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Refreshing documentary An SU alumnus makes a documentary for the

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and social issues surrounding stem cell research. Page 3

says thank you for the changes brought on by baby boomers.

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Pepsi Refresh Project on Huntington’s disease.

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Application fees for SU match peers

Bat captured by net in Hall of Languages

By Michael Boren

By Jon Harris

As Jon Gregalis walked into the Hall of Languages, an unlikely visitor swooped in from above: a bat.

“I was one step in the doorway, and this thing just flew in front of my face,” said Gregalis, a freshman public relations major who saw the bat flying around on the second-floor landing Tuesday at about 5 p.m.

Responding to a call about the bat, Syracuse University Physical Plant worker Mark Monette followed the yells of students and trapped the bat inside a foot-wide net, later releasing it into a wooded area on the other side of South Campus, said Ray Kowalski, Physical Plant’s west zone manager.

But bat sightings are not uncommon around campus. Monette receives 15 to 20 bat calls a year, Kowalski said.

Zach Miller has spent more than $250 on applications to five different schools. Of the five, none have cost him more than his application to Syracuse University.

SU’s $70 undergraduate application fee is tied with 14 other schools for 13th-highest among national universities in the United States, according to a U.S. News and World Report released Jan. 19. The average application fee for national universities was $46.78, and only three of the schools reported having no fee.

A total of 252 national universities responded to the survey.

But Miller, a senior at Woburn Memorial High School in Massachusetts, said the high application fee didn’t shy him away from applying to SU. He said he has always wanted to apply to SU, one of his top-two college options.

“I think it’s expensive, but the school can charge whatever they want to make money,” Miller said.

And Miller isn’t the only one looking past the $70 application fee.

As of Tuesday afternoon, SU’s Office of Admissions had received a record 25,309 fi rst-year applications, said Nancy Rothschild, associate dean of admissions, in an e-mail.

This year’s number broke the mark set last year by more than 2,000 applications. Rothschild said the application fee at SU has been $70 since 2008 and hasn’t had an effect on the number of applicants.

“Over the past two years, we have seen significant increases in the number of applications from a broad cross-section of students,” she said. “Therefore, the amount of the application fee does not appear to discourage interested students from applying for admission.”

To set the application fee, SU looks at its peer institutions, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management, in an e-mail. The application fee is within $5 of most of SEE APPLICATIONS PAGE 6

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Students retain little knowledge of course work

As more people hit retirement age, concerns grow for providing, paying for health care

By Bethany Bump STAFF WRITER

Students who have ever wondered how much their college degree is worth may have just gotten their answer: not much.

A book released last week, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” found many college students are not learning much, if anything, compared to previous generations.

The fi ndings show 45 percent of students demonstrated no “significant improvement in learning” during their fi rst two years of college.

After four years, learning improves slightly with only 36 percent showing no significant improvement.

The book, which studied 2,300

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Few attend forum about community

By Flash Steinbeiser Staff Writer

Students filled out questionnaires and spoke about their concerns for the East neighborhood at the University Neighborhood Preservation Association’s question seminar Wednesday night.

Only seven students attended the meeting held in the Schine Student Center, which UNPA hosted in an effort to improve East neighborhood conditions for both student renters and permanent residents.

UNPA Executive Director Joanne Stewart said she thought students and off-campus community organizations found multiple areas of common ground.

“I love hearing from students. It’s a fresh perspective,” Stewart said.

“And actually, they agree with a lot of the things with the permanent residents.”

Students were asked about what they liked and did not like about the off-campus neighborhood by UNPA

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Obama hopes to increase employment

By Meghin Delaney Asst. News Editor

President Barack Obama opened his State of the Union address Tuesday night by reflecting on the tragedy in Tucson, Ariz.

This tragedy, he said, reminded the people of the United States that no matter who they are or where they are from, everyone is a part of something great: the American family. This family, Obama said, is what sets the United States apart as a nation.

Though the president touched on many topics in his address, such as health care, tax cuts and foreign policy, the main focus was job creation.

“At stake right now is not who wins the next election — after all, we just had an election,” Obama said. “At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country or somewhere else.”

The president urged American-

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ashli truchon | staff photographer jay henderson, a biomedical professor, teaches part of the first stem cell class for Syracuse University students. The course studies the scientific, ethical, legal, religious and social issues of the research and use of stem cells. The course is an interdisciplinary class.

More than 30 students enroll in stem cell class

By Breanne Van Nostrand Staff Writer

John Russell is looking forward to a spring semester filled with discussions about stem cells.

“I’m hoping that we have students that have strongly-held opinions,” said Russell, chair of the biology department. “It makes it more interesting.”

Syracuse University’s first course on stem cells began Jan. 18. BIO 300/ PHI 300/REL 300: “Stem Cells and Society” is a three-credit course

focusing on the scientific, ethical, legal, religious and social issues of the research and use of stem cells.

There are approximately 31 students currently enrolled in the class, but others are also expressing a great deal of interest, Russell said.

Faculty members did not expect and have not noticed any dissent about offering a course regarding the controversial topic, Russell said. He attributed this to the general openmindedness of a university campus.

“The course isn’t one to persuade

people that stem cell research is good or bad,” Russell said. “It is designed to discuss the various issues behind stem cells and their use.”

Russell has noticed the majors of students taking the class vary greatly, such as science, humanities, social studies, and visual and performing arts. Though juniors and seniors are given preference to take “Stem Cells and Society,” there are no prerequisites to enroll in the course, Russell said.

“I’d say three-quarters of the stu-

dents taking the course have had no more biology than the university requires,” Russell said.

The faculty-intensive course features three primary lecturers, including philosophy professor Ben Bradley, biomedical professor Jay Henderson and Gustav Niebuhr, associate professor and director of the Carnegie Religion and Media Program, Russell said.

Amy Campbell, a bioethics and humanities professor from the Upstate see stem cells page 8

Alumni connections boost applicants’ chances of college admittance

By Nick Warren Contributing Writer

Acceptance into college may be more related to an applicant’s bloodline than test scores, according to a new study from a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A student is 3.13 times more likely to be admitted to a college if he or she has a family member who is an alumnus, according to the study.

Michael Hurwitz, author of the study, used admissions records from 30 highly selective schools, including Ivy Leagues and liberal arts colleges, but agreed not to release

the names of those schools involved in return for the data. He sampled 133,236 students and analyzed the 61,962 who applied to more than one of the elite colleges, according to a Jan. 8 New York Times article.

“I was able to take into account all the applicant’s characteristics,” Hurwitz said in the article, “because they were the same at every school they applied to. About the only thing that would be different was their legacy status.”

The study was conducted to provide colleges with information they may not have had access to and test

a methodology called conditional logistic regression, according to the abstract of the study. With this new methodology, he eliminated most of the possible biased outcomes.

During the past three years, Syracuse University applicants with alumni relatives composed about 15 percent of the applicant pool and 19 percent of the first-year class, said Nancy Rothschild, SU’s associate dean of admissions, in an e-mail.

During the past two years, 515 students in the first-year class had alumni relatives, she said.

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SU considers it a “plus factor” for a student to have an alumnus relative, but admission is not based on that connection alone, Rothschild said.

“We consider academic credentials, special talents, community service and good citizenship along with whether the student will contribute to the Syracuse University community,” Rothschild said.

A large reason for legacy admissions is to keep alumni happy because happy alumni are more likely to donate to the school, according to Hurwitz’s study. see legacies page 6

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Designers use bright colors, embellishment in masculine styles For far too long, men have taken a backseat when it comes to fashion and style. But with the recent emergence of designers focusing on clothes that match the stereotypical values of being a man and strong male bloggers pushing this vision to a street-wear perspective, menswear is quickly making its way to its deserved front seat.

These last two weeks marked a great evolution in menswear style, with Milan and Paris Men’s Fashion Week determining the upcoming trends for fall and winter. With strong collections from Hermès, D&G and Junya Watanabe, these labels prove that color and dramatic details can be incorporated into a masculine and fitted look.

The collection that brought the most surprise to me was D&G’s. The well-known Italian brand did an amazing job on its take of downtown New York City during the ‘90s.

Vintage Coca-Cola T-shirts were matched over collared shirts and pinstripe ties under-

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i’m judging you neath, only to be worn with hypebeast-eque sneakers and a tailored blazer. Shearling sportswear bomber jackets were paired with colorful corduroy pants and bold, striped sweaters. It was a collegiate prep twist with a vibe that read, “I’m too cool for school.”

Women’s Wear Daily described it as “the universe of Pharrell Willams, the music video genre, and even the late Jean-Michel Basquiat, resulting in a youthful, commercial collection.”

The best well-tailored collection was

definitely Hermès. This heritage-focused brand proved it plans to stay in menswear for the long run, with a collection full of timeless pieces.

Hermès’ most notable outfits include its blazers and outerwear peacoats. With a slimmer, younger fit than its past collections, Hermès delivered suits with thin lapels and a double-breasted fit. Outerwear included big, sharp lapels for both its long peacoats and short bomber jackets.

“Designer Veronique Nichanian continues to steer the men’s line with the simple conviction that men want memorable clothes more than they want fashion,” said Esquire’s Nick Sullivan.

Lastly, Watanabe’s collection was impressive in its representation of a modern downtown woodsman. It’s as if the hipster finally grew up and now wants to wear better-fitting clothes and maybe even start showering.

Some key outfits include his Fair Isle blaz-

ers and shawl cardigans, coats with toggles, shapely pockets and plaid linings, and dark corduroys.

These pieces really showed Watanabe’s range in taking a style that’s been going on for the past few seasons to the next step. Rugged American sportswear will always be a favorite among masculine men, but with Watanabe, they now have the choice of wearing their favorite plaids and puffer jackets in a refined, professional way.

Menswear has really taken a turn for the better with clothes that can both fit well and make a guy look more masculine on the runway than they ever have. With big labels such as D&G, Hermès and Watanabe channeling what the average guy would actually wear, I can only hope the men on this campus can take a few notes on what it really means to look good.

Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at vho@syr.edu.

As New York state faces big changes, public interest group urges students to get involved The New York Public Interest Research Group is the state’s largest student-directed activist organization, focusing on issues of voter rights, higher education, hunger and homelessness, environmental protection and government reform. We teach students to become more politically aware by working on local and statewide campaigns.

let ter to the editor This semester, NYPIRG members realize student activism is more important than ever.

The new body politic in Albany is planning to implement 20 percent budget cuts, which means

likely slashes in funding for the State University of New York and the Tuition Assistance Program. The gubernatorial budget is expected from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk Tuesday. We want to make sure our voices are heard before he submits his request to the legislature right on through until the state budget is passed midsemester.

With that said, the change of the guard in the state government offers the opportunity for unprecedented progress in the area of government reform. Every 10 years, the state legislature must redraw the district lines. Historically, through the process of gerrymandering, the legislature guarantees uncompetitive elections — New York has the highest incumbency rate in the nation.

This year, Cuomo said if the legislature redraws lines that are unfair, he would veto them and give the task of redistricting to the courts. He has suggested the legislature create an independent redistricting commission to ensure fair elections in 2012. We will battle to make sure New York has a more honest and competitive election process.

This semester also looks promising for two of NYPIRG’s major environmental campaigns.

In 2009 Gov. David Paterson signed Executive Order 24, mandating an 80 percent reduction in greenhouse gasses by the year 2050. The Department of Environmental Conservation is in the process of drafting a Climate Action Plan to reach those goals.

Right now, the DEC is taking suggestions from the public for how to make the plan successful. We have a duty to make sure the plan

includes clean, safe and proven ways to limit emissions. At NYPIRG, we are also continuing our campaign to protect drinking water from irreversible contamination by preventing hydraulic fracturing in our watersheds.

Currently, we are working with the DEC to create a comprehensive General Environmental Impact Statement, which includes plans for wastewater disposal, surface impact, air pollution, quality of life concerns and other environmental and safety regulations.

We are also working on campus to provide young consumers the information they need to protect themselves from the complicated world of finance and, in general, make them more conscious consumers. This semester, we will also work to set up a Small Claims Court Action Center to guide students and community members through all of the red tape of justice.

Likewise, we will reach out to the community on our Hunger and Homelessness campaign to make sure we are providing the services more urgently desired.

