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Taking action Design students create

Hollywood huts Pop culture columnist

an online petition to protest the shortened Warehouse hours. Page 3

Ariana Romero argues remakes and reboots cheapen Hollywood. Page 5

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Cans for a cause The gates of the Carrier Dome let in

For hire Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone

more than just loyal fans at Wednesday’s Syracuse-Georgetown rivalry men’s basketball game. Page 15

filled his coaching staff with the addition of a new defensive backs coach. Page 24

A blurry line

Following criticism of university, faculty struggle to distinguish free speech from harassment

By Debbie Truong MANAGING EDITOR

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880 wins: Boeheim 3rd among D-I head coaches

JIM BOEHEIM continued his climb among the elite coaching ranks by picking up his 880th win in Syracuse’s 64-61 overtime win over Georgetown on Wednesday. With the victory, Boeheim became the winningest head coach at one Division-I program in NCAA history, passing legendary North Carolina head coach Dean Smith. The Syracuse head coach also moved into third all-time among Division-I head coaches in career wins. He is 22 wins behind Bob Knight for second. SEE GAME COVERAGE PAGE 24

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Boeheim’s lawyers file request to dismiss defamation lawsuit in NY ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Jim Boeheim’s longstanding affinity for sarcasm, hyperbole and blunt comments are being referenced by his lawyers as justification to request the dismissal of the defamation lawsuit filed against him.

Lawyers submitted a 28-page Motion to Dismiss stating former ball boys Bobby Davis and Mike Lang are filing needless complaints against the Syracuse University men’s head basketball coach. Davis and Lang both claim Boeheim defamed them when he publicly accused the stepbrothers of lying about former associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine molesting them.

Lawyers argue Boeheim’s remarks

were his opinion and therefore nonactionable, according to court papers.

The papers also highlight Boeheim’s public apology 10 days after the initial statements.

Expressions of opinion are privileged despite how offensive they are and cannot be the subject of an action for defamation, according to the papers. Lawyers cite the vigilance of New York courts in separating the line between fact and opinion to support this claim, stating that such policing “‘provides the broadest possible protection’ to statements of opinion.”

Lawyers said Boeheim’s initial comments expressing both his disbelief of the allegations and the pos-

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Chancellor discusses free speech, aid

By Rachael Barillari ASST. NEWS EDITOR

By Marwa Eltagouri

rowing up in nearby Saratoga, N.Y., Matt Werenczak always rooted for Syracuse University sports. Now, even his grandparents have stopped cheering for the university.

After a comment Werenczak made on his Facebook page led to his removal from the fall semester student teaching program, the School of Education graduation student became the latest example in the debate concerning how much control the university should exercise over student speech.

SU has — at least twice in the last year and a half — been publicly scrutinized for violating students’ ability to speak freely, sparking criticism against the university by some. Werenczak said now his own opinion of the school has soured, and strangers have told him they will no longer donate to SU after he was treated so poorly.

Others, faculty members included, are wary of the scrutiny and believe the line between freedom of speech and harassment can often blur in issues that involve highly sensitive topics. They believe that when a seemingly damaging or

University Senate sponsored an open forum for the Syracuse University community to address Chancellor Nancy Cantor with questions or concerns Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

Although only faculty members directed questions to the chancellor, discussion surfaced on several of the most relevant topics at the university today.

Librarian Marty Hanson asked the chancellor for clarification of SU’s recent involvement with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. She said she was surprised to find SU does not have a good ranking when it comes to freedom of speech. She said she felt disturbed and bothered about how

this is affecting current and perspective students’ perception of the institution.

“It isn’t affecting our applicant pool at all,” Cantor said.

The most recent case FIRE was involved in concerned a student

“We are absolutely committed to freedom of speech.”

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from the School of Education who was suspended from the student teaching program after posting comments on his personal Facebook page. Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Education, said he could

not speak on anything specific about the case.

Biklen said the school makes these decisions due to similar instances every semester. He said these are not freedom of speech issues, as they are sometimes framed and interpreted, and students need to learn how to act professionally.

“We are absolutely committed to freedom of speech,” Biklen said.

Though Hanson said she still considered this very depressing information, Biklen said there are appeals procedures students can go through.

The national discussion on rising tuition and how to keep costs down was also addressed with the chancellor. Barbara Kwasnik, chair

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Say Yes Day to take place on March 4

Governor comes to Syracuse to discuss budget

By Kirkley Luttman

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled to Syracuse on Wednesday to discuss his 2012-13 Executive Budget and Reform Plan, which Cuomo said is one of the most straightforward and clean-cut propositions for New York thus far.

The budget proposes major reforms to reduce the cost of government for taxpayers and implement school accountability to put students first.

The budget additionally allows the state to leverage billions of dollars in private sector investment to grow the economy and create jobs, according to a release by the State of New York Executive Chamber on Wednesday.

The success of last year’s bipartisan cooperation will now allow the state and local governments to become more effective and efficient, Cuomo said in the release. He said the budget also addresses the needs of students and proposes significant reform to the public education system.

The $2 billion budget deficit will be closed with the new plan without imposing new taxes or fees, according to the release. It will also eliminate automatic spending inflators and allocate $1.3 billion in state investment, spurring a total of $25 billion to aid infrastructure projects and creating thousands of jobs, according to the release.

Other features of the plan include creating an arrangement for the state to take more than 100 percent of the costs of Medicaid growth, which will save local governments $1.2 billion over the next five years. A pension reform plan will be created to save taxpayers and governments outside of New York City $83 billion, according

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Syracuse Say Yes to Education has chosen the Syracuse University men’s basketball game against Louisville at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 3, to be the second annual Say Yes Day in the Carrier Dome.

Say Yes Day is designed to give the Say Yes organization the opportunity to thank its corporate partners who have supported the Say Yes program, while also encouraging other companies and businesses to donate as well, said Susan Dutch, director of market-

“It’s not all about giving dollars, it’s about getting involved with Say Yes, participating in internships or volunteering,” Susan Dutch

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS FOR SYRACUSE SAY YES TO EDUCATION

ing and communications for Syracuse Say Yes to Education.

Dutch said she anticipates this year’s event to be just as exciting as last year’s despite a few changes.

“It’s going to be a little different.

We won’t be putting T-shirts in every single student seat and no more cards on the seats,” she said. “This year nothing is going to be a fundraiser.

There will just be activities to promote Say Yes.”

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Digital Drive

BRYAN WIENER, Syracuse University alumnus and CEO of 360i, gave a presentation on his company’s collaboration with the Newhouse Digital Advertising Alliance on Wednesday in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium. The initiative will aid in the creation of a digital advertising program at Newhouse by developing special projects for certain undergraduate classes. Students will work in groups to create simulated ad agencies and compete to create a successful campaign. SEE DAILYORANGE.COM

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Petition launched in protest of shortened Warehouse hours

By Stephanie Bouvia ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Syracuse University design majors launched an online petition Tuesday to protest the shortened Warehouse hours, which went into effect Jan. 27.

As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, the petition had more than 330 signatures, said Sam Salzano, a senior communications design major. In the petition, students take responsibility for the actions that led to the shortening of The Warehouse hours and call upon

the administration to find a different solution to problem.

On Jan. 23, design students received an email from Lucinda Havenhand, chair of the design department, saying The Warehouse would only be open from 6 a.m. until midnight rather than 24 hours a day.

Havenhand said in the email that the hours were shortened due to inappropriate and illegal student behavior.

According to the email, students spray-painted in areas other than

the designated spray booths; gained illegal access to space in the building that is not for student use, such as faculty offices; abused various furniture or equipment, including urinating in garbage cans; stole materials or equipment; brought or consumed alcohol and other substances in the building; and were disrespectful to faculty or staff members who asked them to stop doing such activities.

On Jan. 29, design students held a meeting in The Warehouse Auditori-

um to discuss the changed hours. Students said although they acknowledge that many of their peers acted irresponsibly in the building, the shortened Warehouse hours would limit the amount of time students could spend on their artwork for class.

Many students expressed concern that this would limit their academic achievement.

As a response to the shortened hours, students agreed at the meeting that they should start an online

petition and write a letter to the dean and faculty members of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Salzano said students have been circulating the petition online through Facebook. A Facebook group called “Don’t Close the Warehouse!” was started shortly after students received the original email.

