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Symposia returns for 3rd year

By Kelvin Read Contributing Writer

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green SUNY-ESF officials, student groups work to achieve goal of carbon neutrality by 2015 Text by Shannon Hazlitt Staff Writer

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rom solar panels appearing on rooftops to the clanking of construction workers making buildings more sustainable, SUNYESF’s progress toward becoming carbon neutral by 2015 is evident all across campus.

But this year, students and faculty involved with tracking the progress of the plan are hoping to engage more of the campus community in helping to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality.

“Creating a culture of sustainability takes a lot of time and a lot of work,” said Justin Heavey, a graduate student studying resource and forest management. “It’s less predictable than technological things, so I think that has been challenging and something we are still working at.”

Heavey is a member of the Cam-

pus Climate Change Committee, which includes students, faculty, staff and administrators who are helping ensure the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry meets its deadline.

ESF President Cornelius Murphy signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment in 2007, committing the school to the 2015 deadline.

Carbon neutrality involves offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by either running and operating renewable energy sources, or purchasing renewable energy from other institutions. ESF is currently working to become only the second college in the nation to achieve carbon neutrality

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The Gateway building is a central component of ESF's carbon neutrality plan. It will be powered by sustainable woody biomass.

The new greenhouse on top of Illick Hall will be much more efficient than the previous greenhouse.

There are photovoltaic cells (solar panels) on the back of Baker Lab. The reeds growing outside of Moon Library are used to create the sustainable woody biomass that will power the Gateway building.

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The symposia, which began on Feb. 18, will continue until April 23. This week features two more lectures:

Interrupting the Lucrece Effect: The Performance of Rape Stories on the Early Modern Stage Where: Tolley 304 When: Tuesday, Feb. 19.

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Working Group in Critical Theory and The Global: The Politics of Translation

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Columbia University professor Jean Howard kicked off the Syracuse Symposia with the reading of her essay, looking at the portrayal of rape in William Shakespeare’s early modernist-era poem, “Lucrece.”

Each year, the Humanities Center fosters scholastic engagement with the annual symposia, which consists of public lectures and presentations.

The symposia, currently in its third year, began Feb. 18 and will continue until April 23.

The various lectures at the symposia are presented by either graduate fellows or faculty fellows from the College of Arts and Sciences, according to the center’s website.

The Humanities Center offers annual faculty fellowships for the spring semester and dissertation fellowships to students of participating doctoral programs in Arts and Sciences, according to the symposia’s website.

Gregg Lambert, who founded the Humanities Center in 2008, said the annual spring symposia allow the

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Brewster/Boland Residence Halls will become coeducational by alternating floors next fall.

After more than a year of discussions, the Office of Residence Services decided to eliminate the only all-male residence hall on campus, Brewster/Boland Director Patty Christiano said.

Haven remains the only all-female residence hall on campus.

“It was unrealistic to have single-sex residents halls,” Christiano said. “There’s no demand for single-sex housing.”

Brewster allows two female floors this semester on a trial basis, she added. “It was the tester for the final step to go coed.”

Students were pleased with the change and asked for coed housing next semester, she said. “The results were so positive, we knew it was time.”

Besides student approval of the coed housing plan next semester, more females requested on-campus housing, making an all-male Brewster residence hall impractical, she said.

“We have all these women who need housing,” she said. “Females outnumber the males in terms of housing demands.”

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But students living in Brewster said the alternating coed floors will make no difference to the residents.

“Brewster guys socialize all the time with the Boland girls,” sophomore Todd Brodginsky said. “We still won’ be on the same floor.

It’s not really a major change.”

The new coed housing policy may encourage students to stay in Brewster/Boland next year. Freshman Darren Snider said. “I hadn’t planned on living here next year, but now I’ll think about it more.”

Alternating floors will make communication and socializing between men and women easier, freshman Stacye Mayer said.

“We’re so isolated the way it is now and it would be great to go coed.”

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Advocacy club comes back to SU

By Eashaa Parekh Contributing Writer

Undergraduates for a Better Education, a group that advocates for improved education through communication with university administration, has returned to campus after an eight-year hiatus.

The group began in the 1980s and has continued to operate sporadically since then, said William Coplin, faculty advisor of UBE and professor of public policy at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

In the past, the group has garnered national attention in The New York Times and on The Today Show.

Former Chancellor Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw worked to help UBE be a constructive force at Syracuse University in the 1990s, Coplin said.

Emily Ballard, president of UBE and sophomore political science major, said UBE was a national organization that used surveys, among other things, to bring certain issues to the attention of the administration.

The group’s last survey was conducted in 2005, after which the organization gradually disintegrated, she said.

Last year, Ballard and some classmates surveyed several College of Arts and Sciences students to get a general idea of feedback on education at SU, said Sawyer Cresap, a freshman political science major.

“Based on the horror stories they heard, and on their own, they decided to bring (UBE) back,” she said. “Even though I am only a freshman, I had some horror stories that I would like to be addressed, which sparked my interest in this group.”

Today, UBE is a research and interest group that seeks to encourage students, administrators and faculty to improve undergraduate education at SU, Coplin said.

UBE currently consists of six members, Ballard said. The six members are Ballard, Cresap and sophomore political science majors Mahlet Makonnen, Jessica Rapp, Carolina Vignola and John Prudente.

While UBE plans to further expand next year, it is currently conducting informal meetings with students and gathering “horror stories” in order to address these issues, Ballard said.

The main difference between UBE in the 1980s and UBE now is that students were more radical in their approach in the past. UBE now works more with the administration, Cresap said. see UBE page 8

michelle yan | contributing photographer (from left) taylor della rocco, Anthony lezama and eugene law, a freshman at SUNY-ESF, an undecided freshman in the College of Arts and Science and a fifth-year SUNY-ESF student, respectively, were elected to positions in the general assembly Monday.

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Eight students from four colleges were voted into the Student Association after being elected to various positions within Syracuse University’s student government.

Despite debate about the qualifications and dedication of some candidates, six representatives were elected to represent four colleges Monday evening in Maxwell Auditorium. Additionally, two members were added to the Finance Board, the branch of SA that oversees more than $1.5 million in student activity fee money.

For the most part, the assembly moved swiftly through elections as two students were elected to represent both the College of Arts and Sciences and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The Martin J. Whitman School of Management and School of Education each grew by one representative. Additionally, Whitman sophomores Moises DeLeon and Michael George were each named to the Finance Board.

The most extensive discussions about candidates were launched

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The university has filled four of its representative seats, the most in recent memory.

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Experts to lead panel discussion on gun control

By Max Antonucci Staff Writer

A nonpartisan panel discussion on gun control and gun violence in the United States, called “Guns and America: Joining the Conversation,” will be held in Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

The event will feature 2012 alumnus Stephen Barton as the keynote speaker. Barton is the policy and outreach assistant for Mayors Against Illegal Guns in New York City, and a

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victim of the July 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.

A diverse panel of experts on gun control and violence will speak in the first of many events this semester to encourage involvement in the

national conversation on guns.

The panel consists of Scott Armstrong, political communications consultant and former New York state lobbyist for the National Rifle Association; Helen Hudson, past president of Mothers Against Gun Violence; James Knoll, director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Program at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University; Langston McKinney, retired

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The number of assembly seats that have been filled.

Power of the pen

In January, Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor joined more than 250 other college presidents to sign an open letter to President Barack Obama, pledging to lead campus discussions on gun violence.

In response to the shooting in Newtown, Conn., the letter offered the support and resources of academic communities in calling attention to the accessibility of assault weapons and mental health issues. Lee Pelton, president of Emerson College, drafted the letter.

