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Shedding light Light Work prepares to host

Raving the storm Marina Charny commends SU

Too close for comfort SU alumnus assaulted while

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students for their determination to brave the weekend weather in search of a party. Page 5

documenting turmoil in Egypt. Page 9

Syracuse blows past South Florida 72-49. Page 16

Negotiations to start for DPS union By Dara McBride News Editor

Officers in the Department of Public Safety are hoping a new union will give members enhanced benefits, as they plan to begin negotiations in the upcoming weeks with Syracuse Uni-

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The SU Public Safety Officers union will work with the university to determine the terms and services of employment, including wages, benefits and work hours.

Students celebrate receiving sorority bids By Emily Pompelia Contributing Writer

The yells and chants of sorority women rang across campus Sunday as female students received bids to various sororities. The day marked an end to the competitive two-week recruitment process for hundreds of female underclassmen at Syracuse University. The process started with 17 groups of about 50 young women in each one. Those who made it to the end filled several classrooms at noon as their Rho Gammas gave each of them an envelope. Inside the envelopes was a bid to join one of the 12 National Panhellenic Conference-affiliated sororities at SU. Sarah Schmalbruch, a freshman magazine journalism major, received

a bid from Alpha Xi Delta. “Being a sister means I’m a part of something that will be a huge part of my life for the rest of my life,” Schmalbruch said. “I can’t believe it.” Members from various sororities participated as Rho Gammas, who were responsible for guiding the young women through the recruitment process. There were two to three Rho Gammas assigned to each recruitment group. “The Rho Gammas were here to talk to any of the girls who had hesitations, to celebrate and to be a shoulder to cry on,” said Alison Pang, a freshman public relations major who received a bid from Gamma Phi Beta. After the groups’ Rho Gammas see bid day page 4

altan james (above) | contributing photographer jenny jakubowski (below) | staff photographer From top to bottom: Alpha Xi Delta sisters welcome potential new members. Female undergraduates cheer for their sororities outside Schine Student Center on Sunday as part of Bid Day celebrations.

versity officials on the formation of the SU Public Safety Officers union. For almost four years, DPS was part of a national organization called the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. But the union was not very helpful to DPS officers, said DPS officer Jonathan LeBaron, president of the former and current union. “They were more about taking our union dues,” LeBaron said. Some DPS officers said they are hoping for higher pay and more time off from work as a result of the new union. DPS officers referred to the old union as a “Mickey Mouse union” because it also handled unionizing workers at Disney World, LeBaron said. The base salary for DPS officers is 33 percent lower than those of other area law enforcement officials, despite the fact that officers are dispatched beyond the university area and will soon be able to run license and give tickets like other area law officials, LeBaron said. The Buffalo chapter of the National Labor Relations Board certified the union Jan. 16, said Paul Murphy, assistant to the regional director for the board. Included in the union are all fulltime and regular part-time safety officers, community service officers see union page 6

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campus briefs Larceny occurs in Sims Hall A larceny occurred Tuesday between 6 and 9 p.m. in Sims Hall, according to a Syracuse police report. Brittany Place, a graduate student in the College of Human Ecology, had her wallet, New York state driver’s license, SU ID and two HSBC credit cards stolen, according to the report. Place left her purse in the computer lab in Sims Room 427 and left the desk twice while two females were also present in the room, according to the report. She did not notice her wallet missing until Wednesday at 10 a.m. and called to cancel her credit cards at 6:30 p.m., according to the report. The cards were used at numerous stores across Syracuse and Cicero, totaling $1,175 in expenses, according to the report. The case remains open.

Larceny occurs on Marshall Street A larceny occurred Friday between 9:05 and 9:45 a.m. in the parking lot on the corner of Marshall Street and South Crouse Avenue, according to a Syracuse police report. Rosette Aksterowicz, 40, of Syracuse, had her black and silver purse stolen from her 2003 gray Honda Odyssey, according to the report. The passenger window was shattered, totaling $200 in damage, and her purse was stolen from the center console of her vehicle, according to the report. She had several credit cards stolen; several gift cards totaling more than $1,000 stolen; and $230 in cash taken, according to the report. The case remains open.

Phone stolen at Harrison Street party A larceny occurred at 1105 Harrison St. between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to a Syracuse police report. Kalinda Panholzer, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, attended a fraternity party on Harrison Street and had her Verizon iPhone and $8 in cash stolen, according to the report. The case remains open.

Multiple power outages affect area Several power outages affected the campus area following a Saturday evening rain and snow storm. At about 7 p.m. Saturday, there were 31 power outages in the Syracuse area, according to the National Grid website. Two outages were affecting 45 National Grid customers near the campus area a little after 5 p.m. Saturday. Another power outage affecting less than five customers was reported at 2:47 p.m. Sunday on Ostrom Avenue. At about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, there were four power outages in the Syracuse area. There were no power outages remaining in the Syracuse area after 9 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Grid website. — Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. news editor, jdharr04@syr.edu

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Best in show colin smith (CENTER) , presentation editor at The Salt Lake Tribune in Salt Lake City, Utah, holds open a newspaper at the 32nd Best of News Design competition held at Drumlins Country Club on Sunday. The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Society for News Design co-hosted the event, which has been held in Syracuse since its inception. Voting on newspaper design began Saturday with judges placing votes in cups set out in front of the design submissions sent in from all over the world. Voting will conclude Monday.

SU to host speaker on controversial short film By Elora Tocci Staff Writer

National discussion on the controversial film “A Fire in My Belly,” a video that explores art history from a gay and lesbian perspective, will come to Syracuse University this week. Jonathan Katz, the co-curator of a Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition, will lecture about the censorship Monday at 6 p.m. in

Watson Theater. The LGBT Resource Center and Hendricks Chapel are co-sponsoring the event, titled “End-

“A Fire in My Belly” lecture Jonathan Katz, the co-curator of a Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery exhibition will lecture on censorship of a silent short film. Where: Watson Theater When: Monday at 6 p.m. How much: Free

ing the Loud Silence: Hide/Seek the Future of Queer Exhibitions and Freedom of Speech.” Katz has been giving lectures since the gallery removed the controversial 13-minute video “A Fire in My Belly” from the Smithsonian exhibit “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” The gallery removed the video due to pressure from the Catholic

League and conservative members of Congress, who claimed the video, which depicts ants crawling over crucifixes, perpetuates anti-Christian sentiment. “This is a manufactured controversy,” Katz said. “You can go way back in history and see much more savage depictions of the cross. This is fundamentally about a resurgence of

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Former professor mourned globally by family, friends By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor

When James Powell learned that a graduate student he knew was giving his first academic presentation at Syracuse University, Powell made a point to attend - and sat in the front row. Graduate student Charles Reid had not told Powell he was coming

to SU to speak in front of medievalist professors ready to question his findings. But as Reid walked up and saw Powell, he said it gave him moral support during a nerveracking experience. “He took a very keen interest in making sure I did well,” said Reid, who made the presentation back in 1993.

