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Not just sports ESPN journalist Stephen A.

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Cameras on campus A student reflects on time

Smith discussed money, racism and career advice in Goldstein Auditorium on Thursday. Page 3

discusses how the university should spend the three percent rise in housing and meal plan costs. Page 5

spent acting for the indie film “Adult World.” Page 11

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Clutch play Scoop Jardine leads Syracuse

down the stretch in the Orange’s 74-64 win over Rutgers on Sunday. Page 20

#strategy Different viewpoints on direction of University twitter compared

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@ chase gaewski | staff photographer Pledges participating in recruitment received their bids from fraternities in Gifford Auditorium on Friday. There are 21 fraternity chapters on campus and 430 men participated in recruitment this spring.

Recruitment draws 430 men for Bid Day

By Jen Bundy STAFF WRITER

Though there was no dancing or singing Friday afternoon, enthusiasm could still be seen in the hundreds of male students anticipating bids during spring recruitment.

Bid Day is the final step in the weeklong process organized by the Interfraternity Council that gives men the opportunity to join greek life at Syracuse University. With the addition of two new fraternities, Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Beta Rho,

greek life at SU now includes 21 fraternities.

The process began Feb. 12, when the 430 male students partaking in spring recruitment visited each of the 21 chapters for 20 minutes, said Jeff Cucinell, vice president of IFC external affairs. After making their initial impressions, the students were given the opportunity to go back to the chapters of their choice during four-hour periods on both Tuesday and Wednesday.

The planning and organizing

for these open houses takes a lot of time and effort, Cucinell said. Each chapter has a recruitment chair who overlooks the preparations, but unlike sorority recruitment, there is much less choreography.

“It is very relaxed,” Cucinell said.

“The open houses are really meant for guys to meet and talk to the brothers.”

On Thursday, the chapters held invite-only events where male students had a final opportunity to talk

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Upstate Medical University placed on probation

By Liz Sawyer NEWS EDITOR

Upstate Medical University’s medical school was placed on probation Thursday by an accrediting organization after concerns were raised about the school’s curriculum.

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education recommended Upstate be placed on probation last fall, but State University of New York academic medical center officials

appealed the recommendation last week, according to an article published in The Post-Standard on Saturday.

The committee made its final decision to follow through with the sanction Thursday, according to the article.

Upstate joins five other schools placed on probation by the LCME and will have two years to fix all problems identified by the organiza-

tion, according to the article. The committee accredits a total of 136 U.S. medical schools.

Losing accreditation may be detrimental to the school, as it would no longer be allowed to distribute medical degrees. David Duggan, interim dean of the medical school, told The Post-Standard the chances of this happening were extremely slim.

Duggan said the school remains

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SyracuseU’s daily flood of followers and constant re-tweets allow Syracuse University to be among the top educational institutions in social media practice. But the strategies the university’s Twitter account uses to achieve such results remain in question.

SU’s account currently serves as a showcase and presentation of the accomplishments of faculty, alumni, community and students. When the university first created a social media team made of students to take over the Twitter account in August, they began to use @SyracuseU as a public relations outlet as well, said Kate Brodock, executive director of digital and social media.

“It’s sort of like a big SU pep rally.

Our broad focus is trying to have content that can reach everybody,”

she said. “The main juice comes from a huge event we have, and we want everyone to know what happened in case they missed it.”

But social media professor Anthony Rotolo said he disagrees with this philosophy.

There are at least two main schools of thought on the operation of social media. One, Rotolo said, is marketing and promoting a school like a brand, while the other method is to let marketing “take a back seat” and have customers help generate content themselves. Rotolo, who teaches at the School of Information Studies, said he believes in the latter.

“Twitter should be used more as a meaningful way into campus life and campus experience — a tool Syracuse University can use to be a greater part of students’ daily lives and experiences,” he said. “It’s all about interactivity.”

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Muslim students tracked

by NYPD starting in 2006

By Maddy Berner ASST. COPY EDITOR

The New York Police Department has monitored Muslim college students in areas beyond New York City limits, including Syracuse University.

Undercover officers looking for suspicious terrorist activity were sent by the NYPD to monitor Muslim student associations within different colleges and universities throughout the Northeast, according to an article published Saturday by The Associated Press.

An anonymous source said a student informant was present on SU’s campus as well, according to the article.

With help from the CIA, the NYPD

has developed secret programs to monitor Muslims in their everyday lives, including where they eat and how often they worship, according to the article.

Detectives have browsed Muslim student websites and have sent officers on student trips to monitor participants, often recording personal information for police records, according to the article.

The anonymous source, who said SU had an undercover officer on campus, is a person familiar with the NYPD’s program, but remained anonymous because he did not have authority to discuss it, according to the article.

“The University was not ever

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Sarah Cassell, a sophomore musical theater major, sang jazz at Phoebe’s Restaurant on Feb. 16 with other students and the Bill Horrace Trio. The students are performing various jazz standards as part of a drama experience course taught by Rebecca Karpoff, an instructor of voice in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and Bill Horrace, an economics professor. Additional performances will follow at Phoebe’s and Syracuse Stage in March and April.

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NATIONAL BRIEFS Houston memorialized Sunday • Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday at a private ceremony in New Jersey, according to a Feb. 19 article

by The Associated Press. The ceremony marked the end of a weekend spent mourning the loss of the singer.

Houston’s life was also celebrated Saturday at an invitation-only funeral in a church in Newark, N.J., where she sang in the choir as a child. Stevie Wonder and Alicia Keys performed, and Clive Davis and Kevin Costner spoke.

Houston died in California Feb. 11.

Colbert to return on Monday • “The Colbert Report” will return Monday after a brief break, according to a Feb. 19 article by the AP. Colbert’s mother, 91-year-old Lorna Colbert, is ill. Colbert is expected to address his absence Monday. Comedy Central substituted repeats for scheduled shows Wednesday and Thursday, citing “unforeseen circumstances” at the time.

Employee fired for Lin headlines • An ESPN employee was fired for an offensive headline about Knicks player Jeremy Lin, according to a Feb. 19 article by the AP. The headline contained a word that can also be used as a slur against people of Chinese descent. It appeared on ESPN’s mobile website Friday within a story about the Knicks’ loss, in which Lin had nine turnovers.

ESPN apologized for the headline and said it is aware of two other existing “offensive and inappropriate” comments Sunday. An ESPN anchor who used the same phrase was suspended for 30 days. Lin is the NBA’s first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. He led the Knicks to seven straight wins before Friday’s loss. In the article, Lin said he didn’t think the headline was written intentionally.

—Compiled by Breanne Van Nostrand, asst. copy editor, brvannos@syr.edu

CRIME BRIEFS A female student reported seeing an unknown person upon entering her residence on the 1000 block of Harrison Street at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to an email sent to students by the Department of Public Safety on Sunday evening. The unknown person left the residence immediately, but the student reported that a television and laptop were stolen. The Syracuse Police Department recovered the television outside the residence.