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by using only renewable energy sources, said Andrea Webster, a sustainability coordinator at ESF. When Heavey was a junior in 2009, he and others helped create the Climate Action Plan, which outlines specific ways ESF can achieve climate neutrality by June 30, 2015. These measures mostly focused on ways ESF could change its buildings to become more energy efficient, particularly by installing new sources of renewable energy from wind, solar and a unique form of biomass, he said.

Although ESF has been progressively developing ways to make its buildings more sustainable, becoming carbon neutral requires difficult behavior changes for students and faculty, Heavey said. Some of these measures are harder to adapt to than others, such as using more energy-efficient transportation to get to and from the university.

But Heavey said some ESF student groups have been successful in encouraging eco-friendly habits outside of the classroom. The Green Campus Initiative, for example, has helped with some energy audits that were used to track ESF’s progress toward carbon neutrality, he said.

The audits completed by the Green Campus Initiative stemmed from its work removing unnecessary lighting around the ESF campus to save energy. Specifically, the group removed every other bulb from lights in Illick Hall, Heavey said.

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The byproduct of hazardous fuel reduction or ecological restoration actives that are undertaken to restore the ecological integrity of forested ecosystems.

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is another source of renewable energy ESF is developing, Heavey said. This energy source, which is growing in popularity and efficiency, doesn’t produce air pollution since Source: forestguild.org it has a very rapid life cycle, and can quickly store a lot of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

A major element of ESF’s carbon neutrality plan is the Gateway building, which will run on woody biomass and emit zero waste once it opens in March, Heavey said.

President Murphy said once the Gateway building opens, it will have the largest nearterm impact on helping ESF reach its carbon neutral goal.

The building will provide power and heat for many of the university’s other buildings from woody biomass, as well as reduce ESF’s overall reliance on less efficient forms of energy by about 60 percent, Murphy said.

“This project is a cornerstone to us becoming carbon neutral,” Murphy said.

For the last five years, ESF has reduced its carbon footprint by working with the New York Power Authority to add Photovoltaics more photovoltaic The method of solar panels to the camcreating electrical pus, such as those on power by converting the back of Baker Labosolar radiation ratory, Murphy said. into direct current He added that ESF electricity using has added an average semiconductors.

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Murphy also said although he announced last December that he will step down as president within a year, he does not think this will affect ESF’s goal of carbon neutrality.

“I would assume that given the passion of the students to reach carbon neutrality or get as close as we can, there is a very high probability we will continue down that path,” Murphy said.

“There is nothing I am aware of that would change the plan.”

Murphy said ESF is a member of the American

College and University Climate Commitment, an organization that promotes sustainability leadership among universities. ESF must submit yearly reports to this organization to ensure it is on the path to becoming carbon neutral.

Students in EST 427: “Environmental and Energy Auditing” class help create these yearly reports that are then presented to Murphy and ESF’s sustainability department, said Richard Smardon, the professor who teaches the class.

Students use a spreadsheet called Clean Air Cool Planet, and Mike Kelleher, the head of ESF’s sustainability and energy department, checks through the information the students have found, Smardon said.

“There is nothing I am aware of that would change the plan.”

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Since 1999, one of the groups is designated to create a report that shows ESF’s progress toward completely counteracting its carbon footprint by 2015, Smardon said.

The amount of carbon dioxide ESF produced when the class first started doing the audits was more than 12,000 metric tons, Smardon said.

The most recent audit done in 2012 shows that amount dropped to 11,451 metric tons, he said.

But ESF’s increasing enrollment has made reducing its carbon footprint more difficult during the past few years, Smardon said.

“The problem is that we have more and more students, so are not reducing by very much,” he said.

But Smardon said he thinks student groups on ESF’s campus such as the Green Campus Initiative have played a vital role in helping the university reduce its carbon footprint, despite its growing population. The area of personal behavior is one that his students often find hardest to measure and reduce in their calculations, he said.

“A lot of the movement, if you look around campus and the country, is among students pressuring faculty and administrations,” Smardon said.

Yusuf Abdul-Qadir, a graduate student studying sustainable enterprise, is in Smardon’s class, and is working with a group of five students to create the most recent report on ESF’s carbon footprint. He said, after analyzing previous reports, he found they seemed to lack information about students’ travel and behavioral patterns because many students neglected to take the surveys.

“In the last report, we found that there was not much student involvement and we find that highly important,” he said.

Abdul-Qadir said he and his teammates are hoping to get more students involved in ESF’s plan to become carbon neutral by filling out surveys about their behavior outside of academics, such as traveling to and from campus.

They have considered giving students incentives for filling out the surveys, such as hosting get-togethers with pizza and challenging them to meet benchmarks to change certain bad habits, he said.

Abdul-Qadir said his group has also considered making its findings about ESF’s carbon footprint more accessible to students on campus using new technology such as social media, and allowing students to fill out surveys on iPads for convenience.

“I think it’s phenomenal that a group of students is leading this project, and that as students, we can get other students involved in creative ways to show that young people are interested and have a stake in this,” Abdul-Qadir said. “You just need to find the right ways to engage them.” smhazlit@syr.edu

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about undecided Arts and Sciences freshman Anthony Lezama and sophomore School of Education student Daniel Hernandez.

Concern about Lezama centered around his lack of experience within the organization and his inability to name a specific initiative within SA that he’d like to work on. But SA Vice President Duane Ford vouched for the freshman, citing his own personal inexperience as a rookie member.

“When I came into SA, I had no clue what I was talking about,” Ford said. “Just because you don’t know what you’re doing in the beginning doesn’t mean you can’t learn.”

Assembly representative Sean Dinan expressed similar support by referencing Lezama’s letter of intent, which was previously emailed to the assembly. In the letter, Lezama pointed to specific issues, including campus safety, which SA is already working on, Dinan said.

Likewise, the general assembly spent an extended amount of time examining the qualifications of Hernandez, who was eventually approved as a School of Education representative. During his introduction, Hernandez mentioned he currently serves on all of SA’s committees as a non-assembly member, a point that faced criticism when the sophomore stepped out from the room and the assembly discussed his commitments.

Multiple former and current committee heads that have worked with Hernandez, including Chair of Student Engagement Janine Savage, Chair of Academic Affairs Jenny Choi and Chair of the Student Life Committee Ivan Rosales, voiced concern about Hernandez’s ability to manage initiatives when spread so thin among the various committees.

“For the most part, his attendance within the committee hasn’t been too consistent,”

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Syracuse City Court Judge; and Robert Spitzer, chair of the political science department at SUNY-Cortland, according to a Feb. 14 SU News release.

The event will begin with Barton and each panel member giving their opening statements before taking questions from the audience.

Questions will be written on cards beforehand or asked from Twitter at any time using the hashtag #SUguntalk.

Grant Reeher, political science professor at Syracuse University and director of the Alan Campbell Public Affairs Institute, will moderate the discussion.

Reeher emphasized this event doesn’t try to draw a line between both sides of the issue, and is instead aimed at exposing students to a variety of different ideas.

“It is not a debate, full stop, end of sentence,” Reeher said. “It is a discussion and a sharing of perspectives.”

Armstrong, one of the panel members, feels it is extremely important to discuss the topic of gun control in this format, since many people are driven by emotion and not rational arguments.

“This arena of policy is not short on opinion, but it is short on education,” Armstrong said. “There are a lot of people that talk about gun issues but really don’t know a lot about firearms.”

Thomas Wolfe, dean of student affairs at SU and the main organizer of the event, said the chancellor asked him to gather a planning group. He said this was because SU was one of many colleges whose president signed an open

Choi said. “When he does come, he gives his update when he has it, then leaves.”

Offering a counterpoint, Vice President Ford said in addition to his experience on various committees, Hernandez would bring a valuable voice to Monday night meetings.

