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Voicing concerns In Chile, student protests are

Husky hero In his third season at UConn, Kemba Walker

SA finalizes the plan that allows students to travel to Wegmans by bus. Page 3

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Violations force end of charter

By Dara McBride NEWS EDITOR

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor The 40 girls currently living in the Alpha Chi Omega house on Walnut Avenue will be able to continue to live there until the end of the semester. The women’s fraternity’s charter was revoked Friday by the Alpha Chi Omega National Council due to “risk management issues.”

Failure of the Alpha Chi Omega Lambda chapter members to change behaviors after being put on probation last spring led to the chapter’s closure Friday, according to a letter from A Chi O National Headquarters obtained by The Daily Orange.

The SU chapter was informed Thursday of the decision to revoke the charter and was given the opportunity to respond, which the girls did, according to a letter sent to Lambda chapter alumnae from national president Marsha King Grady. It is A Chi O national policy that a vote to revoke a chapter cannot be undone.

All SU members will transition to alumna status and may not present

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Late-night bus service during weekends to start Friday Two vehicles

By Meghin Delaney ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Syracuse University students no longer need to worry about catching the last South Campus bus back at 3 a.m. during the weekend.

A new bus service, the Late Night Orange Express, will be implemented beginning Feb. 4. The service

will run between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, according to an SU news alert e-mailed to students Monday.

The bus, run by Caz Limo and Tours, will operate from College Place to Day and Flint halls and then through South Campus and the Goldstein Student Center before heading

back to College Place, according to the e-mail. This route will leave College Place at 3:30 a.m., 4:15 a.m. and 5 a.m.

There will also be a route that will bring students to West Campus, serving Sadler, Lawrinson and Brewster/Boland/Brockway halls, that will stop at the corner of Irving

Avenue and Forestry Drive and at the corner of Henry and Van Buren streets, according to the alert. This route will leave College Place at 4 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.

The service was put in place at the request of the Department of Public Safety to reduce the number of stu-

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Egypt protests force students in Cairo to make plans to evacuate

By Katie McInerney EDITOR IN CHIEF

The four Syracuse University students studying in Cairo, Egypt, are making arrangements to leave the country for the semester as protests against the Egyptian government continue in the capital.

The American University of Cairo, SU’s world partner in Egypt, suspended classes prior to their start Sunday, prompting decision-makers to move the students out of the country for their safety, said Jon Booth, executive director of SU Abroad.

The SU students are unable to

return to their studies in Egypt for the rest of the semester. SU Abroad has offered multiple options to the four students, including changing locations, Booth said.

One student is likely to return to SU for the remainder of the spring semester, and the other three are

looking into studying at SU’s newest world center in Istanbul, Turkey, Booth said.

Booth said the decision was made Saturday to have the students leave the country.

AUC has two campuses in Cairo:

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collide near Thornden

By Jon Harris ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Two cars collided at the intersection of Ostrom Avenue and University Place on Monday night, leaving a Syracuse police cruiser and a student’s vehicle damaged.

Greg Richmand, a senior finance major, said he was driving his black 2009 Audi northbound on Ostrom when it was hit by a Syracuse Police Department cruiser going the wrong way on University Place from Thornden Park. University Place becomes a one-way street inside the park just

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The Senior Year

he interval between the freshman and the senior year marks a great distinction, a significant progress and a gradual change. In the senior year a certain dignity invests the student, and a certain sense of responsibility and a feeling of maturity unknown before are apparent to every beholder. The fourth year is a year of gathering sheaves. Friendships that have been gaining strength through the entire course grow firmer, are more tenderly cherished and have in them a foreshadowing of inevitable partings. Two young women who have shared the same cozy suite of rooms since they were freshmen, who have written their notes at the same table, attended the same lectures and shared the same hopes, realize that the flying months are bearing them on to the day when they shall separate and go forth into the larger world. Two young men have been to one another as David and Jonathan, who have not been sentimental nor given to exaggerated speech, are aware that they have entered upon a soberer period of life than any they have hitherto known.

In this year, no opportunity must be wasted, nothing slurred, nothing shirked. A senior in a retrospective mood almost wonders at the pranks that seemed in the order of things in his faraway freshman year, and in his own eyes he is much older than he has ever been before.

The people at home look upon the senior year with a feeling somewhat in contrast to that of the students. For a hard working, middle-aged father, for an anxious and loving mother, the pull uphill has often been hard. Father’s hair is thin at the temples, his shoulders are a little bowed, he is graver than he used to be. Mother is always cheery, always hopeful. She has looked after her girl’s wardrobe and thought of her boy’s comfort through the entire period of their absence, but she and their father count first the months, then the weeks, and then the days and the hours when the senior year arrives. For them, too, as for the young people, there is the feeling that a chapter most interesting, most exciting, most influential for all time is soon to be finished. Another chapter will succeed, and other changes will come, but who in the whole world will follow the older and the newer chapter, the senior year, with such wistful love and longings as the dear ones at home? — Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, lgleveil@syr.edu

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Few females receive free HPV vaccine

By Jillian Anthony Contributing Writer

Students have shown an underwhelming response to Syracuse University Health Services’ offer of free vaccines for the cancer-causing, sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus.

So far only 49 doses of the 450 available have been given out since the start of the program in September, said Brenda Dano, public health nursing supervisor at the Onondaga County Health Department. The department received a grant from the New York State Health Department to provide vaccines to adults who are not covered by insurance or are unable to pay for them, Dano said.

The county decided to provide the HPV vaccine to the university because it has the county’s largest group of women aged 19 to 26, the approved ages to receive the vaccine through the grant, though girls as

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Intern expert to provide tips on gaining jobs

By Kelly Criscione Contributing writer

Known as the self-proclaimed Intern Queen, Lauren Berger held 15 different internships during her four-year college career.

Berger will speak at Syracuse

Everything Internships

“The Intern Queen” Lauren Berger shares her expertise on finding internships with students Where: Maxwell Auditorium When: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

How much: Free University on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. Her speech, “Everything Internships with the Intern Queen,” will have an “entrepreneurship feel to it,” Berger said.

She will explain how she started her business and provide tips on how to turn internships into jobs and how to make the most of the internship experience.

Her goal is to encourage students to start looking for internships, she said, so they can learn the value of them like she did.

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brandon weight | asst. photo editor neal casey, Student Association president, discusses 2011-2012 housing options at Monday night’s meeting in Maxwell Auditorium. The plans for next year include housing students in the Sheraton University Hotel and Conference Center and nearby luxury apartments.

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Wegmans bus program set to begin in March

By Sean Cotter Staff Writer

Student Association announced Monday that its long-awaited Wegmans bus program now has a start date of March 5.

This program, which SA’s Student Engagement Committee began planning last spring semester, will run buses to the popular grocery store every other Saturday for two months beginning March 5, SA President Neal Casey said. The buses will shuttle students from College Place and South Campus to Wegmans for six and a half hours on each Saturday it

runs, Student Life Committee chair Taylor Carr said.

SA members also discussed multiple other issues, including Syracuse University’s enrollment, student health and Spring Break buses.

Due to SU’s rising admission, students — with a priority on rising sophomores — will be able to live in university housing in the Sheraton University Hotel and Conference Center and Parkview Hotel in open doubles. Students who have already fulfilled their two-year university housing requirement will be able to live in University Village Apart-

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ments and the Park Point Syracuse apartment complex, Casey said.

“This is a short-term solution,” Casey said. “We’re going to have to keep looking for a long-term one.”

Space for about 300 SU students will open up in the SkyHall residence halls on South Campus when the new residence hall under construction for the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is completed. Casey said SU is planning to turn many open doubles in SkyHall 3 into larger singles, which he said would appeal more to upperclassmen.

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Casey and other SA members raised concerns about the logic of this decision and said it was counterintuitive in the face of the current squeeze for housing on campus.

Casey also announced that SA will form the Student Health Advisory Committee, which will work to tackle issues in any health area that might concern students. The committee also plans to expand the goals of the website, liveu.syr.edu, and apply them to students, Casey said. The university-run website is supposed to be a health and wellness see sa page 6

He said it “One of our goals is to include students in key decisions, and decisions about health are definitely key decisions.”

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Campus must clear snow from approaching storm quickly A winter storm warning will go into effect for Onondaga County from midnight Tuesday until 5 p.m. Wednesday, with a predicted accumulation of more than 15 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Though December’s snowstorm hit suddenly and was the first of the season, Syracuse University, the city of Syracuse, students and landlords must clear the roads and sidewalks more efficiently.

In December, plows left snow accumulation on parts of Comstock and University avenues.

Driving conditions were even more horrendous on the side streets off Ostrom and Euclid avenues. And if students — with or without snow tires — opted to walk, the sidewalks were in worse shape.

Owning multiple properties may bog down some landlords. Out of common courtesy, students should be shoveling a path in front of their apartments. Living and working on a campus set on a hill makes uncleared sidewalks a serious safety hazard.

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board snow turn to sludge on the sidewalks is when the temperature drops at night, leaving thick, solid ice the next morning. Students may have been overwhelmed with finals during December’s storm. But given that midterms haven’t hit yet, let’s pick up a shovel this time.

Failure to fully clear the roads on South Campus and on other common SU routes is a serious danger to bus drivers and students.

