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Six students attended Student Association’s town hall meeting about the smoke-free campus initiative Wednesday. Five were SA members. SA Vice President Jessica Cunnington and the rest of the committee in charge of drafting the smoke-free initiative proposal wanted more student opinion before presenting a concrete list of goals to the assembly and university officials. They were specifically looking to get input from smokers around campus at the meeting, Cunnington said. None of the six people at the meeting were smokers. SA may have another town hall meeting in the future for the smoke-free campus initiative, Cunnington said, but the association will announce it further ahead of time in an effort to gain a higher turnout. Wednesday’s town hall meeting was announced at the end of Tuesday’s regular SA meeting. Because of the low turnout, committee members may walk around campus this weekend and speak with people who are smoking to discover their opinion on this topic, Cunnington said. Amy Snider, SA President Neal Casey’s chief of staff, said SA will focus on the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Architecture because they tend to have the most smokers. Both schools, as well as the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, have the highest percentage of international students on campus, Snider said. International students tend to smoke more than domestic students, she said. A representative from the School of Architecture last semester said this initiative would be difficult to implement based on the high number of smokers in his school, Cunnington said. One idea discussed at the meeting was a possible plan to move smoking receptacles 10 to 15 feet away from see smoking page 6
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enik, a sophomore music major. A year later, Pechenik now knows her friend hit his head on his bed frame and split his lip when he blacked out. The blood was from the cut lip, not because he was sick, she said. Many students, like Pechenik and her friends, avoid calling for help. And those
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Financial aid for 2011-12 to increase By Jon Harris Asst. News Editor
Until Steve Caruso receives his financial aid award from Syracuse University in late March, he doesn’t know what to expect. He’s always wanted to get into the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, but he has already been accepted to the University of Connecticut, where the public university tuition is reasonable. “I really wanted to get into Newhouse, but I’m not sure if that’s going to happen,� said Caruso, a senior at Lewis S. Mills High School in Burlington, Conn. “I think that if there’s a lot of money for financial aid at SU, it would probably help my decision.� Caruso is new to the financial aid process and is unsure how much aid the university will give him based off his family’s upper-middle-class standing. Caruso filed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms and the College Scholarship Service Profile required at SU to apply for financial aid by Feb. 1, the deadline for first-year and transfer students to file the forms. More than 10,000 prospective students will play the waiting game until the end of March, when they will be notified of their financial aid awards. But it could be worth the wait — the university will provide more undergraduate financial aid for the 2011-12 school year than it did for the current school year, said Gwenn Judge, director of the Office of Budget and Planning, in an e-mail. The increase in financial aid is mainly because more students will be entering in fall 2011 than leaving this spring, Judge said. The university will have more revenue from undergraduate tuition with this increase in students, she said. Judge said there is no estimate of the amount of 2011-12 undergraduate financial aid available yet. SU reported $172.9 million in undergraduate financial aid for the 2010-11 school year, according to the Fiscal Year see financial aid page 8
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Admissions rate leads to debate By Dara McBride News Editor
Debate broke out at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting about rising admission rates for undergraduate applicants to Syracuse University. SU admitted approximately 60 per-
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cent of applicants for 2010, according to a report from the Senate Committee on Administrative Operations presented by committee chair Jerry Mager. For 2009, this number was at 53 percent; and for the previous year, it was under 50 percent. The climbing percentages and
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Colloquium to focus on music, conflict By Debbie Truong Staff Writer
Three speakers will explore the role music plays in inciting violence and mobilizing the masses Thursday. The “Refugees and Exile” colloquium will take place at 7:30 p.m.
Music of Conflict and Reconciliation: Refugees and Exile
The third of a yearlong, four-part Ray Smith symposium Where: Kittredge auditorium When: Thursday at 7:30 p.m. How much: Free in Syracuse University’s Kittredge Auditorium. The colloquium, a collaborative effort among the Department of Art and Music Histories, the College of Arts and Sciences, the South Asia Center and the SU Humanities Center, is part of a larger symposium and will be followed on Friday with a mini-seminar, luncheon, film screening and concert. The symposium is the third in the yearlong four-part Ray Smith Symposium series. John Baily, a professor of ethno-
musicology at the University of London; Michael Frishkopf, a professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta; and Peter Castro, an associate professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, will all speak on the role music plays in different countries at the colloquium. “Music both expresses and undermines conflict and facilitates social change,” said Carol Babiracki, an organizing member of the symposium and associate professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories. Baily, from the University of London, will examine the circulation of Afghan music throughout the world, Babiracki said. Six million Afghans have fled to neighboring Pakistan and Iran, as well as the United States and Europe, since political unrest began in Afghanistan during the late 1970s, she said. The resulting Taliban state tightly monitored all forms of media, banning all music except Taliban and religious chants. Musicians and instrumentalists were left with two options: forfeit their musical cassettes and sever all ties to their craft
or flee, Babiracki said. Despite social and political ails, Afghan music has persevered in the United States, Europe and especially Pakistan, Babiracki said. “Arabs, Christians and Jews have always made music together,” she said. “Music has always had the ability to flow freely across boundaries.” Babiracki also emphasized the need to examine conflict and reconciliation under an artistic light. Media often focuses solely on the political implications of warring and resolution, she said. Recent social upheavals in Egypt and the widespread dissatisfaction of Egyptians have made the conversation about music’s role in conflict and reconciliation especially timely, Babiracki said. Frishkopf, from the University of Alberta, will discuss the dynamic of popular music and its function as peace monger in Liberian refugee camps, Babiracki said. Stephen Meyer, an associate professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories and event organizer, said the audience members will not “be automatically transported to Liberian refugee camps” but hopes see music page 8
Alumni launch website aimed to teach about domestic violence By Haley Behre Staff Writer
Gendered violence, which includes domestic and sexual violence, is a people’s issue, not just a women’s issue, according to a new website launched by two Syracuse University graduates. “Men have to step up and join women in the movement in order to stop it because historically men have been absent from the movement,” said Sacchi Patel, co-founder of the website MasculinityU and a 2009 SU graduate. Patel and Marc Peters, who graduated the same year, came up with the idea of MasculinityU in October 2010, Patel said. Patel was talking to Peters about sexual and domestic violence perpetrated by men. Both thought it would be a good idea to create change by stimulating a discussion about it in a space where men are not confined by masculinity, Patel said. The website currently features a blog that has been up since October 2010 and gets approximately 250 hits per day. The blog features topics such
as bullying; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, intersexual and questioning suicides; and the heteronormativity of Valentine’s Day. Men tend to be scared of what it would mean to join the movement against gendered violence, said Kate Friedman, a staff writer at The Daily Femme and Patel’s former classmate. Some men think confronting this issue puts blame on all men, which is not the case, she said. “Their website would create a space for conversation,” Friedman said. That space would allow men to enter the movement, and it begins with expanding the definition of masculinity, Patel said. Society has constructed a narrow definition of what a man should be, and anything less is not considered masculine, Patel said. Men have to be tough and brave, and they cannot cry, according to what Patel calls the “man handbook.” Characteristics that depart from this are immediately pointed out and ridiculed, he said. see website page 8
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s I surveyed the scene at Lincoln Center last weekend, all I noticed were the wave of Asian bloggers, photographers and attendees swarming the streets of West 64th Street and Columbus Avenue. For once I didn’t stand out in the fashion crowd but blended in. This got me questioning where the industry is now and where it is heading. And as I sat down at my first show of the day and saw the first model come down the runway, it dawned on me: the Asian model movement. The diversity within fashion modeling has always been a stagnant business. The occasional black beauties, such as Naomi Campbell, Ajak Deng and Chanel Iman, and past Asian supermodels, such as Tina Chow and Jenny Shimizu, might have even given us a glimpse into what the future would hold. But for the most part, fashion still called for the European and Brazilian faces to which it had always been so accustomed.
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i’m judging you This New York Fashion Week, however, the supply and demand for Asian models have increased tremendously with various wellknown designers featuring Asians on their runways, most of whom were used for several outfit changes. With the globalization of different business sectors moving toward the East, it is a strong and strategic move for fashion to be ahead of the game. The main models shown continuously throughout Fashion Week have been Liu Wen,
Fei Fei Shun, Ming Xi, Tao Okamoto and Wang Xiao, with many other Asian models quickly following the tally mark. According to New York Magazine’s “The Cut,” Prabal Gurung — women’s wear designer born in Singapore and raised in Nepal — thinks “the industry’s recent fixation on Asian fashion models is a logical move for the industry.” The fact that there is such a demand for an Asian rather than the usual European and Brazilian model says a lot about the changes the industry wants to make. With luxury labels’ recent popularity in targeting Eastern culture, it only makes sense that they demand Asian models represent their brand. “You have to understand, the fashion industry reacts to the way the world is changing — the economy of the world, and politically, China and India are becoming more powerful. If they have the buying power now for luxury markets, then that means what? They want to see people
like them,” Gurung said. Another possible reason behind the influx of Asian models could be the equally powerful stance Asian designers are making in fashion. In addition to Gurung, Asian designers, such as Joseph Altuzarra, Peter Som, Vivienne Tam, Thakoon and Alexander Wang, showcased Asians down their runways in support of their heritage. But with fashion heavyweights, such as Donna Karan, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger and Monique Lhullier, following the Asian model movement this season, it won’t be long until it trickles down the fashion pyramid and onto the streets. Though the movement is still a work in progress, it is an essential change that needs to be made in the industry. Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at vho@syr.edu
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Break from glitz of urban China reveals widespread poverty in rural life
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ost postcards from China will show off the razzle-dazzle Shanghai skyscrapers or the imperial majesty of Beijing. Westerners walk these streets and marvel at China’s development. To me, Shanghai looks like a spaceport straight out of “The Jetsons.” And the streets are chock full of girls toting expensive handbags and bobbing up and down in malls stretching for miles. The hope around here: This must be China’s future; this must be the New China. But China’s reality is far from glittering apartments with Gucci attaché cases. The majority of Chinese people, 53 percent, still live in rural areas. This is where the roads are more narrow, the sights less fantastic. In China’s rural areas, many live in small one-room houses without clean water or central heating, let alone extravagant luxuries like a shopping mall down the street. This is the Real China we don’t see, not the New China we do. I’ve had a glimpse of this Real China during my visits to the rural areas of interior China near the city of Xi’an. Our seminar group toured a farming village, where poverty was on a scale I have never before seen but only heard about in my grandfather’s stories about farm life during the Great Depression. The pathways between houses were worn dirt alleyways — a far cry from my neighbor-
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beijing bureau chief hood or the tree-lined streets of Walnut Avenue in Syracuse. The houses seemed cramped and were made of bricks with terracotta roofs. There were gardens for food instead of front lawns, and the few men around lit up gritty cigarettes. Small kids ran around our group and looked on with curiosity. As we went further, more and more would join to get a good look at the “wai guo ren,” the foreigners. It turned into a parade marching through the small village. The kids looked, not out of hate but curiosity. One little boy asked to be picked up because he had never seen anyone so tall. The adults, though tough on the outside, were kind. They took their place in life with pride, not sorrow or anger. They were happy to work hard and see their efforts pay off. The mayor of the town showed us the new health clinic. He, along with other villagers, seemed happy because things were visibly improving. Some houses even had modern entryways, electricity and
color televisions flashing through windows. “The lives of the villagers are very hard but improving,” said Tony Lu, our Xi’an tour guide. “I look forward to the future of my country.” For me, this was a long way from Syracuse, but for these farmers, their everyday realities were probably farther away from their fellow countrymen in the high-end streets of Shanghai. It’s an example of China’s tremendous gap between life in the coastal cities and the interior countryside. City-dwellers make two and a half times as much as the rural Chinese, and although China has 800,000 millionaires, 400 million people live on less than $2 a day, according to The Economist. Perhaps the greatest economic success story of the past 30 years has been the Chinese government’s ability to lift hundreds of millions out of that poverty, but there are still hundreds of millions stuck in it. It brings into question the idea of Chinese meritocracy, or the ability to move up in income and social status. How does the future of a baby born to a Shanghai socialite compare to that of the child born to a farmer near Xi’an? Before we pass judgment on China, however, we need to hold up a mirror to the United States. In America inequality has increased from 1980 to 2005. During that time span, more than 80 percent of the total increase in Americans’ income went to the top 1 percent of income
earners. In 2004, the top 20 percent of American households held more than 84 percent of the country’s wealth, and the bottom 40 percent held 0.2 percent. Throughout this same time span, the Chinese government began a program of openness that allowed incomes and the gross domestic product to rise. More recently, President Hu Jintao, among others, have pledged to spend more on social programs and quality education in rural areas. In comparing the two, it seems as though the United States is making an effort to take away from its future, and China is making an effort to invest in its future. It is not a static question of capitalism vs. communism anymore. It’s question of whether or not both China and the United States can bridge the gap between rich and poor. Will both countries be able to break the cycles of poverty that ensnare so many people? New China’s skylines are beautiful and its shops top notch, but it still remains an inequitable society. But let’s remember Real China, whose people live a life of subsistence, not abundance. It is my hope this will change for the better, not only for this country but for America as well. Andrew Swab is a junior magazine journalism and international relations major. His columns appear occasionally, and he can be reached at ajswab@syr.edu.
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SU administration must pick up pace in drafting medical amnesty policy The Syracuse University administration has finally formed task forces charged with drafting a medical amnesty policy that would allow students who are intoxicated or on drugs to call for medical help without getting in trouble for it. The university has dragged its heels for two years since a student first called on the administration to look into the policy. The idea eventually roped in the support of Student Association and some officers at the Department of Public Safety. The Office of Student Life and the chancellor must work to put medical amnesty in place as soon as possible, as it would have the immediate potential to save students’ lives. Profoundly lucky, SU has avoided
EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board on-campus alcohol- or drug-related deaths in recent years. Colleges, such as Pennsylvania State University or the State University of New York Geneseo, have seen tragedies in recent years, sparking intense reactions from their administrations. Throughout the past decade, colleges nationwide have tallied hundreds of drug- and alcohol-related deaths. Drinking, without a doubt, comprises a standard part of SU’s student culture. With so many students drinking — many responsibly but others with the reckless invincibil-
ity typical of young people — the administration would be horrified if in the midst of drawing up this policy, a student died as a result of drugs or intoxication. Often the difference between a highly intoxicated person and a person in serious need of medical attention is indiscernible, especially to their drunken peers. Sheer fear of punitive action prevents students every weekend from calling medical services for a friend or for themselves. What lesson does SU teach a student who is already intoxicated passed the point of survival? Nothing. But officials at the Office of Student Life would learn they should have brought this policy to the top of its agenda.
