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Early birds Student Association passes its

Show me the money The Daily Orange Editorial Board commends

Breaking the ice SU law students crack

Shooting star Seton Hall’s Jeremy Hazell has returned to the court

financial vision more quickly than in past years. Page 3

Applications to SU reach record high

Student Association’s decision to create a tiered ranking system for budget requests.

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THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ EDUCATED ‘64-‘82

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By Jon Harris Asst. News Editor

For the second consecutive year, undergraduate applications to Syracuse University set a record high.

The Office of Admissions received more than 25,270 first-year applications as of Monday, a 13 percent increase over last year, said Nancy Rothschild, associate dean of admissions, in an e-mail. The admissions office is still receiving new applications daily, she said.

The admissions office plans to admit fewer students this year than it did last year and has set an enrollment goal of 3,350, Rothschild said.

SU welcomed an uncharacteristically large incoming class in fall 2010 when more students accepted admission than anticipated. The university accepted nearly 3,500 students after receiving about 23,000 applications in fall 2010, according to an article published on The Daily Orange on May 4. SU received a 9 percent increase in applications in 2010 than in fall 2009, according to a Feb. 18 SU News Services release.

The applications are from more diverse student populations and geographic areas, Rothschild said. There is a 9 percent increase in “typically under-represented students” and a 46 percent increase in international students, she said. There has also been significant application increases from U.S. states in the southeast and west, she said.

There is also an increase in applications in all of the colleges at SU for fall 2011, including a 26 percent increase in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, a 23 percent increase in the School of Information Studies and a 17 percent increase in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, Rothschild said.

The increase in applications is due to the growing recognition of SU around the country, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management, in a Jan. 24 SU News Services release.

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Campus expansion The influx of baby boomers entering college created a need for more space at SU. While that demographic was on campus, these buildings opened their doors:

Ernest S. Bird Library opened November 1972, consolidating the former Carnegie Library and 10 other branches. Today, Bird contains 2.3 million books, 11,500 periodicals, 45,000 linear feet of manuscripts and 3.6 million microforms on its seven levels.

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BUILDING forward Baby boomers spark social change, see expansion

By Brianna Quaglia Staff Writer

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rom Brian Spector’s viewpoint, the late 1970s were a real “feisty period” at Syracuse University.

Spector, who in 1978 graduated from the College of Business Administration — now the Martin J. Whitman School of Management

— was on campus during the time baby boomers were attending college, from 1964 to 1982.

This month marks the start of a milestone year for baby boomers, who made waves when they spurred campus expansion and led protests during their college years.

Starting Jan. 1, the first set of baby

boomers hit retirement age and began turning 65.

The atmosphere of the SU campus during the baby boomers’ time was more focused on questioning the government and authority, a change from today.

“Students took part in the politi-

1965: Haven Hall Dormitory for Women, Lawrinson Dormitory for Men

1966: Brewster-Boland halls, Toomey/Abbot Towers

1967: Physics Building 1970: Link Hall Engineering Building

1972: Heroy Geology Laboratory, Skytop Housing Complex Phase I

1973: Newhouse Communications Center II

1974: Skytop Housing Complex Phase II, Faculty Center

1980: Archbold Theater, Carrier Dome

1982: Comstock Art Facility Source: archives.syr.edu

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Discussion continues on varying internship policies among schools

By Debbie Truong Staff Writer

Little headway has been made to implement a campus-wide policy concerning unpaid summer internships since a December meeting by the University Senate Committee on Instruction that began looking into the issue.

The committee members issued a questionnaire to all SU schools

and colleges to determine the extent to which summer internships were used, whether they were required or optional, paid or unpaid, taken for credit or not, and at what time, according to the report on unpaid internships presented by committee member Can Isik.

Initial responses indicated a broad range of policies by a number of individual colleges, Isik said. Because

the committee remains in the early stages of deliberation, committee members did not publicly issue the responses.

Isik said it is still “hard to tell” if the surveys will carry any recommendation for alleviating the financial burden of summer internships for students. Isik described the committee’s preliminary reports as “difficult to summarize in its cur-

rent state.”

The report sparked a discussion about unpaid summer internships.

Businesses and institutions cannot legally withhold compensation from workers, said Steven Diaz, an associate professor of mathematics and a committee member. To bypass paying salaries to college interns, companies encourage them to seek see internships page 8

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ossibility that Syracuse might be made into a state university has been labelled a “dead pigeon” by Chancellor Tolley.

However, recent developments indicate that the College of Medicine and the School of Nursing may be taken over by the state and expanded into an upstate medical center.

Two such centers were recommended by the Young Commission on the Need for a State University: one to be submitted in the New York City area and one upstate.

To Exert Pressure These centers would presumably each include colleges of medicine, dentistry, nursing and public health.

The university administration is now mobilizing its forces for a concerted attack on Albany legislators to ensure establishment of the medical center here. This drive will be pushed by university public relations men, influential alumni, and other friends of Syracuse who know how to put pressure in the right places.

This campaign has already been endorsed by the board of directors of the Onondaga Health Association and the faculty of the College of Medicine. The latter endorsement will be seconded in large part by the 1,332 graduates of the College of Medicine who are practicing in nearly 300 New York state communities.

Opposition to this plan will come from Albany, Rochester and Buffalo, which also want the medical center and the state money that will come with it.

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Alterations to funding announced

By Sean Cotter Staff Writer

Student Association voted unanimously to pass this semester’s financial vision during its Monday meeting, creating a new system for funding student organizations.

The financial vision, which lays out how organizations apply to SA for funding, is more comprehensive this year than in past years. SA passed it 15 days earlier than last semester. It was also revealed during the meeting that MayFest will be held on April 29.

This year’s MayFest will mark the first year during which guest passes will be available to purchase for nonSU students.

The expanded financial vision creates a new ranking system for funding student organizations based on an organization’s number of successful events. Under the system, organizations fall into four different levels that limit the maximum amount of funding that SA provides to a group.

New organizations or ones without past successful programming will start out on the first level, which caps the maximum amount that SA provides to an organization at $5,000.

Organizations with successful programming will move up to the second, third and ultimately fourth tier, which cap the maximum amounts at $12,000, $25,000 or provide unlimited potential resources per event, respectively.

The financial vision contained no mention of University Union, SU’s official programming board, which concerned several members of the Assembly.

SA made UU a key organizer of events around SU, so it would make sense to include UU in the bill to facilitate cooperation and to clarify the organization’s responsibilities, said Dave Woody, an SA representative for the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

Woody proposed that the Assembly vote to send the bill back to the cabinet to coordinate with UU and improve the financial vision. The proposal was rejected.

SA President Neal Casey said that although Woody made valid points, the main goal was to get the financial vision in place early and work out the subtleties later.

“This is just the first step in a long process,” Casey said. “We had an obligation to get it out as quickly as we see sa page 4

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor Students wait in line at Follett’s Orange Bookstore to rent textbooks through the store’s Rent-A-Text program. Last semester, more than 1.5 million books were rented nationwide. Students can save more than half the price of a new textbook while using the Follett’s program.

Textbook rentals at SU, Follett’s continue for students

By Nick Warren Contributing Writer

Raja Ram saved at least $100 when he rented a textbook through Follett’s Orange Bookstore’s Rent-A-Text program, which started last semester.

“It was so much cheaper,” said Ram, a freshman business management major. “The book I needed was $103, but I got it for $48 at Follett’s.”

More than 800 bookstores in the country are on college campuses.

Last semester, 1.5 million books were rented from Follett’s stores nationwide, said Elio DiStaola, director of public and campus relations for

the Follett Higher Education Group.

There are no specific numbers for SU or for how many textbooks have been rented so far this semester.