Powell, a professor emeritus of medieval history at SU, was laid to rest Saturday after dying of injuries from a car accident in Fayetteville. Family members buried Powell at St. Mary’s Cemetery in DeWitt, N.Y., next to his wife, who was buried on the same day 19 years ago. Family and friends remember Powell as a talkative man who held

a love for medieval history and Italy. He taught at SU for more than three decades until 1997. At age 5, Powell’s youngest son, John, spent a year in Florence with his father and family. James traveled to Italy many times, returning later with John’s wife and two daughters. “He had a really good, remark-

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able knowledge of the history and all the places we were seeing,” John said. James was planning to fly to Florence again this spring until the car accident, after which John said his father spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and underwent surgery before dying Jan. 27. The accident happened on a cold, wintry day, but John said he is still unsure about the cause. Up until his death, James loved to talk about his work with medieval history and relationships with people across the globe, John said. “It was interesting to grow up around a man who knew people all around the world,” said John, one of James’ six children. James’ former SU colleague, Ken Pennington, received responses from as far away as England and Germany when he sent out an e-mail announcing James’ death. One e-mail was written in German. Pennington worked with James in SU’s his-

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passed out the bid envelopes, the young women were instructed to sit on the envelopes until every woman received one. Following two minutes of anxious waiting, cheers and tears filled each group. The young women then walked to Schine Student Center, where current members of every sorority lined the auditorium. The sisters were

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“Some professors are withdrawn and shy and not very social. Well, he was the exact opposite of that.”

tory department for 27 years and said Powell loved to sit down and “chew the fat” with students and faculty. “Some professors are withdrawn and shy and not very social,” he said. “Well, he was the exact opposite of that.” James was important for strengthening E.S. Bird Library in medieval and renaissance history, Pennington said. In the 1970s, Powell led a 10-year project to catalog and ease accessibility to the library’s Leopold von Ranke collection, which houses 25,000 books, pamphlets and other materials from the German historian, said Mary Beth Hinton, assistant to the director of special collections research in Bird. James also served as chair in 1986 for an international conference on von Ranke in Syracuse, Hinton said. As James’ SU colleague at the time, Pennington said James was dedicated to his work and the university. “He bled orange all the time,” said Pennington, who is writing James’ obituary for the American Catholic Historical Association, which James had been a member of since 1954.

Robert Trisco, former secretary and treasurer of the historical association, suggested James’ name for the vice presidential position, to which James was elected in 2005. He served as the association’s president one year later. “He set an example, I would say, for historians in our country, and he was certainly greatly admired because he was such a good scholar,” Trisco said. Trisco met with James and one of his sons in Madrid at the International Congress of Historical Sciences in 1990 and watched James present a paper at the event, which provided a meeting place to discuss histori-

wearing matching shirts, sunglasses, boas and crowns and were displaying their letters. Not every participant received a bid from her top house. The young women now must decide whether or not to pledge the sorority that gave them a bid. Some will be using their pledge classes to make the final decision. “I’m excited to see who’s in my pledge class because that’ll be a big determinant of whether or not I pledge,” said Kara McFarlane, a freshman television, radio and film major who received a bid from Gamma Phi Beta.

For some young women, deciding to rush and pledge was easy. “I wanted to rush because I wanted to make a close-knit group of friends like I had in high school,” said Jill Condulis, a freshman television, radio and film major who received a bid from Kappa Kappa Gamma. “I think I’ll definitely pledge. I’ve met so many girls just through rushing.” For those who did not rush this year or receive the bid they had hoped for, Condulis recommended rushing next spring.

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cal research. It’s a memory that still stands out today, Trisco said. Though James left SU in 1997, he still came to the history department’s holiday and beginning-of-the-year parties with his children or grandchildren, said Carol Faulkner, associate professor and chair of the history department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “He was always eager to come back to the history department,” Faulkner said. For Reid, the former student for whom James sat in the front row to watch speak, the news of James’ death was very saddening, especially because an unexpected car accident caused it, he said. Reid, now a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, kept in touch with James after his SU speech through medieval history conferences and dinners. Unlike the stuffiness associated with some medieval history professors, there was nothing stuffy about James’ personality, Reid said. “He was someone who was always willing,” Reid said, “just to expend himself for others.” mcboren@syr.edu

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Said Condulis: “It was a great experience.” empompel@syr.edu

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Campus safety must factor into any changes to DPS benefits Department of Public Safety officers plan to press Syracuse University for more benefits, including more time off from work and higher pay, through their newly formed union. DPS officers make a base salary that is 33 percent less than that of area law enforcement. Forming a union marks a great first step for DPS officers to ask for more equitable pay and benefits from SU. But because the officers’ salaries come from SU and not the public, the decisions regarding benefits belong in a university context rather than compared to the salaries or benefits of city or state officers. The university overhauled faculty and staff benefits less than a year ago to make them financially sustainable,

editorial by the daily orange editorial board university administrators said. The administration has already shown concern for a strained and increasingly expensive benefits budget. Thus, any gains the new union makes must have more long-term results than equity in comparison to city or other public law enforcement. Campus safety ranks as one of SU’s greatest challenges and students’ greatest concerns. There are a lot of reasons to support increased pay and more time off for DPS officers if it will ensure more efficiency in the department and increase safety on campus.

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Students reveal determination to party despite rough weekend weather

raving the many forms of precipitation this weekend — hail, rain, snow, sleet, falling icicles — in the name of getting drunk reveals the many admirable qualities of Syracuse University students. Determination, persistence and the ability to make irrational decisions in the face of a challenge are a few of these celebrated traits. SU students are kind of like the tortoise from the tortoise and the hare story: Both are at a disadvantage, but both come out on top. Let me paint you a little picture. You’re a girl. It’s Friday night. You live on Lancaster Avenue, but your roommate just got a boyfriend and is planning to stay in with him all night, watching movies and eating carbs — you’ve let her know you’re deleting her BBM from your Blackberry as

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soon as she passes 140 pounds. But no worries — your other friend lives in Castle Court and is having a prebar. And that guy you slept with is going to be there. This is the guy you told everyone you didn’t sleep with so they wouldn’t think you were a total skank, even though everyone already knows you did because he’s in a frat and e-mailed the entire house listserv about it. In other words, you have the motivation. You have to make it over there. This is where that SU-student strength comes into play. You glance outside: It’s snowing heavily, and your street has not been plowed. It seems to also be raining at the same time, and large chunks of ice are strewn outside your house. Icicles the size of a small child hang off your roof and fall off at random, striking

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blondes know better fear into passersby because they may be hit in the head and temporarily knocked unconscious. Cars drive by from time to time, splashing mud and slush all over students walking in the direction of incoming traffic because the sidewalks are covered in slushy snow. When you went outside this morning, you wore a down jacket and rain boots and still managed to slip and fall on an old beer can hidden somewhere deep beneath the snow,

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right alongside your dignity. Bearing all this in mind, you put on the shortest dress you own because all the important body parts are accentuated in this dress — remember that guy is going to be there. You slip into expensive, 5-inch stripper heels — five is your lucky number, and it could be his, too — and put on a light spring jacket, and then you head out. As soon you come outside, you’re instantly so cold it feels as though some part of you has died. You take two steps forward, and your heels sink into a mass of fresh snow laying atop a huge patch of ice, on which you slip and fall, exposing your undergarments to the group of freshman guys conveniently walking by. You get back up and head on your way with the elegance and speed of a toddler taking

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his first steps. Nearly an hour later, you’ve made it to Walnut Avenue. Your whole body is numb, one set of fake eyelashes has fallen off, and there’s no alcohol left. But on the bright side, you’re still alive! You have officially conquered nature. What’s a little bit of snow compared to a whole lot of awesome? On Monday, dear SU student, you may wake up with pneumonia. But tonight, you’re feeling no pain. And several years from now, when your life gets made into a Lifetime movie special, maybe you can take a leaf out of 50 Cent’s book and call it “Get Drunk or Die Trying.” Just a thought. Marina Charny is a senior English and textual studies and writing major. Her column appears every Monday. She can be reached at mcharny@syr.edu.