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Lady Gaga’s thirst for eccentricity continues to bury real talent, personality
’ve ranted about her before. Her undeserving spot on Vogue’s Best Dressed of 2010 issue; the creepy raw meat dress she wore when she hugged Cher during MTV’s 2010 Video Music Awards; those horns she wore on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on Monday night. And of course the absurd Grammy’s red carpet entrance in that ridiculous egg pod she claimed was a symbol of her rebirth. Rebirth of what? Certainly not your relative normalcy. But if Lady Gaga is still trying to find a new way to shock the world, being normal might be her only option. I truly wish someone had attached a rocket to that egg and launched her back to where she came from: outer space. She would have loved that s*** and made some proclamation about how it was an expression of our generation’s tendency to detach
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ourselves from reality. Luckily she would be in space, so none of us earthlings would have heard her. I won’t deny that Gaga’s talented, but her efforts to be so out of this world have overshadowed and, in some instances, sacrificed her real ability to sing. I’ve seen the pre-Gaga dive bar YouTube videos in which a young Stefanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta slammed on the keyboard and belted out original lyrics. It was raw, it was powerful, and it was moving. And now, well… Some may say her performances are moving, but the plastic bubble suits don’t quite do it for me. Her new single, “Born This Way,” is certainly catchy and carries a cute little message about being who you are. But that’s just what it is: a catchy pop number about embracing your inner freak. Ke$ha said the same
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really? thing in “We R Who We R;” Katy Perry accomplished it with “Firework;” Pink with “Raise Your Glass;” Lupe Fiasco with “The Show Goes On;” and Pink again with “F***in Perfect.” Frankly Gaga’s a little behind on the whole “Be Yourself!” trend. And unfortunately, her message appears to be more along the lines of “be who you are, but if that doesn’t work, change your name, make some vagina sparklers and a lobster hat, and see if that works.” It’s no secret
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she switched things up once the Germanotta image didn’t quite cut it. I really loved Gaga when she first hit the scene in 2008 with her charttopping single “Just Dance.” She undoubtedly influenced a new wave of pop music that created a space for the aforementioned Ke$ha and Katy Perry and now the eccentric Nikki Minaj to blossom. I applaud her for pushing the envelope with each new music video and award show performance, but at this point it feels like she’s trying too hard to be different. And “Born This Way” pretty much gives the middle finger to everything she’s previously done. Why you ask? I hate to bring it up, but the single’s similarities to Madonna’s 1989 single “Express Yourself” is a little embarrassing for her whole “be authentic” act. Pop culture enthusiasts have drawn similarities between the two artists since Gaga
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appeared on the scene. There’s nothing wrong with being influenced by the woman who revolutionized pop, but releasing a single that’s supposed to celebrate a “rebirth” might not be the best occasion to closely mimic one of Madonna’s previous hits. So yeah, she’s super original. Except not really. Plus 20 bucks says Gaga creates her music video for “Born this Way” into some kind of political statement, illustrating it in the most absurd way possible. The “Alejandro” music video continues to give me nightmares about latex clad nouns turning into balls of fire and half-naked men in 80-pound combat boots stomping on my head. Lauren Tousignant is a junior writing and communication and rhetorical studies major. Her column appears occasionally. She can be reached at letousig@syr.edu.
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buildings. If each receptacle were next to a bench and possibly in covers similar to those at bus stops, the hope would be that smokers would naturally be drawn to these areas rather than right outside the doors of buildings, Cunnington said. “Walking from class to class is when people are the most likely to light up a cigarette,” Cunnington said. “So when they get to where they’re going, they just wait outside to finish it up.
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They’d just gravitate to wherever the benches and receptacles are.” Cunnington cited Miami University in Ohio as a school similar in size and setup to SU that recently instituted a ban on smoking within 25 feet of campus buildings. The City University of New York schools recently implemented a full ban on smoking, but they are in a different situation from SU because they do not tend to have conventional campus designs, Cunnington said. Cunnington said she was unhappy the initiative had picked up the label of “smoke free,” because the final goal is not to have a 100 percent ban on smoking. She said it is unfortunate the name stuck because it makes smokers feel cornered. But this is not the case, she said. “Unfortunately, people started calling it the ‘smoke-free’ campus program,” Cunnington said. “I just don’t know that ‘smoke free’ is realistic.” spcotter@syr.edu
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how selectivity reflects the university’s reputation became a topic of campus discussion after The New York Times published the admission percentages for SU and other institutions last summer. Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management, addressed the committee’s findings at the meeting and denied the school was sacrificing the quality of students to increase diversity. “We want the best students,” Saleh said. The percent of students eligible for the Pell Grant increased from 17 percent in 2002 to approximately 26 percent in 2010, according to the committee report. The number of Pell-eligible students is an indicator of the socioeconomic diversity at SU, according to the report. Several USen members also discussed applicants’ rising grade point averages, which rose to 3.61 in 2010, and stagnant SAT scores, which remained around 1170 since 2002. USen member David Bennett of the Senate Committee on Administrative Operations said it is admirable to be one of the most inclusive institutions, but he questioned whether this was a direction the university wanted to go in. “The university has moved in a direction different than the one it has followed for almost three decades,” he said. After speaking for about five minutes, Bennett was encouraged by Mager to open discussion to others who were present. But Bennett countered that, arguing the meeting was only 30 minutes in and that he still had time to talk,
especially considering the lack of discussion and shortness of recent USen meetings. Sari Biklen, chair of the Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics Committee, said it was “so insulting” to hear suggestions that the quality of students was being dismissed in favor of expanding socioeconomic diversity. Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid, said the school was a leader in emphasizing inclusiveness, as well as an institution recognized for its high standards. “It’s important to have excellence about equity,” Copeland-Morgan said. The meeting ended just before 5 p.m., making this one of the longest USen meetings of the academic year. Doors were closed to non-Senate members for the last few minutes of the meeting to discuss nominations for the honorary degree. Another closed-door session on the honorary degree occurred at the January USen meeting. Other business included: • Minutes from USen’s January meeting were approved. • Jonathan Massey, presiding officer, presented the report on the Senate Agenda Committee, which included discussion on finding a new faculty representative for the Board of Trustees. Harvey Teres, associate professor of English, was present and spoke on his experiences as the first and outgoing faculty representative. He said he hoped the next representative would be someone who was knowledgeable of finances and able to travel. Nominations for the next faculty representative are currently being taken. • Barbara Kwasnik presented the report on the Committee of Curricula. Among other announcements, 18 courses were introduced for the College of Arts and Sciences; eight courses were introduced for the School of Education; two for the College of Human Ecology; four in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications; and one in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. A minor in art photography was also introduced in VPA. • Sari Biklen presented the report on the Academic Freedom, Tenure and Professional Ethics Committee, but given the privacy surrounding the reports, she could only report that four cases were looked into. • Bruce Carter, chair of the Academic Affairs and Curricula committees, announced the fiveyear review of the vice chancellor was coming up next year. Seven to nine people are being sought to serve on the review committee, which is chaired by philosophy professor Samuel Gorovitz. There is nothing in the bylaws stating the committee must contain a certain mix of faculty, staff or students, Carter said. dkmcbrid@syr.edu
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more on discipline, not on safety. Devon Stewart, president of Syracuse University’s chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, first proposed a medical amnesty policy two years ago that would protect students from punitive judicial action when calling for help in alcohol- or drug-related emergencies. Last spring, Student Association began collaborating with SSDP on the policy. But almost two years later, such a policy still does not exist. The administration recently completed a reflection process that evaluated how a policy would affect different divisions of student affairs. The administration is now forming a task force charged with making a recommendation for a specific proposal, said Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. Under Syracuse University’s current policy, students found violating the Code of Student Conduct could face sanctions for the use or possession of alcohol when they are drinking underage, drinking and driving, or displaying public intoxication, among other prohibited activities. SU’s sanctions for the first violation of those actions include residential probation, disciplinary reprimand or community-involvement referral, according to the student handbook. Although the proposed policy, also known as the Good Samaritan Policy, would protect students against these sanctions, students involved in alcohol- or drug-related situations would still have to attend a risk management meeting, in which they would discuss the incident. The policy would not provide amnesty for other policies violated under the influence of
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alcohol or drugs, such as vandalism. It’s important for a student to sit down and talk about what happened to avoid it in the future, Stewart said. If a student is a repeat offender, the university may take further action. Students are encouraged to seek medical assistance if someone is intoxicated, according to the handbook. But if students are scared that they’re going to be punished by calling for help when they’re in a dangerous situation, they could be discouraged to find assistance, Stewart said. “You want to make people comfortable to get help,” he said. Stewart, a senior film major, took an interest in SSDP during his freshman year, but he was inspired to change SU’s current policy after his own experiences with DPS, he said. A friend called for help when Stewart was intoxicated, but when a DPS officer arrived in his dorm room, he saw materials about SSDP and began questioning Stewart about what drug paraphernalia he had in his room rather than helping him. “I didn’t feel they were really looking for my well-being,” Stewart said. “It kind of got my blood boiling.” Following the incident, Stewart had to attend SU’s Options Program, an alcohol and drug education program. Stewart first introduced the idea of a medical amnesty policy to Chancellor Nancy Cantor via e-mail in June 2009. She responded, saying she was interested and suggested he meet with Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, according to the e-mail obtained by The Daily Orange. Wolfe and Stewart met that summer to discuss the policy. After several attempts to meet with administration members throughout fall 2009, Stewart informed Wolfe and others that he would con-
tact local and national news outlets if they did not respond by the next day. Stewart received a response immediately but mentioned the media multiple times afterwards. “We need action now, and if nothing more is done by February, I can guarantee you there will be articles in the Washington Post and PostStandard,” Stewart wrote in a January 2010 e-mail to Wolfe and others. Last spring, Neal Casey, then the chair of the Student Life Committee and current SA president, approached Stewart about helping, Casey said. On March 1, SA passed a resolution sponsored by SSDP that called upon the university to enact a medical amnesty policy. Nearly a year later, the university has reassured SA that the policy is being looked into, Casey said. The administration is now moving forward with the process. Wolfe said the administration has just completed the reflection process, which took a long time because there were many areas to look into. “We’re now pulling together a task force charged with making a recommendation, a proposal related to responsible action protocols,” Wolfe said. The task force will be made up of various units within the division of student affairs, including representatives from the Options Program, the Office of Residence Life, the Office of Judicial Affairs, the Department of Public Safety, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and the Office of Off-Campus and Commuter Services. Wolfe said the task force would take student opinion into consideration, as well as its own expertise, to make a recommendation for the policy. He has also asked SA to create focus groups with students to get their opinion on the proposed policy.
“We’ve given a lot of thought to this,” Wolfe said. “And now it’s time to bring our thoughts together and have a conversation with students.” When SSDP first proposed the medical amnesty policy to Wolfe, Stewart presented studies he had found from other universities with similar policies. At least 92 universities have a medical amnesty policy. Prior to the enactment of Cornell University’s medical amnesty policy, 9.3 percent of students did not call for help in alcohol-related emergencies because they were not sure if the person was sick enough, and 3.8 percent chose not to call because they didn’t want to get in trouble, according to a 2006 study in the International Journal of Drug Policy. Two years after the new policy was enacted, those numbers dropped to 8.2 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively. When the new policy was enacted, the number of EMS calls jumped by 22 percent, according to the study. The Cornell policy is similar to what Stewart would like to see at SU. DPS Capt. John Sardino said he was in favor of the policy, but amnesty should depend on whether or not the student reporting the situation is responsible for it. If the person reporting is found responsible for what happened, he or she shouldn’t be given amnesty for his or her mistake, he said. “Our primary goal is to get there and get the person the medical help that they need,” Sardino said. “Everything else is secondary.” Two years after he originally proposed the policy to the administration, Stewart, now a senior, said he hopes to see the policy enacted by the time he graduates. Said Stewart: “We’re going to keep pressuring them until we get this through.” lgleveil@syr.edu
Join The Daily Orange as we celebrate our 40th anniversary of independence!
Saturday, Feb. 19 • Newhouse III, Rm. 141 • 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. In 1971, The Daily Orange’s editors made the move to become independent from Syracuse University. Those editors — and many other D.O. alumni in the field today — are returning to campus to commemorate that anniversary and educate the students of today. 10 a.m.
Opening remarks 10:15 - 11 a.m.
The Daily Orange then and now
The break from the university in 1971 was not easy. Attempts were made to harness in the editors at The D.O., which led instead to separation. Many of the staff from that spring and fall of 1971 will be back to talk about the break. In 1991, The D.O. made the decision to reject the Student Government Association’s funding, leading to a completely financially independent paper, and Prof. Roy Gutterman, news editor in 1991, will speak. Then, the current management team will present on what life is like today at The D.O. 11 - 11:45 a.m.
Journalism in the digital age
Today, journalism is also a business. We’ll be going over journalism and entrepreneurship, the changing business model for newspapers, and the question in the back of everyone’s mind: “Is print journalism dying?” In addition, we’ll discuss the skills needed to adapt to web journalism and the advantages and disadvantages of citizen journalism 12 - 12:45 p.m.
The importance of independence
When has the paper’s independence been most important in its history? Editors-in-chief from the 70s, 90s and 00s will be back to talk about when the independence was necessary -- and when it was difficult to be independent. The stories the paper could cover, the events staffers could attend and the technology available to editors has all been affected by the paper’s independence. 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch break! 2 - 2:45 p.m.
Roundtable discussions
We’ll be holding a series of small-group, roundtable discussions on a variety of topics: Reporting big stories (led by D.O. alum Tiffany Lankes, Pulitzerprize nominated reporter at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Ins and outs of sports beat writing and sports enterprise writing (Led by D.O. alum Josh Barnett, executive sports editor at the Philadelphia Daily News), photo ethics and covering huge conflicts and breaking news visually (led by 2010 SU grads/D.O. alumni Andrew Burton and AJ Chavar), finding compelling feature stories and the importance of editorials. 3 - 3:30 p.m.