SU cannot justify expecting students to get to classes on time when buses — as they did in December — get hulled up on snow banks or run off schedule.

This university prides itself on handling snow well and makes regional news when it cancels classes. If SU expects its students, faculty and staff to get to classes with zero injuries in 15 inches of snow, they must clear the main arteries of the campus with a sense of urgency.

Troops continue to risk lives in spite of little morale among top officers It seems as though the generals have given up on these wars, but our grunts fight on. In this month’s The Atlantic magazine, retired Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, once commander of all our troops in Iraq, calls former President George W. Bush’s rush to war “a strategic blunder of historic proportions,� calling for a “truth commission into the Iraq War. If we do not find out what happened, we are doomed to repeat it.�

Last fall, in Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars,â€? Gen. David Petraeus said of Afghanistan, “You have to recognize also that I don’t think you win this war. ‌ This is the kind of fight we’re in for the rest of our lives, and probably our kids’ lives.â€? So the generals get to say they’ve changed their minds, but the grunts

LET TER TO THE EDITOR fight on.

Of the 256 Fort Drum and other local troops killed so far, a recent one was on his fourth combat tour. Somebody’s child, spouse, sibling, parent. Do they keep getting deployed until their numbers’ up? Our generals write books, but the grunts fight on.

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With regime change looming in Egypt, US must support democratic forces

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f it seems as though the uprising in Egypt has confounded American policymakers, it is precisely because there are no easy answers. There is no quick fix, no all-star diplomat to consult, no obvious play for the United States.

Egypt is a country in chaos. Antigovernment protests have thrown President Hosni Mubarak’s autocratic regime on the brink of collapse.

Violence between protestors and the police has left over 100 dead and 2,000 wounded. Looters and vigilantes battle it out on the streets. The Egyptian government has cracked down on the Internet and cell phones in an unprecedented manner.

Needless to say, this is a critical moment for President Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

Although the United States has backed Mubarak for the duration of his 30-year reign, he may not survive this insurrection.

Accordingly, the Obama administration must prepare for a transition of power. The top American priority should be to ensure something resembling a democratic group, as opposed to an Islamist organization, fills the power vacuum in Egypt.

Since there is little hope for a Westernstyle liberal democracy, the goal should be a popularly elected, legitimate government with democratic elements.

Historically, when an unpopular ruler is toppled, ideological extremists have attempted to exploit the instability and take over the government. An encore of 1917 Russia or 1979 Iran, for example, would be unacceptable to American interests.

To prevent a similar outcome from developing in Egypt, the United States must do everything in its power to undermine Islamist groups scrambling to take control.

Fortunately, America has the ability to exert influence — thanks mostly to billions of dollars in annual military aid sent Egypt’s way.

It is regrettably inevitable a new Egyptian government will be more nationalistic and

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voted for reagan less in step with American interests and policies. But right now, the Obama administration is tasked with making the best of a thorny situation. Preventing the worst-case scenario may in fact be the best-case scenario for the U.S. government.

An Egypt ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood is exactly what must be avoided. Although this organization has not figured prominently in the protests — which have largely emphasized economic and political grievances — it will undoubtedly jockey for position in a postMubarak Egypt.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s bylaws make clear a desire to broadly impose Shariah law on an Islamic state. The Muslim Brotherhood enjoys a close relationship with Hamas, one of the most deadly terrorist organizations on the globe. In its own charter, Hamas defines itself as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Now is not the time for the Obama administration to sit idly by as Egypt descends into the hands of extremists.

Nor is it the time to rethink 30 years of support for Mubarak. His reign was certainly no bastion of freedom or civil liberties, but the choice was made to support an autocrat over Islamic fundamentalists. In return, the United States was afforded a strong ally in a strategically crucial location. And let us not forget Egypt has generally acted as a positive force for peace in the region.

Ideally, U.S. foreign policy objectives would always overlap with the expansion of democracy. And although America proudly stands as the capital of the free world, there are times when cost-benefit calculations must win out. In these cases, the United States has rightly thrown its support behind authoritarian regimes.

At this point, however, Mubarak is a lost cause. His attempt to retain power — or pass it on to a subordinate — only makes matters worse for the long-term stability of Egypt.

The last week has presented a great foreign policy challenge for Obama. The president must walk a tightrope — ensuring a U.S.-friendly outcome without appearing overly meddlesome in Egyptian affairs.

Simply put, the Egyptian people must be afforded an alternative to the historical choice of a U.S.-backed dictator or Islamic fundamentalists. If the Obama administration can work with Egypt’s civil institutions to create a middle-ground governmental option, the best possible outcome — for all parties — may be attainable.

A free, democratic Egypt would be tremendous. A (more) oppressive, radical Egypt ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood would be disastrous.

The culmination to this struggle will likely fall somewhere in between. It is up to Obama to ensure the outcome is closer to the former than the latter.

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

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Existence of some free speech does not excuse SU’s egregious acts of control Your editorial on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s ranking of Syracuse University as the worst violator of free speech was deeply flawed. The crux of your argument is that because The Daily Orange and other publications exist, because people can rate professors online and send out party invitations, and because the First Amendment is written on the side of Newhouse III, free speech is protected. You then

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mention my own case (SUCOLitis) and Hill TV, suggesting them to be merely extreme cases and not characteristic. This misses the point spectacularly.

A university, as with a country, is not characterized by its treatment of day-to-day noncontroversial behavior but by the behavior it seeks to regulate. Your logic would posit that China is not a totalitarian state since people can write some things

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It is disingenuous to use my ability, and those of other detractors, to speak out as evidence of the protection of free speech. SU can only police behavior within its own sphere of influence. As a private school, it is unable to stop those people using the public channels the First Amendment protects. It was those channels that people used to speak out, not the school’s own forums. The attempt to

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intern from page 3

“Even the worst internship can be an amazing and beneficial experience,” Berger said.

Berger said her mother was the one who pushed and encouraged her to get an internship

“Being in that environment was the first time I felt challenged, and I wanted to do more. I’m the kind of person that can never be busy enough.”

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as soon as she could. By the spring semester of her freshman year, Berger had a public relations internship while still pursuing her enter-

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resource for students.

“One of our goals is to include students in key decisions, and decisions about health are definitely key decisions,” Casey said.

Aside from the health issues, SA announced its customary schedule for Spring Break charter buses. The buses will make round trips to Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia. Tickets, which became available Monday, cost $99 for the round trip, and each bus has a capacity of 56 people. The buses will

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young as 10 can legally receive the vaccine, Dano said. HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer, Dano said.

Health Services has been promoting the vaccine at “Healthy Monday” activities at Schine Student Center and partnered with the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha to provide information about receiving the vaccine, said Kathy VanVechten, special assistant to the director of Health Services at SU. VanVechten said she encourages students who want more information to call Health Ser-

How to Get the Free HPV vaccine SU is currently offering a free HPV vaccine for women aged 19 to 26. Only 49 of the 450 doses available have been used.

Students can make an appointment by calling or visiting the Health Services Center to get the vaccine.

The vaccine is taken in three shot doses over a six month period and must be taken by age 27 to ensure effectiveness.

Health Services has been promoting the vaccine at “Healthy Monday” activities at Schine Student Center and partnered with the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha to provide information about it.

tainment journalism major.

“Being in that environment was the first time I felt challenged, and I wanted to do more,” Berger said. “I’m the kind of person that can never be busy enough.”

At age 19, Berger spent her summer in New York City, where she lived in the New York University residence halls and held another internship.

When she returned to Florida State University in the fall, she realized there weren’t many opportunities available for her and decided to transfer to the University of Central Florida, she said. Berger took on a full course-load of credit hours, held a part-time job, worked as a freelance magazine writer and doubled or tripled up on internships in her junior and senior year. She graduated from college with experience at major companies such as MTV, FOX and NBC. When Berger was searching for internships, she encountered many issues and questions she had to try and figure out on her own, she said.

After all of her success getting internships, she decided to start a business designed to become the “middle man” between college students and employers, Berger said.

Her website, InternQueen.com, was launched

depart from Schine Student Center on March 11 at 5 p.m. and return from their respective locations Sunday, March 20, at 10 a.m., according to an SA press release.

Other business discussed: • After receiving student complaints about littering on campus, the Student Life Committee is looking into placing new trash receptacles in areas where there are the highest volume of student traffic, said Preston Peters, a representative for the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

• The Assembly elected Marion Araque, a senior international relations and policy

vices to make an appointment.

“While we did not have a large number of students express interest thus far, we recognize that many students have had the vaccine before they came to college, and others may elect not to obtain it,” VanVechten said.

Every year, about 12,000 women contract cervical cancer — which is proven to be connected to HPV — and less common cancers, such as vaginal, penile, anal, head and neck cancers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Half of all sexually active people will get HPV in their lifetime — 20 million people are currently infected, with another 6 million people becoming infected each year, according to the website.

HPV causes genital warts in men, and women can have the infection but show no external signs. It can be passed through oral, vaginal and anal sex, even if neither party shows any symptoms, according to the CDC website.

The vaccine, first offered in 2006, is taken in three shot doses over six months and must be taken by the age of 27 to ensure effectiveness.

The vaccine is approved for men of the same age group, but the grant given to the county for this program is specifically for women, not men, Dano said.