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and communication specialists employed by DPS and working on SU’s campus, according to paperwork filed with the board. The current contract for the group expired Dec. 20, 2009, according to the document obtained by The Daily Orange. The university will have to go through DPS’ union to discuss the terms and services of employment, such as wages, benefits and work hours, Murphy said. It is up to the university and DPS to come to an agreement on benefits and pay. “As far as we’re concerned, it’s full speed ahead for the both of them,” Murphy said. The university pays the salary of DPS employees and is open to their suggestion to start negotiations soon, said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president of public affairs at SU. But beyond the negotiation process, the union operates independently from the university, Quinn said. The new union will be an affiliate of Council 82 in Auburn, N.Y., said LeBaron, the union president. Council 82 will handle all negotiations for DPS, and should a DPS officer need a lawyer, the council will be able to provide one 24/7, LeBaron said. This is something the old union did not offer, he said. DPS went without a union for a year, a requirement of forming the new union, LeBaron said. There was a sense of nervousness during this time, but the university and DPS management continued to follow the contract, LeBaron said. Two officers were fired last year, but they had already been on probation, LeBaron said. “Everybody played by the rules,” he said. Still, there are some changes LeBaron said he and the other officers hope to see. Within the next week, DPS will be scheduling negotiations with the university, LeBaron said. He did not know how long or exactly when they would take place. Whereas DPS’ management staff has unlimited sick time, officers do not. LeBaron also said he would like to see a change in

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the right wing and them trying to reignite a culture war.” The late artist David Wojnarowicz created the video as a response to the death of his close friend, photographer Peter Hujar, who died of AIDS. Light Work, an artistrun, Syracuse-based organization located in Watson Hall’s Robert B. Menschel Media Center, has been screening the video since mid-December. The lecture aligns with Hendricks’ commitment to maintaining an open dialogue on issues of faith and culture, said Tiffany Steinwert, dean of Hendricks Chapel. “It’s very important for people who were offended by the video to have their voices heard and equally as important for artists and those who found meaning in the video to talk about their experiences,” she said. Steinwert said there has been very little conflict about Katz’s lecture, and she hopes it will help people engage in dialogue on issues of art, faith, sexuality and politics. “The video provides an opportunity to reflect on the way in which religion and art intersect,” Steinwert said. “It generated a lot of controversy, and it’s healthy to talk about the controversy rather than to censor it.”

how overtime hours are paid, such as getting additional time off instead of receiving $ 32 an hour for overtime. DPS officers would also like to see a pay increase and a better retirement plan, LeBaron said. Traditionally, the university has siphoned 12 percent of an officer’s weekly salary into a retirement account, but last year it was cut down to 11 percent, LeBaron said. Officers are also not allowed to decide how much they contribute to the fund. LeBaron said he would like to see this change. “We need to make sure we are getting a fair contract,” DPS officer Jeremy Welling said. Welling has been with DPS for three and a half years and said the old union “didn’t do too much.” The new union will hopefully result in a pay increase and more sick time, said Welling, who works 40 hours a week on Thursdays through Sundays patrolling North and South campuses. As an officer, Welling gets 48 hours of sick time a year, but this isn’t enough considering officers work 10-hour days, he said. DPS is the third largest law enforcement agency in the area and deserves to be paid similar wages to other area law enforcement agents, he said. Welling said he made significantly more working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a lead supervisor for the Transportation Security Administration, but he joined DPS for the educational benefits his three children would receive. If he did receive more sick time, he said he would like to spend it with his children and wife. The family typically spends one week in July in Cape Cod, Mass. Welling said he was happy DPS had formed the new union, but he was unsure what would be the outcome of talks with the university. He said he did not expect major problems with negotiations. For the year DPS went without a union, he said he did not notice a change in how the university treated the officers. “It’s going to be a negotiation,” Welling said. “We’re going to have to give a little to take a little.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

People at Katz’s recent lectures have been energized but also scared, Katz said. “They’re scared because there’s a real danger in this country,” he said. “We could see a continuation of the status quo in which - let’s face it - international banking is more progressive than American museums.” Katz said this is not the first time artistic expression regarding gays and lesbians has been censored. He recalled the 1989 Corcoran Gallery of Art censorship of gay artist Robert Mapplethorpe and said the current controversy is similar to that incident. Jeff Hoone, executive director of the Museum and Arts Center, which runs Light Work, echoed Katz’s concern for free speech. “We joined the protest and dialogue right away because we’re very concerned about the issues of freedom of speech and discrimination,” Hoone said. “Talking about the controversy is an important thing for us.” Gay and lesbian artists are traditionally overlooked in art history, Hoone said, and the lecture will give the community a chance to look at how to move forward from here. The support of the LGBT Resource Center and Hendricks has been instrumental in coordinating the lecture, he said. “This is an important national issue,” Hoone said, “and having an expert come to campus to talk about free speech and gay rights is timely and relevant to SU.” ertocci@syr.edu

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College to start seminars for students to learn about past, improve future ESF CENTENNIAL SEMINAR SCHEDULE

All seminars will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Room 231 Marshall Hall

Feb. 14

Dr. Hugh Canham will present on the history of ESF.

Feb. 16

Professor George W. Curry will present on ESF and former President Franklin Roosevelt.

Feb. 21

Dr. Chad P. Dawson will present on Robert Marshall.

Feb. 23

Dr. Melissa K. Fierke will present on trends in the environmental and forest biology.

Feb. 28

Professor Emanuel J. Carter Jr. will present on models for community engagement and professional collaboration.

March 2

Dr. Timothy A. Volk will present on ESF’s energy resources.

March 7

Dr. Robert Chambers will present on 100 years of the American Wildlife Conservation Foundation.

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Dr. Cornelius B. Murphy Jr. will present on ESF in the future.