The suspect is described as a black 5-foot-10-inch male with a thin build who was last seen wearing a maroon shirt and carrying a black bag.

DPS Capt. John Sardino said Syracuse police have investigated thoroughly and in the meantime people should take caution by locking their doors and windows.

—Compiled by Marwa Eltagouri, asst. news editor, meltagou@syr.edu

ankur patankar | presentation director STEPHEN A. SMITH, ESPN TV and radio personality, spoke in Goldstein Auditorium on Thursday night. The lecture was presented by the National Panhellenic Council and the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Smith discussed business, money and racism, among other topics.

ESPN journalist offers students career advice

By Nick Smith

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The notoriously outspoken TV and radio personality of ESPN, Stephen A. Smith, covered more than just sports during his visit to Syracuse University on Thursday night.

The lecture, held in Goldstein Auditorium, was presented by the National Panhellenic Council and the Office of Multicultural Affairs as one of their Black History Month events held throughout February.

From the start, Smith had the

audience erupting in laughter as he strutted back and forth on the stage, talking in his trademark loud and riled up tone. “I’m glad to be here,” he said, “you know, sometimes I get tired of beating up on (fellow sports journalist) Skip Bayless.”

Smith was asked to speak about the African-American athlete, but only a small portion of his lecture was on the topic. Instead, his main focus was on career advice for students and what the “real world” is like.

Smith asked everyone in the crowd to raise their hands if the person sitting next to them was their friend.

“No they ain’t,” he said. “Are they going to pay your bills?”

He went on to say that money plays a huge role in our everyday relationships, not only in sports, which he emphasized was a business.

“Just follow the dollars,” he repeated several times.

Smith, who attended the historically black college of Winston-Salem

State University, spoke about his work at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

He spoke about how reporting at the Inquirer eventually led him to being recognized and hired by ESPN. He now hosts 1050 ESPN Radio New York and writes for ESPN.com. He is also regularly featured on ESPN’s First Take.

Cedric Bolton, the coordinator of student engagement at the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said he was pleased with the career advice Smith

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New York police crack down on texting while driving

By Rachael Barillari ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Strict legislation is cracking down on texting and driving in New York state.

Law enforcement officials issued 118,757 tickets since July 2011 for using an electric handheld device while driving. This is the result of new penalties signed into law in July, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a Feb. 13 press release. The legislation makes using an electronic handheld device while driving a

primary traffic offense.

Officials now have the power to stop drivers solely on the basis of engaging in this activity. Previously, police could only cite a driver for the traffic violation of distracted driving if they were stopped primarily for another offense, such as speeding, according to a July 12 article by The Associated Press.

Drivers violating the new law face up to a $150 fine, according to the article.

Between Jan. 1, 2011 and July

11 before the new legislation was enacted, New York state officials issued 2,691 tickets for texting while driving. From July 12 to Feb. 7 the number of tickets issued more than doubled for the same offense at 7,495.

There were 111,262 tickets issued for using a handheld electronic device while driving, according to the release.

Through changes in state regulations, Cuomo also increased the penalty for using a cellphone without a hands-free device to three points

on a driver’s license rather than two, according to the AP article. A driver who accumulates 11 points within 18 months faces the possibility of having his or her license suspended for 31 days or revoked.

Boreth Uy, a junior computer engineering major, said he is fully in favor of the crackdown.

“I am for it because it is a good law that helps to reduce accidents,” Uy said. “I know people who do text and drive, but that is selfish

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Student disappointed with Rove’s lack of discussion of political philosophy at event When I heard Karl Rove was speaking on campus I was ecstatic — elated some may say. Karl Rove is a leading political operative for the GOP and a genius. I thought of the potential.

He could speak on a number of topics from his political philosophy to campaign strategy on a state and national level to his views of media influence in elections to reflections on his life in politics to what it is like to sit in the room with the president of the United States.

The list goes on. However, when he finished

speaking I left with a feeling of disappointment.

While Rove and I may have differing views of political philosophy and the role of the government, I was disappointed he simply followed GOP talking points and provided tangential stories and thoughts. I was disappointed that the College Republicans did not hold him to a higher standard. I was disappointed in the Q-and-A session that asked badly phrased questions with no follow up.

I was disappointed the interviewer had the

Number of faculty published by university contradictory to data sets At Wednesday’s University Senate meeting the Budget Committee presented its annual report.

The report indicates the enrollment of the university is increasing steadily but all is well in terms of the teaching mission because the administration is allocating money to hire new faculty. Indeed, the student-to-faculty ratio has actually improved.

The more-than-odd matter is the administration uses a reported number of faculty to justify this claim that is fundamentally contradicted by their own published numbers.

The administration claims many more faculty than its own reports indicate. There are two sources that have been published for some time: annual reports from the American Association of University Professors and the Office of Institutional Research. The two are essentially the same over time. On the SU Web page, in the center of the main page, the administration reports a much higher number, which makes things look much better. The three sets of numbers are below.

This involves a fundamental issue of credibility. We have an administration that has variously claimed 200-240 new hires in the last several years, but the AAUP figures indicate the net increase is 45 over 3 years or 17 over 2

years. Given the steady increase in enrollment, increases that small mean the student-faculty ratio is rising and not declining.

When administrators are asked to explain the difference they get very vague and cannot provide data to explain the difference. There are two possible sources of the discrepancy.

Either the administration is incompetent and can’t keep good records of who it has on payroll, or they are misrepresenting data to make things look better than they are. We deserve to know which it is.

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chance to ask him truly thought-provoking questions and did not. I was disappointed in both the College Republicans and Democrats for having a captive political audience and not even having a table for people to register to vote. I was disappointed that it was simply a campaign speech for the GOP. I was disappointed in the apathy of our campus.

I wanted to hear what the other side had to say.

Not from a list of statistics and facts, as we know can be skewed to either side, but from another’s

perspective. He did not provide me with any newfound insight into life in politics. Maybe my expectations were too high, but I think that when people are paid to speak on our campus they ought to make students think. They ought to make students question their preconceived notions. He did none of these things. That is why I am disappointed.

Dylan Sodaro

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Cantor must look into investigations of Muslim student associations I am calling on Chancellor Nancy Cantor to demand an explanation from the New York Police Department, and, if certain allegations are borne out, to make a forceful public complaint about its behavior.

On Saturday, The Associated Press reported the NYPD conducted surveillance of Muslim student associations at several universities outside of New York City — including Syracuse University — in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Some of this surveillance took the form of daily visits to student websites, but a “person familiar with the program” claims the NYPD also once had a student informant working on the SU campus.