Despite the concerns, Lezama and Hernandez were two of six representatives elected Monday. Additionally, junior policy studies major Taylor Bold was named as an Arts and Sciences representative, and sophomore marketing major Emily Bordieri was named a Whitman representative.

ESF also filled two representative seats with freshman Taylor Della Rocco and Eugene Law, a fifth-year environmental resources engineering and environmental biology major who previously served as SA’s parliamentarian.

After the meeting, SA President Allie Curtis said this is the highest number of seats ESF has filled during a session in her time with the organization.

For his part, Law attributed his return to a desire to maintain a bond that has developed between the two campuses in his time at SU. Said Law: “We’ve made some good movement in integrating in the two student governments in the last three or four years, and I don’t want that to fall away.”

Other business discussed • The assembly approved $2,937 in programming funding for four separate student organizations.

• Daily copies of The New York Times and USA Today will be made available to University College students, an amenity already offered to full-time SU students, Curtis announced.

• The Student Engagement Committee conducted its first little impact by hosting a blood drive in February. Little impacts will occur monthly leading up to the weeklong Impact Week in the fall. dbtruong@syr.edu @ debbietruong

letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to take action to curb gun violence.

While the letter has a clear message for more gun control, Wolfe emphasized the letter’s additional call for an active, honest discussion on the issue without a specific agenda.

“We call it dialogue,” Wolfe said. “That’s where constructive things happen. That’s where conversations become rich.”

Wolfe said he wanted this first event to act as a starting point for a conversation that will cover a broad range of topics, and that events later this year would focus on more specific areas of the discussion.

“We felt if we narrowed it too much and only made it about policy, or only made it about the law, or only made it about mental health, we wouldn’t engage a broad array of people,” Wolfe said.

Future events, he said, will focus on more specific topics such as mental health, the culture of gun violence, bullying, national policy and a student-run panel on students carrying guns on campus.

Wolfe said he was hoping to organize, with Hudson from the panel, an event downtown on the gun issues the Syracuse community faces.

They are also working on an official debate as a part of an ongoing series moderated by Reeher, called “the Campbell Debates.”

Like Reeher, Wolfe said he hopes students come to the event Tuesday ready to join the conversation, which he feels will never end in the United States, but is still important to have.

“I would hope they would come with an open mind. I would hope they would come in the spirit of dialogue,” Wolfe said. “Dialogue is as much listening as it is speaking.” meantonu@syr.edu

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ecently, a BuzzFeed article kept showing up on my Facebook newsfeed called, “What It’s Like To Be A Twentysomething, As Told By ‘Mean Girls,’ ‘Bridesmaids,’ and ‘Girls.’”

It was basically a collection of .gifs extolling how special and tortured we are as 20-somethings. The overall point? Being in your 20s is a beautiful tragedy on the level of an Allen Ginsberg poem.

“If you’re a twenty-something, you probably feel like this,” the writer wrote, coupled with a picture of Allison Williams from “Girls” saying she’s never been more miserable in her life.

Seriously? Never more miserable in your life? Wait until you hit 80, Allison, because I bet that sucks.

Though this article is only a minor annoyance, it appears it is the symptom of a greater problem.

Our generation is experiencing a Thought Catalog overload – blogs, television shows, books – everything is about how difficult it is to be young and entitled.

I happen to think this is a ridiculous notion, because who wouldn’t want to be young and entitled, really?

Apparently a lot of people, because this article was all over my social media feeds for a solid week.

This, I cannot fathom. I cannot understand an outlook that says, “Man, having no responsibilities beyond my own well being and having tons of energy to party and work out and not be old is horrible.”

Is that a rational mindset? Do people really not enjoy being young?

I know we get tagged as a generation that takes things for granted, but old people always say things like that. Old people have been griping about young people since the 15th century.

Unfortunately, this time, I think the old folks probably have a point, because we have managed to complain about being young, cool and awesome.

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world on a string Wow, guys. We are unpredictable, I will give us that much.

I’m compelled to wonder what the people who enjoyed and reposted this article would prefer as an alternative to being 20 years old. Would you rather be a child?

Let’s be honest, being a kid is terrible. You can’t drive, you can’t see R-rated movies or do literally anything that is fun or interesting.

You’re just a short idiot who’s at the mercy of your parents.

And what about being old?

Being 30? 40? 50? I don’t think I need to delve into the reasons why aging is a bad thing. You wrinkle.

Can’t move very fast. Forget things. Have responsibilities.

Ever wonder why old people long for their youth again? Yeah, it’s because this time, right now, is probably one of the best times of your life.

Stop whining about how hard it is to be young and fun, everybody.

It is absolutely the most ridiculous thing, ever. Go outside and run around or something. You can actually do whatever you want, because nobody cares and you have nothing to worry about. Also, you have time to make tons of mistakes without any long-term consequences. How cool is that?

Or, you can post some sad articles about what an artsy, suffering 20-something you are until you turn 30 and the world ends.

Your call.

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Proposal to restrict off-campus living unfair Proposed legislation to regulate the number of student residents in the University Hill area should not be approved by the Syracuse Common Council.

Students should be able to take advantage of living opportunities supplied by the off-campus neighborhoods surrounding the areas of Syracuse University.

The proposed legislation is a licensing system that would require landlords to register new properties, including student resident names and the universities they attend. Its purpose is to lessen the spread of students into the Special Neighborhood District in close proximity to the university.

For students from SU and other nearby colleges, following through with this proposal would prove unjust. This neighborhood is an important option for many students wishing to live off campus because

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange of its close location to SU’s main campus. Being in close walking distance is a necessity for students who may not have cars and need to access campus easily and safely.

Though non-student residents may not favor living among young people exhibiting characteristics of a college lifestyle, this location is the most logical for students to live in.

Restricting students completely from living in specific neighborhood areas like Berkeley Park was also proposed in the legislation. But acting upon this would wrongfully hinder students’ right to choose in which neighborhood they wish to live, as well as the landlords’ ability to purchase property in this area for student housing.

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Instead of restricting students and landlords who rent houses to student tenants, a family-oriented atmosphere should be enforced in these areas.

Student and non-student residents should enter into a contract stipulating that college-style parties and similar behavior must be constrained to the area, especially since this neighborhood is located near Edward Smith Elementary School.

SU does not have enough space to house all of its graduate and undergraduate students. When adult students make the decision to live off campus, they lessen the strain on university resources.

The university contributes greatly to the city of Syracuse and its communities. This fact, and the need for students to live off and close to campus, should be considered by those wishing to enact this restrictive proposal.

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Zeroing in App helps users clear inbox clutter, causes lengthy wait list to form

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With the Mailbox app, iOS 6.0 users can easily organize emails from their Apple device. Gesturebased features allow users to archive, delete or save emails for a later time.

By Jared Rosen

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Staff Writer

tudents looking to get better control of their inbox may have a new application to help stem the daily flood of emails.

The newly released Mailbox app is designed to keep the user’s mailbox empty at all times.

Mailbox’s notable feature gives users the ability to “snooze” certain emails. This means that if an email indicates an appointment is scheduled for the next Monday, Mailbox will remind the user a few days later, closer to the appointment date. Reducing the amount of clutter in the inbox allows the user to sort through more information in less time, according to a Jan. 22 Mashable article.

“I’m really bad at checking my email. I find it challenging to set push notifications,” said Rachel Mohler, a sophomore photojournalism major and contributing photographer for The Daily Orange.

“It’s hard to compartmentalize them on your phone because the screen is so small.”

Generic email mobile apps often leave the user with an endless stream of messages, largely unorganized and unsearchable for minute details, according to a Feb. 12 by Wired magazine.

“Email is something that needs to be done.

I never read the school email because it’s not relevant, hard to browse and because it’s not specialized,” said Michael Lima, a sophomore architecture major.