Students can typically rent a textbook for between 33 and 55 percent of the price of buying a new textbook, according to a Jan. 18 press release from the National Association of College Stores. On average, students pay less than half the new book’s price, according to the Follett’s Rent-A-Text FAQ page. Bookstores also benefit.

“For every dollar spent, the store makes between 4 and 6.5 cents,” said Charles Schmidt, the association’s

director of public relations. “Textbooks get customers in the store.”

Rent-A-Text allows students to pay a fraction of the cost of buying textbooks after students sign a rental agreement to return the books at a specified date, according to the RentA-Text website. Students can rent a book for a semester or an entire academic year. They must be 18 years or older and have a valid credit card, e-mail address and government-issued identification to rent a textbook, according to the website.

Rent-A-Text allows for some highlighting and marking in the

rented books, but any writing or drawing that would make the books unusable for another customer is prohibited, according to the Rent-AText FAQ page.

The University Bookstore also has its own textbook-rental program.

Students go to the store to rent books rather than buying them online.

“It was so much cheaper, and for me it was all about the money,” said Greg Banos, a freshman accounting major.

Kathleen Bradley, textbook and general division manager at the see textbooks page 4

Student-created website aims to highlight local job opportunities

By Heather Wentz Staff Writer

Job seekers have more opportunities to find work with the launch of a new business created by three Syracuse University students.

Austin Curtis, a public relations major who graduated in May and a current graduate student in the School of Information Studies, and his two business partners launched DreamFetcher, a job-search website based on matching potential employers and employees, on Dec. 1.

Job seekers can make a profile on the website and include their resume, references and specific information on what kind of job they are looking for. The latest version of the website has been up and running for about six weeks. Curtis said they have more than 300 profiles, and several employers are already using the site.

He said they hope to increase those numbers even more at SU’s career fair Feb. 3.

Ever since his freshman year, Kyle McShane, one of Curtis’ busi-

ness partners and a graduate student in the iSchool, said he always knew he wanted to start a business. After experiencing his own job-searching woes, an idea came to mind.

“We were sitting at Austin’s house, and I said we should make something like eHarmony but for getting a job,” McShane said.

With a lot of research and help from teachers, administrators and other mentors, Curtis and McShane began to lift their business idea off the ground.

Curtis, McShane and Gerald Decelian, the third business partner and a senior information and technology major, were accepted to the Syracuse Student Sandbox, a program for student-run businesses in the Syracuse area. The Sandbox is a place for new businesses to start and offers free office space, mentors and other resources to develop a business plan.

Decelian said that without the help of people willing to listen, they would never have been able to get see curtis page 4

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could.”

Woody acknowledged that this was important but said he hoped his issues with the bill would be addressed soon.

“I’m just afraid that now that it’s passed, it will end up on the back burner,” Woody said. “I really want the cabinet to take this to heart and go to UU with it.”

Casey and SA Comptroller Jeff Rickert wanted to have the financial vision in place by the start of SA’s required fiscal training for organizations that want to apply for money from SA. In the past, SA never had a passed financial vision in place used to teach the organizations during this training process.

Rickert said the quick decision on the financial vision would help give every organization the best possible chance of getting funded. He also stressed that another goal of this year’s financial vision was to reach a broader audience with the events SA funds.

“In my opinion, we should be funding more events that not necessarily appeal to different

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cal arena, became involved and questioned what was going on,” said Spector, who is now the president-elect of the Alumni Association.

During his time here in the 1970s, Spector began to see students becoming more concerned about life after college and moving away from liberal arts studies toward those related to a specific job field, such as information studies.

“There was a definite trend toward preparing for a career,” Spector said, “and there’s a renewed sense of that now because of the economy because the job market is so tight.”

1970 was a “wild ride” for the university, said Mary O’Brien, the reference archivist.

SU students demonstrated nonviolently with a student strike in May 1970 in response to President Richard Nixon’s decision to bomb Cambodia. The student strike forced the typical June commencement to be held six weeks early. O’Brien said the colleges and professors had to scramble to come up with a way to grade students who had not even taken final exams.

“There was a real change in what people expected and what people would put up with,” O’Brien said. Students called for more power through councils and the student government, she said.

It was also right around this time, O’Brien said, that the professional schools, such as the business school, communications school, and engineering and computer science school, became their own entities.

The library school became the School of Information Studies at this time, as it became

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their business moving. For new businesses, he said, networking is key.

“What really happened was we would wake up every day and go visit teachers and learn about certain aspects of our business,” Decelian said. “I’d say we probably talked to over 25 teachers and administrators.”

Some days it would be a financial aspect, other days it would be working on developing the business plan, or sometimes it would be networking and market research, Decelian said.

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student groups but rather to different groups of students,” Rickert said.

As for MayFest in April, Casey announced that it will run from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. SA will make 350 guest passes available before MayFest because many students requested them for this year. The price of these passes is still to be determined.

The Assembly also elected PJ Alampi and Nick Iaquinto, freshmen in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Alyssa Brennan, a freshman in Whitman, to serve on the Board of Elections and Membership. The board’s purpose is to attempt to recruit more students into SA. The Assembly also elected Sean Herron, a junior policy studies and economics major, to the director of technology position.

Other business discussed: • Vice President Jessica Cunnington and others will meet with campus officials about the smoke-free campus initiative on Wednesday.

She said she hopes to regroup with officials and set down goals for the session with them.

• The Academic Affairs Committee is looking into making students’ core requirements available on MySlice. The committee is also trying to make MySlice clarify information for the many

necessary to integrate computers, O’Brien said. The dean of the school took measures to use advanced technology.

“He knew people would be using computers, not paper anymore,” O’Brien said. “He turned out students who were ready to go into libraries that were computerized.”

It was also a changing time for female students, O’Brien said. Before the baby boomers, women had a curfew of 11 p.m. or midnight, but this started to change after World War II, she said. Additionally, women started looking into more science fields, and men started to look into the traditionally female-dominated College of Human Ecology.

Roger Harrison, who graduated with a political science degree from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1965 and returned for his master’s degree in 1968, witnessed the sternness of the administration firsthand.

“There was strict separation of male and female. There were two times out of the year when women were allowed in the male dormitory. You had to have four on the floor and a crack in the door,” Harrison said, meaning that two pairs of feet had to be on the floor with the door open.

But the university quickly changed its overall philosophies after the protests leading up to the Vietnam War and adopted a policy that gave students more independence, he said.

“SU had a very active antiwar movement,” Harrison said. “During that critical period, the alumni were so incensed that the university couldn’t control the students that they changed the rules.”

Other activities changed on campus as time went on. Ira Berkowitz, a 1982 graduate from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Commu-

As far as revenue, Curtis said they are currently not making any money from their business. DreamFetcher’s services are free for both employers and employees, and they do not have any advertisers. But their main focus right now is not so much on the financial aspects as it is on growing and expanding their business, Curtis said.

Because all three entrepreneurs are familiar with the stressful and daunting task of finding a job, they want to keep their services free for job seekers, but they may start charging businesses in the future, Curtis said.

DreamFetcher also has a blog, which the team has been using since the early develop-

sections of WRT 105: “Practices of Academic Writing” and WRT 205: “Critical Research and Writing,” none of which have a description that details what topics will be covered.

• In addition, the Academic Affairs Committee is attempting to make SU a site for graduate school exams. Currently, students who take

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these exams need to travel to Le Moyne College or Onondaga Community College.

• SA is collaborating with University Neighborhood Partnership to create a virtual ride board called RideShark so that students looking for rides home can find carpooling opportunities. spcotter@syr.edu

He Said “In my opinion, we should be funding more events that not necessarily apply to different student groups but rather to many different groups of students.”