Salzano said she also made some posters that she plans on hanging in different campus buildings to adver-

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Conservatives should be judged on values, not sexuality

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he Conservative Political Action Conference begins in Washington, D.C., Thursday. The conference is the largest annual conservative gathering and attracts attendees from all parts of the conservative movement. This year is different. The gay conservative group, GOProud, has been barred from sponsoring the event. It has sponsored it for the previous two years.

This summer, after two years of protest from social conservative and family values groups, GOProud was informed it would not be allowed to attend. Many who support CPAC’s decision argue GOProud is not a conservative group and therefore should not be included. There have been questions raised about certain parts of the group’s leadership and some associations it has had in the past. But this is certainly not representative of the entire organization.

Beside this omission, one would be hardpressed to call GOProud anything but conservative. Its mission statement reads as follows: “…

GOProud is committed to a traditional conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets and a confident foreign policy. …” This could be any conservative group and arguably the scope of the GOProud’s focus on conservative issues is more encompass-

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the right direction ing than those of many of its critics.

GOProud doesn’t advocate for gay marriage in any part of its platform. It advocates every state should pick its own definition of marriage, a federalist stance that our founders embraced through the Constitution. Even if gay marriage was part of GOProud’s agenda, it is not an issue that should be part of a conservative litmus test. If it was, a good portion of the movement, many younger and libertarianminded conservatives, would be lost.

Disagreement among conservatives at the conference is one of the most valuable parts of the movement. As conservatives, we agree and are united on a core set of beliefs, our founding principles, the rule of law, a strong national defense, limited government and more, and we disagree on smaller issues.

Would it have been acceptable in the 2000s,

when neoconservatives were especially prevalent, to not allow those who were fighting for less government spending and a more limited foreign policy to attend? Few conservatives would say yes.

The reality is most who attend CPAC don’t mind that GOProud has attended and co-sponsored the event for the previous two years. Wellknown conservatives like Grover Norquist, who sits on GOProud’s Board of Directors, Ann Coulter and Andrew Breitbart have all voiced support for the group and its involvement in CPAC. A speaker at last year’s conference was booed off the stage after leading a condemnation of the organizers for inviting GOProud.

People that fought for GOProud’s exclusion from this year’s CPAC need to think about what makes a person a conservative. They’ll find that the beauty of the conservative movement is that it is based on universal ideas and principles. A person’s sexual preference — in this case, religion, sex or race — does not make someone more or less conservative. What matters is what one has to contribute and what one holds as his or her principles.

Patrick Mocete is senior political science and policy studies major. His column appears every Thursday. He can be reached at pdmocete@syr.edu.

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University panel brings light to overlooked area of sexual abuse Hendricks Chapel hosted a forum Tuesday night to discuss sexual abuse of children in light of allegations against former associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine.

Eight people sat on a panel, representing all different perspectives of sex abuse. Panelist Allison Young, the director of sexual abuse services and family transition services at Elmcrest Children’s Center, brought a new aspect to the discussion. Young works with the abusers, not the abused.

In a time of confusion surrounding the sex abuse allegations at Syracuse University, the administration should be holding panels like this, with a variety of voices and sources.

To accurately represent the total picture, the stories of the abusers need to be told. Child abusers were often abused as children themselves. This is often forgotten

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board when sex abuse cases happen.

Although it does not excuse the behavior, it provides a deeper level of understanding for their actions.

Frequently, those who hear of child sexual abuse instantly think of the abuser as a monster. But casting the abuser as a monster fails to look at the whole issue.

The conversation about why abusers do what they do is often seen as taboo because explaining their actions can be seen as justifying them. But it is an integral part of the conversation about sexual abuse. By including all areas of the issue, the university was able to continue the conversation for students and community members to hear.

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Hollywood reboots, sequels take away from childhood favorites, diminish storylines

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et’s talk about the movie trend of the decade: superheroes.

When we consider the ‘80s, we think of fabulously cheesy John Hughes movies like “The Breakfast Club.” The ‘90s were filled with dorm room poster favorites like “Pulp Fiction” and “Fight Club.”

When we look back on movies from our time, we’ll see the new millennium is the golden age of the superhero flick.

We’ve got it all. Better special effects, hunkier men in multicolored spandex and more sequels, prequels and reboots than you could count.

Maybe we have too much.

On Tuesday, the newest trailer for “The Amazing Spiderman” was released online, featuring Andrew Garfield as the newest incarnation of Peter Parker. The trailer promises an

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awesome high-flying adventure. And one filmed in 3D at that.

Sony Pictures produced a fantastic-looking trailer. It has all the snark, action and romance a good popcorn flick needs. Everyone and his or her grandma will be lining up for the midnight showing soon enough.

And now, the only lingering memory of poor Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman will be his iconic upsidedown alley kiss with Kirsten Dunst.

That’s an issue. “Amazing Spiderman” look pretty amazing. But a multimillion-dollar Spiderman franchise ended only five years ago. Kids born the year Maguire last donned his Spidey suit have barely started kindergarten.

Yet Marvel is throwing a new three-movie Spiderman deal at audiences and expecting a huge return

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the one that got away — which they’ll definitely get. Even the biggest superhero flops make a fortune worldwide.

What studios and screenwriters are learning is a very dangerous thing. If you tweak a story everyone’s already heard, add a few more explosions and new set of popular actors, audiences will come with $7 popcorn in hand. Hollywood executives don’t need to create new ideas. They only need new people to fill the same roles.

When Garfield’s time is up, how

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long will studios wait to put in a new Spiderman? Maybe Justin Beiber will get his shot at webslinging five years down the road. To continuously tell the same stories, we’re cheapening the ones that really meant something.

Everyone will know Hollywood will just do it over again in a few years.

“Superman Returns” came out in 2006. Straying from the title, the would-be franchise didn’t return right away. Now, “300” director Zack Snyder is at the helm of “The Man Of Steel,” slated to be released in 2013.

Snyder’s reimaging of the kryptonian’s tale gives Superman an eightyear hiatus from the silver screen.

“The Wolverine” comes out next summer, and Hugh Jackman is sending his mutant character to Japan this time. The trailer and movie will no doubt look awesome, but maybe

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Wolverine has had enough. They don’t have to fly him all the way to Japan. He should be allowed to collect his pension and retire to wherever X-Men go once they hang up their suits, if he so chooses.

Wolverine is set to go up against the “Dirty Dancing” sequel. Apparently, the lackluster reboot of “Footloose” didn’t prove that ‘80s dancing remakes have had their time.

America doesn’t need Hollywood to redo a movie we loved or to rethink a character that already made millions at the box office. What moviegoers deserve is something new. Something that captures their hearts and minds the way the original stories did.

Ariana Romero is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every Thursday. She can be reached at akromero@syr.edu.

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of the Committee on Curricula, said nationally, the federal government seems to “be painting things with such a broad brush.”

Cantor said it is important to understand net tuition, which is not just looking at the costs overall, but what people are actually paying. She said SU has been focusing on financial aid across income brackets to get a better indicator across the entire continuum of students attending SU. When Cantor came to SU eight years ago, she said SU had a model of a 6 percent annual tuition increase. But, she said, by about 2014 or 2015, there should only be a 3 percent tuition increase at SU. To also help with financial aid, Cantor said there needs to be a larger emphasis on creative programs to save money, like partnering with community colleges that have SU-approved associate degree plans. This way, students can come to SU afterward to finish their majors with financial aid.

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sibility of a financial motive behind Lang and Davis reflect Boeheim’s opinion. Since they are not facts, they are non-actionable and cannot be considered defamatory, according to the papers.

An additional argument used in the motion is that the “imprecise language” and “sarcastic, hyperbolic” tone of Boeheim’s language negate any possibility of a factual assertion. Both the sarcasm within the statement “So, are we supposed to what? Stop the presses 26 years later?”

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“This is a win-win situation,” Cantor said.

“Those students, nationally, graduate at higher rates than students entering in their freshman year.”

Another idea is to develop more online courses, Cantor said.

Kwasnik later stressed the difficulty of keeping tuition costs down with the federal government’s push that everyone should obtain a higher education.

Cantor said she personally believes American higher education should be open in the sense that universities should be reaching out and creating the most opportunities possible.

“Because, in a knowledge economy, if we want to close the gap between the haves and the havenots, we’ve got to be educated,” Cantor said.

This country values education, Cantor said, but everyone understands the strains of affordability and the institution’s ability to create an enriched, interdisciplinary environment. She said it is important to find this balance but feels it is something SU does well. rebarill@syr.edu

and the hyperbolic nature of the statement “a bunch of a thousand lies he has told” express an opinion, according to court papers.