The vaccine protects against HPV types 16 and 18, which cause approximately 75 percent of cervical cancers, and against HPV types 6 and 11, which cause approximately 90 percent of

in 2008 and offers assistance for internshipseeking students. Many employers reach out and provide her with internship openings, which she then posts on her website. Most of the time, the website will link directly to different internship applications and also has a service that allows users to send specific questions to Berger.

“While looking for internships, it’s important to know who’s who, and the Intern Queen is definitely a who’s who,” said Jennifer Pluta, an internship coordinator at SU Career Services.

Pluta has been working at Career Services for five years and helps post and promote all different types of internships, she said, along with organizing workshops for SU students to try and make the internship-searching process easier.

She and Daniel Klamm, the outreach and marketing coordinator at Career Services, have been trying for years to book Berger to speak at SU, Pluta said.

“It’s one thing to hear from staff members how important internships are, but it’s another to hear from someone in her twenties and closer to the college demographic,” Klamm said. “It’s much more impactful.” kacrisci@syr.edu

“This is a short-term solution. We’re going to have to keep looking for a long-term one.”

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studies major, to the Board of Elections and Membership.

• RideShark, an online ride-matching system, is set to be in place by Spring Break. Commercials for RideShark featuring Otto should

“While we did not have a large number of students express interest thus far, we recognize that many students have had the vaccine before they come to college and others may elect not to obtain it.”

Kathy VanVechten

special assistant to the director of Health Services

genital warts, according to Gardasil’s website.

Adrianne Rodriguez, a junior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said she knows about the HPV vaccine from commercials, but she had not heard about the university-offered vaccine.

Kaila Reed, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, also said she did not know about the free university-offered vaccine and did not think a lot of others knew either.

“I think that it’s something that’s not really shown on the college campus,” she said. “I don’t think a lot of people know the benefits or the negative effects to it, so I think it’s something that needs to be maybe publicized more.”

Who is the “Intern Queen”?

Lauren Berger, the CEO of Intern Queen Inc., held 15 internships during her college career. Business Week magazine named Berger No. 5 on their annual list of Young Entrepreneurs 25 Under 25. Mobile Youth has placed Berger in the top 10 Youth Marketing Minds of 2010.

Berger earned a degree in Organizational Business Communications at the University of Central Florida and interned for companies across the country such as MTV, FOX, BWR public relations and NBC. Berger works with more than 500 employers located all over the United States and in Canada. Her site, InternQueen.com, reaches more than 40,000 different students, parents and employers each month. Berger has a weekly advice column with the Washington Post website and has been recently featured in The Wall Street Journal, FoxBusiness, The New York Post, AOL, Alloy.com, YPulse. com, E!News.com, Yahoo Business, MarieClaire.com and more.

Source: InternQueen.com

appear soon, Casey said.

• SA is looking into working with the athletic department to get some SU football home games to take place in New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey.

• Redbox, a company that rents out movies via vending machines at low prices for a night, rejected SA’s proposal to set up a box on campus.

The company said it was not looking to expand its college-campus program, said Carr, chair of the Student Life Committee. SA is now in its opening stages of inquiring about a similar program through Blockbuster, which could potentially provide the same service, Carr said. spcotter@syr.edu

What is the HPV vaccine?

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a common virus spread through sexual contact. Most of the time HPV has no symptoms so people do not know they have it.

There are two different HPV vaccines, Cervarix and Gardasil. Both are licensed by the FDA and recommended by the CDC. Both vaccines prevent cervical cancer and precancer in women.

Both vaccines are effective against HPV types 16 and 18, which cause most cervical cancers. The vaccines are made with very small parts of the HPV that cannot cause infection with HPV. Both vaccines are given as shots and require 3 doses.

The CDC recommends that all girls who are 11 or 12 years old get the 3 doses of either brand of the vaccine to protect against cervical cancer and precancer. It is recommended girls and young women ages 13 through 26 should get all 3 doses of an HPV vaccine if they have not yet received all doses.

Gardasil is also licensed and considered safe and effective for males ages 9 through 26 years, who may choose to get the vaccine to prevent genital warts.

Source: cdc.gov

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Study finds good-looking men and women have higher IQs

By Anne Frances Krengel

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s if looks weren’t enough, beautiful people are smarter than less attractive people, too, according to a study from researchers at the London School of Economics.

Physically attractive individuals are likely to be more intelligent than less physically attractive individuals, according to the article “Intelligence and physical attractiveness” published in the January-February issue of the journal Intelligence.

On his blog post titled “Beautiful People Really ARE More Intelligent,” lead researcher Satoshi Kanazawa said intelligent males with a higher status are more likely to marry more beautiful women.

“Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable, there should be a positive correlation between intel-

ligence and physical attractiveness in the children’s generation,” he told the New York Daily News in an article published Jan 16.

Kanazawa based his article on a National Child Development Study that judged the attractiveness and intelligence of all babies born during March 3-9, 1958, in Great Britain.

The children were judged on attractiveness at ages 7, 11 and 16 in the study and given 11 different cognitive tests at the same ages to measure their intelligence levels.

Children were rated on attractiveness based on a list of five adjectives teachers used to describe the children, according to the study. Up to three of the following could be used: “attractive,” “unattractive or not attractive,” “looks underfed or undernourished,” “abnormal feature” and “scruffy or slovenly and dirty.”

The experiment revealed attractive children had an average IQ of 104.23, significantly

higher than the unattractive children with an average IQ of 91.81. Kanazawa said in his article that this showed a reasonably strong correlation between attractiveness and intelligence.

“I think that’s probably true,” said Kial Croteau, a sophomore marketing and nutrition dual major. “I think I’m pretty intelligent, and I think people who are smarter will choose to go to the gym to exercise and keep healthy over staying at home watching TV.” Anumeet Gulati, a graduate student in exercise science, said she agreed with Croteau.

“So many people are pretty and intelligent,” said Gulati. “If you’re blessed by God with beauty, it’s up to your intelligence to keep yourself beautiful and exercise. On the flip side, if you’re intelligent, you know how to look good.”

But Alejandro Garcia, a professor in the

College of Human Ecology’s School of Social Work, said correlating physical attractiveness with intelligence is “hogwash.”

“Beauty is subjective and based on ethnocentric biases. If, indeed, you use western criteria for judging beauty, you’ll think people with specific western features are beautiful,” Garcia said. “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.”

Niall Harding, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said a girl is pretty if she is physically fit, has a pretty face and a striking personality, takes care of herself and carries herself well.

“What’s beautiful to you depends on where you come from, what you’re brought up on and what you think is beautiful,” he said.

“Society sets the stage for what is beautiful, but every person makes that decision for his or herself.” afkrenge@syr.edu

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themselves as active members of an A Chi O chapter, according to the letter.

The university was not involved in the decision to revoke the chapter’s charter, said Eddie Banks-Crosson, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at SU. “We were just as surprised as the women were,” Banks-Crosson said.

The women’s fraternity will not be participating or helping with the spring recruitment process, which began Friday, Banks-Crosson said. The women’s fraternity was included in the spring recruitment handbook, which was given to all participating girls.

The A Chi O house will continue to house girls until the end of the semester, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs is working with the university’s housing system to ensure the girls who had planned on residing at the A Chi O house on Walnut Avenue will be able to obtain housing through the university should they choose to, Banks-Crosson said.

There are 40 girls living in the house, said Kate Sisco, who was the A Chi O president at the time of the chapter’s closure.

She said the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs has been “nothing but extremely helpful” to A Chi O. The changes have been happening quickly, she said. Sisco also said she did not know what current A Chi O campus members

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dent transports between 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m., said Scot Vanderpool, manager of Parking and Transit Services at SU, in an e-mail.

“This will allow the Department of Public Safety the ability to concentrate more on student safety,” Vanderpool said.

DPS officials could not be reached for comment by The Daily Orange.

The bus will not be labeled, Vanderpool said, but it will be the only bus service available at College Place between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.

Jayme Brown, a sophomore writing major, said she thinks this service will be valuable for students who are going out on the weekend.

“I know a lot of people who have gotten stuck places and haven’t wanted to walk back, especially people living in B/B/B, since all of the parties and stuff are over on Comstock,” she said. “I know this will be an asset to all of the people who go out to parties and need a ride back.”

The bus drivers have been instructed to pick up students at any safe stops along the way, which include students on South Campus headed back to Main Campus, Vanderpool said.

Students will be required to show their SU

Buses leaving College Place at 3:30 a.m., 4:15 a.m. and 5 a.m.

The bus will proceed directly from College Place to Day Hall, Flint Hall, then through South Campus, onto Winding Ridge and then to the Goldstein Student Center. The bus will return to College Place via Colvin and Comstock.

Buses leaving College Place at 4 a.m. and 4:45 a.m.

The bus will proceed to West Campus, stopping at the corner or Irving Avenue and Forestry Drive and at the corner of Henry and Van Buren before returning to College Place via Waverly Avenue and University Place.

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would do now that their chapter is closed.

Ideally, the girls will be able to come together for leadership and volunteer opportunities in another way, Sisco said, although she said she knows it will be a group outside of SU’s greek system and one not associated with A Chi O. “I’m very interested in us staying together,” Sisco said.

A Chi O has been a part of SU’s campus since 1906. The chapter was “deeply saddened” to announce the closing and said it was not the desired outcome of ongoing struggles with National Headquarters, according to an A Chi O Lambda chapter press release issued Saturday.