Reportedly, the Erie County Sheriff’s Department also urged the NYPD to monitor ethnic Somali students and professors at the University at Buffalo. Other non-city schools where the NYPD watched Muslim students, or at least their websites, include Rutgers University, Clarkson University and the SUNY campuses at Albany, Potsdam and Stony Brook. The police told the AP that they conducted this surveillance “to get a better handle” on what happens in Muslim student associations.

The AP has already exposed the existence of an NYPD intelligence program that was designed with the help of the CIA. This program

has involved extensive spying on ordinary Muslim citizens and residents in New York City. Now it appears this spy apparatus has been used at SU. This sort of surveillance — targeted at entire populations on the basis of their religious beliefs, national origins, nonviolent political activism or other factors that have nothing to do with the investigation of actual crimes — is inimical to our society’s freedom.

It perpetuates ethnic suspicion, erodes constitutional requirements that police have “probable cause” to investigate us and undermines our constitutional rights to freedom of speech, association and religion.

The NYPD undoubtedly has fine motives. Terrorism is a frightening part of our world. But the police are no more justified to go on fishing expeditions among Muslims than they would be to spy on the St. Thomas More Campus Ministry just to make sure it has nothing to do with people like anti-abortion terrorist Eric Rudolph. This kind of thinking does not produce useful intelligence. It does create second-class citizens.

I call on SU to investigate the AP’s report and take swift action to make sure all of our students are protected from this sort of official abuse.

Jonathan Wilfred Wilson

DOCTORAL CANDIDATE, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Coverage of University Senate fails to include relevant voices from administration I am writing in response to the two articles that appeared in Thursday’s The Daily Orange regarding the University Senate meeting.

First, the headline and theme of one of the articles, “University Senate | Faculty call for more transparency from university administration,” could not be farther from reality. The suggestion that less information, rather than more, is available today about the university’s finances and other operations is simply not accurate. The university is providing more information and detail about its budget than ever, and there were a number of participatory forums last year to discuss the proposed changes in the child care center.

As a senator, I was in attendance at the meeting. There were many comments made by senators, administration officials and other community members that should have, and could have, been reflected in the article but weren’t.

Since these individuals spoke publicly at the meeting, and directly in response to some critical statements that were included in the article, The Daily Orange should have found a way to inform its readers about their comments. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

Below is a list of key points made at the meeting, about which readers are not aware, as these points were not included in the articles:

• In response to claims of lack of budget transparency, professor Martha Garcia-Murillo, chair of the Senate Budget Committee; Lou Marcoccia, executive vice president and chief financial officer; and Gwenn Judge, university director of budget and planning, all provided specific answers to questions about the availability of university budget data. Professor Garcia-Murillo and Judge made clear that data regarding the finances of school/colleges and other centers will be available online to members of the university community this spring. In addition, answers were provided to specific questions regarding budgetary matters, including the athletics support and subvention, the funding of university borrowing and the performance of the endowment.

• In response to questions about variations among several different methodologies for counting faculty, two important points were made by Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina, Senior Vice President of Human Capital Development Kal Alston and Judge: 1) No matter the methodology, each source of data is consistent over time and shows overall growth in the size of the faculty; and 2) there are, indeed, real differences in methodology set by different groups to which we must report data,

including variations such as full-time faculty head count versus full-time equivalents, instructional faculty versus all faculty, and the handling of visiting faculty and SU faculty on research leaves. These differences in protocols lead to differences in faculty counts with no intent to obfuscate or sow confusion, but a desire and duty to respond to the specific requirements of each survey.

• With regard to the report of the Committee on Women’s Concerns about changes in the university’s child care center, several individuals made three important points: 1) The committee did not attempt to get a complete picture of all sides of the events of last year; 2) as soon as parents and campus community members expressed concern about the proposed changes, university leadership moved forward in a fully collaborative fashion with all involved constituencies, and that spirit of partnership continues today; and 3) the committee did not seek to update its report to reflect important and meaningful changes that occurred after June 2011, which have, from all accounts, made a real difference in the environment and the relationships surrounding the child care center.

Kevin Quinn

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

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Rise in meal plan pricing raises expectations The price for housing and meals plans, along with tuition, increased at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting.

Students will see a 3 percent increase in housing and meal plan costs for the 2012-13 academic year, averaging out to about $400.

The reason for the rise was not explained at the meeting. With the housing and meal plan cost increases, students deserve more for their money.

A popular meal plan for students, especially freshmen, is a 14-meal plan, which costs $3,120 this academic year. The plan includes 14 meals per week, 10 guest meals and $155 in SUperFood money. The cost per meal in a 16-week semester averages to about $13. Typically, students do

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board not feel they eat $13 worth of food at each meal.

In terms of food quality, students often feel the food in the dining halls is not worth the amount of money they pay. To help ease the worries of students, the university should look into expanding food options, especially for vegans and vegetarians. Alternatively, with the rise in housing and meal plan rate, the university can increase the amount of money students receive on their SUperFood account.

The housing options at SU could use some improvement as well.

If students are expected to pay more money to live in university

housing, some areas need to be addressed. Other residence halls should receive bathroom renovations and updates like those that happened in Flint, Ernie Davis and Lawrinson halls. The money could also go toward hiring more staff to maintain bathroom cleanliness, improving the common areas and regulating the heat in the residence halls.

While some students can opt out of both housing and meal plans at SU, not everyone can. Non-commuter freshmen and sophomores must live in university housing and freshmen must purchase at least a 14-meal plan. Because these costs are unavoidable for some, paying more must be worthwhile for students.

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Rove’s commentary at College Republicans event not worth money spent

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arl Rove spoke about his thoughts about the state of United States politics Wednesday at an event sponsored by the College Republicans. His commentaries, though, were not worth the money spent on him.

In a fairly filled Goldstein Auditorium, Rove took time to explain the major issues for the 2012 presidential race. He later answered audience members’ questions, which had been submitted before he took to the stage.

Rove is full of commentary on the race for president and for politics. As a senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to former President George W. Bush, he has a unique perspective.

But the viewpoints he presented at the event were not unique. The $20,000 the College Republicans paid to have him speak did not seem worth it.

Rove was critical of the bailout and President Barack Obama’s refusal to address entitlement cuts. He said if

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government spending were not controlled, “we’re on our way to looking like Greece.”

In his remarks, Rove advocated for fiscal responsibility in the health care and entitlement system. His argument was undercut by his lack of support for fiscal responsibility in the two wars he supported. Rather than fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the raising revenue, he did not care about running up the nation’s debt. He advocated for lower tax rates for the wealthy, which have not paid off yet.

After Bush left office, Rove wants to talk about how Obama has not done enough to cut spending and how the “economy should be going and blowing” by now. He appears not to have realized what role the president he advised had in the downturn.

In a 2010 interview on Fox News, Rove said the Bush tax cuts “led to first of all, the largest amount of revenue being received by the government.

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to the left, to the left They helped encourage economic growth and grew tax revenues.”

