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N • More than a goalA Falk School professor is pre-miering his in-depth documen-tary on how sports can change the lives of people with disabili-ties. Page 3

P • Moment of ‘Clarity’Rapper 2 Chainz and electronic dance music DJ Zedd electrified the crowd for the annual Block Party concert in the Carrier Dome. 1

S • Out of luckSyracuse fights back and comes up empty in a 15-14 loss to Notre Dame in the ACC tournament final on Sunday. Page 20

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SU teams struggle with athletic facility limitations

University releases report

By Jessica Iannetta and Dylan Segelbaumthe daily orange

For Syracuse University to be success-ful in the next five years, a majority of faculty and staff members believe the school must “significantly change,” according to a sweeping, 38-page report from an outside consulting firm released late Friday afternoon.

The report from Bain & Co., a glob-al management consulting firm based in Boston, analyzes ways the school can become more efficient and effec-tive. SU commissioned the report last fall and formed a committee made up of faculty, staff, deans and adminis-trators to help compile the analysis.

Bain & Co. is separate from Bain Capital, an investment company found-ed by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney. But, Romney worked for Bain & Co. from 1977-85, and again for a short time in the early 1990s.

The analysis was put together dur-ing the course of four months and its findings have been presented to Chancellor Kent Syverud. Bain con-ducted interviews with more than 110 faculty, students and administrators. The company also surveyed 1,221 employees and drew on existing uni-versity data as well as information from peer institutions for the report.

The report examines 16 different areas of the university and looks at financial trends; compares SU to peer institutions; and identifies places of “concern, inefficiency and ineffective-ness” in the way the school works.

Here’s some of the report’s findings:

Strategic PlanFirst, the company found SU lacks an “overarching strategic plan” — a clear vision and objective for the school. This plan would help with decision-making in areas such as enrollment, hiring and spending.

Because there is no strategic plan,

By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor

Last February, Syracuse Univer-sity Athletics announced plans for a new, state-of-the-art $17 million

p r a c t i c e f a c i l -ity for the O r a n g e ’ s

football program.The proposed facility, to be built

where the Joseph Vielbig Out-door Track Stadium stands now, is expected to vastly enhance the program’s status and attract better recruits. Along with plans to build a new track facility on South Campus, it will also benefit other teams in the athletic program.

Until these new facilities open, though, some Syracuse programs have had to and will continue to compromise their practices due to the state of SU’s current facilities.

Even when the facilities are constructed, some programs will remain unimproved.

“Everyone has their own quirky things that maybe they’re working

on,” said Paul Flanagan, the Syra-cuse women’s ice hockey head coach, “and their own little battles they have to fight.”

Women’s lax faces overcrowding When plans for the new football facility were announced, the SU women’s lacrosse program was fresh

Students enjoy warm weather, relax with free food, live music

Party-goers let loose in end-of-the-year off-campus celebrations

Students crowd around Castle Court to celebrate the end of the year on Friday as part of MayFest. People spent the day traveling between Castle Court, Walnut Park and Euclid Avenue to socialize, eat free food and enjoy live music. renee zhou staff photographer

‘EVERY DAY SHOULD BE MAYFEST’

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Outside consulting firm details areas for improvement for SU

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By Jen Bundy staff writer

One of Mim Powelson’s greatest adventures happened on Mount Washington.

The junior natural history and interpretation major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry was leading a day hike toward Mount Washington, the tallest mountain in New Hampshire, when nature struck.

“We got to the top of the mountain and this huge storm hit,” she said. “It was intense. One hundred miles per hour winds, fog and hail. Thankfully, we all made it through.”

It’s not only in the mountains of New Hampshire where Powelson finds adven-ture, though. On Syracuse University’s campus, she found it through the Syra-cuse Snare, the club Quidditch team.

“I’ve always loved Harry Potter,” she said. “My mom read the books to me every night when I was younger.”

Powelson is the newly elected head captain of the Syracuse Snare team and plays as a chaser and beater on the team, which competed in the

Quidditch World Cup in April. She said that her time on the team

began when a good friend suggested that she join, knowing she wanted to get involved with something athletic.

“When I tell people I am on the Quidditch team, it is a moment of truth. They either like it or immedi-ately judge me,” she said. “But most people have really positive reactions.”

Powelson believes that most people simply do not understand the actual game of Quidditch or the intensity and athleticism necessary to succeed at it.

“The first question I get is, how do you guys fly?” she said. “Obviously we don’t, but Quidditch is much more than just Harry Potter geeks running around. It is an actual sport.”

She also said the best thing about the Quidditch team is the family atmosphere both on and off the field.

“We stand out compared to most teams because while it is nice to win a game, we really just love having fun and making great friends,” Powelson said. “We are even starting a Quid-ditch House next year.”

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MIM POWELSON, a junior natural history and interpretation major at SUNY-ESF, was recently elected as the head captain of the Syracuse Snare club Quidditch team. genevieve pilch staff photographer

i nsi deN • Get connectedA VPA professor has developed a web platform to encourage the for-mation of personal relationships.Page 3

S • Tourney boundThe Syracuse softball team qualifies for the ACC tournament in its first season in the league. Page 19

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$14,000 How much Jim Boeheim’s

jacket from the Feb. 28 Duke game was sold for at an auc-tion benefiting the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation.

By Robert Romanostaff writer

After being shot in the abdomen, Kevin Flike never thought he would enjoy skiing, his favorite sport, again. But through a number of sur-geries and an organization known as STRIDE Adaptive Sports, Flike is back on the slopes and has regained control of his mobility.

Flike is an adaptive sports suc-cess and his story is one of many told in “Changing Sports, Changing Lives,” a documentary by Dennis Deninger, an Emmy-winning pro-fessor of practice in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics. The film will premiere in Watson Theatre on Monday at 4 p.m. After the premiere, there will be an award presentation and a sym-posium that includes a question-and-answer session with a panel of speakers followed by a reception.

The panel includes speakers such as six-time Paralympic medalist Bob

Balk, chair of the International Para-lympic Committee Athletes’ Council and Nienke Dosa, medical director of the Spina Bifida Clinic at SUNY Upstate University Hospital, who specializes in children with spinal injuries, Deninger said. Both Balk and Dosa are featured in the film.

“I’m really looking forward to hav-ing them all interact,” Deninger said.

Students taking the course SPM 300: The History of Sport provided the background research for the documentary. It required students to study the way sports have adapted to allow disabled athletes to participate.

Deninger said preparation for the course began in spring 2013 and students completed research at the end of the fall semester. All of the students are credited in the film as part of its research staff.

“There is no way that we would have been able to produce this film and premiere it in April without having the research done by these students. The student research was

invaluable,” Deninger said. A few students assisted in creating

the documentary, requiring them to continue working on the project, said Andrew Feder, a sophomore psychol-ogy and sport management major.

“We had to research in even fur-ther depth,” Feder said.

The movie delves into the his-tory of adaptive sports programs such as the founding of the Inter-national Paralympic Games in 1948, the development of programs at the

high school and collegiate level and the development of equipment for adaptive sports, among other topics.

The documentary not only includes profiles on wounded soldiers but also on wheelchair athletes such as Hermin Garic, who broke his spine at age four while fleeing his village in Bosnia during a mortar attack.

Garic recently won the 2014 Miami Marathon in the wheelchair pushrim division, said Dan Gorman, president of SU’s Sport Management Club. At the premiere, Garic will receive the “Perseverance in Sports” award from the club.

“It’s an incredible honor to be able to present this perseverance award to Garic, as he truly demon-strates the positive qualities that make a successful role model,” Gor-man said.

Deninger worked at ESPN for 25 years and said Chris Fowler, who also narrated ESPN’s SportsCen-tury, narrates “Changing Sports,

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Professor launches website By Josh Dermer and Justin Mattingly the daily orange

Amardo Rodriguez takes an interest in community and the forces that cause social isolation. He’s seen how social media can fragment personal relation-ships, particularly on college campuses.