The six-member National Council voted unanimously to revoke the chapter’s charter Friday, said Janine Grover, marketing and communications director for A Chi O National Headquarters. There is a chance for the chapter to recolonize at SU but not until after a significant period of time, Grover said.

“There were behaviors that were unhealthy for the chapter,” Grover said. Grover could not go into specifics because of the National Headquarters privacy policy.

For the past year, National Headquarters has been working with SU’s chapter, discussing multiple issues the headquarters had with the Lambda chapter, said Grover of National Headquarters.

The Lambda chapter was put on probation last spring for “severe risk management violations,” according to the letter to alumnae.

National Headquarters’ staff members made multiple visits to the SU chapter and worked to

“I know a lot of people who have gotten stuck places and haven’t wanted to walk back, especially people living in BBB, since all of the parties and stuff are over on Comstock. I know this will be an asset to all of the people who go out to parties and need a ride back.”

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IDs to board the bus, according to the news alert. Vanderpool said this is for the protection of all students. But if it’s one instance in which students are without their SU IDs, the drivers will still allow them to board the bus, he said.

Both Caz Limo and Centro were contacted

by SU about this new service. Vanderpool said the decision on who would run the service was based on which company could implement the service fastest. Vanderpool said the service was needed as soon as possible.

Officials from Caz Limo could not be reached for comment by The Daily Orange.

Vanderpool said the research done regarding the extra late-night service shows it is most needed during the weekend. He said the intent is to run the service only during the weekend, unless there is a change in the current trend.

Vanderpool said this service will be monitored like any new service, and changes may or may not be made next fall.

He said: “We really hope this will be successful, and if it is a success, we’ll see it again in the fall.” medelane@syr.edu

implement a plan for improvement, including hiring a resident adviser to live in the house.

But the chapter continued to violate the terms of the probation and university policies, according to the letter.

“Closing a chapter is the hardest decision a National Council has to make, and we would never reach that decision lightly,” Grady, the national president, said in the letter. “At this time, we simply don’t believe we can successfully bring this chapter back to health given the risk management policy violations involved and the campus culture that does not support a positive Alpha Chi Omega experience.”

The chapter was listed as inactive on the national website as of Monday evening. A Tumblr website, Save the Lambdas, began posting appeals to National Headquarters on Friday evening from Lambda alumnae and others nationally associated with A Chi O. The site is run by “sisters, family and friends of all past, present and future Syracuse University Alpha Chi Omega Lambda Chapter members,” according to the site.

Pam Brink-Mulligan, a 1989 SU graduate who pledged A Chi O her sophomore year, has been following the website and said she has written to National Headquarters but has yet to hear a response. Brink-Mulligan is the president of the Central New Jersey SU alumni club and said the A Chi O house has always been a home to her.

“I just can’t fathom Alpha Chi not being on that campus,” Brink-Mulligan said.

Mulligan last visited the A Chi O house this past October and said the girls were just as she

remembered: hard workers who cared about each other. She was aware the house had been on probation for about a year but said it was a shock to hear it would be closing.

“I cried most of the weekend,” Mulligan said.

“It’s really like a death in the family.”

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Travel out of the country has been chaotic, and students have been spending hours at the airport trying to leave, Booth said. He commended their efforts and said how pleased he was with their attitudes.

“I think it takes a special student to decide to study in Egypt,” Booth said. “I’ve been impressed with their conscientiousness, and I’m glad they are safe.”

The U.S. State Department issued a travel warning Sunday, encouraging Americans in Egypt to leave the country. But this is not the reason why the students are leaving, Booth said.

“One of the things we take into account is State Department warnings, but that’s not a trip wire for us,” Booth said.

There are other SU students studying in Israel and Lebanon, two countries the State Department dissuades students from studying in, Booth said.

“We do our own assessment, working with the faculty here and the risk management office and the provost’s office to make a judgment of what we think is best for the student,” he said.

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one about 40 minutes by bus out of the city and one about a 15-minute walk from Independence Square, the location of many of the protests and demonstrations. All four SU students had the option to live at either campus, and all chose the campus in the city. The campus is located on an island in the city, Booth said, and the island was barricaded and is defended by tanks, preventing students from leaving and keeping them safe.

SU has been working with AUC for 10 years, and three to five students on average study in Egypt each semester, Booth said.

Communication with students has been limited due to a governmental shutdown of the Internet and telephone lines. The last e-mail contact with students occurred Friday, Booth said. AUC provided every student with landline access and a phone card to talk with their parents and guardians, he said, and then SU Abroad contacted parents to ensure the students were safe.

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after the Ostrom intersection.

“I was driving down Ostrom, and the cop came the wrong way out of Thornden Park and hit my car,” said Richmond. The collision happened around 10:30 p.m., he said.

Officers from Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety and the SPD officers on the scene declined to comment on the accident.

Several calls to SPD were not returned.

The Audi suffered damage on the passenger side, and the SPD cruiser had front-end damage and was leaking fluids.

Richmand said he is unsure how much damage was done to his car, but “it didn’t look good.”

Richmand, the only person inside the car, said he did not sustain any injuries.

“I was a little shaken up, that’s all,” he said.

Following the collision, the SPD car faced Thornden Park, and the Audi ended up in a snow bank on the wrong side of Ostrom Avenue

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Real. Strong. Women.

The Alpha Chi Omegas have had a presence on SU’s campus since 1906. The women’s fraternity was founded in 1885 at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Since then A Chi O has expanded, launching its “Real. Strong. Women.” campaign in 2008 to encourage recruitment and increasing social media outlets in 2009. Here’s what to know about the national organization:

Motto

Together let us seek the heights.

Philanthropy

Domestic violence awareness

Colors

Scarlet and olive green

Flower

Red carnation

Patron-goddess

The Greek goddess Hera

Badge design Golden lyre

Magazine The Lyre

Source: alphachiomega.org

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behind DellPlain Hall. Debris and glass from the two-car collision covered part of the street.

A flatbed from MC’s Towing arrived on the scene at 11:47 p.m., and a second flatbed from the Syracuse Department of Public Works arrived at 11:53 p.m.

The department loaded the SPD car onto the flatbed at 12:06 a.m. Shortly after, the flatbed from MC’s Towing loaded the Audi. The worker from MC’s Towing also swept up the debris from the collision.

DPS blocked off several intersections after the accident. One DPS car blocked the intersection of Ostrom Avenue and Clarendon Street; another DPS car blocked the intersection of University Place and Comstock Avenue next to Ernie Davis Hall; and a third DPS car blocked the intersection of Ostrom and Waverly avenues.

In virtually the same spot as Monday’s collision, a similar accident occurred Sept. 21, when two cars collided after a driver heading the wrong way on University Place from Thornden Park was hit by a vehicle traveling northbound on Ostrom Avenue, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Sept. 22. jdharr04@syr.edu

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Foursquare: the pros and cons of being a mayor JESSICA SMITH

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Despite differences in academics, culture, SU students progressively adjust to life abroad

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ary Cappabianca did not buy a single schoolbook when studying at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile during spring 2010. Instead of rushing to the bookstore the minute she received a syllabus, she headed to the academic department’s copy center and picked up Xeroxes of all the readings she needed. For 20 cents each, they were a bargain and, most of the time, photocopied illegally, she said.

Buying books — a habit each student faces at the start of a new semester — is just one of the differences between classes abroad and classes at Syracuse University. In addition to adjusting to life inside the classroom, students studying abroad need to adjust to their new home for the semester.

Carrie Abbott, associate director of SU Abroad, likened the experience of transitioning between classes at SU and classes abroad to that of an average student’s freshman year.

“When you first arrive on campus, you have these anxieties of ‘I need to find my way around,’ ‘I need to meet new people’ and ‘I need to get adjusted to where I’m living and my new environment,’” she said.

But she noted the process of adjusting to class life abroad happens relatively fast.

“You’d be surprised how quickly you can transcend those issues and get to know your environment,” Abbott said.

All of that adjustment contributes to the way a student grows, she said, and that is the reason many students go abroad.

Cappabianca, a senior public relations and international relations major, spent two semesters abroad.

During her sophomore year, she went to Madrid.

During her junior year, she traveled through the much smaller Santiago, Chile, program.

SU Abroad centers sometimes send SU professors abroad to teach on location for a semester, but more often the school contracts local professors to teach students, Abbott said. While Cappabianca was in Chile, she took a class on dictatorship and human rights violations at the Santiago SU Abroad center.

It was taught by a Chilean professor who was once a political prisoner, so she and her 15 classmates were able to connect with the material more, she said.

“I liked the opportunity to take classes that you can’t take here in the United States,” she said. “When you’re in that environment and you’re immersed in it, you can learn in so many more ways.”

Adam Britten, a senior marketing management major, spent fall 2010 living in London and studying at the SU Abroad center, taking classes with British professors hired by the university. He was surprised by the professors and said some of them were not as personable as he expected them to be.

Abbott noted students might be surprised to find the differences in classroom behavior, depending on their study location. At the Beijing and Hong Kong centers, Abbott said the classroom environment is more formal — students don’t dress as casually and would never bring beverages with them into a classroom.