This is simply not the case. Tax receipts as a percentage of gross domestic product decreased after the Bush tax cuts were enacted. His credibility on wanting to cut spending is undercut by the lack of restraint he and Bush had when spending on national defense.

One question about Iran demonstrated Rove’s selectiveness in cutting spending. Rove expressed concern of limiting defense spending when the threats to the United States and its allies are significant.

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Rove also dodged around some audience questions. My question, which he answered, read: “What do you think about minor candidates in the race for the GOP nomination who do not or refuse to raise money with super PACs or major contributions.

These candidates claim money corrupts politics. Does it?”

Seemingly ignoring the question, he said, “Every major candidate has a super PAC.” Yet, not all candidates have them, which is why I asked about minor candidates. Buddy Roemer has refused to take money from super PACs or large contributions.

Rove failed to answer whether he found that corporate donations can have undue influence in our political system. His answer, as someone who helps run two super PACs worth tens of millions of dollars, would have been interesting.

The $20,000 spent to have Rove speak and answer questions could

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have been better spent on a speaker who has more to offer. Rove is a wellknown name in politics, but his opinions did not seem much different from his television appearances. Other than a reference to Syracuse University’s basketball team, he had little to say to SU students in particular.

Last year’s major speaker for the College Republicans was Michelle Malkin, a conservative author, blogger and Fox News contributor. She presented an original argument and had an interesting point to make. Though her argument that conservatism has been criminalized was poorly reasoned and unpersuasive, her thoughts made for an engaging experience.

Rove’s name alone did not make up for a performance the audience could have just as easily watched one evening on Fox. Harmen Rockler is a junior newspaper journalism and political science major. His column appears every Monday.

He can be reached at horockle@syr.edu.

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aware of or involved in any of the reported activities by the New York City Police Department,” said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs, in an email. “We are a University community that embraces a diversity of opinions, ideals, and viewpoints, along with personal privacy. As such, we do not approve of, or support, any surveillance or investigation of student groups based solely on ethnicity, religion, or political viewpoint.”

Tanweer Haq, chaplain of Syracuse’s Muslim Student Association, saw these acts as a clear violation of civil rights.

“Nobody wants to be on the list of the FBI or the NYPD or whatever,” Haq said in the article.

“Muslim students want to have their own lives, their own privacy and enjoy the same freedoms and opportunities that everybody else has.”

Haq declined comment for The Daily Orange.

Members of SU’s MSA also declined to comment and members of the Islamic Society of Central New York could not be reached.

After the NYPD realized 12 people convicted on terrorism charges had once been members of Muslim student associations, the department initiated efforts to investigate what goes on within such organizations, said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne in the article.

The monitoring began in 2006 when officers patrolled Muslim student websites and collected information as a “daily routine” for a year, Browne said. The AP recently learned of the undercover officer program, with some reports dating back to 2008, according to the article.

Muslim student associations became an interest to the NYPD because of the population of young men within them, as terrorist groups often pick members from that demographic, according to the article. Officers worried that lecturers and activities such as paintballing could be used as terrorist training.

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and hang out with the brothers.

Henry Spalding said he was heavily involved in his first semester as vice president of IFC recruitment.

“Greek life can get a bad rap. We’re trying to promote a good image,” he said.

Spalding said IFC was very strict on the rules during recruitment this semester, from time limits to appropriate T-shirt designs.

There were no guaranteed bids in this recruitment, which was apparent as several students left the auditorium with disappointment marked across their faces. One student crumpled up his envelope and threw it in the trash.

However, signs of disappointment were met with whoops of joy and excitement from many students. The bonds of brotherhood were already being made as students who received

Mushaf Haque, a freshman neuroscience major and member of SU’s MSA, said the news did not come as a surprise to him, but left him with mixed emotions.

He said although he respects that the NYPD has a job to protect others, it should not be done at the expense of a group of people. The process seems counterproductive that way and will be more damaging than helpful to the country’s issue with terrorism, he said.

Haque said it would be more beneficial to hold a cooperative discussion between the NYPD and Muslim student associations and see what is achieved. That way, the NYPD won’t be seen as meddlers but as caring people.

Haque also said the NYPD needs to learn the meaning of Islam, as the images of Muslims show in the media aren’t what the Islamic religion teaches.

“Islam is always open to talk with others and understand others,” he said in an email.

“In fact, in Islam it is my fault if my neighbor goes hungry. ... That is the emphasis we place on taking care of our fellow human beings and getting to know them. … I just wish people saw that more than they see other things.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the NYPD typically only follows legitimate leads on suspected criminal activity. Recently, documents reveal no suspicious activity, according to the AP article.

Browne said in the article students who advertised and sent emails about regular events would not be monitored with a “terrorism file.” The NYPD only investigated people who they believed had “reasonable suspicion to believe might be involved in unlawful activities,” he said.

Other schools involved in the undercover program include: Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University, and the State University of New York campuses in Buffalo, Albany, Stony Brook and Potsdam, among others. mjberner@syr.edu

the same bids embraced and chest bumped outside of the auditorium.

Unlike sorority Bid Day, male students can receive more than one bid, Cucinell said. This allows students to make the choice of which chapter they would like to join, he said.

Because choosing a chapter can be difficult, students were given a half-hour upon receiving their bids to make a final decision on which fraternity they wished to pledge. Afterward the students went to a specific classroom to meet their potential new brothers, Cucinell said.

“The process was crazy,” said Zach Goldberg, a freshman international relations and public policy major. “I had an idea of where I wanted to be, and Sunday confirmed that for me, so I spent all of my time the next few days at one house.”

Goldberg, who received a bid from Phi Delta Theta, said he knew the chapter was the best fit based on his conversations with the brothers throughout the week.

“They’re all really chill and have the same kind of mindset as I do,” Goldberg said.

Chris Meier, president of Alpha Tau Omega, said being a member of a chapter is like being part of a family.

“Being in a house just maximizes your time in college,” he said.

Pledges met at Hendricks Chapel at the culmination of Bid Day to listen to a presentation discouraging hazing. Cucinell said the presentation discussed the do’s and don’ts of the pledging process.

Ultimately, Cucinell said he was happy with the turnout for this year’s recruitment.

Said Cucinell: “I’m really excited about what each new member can bring to the table and the greek community.” jbundy@syr.edu

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had to offer students.

“Mr. Smith is without a doubt a dynamic speaker,” he said. “His personal success story is certainly inspiring and is relevant to students who are still in the process of exploring their own career paths. He clearly paid his dues as a journalist and worked hard to get to where he is today — a great example for students to see.”

Smith did touch on race and racism, but said racism isn’t very prevalent anymore. It hurts the African-American community as a whole when one of their own brings race somewhere it doesn’t belong, he said.

“No one wants to hear that anymore,” he said, “Everyone is hurting nowadays, it doesn’t matter who you are.”