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These limitations prohibit men from joining women in the fight to end gender-based violence, Peters said. Issues such as these do not fit into the dominant narrative of what defines a man’s role, he said. “Men need to step out of what is considered the boxes we have been put in,” Peters said. “Our purpose is to broaden this definition.” Eventually, Peters said he would like Mas-
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2011 Budget. The budget is based on a university fiscal year, from July 1 to June 30. SU plans to admit 12,500 students and eventually enroll 3,350 freshmen for fall 2011, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. Although the dollar amount of financial aid will increase, the percent of the university’s budget dedicated to financial aid is expected to stay about the same, Saleh said. The university reported $461.9 million in revenue from undergraduate tuition for the current school year, according to the 2011 budget. The approximately $173 million provided by the university in financial aid is more than 37 percent of the tuition amount it took in. Over the past five fiscal years, including this year, the university has increased the amount of financial aid given to undergraduate students. SU reported more revenue from
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culinityU to expand beyond a website. He would like to have lectures and forums on college campuses to help reduce sexual violence
“Men need to step out of what is considered the boxes we have been put in.” Marc Peters
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undergraduate tuition every year since the 2006-07 budget was released. The trend will continue this year. “As in the past few years, the university’s financial aid budget will increase to the amount necessary to meet the financial needs of our students,” said Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid, in an e-mail. SU has received about 12,000 FAFSA forms and approximately 10,000 CCS Profile forms as of Tuesday, said Kaye DeVesty, director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs. SU requires both forms, so the roughly 10,000 prospective students who filed the CSS Profile also filed the FAFSA, she said. For the 2011-12 school year, SU is participating solely in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program, offered to universities by the U.S. Department of Education, DeVesty said. The program offers low interest rates, generous repayment benefits and reasonable borrow-
on campuses, he said. “Nonprofits limit the ways you can advocate your issue because of funding,” Peters said. “So we will probably be incorporated as a limited liability corporation in order to have more freedom in the work we can do.” Peters and Patel said they both became aware of gendered violence issues and took a stand on those issues during their time at SU. Both joined a group called A Men’s Issue at SU, Patel said. AMI’s philosophy is that sexual violence is a systemic issue that needs to be acknowledged
as a men’s issue. AMI provides opportunities for discussion about masculinity and how sexual violence is prevalent. Patel and Peters have always been advocates of these issues, said Friedman, the staff writer at The Daily Femme. “The work they are doing is quite remarkable because they are standing up and saying that men should be included,” Friedman said, “because they are a main component in preventing violence and ending these negative stereotypes.”
ing limits, she said. Private education loans have higher interest rates than the direct program, DeVesty said. And more good news may be on the way for students, she said. On Monday, President Barack Obama proposed a 2012 Department of Education budget that would retain the maximum Pell grant — which provides federal aid to low-income undergraduates — at $5,550 per student, according to an article published in The New York Times on Tuesday. Other aspects are taken into consideration during the financial aid process, including how many siblings students have in college, DeVesty said. If students decide not to fill out the FAFSA, SU can’t determine what to offer them in financial aid, she said. Returning students for fall 2011 can expect similar financial aid amounts to what they received this year, provided the information on their FAFSA and CSS Profile stays nearly the same, DeVesty said. Returning students
are required to file the two forms by April 15 and will receive their financial aid notifications in June. DeVesty said her office tells students that filing the forms is a requirement, and she sends her staff into the Syracuse community to help students fill out the forms. It’s a struggle to get students to complete the forms because the first time filling them out can be a daunting experience, she said. Jared Kissler, a senior at Pascack Valley High School in Hillsdale, N.J., said he didn’t apply for financial aid because his father is funding his college education. Kissler, who applied to SU early decision and was accepted into the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said he doesn’t know if his family income would’ve gotten him any financial aid even if he had applied. But that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have liked to receive any. “I guess it would help,” he said. “Obviously, any money helps.”
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they will gain a stronger grasp of the current situation. Meyer said music’s capacity extends beyond merely entertainment. “I think around the world and throughout history, music has been an important vehicle of social change,” he said. Baily and Frishkopf will be followed by remarks from SU’s Castro in the program for analysis and resolution of conflicts. Audience members will be allowed to voice their opinions and concerns in a short discussion period following the speakers. Malinda Masing, a freshman magazine journalism major, said she is excited for the symposium. “A music symposium sounds interesting,” she said. “It makes me curious to see how they’re going to show how music can incite violence or cause peace.” dbtruong@syr.edu
Ray Smith Symposium
In addition to the Thursday colloquium, there will be a few activities on Friday as part of the “Music of Conflict and Reconciliation: Refugees and Exile.”
Film screening:
“Amir Afghan Refugee Musician’s Life in Peshawar, Pakistan,” an award-winning documentary by John Baily will be playing in Gifford Auditorium from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Concert:
In the Shemin Auditorium at 8 p.m. John Baily will be playing on the Afghani rubab, and Dibyarka Chatterjee will play on the tabla.
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s the Syracuse City School District faces tough times ahead with a $50 million budget deficit, officials are forecasting job cuts while also trying to keep students on track in school. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a state budget on Feb. 1 that could cut about 240 SCSD jobs. The school board already said it would have to cut an additional 506 jobs to combat a $50 million deficit in the district’s budget. The school board voted on Jan. 28 to shut down two city schools — Elmwood Elementary and Bellevue Middle School Academy — at the end of this school year. “The decisions made with regard to staff cuts are all done with students first in mind,” said Deborah Howe-Tennant, coordinator of SCSD’s High School Graduation Initiative. Within the hundreds of cuts, the number of guidance counselors and other district employees could take a hit. Guidance counselors help students stay on track by creating a plan to aid them, Howe-Tennant said. “Guidance counselors are key,” Howe-Tennant said. “They are covert gatekeepers to kids
coming back in the system.” Budget cuts could also affect the Say Yes to Education program, which rewards high-achieving high school students with college scholarships, including some to Syracuse University. Say Yes is funded through private grants and the city school district’s budget. “Any part of the district won’t be untouched, but the key is to leave the programs that students are benefiting from in tact,” said Debra Schoening, director of Say Yes and district supervising director for school improvement. Schoening is bracing herself for the modifications that could be coming to Say Yes, which currently takes care of 4,000 students in its afterschool program. Schoening said there would be some changes in the number of tutors and class sizes for the summer camp and afterschool programs. Despite the changes the district is going through, Schoening said she hopes Say Yes and other helpful programs will still be a part of the equation. “We have to think in terms of how we will continue the program,” Schoening said. “Not if the program will continue or not.”
illustration by alejandro de jesus | art director T h e city school district’s struggles extend beyond the budget deficit. Seven of SCSD’s 32 district schools, including all four of the city’s high schools, received a “persistently lowest achieving” rating from the state. Five more schools are at risk of joining that group, according to a graduation rate study released by state education officials on Jan. 21. The schools could require a top-tobottom restructuring or shut down completely. Only 14.7 percent of Syracuse city students also showed they are ready for college and a career, according to the State Regents Exam. Amid the struggles, the district is working to keep students in school with the High School Graduation Initiative, which is funded by a federal grant. The initiative acquired the grant on Jan. 1, and because the federal government funds the grant, state cuts won’t affect it. Howe-Ten-
nant, the initiative’s coordinator, said the grant is a substantial amount of money, but she did not give its exact amount. Howe-Tennant said the initiative has two goals: to re-enroll students who withdraw from school with 14 or more credits and get them to receive their high school diploma, as well as to prevent students at risk of dropping out from doing so. Through the initiative, students can complete classes in any form that is the most convenient to them: going back to formal school, taking classes online or at a local library, or taking day and night classes. Said Howe-Tennant: “We want to work smarter to make sure that people aren’t overburdened and that we’re reaching kids.” kaoutram@syr.edu
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kirsten celo | photo editor (CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE) SU a cappella groups Groovestand, the Mandarins and Orange Appeal sing sets in Setnor Auditorium for their upcoming quarterfinal competition at The College of New Jersey.
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t took a countless number of hours rehearsing harmonies, arranging and rearranging music note by note, and spending late nights learning to dance like a boy band. All that hard work will pay off for three Syracuse University a cappella teams when the spotlight hits the stage at The College of New Jersey this weekend.
Three SU a cappella groups — Orange Appeal, Groovestand and the Mandarins — will compete against one another Saturday at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Mid-Atlantic quarterfinal. This is the first time in four years all three groups will face one another at the same competition, said Mandarins music director Alicia Bronzetti. With more and more students auditioning for teams, the formation
of new groups and an increase in audience members at each show, the a cappella presence on campus is at an all-time high. “As a unit I think SU a cappella has all the potential in the world,” said Bronzetti, a senior voice major. “There’s a drive, especially this year, to take that to the next level.” Each group applied in November by sending three or four recording samples to Varsity Vocals, which
sponsors the ICCA. None of Orange Appeal’s or Groovestand’s current members have attended the competition. The last time Orange Appeal competed in spring 2007, it won its quarterfinal. The Mandarins have competed every year in the last decade except in 2009, Bronzetti said. In 2004, the group championed the mid-Atlantic semifinal, when they faced six other regional winners at the international
finals in New York City. As an allfemale a cappella group, the girls use these experiences to prove they are worthy competition. “There’s a thought in the a cappella world that we’re not as capable as male groups,” said Meg Alexander, Mandarins president and senior public relations major. “We know that’s not the case, and we can still bust out those low notes with just as see a cappella page 12
Chemistry professor, team wins scientific discovery prize By Susan Kim Copy Chief
Mathew Maye has been working with particles billions of times smaller than a single speck of dust. It’s a part of his job as a “craftsman” at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. But unlike most craftsmen, Maye doesn’t use nails or hammers — not when he can replace those tools with the principles of biology and chemistry. “The project allowed us to make structures that had really never been made before,” Maye said. “So we kind of consider ourselves craftsmen of the lab.” Using synthetic DNA, Maye and a team of three other researchers designed a new way to assemble nano-
particles — the dimensions of which can be measured in a billionth of a meter. The DNA contains complementary bases that pair with one another to attach the nanoparticles together, Maye said. The group’s findings led them to win a Gordon Battelle Prize for scientific discovery on Feb. 1. Five prizes are given out in the scientific discovery category to recognize and honor researchers who have made important advances in the field, said Katy Delaney, national media relations manager of Battelle. “It’s the ones that had the most impact, ones that signified a real breakthrough achievement,” she said. The discovery can be used in many different fields, including
biological and medical research, energy research and electronics, Maye said. The team wants to use its discovery to produce a concrete product that can be purchased, such as a device or a computer chip, Maye said. The Gordon Battelle Prize is an honor Maye, now an assistant professor of chemistry at Syracuse University, appreciates because it was awarded to the team as a whole. The work of all four members — led by Brookhaven lab scientist Oleg Gang and including researchers Dmytro Nykypanchuk and Daniel van der Lelie — was recognized collectively, Maye said. Maye said he was a part of what he called an “interdisciplinary team” because each member had different
backgrounds. Maye was mainly in charge of synthesizing nanoparticles. The team’s discovery is continuing to get recognition nationwide, starting with the 2008 cover of the science journal Nature. When Maye first joined the team, he was a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellow, a Brookhaven fellowship given to individuals who show promise in their independent research. The team began working together in 2005. It was between 2006 and 2008 when the team made significant progress in its discovery. “When we were starting work on this, you couldn’t be sure that what we were planning, that it would work and that we would get results,” said Nykypanchuk, one of
the Brookhaven researchers on the team. “But the point when you realize that it works, it’s very exciting, and it feels good.” Without the team’s dedication, the discovery would not have been possible. Sometimes they only got three hours of sleep — if at all — for three to four days in a row, Nykypanchuk said. And Maye never wasted any time, Nykypanchuk said. “He was a nice person on a personal level,” he said, “but you had to keep up with him.” It was Maye’s hard work and commitment that made it “very inspirational to work with him,” Nykypanchuk said. But in fall 2008, Maye decided to see maye page 13
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he mobile app craze is growing into every facet of our lives. There are apps for learning new recipes, catching up on the news, turning your iPhone into a light saber and even popping virtual bubble wrap, just to name a few. But how about an app that helps you find the nearest free condoms? If you live in New York City and have a smartphone, you’re in luck: There’s an app for that. “NYC Condom Finder,” available from the Android Market or the Apple Store, uses GPS to identify the user’s location and find the nearest distributor of free condoms. According to a CNN article, New York City’s Health Department has been providing free condoms to its residents since 1971, and people can now get the rubbers they need from more than 3,000 locations. The New York City Health Department may have picked a good avenue to push its free condoms to the masses when it chose to make an iPhone-compatible app. In 2010, AT&T acti-
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much energy. I think it shocks people more that females can do that.” Competing against other schools allows SU’s a cappella groups to gain exposure and learn from other teams, Bronzetti said. “You get to see or hear what you want to incorporate or things you would never want to do in the future,” Bronzetti said. “It keeps us held to a high standard and allows us to be viewed by the national community.” There are a total of 20 college quarterfi nal events across the country, according to the Varsity Vocals website. The SU teams will be among eight groups performing at the regional quarterfi nal. Two will advance to the regional semifi nal, hosted by Rutgers University.
Shaky tone With only two teams moving on, it seems as if the three SU teams pitted against one another could have some natural feelings of rivalry. However, all teams are supportive of one another, said Gyasi Barber, Orange Appeal’s music director. “We all just want to do well,” the senior music education major said. “I wish we could all advance.” In past years, there’s been “bad blood” among some of the groups, said senior environmen-
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tal major and Groovestand member Kieran Siao. Some members from the different groups couldn’t relate to one another, which led to teams disliking other teams, Barber said in a separate e-mail interview. “It was an us vs. them mentality, which we finally decided wasn’t healthy,” Siao said. But this year, those who perpetuated the negativity have graduated, and all of the teams get along easily, Barber said. With a greater sense of collaboration, there’s an all-friendly, competitive spirit among the ensembles. The groups are confident in their potential to succeed Saturday. “After researching the other teams, we have some of the best of the competition,” said Mia Michelle McClain, Grovestand’s music director and senior music theater major. “It’s not so much you want to be the best group but the best you can be.” It helps that each team thrives on its own styles. Orange Appeal, a 16 member all-male group, is known for its versatility and focuses on choreography, Barber said. “We pride ourselves on tight harmonies and outrageous choreography,” he said. “We generally try to have as much fun as possible on stage.” Groovestand, whose 21 members make it the largest a cappella group on campus, sings a lot of pop, soul, classic rock and R&B, said Groovestand president and senior acting major Alanna Rogers. “I’ve always thought that we’ve been pretty funky,” she said. “We’ve always got this certain
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free condom dispensary can’t be a horrible idea. But just because it’s not a bad idea doesn’t make it a flawless one. In theory, the promotion of safe sex through the creation of this app is admirable. Unfortunately, the time it takes to load the app, map out your trip to the nearest free condom provider (hope they’re open!), get some condoms and pick up where you left off seems like the perfect formula for a mood killer. The inconvenience and hormone-halting potential of the app is petty compared to the inequalities illuminated by its creation. If someone can afford to pay the price of a smartphone, he or she can afford a box of Trojans. I don’t dislike the creation of this app. After all, people could fi nd themselves in need of a condom, no matter what their socioeconomic status is. But I hope the New York City Health Department’s next move is the creation of more opportunities for free condom promotion for the city’s less fortunate. Out of the 8,391,881
people the U.S. Census Bureau counted in New York City in 2009, almost 18 percent of them are living in poverty. These 1.5 million people presumably can’t access the condom app as easily and therefore cannot fi nd where the nearest free condoms are in the palm of their hands. Until unexpected teen pregnancies and STDs are things of the past, there’s always more that can be done to promote safe sex. Though the concept of the Big Apple’s condom app isn’t perfect, I applaud New York City’s Health Department in its cutting-edge push of condom use. I hope Syracuse can look to its eastward neighbor as inspiration for creating more venues for free condoms in our own neighborhoods.
soul to us, and our songs have an awesome beat.” The all-female Mandarins prides itself on the members’ attention to detail and capitalization of its unique female harmonies, music director Bronzetti said. “We like styles that blend all of our voices well,” she said. “Right now we’re working the boy band groove. We’ve all had homework to study Backstreet Boys music videos and learn how to dance like a boy band member.”
and what we’re doing wrong.”
