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By Jacob Pramuk asst. news editor

A transportation service that operated shuttle services at Syracuse University has closed.

A letter was posted on the front of Caz Limo’s East Syracuse headquarters Wednesday explaining that the company has closed after 13 years, according to a Feb. 19 News Channel 9 article. The letter gave no explanation for the closure other than the company’s “financial situation.”

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs at SU, said in a statement that the university was notified of Caz Limo’s plans to close and made arrangements to maintain transportation for students.

“Syracuse University did receive advance notification from Caz Limo about service disruption on our James Street, Nob Hill, and Warehouse bus routes,” Quinn said.

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PATRICK HECKMANN finishes a layup around C.J. Fair and Jerami Grant. Boston College ended the No. 1 Orange’s undefeated season on Wednesday night with a 62-59 overtime win in the Carrier Dome. SU shot just 32.3 percent in another poor shooting night. sterling boin staff photographer

Boston College upsets Fair struggles mightily Syracuse for 1st loss in 7-of-23 performance

By David Wilson staff writer

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yracuse’s final shot was one of desperation, but that hadn’t stopped it from going in before.

With six seconds left against Boston College, Trevor Cooney, who had made just one 3-pointer in the game, chucked up an off-balance 3 from the top of the key. Only this time there was no improbable swish, just the clang of leather on iron.

The final seconds, which have been so kind to Syracuse this season, finally betrayed the Orange.

In the last 30 seconds alone, C.J. Fair missed a jumper, Tyler Ennis nearly committed a boneheaded turnover and Cooney bricked a potential game-tying 3.

“We should’ve had two or three more losses the last three games,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said, “but we’ve just made unbelievable, tough plays at the end of games and the other teams miss shots or make mistakes.”

On Wednesday, though, Boston College (7-19, 3-10 Atlantic Coast) made those plays. Olivier Hanlan scored a game-high 20 points, see boston

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By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

C.J. Fair had already taken seven shots from the field through 10-plus minutes.

He hit one of them.

The Syracuse forward, who has been SU’s go-to option all season, never got into a rhythm against Boston College.

After hitting two crucial shots against Pittsburgh and the gamewinner to beat N.C. State last week, Fair was ineffective when SU needed him most on Wednesday night.

“C.J. goes 7-of-23,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said, “it’s surprising we’re in the game.”

Fair finished with 20 points and 11 rebounds, but took 23 shots — which is as many as Jerami Grant, Trevor Cooney and Rakeem Christmas took combined. His poor performance magnified No. 1 Syracuse’s (25-1, 12-1 Atlantic Coast) offensive futility in a 62-59 overtime loss to Boston College (7-19, 3-10) in the Carrier Dome, its first of the season.

Syracuse shot just 32.3 percent overall. Though Fair kept the see fair page 18

Committee to review budget use

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

Five Student A ssociation assembly representatives were appointed to the recently created Special Committee on the Budget Wednesday night.

The goal of the committee is to review SA’s roughly $90,000 operating budget and assess how the money is being spent.

Phil Porter, a freshman College of Arts and Sciences representative, will chair the committee, said Ben Jones, speaker of the assembly, who appointed members to the committee. Arts and Sciences representatives Nedda Sarshar and Amanda DeNardo, College of Visual and Performing Arts representative Eric Evangelista and recorder Malik Evans will also serve on the see budget page 10

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Benchwarmer wins with Hall of Fame taste

By Tom Sharkey staff writer

I was never the biggest fan of baseball growing up. So while my dad has taken my sister, who is a diehard Yankees fans, to Cooperstown a couple of times to visit the National Baseball Hall Of Fame, I always stayed home.

It wasn’t until last spring that I took my first trip to Cooperstown, and by that time I was 21 and able to fully enjoy the experience.

When I saw the Benchwarmer Porter on the shelf at Wegmans and realized it came from Cooperstown Brewing, I knew right away that I had to try it. All I know about porters is that they’re dark, heavy beers and the Benchwarmer Porter was no exception.

I decided to stick to the nostalgic and old-fashioned vibes that I felt in Cooperstown and drank the Benchwarmer Porter straight out of the bottle while watching “The Sandlot.”

I gave the beer a good whiff before taking my first sip and I picked up on

a slight aroma of coffee. Upon taking my first swig of the porter, I was surprised by the subtlety of the coffee taste. The Benchwarmer Porter had a more noticeable nutty taste, and it was delicious.

The beer barely seemed carbonated and almost had the viscosity of whole milk. It was really heavy, but not so heavy that it was hard to drink. I may not have been able to drink a whole six-pack in one sitting, but I surely enjoyed sipping on this porter and would definitely order it at a bar if I found it on draft.

With baseball season kicking off next month, the Benchwarmer Porter from Cooperstown Brewing is the perfect beer for enjoying a game from the comfort of your living room couch. I imagine that this beer would pair well with peanuts and nachos, but if you’re planning on getting rowdy at an actual baseball stadium, a lighter beer may be more suitable.

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Number of AP tests taken rises

By Justin Mattingly staff writer

With more high school students taking Advanced Placement exams than a decade ago, high schools are becoming hubs for higher education.

In an annual report published on Feb. 11, College Board, the company that runs AP classes and exams, released the number of students taking AP class in each state.

In New York, 38 percent of 2013 public high school graduates took an AP exam during high school, up from 31 percent in 2003.

More than 1 million members of the public high school class of 2013 took AP exams nationwide, up from more than 514,000 in 2003, according to a Feb. 11 Associated Press article.

In order to receive college credit for AP classes, students must obtain a certain score on the exam that is given at the end of the school year. At Syracuse University, students must earn a minimum score of three on many AP exams, which are scored from see ap

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Conflicting views on EU agreement spark violent protests in Ukraine

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hen Iryna Balabukha came to Syracuse University to pursue a Ph.D. in family studies, she often found herself thinking about her family back in Ukraine.

Balabukha lived in Cherkasy, a major city about 2.5 hours southeast of Kiev, the country’s capital, for 21 years. In Kiev, 14 protesters were killed Tuesday, the single bloodiest day since demonstrations began.

For people in Kiev, chaos has become a part of the city. Independence Square,

Kiev’s major city square, has become akin to Tahrir Square in Egypt or Taksim Square in Turkey. The standoff began on Nov. 21, when Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych backtracked on promises to have more open trading relations with members of the European Union. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians responded by protesting in the streets of Kiev.

Yanukovych met with leaders of several opposition parties on Wednesday, and they agreed to a truce and negotiations for ending the violence and stabilizing the country. On Thursday, European leaders were slated to discuss

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The U.S. Ukrainian diaspora organized protests in Washington, D.C. earlier this month against the regime. courtesy of evhenia viatchaninova

what action, if any, can be taken by the global community at a meeting in Brussels. The EU and its nations have been reluctant to pass sanctions.

Tuesday’s clashes with police raised the total death count for demonstrations to at least 26, and caused hundreds of hospitalizations and immeasurable physical damage to the city.

Balabukha’s family remains in the Cherkasy area as she pursues her studies at SU. She said her city’s national building was taken by the opposition,

but was given up in a deal the next day.