The papers additionally reference Second Circuit Judge Robert Sack, a recognized authority on defamation suits, to draw the distinction between name-calling and defaming statements. Sack said that common law tradition combined with constitutional principles legally protect the use of epithets, insults, name-calling and hyperboles.

Boeheim’s own belief that the plaintiffs were not truthful is not “capable of being proven true or false,” another indication that

ankur patankar | presentation director CHANCELLOR NANCY CANTOR , answered questions from the faculty about freedom of speech and rising tuition costs at Wednesday’s University Senate open forum.

he was not stating facts, lawyers said. His statements were expressions of doubt regarding his past association with Fine and his lack of any memory of Davis in a hotel room, according to the papers.

The papers were signed by lawyers Andrew Levine of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Timothy Murphy of Hancock Estabrook LLP and C. James Zeszutek of Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. Zeszutek could not be immediately reached for comment.

Gloria Allred, the attorney representing Davis and Lang, filed an affidavit last week claiming Fine’s wife, Laurie, had sexual

relations with former SU basketball players.

Allred sought the names and addresses of the players from 1993-97 in an effort to keep the venue of the case in New York City as opposed to Onondaga County, where Boeheim and Davis reside.

Allred was not available for comment regarding the defense’s motion to dismiss the case.

Fine, who was fired from the university Nov. 27, has denied the allegations and has not been charged. Federal agents and the Syracuse Police Department continue to investigate. meltagou@syr.edu

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Last year’s Say Yes Day took place on Jan. 22, 2011, during the Syracuse-Villanova men’s basketball game. With almost 34,000 fans present at the game, Say Yes was able to raise more than $250,000 in texted donations. However, this year’s event will be on a smaller scale, as it won’t feature the same text-to-donate option, Dutch said.

“That was hard to manage last year, so we decided to cut that out. Instead, we’re just recognizing those partner corporations and trying to encourage other business leaders to do the same and follow in their lead,” Dutch said.

Instead of encouraging game attendants to make donations via text, Say Yes is now hoping to drive donations through its website, www. sayyessyracuse.org, Dutch said.

Additionally, corporate sponsor Bob Behler, former president and CEO of SRC Inc., made a matching fund donation of $5 million last year, which Say Yes hopes to put toward Say Yes Scholars with the help of student organizations and the continued support of corporations and business owners, Dutch said.

Say Yes Scholars are students who have been able to attend any Say Yes-affiliated college on full-paid tuition scholarships. Say Yes-affiliated colleges include all State University of New York colleges, City University of New York community colleges and more than 20 participating private colleges, among others, according to the Syracuse Say Yes website.

From 2009-10, Say Yes has been able to award $2.5 million in scholarships to Syracuse City School District graduates. Current fundraising efforts will go solely to raising money to fund the program’s scholarship endowment, Dutch said.

“We are trying to raise awareness about the money we need to have the scholarships available

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for generations to come. Once we hit our endowment we will be able to start raising money for other things, but right now, we are just focusing on raising money for that endowment,” Dutch said.

Raising money, however, is not the sole purpose of the organization, Dutch said.

“It’s not all about giving dollars, it’s about getting involved with Say Yes, participating in internships or volunteering,” Dutch said. “We would love for students to be more involved as volunteers through either tutoring, volunteering in the office or working as summer enrichment specialists, which are paid camp counselors that lead enrichment activities during the summer.”

To encourage students to become involved, Say Yes Day will kick off with a pregame reception in the Life Sciences Complex atrium to honor the presidents of the different Say Yes partner colleges, all Say Yes donors and Say Yes Scholars, Dutch said.

There will also be a presentation during halftime that will bring some of the larger donors onto the floor. Expected guests include Say Yes founder George Weiss, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras and SU Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina, Dutch said.

To show their support for the Say Yes foundation, Dome staff and cheerleaders will be wearing green Say Yes shirts. SU cheerleaders will also lead the crowd in a Say Yes cheer and hold up Say Yes signs at halftime. Thirty 60-second video spots featuring Say Yes Scholars will also be played on the jumbo screen, Dutch said.

Dutch said she is looking forward to this year’s event.

Said Dutch: “There will be a lot of action, a lot of excitement and hopefully a lot of awareness to not only thank our partners, but to show the community that we’re here, we have a lot of commitment and we’re here to stay.” kfluttma@syr.edu

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speech critics against the university is Adam Kissel, vice president of programs for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

FIRE, an organization devoted to policing individual freedoms in higher education, named SU the worst school for free speech in January 2011, after a fall-out from the satirical SUCOLitis blog created by a then-SU law student who has since transferred from the university.

“Syracuse was first on the list because of its severe and ongoing pattern of violating its free speech promises,” Kissel said in an email, adding that SU is on pace to appear near the top of the list once more.

It was FIRE that brought attention to Werenczak’s case in January. During his time as a student teacher, Werenczak said he overheard a black member of the Concerned Citizens Action Program state that the middle school he worked at should employ more teachers from historically black colleges. Werenczak, who is white, posted a response on Facebook that read: “Just making sure we’re okay with racism. It’s not enough I’m ... tutoring in the worst school in the city, I suppose I oughta be black or stay in my own side of town.”

The principal of the middle school read the comment and reported to the dean of SU’s School of Education. Werenczak said he was eventually pulled from the fall semester student teaching program and advised to undergo diversity training to be reconsidered for the program. He complied, but was bothered by what he viewed as the university’s slow-moving, prolonged response in delivering a decision about his ability to return to the program.

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Werenczak’s case, Douglas Biklen, dean of the School of Education, said in an email it is not uncommon for the college to delay placement of student teachers if additional requirements, such as retaking courses or meeting accreditation requirements, is needed. Biklen said delayed replacement “is not tantamount to expulsion.”

On Jan. 6, about five months after Werenczak was told he could not participate in the student teaching program in the fall, he enlisted help from FIRE. After receiving publicity from FIRE, Werenczak was reinstated in the program by Jan. 18.

Werenczak said he is apologetic about the comment and admits the words did not portray him in the most flattering light, but he believes the punishment was severe and could have jeopardized his professional future.

“Even if I said something stupid or uninformed, that should be allowed,” he said.

Werenczak said he feels the university strongly emphasizes tolerance on campus, which, at times, can conflict with freedom of speech rights. “(By) trying not to offend anyone, they come down as violating free speech,” he said.

Biklen said students who participate in professional preparation programs are expected to carry themselves with professionalism, adding that he values speech strongly and doesn’t believe students’ ability to speak freely was ever in question.

••• A second instance in which FIRE criticized SU for restricting speech involved Len Audaer, a former SU law student.

Audaer was investigated by the College of Law after receiving criticism for authoring entries published to SUCOLitis, a blog satirizing life at the college. The investigation lasted months and ended in February 2011, but Audaer, now a student at Northwestern University’s Law School, maintains he was wronged by SU. Audaer described the blog as “pretty much entirely harmless fun.”

Names used on the satirical blog were chosen at random, and posts were not written to intentionally offend anyone, Audaer said. He indirectly received word that one student felt offended and later offered the student an apology, he said.

“The vast majority of what we were writing was completely benign. … It was very clear it was comedy,” Audaer said.

Gregory Germain, faculty prosecutor, however, strongly disagreed and said some of the entries constituted harassment.

Germain pointed to examples indicated by Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina in a letter published on The Huffington Post’s website Jan. 28, 2011, including an entry that accused “by name a first-year female student ‘mess[ing] around with a couple of guys during orientation,’ “ and another “stating that a former Student Life staff member was dead, and that she had won the ‘person I’d most like to hate f#c*’ award.”

The College of Law’s Academic Integrity Expectation states “a law student shall not engage in conduct involving moral turpitude or other conduct which would unreasonably interfere with the operation of the College of Law.” This includes violence and threats of violence or harassment directed at another person, according to College of Law guidelines Germain highlighted.

Audaer described the College of Law’s policy as broad and vague with no general standard or definition of harassment, he said, also adding that it is important to differentiate between freedom of speech and harassment.

He said he believes the university is willing to bend freedom of speech rules to police language or actions it finds offensive, asserting the behavior is not unique to the College of Law and faulting upper-level administration.

“I think this anti-free speech policy isn’t just an accident,” Audaer said. “It’s very deliberate.”

Audaer called upon examples such as the HillTV incident in 2005 in which a campus television station was shut down without discussion. The station broadcast a television show some viewed as offensive, according to an Oct. 25, 2005, article published in The Daily Orange.