But students hoping to download the app may have to wait a while. More than 750,000 people have already signed up for the app, which is being released in stages. The excitement for the app has led some anxious users to take to Twitter to show the world their position in line to download it, according to the Wired article.

Although Mailbox allows users to be reminded of future appointments, some students believe calendars are a more suitable option for organizing their schedule than email.

“I use my calendar to organize my priorities rather than reorganizing my email,” said Jason Evanko, a sophomore film major.

There are several gesture-based features to Mailbox that allow users to swipe to save a particular message to a designated folder, or swipe in the opposite direction in order to delete the email.

Gentry Underwood, CEO of Orchestra, the parent company of Mailbox, said in the Mashable article that it is unfortunate that many email providers force users to adapt to a miniature desktop version of the conventional email.

By optimizing the user experience, especially for mobile devices, the hope is that more people will be able to quickly manage the often unbearable influx of daily emails.

This new way of reinventing the smartphone mailbox was forged with dynamic research from Stanford University behavioral researcher BJ Fogg. Mailbox is effectively a balancing act between a user’s ability to complete an action and their motivation to actually do it.

This gives users the ability to shrink their mailbox by postponing tasks that need attention at a later date, according to a Feb. 17 article by Forbes magazine.

Mailbox lacks several key features that its competitors have. Sparrow, an email app competitor, affords the user with a greater number of gestures that speed up the navigation of email. Sparrow also allows pictures to be added to contacts, thus personalizing the user interface, according to Mashable.

The differentiation factor of Mailbox is its ability to “snooze” messages that do not need immediate attention. According to Mashable, the Mailbox team is already working on the next great innovation for email: automated organization and location incorporation. jmrose03@syr.edu

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In addition to saving emails, users can add emails to built-in lists such as “To watch” and “To buy.”

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Unwanted emails can be deleted with the swipe of a finger.

snooze

The most interesting feature of Mailbox allows users to postpone emails for later.

Users can then choose when to have the email resent to their inbox.

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university to highlight its faculty and fellows.

“This symposia allows me to talk about my research while engaging other scholars,” said Rinku Chatterjee, one of the graduate fellows. “I can generate conversation in conjunction with the topic.”

The symposia is a part of a larger initiative

by The Central New York Humanities Corridor, which is made up of Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester and several other regional liberal arts colleges, said Lambert.

The Humanities Corridor, which was initially led by Cathryn Newton, dean emerita of Arts and Sciences, established the symposia’s three basic principles of scholarly strength, connecting various faculty networks and creating potential regional collaboration, according to the website.

The symposia also allow the faculty to bring in national or international speakers to discuss the work on the subject they are researching. Multiple organizations, including the Humanities Corridor, have partnered with the event, Lambert said.

“This is definitely the biggest symposia so far,” said Lambert. “It’s all focused on research, and specifically research that the faculty is doing here.”

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While the goals of UBE remain constant, its method of tackling these goals has changed, Ballard said.

“It is much easier to get in touch with a broad base of students now, thanks to technology,” she said. “In addition to that, the uni-

“This is definitely the biggest symposia so far. It’s all focused on research, and specifically research that the faculty is doing here.”

Gregg Lambert

founder of the Humanities Center

Fourteen public lectures are scheduled, with professors coming from Arizona State University, the University of Minnesota and Cornell University, among other research institutions.

The Humanities Center and lectures are funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which is a part of SU’s Billion Dollar Campaign, according to the website.

Freshman biology major Ella D’Amico, who attended Monday evening’s lecture, said after seeing the first symposium that she was interested in seeing future presentations.

“I think it that it is interesting to hear from somebody who has thought about something so interesting and specific,” D’Amico said. “It’s really great to hear from a point of view from a different perspective.” kbread@syr.edu

versity structure is now more simplified with fewer levels of administrators, thus making it easier for us to get in touch with them.”

It is important that administrators are aware of the problems they are unable to see, Ballard said. It is even more important that students realize they are consumers of this education, and they have the right to demand the product that fits their needs. edparekh@syr.edu

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Student grows up with passion for art, turns it into business of custom T-shirts

By Austin Pollack STAFF WRITER

hen sophomore illustration major Tyler Poyant was in high school, he took a geographical image of Cape Cod, Mass., rotated it into an “L” shape, added a little love and his business of custom T-shirts and stickers emerged.

Tyler’s success story begins as a child, growing up on a pond in East Wareham, Mass. At an early age, he fell in love with the Cape Cod life. One of his first pieces of art was a lighthouse, which he created for a custodian at his elementary school.

Tyler began to capture the outdoor scenery of Cape Cod. He would watch Canadian geese and ducks on his pond and turn it into art. At only 12 years old, he became interested in sharing his work with the public.

His father, Rene, recalls this first instance.

“He asked me to bring him down to a local gift shop,” Rene said. “He did all the talking. They let him set up a table outside the store and they wouldn’t just sell them, but they let him sell it himself. I think he enjoyed telling people about his artwork.”

Tyler said he enjoys art because it allows him to tell a story by creating a picture. He said he likes illustration because of the contact the pencil makes with the paper, and how he has always been good at it.

When people began to notice and comment on his work at My Sister’s Gallery in Sandwich, Mass., Rene began to realize his son had something special.

“I thought, ‘He’s got something here that’s a talent,’” Rene said.

The relationship Tyler built with My Sister’s Gallery helped put him on the shelves of America’s bookstores.

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sam maller | asst. photo editor TYLER POYANT, a sophomore illustration major, wears one of his custom-designed shirts. Poyant combined his love of art with his appreciation for his hometown, Cape Cod, Mass., in the design of his T-shirts, that he now sells.

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Hijabs represent fashion opportunities for many, not religious oppression

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ne of the things people asked me most frequently when I decided to come to Jordan was what I would have to wear and how I’d be expected to dress. I always responded the same way: “No, I don’t have to wear a headscarf, but I’ll have to wear more modest clothes, long skirts, long-sleeved shirts and things that really cover me up.”

Based on what I was told by my program, I came to Jordan with a suitcase full of neutral maxi skirts and plain long-sleeved T-shirts. To date, I only have two pairs of pants, including the jeans I wore on the

plane here.

But to my surprise, what I’ve seen on campus is far from the plainly dressed girls I expected. Instead, what I witness every day is a mix of fashion statements even more diverse than what we see on campuses in the United States.

The majority of Arab women who inhabit my campus are far from drab or devoid of style. Many dress to impress in clothes any fashion-conscious American girl would envy. Their high heels and tall boots click as they walk up the steps to their classes, and their skinny jeans perfectly flatter their

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dude, where’s my camel? covered-up figures.

Despite the fact that their arms and collar bones are covered, they look effortlessly chic and not at all old-fashioned. They take pride in their appearance, and emphasize their Arab features with carefully applied, dramatic makeup. Even the

less-flashy girls here look meticulously put-together.

Never underestimate the power of a hijab as an accessory. While it’s often seen as a sign of modesty in the United States, I can’t help but view it as a greater form of expression for Jordanian women.

Don’t get me wrong, there are still some girls I see who stick to the basics — plain scarves of neutral colors and long skirts or dresses. However, the vast majority of headscarves I see are not tame, but rather statement pieces that center around an entire outfit. These scarves are beautifully patterned

works of art with bright, contrasting colors and intricate designs.

They are carefully wrapped in a way that adds volume, and the result looks more like a striking headpiece than an attempt to fade into the background.

I’ve definitely gotten a different perspective of what wearing the hijab entails. In the United States, we have a tendency to view it as a sign of religious piety, and in some cases, even religious oppression.

But having lived on this campus for a month now, I must disagree.

