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Students with crutches face obstacles getting around on campus due to snowy streets, but find help in Medical Transport Services. Page 3

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S • Rivalry continued Henry Schoonmaker netted an overtime goal to propel Syracuse past Albany on Sunday. Page 20

Her ride

How Lindsey Larkin overcame a childhood of medical trouble to play Division I softball

Officer faces recovery Lightning strike leaves DPS officer Prue still unable to return to work

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By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

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nother day. Another check up.

Another drive that Jodi Larkin could make with her eyes closed if her 5-year-old daughter Lindsey wasn’t in the car.

Jodi walks out of their Oswego, N.Y. home and straps Lindsey into the back seat of their Dodge Caravan. She settles in behind the wheel, puts the key in the ignition and starts to pull out of their driveway.

But before they leave, Lindsey rattles off a few questions.

Where are we going?...Are we going to the doctor?...Am I sick?

I don’t feel sick.

Jodi turns around to see her daughter, blonde hair bouncing with the engine, brown teddy bear clasped to her chest.

“We’re just going for a ride, sweetie,” she responds.

They go back and forth. Lindsey, always inquisitive, drilling her mom with question after question. Jodi, always careful, masking their destination as long as she can.

But as they come around a bend, Lindsey starts noticing a familiar landscape. She recognizes the highway, the Crowne Plaza — or as she calls it, “the round hotel” — and the Syracuse skyline.

“Are we going to my hospital, mom?” she asks.

Sitting by a window in Goldstein Student Center fifteen years later, Jodi looks out at the snow-laden SU Softball Stadium. She stares deep into the field that Lindsey now calls home, and tears up remembering the journey her daughter took to get there.

“It was really hard hearing your little girl refer to the hospital as ‘her hospital,’” Jodi said. “But that’s just how it was.”

••• Lindsey Larkin will be the first to tell you how much she cries, and show you how much she smiles.

The 20-year-old pitcher often finds herself speaking in cliches. They make her blush, trail her eyes to the ground or let out an awkward laugh. Sometimes laughter turns into tears.

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Nearly six months after he was struck by lightning, Department of Public Safety officer Stanley Prue said he still has a long way to go before he can return to his job.

As much as he wants to be back in uniform, Prue said he needs to concentrate on his recovery.

“The reality is I need to refocus on myself, rather than worrying about going to work,” he said. “It’s in my sight, but right now, my focus is recovery.”

On Sept. 1, Prue and DPS senior

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Dome to reuse rainwater Project team plans promotion of rain collection system

By Rebecca Shafer contributing writer

The Carrier Dome bathroom is not a place one would typically expect to find inspiration.

Yet this is where Bruce Wanlass, principal engineer at C&S Companies, came up with an idea to help reduce the amount of rainwater runoff that flows into the Onondaga County sewage system. The plan is to capture the rainwater that collects on the north side of the Dome’s roof and to use it to flush toilets and urinals. see carrier

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MEET monday | kiven pierre

Entrepreneur starts solar energy company

By Jen Bundy staff writer

Entrepreneurship means more to Kiven Pierre than just creating profit.

Pierre, a second year MBA candidate, is one of the founders behind El Dorado Energy, LLC, an energy company that uses solar energy and other methods to improve sustainable development in the Caribbean and South America. Pierre is from Guyana , and completed his undergraduate studies at Morgan State University in Maryland.

During Pierre’s first year in the MBA program, he competed in the Panasci Business Plan Competition in 2013 with a consulting firm that focuses on sustainable development in evolving countries.

“One of the interests we had was electricity, specifically in the Caribbean where it is very expensive and requires a lot of fossil fuels to generate,” he said.

His interest in energy and social entrepreneurship became a passion when electricity rates abruptly went up in the Caribbean nation of Guyana and protests erupted, leading to the deaths of several individuals.

El Dorado Energy is based in Syracuse but targets Caribbean and South

American nations.

The company installs solar panels on properties where generated electricity is sold to consumers for a certain numbers of years, allowing people and businesses to avoid the initial investment of building solar systems, he said.

“One thing we do to promote social and sustainable entrepreneurship is training about a dozen unskilled individuals in installing and maintaining solar systems,” he said. “These are individuals who otherwise wouldn’t get that training — we give them a livelihood.”

Pierre is aware that there are many prevalent issues that need to be addressed such as climate change, electricity access and economic development in the Caribbean.

Through El Dorado Energy, he hopes to bring sustainable development to the region and give freedom from monopolized energy companies that dominate the markets, he said.

“Sustainable development can really have a huge impact on the region and improve the lives of many people,” Pierre said. “I want to do anything I can to help move things in the right direction.” jbundy@syr.edu

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need to know take a look at two of the weekend’s national news stories.

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The United States and Chinese governments announced Saturday that they plan to increase action and cooperation on climate change.

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Carnival offers fun Injured students battle snow walking to class on campus (FROM LEFT TO RIGHT) Chancellor Kent Syverud and Ruth Chen ride in a flight simulator as part of National Engineer’s Week at Syracuse University. The L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science is hosting the week as an opportunity to showcase and share different kinds of work happening in the engineering school. Other events will take place throughout the week, including a gingerbread house structural challenge, a paper airplane golf tournament and a demonstration by chemical engineering students. The National Society of Professional Engineers started National Engineer’s week in 1951.

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By Johnny Rosa contributing writer

High snow banks, roads that haven’t been cleared and icy walkways all pose challenges to students and staff at Syracuse University who have to use crutches to get around.

Tony Kershaw, the assistant director at the RvD IDEA Office at Syracuse University, has been getting around campus a little differently. After having a second knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus and some bone damage caused by his past activities, Kershaw will need to use crutches to walk around Syracuse’s hilly campus until he heals.

His injury has alerted him to certain parts of campus Kershaw said he otherwise overlooked.

“There’s a ramp for the building I work in, but the elevator to the second floor is on the opposite end of the building as the door with the ramp,” he said.

Kershaw’s learned an important lesson of dealing with crutches: route management. According to the Detroit Free Press, Syracuse has received 81 inches of snow as of Feb. 10 and is currently the fourth snowiest big city in America, which means walking from one building to the next during a work or school day takes careful planning, and plenty of travel time.

According to the Disability Statistics Center at the University

HELPING HAND According to the Disability Statistics Center at the University of California, San Francisco, 556,000 Americans use crutches.

of Calif., San Francisco, 556,000 Americans use crutches. Known in many disability advocacy circles as the “Harvard of disability

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rights,” SU provides guidance and transportation in an effort to help crutch users.

However, those who need crutches sometimes find everyday activities overly difficult, especially when they’re confronted with snow-filled streets. Kathleen Van Vechten of Health Services said the office makes sure students who use crutches learn how to use them properly.

Charlie Reiff, a junior television, radio and film major, is the captain of Syracuse’s Ultimate Frisbee Club Team, Scooby Doom. He said he found himself struggling to adjust to crutches after a severe ankle sprain last winter.

Reiff ended up leaning on the help of his friends as well as his crutches. He said his friends carried his tray in the dining halls and brought parties to him, instead of forcing him out in the snow. The slushy streets only made getting around campus more difficult.

Because of the university’s

hilly landscape, combined with sidewalks that are slowly cleared, sophomore Resident Advisor Tiffany Mateo said she always enlists a friend to help her back to her room in DellPlain Hall.

She said her friend carries the folders and papers that don’t fit in her backpack, while Mateo carefully avoids the dangers of ice and steep hills.

When she doesn’t try to maneuver the campus herself, she said she uses SU’s Medical Transportation Services whenever she can. The service provides transportation for those whose mobility is temporarily impaired or people who have permanently mobility impairments and find their schedule temporarily interrupted, according to SU’s Health Services website.

Though Mateo said she can’t rely on Medical Transport Services, it’s one service provided by SU that can lighten the load for many students.

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Students looking for a diversion from the cold and snow will have plenty of options when Syracuse University hosts its annual Winter Carnival this week.

The carnival, which began in 1930, is a weeklong series of activities and events for students. The SU Traditions Commission organizes some of the events and collaborates with campus organizations for others.

“It’s a way to kind of boost morale and get kids out and about,” said Sakina Kader, president of the traditions commission.

This year’s carnival will kick off with the “Winter Carnival Days” event Monday and Tuesday from 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. in the Schine Student Center Atrium.

Other events included in the weeklong Winter Carnival are a chili cook-off, a performance by SU’s a cappella groups and a men’s basketball viewing party.

The winners of the cook-off are chosen by a panel of judges and will win

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Taxpayer money should not fund inmate higher education program Though higher education should be accessible to everyone, taxpayer money should not be used to fund Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed Prison U. program.

On Sunday, Cuomo announced plans for a Prison U. program which will give prison inmates the ability to take college courses and work toward earning either an associate or bachelor’s degree.

One of the goals of the program is to save money, as providing inmates with an education is less expensive than the costs of maintaining facilities

and providing for inmates, according to a Feb. 16 New York Post article.

New York state spends $3.6 billion a year on prisons. The state spends $60,000 a year per inmate. Providing an inmate with the opportunity to take college courses would cost $5,000 a year, according to the article.

