1991, Holden Observatory was located where Eggers Hall currently sits. When Egg-ers Hall was planned to become a companion building for Maxwell, Holden Observatory, at 320 tons, was moved 190 feet across campus at

four inches per minute. Today, after 127 years, the historic Hold-

en Observatory still stands. And just like its founders intended, the Hall of Languages remains as a heart of academics and an iconic image of the Hill.

“(SU) would never have any intention of knocking down such iconic buildings,” O’Brien said.

Said O’Brien: “We’re advancing, always advanc-ing, but yet with a never failing respect for the past.”

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(TOP) Students and professors of the class of 1876 sat outside of the Hall of Languages, which was the only building on campus at the time. (BOTTOM) The Board of Trustees Execu-tive Board used two floors of the Myers Block in downtown Syracuse as classrooms until 1873, when the Hall of Languages was built. courtesy of su archives

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Brains and heart shall have a fair chance, and we propose no narrow-minded sectarianism.

Rev. Jesse Peckpresident of the board of trustees in 1871

UNITED BY SONGIn 1895, Junius Stevens, who graduated that year, wrote Syracuse University’s alma mater. It was first sung in public on March 15, 1895 by SU’s Glee and Banjo Club at a concert in a downtown opera house. The song went:

“Where the vale of Onondaga \ Meets the eastern sky \ Proudly stands our Alma Mater \ On her hilltop high \ Flag we love! Orange! Float for aye- \ Old Syracuse, o’er thee, \ May thy sons be leal and loyal \ To thy memory.”

The line “May thy sons be leal and loyal” was later changed to “Loyal be thy sons and daughters” to reflect that Syracuse has always been a coeducational institution.

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By Justin Mattinglystaff writer

A student startup company from Syracuse Univer-sity went to the White House last week to partici-pate in a forum on ways to encourage innovation and use new technologies to improve America’s health care systems.

Helios Innovative Technologies, a student startup that participated in the Syracuse Student Sandbox incubator program during the summer of 2011, was invited to the White House to participate in a discussion on the state of the economy and a high level overview of the Affordable Care Act, as well as a micro perspective on other related topics, such as the medical device excise tax and CMS reimburse-ments, according to the company’s website.

Helios Innovative Technologies is an early stage infection control company that is focused on improving the quality and delivery of healthcare.

The forum also focused on the new health care economy, public-private partnerships and oppor-tunities for reform to make the system more efficient and responsive, according to the website.

Luis Romo, founder and CEO of Helios Inno-vative Technologies and a graduate of SU’s L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, represented the group at the meeting in Washington, D.C., according to the website.

Romo said in an email the inspiration for starting the company was “being able to make a change and improve our healthcare system.”

The company’s mission is to prevent healthcare acquired infections, which will ultimately save lives and reduce costs, accord-ing to its website.

To do this, Helios Innovative Technologies produces a device that uses ultraviolet light to

sterilize door handles in hospitals and other medical settings and will revolutionize how healthcare facilities provide infection control, Romo said.

The issue is important because of the number of deaths caused by healthcare acquired infec-tions — there were 100,000 deaths from health-care acquired infections in 2010, Romo said.

“Healthcare acquired infections are a huge global problem,” he said.

This is the third time the Boston-based company has met with administration offi-cials and the White House Business Council, according to the company’s website.

Each semester at the Student Sandbox, stu-dent entrepreneurs spend a semester with pro-fessional coaches who work with the students to accelerate the development and execution of their ideas, according to its website.

John Liddy, director of Syracuse Student Sandbox, said in an email the student startup process can take many forms.

“In the Student Sandbox, we get 26 percent of our teams from course work, 34 percent from outreach, 23 percent from Emerging Talk and Panasci and the remaining 17 percent are teams that had other startups and failed, and are now trying another venture,” he said.

Liddy said it’s great knowing a Student Sandbox student that has been asked to the White House.

“Syracuse is on the map and the White House has recognized it,” he said. “Luis has done a great job maintaining a presence in his vertical.”

Liddy attributed Romo’s success to his pas-sion and perseverance.

Said Liddy: “Luis is pursuing a passion and that is the definition of us being successful.”

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students have Facebook pages, so manage-ment was very cumbersome to keep up with.”

The new roommate finder is also less public than last year’s Facebook page and ensures that only SU students can access and join the page, she said.

Students can access the roommate finder on the housing page on MySlice. Under the tab, “personal preferences,” students can answer questions about themselves, such as: whether or not you are a smoker, your room type and campus preference and your contact informa-tion, Simmons said. Students must set their profile to public so that it is visible to other students on the roommate finder, she said.

Students must be eligible to participate in the housing lottery and have agreed to the terms and conditions of SU housing on MySlice to be able to participate, Simmons said.

Simmons said about 900 students have entered their profile on the roommate finder system, compared to about 200 who joined last year’s Facebook page. The housing office will evaluate the roommate finder and make changes for next year after the housing selec-tion period has concluded.

“I just filled it in and hoped for the best,” said Morgan Dudzinski, a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major who used the room-mate finder this year. She said she connected with the person who became her future roommate two to three days after she created a profile on the site.

“We started talking back and forth and messaging each other, and it’s working out wonderfully,” Dudzinski said, who called the

roommate finder “a great idea with a little bit of tweaking necessary.”

She suggested that the program’s creators add more questions to the program with more specific content in the future.

“I wanted it to be more specific because as I was scrolling through the site the first time not a lot of people put in personal descrip-tions,” Dudzinski said. “I would’ve felt more comfortable looking for someone who had information about themselves.”

There is also an optional area where stu-dents can share any other information about themselves and their preferences, Dudzin-ski said. For example, she said she felt it was important to say that she is studious because she likes to do her homework in her room.

Other students, such as Tim Wright, a sophomore television, radio and film major, felt the new system was more organized than the Facebook page, but could be better publicized.

“I just stumbled upon it when I was look-ing for housing on MySlice,” he said. “I’m not exactly sure how they would promote it.”

Wright said he went on the roommate find-er Facebook page last year and likes the idea of relocating the page to MySlice. The Facebook page was “chaos that wasn’t really organized.”

“It was difficult to find someone who fit your situation without scrolling for 20 min-utes,” he added.

Although he agrees the questionnaire should be more extensive, he is glad students who need a roommate have a forum to connect.

“As it is right now, it has potential,” Wright said. “They might not know what are the right questions to ask. I think it will take a few years to work out all the kinks in it.”

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of scientific investigation, artistic creation, education and outreach,” Karson said. “The education part isn’t something we’ve done in a formal way yet, and (the MOOC is) a real opportunity for students to see something really different.”

Karson added that the lava pours have inspired students and even faculty. He said many geologists have never even seen an active lava flow, which the MOOC could help to change.

After more than 10 million hits on videos of the lava pours and the SU Lava Project links, Karson and Wysocki understood the project was receiving responses from all over the world.

