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Student focus groups to discuss health care insuranceBy Sara Swannasst. news editor

The first student focus group dis-cussing Syracuse University’s stu-dent health insurance plan will take place on Wednesday.

At the beginning of August last year, all incoming; newly matriculated; and matriculated, international full-time students

and graduate student fellows were required to have health insurance.

For the 2016-17 academic year, all full-time matriculated students will be required to have health insurance, as well.

The focus groups will help gather information from students about their experiences and preferences related to health insurance coverage, said Shannon Feeney Andre, com-

munications manager for the Divi-sion of Student Affairs, in an email.

“We are also seeking to gather input from students on their pre-ferred modes of communication and what types of information they would like to receive or know regard-ing health insurance,” Andre said.

She added that the focus groups are one method of continually gath-ering feedback and suggestions as

preparation for the 2016-17 health care implementation is made.

Three focus groups are sched-uled: one on Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m., one on Feb. 4 from 6-7 p.m. and one on Feb. 5 from noon to 1 p.m., according to an SU News release. Students are only permitted to participate in one focus group. The focus groups will take place in the Schine Student Center Room 232, Andre said.

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Terrel Hunt waits on NCAA in hopes of continuing football career

$1,890The cost of SU’s new

student health insurance plan for students who

did not previously have health insurance

By Sam Blumsenior staff writer

ROSEDALE, N.Y. — Terrel Hunt rolled out of bed in his apartment at 11 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 5, 2015. The vivid memories of the night before — one that began with him as the Syracuse starting quar-

terback, but finished with an injury that ended his college career — had yet to reformulate in his brain. It was a moment of ignorant bliss.

Then he planted his right foot on the ground beside his bed. In a split second of excruciating physical pain, it all came rushing back to him.

He remembered feeling numb when he collapsed at the 42-yard-line 15 hours before, knowing moments later that his season was over. He remembered the ride back to his aunt’s room at the Marriott Hotel, when he asked her the impossible question of why it was him that bad things always happened to. He thought of his future, one that might not include the one thing he knows he does best.

Hunt — feeling the pressure of a 238-pound frame on top of his foot — belted out an uncontrollable scream.

The PresentThere’s nothing left for Hunt to do but wait. He waited nearly three months for the NCAA to reject his application in November for a sixth year of eligibility. Now he has to wait, again, this time for his appeal of that decision. He remains optimistic. He believes his personal story overrides the NCAA’s eligibility rule.

Hunt redshirted his freshman season, and played just two snaps on special teams against USC the year after. As a junior, he started the final 11 games and led Syracuse to a Texas Bowl win. In 2014, he started the first five games before breaking his right fibula. He lasted less than eight minutes in 2015. Hunt hasn’t had a complete career by his standards. But to the NCAA, there’s nothing left for him to do on the field.

“Whoever recognizes me, they feel for me,” Hunt said. “I fulfilled my student part. I did that and beyond. I graduated early. I started my master’s. I’m about to finish with my master’s. I’m doing everything the NCAA ever asked for, but it’s like, when can I fulfill my athlete part?”

Hunt detached himself from the team after his injury. Partly because leaving his third floor Univer-sity Village apartment took too much of a physical toll. TERREL HUNT had his NCAA waiver for a sixth season at Syracuse denied by the NCAA, but he has appealed the

organization’s decision so he can extend his college football career one more season. drew osumi staff photographer see hunt page 14

By Danielle Bertolini contributing writer

Below the kitchens of Kimmel Food Court, Zach Tanenbaum works with 3D printers, a laser engraver and an embroidery machine, among other equipment.

Tanenbaum, a senior mechani-cal engineering major, supervises the Syracuse University Maker-Space, which was unveiled in the fall of 2014. The MakerSpace aims to give students a chance to exer-cise creativity through the use of emerging technologies.

The MakerSpace is located in the Kimmel Computer Lab and is home to a variety of machines, which are free for students to use. Student supervisors like Tanenbaum over-see projects and facilitate the use of all this equipment.

Tanenbaum said his favorite part of the job is seeing the projects his peers turn out. From experimental wings to 360-degree GoPro hel-mets, MakerSpace has no shortage of creative inventions.

“There are just a lot of cool proj-ects that I get to be a part of,” Tanen-baum said.

In the past, Tanenbaum has worked with 3D printers to create intricate pieces such as his “gear cube,” which is similar to a Rubik’s

Cube and has several moving parts that are all precisely aligned. How-ever, it’s not easy to perfect a piece on the first try.

“I’ve done rapid prototyping where I 3D printed a part to have a friend make on a mill,” said Tanen-baum. “I printed it three or four times to get the right dimensions down and

make sure it would actually fit.” For his senior design proj-

ect, Tanenbaum is utilizing the machines at the MakerSpace to create a ping-pong return system, designed to capture a ping-pong ball and then launch it back. Tanenbaum said he has already began printing some of the pieces.

With its potential for creativ-ity, Tanenbaum said he encourages students to explore MakerSpace and its possible applications.

“I love getting to see everyone’s awesome projects,” Tanenbaum said. “It’s definitely a fun place to work and a fun place to hang out.”

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Professor to fill vacancyUniversity appoints interim psychology department chair

By Stacy Fernandezstaff writer

No one in reported history has ever kicked down the door of a brothel wearing a cardigan, said Raleigh Sadler, a Christian activist and speaker for victims of human trafficking. But that is exactly what Sadler plans to do.

“I’m supposed to fight human trafficking, but I wear a cardigan,” he said.

Sadler gave a presentation, “Who Cares About Justice? A Conversation About Human Traf-ficking and Justice” in Hendricks

Chapel Tuesday evening to about 50 members of the Syracuse Uni-versity community.

Devon Bartholomew, associ-ate chaplain of Hendricks, intro-duced Sadler, who is the executive director of LetMyPeopleGo, an

organization that mobilizes local churches to fight human traffick-ing by “loving those most vulner-able,” according to the organiza-tion’s website.

Sadler’s mission has taken him to many churches and colleges across the nation, has given him the opportunity to speak at the United Nations and has allowed him to write for publications including The Huffington Post and Baptist Press.

“Regardless of your belief sys-tem, this message that Raleigh is bringing to you tonight will chal-lenge you to intentionally love the

vulnerable,” Bartholomew said.Sadler began by defining human

trafficking as the exploitation of vul-nerabilities for commercial gain. He said this happens every day under people’s noses while people con-tinue to go on with their lives.

It is estimated that between 20 and 30 million people are held in slave-like conditions, Sadler said. He added that there are more slaves in the civilized world than there have ever been recorded in history.

“With these numbers alone we should be reminded that this does not face one nation, one people or

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HEALTH

DEPRESSION SCREENINGS

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended Tues-day that primary doctors screen all adults for depression. source: usa today

ZIKA STUDIES INCREASE

The U.S. director of the National Institutes of Health called for more efforts to study the effects of the Zika virus, a day after the World Health Organization warned that the virus would spread to most countries in the Americas. source: reuters

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NO EVIDENCE OF SHOTS FIRED Despite reports Tuesday of an active shooter and three gun-shots at the U.S. Naval Center in San Diego, officials said there was no sign of a shooting. source: reuters

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RALEIGH SADLER, a Christian activist for victims of human trafficking, said during his speech in Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday that people often associate human trafficking with sex trafficking, but only 22 percent of trafficking is for sex. zach barlow asst. photo editor

Christian activist talks human trafficking

By Michael Burkeasst. news editor

Syracuse University has announced that it has appointed Lawrence Lewandowski as the

i n t e r i m chair of the Depar tment of Psychology as the depart-ment’s for-mer chair is now a perma-

nent member of the university administration.

Lewandowski, professor and co-director of clinical training in the school psychology pro-gram at the College of Arts and Sciences, took over as interim chair earlier this month, accord-ing to an SU News release.