After giving his speech, Smith took questions from the audience, which varied in topic from journalism to a wide range of sports stories going on today.

Smith’s most passionate answer came when a

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fully accredited and is working to address the committee’s concerns, according to the article.

Duggan could not be immediately reached for comment.

The LCME acts as the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs leading to a degree in the medical field in the United States and Canada.

The organization is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Medical Association, according to the article.

Accreditation shows that a medical school is meeting national standards, and graduating from an LCME-accredited school is required for a medical license in most states, according to the article.

LCME’s largest criticism against Upstate was the lack of a central committee with the authority to make changes to the school’s curriculum, according the article.

The organization was also bothered by a cheating incident that occurred last year involving fourth-year medical students who assisted

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because they are putting other people’s lives in danger.”

Barbara Fiala, commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles, said cellphone use causes more than 5,500 deaths and more than 440,000 injuries nationwide each year, according to the release.

Although Uy said he believes people will be deterred from texting while behind the wheel after receiving a ticket, the knowledge of the regulation alone may not be enough to stop people from violating the law.

Uy said when driving his own vehicle, he gets slightly nervous because he is aware many people drive while texting or talking on the phone.

“I try and take precaution but accidents happen; but I do my best to make they don’t happen,” Uy said. “I do not text and drive.”

Malinda Masing, a sophomore television, radio and film major, said she saw an accident take place on Main Campus because of an individual texting while behind the wheel.

She said knowing people text while driving

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student asked, “Why do you hate Lebron James so much when he is the best player in the NBA?” As one of James’ most outspoken critics, he said he does not hate James and spoke about how Lebron is not a champion, but insists that he be treated like one. Smith made it a point to say he was not upset that James went to Miami, however.

“I can’t blame a brother for going to South Beach,” he said, “I love South Beach. I’m going there next week.”

SU alumnus Richard Block, who attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications as a television, radio and film major, said he remembers reading Smith’s work during his early years at the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Block said he agreed with Smith’s point that journalism students should develop their skills in smaller markets before branching out to platforms like ESPN, but he especially appreciated Smith’s willingness to just tell it like it is and that he doesn’t care what people think.

“He was just so unabashedly himself,” he said, “and there aren’t many people like that.” nxsmith@syr.edu

each other on online quizzes in a medical literature course, according to the article. Upstate suspended the course for at least one year to try and improve it.

Duggan told The Post-Standard that Upstate’s sanction was not “based on any shortcomings in the quality of its medical students or their accomplishments.” Upstate has alerted all prospective applicants about the school’s probation, Duggan said, but so far it has had no effect on the applicant pool.

In recent years, the LCME became stricter and is taking more severe actions against medical schools it does not believe to be meeting standards, according to the article.

The medical school exists within Upstate Medical University Hospital. The hospital was placed on a “watch list” for the hospital’s high frequency of safety concerns, complications and patient deaths in September.

The Niagara Health Quality Coalition, a hospital performance research group, included University Hospital along with 20 other New York state hospitals on the list as part of an annual report card. The report stated statistics of patient deaths, patient dissatisfaction and complications. egsawyer@syr.edu

has made her more cautious as a pedestrian.

This issue is more prevalent to people in college, as this demographic uses technology the most and may be reckless drivers, she said.

Masing said she doubts the legislation will prevent people from committing the offense because people don’t believe they are going to get caught. She said many people may have never heard of the laws in the first place.

Rich Murphy, a sophomore television, radio and film major, agreed with Masing and said he knows many individuals who have never heard of the legislation.

During last semester, a friend of Murphy’s was pulled over on campus for using his phone while driving. Murphy said he does not think his friend was actually talking or texting, but rather had the phone in his hand and was looking at it when the car was at a stop sign.

An officer came up to his friend’s vehicle and gave him a ticket for just having his phone out, Murphy said.

Although Murphy said he believes this new legislation may be a little severe, “If it saves lives, I am for it.” rebarill@syr.edu

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And so the question arises: What’s the best strategy for SU’s Twitter?

William Ward, professor of practice in social media at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said it all depends on the content the Twitter account posts.

“It’s really more of a quality versus quantity issue. A lot of conversation could be generated on subject matter, on something as simple as the weather. And that might be organic conversation, but it’s really just noise,” he said.

As of press time, @SyracuseU had 13,585 followers and had tweeted 13,685 times since it was first created. The number of tweets the account posted is steadily increasing; In November, they tweeted about 15 times a day. Tweets rose to 23 times a day in February, according to Twitter Counter.

In the past 90 days, the university received about 9,800 mentions and 15,000 re-tweets from other Twitter users, according to Klout, a San Francisco-based company that provides social media analytics.

Though the numbers are high compared to other universities, they reflect little about the actual influence of SU’s social media use. Ward said the Klout ranking is only a glimpse into real success, as it is mostly based on the level of replies that an account is receiving, not the context and quality of the replies.

“The mistake is getting high numbers without regard to quality,” he said. “If there’s no quality it might just seem fake or phony.”

Brodock, executive director of digital and social media, said her approach to social media is one of engagement, bilateral relationships and building trust for an organization. She said she tries to use Twitter to align these attributes to a communications and marketing strategy.

She said she also uses @SyracuseU as a vehicle to promote SU to alumni and connect them with the Syracuse community. Part of the account’s goal, she said, is to make sure alumni do not forget about SU and to keep informing students about the excellence of the institution they attend.

John Burke, senior information management and technology major, said he agreed.

“We’re always looking for content that showcases why it’s so awesome to be a part of SU,” he said, “whether that’s alumni talking about job opportunities, highlighting the achievements of a student organization or even just students being proud to be part of what we like to call the ‘Orange Nation.’”

Elizabeth Liddy, dean of the iSchool, said although everyone applauds when @SyracuseU posts university achievements, she hopes to see SU become more progressive. Like Rotolo, she said she wants to see the Twitter account communicating more with students and helping them become part of a “campus-wide dialect.”

“I think it’s easy to go with the crowd, to look at other universities that brand themselves similarly and say, ‘OK, we’re gonna do what they do,’” she said. “But I want to see SU be an example for what is possible, not a mirror for what has been done.”

Liddy said there are different formats for showcasing information, such as magazines and newsletters, and that @SyracuseU should not be an “official mouthpiece” for SU. She said

BY THE NUMBERS

@SyracuseU is predicted to reach 13,934 followers within the next 15 days. It is predicted to reach 20,000 followers within the next eight to nine months.

The account gains 25 followers per day on average and gained about 1,094 followers since the beginning of this year.

Source: Twitter Counter

that as a dean, she would like to display iSchool accomplishments as the university displays theirs, but that 140 characters on Twitter should not be the place for it.

The alternative approach, she said, would have far greater potential.

“What would you rather hear: constant reaffirmations of what Syracuse is when every other school also thinks they’re great?” she said. “Or would you like to see an engaged and active student body having a conversation with their university that makes you think, ‘This is an environment I’d like to be a part of’?”