“The psychological, relational, biological and political effects of social isolation are profound,” he said. “Even though most of us are increasingly tweeting, texting and Facebooking, all of this suppos-edly communication activity is doing absolutely nothing to less-en our social isolation.”

To encourage formation of personal relationships through Internet inter-action, Rodriguez developed Tirper, a platform that helps find people near users who have the same interests.

Rodriguez, a professor in Syra-cuse University’s communication and rhetorical studies department and creator of Tirper, said the web-site is functional, but getting users to subscribe is important.

“It’s up and running but the challenge

Crash course(FROM LEFT) ZACK VOHS, TOM RICE AND RYAN MCCOOEY, all senior aerospace engineering majors, fix their airplane after it crashed in the Carrier Dome Sunday afternoon. Senior aerospace engineering students flew their airplanes during Flight Day, when they showcased their work as part of their senior design capstone course. Flight Day’s purpose is to see if the students’ airplanes can make it from one end of the Dome to the other without crashing or veering off course. joshuah romero asst. photo editor

There are a few times when you’re interviewing when you feel like you’re interviewing history.

Dennis Deningerprofessor of practice

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An increased number of Syracuse Police Department officers and Department of Public Safety officers patrolled Euclid Avenue both in cars and on foot for this year’s MayFest. The officers were present to enforce the following security measures:

crime briefs

One year laterIt has been one year

since a bilingual library opened in the La Casita Cultural Cen-ter in the Near Westside. See tomorrow’s paper.

• Backpacks and bags were not permitted into Walnut ParkIntoxicated persons were not allowed to enter the event.• Walnut Park and surrounding streets were blocked off before, during and after the event.• Bird Library was only open to those entering the building to study and restrooms were for library patron use only.• Only local traffic was allowed on Marshall Street, from Comstock Avenue to Walnut Avenue.

DPS Chief Tony Callisto estimated there were 10,000 attendees at Walnut Park and only a few hundred people on Euclid Avenue. The only crimes he reported are:•The Syracuse Police Department arrested one person for driving while intoxicated near Euclid Avenue.• An appearance ticket was issued for harassment near Waverly Avenue on Walnut Avenue.

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In the last week we’ve seen the rise of Cliven Bundy in his stand against the federal gov-ernment’s land ownership, and his fast fall

with his racist comments of how black Ameri-cans would have been better off as slaves.

It certainly isn’t surprising, as Bundy was a very bad symbol for the conservative media to focus on in the first place. There are lots of ways to make a good case for the government overreaching with land ownership and exces-sive fines, but spotlighting Bundy was not it. It never was.

Bundy is a Nevada rancher who has illegally let his cattle graze on federal land for 20 years. As a result, he’s built up about $1 million in

grazing fees, to the point where the government was planning to take his cattle away. However, Bundy has a large group of armed supporters to defend the ranch, and they’ve been at a stand-still since.

Jon Stewart, as you’d expect, took some time to poke fun at how conservative media covered the issue. However, he did make a surprisingly good point at the end of his April 21 “Apocalypse

Cow” segment that went beyond his usual “ad hominem” based comedy against Sean Hanni-ty’s coverage of the rancher.

Stewart’s basic logic was that while govern-ment overreach is bad, being against it to the level of having an armed standoff with the federal government is blowing it out of propor-tion. If Bundy really wanted to make his case, he should bring it up to the voters and local politicians. But the federal government not letting him graze on land he doesn’t own doesn’t warrant an armed revolt.

This is actually reasonable. This is a “petition the government for a redress of grievances” issue, not a “if you don’t grab your guns and be ready to fire, our freedom will end here” issue. Whether or not you disagree with the govern-ment about owning that federal land, they didn’t break any laws in acquiring it, so Bundy should go through the legal channels set by it, instead of creating a mini-cold war in Nevada.

I was looking forward to Hannity’s response the next night, but it was disappointing. He simply tried to paint Stewart as a hypocrite for failing to call out other “domestic terrorists” like Bill Ayers or Yusuf Islam from his Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. It was a fragile argu-ment, as Stewart never even called Bundy a domestic terrorist in his segment.

There are some solid cases Hannity could’ve instead made for Bundy. He could look at if the benefits of having a ranch produce cattle for the market outweigh the consequences of illegal grazing. Better yet, Hannity could’ve looked at the large conservative supporters for his cause, and show Bundy already has the resources to petition the government to redress their owner-

ship of the land. That would’ve let Hannity have the last word for once.

In the end, Bundy is another major issue of the conservative echo chamber, where events or people get distorted and oversimplified. When the government and ranchers are having an armed standoff on a small issue like cattle graz-ing, it’s easy to frame the government for using force to take away our liberty.

It’s a simple idea of the government being an enemy that will only use force to take what it wants, which stirs a lot of fear and activism in the conservative base, without a rational argu-ment. Conservatives deserve to be taken more seriously, and one important way to do that is ditch people like Bundy.

Max Antonucci is a junior newspaper and online journalism major. His column appears

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University should address areas of disconnection between colleges The disconnect between Syracuse University’s colleges has led to many problems on campus, includ-ing inconsistent branding, a redun-dancy in staffing and an overall lack of identity.

On Friday, SU released a report from Bain & Co, an independent consulting firm, which analyzed the areas in which the university can improve. The report outlined 16 points ranging from the university’s lack of strategic plan to how SU’s tuition compares to other schools.

Although the report identified multiple ways the university can improve, SU should prioritize the issues surrounding the disconnect between the separate colleges on campus.

The inconsistent branding across colleges creates a division. This division suggests SU is not a cohesive unit and detracts from an overall identity. The report found that “Syracuse University” does not appear in many individual school logos or websites. SU should work to

centralize the image projected from the separate schools to create a more cohesive outward appearance.

The disconnect between the col-leges goes beyond the issues of the university’s branding. The report stated there is a redundancy in staffing due to the lack of commu-nication between colleges. A lack of central systems has led the colleges to develop their own resources. For example, although there is an entirely dedicated IT department, each school has its own as well.

Through better organization or by establishing shared services, SU could reduce costs and increase efficiency in these areas.

An overall lack of identity is also a longstanding problem for SU. On Feb. 25, the university sent out a survey to students in an attempt to better understand the existing image of the university. With the results of the Bain report also showing that SU is lacking an overarching vision, the university needs to make it a priority to create

a cohesive identity. SU is multi-faceted in what it has

to offer students and that is a major strength. However, the university needs to ensure that being multi-fac-eted does not create a disconnection.

For SU to move forward and address all the areas that need improvement, the university needs to first focus on centralizing its brand and better organizing how staff is utilized. These changes should bring the university closer to establishing an overarching identity.

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Movies create unrealistic male standardsMANDISA SHIELDSWHAT A GIRL WANTS

When most people think of negative body image, an insecure woman who is

either overweight or struggling with an eating disorder comes to mind. However, men also face an unreal-istic and unhealthy pressure to fit a certain mold.

An April 23 Slate article addressed the role superhero mov-ies play in male body image issues. Actors in all genres, especially those in action movies, are facing an increasing pressure to be tall, strong and muscular. Actors are enduring twice-a-day workouts, strict, grueling diets and shots of human growth hormone.

This is not just bad for actors. Men consuming today’s media aren’t walking away from the theater thinking “that was just a movie.” They are internalizing this standard of beauty and this intensified defini-tion of what it means to be a man. This creates an impossible standard for men to have every inch of their body to be muscular and chiseled.

More and more men are opting for upgraded gym memberships, all-protein shake diets and even shots of HGH in order to achieve this impossible standard, according to the article. This may not remind you of girls who go to extreme lengths to reach impossible beauty

standards, but it is the exact same thing. Both are clear cases of body dysmorphic disorder and involve disordered eating.

They also feature everyday people competing with celebrities who are paid to look good. They have to compete with celebrities who have personal trainers, profes-sional make-up artists and a team of people who can remove every blemish in a picture with the swipe of a mouse. For the average person with more responsibilities and fewer resources, this is nearly impossible to achieve.