Still, her family has been fortunate to not witness as many violent clashes between protestors and the government as those who live in Kiev.

“They’re just having the life they had before the revolution. Businesses run the way they were,” she said. “In general, many people are just trying to live their lives. It’s less chaotic.”

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Republicans should move past Obamacare, also focus on immigration

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he GOP will not succeed in the upcoming midterm elections if it proves itself to be a single-issue party. Unfortunately, that appears to be exactly what Republican Party leadership is aiming for.

According to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the GOP will continue to pummel Democrats on Obamacare heading into the 2014 midterms. On a conference call with reporters last month, Priebus said, “We’ve promised that in 2014 we’d continue to pound away at Democrats and Obamacare and that’s how we’re starting the year. ” Instead of dwelling solely on the deficiencies of the Affordable Care Act and listing off talking points like a broken record, Republicans need to shift focus toward making the responsible decision on immigration reform. That responsible decision would be to work with Democrats to get it

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done as soon as possible.

In a Feb. 19 Washington Post article, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham wrote a particularly offensive article detailing why Republicans should oppose immigration reform. The article’s focus was primarily on refuting a series of points supporting immigration reform made by conservative columnist and commentator George Will.

Ingraham’s article highlights the utter stupidity of many of the anti-immigration reform arguments coming from the far right lately.

Will’s first point that Ingraham tries to refute is that the GOP should not only focus its efforts on

Obamacare in 2014. Ingraham’s argument with this point is that although she essentially agrees in principle, “giving in” to Democrats on immigration reform would only benefit them politically.

Instead of focusing on a normative evaluation of the pros and cons of immigration reform, this argument focuses solely on petty politics.

She then says if the GOP supports immigration reform, it risks alienating its conservative base to the point that voters might stay home on Election Day. If anyone who typically votes Republican stays home because the GOP allows the passage of immigration reform, then they’re probably not people the Republican Party should embrace.

Next Ingraham argues that, in light of data showing Latinos overwhelmingly favor Democrats, the GOP should try to limit immigration so that it holds a better chance in elections. This is offensive to Latinos on multiple levels. One, it

assumes they all vote for Democrats as a direct result of being Latino. Two, Ingraham is supporting the notion that Republicans would be wiser to fear Latinos than formulate any policy choices that embrace them.

I agree with Will when he argues that the “zero-sum reasoning about a fixed quantity of American opportunity is for a United States in a defensive crouch.” If the Republican Party opts to listen to Ingraham’s advice and embrace xenophobia as a formal policy, it may never win another presidential election.

A political party that fails to embrace and instead vilifies humans with the potential to help the country and influence elections is one headed in the wrong direction.

Ethan Demers is a senior political science and history major. His column appears weekly.

He can be reached at eademers@syr.edu.

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SU to bridge gender gap in politics with Elect Her initiative in April Elect Her will be coming to Syracuse on April 5 to combat political gender gaps with the help of a former Student Association president.

The program is an effort to encourage young college women to be involved in government and run for future political office. It is also aiming to reduce the enduring political gender gap in the United States.

“This program couldn’t be happening at a more appropriate time. We are at a pivotal moment where uplifting and empowering women to lead has become a priority at universities across

America,” Allie Curtis said. “The time is now to show that SU cares for our female leaders and will do whatever we can to support them.”

Former SA president and current assembly representative Allie Curtis has been instrumental in bringing the program here at SU. The program is a 4.5-hour program and will occur on April 5 from 10 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.

“Participants can expect thought and in-depth training for how to lead — and how to lead in a male-dominated field,” Curtis said.

Syracuse common councilor Jean Kessner,

one of the leading women of Syracuse government, will be a speaker at the event on political communications. Kessner won re-election in 2013 and serves as President Pro-tempore on the Common Council.

Students will also be involved with Elect Her and will serve as panelists for the event.

Such panelists include Allie Curtis (President of the 57th Session and Vice President of the 56th Session), Daniela Lopez (Current SA Vice President), Nia Boles (Vice Presidential candidate and Student Engagement Chair of the

57th Session) and Emily Ballard (BEM Chair of the 57th Session and Judicial Review Chair of the 57th and 58th Session). These women will speak on leadership and government.

Students can apply to be a part of Elect Her workshop that occurs on April 5 at students.syr. edu/electher.

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Study shows natural gas does not serve as cure-all

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he utilization of natural gas as an energy, heating and transportation fuel has skyrocketed in our nation as experts have designated it as a cleaner burning “bridge fuel.”

But a study released in Science on Friday gives new weight to the claim that natural gas is not a cure-all to our energy problems, bringing us to a “clean” national energy portfolio. As those opposed to the energy source have cautioned for years, the study finds that “methane emissions from U.S. and Canadian natural gas systems appear larger than official estimates.”

The United States should use natural gas more prudently, recognizing that it is not our energy messiah. As the energy source is nowhere near perfect, claims that natural gas is a “bridge fuel” to a better energy system or a “clean” fossil fuel are misleading and false.

Natural gas does have its positives, but we must keep in mind that the drawbacks call for it to just be a part of a diverse energy future.

Methane gas, the main component of natural gas, is still a fossil fuel. This means it is a nonrenewable resource that, when depleted, will take millions of years to reform beneath our feet. While we do not need to worry about running out any time soon, easily attainable natural gas will eventually be a thing of the past.

With more intensive production methods such as hydraulic fracturing, or hydro-fracking, we are already tapping into source areas that require extensive resources and energy to obtain.

With the issues of non-renewability, methane leakage is a strong driving factor of climate change.

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These temperature increases are known to cause changes in our atmospheric and oceanic currents and alter climates throughout the world in different ways. They may increase and decrease local temperatures, increase the veracity and frequency of dramatic weather events such as hurricanes and blizzards or indirectly cause sea level rise, among other things. This is global climate change.

While natural gas is part of our future to transition to cleaner energy, we must remember that it will not cure all of our energy woes.

There are positives to natural gas.

It is available in the United States, a “home-grown” energy source. It can create economic gains in different parts of our country, though it has also been shown to create boomand-bust cycles in local economies and other economic negatives .

In truth, many of the negatives surrounding natural gas drilling, especially hydraulic fracturing, circle themselves around the failures of the natural gas energy sector, which has polluted and taken advantage of citizens across the U.S. The most overwhelming positive for natural gas is that, in theory, it could be used as a “bridge fuel” from a dirty energy to a cleaner future.

But the theory is far from reality.

We must recognize the issues that natural gas presents and utilize this “clean” fossil fuel with a grain of salt.

Meg Callaghan is a senior environmental studies major at SUNY-ESF. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at mlcallag@syr.edu.

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Budget committee to provide assistance The newly created Special Committee on the Budget is a positive addition by the Student Association and shows that the organization is taking steps to ensure its operating budget is being used effectively and correctly.

On Wednesday, Speaker Ben Jones appointed five members to the committee. The purpose of the committee is to oversee the roughly $90,000 operating budget that the organization is responsible for allocating. SA President Boris Gresely proposed that the committee be created during his campaign.

The committee will be able to provide recommendations, but will not have any way of implementing them. It will be up to the assembly to implement recommendations by the committee.