Regarding the SUCOLitis case, Audaer said he feels the strong push against the blog was directed by administrators beyond the College of Law, implicating Chancellor Nancy Cantor.

He said he believes faculty in the College of Law conferred with the chancellor for advice on how to best handle the situation.

“I feel, looking back, Chancellor Cantor was very much behind the investigation. … I’m 100 percent sure it came from the top,” Audaer said.

David Rubin, dean emeritus and professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, offered a counterpoint and said he believes the pressure from administrators against the blog came from students who were,

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themselves, “overly sensitive to a parody.” Vice Chancellor and Provost Spina also said students within the College of Law filed complaints about the blog.

Kissel, vice president of programs for FIRE, on the other hand, said he felt Cantor could have become more involved in each of the situations to ensure students’ freedom of speech was maintained.

“She could have intervened in either case, but instead appears to have let the injustices continue in each case,” he said.

After more than two decades at SU, Rubin said neither instance involving Werenczak or Audaer indicates a trend of speech being threatened at SU. “I don’t think a couple of incidents in all the years proves anything other than there aren’t many incidents,” he said.

Rubin said the only instance in recent memory where a threat was posed to students’ freedom of speech took place when JERK magazine was banned from a campus dining hall. In that occasion, Rubin said students vocalized their dissatisfaction and the ban was lifted.

“People are almost always going to object to speech that is critical,” he said, advising that the best method to address controversy is to “answer speech with speech.”

••• Spina said the investigation in the College of Law and the situation in the School of Education derived from the codes of conduct of the individual schools.

Each professional school sets its own standards, Spina said, and in the situation last year and more recently, there was reason to believe the students involved violated those standards.

Spina said he believes in both situations FIRE involved itself, the organization did not possess all the facts. He added that he believes it is to FIRE’s benefit to offer criticism of the university.

“FIRE has, like many organizations, an agenda,” Spina said. “They, I think, benefit from tete-a-tetes with different organizations and institutions.

“Some students might identify certain circumstances that a student is being silenced or their right to free speech or free expression is being denied, when in fact, there’s been a determination by a program ... that there is a situation that needs to be addressed.” dbtruong@syr.edu

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roduct design students at Columbia College Chicago, an arts and media school, had the opportunity to design a game for Marbles: The Brain Store.

Marbles: The Brain Store sells games, but these games are different from the typical Monopoly and Pictionary. Marbles’ games and puzzles strive to promote brain health, according to a Jan. 17 article in Columbia College Chicago’s newspaper, the Columbia Chronicle. The chain store has 18 locations throughout Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Marbles approached Columbia College Chicago in summer 2011 about a possible collaboration with the school, said Kevin Henry, associate professor of product design. Design schools often collaborate with outside companies, he said.

“We go through a negotiation process where we try to make sure that it is going to be a win-win for everybody,” Henry said. “We have to be careful that our students don’t feel like they are being exploited.”

When approached by a company to do a collaborative project, professors must determine if there will be a class that is a good fit for the company’s objectives. For this project, an advanced product studio that involved an outside company and a strong research component, seemed to be a good fit, Henry said.

“If a company is really ready to go, we’ll look at the courses we have scheduled,” Henry said. “We spend months crafting this thing to make sure that we hit all the learning objectives and that the students get a good experience.”

The class of product design majors was divided into seven groups of two that would each brainstorm ideas for their own games. Students spent the semester

working on their games, according to a press release from Columbia College Chicago. Teams also had a budget of about $250 to create their games, Henry said.

The winning game selected is called Colorfall and was designed by product design students Brad Hoffman and Chrissy Quinlan. Colorfall, as well as the second and third place winners, will begin production to be sold in Marbles stores by early 2012, according to the press release.

Colorfall is played by setting up different colored tiles in certain patterns, following a similar format to paint-bynumbers. When the tiles are placed correctly, they form designs such as a sailboat or the Eiffel Tower, according to a Jan. 27 article published in the Chicago Sun-Times.

This project allowed students to get an idea of a real-life scenario in product design, Henry said.

“Students didn’t always understand the perspective of marketers and the company that wants to a sell a product at the end of the day,” he said. “They may have this great idea, but the client might think it’s too expensive or too complicated. Students have an opportunity to go back and forth and refine their projects, and through that, they are getting more in touch with the reality of the marketplace.”

Henry said he believes Columbia College Chicago’s venture with Marbles was a success and would consider partnering with the store again in the future.

“We’d probably wait a couple of years before doing another project (with Marbles) again because it wouldn’t be fresh for the students,” Henry said. “But if we waited a few years, new students would come in, and they wouldn’t be influenced by past projects. That’s when it works.”

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tise the petition.

Salzano said she and other design students scheduled a meeting with the dean and some faculty members for Monday. Although there is no set goal for the number of signatures students hope to get on the online petition, Salzano said she wants to present the petition to the dean at Monday’s meeting.

“My goal is to get as many as we can before that time, which is looking pretty good right now,” she said.

Salzano said students are trying to reach out to parents and alumni as well. She said she thinks faculty members are more likely to pay attention to the petition if it is backed by the support of parents and alumni rather than only students.

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So far, she said, there are seven pages of signatures with a few parent or alumni signatures per page.

“I think it’ll make a difference,” Salzano said. “What I’m really hoping, more so, is that the letter makes a difference.”

In the letter students plan to submit to the dean, the design majors take full responsibility for the actions that occurred in The Warehouse. However, students feel that cutting The Warehouse hours has more of a negative effect on students than a positive effect on safety.

Students suggested creating a Warehouse Student Council, led by two or more students from each design program. The students on the council would act as “middle men” between the students and the VPA administration, according to the letter.

Students also suggested creating community standards to be posted on each floor of The

Warehouse, creating a student contract with a general code of conduct and posting rules and regulations throughout The Warehouse building.

So far, Salzano said, it has been frustrating operating under the new hours. But, she said, students are making an effort to abide by the rules.

“We’re trying not to step out of line. We’re trying to make sure people aren’t doing any of the things that got The Warehouse shut down,” she said.

Salzano said if students don’t act now, the stress of having limited access to The Warehouse will be an even bigger frustration near the end of the semester, when design students work on their portfolios.

“Right now, we’re coping with it, but later on, it’s not going to go over well,” Salzano said.

“We’re trying to get it fixed as soon as possible.” snbouvia@syr.edu

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The online petition, drafted by design students, reads: “By signing this petition, I acknowledge that the actions of the Design student body are ultimately responsible for the Design department’s decision to close the Warehouse, the off-campus location of Syracuse University’s Design classrooms, studio space, and resources, between the hours of 12am and 6am.

However, I believe that limiting access to students during these hours is a misguided solution for the issues raised.

I support an alternative solution that will not affect the students’ academic success, but will recognize individual accountability, increased Warehouse security, student representation, and deliberate and continual communication of behavioral expectations between faculty and students.”

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By Chelsea DeBaise ASST. COPY EDITOR

It isn’t uncommon to see a variety of different groups tabling at the Schine Student Center on any given day. Often, these groups hand out fliers, buttons and sometimes even T-shirts to encourage students to come check them out. It happens frequently.

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One thing that does not always happen is a group raffling off vibrators and massage oils or selling vagina lollipops.

This group tabled at Schine to promote “The Vagina Monologues,” a play by Eve Ensler performed every year at Syracuse University. The show opens Feb. 9 with a free show at Marshall Auditorium, and then runs Feb. 10-11 at Hendricks Chapel. Tickets are $7 with a valid SU/ ESF student ID and $10 without one.

Erin Carhart, a sophomore women and gender studies and public policy dual major, addressed the reasoning behind the sex toy tabling.

“It’s really to get people to realize that sex

isn’t a bad thing,” Carhart said. “We’re trying to frame it in a way that we educate our community on how sex can be wonderful and how sex can be safe, consensual and fun.”

Carhart is co-producing and performing in the show, which is in its 10th running at SU. “The Vagina Monologues” is a series of monologues performed by different women that deal with a variety of socially taboo topics, ranging from domestic violence to menstrual cycles and sexuality. Carhart believes students should be aware of these topics, and the show allows for that exposure.

“It’s good to have these conversations without feeling that it’s such a tense subject,” Carhart said. “We should be more comfortable talking about these things and addressing these problems, and I think ‘The Vagina Monologues’ really offers the space to do that.”