Affording higher education is a problem that many people in this country face. It is not fair to give inmates access to higher education when there are law-abiding citizens who work hard to

earn the grades required to be admitted to college that cannot attend a college or the college of their choosing because of financial issues.

Inmates should have access to higher education, but not on the taxpayer’s dollar. Though taxpayer money is used to maintain correctional facilities and this program is meant to reduce the amount of taxpayer money that will be necessary to do so, the benefits of the program could take years to come to fruition, if ever.

Though some inmates can likely benefit from seeking further education and programs like this should be explored, it is not up to taxpayers to provide the means for them, especially when there are so many others outside of the prison system struggling to pay for their education.

The cost of higher education is a nationwide problem, and one that has yet to be solved. Before we look to provide programs like Prison U. we must try to find a way to make higher education more accessible to the general public.

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Feminist movement must acknowledge other disenfranchised groups

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eminism: a movement that aims for the social, political and economic equality of women and men. Its very name — which shares a root with “female” — indicates that it is by and for women. Why, then, does there appear to be discrimination within the feminist movement?

TEDWomen is a feminist-minded conference that addresses issues within the women’s movement. On Feb. 12, Kelly Stoetzel, content director and TEDWomen co-host, said in an article in The Nation that she thinks issues like abortion do not fit into the organization’s “wider issues of justice, inequality and human rights.” This mindset is dripping with elitism and is an example of intersectionality.

Intersectionality is the notion that one can face multiple forms of oppression. Within the feminist movement, this means not all women are oppressed in the same way, and that some may face additional or different oppression

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because they are a minority, disabled or improvised, in addition to being a woman.

TEDWomen and organizations like it are doing amazing things by giving women a platform to discuss issues faced within the community. However, its denial of abortion as a wider issue of human rights is a slap in the face to a large portion of women around the world.

For an organization whose slogan is “worth sharing,” its stance, or lack thereof, on issues speaks volumes.

Organizations like TEDWomen address issues faced by white, middle-to-upper-class women — the same women who pay membership fees of $975 and make up a majority of

conference attendee lists. Because the small sect of the elite upper class has control of the TEDWomen organization and countless others like it, it gets to decide what is important and what isn’t.

The reason why these women do not face these forms of oppression is not because they have overturned them; it is because they have privilege. Privilege is not something that can be earned; it is something our society gives to different people because of their class, race and other socioeconomic standings. The fact that they have privilege is something many feminists have a hard time grasping.

This self-denial is hurting a lot of women, as well as the entire feminist movement. It is silencing women who do not fit the conventional mold. Don’t get me wrong, issues like workplace equality are very important. However, for a lower-class African-American mother of two, these issues may take a back seat to issues

of safety from physical or sexual violence.

The problem is not TEDWomen or any organization like it. The problem is not even intersectionality. The problem is the denial of intersectionality. Yes, as women, we all face the same oppression and discrimination. However, many of us face other types of discrimination because in addition to being women, we belong to another disenfranchised group.

True feminism acknowledges and embraces the differences among all women. It works to end the oppression all women face. Because feminism is concerned with the empowerment of all women and the equality of all people, there must be a space for more than just white, middle-to-upper-class women.

Mandisa Shields is a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at meshiedl@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @mandisashields.

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South Dakota bill unfairly limits abortion access

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t’s hard to believe that in 2014, Tea Party Republicans are attempting to undermine women’s rights, Supreme Court decisions and the Constitution itself.

A Tea Party Republican lawmaker in South Dakota proposed a new bill that could severely restrict access to abortion statewide. Under House Bill 1241, it would be a “felony to perform any abortion procedure that causes a fetus to become ‘dismembered,’” according to a Feb. 13 article from The Huffington Post. The maximum punishment for abortion providers under this law is life in prison, according to the article.

Bill 1241, if passed, essentially makes abortion illegal in South Dakota.

An anonymous abortion provider who spoke with RH Reality Check, a reproductive and sexual health activist group, said “as soon as there are viable parts, the fetus or embryo is rarely removed intact.”

This statement shows that this legislation is a backhanded attempt to ban abortion in South Dakota. This onepage bill is hastily written and includes vague, gruesome language. State Rep. Isaac Latterall is the bill’s sponsor. His stance on abortion is backed by emotion and religious views, rather than a scientific understanding of abortion.

Bill 1241 should not be tolerated by South Dakota voters. Abortion is a very private and sensitive issue that should not be unduly restricted by the state or federal government.

If this bill is passed, health care providers will likely stop providing abortions all together because of the potential consequences. This bill is an indirect attempt to completely diminish access to abortion in South Dakota.

In the article, Latterall said, “it just makes clear that a certain procedure that is totally horrific and gruesome to any reasonable person would not be an acceptable method of ending a child’s life.”

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50 SHADES OF BLUE context on the issue. Latterall’s moral agenda should not become a blanket opinion that represents his constituents. Bill 1241 is clearly an attempt to project a particular religious and moral agenda onto the public.

Representatives like Latterall lack respect for the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade. The Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 established the legality of abortion before a fetus is considered viable. Bill 1241 is in direct contradiction to the Roe v. Wade decision and the personal liberties laid out in the Constitution because it essentially makes abortion illegal in the state of South Dakota.

According to Representative Latterall’s website, he will “defend our liberties and the Constitution.” Considering this claim, it is contradictory that he has sponsored legislation that jeopardizes personal liberties and violates the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution. Latterall, like many Tea Party Republicans, defends the Constitution only when it is convenient for his personal agenda.

This is a clear example as to why factions of the Republican Party get labeled as “anti-woman.” Abortion is a personal medical decision that should remain between doctor and patient. It is long past time that the Tea Party Republicans stop attempting to evade the Roe v. Wade decision and violate women’s rights. This attempted mingling with access to abortion has and will continue to lose votes for the Republican Party.

It is unlikely this bill will pass in the state legislature, but it still shows how far behind the times Tea Party Republicans really are.

Rachel Potter is a junior political science and sociology major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at repotter@syr.edu.

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NYPIRG plans initiatives for semester The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) would like to welcome you back to an exciting, and as is tradition, snowy start to the Spring Semester. As many of you probably remember, NYPIRG is one of the leading student advocacy groups here on campus. NYPIRG is at the forefront of countless battles to protect consumer, environmental, voter, and student rights.

For 40 years, NYPIRG has been carrying out its unique dual mission all across New York to create social change that protects individuals from special interest groups, and to create an outlet for students looking to learn or improve their grassroots campaign skills. We provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to enact real, positive change on campus, in the community and across the entire state.

With our state legislature in

session, this semester NYPIRG is working hard to make sure lawmakers in Albany hear from students on issues that they care about. NYPIRG will be working with students and engaging them in campaigns that protect New York from the dangers of hydrofracking, end discrimination in consumer issues like car insurance rates, decide how New York will create its energy for the next several decades and perhaps most importantly to college students, fight for accessible and affordable education.

This semester, we are working to make certain that the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) is updated to meet the needs of the modern-day college student. The state’s need-based financial aid program turns 40 years old this year, and is decidedly out of date. In addition to updating TAP, NYPIRG is focusing on passing the New York State DREAM Act, which would

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As part of this campaign, NYPIRG is traveling to Albany on Wednesday, Feb. 26 for a Higher Education Action Day. Students will have the opportunity to rally at the capital, and meet with elected officials to discuss ways to make higher education more affordable and accessible.

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PEACE OF MIND Peace Corps recruits volunteers to travel, work in education, community development

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hanks to consistent recruitment efforts on campus, SUNY-ESF contributes the second-most volunteers to the Peace Corps nationwide.

The Peace Corps announced the 2014 top volunteer-producing college and universities in a Feb. 11 press release. The State University of Environmental Science and Forestry was ranked number two among small colleges.

Peace Corps recruiter Dove Russo frequents the ESF campus, Elizabeth Chamberlain, a Peace Corps Northeast Regional Office Public Affairs Specialist, said in an email. Russo will participate in the ESF Career Fair later this month, Chamberlain said.

Fifteen ESF alumni are currently serving in the Peace Corps in 14 countries, Chamberlain said. They work in education, environment, health and community economic development, she said, adding that 802 Syracuse University and ESF alumni have served overseas as Peace

I feel like I’ve been given so much in life, even just the roof over my head. I just want to give back to the world.

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detective Ed Weber were parked outside of the Skytop Office on South Campus. When Prue stepped outside of his patrol car, he was struck by lightning.

In addition to suffering from brain injuries, Prue also lost his eyesight and hearing in his left ear. He cannot smell or taste and he has paralysis throughout his body. He also has trouble with movement, including not being able to hold onto objects, he added. He is still working in therapy.

Because of nerve damage, Prue said his left leg isn’t functioning, so he depends on a cane to get around. He said he’s getting around better than

expected, but he has a long road ahead of him.

Prue spent two weeks in the hospital, where he said he spent the second week in physical therapy. He has had help with his memory and completing everyday tasks that he says people take for granted.