As you can see, this semester is going to be a very active one for NYPIRG on campus, but none of it can happen without the involvement of the student body. As we move forward with the semester, look for NYPIRG action on all the campaigns above and get involved.

Our student action meeting is scheduled for Feb. 15 at the Hall of Languages in Room 500 at 7 p.m. But if you want to get involved earlier, we have chapter meetings every Thursday at 7 p.m. in our office at 732 S. Crouse Ave.

Ted Traver

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Baby boomers fought for much that today’s students take for granted Looking back on the lives of baby boomers when they were young adults reveals how many things our generation, Generation Y, takes for granted.

Most young women today cannot fathom the idea of adhering to the 11 p.m. curfew once enforced on campus. Regardless of what that would mean for nightlife, women would be banned from a number of basic activities: pulling an all-nighter in the library, attending most Westcott Theater concerts, celebrating after an Orange victory or standing among

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peers when the next president of the United States is elected.

Women wouldn’t even be able to work as editors at The Daily Orange.

Our generation was able to push Syracuse University into allowing men and women to live together in campus housing last year. This victory would have been impossible if not for the progress made during the boomers’ time at SU. This fight to end old stigmas about men and women living together started with the baby boomers gaining coed residence halls.

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editorial by the daily orange editorial board The boomers also began breaking down the stigmas attached to certain professions, whether that meant a woman pursuing math and science or a man studying nursing or elementary education. The ongoing struggle for professional equality between the sexes started with them.

Taking their education with an ounce of financial realism, the

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boomers also expanded the number of professional schools, led to the creation of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and refocused the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Rather than spend more than $40,000 to read Plato and dissect Shakespeare — though valuable endeavors — students are encouraged to study practical and applicable skills.

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the courageous movements of the ‘60s and ‘70s.

And surely, there’s no need to ramble off the musical and artistic legacies — not to mention some great stories — this generation has passed on to us.

Though the surveys predict boomers won’t be retiring very quickly and that they may burden today’s young adults with a very expensive health care and Social Security bill when they do, it’s fair to say, “We owe you one.”

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“Donations from alumni are increasingly important to the well being of this paper’s sampled colleges,” Hurwitz said in his study.

“They ensure academic excellence for future generations of students.”

The study provides further evidence that legacy preferences in college admissions are

the university’s competition, he said.

Three of SU’s peer institutions were listed in the study. Boston University’s $75 application fee was tied for third-highest with 10 other schools, according to the study. Northeastern University and Boston College were among the schools tied with SU that had a $70 fee, according to the study.

“I don’t think that a difference of $5 or $10 makes a difference in the decision that students make,” Saleh said.

But at West Genesee High School in Camillus, N.Y., application fees do become an issue.

Students who are interested in SU but don’t have the university among their topthree school choices are discouraged from applying, said Kay Merrick, school counselor at West Genesee. But this is just what the university wants, she said.

“Schools want students to be more serious so they’re not getting 40,000 applications for 5,000 spots,” Merrick said.

An application fee of $70 makes students consider whether or not the school is one of their top choices, said Laura Bond, school counselor at Jamesville-DeWitt High School in DeWitt, N.Y. At Jamesville-DeWitt, Bond said she has never had a student who could not apply to a school because the fee was too high. However, she has heard concerns.

“We always hear complaints about the fees being high — but that’s not just at SU,” Bond said.

Some students at Jamesville-DeWitt apply to a few schools while others apply to 18, she said. Students are spending more

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“It’s fundamentally unfair because it’s a preference that advantages the already advantaged. It has nothing to do with the individual merit of the applicant.”

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not just used as a tiebreaker but significantly increase a student’s chance of admissions, said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a nonprofit public policy research institution.

Kahlenberg has also edited a book called “Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admission” and said this form of discrimination based on ancestry is wrong.

“It’s fundamentally unfair because it’s a preference that advantages the already advantaged,” Kahlenberg said. “It has nothing to do with the individual merit of the applicant.” ndgallag@syr.edu

than $200 for applications to four or five schools, which is a difficult amount of money to come up with during the current financial times, Bond said.

But in most cases, parents encourage their children to apply to several schools, although students at Jamesville-DeWitt often end up using the money they earned from summer jobs to pay for the application fees, Bond said.

The high cost of private schools and the current economic hardships are also causing students to apply to state schools instead of national universities such as SU, said Merrick, the West Genesee school counselor. Although SU is losing applicants to the State University of New York colleges, Merrick said several of her students are interested in New York private schools.

West Genesee currently has an agreement with Onondaga Community College that allows students to apply for free, Merrick said.

Although SU does not offer a fee waiver based on students’ location, the university does offer one based on prospective students’ financial need.

Rothschild, the associate dean of admissions, said SU honors application fee waiver requests when it will be a hardship for the student and family. During the past three years, 10 to 14 percent of the applicants requested and received fee waivers, she said.

Even though many schools give applicants the option to apply for a fee waiver, Merrick said it still costs too much to apply to college.

Said Merrick: “If you’re paying $70, you should be a viable candidate to get in.” jdharr04@ syr.edu

national trends Here’s a further breakdown of the U.S. News and World Report study: In total, 1,474 undergraduate programs, which included 252 national universities, supplied application fee data. Only 39 of the schools claimed to have no fee at all, according to the study.

The average application fee across all of the schools that responded was $38.44, while the average application fee for national universities was $46.78, according to the study. A total of 282 schools, eight of which were national universities, did not supply application fee data.

Of the 26 national universities with the highest application fees, eight were ranked in the Top 10 in the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges 2011 report. Stanford University had the highest application fee of $90 while Columbia University had the second-highest fee of $80, according to the study.

Harvard University, the No. 1 national university in the country according to U.S. News and World Report, was tied for the third-highest application fee of $75. Syracuse University was tied for the 13th-highest application fee and is the 55th-best national university in the country, according to the study.

Source: U.S. News and World Report study on application fees

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Study reports increase in internships for business students

By Katie Van Brunt CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Students may have the upper hand when looking for job opportunities this summer, according to a new study.

The study, conducted by members of the MBA Career Services Council, showed 81 percent of business schools are predicating a defi nite increase in summer internship opportunities.

The study also found 63 percent of respondents to the survey saw more on-campus recruitment this year than last year. According to the 2009 survey, 56 percent of business schools reported a decrease in on-campus full-time recruiting, and 70 percent of schools had at least a 10 percent decrease in recruitment rates.

The study was done to better understand where the job market stands for recent graduates, said Megan Hendricks, executive director of the MBA Career Services Council. The mission of the MBA Career Services Council is to study trends in the MBA job market and, in turn, help universities and corporations make plans for recruiting and programs,

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officials and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s Center for Community Design Research, said Darya Rotblat, director of the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services.

Students complained about the poor conditions of their houses, a lack of parking spaces and feeling at risk to off-campus crime. Students were then given a large map of the East neighborhood area and were asked to pinpoint both the areas they valued the most and those that made them feel the most concerned.

Students listed the Westcott business district, Barry Park and Oakwood Cemetery as their favorite places to be. They also cited a lack of speed signs and Thornden Park as areas of concern.

Many of the questions asked to SU students were proposed by other groups in the East neighborhood community. Stewart said UNPA has also spoken with senior citizens and landlords, among other groups. “We are trying to facilitate a process for everybody to feel comfortable speaking about it, so they feel that they can talk without being criticized or put down,� said Maren King, assistant director of the Center of Community Design.

After the open discussion, students were asked to fill out a questionnaire that asked them which aspects of the East neighborhood they would like to preserve and which aspects they would like to change. Multiple students mentioned their appreciation for the diversity between renter and resident houses and expressed frustration with the lack of parking, particularly during Carrier Dome events and university business hours.

The data taken from the focus groups will be analyzed, which will lead to more research in the neighborhood, King said. Once that research is finished, off-campus neighborhood associations can begin drafting policy changes that will be beneficial to both renters and residents in the neighborhood. “I think this type of program is crucial to facilitating a change and a direction and defending the off-campus experience,� said Jon Peres, a graduate student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

While the meeting’s results were meant to represent the entire off-campus student popula-

Hendricks said.

The study was confidential, so no specifics on whether Syracuse University was involved in the study could be released, Hendricks said.

When asked about the results, Hendricks said the results show an improvement in the job market, which means there are more opportunities for students.

“I think things look like they are getting better, but not to the point where they were before 2001.�

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“It seems to be in line with other studies and information that is released about the job market,� Hendricks said. “I think things look like they are getting better but not to the point where they were before 2001,� Hendricks said.

Angela Petrucco, director of the Career Cen-

tion, some attendees were disappointed that such a small fraction attended. Peres, who was a community ambassador for SU last year, said groups like UNPA need to promote student meetings more aggressively and try using social media to attract student interest. “I was hoping there’d be more individuals,�

Peres said. “It’s unfortunate because I think students here have positive insights that they can bring to the table.�

The discussion was one in a series of focus groups conducted by UNPA in an attempt to improve East neighborhood living conditions and relations. A focus group was held Dec. 7.

Stewart said she has been to plenty of meetings between off-campus students and com-

ter at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said she believes Whitman students have hope for their future. Petrucco said 84 percent of Whitman graduates had employment offers within three months of graduation. “On an annual basis, we host over 300 individual recruiting schedules, which equates to 3,300 interview slots available to business students,� Petrucco said. “In addition to campus interviews, we listed 2,735 job listings targeted to business majors.�

Petrucco agrees with the increase in the job and internship market for business students because this year, “recruiting numbers show a 14 percent improvement, which is amazing when you consider the current economic conditions,� Petrucco said.

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based innovations and said he plans to invest in biomedical research, information technology and clean energy technology, which will help open up jobs for Americans.

The unleashing of a wave of innovation will be this generation’s Sputnik moment, the president said, referring to when the Soviets beat the United States into space, causing the

“He needs to get the economy to improve, then he can provide more revenue and get everyone off his back about the deficit, and he has to hope it improves by 2012.”

Jeff Stonecash

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United States to invest in better research and education.

Jeff Stonecash, a Syracuse University political science professor, said Obama has one basic thing to do: improve the economy.

“He needs to get the economy to improve, then he can provide more revenue and get everyone off his back about the deficit, and he has to hope it improves by 2012,” Stonecash said.

Students need Pell Grants for when they enter college and a job when they get out, he

said. Obama’s protection of Pell Grants and promise to create jobs will be very important for students, especially seniors, Stonecash said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) said in a news release Tuesday night that Obama outlined a strong, transformative and innovative path for the nation.

“His State of the Union address underscored the need for austerity, innovative thinking and collaboration on both sides of the aisle,” Cuomo said.

Cuomo brought up Obama’s visit to the General Electric facility in Schenectady, N.Y., last week when Obama announced his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Cuomo said this illustrates the president’s understanding of the state of the economy and what states are trying to do to overcome the deficits. Cuomo said he applauded Obama’s foresight in recognizing that it takes a focused approach to fully open our economy to future development and progress.

“Promoting private sector job growth through economic development and restrained government spending is the right tactic to put our country on the right track,” Cuomo said.

“As President Obama fully understands, New York and many other states are working hard to address multibillion-dollar deficits.”

The governor said he looks forward to working with Obama to tackle the sizable challenges that face not only New York state but the nation as a whole.

“As a nation, all Americans must refocus their energies to create solutions for future generations,” Cuomo said. “President Obama’s leadership will continue to pave the way for our nation to thrive and prosper.” medelane@ syr.edu

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Medical University Hospital, Meera Adya of SU’s Burton Blatt Institute and law professor Leslie Bender also collaborated for the course.

So far, the class is off to a good start, Bradley said.

“We’ve only had three classes,” Bradley said. “But it seems to be going very well.”

The length of time each topic is covered varies. About three to four weeks will be spent on the science behind stem cells, about five weeks on ethics and philosophy, and a few weeks on religion and media, Bradley said.

The class will also feature five or six guest speakers focusing more on the ethical side of stem cell research, Bradley said.

The course is funded by a two-year grant from the New York State Stem Cell Science board and will be offered again in the spring 2012 semester, Bradley said.

SU is one of five New York schools to receive funding for a course on stem cells and was awarded $324,000 in November 2009, according to a Nov. 11 article in The Daily Orange.