Lewandowski is expected to serve as interim chair of the Department of Psychology for 18 months, according to the release.

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Study finds water dispensers decrease obesity

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By Matthew Gutierrez contributing writer

A professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University led a study pub-lished last week that found having more water dispensers in schools is associated with weight loss.

The study, which gained nation-al attention after it was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, involved installing water jet machines in 1,227 New York City public elemen-tary and middle schools. Data was

collected from 2008 to 2013, and required over 1 million elementary and middle school students.

More than 480 water jet machines, also known as single-filling water dispensers, were installed in the cafeterias of roughly two-thirds of New York City public elementary and middle schools for the study.

In tracking students’ heights and weights to calculate body mass index, researchers found that the average overweight or obese child had a lower BMI compared with kids in schools without water-jet

dispensers. The average student lost about five pounds, the study found.

“I think that what’s exciting is it suggests a relatively inexpensive intervention — more water — can have a positive effect on obesity and child weight,” said Amy Ellen Schwartz, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs in the Maxwell School who led the team of researchers from New York University. “It didn’t cost a lot of money and obesity declined, so that feels like a big win.”

As obesity rates in the United States continue to climb, research-

ers chose to examine the possible link between improved water access and obesity reduction, according to the study. In 2012, more than one-third of children and adolescents living in the U.S. were considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At SU, there are 52 water-jet dis-pensers around campus, said Melissa Cadwell, the sustainability division’s marketing manager. Water-jet dis-pensers supply water via a fast-dis-pensing method, in which a person places a water bottle near a sensor

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Miner proposes methods to increase voter participationBy Michael Burkeasst. news editor

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner criticized the “LLC loophole” and laid out three pro-posals to increase voter participation in New York state during a testimony Tuesday in front of a New York State Legislature joint budget committee.

Because of a 1996 State Board of Elec-tions ruling, limited liability companies are treated as individuals rather than cor-porations in New York. That means they can give up to $60,800 for primary and general election campaigns for statewide offices, $16,800 for senate races and $8,200 for assembly candidates, according to the state’s website. Corporations can give only $5,000 in contributions per year, according to the website.

Miner called that “LLC loophole” one of the root causes of “a dark storm cloud of public corruption and self-dealing” hanging over New York state.

Another root cause, Miner said, is a lack of voter participation.

“If voter participation rates are an indi-cator of the body politics’ health, then we have a grave illness that needs our atten-tion,” Miner said, according to a transcript of her testimony from her press office.

She added that in the 2014 elections, less

than one-third of New York state’s eligible population voted.

To increase voter participation, Miner laid out three proposals.

Miner’s first proposal was to allow for a 20-day early voting period. New York is one of 13 states that do not have any form of early voting, according to the National Confer-ence of State Legislatures website.

The mayor’s second proposal was to allow for “no excuse” permanent absentee vot-ing. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have permanent absentee voting, in which voters can vote absentee without offering a reason for doing so, according to the NCSL website.

“This reform is a stepping stone to explore a vote by mail policy that has been implemented with great success in Wash-ington, Oregon and Colorado,” Miner said.

Miner’s third proposal was to enact “uni-versal voter registration,” in which people are automatically registered to vote when they turn 18 unless they opt out. Oregon recently enacted such a law.

“This groundbreaking proposal will almost certainly bolster Oregon’s best-in-the nation turnout rates that exceed 80 per-cent in presidential years and provide a clear roadmap for states like ours that have much room for improvement,” Miner said.

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$2,742The cost of Aetna Student

Health for students who already have a health

insurance plan

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250The number of colleges

and universities that use Aetna Student Health

520,000The number of students in the United States who use

Aetna Student Health

Currently, Andre said, there are about 10 students registered for each focus group. In the focus groups, students will be prompted with open-ended questions for discussion so that they can provide their input, she said.

Students interested in participating should contact the Division of Student Affairs by email.

The health insurance plan will be offered through Aetna Student Health, a Massachu-setts-based insurance company. Aetna Student Health serves 250 higher education institutions and 520,000 students, according to its website.

All students who were required to have health insurance by this academic year had the option to either waive or accept SU’s health insurance plan. The same process will apply for students required to have a health insurance plan by the 2016-17 academic year.

Students who did not have health insurance were charged $1,890 for the new student health insurance plan, provided by SU through Aetna

Student Health. For those students who vol-untarily purchase the plan when they already have an insurance plan, the cost is $2,742.

Can Aslan, president of the Graduate Stu-dent Organization, has been involved with the new health insurance plan since May 2015. Aslan attended three health insurance committees during summer 2015.

Aslan said in an email that he will try to attend the focus groups when possible because the health insurance policy is an important topic for graduate students and he wants to lis-ten to what the graduate students are saying.

“I’d like to better understand what prob-lems they have had or what their concerns are regarding the new health insurance requirement,” Aslan said.

He added that even though students reach out to the GSO about related issues, most graduate students will contact the health center or other SU offices.

One of the major concerns of graduate students has been the increased cost of attendance at SU due to the price of the health insurance plan, Aslan said.

He added that he expects students will bring this concern up during the scheduled focus groups.

Other concerns Aslan said he has heard from students deal with the Aetna Student Health insurance plan coverage and its high deductibles and high co-pay.

Students have also expressed issues with high dependent cost, Aslan said. For exam-ple, if a student has a spouse and a child, then the cost of the health insurance plan is multiplied by three, he said.

“I expect there to be more issues or con-cerns from students that we have not even heard about, yet,” Aslan said.

Aslan said he is hoping that university leaders will get a chance to “really hear the students out.”

“It is an excellent opportunity for the stu-dents to effectively communicate their good and/or bad experiences with this change to improve services,” Aslan said.

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Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s plan to aid low-income schools in New York state by raising taxes would do more harm than good if the proposal moves forward in its current form. Miner called on state lawmakers Monday to increase taxes by 1 percent for New York residents whose income exceeds $665,000 in order to raise funding for public schools in impoverished cities, including Syracuse, in an op-ed letter to The Albany Times-Union. Within the letter, Miner cited Syracuse’s dismal poverty levels to demonstrate the economic inequity facing the region and argued that the additional tax would generate $2.3 billion a year for these schools, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute. Though seemingly reason-able at face value, the weakest element of Miner’s letter is its failure to acknowledge the realistic aftermath that may follow the implementation of legislation of this kind. To source high-income earners as the primary solution to address widespread economic gaps — but leave significant questions with-out answer — is an insubstantial start for an issue that should be of high importance for Miner, considering Syracuse’s fiscal and educational standing. Miner’s optimistic take lacks relevant information and a counterargument to address the observed trend that raising taxes for New York’s wealthiest gives way to fuel the alarming rates of those already leaving the state entirely. According to the United Van Lines’ Annual National Movers Study, released earlier this month, 65 percent of the moves to and from New York

were outbound — the second most popular of any outbound state behind New Jersey. Because this tendency plays a ripple-effect role in the job market, concentrations of poverty and other related facets, its coinciding repercussions should have been acknowledged by Miner in her message to the public. This is especially impor-tant when potential outcomes that would stem from Miner’s proposal may cause lasting damage to the New York state economy, as it has consistently done in the past, and should be acknowledged by Miner in all policy discussions. There are experts to find solutions to the current economic situation plaguing Syracuse and regions throughout New York state, and there are local leaders to promote them. But Miner’s plan, as presented in the letter, needs to consider the integral role of wealthy business owners in New York state, and should work to preserve them and the jobs they create, rather than leading a push, though indirectly, for them to move. It is easy to endorse educa-tion as a value that everyone can get behind. But it takes a comprehensive plan of action to answer the key questions, maintain support and ensure the proposal will come to fruition without disrupting an economy that is already fragile. Simply put, Miner’s plan to address the lapse at the intersec-tion of economic and educational inequities in the most impover-ished regions of New York state as presented in her Jan. 25 letter are easily said. But, until the spe-cifics of the initiative are fully developed, better left undone.