If anything, the young women here

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National Engineers Week kicks off at Link Hall

By Ruth Li STAFF WRITER

Poker chips lay in lines like dominos on a big brown wooden table. Michael Fulk sat by the table and tried to build a tower with the cards. For Fulk, it was harder than it looked.

The card tower collapsed again and again – it couldn’t even stay stable on its first level.

Fulk shook his head and put a poker package on the cards.

“It is cheating,” shouted Tomas Kovalcik, sophomore civil engineering major and president of the Syracuse University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Kovalcik attended the Monday evening event, titled “Playing Card Towers,” at Link

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Cape Cod Life magazine wanted to interview emerging artists. It interviewed Tyler and a profile about him and his art was printed in the publication.

“The Cape Cod Life magazine really took me to the next level,” Tyler said. “I was featured as Cape Cod’s emerging artist with all of Cape Cod’s famous artists.”

As Tyler grew, his work and ideas became more and more sophisticated. In high school, he began drawing designs with hearts. The designs made themselves onto T-shirts and his company, I Heart It, was born.

“It’s such a rewarding feeling that other people are interested in one, what you designed, and two, the company that you are trying to pursue.”

Tyler Poyant

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Rene was a proud father when his son came up with the idea of a Cape Cod logo for a business.

“I gave him a hug and told him to get it trademarked because it was such a great idea,” he said.

Sophomore management major Melissa Clawges and Tyler lived together on the same floor in Flint Hall their freshman year. During the year they became close friends and have remained that way.

“It’s cool that he really focuses on Cape Cod where he is from because you can tell he really

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have embraced this practice, and found a way to make it very much their own.

One of my professors told me when she was a young woman, she saw much less veiling in Jordan. Her generation had turned away from the tradition, and only a small minority still felt headscarves were neces-

Hall. As a part of National Engineers Week, the SU chapter of ASCE hosted a series of social events, such as a construction site tour and a steel bridge competition.

The week’s events aim at letting students get involved with the organization and practice engineering knowledge in daily life.

Participants used 20 cards to try and make the tallest card tower possible. The event let students think about what it takes to build a stable tower in the real world, including elements of engineering strategy such as force, angle and material. Students figured out the final solution to build stable card towers through trial and error.

The event promoted engineering as a part

loves it,” she said.

Tyler is the sole owner of the company.

He controls its daily operations, from web design, production, inventory, customer service and marketing.

He says it is challenging but rewarding because it’s his own company.

“I always had an entrepreneurial spirit since I was 12,” Tyler said. “It’s all me. I love it. I’m in control of it all. But it’s annoying at times because you don’t have anyone to throw the work on.”

Although Tyler controls the company, his parents are still available to offer any support they can provide.

Rene says he and his wife help Tyler open up, and give him the tools he needs to build his business.

“We try to open up opportunities for him,” Rene said. “Be positive. Allow him to grow in the art industry that he loves so much.”

Tyler’s friends caught onto the idea that he owns and operates his own business. Last spring, as a freshman, Tyler entered the Syracuse University Chevrolet Sonic Road Warriors competition. He created a design for a Chevy vehicle, competing against junior and senior communication design students.

Tyler was victorious. He won $2,500 and his design, which featured different buildings on SU’s campus, was put on the car. It was unveiled at the March 3 men’s basketball game against the University of Louisville.

“That was huge,” he said. “It’s a real cool feeling just walking across campus and there goes the car.”

Clawges was on hand to celebrate Tyler’s accomplishment when he won the car contest, but she had the privilege of watching the design grow from its early stages.

“When we knew that he won, it was awesome because his design was by far the best one,” Clawges said. “It was really cool to see his car driving around campus because we

sary. Now it’s the opposite, at least here in Irbid. The vast majority of women on campus wear headscarves on a daily basis.

When I asked my professor why she thought this resurgence occurred, she told me she thought it was a kind of rebellion.

But it wasn’t against the religion, society or parents, as we might expect. She believes young people are embracing their Arab and Islamic traditions as a form of rebellion against misconceptions coming out of the

of the annual event, E-week, said Bill Finch, vice president of ASCE and junior civil engineering major.

The event lasted close to an hour. Several attendees gave up the smooth table surface and moved to work on the carpet. Most people who participated built card towers for the first time.

Fulk, a senior civil engineering major, said he previously tried to build a tower with coasters at restaurants, but using cards was harder than he expected.

He said he thinks it’s hard to build a stable tower because the cards are brand new and smooth. He wasn’t the only one who had problems with the cards.

“It is really difficult to build a tower out of cards. I thought it would be easier,” said Wensi Wu, a sophomore civil engineering major who attended the event, “because all I need to do is to make some perfect triangles.”

By showing up at the event, she wanted to encourage other engineers to get involved into the community and establish social networks.

As a member of ASCE, she thinks it’s a professional organization and opens doors to engineering activities.

Said ASCE President Tomas Kovalcik: “We hope people have fun and can apply their knowledge to actually building something, as opposed to what we learn in class.” jli64@syr.edu

sam maller | asst. photo editor TYLER POYANT sits and works at his studio in the Shaffer Art Building. Poyant created the design for his line of shirts based on the shape of the Cape Cod peninsula. really saw it come from design to full-swing actuality.”

When Tyler walked through malls wearing his custom T-shirt, people would come up to him, comment and ask where he got it. That was when he knew people were interested in the design and that it had real potential. He considers this his biggest success story.

“It’s such a rewarding feeling that other people are interested in one, what you designed and two, the company that you are trying to pursue,” Tyler said.

Clawges was fascinated by how talented Tyler was when she first met him, and was even more eager to know more about it.

“I was surprised but when I saw his website, I was really impressed with what he has turned

his company into,” Clawges said.

Although he is only a sophomore in college, Tyler is looking ahead to his future.

He says his future goals change everyday, but he started with hopes of working for Pixar or DreamWorks. He also enjoys designing clothing.

Rene would like to see him continue what he started at such a young age. He wants to see the T-shirt company continue to grow, but he also wants Tyler to be able to provide for his family.

“I would love to see him working for a company doing illustration,” Rene said. “I think it has so much potential. He’s so creative. I’d love to see him have his own business some day and to be able to love what he does.”

West.

To be honest, I can’t blame young women if this is their reason for veiling. They have proven to me that veiling is not a form of oppression, or even necessarily an entirely religiously motivated trend. It is a personal and familial choice based on religious and cultural factors. These women still manage to be beautifully stylish while at the same time staying within the frameworks of their personal beliefs.

And the women like me, who don’t veil? We’re perfectly fine, too. It’s not a cultural barrier, it’s just a part of individual style. In day-to-day life, it affects friendships no more than choosing to wear Ugg boots in the United States.

I can only hope that someday the hijab will be accepted just as easily.

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Lara Sorokanich is a junior Middle Eastern studies and magazine journalism major. Her column appears every week in Pulp. For more information, she can be reached at lsorokan@syr.edu.

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Misfire Confusing compilation of emo, stadium rock makes ‘Conventional Weapons’ worst My Chemical Romance album to date

By Erik van Rheenen

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graphic illustration by beth fritzinger | design editor Sounds like: Hot Topic trying to become The Gap Genre: Pop Top track: “The World is Ugly”

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mo died in 2006, and “The Black Parade” was the album that killed it.

My Chemical Romance apparently thought generous applications of “guy-liner” and swooping haircuts weren’t embarrassing enough, so the band recorded its infamous full-blown emo rock opera.

Shortly after “The Black Parade” went platinum, “emo” became a punch line, and My Chemical Romance faced an ultimatum: change or fade. It changed — polishing a stadium rock sound on 2010’s “Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” — but its most recent album, “Conventional Weapons,” is the album that could have been.