The ethics behind using human cells for research or treatment are often questioned and debated. President Barack Obama lifted the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research in early 2009, but Russell said he thought the reason for the openness for the course was because of the mindset of the university campus.

“There are the ethical issues,” said Emily Herbst, a freshman civil engineering major who may consider taking the course. “But on a college campus, many young adults haven’t decided what they want to believe in yet.”

“The course isn’t one to persuade people that stem cell research is good or bad. It is designed to discuss the various issues behind stem cells and their use.”

John Russell

Chair of the biology department

Russell expressed hope that there will someday be a number of classes regarding popular issues, including stem cell research and global warming. He said the combination of the different aspects of stem cell research prove for an important educational experience.

“Scientists are guilty of not always considering the consequences of science, and the public doesn’t always understand science,” Russell said. “So you need to bring the two together to fully understand.” brvannos@syr.edu

Exploring stem cells BIO 300/PHI 300/ REL 300: “Stem Cells and Society” is a first-time stem cell course being taught at SU. The class began on Jan. 18 and is worth three credits. It focuses on the ethical, legal, social, religious and scientific issues of stem-cell research and use. Currently, there are approximately 31 students enrolled in the class.

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money on health care than younger people.”

But in 2009, there were 8.6 million baby boomers who were uninsured, a 15 percent increase from 2008, according to The Commonwealth Fund website.

“Something had to be done, not only on the access side but also on the cost side,” Reeher said.

Providing the sort of health care that accommodates the needs of the baby boomer generation is not easy. The health struggles baby boomers deal with are different from those of previous generations.

Over the course of a century, life spans have grown longer and chronic illnesses have become more common, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation website. Whereas people used to die from untreatable infections, baby boomers are struggling with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

“To put it crudely, in the past, people died earlier and faster,” Reeher said.

People are living longer because of the advances that have been made in medical treatments, Reeher said. But as people grow older, they become more susceptible to ongoing diseases that require long-term care services and are more costly to treat, he said.

Health care costs for chronic illnesses account for at least 75 percent of national health expenditures, according to the Kaiser website.

As a result, a person’s need for health care increases as he or she grows older, Reeher said.

But the same cannot be said for young adults. Often called the “young immortals,” people between the ages of 19 and 29 overlook the benefits of being insured and are not covered by a plan.

“Sometimes students underestimate the benefits of insurance, so a lot of them don’t have insurance,” said Michael Wasylenko, an interim dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “They underestimate the probability that something catastrophic might happen to them.”

“Catastrophic” incidents do not refer only to life-threatening diseases but include potential risks. Though young adults tend to be healthy and robust, they are prone to accidents, such as falling on a ski slope and breaking a leg, that will require expensive medical costs,

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Using nets, plastic containers and pieces of cardboard, Physical Plant workers capture bats that have found their way onto the campus.

“We routinely end up with bats in our buildings and also occasionally squirrels, and we capture them, and we release them,” Kowalski said.

Physical Plant workers usually catch bats during the day when they’re not very lively, Kowalski said. If a bat makes physical contact

“I was one step in the doorway, and this thing just flew in front of my face.”

Jon Gregalis

Freshman public relations major

with a human, the bat is held temporarily in a quarantine area in Booth Garage, but Kowalski said he has never heard of bites to students.

The leading cause of rabies in the United States is bats, according to the New York State

Wasylenko said.

Lisa DiGiovanni, a senior biochemistry major, said she is not familiar with the details of the health care reform, but she acknowledges the importance of having a health care plan.

There was a brief period of time during which her mom went without health care, DiGiovanni said. When she had an abscessed tooth, her mom did not want to see a doctor because she knew it would be too expensive without insurance, she said.

“If something random happens and you don’t have health insurance, it’s going to cost you a lot,” DiGiovanni said. “I personally would like to see everyone have health insurance.”

The health care reform will try to cater to this concern by reducing the number of uninsured people. There were 59 million uninsured Americans in 2010, according to the Commonwealth website. The goal is to reduce the number of uninsured individuals by 32 million by 2019, according to the website.

Some health care reform provisions will directly relate to young adults to encourage them to be covered by a health insurance plan.

“You get moments when either there is a sense of probably not enough people getting access to reliable health care, which has been an issue in this country for a long time,” Reeher said.

Parents will be able to carry their children on their health care plan until their children turn 26 years old, Reeher said. In addition, everyone will be obligated to get health insurance to avoid paying a fee, he said. The fee will be 2.5 percent of the individual’s household income, according to the Kaiser website.

But demographics do not play as important a role as the rising cost of health care, Wasylenko said. Health care costs surpassed $2.3 trillion in 2008, according to the Kaiser website.

Increased costs are caused by technology and prescription drugs, chronic disease, the aging population and administrative costs, according to the website.

The actual cost of delivering health care keeps rising, Wasylenko said. But people rarely know what they are paying for, and they also do not understand the health care system, he said.

For instance, people with health insurance who go in for treatments do not know what the treatment aims to do or how much it costs without insurance, he said.

“You just go from appointment to appointment,” Wasylenko said. “So it’s an area we badly

Department of Health website.

Some students already saw bats this academic year. A bat flew around a class of nearly 120 students in Heroy Auditorium on Sept.

7, according to a Sept. 22 article in The Daily Orange. Even with the many historical buildings in Syracuse, bats appear in new buildings as well, Kowalski said.

Physical Plant workers capture bats perched on a wall by sticking a plastic container over the bat and slipping a piece of cardboard between the wall and container, Kowalski said. He is not sure how bats get into campus buildings, he said, but it may just be animal instinct to fly into a place where it’s warm.

“They’re just animals,” he said. “I’m not saying they’re dumb compared to us, but they have an instinct.”

Bats are more of a seasonal issue and appear mostly in the summertime, said Tim Coughlin, industrial hygiene manager at SU’s Environmental Health Office.

“Students especially will notice bats,” Coughlin said.

For Gregalis, the student who saw the bat fly in front of his face, the bat’s appearance was both “extraordinarily shocking” and amusing at the same time, he said. He watched through a window in his classroom door as the Physical

“The actual cost of delivering health care keeps rising, rising, rising.”

Grant Reeher

SU political science professor

need education on.”

Over the course of 10 years, $938 billion will be spent on the health care reform, according to the Kaiser website.

It is a lot of money to be spending, Wasylenko said, but it will be worth it in the long run.

“There is a long-term future issue,” he said.

“What we need to do in the health care business is kind of rationalize the cost structure and reduce what experts call bending the cost curve.” Bending the cost refers to questioning whether or not costs will be lowered over time.

As for Goma, for his two priorities to become a reality, all he can do is trust the people and the government that will be handling the reform, he said.

“It is an issue here,” Goma said. “People need to be supported. You can’t have a good life without this standard.” shkim11@syr.edu

By the Numbers Adults in the 50-64 age group are currently suffering the highest rates of longtime unemployment among working-age adults.

8.6

In millions, the approximate number of adults in the 50-64 age group who are currently uninsured.

75

The percent of the currently uninsured adults who reported forgoing needed health care and medications because of costs.

46

The percent of the uninsured adults who reported not getting recommended preventative care.

Source: commonwealthfund.org

Plant worker attempted to capture the bat.

“It took them a few times because the net would fall to the floor, and you could hear it hit the floor,” he said.

As the bat fell into the net, Gregalis said a cheer aroused from onlookers, making for another bat caught on campus. mcboren@syr.edu

Bats on campus • If a bat might be present in a room, exit after closing all doors and windows.

• Bat sightings should be reported to Public Safety at 711 and to a supervisor, such as an RA. • It is possible to be bitten and not knowbats have small, sharp teeth that may not leave a visible wound.

• Physical Plant Custodial and Facility Maintenance or Housing are trained to deal with bat removal.

• A bat bite might expose a person to rabies.

• If it is suspected a person has been exposed, the County Health Department will test him or her for rabies.

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Working, volunteering, greek life and other clubs

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questions illustrate one of the study’s limitations, she said.

A bigger equation to the picture is whose responsibility it is to improve student learning outcomes, Lutz said.

“What do we do if rigorous teaching methods are less popular with the students,” Lutz said, “and the professors who use them receive lower course evaluations and enrollments?”

Alexander McCormick, director of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which SU participates in, is worried about what the study’s measurements do not tell us. They don’t tell us anything, for example, about whether chemistry students are learning chemistry, he said.

“Almost everyone would agree that global awareness is also an important skill, and the ability to work with others and the ability to engage in civil discourse are also very important skills,” McCormick said.

These are skills, he said, that are not necessarily taught or tested in college. Rather, they’re developed along the way.

Students reward teachers who teach easy classes and punish those who teach more difficult classes, McCormick said.

Professor demands are changing, too.

Incentives for professors have shifted from an emphasis on teaching to research and publication, McCormick said.

“Faculty members say that they can’t make tenure without publishing,” he said. “On top of that, you have this climate on which colleges tend to reward publication and scholarship over teaching.”

The result of this tends to be that teachers ask less of students, and students are OK with that. Students don’t ask much of their teachers in return, McCormick said.

“That’s a sobering situation,” he said, “especially in this climate in which we’re talking about the need to increase the number of college graduates.”

The latest Census data reveals a rise in college degrees in the United States. And for the second year, SU has seen a record high number of undergraduate applications. As of

Tuesday, 25,309 applications for the 2011-12 academic year have been received.

It’s a combination of more students seeing college as a steppingstone to their career and higher education professionals seeing incoming students as less prepared for actual college life that is partly to blame for decreased rates of learning, McCormick said. He said he thinks colleges need to help students develop skills needed for college.

“Recognize that academic rigor and academic challenge is valuable and is what a lot of students go to college for,” McCormick said.

“It’s a wake-up call for colleges to get back to those priorities.” blbump@syr.edu

Other findings • In a typical semester, 32 percent of students did not take courses with more than 40 pages of reading a week. Fifty percent did not take a single course in which they wrote more than 20 pages throughout the semester.

• Students spend, on average, 12 to 14 hours a week studying. This is about 50 percent less time than full-time students did several decades ago.

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students across 24 universities, has received varied responses among higher education professionals. While some academics complain about the apparent trend, others have a bone to pick with the study’s methodology and overall conclusion.

“Do I feel it represents Syracuse University? No, I don’t,” said Barbara Yonai, director of SU’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. “The main issue is that it’s being generalized to all students, all institutions, all across the country. And I’m not convinced.”

The book’s authors, sociology professors Richard Arum of New York University and Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, and Esther Cho of the Social Science Research Council turned down interview requests for this article because of the large number of media requests they are currently fielding.

The study used the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test that was administered to students in their freshman, sophomore and senior years. It measures three broad-based skills seen as essential in the 21st century job market: critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing.

Yonai, who heads the university’s efforts in regularly assessing and researching SU’s institutional effectiveness and student learning, has no problem with the CLA. But the conclusion that students aren’t learning anything is unwarranted, she said. “‘Academically Adrift’ simply doesn’t match what she knows of SU’s own student performance,” she said.

Amy Lutz is concerned about using a standardized test like the CLA to determine if students are learning. Lutz, an associate professor of sociology at SU, said in an e-mail that it is a problem when testing measures are not tied to the substance of the courses that students take.

“For example, we cannot know from this study whether someone has learned Spanish, literature or engineering content from the courses that they have taken,” she said. These

According to “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” a book released last week, students aren’t really learning at college. Part of the book had a breakdown of how students spent their time:

• Students who spend more hours studying alone than with peers performed better on the CLA. • Students who took courses requiring significant reading (40+ pages a week) and writing (20+ pages over the course of a semester) had higher rates of learning.

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• Students who spent greater hours in fraternities and sororities had decreased rates of learning.

• Black-white gaps in student test score performance increase over four years of college. Black students improve their CLA performance at lower levels than white students during four years of college.

• Students majoring in traditional liberalarts fields demonstrated significantly higher gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills over time than students in other fields of study.

• Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications had the lowest measurable gains.

Source: Improved Undergraduate Learning: Findings and Policy Recommendations from the SSRC-CLA Longitudinal Project, highered.ssrc.org

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Making the

rounds

This year’s spring recruitment process extends two days, adds chaperones

By George Clarke STAFF WRITER

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he Interfraternity Council is further adjusting its recruiting process this semester to make sure prospective recruits have enough time to learn about each of its chapters.