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eil Murphy is looking forward to looking back. “It’s very common for an institution that’s undergoing a centennial to begin celebrating by looking back,” said Murphy, president of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. ESF began celebrating the 100-year anniversary of becoming part of the Syracuse University campus in January. The college came to SU in 1911 with 52 students, two faculty members and Hugh Baker, ESF dean at the time. The eight ESF centennial seminars, which are also being offered as a one-credit course

to ESF students, begin Feb. 14 and will be held throughout the semester until March 9. ESF students, alumni, faculty, staff and the public are welcome to sit in on the discussions as well. Topics for the eight seminars range from covering the history of ESF, the college’s involvement with former President Franklin Roosevelt, trends in environmental and forest biology, and looking toward ESF’s future. The seminars aim to teach students an understanding of the college’s history, future goals and awareness of ESF’s mission and culture, according to the ESF website. Murphy will be covering ESF’s future. As ESF president, Murphy serves on the Centennial Committee and said he was asked if he would like to be included in the seminars.

In ESF’s 100 years on campus, much has happened, including many research projects and the college’s strategic Vision 20/20 plan for the environment, Murphy said. He hopes ESF’s success will continue, he said. The college has 48 research projects outside the United States and one research project happening on every continent. Hugh Canham, professor emeritus of forest and resources management, will be teaching the first lecture on Feb. 14 about the history of ESF. Although he is retired as an emeritus professor, he is still participating because he believes strongly the history of ESF is “a very important and fascinating subject,” Canham said in e-mail. Canham will be covering material similar

to what he presented in the first two Centennial Convocations on Jan. 20 and 21 but with added detail tailored to students. Topics in Canham’s session will include the broadening defi nition of forestry, the inclusion of women at the college starting in the 1950s, the expansion of the physical plant and the reasons for new buildings, he said. Student anecdotes from the 1950s will also be part of the lecture. Partnering with students and educating them on the college’s history and future is an important part of ensuring ESF will have a strong century ahead, Murphy said. Said Murphy: “It’s our responsibility to do the research and educate our young people.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

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traveling around and photographing specific locations, including the closed Egyptian Stock Exchange, he said. The day after the attack, he remained in his hotel and did not go out to photograph. It was difficult to stay inside for the entire day, he said, but he could not find another journalist to travel with. On the third day, other journalists confirmed the conditions were safer, and he again went out to photograph. Bruce Strong, associate professor of photojournalism and multimedia at SU, said photojournalists in conflict areas need to try to understand the cultural underpinnings of the conflict and how the different sides are causing conflict. “The reason it’s important to understand those underlying currents of thought is that when you’re in that conflict situation, the streets can

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for the delightfully crass in this fi lm about a bride-to-be and her wacky group of girlfriends, directed by Paul Fieg (creator of stoner-comedy pioneer “Freaks and Geeks”). “Bridesmaids” even includes a bachelorette party to Las Vegas, the city of sin and reliably outrageous shenanigans. And though it seems to play off the sad, single-girl trope — making jabs at Wiig as the dateless maid of honor — other comical moments appear gender neutral or have a feminine twist that would still appeal to reluctant boyfriends in the theater. I also

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roll up on you pretty fast,” he said. “For all the journalists there, I think they were caught off guard for how quickly the situation changed.” Strong has been detained by forces while covering conflicts before but said he had never been in a situation like Burton’s. “Hopefully he has learned a lot and will be wiser and smarter as he works,” Strong said. Strong said young journalists need to be able to read the situation around them and quickly make the right decisions because it can be a matter of life or death. Strong said another Newhouse graduate student, Andrew Henderson, who is currently stationed as a staff photographer for The National in Abu Dhabi, was beaten up in Cairo last week as he was taking pictures. “So I’ve had — this week — two past students beat up in Cairo. We have a relatively small department, so we get to know our students really well,” Strong said. “Any time a student goes off overseas, it can get dangerous.”

Burton’s father, Rick Burton, is a sport management professor at SU. He has not been in much contact with Andrew while he’s been in Egypt. Rick said he talked to his son, live, on Friday for the first time since Andrew left. Rick and family members follow Andrew’s blog and Twitter account to stay updated. It was on Andrew’s blog that they learned of his attack. “It was the first time we got a sense of how close he had come to a very threatening situation,” he said. “Something that gave us great confidence was that, although this was out of our control, it was under God’s control.” He and his wife were concerned about their son’s safety, he said, but they understood why he had to go to Egypt. “We found out he was going the night before he left,” Rick said. “We’ve known in order for him to be a great journalism photographer, he would need to go someday to where the news was.”

wasn’t kidding about the fart jokes. Involuntary release of bodily gas is always a cause for great amusement, especially when it’s followed up by a sheepish Melissa McCarthy admitting, “I’m not even confident of which end that came out of.” So do funny women have to resort to masculinity to be acknowledged? Funny is funny — whether it’s smart or slapstick — and there’s no reason for humor to be separated by gender. In his 2007 Vanity Fair article, “Why Women Aren’t Funny,” Christopher Hitchens attributes humor to be something men are required to have, while women just have to appreciate the opposite sex’s foolish but valiant attempts to make them laugh. He also states women are simply too sensitive: The indecent but

hilarious tragedies of life, usually involving anatomical parts, are not topics women usually like to tease or be teased about. I, for one, beg to differ. I find erectile dysfunction as ripe for ripping on as the next guy who snickers at the quip. At the same time, he’s probably silently praying he won’t be the poor unfortunate soul at the other end of that joke in 30 years. So while the male population continues to paint us as emotional saps who get weepy at weddings, commercials, bad haircuts and just because we’re so happy, it’s time to get on the offensive and start being offensive. Let’s go, ladies — balls out.

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everal of my guy friends are firm believers of this unfairly coined maxim: Girls aren’t funny. Sure, we could be cute or silly or have a great sense of humor, but as for being the ones to send expectant listeners into uproarious peals of laughter and bouts of near asthma? Not happening. To say dudes dominate comedy is a sweeping generalization, but one that is, well, kind of true. Sarah Schneider, one of two female staff writers for the fraternity boy-tailored CollegeHumor.com, wrote an article in January about the lack of funny content helmed by the fairer sex. Among her statistics, she found that of the 15 sitcoms currently airing on primetime television, only three were created by women. “Are women intimidated by the lack of women in comedy and therefore don’t see the possibility of their own success? A self-fulfi lling prophecy, where women don’t see other women succeeding, so they don’t try themselves, so they then aren’t able to succeed?” Schneider demands in the column (followed by a couple of appropriately placed expletives). The women who do make it in the boys’ club tend to stand resilient, making their success seem like a hard-won exception and not the rule for everyone else (i.e. Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in “30 Rock,” goddess of wit and compulsive snacking on Mexican Cheetos). But that shouldn’t stop women from trying. “The bottom line is … if more women put themselves out there as comedy writers, then more successful comedy writers are going to be women,” Schneider said. One way to do it is to follow a formula that works, not through the usual romantic comedy that comes built in with a female audience satisfied by one glimpse of Matthew McConaughey. Taking a cue from the bro-tastic plot of “The Hangover,” actress Kristen Wiig of “Saturday Night Live” co-wrote the upcoming movie “Bridesmaids,” the trailer for which was released last week. Replace beer, boobs and fart jokes with … oh hey! Beer, boobs and fart jokes! The strung-out storyline of wedding planning takes a turn SEE LEE PAGE 8

courtesy of andrew burton Andrew Burton arrived in Cairo on Feb. 3 to document protests and turmoil. The photos were taken on Feb. 6 (above) and Feb. 2 (right.)