SA has had some issues with using its operating budget effectively in the past. Two years ago, the organization violated its codes when it spent almost $4,000 hosting a formal. Gresely said this is one of the reasons the committee has been formed.

It is wise for SA to have more people sharing the responsibility of closely watching the use of the operating budget and providing input on these decisions. The more people that are involved and educated on the use of the budget, the easier it will be for the organization to make sure the money is being used in the best way possible and that the organization does not violate any of its codes.

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It is important that, after a semester of having the committee, SA reviews how effective the committee has been so it can determine if the committee or its role needs to be changed.

Though it will take time to see the positive effects that the Special Committee on the Budget may have, creating the committee is a positive step for SA and President Boris Gresely.

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tudents and faculty at Drake University have raised concerns because the school-sponsored Black History Month dinner featured fried chicken and collared greens.

Drake contracts an independent food service provider, Sodexo, that hosted the meal.

The meal has been served at the university before, but this year, Sodexo did not consult the Coalition of Black Students when planning the meal, as they have previous years.

Tess Montgomery, president of the Coalition of Black Students at Drake, said no one from her organization formally complained

but the complaints raised by other faculty and students centered on the name and presentation of the dinner.

“They labeled it the Black History Month dinner, when it should have been labeled something like ‘Southern Comfort,’” Montgomery said. “If they were going to name it Black History Month dinner, we would’ve wished that they had some sort of educational component or context to it.”

Sandra Patton-Imani, an associate professor of American studies at Drake who teaches classes about race, said this lack of educational information was more offensive than the foods that were used. She said the reason that collared greens are so often associated with Southern culture is because of their con-

nection to poverty. Historically, oppressed Southerners could very cheaply obtain greens and that’s why they used the food a lot, she said.

“Nobody’s saying there’s anything wrong with corn bread and collared greens and fried chicken,” Patton-Imani said. “Part of the reason that those are stereotypes about black culture is that they’re popular Southern foods and a lot of black folks come from the South, so there’s a way of presenting it that could have worked.”

Sodexo issued an apology for the dinner saying that they only had intentions of celebrating Black History Month, but realize that they went about it the wrong way.

“As in past years, we should have communicated and collaborated with the Coalition of Black Students on this event in order to make it a learning opportunity for Drake students,” Sodexo said in their statement.

Sodexo will collaborate with the Coalition of Black Students to host a second dinner on Feb. 27, which, according to a university press release, will “provide an opportunity for the student group to raise awareness of historical and cultural issues, including contextual information about food associated with black culture.”

Montgomery said that a few of the options offered at the first meal such as the quiche and the turkey potpie had nothing to do with African American history.

The Coalition of Black Students has already met with Sodexo and put together a menu for the second dinner with similar options to before, but have changed the name of the meal to Southern Comfort and will offer educational fact sheets on the tables and with the food.

The menu still includes items like catfish, fried okra and sweet potatoes, but the group decided not to keep collard greens.

“We decided not to do the greens because people didn’t really like them from the first time, but that still is a historically Southern and African American food,” Montgomery said. “So the meal was fine, it’s just not all of it was pertaining to black history at all.”

Patton-Imani added that there were numerous other Black History Month events that people in the university community are hosting to celebrate African American culture. She mentioned one of her students who created a haunted house that is supposed to model slavery in America. Participants walk through and are sold, bought and yelled at, just as they would have been if they lived as a slave.

Said Patton-Imani: “There is a lot of positive work going on around race as well so it’s unfortunate that that came to be in the way that it did, but I think that they responded very well.” clmoran@syr.edu

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ukraine the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, is a native of Ukraine. She said protesters and their supporters want more economic freedom to decide what is best for Ukraine.

Protesters are calling for the president to sign the Ukraine EU Association Agreement, which would strengthen ties between Ukraine and the EU, and give the country more freedom in trading with other members of the EU. “We’re not talking here about any close political associations with the EU, we’re not talking about entering the EU, it was not on the table by any means,” she said. “It is simply a free trade agreement.”

Brian Taylor, an associate professor of political science, said he is not surprised that Yanukovych didn’t sign the agreement. He said it would have brought on “somewhat costly economic reforms” that could have turned out to be politically disastrous for Yanukovych’s presidential bid next year, considering that not everyone in Ukraine supported the agreement.

“The underlying problem is that Ukrainian society is deeply split about how it feels about the EU, Russia, Yanukovych and the opposition,” he said.

Viatchaninova, who has participated in protests in America, said Kiev is in a state of emergency. The city and parts of the country have been experiencing what she calls an “informational blockade.” Television media, the most popular source of information for Ukrainians, is controlled by the state, who have been choosing to show “silly soap operas” rather than coverage of the protests, she said. Russian media also influences parts of Ukraine.

Before he and the opposition agreed to a truce, Yanukovych made many compromise attempts, but leaders of the opposition held a strong line against the government. Yanukovych, who has defended his position since outcries against him began, said he acted in order to avoid trade sanctions that have been threatened by Russia.

“Oppositional leaders neglected the main principle of democracy — the power is gained not on the streets or squares, but at the polls,” Yanukovych said Wednesday in a presidential press release. “These, so to speak, politicians tried to seize power without mandate of people, illegally, violating the Constitution of Ukraine, resorting to riots, arsons and murders.”

Insisting that he has never condoned the use of power against protest, Yanukovych accused the protesters’ actions of holding the country hostage and stalling true democratic progress. Each side — the government and the protesters — blame the other as instigators for the initial violence.

Given the magnitude of the protests, most of Ukraine has been enflamed in some sort of uprising, Viatchaninova said, but the severity differs from one protest to another. Still, she added, a quick progression of the protests was unexpected.

“I don’t know how (Yanukovych) has managed in just three years to arouse such a hatred against himself,” she said. “But he and his regime have managed to do so because prior to him, we just had crony capitalists.”

Balabukha said Kiev is one of the most volatile cities in the country because of its diversity. But when Balabukha was in Ukraine this past summer, she sensed “nothing in the air” — meaning unrest or anger toward the government — that might indicate it escalating to its current level.

“I didn’t expect it to be as violent as it is,” she said. “I did not expect it to arrive at the time that it did.” zmwarman@syr.edu

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ap tests one to five, to receive college credit. SU currently accepts credit for 39 AP tests.

More and more U.S. curriculums are being shaped to prepare students for life beyond high school. The increases in AP class enrollment show that this emphasis is working, said Barry Copeland, principal at West Genesee High School.

“This is in line with the general increase in the New York State Education Department’s emphasis on students being even more college and career ready upon graduating from high school,” Copeland said in an email. “Public education continues to prepare students well for both during and after their high school experience.”

Copeland said that teachers and administrative personnel emphasize that students attempt at least one college level course, whether it be AP, SU Project Advance, or other courses, prior to graduating.

Though AP classes involve an accelerated curriculum, some SU students feel that the classes may not be as challenging as they seem.

Sarah Valenzuela, a sophomore political science and broadcast and digital journalism major, believes more students are taking AP classes and passing the tests because they’re easier than they were in the past.

Valenzuela, who is from New York state, said she noticed little difference between her AP U.S. history exam’s essay questions and the essay questions on the U.S. history Regents, which were part of the state’s standardized testing.