Released as a compilation, the album is a collection of tracks written, recorded and scrapped for a “Black Parade” follow-up. It makes for a highly entertaining listen to a band in flux, with one foot resolutely planted in brooding emo and the other stepping full-force into arena anthems.

When My Chemical Romance sticks to its punkier, emo guns, the result is ear-bleedingly awful. Singer Gerard Way shrieks his way through opener “Boy Division,” and what could’ve been a cool guitar solo from Ray Toro gets lost in painful squeals of feedback. Way worsens on “Tomorrow’s Money,” slurring through incoherent verses and rushing to a chorus that flatlines with cringe-worthy lyrics like, “fell in love with a vampire.”

Most fans’ knee-jerk reaction would be to jump ship after the first three songs — “Ambulance” is a real snoozer — and it’s hard to blame them.

But from the opening snare drum kick of “Gun.,” it’s pretty clear exactly when My Chemical Romance switched gears and dropped the emo shtick. Way finally sounds like he’s having

fun, and “Gun.” is a fist-pumper of an anthem. Using “Conventional Weapons” as an album title was perfect: the album sounds like the band is armed to the teeth with hooks.

Even tracks that resemble rewritten, sad ballads get injected with pomp. “The World Is Ugly” is a lush, sweeping slow dance song, clocking in at just less than five minutes.

As lovelorn as its lyrics are, it stays uplifting and vibrant.

The album’s second whopper of a ballad, “The Light Behind Your Eyes,” starts with Way crooning over an acoustic guitar before building its bombast for a rousing finale.

The band also puts together some in-your-face choruses.

“Surrender the Night” brushes through sleepy verses for one of the group’s best choruses to date, and drummer Jarrod Alexander puts on a clinic on “Burn Bright,” a feel-good tune that lyrically tackles the thoroughly anti-emo idea of “like who you are.”

But the band follows up its two ballads, both aching with emotion and understated instrumentation, with two slapdash garage-rock yawners. “Kiss the Ring” is a ho-hum White Stripes wannabe, and “Make Room!!!!” changes tempo at random, jostling the listener’s eardrums around at whiplash speeds.

Fans should be thankful this wasn’t the album we got after “The Black Parade.” For all its standouts, “Conventional Weapons” is kind of a mess. It’s the product of a band that didn’t know whether to go for the gusto or give fans another “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.”

In all its Hot Topic glory, “The Black Parade” was an album written by a band that wanted to raise the bar for emo. And for its overblown, space-age nonsense, “Danger Days” was penned by a band confident enough with its fan base to go out on a limb and take a 180-degree turn away from emo.

“Conventional Weapons” tries having it both ways but ends up with neither. My Chemical Romance should’ve kept pushing forward on its next LP and left these scraps on the cutting room floor. ervanrhe@syr.edu @TheRealVandyMan

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Miami shocking country with climb up ACC, AP Top 25 poll

By Phil D’Abbraccio ASST. COPY EDITOR

Five weeks ago, Miami was unranked. Now, the Hurricanes are on top of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and not far from the top of the college basketball world.

“We want to enjoy the journey, but we also want to stay focused on our next opponent,” head coach Jim Larranaga said in the ACC coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 4. “And that’s what the guys have been able to do. If you win a game, enjoy that, celebrate that for a short while, but the very next day, you’re back to the office doing your job.”

Projected to barely finish fourth in the conference, No. 2 Miami (21-3, 12-0 ACC) has taken the nation by storm, shooting up through the Associated Press Top 25 Poll. Now with a threegame lead over Duke in the conference standings, Larranaga’s well-balanced and experienced squad is riding a 13-game winning streak, on pace to earn one of the most improbable No. 1 seeds in recent NCAA Tournament memory.

The Hurricanes were given one of the country’s toughest nonconference schedules and an overall slate currently ranked the third strongest nationally. Still, Miami has knocked off three ranked teams this year, starting with then-No. 13 Michigan State in late November – a team that’s now worked its way into the top five.

But a trip to Hawaii for the Diamond Head Classic at the end of December proved costly.

The Hurricanes dropped a 19-point decision to then-No. 4 Arizona, their second game of the day, then lost two days later to Indiana State in overtime.

On top of that, Miami lost starting center Reggie Johnson, a 6-foot-10, 292-pound senior who broke his left thumb in practice and was expected to miss the next six to eight weeks.

“I told Reggie he has until February to get in the best shape of his life so he can help us during the most crucial part of the schedule,” Larranaga said in a Dec. 31 article by The Miami Herald.

But Johnson returned ahead of schedule, just in time for the Hurricanes’ home matchup with then-No. 1 Duke on Jan. 23. Miami fans started lining up outside of the arena for seats about 24 hours before tipoff, and some even camped out to get as close as they could to the action.

“I don’t know how you can sit outside for a basketball game for that long,” Miami guard

and leading scorer Durand Scott said after the game. “That made me want to win for them even more.”

Scott delivered a season-high 25 points as the then-No. 25 Hurricanes thrashed the Blue Devils by 27 points, the third worst margin of defeat for a No. 1 team ever. Miami fans stormed the court in celebration of a victory that was essentially decided by Miami’s 23-point lead at halftime.

Three games later, Miami, which moved up to No. 14, kept its momentum going with a onepoint win at then-No. 19 North Carolina State – the preseason ACC favorite – courtesy of a tip-in

by Johnson with less than a second left in the game. Since returning from his injury, Johnson hasn’t been a major factor offensively, but his presence is felt on the boards, as he’s averaging 8.3 rebounds per game for the year.

Guard Shane Larkin has been just as instrumental to the Hurricanes’ success.

The sophomore and only underclassman in the starting lineup, Larkin is the team’s second-leading scorer at 13.2 points per game while dishing out 4.3 assists per contest, tied for third in the ACC. But Larkin’s conference-leading 2.1 steals per game are just as crucial to Miami’s scoring defense, which ranks third in the conference.

“He’s terrific at everything,” Larranaga said in the Jan. 28 ACC coaches’ teleconference.

“He’s a heck of a defender, he works so hard defensively, comes up with steals ... He runs the team, he shoots the 3, he handles the press, just having an all-conference caliber year.”

Miami still has six regular season games left on its schedule. With wins over the ACC’s presumed top teams, Miami’s resume now is arguably impressive enough for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

But the Hurricanes expect to inflict even more damage in the postseason.

“Beating Duke, Carolina, N.C. State, these are schools that passed up on guys playing at Miami right now, so beating these teams is very special,” Johnson said after the win over N.C. State. “I’m not sure what people think of us now, but they should respect us. People think we’re good, but I think we’ve got a great team. We can make noise come March.” pmdabbra@syr.edu @PhilDAbb

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BREAKING DOWN THE FILM

Four former Orange players are heading to the NFL Combine to impress scouts. Here’s what NFL Draft analyst Mike Mayock said about each:

“Coaches are really going to like Ryan Nassib. He’s got good physical attributes, not great, but good physical attributes, plus he’s got all the intangibles: toughness, intelligence and work ethic. He’s going to start to quietly climb boards between the combine and the draft.”

“Shamarko Thomas is one of the better safeties I’ve seen on tape and I would give him a third- or fourth-round grade at the worst. …

He’s short, but he’s tough as nails and I’d like to see him run well.”

“He came in with shorter arms at the Senior Bowl and everybody immediately wanted to move him to guard and I thought, ‘No way.’ I give him the benefit of the doubt. He looked like a late firstround tackle to me, and I’m not going to move off that until he proves to me he can’t play. And at the Senior Bowl I thought he played pretty well.” receiver” moniker.

Coming out of high school, Lemon ran just a 4.62 40-yard dash at a Scout.com Combine in Baltimore. To surge up draft boards, that has to improve. That’s what he’s been working on at Fischer Sports in Phoenix, where he said he’s run one of the three fastest 40-yard dash times among the prospects training there.