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CHAOS SU grad faces danger, assault on self-funded trip to Egypt

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ndrew Burton, a 2010 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, was walking through a crowd in Tahrir Square in Egypt on Wednesday when he was violently attacked by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Burton wrote in his blog that he was trying to photograph a Mubarak supporter painting slogans over antiMubarak graffiti. His camera was slapped, and he was grabbed from behind. An attempt to leave the scene quickly escalated into a large-scale fight. Five or six antiMubarak supporters surrounded and protected him. His back was pushed against a tank and his shirt ripped open until soldiers from the tank reached down and lifted him inside to safety. “It was a bit surreal, it happened so quickly, I remember thinking, ‘What the f*** just happened? How the hell does one get out of this situation? I have no f***ing clue what to do,’” Burton said in an e-mail to The Daily Orange. Burton, a former special projects editor at The D.O., is just one of a number of American journalists who have

been attacked and beaten while reporting on the protests in Egypt. Notable journalists who have been attacked include Christiane Amanpour, Anderson Cooper and Lara Logan. In his blog, Burton said he traveled to Egypt because he has a serious interest in major international news photography. He called numerous editors before he left but paid for his own flight to Egypt, leaving with no idea about whether or not anyone would take his photos. Once on the ground, he learned Bloomberg News wanted to give him some assignments, he said in the e-mail. NPR, MSNBC and The Post-Standard have also run Burton’s work. He plans to head home Tuesday because he does not have any more assignments to complete, he said. But he wishes he could stay longer, as he feels a need to be there even though it is very dangerous. “You feel a compulsion,” he said. “Events are going to happen; you feel the need to be there. I’m not sure why, it’s something very instinctual.” At the time of the attack, Burton was traveling alone. Before the attack, he had spent about three hours safely SEE BURTON PAGE 8

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TELEFLORA One of the funnier and more successful advertisements this year had to be the Teleflora ad in the second quarter. A young guy in a recording studio asks country sweetheart Faith Hill for advice. He’s ordering flowers for his girlfriend and doesn’t know what to say. Hill thinks he should tell her how he feels and “say what’s in your heart.” He proceeds to type, “Dear Kim, your rack is unreal.” Not only does this guy give the girl a beautiful bouquet, but he’s also honest. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is. This commercial takes a very familiar, simple concept and makes it funny. You can’t get more cliché than “speak from your heart,” and this guy has the guts to do just that. If you’re close to your boyfriend or girlfriend, take a page from this guy’s book - be sincere, and get some help from a Grammy winner if you can.

COCA-COLA An epic battle is about to ensue between a race of monkey-sloth hybrids and Ork-like creatures. Both races have dragons to aid them in the fight: The Orks have a fire-breathing red dragon, and the monkey-sloths wheel out an ice sculpture of a dragon. When the red dragon decimates the ice in one hot breath, a bottle of Coca-Cola springs up from the cold remains. The remaining dragon drinks the Coca-Cola and, refreshed from the beverage, opens its mouth and attempts to hurl out a fireball. What a surprise when fireworks spew from its open mouth. The monkey-sloths take this chance to attack, and the opposition retreats. The advertisement is a welcome change from the cute, fuzzy polar bears and jolly St. Nick. Very “Lord of the Rings,” very entertaining. It strays away from the typical mantra of Coke: two opposing forces brought together by the soft drink. At least the bad guys didn’t give in to the fizzy drink to make friends.

KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN Kentucky Fried Chicken takes a personalized route for its Super Bowl commercial. It starts out like a regular, run-of-the-mill advertisement: good-natured people working on the Colonel’s secret recipe. Cut to your average, run-of-the-mill family enjoying said chicken. There’s a surprise ending: A video of a bucket of chicken and the Syracuse University insignia right next to it. Whoa! The last thing I expected was the KFC announcer to say “Go Orange.” This commercial combines the best of two worlds: delicious fried food and the university we know and love.

BEST BUY Technology, it is a-changing. What better way to show this than the Prince of Darkness and a bowl cut-endowed pop sensation? In this commercial-in-a-commercial, Ozzy Osbourne is attempting to sell a smartphone with a 4G network. The commercial’s production teams cut the advertisement, and now Osbourne needs to sell a smartphone with a 5G network. By the end of the ad, Justin Bieber has taken Osbourne’s place with a 6G-compatible phone. Best Buy is showing that the store will buy back your old technology with their Buy Back program. Original, right? Though it’s not creative with its initiative names, Best Buy sure knows how to make an entertaining ad.

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During the last Super Bowl, most of the more captivating commercials included babies – more specifically, the E*Trade baby. That little guy wowed us with his knowledge in stocks and charmed with his sass - anyone remember Lindsey, the milk-aholic? This year, the baby has grown up, or at least it looks like it. He’s still in his high chair, but he’s got a luscious head of hair, and he’s being measured for a suit. He discusses how E*Trade has “hands-on customer support,” which puts the suit measuring into perspective. What makes this commercial great is it acknowledges the baby won’t always be a baby. E*Trade takes into consideration that people actually grow up over time. Realism is a good thing in commercials. Who knows? Maybe there will be a hormonal E*Trade teenager in an advertisement for Super Bowl LVIII.

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apparent apocalyptic four-game skid. The highlight of which was a disaster at the hands of Seton Hall on Jan. 25. Ten days later, unfounded

FAT LADY SINGS 9:24, second half

Jackson was everything Syracuse needed Saturday, leading the Orange with 21 points and 12 rebounds and even contributing four assists. The 21 points were a season high, and it was only the third time in his SU career that he scored 20-plus points. He has 16 doubledoubles in 24 games on the season.

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Gilchrist, South Florida’s leading scorer, had one of his worst games of the season against Syracuse. The junior scored just four points on 2-of-10 shooting, never really contributing. Even worse, his power forward counterpart in Rick Jackson went for 21 and 12.