“The essay questions were the same on both tests so I wrote the same essay for both,” Valenzuela said. “If you study the right way, the test is very easy.”

Kristin Cordon, a junior graphic design and information technology major, said that she had a smooth experience taking an AP class, and the course was easier than she thought it would be.

Cordon said that students might take the classes to get arts and sciences prerequisites out of the way before going to college. However, Cordon said AP classes don’t provide the experience of a college class.

“I took an AP class for the college credit, but the experience I had in high school doesn’t even compare to the experience I’ve had with classes here at Syracuse,” Cordon said.

Valenzuela said her AP class experience was exceptional as her class was a tight group, something students may not experience at a college campus.

“My class was like a family and everything that we did had a purpose so it wasn’t as demanding as some might think,” she said. jmatting@syr.edu

by the numbers Here is a breakdown of the Advanced Placement exams and those who take the tests.

State of mind These are the states with the most students who took the exams scoring a three or better.

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budget committee, Jones said in an email.

“I hope that the five of us can sit down, go through it line by line and really make sure that SA is spending our money well and that SA is spending our money in ways that truly stand for the things we say we stand for,” Porter said.

The Budget Committee is one of several initiatives president Boris Gresely proposed during his campaign last semester. The five-member special committee on the budget will look at SA’s operating budget to make sure the organization is spending its money correctly. Two years ago SA violated its codes by using almost $4,000 from its operating budget to hold an SA formal.

Gresely said this issue played a part in the decision to propose the committee.

SA is a direct representation of the students and needs to be accountable to the students they represent, Porter said. He said he thinks the committee can help ensure that SA is spending the students’ money responsibly and in line with financial codes.

“Each student pays $203 for their student activity fee and we want to make sure that money is being used in the best way possible,” Porter said.

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caz limo students would not be affected.”

Patricia Dugal, Caz Limo’s president, did not immediately return a call for comment on the company’s status. There are no documents on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records website about Caz Limo filing for bankruptcy.

mendations about the budget, it does not have any way to enforce its suggestions. The assembly can make any changes the committee recommends, Gresely said.

The committee is also important for transparency, Gresely said. Before, assembly members and students didn’t know how the operating budget was being spent, he said.

“What I’m doing as president is making sure that there are checks and balances in place so that way the assembly can hold me accountable and can definitely hold themselves accountable,” Gresely said.

The committee will also examine whether SA can operate on a smaller budget, Gresely said. If so, more money can go to student organizations that request funding through SA, he said.

A large part of SA’s current operating budget goes toward funding the Student Readership program, which provides free copies of The New York Times and USA Today to students.

SA pays about $40,000 out of its $88,000 operating budget to fund half the program. The Division of Student Affairs funds the other half.

Gresely is currently in discussions with the Division of Academic Affairs to have them help fund the program, he said. He has proposed that SA, Student Affairs and Academic Affairs all pay for a third of the total cost of the program, he added. jliannet@syr.edu | @JessicaIannetta

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Scot Vanderpool, manager for Parking and Transit Services at SU, said in an email that he couldn’t immediately comment but the university is “working on a response” about the closing’s effect on the university’s transportation.

jspramuk@syr.edu —Asst. News Editors Ellen Meyers and Brett Samuels contributed reporting to this article.

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Dan Gurewitch, a College Humor comedian and Syracuse University alumnus, tells a joke on stage at Goldstein Auditorium during his performance. Syracuse University was the only campus stop on the group’s tour. joshua chang staff photographer

ll of College Humor’s cast — Jake Hurwitz, Amir Blumenfeld, Streeter Seidell, and Dan Gurewitch — admitted to being nervous before hitting the stage in Goldstein Auditorium on Wednesday night. Blumenfeld joked that the show was going up against Syracuse University’s undefeated basketball team that same night — tough competition for student attention.

College Humor Live, a line-up of several comics well-known for their viral videos, took place at 8 p.m. Students began lining up two hours before, eager for entertainment. “I definitely needed a good laugh as the semester course load picks up,” said Tahirah Newkirk, a freshman public relations major.

Hurwitz and Blumenfeld, who also star together in a web series highlighting their hilarious friendship, opened the show. A playful disagreement turned into a rap battle that the crowd loved.

“Your glasses make you look like a Jewish Harry Potter,” Hurwitz said. A majority of Blumenfeld’s lines referenced the movie ‘8 Mile,’ and the pair left the stage after reading embarrassing text messages from one another’s phones. see college

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Hopsin brings energy to homogeneous crowd at Westcott Theater

By Tom Sharkey staff writer

Hopsin, a West Coast rapper with a taste for eccentricity, brought his cult following of fans out at The Westcott Theater Wednesday night for a performance in front of a packed audience.

The Los Angeles native, whose recent album “Knock Madness” was released in November, filled the venue with mostly white teenagers and the occasional twenty-something. In spite of his recent pleas on Twitter for his fans to stop coming to his shows because they will get an “auto pilot performance,” Hopsin had the crowd’s energy elevated for most of the show.

Hopsin took the stage after his subpar opening act finally finished his set, and he kicked the show off on a positive note by opening with his album’s intro “The Fiends Are Knocking.”

The rapper’s hyped up energy came somewhat as a surprise. Earlier this week Hopsin took to his Twitter account and had a social media meltdown, and in addition to the vitriol he spewed about the state of the hip hop

industry, he voiced his disdain for continuing his “Knock Madness” tour.

“Just know that the only reason I’m doing these shows is because I’m being pressured and conditioned to believe money is before health,”

HOPPING MAD On Tuesday, rapper Hopsin ranted publicly on Twitter about his relationship with his record deal and tour schedule. He has been on the music scene since 2010.

The rap game can suck my d*ck and so can u two faced d*ck riding fans who are quick to turn your back on me if I don’t give u what u want” I ain’t no damn celebrity and I ain’t bout to play this ‘fame game’.

This whole tour can go to hell along with the pain I suffer trying to please these idiots. I’m a god damn slave monkey in a circus now

Hopsin tweeted earlier this week.

The tweets were definitely a red flag for the rapper, and even though Hopsin is known for being controversial and abrasive, his cries for help on Twitter were alarming, to say the least.

For the most part, Hopsin kept his cool on stage and had the audience at The Westcott rapping along to some of his most popular songs.

His recent public meltdown felt like the elephant in the room at times though, and he addressed the topic appropriately before transitioning into his hit song “I Need Help.”

“I need help, man, when I’m up here doing this shit,” Hopsin vented to the crowd. “I need a lot of help, I need support from y’all.”

Hopsin took the time to air out his grievances with his performance of “I Need Help,” and he swiftly switched up the vibe in the theater right after with his energetic “Rip Your Heart Out.” Perhaps best known for wearing white colored contacts in his music videos and interviews, Hopsin is a polarizing figure in the hip hop industry. He has fans — and a decent amount of them, too — but he has

Hopsin, a West Coast rapper, performs at the Westcott Theater to crowd of loyal, “cult-like” fans. sage cruz field contributing photographer

failed to gain traction with a broader audience. His style is in-your-face and unapologetic, and while some may find this unbearable, others can’t get enough of the 28-year-old artist.