He was in physical therapy until Nov., when Prue said the hospital realized that there was little that they could do to help him. He said he still goes in for sessions a couple of times every week and the specialists assign him “homework” to do at home.

“The reality of it is that the doctors and the therapists are there for me and they’re trying to do the best they can,” Prue said. “The unfortunate aspect is that they don’t have much

Corps volunteers since 1961.

Though the ranking only measures undergraduate participation, graduate students also participate in the Peace Corps, Scott Shannon, the associate provost of the graduate school at ESF, said in an email.

“We actually have several current graduate students who are Returned Peace Corps Volunteers,” he said.

Shannon said three ESF students are enrolled in the Peace Corps Master’s International Program, which integrates a master’s degree with overseas service.

experience when people get struck by lighting ‘cause usually you die.”

The physical damage has taken a toll him, but Prue said the most difficult part about the incident is how it has hurt him mentally.

He said he had a lot of support from co-workers and friends in the beginning, but there’s not as much as there was before.

“It’s a fair statement to say,” Prue said. “And not to be mean about it, because the reality of it is people have their own lives and their own families and careers and their own issues, too.”

But he still has a support network, including a couple of officers that Prue said have been at his side from the beginning. In addition to his family and his friends from other law enforce-

Some current graduate students who are participating in the ESF Peace Corps Master’s programs are now working as volunteers in Jamaica, he added.

“The Peace Corps has lots of opportunities for us students,” said Shannon Hennessey, a junior forest resources management major, who said she would like to join the Peace Corps after college. “Once a month they have a recruiting table at ESF.” Hennessy’s desire to join the Peace Corps began in high school.

“I feel like I’ve been given so much in life, even just the roof over my head. I just want to give back to the world,” she said.

As a forester, Hennessy said she would like to go to Africa or South America and work in community education and agroforestry, planting trees for agricultural plans, she said.

She said the application process is mostly online, but there are also interviews, resume and cover letter reviews. Then volunteers get put into contact with the regional recruitment officers.

“I’ll probably start applying in May,” she said, adding that it is important to apply about a year ahead of time.

Candice Lanette, a 2010 ESF graduate who majored in environmental studies, is now in the Peace Corps. Lanette applied through the online application process and it took about a year and four months to get her invitation, she said.

“I wanted to travel abroad, give back, live more simply and learn a new language,” she said.

She added that she could have traveled abroad in her undergraduate career but believed the Peace Corps could give her different opportunities, such as being able to live in a village for two years and immerse herself in the culture.

Lanette was there with four other volunteers, including Mark Betzhold, another ESF graduate. While in Zambia, Lanette attended classes and went on site visits. She went to an HIV and AIDs support group, where members raved to her about how grateful they were to have the Peace Corps volunteers there.

Recently, Lanette had to be sent home from Zambia due to an allergy. She said she hope to be reassigned to a new location soon, as she is excited to continue giving back. lwkirsch@syr.edu

ment agencies, Prue said Sergeant James McLellan has been one of the most supportive people in his recovery. McLellan organized a fundraiser for Prue back in October. Prue said McLellan talks to him a couple of times a week.

“Overall, James McLellan is a fantastic, great guy, great supporter,” Prue said. “He’s there for me mentally, he’s there for me emotionally, he’s there for me financially. He’s just a fantastic guy.”

At this time, Prue is trying to remain realistic about the timeline of his recovery and is unsure when he will be able to return to his job.

“I have a long way to go,” he said. “Longer than I ever thought.” ekmeyers@syr.edu | @Ellen_Meyers

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larkin But she grins more than she doesn’t — that’s the Lindsey everyone has always known.

“That kid was always beaming, and still is,” said Millie Sherman, Lindsey’s grandmother.

“Sometimes I didn’t know how, but she really never stopped.”

Now a sophomore pitcher on the Syracuse softball team, Lindsey’s smile punctuates the story that hides behind it. A story that includes regular hospital visits from the time she was eight weeks to eight years old, a gastroenterologist, urologist, nephrologist, cardiologist, otolaryngologist, infectious disease specialist and pediatric surgeon.

A life-threatening allergy, a severe kidney reflux and a life-changing surgery that finally healed her, and the family that never lost hope or sight of a healthier future.

Yet when she’s asked about the eight years that now define her as a person and athlete, Lindsey squints her eyes. She racks through her brain and looks up, searching for anything that resembles a memory.

She finds it impossible to vividly recall a thing.

“If you go through a traumatic experience such as being in the hospital until you’re eight years old,” Lindsey said. “You don’t really want to remember any of that.”

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Dr. Manoochehr Karjoo’s voice bounced off the walls of the hospital room.

“Get this baby off milk. You are killing her!”

Lindsey was just eight weeks old and, as her parents put it, lifeless at Crouse Hospital. She was initially scheduled for a five-day visit, but it took another six — with a spinal tap, numerous doctors and multiple research

When we went to the hospital, we never knew when we were coming back.

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teams from Upstate Medical School — to find that a milk-protein allergy was on the verge of taking her life.

The Larkins had started giving her formula and the hospital was doing the same. The doctors had never seen this combination of side effects before.

But tests finally revealed that it was the protein in the formula that gave her high fevers, colitis, urinary tract infections and E. coli in her bloodstream.

“It was like two weeks of hell,” Jodi said.

That was the first time she survived. The doctors stabilized Lindsey and told the Larkins that she could never have milk, chocolate, ice cream or any other dairy products.

But somehow, she’d accidentally eat dairy and each time she did they’d be right back in the hospital where it all started.

“I vaguely remember hating that,” Lindsey said, “being a kid and just having to lay there.”

Then at a year and a half, the urinary tract infections returned. When they didn’t stop a year later, she was referred to Dr. Umeschandra Patil, an urologist and pediatric surgeon at Crouse.

Dr. Patil found that Lindsey had a severe kidney reflux caused by a birth defect. Her ureters — muscle fibers that propel urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder — were undersized and her valve hadn’t developed. The reflux caused infections that destroyed function in both of her kidneys.

That’s when the hospital visits picked up — sometimes multiple times a week. When Lindsey would go to Crouse, Jodi and her husband, Cliff Larkin, would pack a bag of clothes to stay overnight.

They’d bring their son James, who is four years older than Lindsey, to Jodi’s parents down the street and try to return the smile to their bed-ridden daughter’s face.

“When we went to the hospital,” Cliff said, “we never knew when we were coming back.”

In 1999, the rate of Lindsey’s kidney loss was continuing and she needed surgery as soon as her bladder wasn’t irritated.

And on July 6, 2000, Dr. Patil performed a miracle.

Cutting a 10-inch incision from side to side, Patil built bigger ureters from Lindsey’s own body tissue. He formed them to fit her 6-yearold body, and so they would continue to grow as she did.

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Nothing could stop Lindsey from smiling on the first day of kindergarten. Not the early wakeup. Not the damp weather. Not the strap on her arm or the machine in her backpack that tracked her blood pressure.

“Can you see the black thing on my arm, Mom?” she asked, as she danced around the wooden porch, her apple name tag flapping off the white T-shirt that did little to hide the strap on her right elbow.

“Nope Lindsey, I can’t see a thing,” Jodi answered.

“Good!” Lindsey said, jumping off the porch as her backpack let out a low hum.

School was different for Lindsey. Around lunchtime, every day, she’d visit school nurse Lori Dempsey to have her blood pressure recorded and take medicine for her kidneys. If a classmate brought in cupcakes for a birthday, she’d have to decline.

But while she was watched closely by her parents and teachers, she also learned to take care of herself.

“That’s how I always knew her,” said Dolores Purtell, Lindsey’s babysitter for many years.

“The girl who needed the most attention of all the ones I baby-sat, really needed the least.”

She fell in love with sports in grade school, and played them just like everyone else. She tried basketball, football, dancing and gymnastics — even though the last two make her cringe looking back — but fell in love with baseball.

She played baseball with all the boys until she was 12 and the town formed a softball team for her to join. She was reluctant, but started garnering attention on the mound immediately after she made the switch.

“Once I got to regionals and I saw all the talent and saw how I did with those caliber of girls,” Lindsey said. “I thought playing college softball was actually an option.”

Then she zeroed in on that goal. When Lindsey was 13, she told her parents she needed a new pitching coach after he told her she’d never throw 60 miles per hour or play collegiately.

They obliged, and two months later she was putting 60s and 61s on the speedometer.

She started training with strength and conditioning coach Dennis Dewane at CNY Speed Training.

When he opened the gym in the morning, she would be there waiting for him. And when he closed it at night, she’d want to keep going.

In high school, Jodi would text Lindsey over and over asking if she’d be home for dinner.

Lindsey’s phone was in her bag on the side of the G. Ray Bodley softball field, as Lindsey threw pitch after pitch into the backstop. No catcher. No coach. No one around.

Most nights, she’d heat up a plate of food while icing down her left arm.

“Even if she can’t remember all of it, her past and what she went through has everything to

(FROM LEFT TO right) DR. MICHAEL RATER AND lindsey larkin walks alongside each other at a Ronald McDonald charity event.

