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Chancellor Syverud spends his first day having lunch in Schine as well as participating in several other activities on campus.

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Behind closed

doors Syracuse unveils restored Carnegie Library Reading Room

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A jim boeheim, Syracuse head coach, exchanges laughs with North Carolina head coach Roy Williams. The Orange defeated UNC 57-45 on Saturday. ryan maccammon staff photographer

Syracuse stands alone in faltering ACC

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he Atlantic Coast Conference is, at its heart, a southern league — the Triangle in North Carolina its hoops haven.

It’s added a bit of a northern flair in recent years, but the conference tournament rarely strays from its home in Greensboro, N.C. After Syracuse’s dominant performance against North Carolina on Saturday — one of the conference’s blue bloods — maybe it’s time for the league to change its thinking.

Barring some sort of collapse or major dark horse arising, it’s tough to envision SU as anything but the dominant force in the ACC. C.J. Fair doesn’t see Syracuse losing many games, if any at all.

“You’d have to have a total package, really,” the Orange’s star forward said. “And we’d have to have an off-night.”

Seems easy enough. There’s only one problem.

“I don’t really see us having a bad game because we have so many weapons.”

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all in the game yo On Saturday, Clemson stunned No. 16 Duke. Virginia made short work of North Carolina State. And Pittsburgh stomped Wake Forest.

The star of the day was No. 2 Syracuse (16-0, 3-0 ACC), which manhandled North Carolina (10-6, 0-3) for a resounding 57-45 victory in the Carrier Dome. All three Triangle schools fell on the same day for the first time since March 8, 1996. And with the Demon Deacons included, even The Post-Standard’s college basketball research machine Patrick Stevens couldn’t find the date when all four lost, but it’s not since at least 1945.

In a wildly disappointing ACC, Syracuse is a powerhouse capable of embarrassing even the league’s premier schools. The Dome, which packed in 32,121 for the UNC beat-

down, is the conference’s basketball oasis in — of all places — snowy Central New York.

“It was definitely our biggest ACC game so far,” said SU forward Jerami Grant. “Playing against a team like this in the Carrier Dome was definitely good for us.”

pair of wandering freshmen walked up the Carnegie Library steps on Saturday afternoon and pulled the main door.

But instead of offering the stiff resistance that has baffled young students for decades, the door swung open to reveal a bright lobby.

A statue of Diana the Huntress sits in the center of the lobby — the same place since 1934 — lit on both sides by the circular bulbs of the building’s original hanging fixtures. Slabs of scagliola, a marble like substance, shine from the walls, freshly polished to their original quality after years of yellowing. Three sets of wooden doors

connect the lobby to the library’s reading room.

The students couldn’t stay because the newly renovated library hadn’t opened yet, but they got a brief glimpse of the aging building’s restoration.

After nearly four years of construction, Carnegie Library ’s reading room will open to the public with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Monday at 7:45 a.m.

The library, a historic university building that opened in 1907 with a $150,000 donation from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, has been undergoing construction since fall 2010 to modernize it while restoring its original appearance and function after

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photo reel Check out dailyorange. com for full game coverage and a photo gallery from No. 2 Syracuse’s 57-45 win over North Carolina on Saturday.

Welcome to the new ACC, Tar Heels, where the temperatures are a bit colder and you won’t be battling with just the Blue Devils for conference supremacy anymore.

North Carolina won’t be ranked for the second straight week. Duke

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The renovated Carnegie Library Reading Room, and its front door, will open to the public on Jan. 13. renee zhou staff photographer

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Meet monday | dan fabi

TRF sophomore makes strides in film industry

By Jen Bundy staff writer

Before even stepping foot on campus, Dan Fabi had already played a major role in a movie on a television network.

Auditioning for acting roles since he was 9, the Cherry Hill, N.J., native has a long list of experience, including more than a dozen commercials and an appearance in the film, “August Rush.” But he played his biggest role to date the summer before his freshman year at Syracuse University. Fabi played the character of Dennis in the movie “Contest,” which premiered last semester on the Cartoon Network.

Anthony Giunta directed and wrote “Contest,“ a live-action indie movie in 2011 that focused on sending an anti-bullying message to teens. Cartoon Network picked up the film to go along with its annual “Stop Bullying: Speak Up” campaign.

“Contest” tells the story of a school bully and his victim bonding over a cooking competition. Fabi’s character Dennis acts as a leader of

one of the teams in the contest.

Separating him further from most incoming college freshmen, Fabi spent his summer working and hanging out on a movie set. He said there’s no better way to spend a summer.

“I loved working on the set,” he said. “I loved everyone in the cast, the crew. [It was] just an all-around awesome experience.”

Initially, Fabi auditioned for a different role, but the director offered him the Dennis character instead.

“Dennis was definitely more of a bully character,” Fabi said, who did not mind playing the bad guy, especially under a great director. “The director gave me so much freedom to experiment with the script and improv lines. I really loved that.”

Fabi plans to continue auditioning and acting, but has widened his horizons when it comes to film.

“Acting was definitely the first thing that got me into film,” he said, “but after being on set, I realized I loved writing, creating and directing.” jbundy@syr.edu

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Syverud to meet students

By Ellen Meyers asst. news editor

Nathan Bengio created a rendering for the “Gowanus Batcave,” which depicts an open-air art gallery. Bengio’s design would incorporate the decayed building and plant growth in the “ruin porn,” movement and keep the deterioration as aesthetic details. courtesy of nathan bengio

Students submit designs for abandoned space

By Zach Schweikert staff writer

Several Syracuse University architecture students have created designs that will turn an abandoned building into an experimental art gallery.

The designs were submitted by SU architecture students involved in last semester’s New York City

abroad program to update the “Gowanus Batcave,” an abandoned Metro Transit Authority building that once housed squatters, street artists and drug addicts.

“It was pretty sketchy,” said Nathanael Bengio, a fourth-year architecture student. “It was a lot of drugs, a lot of needles and it was a destination for street artists.”

New York state proposed a plan to

clean the Batcave on Jan. 3, as the site contains health hazards like contaminated soil, according to a fact sheet from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

The students were not allowed to enter the Batcave for safety concerns, said Matthew Kiwior, a fourth-year architecture student.

In 2012, philanthropist Joshua Rechnitz purchased the Batcave,

Kiwior said. The building powered Brooklyn’s trolley system before falling into ruin, he said. Now, Kiwior said Rechnitz plans to convert the site into a unique art studio.

As part of the architecture program, students designed possible renovations for the Batcave, said Bengio.

“We had to do what Rechnitz wanted us to do, which was artists’

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Syracuse University has joined a list of several universities that are rejecting the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott against Israeli universities.

In a statement issued Jan. 7, then-Interim Chancellor Eric Spina said SU does not support the boycott because it goes against open exchanges of knowledge, ideas and perspectives. Spina said he believes open dialogue is a foundation that will hopefully lead to peace and understanding in the Middle East.

“It is clear that scholars and aca-

demic institutions on all sides, in all countries and territories, and of

WHAT IS ASA? The American Studies Association is a national organization founded in 1951 that focuses on the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history. all viewpoints are central to this discussion and debate, and we hope that all will be welcomed and encouraged to engage in this dia-

logue,” Spina said.

The ASA, the nation’s oldest and largest group dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, released a statement Dec. 4 saying its national council voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions as an “ethical stance” due to the country’s treatment of Palestinians.

“It represents a principle of solidarity with scholars and students deprived of their academic freedom and an aspiration to enlarge that freedom for all, including Palestinians,” the statement said.

