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Season of love Three couples talk about

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relationships just in time for Valentine’s Day. Page 10

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President poster stirs debate

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late ‘60s, early ‘70s,” she said.

Transgender, as defined by the LGBT Resource Center, is a term of self-identification that may encompass transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag queens, drag kings and others who transgress the socially constructed gender binary system.

In her class, Pratt instructs students to spend one day using only single-sex, single-occupancy bathrooms, even on campus. Students

Upon entering Ernie Davis Dining Center for this semester’s Black History Month-themed dinner Feb. 7, students were greeted with a poster of President Barack Obama hanging above the counter at the dining hall’s entrance.

The poster has initiated student discussion both on campus and online surrounding the appropriateness of its content and placement.

The poster features a closeup photo of Obama with the word “Change” written below in bold yellow text. Above that, a quote reads: “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there’s the United States of America.” The poster, which was hung up in honor of Black History Month, was still displayed as of Monday night.

David George, the director of Food Services at Syracuse University, was not available to comment. Ernie Davis Dining Center management declined to comment on anything regarding the poster.

Zach Weiss, chairman of SU College Republicans, said hanging the poster turns the decoration into something more political and less celebratory of African-American accomplishments.

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SU community members challenge limited number, locations of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus

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or most people, choosing between using a men’s bathroom or a women’s bathroom is an easy decision. They don’t have to consciously consider their own gender, comfort or safety. Most people don’t have to worry about potentially being beaten, harassed or intimidated while trying to use the restroom.

But an entire population of people struggle with these issues every day.

The Syracuse University LGBT Resource Center keeps a list of all gender-neutral, single-user bathrooms around the university. There are only 30 of these bathrooms on campus, including residence halls, according to the list. SU community members said they think the bathrooms are in inconvenient locations, making it hard for some to find a place to go when they need to use the restroom.

Minnie Bruce Pratt, a women’s and gender studies professor at SU,

teaches WGS 438: “Trans Genders and Sexualities.” She said she chose to teach the course in an effort to expand upon students’ knowledge of transgender issues.

“I thought it was important to teach the class within women and gender studies because the critical examination of how one defines as male, female or multiply gendered really touches on some of the key questions raised by the modern women’s liberation movement that began in this country in the

Academic Affairs creates positions to improve educational institutions

By Jessica Iannetta STAFF WRITER

Two positions that administrators hope will benefit the educational needs of students were created by the Office of Academic Affairs at Syracuse University.

Christopher Sedore, chief information officer and vice president for information technology, will step into the newly created position of associate vice

chancellor for academic operations, according to a Feb. 6 SU News release.

The job was created after Kal Alston left her position as senior associate provost for academic administration to become the senior vice president for human capital development at SU last October. Rather than replace Alston directly, a new position was created to better support the university’s academic institutions, said Eric Spina,

vice chancellor and provost at SU. “This new appointment will allow us to better support the school’s mission of scholarship and research,” Spina said.

The new position involves making sure the Office of Academic Affairs serves the university’s schools and colleges effectively and efficiently.

It also involves supporting the vice chancellor and provost in broader

academic affairs matters and collaborating with the chancellor’s cabinet to ensure operations support faculty and students, Sedore said in an email.

Sedore said he believes his previous experience as a chief information officer and his work in information technology made him well prepared for the new position. As chief information officer, he worked with many people from all over the university to

improve teaching and learning at SU. His work in information technology, which supports almost every part of the university, has allowed him to see how the different areas of the university function, he said.

In his new job, Sedore said he hopes to improve the use of data in decision-making.

“We want to take what we know

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he bill passed Wednesday by the New York State Senate, which would ban state financial aid to college students convicted of crimes “committed on the premises of any college,” has a good chance of being passed in the State Assembly as well, according to Kenneth G. Bartlett, Republican assemblyman from the 119th District in Syracuse and vice-president and dean of public affairs at Syracuse University.

Bartlett said yesterday the bill will probably be sent to the committee in the assembly sometime before the end of next week. If it is adopted by the assembly, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller would then have to sign it for it to become law. Bartlett said he was sympathetic toward the bill but refused to say whether he would vote for it because he had not yet read it.

The bill, passed by a 38 to 15 margin, forbids state subsidies for college students convicted of unlawful assembly, aggravated harassment, criminal nuisance, “falsely reporting an incident” or “unlawfully possessing noxious material,” such as smoke bombs. ...

Bartlett said conditions for passage of the bill are more favorable now because of the changes that have taken place since last year. He said correspondents from his constituents...has indicated a “complete refusal” to support financially students who disrupt the campuses. “The public is anxious to

have college students go back to work,” he emphasized.

Secondly, the assembly presently is controlled by the Republicans, whereas last year the Democrats held the majority.

Even if the bill were passed, however, Bartlett said he was not sure Rockefeller would sign it. He noted the governor did not seem to favor last year’s bill.

Maxwell professors Michael O. Sawyer and Donald Meiklejohn criticized the vagueness of the bill. ...

Meiklejohn said the reported Democratic objections on the grounds of “looseness and breadth of language (in the bill)” seem well taken. (Some Senate Democrats have criticized the bill as unclear and loosely written).

“Most of all,” said Meiklejohn, “the bill severely invades an area that belongs to the colleges and the universities—the determination of who should study or be helped to study. Punishment for crimes is the duty of a civil authority, but the decision whether a student should be aided is the business of the university,” he added.

Alan K. Campbell, the dean of the Maxwell School, also said he opposed the bill. ...

He said only the university can evaluate the actions of students accurately enough to justify such things as withdrawing aid, suspension or expulsion.

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AP students more prepared for college work

By Jen Bundy STAFF WRITER

By Sarah Schuster

High school students across the country are often encouraged to enroll in Advanced Placement courses. These classes not only appeal to many schools because students have the potential to earn college credit, but because studies show the courses also better prepare students for college.

“I think my AP courses were definitely worth it.

They helped me understand the course load of each class.”

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At Syracuse University, AP credits are accepted in place of a variety of required courses across all eleven colleges. SU does require a minimum score on the exams, but the number varies from test to test, according to the SU website.

Last year, SU received more than 25,000 first-year applications, almost double the amount received in 2001.

“I think my AP courses were definitely worth it,” said Rachel Bowers, a sophomore illustration major.

“They helped me understand the course load of each class.”

About 541,000 public high school graduates across the nation reported AP scores of 3 or higher to the universities and colleges they applied to, according to College Board’s eight annual AP Report to the Nation.

Each AP exam costs $87 and is nonrefundable once the exam begins.

By earning college credit during high school, students can potentially save money and graduate with a degree ahead of schedule.

“I was able to place out of writing 105/205, and a lot of my credits counted toward academic electives,” Bowers said.

But Jessica Pupkin, a freshman philosophy major, said she disagrees and thinks AP courses did not significantly prepare her for college.

“My AP courses haven’t really helped me too much in college,” she said. “I really only see a difference in my math class.”

Almost 38 percent of first- and second-year undergraduate students need remedial courses, according to the AP Report. College Board’s goal

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UU reviews the results of the survey and contacts the artists who received the greatest student response.

But oftentimes, artists have other commitments and UU has limited resources to bring them to SU. Dekker said UU is restrained by costs and the availability of the artist, depending on when UU has the venue.

Dekker said artists are generally sorted into six categories by their popularity and cost. Category one includes artists such as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga, but these acts are currently out of UU’s price range. Category one artists usually demand an advance before the show, which is something against policy because of the risk it incurs.

Ludacris and Rick Ross were considered to be in category four, Dekker said. UU usually brings acts to campus that rank in categories three through six.

“If you want to bring someone like Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, they would cost as much as Block Party and Juice Jam, as much as one of those concerts in its entirety just for the stage before the artist gets there,” Dekker said.

While the final ticket number is pending, an estimated 6,500 student tickets were sold for Rock the Dome — comparable to Juice Jam and Block Party last year, Dekker said.

“We thought for a new February show on a Thursday night during girls’ rush, we thought that was a success,” he said.

However, Dekker said, because

Facebook officials said in an announcement Wednesday they are hoping to raise $ 5 billion when the company goes public. The company was formally privately owned by founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook owners are optimistic about its ambitious goal, as it would be the highest Internet initial public offering since Google raised $1.9 billion in 2004. The social networking site boasts 845 million users, according to a Feb. 1 article by The Associated Press Because users don’t pay to gain access to the site, the company makes most of its money from advertisements. Facebook’s access to consumer information allows ads to be highly specialized and therefore more beneficial for advertisers, according to the article.

Fernando Diz, an associate professor of finance at Syracuse University, said in an email that little about Facebook will change despite its recent announcement.

The reason for this is because the company created two classes of shares. The first, Class A, is subject to the IPO. The second, Class B, is not open to the public and has 10 times more voting power than Class A. Zuckerberg will own a majority of Class B. While the power will stay in the hands of Zuckerberg, the change will benefit the company’s employees, Diz said.

“Going public also allows current employees to be incentivized through grants of ‘restricted stock’ or ‘employee options’ which are a much cheaper way of incentivizing and retaining employees for the company than paying cash salaries.” Diz said.

Adam Dukoff, president of SU’s Investment Club, said in an email he thinks Facebook’s decision to go public was a wise move.

“Going public and being able to sell Facebook shares on a secondary market enables Facebook private shareholders to profit on their holdings,” he said.

Dukoff said he would not be investing in Facebook himself.

The amount of users who actually log onto the Facebook website and see the advertisements are a lot less than the numbers suggest.