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do with the hard worker she has become,” Jodi said. “It’s just inside of her that no one can tell her what she can or can’t achieve.”

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Lindsey was just a freshman reliever and didn’t expect to pitch when Syracuse head coach Leigh Ross told her to prepare to take the mound in the team’s second home game last season.

Senior Stacy Kuwick had already gone six innings and sophomore Lindsay Taylor was sidelined with an injury. So heading into extra innings, Ross handed Lindsey the ball.

“She was nervous,” said SU pitching coach Jenna Caira. “I told her I wanted three things.

I wanted a first pitch strike, I want a strikeout and I want a ground ball.”

When Lindsey jogged out to the mound for the start of the seventh inning, tears started streaming down Jodi’s face in the stands Lindsey threw a first pitch strike and turned to Caira, a smile spread across her face.

Jodi kept crying, now shaking in her seat.

Then Lindsey got a ground out and looked at Caira again, her smile wider this time, her mom juggling the past with the present and standing to cheer for every out.

She may not have gotten the strikeout that Caira wanted, but after throwing four innings, Lindsey walked off the field with her first collegiate win.

“All I thought was ‘Lindsey, you’ve come so far,’” Jodi said.

Many years ago, when she looked out the back window of the Caravan at Syracuse, Lindsey’s head was full of questions. Her future was

Lindsey larkin smiles on the first day of kindergarten. The backpack has a heart monitor inside it connected to the black band on her arm. courtesy of jodi larkin

uncertain. Her health always the focus for her and her family.

But now when Lindsey drives toward the Adams Street exit and into the city that saved her life, she no longer wonders where she’s going. jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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carrier dome The team of engineers, designers and architects are well into the planning phase of the rainwater capture project. A number of companies are involved, including Environmental Design & Research (EDR), C&S Companies, Klepper, Hahn, & Hyatt Engineers and Syracuse University’s Campus Planning, Design and Construction.

They met inside the Dome Friday to discuss plans for promoting the system once it has been installed. The group talked about design schemes created by Tierney Latella and Sam Proctor, both communications design students at SU, for signage inside and outside the Dome.

Construction is tentatively set to begin in late June and be finished by Oct. 31, said Peter Sala, managing director of the Dome.

The team held its Friday meeting to figure out how to promote the new system.

Since the project is funded by a grant, the planners are required to have signs with information on the system.

Each attendee at a Dome event uses about two gallons of water, Wanlass said at the meeting. By the time the next SU football season starts, this water will be taken from Dome roof runoff.

The way it will work is the rainwater-harvesting system will collect approximately 15 percent of the 6,650,000 gallons of rainwater that fall on the Dome annually, Wanlass said.

Since the gutters on its roof are heated, the Dome’s system can capture and recycle melted snow in addition to rainwater, he said.

“Because we’re melting snow all the time off our roof, we’ll constantly have a water source to fill the tanks,” Sala said.

Onondaga County runs on a combined sewage system, meaning that both waste and storm water run into the same pipeline, Wanlass said.

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He added that during storms, excess rainwater runs into the lake, causing overflow. The system will work to reduce this.

“Imagine 6.5 acres of roof up [on the Dome] — with all that rainfall, that water goes directly into the sewage system,” Sala said. “What the city and the county doesn’t want is all this water to come off...the roof and just overpower the storm sewers.”

The new system will retain the water in two 25,000-gallon cisterns and slowly release it over time to help prevent overflow, Wanlass said. But placing 25,000-gallon holding tanks is no small feat, especially on a campus as crowded as SU. “Space has been a big challenge,” Sala said.

The team decided to place the tanks underneath the Q-1 parking lot near the Dome, north of Heroy Geology Building, Wanlass said. After the rainwater is harvested and stored in the underground tanks, it will be filtered, treated with chlorine and either UV or ozone, and pumped back into a smaller “day tank” inside the Dome, he said.

The tank will be displayed behind a glass window just inside the main entrance with further information on an electronic message display or other interactive feature, said Jane Rice, director of planning at EDR. The display is just one way to get the buzz about the system going.

The Dome will also be getting more colorful as this project progresses.

“When you capture and use rain water you have to dye it a color so that it’s easily recognizable,” said JoAnne Race, senior administrator in the Office of Sustainability Initiatives.

Wanlass and the design team are considering dying the water in the toilets blue, although the official decision on the color has not been made.

In addition, the pipes will have to be painted.

Sala said by health code mandates, the pipes through which the rainwater flow must be a different color than the rest of the plumbing, so the pipes will be made purple. rjshafer@syr.edu

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carnival cookware packages. One of the judges will be Jane Burrell, who has appeared on the Food Network, said Kader, who is also a senior entrepreneurship major.

Kader said that the chili cook-off and men’s basketball game viewing party are typically the most popular carnival events.

The SU A Cappella Council will present a “Cozy Cappella” performance on Thursday night in Schine’s Goldstein Auditorium.

Sydnee Corriders, the programming and finance director for Main Squeeze, said the group will be performing “Alone” by Heart and “Till the Casket Drops” by ZZ Ward.

Corriders said Cozy Cappella is “a great

promotion” for Main Squeeze.

“Everyone gets a taste of what we’ve been working on throughout the semester,” she said.

Lauren Duda, public relations director for The Mandarins said the performance will have a “cozy, casual atmosphere.”

“Every group gets to pick their own cozy thing to wear. That can be anything from slippers to sweatshirts,” she said. “For the audience it’s a good time because there are free refreshments.”

The carnival activities will conclude Saturday with laser tag in Goldstein Auditorium from 8 p.m. to midnight.

Julian Nelums, a freshman international relations major, is looking forward to the carnival this week, especially the glow in the dark skate night.

“It’s a new twist on winter that will make it more fun,” he said. rjcherry@syr.edu

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Whether you keep close tally or haven’t kept track at all, Pulp’s guide has all the info you need to finish out Sochi 2014

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Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level. It’s all athletes!

In the Mountain Village, it’s all athletes. It’s hilarious.

There are some cuties here.

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Pulp’s 2014 Olympic update

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STICKS Ice Hockey and Curling have been heating up the ice in Russia. After USA’s hard battle with Russia went down to the wire, don’t miss out on the rest of the exciting competition playing out in the Sochi arenas.

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1. netherlands

Sliding down a snowy hill is a favorite winter pastime, but these athletes are taking the sport to the next level. With sleds that can sometimes exceed 75 miles per hour — faster than the speed limit on I-81 — bobsledding, skeleton and luge are some of the most exciting and dangerous sports in the Olympics.

What you’ve missed: Both curling and ice hockey have had qualifying sessions, though the medal matchups aren’t scheduled until the end of the week.

What’s coming up: Curling will start their semi-finals this Wednesday, and ice hockey will slide into their quarterfinals this Wednesday. Thursday will see the final in women’s ice hockey and curling alike; Friday will see the men’s final in curling and the semi-final in men’s ice hockey; ice hockey men’s final will take place over Saturday and Sunday.

What you’ve missed: Bobsleigh two-man heat; men’s and women’s skeleton; men’s and women’s singles, doubles and team relay in luge What’s coming up: Women’s and fourman heats in bobsleigh.

TOTAL: 17

2. russia

Notable athletes: Noelle Pikus Pace, who retired in 2010 to spend more time with her two children, came back for this year’s Olympics to win a silver medal in the women’s skeleton run.

U.S. Medal counts: two bronze, one silver

TOTAL: 16

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TOTAL: 16

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SOCHI TALK

he first half of the Sochi Olympics has come and gone, and with it some notable moments. This week, however, will determine who ultimately comes out on top in the medal count. As of Monday morning, the Netherlands leads with 17 total wins, with Russia and the U.S. close behind with 16 wins each.

Pulp’s Olympic Update has you covered on all the icy competition that you missed, and what you have left to watch of 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Best moment: The Jamaican bobsleigh team returns to the Winter Olympics after a 12-year absence. Although the team qualified to enter, it still had to raise up to $80,000 to cover travel costs, which it raised through online crowd-sourcing websites like Crowdtilt and Indiegogo. The team ended up receiving more than $120,000 on its Crowdtilt page alone, and are competing in the two-man sled race.

Worst moment: The Jamaican Bobsleigh team comes in dead-last after returning from its hiatus. Despite qualifying for the winter games for the race, the team is ranked 30th among all the countries competing after finishing at 58.42 seconds.

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SLOPES SKATES

competition.

This category includes artsy favorites figure skating and ice dancing. It also encompasses the “track-and-field of the Winter Olympics:” speed skating, in both the normal and short track.

U.S. Medal Count: One bronze, team figure skating

What you’ve missed: Men’s, pairs and team figure skating; Some men’s and women’s speed skating and short track What’s coming up: Some men’s and women’s speed skating and short track; Ice dancing; Women’s figure skating Notable athletes: Aptly-named U.S. figure skater Gracie Gold is expected to be one of the only competitors capable of taking on 15-year-old Russian phenom Yulia Lipnitskaya during this week’s women’s figure skating

Best Moment: Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov won gold for Russia in the Pairs figure skating category and the Team figure skating category. This is Russia’s 13th gold medal in the pairs figure skating category, which the country dominated for 12 consecutive Olympics since 1964 until 2010, when the team lost to China.