In addition, Cappabianca said grades were written on the blackboard in Santiago, and professors put no effort into hiding scores on tests and quizzes as they were passed back to students — average activities in SU classrooms.

“I think that at first it can be challenging for students, but you adjust,” Abbott said. “Just as you adjust from going to a high school classroom to a SEE ABROAD PAGE 12

Inside: Photographer Harrison Kramer’s pictorial account of students protesting in Santiago, Chile. See pages 10 and 11

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ulie Cardella leads a busy life here at Syracuse University.

Not only is she a senior English and textual studies major, but she is also the proud mayor of five local communities. Under her reign of governance are a popular Syracuse bar and two apartment buildings, among other things.

If you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, you may not be familiar with the growing popularity of the social network utility dubbed Foursquare. This handy location-based website and smartphone application allows users to share their current location with fellow users and share tips about certain venues. By checking in at the same place repeatedly, one may eventually attain the title of mayor of that place. That earns them, well, bragging rights and a little yellow crown next to their user names. That’s incentive enough if I’ve ever heard it.

This fairly new service was created in 2009 (by a Syracuse alumnus, no less) but already has over 6 million users. As it continues to snowball, the methods for which it is used continues to evolve alongside it. One of the ways it has adapted to the multifaceted world of modern social media is by allowing users to push their check-ins and tips to their Twitter accounts.

Big deal, right? Well, actually, yes — just ask the founders of PleaseRobMe.com.

This website took the information willingly posted on Foursquare and Twitter and maneuvered it into a stream of location awareness for certain people. Those visiting the site could have up-to-the-minute updates on an individual’s location and could decipher the user’s home from his or her check-in patterns. If you’re still not seeing a problem here, just look at the website name and, voila, there’s your answer. Oversharing geo-based information can compromise the sanctity of your stuff.

The site, no longer a functional stream of the location-based vomit emitted by Twitter users, now serves as a cautionary tale. It SEE SMITH PAGE 12

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Clockwise from bottom left: Architecture students from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile block the streets outside their university gates in protest. Giant water cannons blast powerful jets of water at the gates of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile building during a student protest.

Protesting students shield themselves from water cannons shooting at the university gates. Protestors face heavilyarmed Chilean police, known as carabineros, during a non-university protest over the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Girl walking to class in the Universidad de Santiago de Chile building.

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his past semester, I took part in the Syracuse University Abroad Chile program and spent six months traveling to Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. I can honestly say these months were some of the most exciting and influential in my life, providing ample time for self-discovery and a fix for my adventurous spirit.

While attending classes at two top Chilean universities, I spent a lot of time taking photos and finding those moments I could bring back home. One of these moments, which I found to draw a particularly interesting parallel between

Chilean students protest local issues, face police forces

Chilean and American college students, was a protest I photographed outside of the Universidad de Santiago de Chile building.

One Tuesday in early September, I arrived at the front gate of the campus, home of the SU Santiago office and the location of the dictatorships and human rights class held Tuesdays and Thursdays. Though unlike others, I did not simply head to class.

This particular Tuesday, I stopped to watch a large group of Universidad de Santiago de Chile architecture students block the street in front of the main gate, banging on drums and chanting in protest of a recent increase in tuition. The group blocked traffic for a good half-hour before

the carabineros, or the Chilean police, arrived in full riot-gear, accompanied by large tanks armed with highly powerful water cannons. As the carabineros moved in, the students quickly withdrew from the streets through the university gates and locked the gate behind them. In that moment, the giant tanks drove into gear, swinging their giant water guns to face the students and began to fire.

The carabineros and their tanks stayed until every last tomato-throwing protester had been either knocked to the ground, soaked by the powerful jets of water, or disappeared into the Universidad de Santiago de Chile building. I then walked through

the very same gate only 15 minutes late for my class.

Now don’t get me wrong. This is a normal day in Santiago, Chile. Students are always protesting, and the giant riot tanks rarely miss the action. I tell this story not because that Tuesday was any more special than any other day but rather the opposite. A day like this is a startling departure from what any of us have seen here at SU. When it comes down to it, those architecture students are you, me, and that kid who lives down the hall. They are our age, they study, and they love to party.

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states on its “Why” page that “the danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you’re defi nitely not … home.”

By checking in at every location and sharing that information with masses of unknown people, users ignorantly put themselves at risk for robbery or worse.

In light of Egypt’s technological decapitation, this has become all too clear. We are dependent on our connectivity — we thrive from it and live for it. While we put our belongings at risk by sharing locations or our futures in jeopardy by posting pictures

from that crazy New Year’s party we attended, overall our existence as members of the connected generation has manifested itself in our ability to do just that: connect.

However, there are safe ways to use this site. One way to protect your awesome 42-inch high-defi nition television is not to link your Foursquare to your Twitter and Facebook. Another is to monitor how the information is shared through these avenues. Yours truly is among Foursquare’s 6 million users, and I am anxiously waiting for the day I can earn a mayor status of my very own. But in that endeavor, I opt to not push my location check-ins to my Twitter account.

The multimayor maverick Cardella can attest to proper Foursquare practices.

Though she does link her Foursquare to her Twitter, she said she “changed my settings so that people who I’m not friends with can’t see where I am as a safety precaution.”

Something you put on the Internet will most likely be accessible to all of mankind until the end of the world. If you believe in the indications of the Mayan calendar, you may not be all that concerned about the longevity of your technological faux pas, but the rest of you are probably looking at a life fi lled with reminders of every place you ever visited and a couple of trips to Best Buy to replace stolen items.

And out of all this, one question resonates most clearly: Just what is it that makes our generation so gluttonously obsessed with oversharing? Is it our innate need to be

connected? And is that need a byproduct of our existence as, what my professor Michael Nilan calls us, part of “homo connectus,” or the connected generation?

The truth is no one really cares if you use your sweet new Android phone to check into Wegmans. In fact, it could be considered a waste of data transfer. But the need for us to constantly communicate with each other and to share opinions and locations has become the newest human condition.

Said Cardella: “Sometimes it’s funny to check in somewhere and then realize your friend is right next door or at the same place.”

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pabianca likened the food services to that of a high school cafeteria that would become busy by lunchtime. After her classes, she often met up with some of the 18 other students from Syracuse who studied in Santiago at a restaurant or bar before heading back to her host family.

Despite the differences, Cappabianca was happily surprised with her academic experiences. She said she had not initially expected a strong connection with her professors.

“My professors cared about students and were funny, they knew people’s names,” she said.

“It was not a distant lecture style — there was no cold guy, monotone in the front of the room.”

Nonetheless, for those who struggle with the adjustment, Abbott said the issues usually dissipate quickly — just like they do when students are starting out at SU. “It’s very common,” she said. “You know, 90 percent of the time, the student moves through (the differences) the way they did in their first week on campus.”

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college classroom, you can adjust from being in a classroom here in the States to being in a classroom overseas.”

At some SU centers, SU students study at the local university. Though Britten’s classes in London were filled with his peers from SU, Cappabianca’s studies in Chile were with Chilean students. Instead of heading back to their residence halls after the lectures, the Chilean students would go back home to their parents or their apartments in the city. In addition, there is no main campus at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Instead, there are many smaller campuses around the city, she said. Chilean students would travel all over Santiago to take different types of classes — much farther than the 10-minute walk to traverse SU’s campus.

There is no stopping by the dining hall in Chile, either, because they don’t exist. Cap-

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Cold War Kids leave behind original sound in place of chart-topping popularity with newest album

By Erik van Rheenen Staff Writer

n several ways, Cold War Kids have much in common with alternative rock’s radio-friendly charmers Kings of Leon. Debut album hyped to death by the blogosphere? Check. Follow-up efforts that stumble step trying to recreate the critical success of the debut — then fail to live up to standards? Check. An album that departs from garage-rock roots toward embracing clean-cut arena anthems, thus garnering success and radio airplay? Well, that’s where the trail to fame for Cold War Kids abruptly goes cold.

What the Grammy Award-winning “Only By the Night” did for Kings of Leon, Long Beach-based Cold War Kids hope to replicate with success of their own using newest release “Mine Is Yours.” However, from the first glossy note of the synthesizer on the title track, it appears the Cold War Kids’ following of the Kings of Leon’s format, which lead from its fast-track to alternative-rock stardom, has gone awry.

Gone are Nathan Willett’s boozy vibrato-laced voice and bluesy, jittery piano chords that made the band’s first album, “Robbers and Cowards,” an endearing listen. The classic rock leanings and jazzy influences have flown the coop on “Mine is Yours” as Willett’s vocals are injected with a copious dose of soul-sucking Auto-Tune. The song becomes nothing more then a staggeringly slow-tempo love song, however, save for a bridge that shakes with a nervous energy that used to be the band’s calling card.

“Louder Than Ever” is a redeeming track with grungy guitar riffs and Willett’s frantic vocal delivery, but it suffers from a sugar-coated chorus that belongs on a Neon Trees album. “Royal Blue” is a low-key jam with a groovy bass line, and as the song breezes aimlessly by, a ray of sunlight streaks through the clouds. Could this be the Cold War Kids we remember?

After that is when the parallels to the band’s original sound come to a screeching halt. “Finally Begin” sounds like a collaborative effort between OneRepublic and Train, and it mentions every hackneyed cliché about falling in love as Willett can cram in. “Out of the Wilderness” is a song punchdrunk on its own forced emotions and fails to feign sincerity about its cheerfully soulful melody and clamoring drum beats of Matt Aveiro.