The ASA’s statement also said that endorsing the boycott is “war-

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SU rejects ASA boycott against Israeli universities

By Ellen Meyers

Chancellor Kent Syverud will begin his tenure at Syracuse University by spending time with students on Monday.

Between 12:30-1 p.m., Syverud will eat lunch with student orientation leaders in the Schine Student Center, according to an SU News release published Friday. At 1 p.m., he will meet new and transfer students at the Office of Multicultural Affairs and at 1:45 p.m., meet with students at the Slutzker Center for International Services. Afterwards, between 4:15-4:45 p.m., Syverud will talk to student entrepreneurs at the Syracuse Student Sandbox.

Syverud’s wife, Dr. Ruth Chen, will join him during the visits. Chen is an environmental toxicologist who will become a professor of practice at SU. Like Chen, Syverud said he plans to serve as a professor in SU’s College of Law. Before coming to SU, Syverud was dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. ekmeyers@syr.edu

ranted,” and listed several reasons, including Israel’s violation of international law and United Nations resolutions and the effect the country’s occupation has on Palestinian scholars and students.

Since the ASA’s announcement, many university presidents across the nation have spoken out against the organization. Cornell University President David Skorton was one of 10 university leaders who signed an Association of American Universities statement opposing the ASA boycott.

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SU ANSWER Coalition disagrees with Spina’s ASA boycott statement It is with extreme disappointment that we, the Syracuse University Youth and Student ANSWER Coalition, read Interim Chancellor Eric Spina’s statement against boycotts of Israeli academic institutions.

We also find it hypocritical that just more than a month after Spina issued a statement commemorating the legacy of Nelson Mandela — who led a revolution against a racist, apartheid state — he issued what is effectively a statement in support of another racist, apartheid state.

In 2008, a group of veterans of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa led a delegation to the West Bank. Afterward, one of the delegates was quoted as saying, “The apartheid regime viewed the blacks as inferior; I do not think the Israelis see the Palestinians as human beings at all” (Ha’aretz, July 10, 2008).

In the West Bank, about half a million Israeli colonial settlers took over huge swaths of territory, diminishing the viability of a Palestinian state, while two million Palestinians live under direct military occupation. There are even “Jewish only” roads. This racist segregation is not only maintained by the official Israeli “Defense” Forces, but also by armed bands of Israeli settlers.

The purpose of the boycott is not to limit free expression, and it is certainly not to promote the abhorrent ideology of anti-Semitism.

An academic boycott of Israeli institutions

is an extension of the struggle for the equal rights for Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel.

The boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign strives to call into question the legitimacy of Israeli institutions that participate in racist, colonial-settler power structures.

We recognize that the Israeli apartheid state is a strategic deployment of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East, and our own government is responsible for the promotion of massive inequalities in the region. The fight against the Israeli apartheid state is also a fight against U.S. imperialism.

Spina’s statement, although inoffensive and neutral on the surface, does little more than serve to condone the apartheid policies of the Israeli state.

This is not a question of respecting an open exchange of ideas. Paolo Freire, the creator of the critical pedagogy philosophical movement, said, “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Progressive members of the SU community should oppose the racist policies of the Israeli state, encourage the BDS campaign against Israeli institutions and promote a socially just peace for Jews and Arabs in Palestine/Israel.

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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ lacks emphasis on white collar crime here were two scenes in “The Wolf of Wall Street” that summed up the entire movie.

Both ended with Leonardo DiCaprio, as former scam artist and stockbroker Jordan Belfort, stopping in the middle of an esoteric soliloquy about how Wall Street works to proclaim, “None of that really matters anyway. All that matters is that I got filthy rich.”

These scenes did with spoken words what the rest of the movie did with visuals — focused on the excesses of Belfort’s uproarious life while neglecting the educational details of his illegal stock market manipulation.

Director Martin Scorsese got away with romanticizing excess instead of teaching us about white-collar crime.

He struck two fundamentally American nerves: the capitalist nerve and the freedom nerve.

Let’s start with the capitalist nerve.

The movie played on the popular conception that in a meritocracy, money absolutely, positively does not lie. If Jordan Belfort is rich enough to afford a yacht, a mansion in the Hamptons and a lifetime supply of contraband, he must be smarter than schmucks like you and me.

That’s why the final scene in the movie portrayed a room of schmucks mesmerized by Belfort — in his post-prison career as a motivational speaker — lecturing about how to be a great salesman.

As much as we admire Belfort because he is rich, we admire him even more because he was a long shot.

Belfort was not some anointed son of Wall Street insiders. His parents were middle-class, Jewish accountants. He didn’t graduate from some Ivy League factory. He graduated from American University with a degree in biology.

Belfort was an outsider who took the finance capital by storm. This is why his story, despite his obvious malevolence, struck the freedom nerve that is an integral feature of the meritocracy narrative.

Scorsese has fused the capitalist and freedom nerves into a familiar American theme: It does not matter

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Reality vision how you get rich. All that matters is that anyone can.

Since anyone can get rich, anyone who is rich deserves it.

This ideal is precisely why we usually let white-collar criminals off with a slap on the wrist.

If Belfort had been locked away for years instead of 22 months, it would look like we are punishing him for being rich. For being smart enough to accumulate money at the expense of others. For being smarter than the rest of us.

It would be an indictment of a capitalist system where all of the wealthiest people accumulate money at the expense of others. And where all of them are considered smarter than the rest of us for doing so.

We believe this meritocracy narrative because of underdogs like Belfort. According to the narrative, the Belforts of the world separate our meritocracy from an aristocracy where only the privileged can make it to the top.

If underdogs, outsiders and long shots couldn’t make it every once in a while, America would just be an aristocracy with free elections.

In Belfort’s case, he penetrated Wall Street — the ultimate American insiders club — and became as rich as the privileged fat cats who dominate the financial capital.

This story is a lot more compelling and entertaining than an exposé of white-collar crime.

That’s how they get us. That’s how the Belforts of the world make us believe in the meritocracy narrative again and again, even when the meritocrats are stealing our money. We believe that we, too, can become Jordan Belfort. And we cannot do anything to compromise that possibility.

Jarrad Saffren is a senior political science and newspaper and online journalism major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at jdsaffre@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @JarradSaff.

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Syverud should define role as chancellor While maintaining components of Nancy Cantor’s former chancellorship, Chancellor Kent Syverud should emphasize more student- and campus-oriented issues.

As Syverud begins his tenure as chancellor, he should focus on small efforts to serve as a visible campus figure for students.

By living in a Brewster/Boland/ Brockway residence hall room for a week at the beginning of the semester, Syverud has taken the initiative to learn about life as a Syracuse University student. This is a step in the right direction in making himself an accessible and approachable leader.

While dean of the law school at Washington University in St. Louis, Syverud took time to hold weekly office hours. He should establish the same initiative at SU. This will allow students the opportunity to get to know the chancellor and voice their concerns directly to the leader of their university.

While chancellor, Syverud should tighten admission accep-

tance standards and lower the number of accepted students. Doing so could improve the university’s rankings, which, according to U.S. News and World Report, has slipped from a high of No. 40 among national universities in the 1990s to No. 62 in fall 2011, where it remains.

Improving the ranking could make the university more attractive to prospective students.

Decreasing the number of accepted students could also improve the overall quality of education at SU. Robert Norman Van Gulick, professor of philosophy and former member of the University Senate budget committee, stated that by steadily increasing the number of students at SU, “instruction is strained a little thinner.

We’ve added faculty, but not at the same rate...[SU] cannot add more students and provide quality instruction,” according to a Sept. 18 article from The Post-Standard.