For the fi rst time, recruitment will start on a Friday and extend an entire week instead of five days. The recruitment expo will also occur Feb. 1, marking the fi rst time it is held at least two weeks before recruitment. The change gives students more time to register for recruitment and fraternities more time to recruit, Sigma Chi President Joe Allam said.

“The object is to sell yourself to these kids and get them to come here,” Allam said.

Recruitment will begin Feb. 18 and continue until the chapters bid on future brothers on Feb. 25. Prospective recruits will spend that Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday visiting each of the 18 chapter houses, Allam said.

A computer system will randomly assign a group of about 30 recruits to each Rho Chi, a recruiting chaperone from one of the council’s chapters. Recruiting rules forbid the Rho Chis from wearing their fraternity letters or telling recruits their home fraternity. Each chapter sends three brothers to the team of 54 Rho Chis. Last semester, each chapter sent two Rho Chis, creating a total of 36.

Allam said the changes are necessary to handle this semester’s high volume of students. Because SU restricts freshmen from rushing until their second semester and with the new requirement that prospective recruits visit every chapter house, the fraternities need more Rho

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Chis and more time to meet the demand.

Instead of the online system used in previous years, recruits will personally pick up their pledge cards in the Schine Student Center. Recruits will bring the cards to one of 18 classrooms on campus to commit to a house. Last semester, recruits picked up their cards at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

At least 150 men failed to receive a bid from a chapter last spring, according to a Sept. 23 Daily Orange article. Allam said guiding students to every house could help uncertain recruits secure their bids and benefit fraternities that struggle with recruitment.

Josh Eisenfeld, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi, said the extended recruitment gives fraternities a better chance to choose which recruits they will invite back Thursday, Feb. 24, to determine the next day’s bids.

That extra time comes with a price: Prospective recruits will have only 30 to 40 minutes to stay at a single house. With more than 70 people moving from building to building, Eisenfeld said, the new process will be a challenge for fraternities.

Whereas Rho Chis are trained to deal with many recruits at once, the brothers themselves rely on their existing ability to interact with people, Eisenfeld said. He described the new process as an “elementary school field trip” but said the challenge could be a long-term benefit.

“The rotation forces us to be quick in what we do,” he said.

Allam said the changes will give smaller fraternities a better chance to compete for recruits.

“I think the system is unbiased, to be honest,” Allam said. “It’s a wide-open playing field.” geclarke@syr.edu

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Fresh angle SU alum films effects of hereditary disease

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shijing wang | contributing photographer Dorothy butler gilliam speaks about her career as the only female black journalist during the Civil Rights Era.

Civil rights journalist recounts career

By Yani Brown

Contributing Writer

In honor of Dream Week commemorating Martin Luther King Jr., guest speaker Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the only black female journalist who covered the civil rights movement, had plenty to say about her experiences.

“I was destined to be a journalist, and I’ve always had strong black teachers that encouraged me and told me, ‘You can make it in spite of…’” said Gilliam, leaving the statement unfinished. “I did this and endured the struggle to make America better.”

Gilliam vividly described life as a black journalist during the civil rights move-

ment, recounting how difficult it was for her due to the racism that existed. She shared her stories not only to explain the hardships of a black journalist during the movement but also to discuss King’s accomplishments and how people today can help finish his vision.

The Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and former editor of The Washington Post spoke Wednesday night in Maxwell Auditorium about her experiences in covering stories such as the integrations of Little Rock Central High School, also known as the Little Rock Nine, and the University of Mississippi.

She explained how, during her career, black reporters were not allowed to com-

plain if they had nowhere to sleep when reporting in Southern towns. Reporters had to sneak in wearing “overalls and muddy shoes” and wrap up their typewriters to blend in with other black people. Many black journalists adopted fake identities to avoid inevitable problems and violence that would arise if they were discovered covering a story.

When a student asked if she was ever afraid to cover a story or ever thought about leaving the field because of the tension at that time, Gilliam said she hadn’t.

“It was a part of my job,” she said. “I was just doing my job.”

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By Danielle Odiamar Asst. Feature Editor

he chance of developing Huntington’s disease for the children of those affected with the illness is 50-50. Danton Spina, a Syracuse University alumnus, is very familiar with this statistic.

When Spina was 3 years old, his father was diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, a hereditary brain disorder that affects a person’s motor skills and his or her control of emotions. Since the passing of his father in 2007, Spina has met many people struggling with Huntington’s disease, particularly the family members who are strongly affected.

“There’s actually a significant number of people that are affected by this, especially because if it affects the family so drastically, entire families could be devastated,” Spina said. “Multiple generations will have this disease because the chance of getting it is so high.”

Spina saw an opportunity in the Pepsi Refresh Project to strengthen people’s awareness of the disease. As one of the founders of the Warehouse Architecture Theater program at SU, Spina used his love of filmmaking to propose the production of a feature-length film as his entry to the Pepsi Refresh Project.

The Pepsi Refresh Project is an initiative that was launched by the brand to support social causes with the help of its consumers. Pepsi has set aside over $20 million to support causes in the fields of art, culture, health, environment and education. Anyone can submit ideas to the project’s website in hopes of receiving thousands of dollars in grants. Ideas are submitted each month, and visitors to the site can vote for their favorite causes proposed in the previous month. see pepsi page 15

Music students, faculty to perform in NYC

By Kathleen Kim Asst. Feature Editor

Baptiste Arnaud has performed many times in Setnor Auditorium. But Friday, he and his clarinet trio will have their first chance to perform on a larger stage — in New York City.

Arnaud, a graduate student in clarinet performance, is one of eight Syracuse University students who will perform among faculty members at “A Setnor Sample” at 8 p.m. in the Tenri Cultural Institution in New York City. The program will feature an eclectic array of contemporary and classical works and an original composition by Bill Dicosimo, chair of the music industry program.

The event marks the first university-sponsored performance in New York City since the Billy Joel Fellowship Composers Concert in 2008, said Andrew Waggoner, co-director of the Setnor School of Music. The performance, free and open to the public, will not only generate funding for the school but also provide a rare and valuable opportunity for both students and faculty members to step out of the university setting.

“It will give them a chance to perform at a major venue in New York, which is something that’s difficult to do on one’s own,” Waggoner said.

“And that will help bring visibility and notoriety to the school.”

The concert is funded by the Gilbert Incentive Fund for Music, an annual donation made by SU alumnus Dennis Gilbert. After extending invitations to Setnor alumni living in and around the city, about 70 alumni accepted, Waggoner said.

“The response has been overwhelming,” he said. “We are going to pack the place. In fact, we may end up with standing room only.”

The event will especially benefit students who want to pursue music as a profession, Waggoner said.

“It will get them in front of people they need to be in touch with in order to begin establishing their careers,” see setnor page 18

jenny jakubowski | staff photographer A woodwind quintet practices in the College of Visual and Performing Arts for an upcoming concert in New York City.

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ast week, the heating vent in the middle of my living room became my best friend. My human best friends don’t keep me toasty like a blast of central heat does.

Unfortunately, according to a report done by researchers from the University College of London, more than just our heating bills are growing when the central heat warms up our homes.

In a study published Wednesday, the researchers found there could be a connection between obesity and central heating. Over 27 percent of Onondaga County adults over the age of 20 were obese in 2009, according to a Center for Disease Control and Prevention report. So maybe those of us in Syr-arcti-cuse should listen up.

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do the body right tures in the United States were kept at about 66.7 degrees in 1987, and by 2008 the average temperature was up to 68 degrees, according to the study.

When we shiver, we burn calories. So it makes sense that when the heat is up, we shiver

less and consequently burn fewer calories. In addition, our bodies’ internal heating systems knock off calories, so when central heating does the work for us, the calories stay intact.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that when we are in a 60-degree room, we increase our natural calorie burn by 100 or 200 calories per day if we are wearing clothing as light as hospital scrubs. Over the course of several weeks, this calorie burn could culminate to the 3,500 calories needed to lose a pound.

This is all very intriguing, but there are other factors that I think weigh heavier on our hips during winter than the fact that we get trigger-happy with the “up” arrow on the thermostat. It’s much easier to sit on the couch and watch other people work out on “The Big-

gest Loser” than to make the chilly hike to the gym during this time of year. And with MTV’s “I Used to Be Fat” and A&E’s “Heavy” making their ways into our weekly television regimes, the opportunities to watch other people work out are abound. Oh, and let’s not ignore the fact that a 410-calorie Starbucks grande white hot chocolate is about 410 times more appealing than a zero-calorie glass of ice water after a frigid campus trek.

So should we turn down our thermostats?

Do I really want to live life to the soundtrack of my chattering teeth? No. Quite frankly, I don’t think I’m ready to sacrifice my relationship with central heating. I don’t know about you, but I don’t even own hospital scrubs.

Instead of forcing ourselves to shiver inside our own homes, maybe we should cut back on those high-calorie beverages that keep us warm and opt for a Splenda-laden mug of hot tea. And instead of watching “The Biggest Loser” while lounging on the couch, we should force ourselves to watch it during our workout session on the elliptical machine. The glacial journey to the gym may be uncomfortable, but at least you don’t have to feel guilty about turning the heat up to 70 degrees when you get home.

Alicia Smith is a graduate student in the magazine, newspaper and online journalism program. Her column appears every Thursday and she can be reached at acsmit05@syr.edu

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America and black people today.

“I believe Dr. King would want us to be more complacent,” Gilliam said. “More serious about education, family life, work and social development.”

She said there are more black men in jail today than in college and that she feels schools are more segregated today than in the past. Gilliam also emphasized that Americans should finish the work King started and be a part of making a difference.

Many students said they were thrilled to hear Gilliam speak.

“I came to hear about her experiences as a black journalist,” said Thad Green, a graduate magazine, newspaper and online journalism student. “I think she did a really good job of outlining her experience of being one of the few black journalists to cover the movement at that time.”

Though Gilliam thoroughly spoke of the past, she also addressed the present. When asked how she feels about black culture today, she said she thinks hip-hop music is detrimental to the black community because of its objectifying lyrics about women. The crowd was engaged with Gilliam, and one student jumped to the defense of modern black culture.

“Black people are not what they are illustrated as on television,” said Donald SaintGermain, a junior African-American studies and policy studies dual major. “You can’t look at the culture through a pigeon hole.”

Gilliam said although she sees progress, there are still obstacles yet to overcome. She used an analogy and said being black is like “being in a race with a leg weight.”

Gilliam ended the lecture by advising the audience members to not let anyone discourage them and said perseverance is key.

Said Gilliam: “Dr. King would want us to pay attention to what we have in common and to see people act on the issues that they see.” yjbrown@syr.edu

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Despite the high risk and estimated 30,000 people diagnosed nationwide with the disease, people are still generally unaware of what it is. Spina said this is because, until a few years ago, Huntington’s disease was often misdiagnosed, often confused with Parkinson’s disease.

“There’s actually a significant number of people that are affected by this, especially because if it affects the family so drastically, entire families could be devastated” Danton Spina

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Though the disease has been receiving more attention and the gene sequence causing it has been pinpointed, there is still no cure.

The fi lm will feature a fictional story based on true events combined with documentarystyle interviews conducted by the main character, who will speak with people and families affected by Huntington’s disease.

Spina’s movie production plans are currently ranked No. 99 for the $25,000 prize.

According to Spina, the movie’s production and release would not only help generate aware-

ness but also help raise funds to support Huntington’s disease research.

“A lot of the time, full-blown documentaries are dry and only directly relate to the community it’s about,” Spina said. “A feature-length film … is more accessible than just a straight documentary.

I mean, how many people go to the movies to see a documentary on a Friday night?”

Making his movie more film-like also enables Spina to enhance the film’s focus on not only those with Huntington’s disease but also on those who struggle with the diagnosed, such as friends and families. Therefore, according to Spina, the film will primarily center on the relationships between those affected and their loved ones.

“I’m kind of curious about the relationships and how they’ve been affected, whether it’s romantic or between families and friends,” he said.

He has not necessarily been promoting his work on the Pepsi Refresh Project, but Spina has talked to other directors about his movie. He has even talked to his boss at Bertucci’s Italian Restaurant to do a fundraiser for him.

“I have been contacted by a tremendous amount of people giving me information on other contests or theaters that would screen this kind of film or simply telling me their stories, which in many cases are very emotional and in other cases very uplifting,” Spina said.

