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Welcome to Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace Day was founded by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 and aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike.
The inspiration for Ada Lovelace Day came from psychologist Penelope Lockwood, who carried out a study which found that women need to see female role models more than men need to see male role models. “Outstanding women can function as inspirational examples of success,” she said, “illustrating the kinds of achievements that are possible for women around them. They demonstrate that it is possible to overcome traditional gender barriers, indicating to other women that high levels of success are indeed attainable.”
Who’s Ada?
Ada Lovelace is widely held to have been the first computer programmer. Close friends with inventor Charles Babbage, Lovelace was intrigued by his Analytical Engine and in 1842, she translated a description of it by italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea. Babbage asked her to expand the article, “as she understood [it] so well”, and this was when she wrote several early ‘computer programs’. Ada Lovelace died of cancer at 36, her potential tragically unfulfilled. Learn more about Ada…
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Syracuse Orange Basketball 2016-2017 Player Previews: John Gillon (TNIAAM; Szuba)
The biggest unknown of the 2016-2017 Syracuse Orange basketball team is the point guard position. Sure, Franklin Howard played well in his limited time last season. He showed a lot of promise with his ability to penetrate and find open teammates, but how will he adjust to having a bigger role in his sophomore campaign?
Little is known of fifth-year graduate transfer John Gillon. His numbers were solid at Colorado State, but is he good enough to play point guard in the best basketball conference in the country?
Rest assured, the uncertainty surrounding the point guard position will be a thing of the past come December. Gillon is a steady point with elite quickness and an underrated jumpshot. Should he have to stayed at CSU for his final year, he could have been an all-Mountain West first team candidate. Gillon is also unabashed in speaking to the media and has noted thatwinning a national championship is the goal for this year.
What’s more, he has a high basketball IQ and is automatic from the free-throw line — Syracuse hasn’t had a free throw shooter of Gillon’s caliber since Gerry McNamara. That’s not to compare Gillon to McNamara as their playing styles are completely different. Free throw shooting is small beer but it is a nice cherry on top of the cake.
Gillon also led CSU in steals last season — his quickness should be effective in the zone coming off weak side rotations from the trap. Gillon did have a mediocre assist to turnover ratio last season of 1.68 but he was the second option on offense after losing Gian Clavell for the season with a broken hand bone. The assist to turnover benchmark for any point guard is 2.0 and with the talent Gillon has around him at the off-guard and forward positions, that number will rise at Syracuse. The challenge for him will be to limit unforced errors and errant passes. He should be a great change of pace point guard with the ability to speed up or slow the game down at will. Gillon should be the first option to break the press and to close out competitive games down the stretch. See his highlights from CSU below.
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Basketball in Canada: The Athlete Institute Academy (tipofthetower.com; Mckee)
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In just the past three seasons, both Orangeville Prep and Athlete Institute Prep teams have produced multiple players who have received full scholarships at some of the NCAA’s most storied programs including Kentucky, Notre Dame, UNLV, and Tennessee to name just a few. Because of the success of its recent graduates, it seems that the word has gotten out about A.I with coaches from the NCAA now making regular visits to the facilities in Mono, Ontario. Jim Boeheim from Syracuse and John Beilein of Michigan both attended A.I practices within the past two weeks looking to pluck the next Canadian star to help their program.
One of the main targets for their attention is 6-foot-8 forward Oshae Brissett from Mississauga. Brissett is listed on the ESPN Top 100 of high school prospects and has recently narrowed down his long list of scholarship offers to four schools: Syracuse, Memphis, USC and Oregon. 6-foot-3 guard Howard Washington Jr. will also have to pick from a long list, which include offers from Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame and Boston College.
Anytime something new comes along that challenges an older way of thinking, it is natural that there will be critics of that process. However, when you compare the process of developing a young Canadian basketball player at a school like A.I, it is by far and away a much more appealing process than the one our elite young hockey players are subject too.
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Recruiting: Point Guard News (dukebasketballreport.com; King)
The point guard quest continues at Duke: the Blue Devils will visit Oak Hill’s Matt Coleman on Tuesday and the big fish of the current crop, Trevon Duval, has opened up his recruitment and Duke has been in touch.
And Quade Green, who some see as a Syracuse lean, will be in for Countdown to Craziness, along with Gary Trent Jr. and Wendell Carter Jr.
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Syracuse University asks students: How should we label our bathrooms? (PS; McMahon)
Syracuse University is asking students how it should label its bathrooms amid national debate over transgender people's access to toilets and showers.
The University will hold a vote in November and is hosting a feedback session this Friday to discuss the subject. Students are invited to talk about what they would like to see in campus restroom signage.
SU hired a design consulting firm, Pentagram, to revamp signs and "wayfinding" on campus, including the bathroom signs. Pentagram will lead the discussion, presenting an array of restroom signs used at universities across the country.
After Friday's discussion, Pentagram will create conceptual designs. Those designs will be used in a vote among students, faculty and staff in November.
SU did not explicitly say that the re-evaluation of bathroom signs was a measure taken on behalf of transgender students, but called it way to promote inclusion.
"This will result in timely, relevant visual messaging that, in turn, demonstrates our continued commitment to diversity and inclusion." said Tiffany Gray, director of SU's LGBT Resource Center.
New signs in many cases will accompany new bathrooms. The sign revamp is all part of the Campus Framework, the university's efforts to make the campus more competitive and attractive to students.
During an ambitious series of construction projects over the summer, SU converted many dormitory bathrooms into single occupancy bathrooms.
"No more gang showers and no more gang toilets," said Pete Sala, Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer, at the time. Sala said the shift was to give students more privacy.
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