While the content of the show is largely feminist, Carhart felt very strongly that it is a show that both female and male audiences could benefit from.

“My parents come. I’ve had guy friends who have come and when they leave, they’re like, ‘Wow, I really never thought about how that woman experienced her body in that situation,’” Carhart said. “I think they leave with a new perspective, or at least some new thoughts and answers that hopefully they go out and they share with their own community.” cedebais@syr.edu

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body a chance to contribute.

“We sent out calls for all submissions,” Colgrove said. “It didn’t matter if they were a freshman or a grad student. We wanted to give them the opportunity to show their work.”

The filmmakers are excited to see their work reach a larger audience.

Evan Lang, a junior television, radio and film and Spanish major, is one of the four creators of “Blind Sheep.” The film follows an ROTC student’s departure for war. It also features past soldiers and their experiences, the influence the war has had on college students and how uneducated they are about it. He said he is proud of his work and glad it i-s getting some more attention.

“I personally feel the piece explores a really important issue that doesn’t get enough attention, and perhaps the festival will allow it to receive a little more,” he said.

Some of the other films include “Angst,” a film by freshman film major Anthony Mormile about a boy struggling with the recent death of his father. Mormile’s other film, “Going Up,” is about the lengths people go to for convenience.

Another entry is a three-minute animated graphic novel called “Friend” by Shelley Wang. It is about a close friendship being tested over a lifetime.

Many students look forward to the festival, including Gabe Shore, a junior television, radio and film major.

“I think it’s a great idea because there aren’t a lot of ways to get student work noticed,” Shore said. “It’s great to show your work in person instead of just posting it online. And the prize is awesome.”

Fox said UU Cinemas was also motivated to make the festival a reality as a way to show gratitude for the student body’s support. .

“We’re doing this as a sign of appreciation,” Fox said. “We have so many talented people at this school, and there’s not always a form to express it. Plus, students are always so eager to buy tickets for our events. This is our way of giving back.”

Mormile believes a festival like this can make a big difference for a student filmmaker.

“I wanted to introduce my work to a larger group of people who otherwise wouldn’t have seen it or even known I was a filmmaker,” Mormile said. “Otherwise, these films would just be sitting on a shelf.” rjmarvin@syr.edu

REEL TALK As part of the film festival, senior television, radio and film majors Mike Armour and Joshua Eisenfeld will screen their documentary “Massukos.”

The film was shot during the duo’s experience in Mozambique, Africa.

The two filmmakers followed traditional African singer Feliciano dos Santos and his band, Massukos, as they toured Africa. The group performed about the importance of water consumption to some of the poorest places in the country.

The documentary is the first production on the students’ production company, Exodus Productions. The company was founded in 2010, and the documentary was shot in the summer of 2011.

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Students to display own films

By Rob Marvin STAFF WRITER

For years, Syracuse University’s student filmmakers had nowhere to showcase their work. That’s all about to change.

SyRECuse Student Film Festival Where: Huntington Beard Crouse Hall in Kittredge (special student presentation) and Gifford (screenings) Auditoriums When: Friday, 6 p.m. (presentation), 7:30 p.m. (screenings) How much: Free

The first ever SyRECuse Film Festival will kick off Friday at 6 p.m. with a student presentation in Kittredge Auditorium, followed by 17 short film screenings in Gifford Auditorium.

Ranging from one to 18 minutes long, the films encompass everything from documentaries and scripted narratives to animated films and music videos. A presentation will precede the films. Senior television, radio and film majors Mike Armour and Joshua Eisenfeld will share their documentary filmmaking experience in Mozambique, Africa, last summer.

University Union Cinemas codirectors Lindsey Colgrove and Tenaysia Fox said they are happy about the turnout and how diverse the films are.

The 17 films will be narrowed

“We have so many talented people at this school, and there’s not always a form to express it.”

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down to one winner by a panel of three judges: English department teaching assistant Joseph Hughes, and television, radio and film professors David Coryell and Keith Giglio. The prize is a ticket package to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

UU Cinemas partnered with independent media company Rylaxer, founded in 2009 by SU alumnus Ryan Dickerson, and the Obscure Cinema Society to host the event. UU Cinemas wanted to give the entire student

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ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor Students helped raised $1,000 for the Food Bank of Central New York. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers International gave the check after offering to match a dollar for every can raised by the Interfaith Student Council.

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s a crowd of more than 25,000 fans trickled into the Carrier Dome, the tension of one of college basketball’s oldest rivalries grew.

Fans booed loudly as the Georgetown University players took the court for warm-ups, screaming obscenities that accompanied their booing. A small child held up a sign larger than his entire frame that read, “I’ve hated Georgetown since I was a little kid.”

As the loudspeaker crackled on, however, there was a momentary lull in the Hoyas hatred. Both teams of basketball players cleared the court for a small group of students holding an enormous check. All eyes were on the beaming students who had just raised $1,000 for the Food Bank of Central New York through activities such as tabling at Schine Student Center.

Though Georgetown and Syracuse battled on the court, they collaborated off the court in the Can It! charity event.

Both schools are part of a national campaign known as Better Together, originally proposed by President Barack Obama as an initiative to get college cam-

puses more involved in philanthropy.

The campaign involved more than 200 schools total, each with a focus specific to their campus.

Syracuse University decided to focus on hunger, and Georgetown focuses on poverty. Syeisha Byrd, director of the Office of Community Engagement at SU, saw this as an opportunity. The members of the Interfaith Student Council, who work with Byrd often, did as well.

“They kind of go hand-in-hand,” Byrd said. “The students of the Interfaith Student Council thought it would be cool to work with Georgetown, because it’s always been our rival, and lay that rival down and bring collaboration to the table.”

Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers International provided the check after offering to match a dollar for every can raised by the Interfaith Student Council.

“The deal was for three cans, you get a T-shirt,” said Erica Monnin, a graduate student in the School of Education who involved with the campaign.

Monnin kept track of the volunteers for Wednesday’s activities at the Carrier Dome — 30 volunteered for Can It! on that

day alone.

The idea for Can It! as a project for the Interfaith Student Council originally came from Ismail Pathan, a junior finance major. He got the inspiration to collaborate with the Food Bank after attending Dollar Day at the Dome, a philanthropic event held at an SU football game earlier this year.

When Pathan suggested the idea to the Interfaith Student Council at a group meeting, the group thought that hosting an event at the Georgetown game would be a good idea because of Georgetown’s age-old rivalry with SU. One volunteer, SaQuota Reaves, felt that this cause headed by the Better Together members and Food Bank deserved her dedication.

“They’re helping families that don’t have food,” said Reaves, a junior AfricanAmerican studies major. “And just the fact that they’re willing help people be able to eat is a really big thing for me.”

Before the check presentation, volunteers of Can It! tabled behind the court before the game. Their table generated a lot of popularity from fans, largely due to their spin-the-wheel game that led to a

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By Daniel Taroy STAFF WRITER

hen it comes to scary movies, moviegoers don’t seem to mind clichés. Regardless of the endless sequels and remakes that studios throw our way, we expect a movie ticket’s worth of spooks and scares — no matter how predictable.

We anticipate pounding hearts and forcefully shut eyelids. Or, at the very least, we’ll dig our fingernails into the person sitting next to us. The experience is familiar to us, almost comforting.

“The Woman in Black” is about as predictable as they come, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Simple and traditional in its storytelling, it relies on the same horror tropes we’ve seen before without running the risk of being too conventional. It certainly isn’t the ideal choice for viewers looking for something fast and dirty.

But for those seeking some genuine and well-earned chills, this gothic ghost story delivers.

Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) is a widower and a London lawyer struggling to keep his job for the sake of his son. To save his position, he travels to the English countryside to organize the affairs of a woman who recently died in an isolated estate called Eel Marsh House. He meets frightened children and inexplicably hostile adults who urge him to take the first train back home.

When he doesn’t leave, the consequences prove fatal. His arrival rolls in tandem with a black apparition that appears in the mist, just as village children start dropping dead.

Yet he refuses to acknowledge that one has to do with the other. Nor does he believe in the local tale of a child who drowned in the marsh surrounding the mansion and the dying mother who swore vengeance. This changes after one night at Eel Marsh House.

Radcliffe is an empathetic center for the movie, if not a little too young to convincingly play the father of a 4-year-old. But out of his Harry Potter glasses and in a period suit, he’s separate enough from his wizard counterpart to banish most thoughts of Hogwarts

Suspenseful direction, Radcliffe’s acting chops, spark new life into classic horror genre

from the mind. It’ll take some time to get over Pottermania, much less to wholly distinguish Radcliffe from The Boy Who Lived.