A Kris Joseph dunk off an assist from Scoop Jardine puts Syracuse up 55-41 and forces South Florida to take a timeout. The Bulls never got closer than 10 points from that point on.

rumors of a point-shaving scandal from that game ensued. On the brink of Boeheim’s first five-game losing streak in 35 years as head coach, national media members flocked to the XL Center in Hartford, Conn., to officially experience the implosion firsthand. SU needed to rekindle whatever

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remained of a once third-ranked 18-0 team. Did Syracuse ever. And it did so because of something new in the past two games: the establishment of the roles each of SU’s integral parts must provide from game to game. In the midst of the four-game losing streak after the Seton Hall loss, SU sophomore guard Brandon Triche was explicit regarding what SU needed: the proper contributions from each member of SU’s lineup. Game in and game out. “I think we have to just come together as a team, that’s the biggest thing,” Triche said on Jan. 25. “To lose three in a row, it’s almost like losing to Le Moyne. It’s a bad feeling.” Balance wasn’t there. Boeheim said it himself minutes before Triche, forecasting what was needed to guide his 33rd 20-win team through situations like this in the beastly Big East. The players’ roles were filled against the Huskies and Bulls. Rick Jackson is the MVP. Kris Joseph is the scorer who can bring scrappy effort on defense with his length. Scoop Jardine is the conductor, dishing out a top 20 national mark in assists per game. Triche is the late-game scorer who can become the X-factor. As for the young players, C.J. Fair provides a highlight-reel freshman’s production from dunks to blocks. Dion Waiters is the utility scorer. As for the freshman centers Fab Melo and Baye Moussa Keita, they need to bring production that amounts to one solid big man next to Jackson. And in the past two games, everyone played his role for the first time all season. Look at the early Big East wins: Against Providence, Melo, Moussa Keita and Waiters did nothing. Against Notre Dame, it was more of the same. The first time against Seton Hall, Jardine’s four turnovers trumped his three assists. In Madison Square Garden against St. John’s, Jardine again had more turnovers than assists. And versus Cincinnati, Joseph scored two points as he left the game with a concussion. Then came the losing streak. Then came the point-shaving allegations and the trip to

“Everybody recognizes that it is a tough league, and everybody understands that. But then when you lose, they don’t understand it. So I guess they don’t really understand it is what we are trying to say here. They don’t get it. They get it, but they don’t get it. It is a very difﬁcult league.” Jim Boeheim

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Hartford. Finally, SU filled the roles: Moussa Keita played the best game of his life while Melo sat. Jackson went 13 and 13. Joseph scored when needed. Triche was that X-factor with 16 points. Jardine sunk clutch free throws. Fair jetted to the right spots at the right times. Waiters scrapped for nine points and three steals. And it continued in Tampa: Fair skied for nine rebounds and three blocks. Waiters scored 10. And in his homecoming, Melo showed his best conditioning of the year in extended minutes while Moussa Keita cheered from the sideline. Just what Boeheim has been yearning for. Just what will get SU through Big East play as one of the conference’s powers. Just like Boeheim has experienced for 35 years. The furthest thing from a team experiencing a collapse. Rather, the first concrete step toward Big East basketball dominance once again. Tony Olivero is the development editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at aolivero@syr.edu.

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In win, strong defense fosters high-flying transition attack By Tony Olivero Development Editor

TAMPA, Fla. — With his snatch of a South Florida alley-oop attempt, Kris Joseph keyed the ignition. An ignition that started Syracuse’s blazing transition offense. A transition offense that only took three seconds to move basket to basket. In SU’s 72-49 romp over South Florida on Saturday, it resurfaced in its full-on light-speed form. The Orange scored 10 fast-break points to the Bulls’ two and 18 points off turnovers while committing only eight. For the first time since SU’s 18-0 start to the season, the Orange’s uptempo game ran another up-tempo team out of its own building. “A lot of teams that like to get in transition don’t like getting back,” SU guard Brandon Triche said. “We weren’t really worried about them.” Triche, SU point guard Scoop Jardine and head coach Jim Boeheim said the fast breaks were enabled as a result of Syracuse’s revitalized swarming defense. It held the Bulls to a paltry 49 points. The game was shades of the only other times opponents were held beneath 50: Nov. 12 against Northern Iowa and Dec. 11 against Colgate. Joseph’s highlight was the perfect example on the afternoon of what SU’s defensive web can produce on the other end of the floor. “When our defense is better, you get more of those,” Boeheim said. “When our defense is good, you get the transition offense. Tonight our defense was better, we forced some turnovers.” At the 19:31 mark of the second half, Joseph provided the most graceful turnover of the game ― that steal ― by skying to pick off an Anthony Crater pass intended for Jawanza Poland. One second later, his feet hit the ground. And at the 19:28 mark, Triche laid the ball in the SU basket. Ninety-four feet in three seconds. Jardine credits the defense, his own increased personal maturity, Triche and the other guards for the transition offense’s success. They have to stay patient and composed for plays like Joseph’s to happen. They can’t cheat. “Guard leakage,” he calls it.

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in 24 games on the year. But Jackson said he couldn’t say if this was the best. “I don’t know, you got to ask somebody else to answer that,” Jackson said. “Maybe statswise it was.” After the game, Boeheim forecasted the response Jackson ultimately gave. And even the coach wouldn’t go as far as saying Jackson is having the best year of anyone in the Big East. Still, plenty of praise was warranted. “Ricky has been good from day one,” Boeheim said. “He has been good right from the beginning. He has had good games.” But he didn’t coast from the start. In the game’s first four minutes, Jackson rarely touched the ball as the Orange struggled to

Saturday, every possible hole was clogged. “Us guards just leaking out, we weren’t waiting ‘til our bigs got the rebound,” Jardine said. “In this game, we were getting rebounds, they were getting it to me, and I was picking my spots.” Jardine picked his spots all right, bothering and pestering the USF defense when it was out of position. But he was just one of the many keys in the north-south Syracuse attack. Eight contributing players ran down the St. Pete Times Forum floor for the Orange. Each played at least five minutes in the first 16 minutes of the game. There was Rick Jackson on the backside hauling in rebounds ― as well as Joseph’s three steals ― starting it all up. There was Triche and Dion Waiters, finishing at the other end with fast-paced fluidity. There was also C.J. Fair, one of the most important parts in the transition offense Saturday. Fair was everywhere. He helped Jackson by grabbing nine rebounds while also kickstarting fast breaks on his own by blocking shots with his long frame. A frame Jardine compared to the most integral part of SU’s transition game a year ago: Wes Johnson. In his sole season playing for the Orange in 2009-10, Johnson excelled in tipping passes like Fair, while also soaring for steals and dunks like Joseph and Triche. Johnson, of course, couldn’t do it all by himself in three seconds, though. A trio can. Saturday, SU had eight players vying to be one of the three. On one play, even burly freshman center Fab Melo got up the floor to take part. The same Melo that Boeheim has ridiculed time and again for not being worthy to play if he can’t run the floor. In the second half, Melo was ahead of Jardine on a break. In a split second, his eyes widened and head tilted as he screamed at the point guard for the ball. He wouldn’t get it. But letting Jardine know he could fit the system was all that mattered. “I ran. I ran the court faster than them,” Melo said after the game. “They are not used to me running fast like that. I wanted the ball.” aolivero@syr.edu

find the power forward in the paint. At the 15:42 mark of the first half, Jackson had one free throw made and zero rebounds. Things changed. Fast. As the Orange’s transition offense flowed effortlessly out in the open like earlier in the season, Jackson flourished on offense. With the pistons of the Syracuse transition game working with clockwork efficiency — at times burning the Bulls for three-second full-court baskets — the engine of it all got going. That engine was Jackson. In 10 minutes, he scored 10 points as the Orange extended its lead to double digits. His butchering of USF when vying for rebounding position made it simple for SU junior point guard Scoop Jardine to push the tempo. “That’s how it all starts, rebounding,” Jardine said. “Getting great position so our guards can get out and run.”

courtesy of mark diorio photography kris joseph splits the South Florida defense during Syracuse’s win Saturday. Joseph bounced back from a lackluster effort at UConn with 14 points and seven rebounds.