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student life

Balance key to minimizing distractions

You used to call me on my cell-phone — but now you bom-bard me with texts, Facebook

messages, Tweets and Snaps. A study recently published in The Journal of Media Education reported that students are more digi-tally distracted in college classrooms than ever before. According to the study of 675 college students in 26 states, including New York, students spend about 20 percent of class time using a digital device for non-class purposes, which can amount to roughly two-thirds of the academic year, according to researchers. This comes as no surprise as digital distractions are on the rise in all aspects of our lives. In fact, the Pew Research Center confirms this in a December 2015 survey, which found that one-fifth of Americans go online “almost constantly.” So it’s not necessarily that students find class particu-larly boring, it’s just that we can’t help but log in. There is no one solution that will work for everyone. Still, balance can be achieved and progress can be made if students and faculty work together to adapt to modern classroom dynamics. If each individual creates his or her own code of conduct in class and if professors adapt to this new generation, we can keep up with this fast-paced world. Students may, for instance, put their phones away completely out of sight in classes of fewer than twenty students. In large lecture halls, on the other hand, they might keep it inconspicuously within reach in case a text war-rants an immediate response, an urgent email pops up or inspira-tion for a funny Tweet strikes. Still, this behavior can be dangerous. A quick glance for the time can turn into a scroll through Instagram, which can turn into a habit of zoning out completely.

Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor of social media in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Com-munications at Syracuse University, said it’s about personal responsibil-ity. She said even though a laptop in a classroom can be “like a wall” between the student and the profes-sor, there are other classmates who are also affected. “It’s not just the professor that we need to care about — it’s the peers in our class,” Grygiel said. “Being in a brick and mortar school is actually more and more of a luxury, and those in-real-life connections are super valuable. Take advantage of it.” Those missed connections in class are the forgotten conse-quences of living in the cyber age. It proves that even though students can get away with texting dur-ing class because of an oblivious professor, it doesn’t mean we have won. In reality, we are on the losing side of a vicious cycle and are pull-ing classmates down with us. The short-term high of being sneaky is outweighed by the long-term consequences of this behav-ior: missing information, spending more time relearning the material and perhaps subtly sending a mes-sage to the professor and students that you have other priorities. Because it is incredibly disre-spectful to faculty and their time, professors have a right to intervene. They are the ones running the show and have a right to create rules they deem appropriate, as many make clear on their syllabi. But while this is valid, students alone cannot be blamed for behavior that is a conse-quence of modern technology. Increased accessibility of the Internet and the higher rates of

distraction show that classrooms must adapt to students and their shorter attention spans. A con-tinuous lecture for 80 minutes is essentially asking students to check their phones. Professors must understand that as digital natives — those who have grown up with technology — students don’t have the luxury of distancing themselves from their devices. Just take a look at the rising number cases of “nomophobia,” the fear and anxiety of being without a mobile phone, which have been backed up by psychological studies. Keeping that in mind, profes-sors should create rules that align with our generation’s complex relationship with technology. For instance, a strict “no-device poli-cy” can be balanced by occasional 5-minute device breaks, a measure some Syracuse University profes-sors have already put into play. And while cell phones should be up to student discretion, laptops should be banned entirely for note-taking, based on research which shows taking notes by hand is a more effective way to retain information. As this semester gets into full swing, students should be looking to form healthy work habits, especially by assessing their classroom distrac-tions, because the primary respon-sibility lies in their hands. Devices can help us survive a never-ending lecture by giving us an easy escape, but they can hurt us in the long run. Maybe the occasional glance isn’t totally detrimental, but it should be done with minimal dam-age to the professor, classmates and one’s own learning. Side note: I may or may not have worked on this piece during a lecture.Rashika Jaipuriar is a freshman

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School ranks No. 11 for online graduate degree programBy Bridget McAllisterstaff writer

The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University has been ranked No. 11 on a list of the 50 best online degree programs for graduate computer information in the United States.

The U.S. News & World Report’s rankings take into account the credentials of faculty, the quality of student services and technology, peer reputation, how engaged students are and how selective the admissions process is, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s website.

Victoria Williams, director of online educa-tion for the iSchool, attributes the program’s success to its fine-tuned structure and force of well-trained and highly specialized professors.

“Since 1993, the iSchool has been deliver-ing high-quality distance and online educa-tion,” Williams said.

The faculty’s formal training in online teach-ing combined with their experiences “trans-lates into an enhanced learning experience” for the iSchool’s online students, Williams said.

Professors teaching in the online program are experts in fields such as information systems, library science, information policy, technology and management, data science and information security, Williams said.

All of the iSchool’s offered master’s degrees come with the option of being com-pleted either on-campus or online, accord-ing to an SU News release.

With about 200 students, the program is not strictly comprised of off-campus or distant students; many of those enrolled are graduate students learning on campus at the iSchool who choose to add online courses to their curriculum.

“In this way, traditional boundaries

between online and on-campus students do not exist at our school,” Williams said.

Kelsey George, a recent graduate of the library and information science program, said the personal touch added to the online route made all the difference.

“The orientation on campus at the begin-ning of the program was something I was really interested in,” George said.

George said being able to meet faculty at the orientation enabled her to connect with professors and other students “in a way a lot of other online programs don’t necessarily allow you to do.”

The iSchool stood out, too, in its practi-cality, not demanding that students make monthly trips to the campus as some other online programs require, George said.

George added that online students are in many ways no different from on-cam-

pus students, citing the necessity for both groups of students to have practical experi-ence in their respective fields.

“I had several classes that required me to job shadow,” George said. “It really helped me to network with professionals in the field and get a look at different aspects of the job.”

Being ranked No. 11, though, is not the same as being ranked No. 1, and George said one way in which the school’s program could still improve would be to communicate more regularly with its students.

George said students should be made more aware of when they should be checking in with their advisors and staff for graduation require-ments and dues.

George said communicating this kind of information “is something that can always be improved with any program.”

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“Larry is a distinguished and highly valued faculty member,” said College of Arts and Sci-ences Dean Karin Ruhlandt in the release. “I am grateful to Larry for taking on this impor-tant leadership role and I am excited to partner with him in the weeks and months ahead.”

Lewandowski specializes in school psy-chology and clinical neuropsychology and teaches courses in brain and behavior, neu-

ropsychology, socioemotional assessment, school psychology practicum and internship supervision, according to the release.

Lewandowski replaced the department’s previous chair, Peter Vanable, who became interim vice president for research at SU on Jan. 1 following Gina Lee-Glauser’s retire-ment at the end of 2015. Vanable also serves as interim dean of the Graduate School and

will continue to do so until the university names a joint permanent vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School.

“I am delighted to serve the college and department in this role, especially given the enthusiastic support of the dean, our terrific faculty and our highly productive students,” Lewandowski said.

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that then releases a stream of water. Cadwell said that Students of Sustain-

ability approached her division in 2011 about installing these dispensers, and since then, the goal has been to place the jet dispens-ers in every building on campus, including residence halls.

“Students of Sustainability requested

more water bottle-filling stations on campus because at the time all we had was water fountains that you drink out of,” Cadwell said. “It was very difficult to fill your water bottle, and as every student who lives on campus is given a free water bottle, it made sense that there were dispensers on campus for them to fill those water bottles.”

When the club pushed for the installation of the dispensers on campus, the goal was to help reduce the amount of plastic waste on

campus, not obesity, said Maria Dombrov, the president of Students of Sustainability and a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

And while there’s no association between the relatively new dispensers and obesity among SU students, this study could precede major breakthroughs in combatting child-hood obesity, said Dombrov.