The day in April SA announced MayFest would be held.

nications and the College of Business, said he remembers a greek tradition started by the ever-motivated baby boomer generation called the Muscular Dystrophy Dance Marathon, for which Berkowitz was the programming coordinator. The tradition has been lost over time, as was Berkowitz’s fraternity, Zeta Psi, which disbanded at SU in 2007.

“University Union was big on campus for concerts and other events,” Berkowitz said.

The baby boomers’ time on campus was also a period of great expansion for the university in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Berkowitz could see the Carrier Dome being built from his residence hall window when he lived in Sadler Hall during the second semester of his freshman year.

DellPlain Hall became the first coed dormitory in the fall of 1971. In the late ‘60s, the Brewster/Boland/Brockway Complex was constructed in time for the influx of students. But Berkowitz said he remembers there was still some difficulty finding housing, and students tripled up in doubles and lived in study lounges.

Almost three decades later, Berkowitz’s daughter, Alexandra, remembers similar problems with crowding on campus as an SU freshman. The Berkowitz family has deep ties to SU: Ira’s wife graduated in 1983, and their two children are currently enrolled at the university.

Alexandra, now a senior television, radio and film major, said she is literally walking in her parent’s footsteps.

“Living where they’ve lived, learning what they’ve learned, partying where they’ve partied, eating the same Varsity wings they ate and feeling completely at home,” she said.

“Because I am.” bquaglia@syr.edu

ment stages. It covers topics such as networking trends and interview tips, Curtis said.

“We wanted a way to engage everyone who would be using our services, so the best way we thought we could do that is by giving people valuable job advice,” Curtis said. “We try and post an article every day that deals with one aspect of the job search.”

Brian Proctor, a junior sport management major, made a profile on DreamFetcher two months ago.

“One of the best things about the website is that, being a busy college student, it was great to have a profile that was so professional and easy to navigate,” Proctor said.

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University Bookstore, said professors need to commit to a textbook for long-term use so that books can be made available to rent for multiple semesters. Bradley added that many students in upper-level classes want to keep their books for future reference, so they might not rent them.

The University Bookstore also offers a buyback policy for the books students purchase.

“It was so much cheaper.

The book I needed was $103, but I got it for $48 at Follett’s.”

Raja Ram

Freshman business management major

This policy allows students to sell their books back to the bookstore at the end of the semester, whether they were bought new or used, for up to 50 percent of the new book price.

“The buyback is the best value for students,” Bradley said.

Outside of the University Bookstore and Follett’s, there are many online textbook-rental options, including BookFinder, BookRenter and Chegg.

“I used Chegg because my friend told me about it, and it was cheap,” said Michal Suchocki, a freshman biomedical engineering major. “I didn’t even know I could rent from Follett’s.” ndgallag@syr.edu

Proctor, who is not from the area, said it has given him many opportunities to explore a lot of different companies in the Central New York area. Proctor said he may never have known about many area-job opportunities without DreamFetcher.

McShane said they are looking forward to more job seekers and employers joining their website, and they encourage everyone to make a profile.

“You can’t give up,” Curtis said. “Persistence is key. There were days when we got bummed out, but we kept motivating each other and kept each other going.” hawentz@syr.edu

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SA’s budget reform to streamline allocation process Student Association is introducing a new tiered system for allocating the student fee to organizations. SA will rank organizations into four tiers depending on their history of successful events. The highestranked organizations can receive a larger amount of the money.

Reforming the budget by ranking organizations’ history of success will make the process more efficient and transparent.

When requests from organizations total $1.3 million and SA only has $700,000 to distribute, as it did last fall, the Finance Board will never please everyone. But this system will make it clear to organization members what budget requests are feasible and how they can prove themselves over time.

editorial by the daily orange editorial board The tiered system will also allow for the most money to go to student organizations that have proven their events have the broadest appeal on campus. This reform guarantees that most students will participate in or attend the events their money pays for.

In his second year as comptroller, Jeff Rickert has continually updated the budget process, one of SA’s most important duties. Though improving the budget system is never-ending, this reform reveals dedication to making the process as equitable and streamlined as possible.

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State of the Union address to mark end of Obama’s political comeback

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hile President Barack Obama lauds the state of our union during his second such address to Congress on Tuesday, you may notice his chest puff out a little more than usual.

After all, Obama is riding a modest hot streak — one that would have been hard to imagine after November’s midterm shellacking.

The president has enjoyed a boost to his approval ratings over the past few weeks. Gallup currently shows a 49-42 percent split, and many other national polls have Obama’s approval surpassing the ever-important 50 percent plateau.

But the State of the Union address will conclude Obama’s minor political comeback. It will mark a return to reality, and Obama’s recent uptick in the polls will soon be exposed as unsustainable.

The two reasons for Obama’s recovery lack longevity, and neither address the most pressing concerns of 2011. The first comes from his

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speech in Tucson, Ariz. And for good reason — his words were eloquent, unifying and much needed after the horrific massacre shook the nation.

But it is all too common for presidents to get a brief bounce in the polls when they give an important speech, especially in the face of heartbreaking tragedy. While certainly a nice moment for Obama, it is not nearly enough to permanently revive his struggling presidency.

Obama’s success will hinge on the speed at which the economy recovers.

To put it another way, a 2 percent reduction in unemployment would benefit his approval ratings infinitely more than 25 Tucson speeches.

The second reason for Obama’s temporary popularity boost: the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays and lesbians in the military. Perhaps the most hated piece of domestic legislation for liberals of this generation, the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy can be fairly described as the boogeyman for pro-

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When former President Bill Clinton agreed to the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in 1994, staunchly progressive Democrats were seething. They viewed it as a betrayal and felt sold out. Since then, the left-wing base has committed endless time and energy to bringing a healthy dose of social justice to the U.S. military.

In finally repealing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Obama makes his first significant overture to the progressive base — one that has not had much to cheer about over the past two years.

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— oops. Progress on gay marriage?

Not really. Cap-and-trade legislation?

Couldn’t make it out of the Senate.

Even the enormous health care bill didn’t include a public option.

And despite the president’s 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, let us not forget his 30,000-troop surge in Afghanistan — because progressives surely don’t!

Other than the dire economic outlook, Obama’s failure to make inroads on a broadly progressive platform may be his biggest upcoming electoral problem. Aside from the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, which had to be sneaked through Congress during a lameduck session, he has not satisfied the left-wing base.

After two years in office, Obama has been defined as a committed liberal ideologue but without much to show for it.

This leaves Obama in political no man’s land. Conservatives and independents are alienated by a leftist-worldview-producing radical

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legislation, such as financial regulation and health care reform.

On the other end of the spectrum, Obama feels the heat from committed liberals who somehow do not think he has gone far enough to enact powerful change.

Of course, the Obama re-elect team does not have to worry about his base voting for the Republican nominee in 2012. But they should be concerned that progressives will stay home from the polls altogether.

This is normally the moment when Obama’s groupies point out that Clinton also had a tumultuous first two years, got walloped in the first midterm and then cruised to re-election in 1996. To automatically assume Obama will be able to do the same is the definition of a logical fallacy.

Don’t count on it.

Jimmy Paul is a senior political science major. His column appears every Tuesday, and he can be reached at jdpaul01@syr.edu.

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illustration by alejandro de jesus | art director such as “if I ruled the world, it would be a better place,” rather than “the thought of ruling the world frightens the hell out of me,” according to the study.

Both studies found that participants who placed higher value on elevating their selfesteem than on their favorite food or their next paycheck also displayed a strong affinity for self-esteem boosters in a laboratory setting.

Bushman and his colleagues administered a timed test that measured participants’ intellectual ability. After the test, students were then asked if they would wait an extra 10 minutes to have their test rescored using a new procedure that usually produces higher scores, Bushman said.

The fact that students were willing to give up their time to wait for a potentially higher grade is very telling, Bushman said.