A cappella on the rise Recently, there has been a noticeably growing interest in a cappella, Siao said, and participation and attendance are on the rise. With television shows like “Glee,” “The Sing-Off” and “American Idol,” a cappella has garnered an even greater nationwide appreciation. “A cappella is transforming from this underground movement into something so much more mainstream,” Siao said. His sentiments are reflected in the numbers — at last semester’s semiannual a cappella After Hours event, Setnor Auditorium was filled to capacity with more than 700 attendees, Siao said. This semester, the performance is moving to Hendricks Chapel to accommodate that growing attendance. “In part it’s due to pop culture, and it’s becoming really hip,” Groovestand’s McClain said. “But I think that most people just enjoy hearing their favorite songs sung in a cool, unique way.” With a cappella gaining popularity, there’s been a greater need for collaboration, McClain said. This fall, the groups formed the A Cappella Council, which meets twice a month and discusses event schedules and upcoming shows. With more groups starting to form on campus, the council will ensure all teams are on the same page, McClain said. In addition to providing increased support, forging stronger relationships challenges each group to perform better, she said. “I love how Orange Appeal pushes me to be a better arranger because they’re historically known for their arrangements and choreography,” McClain said. “And being on a campus that has a group just as good helps us achieve the highest level of greatness.” Alexander, Mandarins’ president, echoed McClain and said the best way for her group to improve is through feedback from their singing peers. “The most useful critiques come from those who do this day in and day out,” she said. “And frankly for us to go out there and put out our best performance, we need to know what’s good
Alicia Smith is a graduate student in the magazine, newspaper and online journalism program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at acsmit05@syr.edu.
Going beyond the Hill The Mandarins have plenty of girls whose majors are not artistically based, said Alexander, who plans events and utilizes social media using her public relations background. Alexander wanted to extend SU a cappella’s exposure beyond the SU campus, so she came up with an idea to host an event to do just that. The first Social Media and A Cappella Conference, held April 1-3 in Syracuse, will provide a way for SU to host other colleges’ a cappella groups and gain recognition on the national grid, she said. The conference will focus on how social media can help small organizations with small budgets, Alexander said. There will be performances from semiprofessional groups, a keynote speaker, a cappella workshops and a collegiate a cappella competition. The conference is sponsored by multiple groups on campus, as well as the national organization Contemporary A Cappella Society of America, she said. Alexander has invited more than 200 a cappella groups from all over the Northeast and Central United States. In addition, local students and public relations professionals in the area have been invited and are encouraged to attend, she said. Registration for SMACC started last week, Alexander said, and the numbers are already looking great. Regardless of their backgrounds or reasons for joining, the members of Orange Appeal, Groovestand and the Mandarins love what they do and the bonds they’ve formed. “These guys are like my brothers,” Barber said. “We have a great chemistry.” And because a cappella features raw voices and there are no instruments to rely on, members experience a lot of vocal growth over time, Groovestand’s president Rogers said. A cappella has made her more musically in tune and aware, she said, and has shaped her to be a better singer overall. Siao, one of Groovestand’s members, said he loves to perform and has found a support system in the greater a cappella network. “A cappella is really special because it’s so different from other forms of music,” he said. “It’s 20 people coming together and forming one united voice. It’s really a beautiful thing.” Whatever happens, the teams look forward to this weekend and plan to give it their all. “You know it’s great to bring so much Orange to New Jersey,” he said. “We’re each other’s competition, but we’re all united and would really like to take SU far.” mainthia@syr.edu
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Great Divide Brewing Company Denver, Colorado Founded in 1994, Great Divide has already earned itself 17 Great American Beer Festival medals and five World Beer Cup awards. Brian Dunn saw Colorado’s potential as a major craft beer state. Setting up shop in Denver, Dunn won his first awards at the Great American Beer Festival three months after brewing his first batch. With demand skyrocketing over the years, the brewery has been brewing high-quality, awardwinning beers ever since.
Titan IPA Style: American IPA ABV: 7.1 percent
This particular brew brings fresh-cut grass, pine tree and mild citrus right into the nose. You would never have known it by the taste but at a whopping 7.1 percent ABV, you’ll be surprised how few of these you can drink before they catch up to you. it starts out sweet and malty, then transitions to bitter and hoppy by the end. The carbonation is relatively low, making very light and allowing it to be easily drinkable.
Hoss Rye Lager Style: Oktoberfest ABV: 6.2 percent
This lager mixes a rye smell with caramel and toffee notes. The taste is a little sweeter than some may like and is intensely malty with really no hop presence whatsoever. If you are into sweet and not bitter, you may like this spiced, cool-weather lager. Those two factors make this brew enjoyable for anyone interested in the nontraditional lagers. With an alcohol content higher than most of the styles, this brew may do the trick better than your standard lagers.
Denver Pale Ale Style: English Pale Ale ABV: 5.4 percent
Though not strong-smelling, a faint waft of biscuity and bready malts jumps out, and a mild citrus presents itself as well. The taste starts out sweet and malty, then transitions to slightly bitter with a mild hop presence by the end. This creates a nice balance for a relatively lowalcohol session ale. Give it a try to taste something a little different from your standard pale ale. — Compiled by Lucas Sacks, staff writer, ldsacks@syr.edu
make the move to SU. Balancing his responsibilities as an SU professor and as a Brookhaven researcher is difficult, Maye said, but it’s “just a part of what we do.” Although Maye doesn’t spend his every day at the Brookhaven laboratory like he used to, he communicates with his team via e-mail and visits every so often. The Brookhaven laboratory is overseen by the Department of Energy, Maye said, and it has instruments — some of which “take up half a football field” — that cannot be stored at SU but
are necessary for the team’s research. “In our field, we need to use the absolute best and the most state-of-the-art machines,” Maye said. That means Maye has to return to Brookhaven every few months. And when he does, he brings with him a group of SU students and gives them an opportunity to experiment in the government facility. Providing these chances for students is part of why he began teaching in the first place. “It was a great opportunity to pursue my own independent research and to create opportunities to share my skills with students,” he said. These are skills that have been recognized on a national scale. In 2009, he received the Presidential
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Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor awarded by the government to young researchers who show potential for leadership in their independent research. It led to a trip to the White House in January 2010, a very brief meeting with President Barack Obama and an investment in his research. And these investments help Maye and the team as they continue to find new discoveries, even six years into their research. “We are learning things still that are newer and newer,” Maye said, “so we work hard to make the best materials and do the best work possible.” shkim11@syr.edu
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Events THURSDAY, FEB. 17
CafĂŠ Q: Open Mic Night 8-10 p.m.
CAFÉ Q, 900 SOUTH CROUSE AVE.
BE A YOUTH ENRICHMENT SPECIALIST ay Yes to Education S is seeking undergradu-
ate and graduate students to work as leaders, teachers and friends to children from K-5th grade in the 2011 Say Yes to Education Day Camp.
Free The LGBT Resource Center kicks off three nights of open mic events at CafĂŠ Q. The open mic nights are a fun way to kick off the weekend in a relaxed, comfortable environment. CafĂŠ Q is a coffeehouse that blends coffee, tea, music and a quirky attitude. If you are interested in joining fellow student performers, e-mail lgbt@syr.edu.
Rap Sessions 7-9 p.m.
HERGENHAN AUDITORIUM, NEWHOUSE III
Free The Office of Multicultural Affairs is sponsoring Rap Sessions, a national touring panel dedicated to discussing the hip-hop generation’s most difficult issues. Set up as a town hall-style meeting, leading hip-hop activists, scholars and artists seek to jumpstart local debates surrounding the popular yet controversial musical genre.
FRIDAY, FEB. 18 outh Enrichment Specialists will Y engage students in a variety of activities in areas including art, drama, dance, sports, entrepreneurship, discovery and exploration, at one of 18 locations under the supervision of a Say Yes site director.
Paid positions will begin in mid-June and run through early August* *Room & board is not available
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Disaster Proofing: SMAD Symposium 5 p.m.
SLOCUM HALL AUDITORIUM
Free The Society of Multicultural Architects and Designers will host a symposium featuring keynote speaker Stephanie Johnston from
Article 25. She will discuss concepts of predisaster architectural design, construction techniques, social systems and economic programs. The goal of these discussions would be to relieve, and even possibly prevent, the destruction that comes with natural disasters.
SATURDAY, FEB. 19 Faculty Skating Event 1:30-3:30 p.m.
TENNITY PAVILLION
Cost of skate rental Every year this annual event brings together faculty, family and friends of Syracuse University. This fun, seasonal activity provides time to socialize and skate with professors and their fellow colleagues, families and friends. Lunch and snacks will be available throughout the event. Make sure to bring your SU ID.
Nigel Hall: MEISA Concert Series 8-10 p.m.
REDHOUSE ART CENTER, 201 S. WEST ST.
$8 The Music & Entertainment Industry Student Association will host the first show in its concert series that seeks to bring bigger artists to a smaller, more intimate audience. This show will feature Nigel Hall, a regular to Syracuse, best known for mixing jazz, soul and funk. compiled by the feature staff
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Panel discussion to explore artists’ depictions of American identity By Kathleen Kim ASST. FEATURE EDITOR
Lebanese-American artist Doris Bittar emigrated from Beirut to New York City when she was 5 years old. Struggling to grasp the English language, she found her voice through another medium: art. In her multimedia work, Bittar intertwines her American upbringing and Arab
“My America” panel discussion Discussion with artists and curators of the SU art exhibit Where: Shaffer Art Building When: Now until March 20 How much: Free
heritage, tapping into her complex feelings about the United States. “I love this country,” she said. “But I’m apart from it somehow.” Bittar will participate in Thursday’s panel discussion “My America” at 3 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building. The panel is part of the traveling art exhibition “Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity,” which is on display at the SUArt Galleries until March 20. The gallery opened Jan. 25. Moderated by the gallery’s director, Domenic Iacono, the discussion will also feature two of the exhibition’s curators and Japanese-American artist Tomie Arai. The panel will explore the show’s four central themes, all centered on social identity: protest, assimilation, self-selection and pride, Iacono
said. The two artists, Bittar and Arai, will also give short presentations and show slides of their works, including those displayed in the exhibition. “I’m ready,” Bittar said. “And very happy to be part of a show where I’m representing ArabAmericans among other ethnicities and other people.” Iacono said he will pose questions about the exhibition’s development to main curator Blake Bradford, director of education at the Barnes Foundation, and co-curator Benito Huerta, associate professor of painting and director of The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington. In 2007, the nonprofit arts organization Artrain Inc. contacted Huerta, Bradford and Robert Lee, executive director of the Asian American Arts Centre, Huerta said. The organization called the group to curate an exhibition aimed entirely at showcasing the work of immigrant and first- and second-generation American artists across the nation. The exhibition was picked up by the National Endowment for the Arts and finalized in 2009, Huerta said. The three independent curators collectively nominated more than 100 artists and sifted through hundreds of artworks to narrow down the exhibition’s list: 63 multimedia print works, including paintings, photographs and video installations, created by 39 contemporary artists. Huerta based his selections on two criteria: the idea behind the work and how the artists executed that idea in their medium of choice. Several of the chosen pieces — such as Bittar’s “Camo-fl ag 1,” which laces the iconic
American fl ag with intricate Islamic patterns — have a political meaning. Others offer social commentary or focus on family issues. All the artists in the exhibit draw on their diverse backgrounds to explore what it means to be an American in the 21st century, he said. “We have a diverse group of people that live here,” he said. “And we’re still getting people coming into the United States that are bringing their culture and their ethnic background into the cultural mix here.” The exhibition caught the attention of several SU students. Jamie Mangini, a senior biology major, entered the gallery last Thursday for a class assignment. Though she only had to study
MOVING ART The exhibit “Infinite Mirror: Images of American Identity” will find itself following the East coast until the end of March in 2013. Here are a few of its pit stops.
Keene State College
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery Keene, N.H.
University of Maryland University College Adelphi, Md.
Lowe Art Museum Coral Gables, Fl.
“This country is like a mirror, it’s a reflection of ourselves. And there are so many voices in this country that the reflection goes on infinitely.” Benito Huerta
CO-CURATOR OF “MY AMERICA”
one piece of artwork, she lingered to examine the entire show. “I liked it because it fit well together,” she said. “It was interesting how each piece of work was from an artist of a different nationality.” Mangini said she plans to attend the panel discussion to learn more about the works. “I’ve never seen an artist talk about a piece of work that I’ve looked at,” she said. “Getting their point of view might help me interpret it better.” After the panel discussion, the artists and curators will make their way to the gallery to view the exhibition for the first time in its completed form. Huerta said he looks forward to seeing the artists’ honest and revealing observations of contemporary America. They resonate off one another, he said, and echo the title of the exhibition. “This country is like a mirror, it’s a reflection of ourselves,” he explained. “And there are so many voices in this country that the reflection goes on infinitely.”
Source: artsandartists.org/exhibitions/infinitemirror.html
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“the original anti-war comedy”
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Follow the ascent of the Chinese economy. Immerse yourself in the musical traditions of the Dominican Republic. Live and learn in another country and earn SU credit this summer. Space is still available in many popular programs.
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By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER
dam Sandler is idolized for his hilarious portrayals of average Joes who may or may not be employed. His character in “Just Go with It,” one of his richer romantic comedies, may not be as endearingly lazy as he usually is, but it’s otherwise indistinguishable from his prior efforts. “Just Go with It” is a clichéd romantic comedy by any standard, but it also marks the most significant milestone in the evolution of the prototypical Sandler character. In every film on his record, Sandler is slovenly and crude, and he never acts like a full-fledged adult. In “Billy Madison” (1995) and “Happy Gilmore” (1996), Sandler graduated from miscreant to selfprovider. In “Big Daddy” (1999), he learned to be a father. In “The Longest Yard” (2005), he learned to be a leader. In “Funny People” (2009), his finest mainstream film, he came to grips with his unhappiness. In “Just Go with It,” he takes a quantum leap that might finally confirm his readiness to assimilate into adulthood. In “Just Go with It,” Sandler does the unthinkable: He reconsiders his relationship with an impossibly beautiful 23-yearold when he falls for someone his own age. A successful, unmarried plastic surgeon who wears a wedding ring to attract young, beautiful women, Danny Maccabee (Sandler) hits the jackpot when he connects with bombshell math teacher Palmer (Brooklyn Decker). Danny’s loyal
Adam Sandler proves his characters can mature in ‘Just Go with It’
secretary, Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), generally turns a blind eye to Danny’s faux-marriage antics but is dragged into his scheme when Palmer asks to meet his ex-wife. Katherine is unsurprisingly coerced into acting as Danny’s former significant other. Katherine’s children adopt their role as Danny’s children in a trip to Hawaii, during which Danny takes a liking to them and realizes Katherine is spunkier and more interesting than her demeanor at work would suggest. Danny and Katherine’s feelings for each other are illuminated when a more competitive couple, Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman) and Ian Maxtone Jones (Dave Matthews), brings out the best in them — even if that means Danny and Katherine are trying to best the prim and proper Devlin. Danny can’t have both Palmer and Katherine, a dilemma intensified by the fact that both women are exceptionally likable. The laughs are not as riotous as in Sandler’s work in the early 2000s, but the film has an unshakable charm that qualifies it as one of his more meaningful movies. It falls victim to nearly every romantic comedy trapping, but the chemistry between Sandler, the most successful comedic actor of his generation, and Aniston, the most successful comedic actress of her generation (aside from Julia Roberts), is absolutely perfect. As a strong single par-
ent who has never taken the time to do something for herself, Aniston is terrific in a truly winning role. It is her kids, however, who bring out the best in Sandler with their exaggeratedly mature quips and antics. As much as one wishes to like an Adam Sandler movie, more often than not, he or she will exit the theater disappointed. Likable as “Just Go with It” is, it’s arguably his most poorly constructed romantic comedy. As in just about any mainstream romantic comedy, the ending is telegraphed in the trailer, and nothing about the story itself is revolutionary. The consequences of Sandler’s actions are hardly convincing, especially because neither object of his affection has any flaws to speak of. Even by Sandler’s standards, it’s aggravatingly formulaic. As proven in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love” (2002), one of the finest comedies of the decade, Sandler has enormous potential as an actor. If he continues to opt for massive paychecks, he will never reach that potential — though it’s great to see an actor in his mid-40s who still has room to grow.