Syverud should also involve himself with the athletics department

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by taking a lead role in the academic success of SU athletes. The Senate began reorganizing the handling of athletics and academics by removing student-athlete academics from SU Athletics’ control last year. Syverud should continue this process to improve the university’s reputation regarding studentathlete academic performance.

While there are many necessary changes to be made, Syverud should also work to build on the initiatives started under Cantor.

Although the university is removed from the city, it plays a role in its economics and culture.

Syverud should continue his predecessor’s efforts to further the university’s relationship with the city, so long as this endeavor does not take away from his work with the university, its students and staff.

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carnegie years of degeneration and change.

Officials involved with the project hope the new reading room will meet students’ need for silent, contemplative study areas and incite development of similar spaces in the future.

“It’s an inspiring space. It’s a space to help people think and achieve the next level of thought versus the bustle of E.S. Bird Library, which is more collaborative,” said TC Carrier of the Program Management Center.

The renovation plans were formed in 2009 under Suzanne Thorin, former dean of libraries and university librarian, Carrier said. Officials from the Office of Campus Planning, Design

It’s an inspiring space. It’s a space to help people think and achieve the next level of thought versus the bustle of E.S. Bird Library, which is more collaborative.”

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and Construction, the Provost’s Office and Bird Library collaborated on the renovations.

The project was originally slated to cost $600,000 per year, according to university archives. At the time, the library housed the math department and the Science and Technology Library, which has since been officially named the Carnegie Library, Carrier said.

The main lobby had been converted into math classrooms and teaching assistant offices, Carrier said. The doors were notoriously sealed off. Then, university officials decided to tear down the classroom and office walls, restoring

in the books Renovations were just completed at Carnegie Library, but that’s not all that’s happened in the building’s 107year history.

the lobby by cleaning the scagliola, adding light fixtures and finishing the three sets of original wooden doors that led to the reading room. The main doors now open, and the Diana statue returned to its original place in Carnegie from the second floor of Bird, she said.

The second-floor Carnegie reading room’s updates reflect its original appearance with photographs from the university archives guiding the project’s architects in planning the renovations, Carrier said. She added that restoring the reading room to its original appearance was not only intended to preserve the building’s beauty, but to also carry out its original function.

The math department had used the reading room for clinics, Carrier said. Throughout the renovations, the math department gradually moved to the first floor of Carnegie, where classes and offices were appropriated to new and existing rooms. The math department has voiced concerns about the relocation in the past.

Designing to the original specifications allows the room to better function as a study space, said K. Matthew Dames, interim dean of libraries and university librarian.

“We knew that the original design was set up in a way to foster traditional studying where students sit down with a stack of books and grind it out for three or four hours,” Dames said. “There is an interaction between architecture and design and the intended purposes of a specific space.”

Changes to the building, including constructing new walls and placing glass over the third-floor arches, suffocated the space and strayed from the intended openness of the original layout, Carrier said.

She said the high ceiling, open arches and lighting are intended to encourage thinking, adding that it will improve the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, which is essential for preserving the roughly 210,000 volumes in the library’s book stacks.

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boycott of the SU community asked him about the university’s position on the matter. He said he supports the individual right to express opinions on both sides of the issue, but SU as an institution is against the boycott.

Spina discussed the boycott with SU faculty prior to releasing his statement, said Miriam Elman, an associate professor of political science, in an email.

Elman said a meeting was held at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs between Dean James Steinberg, Senior Associate Dean Michael J. Wasylenko and Maxwell faculty during which they discussed the boycott. Elman said Maxwell faculty members who could not attend the meeting were able to share their opinions via email. Everyone’s feedback was shared with Spina before issuing the statement.

Elman said she was involved in several meetings on the boycott, adding that she commends Spina and other administrators for reaching out to SU faculty on the issue.

“It should be noted that at other universities, faculty were not always consulted in advance

The Carnegie Library Reading Room renovations strike a balance between modernization and preserving its historical authenticity. renee zhou staff photographer

the main lobby, a group of padded chairs and wooden tables sits on either side. The room’s original tables, refinished and free of carvings that students etched, sit in rows of four. Eight new power outlets and subdued fixtures that Carrier deemed “Apple lighting” are built into each table.

Students will also see abstract paintings by Rico Lebrun in the four corners of the room.

Lebrun painted “The Crucifixion,” originally hung in Carnegie before it was moved to the Heroy Geology Building, according to university archives. Carnegie’s four new paintings come from the collection Lebrun donated to Syracuse University, Carrier said.

The book stacks, organized with newly simplified call numbers, extend from the second to the third floor. A room just outside the book stacks houses a computer lab, which will allow students using the reading room to

1954 •New lamps are installed.

1934 •The Statue of Diana the Huntress is donated to the university and placed in Carnegie.

and faculty were not in all cases involved in their administration’s deliberations regarding whether to issue a statement of non-support, or how such a statement should be worded,” she said.

Opponents have raised several arguments against the boycott. Elman said one of the biggest criticisms is that it will not help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The boycott actually prevents a resolution from happening because it limits institutional interaction and exchanging ideas between Israelis and Palestinians, she said.

To foster more co-existence in the global community, Elman said, conflicting groups should be exposed to each other’s viewpoints and engage in discussion.

Amos Kiewe, a professor of communications and rhetorical studies, said in an email that Spina’s statement stresses the need for all sides in the conflict to have a voice. Boycotting one side of the conflict does not make sense, he said.

“If there is one group of professionals whose freedom of speech is essential for open deliberation and intellectual inquiry,” Kiewe said, “it is academics.” ekmeyers@syr.edu

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2007 •Carnegie Library celebrates its 100th birthday.

•Renovations begin on Carnegie.

1965 •Students and faculty are able to access book reserves for the first time.

print. The lab will be fully completed when the floors are finished during Spring Break, Carrier said.

The reading room should accommodate more than 100 students at a time, but it won’t cover the university’s demand for silent study spaces, Dames said. He added that he is currently working with university administration to develop additional silent study space as students continue to voice a desire.

The project has rejuvenated one of SU’s most recognizable buildings, and Dames attributes its preservation to Thorin’s persistence during her tenure as dean of libraries. Dames said Thorin stressed maintaining the building’s historic aspects, and it drove the project.

Said Dames: “When we build things, a lot of people like new. But there’s a value in the old and the historic and preserving it.” jspramuk@syr.edu

1973 •The math library moves into Carnegie from Smith Hall.

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batcave studios, but we each had a wildcard,” Bengio said. “My wildcard was to create a botanical garden inside the existing building to enforce and emphasize the decaying aspect of the factory.”

Bengio described his design as “ruin porn,” an architectural movement that looks for beauty in decaying buildings. His design keeps roots and deterioration as aesthetic details of the building.

Kiwior said his design was influenced by some of the Batcave’s original features, including a prominent crane.

It also allows artists to produce works. “I decided that it would be interesting to provide an industrialized art facility that allows for large-scale painting,” Kiwior said.

Another design submitted by fifth-year architecture student Gergana Tzolova includes bicycle ramps that run throughout the building.

“It’s a bike ramp that wraps around the whole entire building and it cuts into artist’s spaces,” Tzolova said. “The whole entire warehouse becomes a gallery that you can bike up.”

2012 •Renovations on the Carnegie Reading Room and main entrance begin in the spring.

She said her decision to include the bike ramps was influenced by Brooklyn’s emerging bike culture.

The architects differed in opinion when asked whether their designs could function.

“It could definitely work,” Tzolova said of her design. “It would just take so much renovation.”

Bengio said he is “highly doubtful” his exact designs could be incorporated into the Batcave, but said he hopes his design influences Rechnitz.

Kiwior said his design is functionally viable, but finding an investor could be difficult.