Rotolo compared SU’s current social media strategy with that of the corporate world, in that businesses sometimes use their social

“It’s really more of a quality versus quantity issue. A lot of conversation could be generated on subject matter, on something as simple as the weather.

And that might be organic conversation, but it’s really just noise.”

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media staff as part of their public relations and marketing team. But, he said, he believes social media really belongs in a department geared more toward customer satisfaction by acquiring information from users. And though it should not be used to overtly ask questions and ask for suggestions, it should be part of a conversation, he said.

“One of the things that bothers me sometimes from a school or company is when they ask a question in a tweet that produces a sort of fake feeling, sort of like, ‘Syracuse is playing whoever this weekend, how are you showing your Orange spirit?’” Rotolo said.

Though some people are eager to answer those questions, Rotolo said he believes it would be more effective for Twitter to create an environment where people are sharing their own thoughts on Orange spirit and for SU’s Twitter to serve as a conduit for amplifying those thoughts.

“We need to get students to understand how great a certain student’s work or creativity is without being so overt,” he said. “It needs to feel organic.”

But the two altering strategies do share a common ground: conversation. Student discussion, to any extent, is encouraged by both philosophies and is something @SyracuseU is beginning to move toward.

To engage students in conversation regarding campus life, the social media team partnered with the Division of Student Affairs and began using the @SUcampus Twitter handle last fall. The account allows them to focus certain information just toward students rather than @SyracuseU’s broader pool of alumni and faculty. It also provides students with resources to get their information out, Brodock said.

Although an alternative Twitter account creates a parallel between the two different philosophies, it still does not provide a clear answer. Ward said, as in the case of much of social media, the most effective strategy really just comes down to trial and error.

“There’s so much going on that it’s already hard enough to keep up with it all,” Ward said.

“There’s not just one right answer.” meltagou@syr.edu

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or Alexia Zambalas, Sunday mornings are spent wading into a small, cementcircled pond with a net to help volunteers and workers at Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery catch trout.

Zambalas, a freshman environmental science major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, is one of six ESF students who volunteer at the hatchery every weekend.

The hatchery is one of only four in the state, and volunteers like Zambalas are a major reason that it is still open today. But several years ago, the hatchery was in danger of closing.

“With the budget cuts of the Onondaga Parks Department, there was a need for volunteers to help out and do some of the functions the staff were no longer able to do,” said Stephen Wowelko, vice president of the organization Friends of Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery.

The Friends group is an organization of community volunteers that helps the hatchery

organize educational public demonstrations.

Most of the volunteers in the group are interested in recreational fishing and recognize the hatchery’s importance to their pastime.

Bill Lansley, Onondaga County parks commissioner, said the hatchery is important to the community due to local active participation with fishing. Each year the hatchery produces nearly 80,000 trout for local waterways. Lansley said he thinks local rivers and streams may soon run out if it weren’t for the hatchery.

Although the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation would try to prevent waterways from running out of trout if the hatchery closed, Lansley said it would not release the large fish the hatchery does.

Larger fish are much more beneficial for local fisherman and for sustaining healthy trout populations.

ESF students have been volunteering their time at the hatchery for the past three years as part of a program that allows them to receive extra-credit in a general chemistry class, said Kelley Donaghy, associate professor of the

chemistry course.

“An email circulated in the fall of 2009 that the hatchery needed volunteers to help stay afloat, and there would be opportunities to investigate water quality,” Donaghy said in an email.

She jumped on the opportunity, seeing it as a hands-on project to teach her students about water chemistry and about the responsibilities of running a hatchery, she said.

“They do everything from helping the eggs hatch to transporting the fish to rivers and streams in our stalking trucks,” Lansley said.

The hatchery continuously had a healthy number of volunteers since the program began operating, Lansley said.

The students travel to the hatchery several times a week to feed trout, transport them to local waterways and clean the raceways, the 15-foot tubes of moving water where the fish are raised.

Galit Idan, a freshman bioprocess engineering major at ESF, was responsible for cleaning the raceways and putting food for the fish into

an automatic feeder.

“The first thing I did was go into the hatchery and feed the baby fish,” Idan said. “There were so many. It was really interesting to see.”

The ESF student group, “The Trout Bums,” has also provided valuable assistance at the hatchery, especially to the Friends of Carpenter’s Brook Fish Hatchery organization, Lansley said.

“We could not be happier with our partnership with the ESF right now,” Lansley said. “I am so impressed with their quality of work and their volunteerism. They have really taken on a tremendous amount of responsibility with great skill and enthusiasm.”

Both Idan and Zambalas said they would still volunteer at the hatchery even if they did not get extra credit for it.

“I really like helping a local business,” Zambalas said. “It’s a good opportunity for students like me who don’t really know what people do around here to meet nice people and discover the community.” smhazlit@syr.edu

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Jam band fuses eclectic sounds to mesmerize crowd

By Claire Dunderman CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The main act finally came onstage at 10 p.m.

The intimate crowd in the Westcott Theater had been chatting about the band for the majority of the night.

When Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad took the stage, they joyously played on their banjo, drum set, acoustic guitars, bass guitar and steel guitar from 1946. The crowd immediately started dancing and swaying along.

Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad is not a folk band. They seamlessly blended their

"People seem to really dig it. The reviews have been really positive.”

Chris O'Brian DRUMMER OF GIANT PANDA GUERRILLA DUB SQUAD

more recognizable jam reggae sound with a folk Americana style while performing their newest album, “Country.”

“The official iTunes review came out today,” said Chris O’Brian, drummer and founding member of the band, while onstage. “You know what they said? They said it’s a weird stonercountry fusion.”

At that news, the crowd clapped and hollered in approval.

“I think they got that right,” O’Brian said with a smile.

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Originally from Rochester, the band has toured nationally for six years. Their first album “Slow Down” garnered a lot of fans, and they developed an even wider base as they performed at nearly 800 shows. They have eased their touring schedule in the past few years as they made more studio albums, such as “Country” and their soon-to-be released “In These Times,” which will be in the style of electronic reggae.

“It’s a less typical jam band, which makes for a fun time,” said Pete McAllister, a selfproclaimed “local roadie” who helps the band with various tasks, such as selling merchandise whenever they are close to Rochester.

McAllister said the band has really grown not only in performance but also in sound. His words rang true as the band mesmerized the crowd with its array of sounds and instruments in a nearly three-hour concert.

The anticipated “Missing You More” did not disappoint as the crowd danced and sang along to the lyrics. Intermittently, the lead singer talked to the crowd about topics ranging from its genial sentiment toward Syracuse to his disapproval of the hydrofracking situation. The political topics incurred mostly a positive reaction from the crowd, with supportive shouts of “Yeah! That’s not right!”

“We were really anxious,” O’Brian said about “Country,” which diverges from their usual sound. “But people seem to really dig it.