“The very large online response that we got suggested to us that there was really the interest out there and it would be an oppor-

tunity for us to start advertising the project,” Karson said.

He hopes the online course will prove to be a compelling educational experience for those who have never seen active lava flows.

In addition to the online course, Karson and Wysocki will co-teach a class with a simi-lar focus through the Renée Crown Univer-sity Honors Program, beginning next fall, said Hanna Richardson, the associate deputy director of the program. The class will not be taught online, but in a traditional classroom setting, she said.

“The Subject is Lava,” which will be at a geology 101 level, will extend the goals of the SU Lava Project, Karson said.

“We weave those together in this class,” he said. “Just like the project and our interests, the class isn’t all about the science or all about the art. It’s sort of a fusion of those two things. Just to look at the lava, it’s impossible not to see how beautiful it is.”

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Where Student Sandboxparticipants come from:

The Syracuse University Student Startup Sandbox is a resource for student entrepreneurs where they receive facilities, funding and professional coaches to promote and support their ideas. It is also a unique partnership with the local business community, which helps the student entrepreneurs. It was established in 2009.

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By Erik van Rheenenasst. feature editor

Wearing a white wristband is a silent, simple reminder of a goal that’s not nearly as simple or quiet — fostering awareness of domestic and sexual violence.

On Monday, Syracuse University’s White Ribbon Campaign starts, span-ning over a week and coordinated through the Division of Student Affairs in collaboration with local nonprofit Vera House. The plan is just that: edu-

cate the Syracuse community about domestic violence through wristbands and awareness-raising events.

The week’s events include con-versations with speakers on Tuesday and Wednesday, a Thursday night film screening and a Walk a Mile in Her Shoes walk on Friday at noon. The campaign stretches through Wednesday, April 9, with The Advo-cacy Center’s Take Back the Night march at Hendricks Chapel. This is the first year that the ribbon cam-paign will be presented during a weeklong schedule of campus events.

Domestic violence is a national concern that’s prevalent within the college-age demographic: according to the Vera House website, the highest rate of domestic violence is experienced by females between 16–24 years old.

“We have to be the advocates for those who can no longer advocate for themselves,” said Ashlee Newman, a junior political science and policy studies major and a co-chair of the White Ribbon Campaign.

Newman’s ties to the campaign are deeply personal. In December of 2011, during the winter break of her fresh-man year, a cousin died as the victim of an abusive husband. Newman resolved to do what she could to find a way to solve the problem of domestic abuse — it was going to be her that fixed it, she said.

“I never witnessed such sadness

Birthday parties are a big deal, and for Syracuse University, a monumental celebration is no exception. On Monday, SU’s 144th birthday, students, professors and alumni nationwide

will come together to bask in the special honor for the university.

When SU was established as a university in 1870, the num-ber 44 had little significance at the time. But now, 144 years later, the legend of 44 has become a meaningful number to the university’s history, and was part of the inspiration for the birthday, said Julie Walas Huynh, a 2007 alumna and member of the alumni committee.

She added that this birthday is one that has to be filled with special Syracuse spirit.

“This year’s celebration had to be bigger than anything else we have ever done. We really want to commemorate what makes this campus, the people and this place so wonderful,” Huynh said.

The celebration will kick off all around the country, where alumni will gather and reminisce about their time at SU. On campus, students will be able to join in on the celebration on the Quad, in the Schine Student Center, the Life Sciences

Complex and Sadler Hall by participating in events like sign-ing a birthday card and eating Otto’s Cupcake ice cream.

Coordinators of the celebration hoped the various birthday events would serve as a way for the community to come together. When planning the day, it was important to the committee that the events connected to the past, the present and the future.

“Every generation (including) current students, future students and children and grandchildren of alumni will know why SU is a great place,” Huynh said.

For alumni, these connections embody the SU pride that makes the university worthy of such a grand celebration.

Samuel Edelstein, assistant director of Alumni Relations and a 2007 alumnus, said this birthday was a great way for alumni to share anecdotes about their favorite SU memories.

The SU alumni clubs, which are based all over the country, allow people to continue networking and remember the uni-versity’s history, he said.

“We hear these stories all the time and we wanted to cap-ture them in a significant way” he said. “Alums from the ‘50s came to the university because of the GI Bill and have memories

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Campaign works to end abuse

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SU celebrates its 144th birthday, alumni plan events to

bring community togethertext by lauren porter contributing writer

We have to be the advocates for those who can no longer advocate for themselves.

Ashlee Newmanco-chair of the white ribbon

campaign

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From the

kitchen every monday in pulp

The Syracuse Suds Factory320 S. Clinton St. 315-471-2253Mon.-Sat. 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m.Sun. noon to 2:00 a.m.

Taste: 2/5 Quality: 2/5

Scene: 5/5 Service: 4/5

Price: 5/5 Total: 3/5

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flavors, then Syracuse Suds probably wouldn’t be your first choice.

For some reason, when I first walked in, I thought the place looked fun and the vibe of energy from the diners was great. I immedi-ately imagined the menu to be full of Ameri-can food favorites — just strong and fatty flavors. My mouth was watering as soon as my eyes scanned the ambience of the restaurant.

The enormous, long bar was the restaurant’s focal point. Every stool was taken; everyone was enjoying a beer and watching the basket-ball game. A majority of the tables in the center of the dining area were occupied.

So it surprised me when the food I ordered was bland.

The restaurant’s menu featured standard pub fare like sandwiches and fried foods. I thought I’d try the entrées from their Brew-master’s Favorites. I tasted their flame broiled half-pound burger for $7.25, and their open-faced steak sandwich for $8.75.

I ordered and waited a while for my food, since there appeared to be only one waiter working the entire dining area. I used the extra time to view the restaurant some more, because it was hard to catch every detail when I first walked in.

The scenery was dark with a modern interior design, boasting high ceilings and a factory-like feel. Next-door was a beer brewery machine, which you could see through huge glass windows that separate the dining area from their mini factory. Unfortunately, I did not try any of their handcrafted beers. But I did try their beer-battered cheese sticks as an appetizer.

Of all the food I tasted, I liked their beer-battered cheese sticks the most. It tasted fresh off the fryer; a crispy and crunchy exterior with a stringy and cheesy interior.

I was excited to sink my teeth into a juicy

burger and to bite into a tender steak — maybe the waiting time was a factor in my increased expectations of the food, and maybe my expec-tations became too high.

The burger patty turned out to be flavor-less. I did not detect an ounce of salt or pep-per, or any other seasoning for that matter. Maybe some onion and garlic powder or fresh onions would do the trick in giving more fla-vors and juiciness. I asked for my burger to be medium rare to avoid a dry patty, and ironi-cally, it was still dry in a medium rare kind of way. I didn’t bother to finish it.