However, this is a sturdy enough role that should help along the recovery process.

In a long, dialogue-free sequence, Radcliffe’s Kipps encounters everything that could be expected from a run-of-the-mill haunted mansion. Creaking floorboards, dusty mantelpieces and cobwebbed candelabras lurk in the shadows of the empty estate, while rocking chairs and musical toys spring to life of their own accord. Even spectral children aren’t as fearful as the eponymous woman in black, whose motives Kipps must solve before anymore children die.

Based on Susan Hill’s 1983 novel of the same name, “The Woman in Black” is the latest movie out of relaunched Hammer Film Productions, known for the low-budget, gothic monster movies of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, like “Dracula” and “The Curse of Frankenstein.” In true Hammer tradition, this latest movie is less concerned

with gore and more about methodically scaring an audience. It takes familiar elements and presents them in a slow burn, with disquieting effectiveness.

Maybe it’s because too many recent horror films have been about gruesomeness and brutality that “The Woman in Black” succeeds as an earnest scary movie. Director James Watkins uses time-honored techniques to build suspense: a dog that barks at nothing, a sudden knock at the door or lights that turn off in a hallway. These clichés shouldn’t work, and yet they do. Under Watkins’ sincere direction, they’re forgivable, if not almost appropriate for the foreboding Victorian setting he has created.

“The Woman in Black” takes the horror genre very seriously, making it a nice reprieve from its ironic and self-aware counterparts (“Scary Movie,” anyone?). Although the terrors aren’t new, they’re stylish and frequent enough that you’ll be on the edge of your seat the whole way through. dataroy@syr.edu

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overtime — against Georgetown to help No. 2 Syracuse (24-1, 11-1 Big East) to a 64-61 overtime win over the No. 12 Hoyas (18-5, 8-4 Big East) in the Carrier Dome. He played all 25 minutes after halftime, and his six helpers in that span led to 17 points for the Orange, including Kris Joseph’s game-winning 3-pointer with 29 seconds left in overtime. To cap it off, Jardine forced Jason Clark into a turnover on Georgetown’s last possession that secured the win for SU. “Scoop’s a great point guard,” Joseph said.

“I’ve been alongside him for four years now, and it’s just great to have a player like him on your side. I would hate to have to play against Scoop because he makes the right decisions.”

Jardine turned almost entirely into a passer in the second half and overtime against Georgetown. After playing only seven minutes in the first half, the senior started off the second with a layup and a foul over three Hoyas defenders to spark an 8-0 SU run.

From there, it was his calming demeanor that took over the game for the Orange.

“Me controlling the team, I have the ability to get everybody all on the same page with my personality and the way I play,” Jardine said.

“So for the most part, today in the second half, I was able to do that.”

Although Georgetown had played mostly man-to-man defense throughout the year, it relied on a 2-3 zone against the Orange. While it threw off his SU teammates, Jardine seemed unfazed by the different look.

His first assist in the second half came just after the Hoyas took a 37-35 lead. The senior caught the Hoyas backline napping and connected with center Fab Melo for an alley-oop to tie the game.

On Syracuse’s next possession, Jardine

came around a C.J. Fair screen at the top of the key and dished off to an open Joseph on the left wing. Joseph then knocked down the triple in rhythm to put SU in front by two.

“I thought he was making plays (in the second half) rather than trying to make a shot,” head coach Jim Boeheim said. “I thought he made some plays in the second half, and he got five or six assists trying to get in the lane and making plays.”

Jardine set up two more 3s in regulation along with a three-point play for Melo that started with a dunk.

With the scored tied at 61-61 in overtime, he turned a broken play into the gamewinning triple.

After a timeout, Boeheim’s original set fell apart when Georgetown’s defense collapsed on Joseph as he tried to drive to the hoop. The senior kicked it back out to Jardine with 10 seconds on the shot clock.

Jardine then set up a new play, drove around a Melo screen on the right wing and found a wide-open Joseph on the left side for the game’s final bucket.

“Sometimes, that’s what happens in basketball,” Jardine said. “You just have to play off of instinct in basketball, and that’s what I did right there.

He then came up with an equally as important play on the defensive end by harassing Clark on the perimeter and knocking the ball free before the Georgetown guard knocked it out of bounds.

While Jardine’s final stat line wasn’t perfect, the good still outweighed the bad for the Orange’s only true point guard.

“He’s really the only point guard that gets us into plays, gets us into set and makes plays,” Boeheim said. “He’s going to make a bad play once in a while, but he makes good plays. And we need that. We need him doing that.” zjbrown@syr.edu

two seconds to go, but Hollis Thompson’s threequarter-court heave fell way short.

No. 2 Syracuse (24-1, 11-1 Big East) gave a less-than-stellar performance, but the Orange did just enough to edge No. 12 Georgetown (18-5, 8-4 Big East) 64-61 in overtime in front of a raucous 27,820 in the Carrier Dome on Wednesday.

Joseph shone bright, scoring a career-high 29 points and hitting 6-of-11 3s while playing all 45 minutes of the game. And in Fab Melo’s first game in the Carrier Dome since Jan. 16, he dominated inside, posting a stat line of 11 points, seven rebounds and six blocks.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim passed Dean Smith for third all-time among Division-I head coaches with his 880th win. He also became the winningest coach at one Division-I school ever.

But on a night when Georgetown outrebounded Syracuse 52-35, Syracuse needed every big play that Joseph and Melo made to leave overtime unscathed. Boeheim wasn’t pleased afterward.

“Right now, I don’t think we’re a good basketball team because we can’t rebound,” he said. “… For a long time this year we were within a couple, two or three rebounds, I don’t think I was concerned about rebounding that much. But when it gets 10, 15, 20, you better be concerned.”

Despite the poor performance all game on the boards, and shooting 29 percent in the first half, the Orange stayed close as neither team led by more than six.

Joseph hit enough shots to keep SU afloat. His 3-of-10 line in the first half looks deficient, but he scored 12 points to carry the offensive load for the Orange, who trailed 31-27 at halftime. His two first-half 3s came at times when Syracuse was trailing by five and had been scoreless for more than two minutes before the shot.

“He was great,” Melo said. “He finished when he had to finish.”

Joseph entered Wednesday in a funk. He was 3-of-27 from 3 in Syracuse’s last seven games.

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The senior said he feels like he was in rhythm the last couple of games, but the shots didn’t fall.

With the Orange trailing 44-43 about midway through the second half, Joseph caught a pass near the top of the key in rhythm from Scoop Jardine. He knocked it down over Georgetown guard Jabril Trawick, pushing the Orange out in front.

He drilled his next 3 as well, giving SU its largest lead of the game at 54-48 with 4:37 to go.

“Staff and teammates just kept telling me to shoot the ball and they were going to fall,” Joseph said. “And tonight’s the night.”

Georgetown kept crawling back, though. Jason Clark answered Joseph’s triple with a 3 of his own.

After Joseph made one of two free throws with 3:55 to play, Syracuse didn’t score again in regulation.

Greg Whittington made one of two free throws with a minute left in the second half to knot the game at 55. But both teams missed opportunities to take the lead. For Georgetown, center Henry Sims thought he had a decent look when he turned and shot in the paint, but Melo was there for a huge block.

“He’s got to save us with some blocks in there, and he did a couple times tonight,” Boeheim said.

For Syracuse, Jardine drove to the hoop, looking for a lane to get to the rim. Waiters received the pass, but his 3-pointer with two seconds left wasn’t a great look.

The overtime period played out just like regulation — back and forth, little separation.

Both teams struggles in some areas but played well enough in others to keep pace.

But with 29 seconds left, Syracuse gained just enough of an advantage.

Jardine had the ball on the right wing. He dribbled around a pick set by Melo and saw Joseph open. He fed Joseph the pass — and there was no indecision.

Joseph was wide open to give Syracuse the lead and the win.

“For some reason they left me open,” Joseph said. “Maybe they didn’t see the last four or five go in, and I was open for the shot, and I knocked it down.” mcooperj@syr.edu

ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor SCOOP JARDINE dribbles away from a Hoyas defender in SU’s 64-61 overtime win.

Jardine scored three points, but dished out eight assists to create plays for teammates.