The reviews have been really positive.”

Both longtime fans and new listeners were not disappointed.

charlotte horton | staff photographer JAMES SEARL , the bassist for Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad performs at the Westcott Theater to a lively crowd. The band combined electronic reggae with folk.

“The beginning was a surprise, but very good,” said Stephanie Garland, a Syracuse University alumna and East Syracuse resident.

“They’re the best local dub around.”

The second set consisted of less talking and more instrumental dabbling. Giant Panda Guerrilla Pub displayed their electronic reggae prowess with an electronic keyboard, electric guitars, bass guitar and, at various points, saxophone.

The crowd loved the elongated instrument solos and often put their hands in the air, swaying along to the music. When there was call and response singing with the band, the crowd sang back to them.

At about 1 a.m., the crowd encouraged the

band for an encore. The band played for another 20 minutes before ending on a similar sound to their beginning set.

Not everyone knew about the band before coming that night.

“I just wanted to listen to new music, something to do on a Saturday night,” said Marc Mason, a senior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The phrase “new music” not only works regarding the band’s ingenuity and authenticity onstage, but also for the fans, both new and old.

“We just do our thing,” O’Brian said. “And we just go with it.” cmdunder@syr.edu

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SU student dishes on experience acting in scene for indie film Editor’s Note: For this story, Asst.

Copy Editor Kristin Ross reflects on her time spent on the set of indie film “Adult World.”

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By Kristin Ross ASST. COPY EDITOR

t all seems real enough — students fill the seats of Maxwell Auditorium, scribbling notes or feigning sleep. The teacher asks students to comment about the assigned reading. Suddenly, a voice rings out from the back of the classroom.

“Here we go again. Lock it up.

Quiet please, and let’s roll sound,” shouts the director.

“Rolling!”

“Speak.”

“Scene 69, take four, mark, action!”

I am instantly aware of my every move. Sitting directly across from me in Maxwell Auditorium are Emma Roberts and John Cusack, stars of the new indie film “Adult World.”

Partly filmed at Syracuse University, the movie will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January

2013. Cusack plays Rat Billings, a university professor specializing in poetry. He becomes a mentor to Amy Anderson (Roberts), a recent graduate with a degree in poetry. Unfortunately for her, the job market is bad, and Anderson reluctantly accepts a job as a sales associate at an erotic bookstore called Adult World.

“Just try to act natural,” I tell myself, praying my hair is camera worthy.

Three weeks before, I noticed a line of students near the Schine Box Office. Musical theater and acting majors were waiting to be interviewed as extras in the film.

Intrigued, I stepped in line and soon found myself in front of a panel of casting directors despite my newspaper and online journalism major. Without previous film experience, I hoped my eight years of musical theater training would be enough to prove that I deserved to be in the film.

Then I was asked a final question: “If you could be in any movie ever

chase gaewski | staff photographer ADULT WORLD, an indie film directed by Scott Coffey, is currently being filmed in Syracuse. For a scene with John Cusack and Emma Roberts in Maxwell Auditorium, extras acted as they normally would in a classroom. made, what would it be?” I embarrassingly said the Disney movie “Mulan.”

To my surprise, everyone starting singing, “Let’s get down to business to defeat the Huns!”

A week later, I received a call to be an extra in “Adult World.”

So here I am at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18, spending my Saturday evening on a movie set and awaiting my big screen debut in an “extras holding” classroom with 60 other college-aged students. As instructed, I brought two winter outfits sans visible logos.

My costume of choice: a cotton navy shirt paired with skinny jeans and gray, paisley UGG boots. If I wasn’t going to speak any lines, I had to at least look decent, so I added a long beaded necklace.

“Do you have another shirt with you? The leads are wearing navy today,” says a woman in charge of

checking the extras’ clothing. “But you can keep the necklace.”

Cue shirt change to dark gray and the waiting commences.

At 5:55 p.m., once all of the extras sit in the bottom half of Maxwell Auditorium, Roberts enters, followed by Cusack — neither wearing navy, I noted. The whispered conversations among students quickly hush as they sit. Everyone is star struck.

The scene: Professor Billings leads a lecture about poetry and asks for a volunteer to read some of Octavio Paz’s work, which Anderson quickly accepts. She reads the poem too dramatically for his taste.

Irritated, he runs from the room, and Anderson chases his heels.

Class dismissed.

Wearing a long black trench coat, Cusack has a serious demeanor. He

plays his stereotypical, soft-spoken character, which his fans are used to seeing, with the air of a seasoned actor. Clad in a brown sweater, the 20-year-old Roberts rarely interacts with those seated around her, but she jokes openly with the director and his team.

Before the scene, the director told the extras to act as they would in a classroom. Some doze, others stare at Cusack with rapt attention and I take notes on lined paper.

Even though the camera is never directly on me, Roberts and I make eye contact three times before the director yells, “Cut!” The short moment between Roberts and Cusack is over in four takes.

Greg Boilard, a sophomore communications and rhetorical studies and marketing dual major, told me he is

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Individual styles, experimental flair seep into New York Fashion Week

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hen the spring 2012 shows marched down the New York runways last September, neons, technicolor brights and soft pastels filled the collections.

Despite these attempts to inject some color into spring, the whole affair came off as monotonous.

But when the fall shows hit the catwalks of New York from February 9-16, a darker palette set the tone for a season with plenty of variety — lus-

cious jewel tones, subdued prints and foreign influences. These fresh styles exhibited an attempt by designers to think outside the box and inspire their audiences to embrace individuality.

Up-and-coming Wes Gordon wowed the fashion world with a dose of heavy glamour: delicate black lace, gold overlay and deep plums and marigolds all made for a standout collection. The real star of the show was

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not my natural hair color a jade green shift dress ending in a long train lined with blood-red satin.

It will most likely adorn the bodies of

many a fashion editor once fall rolls around. Gordon’s unique vision was a modern update on an era of bygone Hollywood, a welcome departure from the standard blazer-blousepants combo so often reiterated on the runways lately.

The sumptuous detailing of these collections will help lead trendsetters away from the sleek but boring minimalistic style that has defined New York fashion for the past few

years. Foreign influences were surprising yet welcome for fall. Moving away from the cheerful brights he showed for spring, Jason Wu looked to the dramatic colors and theatrical embroidery of traditional Chinese attire for fall. He explained to Style. com that his inspiration came from a trip to Taiwan last year, where he asked himself, “What is Chinese?”

He answered this with lace overlays,

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British soap opera ‘Downton Abbey’ easier to appreciate in group setting

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By Jeff Wucher STAFF WRITER

here’s nothing abnormal about a busy Empire Brewing Co. on a Saturday afternoon. Tables are filled to capacity.

There’s no space left at the bar. Waiters slide armfuls of food through a thick crowd.