But this standard is about more than a man’s exterior. It is a physical manifestation of the pressure that men already face to be mentally and emotionally strong. The phrase “man up” has probably been etched into every man’s brain. This phrase has nothing to do with being a good person or doing the right thing. Instead, it is about showing no emo-tion at all.

This is probably why there are rarely conversations about the impossible beauty standards men

face. They’re supposed to suck it up and get over it. Men aren’t expected to have eating disorders or to suffer from depression as a result. This is because they aren’t expected to care about these standards — they’re just supposed to live up to them. In short, they have to suffer trying to meet these standards and they can’t even cry about it.

If men are permitted to show emotion, the only acceptable form of expression is usually anger. It’s more acceptable for a man to lash out and yell, or even hit someone, than it is for a man to cry. This leads to every emotion being converted to anger and displayed in that way.

This also promotes a one-dimensional idea of what it means to be a man. It turns men from human beings into flat characters who never cry or express their emo-tions. It also reinforces gender roles, keeping men and women in perfectly categorized boxes. These gender roles aren’t genetically ingrained in each person based on their gender; they’re taught and retaught to us by our society.

Mandisa Shields is a freshman newspaper and online journalism

major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at meshield@

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A SUNY-ESF graduate is using the envi-ronment around him to feed his passion for helping others.

David Myers, a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry alumnus, created Backyard Orchards, which plants edible gardens in clients’ yards in Buf-falo, N.Y. Myers came up with the idea for the business in 2008 while he was living in Miami. More and more houses in area were foreclosing, so he began to do “urban foraging,” where he would gather food from nearby fruit trees of the foreclosed homes.

“I was living less than a quarter mile away from a grocery store and my neighbor had enough food in her backyard for the whole neighborhood,” he said.

Although the idea for the business started in 2008, the actual business took Myers about a year to start, he said. He spent the winter filling out paperwork, as no planting could

be done.Myers said he realized that with a long

enough time, whole neighborhoods could be planted with life-sustaining fruit trees. At SUNY-ESF, he began looking at the landscape as infrastructure, not just something that is decorative, he said.

“ESF also helped me value the overall health of the earth and of ourselves as well,” he said.

This led him to realize that the healthier the earth is, the healthier people are as indi-viduals, Myers added.

Until his business was created, Myers was unsure how he would be able to use his talents, said Emanuel Carter, a professor of landscape architecture who had Myers as a student.

“It’s fair to say that for much of the time he was here, he wasn’t sure how he could best use his talents to have an impact,” Carter said. “Toward the end of his time here, it occurred to him that what he really enjoyed doing was serving the people he lives among.”

During his undergraduate career, Myers did not want a job that would give him high status

or income, but a career that would make a dif-ference in the community, Carter said. Carter said Myers came to him multiple times with different ideas and kept in touch while he was starting his business.

“We were tweaking the old model of a home landscaping service and realized that at the end of the day, not everybody wants fruit trees in their backyards, but they still have resource-wasting landscapes,” he said.

Myers said he wanted to make a resource-making landscape, like an apple orchard, rath-er than a resource-wasting landscape, such as lawns that people typically maintain but that don’t provide anything for the environment around it. Many of the plants in people’s yards are not native, he added.

“We think just because something is green and living that it’s part of the environment, but that’s not true,” he said.

Myers and his team are also looking to start a permaculture farm and spread hard-to-find plants in order to celebrate the environment’s biodiversity. Permaculture refers to the idea

of permanent agriculture, said George Besch, a consultant in land use planning who works for Backyard Orchards.

“Right now, the key to how we envision, mar-ket and reach out to people starts with their interest in food security,” he said.

The company has had a few experiences bringing this idea up to their clients and most clients seem confused until he mentions the words “food security,” Besch said. Food securi-ty means always having food available, he said.

Besch said he got involved with Backyard Orchards when a friend of his asked if he had any creative ideas to adapt 54 acres of agricultural land that he had just outside of Buffalo. He thought of adaptive permaculture in order to convert the site from a more tra-ditional, conventional landscape garden into something that can provide a resource in the area, he said.

Though Myers started Backyard Orchards on his own, Besch said it now has several employees and will only continue to grow.

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DAVID MYERS, a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry alumnus, shows off the various edible plants he uses in his clients’ gardens. Myers started his business, Backyard Orchards, in 2009 to transform people’s lawns into more sustainable gardens. courtesy of david myers

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By Anna Merod and Shawna Rabbasthe daily orange

As empty red solo cups rolled down Euclid Avenue, Kyle McQuay reclined in a small blue inflatable pool outside of 423 Euclid Ave.

“Safety first,” said McQuay, a senior interna-tional relations major, pointing to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle floaties on his arms.

McQuay, along with many other students at Syracuse University, celebrated this year’s annual MayFest on Euclid Avenue. MayFest originally started in 2007 as a day off from classes for students to showcase their work and later party at off-campus houses on Euclid Avenue. The festivities are now split between Walnut Park and Euclid Avenue.

The weather at this year’s MayFest was bet-ter than past years, McQuay said, but Euclid Avenue was also much quieter. Still, students

on Euclid were feeling the MayFest spirit. At 500 Euclid Ave., a blue and orange sign

with the phrase “You Honk, We Drink” was plastered on the front of the house. Students cheered as trucks and cars whizzed by, blar-ing their horns. Standing in the front yard of the house, Kyle Kimball, a senior advertising major, shared his MayFest morning routine.

“We started at 8:00 a.m. with mimosas and Mario Kart, and then somehow ended up here,” Kimball said.

Other students such as Lorenzo Marquez and Peri Casella began celebrating MayFest at noon. Casella, a junior management and emerging enterprises and entrepreneurship major, said she loves how everyone is so kind and happy during MayFest. She added that the event truly makes SU feel like a community.

“Every day should be MayFest,” Casella said. As Marquez, a junior economics major,

hopped off the back of an ice cream truck stationed at the corner of Euclid and Sumner avenues, he said MayFest was better this year because he lived on Euclid Avenue and was able

to host parties at his own house.Marquez added that the police were coop-

erative with the students partying on Euclid Avenue. One student pointed at a Syracuse police officer as he strolled down Euclid Avenue and informed the officer of the great job he was doing monitoring MayFest.

Syracuse Police Department Lieutenant Richard Shoff said Euclid Avenue was “creepily quiet” this year. The police department’s main concern was students getting on top of roofs, he said.

“It’s dangerous,” he said, “alcohol and roofs don’t mix.”

It’s not against Syracuse city law to be out on rooftops, but since it’s against student conduct codes, Shoff said he calls the Department of Public Safety to take care of it. Around 3 p.m., Shoff noted that he had yet to ticket students for open containers.

“Once I hit my threshold (of seeing open containers) I start giving out tickets,” Shoff said, adding that it is important that students keep alcohol on their property.

Late in the afternoon, things began to pick up again at 519 Euclid Ave. A black MayFest ’14 banner was strung above the front porch, while students took turns launching them-selves down a Slip ‘n Slide. The slide went down the steep hill at the front of the yard and ended right at the pavement where sliders were caught by fellow students.

KJ Mills, a senior history and political sci-ence major, was not so lucky and instead slid right into the pavement. Though his left hand and chest were bleeding, Mills said he only had one regret: “I guess I should have planned for dry clothes.”

For Mills, MayFest is the day that every-one comes together in collective celebration to honor the end of the year. He added that this year’s MayFest, which was his last, reminded him that he will not be here with his friends next year who are all going their separate ways after graduation.

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For some it was their last and for many it was their first. But whether it was a last hurrah or a new tradition, students of every year at Syra-cuse University packed Walnut Park on Friday to celebrate MayFest 2014.

The event began at 1 p.m. and concluded around 6 p.m. after rapper A$AP Ferg performed. Admission was free for all SU and State Universi-ty of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry undergraduate students. Tickets for graduate students and guests were $22.

The streets around Walnut Park were filled with students dressed in outrageous costumes, including a purple Teletubby and a Native American chief. They were provided with free entertainment, food, drinks and limited amounts of beer, if over the age of 21.