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Boeheim downplays record win; SU struggles on boards

By Zach Brown and Mark Cooper THE DAILY ORANGE

After a game like this, Jim Boeheim wasn’t going to cherish his accomplishments.

“I’m upset over this game right now,” the SU head coach said, “and we’ll address all that stuff when I retire. I’m happy to get this win, and I just don’t think about those goals.”

Sure, the Syracuse head coach now has more wins — 880 — at one Division-I school than any head coach in history. Syracuse was outrebounded by 17, though, and won an overtime game by a hair. The Orange’s 64-61 win over Georgetown on Wednesday was hardly its best performance. But with the win, Boeheim passed legendary North Carolina head coach Dean Smith for third all-time among Division-I head coaches in wins, and he set the record for wins at one program.

As he has when any personal records occur, though, Boeheim didn’t talk about it. He said all that matters to him is how his team does this season.

Guard Brandon Triche grew up in Jamesville and his uncle, Howard Triche, played for Boeheim. The junior talked after the game about Boeheim’s legacy.

“Just watching him coach, play after play, he calls the play and about 90, 95 percent of the time, that play works,” Triche said.

Georgetown dominates rebounding battle Despite being the No. 2 team in the country and having national championship aspirations, there has been one area that has haunted Syracuse all season.

And against Georgetown on Wednesday, Boeheim came to the realization that if his team can’t figure out how to rebound better, it will fall well short of those lofty goals.

“There’s just no excuse for us to rebound the ball the way we rebounded tonight,” Boeheim said. “It’s just not championship level. We just won’t win if we can’t rebound better than that.

Period.”

The Orange managed to overcome a 52-35 rebounding deficit to knock off the Hoyas 64-61 in overtime, but those numbers on the glass left Boeheim and SU with a disappointing feeling in the locker room after the win. Georgetown

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dominated the boards the whole game. Otto Porter reeled in 13 rebounds, Hollis Thompson hauled in 10 and Henry Sims gobbled up eight for the Hoyas.

At one point in the first half, with Georgetown already owning eight rebounds to just five for Syracuse, the Hoyas grabbed nine consecutive missed shots to extend that margin to 17-5. A Kris Joseph miss in the middle of the stretch was followed by back-to-back offensive boards before Jason Clark finally knocked down a jumper.

Greg Whittington then grabbed a Dion Waiters miss to regain possession for the Hoyas, and Georgetown grabbed two more offensive rebounds that led to a Hollis Thompson put-back.

And the rebounding struggles have left SU searching for answers.

“We work on it every day in practice, but they’re still beating us on the boards,” sophomore center Fab Melo said. “I don’t know. We know we have to do a better job.”

But the Hoyas only managed to convert 23 offensive rebounds into 13 second-chance points, and SU held on for the win.

“There’s just really no excuse for the way we’re rebounding right now,” Boeheim said.

“It’s a team effort. It’s everybody. It’s not one guy. We’ve got to find a way.”

A rivalry examined There is still uncertainty about when Syracuse and Georgetown will play each other again.

Wednesday’s overtime game between the rivals is the only meeting between them this season. They could play in the postseason, but after that — to be determined.

“It’s always been a good game. It always will be as long as we keep playing it,” Boeheim said.

“It will be a great game and it always is.”

If anything happens to quicken Syracuse’s move from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference, this could be the last time the Orange and Hoyas meet as conference opponents. With Wednesday’s win, Syracuse leads the all-time series 48-39 and has won five of the last seven meetings.

Joseph said he was pleased to reach a careerhigh 29 points against the Hoyas.

“It’s the last game I’ll ever play against Georgetown assuming that we don’t play them in the Big East tournament, so it was good,” Joseph said. “I feel like I came out on top during this rivalry.” zjbrown@syr.edu mcooperj@syr.edu

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Kris Joseph The small forward entered the game scoring about 14 points per game, but exploded for a career-high 29 points against the Hoyas in a team-leading 45 minutes of action. To cap it off, Joseph drained the gamewinning 3-pointer with 29 seconds left in overtime.

ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor JIM BOEHEIM talks to his players in SU’s win over the Hoyas. It was Boeheim’s 880th career win, passing Dean Smith for third place on the all-time winningest coaches’ list.

ZERO Henry Sims

In his 25 minutes on the floor, Sims was completely overmatched by SU center Fab Melo. The Georgetown center finished just 1-of-12 from the field for an unimpressive six points.

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Scoop Jardine steals the ball away from Hoyas guard Jason Clark, stripping Georgetown of its final possession and forcing it to foul SU with two seconds left.

Though Dion Waiters missed both free throws, it didn’t matter, as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

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andrew renneisen | staff photographer KELLY SACO and Syracuse are going to be playing a schedule full of strong teams as it prepares for a postseason run. To stay competitive, SU will look to cut out any errors.

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Kelly Saco and her teammates are searching for perfection on the diamond. The senior first baseman knows anything less won’t be good enough against the top-notch competition Syracuse will be facing to open the season.

One error, one mental lapse or one pitch left in the heart of the strike Who: Kajikawa zone will prove costly for Classic Where: Tempe, Ariz. the Orange. And Saco When: Friday to knows it.

Sunday “It’s going to be tough, and they’re going to be really hard games, kind of games where we can’t afford having errors,” Saco said. “It’s going to be games where we have to play really smart. We can’t make mental mistakes because that’s what’s going to kill us.”

And that daunting schedule in which the Orange hopes not to be haunted by any flaws starts this weekend in the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. SU plays a doubleheader against Texas State and Cal State Northridge on Friday and another against McNeese State and Arizona on Saturday. The Orange wraps up the weekend Sunday against California.

The rough competition continues throughout the early schedule, leaving SU little time to get back in the swing of things. Most teams have some preseason bumps to flatten out, but if Syracuse wants to start strong, that can’t be the case.

Pitcher Jenna Caira said this is without a doubt the toughest opening part to the season she’s seen in her career at Syracuse. But she is also excited for what lies ahead.

When the senior first took a peak at the schedule, positive thoughts ran through her head.

Although she acknowledges the games won’t be easy, she knows for the Orange to improve it has to take on teams that are going to challenge Syracuse from the first pitch to the last.

“You want to play against the best all day, every day because it’ll make you better, so this

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is only going to help our program further,” Caira said “... Whoever blinks first is going to lose.”

Caira said that at practices, coaches have been emphasizing every detail of the game. SU head coach Leigh Ross knows little mistakes won’t add up to wins. Something as simple as dropping a ball in practice is going to cost them on game day.

When Ross looks down at the schedule, even she’s taken aback at how difficult the road will be. But she is reassured by the fact that this is easily the deepest team she has with a load of experience around the field.

And with that, she looks forward to going to places like Arizona, California and Florida and showing fans around the nation Syracuse is a force to be feared.

Ross said that started last year when the team won its first-ever NCAA tournament game, but if her team wants to be considered among the best in the nation, it has to keep that trend going into this year.

“We want to show this year we’re a solid program and not just a flash in the pan,” Ross said.

And the only way the Orange can prove that is through winning. Last season, Syracuse started the season with five tournaments and an impressive 19-5 record. There was only one time Ross saw her team lose back-to-back games during that 24-game stretch.

But this season is different. The Orange has higher expectations after being picked to finish second in the Big East behind DePaul.

Caira said winning is the expectation for the tests ahead. Saco said despite the necessity to play flawless ball, she and her teammates look forward to the challenge.

As for Ross, she said there’s no room for earlyseason blunders that most softball teams experience. When the Orange takes its flight to the West Coast on Thursday, it better be prepared.

“This isn’t a regular preseason. You can’t use this as a ‘let’s get ready for Big East,’” Ross said.

“We need to be ready right now.” dgproppe@syr.edu

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Memphis accepted an invitation to compete in the Big East conference for all sports in 2013 on Wednesday, giving the Big East 12 football schools and solidifying its future. The Tigers became the seventh team to join the conference since December after the Big East lost four schools last fall.

Following the departures, Big East Commissioner John Marinatto devised a plan for his conference to reach 12 football schools so it could create a conference championship.

Memphis makes that goal a reality. Though Marinatto said the conference is content with achieving that right now, he left the door open for possible further change.

“It was our goal, as I said, to get to 12 footballplaying members, and we’ve done that,” Marinatto said during a teleconference Wednesday.

“We’re obviously pleased that we fulfilled our primary objective. But we’re always going to be vigilant, and we’re going to continue to do whatever is in the best interest of the conference. You never say never, I guess.”