Worst Moment: Jeremy Abbott, the U.S. figure skating champion, fell face-first onto the ice after attempting a quadruple toe loop, and then crashed into a wall. After lying on the ice for several moments, he got up and continued the routine, coming in at 15th place, out of 29 other skaters.

The slopes are the scene for most of the Winter Olympics’ main events: alpine, cross-country and freestyle skiing; ski jumping; biathlon and snowboarding racing and half-pipe. The slopes in Sochi have already had many inspiring events, and are expected to be the site of many more in the upcoming week.

What you’ve missed: Men’s aerials freestyle skiing, men’s team ski jumping, men’s snowboard cross, women’s giant slalom in alpine skiing, and men’s ski half-pipe in freestyle skiing What’s coming up: Men’s aerials freestyle skiing, men’s team ski jumping, men’s snowboard cross, ladies’ giant slalom in alpine skiing, and men’s ski halfpipe in freestyle skiing Notable Athletes: Team USA dominated the men’s slopestyle for freestyle skiing, making the scoreboard entirely red, white and blue.

Joss Christensen nabbed the gold, Gus Kenworthy scored silver and Nick Goepper won bronze, making the scoreboard entirely red, white and blue. Joss Christensen nabbed the gold, Gus Kentworthy scored silver and Nick Goepper won bronze.

U.S. Medal Count: Four gold, three silver, five bronze Best Moment: Two athletes, Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland, tied for first in the women’s downhill race in Alpine skiing. The two came in at the same time down to the milliseconds, at 1 minute, 41.57 seconds, which is a first in Olympic history.

Worst Moment: Team USA’s Shaun White’s upset comes in as the worst moment on the slopes at this year’s Winter Olympics. White’s expected gold medal in the half-pipe became a fourth place finish after he suffered multiple falls during the trick-laden competition.

Notable Athletes: The USA curling team has a twin power duo: Sarah and Taylor Anderson, from Pennsylvania. Timothy Leif “T.J.” Oshie, a player on the USA hockey team, led the team to victory against Russia after scoring four shootout goals.

U.S. Medal Count: No one has medaled in either ice hockey or curling, as they have not yet reached the finals.

Best Moment: Team USA won an ice hockey shootout against Russia on Saturday.

The game evoked references to the “Miracle on Ice,” the US hockey team’s defeat over the Soviet Union during the Cold Warera 1980 Winter Olympics.

Worst Moment: After coming in as a favorite for the gold, the U.S. women’s hockey team lost to Canada in an early preliminary game last week. Though both moved on, some view this as a bad sign for the American team, since Canada has won the past 17 Olympic gold medals in women’s hockey.

that promotes curling but me, which is pretty cool.

It shows I’m different and am willing to open up and do something different.

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You’re the worst Norwegian, you should go home.

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norwegian cross-country skier martin johnsrud sundy’s mother, after martin won bronze.

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We’re not jokers - we’re serious contenders.

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@BobCostasEyes Bob’s eyes are red, Matt’s eyes are blue, Meredith can’t fix this.

Costas where are you?

Costas Comeback Bob Costas will be returning to cover the Sochi Olympics starting Monday night.

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Steak & Sundae 1830 Teall Ave. (315) 463-6551 Mon. - Thurs. 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Fri. - Sat. 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Taste: 3/5 Distance: 5/5

Scene: 4/5 Service: 4/5

Price: 4/5 Total: 4

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Steak & Sundae’s Veal Marsala, served with mushroom gravy (right), cost $15.25 and had a savory broth flavor with reduced Marsala wine, but was made with canned mushrooms. The Chicken Parmigiana and pasta (left), cost $13.65 and had a crispy and tender taste, but was topped in a red sauce that was disappointingly bland. keegan barber staff photographer

Meaty-ocre Steak & Sundae provides comforting but predictable food with bland flavor

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his place could be your new Denny’s, if only it stayed open for 24 hours.

I’ve always liked big portions, especially if the food is seasoned well and the price is decent. Steak & Sundae is a place where the portions are huge and the price is just right, but the flavors are safe and dull.

The restaurant is at 1830 Teall Avenue, about a 10-minute drive from campus. I didn’t close my eyes and savor every bite during my meal, but I did feel a sense of home in the restaurant, which I didn’t mind.

When I first walked in, I saw cakes, layered pudding desserts and cannolis in a glass tube counter top. I almost decided to start my meal with dessert, but got distracted from the thought when a waiter ushered me to my table.

I thought of my own dining room as I saw the hanging potted plants and round bronze ceiling lights scattered across the ceiling. Dark wood outlined the walls and matched the dark wood furnish. The chairs and tables reminded

me of a country-style buffet.

I indulged myself in a protein tour as I tasted the Veal Marsala for $15.25, the Chicken Parmigiana for $13.65 and the Fish Sandwich for $7.25. All were huge portions of comforting, predictable food.

The Veal Marsala came with a side Caesar salad, which had too much dressing. The romaine lettuce was wilting too fast for me to crunch on each bite. I recommend ordering the dressing on the side.

The veal was tender, but it didn’t taste fresh.

It was served with mushroom gravy, which had a savory broth flavor, and reduced Marsala wine. The chef was heavy handed with the wine. I love gravy and mushrooms, so I didn’t mind that the gravy was overwhelming the veal, but I wished the mushrooms were fresh instead of canned. It would have been better with a side of mashed potatoes.

The Chicken Parmigiana offered much more texture with a mixture of pasta and chicken on each bite. The chicken was fried to perfection. It was crunchy on the exterior, and the meat was juicy and tender. Yet the chicken

lacked flavor. Perhaps marinating the chicken overnight with diced garlic and onions, olive oil, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper might do the trick.

Just like the chicken, the fish sandwich offered enough variety in texture per bite.

I laced the chewy bread and the fried haddock with tartar sauce, and each bite was a delicious combination of those three flavors.

I ate the side of French fries between each bite. The fish was fried to perfection; it was crispy and tender.

The texture was so perfect that I almost didn’t mind that it lacked flavor. I wanted

to squeeze lemon juice on it because I was hesitant to add more tartar sauce, but I ended up doing nothing. The waiter took too long to check my table, and I didn’t ask for a wedge of lemon. So I just continued eating my crispy, tender but flavorless fried haddock.

As I looked around the restaurant, the place seemed ideal for the usual Sunday brunch with friends or family, or the weekly dinner. It was a place where waiters knew their patrons’ usual orders, laughed loudly in friendly conversations and wished their peers and patrons loud goodbyes from across the dining room.

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Students create campus alternative comedy improv group

By Charlotte Balogh contributing writer

Imagine standing on stage with a hot spotlight in your face as you stare into a shadowed audience and try to remember your lines. Public speaking of any sort is a common fear on its own, but what if there weren’t even any lines?

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That’s what improvisation entails. For some, it is a purely theatrical outlet, but for others, it is a medium for self-expression and team-building.

Enter, stage right: Mouse House Players, the new student-run improv comedy troupe on campus. Created by Alex Selden and Greg Jacks, two juniors majoring in environmental engineering and anthropology, respectively, Mouse House Players is seeking to create its own place on campus.

The group became an official student organization last October, and held their first auditions of the semester on Friday.

Traditionally, the Syracuse University improv scene has been limited to headliners such as Zamboni Revolution and a handful of smaller, unofficial organizations. Both Selden and Jacks said they auditioned for Zamboni Revolution. When they were rejected, they decided to create an “all-inclusive” group of their own.

“We should all be able to make fools out of ourselves,” said Jacks.

Selden, who has been involved with improv since high school, said he has always wanted to create a troupe. “We don’t want Syracuse to be limited by one group. At RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology), there are multiple improv troupes that aren’t in competition with one another. Instead, they’re all supporting the improv community,” said Selden.

Although formal auditions were last Friday, there is always an opportunity for more students to become involved, said Selden. This all-inclusive theme is epitomized by its open-rehearsal schedule. Mouse House Players plans to have two practices per week: one practice for the official troupe, and the other for all interested individuals, he said.

“We want people who aren’t yet ‘good enough’ to come,” Selden said. Traditionally, he said, with the available organizations there was no place for people to learn and get better.

Jacks said those in Mouse House Players are not expecting serious or experienced actors who can take a single word and instantaneously create a scene. Selden described the ideal candidate as being “open-minded, committed and humble.” Jacks used the words “spontane-

Students of the Mouse House Players practice improv comedy in one of the group exercises.

The group became an official student organization last October, and held its first auditions this semester on Feb. 14.

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ous” and “creative,” saying candidates should “be able to show people emotions.”

Selden and Jacks said that at its auditions last Friday, Mouse House Players welcomed a variety of students with varying levels of experience. Warm-up activities included everything from freeze tag to light openers designed to get everyone involved, they said.

One of these students, Dan Franco, a senior psychology major, had zero previous improv experience before joining Mouse House Players.

Franco said he went to a meeting before the group was officially registered. He had a friend who loved it and said he would, too.