“We often are looking for the silver bullet that’s going to solve the problem,” Schwartz said. “We think maybe this suggests there isn’t

a silver bullet and, instead, what we’re going to have to look for is a bunch of little things.”

Schwartz said that many small inter-ventions together could perhaps be what is required to reduced childhood obesity and improve children’s health.

“If we had a bunch of (interventions), we could potentially make a really big dent eventually,” she added.“And this is a step in that direction.”

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one religion,” Sadler said. “Human traffick-ing is a human problem.”

He urged that people must work together to fight the injustice that is occurring both locally and globally, even though their moti-vations may be different.

Sadler’s perspective was shaped by Christianity. He said that because of his relationship with Jesus Christ he felt in a particular moment that he had been called to do something about global exploitation.

Since then he has sat with friends as they have shared with him their stories of exploita-tion, worries about relapsing into prostitution and eating disorders caused by their abusers.

He proceeded to tell the story of one of his friends, Shandra Woworuntu, who was trafficked for sex and is now a member of the United States Advisory Council on Human

Trafficking. Sadler compared Shandra’s experience with the biblical story of Joseph.

“Shandra’s story is a reminder that no matter what they meant for evil, God contin-ues to mean for good,” Sadler said.

Sadler encouraged the audience to set up Google Alerts so that they can become more informed about vulnerable people in their community.

He added that people should become aware of what the signs of human trafficking are and how to properly respond when they suspect somebody is a victim of trafficking.

“One of the best ways is to get to know

the people of your community … People are more broken than they appear to be,” Sadler said. “We are so messed up and we spend the majority of our time denying it.”

Throughout the talk, Sadler emphasized that people associate human trafficking with sex trafficking, although it is estimated that globally only 22 percent of trafficking is for sex with the remaining percentage being for labor.

After Sadler’s talk, he opened the floor to questions from the audience and discussed statistics on human trafficking and his goals to expand his message.

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By Haley Kimcontributing writer

ASyracuse apartment build-ing connected to “The Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald is expected to be demolished this spring.

The building at 501 Catherine St. once housed Fitzgerald — who also wrote the clas-sic American novel “Tender Is the Night” — and his family sometime when he was 5 to 7 years old, according to Syracuse.com.

The apartment complex was damaged last November in a fire started by a neighboring apartment complex, according to Syracuse.com.

Paul Driscoll, commissioner of the Department of Neighborhood and Business Development, said he and his team did not find out about the Fitzgerald connection until a few weeks ago. They were informed by the Onondaga Historical Association, he said.

“My office has been working on acquir-ing or demolishing (this building) for more than a year,” Driscoll said. “This informa-tion is very new.”

But despite the new information, the building is still scheduled for demolition, Driscoll said, and it will be replaced by 50 new housing units. The vacant complex has racked up numerous code violations and is an easy target for trouble, he said. Ultimate-ly, the health and safety of the people living in the city is more important, Driscoll said.

“Demolition is a last resort; (it’s) not like we jumped to that,” he said. “I’m more wor-ried about people alive.”

Harvey Teres, an English professor at Syracuse University, said he was surprised and had no idea Fitzgerald once lived in the city. But Teres said he doesn’t think the short period Fitzgerald spent had a major influence on his writing.

Driscoll said Fitzgerald lived in three different apartment complexes while he was in Syracuse: the one on Catherine Street, another one demolished years ago and one that has been renovated. The renovated apartment building is on James Street, according to a 2013 Syracuse.com article.

“We feel good that at least one of (the) three places he lived at has been preserved,” Driscoll said.

Samuel Gruber, cultural heritage con-sultant and former president of the Pres-ervation Association of Central New York, said he is not surprised the building will be

demolished, and added that he’s only disap-pointed a lot of Syracuse buildings are lost.

Gruber said complications such as pri-vate ownership of the buildings and limited monitoring has resulted in these losses.

Nevertheless, Gruber said there has been progress toward preservation and fewer demolitions in recent years.

He said demolitions during the 1970s and ‘80s often resulted in empty lots, but now he hopes nicer-looking and more purposeful buildings will replace the older ones.

The plan is for the remaining Catherine Street apartment complex to be demolished hopefully by April of this year, Driscoll said. The new units will have residents by this time next year, he added.

The 50 new units will either be all in one building or spread across multiple buildings, Driscoll said. Twenty-five of the units will be permanent support housing for those with substance addiction, while the other 25 units will be general affordable housing for people who make just less than the median income, Driscoll said.

Driscoll said the Department of Neigh-borhood and Business Development is work-ing with central New York and the state of New York to provide permanent support for people with substance abuse issues.

There has been some talk about com-memorating Fitzgerald’s stay at Catherine Street, Driscoll said — possibly by selling some of the building’s bricks.

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THE GONE GATSBYSyracuse building where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived to be demolished

The apartment complex at 501 Catherine St. in Syracuse was briefly home to author F. Scott Fitzgerald when he was 7 years old in 1903. The building is being demolished by the city because it violates numerous health and safety code violations. yu hua contributing photographer

Demolition is a last resort; (it’s) not like we jumped to that. I’m more worried

about people alive.

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1. DAVID HAWXHURST has been collecting Smith Corona Typewriters for 25 years, and now has 122 typewriters sitting in organized shelving units in his garage.

2. In addition to the comprehensive collection of typewriters, Hawxhurst also displays advertisements, cleaning supplies and accessories released by Smith Corona Typewriters.

3. The company that produced the typewriters was founded in Syracuse and once made 75 percent of the world’s typewriter supply.

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David Hawxhurst walked into a Syracuse antique shop looking for nothing in particular, and he walked out with what became a 25-year-long obsession.

“It started with one typewriter; I thought, ‘This would look nice in an office someday,’” Hawxhurst said.

He never had his own office, but he had the “collection gene.”Now, tucked neatly in Hawxhurst’s North Syracuse two-bay garage, 122 Smith

Corona Typewriters are meticulously organized and displayed. The real estate broker, who works from home, has spent over two decades searching and compiling one of the world’s most complete collections of the once Syracuse-based company’s machines.

He views the collection as a bridge to the past, a way to physically see the progress of the city and nation. In the 1900s, Syracuse became an epicenter for the writing mecha-nism, and at one point, produced 75 percent of all the world’s typewriters, earning Syracuse the nickname, “Typewriter City.”

The typewriters sit on five-tiered metal grate shelving units that line the garage’s interior. Hawxhurst, 59, was drawn to the ornate metal ornamentation on the Smith Premier One, produced in the 1880s. He fell in love with the hand-stenciled “Made in Syracuse” labels and wanted to collect every color of the Smith Corona Portables produced in the 1950s.

“It just kept getting bigger and bigger, and I started putting them on these racks and started seeing the gaps,” Hawxhurst said.

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typewriterbegan “snowballing into a collection frenzy.”

In the middle of the space, two long tables covered with a white patterned table cloth hold ribbon tins, binders filled with old advertisements and cleaning accessories. Large display ads from the ‘40s and ‘50s peer down from the top shelf proclaiming: “NO FINER GIFT than a Smith Corona.”

“BEST HELP TO BETTER MARKS.”With more than 600 pieces of Smith-

Corona memorabilia, Hawxhurst estimates having spent “tens of thousands of dollars” on the collection. He’s bought museum qual-ity, functioning pieces at antique shows, yard sales, auctions and online from 44 states, four Canadian provinces and three foreign countries, he said. His collection is rare in that it boasts only one company’s product.

But Hawxhurst is now journeying on another quest: to find a better home than a garage for his collection.

“It’s just sitting out here in the dark, col-lecting dust pretty much,” said Hawxhurst as

he looked at his collection. “I just felt it was time to see what I could do with it, explore other possibilities to get it out there so the public could view it.”

Based on collectors’ estimates and online research, Hawxhurst said he could sell the pieces for an estimated $100,000, but wants the Salt City products to stay in Syracuse, where they were designed, manufactured and sold.