“It is not clear what makes Face-

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rachel mohler | contributing photographer ROB DEKKER , University Union president, speaks to the Student Association on Monday night about how the organization chooses concert dates and makes artist selections for its events.

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UU discusses concert scheduling

By Dylan Segelbaum STAFF WRITER

University Union President Rob Dekker discussed the processes involved in scheduling concerts like Rock the Dome with members of the Student Association on Monday during the SA meeting held at 7:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Complex.

SA President Dylan Lustig said he felt bringing in Dekker was necessary because of how closely the organizations work with each other. He also wanted the general assembly to have a clear understanding of how events are programmed.

“Not everyone in the assembly knows exactly what he does, what UU does and how they go about doing it,” said Lustig in an interview after the meeting.

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Approximate number of student tickets sold for the Rock the Dome concert.

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In his presentation, Dekker discussed how UU first secures funding from SA and the venue where the event will be held. Next, possible dates are evaluated by taking basketball games, national holidays and competing internal and external events into account.

UU then sends all Syracuse University students a survey, which allows them to rank their preferences of music genres and voice their opinion about the artists the organization should pursue, Dekker said.

Roughly 3,500 students filled out the survey for Rock the Dome, and genres such as dance electronic, rap and hip-hop, pop and rock were highly favored by students, Dekker said. Artists such as LMFAO, Rusko, Bruno Mars and Pitbull received many votes.

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Faculty, administration do not address uncomfortable truths at university The citizenry is drowning in hagiography, which is why I make it a point not to add to it.

One of your colleagues, Minnie Bruce Pratt, attracted my attention via Poetry magazine.

Statements she made incited me to sketch a cartoon with her regard. It is posted on “The American Dissident” blog.

It is hoped several of you might be curious to examine the uncomfortable truths depicted in it. The crux of the criticism concerns Pratt’s assertion of wanting a socialist revolution. But there she sits comfortably enjoying privilege under the capitalist system, which designates her as an “eminent poet.” How strange, I’d thought: a revolutionary with established-order chevrons and laurels.

The problem with the so-called women’s liberation is purported liberators have mostly been co-opted by the established order, especially in the realm of politics and academe. Hillary Rodham Clinton stands as prime example of that. What does it matter if a hack is female or male? Ah, but the old ‘60s feminists a la Pratt are quite contented with their positions in the established order. They remain shamefully silent regarding, for example, Islam’s inherent misogyny. How disgusted I was to see the photo of feminist Clinton wearing a head scarf in solidarity with misogynist Islamists.

Syracuse University boasts of being a bastion of freedom of speech while restricting that freedom. For this, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education designated the institution a red-light university. “A red light university has

LET TER TO THE EDITOR at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech,” notes the foundation. I ask why you have done nothing at all to question and challenge the shameful situation, or if you have done something, let me know what the results were.

My experience challenging academics over the past several decades underscores the likelihood that one of you will deign to respond and engage in vigorous debate is next to nil. The true purpose of this letter is not to provoke a response, but to form part of the public record. Thanks to the Internet, this criticism of you and your university will be posted.

My experience underscores The Daily Orange is a rare student newspaper for not simply running the letter, but actually responding to it. Not one professor responded.

Please consider asking your library to subscribe to “The American Dissident.” Students might find the no-holds-barred, non-ideological criticism refreshing. Perhaps students are not your real top priority, despite the proclamations. Subscribers include Harvard University, Buffalo University, Brown University, University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin and New York Public Library.

Thank you for your attention.

G. Tod Slone

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SA members must work with administration on initiatives Some initiatives within Student Association have hit a wall.

SA members say they pass the initiatives to the administration and then sometimes the initiatives do not move forward. The cyberbullying and smoke-free initiatives are recent examples of this.

SA is the bridge between students and the administration. If the administration is not immediately following up on initiatives, it is the job of SA to do so. They must be proactive with administrators, who are often charged with doing more than listening to SA. SA cannot wash their hands clean of initiatives once they reach the administration. Members must go above and beyond to make sure important initiatives are dealt with in a timely manner. If they are not being dealt with in a timely manner, members must be persistent. If the initiatives are important to the student body, it is up to SA to illustrate that to the administration.

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board Sometimes initiatives disintegrate when SA members change. The newly installed administration noted this and said it is working to prevent it.

But the problem should not be happening in the first place. The mechanisms should already be in place so that when a committee member leaves, the ideas and initiatives of that committee do not drop off. If this problem has existed in the past — which SA members admit to — then the solution should have happened already, too.

To prevent this from happening in the future, the plan to stop initiatives from being stalled in SA must be put in place immediately. SA must be proactive in working with the administration. They should be working with the administration each step of the way instead of waiting for administrators to make a move.

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Beast Feast luncheon brings sustainably hunted, raised meat to students

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have never eaten so many different species of animal, ever.

This past Sunday was the second Beast Feast put on by SUNY-ESF’s Wildlife Society. It was not like other potlucks I’ve attended.

The premise of the event is to bring dishes that include sustainably hunted or raised meat. Most participants were students and faculty in the environmental and forest biology department at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Although I am not a hunter, I brought an enthusiastic appetite.

There was beaver chili, duck wrapped in bacon, caribou, chicken, squirrel, venison in every form imaginable and possibly other species I did not recognize. Apparently, you can buy bison at Wegmans. I had a very

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difficult time keeping track of what was what, but each dish had a tag with a number, the name of the dish and the person who prepared it.

In an attempt to try everything, I took a small portion of each dish and still managed to feel like I was carrying around a lump of lead in my stomach. My body isn’t used to this much tender, chewy, gristly juiciness.

Venison baked ziti, duck delights, and bison meatloaf were voted favorites. I loved the sausage with nutmeg.

But I’m still not entirely sure what animal it was. I’m guessing venison.

Many of the students hunted the meat themselves and took the Hunter and Trapper Education for Wildlife Professionals course last semester.

For some, the Beast Feast is a product of skills they learned in class. I was

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green and read all over a little envious the environmental and forest biology department holds professional events this delicious.

While I listened to my friends swap hunting stories, I realized how foreign hunting is to my own life.

I have never sat very still, shot an animal, killed it, retrieved it and returned home with the intention of eating it. There is food all around us, if you look for it.

My favorite story was of a

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relatively unsuccessful hunting trip.

Victor Koos shot one squirrel. He shot it twice in the tree and watched it fall.

When he went to retrieve it, there was no body to be found. As he was heading out for the day 40 minutes later, he went back to try one last time to find it. Victor shot the still feisty squirrel twice in the head to kill it.

Shortly after that the conversation turned to humane slaughter, and I could only laugh.

But they really meant it. These are biology students that have studied animal populations. In much of the Northeast, humans have driven out natural predators like wolves. There are way too many deer running around — let’s eat them.

Wildlife Society President Neil Foley emphasized the feast was a net-

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working opportunity. Professors came with their families and donated textbooks to the raffle. They chatted with students, but they mostly stayed on the periphery enjoying the festivities.

ESF’s music society performed two sets of fun bluegrass to earnest applause. Attendees ate at tables and made sure their neighbors got a taste of everything, offering bites off their own plates. There were smiles all around the table as students lamented reptile pet troubles.

The conclusion was that this luncheon could have been improved only if it involved maple syrup.

Leanna Mulvihill is a senior forest engineering major and environmental writing and rhetoric minor. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at lpmulvih@syr.edu or followed on Twitter at @LeannaMulvihill.

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To him, the poster exemplifies the “left lean” of SU’s campus. The political undertone is what makes it so controversial, he said.

“The thing I take issue with is the slogan at the bottom,” Weiss said. “It reveals kind of another motive behind the poster, which I really dislike.”

Weiss said he appreciates the other decora-

“In terms of inappropriate, I just don’t think I would take a modern-day political figure and display it in such official form.”

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tions hung up around the dining hall and said it’s undeniable that Obama is a huge piece of African-American history. He said if the campaign slogan were to be cropped out of the poster, he would have no problem with it.

Jared Kraham, a junior broadcast and digital journalism and political science major, posted a comment about the poster on Facebook. He said he thought the poster was not

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is to prepare students for the rigor of college coursework by training high school students in the essential skills they need for success.

SU also accepts International Baccalaureate credits from IB courses, which are not as common as AP courses. IB courses focus more on practical preparation and thought processes for specific subjects, according to

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the price of student tickets are subsidized to make them more affordable, the concert will ultimately result in UU not making a profit on the show.

This is something SA may investigate further.

“We’re going to be waiting for Rob to hear what the final numbers are, and we surely want to take that into account moving forward into the future,” said SA Comptroller Stephen

the best choice to use in celebrating Black History Month and instead struck students with a political message.

Kraham said it wasn’t a matter of his political beliefs against Obama’s, as he thinks it’s important to celebrate him and his historic election. However, he said the choice to feature an elected official so prominently struck him as “politically divisive.”

He said he thought it was funny the dining hall didn’t feature Heisman Trophy winner and the building’s namesake, Ernie Davis — a famous African-American SU football player.

“In terms of inappropriate, I just don’t think I would take a modern-day political figure and display it in such official form,” he said. “It is a political figure that some Americans, and I’m sure a number of Syracuse University students, disagree with politically.”

Some students eating at Ernie Davis did not think anything of the displayed poster, but others thought there were ways to celebrate Black History Month without involving politics.

For Justin Dorsen, a sophomore public relations major, seeing the poster triggered thoughts of this year’s upcoming presidential election. He said he was surprised at first, and it made him wonder for whom dining hall employees would vote.

Dorsen said he thought Obama was an important person to think about in celebrating Black History Month, but displaying the poster at the entrance to the dining hall implied people

the International Baccalaureate Organization’s website.