After the students presented their design ideas to SU faculty, Bengio said, they sent their design plans to Rechnitz.

Throughout the project, Rechnitz remained a mystery to students, Bengio said.

None of the students had a chance to meet the philanthropist, he added.

“There’s something very humble about him. He seems to keep on giving, with this love for architecture,” Bengio said. “It seems incredible for someone like him to just keep on wanting to create like that.” zdschwei@syr.edu

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Student group creates more efficient composting facility through air system

By Leanna Kirschen staff writer

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he Green Campus Initiative at SUNYESF will finish a new, more efficient composting facility this semester to better recycle the campus’ food waste.

Meaghan Callaghan, president of GCI and a senior environmental studies major, said the most important aspect of composting is removing food waste from the waste stream so it does not end up in a landfill. Composting systems help to better decompose food waste so that it can be reused as soil, but the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is currently only composting about 20 percent of what it could be, she said.

“By taking it out of the waste stream, we are able to decrease the amount that gets put into the landfill,” said Callaghan, who is also a former columnist for The Daily Orange.

In response, GCI has created a new system to better compost the disposed food on campus. Ross Mazur, a junior environmental resources engineering major, said GCI previously used a forced air compost system, which actively pushes air onto the food waste to help it decompose faster. The plywood on the original infrastructure was falling apart and the club thought it was appropriate to rebuild the systems so that they could last longer and handle more volume, he said.

The system is designed to maintain airflow because it passively aerates, said Mazur, who is also GCI’s treasurer. Air comes up from the bottom and runs through perforated pipes horizontally.

The system will cost about $800-$900, which greatly exceeds the club’s allotted budget for the project, Mazur said.

“The new system itself should be highlighted, not the price,” said Jin Kim, a junior in environmental studies and the composting chair of GCI, in an email.

Kim said the new system will be more efficient because the food waste will be spread between four compartments, which will allow the food waste to decompose before more is added into the pile. The club will collect the student food waste through five green kitchen compost buckets that will be placed around campus, she said.

GCI has been building the new system since ESF’s Physical Plant approved the project in October, Kim said. But the group has encountered obstacles.

“What was difficult was that it was expected to take a month or two but the project got held up in the approval process,” Mazur said.

Building the system in the cold also posed a challenge for the club, Kim said. Mazur said they will try to work on the facility on the unusually warmer days.

Kim said she and Mazur considered a few different options for the composting system, including an expanded version of the previous system, but later decided that a passively aerated system would be most efficient.

Another option was to give the responsibility of collecting the food waste to GCI volunteers, rather than to Physical Plant, Mazur said. The club also considered driving all of the compost to ESF’s field station in Lafayette, he added.

Callaghan said GCI will eventually use the soil produced in the composting system to grow food in ESF’s Lafayette station vegetable garden, which it also operates. lwkirsch@syr.edu

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Coach’s playbook After successful 2013, George Saunders gives advice for new year

sound advice Here are five pieces of advice for SU students from the 2013 life coach of the year.

1. Give some real thought to what happens to a person after death.

2. Read one book that is too hard for you to understand.

Persevere to the end of it, no matter what. Then find someone who might get it, and ask them to help you get it.

3. Ask your mother or father who they think was the wisest person they ever met, and why.

4. Write a 200-word piece of fiction in which you totally nail a type of person you really can’t stand. Then write another 200-word piece of fiction from that person’s point-of-view. Try to make him/her sympathetic.

George saunders (right), a Syracuse University English professor and author of the best-seller “Tenth of December,” speaks with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America on Sept. 20. Saunders was named GQ magazine’s 2013 “Life Coach of the Year.” photo courtesy of abc

By Alfred Ng asst. feature editor

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Q magazine’s 2013 “Life Coach of the Year” can be spotted walking around Syracuse University’s campus.

It isn’t legendary basketball coach Jim Boeheim and it isn’t Texas Bowl-winning coach Scott Shafer. It’s George Saunders, a New York Times best-selling author and

English professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.

In 2013, Saunders released a best-selling book, was a guest speaker at Orange Central, won the PEN/Malamud Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Award.

Along with GQ’s accolade, Saunders made TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. His commencement speech in

May to Arts and Sciences students went viral with more than 90,000 views online, and will be published into a book, according to an Aug. 6 SU News release.

Saunders released his book, “Tenth of December,” last January, which caught GQ’s attention.

Byard Duncan, a freelance writer for the magazine, pitched Saunders as one of the annual “Men of the Year” after he was inspired by Saun-

He inspired me to be a little bit more patient with strangers and try to really understand them.”

Byard Duncan gq magazine freelance writer

5. Consider this quote from the poet Longfellow[...]: “If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

ders’ writing.

“I felt every story in that collection was incisive, compassionate and inspiring,” Duncan said. “He inspired me to be a little bit more patient with strangers and try to really understand them.”

Originally, Duncan wanted to name Saunders “Teacher of the Year” because of his career as a teacher at SU and his ability to see advice page 12

year in review

A look back at George Saunders’ accomplishments in 2013.

Oct. 18 Jan. 8 Releases “Tenth of December”

Apr. 4 Wins PEN/ Malamud Award

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Apr. 18

Oct. 4

Is named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world

Receives 2013 George Arents Award from SU

Aug. 6

Speaks at the SU College of Arts and Convocation message is announced Sciences graduation ceremony to be published as a book

“Tenth of December” is nominated as a finalist for best fiction for the National Book Award

December GQ names George Saunders “Life Coach of the Year” in 2013

Pacific Fusion

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2822 Lemonyne Ave. (315) 454-8800 Mon., Wed., Thurs. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Fri. - Sat. 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.

Sun. 12 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Taste: 4/5 Distance: 2/5

Scene: 3/5 Service: 5/5

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Pacific standard Asian fusion restaurant provides variety of food at low prices

By Vekonda Luangaphay contributing writer

N

ot many people would stay for a meal at a restaurant after one of its appetizers burned his or her tongue.

But given Pacific Fusion’s inexpensive food and overall good taste, the restaurant is worth sticking around.

The décor of the room plays on dark tones with brown chairs, maroon walls and dark gray curtains on the windows. You can choose to dine in the main dining room with tables and chairs or at the sushi bar. Its standout feature is in a separate room, where you’re free to dine and sit seiza style, a Japanese style of sitting.

Pacific Fusion features Asian food inspired

by Chinese, Japanese and Thai cuisines. It offers a few styles of Thai cuisines, like red curry dishes, tom yum soup and pad thai.

Under the Japanese category, there are eight different bento box meals and 12 signature sushi rolls. The Chinese cuisines include mussel with black bean sauce and crispy roast duck, to name a few.

I started my dining experience with agedashi tofu as an appetizer. It’s a soft tofu that is carefully tossed, covered in tempura flakes and fried until it was crispy on the outside, yet much softer on the inside.

The appetizer, which cost $3.95, came with a house ginger sauce on the side for dipping.

The waiter gave me two different hot sauces on the side, Sriracha and oil infused with chili peppers and red chili pepper flakes. I enjoy spicy food, so I mixed a spoon of Sriracha and the spicy oil into my black sauce.