With the event a block away from his resi-dence at 300 Comstock Ave., Chancellor Kent Syverud made an appearance around 2 p.m. He mingled and took pictures with SU students before leaving the festival.

Syverud wasn’t the only big name to make an appearance. Former SU basketball star and current Philadelphia 76er Michael Carter-Williams made the trip back to SU for May-Fest. Jerami Grant, who recently declared for the NBA draft, and other SU athletes joined Carter-Williams at the festival.

For Nathan Woods, a senior policy stud-ies and child and family planning major, the

annual end of the year celebration has gotten progressively better, making this year, his last MayFest, the best one yet.

“I feel like I own this one,” he said. “This is for us. This is for the seniors. We worked our ass off, so this is like congratulations.”

Woods spent the day celebrating with fellow seniors and family members who flew in from Boston to attend.

“It just feels like family, man, it feels like home,” he said.

Peter Quintana, a senior broadcast and digi-tal journalism major, said nothing was separat-ing him from his last MayFest — not even a professor who wanted to meet with him.

“My professor emailed me this morning ask-ing me if I could meet with him and I said no, because it’s MayFest,” he said.

Quintana said the event has gotten stricter over the four MayFests he has experienced, but everyone still has a good time.

“It’s been fun this year, everyone’s out, every-one’s having a great time and that’s what it’s all about: everyone coming together,” he said.

Nick Southard and a number of his Martin J. Whitman classmates came straight to Wal-nut Park after their capstone presentations, still wearing suits and ties. The senior finance major said he couldn’t miss his final MayFest as an SU student.

“It’s a little sad, but I don’t live too far, so I’ll definitely come back next year,” said the Buf-falo, N.Y. resident.

Lisa Mullan has made the trip back to SU every year since her graduation.

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and she can’t quite remember her favorite year.“I consider it my personal alumni weekend,”

she said. “I plan on coming to every MayFest for a very long time.”

For those who are wrapping up their fresh-man year, MayFest 2014 served as a reward for a successful first year.

MayFest 2014 lived up to David Jackson’s expectations. The freshman history and sec-ondary education major came mainly for the music and to socialize with his friends.

“I feel great,” he laughed. “The weather is nice, the people are nice, the food is nice.”

Jackson wasn’t the only to see the free food as a highlight of the day.

“My favorite part has probably been the free food, honestly,” said Cameron Weber, a junior aerospace engineering major.

The food was prepared by SU Food Services and the menu consisted of everything from corn dogs to cotton candy. There were also kosher and vegetarian options available.

DPS Officer George Wazen said the weather for this year’s MayFest had been better than previous years and that helped the turnout of the event.

Said Wazen: “Everybody is enjoying the weather and the free food and just overall hav-ing a good time.”

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VALERIE LATTELL, a sophomore communication and rhetorical studies major, waves while sitting on a man’s shoulders in Walnut Park on Friday. Students gathered in the park and sur-rounding areas for the annual celebration to eat free food and watch live music performances. margaret lin photo editor

GABRIELLA DIZON, a freshman in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, embraces a friend while donning her empty beer drinking hat in Walnut Park on Friday during MayFest. emma fierberg asst. photo editor

(FROM LEFT) LAUREN FREGOSI, TRUSHA BHATT, AND KATHERINE PASZEK celebrate MayFest in Walnut Park. margaret lin photo editor

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some individual schools and colleges at SU have come up with their own. The university also does not have a “regular process” for setting and evaluating goals, according to the report.

‘Organizationally complex’The university is “organizationally complex” and has a higher staff-to-faculty ratio than peer institutions, according to the report. Thirty percent of managers at SU have only one person who report directly to them. Employees who were surveyed suggested the main reason for inefficiency at SU is “too many decision mak-ers.” Bain noted SU could improve decision making by having “fewer layers of approval.”

According to the report, there is “significant duplication of administrative functions” across schools. In some cases, a lack of centralization has caused schools to create their own systems.

For example, Information Technology and Services has 142 employees with “IT” in their job description. But so do 70 employees in SU’s schools and colleges, according to the report.

SU could also save 7-10 percent through con-solidating orders and better management. The uni-versity should evaluate services it can outsource, according to the report.

SU’s budget model and financesBain also found there’s frustration with the university’s budget model. The system has “fallen short,” the report states, because it is difficult to understand and there is limited accountability. More than 80 percent of faculty members surveyed believe schools and col-leges are not encouraged to collaborate in this system, according to the report.

The University Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Affairs presented similar findings on April 16. The senate committee found the system has strayed from its original mission of allowing deans and directors to make decisions about their budgets. The model was supposed to make them responsible for their decisions. But deans and directors don’t have full control over their budgets because they are “charged” for items such as central administrative costs.

Compared to peer institutions, SU offers more majors in more schools, according to the report. In nine of the 11 schools and colleges, costs grew faster than the amount of credit hours being taken.

Money has been spent on an as needed basis for resources unrelated to academics — such as community engagement programs. The report states there needs to be a “clear, transparent understanding” of the university’s investments.

SU’s total cost of attendance is the low-est among peer institutions, according to the report. The university provides a greater per-centage of need-based financial aid than its peers. But merit-based financial aid — as a per-centage of total tuition and fees — is the lowest.

Resources and development To make SU more effective as an organization, 32 percent of employees surveyed called for more transparency, communication and collaboration. The report states that would help “enhance” a culture of trust at SU. Employees who took the survey said there was a lack of professional devel-opment and training programs at the university.

Human resources at SU is also understaffed, the report found. Hiring is often time-consum-ing and difficult. The process for determining and reviewing compensation is not standard-ized, according to the report.

The total amount SU pays employees — excluding instructional faculty — has increased from $164.8 million in 2007 to $205.3 million in 2013. That’s because of raises and promotions, not because SU has hired more employees.

Bain noted that SU could create a better sys-tem to review compensation and to standard-ize performance evaluations. At the same time, SU should continue to examine how it compen-sates employees to ensure the university stays competitive in hiring, according to the report.

Fundraising at SU lags behind peer institutions by about $20 million, according to the report. The SU Office of Development is understaffed compared to third-party standards. There could also be better coordination so people don’t receive multiple donation requests, the report found.

In a release, the university said Syverud will form a team to determine how to proceed with the information in the analysis.

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that we’re facing now is trying to get users on it,” Rodriguez said. “If you look at social media websites their success is ultimately driven by users.”

Rodriguez said he came up with the idea about seven years ago and encouraged others to develop it.

He first developed Tirper after he noticed the increasing number of college students replacing personal connections for social media relationships, he said.

“Technology is not allowing students to build the relationships they need,” he said.

The social media platform focuses on build-ing real world relationships, not just online acquaintanceship, he said.

“It is saving you from doing the hard work and building a relationship,” he said. “So what we try to do with Tirper is kind of lubricate that process.”

Upon subscription to the website, users fill out their gender, age, city, state and profession and select their interests from an extensive

list of possibilities.After filling out their basic information and

interests, users are given the option of select-ing whether the interest is something they want to teach, learn or play. Once the site matches users with similar interests, they can email matches, Rodriguez said.

Richard Murphy, a senior television, radio and film major, said the website is like a dating website, but for friends.

He selected lacrosse, entertainment and arts, movies and concerts as his interests to get matched with potential friends in the area, but no results were found.

He hopes Tirper will become the primary platform for meeting people who share users’ interests and passions and forming valuable relationships with those people.

“We genuinely believe that Tirper performs a vital function and that this function will remain valuable,” Rodriguez said. “It is just a mat-ter now of introducing people to the platform.”

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documentaryChanging Lives.” Deninger said there’s the potential that the film will air on ESPN.

Michael Veley, chair of the sport manage-

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“The film will completely inspire you,” Veley said. “Human triumph and utilizing sports as a means of becoming a more inclusive society is a story that we all should embrace.”

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The smell of beer and freshly cooked hamburgers filled the air as girls don-ning high-waisted shorts and boys in sunglasses danced and sang in Wal-nut Park during MayFest on Friday.