Bill Coplin, director of the Public Affairs Program at SU, said he thinks that IB courses are better than AP courses. AP courses could be further improved to prepare students for college even more, he said.

“AP courses are a good way to get out of the liberal arts core,” Coplin said. “But the AP courses themselves could be greatly improved.

IB courses are better.” jbundy@syr.edu

DeSalvo in an interview after the meeting.

Later in the meeting, Osarumwense PatOsagie, a sophomore finance and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major, and Denny McMahon, a sophomore finance and accounting major, ran for positions on the general assembly. Both were elected after a brief discussion by the representatives.

Membership is down 40 percent from November, when SA was at full capacity, said Vice President Allie Curtis during her weekly report. She discussed plans for a recruitment video and urged members to discuss the open

stacie fanelli | asst. photo editor BROOKE PULEO works at the Ernie Davis Dining Center in front of the poster of President Barack Obama, which.was hung up in celebration of Black History Month. should vote for him. It was also biased because there were no photos of the other political candidates displayed, he said.

“I mean, they could have left politics out of it,” Dorsen said. “There’s a lot of other figures they could have put in the front when we swiped in.”

Max Heilbrunn, a freshman aerospace engineering major, said he didn’t think the poster showed any bias on the part of the university, as Obama is a very significant person in the United States as well as to black history.

Heilbrunn said he understands why some

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book so valuable and what their future growth prospects are,” he said.

The only downside of a company such as Facebook going public is that it is now required to make its company information publicly available and what it does financial ly wil l be monitored closely, Diz said.

positions to friends and on social media.

Other business discussed: • Daniela López Acosta ran for a position on University Senate and was elected by the general assembly.

• A resolution was passed taking a stance against all forms of domestic violence, abuse and sexual assault to show solidarity for the Vera House White Ribbon Campaign.

• A bill was introduced forbidding organizations that have already received funding for events to apply for more money from special

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from the operational data we have and use that to help us make better decisions for the future,” he said. “We do this now in a number of areas, but we can do much better.”

Another open position in the Office of Academic Affairs will be filled by Andria Costello Staniec. Staniec, who is the associate dean at L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, will become the associate provostdesignate for academic programs, according to the release.

Staniec will start her new job in July after Sandra Hurd, the current associate provost for academic programs, steps down, according to the release.

The job responsibilities of the associate pro-

students would think otherwise, as they may not like Obama as a president. However, he said, they need to realize that he is the president and that he made history in 2008 by becoming the first black candidate to win a presidential election.

“There’s a million people who have political affiliations at this school,” he said. “I just hope that, politics aside, that (students) see him as a person, not the political figure.” mjberner@syr.edu

Tate Chow, a junior industrial and interaction design major, said although he wouldn’t personally be buying stock any time soon, in theory, buying Facebook stock seems like a good idea.

“If you follow trends for social media stocks, it’s a good idea to buy into the stock,” he said. “If I was in the investment field, I would definitely test the waters to see how far it would go.” seschust@syr.edu

programming funds. The general assembly will vote on the bill next meeting.

• Lynde Folsom, a member of the Judicial Review Board, said three representatives were removed from their positions because of their lack of dedication to SA and a failure to attend their judicial hearing. Another member resigned due to conflicting commitments. The member expressed interest in taking a leave of absence, but his or her reasoning was determined to be insufficient. The names of the four members were not disclosed. dmsegelb@syr.edu

vost for academic programs consist of monitoring the quality and effectiveness of academic programs, improving the success of students and creating new collaborative programs, Staniec said in an email.

As an associate dean at L.C. Smith, Staniec created new programs to help students succeed and developed ways to measure student retention, skills that translate well to her new position.

“I am very excited about the opportunity to help students find the best pathway to their individual success, whether that be through institutional programs or working one-on-one,” she said.

Spina said he thinks the new appointments will greatly improve the university.

“I am very excited about the new appointments,” he said. “Both Chris and Andria are highly collaborative people who will work well with others across the university.” jliannet@syr.edu

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Sugar high Researchers find consuming excess glucose could have similar effects to alcohol, tobacco

By Katie Van Brunt

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ugar is so dangerous to one’s health that researchers are suggesting it should be regulated, similar to tobacco and alcohol products.

A recent report from the University of California-San Francisco details the metabolic effects of sugar and how detrimental to a person’s health it can be, according to a Feb. 2 Time magazine article.

The side effects of consuming excess sugar, such as altering metabolism, raising blood pressure, liver damage and hormonal issues, are similar to those of drinking too much alcohol, according to the article.

“When you think about it, this actually makes a lot of sense.

Alcohol, after all, is simply the distillation of sugar,” said Laura Schmidt, co-chair of UCSF’s Community Engagement and Health Policy program, in the article.

Researchers are concerned about the liquid consumption of sugar as well as ingesting it in solid form. After conducting investigations on the effect of sugar on the brain, researchers found liquid calories are interpreted differently by the body than solids. This has led them to suggest sugar activates the same reward pathways in the brain as traditional abusive drugs like morphine or heroine, according to the article.

“I don’t think it’s that damaging. Any person should be able to regulate how much sugar they eat, but I don’t think it could kill me,” said Chris Roberts, a sophomore biochemistry major. “I drink soda like twice a week with lunch, but I don’t think it’s that bad.”

Due to the research results, individuals behind the studies suggest regulating or taxing sugary beverages like soda. A similar system was already implemented abroad in countries such as France, Greece and Denmark, which impose soda taxes, according to the article.

In the United States, Philadelphia officials came close to creating a 2-cent tax on soda. However, a study from 2010 raised doubts the tax would result in significant weight loss, according to the article.

Sara King, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she does not believe a tax would prevent her from consuming sugar.

She said because sugar is in most foods, it is difficult to avoid.

“Putting a tax on things like soda will not discourage people from drinking it or having more sugar. The tax is just another way for the government to get money out of us,” King said.

Lynn Brann, assistant professor at the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, said that some public health campaigns can be conducted in an attempt to reduce sugar intake.

“There is debate about whether regulation like with a soda tax would be effective and I would like to see more research on the potential benefits before going forward with this,” Brann said in an email.

If a person has an addiction to sugar, Brann said, actions can be taken to decrease intake.

“Most people find pleasure in sweetness so I would recommend slowly weaning yourself off of a diet with a lot of added sugar,” Brann said.

She said this is a difficult task, but if an individual’s consumption of more whole foods is increased, a naturally lower sugar intake will follow.

“Our environment makes it hard to avoid sugar so it is a conscious decision that people have to make,” Brann said. “I think this will be a ‘hot topic’ in nutrition for years to come.” knvanbru@syr.edu

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then write a paper detailing their experience.

Pratt said she assigns this paper because it gives students an opportunity that merely reading theoretical texts would not. This exercise, she said, challenges students to connect to the daily issues transgender people may face.

“That allows students to connect transgender experience to other moments in their life that are different, moments in their life where they had issues with their own gendering,” she said. “It enables them to kind of connect the dots and see that we’re all trying to survive and thrive in a very gender-rigid system that does a lot of damage to a lot of people.”

People who identify as transgender face many different issues and complications when entering a space that is uncomfortable for them, Pratt said.

“The primary issue, I believe … is the possibility of them experiencing violence,” she said.

Pratt said cases of transgender people being physically harmed or harassed in bathrooms happens quite frequently. She said she and her partner, who is a female-bodied person but has a masculine gender expression, often face similar instances.

“Every time we travel, something happens.

It isn’t usually physical violence, but there are comments,” Pratt said.

Men have followed Pratt’s partner out of the bathroom to verbally harass her, Pratt said.

“The threat of violence is always there.”

Besides being physically harmed, there is also the threat of police intimidation for transgender people when entering a sex-designated bathroom, Pratt said.

Another major issue that transgender people face is being shamed. When this happens, many people choose not to use a sex-designated bath-

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room any longer, which can lead to medical issues such as bladder or kidney infections, Pratt said.

Julia McGovern, a senior advertising and classical civilization major, took Pratt’s class last semester. McGovern said she self-identifies as queer, or sometimes gender-queer. Although she does not identify as transgender, McGovern said people often question her in bathrooms because of her androgynous dress.

McGovern said she knows what it’s like to have people do a double-take or ask her if she’s in the “wrong bathroom.”

“I’ve been called sir a lot in the bathrooms by girls,” she said.

McGovern said she prefers to use genderneutral bathrooms on campus because it is a safe place for her to go. When assigned the experiential paper in Pratt’s class, McGovern said she had already mapped out many of the genderneutral bathrooms around the university.

The number of gender-neutral bathrooms on campus is scarce and many of them are tucked away in basements or behind main desks, McGovern said.

LIMITED LOCATIONS

Here are some of the buildings on campus that house gender-neutral bathrooms and how many each building has: Eggers Hall College of Law/E.I. White Hall Huntington Beard Crouse Newhouse II Bird Library School of Management Day Hall Lawrinson Hall Sadler Hall Brewster/Boland

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Source: LGBT Resource Center list of gender-neutral singleuser bathrooms at Syracuse University

“The few unisex bathrooms that do exist are inconvenient,” she said.

Many buildings on campus, including the Hall of Languages, don’t have one single gender-neutral bathroom, according to the LGBT Resource Center’s list.

Danielle Sutton, a graduate assistant at the center, said she thinks this is because many people don’t have to think about their gender on a day-to-day basis.

“Because of the way society is, things are only male or female,” she said. “We grow up our whole lives thinking there’s the male restroom and the female restroom.”