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“JUST GO WITH IT” Director: Dennis Dugan
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nick Swardson Rating:
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THE EVOLUTION OF ADAM
In most of his major roles, Adam Sandler’s characters have evolved from primitive slobs to more sophisticated adults.
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“Big Daddy”
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Coastal Carolina surprises NCAA with 22-game win streak By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer
On Feb. 12, Anthony Raffa and the rest of the Coastal Carolina basketball team gathered in a hotel room in Rock Hill, S.C. Only a few hours stood between the team and its game against Big South rival Winthrop. Yet the players sat around the television, absorbed by what they were watching. Ohio State, the team with the longest active winning streak in the country, was in trouble against Wisconsin. And the Buckeyes’ loss meant the team with the second-longest active winning streak in basketball would now be on top. The clock hit zero. The Buckeyes fell 71-67. And Coastal Carolina took over the title of the nation’s longest winning streak. “We were all rooting for Wisconsin down the stretch,” Raffa said. “Their comeback was just amazing, how they did it. They didn’t get down on themselves, and they just dug it out. We were just like, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be crazy. We’re now the longest winning streak in the country going into tonight’s game.’” The Chanticleers (24-3) then went out and defeated Winthrop to extend their winning streak to 22. But they never made it to 23. On Tuesday, in a game against one of the weakest teams in the conference in GardnerWebb, Coastal Carolina lost 59-57, concluding the streak after only three days in the spotlight. “I don’t think the streak had anything to do with it. We just got outplayed,” associate head coach Don Hogan said. This loss blew an opportunity for the program, which was moving its way toward the Top 25 by earning 32 votes in the last poll. The game Tuesday was also an opportunity to clinch the No. 1 spot in the Big South, thus securing home-court advantage throughout the conference tournament. But although the loss
snaps the streak, the team remains at the top of its conference and could still make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1993. Despite being the better team on paper, Coastal Carolina was unable to ever get a handle on Tuesday’s game. Gardner-Webb kept the game close by pounding the ball inside all night. Raffa knew being in the spotlight could end up being a problem for his team. “I think there’s a target on our backs,” Raffa said before the loss. “People want to be the ones to break our winning streak.” Gardner-Webb was that team. The lead changed 12 times over the course of the game, and down the stretch, the Runnin’ Bulldogs fouled effectively and pulled just far enough ahead to keep Coastal Carolina from closing the gap. It was Coastal Carolina’s first loss since an 80-61 trouncing on Nov. 18 by then-No. 20 Georgetown. The Hoyas were the only ranked team the Chanticleers faced all year. Sophomore forward Sam McLaurin said the game was much closer than the score reflected and that actually became a confidence booster. “We learned that we can compete with anybody,” McLaurin said. “We competed with that team throughout the whole game. The thing that separated us from them in that game was that they just hit a lot of 3s.” Georgetown’s dominance from outside the arc — the Hoyas went 14-for-30 — simply served to focus the Chanticleers for the rest of the season. Head coach Cliff Ellis has made defense a priority. Raffa said good shooting can come from work in between practices, but defense consumed most of practice time. “Defense wins championships, and that’s what we’ve been preaching all year,” Raffa said. “If we play defense, we’re going to be in the game. Obviously, the offensive end’s going
to come because we can manufacture points in any which way.” Going ahead, Hogan said the team will continue to work on its defense. The Chanticleers are three games into a stretch in which they play four games in a week. After Thursday’s game against North Carolina Central, Hogan said the Chanticleers will have some practice time to work on weaknesses from Tuesday. The main purpose of the practice time will be to tighten up the defense to prevent opponents from getting any easy opportunities, Hogan said. But for now, Coastal Carolina has secured at least a few home games in the Big South tournament. The team is already a favorite in the tournament, and if it wins, it is guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament. Even with the streak over, the players know they did something special. Said Raffa: “I’ve never been on a team in my life that’s won 22 games in a row. Ever.”
No. 1 can’t win When No. 13 Wisconsin beat Ohio State, the previously undefeated No. 1 team in the country, it came as a surprise. The loss knocked the Buckeyes out of that No. 1 spot to make way for Kansas. Newly atop the rankings, the Jayhawks faced their own conference rival, Kansas State, Monday. This game wasn’t even close. Kansas State throttled Kansas 84-68. With two different No. 1 teams losing over the past week, it is beginning to look like a pattern. Texas, currently ranked third, may be waiting in the wings for what will inevitably be a loss as the No. 1 team in the country.
Game to watch Washington at No. 12 Arizona Saturday, 6 p.m., ESPN
Ap Top 25 (First-place votes in parentheses)
1. Kansas (22) 2. Ohio State (14) 3. Texas (23) 4. Pittsburgh (6) 5. Duke 6. San Diego State 7. Brigham Young 8. Notre Dame 9. Georgetown 10. Wisconsin 11. Purdue 12. Arizona 13. Connecticut 14. Florida 15. Villanova 16. Louisville
17. Syracuse
18. Vanderbilt 19. North Carolina 20. Missouri 21. Texas A&M 22. Kentucky 23. Temple 24. Xavier 25. Utah State
The last time Arizona faced a ranked opponent, it was then-No. 20 Washington at the end of January. The last time Arizona lost a basketball game was that same day. Now Arizona is the nationally ranked team after climbing quickly through the Top 25 and the Pac-10 standings over the past few weeks. The league is still up for grabs, with Washington only 1.5 games behind Arizona. The Wildcats are led by sophomore Derrick Williams, a top NBA prospect shooting 63 percent from the field this year. alguggen@syr.edu
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Penney breaks Orange teammate’s mile record at Valentine’s Invitational By David Propper Staff Writer
Lauren Penney knew she accomplished something special the moment she crossed the finish line. “I guess I had an idea at the half mile because it was well under any pace I had run before,” Penney said. “But I didn’t know if I had slowed down until I crossed the line.” Penney didn’t slow down. Instead, she went fast enough to run herself into the record books. She set a new Syracuse track and field record for the fastest time in a mile at the Boston University Valentine’s Invitational last weekend. It took her 4:41.34 to complete the race. Penney started out in the back of the pack, where she usually likes to begin, and as the race went on, she finally found enough space to make her move to the front. Penney earned a thirdplace finish and a new SU record. The previous record belonged to her Orange teammate Heather Stephens, who set the mile record a year ago at the same meet. Although it was the same meet, Penney doesn’t find it to be too ironic. “It was just good timing when this meet falls compared to the workouts we do at this point in the season,” Penney said. For Stephens, she expected her teammate to
eventually surpass her. It was just a matter of time. “She had put herself in a good position, and she’s been working out really, really well, so we were all ready for her to run a fast time,” Stephens said. “The exciting part is that she’s ready to run even faster.” SU head coach Chris Fox, who didn’t realize at first it was a school record, said that was a time expected for Penney coming into the race. They planned on her going that fast, and that’s exactly what she did. Penney continues to meet and exceed expectations. She ranks No. 12 nationally in the 3K so far this season. That ranking is especially important because if Penney remains in that slot for two more weeks, she can qualify for NCAA indoor nationals. Fox said it would be a big deal for Syracuse because runners from SU usually don’t qualify for indoor nationals, as the focus is more on outdoor competition. Although Penney understands the importance of qualifying, she doesn’t try to put any added pressure on herself. “I think a big part of success is staying relaxed. I try not to put too much pressure on it,” Penney said. “If I stay relaxed, have fun with it and do what I’m supposed to, then I know I’ll
“She had put herself in a good position and she’s been working out really, really well, so we were all ready for her to run a fast time. The exciting part is that she’s ready to run even faster.” Heather Stephens
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accomplish my goal.”
Orange preps for Big East meet The Big East championship this weekend in Akron, Ohio, is one SU has marked off on its calendar. But instead of intensifying the training leading up to the meet, Fox has backed off on how hard he works his runners. Fox said all the runners have worked hard since Christmas, so he felt it was important to relax their training this week. In turn, he hopes they all would have fresh legs going into the weekend’s meet.
“We backed it off a little bit and hopefully they can run a little faster,” Fox said. Long distance runner Tito Medrano said when the Big East championship comes around, it’s a “hiccup” in the usual hardworking routine the team goes through on a week-by-week basis. Although the training has been lenient this week, Medrano knows this is a race the team has been working toward all season long. For the Orange runners who don’t qualify for Nationals, this is the pinnacle of the indoor season. “This is the big one we all train for, this is the big one we all have our eyes on,” Medrano said. Fox said the meet is a low-key one, and it is a checkpoint on where the team is at, especially with the outdoor season approaching in a couple months. Overall, SU hopes to improve on where it placed last year, with Louisville, Connecticut and Notre Dame as its toughest competition. Medrano said SU wants to make a couple more steps to earning as many possible points to triumph over other Big East schools. As for Fox, he keeps it in a simple perspective. “We’re not the best track team in the Big East, and we’re not the worst,” Fox said. “We’re just going to do as good as we can.” dgproppe@syr.edu
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
T H E I N DE PE N DE N T S T U DE N T N E W SPA PE R OF S Y R ACUSE , N E W YOR K
Editor’s note: As The Daily Orange celebrate’s its 40th anniversary of independence from the university, we are taking a look back at what made that independence possible, and why it matters. For 108 years, The D.O. has worked to serve the Syracuse community, and we hope we can continue that tradition.
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ometimes, when remembering events of 40 years ago, you tend to romanticize. But to be honest, I’m not sure that’s possible when thinking back on the spring of 1971 on college campuses across the country. It was a highly charged, emotional time when everything was being challenged. No institution went unscathed. The government, the press, the university, the military, corporate America... you name it, it was under duress. Everyone was angry. And Syracuse University was no different. For students, it really wasn’t about liberal vs. conservative - it was the degree of anger you felt. We were all passionate about wanting things to change for the better, but had different ideas about how to do it. There were peace marches and there were riots. There were sit-ins and there were building takeovers.
There was peaceful protest and there was violence. My passion in those days, and probably still today, was for journalism. It wasn’t all I cared about - I was a magazine major but a political science minor. But for me the best way to change the world was through storytelling. I had a very romantic notion of being a newspaper reporter, and I believed great journalism and storytelling was my best chance, and the country’s best chance, to change things for the better. I had already been City Editor of The Daily Orange as a freshman, and I became editor of the weekly Promethean in my sophomore year. But the daily newspaper was where all the power was. Everyone read it, every day. All college students were starved for information in those days. Imagine a world with no Internet, no e-mail, no computers and not even cable television. I had been disappointed with the direction The D.O. had taken.
Sam Hemingway was smart editor but he was knee deep into advocacy journalism. As strongly as I believed in an unbiased but aggressive media, Hemingway believed in advocacy journalism and using the power you
of new campus publications were born to offer “unbiased� news as an alternative to the traditional campus daily, which had become part of the “movement.� The Harvard Independent was one, and others popped up
As for me, it was the first time I realized that the success of the people I have helped throughout my career will always be my greatest accomplishment. have to do what you believe is right. I respect where he was coming from, but I thought it was misplaced and would ultimately damage the credibility of the publication. His masthead had a fist breaking though it! It was a debate raging on college campuses around the country. As many college dailies had swung to the side of advocacy as had not, and around the country a number
at particularly active campuses like the Universities of Wisconsin and Michigan. The D.O. was also supported by the university administration, like most campus dailies of the time. SU ran the paper as a business, installing a paid business manager and selling advertising, but guaranteeing enough money to print every day. The relationship between the
administration and the paper was strained by a continued Daily Orange barrage of criticism over how the school was dealing with highly charged situations, like alleged racism on the football team. The tension between the administration and The D.O. was up to “Alert Level Orange� by the spring of 1971. The university was refusing to defend the paper against a $938,000 libel suit involving three D.O. editors and was growing more concerned about dropping advertising revenues. The paper, on its path of advocacy journalism, started to see serious erosion in advertising revenues because many advertisers, then as now, don’t like to be associated with highly opinionated content. The Board of Publications was a body made up of representatives of the administration, faculty and students that was in charge of electing D.O. editors. It had elected Hemingway previously, but elected SEE KRAMER PAGE 21
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playing around with a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big, gaudy gothic logoâ&#x20AC;? that Novack said looked â&#x20AC;&#x153;f**king ridiculous.â&#x20AC;? Then, Novack remembered an old logo from the 1920s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; back when the paper was known as The Syracuse Daily Orange â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that
was reprinted in fall 2003 as part of the paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s centennial celebration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t match anything in terms of a font, but when we printed it, we got a lot of nice comments,â&#x20AC;? Novack said. So the two set out to recreate that
font to develop into a logo. Novack tried on his own, but said it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look quite right. So he sought out some help from a professional. He contacted Jim Parkinson, a famed font designer who is well known for designing and updating newspaper logos. Parkinson is the creator of Rolling Stoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s logo and crafted updates of logos for the Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Novack knew it was a shot in the dark, but he took a chance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said a prayer and dropped him an e-mail,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just asked for him to please help and take us on as charity. In a week, he retraced it and added a shadow effect to it. It really finally gave The Daily Orange a permanent logo. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pretty sure we sent him a thank you card and a Syracuse sweater.â&#x20AC;? And thus, the current identity of The Daily Orange was born. When students returned to campus in fall 2005, they were greeted with a SEE IDENTITY PAGE 21
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CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE FROM SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
Staff, alumni defy evaluation Advertising, business side play crucial role in paper’ s success of independence in 2003 I O By Kathleen Ronayne MANAGING EDITOR
n April 17, 2002, The Daily Orange faced the first formal challenge to its independence since it broke away from the university financially in 1991. University Spokesman Kevin Morrow wrote a letter to the Dean of Student requesting the university conduct a review that would more clearly define The D.O.’s relationship with Syracuse University. “My contention was The D.O. wanted to play two sides of the street, a student outlet and also a professional outlet,” Morrow said when recalling the incident. “I believed that its status needed to be more clearly defined.” Tito Bottitta and Ashleigh Graf were editor in chief and managing editor, respectively, at the time. Morrow’s request was in response to what he and Sue Edson, director of athletic communications, felt was an unfair editorial published by The D.O. on the number of passes the paper had been granted to cover the NCAA Regional Tournament held at the Carrier Dome. Morrow, Edson, Bottitta and Graf had two meetings in which the university requested a retraction or correction from The D.O, Morrow said. When Bottitta and Graf refused, Morrow wrote the letter. Morrow’s letter stated his wish to tackle the question of “What is The Daily Orange?” Since 1999, the paper’s relationship with the university had been defined by an agreement drawn up with then-Chancellor Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw. The agreement acknowledged The D.O. as an independent entity that would not be subject to censorship, but could enjoy distribution on campus and rent university housing. If the paper was a student organization, it should be subject to review of its practices and a faculty advisor. If it was an independent entity, it should not be given distribution rights or rent university housing, Morrow’s letter stated. If The D.O. could not be distributed on campus, it would have to find another way to reach students. When recalling the incident, Morrow said the letter was meant to hold The D.O. to a greater level of responsibility and accountability. “My intentions were not to censor The Daily Orange,” Morrow said. Bottitta and then-assistant news editor Justin Young both said the paper had always had a good relationship with Morrow, and his actions in response to the editorial were surprising. “It was hard, it felt like this betrayal,” Bottitta said. “Like how could Kev. Mo. do this?” For Bottitta and the paper’s staff, the challenge to the paper’s agreement with Chancellor
40 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE
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By Tony Olivero
Shaw was nerve-wracking. “We were worried that the university would listen,” Bottitta said. “If the chancellor changes their mind or if somebody is persuasive enough and changes the one mind that matters, The D.O. could be put in a really tough spot.” Jim Carty, a former assistant editorial and assistant sports editor in the late 1980’s, read about Morrow’s request in an article published in The D.O. on April 24, 2002. In disagreement with Morrow’s intentions, Carty e-mailed some old co-workers, and word of the situation spread. Carty said he felt Morrow was attempting to use his position to exert power over the paper’s content.