The side of fries wasn’t plain, but didn’t make the meal any better. It was seasoned too much and was far too salty. It did not taste like it was fresh off the fryer at all. I love fries, and had really wished I could’ve at least enjoyed their version.

I had hoped the open-faced steak would be better, but I would rate the dish equal to the burger. Before I took a bite, I looked at the steak and hoped that it tasted better than it looked. The steak didn’t have a nice golden sear or grill mark at all. Instead the meat was cooked to an even gray color.

Maybe my steak knife wasn’t sharp enough, but it was tough to cut through, and even tougher to bite through as a sandwich. The meat didn’t taste fresh. It tasted like it had been sitting in the freezer days before it was thawed that morning. Much like the burger, I couldn’t taste any seasoning on the meat either.

I would definitely come back to the Syra-cuse Suds Factory for appetizers and drinks if I was conveniently nearby and want to watch the game. The atmosphere is warm and fun and feels like you’re in a buddy’s home. And maybe that’s a good enough rea-son to go.

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The Syracuse Suds Factory churns out bland dishes, despite energetic atmosphere

WASHED UPBy Vekonda Luangaphaystaff writer

At the Syracuse Suds Factory, it’s okay to skip out on a full meal.

The Syracuse Suds Factory is a

place great for drinks and catching the game with friends — it reminded me of Tully’s Good Times or a Buffalo Wild Wings. In fact, if you’re looking to catch the game in Armory Square, Syracuse Suds is probably a good bet. But if you’re looking for delicious, bold

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and horror in my life,” Newman said.Inspired by tragedy, Newman sought out the

resources available to her on SU’s campus, and reached out to then-Chancellor Nancy Cantor about starting a student campaign.

“You want to do the biggest thing possible when you first start,” she said. “I always had big-scale ideas at first, but you have to think about what we can do to make things effective and raise awareness.”

During his sophomore year as an under-graduate, Paul Ang, now a master’s student in the School of Education and Newman’s co-

RAINBOW OF RIBBONS

RED RIBBONAIDS awareness

GREEN RIBBONMental Health awareness

BLUE RIBBONHuman trafficking and sex slavery awareness

INDIGO RIBBONTargeted individuals in harassment, bullying, stalk-ing

ORANGE RIBBONSelf Injury Awareness Day

VIOLET RIBBONHodgkin’s lym-phoma aware-ness

YELLOW RIBBONReturn of armed forc-es to their homes

PINK RIBBONBreast Cancer awareness

chair of the White Ribbon Campaign, started to work on the campaign. Ang was part of A Men’s Issue — an on-campus organization exploring masculinity and preventing inter-personal violence.

Newman said the campaign group con-nected with Thomas V. Wolfe, former dean of student affairs, who helped take the reins of moving the campaign forward.

“Dean Wolfe had reached out for a resurgence of the White Ribbon Campaign,” Ang said.

This year’s on-campus campaign is linked to the 20th anniversary of Vera House’s White Ribbon Campaign, which Ang said has become recognizably visible in the regional area.

The campaign committee — some eight to 10 members attend a full meeting, Ang said — decided earlier in the semester to condense the campaign’s semester-wide events into the span of a week, marking a change from last year’s schedule.

“I was excited when Paul came up with the weeklong idea,” Newman said. “Timing is hard, and we thought the campaign would have more of an impact condensed.”

She added that the planning process of coordi-nating with several different groups on campus, including The Advocacy Center, E.S Bird Library, the Office of Student Affairs and A Men’s Issue, was a learning experience in and of itself.

“Working with a lot of people with the ability to coordinate made planning easier,” she said. “I learned from it as well, and we really appre-ciate people who try to get students involved.”

The White Ribbon Campaign will also sell white wristbands as wearable, reflective mementos that stopping domestic violence begins with the conscious understanding that it is an enduring issue.

Said Newman: “I hope the biggest takeaway stu-dents have is that they walk away thinking about domestic violence and how they can prevent it.”

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Comebacks: they’re great for boy bands and sports teams, but when it comes to fashion, they’re absolutely everything.

In the past year, we’ve seen the return of the high waist, acid wash and fringe. And this spring, overalls and chunky rubber sandals are coming back.

No joke. I’m pretty sure that Coco Chanel and Alexander McQueen are rolling over in their graves at the thought of these pieces of clothing being called trends.

Both trends have been hitting the runways — from Givenchy to Prada to Chanel — and are making their way to the streets. Celebri-ties such as Alessandra Ambrosio and Diane Kruger have been styling these trends on and off the red carpet.

Why have these two items taken over the top of the fashion food chain? I have no idea, but I can tell you about how they became popular.

The ugly chunky sandal trend has been build-ing up for a couple of seasons among the more experimental sections of the fashion industry. It

wasn’t until this spring at New York Fashion Week that multiple designers donned their models in these ugly slip-ons, and the trend became huge.

When I say ugly sandals, I don’t mean the Adidas flip-flops that everyone and their uncle wears to the pool. No, these unsightly shoes take it a step further.

The ugly shoe trend comes in a variety of styles, from neoprene pool sliders to sequined hiking sandals to floral Birkenstocks. What makes them all similar is their chunkiness and emphasis on comfort.

These sandals really have it all: orthopedic-style soles, pool slide straps and no-frills fastenings, like Velcro. Unlike the cute wedges we all have sitting in our closets, these shoes are made to have cushy wedges, bulky square heels, squishy footbeds, room for your toes to wiggle

and thick soles to keep your feet feeling com-fortable. Maybe a little bit too comfortable.

The uglier, sturdier and more granola your shoes, the better. Heaven forbid, you can even wear them with socks. These shoes do come with a disclaimer though: they have been called unsexy. It isn’t hard to imagine why.

But, overalls are a trend that I have a lot more faith in, if done appropriately.

Overalls came out of the woodwork as com-fort and utility was reemphasized in fashion. Looser fitting than skinny jeans, they allow your legs to actually breathe while still main-taining the simple denim look — if the overalls are indeed denim, that is.

Designers have transformed the ‘90s ver-sion of overalls into something more sophisti-cated and versatile. They have played with the fit, style and fabric to create overalls that really can be worn for any occasion.

The only reason I’m hesitant about overalls is because I used to wear them in the fifth grade. I also wore tie-dye and Skechers in fifth

grade — I did not make the best fashion choices in elementary school.

While I am a bit hesitant, I have also seen a few versions of overalls that are sophisticated and stylish. Denim can sometimes come off as tacky, so keeping them a solid, dark color made out of a structured material makes them fit well and look just as nice. Now those, I would definitely wear.

I’m not sure what you’re thinking about these trends, but personally, I think I might just have to sit these out. Looking like I’m wearing my dad’s sandals or like I just stepped off a farm is not something on my agenda.

If I had known ugly was going to be a thing, I would have saved my clothes from junior high. I guess I’m going to have to either get over these trends, or get the clothes out of the boxes buried somewhere in my basement.