While the movie is an integral way to spreading awareness for Huntington’s disease, the publicity of his idea alone has helped spread awareness already.

“I now am using this as a way to link up with other people in the Huntington’s disease community who want to do the same type of thing.”

LOCAL EFFORTS

Here are some other local initiatives competing for funds through the Pepsi Refresh Project: •”Start a DRUMLINE for students at Grant Middle School in Syracuse, NY!” -A music teacher from the local middle school wants to raise $5,000 for music instruments and other gear to start a marching band.

•”Provide new beds for people in Onondaga Co. NY who are homeless”

-The Syracuse Northeast Community Center is ranked 253rd for $25,000 wants to provide beds for homeless people moving into apartments courtesy of the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program.

•”Teach life skills, recreation and core values to youth through golf.”

-Ranked 156 th in the running for $250,000, the First Tee of Syracuse would use the money gained from the project to purchase a nine-hole golf course that would be accessible to students.

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SEEN AT SUNDANCE “Benavides Born”

Don’t be surprised if Amy Wendel’s gritty coming-of-age story becomes this year’s “Precious,” at least as far as Sundance is concerned. Corina Calderon is poised to break out on the heels of a tremendous performance as a gifted athlete whose economic status threatens to prevent her from attending the University of Texas and escaping her hometown of Benavides, Texas. The Grand Jury Prize is not out of its reach.

Trailblazer

Sundance director recreates concept of Western film

“Incendies”

When the Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, “Incendies” won big. Denis Villenueve’s riveting portrayal of a broken French-Arabic family’s quest for truth was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and if there’s any justice in this world, it will take home the statuette.

“Kaboom”

Gregg Araki’s absurdist comedy was undeservedly rewarded with the most enthusiastic audience participation. Though Araki’s “Mysterious Skin” was one of the best films of 2005, he returned to the realm of sexually confused young adults with no thought or substance whatsoever. The film is set to be released this weekend.

— Compiled by Sam Littman. staff writer, smlittma@syr.edu

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By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER

ilmmakers are not necessarily territorial artists, but that hasn’t prevented critics and audiences from identifying their favorite directors with their most frequented locations. Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen own New York City, Kevin Smith has New Jersey, Wong Kar-Wai has Hong Kong, and Paul Thomas Anderson is the current king of California.

As those directors have loomed largely in American cinema since their debut features, filmmakers who labor in less familiar parts of the country have gone largely unnoticed. Kelly Reichardt, whose new film “Meek’s Cutoff” was one of the hottest tickets at Sundance, has cemented her reputation as the poet laureate of the Pacific Northwest.

In “Meek’s Cutoff,” Reichardt returns to Oregon, the setting of her masterpieces “Old Joy” (2006) and “Wendy and Lucy” (2008), but she turns the clock back 165 years in revisiting the sparse and unforgiving Oregon Trail.

Braving the harshness of the trail is a threefamily caravan chaperoned by seasoned guide Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood), who has led the party somewhat astray. We do not know how long they have been traveling or where they are headed. The only clear motive that is apparent

to the audience is the need to find water, which the families have not stumbled upon for a dangerously long stretch.

Meek’s domineering nature is effective in preventing the men and women from pointing to his errors only until the inclusion of a captured Cayuse Indian (Rod Rondeaux) inspires dissent. The most vocal of the lot, Emily Teatherow (Michelle Williams) eventually tires of Meek’s questionable judgment, but the rest of the group might not be assertive enough to break from Meek’s leash.

With expected grace, Reichardt upends the Western and challenges its mythology in a work that refuses to abide by any of the genre’s traditions and stipulations. Even the setting is radical. Barren yet alluring, the film physically resembles a boxier “Lawrence of Arabia” more closely than anything by the great John Ford. It could even invite stylistic comparisons to Terrence Malick’s masterwork “Days of Heaven.”

Those familiar with Reichardt’s style and sensibilities know not to expect shooting or even shouting. Quiet angst permeates every frame, resonating more powerfully than thunderous gunfire. Reichardt fashions a riveting Western without a foreboding violence because the hint of a threat itself is sufficiently suspenseful.

Present in every breathtaking frame in the film’s final act is a trove of combustible chemi-

cals, accentuating the intensity of every action.

“Meek’s Cutoff” marks Reichardt’s second teaming with Williams, whose performance in “Wendy and Lucy” solidified her standing as one of our pre-eminent actresses. A devastating Academy Award-nominated turn in “Blue Valentine” should usher Williams closer to the forefront, but one cannot fully comprehend the scope of her talent without seeing her in a Reichardt film. Under Reichardt’s guise, Williams projects a unique combination of frustration, anger, sadness and a profound understanding of the world without speaking or batting an eyelash. Reichardt brings out the best in Williams, who returns the favor by perfectly embodying the deceptively complex struggles that define the director’s work.

As in “Old Joy” and “Wendy and Lucy,” Reichardt eloquently explores characters whose vulnerability invites constant trouble, and she loses none of her most identifiable traits in translation to the Western. And the film could not come about at a better time. Over the course of the past month, critics have reveled in proclaiming “True Grit” the best Western since Clint Eastwood’s “Unforgiven.” But the Coen brothers haven’t made the best Western in nearly two decades.

That honor belongs to Reichardt. smlittma@syr.edu

“MEEK’S CUTOFF” Director: Kelly Reichardt

Cast: Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Dano, Will Patton Rating:

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What did you do the first weekend back at ‘Cuse?

“I had 11 of my friends over for dinner. We had ravioli with cream sauce. Living off campus rocks.”

“We went ice skating, then went to dinner — and we made brownies.”

Goose Island Beer Company Goose Island Beer Company, named after the only island on the Chicago River, started as John Hall’s brewpub in 1988 when Milwaukee’s beer giants still cast a large shadow on craft brewing in the Midwest. The small pub became a full-scale brewery in 1995, opened up another brew pub in 1999 and began national distribution (and expanded to the Untied Kingdom) in 2006. They have been winning medals at the Great American Beer Festival the past 14 years in a row, and their beers prove extremely worthy. They also make various kinds of soda and root beer that are sold at the two Chicago brewpubs.

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India Pale Ale

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STYLE: English Style Pale Ale ABV: 5.9 percent RATING: 4/5

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Right off the bat, it is clear why this IPA, similar to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, has won the 2004 and 2009 silver medals, as well as the 2000 gold medal for English Style Pale Ales at Goose Island. The smell is extremely hoppy and piney (think evergreen forest). It tastes as good as it smells, with a citrusy bite marked by orange and lime flavors, common

“I studied. I didn’t know anybody, so I stayed in. That’s lame, isn’t it?”

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“Got reunited with all my friends, watched movies and hung out.”

“I worked 20 hours in the Carrier Dome.”

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in IPAs. For those who enjoy their coffee black and tart citrus fruit, this hop-losion is sure to wake up

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your taste buds.

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Honker’s Ale

STYLE: English Bitter ABV: 4.2 percent RATING: 4.5/5

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he said.

For graduate student Jillian Bushnell, who will play French composer Jacques Ibert’s “Trois Pièces Brèves” with her wind quintet, the event is not only a professional opportunity but also an educational one, she said, as it will give her the chance to see some of her professors perform.

“You learn from them in a different way than them speaking to you,” said Bushnell, a bassoon and music education major. “To watch them do what they teach is cool.”

The concert is equally beneficial for the faculty members, said Fred Karpoff, co-chair of the keyboard department. Setnor faculty members embrace and promote the idea of their students as emerging colleagues and peers, he said. He will be performing three vocal works by Strauss with part-time voice instructor Bridget Moriarty, a 2008 graduate he taught for two years.

“I remember saying that when she graduated, I looked forward to when we could work together as professionals,” Karpoff said.

He said opportunities like these strengthen the relationship of the students and their professors, as well as enhancing their overall appreciation for the craft. He hopes Friday’s event will be the starting point for future concerts.

“It’s a dynamic way to pursue music and also a great way to mentor students,” he said. “It gives us high-quality opportunities to collaborate with each other. It’s a win-win situation.”

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THURSDAY, JAN. 27

Dream Week Poetry Night When: 7 p.m.

Where: Watson Theater How much: Free The Office of Mulitcultural Affairs and Verbal Blend will present poetry surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. and his advocacy Thursday night. Audience members are encouraged to write and share their own works.

THURSDAY, JAN. 27 SUNDAY, JAN. 30

Free screenings of “The Social Network” When: 8 p.m., Gifford Auditorium and Goldstein Student Center How much: Free University Union Cinemas will screen Oscar-nominated film “The Social Network” at 8 p.m. every night from Thursday to Sunday. UU will show the movies at Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse and the Goldstein Student Center on South Campus.

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SU opera presents “The Impresario” and “La Canterina” When: 8 p.m., Setnor Auditorium How much: Free for SU students with valid ID, $10 otherwise The Syracuse Opera Theater group will present two different operas, Mozart’s “The Impresario” and Haydn’s “La Canterina,” both comedic operas. The organization will put on the operas throughout the weekend.

not actually bitter-tasting, which is the American misconception of Bitters, the brew is low in alcohol, fairly well balanced and easily drinkable. If you want to try a lighter beer without seeing “light” in the name, try Honker’s — it’s one that holds its own in the flavor category.

312 Urban Wheat

STYLE: American Pale Wheat Ale ABV: 4.2 percent RATING: 3.5/5

While not the best for winter, this refreshing

SATURDAY, JAN. 29

MLK Community celebration When: 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., Seymour Dual Language Academy How much: Free Members of the SU and local community will celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. with performances, workshops and various presentations to close out this year’s MLK week.

and light wheat beer took home the 2008 bronze medal, the 2006 and 2007 gold medals for English Style Summer Ales at the Great American Beer Festival and the 2006 silver medal at World Beer Cup. Next to the Bourbon County Stout, 312 is the most well-known Goose Island beer. Combining a biscuity and citrusy nose, comparable taste and extremely light mouth-feel, this beer is a great way to quench thirst on a warm day or in an extremely overheated campus classroom. Well, maybe not during class, but you get the idea. If you like light, crisp beer that won’t be found in a keg on Euclid Avenue, give this one a try.

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OLYMPIC SPORTS SEASON PREVIEW PART 1 OF 3

Drop shot

Jensen sees most cohesive unit in 5-year tenure despite loss of key trio

By Allison Guggenheimer

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Staff Writer

mily Harman walked off the court without finishing her match.

Notre Dame had clinched a victory over the Syracuse tennis team in the second round of the 2010 Big East tournament, and there was nothing Harman could do about it.

She left the court with the empty, disappointed feeling because her match could not make a difference.

After congratulating her opponent, she and the Syracuse team trudged through the inclement weather to the van. The players and coaches piled in for the long drive that would conclude their season. Before they made their way back to Syracuse, however, the team had a talk.

Head coach Luke Jensen congratulated his team on its hard work to get to the tournament.

Every girl spoke about what the season had meant to her.

“It was a very emotional moment for all of us,” Harman said.

That was just the start of a whirlwind, emotional offseason for SU. In the nine months since the loss to Notre Dame, three key players have dropped off the roster, including C.C. Sardinha, a freshman last season who moved up to the No. 1 singles spot, and Eleanor Peters, who had the most collective wins of any member of the Orange.

Key losses: Player

Chelsea Jones Eleanor Peters

Reason for leaving

Senior Not granted redshirt season C.C. Sardinha Transferred to Oklahoma State

Despite this, however, Jensen thinks the Orange has solidified into a more cohesive team.

And in his fifth year at the helm of a Syracuse program he built from the ground up, Jensen will rely on the seniors of his first recruiting class, combined with a mix of youth, to get over the loss of those two players and departing senior Chelsea Jones. And to aim for his No. 1 target: Notre Dame.

“Notre Dame is our target,” Jensen said. “It’s got to be our target.”

That won’t be easy with the losses. Sardinha transferred to Oklahoma State shortly after SU’s loss in the Big East tournament. She was a highly touted recruit who quickly worked her way up from the bottom of SU’s singles lineup to the top. She went 16-5 in singles play last season.

alex pines | staff photographer eleanor peters left Syracuse when she wasn’t given a redshirt year after last season, one of three key players the Orange has lost. Alessondra Parra will be stepping up to help fill the void as one of the few experienced players remaining on the team.