But, Sutton said, there is an entire spectrum of genders and gender expressions. She said she believes there needs to be more gender-neutral bathrooms in more buildings around the university to cater to everyone’s human need.

SaQuota Reaves, a junior African-American studies and women’s and gender studies major, agreed and said although she does not personally identify as transgender, she believes there needs to be more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus, and they need to be in accessible areas.

Reaves also took Pratt’s WGS 438 class last semester. While completing Pratt’s assignment of using only single-sex, single-occupancy bathrooms on campus, Reaves said she had a hard time locating many of these bathrooms.

Reaves said the only gender-neutral bathroom she knew of was in the gym in Marshall Square Mall. She said she had to limit how much she drank throughout the day so she wouldn’t have to walk all the way to Marshall in between or during class.

When she asked people about the location of gender-neutral bathrooms, Reaves said many questioned her about wanting to use one. She said she took the opportunity to educate others on transgender issues and why gender-neutral bathrooms are so important.

“Most people that I did come into contact with didn’t know that it was such an issue,” she said.

Eric Beattie, director of the Office of Campus Planning, Design and Construction, said in an email his department worked with the LGBT Resource Center in 2007 to establish the genderneutral bathrooms that are on campus today.

He said although the department and the university are trying to include gender-neutral, singleuser bathrooms on campus, adding additional ones to buildings that have limited space is a challenge.

“The New York State Building Code requires a certain number of bathroom fixtures to be designated for use by women, and a certain number of bathroom fixtures to be designated for use by men, so gender neutral bathrooms are a ‘beyond compliance’ measure that isn’t recognized by the NYS Building Code,” he said.

Pratt acknowledged the challenge that might come with altering the design of buildings to incorporate gender-neutral bathrooms and said it would take a conscious decision by many people to add more of these bathrooms on campus.

“It would take a real commitment to the idea of gender complexity and gender variation,” she said, “a real monetary commitment.”

Pratt said she thinks more gender-neutral bathrooms would provide more comfort and privacy to everyone on campus, not just people who identify as transgender.

To enact any sort of change, Pratt said, people who are committed or concerned about these issues should organize and work toward creating a solution.

“I’m always for grassroots-up solutions where people get together and talk about what they need and work with each other to make that happen,” she said. “Those people getting together and thinking creatively about how to increase accessibility … that’s a good way to start.” snbouvia@syr.edu

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Valentine’s Day romantics, cynics can fall for latest technology fads

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echnological advances are wiggling their way not only into our pockets but, evidently, into our hearts as well.

Whether it’s used to enhance this day for couples or used as a tool of revenge and distraction for lovers scorned, technology has changed for Valentine’s Day.

For Valentine-embracing saps LARGER AND MORE LIFE-LIKE LONG-DISTANCE LOVE

If you’ve had a long-distance relationship in the past few years, you’re aware of how tiny the face of your significant other looks on an iPhone, computer or tablet. Lament no longer. TelyHD is a new service that allows cheap and efficient video calling via television. That 60-inch TV suddenly turns into a hell of an investment. Just purchase the television attachment — complete with an HD camera, four noise-canceling microphones, a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and Android software — mount it on top of your TV and voila, long-distance calling just got a whole lot bigger. While there are some kinks to work out, at $249.99 this product is the most affordable of its kind on the market.

With an approximated 10-minute setup time, you could spend your long-distance Valentine’s Day with a much more prominently displayed digital version of your special someone.

VIRTUAL MIXTAPE

In the olden days, it was frequent practice for love-struck folks to show their affection by creating a mixtape for their significant others. Though technology has changed the way we share music and has eliminated the relevance of the cassette tape, you can still employ this romantic sentiment using the site MixTape.me. This web-based music app enables the creation and sharing of virtual mixtapes, and it’s about a billion times easier than making the real thing. Create a playlist on the site by dragging and dropping your desired songs, and embed it to share with your valentine. (I suggest The Temptations’ “Sugar Pie Honey Bunch” and The Postal Service’s “Such Great Heights.”)

PERSONALIZED CARDS: NO TREK TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE

Let’s be real, e-cards kinda suck. Open email, click on link, get corny animation with limited text and delete email. Fortunately, there’s a smattering of smartphone applications that specialize in card creation.

JESSICA SMITH

our ram is bigger than yours Not only can you personalize the card with photos and text on your phone, but that card will then be physically printed and sent to the recipient of your choice. This is great for parents, cousins, nieces, nephews and whoever else you think deserves a personalized card in the mail. Apple’s version of this product is called Cards, and, like all other Apple creations, it is intuitive and easy to use. Open the app, create your card and accept the $2.99 fee charged to your App Store account.

For scornful Valentine’s cynics CHATROULETTE.COM

For a quick and completely meaningless conversation with a smorgasbord of interesting characters, Chat Roulette is your go-to this Valentine’s Day. While you may stumble into some oddballs, it’s certain that those you come across on this video-chat platform will not be starry-eyed Valentine’s Day aficionados.

CHEATERVILLE.COM

Capitalizing on the wonders of group knowledge, CheaterVille allows those who have been cheated on to alert the world of their unfaithful exes’ straying eyes. The problem with this site is that the legitimacy of the claims is questionable and false accusations run rampant. Regardless of the validity — or lack thereof — of the claims, this site is a wonderful Valentine’s Day outlet for haters of romance.

STREAM “MY BLOODY VALENTINE” ON NETFLIX

For those who associate this day with misery, Netflix has the film “My Bloody Valentine” (2009) available for instant streaming. The film has murder, mystery, gore and heartbreak: It’s everything a Valentine’s Day cynic could ever need.

Jessica Smith is a senior information management and technology and television, radio and film dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at jlsmit22@syr.edu.

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A picture in a Sarah Lawrence College catalog shows Leal and Yaffe sitting next to each other in their modern philosophy class. The two had never met or spoken. A year later, they were inseparable, often sharing a mug of black coffee in their 17th-century literature class.

“Someone called us the dynamic duo,” Yaffe recalled.

After graduation, the two pursued degrees at the City University of New York Graduate Center before making their way to SU. The jazz enthusiast frequently plays piano for Leal and their 2-year-old son, Julian.

“He makes my life a musical,” Leal said, smiling.

AMY LEAL, INSTRUCTOR IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT DAVID YAFFE, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

Every morning, Rubinstein brews coffee ground with cardamom and delivers it in a blue cup for his wife of 24 years.

“On Saturdays, sometimes he brings a second cup,” she said.

Vibrant mosaic artwork and eclectic furniture fill the couple’s Jamesville home. They lived in Egypt for the first five years of their marriage, eventually landing positions at SU. They share a fierce dedication to students, once opening their home for two months to a student in need.

“We’re kind of like old hippies,” Lane said. “But it’s nice having a partner to share similar value systems to you.”

SANDRA LANE, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH ROBERT RUBINSTEIN, PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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On their honeymoon in Hawaii, the couple asked a native sculptor to craft a wooden sculpture symbolizing the resounding themes of their relationship. Some included comfort, togetherness and laughter.

“There was laughter from the beginning,” Kate said.

Advisers for the Syracuse University Sports Management Club charity work, the pair ended their 12-hour workdays with dinner and drinks. The professional relationship quickly blossomed into a romantic one, and they married on Oct. 30 2010. Kate still feels she’s in the newlywed stage.

“I’m going to milk it for as long as I can.”

One day in 1995, when the pair was living in a small New York City apartment, Leal told Yaffe she dreamed they got married. “I asked, June 15, ‘Would you like to do that for real?’ And that was the proposal.” The couple married seven years later on June 15, 2002.

DY: I was teaching at Sarah Lawrence and thought, “Aha, I could capitalize on this.” I got the publishing office to print out our wedding invitation. There was a picture of us taken on our graduation day, and we made the whole thing look like a book — “A Wedding” by Amy Leal and David Yaffe. It had a version of a quote

I THEE WED

Yaffe, who frequently left campus for a New York City internship, once discovered flowers on his dorm room door.

“What I didn’t know was that she left flowers on everybody’s door,” he said. “But because I was never around very often, I was the only one with flowers left.” The two formed a friendship and soon, their relationship developed into a romantic one.

AL: He made me a mixtape.

DY: It was called “Songs of Innocence and Experience.” It’s important to note that Amy has read absolutely everything, or at least everything worth reading. So I was in awe of how much literature she had accumulated. I had never met another student who had read a fraction of what she read, so I knew she would appreciate any literary reference. On the innocence side, I had “Nothing Like You” sung by Bob Durough on a Miles Davis album, Bill Evans’ “Waltz for Debby,” the Beatles’ “If I Fell” and a nocturne by Debussy. On the experience side, there was “Fixin’ to Die” by Bukka White, and it might have had a Nirvana song.

from Harold Bloom on it: “You’ve done better than any man of your generation.” And Amy made her own wedding dress.

AL: It was silver. I make historical clothes for a hobby, so I made a hodgepodge of different styles. Instead of having numbers for tables, we had a literary or musical theme.

DY: We had an Elvis table, a Byron table and a Beatles table. This great jazz singer, Paula West, sang for us as we walked down the aisle, and one of the best jazz piano players around, Bill Charlap, played. We walked to “Our Love is Here to Stay” by George and Ira Gershwin. We did it exactly the way we wanted to do it.

I read into it of course.

DY: And what she read was correct. She knocked on my door and I was on the phone with the person I had been involved with. I said, “Shh,” and she said real quietly, “I’m trapped in a Tennyson poem.”

I couldn’t wait to get off the phone. And that was Feb. 12, close to Valentine’s Day. We became pretty much joined at the hip.

ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor AL: It was so wonderfully grim, so of course I was delighted. And

view of Chicago, so the first thing I said when we walked into her office was, “Why is the divorce court upstairs and you get married in the basement?” And I saw her desk and she had the marriage ceremony transliterated in various languages. So I asked her, “Can you marry us in Vietnamese?”

SL: That’s when she looked at me and said, “You sure you want to marry this guy?

RR: She said, “This is a brief but binding ceremony.”

The pair married twice. First in a civil ceremony on Aug. 5, 1988, before moving to Egypt and then a more traditional ceremony on Nov. 13, 1988, the day before they attended an anthropology meeting — their honeymoon, Lane said, laughing. “So I make him buy me presents two times.”

SL: We were married by Margaret O’Malley in the basement of the Civic Center in Chicago. Robert was making jokes, and the lady looked at me like, “Are you sure you want to marry him?”

RR: I was wearing a Hawaiian shirt. It was the summer.

IN SYNC

SL: And I was wearing a tie-dye T-shirt.

RR: The divorce court was on the 12th floor with an incredible

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my arm in his arm. It was icy and cold, and I was wearing high heels, so I was holding onto him. And I felt this sense that I was going to marry him, that he was the right one. It was a physical feeling of comfort

speakers I hear Kate’s voice. This is going to sound crazy or eerie, but it sounded like a voice from heaven. She had recorded this beautiful message to me before she walked down the aisle to let me know how much she loved me. I stood there in a church full of family and our closest friends, trying to stay composed and not become emotional. It was the most powerful thing that’s ever happened to me. You always hear the expression “expect the unexpected,” but I could never expect this unexpectedness. I was overwhelmed because it was from my best friend, my soul mate and the person that I loved. To have somebody go to that length and effort to make my day special is something I’ll always take with me for the rest of my life.

we were saying, but watching that the ring didn’t end up in the middle of the ocean. It was wacky.

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TWICE AS NICE

In November 1987, both Rubinstein and Lane attended anthropology meetings for scholars in Chicago. A mutual colleague, Lane’s professor at University of California in San Francisco, suggested they meet.

RR: We spoke on the phone, and we arranged to meet for lunch. The meetings have thousands of people, so we described what we would be wearing, and I knew what colors she would be in. At the meetings, all these book publishers come and display their books. We were going to meet at 1 o’clock, and as I was waiting for that time to come around, I was in the book exhibit. I looked down one aisle of Yale University Press, and there was this beautiful blond woman wearing red with a gray shirt, and I thought, “That must be she.” And it was.

SL: We saw each other every day at the meetings. The third day, we were walking to dinner at this restaurant, and I held

FRIENDLY ENCOUNTER

The reception at the couple’s wedding featured a popcorn maker, chocolate baseballs at all the tables and a caricature by cartoonist Joe Glisson that guests signed. Kate Veley had a surprise in store for her sports-crazed fiancé, who greets hundreds of SU fans as public address announcer as they enter the Dome.

KV: I was expecting to be nervous. I remember sitting in the limousine thinking, “Now my nerves are going to kick in,” but I wasn’t. I knew I was exactly where I wanted to be, without a shadow of a doubt in my mind.

MV: I was at the altar. And I’m waiting for the organist to start the “Here Comes the Bride” procession and instead, over the

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A traditionalist, Veley asked Kate Veley’s father for her hand in marriage before whisking her off to Captiva Island in Florida on May 29, 2010. The couple strolled through their special spot at night before Veley popped the question.

MV: I actually contacted the U.S. weather service because I didn’t want to be out on the beach in complete darkness with this ring in my hand, nervously shaking with the thought of dropping it in the sand. I wanted a full moon. Lo and behold, I worked out the whole vacation around the moon, and it’s sunny all the time except this night. The clouds roll in, the moon is covered up, but I had to do it this day because I couldn’t wait any longer.

KV: Then he proposed and I immediately dropped to my knees, too, because I was afraid he was going to drop the ring. So we’re both on our knees by the edge of the water, very focused on what

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Same old, same old T

By Ibet Inyang STAFF WRITER

ake a sappy love ballad, throw in some pop rock, slap on the piano skills of Isaac Slade, mix it all together and you’ve got The Fray’s latest album, “Scars & Stories.”

The band traveled the world for inspiration, drawing on experiences it gained from Rwanda to the Colorado mountains. But the band doesn’t stray far from its usual somber yet sweet sound.

The Denver quartet, one of the biggest alternative rock groups around today, earned global popularity with songs such as “Over my Head (Cable Car)” and “How to Save a Life.” These tunes offered alternative rock that was also wonderfully mainstream.

The Fray’s latest album has both beautiful ballads and a few up-tempo tunes that talk about love, relationships and war, but

that’s pretty much what they’ve always covered. We still hear plenty of piano and lead singer Slade’s high falsetto, which we’ve grown to love.

Lyrically, the songs are beautiful and many have deep meanings. “Heartbeat” is one of the band’s more upbeat love songs with a guitar-driven sound and catchy chorus. According to Paste Magazine, it was inspired by the band’s trip to Rwanda, where a local woman told about her experience with genocide. As she took Slade’s hand in hers, he recalled feeling a pulse and the rest is history.

In “1961,” the band personifies the Berlin Wall through two brothers who technically come from the same place but are separated. The group approaches this through a danceable track with a pop beat and chorus, which repeats, “It won’t be the same,” lyrics that are,

Globe-trotting rockers afraid to transform sound despite worldy influences

ironically, the same.

The album struggles to churn out the big hits the band is used to. “How to Save a Life” gained the band mainstream success after it played on “Grey’s Anatomy,” but none of the new songs are exactly McSteamy status. “Heartbeat,” the album’s first single, and “Turn Me On” are the album’s best bets. Both are uptempo, catchy and radio-friendly. However, the band’s soft and subtle tendency is exuded through “Be Still,” a beautiful ballad telling a loved one that he or she is not alone.

The Fray gives us another dose of the same sound they’ve been serving up since their first album. They gained mainstream success from their pop-rock hits with gloomy topics, piano solos and, of course,

their secret weapon: Slade’s vocals, which sound like he’s in pain, topped with plenty of falsetto. And since it isn’t broken yet, the band didn’t fix it. The Fray’s decision to stick with their usual sound may have crippled the album. All of their songs have a similar sound, so many of them seem to blend together into a jumble of somber, piano-filled sameness.

It may not be cutting edge, but The Fray put out a decent album in “Scars & Stories.”

It is a good mix of ballads and dancy tunes about love and even deeper topics, with great vocal performances. The pop-rock sound it offers won’t turn Fray haters into fans, but it will give the band’s followers another album to jam to. inyang@syr.edu

Sounds like: Their first and second album Genre: Alternative Rock Top track: “Heartbeat”

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Scars & Stories Epic Records Release Date: Feb. 7

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Volunteers strive to feed needy

By Marquise Francis CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Excitement and enthusiasm were apparent in the words spoken by Syeisha Byrd.

“I’ve seen it time and time again. One person can make a difference, you can always help,” said Byrd, the director of the Office of Community Engagement at Hendricks Chapel.

More than 20 students and faculty came together in Goldstein Auditorium to do just that. The group packaged more than 20,000 meals to be sent to 76 countries around the world.

The food packaging event was created

by Better Together Syracuse through the organization Stop Hunger Now. The two partnered up as a part of President Barack Obama’s Interfaith Challenge, in which he implored higher institutions and colleges to participate in more community service and civic engagement.

Stop Hunger Now is a Raleigh, N.C.-based international hunger relief agency that has been fighting hunger for 13 years, according to its website. Since 1998, the group has hosted events throughout the nation that encourage food distribution and donations.

The meal packaging program began in 2005. Each meal costs only 25 cents to pro-

“I’ve seen it time and time again. One person can make a difference, you can always help."

Syeisha Byrd

DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNIT Y ENGAGEMENT AT HENDRICKS CHAPEL

duce. It stores and transports easily, maintaining a shelf life of five years. The main initiative of the organization is to continue partnering with international groups to ship and distribute meals. The food goes to lunch programs in schools across the world where poverty exists. As a result, children are fed and educated.

ryan maccammon | asst. photo editor (FROM LEFT) Candice Frank, a sophomore television, radio and film major; Tang Yao, a freshman English and textual studies major; and Courtney Lyons, a sophomore sport management major, participate in a food packaging event to send meals to 76 countries.

“I looked up the organization and the initiative about how education matches up with food, and it seemed like a great idea,” said Candice Frank, a sophomore television, radio and film major. “It’s just great to hear a project about reaching out with the whole domino effect of how education numbers go up and poverty numbers go down.”

Volunteers surrounded 10 long tables, packaging dehydrated high-protein meals.

There were runners, funnel captains and pourers, each with a designated assignment.

They stacked boxes of food on the stage, and the volunteers worked quickly to maintain a quick pace. Students of all years and classes volunteered.

“We could be doing anything like playing basketball, but we’re all here giving back,” Byrd said. “It gives the students at SU an opportunity to learn about students who are hungry and puts it in their face instead of just hearing about it.”

As Michael Jackson songs spurted out of the

black speakers from backstage, the pourers dumped food in the funnel as the funnel captains caught the food in the packaging. Runners finished the transition by running the packages to be boxed up.

Brianna Carrier, a member of the community service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, said she enjoys participating in philanthropic events like this one. Carrier, a senior geography and policy studies major, hopes to continue giving back to the community through her work at Teach for America in the fall.

“I love giving back to the community. I’ve done it for all four years, and I feel like we all can give something back,” Carrier said.