Students danced to indie pop band Joywave, raved to DJ Pierce Fulton and rhymed along to rapper A$AP

Ferg during Syracuse University’s annual MayFest.

Groups of people entered the park at 1 p.m. where they found free food and beer, photo booths, the main stage and a Red Bull truck blasting electronic dance music. Opening act Joywave took the stage around 2:30 p.m., playing their smooth tunes to a small crowd standing at the bar-ricade and passers-by in the park.

The Rochester, N.Y., natives played their eclectic tracks accom-panied by a guitar-driven sound to a more hipster crowd. A girl in a f lower headband standing next to a boy wearing cat ears pranced around to Joywave’s most popular song, “Tongues.”

Near the end of the set, the band played its more upbeat songs and a larger crowd came to dance before

Fulton hit the stage.“I think it’s more of a mindset,”

said Daniel Armbruster, the lead singer of the band, about their sound. “There’s elements of hip-hop. There’s elements of pop. There’s elements of rock, electronic. People pull out what they want to pull out.”

Between sets, Red Bull, MayFest’s official sponsor, played popular dance music for concertgoers to keep

the energy high. Fulton then hit the stage with turntables to amp up the crowd with house music, similar to what the crowd may have heard later in the night at Block Party.

Fulton was a last-minute replace-ment in the MayFest lineup, since DJ and producer AraabMuzik could not make the concert due to “unforesee-able scheduling conflicts,” according

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Zedd walked behind his DJ booth stretched across the stage, stood there, lifted his hands towards the ceiling of the Carrier Dome and

dropped the bass while college kids screamed and jumped in excitement.

Although he didn’t speak until about halfway through his set, his first words to the crowd were, “Syracuse, where you at?”

Grammy award-winner Zedd was the headliner act of University Union’s annual Block Party at Syra-cuse University. Although it was evident most of the crowd came for Zedd, UU also brought female DJ Brazzabelle and rapper 2 Chainz to the Dome on Friday night for a variety of genres.

“I liked this one the best, this one was really fun. I loved the lineup, it was great,” said senior advertising major Emily Hook. “I’ve actually never been on the floor before and it literally made the whole thing.”

Brazzabelle first took the stage at 7:00 p.m, wearing a simple black getup with headphones. The stage was bare, except for her turntables. The crowd inside the Dome was small, but gradually swayed along to the beat of her set.

Mixing classic songs like Haddaway’s “What Is Love” and DJ Sammy’s “Heaven” got the crowd mov-ing and singing along. Brazzabelle’s energy was high, and her hard bass sound gave a good preview of what was to come later in the night. The crowd reacted

well to her, clapping along and putting their hands in the air, but she didn’t say a word the entire set.

More students packed the floor after Brazzabelle left, waiting for 2 Chainz. Coming on later than expect-ed, he arrived asking students to put their “twos up” and started with his song “Fork.” The stage was filled with red lights, and 2 Chainz was decked out in bling.

“I’m definitely happy to be here in the Carrier Dome,” the rapper said. “Y’all f*cked my bracket up.”

2 Chainz played his top hits “I’m Different” and “Birthday Song,” but gave the fans a surprise when he introduced to them a new track and had A$AP Ferg join him on stage. He also played songs from G.O.O.D. Music such as “F**kin Problems.”

The Dome was almost full by the time 2 Chainz’s set was finished, and the crowd went wild each time he introduced a new song. They chanted back lyrics and clapped along. Each song ended with the sound of a crash or the noise of breaking glass.

Eric Belair, a senior communications major at Le Moyne College, said he only came to Block Party to see Zedd, but 2 Chainz surprised him. Although this was Belair’s first Block Party experience, he said he plans to come back next year.

“He was a lot better than I thought,” Belair said of 2 Chainz. “I didn’t know how he was going to be, but he killed it.”

After 2 Chainz left the stage, UU president Billy Ceskavich came out on stage to thank the crowd for

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Go big or go home. That’s the rule that all fashion designers are following this upcoming season.

The next big thing in fashion is wearing big things. I’m not talking oversized sweaters and chunky boots. I’m talking about blazers so big you could sneak another person into a movie theater and jackets so long that they stretch past your ankles.

With oversized garments on the rise, feminine fashion is borrowing looks from traditional men’s wear, suggesting a feminine takeover of the male appearance. These outfits often feature harsh lines and leather, and often disguise the feminine figure.

On the other hand, there are some over-the-top fashions that exude femininity. These gar-ments feature overflowing skirts and chiffon sleeves that trail behind the model as she goes down the runway.

These larger than life fashions have appeared on the runways at Prada, Rick Owens, VFiles, Jonathan Saunders, Thom Browne, Gareth Pugh and other designers. With all of these designers amplifying the size of their garments, it poses the question: Why is fashion being supersized?

Valerie Steele, the director and chief cura-tor of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, explained that fashion trends are moving in the opposite direction; they’re mov-ing away from the skintight, body-conscious clothes that have been prominent for quite some time. “It’s the pendulum effect,” she said in an April 23 article in The New York Times. “If it’s long, it gets short, and if it’s short, it gets long.”

Even though oversized garments are

becoming more popular, we live in a time of practicality. We need to wear clothes that won’t get in the way of us going from point A to point B. If it does, it’s not in our wardrobe.

The only time we saw garments with a lot of vol-ume in the past was during the avant garde runway shows and the gigantic tulle ball gowns worn at weddings. The volume may be appropriate for these special occasions, but definitely not for real life.

Being able to perfect the oversized trend just depends on finding the right piece. And how ridiculous you mind looking.

If you have to ask, “Can I pull off this enor-mous coat?” you probably shouldn’t try it.

There are definitely some larger-than-life gar-ments that can still be worn every day. Oversized jackets and coats are a big trend right now. A gigan-tic foam padded jacket may not be appropriate to wear on the streets, but one with large leather pan-els that goes to your knees can still be appropriate.

Dressing in a larger scale has its own inter-esting benefits. Dressing big draws the attention away from any problem areas that you have and makes you look as if you’ve lost a lot of weight.

Some might say that the clothes seem to swallow up the wearer, making it appear as if she was a child dressing in her mother’s clothes. But really, it just depends on you and the garment.

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When I first walked in, I felt like Mai Lan Restaurant was expecting me. The small building that houses the

restaurant sits on North State Street, waiting for diners to walk in.

Mai Lan Restaurant is a little dining room with posters depicting Vietnamese culture plastered around the walls. The only window, and its natural lighting, was located at the front of the restaurant. I like being able to see customers from the outside of the restaurant, but this restaurant cov-ered their huge window with heav y curtains, sealing the diners from the outside view, and vice versa.

I started my meal with a light appetizer, the Saigon Pancake, for $7. I’ve always enjoyed Asian versions of savory crepes. It is a savory rice flour crepe that lays over a generous pile of

shrimp and vegetables. A light drizzle of thin sweet garlic chili sauce over the crepe added a sweet and salty touch to the mildly flavored crepe. It was absolutely delicious.

For the main course, I was in the mood for a bowl of pho. I ordered their Rice Noodle Soup Special, which cost $7. The thought of sipping on savory, steaming beef flavored broth pro-vided comfort from the chilly weather.

The wait wasn’t long. When the server brought out the soup, I saw the pile of rice noodles submerged beneath the generous broth. Paper-thin slices of beef and beef meat-balls floated in the hot liquid and a refreshing garnish of raw bean sprouts and Thai basil sat right over the pile of rice noodles.

Pho is typically served with specific utensils in order to help people eat it in a par-ticular fashion. The broth is the focal point of pho — it isn’t just there to keep your noodles warm. You slurp the broth like you’re drink-ing savory tea, which is why the restaurant’s white spoon was huge and formed in a way that will hold a lot of broth.

On the side, the server brought out the iconic bottle of Sriracha chili sauce, its intense bright red color sharply contrasting the bright green top.

However, she didn’t bring a plate of gar-nishes, which is normally a generous pile of bean sprouts, Thai basil, chili peppers and wedges of key lime. Usually, the fashion of serving these fresh condiments is to continu-ously enjoy the different garnishes with each bite of pho.