Sardinha informed the coaching staff of her decision shortly after the Big East tournament.

Jensen said she left to be closer to her grandmother. But Harman thought she was considering the move even before the tournament.

“I didn’t know personally from her,” Harman said. “I had my suspicions, but you never know with collegiate teams.”

Peters was unable to return to the team because she wasn’t granted a redshirt year, Jensen said. Peters hovered around the middle of the lineup but had the most wins of anyone on the team.

Jensen said Peters is playing in professional tournaments near her home in Washington, D.C. Harman and Jensen also said Peters is another huge, unexpected loss to the team.

And the last part of those losses is Jones, a departing senior who walked on to the team the year before Jensen took over as the head coach.

Jones hadn’t been on the professional circuit, unlike all of SU’s younger players. Despite being a strong doubles player, she was unable to provide the same experience on the court.

With those three important pieces gone, SU will rely on three freshmen to fill the void: Maddie Kobelt, Aleah Marrow and Eva Raszkiewicz.

The time they’ve spent playing professional tournaments has put them in a good position to do so.

“They’ll fight their tails off to the very end, and that’s what we need,” Harman said. “No negative energy at all. It’s great to be with them.

It’s great to have them on the team. They make me better every day.”

This group of recruits contributes to the

cohesiveness of the team because they buy into what the team is doing, Jensen said. College has more of a team aspect than playing on the pro circuit, and Jensen tries to emphasize that with his players.

Each of those recruits brings something unique to the Orange. Jensen thinks Marrow is the best athlete he has had in his five years at SU. Raszkiewicz came over from Europe after much convincing from Jensen. And Kobelt has one of the best all-around games Jensen has seen at Syracuse.

But the attitude of cohesion is what stood out most to Kobelt when she visited SU. “What stuck in my mind was the attitude that the girls had,” she said. “All the girls on this team — even though they were dead in the battle of their matches — they were all cheering for themselves and cheering for their teammates and being supportive.”

And the second part of replacing those players includes Jensen’s first recruiting class — now seniors — stepping up. Seniors Christina Tan and Simone Kalhorn, who were already captains last year with the absence of more experienced seniors, will lead the way. Tan said beyond their ability on the court, however, it is their familiarity with SU tennis in particular that has helped the recruits.

“We’ve been through the program for three and a half years now, so the experience is there,” Tan said. “In terms of knowing exactly what’s going on and really helping the newer ones with everything, with on-court stuff and off-court stuff.”

The cohesion of the team also leads to an even playing field and tight competition. Tan said the

entire team has a pretty even skill level, so anyone could end up at No. 1 on any given week.

After close challenge matches, Alessondra Parra earned that spot for this weekend’s matches. This will be the first time in her two and a half seasons at SU that Parra will move above No. 3.

“I think we have a team that is very equal,” Jensen said. “Usually on a team you get one, two, maybe three players that set themselves apart from everybody else. But this year we truly have the deepest team, the most solid across the board.”

The defeat in the Big East tournament and the loss of Jones, Peters and Sardinha set SU back. At the beginning of the fall, there was no knowing what would become of the eight players who showed up for fall tennis. Yet after just a few months of playing together, the team has become a single unit. And despite the losses, Jensen thinks he has a better squad than last season.

Jensen said if the 2011 team were to play the 2010 team, the former would win simply because it’s a “better collective.”

This collective now has one objective: beat Notre Dame. Jensen said this is the goal. Harman should not have to walk off the court midmatch unless it is for a Syracuse victory.

Not individual glory. Not wins against lesser teams. Notre Dame.

“They’re the dominant team in our conference,” Jensen said. “They’re a dominant team in the nation. If we can beat Notre Dame, we can beat anybody.” alguggen@syr.edu

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Orange learning to play with limited rest in weekend series

By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

There isn’t much down time between a 7 p.m. game Friday and a 2 p.m. game Saturday. It feels like even less if Friday’s game ended in a loss.

The dynamic of the overnight turnaround is not unique to collegiate ice hockey altogether, but it is a concept that this year’s Syracuse team is still working to grasp.

“It’s one thing for me to say that on Tuesday, but let’s see if our team can implement that on Friday and Saturday,” head coach Paul Flanagan said.

Last 3

Jan. 15 Robert Morris Jan. 21 @ Niagara Jan. 22 @ Niagara

Next 3 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 Feb. 11

Outlook:

@ Wayne State @ Wayne State vs. Mercyhurst

W, 3-1 L, 1-0 L, 3-1 7 p.m.

2 p.m.

7 p.m.

The Syracuse ice hockey team heads into its weekend series against Wayne State coming off a series loss to Niagara. In the two losses, the Purple Eagles outscored the Orange 4-1. SU sits at 10-13-3 overall and is 4-4 in the College Hockey America conference, good for fourth place. The Orange has a chance to pick up a couple wins against a Wayne State team that’s just 1-7 in conference play.

Flanagan compared the challenge in hockey to different sports. He said it’s not like football, where all is calculated mentally for one afternoon, and then each team has six days to regroup and reorganize. And it’s not like soccer, where most programs wedge a complementary off-day in between a weekend set. Hockey players are too tough for that.

And the good ones, Flanagan said, are quick to adjust.

Syracuse, to this point, hasn’t figured it out.

The Orange sits three games below .500.

“Good teams figure that out,” Flanagan said.

“Look what Mercyhurst does to teams on Saturday. If you look at their scores, they know how to respond. And they quite often win on Friday, too.”

Mercyhurst — the best team in College Hockey America, SU’s conference — has lost five games all season, only one of which came on a Friday. And after that loss, the Lakers dropped St. Lawrence 7-3. On Saturdays, Mercyhurst has outscored its opponents 80-23.

It is easier said than done, but with a 20-5 record and a commanding lead in the conference standings, the Mercyhurst model for success proves that, simply, it’s important to play well on both Fridays and Saturdays.

“It’s difficult,” junior forward Megan Skelly said of the turnaround. “You know when you step on the ice. The first shift is usually like, ‘Oh, s***, I better get my feet moving.’”

Skelly has played in all 26 games this season, scoring seven goals and assisting on

“The team that loses Friday night has got a different mindset on Saturday. We want to keep heading in the right direction. We’re still trying to find that recipe of putting together 60 minutes, and then following it up with another 60.”

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10 others. Now one of the veteran members of the team, she has a strong understanding of the pacing of the game and of the series as a whole.

“It’s hard, but it’s definitely changeable,” Skelly said. “You come in the next shift, or you come in between periods and talk a little with the team. And then everyone goes out and works hard.”

With eight games remaining in the regular season, Syracuse has actually been pretty consistent throughout its schedule. SU is 5-7-1

on Fridays, 4-5-1 on Saturdays and 1-1-1 on Tuesdays. SU has scored 31 goals on 13 Friday nights and 27 on 10 Saturday mornings, which equates to 2.38 and 2.7 goals per game, respectively. Last season, SU followed four different Friday losses with Saturday victories.

This year, the team has accomplished that just once. Fellow forward Isabel Menard has a simple method for avoiding Saturday frustration: repetition.

“Either way, I’m really focused on the goals that I set for myself and for my teammates,” Menard said. “In general, I focus on doing the same thing. And if we’re coming off a loss, doing things a little bit better. … We’re not really a good starting team, but we end pretty good. We just really have to work on being consistent. That’s going to be a key for the rest of the season.”

Menard hurt her right ankle in last week’s series against Niagara and will look to return this weekend against Wayne State. SU has four Friday-Saturday series left to finish the regular season.

For a team that is working to create a Mercyhurst-type setting of its own, Syracuse is going to have to find some consistency.

“The team that loses Friday night has got a different mindset on Saturday,” Flanagan said.

“We want to keep heading in the right direction.

We’re still trying to find that recipe of putting together 60 minutes and then following it up with another 60.” zoirvin@syr.edu

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achievement

Williams has success at Marquette through recruitment of JUCO athletes

By Ryne Gery

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Staff Writer

rent “Buzz” Williams arrived at Navarro College in 1990 as a kid with a passion for basketball and a dream. He wanted to get into coaching, so he asked head coach Lewis Orr if he could get involved.

Orr gave him a student assistant job at the junior college, and Williams went back to the gym to get started that afternoon. He was sitting in the stands observing when Orr gave him his first assignment: sweeping the floors.

“So he came down and swept the floor,” Orr said. “And I looked at it and said, ‘Well, you gotta sweep it again. It’s not clean yet, so sweep the corners. Make sure you get all of those.’”

Williams never did anything halfway again.

He poured his heart and soul into everything.

He was determined to succeed. So determined that Orr began calling him “Buzz” for his relentless energy. Orr said he was always “buzzing around like a bee.”

The nickname born in that junior college gym in Corsicana, Texas, became his identity.

It’s an identity he has embraced. Buzz Williams hasn’t forgotten where he started.

The Marquette head coach is known for recruiting junior college players to his program. The Golden Eagles have five junior college transfers on the roster this season, including the team’s top four scorers. Marquette (13-8, 4-4 Big East) will be depending on them again in its matchup with Syracuse (18-3, 5-3) at 3 p.m.

Saturday in Milwaukee.

Williams understands his players’ journey from obscurity to Division I basketball because he experienced it firsthand.

“I’m a former junior college manager,” Williams said. “So I’m proud of the guys that are in our program, regardless of how they got here.”

When Williams was hired in 2008, he recruited junior college players out of necessity. Marquette graduated four seniors and had three open scholarships, forcing Williams to fill seven roster spots.

Williams knew he had to bring in some experienced players to keep Marquette competitive in the Big East. And as the new guy in the Big East, he had to be creative.

“I just thought that with seven scholarships open, we couldn’t sign seven high school play-

ers,” Williams said. “I just think that in this league, if you have a team that’s that young, you’re just not giving those guys a chance to win.”

The head coach returned to familiar ground to get that experience. With just eight days separating the spring signing period and the day he was hired, Williams used his JUCO connections to land his first recruit: Jimmy Butler.

Butler’s best friend and teammate at Tyler Junior College in Texas, Joe Fulce had already committed to Marquette the previous fall.

Fulce originally signed with Williams when he was an assistant at Texas A&M. During a year at military school, Fulce committed to New Orleans because Williams took the head job there.

When Williams joined the Marquette coaching staff as an assistant in 2007, Fulce spent a year at Tyler before finally uniting with Williams at Marquette. In the meantime, Williams’ assistant coach at New Orleans, Scott Monarch, went with Fulce to Tyler to join that staff as an assistant.

Monarch was impressed with Butler, an unknown coming out of high school, all season. By April, Butler was being heavily recruited by Division I programs Kentucky, Iowa State and Mississippi State. Monarch, who joined Williams’ Marquette staff that spring, convinced the head coach to offer Butler a scholarship.

With his teammate and coach set to make the transition to Milwaukee, the decision was easy for Butler, even though he never visited Marquette. He trusted Monarch and the Marquette staff.

Before Tyler, Monarch had spent 12 seasons coaching in the junior college ranks. He had already helped many players make the jump from junior college to Division I during his career. He said he feels a connection with JUCO players because of his experience at that level.

That connection and experience helped him win Butler’s trust. Monarch said trust is the key to coaching and recruiting.

“The bottom line is, when it’s all said and done,” Monarch said, “you gotta put your trust to the right person.”

And no program in the Big East has gained the trust of JUCO players better than Mar-

JUCO transfers on Marquette’s roster Name

Darius Johnson-Odom Jimmy Butler Jae Crowder Dwight Buycks Joseph Fulce

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JR. Hutchinson CC (Kan.) SR. Tyler JC (Texas) JR. Howard College (Texas) SR. Indian Hills CC (Iowa) SR. Tyler JC (Texas)

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courtesy of marquette media relations buzz williams has earned a reputation of recruiting talented junior college transfers to his program. The Golden Eagles’ top four scorers this year are from junior colleges. quette. Williams brought in Dwight Buycks from Indian Hills Community College, Darius Johnson-Odom from Hutchinson Community College in his first official recruiting class and Jae Crowder from Howard College in the following one.

Butler, Buycks, Johnson-Odom and Crowder all average double figures in scoring this season. All four have started the last 11 games for Marquette.