“It was hard, it felt like this betrayal. Like how could Kev. Mo. do this?” Tito Bottitta
FORMER EDITOR IN CHIEF
Carty and Morrow had multiple conversations regarding the issue, but a group of SU graduates and Daily Orange alumni felt it was important to take the issue to the highest level - Chancellor Shaw. Seventy-three alumni signed a letter to Shaw decrying Morrow’s request to reevaluate the relationship. “Within a week or two we had several dozen people involved and I think everyone was under the general feeling that the university was trying to bully the paper and that wasn’t something that we wanted to see happen without bringing some attention to it,” Carty said. Ultimately, the incident wound down as the school year came to an end, Morrow said. No university censorship was placed on the paper, and the Shaw agreement continued. Bottitta said he did the best he could to try and promote institutional memory among the staff. With such a high turnover rate, it can be easy for editors to forget the mistakes of those before them, he said. But despite the quiet end to an incident that jolted the paper’s staff and alumni awake, it served as a reminder of the importance of The Daily Orange as an independent entity. “It certainly was a reminder of why The D.O. is independent,” Young said. “We have a thin fishing line thread between the organization and the university and no matter how tiny that is and how well safe guarded it looks, they can still shake that line. And they can still threaten you.” kronayne@syr.edu
Saturday, Feb. 19 Newhouse III, Rm. 141 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
DEVELOPMENT EDITOR
t’s 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, just another enterprising day for Pete Waack. The Daily Orange’s general manager clicks away on his mouse while casting his bangs to the side. In his almost 10-year tenure as the head of its business side, Waack — as well as his staff — is to thank for The D.O.’s fiscal survival in the ongoing national newspaper funeral. “If the ad reps or I came in with an idea for more revenue, he was always open to it, always looking to monetize The D.O., because you have to,” said Lindsey Ott, an advertising manager at The D.O. from 2003 to 2006. “Because it is a business.” Waack swivels away from his desk after another day of leading his five student advertising representatives. This is his latest team; during the past decade he has worked with an
“The Daily Orange is going to be in a good position when there is a shift in advertising dollars and readership. When it goes online, its tough to see anyone nudging us out as the news source for SU.” Pete Waack
THE DAILY ORANGE GENERAL MANAGER
estimated 500 Syracuse University students. The moment he speaks, the business mindset he uses while leading The D.O. through challenging times becomes clear. For Waack and his current and past staffs, it is all about striving for unconventional newspaper-advertising creativity while staying true to the print publication’s roots. The maintained strength of The D.O.’s print presence in the last 10 years, Waack swears, is the reason why the paper’s readership base remains unchanged. In a time when newspaper circulation is faltering, a college campus provides somewhat of a safe haven for the print product. And today, Waack celebrates the most basic of business grassroots for a traditional newspaper — the debut of a brand new newspaper stand, about a block down the street from 744 Ostrom Ave. The stand is his newest — even if it might be basic — initiative to maintain a traditional newspaper presence on campus. Waack has monetarily steered the newspaper with a specific approach: injecting his ad reps’ creativity into local sales pitches. In an age when the paper’s advertising needs are forced to compete with the Internet, The D.O. has to go local. And that’s where Waack has gone. Yet it’s a creative local. After all, as
Waack and Ott both say, this is a college campus, with college-tailored businesses serving college kids. And his greatest tool of all is the “college-try” effort of The D.O.’s student-workers. “The local pizza shop owner in Syracuse is the most unwired person on the planet,” Waack said. “He wants something physical.” A physical product is what D.O. advertising was giving to students and advertisers 10 years ago, and it hasn’t stopped since. Waack once shared his office with four other ad managers. That number dropped to two when Ott became Waack’s “right hand woman” from 2003 to 2006. Since then, Waack has been solo. The national newspaper depression hit. When Waack began at The D.O. in October 2001, college newspapers were raking in money, riding on the coattails of the Internet boom. Credit card companies, wireless phone companies and car manufacturers were all huge advertisers. But since then, national advertising has fallen about 20 percent per year, Waack said. So Waack began to engrain in his ad reps the mentality that controlling local sales is the best way to gain income. “A boutique in Armory Square or a bar on Marshall Street may not think they need to advertise to SU students,” said former D.O. ad rep Alissa Sheeley. “But if you show them the hard stats of who reads The D.O. and how effective advertising in that space can be, it’s hard for them to resist.” Some have resisted, some haven’t. From 2005 to 2010, Waack said The D.O. lost 6 percent of its income per year. In that time, The D.O. overhauled the brand through symbiosis with the editorial side. Ott and Waack developed a series called “Connect.” They branched out into Armory Square, Westcott Street, Hanover Square and Little Italy to brand the areas with the niche that is Syracuse students. And they took the chance to trek to areas that weren’t an SU-student niche. Case in point: Sheeley walked away from Erie Boulevard with a Chinese buffet as her best advertiser, taking out full-page color ads. Special sections and pages were also spawned, with the likes of Soundgarden advertising the entirety of the music review page. Then creative designs took over, and slowly but surely The D.O. monetarily surfed through the tough times. It worked enough for the newspaper to profit in 2010. Waack realizes The D.O. will eventually have to evolve to much more online advertising. Online advertisements currently make up 4 percent of The D.O.’s revenue. But because of the rooted creativity parented in the past 10 years, Waack maintains The D.O. will be ready. The message Waack has sent to advertisers that The D.O. is the way to reach SU students remains strong. “The Daily Orange is going to be in a good position when there is a shift in advertising dollars and readership,” Waack said. “When it goes online, its tough to see anyone nudging us out as the news source for SU.” aolivero@syr.edu
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lmost the entire masthead staff of The Daily Orange sat in the balcony of the Maxwell Auditorium on a cold December night in 1991 as Editor in Chief Jodi Lamagna told the Student Government Association that enough was enough. Recounting years of threats and attempts by SGA members to assert control over The D.O. as a referendum-funded student group, Lamagna said, “I have heard SGA condemn The Daily Orange for running controversial material. Yet how else could your student newspaper truly serve your interests, and those guaranteed by the First Amendment?” Then, she told SGA that The D.O. would no longer need its money. The paper was going fully financially independent. The staff marched out together and ran back to the office to put out a special edition of the newspaper. It was quite a moment to savor, but one that was years in the making. On the Syracuse University campus, The D.O. had severed ties with the university administration almost two decades before my classmates or I got to campus. Our relationship with SGA was tense, as it should be between a newspaper and a “governmental” body. But that tension was also accompanied by a contract. The arrangement with SGA involved a biannual student referendum which funneled the equivalent of a $7 per student subscription fee though SGA and into The D.O. In December 1991, 78 percent of those voting supported the fee - a higher voting return than the SGA president. The arrangement came with some caveats: The D.O. budget was on file in the SGA office just like other student groups; The D.O. had to sign a contract with SGA; and we had to report to SGA via a consulting board. There were frequent, subtle and overt
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me as Editor of The D.O. for 1971-72. The D.O. staff was outraged that they were not able to pick the next editor themselves because to them it was as much about continuing the paper’s advocacy. Although I agreed with much of what they believed in, they knew I was less about the movement than about a more purely journalistic endeavor. Hemingway and his chosen successor, Paula Fabian, felt just as strongly that the times demanded a powerful advocate at the helm of the paper. They threatened to barricade The D.O. offices on East Adams Street to keep me from entering. To be honest, I lost the will to fight them. Life was too short. I understood their point, but disagreed. I agreed to a mediation that I knew was stacked against me (it was a student government committee, which was sympathetic to the existing editors) because I didn’t have the motivation to run a newspaper at war with its former editors and staff. So Paula Fabian took over the reins and I retreated to freelancing and helping out the next regime at The Promethean. It didn’t take long for the economics to catch up to The D.O. and the university to cut off deficit funding. In the fall of 1971, several of us made a proposal to the student government to
attempts to influence the paper. In my years in the D.O. newsroom, more than one reporter described how special interest groups or factions within SGA tried to strong-arm more favorable coverage. We were running stories about SGA members’ faltering attendance at meetings, failure to meet quorum and personality disputes between SGA members; how certain politicallycharged groups packed the assembly to get bigger allocations; stories about campaign violations or procedural hang-ups, election
and found a way. We also cashed in some CDs to float some expenses. It would have been easy for the front office to encourage us to save the money for a year or two and postpone the decision to give the money back. After all, what do a bunch of 20 and 21-year-olds know about business? Fiscally, maybe that would have been wise. But our business staff understood our goals and values and stood behind us. They recognized the importance of independence. Printing consumed the bulk of the paper’s
There were frequent, subtle and overt attempts to influence the paper. In my years in the D.O. newsroom, more than one reporter described how special interest groups or factions within SGA tried to strongarm more favorable coverage. improprieties and outright chicanery with SGA funds - not to mention the editorial page critiques. In 1991, we had an ambitious Board of Directors and an aggressive newsroom and editorial page. Our action followed years of discussions and groundwork laid by the staffs ahead of us led by Sue Cornelius and then Heather Crooks, and those ahead of them. A business decision facilitated the move for a freer press. Our business staff had a visionary streak as well, and supported our decision. I remember a meeting with Lamagna, Erin Neff, managing editor, Dick Manuel, business manager, Lloyd Lathrop, the advertising director and his assistant, to hash out our financial options. Manuel and Lathrop looked at the books
merge the three campus newspapers - The D.O., The Promethean and Dialog (another weekly) - under one independent business structure. I was actively involved with several others in putting the new business operations together, using The Promethean incorporation papers as the entity under which the three papers were merged. The new paper, keeping the name The Daily Orange, received no direct funding, but the student government negotiated a fee to purchase a “bulk subscription” for the student body, which would pay for free distribution on campus (there was a charge to buy it on an outside newsstand.) Years later, a new generation of D.O. editors eliminated even the subscription fee. I was proudest of the fact that most of the new staff of the 1971-72 D.O. came from The Promethean. Former Pro editor Bob Heisler and Barbara Beck became Editor and Managing Editor, respectively, and led a talented staff culled from the three papers. As for me, it was the first time I realized that the success of the people I have helped throughout my career will always be my greatest accomplishment. Larry Kramer was editor in chief of the weekly campus newspaper, The Promethean, in 1971, which later merged with the Dialog and The Daily Orange to form the new, independent D.O. He is the founder of MarketWatch, a website for business and financial news.
nearly $800,000 budget. It certainly was not our salaries of $120 a week. Our contract with Manlius Printers was ending. We were the printer’s biggest contract but they were nickel and diming us. There were frequent over-charges and some charges we could never quite figure out. Logistically, it could take up to a half-hour to drive to Manlius to deliver the galleys, even at 3 or 4 a.m. (This was before we had email and desktop design.) In the snow, the trip could be even longer. We looked at a couple of printers. We drove down to Oil City, near where the Carousel Mall is today, toured the Scotsman Press and met with the staff. There was some salesmanship involved in their pitch, but we felt as though we were walking into open arms. They assured us The D.O. was going to be their top priority.
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more compact and convenient Daily Orange in newsstands. Novack and Swartz engineered a redesign during the summer to complement the new logo and allow for consistent integration of color into The D.O. for the first time. With their redesign, The D.O. moved away from the traditional “New York Times” broadsheet format, Novack said, towards a more magazine-like feel, often seen in British newspapers. Bottitta and Novack both crafted redesigns with the reader — an SU student — and con-
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Their facilities could also do faster, cleaner printing with color capabilities, which was a big deal then. Along with the emotional and professional security they offered, there was also the financial benefit. The deal shaved about $80,000 from the printing costs, just the amount we needed. Without finding the money in the budget, our plans would not have been able to materialize. We could sit at 744 Ostrom Ave. waxing nostalgia about First Amendment values and freedom of the press, but even as impressionable 19, 20 and 21-year-olds, we recognized the financial implications of a daily newspaper. Our front office that year had ambitious plans for raising revenues, too. An ill-fated magazine ended up being more of a drain than a cash cow. But I respect the efforts and ideas, even if the paper bought a photo magnifier that was already technologically obsolete. In the special edition published December 10, 1991, the paper’s editorial declared: “Now, Syracuse University students will be further ensured their right to a free student press.” “Student interests are not being served when elected officials within the student government use The Daily Orange’s referendum status in an attempt to manipulate and control the content of the newspaper.” The announcement made headlines in The Post-Standard, The Herald Journal, USA Today and Editor & Publisher. Beyond that, it provided a valuable moment and a level of editorial security and independence that most of us would never experience again in our professional lives. Roy S. Gutterman was news editor and a member of The Daily Orange’s Board of Directors in 1991. He is an associate professor of communications law and journalism and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
tent in mind. The most important thing to his redesign was finding out the goals of the editors, and giving them the format to complement those goals, Bottitta said. Novack noted the importance of giving readers what they wanted — in his case, color for photos and advertisers. For Novack, the flag remains one of his favorite parts of the paper. It is a mark of smart design — both in the technical sense and for the readership. And after six years, the logo still remains at the top of the page, unchanged. Said Novack: “This is a part that can really endure.” knmciner@syr.edu
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Join The Daily Orange as we celebrate our 40th anniversary of independence!