“Once you get into it, you really start to express yourself,” Franco said. “There were a bunch of new people and they seemed to jump into it really fast.”

Joseph Blum, a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and faculty advisor for the Mouse House Players, knew a lot about off-campus activities, including the Thumbs

UPstate Improv Festival, which he coordinates.

Both Selden and Jack said they owe Blum a lot, as he’s helped to expand their idea of both the oncampus and off-campus improv community.

Now, Selden said, “when we get bigger, we want to do shows everywhere we can.”

Selden and Jacks said they have plans to train their current team and expand the outreach of the organization as a whole. With more practice, they said they expect each member to handle harder prompts and activities.

“I want someone to walk off the street and come into our show and think we’re putting on a play,” Selden said. “It will feel that natural and well-scripted.”

Franco said it takes a little courage to put oneself out there, but it can be really cathartic once they do.

“Honestly, I think everyone should try it,” he said. “There’s a human need to be loud and expressive and make other people laugh.” clbalogh@syr.edu

Rat fur should not be considered as fashion trend

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f it looks like cashmere and it feels like cashmere, it is probably cashmere. Or, it could be rat fur.

You wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference.

Less than two weeks ago, police in Rome seized more than a million pieces of counterfeit clothing, according to a Feb. 3 article from United Press International. Many of these items were coats and sweaters labeled as cashmere, but actually contained a mixture of “acrylic, viscose, and fur from rats and other animals.”

This gives a new meaning to “I smell a rat.”

The seizure of goods marks the end of a yearlong investigation into five Chinese-run clothing manufacturers. The suspects were arrested in the Italian cities of Livorno and Rome and could face fraud charges.

The police also seized knockoff merino wool, silk and pashmina garments that are presumably made of similar materials to the cashmere sweaters.

The retailer who was selling these counterfeit products remains unknown. I think it’s safe to say that any store that sells cashmere is going to have a dip in their sweater sales. Rats!

Counterfeiting is making governments step up their crackdowns, as the practice is becoming commonplace in both local and international markets. For many people in rural areas, counterfeiting is seen as a way of life. The price of real goods is too high for most

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WHEN IN DOUBT WEAR RED people to buy, so they have no choice but to accept counterfeit and defective goods.

China’s legitimate industries are hurting for that reason. Consumers are wary to buy anything with a “Made in China” tag due to the country’s reputation for selling fake goods.

They may be put off by the label, even on brands that they know and love, because they’re worried the goods might be fake. Or made of rat fur.

What I want to know is how exactly do they use the rat fur in the clothing? Rat fur is about oneeighth of an inch thick. How do they weave that into a sweater? Your guess is just as good as mine.

The crazy thing is, this isn’t the first time that rat fur has made an appearance in fashion. In 2010, using rat fur in a fashion collection was actually considered a trend. Designers such as Billy Reid, Michael Kors and Oscar de la Renta used the fur from a nutria rat in their collections.

The even crazier part is that nutria fur was rebranded as a socially acceptable and environmentally-friendly alternative way to wear fur.

The reason? Nutria rats harm the environment by eating away the bottom of the plants

that hold coastal wetlands together. In 2002, trappers and hunters were paid a reward for every nutria rat killed in an effort to control the population, according to a June 2010 article from the Guardian. But the carcasses were simply discarded or left to rot in the swamp.

Designers thought that since they were getting killed anyway, why not make something beautiful out of them?

And the rat coat was born. Or at least a coat trimmed with rat fur.

I’m not quite sure what People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals thinks about this one, but since they are pretty much against any fur at all, I’m thinking that they still don’t like it. Proponents for the trend advocated that, it’s a fur coat, but the animal had a cage-free life and an organic diet.

I don’t see the allure of using rat fur in a collection or wearing it. \Women scream at the sight of them running around, but they are OK with wearing them on their gloves? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

I guess that’s why the manufacturers needed to lie about the materials of their sweaters.

No one wants to wear what’s stuck in a trap underneath his or her sink.

Who knows where we’re going to see rat fur pop up again. Let’s just hope it’s labeled correctly next time.

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Christmas lifts Orange past Wolfpack as lone healthy center

By Stephen Bailey sports editor

Rakeem Christmas wagged his pointer finger three times as he strode back toward the Syracuse bench.

The Orange had survived again. With the weight of an undefeated No. 1 team on his back, it was Christmas — the team’s lone healthy center — who walked the foul-trouble tight rope once more to lift Syracuse to its second straight victory without Baye Moussa Keita.

“Rakeem played a great game for us,” SU forward C.J. Fair said. “If he doesn’t play the way he played, we don’t come out with the win.”

Christmas turned in arguably the best performance of his career with a team-high 14 points, 12 rebounds and seven blocks as the top-ranked Orange (25-0, 12-0 Atlantic Coast) staved off North Carolina State (16-9, 6-6) 56-55 in the Carrier Dome on Saturday.

He knocked down all six of his free throws in the final 10:08 and made the defensive play Syracuse needed in the waning seconds, jumping Anthony Barber’s pass to Kyle Washington and starting the break that resulted in Fair’s game-winning layup. But most importantly, he put SU in position to beat the Wolfpack by committing just three fouls, and altering more than just the shots he got his hands on.

“I thought he was really the difference in the game,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said.

Christmas’ dominance started early.

First, a 15-foot jump shot from the right wing. Then a pair of powerful slam dunks.

And finally an impressive save underneath the basket that nearly led to a Trevor Cooney

3-pointer.

With the rest of SU’s frontcourt floundering, he was the lone constant. After a swatting of N.C. State guard Tyler Lewis with 5:31 left, even Boeheim clapped.

“I was just trying to go out there and block everything,” Christmas said. “They were trying to take a lot of jump shots, and I was lunging at them and I was getting them. I was just trying to do that and be disruptive.”

Christmas blocked six more shots in the second half, commandeering an interior resilience that limited N.C. State to grabbing just 13 rebounds after the break.

Each time the Wolfpack penetrated the 2-3 zone, Christmas was there to either block or alter the shot attempt.

He rejected T.J. Warren’s jumper 18 seconds into the second half and then Jordan Vandenberg’s two minutes later.

He turned Warren away twice more in the following three minutes before denying Barber’s baseline drive at the 12:56 mark.

Christmas said he’s mastered the process of deciding whether or not he’ll try to block a shot.

If there’s space between him and the offensive player, he’ll go for it. But if their bodies are already in contact, he’ll just stick his arms straight up.

It’s been a gradual process, but one that’s paid tremendous dividends in SU’s two games without Keita and sophomore center DaJuan Coleman, who underwent season-ending knee surgery on Jan. 28.

“I’ve been doing that since high school,” Christmas said. “That’s one thing I’ve learned to do is block shots.”

It wasn’t until this summer, though, that

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STAT TO KNOW The 14 rebounds that Jerami Grant collected was a career high. After the Orange was outrebounded by N.C. State in the first half, the sophomore forward helped SU gain control of the boards in the second stanza.

STORYTELLER I feel like we’ve played overall well enough to be 20-5. I think that’s really what we are. We haven’t played better than that.

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With Baye Moussa Keit sidelined, only six players saw significant minutes.

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The center did an admirable job manning the center position almost entirely by himself with Baye Moussa Keita out again. He had 12 points, 14 rebounds and seven blocks. He played 35 minutes for the second straight game.

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Our luck will run out at some point.

We’ve just got to be better on offense.

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Anthony Barber

Anthony Barber turned the ball over to Tyler Ennis, which led to the game-winning score for C.J. Fair with just six seconds to play. Barber also finished just 1-of-5 from the field.

Christmas put as much effort into his freethrow shooting. Christmas said assistant coach Mike Hopkins pushed him to practice at the line throughout the off-season.

After shooting 57.4 percent from the foul line last season, the junior is up to 68.4 percent.

And when the Orange needed him on Saturday, he came through when Jerami Grant, Tyler Ennis and Fair didn’t.

His last free throw gave SU a 51-50 edge with 4:43 to play.

“It’s something that now we’re getting used to and we’ve got to expect,” Grant said.

“If he didn’t play like this, we would’ve lost this game.”

But Syracuse didn’t.

After Grant and Cooney trapped Barber in the corner, Christmas swiped his pass and flipped the ball to Ennis. Moments later, Fair hit a layup and the Orange escaped with its second exhilarating win of the week.

Keita is expected to return soon, and when he does much of the pressure currently placed on Christmas will be relieved.

But until that happens, Syracuse will need him to continue his high rate of efficiency if it wants to stay undefeated.

Said Christmas: “Without DaJuan and Baye, I have to step up.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

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Keita could play Wednesday; Grant shines in Orange win

By Stephen Bailey and Trevor Hass the daily orange

Baye Moussa Keita may return when Syracuse hosts Boston College on Wednesday night.

The Syracuse senior center, who’s missed the team’s last two games with a sprained right knee, ran in practice Friday and said he expects to participate fully in practice Monday.