With Memphis, the Big East will have 11 football schools for the 2013 season. When Navy officially joins in 2015, the conference will begin its conference championship game. The immediate future of the Big East remains unclear.

West Virginia has filed a lawsuit to leave the Big East and join the Big 12 for the 2012 season rather than abiding by the 27-month

waiting period required by the conference bylaws. Marinatto declined comment on the lawsuit multiple times.

He also reiterated that Syracuse and Pittsburgh must also wait until 2014 to begin competition in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“West Virginia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse are members of the Big East Conference, as I’ve stated many times, until July 1st of 2014,” Marinatto said during the teleconference. “I really can’t comment further than that at this point.”

For Marinatto, Memphis was a perfect fit in the Big East for a variety of reasons.

The commissioner cited Memphis’ geography, Central time zone, media market, corporate and community support, and athletic facilities among the draws to add the school.

In addition, the Tigers’ strong basketball tradition, which includes three Final Four appearances and 10 straight 20-win seasons, was attractive to help continue the Big East’s reputation as a top basketball conference.

Memphis Athletic Director R.C. Johnson said during the teleconference that the move to a Bowl Championship Series conference will boost its ability to compete nationally.

“With this move, the future for Tiger athletics is brighter than ever,” Johnson said during the teleconference. “One of our goals has always been to compete with the very best, and the prestige of the Big East certainly accomplishes that goal.” rjgery@syr.edu

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SU to scrimmage Maryland in rematch of playoff matchup

By Andrew Tredinnick ASST. COPY EDITOR

It wasn’t the way many Syracuse players wanted to go out last season.

After emerging from the regular season virtually unscathed, SU was unseated by Maryland in the NCAA quarterfinals.

But even with some motivation for redemption lingering in the back Who: Maryland of a few of the Orange Where: Carrier players’ minds entering Dome this Sunday’s scrimmage When: Sunday, with the Terrapins, this noon year’s matchup will be very different from when the teams squared off last May. “It’s a little bit redemption, but it’s more fine-tuning things that we need to work on,” SU defender Brian Megill said. “Obviously, play with a little bit of a chip on our shoulder, they knocked us out, they stalled us the whole game, so we’re going to come out a little bit fired up. It’s going to be a good scrimmage, but I don’t think we’re going to show everything we got.”

When Syracuse takes the Carrier Dome field at noon Sunday for a preseason matchup with the Terrapins, the stakes will be much lower than they were in last season’s postseason game, which Maryland won 6-5 in overtime.

Each team has lost superior graduating classes, and the scrimmage will be an opportunity to see what both teams have moving forward.

And for SU, playing a team of Maryland’s caliber will go a long way in determining lineup changes that will take shape before the season opener against Albany on Feb. 19.

“We need to get everything we can out of this scrimmage,” SU head coach John Desko said. “It’s our last contest before our first game against Albany. We’re just looking to improve and evaluate our players and see who’s going to play well against a team like Maryland.”

Both teams enter the regular season with question marks on both sides of the ball. The Orange lost Stephen Keogh, the team’s leading scorer from a season ago. The Terps graduated their top two scorers from their team that reached the national championship.

And on defense, Megill is SU’s lone returning starter. Maryland lost each of its starting close defensemen. Less than half of the players that started the quarterfinal game will be on the field Sunday.

“I guess you can say they’re like us,” SU midfielder Bobby Eilers said. “They don’t really have a true identity yet. They lost a lot of their guys from last year, and I’m sure they have amazing players just like we do, and everyone is looking to step up.”

During last season’s matchup, the Terrapins slowed the game to a sluggish pace, looking to capitalize on their precious scoring chances while limiting the Orange attack. Maryland held SU to just 22 shot attempts and controlled the time of possession.

But Eilers said he anticipates the scrimmage to have a far quicker tempo than the playoff contest of nearly eight months ago.

“I think they’re going to run and gun with us,” Eilers said. “… This year they think of us as an underdog. They think they can play with us, and

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that’s good for us because when we get in run and guns with teams that’s when we play our best.”

But playing a team of Maryland’s ability early, even if it’s in the preseason, will set the precedent for Syracuse’s matchups with perennial powers Virginia and Duke later in the season. As SU searches for its own identity, the matchup will be a building block toward figuring out the best combinations on the field.

“We’re just looking forward to it,” Desko said. “It’s great competition. Obviously a team that beat us in the playoffs, pretty similar teams with their graduation, they’re learning about their guys, too, got a few guys coming back, but got big graduations. We’re not quite sure what to expect on the field.”

Despite the number of changes for SU and Maryland, Eilers admitted that this preseason game might be a little different from the ones he’s played in years past.

And even if an SU victory doesn’t appear in the win column, this scrimmage could go a long way in determining what the future holds for the Orange.

“You don’t really want to treat any game like it’s a preseason game,” Eilers said. “You want to act like you’re playing to win and we’re going to be trying to play to win, and we’re not going to hold back. We’re going to get after them.”

brandon weight | staff photographer BRIAN MEGILL (10) and Syracuse take on Maryland in a scrimmage Sunday. The Terrapins knocked the Orange out of the NCAA tournament quarterfinals last season.

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HOT SHOT Joseph’s clutch 3 in overtime lifts Syracuse to win over Georgtown

By Mark Cooper

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here was no doubt. Kris Joseph rose up in rhythm, launching a pure shot to close the scoring on another chapter of Syracuse versus Georgetown.

The senior’s mechanics behaved flawlessly as his 3-pointer soared from the left corner and plummeted through the hoop. Joseph turned around to watch the Carrier Dome react to the

Orange’s newfound 3-point lead with 29 seconds to go in overtime.

“I felt it going in,” Joseph said. “I was ready for it and knocked it down.”

Joseph’s sixth 3-pointer of the night gave SU the lead for good. At the other end, Syracuse forced a Georgetown turnover with five seconds left, effectively ending the game. GU had one more opportunity after Dion Waiters missed two free throws with

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Jardine sparks SU with heady play late in win

By Zach Brown STAFF WRITER

Scoop Jardine scored three points, went 1-of-7 from the field and turned the ball over four times against Georgetown on Wednesday. Most of the shots that he missed, he missed badly.

Still, the senior point guard repeatedly found the ball in his hands as Syracuse struggled to break down the Hoyas’ 2-3 zone. And while he failed to

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Porter 3 13 14 Clark 1 2 12 Thompson 2 10 10 Starks 1 1 7 Sims 3 8 6 Hopkins 0 4 4 Whittington 4 6 3 Lubick 0 3 3 Trawick 2 1 2

Joseph 0 5 Melo 0 7 Waiters 3 5 Triche 2 3 Fair 1 9 Jardine 8 1

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ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor KRIS JOSEPH shoots over Georgetown’s Hollis Thompson in Syracuse’s 64-61 overtime win Wednesday inside the Carrier Dome. Joseph scored 29 points, including the game-winning 3-pointer in overtime.

create for himself, he said he got into a rhythm creating for his teammates in the second half.

“It’s controlling the game,” Jardine said. “That’s my job. That’s what I’m here to do. That’s what makes our team run.”

Although the rest of Jardine’s stat line was less than stellar, the senior point guard dished out eight assists — six of them in the second half and

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Marrone completes staff, hires Henderson to coach SU defensive backs

By Mark Cooper SPORTS EDITOR

Former New York Jets and Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Donnie Henderson has been hired to coach the Syracuse defensive backs, SU athletics announced in a release Wednesday.

Henderson was most recently the secondary coach for Southern

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University (La.).

He has nearly 30 years of coaching experience at the professional and college levels combined. Before his one year at Southern, Henderson worked

for pro teams since 1999 and spent 16 years as a college coach before that.

The move fills out the SU coaching staff for next season. Syracuse also hired Steve Morrison to coach linebackers and will not bring back Dan Conley and Jimmy Brumbaugh as assistant coaches, moves SU head coach Doug Marrone confirmed Feb. 1.

“We are excited to have Steve and

Donnie join the staff,” Marrone said in the release. “I look forward to working with Donnie again after having been on the staff with him with the New York Jets and to having Steve be reunited with Scott Shafer and Tim Daoust from their time at Western Michigan. They bring a great deal of experience for our program.”

Henderson was the defensive

coordinator for the Jets from 200405, coinciding with Marrone’s tenure as the Jets’ offensive line coach from 2002-05. Henderson spent 2006 as the Detroit Lions’ defensive coordinator and has worked for six NFL teams and one United Football League team since 1999.

He was the defensive backs coach

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