Given Hopsin’s cult following,

maybe it shouldn’t be so surprising that he drew such a homogenous crowd to the Westcott. I’ve been to several shows at the famous locale and each has been better than the

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college humor Seidell followed their act, and won the crowd’s affection with raunchy humor and selfdeprecating jokes. Seidell joked about Syracuse’s snow dilemma, by suggesting all plows stop at Destiny USA. “Just pull into the mall parking lot, and put it in the corner — that’s where the snow goes.”

Referencing Game of Thrones, Seidell compared Syracuse to “north of the wall up here.”

He then talked about his own college experiences and said he only got “fat guy injuries” like ripping the webbing between his fingers on a peanut butter jar. He also involved the crowd in his act with playful heckling when he found a Cornell University student in the crowd.

Gurewitch, an alumnus of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, followed Seidell’s act with a set heavy in relatable Syracuse humor by recounting his time as a student.

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hopsin last with a diverse group of attendees. Hopsin, on the other hand, seems to appeal mostly to a white teenage audience.

Regardless of his fans’ diversity, or lack thereof, Hopsin was engaging and even gratuitous at times.

There was a sense that, as he publicly stated, he would have rather been somewhere else, but for the most part he seemed present on the stage.

Hopsin took time to ask fans if they had purchased his “Knock Madness” album, and he seemed genuinely gracious when the crowd roared with affirmation. He continued the show with a

fraternity house. He compared the ZBT house to “Requiem for a Dream, but they don’t even have heroin as an excuse, they’re just gross.”

He then went on to make jokes about the stickiness of Chuck’s Cafe and how girls dressed at bars, before making fun of his alma mater. Joking about Newhouse’s reputation, Gurewitch said, “Newhouse is the number one school at letting you know they’re the number one school.” The crowd reacted with wild laughter and some agreements.

Blumenfeld and Hurwitz closed the show with an interactive game for the crowd, asking audience members to embarrass themselves by answering shameful trivia for t-shirts. Male audience members were challenged to name main characters of “Twilight” while female audience members were challenged to name cartoon characters.

The show was consistently strong through the use of raunchy humor for college kids. Audience members left pleased with the entire ensemble, but students had their particular favorites.

“My favorite act was Streeter, I thought he was hilarious. I never heard of him before this but I’m definitely going to look him up afterwards,” Emelia Armstead, a junior public relations major, said. number of songs from the album, and he had the crowd especially energetic with his performance of “Nollie Tre Flip” before ending the show on a high note with his biggest single “Hop Is Back.”

Whether Hopsin has the austerity to achieve longevity in his career is yet to be seen. His recent public meltdown and knack for controversy are definitely cause for concern, but he may just know how to tap into his fan base to find success in the music industry.

Time will tell if Hopsin can balance his “Knock Madness” out with a touch of sanity, but in the meantime he is proving his ability to put on an entertaining show, albeit only for his closest fans.

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Where: Spaghetti Warehouse When: Thursdays until May 6 How Much: $10-20

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wing walk Where: Hanover Square When: Sunday, Feb. 23 at 5 p.m.

How much: $12 Take off and taste the flock of chicken wings available in Syracuse’s downtown food scene. Participating restaurants include Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, Otro Cinco and the Syracuse Suds Factory. For $12, Wing Walkers will sample wings from all the places, before voting for their favorite recipe. There is also an after party, starting at 5 p.m.

The ACME Mystery Company, founded by Bob Greene, performs interactive murder mysteries for diners at the Spaghetti Warehouse. ACME has put on more than 100 shows each year since it was founded 17 years ago.

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ACME Mystery Company performs interactive murder comedies

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drunken captain, an entertainment director with big dreams, an incognito traveler, a struggling porter and a James Bond-esque partier are heading for Mardi Gras by riverboat. One of them ends up dead and it’s up to you to help solve the mystery.

Every Thursday through May 6, the ACME Mystery Company will be performing “Death Takes a Cruise,” an interactive murder mystery at the Spaghetti Warehouse, located at 689 N. Clinton St. The ACME Mystery Company was created

by Bob Greene when his theater group shut down for business reasons. The Spaghetti Warehouse, where the group had performed many interactive plays, asked Greene to continue with his own company. Now, ACME does more shows away from the Spaghetti Warehouse, as well as private shows.

The company has been performing comedies in a mystery format since Greene founded it 17 years ago; however, the audience interactivity makes these unique. Greene, the managing director and founder of the company, said while other interactive theater companies have

come and gone, ACME puts on more than 100 shows a year.

Greene said the interaction between the audience and cast begins with the setting.

“The premise of each show is such that the audience is part of why everyone is in the room,” Greene said. “Everybody is on a riverboat heading for New Orleans. The characters, the actors, and the audience are all there for the same reason, and they’re all part of the same experience.”

While guests sit down for dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse, the cast members begin to mingle between tables. This part of the show is all improvisation and done in character to “warm up” the audience, Greene said. The mingling allows the audience to familiarize themselves with the characters, and also allows the actors to identify willing audience members.

There are usually five characters, one who dies and four who become suspects, each with their own motives being played out during the show. It is up to each audience member to play detective as more details are revealed.

The purpose of “warming up” the audience is that in the second act, the audience starts to play a role in the production, Greene said.

“The audience gets a chance to make their

guess as to who did it and why about halfway through the second act. At the end there is an award ceremony where we give certificates of achievement for the best and worst guesses,” Greene said.

Along with their guesses, audience members have the chance to deliver lines or perform various tasks during the show.

A major part of the production is comedy as well, Green said. The shows are created for an adult audience, and are meant to be funny, but they don’t take it too far with gratuitous profanity or nudity, Greene said.

The ACME Mystery Company has performed for Syracuse University in the past and would be a great experience for an SU student looking to have fun off-campus, Greene said.

It also recently performed for the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

With a mix of comedy, mystery and interactivity, Greene believes that the ACME Mystery Company puts on a perfect show for the Syracuse area.

Said Greene: “There is no great moral to be told, there is no life-changing message, it’s just a hell of a lot of fun, and that’s what we do.” bskrisel@syr.edu

syracuse downtown dining weeks Where: Restaurants across downtown Syracuse When: Feb. 16 through March 1 How much: $25 or less Syracuse city will offer discounted prices at some of its nicest restaurants downtown. Many are offering three courses for $25 or less, not including beverages, tax and tips. It’s the perfect way to ditch the dining hall without your wallet taking the fall. Take your loved ones or your closest friends and hit up places like Lemon Grass, Bistro Elephant Steakhouse, Pastabilities and Empire Brewing Company.

totally fabulous drag show finals Where: Goldstein Auditorium When: Feb. 21, 8 p.m.

How much: $5 with SU/ESF ID, $7 without The Pride Union is hosting its 12th annual drag show on Friday. The show features five groups of student performers, along with drag queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race, who will be hosting the event. The show will be a public display of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community support. A portion of the ticket proceeds will go to local organizations Q Center and CNY Pride.

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ately, my inbox has been flooded with three things: Emails from our fearless leader Kent Syverud, winter warnings from the coolest landlord in Syracuse (shout out to Ben Tupper) and finally, my least favorite, reminders for the upcoming career fairs.