“It’s definitely something I want to do in the future.”

Adi Azlan, a second-year graduate student studying telecommunication and network management, said he feels he has a calling for service activities.

“I just want to give back,” he said. “The best

part is getting together and helping out the community as well as supporting the program and helping fight the hunger.” mafran01@syr.edu

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Fundraising accomplishments of the SU chapter of Better Together

JUICE JAM: $30,000 raised for the World Food Programme

CROP WALK: $250 raised for Church World Service and locals

CAN IT: $2,560.13 raised for the Food Bank of Central New York, along with 1,370 pounds of food

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Q&A with SU alumna Carla Fischer, founder of 315 Collection business

By Kristin Ross ASST. COPY EDITOR

Giving back to Syracuse University is one of Carla Fischer’s lifelong goals. The alumna runs an online-based jewelry business from her Connecticut home, and during this year’s Homecoming weekend, she unveiled a branch of her jewelry business. Titled the 315 Collection, it will help create a scholarship for future SU students dually enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences and S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, like Fischer was when she attended SU.

Daily Orange: Why did you use Syracuse’s area code in the name of the collection?

Carla Fischer: I definitely wanted to connect it to Syracuse, but, as you may know, there is a lot of protection around all things that relate to the university, like the No. 44, the

word ‘Cuse, even the word orange has some copyright protection around it. I thought the next closest thing that would point it directly to Syracuse was to use 315.

And why did you want to create a scholarship in your name?

I went to Syracuse because of the generosity of others. I received several scholarships when I was a student, which enabled me to get through my four years there. I always felt that at some time I would start to pay that back. I certainly am not in a position where I can just write one big check to do that, so there’s something called planned giving. And through planned giving, you’re able to, in essence, open an account and make deposits into that account until it hits a certain amount of money. When it hits a certain amount of money, it starts to pay out to a student. I wanted that to happen while I was

still alive. A lot of people give money to the university as a part of their estate planning, you know when they write their will, and I didn’t want to wait for that. I wanted to give money while I was alive.

Can you tell me a little bit about the collection that is available?

I went to the Villanova game two years ago, and I had a pair of earrings on that I had made just for the game because I didn’t have anything that was orange. A lady that was sitting near us was just so excited about my earrings.

She just thought they were so wonderful, and so I started making them for my friends. That was all kind of happening at the same time that the endowment fund idea was brewing in the back of my mind. So then I got this idea to just sell any kind of accessories that were orange because a lot of people said to me, “We

really want to wear something to go to a game that matches T-shirts, but we don’t want to have a big, block ‘S’ on our ears.”

In the future, when the scholarship is given out, will you get to meet with the recipients?

Yes. It’s something that when I was a student they didn’t do. Now, once a year, they invite anybody who has endowed a scholarship to come, and they invite every student who was a recipient of an endowed scholarship, and they have a luncheon together, and we get to meet them. I always felt sad that I never got to meet the people who made my education possible. I know their name because it was on the scholarship fund, but I never knew who they were. That’s something that I really look forward to — getting invited to that luncheon and meeting that student. klross01@syr.edu

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“It was just a struggle for both teams offensively, and you can either give the defenses credit or say it was a bad offensive game,” Boeheim said. “We’re going to look on the bright side and say it was a real defensive struggle tonight.”

In the duel for offensive incompetence, Syracuse took the opening step by not reaching double digits until more than 11:30 into the action. But Kris Joseph’s jumper pulled SU within 13-11 at that point, as Louisville was hardly better.

The pick-and-roll sets the Orange has relied on throughout the season failed to create openings against the Cardinals’ matchup zone, leading to Syracuse’s lowest first-half scoring output of the season at 22 points.

“The pick-and-roll, we usually use that a lot against man-to-man, but it wasn’t working against the zone,” junior Brandon Triche said. “We could have just penetrated by ourselves and found guys open and penetrated again once they were flying at us. But we didn’t do that. We could have fixed that, but we didn’t.”

Fortunately for SU, the Cardinals matched every offensive deficiency it put forth.

Syracuse went 1-of-15 from 3-point range.

Louisville went 12-of-21 at the free-throw line.

Orange senior Scoop Jardine didn’t hit a field goal in eight tries. UL senior Kyle Kuric only made one of his eight on the night. SU sunk just two shots outside the paint. The Cardinals turned the ball over 16 times.

After both teams endured a three-minute scoreless stretch in the second half with Syracuse ahead 36-35, the Orange finally found some rhythm. A Dion Waiters layup followed

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by back-to-back dunks gave SU what seemed like an overwhelming seven-point lead.

But the Cardinals offense finally caught fire, too.

“They went on their run,” Joseph said.

“They were at home. You got to expect it. They hadn’t made it yet.”

After a timeout to slow SU’s momentum, Louisville exploded on a 16-4 stretch to take a five-point lead. It seemed like a knockout blow in front of the raucous crowd.

But then came the final run of disastrous offense for the Cardinals. Louisville failed to score over the final 3:38. C.J. Fair put the Orange in front to stay when Waiters found him for an uncontested layup with 2:11 to go.

And Syracuse’s 52-51 was cemented in the final two minutes.

Louisville center Gorgui Dieng had the first chance to put the Cardinals back in front when he caught a pass at the free-throw line.

SU left him uncovered, but Dieng, already 2-of-9 from the field in the game, didn’t even look at the rim. He opted to pass the ball off, and it was stolen away by Joseph.

Chris Smith missed a layup on Louisville’s next possession, followed by a pass by Peyton Siva into a sea of hands that was picked off by Waiters.

Waiters missed the front end of a one-andone to give the Cardinals one final chance with 1.1 seconds left. But the game’s final blunder came when Angel Nunez, seeing his first action of the night, dropped Louisville’s long inbounds pass at half court as time expired.

“We knew we needed stops,” Triche said.

“We just planned on trying to get one stop at a time. …We missed some shots, so it wasn’t like we just got hot. We just made sure we stopped those guys from scoring.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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turnover late that led to the crushing loss.

“He was tough,” SU junior guard Brandon Triche said. “Without him playing, the movement kind of slowed down. I don’t think he was able to use that confidence from earlier in the game in the last part.”

In the early parts of the first half, Siva seemed to be playing at a different speed than everyone else on the court. He penetrated the Orange’s 2-3 zone at will, dishing off to teammates under the basket or taking it to the rim himself.

He scored Louisville’s first four points of the game on two layups, but it was his first assist that

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C.J. Fair Fair led Syracuse with 13 points in 35 minutes off the bench. The SU forward scored what proved to be the game-winning layup with 2:11 remaining.

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Louisville had a chance to shock Syracuse when it took the ball out with 1.1 seconds remaining. Cardinals forward Chane Behanan’s inbounds pass intended for teammate Angel Nunez was off target, and Louisville failed to get a shot off before time expired.

showed off his quickness. He shook Dion Waiters with a crossover at the top of the key, dribbled to the free-throw line and bounced a pass to Chane Behanan under the basket for an easy dunk.

“He was a spark today, especially early,” Triche said. “Our game plan was to let him shoot a few jump shots, and we basically did the opposite. We were playing off him, and he still was going by us. He was making passes to the big guys, getting them buckets.”

He continued finding the Cardinals’ big men down low, and although they didn’t score directly off those feeds, many of those dishes resulted in trips to the free-throw line. And with both teams struggling mightily to put points on the board, Siva’s foul trouble and ensuing time on the bench completely changed the dynamic of the game.

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“The way I was penetrating and finding people, it really hurt us,” he said of his time on the sideline.

Syracuse didn’t turn the game around when he was out, but by the time Siva returned, he seemed to have fallen out of the zone he was in to start the game. He did deal out three more assists in the second half but only took one shot after the break.

“He started out real good,” SU guard Dion Waiters said. “But it’s all about the finish, though.”

And Siva’s finish was nowhere near the caliber of his start.

With the clock ticking less than 30 seconds, the Cardinals turned to Siva to deliver the win.

Just as he had multiple times in the first half, he drove into the heart of the Orange zone. As

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The Louisville sharpshooter had an off night, going just 1-of-8 from the field and 1-of6 from beyond the arc. After scoring a combined 45 points in the Cardinals’ previous two meetings with the Orange, he managed just three points Monday.

the defense collapsed, he said he thought he saw Gorgui Dieng wide open under the basket. He tried to wrap a pass around a defender, but it zipped slightly behind the center and Waiters picked it off.

Louisville had one final chance after Waiters missed his free throw, but the Cardinals never got a shot off.

And although he may have been the best player on the court when he was out there, Siva couldn’t help but take the blame following the loss.

“I’ve just got to play a lot smarter,” Siva said. “I made some dumb decisions down the stretch, and I really wasn’t aggressive down the stretch where I should have been. I’ve got to learn from it and come back and play.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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Winless in conference play, SU strives to maintain intensity

By Austin Mirmina STAFF WRITER

Megan Skelly and her Syracuse teammates waited diligently for the sound of head coach Paul Flanagan’s whistle as they lay on the ice during Monday’s practice.

When it blew, the already winded Orange players muscled themselves to their feet and skated full speed across center ice, repeating the drill several times at the sound of each whistle.

“We could have thrown in the towel and finished the season off just having fun, but we know we can do better than that,” Skelly said. “At this point, we’re improving on things that we have control over, like mental toughness. And when we outwork teams, we win.”

It was an atypical Monday morning practice for SU (9-20-3, 0-7-3 College Hockey America), especially considering the 13-day layoff that the team faces before playing its last two games against Niagara. But Flanagan used the ice time as a way to remind his players that it’s going to take extra hustle, increased intensity and a constant focus on the smaller aspects of the game to keep Syracuse’s goal of a championship still within reach.