Somewhere during the three-year span between full lengths, Willett must have found true love, adopted a puppy or saved a ton of money on car insurance by switching to Geico because his dark personal lyricism that dominated the band’s early days has been replaced with an overbearingly sunny and hopeless romanticism. The middle of “Mine Is Yours” is cluttered with falsetto-heavy, radio-friendly tracks, such as “Skip the Charades” and “Sensitive Kid,” that ooze with swagger augmented by toe-tappingly jaunty piano chords.

“Bulldozer” is a jazzy number that showcases Willett’s lovelorn croon but drags on unnecessarily for over five minutes and overstays its welcome in listeners’ headphones.

Both “Broken Open” and “Cold Toes on the Cold Floor” recall the band’s earnestly old-fashioned sound, but “Broken Open” comes across as nothing more than a schmaltzy endeavor. Meanwhile, “Cold Toes” struggles with a sing-song chorus, despite Willett’s rousing “One more!” cry, which is one chorus too many for a track that lacks the signature barroom arrogance the band just can’t seem to recapture.

Cold War Kids may have followed Kings of Leon’s gospel of going from brooding, Southern-tinged garage rockers to wildly famous arena rockers overnight. But they sure could “use somebody” to remind them that everything that glitters (glitzy production with band manager Jacquire King’s greasy fingers all over the album) is not gold. ervanrhe@syr.edu

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Lecky lost for season after wrist injury

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Jovan Miller saw promise in Hakeem Lecky.

Miller planned on taking the young midfielder under his wing. Talk him through some of the struggles a freshman may face playing on a college team, albeit a No. 1-ranked college team.

But Miller wasn’t expecting to have to talk him through what Lecky now faces: an injury that will keep the freshman sidelined for most, if not all, of the season.

“I’ve been talking to him, he’s in positive sprits about it,” Miller said. “He definitely did want to play with our senior class. … It’s disheartening.”

Lecky stood out among Syracuse’s large group of freshmen, impressing his teammates and coaches with his all-around lacrosse abilities. So much so that there was going to be plenty of playing time for Lecky, a chance to play with a senior class motivated for a shot at a third national championship. On Jan. 19, though, Lecky’s playing time ended for the foreseeable future when he suffered an injury to his left wrist that required surgery.

Lecky’s future went from the turf to the sidelines.

Lecky was going to be playing alongside the team’s experienced midfielders. He would’ve gotten the chance to take the field with seniors Josh Amidon, Jeff Gilbert, Jeremy Thompson and Miller. As far as Miller was concerned, Lecky deserved the opportunity, even if Lecky hadn’t seen one minute in a collegiate game.

“He’s very coachable, but he has raw talent,” Miller said. “He has a lot of things you can’t teach. But he’s very coachable, and he was learning things pretty fast.”

Lecky’s speed and athleticism fit in well with the Orange’s offense. Freshman or not, Lecky’s playing time was solidified. And next

david ehrlich | contributing photographer hakeem lecky will likely miss the entire season because of an injury to his left wrist that required surgery. The freshman midfielder stood out to SU head coach John Desko in early practices with the team and could have earned significant playing time this year. season, when those four seniors are gone, Lecky could’ve put his freshman playing time to good use. At midfield, Lecky would have been the experienced one.

SU head coach John Desko said Lecky didn’t have a definitive role, only that he would have been on one of the midfields. Now that he’s out, he will likely be replaced by someone with two or three years of experience. That only shows how much Lecky’s talent impressed Desko in the preseason.

“We’ve got enough depth at midfield where we didn’t have to rely on a freshman,” Desko said. “He was one guy that had stepped up with his great athletic ability.”

It’s also that athletic ability that made him a nationally ranked high school and prep school

player. Lecky was rated the 30th overall prospect by Inside Lacrosse in 2009 and was an Under Armour and U.S. Lacrosse All-American at Duxbury High School in Massachusetts. He attended Avon Old Farms School for one year prior to Syracuse, where he helped lead his team to a 15-3 record.

Lecky’s loss for the season is one Syracuse can make up for. There are plenty of players to help fill the void.

But not having Lecky will still be a loss felt on the field.

“We could use him on certain sets. He’s very athletic, so he could definitely clear the ball, too,” SU attack JoJo Marasco said. “He’s just another player we could use on the field, so not to have him right now kind of hurts.”

Lecky’s injury will, in all likelihood, keep him out for the entire season. If he returns at all, it will only be for a few games toward the end of the season. Desko said it would be up to Lecky to decide if he wants to use an entire year of eligibility to only play in a couple of games.

Whether he returns this season for a couple of games or at the start of next year, Lecky’s going to be a key part of Syracuse’s midfield.

Miller’s going to have to get Lecky through the disappointment of not being ready for this season, but he already seems to know what to say.

“It’s a big loss for us,” Miller said. “But everything happens for a reason.” cjiseman@syr.edu

swimming a nd diving

Trip to Puerto Rico provides Orange with unique experience

By Stephen Bailey Staff Writer

As he remembers, Lou Walker and his Syracuse swimming and diving team have traveled to warmer climates during Winter Break “since the beginning of time.”

SU’s head coach since 1976, Walker believes the winter excursion south provides his program with one element it can’t benefit from during the school year: downtime devoted completely to swimming, which in turn gives SU the timing to prepare properly for its late-season championship meets in February.

“It gives you a real opportunity to focus in, and your only obligation is your training,” Walker said. “There’s no school requirement.

It’s a great opportunity to do some good work.”

For the past few seasons, the Orange has prepared early for Big East and NCAA championships by swimming in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In Walker and the program’s final season of existence, the team made its last trip to the

island from Jan. 5 to Jan. 14.

It was Walker and SU’s last opportunity to swim outdoors. Looking back on not just this year but all of the other trips, Walker reflected on the benefits.

“If you look at the amount of weeks from the semester break to your conference championships,” Walker said, “the timing of the whole thing is outstanding in terms of getting some good work done.”

Walker feels the prime reason such trips are so effective is because they occur during the break. He feels the amount of time between the trip and the Big East Championships is ideal for training purposes, and the team has more time to focus on swimming. It trickles down to the basic swimmer’s psychology. Walker has seen it occur for more than 35 years.

“Psychologically, it’s probably a positive thing to be somewhere where there’s not another student around,” Walker said. “Somewhere where it’s not cold and snowy all the time.”

Though some teams like to travel abroad, Walker prefers Puerto Rico because it is American territory, uses U.S. currency and is warm and sunny every day, unlike Syracuse.

SU senior swimmer Kuba Kotynia backed Walker’s choice of destination. He said the warm climate makes a difference in a swimmer’s motivation.

“The whole atmosphere and the warm weather made it much easier to get up in the morning and get going,” Kotynia said.

The trip to the climate of San Juan wasn’t all fun and games for the Orange. The week of training prepared the team for the rest of the season.

Unlike other SU programs, most members of the swimming and diving team don’t spend much time together during the semester, Walker said. SU freshman swimmer Alice Stejskal said the team took away extra training time with teammates from the last trip to the island.

“We spent a lot of time just hanging out at the beach,” she said.

Aside from giving them time to spend together, the trip provides the teammates the chance to swim against programs across the nation in friendly meets. This year, the team competed in meets Tuesday and Friday of the week, facing St. Mary’s, LaSalle and Harvard.

In his last go-around, the seasoned Walker recognized that his dead-man-walking program fit the bill of any other collegiate swimming team one final time. Most teams make trips south for the winter. And just like they all benefit, Walker’s soon-to-be-extinct program benefited.

Now SU has just a few weeks left of actual competition to make the most of it.

Said Walker: “It’s an annual thing — swim teams all around the country travel during the holidays. It serves team purposes.” sebail01@syr.edu

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Hayford keys remarkable D-III success

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Jim Hayford can’t get the thought of the one loss out of his head. He never stops regretting resting one of his best players for too long in the first half. He can’t forget a bad five minutes in the second half.

For Hayford, it’s a constant game of “what if.” He could’ve been the coach of FOR THE a team on a 45-game winning streak.

But he isn’t.

“I think about the one we lost more than I think about any of the 44 we won,” said Hayford, the men’s basketball coach at Whitworth University. “We were ready to break the game open in the first half. … I think I could have gone for the jugular in the first half.”

Instead, the Whitworth University (Wash.) basketball team has won 44 of its last 45 games.

It’s not a streak, but it’s domination nonetheless.

And it all starts and ends with the head coach.

Hayford has become one of the most successful coaches in Division III with a 208-55 record at Whitworth and a 245-82 record overall. The head coach’s unmatched ability to recruit has helped him build one of the most successful programs in Division III basketball. He is as much a salesman as he is a basketball coach when on the recruiting trail.

His recruits aren’t on a path to the NBA, and D-III schools aren’t allowed to offer athletic scholarships. So Hayford has to sell the school sometimes more than the team.

Hayford has it down to a science.

“Everyone you recruit is going to go pro in something besides basketball,” Hayford said.

“It’s important to a Division III basketball coach to have a school that academically is attractive.”

Hayford has sold Whitworth to plenty of talented players through the years, whether it’s because of the success of the team or the academic offerings of the school. Whatever the reason, the Pirates have consistently flourished in the D-III ranks.