Alexis McDonell is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every

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Retro 90s trends come back, though they haven’t aged gracefully

that had a big effect on their lives. Some grads met their spouses at SU, had professors who helped shape the directions of their careers and are still friends with their former roommates.”

Earlier this month, a flash mob gathered in Times Square in New York City to kick off the beginning of the 144th celebration.

Edelstein said the event was a great way to

get the buzz going about SU’s birthday. “The (flash mob) was the brain child of the

New York City alumni club, who put together and invited and reached out to people on Face-book and through email to come out, celebrate and have a really great time,” he said.

The birthday falls on National Orange Day, so the fruit and the color will play a big part in com-memorating the day. With decorations and food everywhere in sight, there won’t be any escape from the color that students past and present bleed.

To capture the celebratory environment on

campus, a time capsule will be created to show-case what life at SU was like the year the univer-sity turned 144. Sakina Kader, a recent graduate and president of the SU Traditions Commission, said collecting current and relevant SU memo-rabilia will be a great way to preserve moments from the day for years to come.

Seeking items from over the course of a year, Kader said the traditions commission took to its Twitter page to ask students for suggestions on what items should be included as a broad representation of life on campus.

“Hopefully we can get items from last year’s Final Four, this fall’s Juice Jam, a Beat Duke T-shirt, a Texas Bowl game ticket stub and some pins and stickers that will be handed out on Monday,” Kader said.

The celebrating won’t stop when the sun sets on the Hall of Languages, the first constructed building on campus. At 8 p.m., students are invited to the Quad to hold orange glow sticks in the shape of 144 to illuminate the night and wish the school a happy birthday.

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wilsonsolving a problem is identifying its root, and SU could never do that.

Ask Jim Boeheim, however, and he’ll say it’s obvious.

“When you make shots, you win,” he said after the loss to Dayton, and he’s said some variation of that after each of Syracuse’s six losses. “When you don’t make shots, you lose in close games. Early in the year, we made shots.”

But nothing’s ever that simple. The Orange’s offense was ugly all season and

the margin of error was always slim — and it was kind of like that when SU went to the Final Four last year, too. When things went wrong, though, Syracuse could lean on its elite defense.

On Feb. 15, when Syracuse hosted North Carolina State, the Orange’s offense was even worse than it was on Saturday. SU shot just 35.2 percent from the field — its second-worst rate of the season to that point — but turned defense into offense for a crucial bucket.

“We didn’t get stops that we got in the start,” Syracuse guard Tyler Ennis said, “and I think it caught up to us not focusing on our defense early.”

We’ve got bad shooting and lack of defensive intensity…Any other suggestions?

“It looked like that for a little bit — it looked like we couldn’t lose,” SU guard Trevor Cooney said, “we were just going to always find a way to win.”

So how about complacency? More than three months into the season, the Orange still hadn’t faced any adversity. And when it finally came, it hit Syracuse like a train.

It started with the stunning upset loss to

Boston College in the Carrier Dome, and just three days later it traveled down to Durham, N.C., to face Duke. The Orange battled, but then came the “worst call of the year.”

Boeheim tried to light a fire, but it didn’t resonate. The feeling in the locker room after the game was more an air of disappointment than of a team with something to prove.

Syracuse had games against teams it should have put away — two days after the trip to Cam-eron Indoor Stadium it had an early cushion against Maryland — but the Orange insisted to live on the edge.

“Every game we played really close,” SU center Baye Moussa Keita said on Saturday. “Tonight was a close one, but we just missed that little thing to close it out.

“It’s kind of surprising. We usually are able to close games.”

It’s probably not fair to say a team that started 25-0 with a pair of first-round pros-pects, an All-American and a Hall of Fame coach was fatally flawed, but that attitude is a bad habit.

A perfect start can cover up plenty of problems, and when they were all revealed it was too late to fix it. Syracuse lost its mojo and never could get it back. And once that happened, the Orange’s once-vivid dreams of Dallas faded into a familiar early exit.

“It’s kind of ironic with all the buzzer beat-ers and comebacks we’ve had,” Ennis said. “Sooner or later you’re not going to be able to win on buzzer-beaters and last-second plays.”

David Wilson is a staff writer at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasion-

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RAKEEM CHRISTMAS loses a ball out of bounds in SU’s loss to Dayton in the Round of 32. Christmas put together a solid game, collecting six points on 3-of-5 shooting, along with eight rebounds and three blocks. yuki mizuma staff photographer

By Trevor Hass and David Wilsonthe daily orange

BUFFALO, N.Y. — C.J. Fair remembers not knowing what to expect when he first came to college.

Four years later, Fair’s superb college career has come to a close. He has become a household name in Upstate New York, is nationally rec-ognized and will leave Syracuse as one of the winningest players in program history.

“I just felt welcomed here since the first day I’ve been here,” Fair said.

On Saturday, in No. 3-seed Syracuse’s (28-6, 14-4 Atlantic Coast) 55-53 loss to No. 11-seed Dayton (25-10, 10-6 Atlantic 10), Fair said fare-well to those same SU fans. He scored 14 points, grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds and swatted three shots.

Tyler Ennis’ furious one-man onslaught nearly carried the Orange to a come-from-behind win, but SU never would have gotten to that point without Fair. Though he shot just 4-of-14 from the field and struggled offensively early — just like everyone else who saw the f loor — Fair hit key shots down the stretch.

“He struggled a little, and he’s had some games where he’s struggled,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “In the second half, he got it back and got it going to the basket.”

Early in the second frame, Fair busted out a lethal crossover, blowing by multiple defenders and meeting 6-foot-10 Matt Kavanaugh in the air. The ball bounced off the front rim and fell, as SU cut the deficit to one.

At that point, Dayton’s Jordan Sibert had just nailed a 3. Syracuse needed an answer, and — as he’s done so many times over the years — Fair delivered it.

He then hit two free throws and two jumpers to help put the Orange up one, 38-37, with 8:34 remaining. At that point, Ennis was just 2-of-12 and Jerami Grant had only taken one shot.

For most of the game, though, Dayton locked Fair down. He said that the Flyers’ scrappy play allowed them to be quick to the ball and rotate defensively.

And Dayton’s suffocating defense eventu-ally proved to be too much, effectively ending Fair’s career.

It’s a bittersweet ending for a player who’s been engrained in the program for four years. The loss stings now — and Fair was devastated after the game — but he started to smile a little more when asked to look back at his journey at SU.

He talked about what coming back for a fourth year meant to him, and how he’s thrilled he made the decision to play one more season instead of going to the NBA.

“Coming back this year has been fun,” Fair said. “I don’t regret anything. I wouldn’t trade it to be with any other team.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling to meet a lot of people here, and that’s something you cherish for the rest of your life.”