SU’s struggles in the four-team CHA have been no secret. The Orange hit rock-bottom this past weekend when it was defeated twice in dom-

inating fashion by No. 6 Mercyhurst, stretching its record in conference play to a dismal 0-7-3.

The pair of losses delivered embarrassing blows to Skelly, who had high expectations for this youthful Orange squad entering the 201112 campaign. After two consecutive seasons in which the SU program displayed large strides of improvement during Skelly’s sophomore and junior years, the senior captain was disappointed with the team’s poor performance up to this point.

“It’s hard anytime you’re going through a slump, especially when you play with so much confidence,” Skelly said. “But one thing we can control is our effort, and when we go out there and give it everything we got, good things will happen.”

The pressure to win will certainly build for the Orange players as the days dwindle closer and closer to the conference tournament March 2. And if SU fails to record two victories against Niagara next weekend, it will receive the fourth seed in the CHA tournament and likely play Mercyhurst, a coach’s worst nightmare.

But to counter the agonizing pressure, Flanagan stressed to his players the need to stay focused on the next game, not the tournament that lies ahead.

“The players have faced pressure and all types of frustration this season, and they’ve handled it well,” Flanagan said. “From here,

our mentality is just to win one game at a time.

As tough as this season has been in terms of getting wins, we can still get back to the CHA championship game.”

Flanagan designed Monday’s practice to show his team that they won’t be taking the next two weeks of rest lightly. If the Orange is serious about competing for a coveted spot in the NCAA tournament, the team must prove that it is willing to work hard each and every time it steps out onto the ice.

Freshman forward Julie Knerr said having this week off will be vital for SU in regaining its confidence. SU’s halt in progression this season has left the team in search of its competitive edge, and it’ll need to find it if it wants to make noise come tournament time.

“We’re a hard-working team, that’s who we are,” Knerr said. “We don’t have any individuals that are going to score all our goals. We’re a whole team that needs to play together in order to win.”

And the Orange will need to rely on its senior leadership when it instills that playoff mentality. As Skelly continues to lead by example with her play on the ice, Flanagan hopes the motivation from the upperclassman will provide a timely spark, such as a big goal, when the Orange needs it most.

But Skelly said she won’t be satisfied until the

Orange is conference champion.

“The last two years have been such heartbreakers, so I think we’re all ready to go out there and play,” Skelly said. “It all comes down to one game. It’s not a seven-game series. It’s onegame series. And anything can happen.” awmirmin@syr.edu

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Outlook

Syracuse has a much-needed week off after losing two matches at Mercyhurst last weekend. The Orange (9-20-3, 0-7-3 CHA) is still searching for its first conference win of the year and has two regular season games left to pick up a victory. As SU’s record currently stands, its the worst winning percentage in the four-year history of the program.

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courtesy of emily green | the depauw (CENTER) TYLER NOTCH helps out as a student assistant for the DePauw basketball team. Notch helps with game preparation and hopes to coach a Division-I program.

Student at D-III DePauw gets valuable coaching experience

By Nick Toney STAFF WRITER

Only basketball highlights on SportsCenter could take Tyler Notch’s mind off the pain.

Three practices into his junior season of high school, he landed awkwardly after a block attempt.

And just like that, the Cheyenne, Wyo., native shattered both his foot and FOR THE his dreams of playing college basketball.

Notch admitted he thought about ending his basketball career the day he could never play again. But right before he threw in the towel, he saw the highlights of his favorite team and coach — the Duke Blue Devils and head coach Mike Krzyzewski — and everything changed.

“I remember watching the two-minute highlight video and looking at coach K on the sidelines,” Notch said. “Suddenly, it clicked, and I knew I didn’t have to give up basketball completely, just playing basketball.”

Notch, now a student assistant at DivisionIII DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., hasn’t stopped chasing that goal since his epiphany three years ago. And the team’s coaching staff credits Notch with helping the Tigers upset two ranked teams, Wabash (Ind.) College and the College of Wooster (Ohio), in the same week last month.

Notch, who said his position is rare for a college sophomore, watches film, hosts recruits and has some input in game-planning. He also keeps stats, manages the team uniforms and helps with scouting.

“It’s my job to help the coaching staff be prepared,” Notch said. “And we were prepared to play those two teams.”

DePauw isn’t a major basketball power, but the school is where Clemson head coach Brad Brownell and Butler head coach Brad Stevens played their college careers.

After watching Notch work tirelessly to help the Tigers prepare for Wabash and Wooster, head coach Bill Fenlon believes Notch has what it takes to coach at the Division-I level one day. Notch has displayed the ability to work well with the players to go with an impressive understanding of the game.

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Against No. 14 Wabash, Fenlon said Notch calmed players down before the highly anticipated rivalry game.

“He’s in one of those unique situations where he’s not a coach, so players trust him,” Fenlon said. “He really relates to the guys on the team, and they relate to him. It really has been a blessing to have him with us.”

The Tigers defeated Wabash 64-55 in a tight game that saw 14 lead changes. Notch came through again later that week when the team played No. 16 Wooster. Notch said he knew the coaching staff would fall behind on gameplanning during a rivalry week, so he started taking notes on game tape of Wooster during preparation for Wabash.

Notch noticed that very few teams used a pressure defense against Wooster. And when opponents did, he saw the Fighting Scots almost always caved.

Assistant coach Brian Oilar met Notch when he was thinking about playing basketball as a walk-on at DePauw. But after reading Notch’s notes about Wooster, Oilar said he was thankful Notch was on the bench helping the coaching staff.

“We started throwing some ideas back and forth about what our defense could do to take Wooster off guard,” Oilar said. “And from the film, he knew we could trap them and generate some turnovers. It ended up taking them off guard, and it was a great idea overall.”

Oilar said that midweek adjustment led DePauw to another upset victory. With DePauw holding a slim seven-point lead with 1:38 left in its game against Wooster, Fenlon called for the full-court press.

Seconds later, sophomore guard Alex Payne stole the ball away from Wooster for a fast-break layup, sealing a 75-66 win for DePauw.

Both Fenlon and Oilar said Notch showed them what he could do when he interned with the coaching staff during the winter semester. After a month, Notch had helped DePauw defeat two Top 25 teams in one week for the first time since 2002.

“He started learning, cutting up tape and watching recruits,” Fenlon said. “And we started thinking he could be a special coach later on down the line.”

Notch knows if he wants to end up like his idol Krzyzewski and coach a top-flight basketball school, he needs to pay his dues on the sideline. And DePauw has proven to be a great place for him to break into the coaching profession. He was looking into two team manager positions with the basketball programs at Florida State and Michigan, but he stuck with DePauw because it offered him a more hands-on coaching experience.

Fenlon said he is glad Notch spurned the bigger basketball schools, but he said it may not be long until he sees Notch roaming the sidelines at a bigger school.

“He’s just getting his feet wet — that’s the scary part,” Fenlon said. “He’ll be successful because players love him, and he’s willing to work a hundred times harder than you if that’s what it takes.”

Games of the week

No. 2 Syracuse 88, Rutgers 60 Simply put: Eli Carter and Gilvydas Biruta aren’t enough to upset Syracuse. The Scarlet Knights can’t match the size and athleticism of the Orange. If SU shoots well from the floor, this game could get ugly quick.

No. 16 Murray State 64, No. 21 St. Mary’s 60 The Racers’ perfect season ended last week, but St. Mary’s lost to Gonzaga, ending a 12-game winning streak. Isaiah Canaan and Murray State should win this one.

St. John’s 75, UCLA 70 St. John’s young players showed promise last weekend against Georgetown. D’Angelo Harrison scored 24 and Moe Harkless scored 20 in a losing effort. In a down year for the Pac-12, UCLA might miss the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three years.

No. 6 Ohio State 76, No. 17 Michigan 64 Jared Sullinger said his team looked like “spoiled brats” after their loss to Michigan

State. Michigan could give them headaches at home, but Ohio State won’t dwell on the loss.

Look for the Buckeyes to pull away late.

Kansas State 65, No. 9 Baylor 59 Baylor hasn’t won a big game lately, and Kansas State is desperate. A win against the Bears would help the Wildcats’ tournament chances greatly. Frank Martin’s team gets a resume-building road win, and Baylor keeps struggling against good teams. nctoney@syr.edu

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This week, to honor the late, iconic Whitney Houston, we name our battlers after their favorite famous singers: J. Morrison (Brown) J. Cash (D’Abbraccio) E. Presley (Hyber) S. Wonder (Cohen) L. Gaga (Mainthia) J. Jackson (Patankar) R. Astley (Ronayne) B. Springsteen (Cooper) B. Dylan (Gery) M. Jackson (Harris) B. Joel (Iseman) B. Marley (McBride) A. Franklin (McInerney) C. Dion (Toney) W. Houston (Truong) Madonna (Tredinnick) R. Charles (Wilson) L. Vandross (Pramuk) J. Lennon (Prise) M. Jagger (Propper) N. Diamond (Bailey) F. Sinatra (Klinger)

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By Ryne Gery

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An emotional Phylesha Bullard sat inside the Carrier Dome Jan. 28, struggling to let go of Syracuse’s loss to Cincinnati that day. The SU guard couldn’t shake the turnover she committed that set the table for the Bearcats’ shocking last-second victory.

That’s when her teammates stepped in, joining her on the couches in the team locker room to give the sophomore a simple message.