It was brought out to the table straight from the fryer, so I suggest waiting five minutes before taking your first bite. I learned my

(LEFT) Pacific Fusion offers Agedashi tofu covered in tempura flakes. (RIGHT) The restaurant also serves Japanese cuisine, including the Dragon Roll and Pacific Roll. sterling boin staff photographer

lesson the hard way and slightly burned my tongue. In any case, the fried tofu was delicious. This appetizer came with six pieces of tofu cut into chunks 2 inches long, 1 inch wide and 1 inch high.

asian sensation

Here are some items from the restaurant you should also try:

• Jade Fountain roll Shrimp, crab, avocado, cucumber inside with wasabi flavored caviar

• Tom Yum Thai lemongrass soup

• Pad Thai Thin rice noodles stir fried with bean sprouts, egg, green onions and crushed peanuts

• Triple Delight Jumbo shrimp, tender fillet of beef and sliced chicken breast sauteed with broccoli, carrot, chinese vegetables and baby corn

• Dragon and Phoenix Fresh jumbo shrimp with vegetables in white sauce on one side and spicy General Tso’s chicken on the other

• Gaeng Phed Spicy red curry with Thai bamboo shoots and vegetables in coconut milk

• Pad Kra Praow Sauteed chili, tomato, garlic and basil leaves

• Sweet Heart roll Super white tuna inside wrapped with fish tuna

Next came our shrimp chow fun, which is a wide and flat rice stir-fry noodle dish, and two signature sushi rolls: the Pacific roll and the

dragon roll.

The chow fun was seasoned with the house sauce and tossed with onions, scallions and shrimp. The noodles were a bit overcooked; there was no need for much chewing, as you could easily mush the noodles with your tongue. The flavors were mild, delicious and not too salty. Even better, it was a large dish for only $6.75. I enjoyed it further with a drizzle of the spicy chili oil.

The presentation of the dish wasn’t very attractive. It could have used a bit more color, since the dish was mostly a pale light brown.

Maybe more chopped scallions for garnish would’ve done the trick.

The two sushi signature rolls were packed with flavor. The Pacific roll held raw and spicy puréed salmon inside. It was topped with fish

roe, eel, avocado and tempura flakes to add crunchy texture. The dragon roll wasn’t much different from the Pacific roll — it had crabmeat, salmon and cucumber inside the roll — and had the same toppings, minus the fish roe.

The plating was beautiful and full of vibrant colors. Both sushi rolls were laid out over a long, green leaf and a zig-zag, handdesigned pattern of spicy mayo and sweet hoisin sauce. Each roll cost $10.95, but it was worth every penny.

Overall, Pacific Fusion is a great place to enjoy delicious Asian cuisines of many varieties. Most of the appetizers didn’t cost more than $5, and most of the entrées weren’t more than $13 . This restaurant is a great place to stay on budget. vluangap@syr.edu

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advice teach through his writing, but he switched it to “Life Coach of the Year” after he interviewed him.

In the article, Saunders gave a lot of advice: how to be decent, how to age, how to write, how to teach, how to be a man and how to be yourself.

Even after being named one of GQ’s men of the year, Saunders said in an email he still doesn’t consider himself “anyone’s life coach,” adding that he doesn’t think “anyone should be coached by me.” Saunders said his life had been full of so many mistakes that he shouldn’t be providing advice at all.

Other books by George Saunders • Civilwarland in Bad Decline • The very persistent gappers of Frip • Pastoralia • The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil • In Persuasion Nation • The Braindead Megaphone

george saunders speaks at the 2013 graduation ceremony for the College of Arts and Sciences. His speech will be published as a book. photo courtesy of syracuse university

In fact, one of his resolutions for 2014 is to “give less advice and listen more.”

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Saunders’ advice for SU students in 2014 is to do the opposite of what he did when he was in college.

“I was very much in a sort of achievement track — wanted to graduate and not flunk out and so on,” he said. “And that’s all good. But I was suppressing a lot of my real interests, particularly writing and reading.”

He said he wished he had paid more atten-

I was very much in a sort of achievement track – wanted to graduate and not flunk out and so on.

And that’s all good. But I was suppressing a lot of my real interests, particularly writing and reading.”

George Saunders best-selling author and su professor

tion to his family and had been less self-centered when he was in college.

For 2014, he said he hopes to be more productive and nicer, and to get back to work on his new book. alng@syr.edu | @alfredwkng

fashion

Mobile fashion boutiques grow in number, offer alternative wardrobes

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ity-dwellers across the United States know all about the food truck experience. It can be hard to walk down

even one street without spotting one of these cuisine cars and smelling the delicious aroma of Greek gyros and barbecue.

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when in doubt, wear red But now, fashionistas are slaying the streets alongside the foodies. A number of vans and trucks have popped up across the country, selling clothing and accessories curbside.

Mobile boutiques first started appearing on the West Coast in 2010 when designer brands like Alice + Olivia and Cynthia Rowley took their collections to the streets. We then saw the fashion truck appear in the media when discount chain Marshalls featured a fashion truck on its television advertisements.

During the past year, mobile boutiques have exploded in popularity, with nearly 100 members nationwide and 400 non-food-related, parkable stores now operating, according to the American Mobile Retail Association (AMRA). These numbers are expected to increase in the coming years.

Most mobile boutique owners are recent design school graduates and do-it-yourself women in their 40s. Many can’t afford the largely expensive down payment for a storefront, so they buy and repurpose retired library bookmobiles and shipping trucks off Craigslist.

According to AMRA, start-up costs for fashion trucks usually range from $20,000$30,000, based on the average expense for a used truck, interior and exterior updating, and inventory. In comparison, a usual brick-andmortar storefront can cost at least $200,000.

With that price difference, it’s no wonder these fashion entrepreneurs are hitting the streets.

An added bonus is that most mobile boutique owners usually make back the money they spent on their truck within six months to a year. Recurring expenses include vendor fees, auto and liability insurance, and vehicle maintenance and gas, which seems like nothing compared to the fees they would have to pay for a normal storefront.

Despite the industry growth, many cities

still regulate mobile boutiques based on peddler-permitting rules dating to the 1950s. Talk about sticking to tradition. Recently, though, a few cities — St. Paul, Minn., and San Francisco — have pioneered new rules to welcome this new mode of the retail industry.

The allure of fashion trucks comes from the combination of the convenience of online shopping and the ability to try clothes on before ones buys them. Who would want to drive 30 minutes to go to their favorite store when it can just come to them?

They sell everything from yarn to ponchos to peacock-feathered headbands. One truck in Salt Lake City specializes in healing rocks and crystals. Rather than sticking to cookie-cutter clothing and accessories, these stores pride themselves by carrying lesser-known brands and designers that aren’t found in most retail stores.

Although the space is small — 19-feet long at most — it is the intimate nature of these trucks that draws in customers and keeps them coming. Rather than wandering around aimlessly in a large department store with no clue where anything is, it’s pretty easy to find something in a mobile boutique with owners who want to help you find that special piece you’re looking for.

I’m sure you’re wondering the same thing I am: Where can I find one of these fashion trucks? These stores on wheels can often be found by restaurants, landmarks and at special events, but like most food trucks, their locations change from day to day. Many try to make stops at the same events annually or stop at several locations across town to create regulars.

Ultimately, fashion trucks are reinventing the retail industry to something much more accessible and interesting. For anyone trying to follow the fashion norm, any mobile boutique is for you.

Here’s to hoping we’ll see one on Marshall Street in the near future.

Alexis McDonell is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every Monday in Pulp. E-mail her at admcdone@ syr.edu and follow her on Twitter at @AlexisMickD.

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Student teams reach semifinals of national startup contest

By Joe Infantino feature editor

Ian Dickerson got his million-dollar idea from staring at a jar of change.

“I thought there had to be a way to use those seemingly meaningless coins,” said Dickerson, a Syracuse University graduate student. So he co-founded Centscere, a social media donation platform, to allow users to easily donate money to charity.

Last semester, more than 100 teams — Centscere included — from schools across the country applied to Student Startup Madness, a nation-wide digital media competition.