“I feel like I’m capable of doing it with the great training I have,” Lemon said. “I see myself as I’m not a blazing fast guy, but I do have some speed, so I just try to go out there and prove it to everyone how fast I am.”

Thomas called his invite to the combine “a dream come true.” For as long as he can remember, he fantasized about participating in the NFL Combine before getting drafted.

For a player surrounded with question marks, whether it is about injuries, size or coverage ability, the combine is even more important.

It’s somewhere he can watch his stock skyrocket. At Syracuse’s Pro Day last year, Thomas clocked 4.26 on the 40-yard dash. A potential workout warrior, Thomas said he’s been running times in the 4.4s and 4.5s during his training, but is ready to surprise people.

“We’re going to show in the combine,” Thomas said. “ … It’s just great to have the opportunity to be at the combine, so if I show out, I hope I go up somebody’s radar.”

“He’s got that possessionreceiver moniker on him, so he has to run well.”

Thomas wakes up at 5 a.m. every day, trying to make that happen. Mayock is higher on Thomas than most, projecting the safety as a third- or fourth-round pick.

“Shamarko Thomas is one of the better safeties I’ve seen on tape,” Mayock said. “ …

He’s short, but he’s tough as nails. I’d like to see him run well.”

Thomas is working with some of the nation’s top athletes with Pete Bommarito in South Florida, including former South Florida quarterback B.J. Daniels and Michigan wide receiver Devin Street. Even with the stiff competition, Thomas consistently performs at the top of the heap in drills.

The combine is his chance to rise in the draft.

“I work too hard not to be at the top,” Thomas said, “so I stack up at the top of athleticism, everything, in every competition.” dbwilson@syr.edu

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SU continues to thrive with home dominance

spencer bodian | staff photographer LA’SHAY TAFT and the Orange, winners of five in a row, will look to feed off another enthusiastic home crowd Tuesday night at the Carrier Dome against Rutgers at 7 p.m.

By Kevin Prise STAFF WRITER

Breaking out of the locker room for Saturday afternoon’s matchup with Pittsburgh, Syracuse donned a new look. In SU’s annual “Play 4Kay” game in support of breast cancer awareness, all of the Syracuse players sported pink jerseys for the cause.

The color change from the traditional orange Who: Rutgers didn’t appear to Where: Carrier Dome affect SU’s play in When: Today, 7 p.m. the slightest in an Channel: CBS Sports 80-39 rout of the Network Panthers. Not much

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has affected the team’s play at home this season. The Orange (21-3, 9-2 Big East) carries an unblemished 11-0 home mark into its final regular season conference matchup with Rutgers (14-10, 5-6) at 7 p.m. at the Carrier Dome.

“We love playing at home in front of our home crowd,” senior center Kayla Alexander said. “They give us energy, and it’s also important to protect the home court as well, especially during conference play.”

Syracuse has already completed one homeand-home series this season against rival Georgetown, with the home-court advantage apparent. At Georgetown on Feb. 12, Syracuse needed to battle back from an eight-point, second-half deficit to escape with a 69-60 victory. At

home on Jan. 12, SU led at the half and notched a 52-point second half in a comfortable 86-56 win.

After completing an undefeated two-game road swing against Cincinnati and Georgetown, in front of crowds of 535 and 609 respectively, the Orange returned home to play Pitt in front of 1,355, SU’s largest home crowd of the season to date.

Tipoff approached and the crowd started to clap, as it does at the beginning of every men’s game.

The fans continued their rhythmic clap until the 18:02 mark, when freshman guard Brianna Butler drained a 3-point shot to break the scoreless tie. SU jumped out to a 7-0 advantage, and the game was never really close.

“It’s good to be home,” seventh-year head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “Obviously the crowds are good, and even when the crowds aren’t really large, they’re always into it. I think that helps us a lot.”

Syracuse has proved effective at home, even when the crowds are sparse, as Hillsman alluded. Against Seton Hall on Jan. 30, the Orange cruised to a 65-34 win with a crowd of just 490.

Facing DePaul on Jan. 15, Syracuse made big plays down the stretch to earn an important 84-80 win against the dangerous Blue Demons in front of a crowd of 450.

Five of the six largest crowds SU has seen this year have occurred on the road with the Orange going 3-2, losing to Connecticut in front of 14,786 and Villanova in front of 1,519.

But with the Orange enjoying a prosperous 21-3 start and positioning itself well for its first NCAA Tournament bid in five years, the fans are starting to come out. Syracuse’s last two home games have brought its two largest crowds of the year, looking strong in comparison to the weak road turnouts at Cincinnati and Georgetown.

“We have been to some gyms and there’s nobody there,” Hillsman said. “We’re in an arena, and people are there, and you can hear them. So for us, it’s important, and it says a lot about our fan base and our team.”

The Dome’s unique basketball arrangement, without completely enclosed seating around the court, differs from the traditional gym environment for most Big East teams.

But with 11 games down on the Dome court, SU is comfortable with the setup and

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embraces it, Hillsman said.

“For us, we’re good, so we just come out and play,” Hillsman said. “This is our home court.

We love it here, we shoot well here and we score the ball here at a good rate. So I’m really happy with playing here.”

At the conclusion of Saturday’s rout of Pittsburgh, junior guard Phylesha Bullard took the microphone and thanked the fans for coming out to support the team, saying she hoped to see them again. The crowd gave one last cheer before filing out.

Although the pink jerseys provided something different, Saturday brought more of the same for the Orange at home, an enthusiastic crowd and a winning effort on the court.

Junior guard La’Shay Taft, who posted a season-high 11 points against the Panthers, said she wouldn’t mind seeing the pink again soon.

“I think it’s amazing,” Taft said. “I think pink is pretty also, so I think it was good; it felt good wearing pink. I wish I could wear it more.”

“She loves pink,” Alexander added. kmprisei@syr.edu

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Hoping for championship rematch, SU learning from Lakers

By Jacob Klinger ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

The lessons of Syracuse’s 2012-13 season crystallized in a pair of home losses to league-leader Mercyhurst at the weekend.

The Orange grinded its way to a 3-2 lead over the No. 9 team in the country with 10:30 remaining in Friday’s game, but three Mercyhurst goals in the closing nine minutes undid SU’s upset bid that threatened to knock the Lakers off of the College Hockey America summit.

“It’s like Groundhog Day,” head coach Paul Flanagan said, “Every time I turn around we’re losing to Mercyhurst.”

Syracuse (18-13-1, 12-5-1 CHA) skates into its regular season-ending home set with Lindenwood (6-23-3, 6-9-3) needing no result – Syracuse is locked in as the No. 2 seed in the CHA tournament. Instead, the Orange must iron out the fatal kinks that have undone some of its greatest efforts this season.

Mercyhurst’s Friday fight back and three early goals Saturday actually serve as a model for SU, looking to extend its season to a rematch with the Lakers in the CHA finals, and potentially an NCAA Tournament bid. The Lakers crashed rebounds constantly, working their way to rugged goals.

Syracuse knows it must do the same. The Orange knows it’s pulled about even with the perennial conference power. But to beat them, SU has to match the Lakers and teams of similar caliber for net-crashing effort, channeling the defensive energy that’s carried SU for so much of the season into the offensive zone – and for 60 minutes.

“We’re not the type of team that scores those really pretty goals anyway, so we have to have that crash-the-net mentality,” junior forward Margot Scharfe said.

Increased power-play output would save the Orange, too.

On its own end, Syracuse is among the best in the country. Kallie Billadeau is tied for seventh in Division I in save percentage at .939. She’s also tied for second in shutouts, despite having played six less games than Noora Raty, the netminder for undefeated No. 1 Minnesota.