He’s also been able to sell the program’s success to donors, giving them reason to want to support the school monetarily. With the support, the D-III school has some D-I qualities.

Whitworth can schedule road games that require flights, allowing the Pirates to go to Las Vegas and Hawaii for tournaments instead of having to be limited to road trips.

Tournaments like those only make the program that much more appealing to potential recruits.

“He’s an off-the-charts fundraiser,” Whitworth Athletic Director Warren Friedrichs said. “I was the coach before Jim’s arrival, and I didn’t know you could operate like that on Division III.”

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courtesy of whitworth sports information jim hayford has led Whitworth University to a 19-0 start this season, which includes winning 44 out of its last 45 games dating back to last season. The coach has a 245-82 record overall in Division III with Whitworth and the University of Sioux Falls.

It’s only a continuation of Hayford’s knack for building a program from the ground up.

Hayford focuses on recruiting players who give maximum effort, furthering Hayford’s ability to find unparalleled success in D-III basketball. A look at his career is as much evidence as needed. He’s taken Whitworth to the NCAA Tournament five times and has coached the Pirates to seven 20-win seasons and four conference titles. Hayford has been the Northwest Conference Coach of the Year four times.

And his success hasn’t only come at Whitworth.

Hayford was the head coach at the University of Sioux Falls for two seasons. He took a team that was 9-17 the year before he arrived to the conference playoffs with a record of 15-15. The following year, the Cougars were 22-12. It’s why his career record ranks among the top 10 in winning percentage of all coaches in D-III. “We recruited a bunch of new players, and we just changed the culture,” Hayford said. “I think we only kept three or four holdover players and brought in 10 new guys.”

Wherever Hayford goes, success follows.

If all goes the way Hayford plans, he may not have to regret the one loss much longer.

Another winning streak is in the making.

His Pirates team is undefeated this season and has a 19-game winning streak since that one loss.

Winning streak or not, Hayford focuses on the overall benefits college basketball can offer to athletes, regardless of the level of play.

Said Hayford: “I just want that, when we

walk off the court after our last game, whenever that is, that our players feel like they had the best experience possible.”

Games to watch

lost three of their last four. The Badgers’ Jon Leuer is averaging 18.6 points per game in his last five and could be the difference-maker in the game. Wisconsin will be looking for revenge against the Spartans.

No. 17 Syracuse vs. South Florida

Prediction: Wisconsin 75, Michigan State 70

Syracuse has obviously struggled of late, losing four in a row. But South Florida has struggled all season with an overall record of 8-14 and a Big East record of 2-7. The Orange will get a chance to face a team that’s clearly inferior for the first time since the start of conference play.

No. 12 Villanova vs. No. 25 West Virginia

Prediction: Syracuse 82, South Florida 68

No. 10 Kentucky vs. Florida It’s going to be a battle of two elite SEC teams. Kentucky has won four of its last five, led by Terrence Jones, who’s averaging 18 points per game over that span. Florida is 1-1 in its only games against ranked teams this season. It’ll be close, but the Wildcats come out on top.

Prediction: Kentucky 70, Florida 66

No. 8 BYU vs. UNLV One word: Jimmermania. Jimmer Fredette is averaging 27.6 points per game and has taken BYU to a 20-2 record with a 6-1 mark in the Mountain West Conference. The Cougars are fifth in the nation in scoring, averaging 84.2 points per game. They’re coming off a surprising loss to New Mexico, but UNLV shouldn’t be a problem.

Prediction: BYU 82, UNLV 75

Michigan State vs. No. 19 Wisconsin These two teams faced off Jan. 11, and Michigan State came out on top in the 64-61 overtime victory. The Spartans are sputtering, having

Both teams are evenly matched, but Villanova has struggled somewhat after its win over Syracuse. The Wildcats lost 83-68 to Providence and then 69-66 to Georgetown. The Mountaineers have beaten some good teams, including a win against Purdue. But when it comes down to it, Nova should be able to beat West Virginia.

Prediction: Villanova 68, West Virginia 62 cjiseman@syr.edu

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Orange looks to snap 9-year losing streak to Notre Dame

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

The Syracuse women’s basketball team clawed all the way back. Down 14 at halftime last season to No. 3 Notre Dame inside the Carrier Dome, the Orange stifled the Fighting Irish attack in the second period and managed to pull ahead, 72-71, with less than a minute left.

In its biggest Who: Notre Dame Where: South Bend, Ind. game of last season up to that point, When: Tonight, 7 p.m. the Orange was in position to pull out a marquee victory over the third-ranked team in the nation.

But the comeback soon fell apart.

Notre Dame had made just one 3-pointer the entire second half, but Ashley Barlow changed that when she knocked down the go-ahead shot from the right wing.

Still, SU had time. But after the Irish missed the front end of a one-and-one, Syracuse guard Erica Morrow’s last-second shot fell short. A jump ball on the rebound gave Syracuse possession with half a second left.

But Tasha Harris’ inbounds pass under the basket was deflected away, and Notre Dame

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The Syracuse women’s basketball team takes a three-game winning streak to No. 9 Notre Dame on Tuesday. The Orange (16-4, 4-3) will be looking for a significant Big East road win to bolster its NCAA tournament resume but has never beaten the Fighting Irish on the road. SU leading scorer Kayla Alexander has returned to her early-season form with 16 points per game in the current win streak. Sophomore guard Elashier Hall has also been hot for Syracuse, averaging more than 16 points through seven Big East contests and shooting 51.1 percent from 3-point range on the season.

escaped with the win.

That game last year was just the latest in a lopsided history between Syracuse and Notre Dame. Since the teams first started playing in 1988, Syracuse has won two games against the No. 8 Fighting Irish and has lost 23. The Orange’s only two victories came in 2002 and 1989, and unlike last year’s matchup, the games have not been close.

SU (16-4, 4-3 Big East) will renew that rivalry when it travels to take on Notre Dame (18-4, 7-1) Tuesday at 7 p.m. in South Bend, Ind., where it will look for its first road victory over the Irish in program history.

“From what I’ve heard, Notre Dame is a tough place to play at,” said sophomore guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas, who has not played in South Bend yet in her career. “They get a lot of fans. The fans are all into it.”

Syracuse’s one-point loss a year ago was only the third single-digit defeat out of 23 total losses for the Orange against its Big East rival. The Irish’s average margin of victory against SU is 18.2 points per game.

The matchup last season looked well on its way to another Notre Dame blowout after 20 minutes. The Irish’s 53 points in the first half were a season high for an SU opponent. They made eight 3-pointers by halftime and were shooting 50 percent from the field.

But Syracuse buckled down in the second half. It held the Irish to seven field goals after the break, including two 3s. Still, Notre Dame held on as SU couldn’t execute in the final seconds of the game, something that plagued the Orange throughout last season.

“We’ve got to score the basketball down the stretch,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said at the start of this season. “I think we had too many empty possessions in the last two minutes of basketball games (last year) where we wouldn’t score coming down the court. We’d throw the ball away.”

To break the current 10-game losing streak to Notre Dame, SU will need to follow the same formula it used to slow down the Irish in the second half of their meeting last year.

Notre Dame leads the conference in scoring offense this season, thanks in part to its 33 percent shooting from long range. If the Orange can shut down those opportunities and pound the ball inside, it should be within striking distance once again near the end of the game.

And if it can buck the series trend and hang with the Irish, Hillsman said it will

nate shron | staff photographer erica morrow and Syracuse slipped up in the final minute of last season’s matchup with Notre Dame. SU will look to beat the Irish for the first time since 2002 on Tuesday. come down to the perimeter players with the clock winding down.

“Guard play is huge because normally at that juncture of the game, there’s a shot to be made or a shot to be taken or a decision to be made,” Hillsman said. “That’s when your guards make the decision.”

For SU, those guards are seniors Harris and Morrow, both of whom had chances to put the Orange in front late last year against Notre Dame. Although Syracuse has not played any

games this season that have come down to the last possession, both have played in a multitude of close games throughout their careers.

And in Morrow’s mind, those last few possessions come down to the little things.

“I think we’ve just got to finish ball games,” she said. “Finish out the end of possessions, get defensive stops. Just do the little things that help us get over that last hump at the end of the game.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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Youthful talent

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When the mentor struggled, the 17-year-old pupil stepped up.

In the 2009 Elite Eight, Kemba Walker showed the first glimpse of what he could be down the road. With senior A.J. Price playing poorly, the freshman Walker took over and got his team to the Final Four.

“It was one of those games where I had no choice but to have a good game,” Walker said.

On the biggest stage, the kid from the Bronx had the game of his life. He matched a career high with 23 points and handled Missouri’s “40 Minutes of Hell” full-court press with ease. And the Huskies prevailed.

“I just kept thinking, (what) if he could do that on a consistent basis,” former UConn forward Gavin Edwards said.

“And this year, he’s really doing it.”

It was Walker’s speed that energized the Huskies against the Missouri press in the 2009 NCAA Tournament, an asset he’s had ever since he was young. An asset that, in the words of Davidson head coach Bob McKillop, likens Walker to a sports car.

“He has controlled speed,” McKillop said.

“He’s like a high-powered race car, like a Porsche. He’s got different gears and knows exactly when to use them.”