There are few things less stressful than a constant reminder of the fact that you are about to graduate from college. That before you know it, getting blackout or perhaps just “brownout” drunk on a Tuesday night might be frowned upon. Showing up to work in yoga pants could be off-putting and, though I’ve never tried, I’m assuming you might lose face if you blatantly eat your lunch in the middle of a conference. The times, they are a-changin’, but I don’t think the constant presence of career fairs needs to keep shoving that in my face.

To save all of you seniors the time and stress that goes with attending a career fair, I’m going to offer you a few post-collegiate lifestyle choices that will be sure to lead you on a path to success. No resume required.

Start a band: Get a couple of your most alternative looking friends, slap some instruments in their hands and start reading a BUNCH of beatnik novels to rip off for your lyrics. If you really want to get ahead, maybe start experimenting with super weird drugs (whatever you crazy kids are into these days I’m sure will do just fine).

Create a startup company: There’s this silly notion going around that you need a genius idea to have a successful startup, but don’t believe everything you hear. We can’t all be Steve Jobs. What you really need is a garage, a white-board and markers, an excess

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of zip-up hoodies and at least two pairs of Converse All Stars between you and your posse. If you have all these things checked off your list, the investors are just going to start throwing themselves at you.

Open your own restaurant: There’s a misconception when it comes to opening a restaurant — a lot of people prioritize food or knowing about the food industry when really both of those points are moot. The only recipe you need to master opening your own restaurant is hiring the right eclectic mix of people.

You need to hire a slightly older server who’s been waiting tables too long and is about to have a mental breakdown. You need a certifiably insane bus-person who scares the pants off of everyone — fear really brings out productivity in people. And you need a chef who is a bit above the law and is down to sacrifice the integrity of the food if customers give any lip. If you have these key ingredients, you will be the hottest joint in no time.

Bearing these foolproof plans in mind, when the career fairy comes a-knockin’, you can say not today, lady! I don’t need a comfortable job with a 401K, I have a solid game plan. Find someone else’s syr.edu address to spam.

Chelsea DeBaise is a senior writing major.

Her column appears in Pulp every Thursday.

She can be reached via email at cedebais@syr. edu or on Twitter @CDeBaise124.

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maryland crowded net led him north — where he’s since become the orchestrator of a back line preparing to play its first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference game.

“He’s from Maryland and he went to the University of Maryland,” SU head coach John Desko said. “I’m sure it’s important for him and he wants to play well.”

Lamolinara was a standout goalie in high school, but didn’t have the pedigree to attract Syracuse.

Instead then-Maryland head coach Dave Cottle took Lamolinara as a preferred walkon. UMD was where both of his parents went, and going there allowed him to stay close to the school where he was a team captain, most valuable player and collected 253 saves as a standout senior.

But Maryland didn’t provide Lamolinara with the opportunity to showcase his talent at the collegiate level. Niko Amato, the nation’s No. 1 goalie in Lamolinara’s class, and Kyle Bernlohr, the eighth-ranked goalie in the following class, both committed, and Cottle was replaced by current Terps head coach John Tillman before the start of the season.

An injury to senior goalie Mark White allowed Lamolinara to fight for the starting spot during the season, but Amato had been with the team for a year and half as a redshirt and swept in to corral the starting spot he’ll jog out to this weekend. “(Lamolinara) had done a really good job of improving,” Tillman said. “Yet we just felt that Niko was just a little farther ahead. Who knows if they would have come at the same time.

“We know we’re going to have to take good shots to put it in against him on Saturday.”

Tillman listed Lamolinara’s strength as being able to use his athleticism to make

difficult saves clearing the ball. But he also acknowledged that it’s been three years and Maryland will have to watch tape to pick up on the senior’s tendencies.

Lamolinara echoed that, saying he isn’t too familiar with any players on the current Terrapins roster. A lot of Maryland’s key players weren’t around when he was there, and he hasn’t done too much to keep up with the Terps since leaving.

“There’s not much information I can provide on these guys,” Lamolinara said. “We just know it’s going to be a tough start to the ACC schedule.”

There’s not much information I can provide on these guys. We just know it’s going to be a tough start to the ACC schedule.

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Syracuse’s goalie situation has been unclear since the team started practice in January. In its first two games, Lamolinara started and was replaced by junior Bobby Wardwell at halftime.

Desko said on Tuesday that the Orange will stick with that approach for the foreseeable future. But he also said that if Lamolinara were to get hot, he’d have to ride him into the second half.

And what better game than Maryland for Lamolinara to give his coach no choice but to leave him on the field for 60 minutes.

Said SU senior Billy Ward: “Dom’s not the guy to say it, but he’d be lying if he said this game hasn’t been circled on his calendar.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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Bromley, Smith prepare for 2014 NFL Scouting Combine

By Sam Blum asst. copy editor

Jay Bromley needed to clear his head Tuesday night. With the NFL Scouting Combine just four days away, the former Syracuse defensive tackle was preparing to put a lifetime worth of work on the line.

So he went to see “About Last Night” in an empty movie theatre by himself. It was the second time he had seen it, but he knew the film’s humor would help calm his nerves.

“It’s something that I like to do to get away and clear my mind and just get myself relaxed a little bit,” Bromley said. “I play football and it’s just all a part of the process. Just some stress relief.”

On Saturday, Bromley and his former SU teammate Jerome Smith, who have each been training separately in Florida, will travel to Indianapolis for the Combine. Bromley is a senior defensive tackle who led Syracuse in tackles for loss (14.5) and sacks (10). Smith is a junior running back who finished with a team-leading 12 touchdowns — a nine-touchdown improvement from the year before — and 914 rushing yards.

The event is a grueling three-day stretch where NFL scouts and analysts evaluate the talent, potential and personalities of the athletes before the NFL Draft in April.

“For a guy like me, this is my dream since I was a little kid,” Smith said. “It’s a long time coming. I’m just ready to get there and embrace all of it and take it all in. I’m ready to show people what I can do.”

One thing Smith can do well is run.

The 6-foot, 226-pound back said he’s anxious to showcase his new 40-yard dash time.

His speed has been a huge part of his training regimen, and while he thinks evaluators are looking for a 4.6 out of him, he expects better.

“That’s one of the main areas teams want to see what I can do,” Smith said. “I worked on it a lot, and I think people will be surprised with what I can do.”

Like Smith, Bromley has also worked on his speed heading into the combine. For the 6-foot-4, 285-pound defensive tackle, though, the skill set to make him a better runner is slightly different.

Anthony Hobgood, the trainer at EXOS — formerly known as Athletes’ Performance — that’s been working with Bromley on his speed, said he needs horsepower and efficiency.

In other words, power and technique are the two things Bromley has improved on since starting his training on Jan. 2.

“I’ve seen Jason improve his technique, his form, his efficiency,” Hobgood said. “He’s improved greatly. His horsepower has improved.

He’s got stronger and more powerful.”

Both players said they’re nervous heading into the event, but neither is worried about exposing weaknesses. Smith said he’s spoken with other players who are competing, and his goal is to focus only on himself.