Leonard Newman, a psychology professor at SU, said that although the study shows that people are motivated by more than concrete things like sex, money and food, it would be incorrect to say that self-esteem trumps all other rewards in every situation. If someone just lost his or her house or job, money would probably be of greater concern than boosting his or her self-esteem, he said.

Newman also said self-esteem boosters might be more important to college students than to older individuals.

“Young adults are still finding themselves,” Newman said. “Their sense of self isn’t quite established, so it would make sense that they would strongly focus on boosts to their selfesteem.”

Elizabeth Welsh, a junior magazine journalism major, said she appreciates a compliment more than her favorite food or money because it’s less immediate.

“It’s so easy to go to the vending machine for a snack or draw out money from the ATM,” she said. “But a compliment is usually unexpected and harder to come by.” vdnapoli@syr.edu

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The studies revealed that participants valued self-esteem boosters, such as receiving a compliment or scoring high on an exam, more than the other pleasurable experiences, Bushman said.

“We were shocked that self-esteem trumps all these other rewards,” Bushman said. “We knew college students value self-esteem, but we had no idea how much value was actually put on it.”

In the first study, he said participants were evaluated for the traits of entitlement, a component of self-esteem in which a person feels he or she is more deserving than others. Bushman said students completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, a tool used by social psychologists to measure how selfish a person is.

Participants were then asked how much they liked or wanted different things, such as sex and food, because one sign of addiction is that a person wants something more than he or she likes it, Bushman said.

“If you look at self-esteem scores over time, they have gotten higher and higher,” he said.

“College students have higher self-esteem scores than in the past. There is a self-esteem movement in this country.”

Despite the growing number of Americans who score high on measures of the trait, it would be incorrect to imply that the students in this study are addicted to self-esteem, he said.

They were just closer to being addicted to it than any of the other activity choices in the study, Bushman said.

He said students with high entitlement scores wanted all the rewards, including self-esteem boosters, more than they actually liked them.

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Applications were about 12,900 in fall 2001 before growing to 14,300 in 2005, according to the release.

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Scholarship Programs also awarded more than $178 million this year in institutional grants, which included enhanced aid for lower- and middle-class families, according to the release.

Saleh said in the release that accessibility will remain a top priority at SU down the road.

SU’s recruiting methods also continue to change, as there is a new focus on “geographies of opportunity,” according to the release. Saleh said the university is recruiting in regions in the United States and abroad where there is a high concentration of alumni and partners.

The increase in applications is nothing that SU hasn’t seen during the past decade.

— News Editor Dara McBride contributed reporting for this article.

by The Numbers • For the class of 2015, SU has received more than 25,270 applications. They aim to admit 3,350 students.

• For the class of 2014, SU received about 23,000 applications. They admitted nearly 3,500 people.

• For the class of 2013, SU received about 21,000 applications. They admitted nearly 3,250.

credit from their respective colleges as compensation, he said.

Internships that fall during the regular school year are typically accepted and reviewed without much ado. But to receive credit during the summer at SU, interns must also be tuitionpaying students, Diaz said. Summer interns who are not enrolled in SU’s summer session while doing an internship are forced to pay tuition to receive credit, Diaz said.

“Most people on the committee want to find a way to relieve the tuition burden,” he said.

But plausible solutions have been few and far between, Diaz said. The committee members have discussed allowing students to take advantage of unused fall and spring credits to alleviate the cost, among other alternatives.

Diaz and other committee members are also concerned about the case-to-case nature of internships because some interns receive practical, real-world experience, and others perform secretarial duties.

Internships remain an inarguable asset to a fresh-out-of-college resume, said Robin Richards, CEO of internships.com, an internship search engine geared toward college students.

“The purpose of an internship is resumebuilding, experience, access,” Richards said.

The sheer presence of an internship helps determine an applicant’s fate, not whether or not the internship was paid, Richards said. Only 38 percent of employers, nationally, pay interns, according to statistics from Richards’ office.

That’s a practice that Amanda Nicholson, another member of the instruction committee, said is a “bit like slave labor.”

In addition to paying summer tuition,

“If someone has a job, they should be paid for it. Students get the raw end of the deal.”

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students are expected to pay for out-of-pocket expenses such as housing, food and transportation to their workplace. Nicholson, a professor in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said she fears unpaid internships are skewed against students. She said employers who take advantage of students as free labor should take the blame.

“If someone has a job, they should be paid for it,” she said. “Students get the raw end of the deal.” dbtruong@syr.edu

University Senate Committee on Instruction The committee is currently looking into the state of internships for SU students.

The committee recently issued a questionnaire to all SU schools and colleges to determine: • To what extent internships are used by the schools or colleges • Whether internships were required or optional for students • If students were paid or unpaid for their work • If students received credit • Whether students worked internships during the summer or the school year

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Out of the Law students find answers to unsolved Civil Rights Era killings

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habnam Karimkhani spent Thanksgiving break sitting in the National Archives in Maryland, holding old FBI files in her hands. The documents, in original form with handwritten notes from 40 years ago, focused on racially motivated killings from the civil rights era that had never been solved.

Just holding the documents felt surreal, Karimkhani said.

“For me the biggest thing that kind of hit home (is) they have all this information, and they have all these leads, how is it that nothing happened?” she said.

Karimkhani is a second-year law student at Syracuse University’s College of Law. She is the office coordinator for the Cold Case Justice Initiative, a group of about 25 students formed to re-examine unsolved murder cases from the civil rights era.

Professors Paula Johnson and Janis McDonald began the CCJI in 2007 based on a request to help investigate the 1964 murder of Frank Morris in Louisiana.

Morris’ family approached the two civil rights era experts, and they began working on the case with a reporter from The Concordia Sentinel in Louisiana.

After almost four years of searching through documents and putting together facts, the CCJI released information on Jan. 12 on a new potential suspect in the Morris killing. Now it’s “squarely for the law enforcement officials to take the next logical step,” Johnson said.

In addition to the Morris case, the CCJI is handling about 30 cases, all at different stages. As the CCJI garnered attention, more families began approaching the

group to investigate old killings that had been pushed aside. The FBI also has a published list of unsolved cases.

The justice One case Karimkhani is working on focuses on a black man who was chased through Arkansas by a group of white men after allegedly making an offensive remark to a white female. The men shot him in the leg, and a doctor in the area refused to give him care. He died a few days later. The local law enforcement agencies at the time deemed it a “justifiable killing” because the man had allegedly done something wrong by speaking to the white woman. Many of the cases were handled this way at the time.

Karimkhani’s excursion to the National Archives in search of files was the group’s second trip. On the fi rst trip, in the summer of 2009, McDonald, Johnson and a few students sifted through files and found over 7,000 unredacted FBI documents.

The CCJI files Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain the FBI documents. Finding unredacted files is rare, McDonald said, and means that the FBI hadn’t utilized the documents related to the killings. The cases had been “cold” for so long that those vital documents needed to solve them weren’t deemed as important anymore.

But for the families involved, the

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University secretly offers free web space for SU community

id you know that Syracuse University has 50 megabytes of website server space for every single SU student, faculty and staff member? Yeah, me neither. This little gem of information accidentally exposed itself during one of my classes, and all I could think was an odd combination of “eureka” and “what a waste.”

The “eureka” was prompted by the sheer brilliance of providing site space to those affiliated with the university, and “what a waste” was because it is the single most underadvertised tidbit of SU’s technology perks I have ever stumbled upon.

Well, this information shall be cloaked in mystery no longer. This is how the university’s dime is benefiting you through technological avenues (and by “university’s dime,” I mean your dime that has been reallocated by the university, of course).