McKillop coached Walker in the 2008 FIBA Americas U18 Championship with Team USA, when Walker averaged 13.4 points over five games and also dished out five assists on his way to tournament MVP. In the championship loss to Argentina, he netted a game-high 21.

“He was pretty darn good,” McKillop said.

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think he needs to improve much.”

From July 20-24, Romar ran the USA Basketball Men’s Select Team. The team was composed of 20 college players, including Walker, and its sole task was to scrimmage the National Team leading up to the 2010 FIBA World Championships.

Going up against the likes of Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook and Rajon Rondo, Romar said Walker was one of the few players not intimidated by the superstars.

“He had a day where, in a scrimmage, he went for about 28 points,” said Jay Wright, Villanova’s head coach and an assistant with the Select Team, in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Jan. 27. “And everybody just said, ‘Wow.’ I think everybody realized this kid is on another level.”

Despite being undersized at just 6-foot-1, Walker used his speed to wreak havoc on some of the best guards in the world.

And on a team that had four AP Preseason All-Americans, Walker emerged as the go-to guy for the Select Team.

“He was the one that could just go out and create,” Romar said. “I thought he had the ability that, if you’re just having a tough time against a good defensive team, you can still win the game because of his ability to break down defenses.”

In one scrimmage, Walker said, a trimmeddown Select Team finally beat the NBA guys later that summer in New York City. Though meaningless, it was an accomplishment that will stay with Walker forever. And his play in those two weeks will continue to be the lasting impression for the players and coaches of that Select Team.

“We needed a guard that could go against Westbrook and Rose and (Chauncey) Billups and those guys every day and give them good work,” Wright said. “And he was the first guy we picked.”

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‘Fruits of his labors’ Flash forward from that freshman season to the present, and Gavin Edwards can’t help but chuckle. When asked how Kemba Walker’s game has changed since, he laughs at his own response.

“Kemba,” Edwards said, “has obviously been

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NR UConn 89 Vermont 73, 42 points

In the second game of the season, Walker topped 40 for the first time in his career, hitting 15-of-24 shots from the field.

Nov. 22

NR UConn 83 Wichita St. 79, 31 points

In the first game of the Maui Invitational, Walker scored 29 of his 31 in the second half and hit a jumper to give his team a three-point lead with 41 seconds left.

Nov. 23

NR UConn 70 No. 2 Michigan State 67, 30 points

Walker poured in 30 just 24 hours after the Wichita State game to help the Huskies knock off second-ranked MSU.

Nov. 30

No. 7 UConn 62 New Hampshire 55, 30 points

In this close win over UNH, Walker accounted for nearly half of his team’s points.

Dec. 27

No. 6 Pittsburgh 78 No. 4 UConn 63, 31 points

Despite missing a season-high 17 shots, Walker still eclipsed 30 points in the Huskies’ first loss of the year.

Jan. 15

No. 10 UConn 82 DePaul 62, 31 points

Walker netted 22 of his game-high 31 in the first half as the Huskies cruised past the lowly Blue Demons.

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working on his shot a little bit.”

After UConn attempted its fewest 3-pointers and shot the lowest percentage from 3-point range in 15 years last season, the team needed to improve. More specifically, Walker needed to improve.

He made only 13 3-pointers as a freshman and shot 27 percent. A year later, he made roughly three times as many triples, but the team still ranked third to last in the Big East in 3-point percentage.

So between his experience with the USA Select Team and all of the guard-oriented camps, Walker was on campus in Storrs, Conn., working on his game. Hundreds of jump shots.

Hours in the gym.

“I just wanted to take shots,” Walker said.

“Take consistent shots. It was hard, but I had no choice.”

It all worked.

Through 20 games this season, Walker made more 3s (40) than he did all of last season in 34 games (38). He’s hit three or more 3-pointers in six games this season — a feat he accomplished just three times in his career prior to this year.

And his ability to drive the lane — the skill that’s always been his strength — has only become more dangerous. Now teams have to respect his jump shot, and they can’t pack the paint with all five defenders.

“That was the big thing that everybody tried to knock him with,” said Jacob Pullen, a Kansas State guard and Select Team teammate. “He really understood how hard you have to work to be a good player.

“And right now, it’s just the fruits of his labors.”

It’s labor that has yielded 15 20-point games and six 30-point games.

He’s been asked to do it all for this young Huskies squad, and so far the challenge has been answered.

So as unpleasant as every cold bath is following his labor during a taxing Big East battle, every game UConn wins might make the frigid water feel a bit warmer.

“He’s a terrific all-around basketball player,” Calhoun said. “Who we need desperately every single night to score points for us.”

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SPORTS

tuesday

february 1, 2011

page 20

the daily orange

m e n ’s b a s k e t b a l l

SU drops to No. 17 after losses

By Brett LoGiurato Sports Editor

jamie de pould | staff photographer kemba walker (middle) is having the best statistical season of his career and has led Connecticut to a No. 6 ranking so far this season.

He scored 30 points or more in six games this season, and the Huskies are in the middle of the chase for the Big East title after 20 games.

Walk

alone

By Michael Cohen

B

Asst. Sports Editor

attered and bruised, Kemba Walker limps into his frigid oasis. Though he visits this place nearly every day, that doesn’t make feeling the near-frozen temperatures of the cold tub against his skin any easier. The pins and needles are always there.

Nonetheless, he’s come to appreciate this place. After all, it’s about the only thing keeping his body in game condition. Playing 37 minutes per game in the Big East takes its toll.

Having three, four or even five bodies converge on you every time you drive the lane just makes it worse.

“I get tired a lot,” Walker said.

“But I can’t show it. All the time I’m with the trainer, in the cold tub. Any-

With improved game, Walker leads resurrection of UConn program

thing I can do to get my body ready for the game.”

Heading into the 2010-11 season, Walker knew it was going to be like this. He assumed the leadership position on this Connecticut team as soon as the final buzzer ended last year’s disappointing NIT season.

And with seven new freshmen coming to play for head coach Jim Calhoun, Walker knew he had to be “that guy.”

“Kemba Walker is doing this because an awful lot of it is that he’s terrific,” Calhoun said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Jan. 20. “And he’s got an incredible, competitive heart. And because he’s a great leader for our team, and he knows we need it.”

What he’s doing is leading a res-

urrection of the UConn men’s basketball program Syracuse will face Wednesday at 7 p.m. inside Hartford’s XL Center. Almost single-handedly bringing it back from the murky depths of a recruiting scandal that tarnished the team’s reputation.

Twenty games into the season, Walker has guided the Huskies to a Top 10 ranking and is pouring in more than 24 points per game. He’s hit three game-winning shots this year and is one of the frontrunners for the National Player of the Year award.

It’s a role Walker knew he was going to have to play, and he accepted the challenge. Hundreds of hours in the gym working mostly on his jump shot were complemented by experience with the USA basketball team

and trips to the camps run by Chris Paul, Deron Williams and LeBron James over the summer.

Now, with his team in the hunt for a Big East title, it’s all paying off.

“I’m not surprised because I put in the time,” Walker said. “I knew it was going to be a breakout year, and I knew it was going to have to be a breakout year for this team to be at this point.”

A lasting impression Seven seconds.

That’s how long it took Lorenzo Romar to respond when asked where Kemba Walker can improve offensively. And even then, he was stumped.

“Oh, man,” said Romar, Washington’s head coach. “Offensively, I don’t

see walker page 18

Two weeks. Four losses. Fourteen spots down the polls.

In the latest Associated Press rankings released Monday, Syracuse (18-4, 5-4 Big East) dropped to No. 17, eight spots lower than its previous No. 9 rank last week. And it’s all part of a stunning turn to the Orange’s season, as it has fallen from the highs of the No. 3 rank in the nation only two weeks ago.

That’s what the first four-game losing streak in five seasons will do. SU stood near the top of the college basketball world two weeks ago, having rallied without leading scorer Kris Joseph the past Saturday to handily defeat Cincinnati.

But then the Orange hit the toughest portion of its schedule, starting two weeks ago at then-No. 5 Pittsburgh in a nationally televised, highly-anticipated matchup. Again, Syracuse was without Joseph. This time, it couldn’t prevail without his play, dropping its first game of the season.

Then came the free fall. At home in a sloppy loss to Villanova. And then at home in an even sloppier 22-point loss to Seton Hall. The second was the Orange’s worst home loss since 1998.

Finally, Syracuse fell this past weekend in Marquette for its fourth consecutive loss. The Orange has never lost five in a row in 35 seasons under Jim Boeheim.

And the voters took notice. Two voters dropped the Orange from the rankings altogether.

The Big East conference as a whole is still holding strong in the AP rankings.

Seven other teams join Syracuse: No. 4 Pittsburgh, No. 6 Connecticut, No. 9 Notre Dame, No. 12 Villanova, No. 13 Georgetown and No. 15 Louisville. SU rounds out the conference at No. 17.

The Orange is also ranked No. 17 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. SU will travel to Storrs, Conn., to take on UConn Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Hartford’s XL Center. bplogiur@syr.edu

INSIDEsports

Not so ‘Lecky’ Syracuse freshman midfielder

Hakeem Lecky will miss the 2011 season with a wrist injury after head coach John Desko expected him to make significant contributions in his first season. Page 15