“I just don’t want to take it too fast,” Keita said after No. 1 Syracuse’s (25-0, 12-0 Atlantic Coast) 56-55 win against North Carolina State (16-9, 6-6) on Saturday. “I don’t want to go out there, get hurt and not come back. I know that they need me out there, but I’m just going to take it one day at a time.”

I just don’t want to take it too fast. I don’t want to go out there, get hurt and not come back. I know that they need me out there, but I’m just going to take it one day at a time.

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The Orange survived without Keita on Saturday night, thanks mostly to a second straight 35-minute effort from junior center Rakeem Christmas. But Keita’s return would not only bolster SU’s center depth, but also take minutes off the forwards.

Excluding two first-half minutes from freshman Tyler Roberson, the Orange has played a six-man rotation for the last 80 minutes of game time.

“If I thought we could get another guy in there, I would, but I don’t think we can,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “We’re going to be a little tired, but I’d rather have C.J. (Fair)

BAYE MOUSSA KEITA sat out Saturday’s win over N.C. State, but may return on Wednesday. yuki mizuma staff photographer

in there for 40 than somebody else in there for five that can’t do what we need them to do.”

Keita said that when he does return, he’ll have to wear a brace on the knee for the rest of the season. Strapping it up in the locker room, Keita was able to flex his leg fairly comfortably.

But he’s still being cautious. He said he’s tried to take it easy during the celebrations of SU’s two last-minute wins this week.

“This one I just stayed calm because I didn’t want to jump and sprain something else,” Keita said.

With Christmas posting 70 minutes in the last two games, Keita’s absence hasn’t hurt the Orange yet.

But he knows each game he’s stuck on the bench is one more that it could.

Said Keita: “I know (Christmas) needs some help out there. Thirty-five minutes is a long time for him.”

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Jerami Grant has seen Syracuse get manhandled on the boards too many times this season. Entering Saturday, the Orange ranked second to last in the Atlantic Coast Conference in rebounds.

Most recently, Pittsburgh nearly rode an 11-rebound edge to a win.

On Saturday, North Carolina State’s front line could have potentially posed a similar problem. Big men Jordan Vandenberg and Kyle Washington were active around the basket in the first half, but Grant and Syracuse contained them in the second half en route to a 56-55 win over the Wolfpack.

Grant finished with 12 points and a careerhigh 14 boards, guiding the Orange to victory.

“Me and (Christmas) both wanted to come and rebound and not allow them any secondchance points,” Grant said.

For the most part, they were successful.

Syracuse outrebounded N.C. State by one and held down an area that could have been problematic in the contest.

Midway through the first half, he altered Lennard Freeman’s shot and snagged the rebound on one end, and put back a Trevor Cooney miss on the other.

When the Orange’s offense was particularly stagnant to start the second frame, Grant kept SU within striking distance. He hit two free throws and converted a layup off the glass to keep Syracuse afloat in the first seven minutes of the second half.

Grant’s skinny frame made containing the bulkier Washington difficult, but Grant held his own. His scoring was timely and his rebounding was consistent.

“At halftime we just said we need to start getting more rebounds,” Christmas said, “and that’s what we started doing in the second half.”

Grant altered N.C. State players’ shots with his length, as the long arms NBA scouts have noticed were especially disruptive on Saturday night.

And in the closing moments of the game, Grant’s long arms helped keep Syracuse undefeated. He and Cooney trapped Anthony Barber in the corner, leaving Barber nowhere to go.

He should have simply held on to the ball, but he panicked and passed. Christmas intercepted it and tossed it to Tyler Ennis, who fed Fair in stride for the game-winner.

Even when Syracuse’s offense isn’t cooking, its length is always there. Grant made sure N.C. State was rattled all night.

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Syracuse thrashes Canisius behind 4 goals from Poplawski

By Sam Blum asst. copy editor

Canisius took its time crossing the field after coming out of the tunnel before the start of the second half.

The Golden Griffins looked defeated as they slowly trudged to their sideline. It had been a disheartening first half in which they were outscored by 11 goals, and there was still 20 minutes to play.

Syracuse was dominating on offense. It had controlled draws, executed on scoring opportunities and set the tempo.

The need for a second half was nothing more than a formality.

“You don’t want teams to really feel like they’re in the game,” said SU attack Alyssa Murray. “No matter who you play, you put a couple quick ones up, it really just makes them step back and really worry about what’s going to happen next.”

The Orange came out of the gate strong, scoring the first eight goals in the game’s first 20 minutes. Freshman Taylor Poplawski scored a game-high, and career-high four goals in her

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bailey “C.J.’s had a couple bad games,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “He’s going to have a couple. I didn’t think he had his legs. He couldn’t get his legs on his jump shots.

“He made five layups.”

Fair shot 5-of-16 against the Wolfpack, indeed missing every one of his jump shots. He

first home game, as Syracuse (3-0) cruised to a home-opening 18-6 win over Canisius (0-1) at the Carrier Dome on Saturday in front of 1,442 fans.

Golden Griffs goalie Kayla Scully was forced to fend away shots all afternoon. And even though she made 12 stops, the offensive onslaught was too much for the goalkeeper to handle.

“We have a solid attack,” said SU head coach Gary Gait. “I think the last few years our attack has been one of the best, if not the best in the country. It’s right there again.”

Poplawski had her first breakout game offensively. Before the season, Gait said that she would be one of the few freshmen who would have a chance to make an effect. On Sunday, everyone saw why.

With 1:46 left in the first half, she wrapped from behind the left side of the goal and flung a shot from across her body into the lower part of the net. Twelve seconds later, she scored a laser off a pass from Murray. And with six seconds to play in the half, she did the same, this time from Kailah Kempney.

In the span of just 1:40, Poplawski found the

back of the cage three times to put the game out of Canisius’ reach before the first half had ended.

“It really feels great to be able to contribute to the team in that way,” Poplawski said. “I hold expectations for myself, and I have goals that I

wish to achieve.”

In Syracuse’s first two wins this season, it was the Kayla Treanor and Murray show. The two leading scorers combined for 16 goals in SU’s two contests in Florida in January. Yet on Sunday, several of the players got in the action.

Murray spent much of the afternoon setting up

her teammates. She had a game-high four assists.

With 14:27 remaining in the first half, Murray picked up the ball following a Canisius turnover. She sprinted toward the goal and had a shot to score. But instead, she dumped it off to a wide-open Devon Collins, who brought her arms back and whizzed the ball past Scully.

“It’s nice to have other options out there, players with confidence,” Gait said. “We expect everyone to contribute in those (Atlantic Coast Conference) games.”

As the goals continued to pile on, the noise from the Syracuse bench became fainter.

The game was in hand, and it had been for a while. Each goal would only change the score, not the result, which had long been decided.

“We worked hard the past three weeks, went through ups and downs during a long stretch of practice where it’s hard to keep the energy up,” Murray said. “Today was just the next step in our season.

“So I think now it’s really practice time where we’re going to get better as a team.” sblum@syr.edu

threw up two air balls, missed a critical runner in the lane with 2:23 to go and split at the foul line at the 41-second mark.

He wasn’t just slow to start, like he was against the Panthers when he hit a 3-pointer and pull-up jumper on the wing in the last two minutes. He was ineffective for 40 minutes.

This is the preseason ACC Player of the Year. A senior captain. A potential All-American. The guy who every other player on this team looks to in timeouts late in games.

“Doug McDermott is probably the best scorer (in the country), but C.J.’s definitely right behind,” SU point guard Tyler Ennis said.

“Versatility wise, he can score outside, inside.

He’s definitely underrated.”

Fair was unsure if fatigue played a factor in his shooting woes Saturday. The Orange has played three games in the last seven days — and Fair has played 118 of 120 minutes —but he chalked up the struggles, in part, to relying on his upper body too much.

Moving forward, though, his workload won’t lighten too significantly. The potential return of senior center Baye Moussa Keita could alleviate a few minutes per game, but with an even more daunting stretch of three games in six days ahead, Boeheim can’t afford to take his

best player off for that long.

The Orange hosts Boston College on Wednesday, travels to Duke for round two on Saturday and plays at Maryland on Monday.

“We need to get better on offense,” Fair said.

“It starts with me. I think that if I can get things going early throughout the whole game, it will make things for my teammates a lot easier. If I can get going I think our offense will be a lot better.”

When the offense hits a rut in a win-or-gohome game, the team will turn to Fair. And if the Orange is to go on a championship run, he’ll have to be ready to answer the call.

Stephen Bailey is the sports editor at The Daily Orange where his column occasionally appears. He can be reached at sebail01@syr. edu or on Twitter at @Stephen_Bailey1.

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losses — never mind one.

“I feel like we’ve played overall well enough to be 20-5,” Boeheim said. “I think that’s really what we are. We haven’t played better than that.”

Neither Fair nor Ennis played well against the Wolfpack. All five of Fair’s field goals came in the paint. He said his legs were tired. When he watched himself shoot on tape, he saw that he was shooting only with his upper body.

He even air-balled a shot he usually drains.

Twice.

Ennis was uncharacteristically lackadaisical with the ball, turning it over four times.

“Tyler’s made nothing but good plays,” Boeheim said. “He made a couple bad ones tonight, which is really what you expect a freshman to do.”