“That’s how it all starts, rebounding. Getting great position so our guards can get out and run.”

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Position on low-post moves was also the reason Jackson felt he manhandled the paint. He knew coming into the game that South Florida was a “big-guy team.” The goal was to get Gilchrist — the Bulls’ best player — and Famous in foul trouble. Foul trouble didn’t ensue for the Bulls’ big men, but they were shut down when it mattered. Gilchrist finished with only four points.

SU’s lead would hover around 10 past halftime and through the first 15 minutes of the second. Until Jackson put a stamp on his performance with a reverse layup in the final five minutes. Numbers-wise, the game was decided with Jackson’s first-half performance. In reality, it felt over with 9:40 left in the game. SU led 53-41. With a timeout, each team retreated to its bench. The Orange-heavy crowd cheered in unison. It was a standing ovation for Jackson. All he could do back, as he smiled staring into the crowd, was salute. Just another day at work for SU’s floor leader. “He has been consistent for us all year long,” Boeheim said. “He has not had a bad night. He literally hasn’t.” aoliivero@syr.edu

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Orange offense struggles to find rhythm in scrimmage split By Michael Cohen Asst. Sports Editor

The No. 1 team in the country couldn’t get its hands on the ball. Two minutes had already gone by, and Syracuse had yet to gain possession against Hofstra. From the opening faceoff, the Pride jumped on hofstra 6 top of Syracuse. Two goals under two minutes, and Syracuse 5 in SU’s attack stood at midsyracuse 10 field waiting for a chance. “We have to just learn le moyne 5 from that,” Syracuse senior attack Stephen Keogh said. “A lot of teams are going to play us that style.” That style of long, drawn-out possessions prevented the SU offense from getting in rhythm. Sloppy play in the team’s opening scrimmage of the season led to a 6-5 loss to No. 10 Hofstra. But as the day wore on, that chemistry started to develop, and the Orange easily handled Le Moyne 10-5 in the final game of the afternoon. Syracuse rotated five different players at the attack position throughout the day, and early on

the lack of cohesion was evident. On the team’s second possession, midfielder Jeff Gilbert juked left against a Hofstra defender to create space out in front of the goal. He tried to throw back to the right for a teammate, but his pass sailed out of bounds. Later, midfielder Jovan Miller sprinted to chase down a ball deep in the right corner of SU’s attacking third and had to lob it back into play toward no one in particular. “Today, they just had a few mishaps,” SU defender John Lade said of the offense. “It took them a while to get really comfortable, and that’s going to happen because you’re playing a different team for the first time.” Syracuse got on the board 45 seconds into the second quarter. Miller’s shot beat Hofstra goalkeeper Andrew Gvozden in the bottom right corner, but it was an unassisted goal. Midway through the second quarter was when Keogh felt the attack started to pull it together. Two minutes after Miller’s goal, senior midfielder Josh Amidon tied the score for Syracuse. He took a pass from attack Tim Desko - a pass that hit him

in stride as he streaked down the middle of the field - and beat Gvozden. A flash of a connected attack. “Me, Jeremy (Thompson) and Amidon, especially, we haven’t been on the same page,” Miller said. “So it was a good time for us to start to gel a little better.” After being held scoreless for the opening quarter, Syracuse put three on the board in the second to tie the game at halftime. At which point head coach John Desko put in some of the younger players for the final two quarters. But the rationale against Le Moyne in the second scrimmage was a bit different. Having seen his offense struggle to do much of anything in a loss to Hofstra, Desko decided to give his starters extended minutes against the Dolphins. The results were impressive. Three goals for Miller. Two goals for Desko. Ten goals in total. And a win. “We wanted to get some things working,” Desko said. “We wanted to get some movement, some flow. If you’re substituting too much, I think it’s hard for anybody to get in the flow.”

The flow was there but only at times. In the second quarter against Le Moyne, Jeremy Thompson caught the ball left of the goal. He spun back toward midfield and hit Keogh with a behind-thehead pass. Keogh held, looked and found a cutting Miller who whipped it home. Desko said five players rotated in at the attack position during Saturday’s two scrimmages. “We had four or five guys running at attack, so I think we were just trying to get some chemistry going,” Keogh said. “I think (Desko) wanted to make sure we knew the offenses and were running them right. We just wanted to get set up for the next couple weeks.” Ultimately, though, the production was there by day’s end. Miller led the Orange with four total goals, while Desko and Keogh each finished with two. The team hopes it doesn’t take nearly 16 minutes of scoreless play to wake up the offense again. “We kind of started out slow, but we got it together a little bit,” Miller said. “We got through it, but unfortunately it took us a little too long to get adjusted.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

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Offensive ineptitude in 2nd straight game leads to SU loss at Rutgers By Zach Brown Staff Writer

For the second game in a row, Syracuse head coach Quentin Hillsman pointed to the same problem. It wasn’t the game plan. That worked and was executed well. It was the inability to make shots. Just like SU’s rutgers 54 game against Notre Dame Tuesday, Hillsman said syracuse 47 on his squad simply didn’t knock down enough of them against Rutgers on Sunday. “We got good looks,” Hillsman said in a phone interview after Sunday’s 54-47 loss to the Scarlet Knights. “We got good looks, and when you get those kinds of looks, you have to make shots. We just didn’t finish the plays off.” After scoring just 48 points in that game against the Irish, Syracuse (16-6, 4-5 Big East) registered its second lowest scoring output of the year against Rutgers (13-9, 6-3 Big East) on Sunday in Piscataway, N.J. A horrid shooting stretch to

open the game combined with a slew of secondhalf turnovers ultimately doomed the Orange. Iasia Hemingway and Kayla Alexander were the only SU players in double figures, and the rest of the team shot just 5-of-26 from the field. SU finished shooting 29 percent, its second game in a row shooting below 30 percent. Nineteen turnovers led to 21 points for the Scarlet Knights. Syracuse’s starting guards Erica Morrow, Tasha Harris and Elashier Hall finished with seven points combined. “Erica and Lacy (Hall) and Tasha have to make open shots,” Hillsman said. “If they don’t score, we’re going to face major, major problems in these games.” Harris’ 3-pointer on the Orange’s second possession of the game was SU’s only field goal through the first 11 minutes of action. Syracuse missed 12 straight shots and was held scoreless for more than seven minutes during that stretch. The Scarlet Knights quickly jumped out to a 16-6 lead while the SU offense floundered.