Only 32 semifinalists remain as of Jan. 8. The tournament was created by Sean Branagan, the director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at SU, and is hosted by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications,

Young people want to give, but they can’t really give that much at one time. But if you give a couple cents here and there, it adds up. You’re giving a little bit a lot.”

Ian Dickerson co-founder of centscere

but any university is allowed to participate.

Loosely based on the structure of the NCAA March Madness bracket, Student Startup Mad-

ness puts each team into one of six regional assignments: Northeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Great Lakes and Southwest.

Regional assignments

The 32 semifinalists are divided into six regions. The five Syracuse teams were placed into the following:

Northeast • Advlo • Centscere • PlatypusTV • University Beyond

Midwest

• PrintLure

Before the next round, the teams will diligently work to polish off their business plans, debug website problems and accumulate as many customers as possible. Then they face another round of judging. By the end of January, those 32 teams will be tested and scrutinized until only the Entrepreneurial Eight remain for a live pitch at South By South West (SXSW) on March 10.

“It scares the sh*t out of [the teams],” said Sean Branagan, creator of the event and director of the Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at SU. “That’s what you’re stepping into, a world of highly competitive people.”

Preparing for a grueling round of judging and hoping for the best, Dickerson and his team are working out any kinks associated with their company. That means making a smooth transaction between a user’s bank account and their charity of choice for the site.

With Centscere, users attach a monetary value to actions on their social media accounts. Any time it’s done, a pre-determined amount of money is put aside for a year-end donation. With the company’s services, liking someone’s photo on Facebook can become a $1 pledge to charity.

There is no minimum donation. Dickerson said even micro-donations add up to something sizable at the end of the year.

“Young people want to give, but they can’t really give that much at one time,” he said. “But if you give a couple cents here and there, it adds up. You’re giving a little bit a lot.”

No two businesses in the competition are the same, but each is rooted in digital media.

Last year’s winner was Michigan State University’s TempoRun, which syncs music to a runner’s pace.

Also from Syracuse University is Platypus TV, a social television platform that allows viewers to speak with each other as a show plays; PrintLure, which 3-D prints customized fishing lures; University Beyond, a service that connects businesses with students to create and expand campus ambassador programs; and Advlo, a new way to sell and purchase travel services.

Founded by Jon Naser after his Semester at Sea last spring, Advlo acts as a virtual marketplace for travelers and locals to sell alternatives to expensive tour operators. While traveling, Naser said he only took part in the tours he found through Google.

“It was much easier to find a local who was willing to show you around for no cost,” Naser said. “Those trips were often more culturally rewarding, too.”

His company also gives locals a chance to

compete with the big companies in countries where economies depend heavily on monopolized tourism.

Naser said he is constantly meeting with

Encouraging entrepreneurship

These are organizations on campus that help student ventures:

• EBV: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities A program for post-9/11 veterans with disabilities to learn about entrepreneurship and small business management

• WISE: Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship A program for women to cultivate knowledge and understanding of all stages of business management

• Syracuse Student Sandbox

A 12-week program used to give aspiring student entrepreneurs an outlet to receive support and resources for their ideas

• IDEA

Student organization that connects students to industry-relevant investors, people and places

his teammates to get the beta site running so judges can visualize the work.

Those who make it to SXSW will be critiqued by entrepreneurial pioneers. Last year’s judges included the engineering director at Google, the co-founder and CEO of BrandYourself.com and the senior director of emerging technologies at Turner Broadcasting.

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Christmas energizes Orange in strong all-around performance

By Stephen Bailey and David Wilson the daily orange

Christmas flung his arm forward to swat Joel James’ layup past the 3-point line.

He sprinted down court, grabbed a Tyler Ennis miss and found C.J. Fair for an open 18-footer.

Then he turned away J.P. Tokoto and James Michael McAdoo on the next possession.

“We feed off each other’s energy,” Grant said. “Whenever he does something, I want to do something, and vice versa.”

Christmas finished with only two points, but contributed eight rebounds, four blocks and a couple head-first dives to give Syracuse extra possessions in its win against North Carolina on Saturday. Christmas was so defensively inept against Eastern Michigan on Dec. 31 that Boeheim decided to walk away from his press conference rather than address the forward’s biggest failures.

But against the Tar Heels, he was a defensive stalwart, continuing to play with a high-octane motor, despite his lingering right thumb contusion.

“Defensively he’s one of the best bigs we have,” Ennis said. “We count on him to get stops, we count on him to rebound and he’s just kind of getting the recognition now.

“We’re a different team when you see Rak out there hustling for loose balls and stuff.”

C.J. Fair syracuse forward

“Coach is hard on him, but he always responds. He’s kind of one of the leaders for us.”

Christmas helped energize the slow-starting Orange early when he dove to scoop up a mishandled dribble by UNC sophomore forward Brice Johnson with 11:02 left in the first half.

He rolled to his side, protecting the ball from a pair of Tar Heels players, before finding Michael Gbinije for the pass.

“We’re a different team when you see Rak out there hustling for loose balls and stuff,” Fair said.

Christmas also outworked bigger UNC bodies in the paint. Facing the 280-pound James

and the 290-pound Kennedy Meeks, the 250pound Christmas boxed out and was surehanded in cleaning the glass.

It’s a good sign for the Orange moving forward, as Coleman is still limited with a left leg contusion. Coleman did not play against the Tar Heels.

“I think Rakeem was good,” Boeheim said.

“He went after the ball.”

Coleman still sidelined

DaJuan Coleman played three minutes in Syracuse’s previous game, but remained on the bench for the entirety of the No. 2 Orange’s 57-45 win against North Carolina on Saturday in Syracuse.

Coleman said he would probably need a full week of practice to get back on the court full time. He had that leading up to the game against the Tar Heels, but head coach Jim Boeheim played it safe and left him on the sideline throughout.

“DaJuan has practiced,” he said. “He looks a little better, more mobile. He’s probably got to get a few days of practice before we can see exactly what he can do.”

With the forward out of the starting lineup, SU (16-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) called upon Jerami Grant to make his fourth straight start and once again shifted Rakeem Christmas to the middle of the SU zone against UNC (10-6, 0-3).

Much of the 32,121-person crowd that arrived at the Carrier Dome early got a chance to watch Coleman participate in warm-ups.

Like he did before the Virginia Tech game, the sophomore participated fully, although he did wear a brace on his left leg and appeared to favor his right leg. But for the third time in four games, Coleman did not play.

Syracuse has a quick turnaround before facing Boston College on Monday at 9 p.m. in Chestnut Hill, Mass., but it leaves enough time for a bit more treatment for the Orange’s ailing forward.

Coleman’s fellow big men — Christmas and Baye Moussa Keita — have played well in his absence. Syracuse used just seven players to cruise past North Carolina anyway, but Coleman’s return would further flesh out an improving center position for the Orange.

“DaJuan’s looking great,” SU guard Trevor Cooney said. “I think his knee is looking better and stronger. He’ll be back to the old DaJuan before you know it.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

Rakeem Christmas emphatically blocks a shot in No. 2 Syracuse’s 57-45 win over North Carolina in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Christmas helped SU to the crucial conference win with energy on both ends of the floor. ryan maccammon staff photographer

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Syracuse defeats UNC despite mediocre play from backcourt

By David Wilson staff writer

In one half on Saturday, Tyler Ennis committed more turnovers than he had in a single game all season. His passes weren’t as crisp and his decisions weren’t as smart.

In that same half, Trevor Cooney’s shot looked more like it did during his freshman season than during his breakout sophomore campaign.

He didn’t air ball any, but most of his 3-point attempts never had a chance of going down.

Syracuse had control against North Carolina, but the backcourt had nothing to do with it.