The art of making pho noodle soup is in the way the cook prepares the broth. The broth is usually prepared through many phases and overnight simmering. The unique broth flavors of different households or restaurants are heavily varied because of the vegetables and spices the cooks choose to add in.

The broth at Mai Lan Restaurant was too sweet for my tastes. The cook must have either added too much sugar, or didn’t simmer and reduce it long enough for the gentle salty fla-vors to fuse through the broth.

In proper pho fashion, I used my chop-sticks to assemble a mini coil of rice noodles in my soupspoon. Then I took a piece of beef and placed it on top of my mini coil of noodles. I gently dunked my soupspoon under the sweet broth so it filled up all the gaps of the spoon.

Each bite featured different elements: for some, I fixed a basil leaf on top. Others were just the rice noodles and broth, and some bites were just simply the broth, when I needed more sipping comfort between each solid bite.

Don’t let Mai Lan Restaurant’s curtained-sealed windows scare you away; inside is a warm welcome — literally.

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a great year and a successful Block Party. Soon after, Zedd amped up the crowd.

His booth became a massive screen that changed with the music. Planets, shapes and a stream of pic-tures and colors crossed the digital screen each time a different sound played during his set.

Concertgoers standing at the barricade wore sunglasses because the dazzling lights were

changing so fast from the booth, they were almost blinding. Zedd, almost invisible to the crowd on the floor because his booth was so tall, jumped up and down to the beat to get the crowd pumped up.

Students danced and fist pumped uncontrol-lably while Zedd remixed popular songs like Axwell’s “In My Mind,” Bastille’s “Pompeii,” Martin Garrix’s “Animals,” Capital Cities’ “Safe and Sound,” and Kanye West’s “Mercy.”

At each drop of the bass, blue, green and red lasers shot out at the crowd and smoke blew up out of the stage, giving a whole new kind of energy into the surreal atmosphere. The first full song that Zedd played was his own “Clar-ity.” The crowd sang each word back to him, and Zedd didn’t put his hand down the entire time.

“My favorite part in the middle besides the

ending, was really epic, was when he used the holographic thing and the lasers,” said J.J. House, a freshman film major.

There was no stop of music throughout the night; each time there was a change in sound or song, the DJ booth would go dark and there would be a quiet pitch in music, but Zedd never stopped mixing.

Zedd’s set lasted for an hour and 45 min-utes. He introduced his encore with a remix of Empire of the Sun’s “Alive” while a white pyramid light surrounded only him. He ended the night with his popular single, “Spectrum,” and stood on his booth, thanking the crowd.

“‘Clarity’ is my song,” said junior Brady Tanne-hill: “We’re mind blown how close we got this year.”

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of public relations, said he preferred Fulton to AraabMuzik regardless, because he felt Fulton fit more of the MayFest and college atmosphere.

Throughout the concert, students enjoyed the warm weather, something MayFest veter-ans haven’t experienced in a while. Two years ago it snowed on the outdoor festival, and last year the forecast called for rain.

“I think it’s cool that all at one time every-body’s out on campus and enjoying the nice weather and celebrating the end of the year. This is the best weather in a couple years,” said Erin Castle, a senior nutrition major.

At around 5:15 p.m. A$AP Ferg, MayFest’s headliner, entered the main stage. The smell of marijuana filled the air, and the crowd, energetic and tipsy, screamed and yelled for the rapper.

“MayFest, what the f*ck is poppin’?” asked A$AP Ferg, sporting a Guns N’ Roses hockey jersey.

During A$AP Ferg’s time on stage, the crowd sang along with his lyrics and danced to the beat. Students crowd-surfed and in the middle of his set, the rapper brought a student on stage to show the crowd his own rapping talents.

Freshman economics major Nagelah Chery said she was a fan of A$AP Ferg and enjoyed his set. Chery expressed her excitement for next year’s MayFest while bobbing along to A$AP Ferg’s beat.

“Everyone and every type of person is here,” she said. “They seem really hype. I think it’s a great atmosphere.”

A$AP Ferg pleased the crowd by playing his most notable songs, “Shabba” and “Work.”

When asked if he would ever come back to SU, A$AP Ferg said, “Hell yeah. You see all of these red cups all over the place. That means everyone is partying. I need to be a part of the party.”

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goaliesWardwell allowed 14 goals and made just four saves before Lamolinara replaced him at the start of the fourth quarter.

“Obviously I didn’t have the best day. I just couldn’t really get into a rhythm like I did on Friday night,” Wardwell said. “Sometimes it just happens.”

Wardwell earned Sunday’s start with an eight-save performance in the second half of Friday’s comeback victory over Duke.

But in the first half of the final, he couldn’t continue that success.

The Irish went on a 4-1 run to close the sec-ond quarter and had six different goal scorers in the first half.

“They got some good shots on Bobby, and I don’t think he really got in the flow of things the way that he wanted to,” Desko said. “It was just a changeup. They were scoring goals.”

With the Orange trailing 14-9. Desko ran Lamolinara out onto the field. In the final 15 minutes, the veteran was credited with two saves and allowed just one goal.

Lamolinara provided the Orange with a glim-

mer of hope in a late-game rally similar to the one it made in the semifinals against Duke.

With SU trailing 15-11, Lamolinara stuffed Notre Dame attack Connor Doyle in close. On the ensuing possession, SU attack Derek Maltz’s behind-the-head goal cut the deficit to 15-12 with seven minutes to play.

After Randy Staats and Scott Loy scored two unanswered goals, Irish attack Westy Hopkins had the ball on the doorstep with a chance to put the game away. But once again, Lamolinara caught a shot in between his stick and his chest. w

“Sometimes we were really good and some-times we weren’t,” UND head coach Kevin Cor-rigan said. “I would have liked to have about four of those layups in the second half back.”

But in a game where SU’s regular starter entered with 15 minutes to play, it was Notre Dame goalkeeper Conor Kelly who made a point-blank save to end the game.

Despite the goalkeeper switch, Notre Dame attack Matt Kavanagh said he thought Notre Dame was capable of scoring 15 goals against whoever Syracuse started.

“It was going to be a tough game anyway,” Kavanagh said. “(But) we knew we could score that many goals.”

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The difference for SU came at the draw circle, a place it’s dominated all season. Kailah Kempney and Kirkland Locey couldn’t get it going, losing 13-of-22 on the game, which led to a 27-to-15 shot advantage for Maryland.

“They obviously dominated the draw control, especially in the first half,” Gait said. “I think our defense was under pressure all game long .”

Syracuse came into the day as the No. 1 team in the country, but needed a win to validate that ranking.

It had its opportunity, but came up well short.The Orange will now return home to finish

up the regular season against Loyola (Md.) on Saturday at the Carrier Dome before awaiting its seeding for NCAA tournament, which starts the weekend after.

“We didn’t quit,” Gait said. “Played until the end. And we have lots more lacrosse left this year.”

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I was never an athlete — I think most sports writers would admit to that — but unlike most others of my kind, I also

wasn’t always the biggest sports fan.In reality, when I was very young, I just

wanted to be a writer. Probably write some books. You know, try to make a living with words, somehow.

There’s no reason I should want to be a writer — no one person in particular inspired me to start doing this and there’s obviously not a whole bunch of money to be made.

Actually, let’s back up one second. There wasn’t one person, but probably one thing.

Growing up outside of Washington, D.C., The Washington Post was a staple of my morn-ing routine since I was in elementary school. I wasn’t a hoops junkie or anything yet, but I was a reader and I wasn’t going to read the news, style or business sections. Sports made more sense. I learned to love sports just as much because of what I read as what I saw.

Of course rooting for teams was fun — even when I realized that there was no chance the Eagles or Nationals would ever win a title — but the stories were fun.

And that’s why this year’s Syracuse season, in all of its beautiful imperfection, was perfect.

How many years do you get to say you saw one of the best shots in SU history, Jim Boeheim’s only ejection and a 25-0 start? Every time you looked up, there was some new story seemingly more unbelievable than the last.