Following the painfully obvious Syracuse tech website trend, this

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our ram is bigger than yours feature has been creatively dubbed “MySite” and can be found by visiting mysite.syr.edu, where a streamlined sign-up/login page can be found.

When I say “streamlined,” I’m really implying that it’s so easy my 3-yearold cousin could do it. Just enter your Syracuse username and password, click the “CreateMySite” button and voila! You’ve just earned yourself 50 megabytes of storage space with a personal URL (SU got creative on this, too — the site’s name is “your username here”.mysite.syr.edu. Has a nice ring to it, no?)

But before you go ahead and set up your own opinionated site — because

we all know college students these days aren’t detrimentally apathetic or anything like that — there are a few things you should know regarding your usage guidelines and scope as specified by the university.

To aid you in determining what’s acceptable Web content for your new site, Syracuse has provided this curt comment: “All content posted here is publicly accessible by any computer with a Web browser.” This cautionary tidbit goes on to inform users that they should refrain from posting information they would like to keep personal. This includes anything deemed offensive or harmful by the Information Technology and Services’ policy on computing and electronic communications or any copyrighted material you do not have the rights to. That is to say no over-sharing, no bullying and no thievery.

Want to set up a site used solely to host and remark on the glorious won-

der of double rainbows? As long as you have the rights to the videos you post, you’re in the clear. How about a site divulging what a sadist your professor is? Hit the road, Jack — MySite isn’t for you.

And aside from basic human courtesy, there are functional aspects to MySite that users should be familiar with. In a nut shell, your MySite usage and functionality will vary based on what operating system you employ, so you may need to follow different steps in site creation and maintenance. This part gets a little detailed, so for complete information on this, visit answers.syr.edu (again with the creativity).

Since you’ve been armed with proper MySite etiquette and know how to find the answers to your functionality issues, all that’s left is the method of design. Because MySite is a hosting service separate from the design and development process, a number of avenues can be used in the

creation process. Like basic coding?

HTML/CSS will do just fine. Would you rather “code” by design? Link your iWeb creations to your new URL. Like to use the two in tandem?

Dreamweaver is the software for you.

Now that you’re a MySite pro, all you need to do is learn how to create a website. Well, you could always hire me (this so isn’t any form of self-promotion), but if you’d opt to learn some basic Web design or development skills yourself, you could try enrolling in one of the many Web-oriented classes offered by the university (may I recommend IST 263: “Design and Management of Internet Services” or TRF 400: “New Media Content Lab”).

You can also invest in a user-friendly HTML/CSS manual or a software like Dreamweaver. Now go forth and multiply! In the website sense, that is.

Jessica Smith is a dual information management and technology and television, radio and film major. Her column appears every Tuesday, and she can be reached at jlsmit22@syr.edu.

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cases aren’t cold at all.

“You meet these families in person, and you realize they don’t know what happened to their brother or their sister or mother or nephew,” Karimkhani said. “For me it’s an inspiration, and it just keeps me going.”

The students involved help with all stages of the investigation. Emily Schneider, a first-year law student came to SU specifically to join the CCJI. She, along with the other first years, spends time reading through the 7,000 documents and indexing them.

From FBI reports to memoirs to notes from secret informants, the students have access to once-confidential, detailed information. And all of those documents had been forgotten until the CCJI rediscovered them.

“All of these atrocities occurred that no one really paid attention to, and no one bothered to find out more details,” Schneider said.

Afua Quayenortey, a second-year law student, said the investigations require out-of-thebox thinking because many of the documents are missing or don’t have enough information.

From old police reports to archived newspapers to calling government agencies, the students must look everywhere they can to tie those loose ends together.

“A lot of it has to do with talking with people,” Quayenortey said. “You need to see a pattern, and when you do see that pattern, you think, ‘OK, what do I do with this?’”

The initiative The students involved are expected to volunteer for at least two hours per week. But many put in much more than the required time.

Lauren Neal is a second-year law student.

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at the College of Law because she thought it sounded cool and interesting. She began her first year as all students do: indexing files. Now the research coordinator for the CCJI, she spent the summer in Georgia working in a law office sorting through more documents.

She spent all summer in a 7-by-7 office in a law building stacked high with text from congressional hearings. That, along with the chance to meet affected family members last February, shifted Neal’s motivations for her involvement in the CCJI. She went from simply looking for an extracurricular activity to seriously wanting to help people find out what happened to their families.

Hearing the ways mothers, fathers, sisters, cousins and family members have been affected by the unsolved death of a loved one made Neal’s motivations more personal.

“It changed my perspective on what (I) thought about these cases, and it made me really want to make a difference and try to seek justice, whatever that is, in each individual case,” Neal said.

The developments in the Morris case mark the first breaks in a case that will likely lead to legal action, Johnson said. The students and professors have theories and leads on many other cases, and they hope this marks the start of bringing justice to many more families.

And although holding the FBI files and having access to once-confidential documents is exciting and rare, many of the students participate for more than a chance to build their resume. It’s a chance to use those documents to do something the FBI and other law enforcement agencies never did: solve the cases.

“When the community trusts us, they come forward with more information,” McDonald said. “It’s the kind of generosity and support and recognition that this is making a difference that matters.” kronayne@syr.edu

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Building a dynasty The Decemberists’ new album continues band’s strong streak

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By Erik Van Rheenen Staff Writer

he Decemberists’ 2009 release, “Hazards of Love,” was an album of epic proportions, a sprawling array of indie-folk soundscapes. The record featured sweeping orchestral arrangements and convoluted lyrical story arcs that left even the most resolute music critics swooning over the musical craftsmanship displayed by lead singer Colin Meloy.

To follow up its previous ambitious effort, the Oregon indie outfit played it closer to the belt, and instead of pretentiously attempting to write “Hazards of Love: Part Two,” the band went back to its roots to write a nostalgic Americana folk record. “The King is Dead” may come across as an anachronism, but it is refreshingly relevant in today’s music scene as it pays homage to the band’s folk-rock forefathers.

The album opens with “Don’t Carry It All,” which gives the blues an injection of a heavy dose of optimism.

A wistful harmonica solo paves the way for Meloy’s breezy voice to soar, while Chris Funk strums the acoustic guitar with an undeniable country twang. The track passes the up-tempo torch onto “Calamity Song,” a lighthearted track with a rousing chorus that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Simon and Garfunkel album.

The Decemberists are at their best when they rely on their signature rollicking folk melodies but hold their own when it comes to easing off from the energy. “Rise to Me” showcases twangy steel guitars, a mournful harmonica and Meloy’s defiance-oozing vocals. Listening to the heavy-hearted “January Hymn” should be required for Syracuse University students struggling through the mid-winter blues. The Decemberists have a knack for writing sorrowful tracks without coming across as indie-rock’s resident sad-sacks.

“Rox in the Box” is a Celtic-tinged ditty paced by a cleverly included rustic string section, but it seems out of place on the album sandwiched between two more melancholy numbers. “The King is Dead” picks up from its pensive flow with “Down By the River,” an earthy Bruce Springsteen-esque tune with Gillian Welch of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” fame to back Meloy up on the microphone.

Vibrant fiddles and a jaunty parlor piano make appearances on the bouncy, Bob Dylan-reminiscent “All Arise!” which segues into the subdued acoustic guitar and longingly contemplative harmonica that compose “June Hymn.” Though the track has several facets that recall the earlier “January Hymn,” it is full of as much hope as the first day of spring.

“This is Why We Fight” clocks in at just under six minutes. Although it is the longest track on “The King is Dead,” it carries with it Meloy’s most urgent vocals on the album. The album rounds to a close with the lethargic “Dear Avery,” which appears content to crawl slowly along without finding its legs with any kind of build-up or a crowd-pleasing chorus. The forlorn guitar riffs and heart-wrenching piano chords accentuate the raw emotional duet of Meloy and Welch, but the Decemberists would have done the album more justice by going out with a bang, not a whisper.