Monarch said Marquette takes a different approach recruiting the JUCO level. While most schools view junior college players as a stopgap, Marquette relies on them to make a difference.

“A lot of your bigger schools don’t really recruit junior college kids to play,” Monarch said. “Where we recruit them to play. We’re counting on them to play, so it’s a little bit different atmosphere.”

Tyler head coach Mike Marquis said seeing JUCO transfers have so much success at Marquette is crucial to the recruiting process. That success has earned Marquette respect from junior colleges.

Marquette also keeps in constant contact with junior colleges throughout the year.

“It’s not surprising to get a call from them,” Marquis said. “They’ve built a lot of friendships in junior colleges across the country, and that’s really, really helped them.”

Williams’ junior college roots have helped the program, too. Monarch said the junior college coaching community is a tight-knit group.

It’s a group he and Williams are still very much

a part of today.

Marquis talks with Monarch weekly. He said he’ll receive a call or text message from Williams occasionally, despite his demanding schedule.

“They do a good job of making you feel like part of their family,” Marquis said.

In many ways, junior college coaches and players are a family. Williams joined the family that day sweeping floors more than 20 years ago.

For Williams, it’s a family that started with Orr. Williams still learns from his mentor.

After Orr retired from coaching in 2008, Williams hired him as a consultant. Currently in his third year helping Williams, Orr splits his time living between Texas and Wisconsin.

In 37 years as a junior college head coach, Orr touched many lives. Some players needed another year to get better on the court, but others also needed help in the classroom.

Though he wasn’t a player, Williams needed to improve his study habits, too. Before he was Buzz, he was just a kid looking for a chance.

Now he is giving junior college players the same chance Orr gave him.

“You try to get them to see that big picture, to dream bigger dreams,” Orr said. “If they do that, they can be a nobody one day and a somebody the next.” rjgery@syr.edu

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And though his defense has been exploited and exposed inside and out in Syracuse’s past three games, Boeheim has a point. Before its recent three-game slide, the Orange shot 48.3 percent from the field. In the skid, SU is shooting 39.3 percent. It sputters in crucial situations and allows opponents to get on long runs.

Syracuse (18-3, 5-3 Big East) faces a dose of reality as it hits the road for its first extended in-conference road trip. That starts against Marquette (13-8, 4-4) Saturday at 3 p.m. inside Milwaukee’s Bradley Center. In its first threegame skid in five years, Boeheim admitted his team’s confidence is shaken. And the key to righting the ship starts on offense.

“When you lose (three) games in a row, you lose a little confidence,” Boeheim said. “We have got to get better on offense. I think that is one of the keys.”

The Orange defense has faltered in its last three games after a scorching start.

In its 18-game winning streak to start the season, SU held opponents to 36.8 percent shooting from the field, good for fifth in the nation. That includes 28.1 percent from 3-point range — 10th in the country. In the past three games, however, those numbers have climbed to 50.9 and 48.2 percent, respectively.

But in its great start, Syracuse’s defense covered up the larger problem — the team’s offense. The Orange’s anemic offense has been discovered during the losing streak.

“I’m frustrated with our shot selection. All day, we could have had way better shots than what we had. I think we kind of settled for jumpers and that is what they wanted us to do. They were more aggressive than us today and it showed.”

Rick Jackson

SU FORWARD

“So-so,” SU point guard Scoop Jardine said of his offensive performance during SU’s losing streak. “The stats are there. But it’s not there, where we need it to be.”

The offensive woes started in Pittsburgh, when Syracuse was held scoreless for the first eight minutes of the game until Jardine hit a 3-pointer. In that same eight-minute span, the Panthers put up 19 points. The Orange clawed back but was never able to completely dig itself out of the early hole.

And it continued as Villanova came to the Carrier Dome last Saturday before the second-largest on-campus crowd in college basketball history. While the Wildcats shot the lights out, SU went through long droughts that kept it from mounting sustained ral-

lies. Stuck at 14 points for three and a half minutes. Stuck at 20 and 24 for more than two minutes.

It all added up. And by halftime, Syracuse found itself down by double digits. After the game, senior forward Rick Jackson said the loss came down to the offensive shot selection.

He only got nine shots down low, making seven of them. On the other hand, SU’s three-guard rotation — Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters — went just 8-of-32 from the field.

Jardine and Waiters went 3-of-20.

“I’m frustrated with our shot selection,” Jackson said. “All day, we could have had way better shots than what we had. I think we kind of settled for jumpers, and that is what they wanted us to do. They were more aggressive than us today and it showed.”

And the struggles culminated with what Boeheim called an equally poor offensive performance against Seton Hall when compared to his team’s struggles on defense.

They were most present in the start of the second half, as the Orange faced another double-digit halftime deficit. But SU still

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couldn’t find a sense of urgency, and the Dome faithful was on its feet for the first 4:30 of the second half while Syracuse went without a basket.

At the same time, Seton Hall built a 20-point lead.

“Instead of being in touch, we were 13 behind,” Boeheim said of the offensive woes against Seton Hall. “We missed the layup to start the second half, and you just cannot do that.”

Syracuse has as good a chance as any to get back on track against a Marquette team that is 14th in the Big East in scoring defense. The Golden Eagles give up 68.7 points per game, and they are 215th in the nation in opponents’ fieldgoal percentage (44 percent).

Boeheim said the Orange has to take advantage of that. And that starts with a stable offense, void of the rushed, forced shots from the guards.

Void of the missed layups. Void of the all-around sloppy play.

“For us to win,” Boeheim said, “we have to be balanced.” bplogiur@syr.edu

RARE COMPANY

This version of Syracuse has a chance to accomplish a rare feat under Jim Boeheim when it travels to Marquette Saturday: lose four games in a row. In Boeheim’s 35 years as head coach, the Orange has only had three such streaks: YEAR

LOSING STREAK

2005-06 2001-02 1991-92

4 4 4

WORST LOSS

@ Villanova, 80-65 vs. Villanova, 78-64* @ Seton Hall, 86-76 *Big East tournament in Madison Square Garden

(18-3) SYRACUSE AT MARQUETTE (13-8) TONY OLIVERO

MARQUETTE 73, SYRACUSE 69

Everything that could have gone wrong for this Syracuse team since its 18-0 start has gone wrong. SU won’t have the mental fortitude on the road.

ANDREW L. JOHN

MARQUETTE 76, SYRACUSE 73

Seton Hall may have been the wake-up call Syracuse needed, but Marquette sees blood in the water.

BRETT LOGIURATO

STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

BRADLEY CENTER, 3 P.M., ESPNU

POINT GUARD

SCOOP JARDINE

6-2, 190, JR. 12.9 PPG, 5.6 APG

SHOOTING GUARD

DWIGHT BUYCKS

6-3, 190, SR. 10.7 PPG, 3.9 APG

BRANDON TRICHE

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

FREE THROWS

SMALL FORWARD

DARIUS JOHNSONODOM

6-2, 215, JR. 16.5 PPG, 2.7 APG

Buycks is a steady senior point guard who has a 1.82 assist-to-turnover ratio. That doesn’t best Jardine’s 2.0 ratio, but heading into this game, Jardine has looked like anything but a seasoned point guard.

It doesn’t get any easier for the top of the Orange’s 2-3 zone after Jeremy Hazell shredded it Tuesday. Johnson-Odom is perhaps the most underrated guard in the conference. His slashing will test Triche and Jardine early.

POWER FORWARD

CENTER

KRIS JOSEPH

6-7, 210. JR. 15.1 PPG,4.9 RPG

JIMMY BUTLER

6-7, 220, JR. 15.5 PPG, 6.4 RPG

Butler led the Golden Eagles with 21 points on 50 percent shooting from the field and 100 percent shooting from the line in the tough loss to Connecticut Tuesday. He is the doeverything player who will log 33 to 38 minutes.

COACHES

MARQUETTE 81, SYRACUSE 72

Panic. Spelled B-OE-H-E-I-M.

Marquette’s four leading scorers have shot 108-of-269 (40 percent) from 3-point range this season. Syracuse has struggled to stop shooters during its current losing streak.

STAT TO KNOW 2006

The last year Syracuse lost four consecutive games. SU will try to break its threegame losing skid against Marquette.

BIG NUMBER RICK JACKSON

Get buzzed

Marquette is 0-5 vs. Syracuse since joining the Big East prior to the 2005 season. Since then, the Golden Eagles have beaten Big East powers Connecticut, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Georgetown, West Virginia and Villanova.

6-9, 240. SR. 13.1 PPG, 11.8 RPG

JAE CROWDER

6-6, 225, JR. 13.0 PPG, 6.9 RPG

Crowder could be the Marquette’s X-factor against the SU zone, finding seams. He is a jackof-all-trades who shoots 41 percent from 3 and gets seven rebounds per game.

FAB MELO

7-0, 265, FR. 2.1 PPG, 1.9 RPG

CHRIS OTULE

6-11, 260, SO. 4.8 PPG, 2.5 RPG

Otule is one of the Big East’s young starting centers who most closely resembles Melo. He only plays about 14 minutes per game, but in those minutes he averages close to five points on 60 percent shooting.

JIM BOEHEIM

W-L: 848-296 34 SEASONS

BUZZ WILLIAMS

W-L: 74-45 3 SEASONS

Williams is 0-2 vs. Boeheim, but he has found a way of holding his own during his time in the Big East. He’s 27-17 in the conference since taking over prior to the 2008-09 season.

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SU grabs 28 offensive boards to help offset poor shooting

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

keith edelman | web editor quentin hillsman gestures during SU’s 69-60 win over Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

Hillsman’s team used 28 offensive rebounds to get 19 second-chance points in the win.

Agnus Berenato wants a coaching clinic from Quentin Hillsman.

The Pittsburgh head coach was more than impressed with Syracuse’s offensive rebounding in their matchup Wednesday. Enough so that after the game, she said she would have to ask the Orange’s head coach how he got his team to be so successful.

She also added that SU’s performance on the glass was the difference-maker in the game.

“They were very physical on the boards, and they crashed in,” Berenato said. “And even when we had inside position, they still crashed and got rebounds.”

Syracuse entered its game with the Panthers as the nation’s leader in rebounding margin and continued that trend Wednesday.

Twenty-eight of the Orange’s 50 rebounds came on the offensive end, helping SU turn a poor shooting night into a 69-60 win in the Carrier Dome. The performance on the glass led to 19 second-chance points and helped the Orange get to the free-throw line throughout the game.

“We’re scoring the basketball because when we shoot and we miss, we go get it,” Hillsman said. “And I always tell our players, the more you go, the more you get. We just try to go every time.”

SU’s first possession of the game set the trend.

Junior forward Iasia Hemingway caught the ball at the free-throw line. She was left open but couldn’t knock down the jumper.

Orange center Kayla Alexander grabbed the rebound on the right block. Her putback was too strong, but Hemingway had crashed down to the other side of the paint. She pulled in the rebound but missed from in close. Alexander got one more chance but, again, couldn’t hit the shot.

Four chances, four missed opportunities for points.

The offensive struggles continued the rest of the game. Syracuse finished the night shooting 35 percent from the field. But many of those misses led to second and third chances for the Orange, leading to SU’s victory despite the mediocre shooting percentage.

Even some putback attempts from under the

“They were very physical on the boards and they crashed in. And even when we had inside position, they still crashed and got rebounds.”

Agnus Berenato

Pit tsburgh head coach

basket turned into squandered opportunities.

But there was just enough for the Orange to come out on top.

“It’s very important for any time, especially our team,” sophomore guard Elashier Hall said. “We did a great job crashing the boards.

And it just gave us an opportunity to get the ball back up on the net and get points on the board.”

One of those chances came with less than a minute left in the first half. SU had overcome a 6-for-24 shooting start to take the lead right before halftime.

Team-by-team breakdown FG% 3FG% Fouls FT TO Pts in paint

Syracuse

Pittsburgh

34.9 35.7 11 20-29 17 26

37.5 22.7 24 7-8 18 28

The Orange ran a pick and roll with senior guard Erica Morrow and Alexander. After setting the screen at the top of the key, Alexander cut to the basket looking for a feed. But Morrow instead took a pull-up 3-pointer.

The shot clanged off the rim and dropped right to Alexander under the basket. Pittsburgh guard Taneisha Harrison tried to poke the ball away but bumped the Syracuse center as she went up for the putback. The shot dropped in off the glass, and Alexander hit the free throw for a three-point play.