“They just told me, ‘Just keep your head up. We’ll get it next time, and we’re going to need you further more in the season, so just keep your head up,’” Bullard said. “And this is my time to grow as a player, so I learn from my mistakes, so they just told me to keep my head up.”

Bullard has held her head high since that costly mistake against Cincinnati and developed into one of Syracuse’s top reserves dur-

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Outlook

Syracuse (15-11, 4-8 Big East) is entering its final stretch of the season. The Orange has just four games remaining with the first coming against Marquette (13-11, 4-7 Big East) on Saturday in the Carrier Dome. SU is currently in 14th place in the conference, only ahead of two winless teams, Seton Hall and Pittsburgh. The Orange’s NCAA tournament hopes have been dashed with its disappointing season thus far, but Syracuse will have to finish the year strong to earn a postseason appearance in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

ing Big East play. The sophomore has averaged 22.8 minutes per game for the Orange in its last six after reaching the 20-minute mark just once in the previous 20 contests.

Bullard has worked her way into SU head coach Quentin Hillsman’s rotation, bringing energy off the bench by making hustle plays and battling on the boards whenever her name is called.

Hillsman and her teammates attribute Bullard’s increased role to her work ethic matched by few on the team. For Hillsman, having a player on the bench who can come in and keep the intensity level high is essential in the competitive Big East conference.

And Bullard fits the role perfectly for the head coach this season.

“She competes every possession, and you know that in this conference you can be one or two possessions away from winning or losing the basketball game,” Hillsman said.

“So you can’t take a chance of a player coming and just not going hard every possession.

“And she plays hard every single possession she’s on the floor.”

Bullard said she didn’t develop that mindset or work ethic until this season.

Last year as a freshman, the Cincinnati native hardly saw the floor. She was an afterthought on the bench, playing the secondfewest minutes on the team at 6.6 per game.

By the end of the season, it hit her that she rarely played. And she knew she needed to do something to get on the court. This year, Bullard showed up with a new positive attitude intent on getting better. She said she has put in extra time working out after practices and taking the advice of the coaching staff to heart.

“I’m trying to push myself. I need to grow as a player,” Bullard said. “And I’m not going to be content with my playing time or even as a player, my skills.”

And that mentality carries over to her play on the court.

It was on display against Cincinnati when Bullard came off the bench to score eight points and pull down seven rebounds in 21 minutes of action. In a game against a Bearcats team still searching for their

“And this is my time to grow as a player, so I learn from my mistakes, so they just told me to keep my head up.”

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But Bullard did her best to turn the tide of the game with her play. The 5-foot-11 guard battled down low, slipping in along the baselines to corral loose balls for the Orange. She displayed her soft touch on a jumper from the corner, holding her follow-through for a second with confidence.

So when Iasia Hemingway stood at the podium after the 55-54 loss and the conversation turned to Bullard — who turned the ball over with SU up one with 28 seconds remaining — the senior forward had nothing but praise for her teammate.

“She played great. She came out and she played with so much energy and so much effort,” Hemingway said. “And she always does the little things.”

Hillsman echoed those sentiments after the tough loss, too. The head coach chalked the mistake up to a learning experience for Bullard and the team in a tough season. He described Bullard as an integral part of his program’s future.

Two weeks later, Bullard is just focused on the present. The mistake is in the past as the guard has moved on, keeping the same mentality as the spark plug off the bench she brought into the season.

“I always tell myself if I get the opportunity, I always have the mindset of just to play hard,” Bullard said. “That’s always my mindset. Play hard no matter what. If I’m having a bad game or I’m not shooting well, just play hard, just play through it, get all the hustle plays.” rjgery@syr.edu

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“These are the type of games that you want moving forward in the season,” Dion Waiters said. “They make us a better team with the things we need to work on.”

It was the second 50-50 win for the Orange in three games, going back to the overtime victory over Georgetown a week ago. The argument could even be made that the victory over Connecticut falls into that category, too, because the Huskies were within two late in that game.

But try not to focus so much on why these teams were able to stay with SU. Just because Syracuse is the No. 2 team in the nation doesn’t mean the Orange should run everyone out of the gym. The No. 1 team, Kentucky, hasn’t done that all season long, either.

What matters at the end of the day is that Syracuse has consistently made the plays it needs to get those wins. And it did it again Monday in the toughest environment it has faced this year.

“These last (three) games we just had were games getting us ready for March,” senior

Scoop Jardine said. “People thought when we played Georgetown and UConn that those were gut-out wins. But to come here and beat a good Louisville team that we haven’t beaten in seven tries, to get a win by one point when nobody really played well shows what type of team we are.”

That is what should be taken out of this win. The Orange likely won’t have another shooting game that poor the rest of the season. It likely won’t have another game in which Jardine and fellow senior Kris Joseph combine for seven points on 2-of-13 shooting.

But even if Syracuse does, it showed Monday that it can win a game when nothing is going right.

“When those two guys struggle like that, normally, you get your two best players struggling in college basketball, you can’t win,” Boeheim said. “At home or especially on the road. And they both struggled mightily tonight.”

Louisville may have been as equally horrendous as the Orange on offense. But the Cardinals strung together a 16-4 run in the game’s closing minutes that would have bounced most other teams out of KFC Yum! Center with a loss.

The Orange pulled it together just in time and did just enough to win.

Boeheim admitted afterward SU could easily be a five- or six-loss team at this point in the season. Instead, it just knocked off a Top 25 team on the road in arguably its worst offensive performance of the year to improve to 26-1.

Boeheim and his players know it wasn’t pretty.

But they also know that those are the games it will have to play in March. Those 50-50 games that Syracuse has pulled out time and again this year.

So far, Syracuse has done nothing but succeed — going undefeated in a three-game gauntlet against Georgetown, UConn and Louisville to reach its current point.

“You’re going to get games like this in the tournament,” Boeheim said. “I don’t care who you are. You’ve got to be ready to make those plays at the end of games.”

To this point in the season, the Orange has been the team making those plays.

Zach Brown is a staff writer at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at zjbrown@ syr.edu or on Twitter at @zjbrown13.

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SPORTS

TUESDAY

february 14, 2012

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Syracuse uses late rally to beat Louisville

By Zach Brown

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STAFF WRITER

OUISVILLE, Ky. — Jim Boeheim called it a fitting end to a defensive slugfest.

In the final 2:11, neither Syracuse nor Louisville produced any points.

In that span, the Orange had a layup blocked, missed an open jumper and couldn’t convert the front end of a one-and-one. The Cardinals coughed the ball up twice, missed a reverse layup from underneath the basket and failed to get off a final shot before the buzzer.

With the rest of the offensive numbers from the game, those final two minutes just about summed it up perfectly.

“It probably should have ended that way,” Boeheim said, “because it was really a defensive struggle the whole game.”

No. 2 SU (26-1, 13-1 Big East) bumbled its way to a 52-51 win over No. 19 Louisville (20-6, 8-5 Big East) in front of 22,738 fans at the KFC Yum! Center on Monday, snapping a seven-game losing streak against the Cardinals. Both teams shot less than 35 percent from the field in a fierce battle of offensive ineptitude.

And while Boeheim pointed to each squad’s defensive prowess as the reason for the miserable offense, he admitted that was putting a positive spin on the game.

courtesy of dennis nett | the post-standard DION WAITERS chases a loose ball during SU’s 52-51 victory over Louisville in the KFC Yum! Center on Monday. Both teams struggled offensively, and neither team scored any points after Orange forward C.J. Fair scored the game-winning layup with 2:11 remaining.

Siva’s foul trouble, turnovers hurt Louisville in loss to SU

By Zach Brown

SEE LOUISVILLE PAGE 15

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STAFF WRITER

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In a game that wasn’t decided until the final possession, the two biggest plays may have come in the first half.

With Louisville holding a twopoint lead 13 minutes into the game, junior guard Peyton Siva blew past the Syracuse defense all the way

to the rim. He skied for a finish off the glass, but Orange center Fab Melo slid in front of him at the last moment to draw a charge.

It was Siva’s second foul, but Louisville head coach Rick Pitino left him in the game. On SU’s ensuing possession, Siva was called for a reach-in near the 3-point line.

And just like that, the best player

on the floor for both teams to that point was relegated to the bench.

“I just picked up three stupid fouls that should never have happened,” Siva said. “That was my fault. I took myself out of the game and really cost my teammates a lot.”

When Siva left, he had a gamehigh eight points and was the only player who flashed any semblance

of offensive prowess. He sat for the next 13 minutes of action and never quite reached the same level he was at to start the game as No. 19 Louisville (20-6, 8-5 Big East) ultimately fell to No. 2 Syracuse (26-1, 13-1 Big East) 52-51 Monday at the KFC Yum! Center. Siva didn’t score the rest of the way and committed a critical

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Close games good for Syracuse prior to postseason play

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OUISVILLE, Ky. — Syracuse fans, take a deep breath.

Yes, the offense was atrocious. Yes, SU deserved to lose that game just as much as Louisville did.

But do as Jim Boeheim said and look at the positives. There’s no need to even go near the panic button.

The Orange did something

ZACH BROWN

why would i lie?

Monday it has not done since Gerry McNamara was wearing a Syracuse uniform. It beat Louisville for the first time in eight tries. And it did so on the road, no less.

No, it was not easy. No, Syracuse did not look good.

But amid the horrendous numbers, the Orange showed once again

in its 52-51 triumph over Louisville that it can win the 50-50 games.

Games where both teams have equally good chances to come out of the contest with a win. As in the type of games every team will endure at some point or another come conference and NCAA Tournament time.

SEE BROWN PAGE 18