“We’ll have a tremendous number of tough, tough nights and it’s how we react to those, how we get through those,” said SU head coach Jim Boeheim.

The Orange’s (16-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) backcourt was pegged as a question mark in the preseason, but for one of the first times this season Ennis and Cooney played like the inexperienced duo they truly are. Ennis committed a season-high four turnovers and Cooney went just 2-for-12 from beyond the arc, but No. 2 Syracuse was still able to dispatch the Tar Heels (10-6, 0-3) for a convincing 57-45 victory in front of 32,121 in the Carrier Dome.

The disastrous first halves for the two gave way to improved final frames, especially from Ennis, and helped SU bust open a game of which it already held firm control.

Ennis’ first half was an uncharacteristic display of absent-minded passes and overzeal-

ous decisions. He threw a ball away in transition. He tried an over-the-shoulder dump off to Rakeem Christmas. He made a lazy pass to Jerami Grant that was deflected and went out of bounds off the forward.

“Tyler had more turnovers than he had all year,” Boeheim said, “but he figured it out.”

He didn’t commit any giveaways in the second half and managed to finish with a gamehigh seven assists.

“I don’t remember the turnovers. That’s just the player he is,” Cooney said. “He has the ball in his hands so much that a turnover is going to happen, but it doesn’t happen often.

“Stuff like that doesn’t bother him and it didn’t tonight.”

The guard stopped trying to make the spectacular play in front of a raucous crowd and settled into his usual groove. He got to the basket off high ball screens and finished at the rim with his usual consistency.

His backcourt mate Cooney, however, struggled to find any sort of rhythm.

The crowd started chanting his name late in the first half and he responded with a midrange jump shot. Then he hit a 3 early in the second half. Maybe that would get him going.

“He’s one of the best shooters in the country and we expect him to score,” Ennis said.

But then he missed a layup. And another jumper. He went just 1-for-4 from the arc the rest of the day. The bright spots were rare and he was never able to get himself going offensively.

“I hit that shot, and then I missed an easy layup.

Tyler ennis drives past North Carolina guard Marcus Paige. The freshman point guard had a career-high four turnovers in the first half, yet his 10 points and seven assists still led SU to a 57-45 win over the Tar Heels on Saturday. ryan maccammon staff photographer

That’s just how it was today,” Cooney said. “The only good thing about shooting like I did today is that I get to bounce back and play Monday.”

On Saturday, it didn’t matter. The rest of the team was able to pick up the struggling shooter.

“Luckily we’re a well-balanced team and when he does get going, it’s going to just be that much better for us,” said C.J. Fair.

Syracuse used big first halves from Fair and Grant to counteract Cooney’s struggles during the first half, but Grant didn’t score in the second. Ennis was there to pick up the slack then.

With less than seven minutes remaining, the guard gave the Orange its largest lead of the day.

The freshman drove the baseline and fired a pass through the lane to Fair, who dropped in a layup that stretched the lead to 19. Cooney and Ennis both struggled, but only one needed to remedy his issues to put away the Tar Heels with ease.

“You don’t really got to worry about Tyler. I don’t think Coach worries either,” Fair said. “If he does make a mistake, he knows why it was a mistake and he’ll learn from it.” dbwilson@syr.edu | @DBWilson2

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Hanlan leads the list while Ennis is fifth.

On the season, Syracuse has the best offensive rebounding percentage (40 percent) in the ACC, and Boston College has the worst (28).

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north carolina UNC fazed Syracuse early on. Fair and Ennis committed two turnovers each in the first 4:04 as the Tar Heels opened an 8-2 lead. The crowd grew wary. SU head coach Jim Boeheim sneered. The Orange called a timeout.

That’s when Boeheim tightened the screws of his team’s 2-3 zone. The centers pressed up and the guards dropped. North Carolina lost control of the high post, and of the game.

SU forced North Carolina — which entered the game as the third-worst 3-point shooting team in the country by makes per game — to shoot outside. The result was nine UNC turnovers and four SU blocks in the first half alone.

Marcus Paige, UNC’s leading scorer, entered halftime with just three points. McAdoo was the only Tar Heels player to record more than one field goal in the opening frame.

“We made some unbelievable plays defensively in the first half,” Boeheim said. “It was just our defense that won the basketball game, period.”

It was the defense that sparked the offense.

An emphatic rejection by Grant on forward Kennedy Meeks led to two Fair free throws at the 12:48 mark. A corner trap on freshman forward Isaiah Hicks gave SU another possession 43 seconds later.

And when UNC sophomore forward Brice Johnson lost his dribble in the paint with 11:02 left in the first half, Rakeem Christmas laid out onto the floor to grab the ball.

Trevor Cooney missed a pair of open 3s on that possession, but Fair drained his rightwing triple on the next one.

“He’s our senior. He’s our guy that we look to, to get us going,” Cooney said. “And when he’s going, we’re just as good as anyone.”

From there, Fair and Grant continued to pick apart the Tar Heels’ defense.

Fair made three free throws after a McDonald foul, then saved an Ennis miss, which led to two Grant free throws.

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The pair entered halftime with 23 points — one more than North Carolina — as Syracuse took a 34-22 lead into the break.

“It’s pick your poison, really,” Fair said.

“I got it going, and once they keyed on me, Jerami got it going. It’s hard to stop both of us. As a duo, I think we’re one of the best duos in the country.”

The Orange defense wavered at times in the second half, but North Carolina never pulled within single digits. The Tar Heels made just 10 shots in each half and never more than two straight without an SU point.

Fair finished with 20 points and eight rebounds. While Grant didn’t score in the second half, he logged 12 rebounds to go with his 12 points.

The combination of those two factors allowed Syracuse to improve to 16-0 for the third time in four seasons, and sent the Tar Heels packing with their first 0-3 start in conference play since 1996-97.

Said Grant: “We played hard tonight. We played harder than we usually do for the whole game. Usually we do it in spurts, but today we did it for 40 minutes.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

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boston college They offer a chance for Cooney to find a rhythm.

“We count on Trevor to score,” point guard Tyler Ennis said, “but we obviously don’t expect to him to have five 3s every game.”

While Cooney was able to get his share of open looks against the Tar Heels — and missed them anyway — he didn’t take his first 3-pointer until the 10:54 mark of the first half.

He bricked that one — and his next six — including the third attempt, which caromed off the back-left of the rim and out to the perimeter.

Cooney tried to shake off each miss. Gerry McNamara tried to provide encouragement during timeouts. Fans began supportively chanting his name late in the first half.

Even when he finally found the bottom of the net 2:05 into the second half, he proceeded to blow an open transition layup 20 seconds later.

SU head coach Jim Boeheim paused pre-yell, mouth agape, then elected to hold his tongue and clap toward the shaken shooter.

“That’s just how it was today,” Cooney said.

Cooney’s only hits from outside were from the corner, plus a desperation hoist off a handoff from Tyler Ennis with the shot clock at 3.

“We need to get him some more bad shots,” Boeheim deadpanned.

Cooney was his normal, confident self in the locker room after the game. He seemed unfazed by the slump, unlacing his shoes while shrugging off questions about his confidence and shooting struggles. “ You just have to keep shooting and keep playing hard,” Cooney said.

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His frequent movement in half-court sets also helped open up forwards C.J. Fair and Jerami Grant for their respective 20- and 12-point efforts.

Against Boston College on Monday, Cooney said he hopes that hard work will translate to more individual success, and more made 3-pointers. sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

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wilson could fall out of the Top 25 on Monday, which would likely leave newcomers Syracuse and Pitt as the conference’s only ranked teams. Feels an awful lot like the Big East, doesn’t it?