In 1886, a Syracuse inventor approached local gun manufacturer Lyman Cornelius Smith with a typewriter design. Foreseeing the future of typewriters and their potential to revolutionize the world, Smith decided to fund the project. Along with his three broth-

ers, he opened the first Smith Premier fac-tory at the corner of Clinton and Onondaga streets in Syracuse.

Over the years, the company changed names due to consolidation and union trusts, but the company ’s factories remained in Syracuse until 1960. Like so many Syracuse manufacturing compa-nies, such as Syracuse China and Carrier, the typewriter factories left the city to rebuild on its own.

“My primary goal is to have it displayed here; it’s a sense of community pride,” Hawxhurst said. “It helped build this city, it provided a lot of jobs, so it was a great income for a lot of people.”

The Onondaga Historical Association is one possible destination for the display. Tom Hunter, curator of OHA’s Museum Col-lection, said the association has discussed acquiring the collection and that he thinks the collection highlights Syracuse’s deep-rooted history with the machine.

“There were a few manufacturers in Onon-daga County — L.C. Smith & Brothers, Reming-ton and Krandel were here as well,” Hunter said. “In terms of employment, it was a big industry in Syracuse and employed over 1,000 people in the beginning of the 20th century.”

Hawxhurst has reached out to other local institutions such as Armory Square’s Museum of Science and Technology and the Center of Excellence, located where one of the Smith Corona factories used to be.

He has even written letters to Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud trying to pique his interest in obtaining the collection for the university. In the letter, he cited the strong connection between L.C. Smith, who helped found the engineering school, and SU.

Hawxhurst has received offers from col-lectors and museums outside the city, but wants to do everything in his power to keep the collection in Syracuse. He admitted that it won’t be easy to see his “labor of love” leave his backyard.

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Organization strives to promote SyracuseBy Sam Gozinskystaff writer

Last September, a study was publicized that named Syracuse as the nation’s top city for poverty concentration amongst Hispanic and African-American citizens. The report described Syracuse as suffering from an “extreme poverty” — a sobering statistic that has since shed light on the harsh reali-ties of those who live in the city.

John DeSantis, founder of the organiza-tion Believe in Syracuse, has made it his career’s work to change the image of city, ultimately helping to strengthen the com-munity. DeSantis, a Syracuse native and Syracuse University alumnus, became inspired when he came to the realization that many of his friends from SU had moved away since graduating. DeSantis was well aware of the city’s stigma of being cold and jobless, but knew just how much untapped potential the city has.

“I started to realize that there are a lot of great organizations, and great companies and great employers in Syracuse — some of which need highly skilled workers,” DeSantis said. “I felt like my classmates could have been filling those jobs and my classmates could have been starting their own companies here in Syracuse and doing great things, but so many of them were moving away.”

The organization is now getting ready to celebrate its third birthday, and like last

year, plans to do so by celebrating the very residents the organization was created for.

The goal of Believe in Syracuse is to pro-mote the positive aspects of the city and channel passion about the area into com-munity service. The organization routinely hosts “Syracuse Rising,” networking events that allow residents to come together at the site of local businesses.

The organization has also aided in back-pack and book drives, diversity promotion programs and held the “Light up Syracuse” event, which encouraged businesses to leave their lights on overnight as a way to welcome visitors for the NCAA tournament.

All of this is done in the hopes that step-by-step, the local Syracuse community can be vastly improved.

In celebration of all they have accom-plished over the past year, Believe in Syracuse will be hosting its third birthday party on Thursday at the Landmark Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.

Esther Zorn, Believe in Syracuse’s ser-geant at arms and an SU alumnus, said the

event will feature a magician, a variety of food, beer tastings, live music provided by the local Spring Street band and more. The turnout is expected to be close to 400 people — about double last year’s turnout.

Every year, two awards are given — to an individual and an organization — that have made a difference in the local community. Chris Fowler, executive director of Syracuse First, is being given the individual award for his work in the city.

Fowler’s organization focuses on help-ing to improve the economic standing of Syracuse by promoting local businesses. Fowler said he hopes to see small busi-nesses in Syracuse be the center of its booming economy.

Believe in Syracuse chose the Samari-tan Center, located in downtown Syracuse, to win the award for a local organization. The center serves food for the homeless, acting as a soup kitchen for anyone who needs it.

Both of the organizations have done sig-nificant work in line with the values that Believe in Syracuse was founded on and DeSantis believes that the future holds even more opportunities to improve the city.

“Even though there are huge obstacles that we face, if we work together and organize on a grassroots level, we can get things done and we can make a difference,” DeSantis said. “There is hope for these neighborhoods.”

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By Joshua Feinblattcontributing writer

In the public eye, rappers are often known to be crass, rambunctious or attention seeking. Those who expect

a rapper to appear that way might miss out on J. Specs, a soft-spoken, up-and-coming rapper.

Jordan Spector, a sophomore informa-tion management and technology major from Livingston, New Jersey, never thought music was in his future. But in 2011, he wrote and performed a rap for his teen retreat in Israel and got positive feed-back from his peers. From that moment on, he started working to develop his skills and eventually began a rap career as J. Specs.

His most recent song was released this month and is an ode to Syracuse University called “College Dayz.” Before this track, he had produced six songs in the past six months. They’re all available on Spector’s SoundCloud page; he said he is working on even more now.

As a new artist, Spector tries to prove that everyone can get into music if they’re interested.

“Anyone with the motivation and the inspiration can express themselves through music,” Spector said. “I came into (rapping) knowing nothing about music and music production, and you just learn as you do it.”

W hen he started rapping, Spec-tor didn’t have much equipment and described himself as a “low-budget art-ist.” Instead of studio headphones and fancy mixing equipment, he produced his first song using GarageBand on his iPad and Apple earbuds.

Since then, he has upgraded to new music-producing software, which has much more in-depth capabilities. Now, he can cut up beats and include piano instru-mentals that he comes up with by ear.

Spector didn’t grow up with a very musical background, as his father was a rabbi and his mother was an assistant principal at a local private school.

However, he said music ran in his blood because his grandmother stud-ied opera at Syracuse University. Still, Spector’s friends found that his new ambition came a bit out of the blue.

“When I first came out with my songs, my

friends were really surprised because they viewed me as a really quiet person, maybe even a little introverted,” Spector said.

However, his friends still support all the music he’s turned out. Lenn Brown, a sophomore management major and a good friend of Spector’s, praised his work.

“He can formulate lyrics in a way that everyone can relate to,” Brown said. “I’m most impressed by his uniqueness and mindset on life that he incorporates into his music.”

Other friends describe his music as rap, hip hop, reggae and a hint of pop, compar-ing him to rappers like Matisyahu.

Although Spector doesn’t like to com-pare his music to other artists’, he said he takes inspiration from his favorite per-formers: Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Emi-nem and others.

But one thing definitely set Spec-tor apart from many other rappers: he makes sure his lyrics are clean.

“A lot of times in the music industry, you’ll have songs that their messages might be a little shallow. So I try to put more than that into my music,” Spector said.

In a recent song about college, he

didn’t just focus on partying. He raps about forming connections that will last a lifetime and learning the skills required to “venture into the crazy unknown,” capturing the highlights and struggles of college life in one song.

Spector said if his fans could only listen to one of his songs, he’d want them to hear “Too Many Thoughts,” one of his singles that preaches taking chances in life.

“I came into this just trying to create something special so that I could look back and see that I created something original,” Spector said, adding that he uses music as an emotional outlet. It is an added bonus when he receives posi-tive feedback from his family, friends and fans.

Spector said rapping is just a side hobby right now, and whether he plans to make it a part of his career is unforeseen.

“The fulfillment comes not in popular-ity, but knowing that I can make an impact and knowing I can make my message reso-nate with even one person,” Spector said. “That means the world to me.”