“The King is Dead” is an album about the blues in the same way that “Citizen Kane” is a movie about sleds: Meloy’s earnest songwriting tugs at the listeners’ heartstrings, vulnerably empathizing with feelings of nostalgia and wistfulness but maintaining a bright-eyed hopefulness that remains throughout the record.

Though “The King is Dead” is a far cry from the complex rock opera that was “Hazards of Love,” the Decemberists have discovered a niche in their extensive repertoire for the bluesy folk sounds of the American heartland. ervanrhe@syr.edu

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Desko, Keogh look to steady SU offense

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

Cody Jamieson found himself with the ball in his stick and the clock winding down. Syracuse and Cornell were knotted at seven goals apiece.

The senior attack worked his way toward the goal and ripped a shot on target with three seconds left.

He was denied.

The rebound bounced off Big Red goaltender AJ Fiore, rolling free in front of the net. SU senior Chris Daniello scooped up the loose ball and, in a last-ditch effort, fired a shot toward the goal. The ball struck the back of the net just as the buzzer sounded.

Victory for the Orange.

No. 1 Syracuse won that game in April 2010 thanks to the heroics of Daniello on the chance created by Jamieson. That duo powered the SU offense a year ago, finishing first and second on the team in scoring. But this season, that same miracle finish at Cornell won’t happen. Both Daniello and Jamieson graduated after 2010, leaving two big holes for the Orange to fill on the offensive end of the field.

“We lose a lot of points with those two guys gone and leadership with the two seniors,” senior attack Stephen Keogh said. “But there’s a lot of people ready to step up.”

Entering 2011, Keogh will be one of those people. He takes over as the most experienced attack for SU, having started since his sophomore year. He’s tallied 100 goals since coming in as a freshman and excels in his role of finishing around the net by capitalizing on feeds from teammates or putting back rebounds.

Besides him, there are some major questions as to how the rest of the Syracuse offense will fit together. But in Keogh’s mind, the team has improved from the start of the year.

“Fall ball helped us a lot, and the first couple

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season off to prepare for next year.

Hazell would have had more time to heal from his broken wrist. He wouldn’t have to worry about getting back on the court too soon for a Pirates team mired at the bottom of the Big East standings. He could have come back next season to a team with a clean slate, as well as a clean slate for himself.

He also would have likely broken the Seton Hall all-time scoring record with another full season. He would have needed to score 633 points to do so next season, a total he surpassed in both his sophomore and junior years.

But Hazell decided to get back on the court this season.

“It was a family decision,” he said. “Once the doctor told me I had a chance to come back, I took the opportunity to come back.”

Hazell also turns 25 in March, so staying an extra year could have had negative effects on his potential professional career. Ultimately, though, this season has put a dent into his NBA prospects.

“It’s going to make it a lot tougher for him to get drafted, no question,” said Aran Smith,

matthew ziegler | staff photographer tim desko is vying for a starting position on Syracuse’s attack to replace Cody Jamieson, who graduated after last season. weeks, we’ve just been gelling together,” Keogh said. “I’ve been playing with a lot of these guys for three or four years now, so you kind of know their tendencies and get to know the freshmen’s tendencies.”

Most likely to take over Daniello’s role is sophomore JoJo Marasco, who has drawn praise from teammates and coaches throughout the opening weeks of practice. He can play either attack or midfield — like Daniello — and will wear the legendary No. 22 this season. He notched 17 points last year, including 13 in a four-game stretch, before missing the final five games due to a leg injury.

As far as Jamieson’s replacement — and someone to play alongside Keogh — junior Tim Desko is among the leading candidates.

The coach’s son has scored 25 goals through

two years and executed maybe the most impressive score of 2010 with a back-to-thegoal, through-the-legs tally against Princeton.

Also competing for playing time at attack are transfers Collin Donahue and Tom Palasek and a bevy of freshmen, headlined by Billy Ward and Derek Maltz.

The offensive holes may not seem like a major issue with all the bodies in line to replace Jamieson and Daniello, but in reality, the attack position may be the biggest question mark of the upcoming season. The defense only lost one starter from a year ago and will likely fill that spot with an experienced senior.

Head coach John Desko also said that four seniors — Jeremy Thompson, Josh Amidon, Jovan Miller and Jeff Gilbert — are leading

the midfielders thus far.

“The experience has the advantage right now,” John Desko said. “I think they understand the offenses, as they should, better than the rest of the group, having four years of experience running similar offenses.”

But in the minds of Keogh and Tim Desko, the attack position shouldn’t be a spot of worry for the Orange. Over these next few weeks, they said, the offense should piece itself together — even without Jamieson and Daniello.

The bodies are there to replace those two former stars, now it’s just a matter of who it will be and how quickly someone emerges.

“It’s coming together real well,” Tim Desko said. “Once we get all the chemistry down from the new guys, we’ll be all set.”

president of NBAdraft.net. “The real turmoil that he has gone through, I think he’s seen as an undrafted guy.”

Hazell said his time on the bench was sobering. The Pirates were 5-8 with him out. It was tough to sit and watch his team’s season go downhill, he said.

Herb Pope was there to help Hazell cope with both his injury and time on the bench. He was the perfect candidate to help Hazell get by because Pope, Seton Hall’s junior forward, has dealt with his share of adversity in life as well.

Pope averaged a double-double last season, but in April the junior suddenly collapsed on Seton Hall’s weight room floor. He was found to have a heart defect that disrupts regular blood flow.

And Pope, like Hazell, beat the odds by making it back onto the court. So Pope was there for Hazell, especially after the attempted robbery and shooting.

Because Pope, too, has been shot. Four times.

All during his high school career in Aliquippa, Pa. “I just called him, asked him how he’s doing and told him I’ve been through worse,” Pope said. “He chuckled and laughed.

“I just kept telling him he’s going to be all right.”

Under first-year head coach Kevin Willard, Seton Hall has not had as successful a season as

anyone around the school would have hoped for.

But it is not for a lack of effort. Hazell was SHU’s leading scorer in each of the past two seasons.

His injury was a backbreaker to the team.

Seton Hall was 2-1 under Willard with Hazell in the lineup early in the season. The Pirates are just 1-3 since the senior has returned, but Willard already sees the effects of having his leading scorer back.

“Having Jeremy Hazell back has obviously been huge,” Willard said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference Thursday. “Now it’s just a matter of getting everybody working together for the last half of the season.”

Of the Pirates’ 12 losses, nine are by single digits — including the first matchup with Syracuse, a game in which Seton Hall shot 3-of-26 from 3-point range but lost by only five. Hazell is back to sure up that dismal outside shooting.

The senior isn’t a great percentage shooter — just 35.4 percent from beyond the arc this season — but he isn’t afraid to shoot from anywhere on the court.

Not being afraid. That’s something both Hazell and Pope can attest to. So much has happened to these two Seton Hall players off the court that any controversy on the court isn’t all that controversial to them.

“We’re the only two guys in America on the

same team that have been shot,” Pope said. “And that’s (affected) how we play. Trying to stay calm, it’s not taken as seriously.”

Hazell agreed with Pope’s sentiments that his off-the-court problems have yielded a different mindset. It isn’t that basketball is no longer important, but perhaps it has been given a greater value.

The senior’s near-death experience has obviously affected his values. And the game is a safe haven. A place where he can run free.

“I’m a humble kid right now because of the two things I went through,” Hazell said. “It was probably life threatening. I wouldn’t be here right now. I’m just happy right now that I was blessed and rooting for Seton Hall.”

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Back-to-back losses should only fuel the Orange at this point in the season.