Down 3-2 with eight minutes to go against Mercyhurst on Saturday, SU took a five-on-four man advantage after Jenna Hendrikx checked Holly Carrie-Mattimoe in the head for a fiveminute major. SU got off just one shot and came away with nothing, all but permanently surren-

ziniu chen | staff photographer MARGOT SCHARFE and the Orange will close out the regular season against Lindenwood during the weekend. They’ll look to transition into scoring chances and punish Lindenwood on the power play as they prepare for the semifinal round of the CHA tournament. dering momentum to the Lakers.

“I don’t know if we were just looking to pass first instead of look to shoot. That’s what it seems to me,” Flanagan said. “The onus is on us as a coaching staff to have our power plays better prepared, we’ve got to do a better job. And we have to instill confidence in our kids that they know what they’re going to do.”

SU has no problem holding, scrapping and staying with potent offenses. In fact, only seven teams have surrendered fewer goals per game.

The true challenge, though, is injecting that dogged mentality into the offense.

Lacking the skill of some of the nation’s elite, SU must scrape by on raw effort on both ends of the ice to unsettle the best in the country.

“Even if you don’t have the puck you got to always crash, to the net, crash, crash.”

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“Even if you chip it by the defender you’re going against, you still have to crash hard to the net, you got to crash,” senior captain Jacquie Greco said. “Even if you don’t have the puck you got to always crash, to the net, crash, crash. It

kind of becomes tedious and tiring but we have to do that for a full 60 minutes.”

Lindenwood is far from the best in country, but the Lions represent the Orange’s last chance to fine-tune its approach before the Mercyhursthosted CHA semis in Erie, Pa. Success there will mean a likely rematch with the rival and model SU is so nearly caught up to – and a shot at extending one of the Orange’s best-ever seasons.

“We want to see them again, we want to – we know we owe it to them and we really got to bring it,” Greco said. “We know we’ll get them in the championship game so we just got to be there for that game.” jmklinge@syr.edu @MrJacobK

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Off Big East championship success, Penney cementing Syracuse legacy

By Bryan Rubin STAFF WRITER

Last week, Chris Fox said Syracuse’s Laruen Penney may be the best distance runner in the country right now.

After her two most recent performances at the Husky Classic in Seattle and the Big East Indoor Championships in Geneva, Ohio, Penney has a legitimate case to prove her coach right.

In Seattle, the post-graduate runner competed in the 3,000-meter race. After building her base in the fall, Penney’s training and determination came together in the race. She ended up placing fifth with a time of 9:06.

Her time, however, was good enough to conquer the school record of 9:12, which she set in 2012.

“Going into the race, I was really excited,” Penney said. “I think I had a chance to get my best time, but I didn’t know I’d drop it by six seconds. I was just hoping for under 9:10.”

While Penney is hoping her personal record holds up and gets her to Nationals, she had to quickly put the race behind her with the Big East Indoor Championships coming up the following weekend.

In her final time competing in the event, Penney carried her momentum from the week before and finished third in the 3,000-meter run. While her time of 9:24.46 was much slower than at the Husky Classic, she was still able to earn SU six points – one-fifth of the 30 points they would earn total as a team on the weekend.

“This meet is not about getting individual fast times,” Penney said. “It’s more about going

out there for the team and making Syracuse look good.”

The women’s team finished ninth for the second straight year at the meet, and scored six fewer points than a year ago.

Even though Syracuse focuses more on the outdoor season, many of the runners feel veteran athletes like Penney are always successful indoors because they have learned to progress as athletes and become more professional.

When Penney was a freshman, she suffered a quad strain and didn’t really know what the injury was at the time. All she knew was that something was not right.

“At this time freshman year, I wasn’t even running because of the injury,” Penney said.

“I would say, ‘I hope I run again at some point.’ And now I have come a really long

way since that.”

Griff Graves was a teammate who watched her overcome the injury and ultimately run her way into the Syracuse record books.

Graves has been Penney’s teammate since 2008. While he has embraced a veteran-like role on the team, Graves knows how important other older runners like Penney are to a program trying to resurrect its indoor reputation.

And in the past four and a half seasons, he has been a testament to that.

“You look at a girl like Lauren and she is a stud,” Graves said. “She is going to be going to Nationals this year and will tear it up because she’s learned over the years how to take it professionally, step by step. She is probably the best distance runner Syracuse has ever seen.” bwrubin@syr.edu

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Former SU standouts head to Indianapolis looking to raise draft stock RYAN NASSIB

SHAMARKO THOMAS

ALEC LEMON

JUSTIN PUGH

NEW YORK JETS CORNERBACK

AT A GLANCE

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ustin Pugh now wakes up at 7 every morning. He reports to Competitive Edge Sports at 8:30, ready to start his new job.

He gets right to work with resistance training, then lifts for about an hour and a half. After a brief lunch break, he gets back to work with former New Orleans Saints tackle Jon Stinchcomb for his position drills, all with the goal of performing well at the NFL Combine.

“They train you on working on explosion, working on specific drills you’ll be running,” Pugh said, “so I’m training for the combine basically.”

Pugh is one of four former Syracuse players headed to Wednesday’s NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. Quarterback Ryan Nassib, wide receiver Alec Lemon and strong safety Shamarko Thomas are set to join the tackle at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Both Nassib and Pugh currently project as fringe first-round picks.

In a quarterback class with “a whole lot of holes,” NFL Network’s Mike Mayock ranks Nassib No. 4 among

andrew renneisen staff photographer quarterbacks heading into the combine. The NFL Draft analyst also placed Pugh as his No. 5 offensive tackle and a likely late first-rounder.

The major knock on Pugh right now is his wingspan. His arms measured shorter than what’s considered ideal at the Senior Bowl, and many now peg him as a guard. Not Mayock, who said Pugh could go as high as No. 24 to the Indianapolis Colts.

Pugh expects to be one of the most athletic offensive linemen at the combine – he feels good about the 10-yard split in his 40-yard dash – but where his greatest strength lies is in his interviewing. A general manager came to Duluth, Ga., to help Pugh and the rest of the prospects learn how to interview properly.

“He had already told me basically, ‘Hey look, you’re one of the best. I’m going to use you as the example for next year,’” Pugh said. “He didn’t really have to do much.

“I think once teams meet me, see what kind of kid I am, it’s just going to increase my stock even more.”

The interview expectation is also

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RYAN NASSIB

Nassib ranks first all-time in Syracuse history for completions and passing yards, and second in touchdown passes, completion percentage and total offense.

ALEC LEMON

The All-Big East first-teamer is still dodging questions about his speed regardless of his ownership of SU’s career (201) and single season (72) receptions records.

SHAMARKO THOMAS

Also a Big East first-teamer, his speed and torpedo-like hitting ability can make up for his lack of size.

nate shron staff photographer what makes Nassib an intriguing prospect. Nassib is a player whose stock will rise between the combine and the NFL Draft, Mayock said, because of his personality and intelligence.

“Coaches are really going to like Ryan Nassib,” Mayock said. “He’s got good physical attributes, not great, but good physical attributes, plus he’s all the intangibles: toughness, intelligence and work ethic. He’s going to start to quietly climb boards.”

Nassib and Pugh’s invites weren’t a surprise to anyone. But for Lemon and Thomas, self-proclaimed bubble players, the invite is a massive opportunity.

“I was kind of nervous,” Lemon said.

“I always wanted to go to the combine, I just wanted to go out and prove myself.”

What Lemon needs to prove is his speed. Right now, he’s tagged with a tough-to-shake “possession

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JUSTIN PUGH

Blocked for a 1,000-yard rusher in each of his three seasons at Syracuse.

Follow the Daily Orange for updates on the performances of Syracuse’s former players at the combine starting on Wednesday.