Sophomore guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas, who scored just two points on 1-for-7 shooting but led the team with seven offensive rebounds, said it wasn’t a matter of Pittsburgh not fighting for the boards. Rather, it was Syracuse’s hustle that led to the big night on the glass.

“They were boxing out hard,” Tyson-Thomas said. “But we were all just crashing really hard.

I have a nose for the ball, so I’m everywhere the ball is.”

Even though Pittsburgh head coach Berenato was impressed with the Orange’s rebounding performance, the statistics did not surprise Hillsman. He said a team that shoots such a low percentage like Syracuse did Wednesday should have more second-chance opportunities.

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Syracuse began the game hitting only one of its first 11 shots and 3-of-19 field goals overall. A seven-point deficit followed.

But the defense never allowed the Panthers to distance themselves. Pitt’s two best 3-point shooters — Shayla Scott and Taneisha Harrison — were just 1-of-8 combined in the first half. An active 2-3 zone prevented them from getting open looks.

“We just wanted to make sure that they didn’t make a ton of 3s on us,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “And I thought that, in this game, we did a good job of getting out on their shooters.”

But it was in the second half that Syracuse’s defense saved the game.

A pair of free throws by Orange center Shakeya Leary gave the team a 52-44 advantage with 13:47 to play. More than four minutes of scoreless basketball followed for both teams.

Syracuse missed six consecutive attempts, including two missed layups by sophomore center Kayla Alexander.

It was in this stretch, Hillsman said, that the defense made the biggest difference. If the offense couldn’t put points on the board, the zone would have to keep the Panthers scoreless.

And it did.

“There was a stretch where nobody scored,” Hillsman said. “We were up eight, and I remember that moment. I just said, ‘Hey, if nobody scores the rest of the game, we’re in good shape.’”

In all, the Panthers’ scoreless drought lasted more than five minutes. There was even an 11-minute segment during which Pittsburgh managed only six total points.

“We were all over the place on defense,” Tyson-Thomas said. “Hands active. Feet moving. And we were working hard.”

So perhaps it was fitting that as the Panthers attempted to mount a late-game comeback, the Orange defense played spoiler.

“When we’re not scoring that’s what you have to rely on, the defense.

You’ve got to have something else to go to.”

Carmen Tyson-Thomas

SU guard

With its once 13-point lead down to just six with 2:22 to play, SU dug in. Syracuse forced back-to-back missed shots and then a turnover on Pittsburgh’s next three possessions to put the game out of reach.

And with a minute and change remaining, Alexander put a stamp on the victory with an emphatic block of Pittsburgh center Leeza Burdgess that drew a chorus of cheers from the SU bench.

keith edelman | web editor carmen tyson-thomas dribbles the ball during Syracuse’s 69-60 win over Pittsburgh Wednesday in the Carrier Dome.

“We really did a good job, for the first time this year, of not being in a position where we had to weather the storm,” Hillsman said. “Our defense just did a good job keeping it even.”

The zone, which forced 18 turnovers, even drew the attention of Panthers head coach Agnus Berenato. It was aggressive and dominant without fouling, as the Orange committed just 11 total fouls to Pitt’s 24.

“I think they have a really nice 2-3 zone,” she said. “All the credit to Syracuse.”

And for the Orange, being able to rely on that zone to get stops has become a luxury. For a team that ranks 65th in the country in field-goal percentage, it needs to have another way to win.

Pittsburgh, despite the loss, finished with more made field goals (24) than the Orange (22).

Nearly 29 percent of SU’s points came from the free-throw line, where it shot 20-of-29.

Hillsman admitted this was a game in which the defense bailed out the offense, and Hall and Tyson-Thomas agreed. Two players who combined to hit just 6-of-17 shots recognized that without the defense, Syracuse probably wouldn’t have won.

“When we’re not scoring, that’s what you have to rely on: the defense,” Tyson-Thomas said.

“You’ve got to have something else to go to.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

box score Syracuse

Pittsburgh Player

Assists Rebounds Points

Shayla Scott 3 Taneisha Harrison 4 Chelsea Cole 1 Jania Sims 2 Leeza Burdgess 1 Ashlee Anderson 6 Asia Logan 0 Kyra Dunn 1 Yasmin Fuller 0 Marquel Davis 1

5 4 5 4 4 4 0 1 1 0

16 11 10 9 9 9 0 0 0 0

Player

Assists Rebounds Points

Erica Morrow 5 Elashier Hall 1 Kayla Alexander 0 Iasia Hemingway 3 Shakeya Leary 0 Tasha Harris 1 Carmen Tyson-Thomas 1 Troya Berry 0 Rachel Coffey 0 La’Shay Taft 0

6 8 8 3 8 0 11 0 0 0

17 16 14 11 6 3 2 0 0 0

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Australia-heavy roster leads Gaels to national recognition

By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer

Adam Caporn was only the start of the Australian influence at St. Mary’s.

Caporn was looking to come to an American college in 2001 so he could get more basketball experience while also getting a degree, a concept not common in Australia. He agreed to come to St. Mary’s before visiting the school because of a phone call he had with head coach Randy Bennett.

“Things were going so well for us, and the team was starting to play so well,” Caporn said.

“It just sort of snowballed from there.”

Snowball it did. Caporn is now an assistant coach with the school he played for from 2001-03.

And in his first season as an assistant, St. Mary’s (17-3) has earned its first Top 25 ranking since January 2009. And after a Sweet 16 appearance in the NCAA Tournament last season, St. Mary’s has snowballed to a spot on the national radar.

Since Caporn’s arrival, St. Mary’s has become a haven for Australian basketball players looking to get an education. Since 2001, 10 players have moved across the Pacific to play basketball in Moraga, Calif., for the Gaels.

Caporn was the beginning of the Australian integration in the Gaels roster back in 2001.

The following year, Caporn’s friend and former teammate Daniel Kickert joined him. This year, four of St. Mary’s players — guards Matthew Dellavedova and Jorden Page and forwards Clint Steindl and Mitchell Young — hail from

AP Top 25

1. Ohio State (63) 2. Pittsburgh (1) 3. Duke (1) 4. San Diego State 5. Connecticut 6. Kansas 7. Texas 8. Villanova 9. Syracuse 9. Brigham Young 11. Missouri 12. Purdue 13. Texas A&M 14. Kentucky 15. Notre Dame 16. Minnesota 17. Wisconsin 18. Washington 19. Vanderbilt 20. Illinois 21. Georgetown 22. Florida State 23. Louisville 24. Florida 25. Michigan State

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Since Caporn first arrived 10 years ago, a St. Mary’s following has grown in Australia.

While basketball fans across the United States were mesmerized by the surprising success of the unranked team last season when the Gaels reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, the sentiments were mirrored halfway around the globe.

Caporn, who was in Australia at the time before taking the assistant job this season, said the nation was following along just as avidly.

“It had a big following in Australia because St. Mary’s was doing well,” he said. “It’s like a brand of basketball in Australia.”

The Aussies bring a slightly different style of play to the team, which stems in large part from the 24-second shot clock used internationally, the sophomore Dellavedova said.

“It makes the game flow a little bit more,” he said. “I wouldn’t say it’s a faster pace because people are pretty fast over here, but there’s probably a little bit more one-on-one in America.”

St. Mary’s is a high-scoring team, scoring more than 70 points in all but two games this season. The key to its offensive success is its movement of the ball.

Caporn said unselfish passing was the team’s biggest asset, without which the Gaels would not be so successful. The ball movement is in part a result of the team’s Australian influences.

“We use a lot of on-ball (screens) and share the ball, which I think are characteristics of Australian basketball,” Dellavedova said.

In his first year coaching at his alma mater, Caporn has been part of the exciting ascent of the team. An 89-70 loss at then-unranked Vanderbilt Saturday dropped the Gaels out of the Top 25. Yet the team is still atop the WCC, going undefeated in the conference so far.

The ranking came with a price. St. Mary’s started to notice in the game against the Commodores. Opponents step up their game to play Top 25 teams.

“I think people were surprised this year,” Caporn said. “After the run last year and now being ranked, everyone’s ready to play us. We’ve got a target on our back. That makes things a little more different. You get everybody’s best game.”

After defeating then-No. 22 St. Mary’s, Vanderbilt jumped from unranked to No. 19. The loss and the drop in rank came right before the first of two games against conference rival Gonzaga.

Rob Jones, one of the Gaels’ U.S. natives from San Francisco, knows how important the Gaels’ games with Gonzaga are. And coming off a loss,

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courtesy of st. mary’s athletic communications matthew dellavedova is a part of the Australian influence on the Gaels, which brings a high-scoring offense that has gotten its team to a 17-3 season record. he knows the team must get back to basics.

St. Mary’s must return to its international hybrid.

“We gotta get back to playing how we play,” Jones said. “Make sure we take care of the ball, rebound the ball well, playing basketball the way St. Mary’s plays.”

Triple-double stings Hokies Iman Shumpert had Georgia Tech’s first triple-double in 22 years Tuesday against Virginia Tech, and he didn’t even realize it. Shumpert is now one of three Yellow Jackets in history to accomplish this feat. Yet it wasn’t until assistant coach Darryl LaBarrie warned him against getting too excited about his accomplishment that he realized what he had just done.

Shumpert’s 22 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists came in what ended up as a 72-57 Yellow Jacket victory. Both teams are now 3-3 in the muddled ACC.

Roger that sudoku.

Game of the week No. 8 Texas at No. 11 Texas A&M These Big 12 conference rivals have already faced each other once this season. On Jan. 19, Texas A&M went to Austin in what ended up being an 81-60 victory for the Longhorns.

This time, Texas A&M will have the advantage of playing at home. Yet this can provide little comfort given Texas’ road performance this season.

Aside from one loss on the road at USC, Texas has been perfect away from home. And the Longhorns’ biggest win of the season came at No. 2 Kansas last week to end the Jayhawks’ 69-game home winning streak.

Texas could set itself apart as the definitive leader of the Big 12 with a win, but an Aggies victory would upend the standings and push Texas A&M into the top two. alguggen@syr.edu

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S P O R T S MARQUETTE VS. SYRACUSE SATURDAY, 3 P.M., ESPNU

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nate shron | staff photographer kris joseph and the Orange need to get back on track offensively when they travel to Marquette on Saturday. Syracuse heads into the game on a three-game losing streak.

Offensive behavior SU looks to correct scoring deficiencies against Marquette

By Brett LoGiurato

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Sports Editor

ore than 20 minutes after the end of Syracuse’s 90-68 loss to Seton Hall Tuesday, Jim Boeheim finally took the podium. Somber, defeated, he strolled up, having watched his trademark 2-3 zone defense give up its most points to an opponent since a six-overtime game two years ago.

And yet, in his four-minute opening diatribe, a list of things his SU team did not execute in his game plan, his first target was a sputtering offense.

“As much as our defense was bad, I think the problems we had in the first half were more offensively,” Boeheim said. “We missed about seven or eight shots around the basket.”

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w o m e n ’s b a s k e t b a l l

SU rides strong defense to win over Pittsburgh

By Michael Cohen Asst. Sports Editor

The first 38 seconds foreshadowed Syracuse’s offensive struggles. One possession. Four missed shots. All from within six feet.

Chance after chance was squandered by a lack of execution around

the rim.

“The putbacks aren’t really working,” SU forward Carmen TysonThomas said.

Added guard Elashier Hall, syracuse 69 “Layups are efinitely pittsburgh 60 dsomething we

need to work on.”

But nothing else really worked, either.

In a game in which the Orange (15-4, 3-3 Big East) offense missed 41 shots, it was the defense that carried Syracuse to a 69-60 win over Pittsburgh Wednesday in front of

1,076 inside the Carrier Dome. An inability to put the ball in the basket on one end of the floor was erased by the aggressive 2-3 zone. Pittsburgh connected on just 37.5 percent of its shots and finished the game with more turnovers than assists.

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INSIDEsports

Eagles’ nest Check inside for a full

breakdown of Syracuse’s trip to take on Marquette Saturday in Milwaukee. We provide you with everything you need to know as the Orange looks to snap a three-game losing streak, including position-by-position matchups, stats to know and beat writer predictions. Page 23