Boeheim’s said the same thing multiple times this season. He said it when Syracuse squeaked out a win over St. John’s at Madison Square Garden. He knows his team keeps winning, but he insists SU still isn’t a good team and has lots of work to do.

The toughest games on the schedule are still to come, Boeheim said. If the Orange keeps playing as poorly as it did against N.C. State, he’s confident the undefeated season everyone’s talking about will soon disappear.

Cooney just laughed when asked how his team pulled out yet another win.

“I have no idea,” he said. “Especially today, I have no idea. We did get really lucky toward the end.

“You can’t keep doing this.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

I think the last few years our attack has been one of the best, if not the best in the country.

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n.c. state the offensive end against Duke, Syracuse has been woefully inefficient.

SU scored 61 against Notre Dame, needing a late-game push to fend off the Fighting Irish. Then it needed a miraculous heave from Tyler Ennis to survive against Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

In those games, Syracuse played poorly, but thrived in the final minutes. On Saturday, Boeheim said it was the first time his players made bad plays down the stretch until the final seconds.

The Orange was finally outplayed late in the game.

“When you’ve had a stretch like we have you’re going to have some games where you don’t make good plays,” Boeheim said. “Tonight was that game.”

Once again, Syracuse prevailed, but it did so thanks to some fortuitous bounces and timely traps.

The first trap forced Desmond Lee to lose the ball out of bounds, giving SU a chance to take the lead. After Ennis was called for an offensive foul, the Orange needed another stop.

Then came the game-winner. A simple play.

One that SU desperately needed because it couldn’t muster up anything else.

Syracuse was sloppy the whole game, particularly in the final minutes. The offensive woes weren’t a fluke, but rather epitomized what’s been happening of late.

Boeheim said that’s been the case since Duke. He’s surprised his team doesn’t have five

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albany it nearly gave away.

The Syracuse-Albany Classic in the Carrier Dome is slowly becoming a bit of an annual tradition. Three-hundred-and-sixty-four days ago, the unranked Great Danes made their two-hour trip west and returned to Albany with the program’s first over SU in 11 tries. The thrilling double-overtime victory was a rude awakening to the Orange’s season.

On Sunday, Syracuse returned the favor with an equally riveting performance.

“A rivalry, they say, is defined when both teams win a game,” Albany head coach Scott Marr said. “Here we are again. What a game.”

Syracuse jumped out to a 7-3 lead after one quarter, but relented four unanswered goals in the second frame. Albany pulled ahead in the final minute of the half for a span of 33 seconds — the only time during the entire game that the Great Danes were in front.

But in a game of runs, the Orange strung together one of its own to pull away from Albany — seemingly.

When Randy Staats scored to punctuate a 5-0 stretch that put the Orange ahead 16-11, the SU sideline and section of the bleachers erupted. Less than 11 minutes remained on the game clock.

Game over, they thought.

“When you get down, it’s easy to fold,” Marr said. “And we did not fold.”

Just as the Great Danes erased a four-goal deficit before halftime, they closed the second half the same way. Two Albany scores cut Syracuse’s lead to three with 7:15 left.

A four-penalty melee left the Syracuse defense at a two-man disadvantage with less

men ’s lacrosse than six minutes to go. Three Orange defenders trying to cover five Great Dane attacks.

Two shots misfired. But just as SU’s Brandon Mullins and Tom Grimm were sprinting back onto the field, Lyle Thompson’s shot was on its way toward the bottom-right corner of the net.

Forty-four seconds later, Ty Thompson’s fifth score of the game brought Albany within one, with 4:47 still to play.

“Once they get rolling, no matter how you play defense, it’s hard to stop them,” SU longstick midfielder Matt Harris said.

Two minutes later, Syracuse goalie Bobby Wardwell got his stick on a Ryan Feuerstein shot, but the ball bounced right to John Maloney, who flicked it into the net. Syracuse had held the lead for almost the entire game, and suddenly it was gone.

And just as abruptly, the Great Danes threatened to pull ahead by winning the next faceoff.

Even with SU down a man, Wardwell made a game-saving stop. Syracuse cleared, called timeout with 12.9 seconds remaining, and drew up a play for Hakeem Lecky, who couldn’t get a shot off before the buzzer.

A minute and 28 seconds into overtime, Staats turned over his left shoulder and passed to an open Schoonmaker, who stood 10 yards from the goal line. Schoonmaker squared his body to the cage, dropped down and side-armed a bouncer past Blaze Riorden’s left and into the net as Syracuse averted what would’ve been a disastrous collapse.

“We knew as a coaching staff this could come down to whoever had the ball last,” SU head coach John Desko said, “and fortunately we had the ball last and we were able to put it away.” pmdabbra@syr.edu | @PhilDAbb

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HENRY SCHOONMAKER jumps and hugs his teammates following his game-winning goal a minute and a half into overtime to beat Albany 17-16. The shot avenged last year’s loss to the Great Danes, when SU faltered in double-overtime. spencer bodian staff photographer

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TIGHT ROPE

SU’s tourney hopes hinge on tired Fair

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TYLER ENNIS eyes C.J. Fair running up the court before Fair’s game-winning bucket in the waning moments of SU’s 56-55 win over N.C. State on Saturday. The Orange struggled to score down stretch of the game, but connected off a turnover. yuki mizuma staff photographer

Fair’s game-winning layup bails Orange out after rough offensive play

By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

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ust like it has all season, Syracuse found a way to win at the end of the game. But for the first time all season, it wasn’t due to its offensive execution.

Rakeem Christmas stole the ball with 13 seconds left and SU down one. He dished it to Tyler Ennis, who found a slashing C.J. Fair. Fair laid it in with 6.7 seconds to go in what SU

head coach Jim Boeheim said was the only way the Orange could possibly score to beat North Carolina State.

“Even though we’ve been in these situations, our luck will run out at some point,” Fair said. “We’ve just got to be better on offense.”

No. 1 Syracuse (25-0, 12-0 Atlantic Coast) shot just 35.2 percent from the field, eking out a 56-55 win over N.C. State (16-9, 6-6) in front of 31,572 at the Carrier Dome on Saturday night.

Though the final result has been the

same all season, SU is barely escaping and isn’t playing well in the process.

Saturday was the latest example, as the Orange was outplayed the entire game and struggled to generate any offensive consistency.

“Our offense wasn’t that great tonight and our defense was OK,” guard Trevor Cooney said. “You can’t do that, especially in the ACC.” The past four games have been a blur. Since a flawless performance on see n.c.

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FOR THE FIRST TIME Syracuse shot 61.5 percent in the last five minutes of the first six games it trailed in late this year. On Saturday, SU shot 20 percent PITTSBURGH

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.J. Fair caught the pass from Trevor Cooney and rose up from the right corner, all alone. with Syracuse trailing North Carolina State 34-32 and 11:36 left on the clock.

He flicked his wrist as he watched the 3-pointer roll off his fingers.

If good, it would STEPHEN give the Orange BAILEY IN THE MIDDLE its first lead since ANYWAY the 4:18 mark of the first half.

But it fell short — way short. It was Fair’s second air ball of the night, and that left the 31,572 fans in the Carrier Dome speechless. You could almost hear the ball hit the floor.

“Each game you try to show that you’re one of the top guys,” Fair said.

“Sometimes it ain’t always your night.”

Saturday wasn’t Fair’s night despite hitting the game-winning layup with 6.7 seconds to play. But neither was Wednesday, when SU beat No. 25 Pitt and Fair disappeared for the first 37 minutes. And neither was last Monday when Fair shot 2-of-13 and the Orange barely edged ice-cold Notre Dame.

In fact, since Fair’s 28-point outburst against Duke on Feb. 1 — after which he proclaimed himself the best player in the Atlantic Coast Conference — he’s shooting just 37.5 percent from the field, 20 percent from 3-point range and 66.7 percent from line.

If Fair can’t rediscover his offensive consistency, the Orange will have a hard time competing for a national championship.

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DOGFIGHT: Syracuse tops Albany on Schoonmaker’s OT goal

By Phil D’Abbraccio asst. copy editor

The thought was on Henry Schoonmaker’s mind before the question was even asked to him after the game. He had scored game-tying

goals before, but he had never experienced the thrill of a game-winner in overtime.

That is, until Sunday’s game against Albany.

“I was just running for my life from my teammates,” Schoonmaker

said. “I think that might have been the most tired I’ve ever been. It was a good feeling, though.”

Despite blowing a five-goal lead in the fourth quarter, No. 2 Syracuse (2-0) escaped with an exhilarating 17-16 overtime victory over the No.

11 Great Danes (0-1) before a divided audience of 6,484 in the Carrier Dome on Sunday. Syracuse leads the all-time series with Albany 11-1, but the Great Danes proved their upset from a season ago was no fluke.

Schoonmaker ended Sunday’s

drama with the first shot of the extra period. He unleashed a one-hopper that found the back of the net, sent Albany defender Jon Newhouse to the ground in disappointment and set off Syracuse’s celebration of a win see albany page 19