The novelty, though, still isn’t lost on him.

He knows he’ll be competing against the best of the best this weekend.

“I think it’s an opportunity for players from every conference and all different types of walks of life to get a chance to come into one place and show what you’ve been practicing and working really, really hard for,” Smith said.

Smith is projected to go in the seventh round or undrafted by CBS sports — and is ranked as the 21st best running back and 276th best overall prospect.

CBS has Bromley going in the sixth or seventh round and as the 21st best defensive tackle, and 226th prospect overall.

Neither player is lighting up the draft boards right now, but both plan to change that this week.

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Said Bromley: “Hopefully I can make at least one person like me enough to take me as early as possible. I don’t really put no projections on it.

“I’m just going to try and make whatever team picks me the luckiest team in the league.”

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boston college including a momentum-swinging 3 to start overtime, and Lonnie Jackson — a 56-percent freethrow shooter — went 4-for-4 down the stretch to ice the Eagles’ 62-59 overtime win and hand the No. 1 Orange (25-1, 12-1) its first loss of the season.

The Carrier Dome crowd — 26,716 on this night — so used to erupting into celebration at the final buzzer was rendered silent.

“You can’t expect to pull all these games out, especially when the momentum and everything is on the other team’s side,” Fair said. “It’s very difficult what we’ve done in the past, pulling these games out, and this one just shows that you can’t pull them all out.”

BC’s stunning upset — perhaps the biggest of the season — ends the Orange’s program-record 25-game winning streak and 46-game win streak against unranked teams in the Dome.

And even after a slow start, it looked as if both of those streaks would continue. Despite an abys-

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Orange in the game to some degree, he also shot SU out of it, as some of the shots he usually makes clanged off the backboard and didn’t draw iron.

Early on, Fair was extremely aggressive. He bricked a shot from the left side that he usually makes. He shanked a step-back jumper, too.

After the missed shot, Boeheim furrowed his brow and pursed his lips, looking up toward the roof of the Carrier Dome.

But he did propelled Syracuse to a 25-17 lead at the half from the free-throw line.

In a game where Fair had nowhere near

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mal offensive first half, SU took an eight-point lead into the break that quickly stretched to 13 after Syracuse scored on its first two possessions.

But the Orange’s defense lost its edge, and its offense reverted back to its mediocre self.

SU shot just 30.4 percent from the field in the second half, while Boston College shot 52.2 percent and went 7-for-12 from beyond the arc.

Leading the way was Hanlan, who went just 1-for-5 in the first half and missed all three of his 3-point attempts.

The sophomore point guard hit a trio of early second-half triples as Syracuse watched an 11-point lead evaporate to five.

“He’s just a really good player,” said SU guard Tyler Ennis of his fellow Canadian. “He’s able to facilitate, he’s able to score, so he’s a tough person to guard out there.

“If he gets it going, their whole team is going to get it going.”

Hanlan didn’t hit another 3 for the rest of regulation, but he didn’t need to. He found Joe Rahon for a 3 with 8:53 remaining to cut the lead to two, and two-plus minutes later he found Rahon in the

corner for a 3 to put the Eagles up four.

Once again, the Orange needed a comeback.

Ennis scored back-to-back buckets to tie the game, and gave Syracuse a chance to win in regulation with a long offensive rebound off his own miss.

But with two seconds left, Rakeem Christ-

his typical mojo, he was still Syracuse’s most potent offensive player.

Considering how poorly his team played offensively for the fourth straight game, Boeheim wasn’t surprised it came out on the losing end.

“We’re not going to win games shooting 32 percent, 16 percent from the 3,” Boeheim said. “It’s really simple. This isn’t complicated.

We’ve got to be better on offense. That’s all.”

Fair continued to carry Syracuse in the second half, when SU’s lead ballooned to as much as 13.

But then disappeared as BC climbed back.

The Orange needed a spark, but Fair couldn’t provide it. He didn’t score a point in the final 12:57 of regulation. He wasn’t missing, he just simply wasn’t shooting anymore.

He took 18 shots through the game’s first 29 minutes, but just one in the final 10 of regulation.

“My touch was a little off and my shot was going a little too hard,” Fair said.

In overtime, he missed a makeable shot from just outside the paint, but again didn’t connect.

Though some of his shots weren’t even close, Fair didn’t regret any he took.

“Nah, I don’t think I took bad shots,” he said.

Then he paused for five seconds, rubbing his head with one hand and twiddling a piece of plastic from the ice bags on his knees with the other.

“They just weren’t falling.”

Rakeem Christmas said Fair and the rest of SU’s players took the shots they usually take, and that it wasn’t a matter of poor shot selection.

It’s very difficult what we’ve done in the past, pulling these games out, and this one just shows that you can’t pull them all out.

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mas’ hook shot rimmed out.

“He should have gone to the basket. That’s not the right play,” Boeheim said. “You’ve got to make that, but you’re not going to make all those plays.”

SU got its chances in overtime, too, but the usually infallible Orange was uncharacteristically unable to convert.

After Hanlan and Patrick Heckmann sunk back-to-back 3-pointers to start overtime, Syracuse again found itself in a four-point hole.

And, again, it had the chances to dig out of it.

A block by Ennis set up a runout for Fair the other way. It was just the way he scored the game-winner against North Carolina State, but this time Heckmann was there to slam Fair’s layup off the backboard.

On the other end, Hanlan — perhaps overly confident — pulled up for 3 on a two-on-one.

His shot that would have silenced the crowd for good bricked off the rim. BC would have to wait a few more moments to celebrate in silence.

A six-win team beating a 25-win team might have been just as much a miracle as that 35-foot heave, but a loss was bound to come eventually.

“You’re just not going to win all these games,” Boeheim said. “I’m not sure exactly how we’ve won some of the games we’ve won.” dbwilson@syr.edu | @DBWilson2

And for the first time this year, Syracuse was outplayed for the entire final six or seven minutes. SU shot just 6-of-19 in the final seven minutes of regulation and five minutes of overtime.

It wasn’t Fair’s fault. He was the only player putting the ball in the basket early in the game, but when Boston College swarmed him, he couldn’t make contested shots.

“They packed it in on him tonight,” SU guard Trevor Cooney said, “and they forced him to take tougher shots. But C.J.’s one of the best offensive guys in the country and you’re not going to have one of your best games every night.

“He’s just got to continue to attack and he’ll be fine.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

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bailey Pittsburgh’s Talib Zanna and Boston College’s Ryan Anderson have exploited twice this season, but also put a depleted group in position to body up one of the best playmakers in the country.

Parker finished just 6-of-16 for 15 points in the first matchup — his second-lowest scoring output in the last month.

He was often trapped on the block by Baye Moussa Keita or Rakeem Christmas, and picked up his fifth foul — albeit a debatable one — when he elbowed Christmas on the right block with 1:42 to play.

“It’s a good growing experience for him,” Krzyzewski said after the game.

Throughout the season, SU head coach Jim Boeheim has almost dared opposing teams to shoot from the outside.

But when teams have been able to — see: Boston College twice, Villanova, Virginia Tech and Duke — the Orange zone has extended its guards and wings.

And few teams have been able to counter.