Grant struggles offensivelyNearly 30 minutes of game time had passed, and Grant still hadn’t attempted a field goal.

Two days after torching Western Michi-gan for 16 points, Grant was rendered useless against Dayton. He played 34 minutes, but took just three shots and fouled out.

There were many reasons Syracuse fell to Dayton. Ennis started 2-of-12. Fair shot 4-of-

14. Trevor Cooney was ice cold from downtown.But Grant blamed himself.“It was just a horrible game for me,” Grant

said. “It was definitely probably my fault we lost the game tonight.”

He said Dayton double-teamed him in spurts, something he hasn’t seen much of this season. The Flyers flustered him with their activity and prevented him from getting into the flow of the game, and he didn’t get the same looks he usually does.

Grant — a player who usually stands out with his high-flying heroics and ridiculous ath-leticism — blended in against Dayton.

“It was tough,” Grant said. “I really couldn’t get a lot of touches.”

He barely even looked for his shot, but that was mostly a product of the Flyers’ lockdown defense.

When Grant finally got a shot off at the 10:28 mark of the second half, he swished a mid-range jumper to cut SU’s deficit to one. Five minutes later, he hit a layup after an offensive rebound to slice Dayton’s lead to two.

But he didn’t attempt a shot the rest of the game. Afterward, as he sat wide-eyed in his chair in the locker room, Grant said Syracuse was the better team.

Dayton’s defense clamped down on the Orange all night long, though.

“They were throwing a bunch of differ-ent guys at all us, fresh guys,” Cooney said, “and they go deep on the bench. They ’re a good team.”

The problems were copious for Syracuse, but Grant said his lack of production was the No. 1 issue.

“It was just a bad game for me,” Grant said. “I let my team down today.”

Christmas keeps Orange close with solid play When everything was going wrong for Syra-cuse at the start of the game, Rakeem Christ-mas of all people was the one keeping the Orange afloat.

SU trailed Dayton 11-4. Christmas had all four of Syracuse’s points.

“In our games, we haven’t started particu-larly well,” Boeheim said. “Tonight was no exception.”

Christmas finished with only six points on 3-of-5 shooting, but his offense early in the game kept the Orange within striking distance. He stayed out of foul trouble for long enough to anchor Syracuse’s defense in the low-scoring loss.

He blocked three shots and committed another goaltending violation early in the game — his third of the NCAA Tournament — to help match the gritty tone that UD set.

“They ’re a small, but they ’re scrappy,” Fair said of Dayton. “They kind of set the tone early.”

The Flyers found ways to pick apart the Orange’s zone, but none of UD’s looks in the paint came easy. Christmas swatted away three attempts and altered nearly every other one while he was on the floor.

And most importantly, he was able to stay on the floor. The forward didn’t pick up his first foul until the second half and was able to stay on the court for 37 minutes.

Just over two minutes after he picked up his first personal, though, he picked up his next and headed to the bench. But only 1:01 later, Boeheim had seen enough and sent Christmas back into the game.

Christmas made another hook shot late in the game as the offense was forced to maneuver primarily in the lane.

“We just wanted to attack,” Christmas said. “Just try to draw fouls and get some layups.”

It wasn’t a perfect game for the junior by any stretch, but it was a solid outing and a posi-tive sign for a team with an uncertain future. Frontcourt staples Fair and Baye Moussa Keita are graduating. Grant and Ennis could bolt for the NBA. That could leave Christmas as the closest thing to a star at Syracuse.

The former McDonald’s All-American has always had potential. Games like Saturday’s serve as a reminder, but now he has to cash in on it.

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Upperclassmen get revenge in victory over Northwestern

By Tyler Piccottistaff writer

As soon as the play clock struck zero, the entire Syracuse sideline dashed toward the midfield circle and converged into one joyous mob.

The past 11 times the Orange took the field against Northwestern, it didn’t have that opportunity following the game.

But Sunday afternoon was different.“Thank God,” SU attack Alyssa Murray

quipped in relief after the game. “Finally.”Using a late four-goal spurt in the sec-

ond half, No. 3 Syracuse (9-1, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) broke a tie game and 11-year drought against the No. 7 Wildcats (4-3, 1-1 American Lacrosse) with an 11-7 victory in front of 1,254 fans at the Carrier Dome.

Seniors Katie Webster and Murray chipped in for a combined seven points, and the SU defense forced 18 turnovers to lead SU to its fifth win against a ranked opponent this season.

And in doing so, the Orange upperclassmen — who have lost to NU four times in their colle-giate careers — earned a sweet dose of revenge.

“Today was about getting this done for our seniors,” head coach Gary Gait said. “Every-body bought in, and I think it makes for a great team effort.”

It was Webster that opened the scoring at the 28:13 mark of the first half with a sharp cut in front of the net. The two teams then traded blows throughout the frame, which featured three ties and two lead changes.

The Orange was able to carry a 6-4 lead into the break, but it quickly evaporated. Kaleigh Craig and Kat DeRonda both used exceptional

stutter-step moves to cut to the cage for unas-sisted goals as the Wildcats knotted the score in the opening minutes of the second half.

Instead of succumbing to the same familiar script, though, the Orange added a plot twist.

“Even though they were able to come out and score two quick ones on us, we were able to bounce back from that and really make a good run to close out the game,” Murray said. “I think that’s very telling of our team this year, that we were able to dig deep.”

Amy Cross gave SU the lead once again with 21:37 remaining. Five minutes later, Webster lofted a beautiful touch pass to Mur-ray in transition and the latter scored her only goal of the game to make the score 8-6.

As the lead grew to four, the Orange defense put together one of its best halves of the sea-son — holding the Wildcats to only three shots in the final 16 minutes of the contest.

A goal by Kara Mupo with 7:40 remaining brought the score to 10-7 and provided one final NU gasp. But the Cats wouldn’t get any closer.

“(Our defense) really relies on taking away the dodger,” Gait said. “Making dodgers become feeders and then putting the pressure on them to make tough feeds. We just kept going after them.”

As the clock ticked away, the enthusiasm on the Orange bench grew more and more feverish.

Players jumping, signaling to the crowd to make noise, high-fiving one another. It was the complete opposite of the dejected North-western side.

Even senior Bridget Daley — hampered by a walking boot on her left foot — pogoed on the sideline throughout the game and rushed the field when it ended.

“We all just wanted to hug each other after the game because everyone played their role,” senior defender Natalie Glanell said. “We did it together.”

More impressive was the fact that SU over-came a poor day in the draw circle, as it won only 7-of-20 draws.

Gait said those numbers will have to improve going forward. But either way, he was proud of his team’s ability to gain extra possessions off turnovers and was happy for all his seniors.

For them, the fifth game against the Wild-cats was the charm.