In the middle of it all, I had a chance to go back to where it all started for myself. The Orange’s trip to Maryland will probably just be remembered as a throwaway road game in a wild, wild season, but that was where I grew up and fell in love with basketball.

The 2002 Terrapins were the only champion-

ship team I ever rooted for. My family has had tickets since the Comcast Center opened. I know C.J. Fair enjoyed playing in front of his friends and family, and I like to think I felt at least a little bit the same.

For the first time, my childhood and my future totally collided. UMD made me love college basketball — the greatest game — and now I was in College Park getting to watch it, and of course write about it, as a job.

But suddenly, on March 22, I looked up and it was all over. Dayton stunned Syracuse. My time at The Daily Orange didn’t end on that night, but it felt like it did.

I never viewed myself a Syracuse fan, but it was sad to see that team’s run — and, more selfishly, my own run — end in Buffalo. It was like the end of a good book that you never want to stop reading.

This summer, I’ll be back at home. I’ll be in Maryland for as long of a stretch of time as I’ve had in years. And every morning, when I sit down at the kitchen table, The Washing-ton Post will be sitting right there. For some reason my parents still subscribe — I like to think it’s because I’m a newspaper guy.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe it’s not about the paper where the story was told, but the ones who made sure I was getting to take them all in.

David Wilson was a staff writer at The Daily Orange where his column will no longer

appear. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @DBWilson2.

Wilson: Hack recalls stories that drew him to sports journalism

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notre dameThat’s just the way we’ve been playing lately.”

Daddio won 7-of-8 faceoffs in the opening quarter, but lost a string of six straight to UND in the second as the Irish knotted the score at 7-7 by halftime.

And in the third quarter, the Irish buried seven goals on the Orange to take a then-commanding five-goal lead into the final 15 minutes, silencing the audibly energetic Syracuse sideline.

If the Orange was to rally back from a multiple-goal deficit once more, it would need possessions.

“I can’t let it get to that point,” Daddio said. “It was crunch time at that point. I needed my team to have the ball. I really had no choice.”

After a goal by Jack Near stretched UND’s lead to 15-10 with 9:45 left, Daddio beat NIck Ossello for the faceoff, and it led to a Billy Ward goal.

Then Daddio outworked Ossello again. A minute later, Derek Maltz found the back of the net. One more draw for Daddio and Randy Staats netted his fifth goal of the game.

“If you watched Syracuse this weekend, they’re like the ‘Terminator.’ You can’t kill them,” UND head coach Kevin Corrigan said. “You think they’re dead. You’ve shot them and then there they are, right on your tail again.”

Daddio beat Ossello once more — his sixth straight faceoff win in as many attempts in the quarter — and almost three minutes later,

Scott Loy drew Syracuse within a goal.But when Daddio lined up against Ossello

with a one-goal deficit waiting to be erased — and the sound of “Dad-dio” chants coming from the SU fans — Ossello boxed him out and kicked a groundball ahead to himself.

Yet the Irish couldn’t convert from in close on that possession, and Syracuse cleared and called a timeout with 54.3 sec-onds left, down 15-14.

The only thing more improbable than Syracuse’s comeback win over Duke on Friday was repeating such a performance on Sunday.

Trailing by five goals with less than 10 min-utes left in the fourth quarter, it appeared the Orange’s six-game, season-reviving winning streak would come to an uncharacteristic, blow-out end.

After SU assistant Lelan Rogers yelled, “We’ve been here before” during a timeout, the team walked back out to the field with a second straight miraculous comeback not only possible, but realistic.

The ball ended up in Rice’s stick with 10 seconds left, standing behind the cage. He dodged left, then spun back to his right and attacked the cage on Kelly’s right side.

With Near on his hip, Rice fired a shot high as his momentum took him away from the cage.

“It’s really on me. I’ve got to finish that in that situation,” Rice said.

Kelly was all over it. He popped his jersey out as he hopped in excitement, waiting for the horn to sound and his teammates to swarm him as the new ACC champions.

Said Desko of Notre Dame: “They played like they really wanted it.”

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off a 2012 national championship appearance.Some players had to — and still do — share

lockers with each other in the team’s locker room at Manley Field House.

“I think it’s kind of b.s., personally,” Becca Block, a former SU defender, said last year, “because if you look at our locker room, defi-nitely, I think it’s the worst one in Manley.”

The new football practice field will ben-efit both lacrosse teams, but won’t address the women’s team’s undersized locker room. So Gary Gait’s team took it upon itself to make a change.

As of April 16, the team had just over $100,000 left to raise to reach its goal of $1.2 million for a new locker room, Gait, SU’s head coach, said.

“If you want something done, sometimes you got to get involved and raise money your-self,” Gait said.

The Orange’s fundraising has relied mostly on parents, alumni and friends of the program.

But when asked if SU Athletics has helped out the team’s effort financially, Gait didn’t answer directly.

“Uh,” Gait said, dragging it out with a laugh. “We’re continuing to raise money. We’ll keep working on it.”

Gait said he hopes construction will begin in May and finish this summer. Senior attack Alyssa Murray mentioned that a current Man-ley weight room could be remodeled into the new locker room.

“We’re due for a new locker room. Let’s just say that,” Gait said with a smile. “Certainly our plans for our facility will make it the best in the country.”

Murray said she doesn’t feel slighted that the team has had to take action, but she and her team-mates still feel they deserve better .

Said Murray: “I’m sure there are teams that have it worse than we do, but we’re a top team and we want to be able to celebrate that with a nice locker room.”

Men’s lax adjusts to shortened fieldWhen the SU men’s lacrosse team took the field for its home opener Feb. 10, it was one of the first times it played on a full field.

“We had almost nothing,” SU head coach John Desko said. “The cost of changing the (Carrier) Dome over from basketball to a full field for lacrosse is a lot. There just weren’t

enough days to justify doing that.”Desko often referenced Manley Field

House’s 80-yard practice field when discussing his team’s early-season problems.

With basketball season overlapping with lacrosse and snow layering SU’s outdoor prac-tice field, there was no full field for SU to use. Gait said the women’s team faced the same issue.

“It’s getting old,” Desko said on March 3. “It’s hard to go against southern teams that have been on a full field the whole time.”

Manley, in addition to not being as long as a full lacrosse field, isn’t as wide as one, either.

Syracuse’s clearing especially took a hit — an aspect of the game the Orange couldn’t afford to struggle in with its early-season problems at the faceoff X. The team’s clearing percentage still ranks outside the country’s top 35.

Said Desko of the new football practice facil-ity: “That can’t get built quick enough for us.”

Field hockey practices in Archbold

Field turf isn’t an option for Ange Bradley’s field hockey team to practice on, so the hardwood of Archbold Gymnasium is SU’s winter home.

“Ideally, I’d like to have an indoor turf like Col-gate has or the schools in the Big Ten have,” Bradley said. “But we’re not those schools and we don’t have that. What we do have is a wood floor that we prac-tice on and use for skills and play indoor hockey.”

When the Syracuse winter hits, covering J.S. Coyne Stadium’s Astro 12 surface in snow, Brad-ley has little choice but to bring her team up to main campus and use a campus-wide facility.

SU doesn’t have an indoor AstroTurf facility for the field hockey program, the new indoor football facility won’t benefit field hockey and Bradley said practicing on the Manley turf would do the team more harm than good.

“Archbold is a very good training facility for us,” Bradley said. “The fact that we can use Archbold and train on a fast surface, it’s good. Is it the best? No. But it’s better than field turf.”

In the past, the Orange has started using Coyne right after Spring Break. This winter, though, the team couldn’t practice on its home field for two weeks after break.

As SU begins its early season play, the switch from indoor practices to outdoor play results in an adjustment period, Bradley said. Different sticks are used, and running is different.

“It’d be nice to be on a surface playing,” Bradley said. “But we’re able to maintain our competitiveness. We have to work a little bit harder than other programs out there, but hard work doesn’t hurt anyone, I guess.”