But those who have have put themselves in position to win.

Zanna did last on Feb. 12, racking up 16 points and 14 rebounds. And Anderson did on

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Dome history.

They got to see C.J. Fair piece together the best performance of his stellar four-year career at SU, and they watched Syracuse counter every one of Duke’s punches — including Rasheed Sulaimon’s shocking buzzer-beater to force overtime.

SU has struggled to score ever since that game since then, averaging 58.2 points per game and looking abysmal in its sets.

Teams have deliberately slowed the pace down against SU, especially of late, but Boeheim is confident that that will change against the Blue Devils.

“We won’t have to worry about that Saturday night,” Boeheim said. “There will be a lot of possessions Saturday night. It’ll be a different game.”

Regardless of the pace, though, Syracuse isn’t entering the Duke game the way it wanted to. The Orange could have been undefeated. A double-digit win over BC could have been the bounce-back game SU needed.

Instead, it was another poorly played game.

And this time — for the first time all season — it resulted in a loss.

Yet perhaps the Duke game comes at a perfect

Wednesday, helping hand the Orange its first loss of the season with nine points, 14 rebounds and four assists.

Parker would be able to do that, and more.

“They’ve got shooters at every position,” SU forward C.J. Fair said, “and as a forward, you’ve got to play an area. You’ve got to play the wing, to the corner, to the short corner. So you don’t want to overcommit to one player, but you don’t want to not give that player enough attention.”

Parker saw minimal time in the high post during the first matchup, but with extensive minutes inside the lane and the cast of shooters that kept Duke in the first matchup, the Blue Devils would crumple SU’s 2-3 zone.

For a struggling Orange team, a versatile Parker camped out in the middle of its defense would be a nightmare.

Stick Jefferson on the baseline as a cutter and let the 40-percent club — Rasheed Sulaimon, Rodney Hood, Andre Dawkins and Tyler Thornton — do what they do best.

It was shocking that Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils didn’t make that adjustment coming out of halftime on Feb. 1.

There’s no way he’ll miss that one again.

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

time. It brought Syracuse out of a spell of offensive mediocrity last time, and the Orange hopes it will do the same the second time around.

“We’ve just got to focus in on what they like to do,” Fair said. “They like to speed up the pace, so I think our offense can pick up more because we’ll have more possessions. We can get in a better rhythm.”

But that doesn’t account for the hostile environment. For a stadium that only fits 9,314 people, Syracuse can be sure it will be rocking.

There will be a sea of blue. The shaking hands always shown on TV will be in full swing.

It will be pandemonium — just like it was in the Carrier Dome.

“Cameron Indoor is noisy,” SU center Baye Moussa Keita said. “It’s going to be wild, but we’re used to the environment.”

These teams could meet three times this season. Maybe even four. The second chapter has arrived.

Brace yourselves.

“This is a tough bounce-back game for us,” Fair said, “especially going to Cameron Indoor.

You hear so many things, and you watch them on TV. I’m excited to experience it.

“Hopefully we can leave there with a victory.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

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C.J. FAIR fights for a loose ball during Syracuse’s win over Duke on Feb. 1. The No. 1 Orange travels to No. 5 Duke for a 7 p.m. rematch on Saturday after dropping its first game of the season to Boston College on Wednesday night in the Carrier Dome. sam maller staff photographer

Syracuse travels to Duke for rivalry rematch

By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

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he average price for a SyracuseDuke part two ticket is $2,125 on the secondary market.

And if the game is anywhere near as exhilarating as the last time the two teams met, it just might be worth the splurge.

The sequel is here, three weeks after the opening act — one that wowed

fans around the world and kicked off what is blossoming into a sensational rivalry with the loudest of bangs.

“If you paid $3,400 on the market for a courtside seat, it was money well spent,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said after the first game.

“You should be happy that you did.”

Now No. 1 Syracuse (25-1, 12-1 Atlantic Coast) will try to bounce back from a stunning 62-59 loss Wednesday night to Boston College when it travels

to Cameron Indoor Stadium to face the No. 5 Blue Devils (21-5, 10-3) on Saturday at 7 p.m. The Blue Devils will be looking to avenge the crushing defeat they suffered on Feb. 1 when the top-5 teams faced off earlier this year.

This time, the Orange doesn’t have the spacious, vociferous Carrier Dome at its disposal. It has to deal with the equally vociferous and far less spacious stadium down on Tobacco Road.

“Duke is the toughest place to play

in the — probably if not in the country, one of the toughest places to play in the country,” Boeheim said.

It’s rare in sports that a game exceeds the hype, but that’s exactly what Syracuse-Duke did three Saturdays ago.

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omewhere lost in the magical madness that was Syracuse’s 91-89 overtime win over Duke on Feb. 1 — the same game Jim Boeheim called the greatest in Carrier Dome history — was a grave, tactical error.

The Blue Devils featured Amile Jefferson STEPHEN and (gulp) MarBAILEY IN THE MIDDLE shall Plumlee in the high post.

ANY WAY Yes, Duke was playing for the 3-point shot and both were capable of finding open shooters. But neither big man even attempted to attack the paint.

Oftentimes they would catch the ball, back to the basket with no one behind them, and not even turn around.

With Jabari Parker buried on the baseline and Rodney Hood on the wing, Duke passed up easy points and took pressure off the SU centers by making its offense entirely 3-point focused.

“The middle of the zone breaks the whole defense,” Parker said after the game. “I think I can do a better job when I play against it next time.”

Unfortunately for No. 1 Syracuse, next time is at Cameron Indoor Stadium, and the Orange is coming off its first loss to seven-win Boston College on Wednesday. On Saturday at 7 p.m., SU faces No. 5 Duke, which enters the rematch riding a four-game winning streak and a three-week resonating period since the first matchup. That should be long enough for Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski to develop a revamped offensive strategy.

If Duke cycles the ball through Parker in the high post, the Orange centers — who played well off Jefferson and Plumlee — would be forced forward. And for a Syracuse team playing its worst basketball of the season, that would likely spell loss No. 2.

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Lamolinara faces old program for 1st time as SU hosts Maryland

By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

Dominic Lamolinara sat in the Carrier Dome stands and looked out at the atmosphere that he always wanted to be a part of.

It was Feb. 9, 2011, and the Syracuse men’s basketball team was hosting Georgetown in front of 26,904 fans. The crowd was raucous. It stuck with the Orange until the end of the game, and that caught Lamolinara’s attention.

At the time, he was a freshman

goalie at Maryland and the Terrapins were scrimmaging Syracuse the next day. Coming out of St. Mary’s (Md.) High School, it was his dream to play in Central New York, but his recruiting process kept him local in College Park.

Then it clicked. When the Terps

returned home, Lamolinara immediately applied to transfer.

“It was just the right move for me,” Lamolinara said. “Syracuse was always somewhere I wanted to play and at that time it made sense.”

On Saturday, Lamolinara will face his

former program in the regular season for the first time when No. 2 Syracuse (2-0) hosts No. 5 Maryland (2-0) at 1 p.m. at the Carrier Dome. The senior goalie played 6:15 in three games for Maryland in 2011 before a coaching change and see maryland page 15