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SAME OLD STORY: SU struggles at X in rematch vs. DukeBy Josh Hyberstaff writer

DURHAM, N.C. — Inside the Schwartz-Butters Athletic Center on the Duke Uni-versity campus is a mural dedicated to

the 2013 Blue Devils’ National Championship-winning men’s lacrosse team. Directly adjacent to the Wingate Memorial Trophy and above the team’s roster is a picture that sums up the entire national title game.

A Blue Devils player is huddled over a Syra-cuse player, winning a battle at the faceoff X.

In May, the Blue Devils overcame a 6-1 defi-cit with a 12-1 run to capture the title, thanks in part to winning 7-of-8 faceoffs in the second quarter and all seven faceoffs in the third. After the game, Syracuse head coach John Desko told Duke coach John Danowski to buy faceoff specialist Brendan Fowler “a big steak.”

On Sunday — in a rematch of last year’s championship bout — Fowler won a convincing 24-of-31 draws, and Duke (8-2, 2-1 Atlantic Coast) defeated Syracuse (4-3, 0-3 ACC) 21-7 in front of 3,215 at Duke’s Koskinen Stadium. Blue Devils attack Deemer Class recorded 10 points (6 goals, 4 assists), while Myles Jones and Jordan Wolf both added five goals.

“Obviously, we’re rooting for our defense and faceoff units, but it’s never pinned on one group of guys or one individual,” Syracuse attack Kevin Rice said. “It was a collective team loss.”

Incumbent faceoff specialist Chris Daddio was replaced in the starting lineup by Joe DeMarco. The freshman from Massapequa, N.Y., won three of the first five faceoffs of the game, but only won three of the 11 he took in total. With a steady rain falling and the center of the field mostly turned to mud, DeMarco said he struggled getting traction and digging into the ground.

It was a nightmare from the start for the Orange, as rain began falling during the nation-al anthem. Although Syracuse jumped out to an early 2-1 lead with goals from Derek DeJoe and Nicky Galasso, Duke responded with seven straight goals to end the quarter.

Josh Dionne gave the Blue Devils a 3-2 lead when he intercepted a clearing attempt and placed a shot into a wide-open net. Wolf scored his first of the afternoon 14 seconds later after diving low and shooting underneath SU defender Brandon Mullins.

Dionne and Wolf’s goals were the second and third of a 10-0 Duke run. From the 9:41 mark of the first quarter to 12:18 of the second quarter,

Jones and Class each scored three goals, as the Blue Devils raced to an 11-2 lead.

For most of the afternoon, it was Duke’s outside shooting that stifled the Orange.

“We jumped into a zone defense and thought that would slow them down. But everything was just going their way offensively in the first half,” Desko said.

It wasn’t until the 7:16 mark of the second quarter that Syracuse ended the 10-0 run.

Randy Staats ran toward the cage from the right side and threw in a nifty backhander by Duke goalkeeper Luke Aaron to cut the deficit to 11-3. With 49 seconds left in the half, Staats found a cutting Billy Ward who beat Aaron to make it 12-4.

But just 25 seconds later, Christian Walsh —

who finished with six assists — found Class to give

the Blue Devils a convincing 13-4 halftime lead.

“They have tremendous offensive players,” Syracuse goalkeeper Bobby Wardwell said. “I think they took something like 57 shots, so, if you take that many shots in a game, you’re going to score.”

Just as it did in the first and second quarters, the Orange scored two goals in the third. Kevin Rice scored at 8:23 to cut a Blue Devils’ lead to 14-5, and Staats scored another highlight-reel goal to make it 16-6.

But it was all part of an effort that was nowhere near enough.

One week after winning just 4-of-25 faceoffs against Johns Hopkins, the Orange claimed just 7-of-31 against Fowler as he burned SU once again.

“The answer is definitely out there,” DeMar-co said. “We’re definitely getting closer.”

By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor

DURHAM, N.C. — Finally, the ball was back in a Syracuse stick on Syracuse’s side of the field.

SU defender Brandon Mullins scooped up a ball dropped by Duke’s Myles Jones, cleared it himself and flipped it to attack Dylan Donahue. At last, the SU offense had a chance to respond to the Blue Devils’ dominant first quarter.

But as the Orange looked to set up its attack, Donahue’s pass up top fell five yards short of fresh-man Nick Weston. Weston couldn’t handle it and the ball bounced out to midfield, where the Blue Devils pounced on it and gained possession once again.

“We weren’t able to get anything going offensively,” SU head coach John Desko said. “We didn’t get early opportunities. When we did, we turned the ball over.

“It just wasn’t a good day.”

Considering Duke’s authority over the faceoff X, perhaps offensive efficiency by SU may not have even been enough to knock off the high-octane Blue Devils offense — but the Orange’s attack never found a rhythm on which to build. The end result was a 21-7 beating of No. 6 Syracuse (4-3, 0-3 Atlantic Coast) at the hands of reigning national champion No. 4 Duke (8-2, 2-1) at a rainy Koskinen Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

In Syracuse’s upset of Johns Hopkins on March 15, its attack was efficient enough to make up for its lack of possessions earned at the X. The Orange was methodical, made the most of each possession and limited its turnovers to seven against the Blue Jays.

But against the Blue Devils on Sunday, the SU attack took a step backward.

“We turned the ball over more than we’d like to, especially with the way we were losing possessions,” attack Kevin Rice said. “If pos-sessions are going to be limited, we’re going to

have to value them more.”The Orange built a 2-1 lead early with scores

by Derek DeJoe and Nicky Galasso, but after that came a dry spell of possessions. After Luke Aaron saved a Galasso shot at the 10:39 mark of the first quarter, the Orange’s attack didn’t see the ball until the final two minutes of the period.

By then, Duke led 8-2.“You’re just standing there watching them

play,” SU attack Randy Staats said, “and you want the ball to do something with. It’s defi-nitely a little frustrating.”

But even when Syracuse had the ball, it wasn’t in good care. The Orange committed 16 turnovers, its second-highest total of the sea-son. At times the wet, muddy grass at Koskinen Stadium wasn’t the sloppiest thing on the field.

With no Blue Devils within 10 yards of him, SU midfielder Mike Messina dropped what would’ve been an easy clearing pass in the sec-

ond quarter. Drew Jenkins won the faceoff to open the second half, but while eluding Duke’s defense, he stepped out of bounds.

The shot efficiency that carried Syracuse over Johns Hopkins disappeared as well. Rice scored, but just once on six shots. All three of Hakeem Lecky’s attempts missed the cage completely. The Orange scored on 40 percent of its shots against the Blue Jays, but connected on just 25.9 percent against Duke.

It’s arguable that even drastically improved efficiency with the ball wouldn’t have saved Syracuse from being blown out by Duke. But its clear improved play from the attack will be needed going forward — and that starts when the Orange hosts Notre Dame on Saturday.

Said Desko: “We’re going to have to put this one behind us quick, because we have to get focused on Notre Dame.”