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JORDAN SPECTOR did not have much musical training growing up. After a teen retreat to Israel, Spector discovered he had a talent for rapping and decided to pursue the craft on his own. He started off using apps on his iPad to produce music, but has since upgraded to more advanced software. evan jenkins contributing pho-

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mute as losses gnawed at him. “There were a couple times … he finished

second,” former teammate Martin Hehir said. “He doesn’t like to lose, but we can usu-ally get him turned around once he realizes our team just crushed everyone else.”

Knight’s brother, Jaryd, learned to leave Justyn alone. His mother, Jennifer, remembers “painful” car rides home from far-away, grade-school basketball tourna-ments that ended without trophies.

Those occasions were “bricks,” his mother said. She borrowed the term from an old fam-ily adage. Knight lost his starting spot on the basketball team in 10th grade. He struggled in the classroom. He didn’t find “his calling,” running, until halfway through high school.

At St. Michael’s College School in Cana-da, Knight felt content doing exactly what his coach Frank Bergin asked. Since run-ning his first race in basketball sneakers and baggy shorts, he hadn’t needed extra effort. He won the league championship three weeks after he joined the team, set the Canadian junior record for the mile and became the 2015 Pan-Am Games cross-country champion. But the day after Bergin and Knight drove home to Toronto from The Penn Relays, he changed.

“He kept destroying workouts,” Bergin said. “I’d have to keep making up more stuff that I’d never given kids before. He just did it. There were workouts where I’d go, ‘Holy crap. You did that?’ … It got to the point where I was scared of what I was giving him.”

Bergin has coached world champions and Olympians. Knight, he said, is the best runner he’s ever seen.

After Knight picked Syracuse over Wisconsin, expectations followed him to central New York. The SU coaching staff scrapped redshirt plans when they saw Knight run despite his limited background. Top runners typically run about 60 miles per week, Knight was at about 35.

“I’m good at hiding it, but I get super ner-vous,” Knight said. “When I got nervous, all I thought was: ‘Justyn, you’ve created such a big name for yourself. You did everything you could in high school and in Canada and then you come here and coach is expecting a lot out of you.’ I hoped I didn’t disappoint them. … I didn’t want to waste the coach’s time (after not redshirting).”

The nerves didn’t surprise Bergin. He’d known Knight’s desire to not disappoint

others since letting down the Jamaicans. Hehir and Colin Bennie, who often roomed with Knight on road trips, saw him fidgety before races. He worried about not know-ing his competition because Canadian high school running hadn’t exposed him to elite American competition.

The third-year runner didn’t know things his teammates considered common sense, like what to eat or how far to run each day. He once asked Hehir how many laps made one mile. Knight confided in Hehir about his fear of disappointing. Hehir said Knight used the pressure as healthy motivation.

After a standout freshman season, which included winning ACC rookie of the year, he finished a disastrous 143rd at the NCAA finals.

“I cried all the tears out,” he said. In 2015, Knight finished fourth over-

all in the NCAA championships. In one race, his shoe fell off but he won anyway. Through studying race results, he now knows more about other runners than any-one else on the team, Bennie said.

Before a recent practice, Knight dribbled a field hockey ball. He smiled, bantering with two field hockey players about who was better. There were no signs of the vicious competitor who once passed three runners by listening to their ragged breathing and pushing the tempo when they were most vulnerable.

“His on/off switch is crazy,” SU assis-tant coach Jon Squeri said.

To understand why Knight hates losing and how he relentlessly comes back can be traced to his parents’ house.

Growing up, Knight’s father coached his basketball team. He tried to tire his players out by making them run suicides. As they kept running, some kids cried or doubled over.

“If I said, ‘Get on the line again,’ (Justyn) was just there,” Anthony said. “I could never tire him out.”

When Anthony was 13, he was cut from the basketball team and practiced the entire next year. When Anthony was 14, he became a starter. He won the award for his high school’s top athlete.

Years later, in Anthony’s home, another Knight graduated as athlete of the year. The yearbook commemorating it sat on a book-shelf. In that yearbook, toward the middle, is Justyn’s picture. To the right, above thanks to Bergin and others for unleashing his “hidden talent,” is his quote.

“A successful man,” it reads, “is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks thrown at him.”

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the ball in his hands and plays the second-highest percentage of a game’s minutes on average. His replacement, freshman point guard Rex Pflueger, is averaging a meager 2.5 points per game in just over 10 minutes played per contest. He’ll be charged with the bulk of the ball-handling for a team that is one of the best in the country at tak-ing care of the ball.

Notre Dame makes 55.8 percent of its 2-point field goals, which ranks 11th in the country, according to Kenpom. Syra-cuse was roasted on the interior on Sunday night, when Virginia made over 65 percent of its 2-point shots in a 73-65 Cavaliers win. UND’s starting five on Thursday – Pflueger, Steve Vasturia, V.J. Beachem, Bonzie Colson and Zach Auguste – each shoot over 53 percent from inside the arc. Only 29.1 percent of Notre Dame’s field-goal attempts come from behind the arc, but the Fighting Irish shoots an efficient 38.7 percent from 3-point range, which ranks 31st in the nation. Beachem, a 6-foot-

8 forward, leads the team with a 42.3 shooting percentage from deep on a team-high 104 3-point attempts.

How Syracuse upsets Notre DameThe Fighting Irish averages 19 seconds per possession, which is the 24th-fastest in the country. If Syracuse can keep Notre Dame out of the paint early in the shot clock and force the ball around the arc, the Orange will have a better chance at preventing its thin frontcourt from being exposed a la Virginia. Player to watchColson boasts the highest offensive rating on the team (129.1) according to Kenpom and leads the Fighting Irish in field-goal percentage with a 57.9-percent mark. The sophomore only plays 26.2 minutes per game, but he averages 12.6 points and seven rebounds per contest. He plastered 31 points and 11 rebounds on Duke in a 95-91 UND win just over a week ago and com-bined for 31 points in Notre Dame’s last two wins against Virginia Tech and BC.

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consider his own took too much of an emotional toll.

His plans for the future remain mud-dled. He wants to show how he can throw at SU’s Pro Day in the spring, but knows he won’t be able to run at full capacity by then. Hunt has said it’s NFL or bust, but admitted he’s not sure if he’d consider playing in the Canadian Football League if only that option presented itself. He’s working toward getting a commercial real estate license and is a salesman for a boiler company. Hunt believes he is NFL caliber, and, true or not, he might never get the chance to prove himself right. A player and person that’s always maintained control on the field, Hunt’s future in the sport is completely out of his hands. His appeal provides one more chance for optimism.

The First Night Hunt hoped that his shoe had come off. He didn’t feel anything on his foot, but the adrenaline of the play that just ended pre-vented him from feeling any pain either. If his shoe was off, it would mean everything was all right. It would mean his foot wasn’t numb, just naked.

As soon as he had avoided a tackler moments before, he felt something weird. His instincts told him to go to the ground. Just seven minutes and 27 seconds had passed in his senior season. He’d worked all offseason to get back from breaking his leg 11 months before. He trained with renowned quarterback coach George Whitfield, who told him he had what it took to be among the best. He prepared himself for a new offense that he memorized front to back. He looked forward to a schedule splattered with the likes of LSU, Florida State and Clemson, all chances to make a lasting mark.

Seven minutes. Twenty-seven seconds. He looked down at his foot. His shoe was still on. His right foot had lost all its feeling. As soon as he tried to walk, he knew everything he worked for was over. As soon as the train-ers took him to the locker room, that news was confirmed.

“I just remember calling him and leaving a message,” then-SU offensive coordinator Tim Lester said. “I knew he was probably about as down in the dumps as you could be. I sent him a really long text. I was like ‘Call me. I know you’re down. Just call me. Let’s talk.’”