Ice hockey looks to ‘raise its profile’Visitors to Tennity Ice Pavilion, unimpressed, ask Flanagan if the venue is his practice facility.

“Yeah, it is,” he tells them. “And we play our games here, too.”

It’s an ongoing battle for him and the wom-

en’s ice hockey program. The Department of Recreation Services owns Tennity Ice Pavilion. Flanagan said the building holds the program back in recruiting. He said the team feels for-tunate to have a venue on campus, but has to compensate for Tennity in recruiting.

Making it a more spectator-friendly venue — an aspect recreation services isn’t con-cerned with, Flanagan said — is where he would start improvements.

At 45 degrees Fahrenheit, it isn’t a com-fortable environment for spectators, he said. Added seating would help separate the hockey rink from the studio rink — where recreation services allows people to skate during games.

Those people can be seen on camera during broadcasts of the Orange’s games, also embar-rassing Flanagan, he said, when he exchanges video with opposing teams.

In the past year, the Orange installed a new carpet placed in its locker room at Tennity and now has a 70-inch smart TV.

With the rest of the money the program has in its operating budget and from donors, it’s been able to keep its weight room at Tennity well-maintained.

“It’s a fully stocked, fully equipped opera-tion there,” Flanagan said. “Our locker room’s beautiful, but we kind of went rags to riches.”

The rest of Tennity is the problem.“Sometimes I feel like I’m fighting city hall,”

he said. “But I think we should try to take pride in our facilities as a university. It shouldn’t matter if it’s athletics’ money, rec services’ money.”

SU played three games at the War Memorial Center this season to combat Tennity’s issues. The Orange can schedule almost any weekday game it wants there, Flanagan said.

“If we didn’t have this rink on campus, it’d be a nightmare for us,” Flanagan said of Tennity. “But I really think we should try to make that facility something we’re a little bit more proud of.”

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Is it the best? No. But it’s better than field turf.Ange Bradleysu field hockey coach on archbold gymnasium

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By Matt Schneidmanstaff writer

Syracuse needed one win in its last three games to secure a berth in the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence tournament, but the series started off in the worst way possible.

On Saturday, Virginia Tech’s Lauren Gaskill sent the very first pitch of the three-game set into the netting beyond the right-field fence.

But after two strong outings from Sydney O’Hara and extra-inning heroics from Danielle Chitkowski, the Orange (24-24, 12-12 ACC) took two games from Virginia Tech (32-20, 19-9), securing an ACC tournament berth in the program’s first season in the league.

Syracuse split with the ACC’s second-best team on Saturday at SU Softball Stadium, win-ning 5-4 in eight innings before losing 10-0 after the mercy rule was enforced after six. Then on Sunday’s Senior Day, the Orange won the rubber match by a score of 7-3.

For the Syracuse players, securing a berth in the ACC tournament in the team’s first season in the league is a statement to the conference that they too can compete with the best.

“People didn’t think we would be able to,” Chitkowski said. “First time in there, it’s a good feeling to show teams that we can compete in a better conference.”

The first game needed extra innings, and Vir-ginia Tech jumped in front courtesy of a RBI single off the bat of Amanda Ake.

Down one in the bottom of the eighth, Chit-kowski took a two-out, full-count pitch to the fence in right-center field, scoring Wambold from second and pinch runner Alexis Partyka from first.

The walk-off guaranteed the Orange post-season play and sent the team flooding off the bench to maul Chitkowski.

“Really, I was just thinking get the ball in play,” Chitkowski said. “Once it got through, I wasn’t even paying attention to me running, just everyone else scoring, but it was a good feeling.”

On Sunday, the Orange put six runs on the board in the bottom of the third. Watson blasted a grand slam just inside the right-field foul pole and gave O’Hara all the run support she would need.

Despite only striking out one, O’Hara went through the first 4 2/3 without allowing a hit. She hit a rough patch in the fifth and sixth when Vir-ginia Tech cut the lead to 6-3, but was able to tame the Hokies’ potent lineup to avoid further damage.

“They’re all great hitters, but I just had to be really careful and hit the corners,” O’Hara said. “The pitching has to be on point, and the pitching just has to trust the defense.”

For SU head coach Leigh Ross, the feat of mak-ing the conference tournament shows just how far this young team has come since the beginning of the season.

“Especially with the team that we have, we’re so young,” Ross said. “We’ve had so many obstacles and things that we’ve really had to overcome.

“We’re starting a new season in two weeks.”[email protected]

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SSPORTS

NOT THIS TIMEWardwell starts for Lamolinara

women’s lacrosse

Maryland runs away from Syracuse in ACC tournament final

By Phil D’Abbraccioasst. copy editor

CHESTER, Pa. — Syracuse was in disbelief.

Randy Staats took a knee and removed his helmet. Drew Jenkins sat back on the bench with his hands on his head. The yelling overheard in the Syracuse locker room, next door to the interview room, on Friday was replaced with a subdued atmosphere on Sunday afternoon.

A roaring comeback fell short and the Orange’s string of luck ran out.

“They never quit,” SU head coach John Desko said. “I think we’re pretty used to seeing the score and knowing what it’s going to take to come back. We always feel that we have a chance to win the game, no matter what the score is.”

Yet the chaotic joy that engulfed No. 4 Syracuse after stealing a last-second win from Duke on Friday instead struck No. 9 Notre Dame, which was fighting for its spot in the NCA A tournament. SU attack Kevin Rice tried a wraparound shot in the final seconds, but goalie Conor Kelly made a save as the clock ran out on Notre Dame’s 15-14 win.

The fourth-seeded Fighting Irish (8-5, 2-3 Atlantic Coast) hoisted the ACC tournament trophy before a crowd of 4,552 at PPL Park, while the third-seeded Syracuse (10-4, 2-3) players fell to crouches of despair as their torrid stretch of play came to an end.

“We played them to the last three seconds,” faceoff specialist Chris Daddio said. “Most teams would have just not been able to catch up.

By Josh Hyberstaff writer

CHESTER, Pa. — In Syracuse’s first 13 games, senior Dominic Lamolinara was SU’s starting goalkeeper — occasional poor performances aside. In all but three of those games, junior Bobby Wardwell replaced him at halftime.

It’s been a successful recipe. Even in the Orange’s closest games, head coach John Desko has stuck to this formula.

But on Sunday, Desko started Wardwell and No. 4 Syracuse (10-4, 2-3 ACC) lost the Atlantic Coast Conference champion-ship to No. 9 Notre Dame (8-5, 2-3 ACC), 15-14, in front of 4,552 fans at PPL Park in Chester, Pa.

In his first start since March 16, 2013,

By Sam Blumasst. copy editor

The Atlantic Coast Conference championship was a game for Syra-cuse to prove its worth. To solidify its hold on the nation’s top ranking and a conference it had joined this year.

It was a chance to get redemption

for its only loss this season, and show that the tide was shifting in a matchup it had only won once in 15 tries.

But as Ma r yla nd rushed the

field as the final seconds ticked off the clock, No. 1 Syracuse (16-2, 6-1 ACC) was only left with what could

have been in a 13-7 loss to the No. 2 Terrapins (19-1, 6-1) in the ACC tournament final on Sunday in front of 687 people in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

“That was an outstanding Mary-land team,” Gait said. “… I thought they did a great job of getting turn-overs when they needed and ground balls in the second half. I think that

was the biggest difference.”Maryland started quickly out of

the gate, scoring the first two goals of the game, as it eventually built a 6-3 lead. But each time the Terps seemed to have a grasp on the game, the Orange responded.

After Maryland made it 2-0, Syra-cuse scored two of its own. After

UMD built up the three-goal advan-tage, Syracuse hung around to make it 7-5 going into halftime.

In the second half, though, Syra-cuse wasn’t able to respond. A two-goal lead quickly became five, and any hope the Orange had to win its first-ever ACC tournament was quickly dashed.

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CONOR KELLY celebrates after saving a potential game-tying shot from Kevin Rice. Syracuse mounted a furious late comeback, but came up short in the ACC tournament final. logan reidsma staff photographer

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