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Welcome to Earth Day!
Each year, Earth Day—April 22—marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
The height of counterculture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” War raged in Vietnam and students nationwide overwhelmingly opposed it.
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. “Environment” was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news.
Although mainstream America largely remained oblivious to environmental concerns, the stage had been set for change by the publication of Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries, and beginning to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and links between pollution and public health.
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Silent G Gets an A
2015-16 SU Basketball Report Card (the juice; Cheng)
If you’re still basking in Syracuse’s basketball season, here’s one more column for you looking back at this year. Pencils are down, and the grades are in. Let’s see how the team did:
Michael Gbinije: In his fifth year, Gbinije became the alpha dog of Syracuse, and may have played his way into the NBA Draft (currently projected as high as an early second round draft pick). Gbinije led the team in scoring (17.5 ppg), assists (4.3), and steals (1.9). What more could you have asked for? Grade: A.
Frank Howard: Howard’s stats (1.6 ppg, 1.8 apg) weren’t particularly gaudy, but he emerged at the end of the year as a serviceable backup to Gbinije once Kaleb Joseph fell out of the rotation. Howard will certainly need to work on his shot (28.6 percent from the field) in the offseason, but he’s got some of the best court vision Syracuse has seen in years.Grade: B.
Trevor Cooney: Imagine a world in which Syracuse doesn’t make the NCAA Tournament and Cooney doesn’t get to become the first Syracuse player in history to play in two separate Final Fours? His grade would be significantly lower. But that wasn’t what happened. To be sure, Cooney slumped majorly at the end of the season, but once he was told to stop settling for outside shots and to take things inside, his production improved. His 22 points against North Carolina in the National Semifinal kept it from being a rout. Grade: B+.
Kaleb Joseph: Joseph’s situation reminds me a lot of what happened to Josh Wright. Both players came into Syracuse has highly touted freshmen, and both struggled to find their places at SU. In the 17 games Joseph appeared in this year, he looked rattled, but here’s hoping he can resurrect his career at Creighton. Grade: INC.
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Mali Won Best Image
2016 Syracuse Orange Blogger Awards: Best GIF, Tweet, Image, Meme (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
The votes have been counted and we now know who has won the 2016 Syracuse Orange Blogger Awards. Below you'll find the winners of the "social media" or visual categories. Specifically, best tweet, gif, image and meme.
Let's get to it...
Best Tweet
TNIAAM Vote: Tyler Lydon and his early mastery of social media at such a young age got several votes from the staff. Rightfully so.
Commenter Vote: You guys were firmly in the camp of DC's snide tweet directly at Doug Gottlieb.
Winner: Coleman got a couple votes from the staff as well, and that puts him over the edge. Tyler's best will get another year to delight us, we're sure.
@GottliebShow pic.twitter.com/GPUAXD0gtw
— Derrick Coleman (@44TheLegend) March 21, 2016
Best Meme
TNIAAM Vote: In a surprising move, the Virginia Bench Shrug found itself atop the list, mostly because of how badly it turned on the Hoos.
Commenter Vote:Though not in a landslide, the #SorryNotSorry/Apology Tour won out by way of a certain open letter from a certain head honcho on this blog.
Winner: With its second-place showing among the staff, and a big win in the comments, the apology tour and its mascot, Open Letter, take it by a hair. It's the most-read article in the long, storied history of this site for a reason, after all. My favorite selection, in a list of them from the post:
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Oh Canada! HS Basketball Star Arrested for Allegedly Being a 30-Year-Old Man (PS; Burrows)
A star 6-foot-9 high school basketball player in Canada was arrested because border officials believe he is actually 30 years old, according to the Windsor Star.
Jonathon Nicola has allegedly spent the previous six months posing as a 17-year old, grade 11 student at Catholic Central High School.
In Canada on a student visa, Nicola is a refugee from South Sudan and was even living with the basketball team's head coach, Pete Cusumano.
The Canada Border Services Agency told the Star Wednesday that officers arrested Nicola for allegedly violating the Immigration Refugee Protection Act.
The Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board didn't reveal any more information on the situation, with spokesman Stephen Fields saying they can't comment.
"There's really not a whole lot to say," Fields told the Star. "Because of the fact this is a matter that's still outstanding before the federal authorities, obviously we can't really comment on it. Beyond that there's not a whole lot to say."
Coach Cusumano had previously told the Star that he believed Nicola had a shot to play in the NBA.
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