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Orange offense commits 16 turnovers in sloppy performance

BRENDAN FOWLER (RIGHT), Duke’s faceoff specialist picks up a groundball after a faceoff win. Just like in his national championship performance against Syracuse last season, Fowler dominated. He won 24-of-31 faceoffs against the Orange on Sunday, which continues to search for answers at the faceoff X. The loss dropped Syracuse to 0-3 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. logan reidsma staff photographer

Obviously, we’re rooting for our defense and faceoff units, but it’s never pinned on one group of guys or one individual. It was a collective team loss.Kevin Ricesu attack

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BIG NUMBER

(28-6, 14-4) 3SYRACUSE 53 vs. 11DAYTON 55 (25-10, 10-6)

STAT TO KNOW

ARCHIE MILLERThe Dayton head coach devised a brilliant game plan to stymie Syracuse offensively. The Orange shot just 38.9 percent for

the game and managed a season-low 18 points in the first half.

TREVOR COONEYCooney shot 1-of-6 from the field and 0-of-4 from down-town, ending the season with a 37.5 3-point percentage. When the Syracuse offense needed a

boost, its once reliable sharpshooter could only provide missed attempts, including two airballs.

HERO

ZERO

When it left my hands it looked

good. Up until I saw it bounce out I

thought it was going to bounce back in. You can’t hit every

game winner.Tyler Ennis

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18The number of points Syracuse scored in the first half

Jerami Grant attempted his first shot with 10:28 to go in the game. The Syracuse sopho-more forward recorded just four points on three shots before fouling out in 34 minutes.

STORYTELLER HERO/ZERO

short. After single-handedly keeping the Orange in the game down the stretch, Tyler Ennis missed a questionable pull-up jumper with eight seconds to go and SU down one, and then the 3 that would have won it. No. 3-seed Syracuse (28-6, 14-4 Atlantic Coast) fell to No. 11-seed Dayton (25-10, 10-6 Atlan-tic 10) 55-53 in the Round of 32 at First Niagara Center on Saturday, as its season came to a premature end.

“They were the better team tonight,” Fair said, rubbing his face and looking downward as he revealed a truth all too clear for the Orange after the game.

Ennis sat 15 feet away from Fair in the adjacent corner, bombarded by media. Just 15 minutes earlier, he nearly kept SU’s sea-son alive with a go-ahead 3-pointer that rimmed out.

The ty pically quiet Rakeem Christmas was especially soft-spoken, as tears swelled in his eyes. Trevor Cooney kept his head down, two nights after lighting the gym on fire. The usually jovial Michael Gbinije sat in desolation.

“It would have been kind of a miracle season if something like that were to happen,” Ennis said. “Realistically you’re not going to hit every game-winner unless you’re Kobe Bryant.”

But Ennis had given Syracuse fans reason for hope.

The superstar freshman already had a 35-foot buzzer beater to his name. Another game-winning layup. A 28-point performance.

Saturday’s game-winner would have been

the enchilada of them all. And he had already scored 11 points in the final four minutes.

“When it left my hands it looked good,” Ennis said. “Up until I saw it bounce out, I thought it was going to bounce back in.”

Ennis had another chance to push Syr-acuse ahead after a trap forced Dayton’s Jordan Sibert to step out of bounds with 14 seconds left.

But after swooping toward the basket for layup after layup in the game’s closing minutes, Ennis went away from what had been working.

He pulled up for a jumper from just behind the free-throw line, much to the dismay of SU head coach Jim Boeheim.

“With 13 seconds to go, we wanted to get it to Tyler and drive the ball,” Boeheim said. “We’d just driven the ball for three baskets, and I don’t know why he settled for the jump shot. There was plenty of time. He had space. I’m not

sure why.”Boeheim snarled at Ennis as he walked

toward the SU bench.

Moments later, Dyshawn Pierre would miss his second free throw, Christmas would snag the rebound and Ennis — after jetting up the court much like he did at Pittsburgh — would put up a potential game winner.

But the miracle never came.The ball bounced out, and with it so did

Syracuse’s chances at a national title. The miss also ended the collegiate careers of Fair and center Baye Moussa Keita, and possibly Ennis’ and Grant’s, as well.

“You think something good’s going to hap-

pen just because it always does,” Cooney said, “but the kid’s human.”

Syracuse started 25-0, lost its touch at the end of the season, then seemed to rediscover it against Western Michigan. Along the way, it grew accustomed to winning close games but that formula failed on the biggest stage.

This time, Syracuse couldn’t survive.“We had a chance to win,” Ennis said, “and I

think we’ve always had a chance to win. I can’t really ask for a better shot.”

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C.J. FAIR wipes tears away from his eyes following Syracuse’s 55-53 loss to Dayton in the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament. It was the final game for the senior, and he scored 14 points and collected 10 rebounds in the losing effort. He struggled down the stretch as the Orange finished the season losing 6-of-9 games. yuki mizuma staff photographer

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“The only thing we could make was a layup,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said.

Eventually, he noted, the Orange broke through and got to the rim, but sometimes three points are critical, and SU’s best chances to score in bunches came from and-1s.

When Syracuse needed three points to answer a Flyer triple, Ennis drove to the rim for a three-point play. Every heave from beyond the arc was futile — including Ennis’ potential game-winning shot at the buzzer — but Boeheim never felt like his team was due to hit one.

“There’s a lot of guys in (Las) Vegas that think that, too,” Boeheim said. “They go home with nothing.”

Most of the Orange’s 3-point attempts weren’t shots that had a chance to go in and just didn’t fall — they were shots that were completely off the mark.

Two of Cooney’s early 3s missed the rim entire-ly. On one look, it appeared that his arm got hit, but no foul was called. The next air ball, though, was just a hurried shot that missed everything.

“Some of my better games this year have come when I missed my first shot, I missed my second shot, I missed my third shot,” Cooney said.

He only got one more look, but that was off the mark, too, and he sat on the bench for all but eight minutes of the second half.

In his place, Gbinije played one of his best games of the year, but the team’s third most reliable 3-point shooter didn’t give SU any-thing extra from deep. His only attempt was a wide-open, potentially game-tying triple from the right corner that rimmed out.

“We had a couple of good shots,” Boeheim said. “They didn’t go in.”

That phrase has become part of Syracuse’s routine, too. The coach has embraced his

team’s shooting struggles, but the problem was at its worst at the worst possible time.

As jump shot after jump shot missed, UD was able to pack the defense in against a one-dimen-sional offense that didn’t make a shot outside the paint until 10:23 remained in the game.

“They’re a small team, but they’re scrappy, and they’re quick to the ball and rotations,” SU forward C.J. Fair said. “Every time we put the

ball down, they got a hand in there.”The last resort for Syracuse on the perim-

eter is Ennis. He’s second on the team in both makes and percentage, but hadn’t insisted on the outside shot until the past few weeks.