Then-SU head coach Scott Shafer walked into the training room where Hunt was at halftime. “We’re going to get you that year back,” he told him. It wasn’t what Hunt wanted to hear then, but something he wishes he could hear now. When he went into the locker room moments later to see teammates, putting on a brave face and saying everything was OK was not what he wanted to do. He’d spent the last hour crying. He’d spend the rest of the night doing the same. He never checked the box score of the game and never looked at the stats.

“In my head, that’s my team,” Hunt said. “In everybody else’s head, that’s my team.”

He left the Carrier Dome before Syra-cuse’s 47-0 drubbing of Rhode Island was complete. He got into his aunt’s car and drove to her hotel a few blocks away. On the way he asked her through tears how he could do everything right and still see every result

go horribly wrong. He said he was a good person. He always

did what was asked of him. “Honest to God, I don’t have an answer

but to say that God has his ways of doing things,” Hunt’s aunt Valencia Hunt said. “And that’s OK to someone in an OK posi-tion. When you’re dealing with a crushed spirit, then they can’t see God … That first night was the absolute hardest.”

The SeasonWhen Hunt was injured in 2014, it allowed him to sit up in the booth with Lester and watch him call the offensive plays. Three or four times, he’d turn his headset on and make a suggestion about something he saw or give insight and advice. It all fit into the narrative of his growing process. His inabil-ity to play allowed him to step back and become a better quarterback, one that would be ready for big things in his final chance.

After his injury in September, though, he didn’t go back up to the booth for games. Aside from the fact that he couldn’t physi-cally get upstairs to sit next to Lester, his purpose was better served on the sideline, as a calming presence to his younger replace-ments, Eric Dungey and Zack Mahoney.

He would also chart everything on offense. He had a list of every type of play the team would run, and it was his job to chart the different versions of the same play call.

Hunt could get lost in the game, watching, observing, thinking about how he would do one thing or the other. When he told Dungey after a mistake that it was OK and that it happens to everyone, it made a difference because he’d been there and done that.

Before games were always the hardest for Hunt — anticipating a game he couldn’t play in. But throwing the ball with running back Devante McFarlane, team managers, the coaches or whoever was around pro-vided a reprieve. He’d build up a sweat and forget that none of it was real. Forget that he was immobile. Forget his leg was strapped in a boot. In his mind, then, he was the quarterback.

“It gave me a moment to where I just zoned out,” Hunt said. “I would go in my own little world and I just think about every-thing. I would just throw the ball and just think about, ‘Oh, drop back.’ Or think about, “Ah, the guy is going to jump the hitch. Alright, take the corner, but don’t look it off because the safety is going to run over the top.’ Little things like that goes on in my mind so much.”

Hunt missed classes for two weeks after his injury. He missed quarterbacks meetings for four weeks. He spent a lot of time alone in his room. His apartment was the one where other teammates often came to hang out. But when there wasn’t that commotion, there was more and more alone time.

His roommates, Ron Thompson, Marcus Coleman and Rony Charles, all had to carry his things down the stairs because it was already enough of a struggle for him to get up and down himself. Hunt was still a part of the team and his name was still on the roster. He went to the games. He sat next to Shafer on every plane ride so the two could catch up. He walked out for every coin flip. He was the face of the team, but to him it was an obsolete one.

“You feel like you’re missing out,” Hunt said. “You kind of feel like you’re forgotten in a way. Even though they don’t, but at the same

time, you kind of feel like they forgot your abilities of how you could lead the team.”

Recovery and Rejection Coming back would always be hard, but it’s harder now when there’s nothing to come back to. He knows what he’s capable of doing and believes he could be in the NFL. But Hunt is also not naive enough to believe he’s proven it to anyone else.

The most painful part of the recovery process was right after the surgery, which he had four days after the injury. They cut open his foot, pulled down his Achilles before it snapped back up and then re-sewed it. They numbed everything from his knee down to alleviate the pain, but it still hurt, much more than before the surgery.

He was in a cast for two weeks after sur-gery and used crutches and a scooter to get around. Then he was in a boot for another three weeks. Then he just walked on his own, the pain far from gone. Even nearly five months later, it still hurts when he wakes up in the morning.

“You have to learn how to walk again, you have to learn how to use the muscles again,” Hunt said. “And it’s like, man, another thing that I’ve got to overcome, just to do some-thing I love.”

Assistant athletics director for athletic performance Will Hicks would have Hunt do a lot of squats and push-ups, because it was what he was capable of doing. In his one-on-one physical training, he would work on stretching and stamina and endurance exercises. His trainer would massage his foot to break up the scar tissue.

He says he’s ahead of schedule — typical recovery time is eight months — but not enough so to be a full Pro Day participant.

Throughout the beginning of his rehab, he watched as his replacement, Dungey, took over the team with flare. He thought about what he would do if we were to get a sixth year. Would he stay? Would he get to play? Lester suggested a possible change to tight end. Hunt told him he’d rather leave.

Those concerns were secondary, though. He had sent the NCAA all the documents. He gave them a personal statement, one he was convinced would rule out any doubt that he deserved another year. The school gave one, too. Lester told him that it was far less than likely that he would get another year, but it didn’t deter Hunt’s optimism.

That’s why, when former director of play-er development Bob Brotzki called Hunt into his office, there was little conversation to be had. “Thanks,” Hunt said as he walked out, giving no other reaction to the news that he wasn’t given a sixth year.

The NCAA declined to comment on the decision regarding Hunt, but referenced a 2014 ruling that the NCAA could “more heavily consider a student-athlete’s person-al circumstances when making decisions.”

Hunt played in more than 30 percent of SU’s games in 2014, which is considered a full season by the NCAA. That, combined with his redshirt in 2011, and two on-field seasons in 2012 and 2013, made it so he wasn’t granted a sixth year.

He hired a lawyer to change things. If his appeal is denied, they could decide to go to court, though Hunt is doubtful he wants to do that. When he first met Dino Babers, the new SU head coach said they had to get Hunt back, but the two have had minimal contact since then, he said.

Hunt has had all of his family members call the NCAA. He had all their friends call the NCAA, too. He’s had hundreds of people call, and all they ask is “why?” Why someone who did things the right way, who played by the rules and just wants a shot, why can’t he get one? It’s the question that Hunt struggles with the most. There was no answer given to Hunt or everyone that called on his behalf. The NCAA just asked for them to stop.

“It’s almost like a tornado and you don’t know when you’re gonna land,” Hunt’s cous-in Aurie Valencia said. “Everything’s hap-pening and you don’t know why. You get one answer, but when you go to the next person, it’s a reverse answer. And now you’re back to square one.”

The Next Step Hunt has watched the play over 1,000 times. He hasn’t seen it in months, but for the week after the injury, he watched his career-defining moment on loop.

“(I want) to try and believe that it really happened,” he said.

Whether Hunt believes or not doesn’t matter. Whether he’s optimistic or has come to terms with an unlikely return, it doesn’t alter reality. It’s his legacy at Syracuse that tortures him. And it’s because he didn’t get to leave the one he wanted.

I won a bowl game, he says. I guess I broke the record for having the most completions in a bowl game. I guess I won MVP in my first year starting, the first to do that since Dono-van McNabb. I guess I’m 10th all-time on the Syracuse single-season passing leaders.

“When people tell me stuff like that, I’m like ‘Yeah, that’s cool.’ And yeah, I’m proud, and I’m grateful for the opportunity,” Hunt said. “But as far as happy with it? No. It kills me.”

Now, he’s working to get his commer-cial real estate license. He joined his child-hood friend’s boiler company as a salesman. “This is the boiler of green,” Hunt says, as if rehearsed. “This is the Apple before Apple became so huge.” He wants to find success in everything he does, but is pained by the fact that it isn’t where it has always come from.