Saturday, Feb. 19 • Newhouse III, Rm. 141 • 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. In 1971, The Daily Orange’s editors made the move to become independent from Syracuse University. Those editors — and many other D.O. alumni in the field today — are returning to campus to commemorate that anniversary and educate the students of today on journalism and the importance of an independent press. 10 a.m.
Opening remarks 10:15 - 11 a.m.
The Daily Orange then and now
The break from the university in 1971 was not easy. Attempts were made to harness in the editors at The D.O., which led instead to separation. Many of the staff from that spring and fall of 1971 will be back to talk about the break. In 1991, The D.O. made the decision to reject the Student Government Association’s funding, leading to a completely financially independent paper, and Prof. Roy Gutterman, news editor in 1991, will speak. Then, the current management team will present on what life is like today at The D.O. 11 - 11:45 a.m.
Journalism in the digital age
Today, journalism is also a business. We’ll be going over journalism and entrepreneurship, the changing business model for newspapers, and the question in the back of everyone’s mind: “Is print journalism dying?” In addition, we’ll discuss the skills needed to adapt to web journalism and the advantages and disadvantages of citizen journalism 12 - 12:45 p.m.
The importance of independence
When has the paper’s independence been most important in its history? Editors-in-chief from the 70s, 90s and 00s will be back to talk about when the independence was necessary -- and when it was difficult to be independent. The stories the paper could cover, the events staffers could attend and the technology available to editors has all been affected by the paper’s independence. 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch break! 2 - 2:45 p.m.
Roundtable discussions
We’ll be holding a series of small-group, roundtable discussions on a variety of topics: Reporting big stories (led by D.O. alum Tiffany Lankes, Pulitzer-prize nominated reporter at the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Ins and outs of sports beat writing and sports enterprise writing (Led by D.O. alum Josh Barnett, executive sports editor at the Philadelphia Daily News), photo ethics and covering huge conflicts and breaking news visually (led by 2010 SU grads/ D.O. alumni Andrew Burton and AJ Chavar), finding compelling feature stories and the importance of editorials. 3 - 3:30 p.m.
How to get a job
The question on many students’ minds will (hopefully) be answered. Recent D.O. alumni will return and talk on how to make connections and get a job right out of school, and the options available if you’re not interested in heading into journalism.
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SU preps for Denver attack vets in opener By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor
All Brian Megill could do was shrug when he thought about what happened last year trying to defend Denver’s Alex Demopoulos. He had no answer as to what allowed the attack to score four goals against Syracuse while no other Pioneer had more than one. A then-freshman filled with nerves in his first collegiate start, Who: Denver Where: Carrier Dome Megill had trouble stopWhen: Sunday, 1 p.m. ping Demopoulos from the very beginning. “He smoked me hard the first play,” Megill said. “He’s a very good player. We just have to account for him now.” Stopping Demopoulos is one part of what No. 1 Syracuse is looking to do Sunday when it opens up its season against No. 12 Denver at 1 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. It’ll try to stop a tough team coached by Bill Tierney, who led the Pioneers to a 12-5 record and a NCAA tournament berth in his first season as head coach. Megill wasn’t even supposed to cover Demopoulos in last season’s 15-9 win over Denver but had to take over that assignment when John Lade injured his hamstring in the days leading up to the start of the season. Now Lade gets his chance at trying to keep the quarterback of Denver’s offense from giving the Pioneers a chance at beating the Orange. “We’re going to have John covering him,” Megill said. “He’s going to do a great job as he always does. (Demopoulos) is a very good feeder as well as a shooter.” Demopoulos is in charge of a Denver offense that has all three starting attack returning from last season, as well as several of its best offensive midfielders. It’s an experienced offense that
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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor Brian Megill was left with the responsibility of covering Denver’s attack Alex Demopoulos in last season’s opening game against the Pioneers. Syracuse will try to stop Demopoulos in the 2011 season opener against Denver on Sunday at the Carrier Dome. took the Pioneers to an ECAC Championship a year ago. Tierney now has one full season at Denver under his belt and an offensive unit completely used to his system and schemes. Syracuse head coach John Desko said that only gives him more reason to expect the Pioneers to be as good or even better this season. “It’s Coach Tierney’s and his staff’s second year there, so I think we’re going to see their system kick into place obviously more this year than last year,” Desko said. “I think this Denver team’s going to be a year wiser.” Desko also said the Denver players aren’t going to be as intimidated coming in to play at the Dome after experiencing it last year. Using Army, which beat the Orange in the first round of the tournament last year, as an example, Desko said the Pioneers won’t be as “awestruck”
in their return to the Dome. One of the reasons Demopoulos had so much success against the Orange last season could be because SU simply didn’t know him as well, Desko said. On Sunday, there will be more of a definitive game plan in terms of defending him, including getting Lade help covering the attack. And that means keeping Demopoulos from taking unassisted shots and making sure he isn’t able to make easy assists. “He certainly is probably their best carrier, their leader on attack,” Desko said. “... We’re going to match up with him, know where he is, get on his hands and be aware he can be a threat.” In last season’s game, Syracuse had a 10-goal lead but let Denver slowly climb its way back. Demopoulos sparked the late comeback attempt with two goals in the fourth quarter. Giving the Pioneers an opportunity to get
within striking distance is something the Orange is looking to avoid Sunday. With that in mind, stopping Demopoulos is crucial if Syracuse wants to keep a lead when it gets one. “We got out on them pretty quick and then let them in with a few goals,” SU midfielder Jovan Miller said. “If we get a big lead, just to stay on top of it.” Despite his team getting the win over Denver last year, Megill said it didn’t come without mistakes. There are certain aspects that need to be improved, whether it’s communicating better on defense or holding onto a lead for the duration of the game. “They’re a good team, but I think we could’ve done better,” Megill said. “We have a bad taste in our mouth from last year, so I’m hoping we’re going to come out firing.” cjiseman@syr.edu
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With tough schedule looming, Syracuse eases into season vs. Colgate By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer
The Syracuse women’s lacrosse team will face its hardest schedule in years this season. It will face a multitude of ranked opponents, including No. 1 Maryland, who beat Syracuse in the NCAA tournament last season on its way to winning the tournament. To make the schedule even tougher, the majority of SU’s games against those ranked teams are away. Who: Colgate So when Where: Carrier Dome When: Today, 5 p.m. unranked Colgate comes to the Carrier Dome on Thursday, it will be an aberration for SU. The Orange will take on the Raiders on Thursday at 5 p.m. inside the Dome. The game will serve to ease the No. 5 Orange into its highly competitive schedule. “We don’t have any scrimmages,” SU goaltender Liz Hogan said. “So it’s nice to be able to play a team close to us and play on our field to really
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get into the rhythm.” SU will take the opportunity in its season opener to work out any problems it may have while developing team chemistry. The Orange graduated two of its leading scorers, Halley Quillinan and Christina Dove, so head coach Gary Gait has been moving around some of his players to see where everyone fits best. With eight freshmen joining its squad, Syracuse will be using Colgate as a first look at how the team has come together in the offseason. Syracuse also kicked off last season against Colgate, cruising to a 17-5 victory. It was Michelle Tumolo’s first collegiate game, and she had a season-high seven points. This year, her role may be a little different as a result of the personnel shifts. “We’re going to work around with people,” Tumolo said. “Not everyone’s in a certain spot. I was always in the crease last year, but I might be up top this year. I might be anywhere.” Another difference in this year’s matchup is Hogan’s absence from the goal. Syracuse’s captain
received a red card in last year’s final game, so she is not allowed to play in the season opener. Freshman Alyssa Costantino will man the net, but Gait said the team will not play any differently. Despite Colgate’s bad reputation, the Orange is watching out for some strength on attack from the Raiders. Gait mentioned Colgate senior Colleen Bubnack and junior Courtney Miller, both midfielders, as offensive threats. “They have a couple of players that go really hard to the net,” Gait said. “They’ve got great size. Hopefully what we can do is utilize our speed this year against them like we did last year.” Aside from taking advantage of his team’s speed, Gait plans to double team some of the Colgate attack to shut down its offense. He has some other plans in the works but wants to keep them within the team until they have been unveiled on the field. Shortly following Thursday’s game, Syracuse will fly to Palo Alto, Calif., to face No. 14 Stanford on Sunday. This matchup last season resulted in a 16-7 Orange win, but the Cardinals have already beat No. 10 Notre Dame this year.
One week after Stanford, No. 7 Virginia comes to town. The Cavaliers beat Syracuse by one goal last year. This lineup is familiar to the Orange, who played these same three teams to start last season. Tumolo said she hopes this year’s team will be able to do better than last year’s 2-1 opening record. “We know how each team plays because we played them,” Tumolo said. “But we have a different team this year.” That different team will have to come together against Colgate to be successful against the ranked opponents that await SU, Gait said. Thursday will be an opportunity to get all the kinks out before SU is bombarded by ranked opponents. “We have an extremely tough schedule the first month, especially when you’re going right out to Stanford, who just upset Notre Dame,” Gait said. “That puts the pressure on, so it’s nice to get at least one game against an unranked opponent to get us going.” alguggen@syr.edu
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Orange looks to end slump by avoiding complacency By Zuri Irvin STAFF WRITER
These are the dog days of February for Syracuse. And SU head coach Paul Flanagan does not particularly enjoy this time of year. Flanagan likes coaching in big games, under pressure. In one particular bout of tension, he recalls a weekend set in which his St. Lawrence team faced a win-or-go-home scenario on the road against Dartmouth. Heading into the first game, Flanagan’s Saints trailed the Big Green by one point in the conference standings. “You’re playing a great team to win a league championship, and each night there’s 15,000, 16,000 people there,” Flanagan said. “So we go in there and beat ‘em 3-2 Friday night. Huge game, big crowd, just a battle.” Flanagan’s Saints moved ahead by a point after the first contest. But St. Lawrence dropped the second game, also by a 3-2 margin, and was eliminated. “I didn’t have to say anything,” Flanagan said. “You talk about not having to motivate. It’s there, it’s right in front of you. You got the crowd, you got a league championship. We stood there and watched them award the league championship trophy, and it was awesome.” When Syracuse finishes up its final four games of the regular season over the next two weeks, it will not be playing in front of 1,500. It
won’t be battling for a conference championship, and it probably won’t be dealing with much overt mental pressure. Following a sweep at the hands of top-seeded Mercyhurst this past weekend, SU’s second series loss to them this season, its biggest obstacle to this season’s finish will be complacency. For a team that has already faced five schools currently ranked in the Top 15, Syracuse has struggled to stay motivated against ones they expect to beat. “It’s definitely easier to play really hard against a faster, hardworking team because you have to play up to that level,” sophomore defender Jacquie Greco said. “We have the potential to play better, but it’s harder if they’re skating slower than you. I think we realize we need to win these next four games, or we won’t be in good shape.” Syracuse has won only three of its past 13 games, dating back to Dec. 10. Against Mercyhurst last weekend, SU was outscored 6-1 in the second and third periods. By fixing lethargy or complacency, Syracuse needs to rediscover its motivation against both the stronger and weaker teams on the schedule. SU plays Robert Morris, a team it sits above in the College Hockey America standings, this weekend. “That’s where we have made our mistakes
keith edelman | web editor LISA MULLAN and Syracuse are fighting through a tough stretch of their schedule as they play out the final four games before the College Hockey America tournament. this season,” SU forward Lisa Mullan said. “If we had played the way we do against better teams, we would crush them. Almost double digits. But it’s kind of frustrating to see that we do let up, and we do play down.” In Flanagan’s nine seasons at St. Lawrence, he qualified for the Frozen Four five times and won fewer than 20 games in a season only once. With a conference record of 5-4-1, SU sits comfortably ahead of fourth place Robert Morris at 2-8-3. As a result, there is not too much riding on this year’s playoff stretch. The Orange would
need an epic collapse to avoid qualifying for the College Hockey America tournament. When reflecting on that late-season weekend in Dartmouth, Flanagan recalled his team’s drive for a strong finish. But creating that drive with this year’s Syracuse team is a different beast. “And now for us, we almost have to be creative to keep them motivated,” Flanagan said. “I have to read the room and try and push the right buttons. The appropriate buttons. You want to avoid going through the motions.” zoirvin@syr.edu
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Defense leads Syracuse in ‘signature’ win over Cardinals By Zach Brown Staff Writer
An Erica Morrow free throw put Syracuse up six with just 30 seconds left. All the Orange had to do was protect the 3-point line against Louisville, and it would walk away with the victory. Cardinals guard Tia Gibbs hurried the ball up court to the right wing. syracuse 53 Junior Becky Burke, a 40 louisville 45 percent 3-point shooter on the season, came at her teammate for a handoff. As the two Cardinals crossed, Gibbs faked the pass and pulled up for a 3 one dribble later. But SU guard Elashier Hall jumped right in her face. With no room for a shot, Louisville head coach Jeff Walz had to call a timeout. On the ensuing inbounds play, Burke jacked up a shot from the left wing with Syracuse’s Carmen Tyson-Thomas contesting. It clanged off the rim, and Hall pulled in the rebound, all but seal-
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ing the Orange victory. Syracuse pulled out a 53-45 victory over the Cardinals on Wednesday in front of 1,343 fans
in the Carrier Dome. It was the fewest points a conference opponent scored on the Orange (18-7, 6-6 Big East) all year and was the lowest total for Louisville (16-10, 7-5) this season. The Cardinals shot just 28 percent from the field and hit only 5-of-26 from 3-point territory. “I’ve seen them shoot the ball obviously a lot better than that,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “But I think our guards and our forwards did a very good job eliminating their 3s. … If you want to play a zone and they’re going to get five 3s in an entire game, I think you can be happy with the zone.” From the opening tip, both teams struggled offensively. After the Cardinals took a 9-7 lead with 12:06 left, they tallied just one bucket over the next 10 minutes of play. That stretch included 10 missed 3-pointers in a row for Louisville. While the UL shooters faltered from deep, the Orange shut down any inside threats. SU center Kayla Alexander established herself in the paint early on the defensive end when Monique Reid tried to drive to the basket. Louisville’s leading scorer went straight at Alexander, but the sophomore was up for the challenge, holding her ground and swatting the shot away. “I just wanted it,” said Alexander, who finished with four of Syracuse’s eight blocks. “I tried to go out and stop them from getting easy baskets.” But while the Cardinals offense stalled, SU was only able to build a 12-point lead. A short Louisville spurt that included two 3-pointers by Gibbs just before halftime closed the gap to 23-19 at the break. Still, the defensive struggle continued into the second half. Louisville continued to get looks at the basket — sometimes contested,