If it weren’t for these two, the ACC would be an even bigger embarrassment than it already is.

Earlier in the season, SU head coach Jim Boeheim said that thinking the Orange could get through the regular season with two losses was “the height of foolishness.” At this point, any more than that would be a surprise.

After Syracuse’s win on Saturday, Boeheim said that any of the top 15 or so teams could win the national title.

“That’s college basketball,” he said.

Syracuse is certainly one of those teams, but the ACC may not have another. It’s tough to count out the Mike Krzyzewski-coached, Jabari Parker-led Blue Devils, but by Boeheim’s logic, they have some work to do to become a legitimate threat.

That doesn’t mean the Orange will cruise to an 18-0 debut season in the conference or sweep the traditional powers handily, but it means that anything less than a regularseason title in its inaugural ACC season would be a failure. It’s Elite Eight or bust for SU, and an even better run should probably be expected.

Syracuse has started 16-0 in three of the last four years. Fair, who has been a part of all of them, said this one might be the best.

“The level of competition we’ve played this year is better than previous years,” Fair said. “We’ve been well-tested and we’ve responded well.”

The Orange is red hot and the clear-cut class of its new conference. The road to a championship in the south’s best basketball conference goes through frigid Central New York, and Fair knows it.

“I think this is going to be a special year.”

David Wilson is a staff writer at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at dbwilson@syr.edu or on Twitter at @DBWilson2.

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OUSTON — Terrel Hunt raced through the Reliant Stadium end zone and into the hearts of Syracuse fans 1,600 miles northeast.

With the pocket collapsing on him, Hunt side-stepped to his left and bolted up the middle with 1:14 left in the Texas Bowl, Syracuse’s last hopes of victory hinging on the heel of each swift stride. There were no Minnesota defenders in front of him and no penalty markers down on the field. Just a wide-open gap that Hunt wasted no time in crossing.

In the end zone, he dropped the football and held his hands in Jay-Z’s dynasty symbol toward the crowd. The touchdown clinched Syracuse’s (7-6, 4-4 Atlantic Coast) 21-17 victory against Minnesota (8-5, 4-4 Big Ten) in front of 32,327, but the passage signified the completion of a far bigger journey.

“It’s all coming together in time,” Hunt said.

“It was a good experience and I’m ready to look forward.”

The Rosedale, N.Y., native who lost both his parents in high school completed a 10-month whirlwind ride Friday that thrust him from starter to backup and back to starter. Through late-night meetings with Jerome Smith in their University Village apartments last spring and a heartbreaking sit-down with head coach Scott Shafer before this season.

The same sophomore quarterback who went six games without a touchdown pass to start ACC play was named MVP of the Texas Bowl after his second straight gamewinning performance. He finished with 74 rushing yards and two touchdowns, and completed 19-of-28 for 188 yards. After leading the Orange to its third bowl victory in four years and cementing his place as the program’s future quarterback, Hunt was fittingly given a cowboy hat, which he placed squarely on his head at the award ceremony.

“Hands down, it’s his turn. His team,” Syracuse defensive tackle Jay Bromley said. “They will go as far as he goes, period.”

One person who’s always believed that is Hunt. It’s what he said last spring when he earned the starting job following Ryan Nassib’s departure to the NFL, and what he echoed this fall even after Drew Allen transferred from Oklahoma and supplanted him.

His focus and resiliency never wavered.

Neither has the destiny he’s trying to complete. One of his mother, Katrina’s, final requests before passing was for him to come to

Syracuse and succeed.

“He was raised by some really strong people that were great people and had to leave early because they were so good,” Shafer said. “Only the good die young, and I think that he remembers the lessons he learned as a youngster and he takes those to the football field.”

Two of those lessons are dedication and patience. Hunt spent countless nights in Smith’s apartment last season, pouring over the playbook and digesting as much information as he could. He won the starting job over veteran Charley Loeb and sophomore John Kinder.

But when Shafer told Hunt that Allen would get the starting job the following fall, Hunt accepted the news by the next day. There was no garbage can toss across the room as Shafer did when he lost the starting quarterback job at Baldwin-Wallace 26 years ago.

Even when Allen self-destructed against Penn State and Northwestern, Hunt waited his turn.

When he got his chance, he seized it: four conference wins including a magical comeback victory against Boston College on Nov. 30.

“What he puts out there, that’s what he is,” said Syracuse center Macky MacPherson.

“He’s worked his butt off to get where he is.”

Two games ago, that place was still unclear, especially with three-star verbal commitments Alin Edouard and A.J. Long coming in to compete under center.

But Hunt orchestrated three scoring drives of 75-plus yards in the last five quarters of the season.

When the Orange faced a 4th-and-8 against Minnesota midway through the third quarter, he scrambled for nine yards, setting up his 5-yard touchdown moments later that gave Syracuse a 14-3 lead. And when he took over with 2:03 left following a two-touchdown implosion from the SU secondary that put the Orange behind 17-14, he jogged onto the field with confidence unparalleled to any other point this season.

The 14 yards he needed to gain would have seemed laughable at the start of the season. Now, they were not only attainable, but almost expected.

As he ran free into the end zone, Hunt proved his place at the helm of the Orange. His journey was complete.

“If you’re diligent and you continue to work hard and keep pounding that rock, eventually it’s going to split right down the middle,” Shafer said, “and that’s what I’ve seen with this youngster next to me.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

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Trevor Cooney’s meteoric rise as one of the best shooters in Syracuse history has stalled midway through the season.

The lights-out sharpshooter who made five or more 3-pointers in seven of Syracuse’s first 12 games has struggled to find a rhythm since New Year’s, shooting just 2-for-12 from range in the team’s 57-45 win over North Carolina on Saturday.

“The only good thing about shooting like I did today,” Cooney said, “is that I get to bounce back and play Monday.”

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on Monday night. He’s shooting just 21.9 percent from beyond the arc in SU’s last three games, sending his season average plummeting from 50 percent to 42.4.

The Eagles — led by two offensiveminded guards in Olivier Hanlan and Joe Rahon — don’t have Miami’s 1-2-2 trap that Cooney called unpredictable. And they don’t have the length and athleticism the Tar Heels used to keep Cooney in check early on Saturday. see boston

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.J. Fair swatted a jump shot and bolted up court as Jerami Grant grabbed the loose ball.

With Syracuse on the break, Grant hit Michael Gbinije and Gbinije hit Fair on the right wing.

Rise, release, swish.

The season-high 32,121 fans who packed into the Carrier Dome on Saturday exploded as No. 2 Syracuse took its first lead against North Carolina midway through the first half.

“Everything just got energized. We fed off that shot,” Grant said. “After that, there was no looking back.”

The No. 2 Orange (16-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) used a 19-3 first-half run keyed by defensive excellence and offensive dominance from Fair and Grant to pull away from North Carolina (10-6, 0-3) and win 57-45 in the christening of a newly formed conference rivalry. Syracuse held North Carolina to its lowest scoring output in 17 years — one that matched its lowest total in the shot-clock era.

While the Tar Heels shot just 2-for-12 from 3-point range, unable to crack SU’s compact 2-3 zone, Fair and Grant combined for 32 points and 20 rebounds — including 19 of the Orange’s first 21 points.

“We just outfought ‘em,” Fair said.

But for the first four minutes, James Michael McAdoo and North Carolina were in control. The junior forward drained a jumper from the high post before picking Tyler Ennis’ pocket for a transition slam.

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losing his touch Trevor Cooney has struggled in ACC play, and continued his slump against the Tar Heels.

The sophomore shot 4-of-17 from the field and 2-of-12 from beyond the arc.