BRETT LOGIURATO

SYRACUSE 73, SETON HALL 60

A lot of pressure on SU here to win this game after two straight losses. SU can’t play as badly as it did in the first matchup, or Jeremy Hazell will be the difference-maker.

STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

CARRIER DOME, 7 P.M., BIG EAST NETWORK

TONY OLIVERO

POINT GUARD

SHOOTING GUARD

SMALL FORWARD

Seton Hall has lost five consecutive games vs. the Orange, with its most recent victory on Jan. 29, 2006, inside the Carrier Dome.

SCOOP JARDINE

6-2, 190, JR. 13.0 PPG, 5.8 APG

JORDAN THEODORE

6-0, 174, JR. 11.4 PPG, 4.4 APG

BRANDON TRICHE

6-4, 205, SO. 10.3 PPG, 3.1 APG

JEREMY HAZELL

6-5, 188, SR. 19.1 PPG, 1.4 RPG)

Jardine is coming off arguably his worst game of the season against a top-tier opponent in Villanova. He can’t have a repeat performance and watch from the bench again in crunch time.

Hazell hit the ground running following his return from a wrist injury and a gunshot wound, scoring a game-high 23 in a win at DePaul. Triche has shot 50 percent (13-of-26) from 3-point range in his last five.

POWER FORWARD

CENTER

KRIS JOSEPH

6-7, 210, JR. 15.0 PPG, 5.1 RPG

FUQUAN WHITEHEAD

6-6, 205, FR. 8.7 PPG, 3.7 RPG

Joseph showed no lingering signs of his concussion against Villanova, going off for a game-high 23. He played 34 minutes in his return.

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Pirates have lost three straight games since defeating DePaul right after the loss to SU. And if they can’t ruffle Syracuse in the first half again, their chances in the Carrier Dome on Tuesday (7 p.m.) are slim.

For its part, the Orange handed Seton Hall a pile of mistakes that the Pirates used to stay in the game. SU shot 1-of-8 from 3-point range in the first half in that last meeting. It made 17-of36 free throws in the game. And it had a paltry outing on the glass, as two Pirates (Herb Pope and Jeff Robinson) combined to outrebound the entire Orange team 34-32.

“We never felt like we were out of the game,” Willard said. “We just felt we couldn’t shoot the basketball very well.”

The absence of All-Big East shooting guard Jeremy Hazell helped contribute to the Pirates’ shooting woes on Jan. 8. Hazell missed SHU’s first game with the Orange, as well as 12 other games, while out with a broken wrist.

He suffered the injury Nov. 19 in the Pirates’ game against Alabama. When out with the injury, the Harlem native Hazell was shot in the side on Dec. 26 while walking home in the early morning hours.

Since his return in the Pirates’ first game following the initial Syracuse contest on Jan. 12 against DePaul, the trigger-happy Hazell has averaged 15.5 points per game. Prior to the injury, Hazell averaged 24 points per game on 12.7 shots per game. He is currently averaging 19.1 points on the season overall.

With the senior Hazell back in the lineup, the Pirates will again be anything but coy when

Seton Hall’s Jeremy Hazell enters the game with 175 made 3-pointers in his career, good for fourth all-time in conference history. He needs four more to move into third place and 15 more to pass Notre Dame’s Colin Falls atop the list.

STAT TO KNOW Syracuse is shooting 269-for-422 (63.7 percent) from the free-throw line this season, which is last in the Big East.

COACHES

SYRACUSE 65, SETON HALL 58

A combination of a shot-taking circus and a fighting mentality will keep the underdog Pirates close throughout. But it will not be enough for a win.

FREE THROWS

BIG NUMBER RICK JACKSON

6-9, 240, SR. 13.2 PPG, 11.9 RPG

JEFF ROBINSON

6-6, 230, SR. 12.6 PPG, 6.6 RPG

The last time these two teams met in Newark, N.J., Robinson and Herb Pope gave Jackson a physical game down low as the Pirates outrebounded the Orange 43-30. Jackson had 14 of those 30 rebounds, and he needs some help on the glass.

FAB MELO

7-0, 244, FR. 2.2 PPG, 1.9 RPG

HERB POPE

6-8, 236, JR. 10.2 PPG, 9.3 RPG

Melo has played only 10 minutes in the Orange’s last two games, scoring two total points and grabbing two total rebounds.

Pope, the Big East’s third-leading rebounder, will exploit his advantage inside again.

JIM BOEHEIM

W-L: 847-294 34 SEASONS

KEVIN WILLARD

W-L: 53-61 3 SEASONS

Once a Rick Pitino protégé at Louisville, Willard knows the Carrier Dome better than the average rookie head coach in the Big East. Willard will also have his leading scorer back as he looks to continue SU’s sudden losing streak.

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shooting over the Orange’s 2-3 zone. It will be amplified even more with Hazell back.

SU sophomore guard Brandon Triche, who carried the Orange to its first win against the Pirates with 15 second-half points, recognized that SU faltered against the 3-point shooting of Villanova on Saturday. But he is not worried about the problem worsening against Seton Hall. SU’s current slump was

“It’s fine. Last year we slipped up a few times in March. This time it is in January.”

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bound to happen.

“It’s fine,” Triche said Saturday of SU’s current two-game losing streak. “Last year we slipped up a few times in March. This time it is in January.”

The slump is still a slump, though, and Hazell and the Pirates could pose a threat with their free-shooting mindset. They will continue to heed the advice of Willard’s movie reference. With Hazell back, their fortunes should improve.

Willard is glad to have his star back. He got that across Jan. 8, not with a movie reference but with a smile. He looked up from the podium and said three simple words when asked if he was looking forward to Hazell’s return.

Said Willard: “Yes I am.” aolivero@syr.edu

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor FAB MELO (51) and the rest of the SU defense held Seton Hall to 31.3 percent shooting in the teams’ first meeting on Jan. 8. The Pirates shot 11.5 percent from 3-point range.

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After shocking death of coach, La Roche basketball rallies

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Laron Mann thought Scott Lang only needed to take a breath.

Lang, the former head coach at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, was more intense than usual during practice on Dec. 10, preparing his players for their upcoming game against league-rival Carnegie Melon. He had FOR THE been working out with the Redhawk forwards in drills, so when he stopped for a moment and said he needed a brief break, no one thought much of it.

“At the moment, we thought he was just out of breath,” said Mann, the La Roche guard and co-captain. “He really hadn’t played basketball like that in a while. We thought he needed some time to catch his breath.”

But it was more than that.

The players and coaching staff watched as Lang fell to the floor at half court. Assistant coach Harry Jenkins and an athletic trainer performed emergency CPR while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. It was then that the players were told to leave the gym, leaving a lasting image of Lang lying on the ground engrained in their minds. It wasn’t until a few hours later that they were informed of the devastating news: Their 41-year-old coach had died of a heart attack. For the night, they mourned.

But since then, they have turned their attention back to basketball, the way Lang would have wanted them to. Playing in his memory — playing the way he taught them to play — the Redhawks are 16-1 on the season.

“The thing that we told all our teammates was that if we pull back at all, if we take our foot off the gas at all, Coach Lang would be mad if he was alive,” guard and co-captain Nate Wojciechowski said. “We’re not going to change any of that now that he’s gone.”

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The Redhawks have played under Jenkins, the interim head coach, while keeping Lang’s message and philosophy alive as if he had been in the gym with them for every practice and game.

Every player remembers Lang’s constant message of positivity. So on the night of Lang’s heart attack, as the players went to dinner and waited for an update on their coach, they assumed he would only need to spend a night in the hospital.

“Everybody thought that Coach was a strong man, he’d pull through,” Mann said. “This won’t hold him back. He’ll be there tomorrow at practice.”