ashli truchon | staff photographer kayla alexander fights through the Louisville defense to go up for a shot in Wednesday’s 53-45 win over the Cardinals. Alexander scored 12 points in the game. sometimes wide open — but couldn’t find any rhythm from beyond the arc. The Cardinals’ second-leading scorer, Shoni Schimmel, finished the game shooting 1-of-12 from 3-point range and missed all five of her two-point shots. “We probably could have just stopped at half court and thrown them up,” Walz said. “And we’d make just as many.” As the game wore on, Louisville managed to hang around as Syracuse couldn’t pull away on the other end. In the second half, the Orange never led by more than the eight-point final margin, and it was much closer throughout the period. For senior guard Morrow, the clock simply would not move fast enough as the Cardinals refused to go away. “As the point guard and always being aware of the clock,” Morrow said, “it felt like it was taking a really long time.” The Orange finally put the game away late
with some offensive rebounding. After taking a 47-45 lead with 2:51 left and regaining possession after the Cardinals missed yet another 3-pointer, SU maintained possession for the next 73 seconds. The Orange’s misses resulted in rebounds by Alexander, forward Iasia Hemingway and Tyson-Thomas, allowing Syracuse to run the clock down. Once Louisville finally got the ball, it couldn’t claw back. As the final seconds ticked off, Hillsman didn’t let his emotions show as he clapped nonchalantly and shook hands with the Cardinals. But he said after the game just how important this victory was for SU. “This was one of those games where we needed to come out and get a signature win in conference,” Hillsman said. “And I believe this is definitely one.” zjbrown@syr.edu
Syracuse offense struggles, finds way to sneak out win over Louisville By Michael Cohen Asst. Sports Editor
Jeff Walz told his players over and over again to hit the defensive glass hard. If his Louisville squad was going to beat Syracuse, the team couldn’t give up offensive rebounds. He even identified a key number — 14 — that represented the most offensive rebounds his side could give up if the Cardinals still wanted to win. “We kept telling our kids you can’t win if you give up offensive rebounds,” Walz said. “Our goal is to hold them to 14 or less offensive boards.” With 2:33 remaining, the team had already exceeded that amount by giving up 19. And surprisingly enough, the Cardinals were still in the game. But then it all fell apart. Trailing by just two at 47-45, the Cardinals gave up five offensive rebounds on one possession. The Orange held the ball for 1:13 in that span and clung to its slim advantage. Ultimately, that 73-second nightmare ended with Walz’s team yielding four free throws. And though Syracuse converted only once, it proved to be enough of a cushion to escape with a 53-45 win in the end. Doing just enough turned out to be the theme for Syracuse’s offense Wednesday. SU earned arguably its second-best win of the season over Louisville despite shooting just 32.7 percent
from the field and 58.3 percent from the freethrow line. “We just wanted to reverse the ball, get the ball inside and rely on us making shots,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “We didn’t want to put ourselves in a position where we had to get fouled to score.” But in parts of the game, that was the only place the Orange could get any points at all. From the 12:09 mark of the second half to the 7:25 mark, Syracuse was held without a field goal. At the start of that stretch, SU led 35-31. By the end, the lead was still four, 40-36. Syracuse scored all five of its points in that time from the free-throw line. The team got to the line 22 times in the second half. Louisville only attempted 10 free throws the entire game. And though scoring a single point at a time is by no means desirable, it was just enough to complement a ferocious Orange defensive performance. “I was happy with the looks,” Hillsman said of his team’s offense. “I was more happy on the other end that we didn’t let them score. And that’s the key. When you don’t score and they don’t score and you have a lead, you’re going to be in pretty good shape.” Senior guard Erica Morrow attributed part of the offensive woes to the complicated defense Walz and Louisville employed. The Cardinals
switched from zone to man countless times during the game, always giving the Orange something new to pick apart. Plus, Louisville used a 1-3-1 zone instead of the typical 2-3 zone Syracuse is accustomed to. Morrow said Walz’s squad even changed looks mid-possession. “One thing that Louisville is known to do is that they switch defenses in the middle of defenses,” Morrow said. “So it’s a little tough to read what they were doing, but we still were running our sets and trying to attack. Trying to attack the middle, drive and kick, go to the highlow game and keep getting the ball to Kayla.” And ultimately, the middle is what the Orange was able to exploit. After a first half in which Iasia Hemingway and Kayla Alexander — SU’s two post players — combined for only eight points, the pair put in 13 in the second half. Hemingway got a third of her points at the free-throw line, which was a direct result of her work on the offensive glass. She pulled in six errant SU shots. Alexander was the target late in the game, as SU went back to its bread and butter, the high-low attack. And it was Alexander who sunk the Cardinals on that one key possession late in the game. She got to the free-throw line four times on that sequence and converted the crucial attempt to
give the Orange a three-point lead. “Unfortunately on three or four of them (key possessions), we defended, but then we give up an offensive rebound,” Walz said. “And now all of a sudden it’s a minute that’s gone off the clock because we don’t box out.” mjcohe02@syr.edu
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signing deadlines. “I just went home and burst into tears,” she said. “It was devastating. I felt cheated.” Once the school year started, Corcoran and his teammates launched a campaign to save their team. They made T-shirts and “Save Swimming” signs and stood in the upper levels at SU football games. They traveled to the U.S. Short Course Nationals in Atlanta, Ga., where famous swimmers, such as Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte, signed letters of support. Their cybernetwork stretched to six-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps and twotime champion Natalie Coughlin, both of whom signed an online petition. “We did a really good job of making a ruckus,” Corcoran said. “The support we got was amazing.” Guy Edson swam with Walker and graduated from Syracuse in 1973. He’s now the technical director of the American Swimming Coaches Association, an organization that has provided resources and counsel to every Olympic coach since 1956, as well as to coaches at the collegiate and high school levels. John Leonard, executive director of the ASCA, joked the two are part of a “Syracuse swimming mafia,” a group of highly influential SU alumni on the national swimming scene. Both sent letters to SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor offering advice on what the team could do to stay afloat and asking for answers to pressing questions. They never received a response. “In my opinion, they made a poorly informed decision and didn’t want to hear from their own alumni and community folks about why those decisions were wrong,” Leonard said. Among their concerns: The price tag Gross quoted for the new facility, $35 million, was “way too high,” Leonard said. And basing a team’s competitiveness on the newness of its swimming pool is not a fair gauge, Corcoran and other swimmers said. “When you look at the people who have come out of Syracuse swimming or who have had some connection with it and where they are in the world of swimming today, it’s incredible,” Edson said. “To cut that off is really to cut off a portion of the base of the pyramid that feeds the peak.” Swimming, Edson said, is often on the chop-
ping block because it’s an infrequent revenue generator. “But when you eliminate that opportunity, you eliminate the future and who could come out of it.”
A temporary pass In January 2008, six months after Gross announced the cut, the team won a small victory — a threeyear extension in a “phase-out” program. Scholarship swimmers had the option to stay and swim through 2011, transfer to another school or stop swimming and keep their scholarship. Most stayed to swim during the 2008-09 school year. But between the second- and third-to-last year, scholarship swimmers dropped from 17 to four — seven quit, six graduated — creating a shift in competition and morale. Then-sophomore Glenn Kalata watched the bulk of seniors leave and knew he had a difficult decision to make. “I was bummed. I didn’t want to have to make a change halfway through my college experience, but they weren’t recruiting anymore,” he said. “I realized I couldn’t swim competitively at Syracuse.” Kalata transferred to Florida State University, where he swam for his last two years of eligibility. “It was the right move,” he said. “I’m happy I’m here, and now it seems like it never happened, but at the time it was tough to do. Mazzetta was one of the seven who quit in 2009 but stayed at Syracuse. “A lot of things went into my decision, but ultimately I just had to do what was going to be best for me,” she said. “There were definitely days, especially after the decision I made not to continue, when I looked back,” she added. “I’d have days like that, and I still have days like that. But it’s not positive to dwell on past decisions. “It was extremely unfair of the athletic department, and in my opinion it was one of their poorest decisions.” As numbers dropped, the fight to keep the team did, too. “After we had that first victory, it was great,” Corcoran said. “But it’s like anything. The excitement fades over time, and by now there’s only two scholarship athletes, and no one’s making a stink about the team going away.” Kuba Kotynia is one of two scholarship swimmers who stayed with the team to the end. Kotynia is ranked sixth in the nation in the 200yard breaststroke and is competing this week in the Big East championships in Louisville, Ky. He also qualifies to compete in the NCAA cham-
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pionships in March, although he hasn’t been chosen to compete yet. Kotynia’s decision to stay stands in contrast to many of his teammates who left. His commitment is one that has inspired his fellow swimmers these past few years. “It was complicated. There were other teams who recruited me, but I stayed here for the coaching, and I’m glad I did,” Kotynia said. “No regrets.” One person who never thought of leaving was Walker. Captain of the SU swim team for two years, Walker represented the university at the NCAA championships and set seven school records during his time at SU. He became head coach of the women’s team in 1976 and the men’s in 1979. Walker met his wife and now-assistant coach Ellie here, and the two have raised their three children in Syracuse. “You put a plan in place. Our goal was to see these kids through this process, and we’re proud of the job we’ve done,” Walker said. “From the very beginning, the focus was on the kids and making sure they have that opportunity and to provide it to the best of my ability.” His swimmers, past and present, praise his character of strength and sanguinity throughout the whole ordeal. Walker said he’ll look for other collegiate swimming coaching jobs, but leaving Syracuse will be tough. “Can you wallow in self-pity, and can you get angry and depressed? Sure you could,” Walker said. “I like to think I made a conscious decision not to go that way.”
Long road to extinction Four years after Syracuse Athletic Director Daryl Gross originally announced plans to cut the swimming and diving program, the road finally comes to an unofficial close this weekend as six members of the Orange will participate in the Big East championships. Here’s a look at some of the key points along the way to the end of the program: June 1, 2007: Gross says the swim and dive program will be cut in favor of a women’s ice hockey program, citing the economic effect of facility upgrades as the main reason. Sept. 24, 2007: In opposition of the athletic department’s decision, SU swimmers Peter Gollands and Sean Ellis give a presentation to Student Association. Jan. 15, 2008: Gross announces a program extension and a phase out over a three-year period. Current swimmers were given the opportunity to finish their careers at SU. Feb. 4-5, 2011: Syracuse hosts the final home meet in program history. SU’s Brian Zimmerman wins the final event in Webster Pool, the 200-yard butterfly. Feb. 16-19, 2011: Six SU swimmers will compete in the Big East championships in Louisville, Ky. The only swimmer who has a chance of going further is Kuba Kotynia, who could still qualify for the NCAA championships.
A different kind of team Though the size of the team and the number of Division I-level athletes diminished, the “phase out” left room for more walk-ons in the program’s final four years. That meant more time to focus on personal bests and an added opportunity for students who never would have had the chance to train with a seasoned coach in Walker. This year’s team of 15 comprises 13 walkons and two scholarship swimmers. For Katie Lewinski, a senior who walked on her freshman year, the smaller program gave her the push she needed. It also created an unmatched camaraderie among those who stayed. “There’s a definite sense of accomplishment and honor for the four seniors left that out of something like 12 freshmen who started, we stayed through it all,” Lewinski said. Lewinski qualified for the Big East championships her sophomore year in the 50-yard
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freestyle. Walker coached her to try and make it again her senior year with a kind of attention she doesn’t think she would have gotten on a team of 40 or 50 swimmers. For the four freshmen who saw their careers through, the ending is bittersweet. For Walker, it’s the curtain call to the program into which he’s poured more than half his life. “I’ve come out a winner,” Lewinski said. “If this hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to swim. What sucks is what’s happening to Lou and Ellie. We’re saying goodbye to four years, but he’s saying goodbye to 39.”
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THE END
Syracuse’s swimming and diving program comes to a close By Julia Terruso
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fter Brian Zimmerman won the 200-yard butterfly Feb. 5, he got out of the pool and sat down next to his head coach, Lou Walker. “How does it feel to win the last event that will ever be swum at this pool?” Walker asked Zimmerman. It was a simple question posed by a man who had spent 37 years of his life swimming and coaching at Syracuse, directed at a swimmer who had competed in the near-century-old program’s final four years of existence. For the SU men and women’s swimming and diving team, the program’s end is something they’ve watched creeping up over the horizon for four years now. They saw their roster dwindle from 32 to 15, seniors graduate and swimmers transfer or quit. Still, they say it hasn’t affected their day-to-day goals or those of their long-time coach. “It’s not about the last meet,” Walker said. “The kids come in, and they’re looking forward to today and tomorrow. No one’s sitting around thinking, ‘Oh, this is the last Tuesday.’ That’s not the way it is. You have a meet schedule and a plan to approach, and you do it.” The end of the 2010-11 season marks the 101st and final season for men’s swimming. The women’s program has competed at the NCAA level since the 1976-77 season.
The program got the axe June 1, 2007, when Athletic Director Daryl Gross announced Syracuse would cut the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams and add a women’s hockey program beginning in the 2008-09 season. Gross pointed to the outdated facility and the financial difficulties of building a new one as reasons for the cut. “If we are going to have a swimming program here, then it’s very important that we have the resources to do it the right way,” Gross said in an article published in The Daily Orange on June 1, 2007. “Part of those resources would be getting a new natatorium, a new pool facility, diving and all those type of things. The cost for those is enormous, and they’re costs that we can’t put into it right now.” Early talks of eliminating the program started around 2003, said former SU Athletic Director Jake Crouthamel.
“The facility was deteriorating or had already deteriorated, and we were running short on cash,” Crouthamel said. Title IX, he said, was also a part of the move. “It was 60-40, leaning toward the financial side,” he said. Gross maintains that the reason was purely economical and did not stem from Title IX compliance, which makes discrimination illegal on the basis of sex at universities. But the byproduct of the move did enhance gender equality, as it resulted in a women’s team.
The end of an era On a summer morning four years ago, Ryan Corcoran awoke to find a Facebook message with a link to a Syracuse Post-Standard article. The article announced the elimination of the SU swim team. Corcoran, an incoming sophomore scholarship swimmer, said the news came out of nowhere. “I read it in the newspaper before the athletic department attempted to contact us,” Corcoran said. “It was just awful.” Natalie Mazzetta, a soon-to-be freshman, heard the news from her club coach at practice. Mazzetta had signed on to swim with Syracuse in the fall and now realized she’d have just one year to compete once she got to school. It was too late to look into applying to other universities and past scholarship-
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