“I don’t think it’s football. I don’t think it’s business,” said his friend, Robby Vassallo. “I think it’s making something of himself.”

When Hunt talks about his recovery, his voice lights up and he gets excited. It’s hap-pening quickly. He can do more and can walk better. It doesn’t solve all his problems, but it’s closer to solving one of them.

Hunt took one step, then another. He began to accelerate. He strode down the Ens-ley Center practice field, the place he used to be with his teammates. He limped a little and didn’t put all his pressure on his right foot.

When he led Syracuse to a Texas Bowl win in 2013, it was his 12-yard touchdown run to escape a collapsing pocket with 1:14 to go that was the game-winner.

In his career, he ran for 13 touchdowns and threw for 11. His running ability defined him as a quarterback. He ran to the roars of crowded stadiums with the hope of future stardom.

In the Ensley Center, there were no fans. He took one step, then another, and then another. He ran to show that he could again, that it was all coming back to him. It showed progress without the meaning that was once attached to it.

One step, then another, each inching him to an evermore uncertain future.

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OCT. 3 SEPT. 4 SEPT. 8 NOV. 27 DEC. 10

Terrel Hunt fractures his fibula against Louisville and misses the rest of the season

Hunt tears his Achilles against Rhode island in his first game back since the 2014 season

Then-SU head coach Scott Shafer announces Hunt applied for a sixth-year waiver

SU announces the NCAA denied Hunt's application for a sixth year of eligibility

Hunt says he'll appeal the NCAA's decision to deny his sixth year of eligibility

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TERREL HUNT won the Texas Bowl on Dec. 27, 2013 in then-head coach Scott Shafer’s first season. During the 2013 season he took transfer Drew Allen’s starting quarterback spot and helped Syracuse finish the season 7-6. His career was looking up before two injuries derailed his past two seasons. daily orange file photo

TERREL HUNT tore his Achilles against Rhode Island on Sept. 4, 2015 in his first game back since he fractured his fibula against Louisville on Oct. 3, 2014. The two injuries forced him to apply for a sixth-year waiver that the NCAA denied on Nov. 27. Hunt is waiting for the NCAA’s decision on his appeal. david salanitri staff photographer

SSPORTS dailyorange.com @dailyorange january 27, 2016 • PAGE 16

Perfect weekendSyracuse football hosted nine uncommitted players on official visits this weekend. All nine have pledged to SU.See dailyorange.com

A new DaySyracuse backup center Bria Day has improved offensively this season by getting to the right spots on the floor.See dailyorange.com

Gearing upFor the first time, three Malone sisters will all run together for Syracuse’s women’s track and field team.See Thursday’s paper

By Sam Fortier asst. copy editor

The favorite had dropped off and it was Justyn Knight’s race to win. He led with

200 meters remaining in The Penn Relays, America’s oldest and larg-est track competition. It was the biggest race of the Canadian high school senior’s career.

He badly wanted to prove himself in the U.S. with tens of thousands watching. The entire Jamaican fan section cheered him on, he suspects, because he was the only black runner.

The Jamaicans cheered louder, urging Knight to hold off the hard-

charging Andrew Hunter, a future Oregon signee. The 3000-meter race came down to a 50-meter sprint that normally takes Knight seven seconds. In the days and years that followed, he spent exponentially more time won-dering why he couldn’t hold that lead.

To Knight, the Jamaicans’ “oooh” sounded like: “You let us down.”

“That one race sticks with me,” Knight said softly with his head down. “I never want to experience that race ever again. Winning is great and everything, but I really don’t enjoy losing.

“I do everything possible to not experience that feeling.”

Knight reflected in the Manley

Field House bleachers, overlooking the track he now uses to make sure he avoids that feeling. Since that deflating race two springs ago, he

has won numerous individual acco-lades, broken Canadian records and led Syracuse cross country to its first national championship in 64 years. SU head coach Chris Fox called him, “our Carmelo.”

The sophomore is celebrated for his dominance, which has come often in his first year and a half as a college runner. But it’s the losses, the pressure, that feeling, which have molded him.

“He hated (to lose),” his father, Anthony Knight said. “It’s never vocal. He has this fire inside of him.”

The “goofball” with the big laugh some teammates knew as “J-Mon-ey” changed after losses. Knight isn’t a poor-tempered loser, team-mates and coaches said, but he’d go

By Paul Schwedelson asst. sports editor

Syracuse released its 2016 football schedule on Tues-day afternoon. The Orange is coming off a 4-8 season and in December hired Dino Babers to be its next head coach. SU’s 12 opponents went a combined 93-64 (.592) in 2015 and nine of the 11 FBS teams that Syra-cuse will play advanced to bowl games. In three seasons in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Orange is 7-17 against confer-ence opponents.

Though game times have not been announced, here is who Syracuse will face, and on which date, this upcoming season.

Home games are in bold • Saturday, Sept. 1/2/3 vs. Colgate • Friday, Sept. 9 vs. Louisville • Saturday, Sept. 17 vs. South Florida • Saturday, Sept. 24 at Connecticut • Saturday, Oct. 1 vs. Notre Dame (MetLife Stadium) • Saturday, Oct. 8 at Wake Forest • Saturday, Oct. 15 vs. Virginia Tech • Saturday, Oct. 22 at Boston College • Saturday, Oct. 29 BYE • Saturday, Nov. 5 at Clemson • Saturday, Nov. 12 vs. North Carolina State • Saturday, Nov. 19 vs. Florida State • Saturday, Nov. 26 at Pittsburgh

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By Matt Schneidman sports editor

Syracuse (13-8, 3-5 Atlantic Coast) returns home from a three-game stint down south to face No. 25 Notre Dame (14-5, 5-2) on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Car-rier Dome. The Fighting Irish will be without its top player, point guard Demetrius Jackson, as it rides a four-game winning streak

into Syracuse. Head coach Mike Brey’s team has scored at least 70 points in all but three games, and one of them came in a win against Iowa, currently the No. 3 team in the country.

Here’s everything you need to know about Notre Dame ahead of Thursday’s game.

All-time series: 28-18 in favor of SU

Last time they playedSyracuse traveled to South Bend, Indiana, late last season hav-ing lost six of its last 10 games. It had been 20 days since SU self-imposed a one-year postseason ban and the Orange was amid a stretch of playing five top 15 teams in a six-game stretch. But in what would be the last win before Syra-cuse’s season reached its inevi-table end, B.J. Johnson led four

others in double-figures to guide SU to a 65-60 upset of then-No. 9 Notre Dame. The Orange only shot 25 percent from 3-point range, but 14 points and 12 rebounds from Rakeem Christmas bolstered an interior attack that did just enough to take down a guard-heavy Fight-ing Irish team.

The Notre Dame reportThe Fighting Irish has the best

adjusted offensive efficiency rat-ing in the country (123.1), accord-ing to Kenpom.com. The offense is led by Jackson’s team-best 16.6 points per game, but the junior will be sidelined Thursday night by a hamstring injury. According to Kenpom, Jackson takes the high-est percentage of UND’s shots, is the second-most used player in terms of possessions that end with

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SU’s 2016 schedule released

men’s basketball

SU opponent preview: What to know about No. 25 Notre Dame

Dino Babers’ 1st year has tough final stretch

BRICK BY BRICKJustyn Knight builds on pressure and struggles to stand out at SU

JUSTYN KNIGHT didn’t start running competitively until he won a high school gym class race in basketball shoes. Since then he’s become a dominant runner for Syracuse while dealing with pressures, transitioning to life in the U.S. and losing. phillip elgie staff photographer

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Last season, the Orange achieved its highest USTFCCCA rank in program history at No. 19.

The number of NCAA Outdoor Qualifiers SU has had in the last two years, the most in a two-year span in over 40 years

The number of returning All-Americans for SU

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