The players never let the thought that they wouldn’t see Lang again cross their mind. Lang may have been dying, but his message was alive more than ever. Mann and the rest of the team thought this would be nothing more than a small hurdle for Lang to overcome.

After the team dinner, the players were called back to the locker room. The coaches delivered the news that no one wanted to hear and no one expected. Every player broke down and sobbed.

A brotherhood Lang created mourned his loss.

Perhaps no one felt the pain as much as Mann did, who viewed Lang as not only a coach but a father figure. When Mann needed support at the toughest time of his life, he knew exactly where to go.

“He was one of the first people I talked to when I found out my father was diagnosed with cancer,” Mann said. “He was there for me. Telling me it’s not as serious as it could be right now, but the doctors will see. He was basically being there to calm my nerves.”

For Mann, those words meant everything.

Hearing them from Lang reinforced the need to stay positive and never let the thought of the worst-case scenario enter into his mind.

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In every game, they played up to the level he expected of them. Anything less would’ve been unacceptable. For the way he helped them through any struggle they were going through, playing hard was the least they could do.

“He was just a wonderful leader of men,” Jenkins said. “I don’t think that anybody who went on the floor to play for him ever played below the level he expected them to play.”

Lang may not be there anymore, standing along the sideline and barking out calls to his players. But for the Redhawks, he doesn’t need to be.

They keep on playing the Scott Lang way.

Play hard and stay positive, all the way to 16-1.

“I think that’s what’s really done it, is continue to do what Coach always drove them to do,” Jenkins said. “And I think that has an unbelievable amount of impact on what has happened with us.”

No. 1 Ohio State vs. Northwestern This game really shouldn’t be much of a contest.

Not with the undefeated Buckeyes playing the way they have all season. If the Wildcats find a way to win, it would be nothing short of a miracle.

Prediction: Ohio State 82, Northwestern 68

No. 9 Syracuse vs. Marquette Marquette has struggled somewhat in the Big East, and Syracuse has lost two in a row. But the Orange has only lost to Top 10 teams, so it’s tough to see it falling to the Golden Eagles. Syracuse would really have to play poorly to leave Milwaukee with another conference loss.

Prediction: Syracuse 78, Marquette, 68

No. 7 Texas vs. No. 11 Missouri Texas defeated Kansas on Saturday to break the Jayhawks’ 69-game winning streak at home.

The Longhorns have won their last four games, with Jordan Hamilton averaging 19.3 points per

game during that span. Missouri has played well all season, but Texas might be more than the Tigers can handle right now.

Prediction: Texas 82, Missouri 76

No. 14 Kentucky vs. Georgia Both teams look pretty evenly matched, especially when it comes to playing conference games. The Wildcats and the Bulldogs are both 3-2 so far in the SEC. But with Kentucky at home, the win goes to the Wildcats.

Prediction: Kentucky 75, Georgia 72

No. 12 Purdue vs. No. 16 Minnesota Minnesota beat Purdue on Jan. 13, but it won’t get the season sweep. That was the Boilermakers’ only loss in the Big Ten, and JaJuan Johnson is averaging 25 points per game over the last four for Purdue. The Boilermakers should get the win.

Prediction: Purdue 70, Minnesota 64 cjiseman@syr.edu

Battle standings

In honor of Blake Griffin’s thunderous dunks, we name our battlers after their favorite dunkers: B. Barry (Tredinnick) M. Jordan (Cooper) D. Brown (Bailey) V. Carter (Cohen) R. Artest (Brown) K. Bryant (Irvin) L. Nance (Propper) B. Griner (Marcus) D. Wilkins (Olivero) B. Walton (Ronayne) C. Parker (McInerney) N. Robinson (LoGiurato) S. Kemp (John) T. Airupthere (Saffren) J. Smith (Wilson) J. Richardson (Iseman)

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Hazell bounces back from injury, gunshot wound to lead Seton Hall

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eremy Hazell never stopped running. The thought to slow down never crossed his mind.

It wasn’t as if he really had a choice, though. The Seton Hall star shooting guard was walking home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood in the early morning hours of Dec. 26 when he was approached by four men who attempted to rob him. Resistant, Hazell didn’t allow it to happen.

“I wouldn’t let them,” Hazell said, “so I tried to run, and they started shooting.”

Hazell ran from the gunshots. The bullet that penetrated Hazell’s side didn’t even stop him. He just kept running until he saw an ambulance and flagged it down.

The thought of Hazell — Seton Hall’s leading scorer before the injury — returning to the court this season seemed bleak at first. Even more so considering the fact that the SHU (8-12, 2-6 Big East) senior was already rehabbing a broken bone in his left wrist, suffered in a game against Alabama on Nov. 19.

But a little more than two weeks after that fateful Sunday morning, Hazell was running again. Only this time, he was with his teammates dur-

ing Seton Hall’s game at DePaul. Seventeen days after getting shot in the side, Hazell scored 23 points in a Pirates win against the Blue Demons, snapping a three-game losing streak in the process. And with that performance, Hazell achieved the most improbable of returns. The senior made a speedy recovery from the broken bone in his wrist — only six weeks — despite dealing with the gunshot wound as well.

Hazell missed 13 games between the Alabama and DePaul games, including a 61-56 loss to Syracuse (18-2, 5-2) on Jan. 8. But Hazell will be playing for SHU in its rematch against the Orange as the two teams square off at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Carrier Dome.

The senior has averaged 15.5 points per game in four games since returning to the court.

“It feels great coming back, playing with the team,” Hazell said. “I really miss playing with these guys, and they miss me.”

Prior to the doctor’s decision that cleared Hazell to play almost three weeks ago, the 24-year-old was considering a medical redshirt that would allow him to play for the Pirates next season. And there were plenty of incentives for Hazell to take the rest of this see hazell page 12

courtesy of s.r. smith | seton hall athletic communications jeremy hazell was already out with a wrist injury when he suffered a gunshot wound during an attempted robbery in December. Hazell returned on Jan. 15 and is averaging 15.5 points per game.

Three-point shooting key in SU’s rematch with Pirates

By Tony Olivero Development Editor

An 0-for-17 first-half performance from 3-point range made Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard reach for an obscure movie reference. The only way he could describe his team’s dismal shooting performance was to baffle the assembled media with his reference of the 2004 comedy “Along Came Polly.” He had never seen anything like it.

“I don’t know if I have seen an

0-for-17 ever, especially not in a half,” Willard said following Syracuse’s 61-56 win over his Pirates on Jan. 8. “We watched a little (game) film (at halftime), saw our shots, and it comes from the movie ‘Along Came Polly’: ‘You just got to keep letting it rain.’ And, s***, eventually you are going to hit one of them.”

The Pirates bombed away in an ugly first half against Syracuse, missing 17 3-pointers in the Prudential Center, much like Phillip Sey-

mour Hoffman clanged bricks off a metal playground backboard in the 2004 film.

What made it more frustrating was the fact that if Seton Hall made a few of those 17 3-pointers, the Pirates would have been in a position to upset then-No. 4 Syracuse. As much as Seton Hall struggled, the Orange did as well, scoring a season-low 20 first-half points.

“On offense, we didn’t help ourselves,” said SU point guard Scoop

Jardine after that game. “We needed to get in the lane against this team, and we didn’t do that.”

In the second matchup of the season between No. 9 Syracuse (18-2, 5-2 Big East) and the Pirates (8-12, 2-6), Willard hopes his defense will be able to force the Orange into another 30 percent shooting performance like it did in the first half of the initial meeting.

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Ahoy, mate!

Inside, look for a full

breakdown of Syracuse’s rematch with Seton Hall.

Check out position-byposition matchups, stats to know and beat writer predictions. The Pirates lacked a perimeter presence in their loss to SU on Jan. 8, but Jeremy Hazell returns to the lineup for Tuesday’s contest. Page 13