But the Orange turned things around by pounding the ball inside. A 10-0 run evened the score at 16. The struggles from the field continued, but Syracuse went 10-of-12 from the charity stripe in the first 20 minutes. And with two seconds left in the half, Hemingway converted an and-one opportunity to give SU a 25-24 lead, its first since Harris’ 3-pointer more than 18 minutes earlier. “I thought they did a good job of weathering the storm and competing,” Hillsman said. “To go in at halftime up by one point, shooting (23) percent, was definitely a victory for us.” Coming out of the break, SU looked ready to run away from the Scarlet Knights. Seven straight points extended the Orange lead to eight. But then came the turnovers. Rutgers went on an 11-2 run over the next seven minutes, aided by six of Syracuse’s 13 second-half turnovers. The game went back and forth until SU pulled in front 42-39 with 4:25 left. On the ensuing possession, RU guard Khadijah Rushdan knocked down a jumper

to pull the Scarlet Knights within one. That’s when the Orange’s offensive woes ultimately handed the game to Rutgers. Four straight Syracuse possessions ended in turnovers. And RU capitalized on three of those extra opportunities to take a 47-42 lead with one minute left. “It was tough obviously because if we would have just not turned the ball over and got shots, I think we would have been in good shape because we could have went back and got our defense set up,” Hillsman said. Two Alexander free throws pulled SU within three. But Rutgers guard Erica Wheeler drained a 3-pointer with 12 seconds left to put the game out of reach. And for the second game in a row, an ugly offensive display led to an Orange loss. “I thought we had a good game plan in place and thought that our players really executed,” Hillsman said. “But we shot 29 percent, so we just didn’t make shots.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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Syracuse participates in final home meet in program history as players, Walker reflect By Stephen Bailey Staff Writer

Tears streaming down her face, Katie Lewinski tried to pull herself together as she gazed toward Syracuse coaches Lou and Ellie Walker. The SU senior swimmer saw family, friends and teammates throughout the packed Webster Pool. But it was seeing her coaches that drew out the sentimental emotions. “As soon as I saw Lou and Ellie, I got a little emotional,” Lewinski said. “But it’s hard not to in such a situation.” This weekend would be the last time her name would be announced and the last time she would compete at the pool in which she has spent so many hours the past four years. The SU swimming and diving team hosted its final home meet of the season - and in program history - against Villanova and Providence on Friday and Saturday in Webster Pool at Arch-

bold Gymnasium. Lewinski said the two Orange male senior swimmers, Kuba Kotynia and Brian Zimmerman, probably wouldn’t admit it if they cried. But she hinted she wasn’t the only one feeling the historic moment. Winning the 50-yard freestyle (25.83) and 100-yard freestyle (56.77), Lewinski finished her career at Webster Pool on a high note. “I’m really happy to go out with a couple event wins,” Lewinski said, “which four years ago, I thought would never happen.” Lewinski was not the only one who appreciated the moment. Though he didn’t admit to tearing up, fellow senior Kotynia noted the significance of his final home meet. “It’s the last time that you’ll stand on the (starting block),” Kotynia said. “And it’s the last time you’ll participate in a meet here.” Kotynia made the most of his final meet

at SU, winning all three of his races handily. Kotynia, who still has hopes for competing in the NCAA tournament this year, recorded times of 1:56.57 in the 200-yard intermediate, 57.88 in the 100-yard breaststroke and 2:06.43 in the 200-yard breaststroke. The senior especially embarrassed the field in the 200-yard breaststroke. Kotynia beat his closest competition by 16.16 seconds. Teammates Stephanie Lefebure-Kuczynski, Alice Stejskal and Zimmerman, the other male senior, all recorded first-place times as well. “I didn’t really have anyone to race against,” Kotynia said. “It was really easy, but I felt good in the water.” Kotynia is one of five seniors, the only swimmers still on scholarship. Walker knows that most of his current team isn’t like the swimmers he has coached for the past 34 years. Most of the swimmers are walk-ons, just bodies for a

program being ushered out. But he knows these swimmers still train year-round like all Division I athletes do. These swimmers still push themselves during every practice. And they still strive for greatness and compete their hardest in each meet. “I’m very pleased with how they’ve performed, how they’ve handled themselves and just who they are,” Walker said. “It’s been a pleasure coaching them.” For Walker, letting go is never easy. Though he has been through 34 of these “senior night” meets, each one is still sentimental for him. Like Lewinski and Kotynia, Walker felt the heat of that moment. This was his senior night, too. “Every year they are (sentimental),” Walker said. “Your seniors are on the way out. You have a little tug at the heartstrings for sure.” sebail01@syr.edu

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SYRACUSE VS. SOUTH FLORIDA 49

BULLDOZERS 17

Behind Jackson’s dominance, SU cruises to win over South Florida By Tony Olivero

DEVELOPMENT EDITOR

AMPA, Fla. — Leading Syracuse back onto the St. Pete Times Forum’s court after the halftime break, Rick Jackson was antsy. Searching for someone — anyone — to throw him a ball for halftime warmups. He wanted to continue his savage first half that propelled Syracuse to a 72-49 victory over South Florida on Saturday. At long last, he chuckled to himself. No basketballs were ready for him and the Orange. Jackson feasted on USF power forward Augustus Gilchrist and the rest of the Bulls in the fi rst half. Maybe Jackson’s best half of the year, in a season with a bevy of them. All Jackson wanted to do was get right back to it. For Jackson, his first half might was due to basic instinct. “I play all off of instinct,” he said. “I

really just do whatever they give me.” The Bulls may have given Jackson some, but he took more. With his rugged performance — 13 points, six rebounds and four assists in the first half — he led No. 17 Syracuse (20-4, 7-4 Big East) to its second straight victory after losing four in a row, an easy 23-point win over South Florida (8-16, 2-9 Big East). The victory gave SU head coach Jim Boeheim his 33rd season of at least 20 wins as a head coach. This one came as Jackson dominated the half and the game in front of a proOrange crowd of 10,051. It was tyranny in the paint for Jackson against Gilchrist and USF forward Jarrid Famous. The senior Jackson — the conference’s leading rebounder entering the game averaging 11.5 — fi nished the game with 21 points, 12 rebounds and four assists. It was Jackson’s 16th double-double SEE USF PAGE 13

JACK ATTACK In 24 games this season, Syracuse forward Rick Jackson has posted 16 double-doubles, including Saturday at South Florida. Here’s his stat line from SU’s 72-49 romp over USF: MINUTES

POINTS

OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS

DEFENSIVE REBOUNDS

ASSISTS

In SU’s 2-game streak, each player perfects own specific role

AMPA, Fla. — Jim Boeheim finally had time to ref lect. It was his turn to talk and answer short, f leeting questions. Time during which the head coach mused about the Big East conference in front of the assembled press. He smiled as he simply summed up the Orange’s last six games: four losses followed by two wins. With the 23-point blasting of South Florida, he took the opportunity to speak his mind. “Everybody recognizes that it is a tough league, and everybody understands that. But then when you lose, they don’t understand it,” Boeheim said. “So I guess they don’t really

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purify the colors understand it is what we are trying to say here. They don’t get it. They get it, but they don’t get it. It is a very difficult league.” “They,” of course, are the talking heads who spoke and wrote of SU’s

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courtesy of mark diorio photography RICK JACKSON prepares to dunk the ball in Syracuse’s 72-49 victory over South Florida on Saturday. In 38 minutes against USF, Jackson had 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting to go along with 12 rebounds.