When he takes enough, he typically drills at least one or two, but he was as guilty as anyone for missing open looks and taking long shots that he shouldn’t have.

“None of us really made shots tonight. It’s just tough,” Cooney said. “This is just a tough pill to swallow, especially to lose when you don’t play well.”

Once again on Friday, Boeheim voiced his confidence in Cooney’s shooting and insisted that he was a good shooter.

“I’m confident that when we get him good shots, he’s going to make them,” he said. “I’m very confi-dent in that until the game’s over and he doesn’t.”

On Saturday, he didn’t and the Orange’s season came to an abrupt close. There’s always next game for him to find his stroke again, but talking about that was the one part of Cooney’s postgame routine that he ditched.

Now that chance won’t come again until November.

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It would have been kind of a miracle season if something like that were to happen. Realistically you’re not going to hit every game winner unless you’re Kobe Bryant.Tyler Ennissu point guard

The only thing we could make was a layup.Jim Boeheimsu head coach

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The journey without Sykes continues for at least one more game, when No. 6-seed seed Syracuse (23-9, 10-6 Atlantic Coast) takes on No. 3-seed Kentucky (25-8, 10-6 Southeastern) on Monday at 6:30 p.m. in Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Ky.

The extent of Sykes’ right knee injury remains unknown, but Hillsman said that she will sit out SU’s Round of 32 game against Kentucky, before being evaluated further in Syracuse this week.

“You’ve got to go in there expecting to win the basketball game,” Hillsman said, “but it is tough when you lose a player and you don’t know exactly what’s going on. It’s kind of mixed emotions.”

After Sykes was helped off the court with 12:46 left in the game, Butler shook off her shooting slump to lead the Orange’s offense the rest of the way. The sophomore netted nine points in the second half and, despite finishing 2-of-12 for the game, hit game-clinching free throws down the stretch.

As a whole, the Orange didn’t shoot particularly well from the field — just 31.5 percent for the game.

“We just needed everyone to crash and get the rebounds and put it back up and keep playing hard and fight through our missed shots,” Butler said in the postgame press conference. “Every-one is going to miss but it’s the people who continue to play hard that make a difference.”

Thanks to Syracuse’s energy on the offensive glass, the team had a handful of second-chance opportunities, including 14 points off offensive rebounds in the first half. The Orange grabbed 19 offensive boards in the half to Chattanooga’s 21 defensive rebounds.

Out of Sykes’ team-high 12 rebounds, five were off SU misses. SU center Shakeya Leary

corralled eight rebounds for the game, and five of those were shots the Orange missed.

“We were getting good looks at the time, we just weren’t able to convert that into points,” Butler said, “but we were able to pick it up on the defensive end and get rebounds, which took place of the missed shots.”

Even with Sykes tearfully forced to watch the end of the game on the bench with a bag of ice on her elevated right knee, her teammates were able to finish the game for her.

On Monday night, they’ll face a Kentucky team that rolled No. 14-seed Wright State by 46

points Saturday, and will once again be on its home court.

But Hillsman’s practice method had his players ready to move on without Sykes against Chattanooga. Now, they’ll have to be ready for a full game.

Said Leary during the postgame press con-ference: “I think Coach Q did a great job this season preparing us by putting us through tough situations in practice.

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You’ve got to go in there expecting to win the basketball game. But it is tough when you lose a player and you don’t know exactly what’s going on. It’s kind of mixed emotions.

Quentin Hillsmansu head coach

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BOUNCED OUTBy David Wilsonstaff writer

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Two days after answering questions at the podium about what went right, Trevor Cooney was back to his old routine.

He had his own place in the locker room where a handful of reporters would gather at a time to ask what went wrong. Why weren’t the shots falling? Was it the looks he was getting? Was something off with his release?

He sat there with a blank look, fielding familiar questions and spit-ting out familiar answers.

“I just never really got any good looks tonight and I never really got into a good rhythm,” he said, “and when that happens, it’s hard to carry it on and make shots.”

His shooting woes coincided with Syracuse’s (28-6, 14-4 Atlantic Coast) late-season swoon. Often enough there was someone to fill the scoring void, but not on Saturday. The No. 3-seed Orange, already a poor shooting team, went a miserable 0-for-10 from beyond the arc during a season-ending 55-53 loss to No. 11-seed Dayton (25-10, 10-6 Atlantic 10) in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

Cooney went 0-for-4 and sat for most of the second half. Tyler Ennis went 0-for-5. Michael Gbinije missed his only attempt. It was the first time since 1995 that the Orange didn’t make a 3-pointer in a game.

It kept SU from getting over the hump and evening the game late dur-ing the second half — and winning the game on a last-second try.

By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor

A couple of years ago, Quentin Hills-man discovered a way to shake up Syracuse’s practices and pose a chal-lenge to his players.

He’d interrupt scrimmages and announce a situation: Leading scorer Brittney Sykes has fouled out. Or, top shooter Brianna Butler has fouled out.

Someone else would need to come in, and the team would have to adapt and get it done, regardless of personnel.

“I think that really helped us in this game,” Hillsman said in the postgame press conference following SU’s win over Chattanooga on Sat-urday. “It’s just like Britt(ney Sykes) fouled out in practice.

“It’s time to make a decision. Are we

going to feel sorry for ourselves and lay down, or are we going to compete and fight to win this basketball game?”

The head coach’s tactic came in handy against the Mocs as the Orange won its first-ever NCAA tour-nament game 59-53 despite Sykes,

the Orange’s star guard, going down with what appeared to be a season-ending right knee injury in the sec-ond half. SU outrebounded, outde-fended and outplayed Chattanooga en route to the first-round win.

Orange loses in Round of 32 as Ennis’ game-winning try doesn’t fallBy Trevor Hassasst. sports editor

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Minutes removed from walking past a Dayton celebration, C.J. Fair

sat in the corner of the Syracuse

locker room.Toes curled. Jersey still on. Head

hanging forward, fully concealed by a white towel.

Motionless.Five minutes passed. Media mem-

bers uncomfortably watched as Fair

sat there. Finally, he removed the veil and offered the faintest of smiles. But his eyes were swollen and he slumped against the wall, devastated by what had just transpired.

This was supposed to be the year. Fair had inched closer and closer to a

championship in his four years. Now it was his time to shine, to return glory to a program so accustomed to greatness but with only one champi-onship to its name.

But Syracuse came up two points

TYLER ENNIS walks over to the Syracuse bench after missing a potential game-winning shot in SU’s season-ending 55-53 loss in the NCAA Tourna-ment Round of 32. Ennis scored 11 points in the final four minutes, but missed two crucial chances to win it. yuki mizuma staff photographer

SU hits no 3s in loss to Dayton

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Orange looks to continue historic NCAA run without star Sykes