But this past Saturday, 30 people sat in a backroom with their eyes glued to two bigscreen TVs, lost in the world of early 20th century England after World War I. “Downton Abbey” is a high-profile British import. While most England-based productions are quarantined to the BBC America channel, “Downton Abbey” was picked up by PBS. After a year of broadcast and a handful of Emmy Awards, the show’s following grew and WCNY decided to turn the season finale’s premiere into an event.

The room was at capacity for the screening, but Jim Aroune, the event’s coordinator and vice president of broadcasting, said he expected almost three times as many people. And watching the show, it’s easy to see why.

“Downton Abbey” is best described as the classiest soap opera ever devised. In essence, it

follows the lives of both the high-class inhabitants of the titular abbey as well as the low-class dealings of their servants. As a period piece, it goes almost unmatched. The attention to detail in locales, costumes and sets would make any American producer envious.

A gorgeous show to look at, “Downton” stays true to its soap status. Much of the plotting boils down to who’s dead, who’s together, who’s pregnant, how to keep these secrets from each other and why everyone is upset about it.

The entire atmosphere the show builds makes it worth watching. From its attention to detail right down to its performances, “Downton” feels refreshingly authentic, especially in an era in which the over-sexualized and inaccurate “The Other Boleyn Girl” is considered historical entertainment. And some performances make it a must see. Specifically, Maggie Smith’s turn as the Dowager Countess yields both some of the series’ best wit as well as some poignant bits about the weight of time and age.

As much as “Downton Abbey” warrants all this praise, I could not watch it consistently. It is truly a

fantastically assembled show, but I can’t feign excitement about all the passive aggression that silently drives most of the plot. One man at the screening even confided in me that the show moves “slower than a Russian novel.”

Certainly a well-crafted critique of a wellcrafted show But sitting in the backroom of Empire, one would have thought that a live studio audience was at a sitcom recording. Almost everyone crammed into the space had uproarious reactions to what might otherwise go unnoticed. There were gasps at plot revelations, applause for a marriage proposal and gut-busting laughter for one-liners and small character beats.

These were the show’s fans, and I found myself enjoying the show more as part of the collective. In the scattered world of TV that exists now, it’s an almost romantic idea to think of sharing the episodic experience with 30 other people. But it’s such a great feeling to know something so loved can be shared with friends. I may not be in love with “Downton,” but I’m definitely in love with its people.

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Modern dance workshop shows off African influences

By Sarah Taddeo CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With a friendly smile and a wave, Cheryl WilkinsMitchell welcomed the small group of dancers into the sunlit studio. Dancers sat on the floor, stretching and chatting quietly. Soon, they started swaying and stamping to African rhythms.

In the Ernie Davis Hall dance studio Saturday, the renowned modern dance choreographer led a modern dance workshop as part of the Office of Multicultural Affairs’ celebration of Black History Month.

“It’s time to realize how important dance and music and visual arts are and how they all tell the story of a people,” Wilkins-Mitchell said. “If you lose your arts, you lose who you are.”

“It’s time to realize how important dance and music and visual arts are and how they all tell the story of a people.”

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The modern dance workshop was one of many campus events for Black History Month.

By using dance to commemorate African culture, Wilkins-Mitchell created a space where people of all races and backgrounds could join in the celebration.

Wilkins-Mitchell began her dance career as an apprentice with the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first African-American professional dance company to emerge in America, according to the company’s website. She now teaches dance at the State University of New York at Oswego.

The workshop gave the attendees, a lively group of girls, an intense workout and a look into African culture. Several of the last steps in the modern technique class replicated rituals from tribal African history.

Emily Clinkhammer, a graduate student studying higher education, said she thought the workshop was an interesting way to learn about both African culture and dance.

“Dance in any culture is a way to express

feelings,” she said. “It’s an important part of the black community, and it’s more interactive than sitting in a room with a bunch of speakers.”

The group of dancers first learned about Katherine Dunham, a pioneering African-American choreographer credited with revolutionizing American dance in the 1930s. Dunham created an Afro-infused modern dance technique still in use in American companies today.

During the workshop, Wilkins-Mitchell introduced the dancers to Dunham’s technique.

The technique features both classic and modern movements, and the group combined it with fastpaced, intense African steps and swinging arms.

They moved to Dunham’s technique, merging seamlessly into American dance creations like break dancing and West Coast swing.

“Because of women like Katherine Dunham, we can trace many of our street and social dances back to their African roots and characteristics,” Wilkins-Mitchell said.

After the dancers were sufficiently warmed up, Wilkins-Mitchell demonstrated some classic Dunham steps to the driving beat of African drums.

Bending their knees, the dancers stayed low to the ground, a sign of respect for Mother Earth.

Wilkins-Mitchell focused on correct positioning of the body as well as the freedom of the body to connect and move to the music.

“Kids who dance hip-hop in the streets nowadays — that style of dance came from African roots, and they don’t even know it,” said Wilkins-Mitchell during the class.

She peppered the class with intriguing tidbits of African history, such as how early African civilizations used their everyday activities like hunting and farming as inspiration for their cultural dances. She said the steps are part of the tapestry of modern African dance.

Cedric Bolton, coordinator of student engagement of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said he is proud to bring this kind of event to Syracuse University’s campus during Black History Month. Bolton is also inspired by the way dance can tell the vibrant story of a culture.

“Our culture plays out in dance when we think about how far we’ve come as a people,” Bolton said. “Dance symbolically could mean so many things for us.” sjtaddeo@syr.edu

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interested to see which interpretation of the scene the directors choose.

Boilard was seated directly behind Cusack in the poetry lecture scene and is sure to have a few seconds of face time when the film releases.

“He kept leaning back and hitting my knees, and I didn’t know if I should move,” Boilard said after the scene was filmed. “The camera was on me a lot for the first scene, and I didn’t know what to do because they didn’t give us much direction. I decided to just bite my nails and touch my face, and at one point, I decided to fall asleep a little bit.”

At 7:47 p.m., a third of the extras change clothes and stay for an additional scene.

The filming begins again once Roberts has footlong extensions put in her hair.

Announced with a marker as Scene 4, this scene depicts Roberts reading some of her original poetry during a creative writing class. One extra tells me she heard a rumor

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stern military jackets, fur accents and lavish gold embroidery. The boys at Proenza Schouler also infused Asian accents into their collection with a modern take on the kimono and shimmery floral embroidery to boot.

For more wearable pieces, Nahm (designed by Tommy Hilfiger’s daughter, Ally Hilfiger), Suno, Jill Stuart, Anna Sui and Rachel Antonoff all delivered sweet wallpaper-inspired prints. Nahm presented its line in front of a wall layered with paper that matched the Dr. Seuss-like prints of the dresses.

Stuart used deep tones of red and purple on a black backdrop for a funereal approach to the standard floral print, while Suno’s quirky humans-holding-hands pattern offered a respite from the serious quality of much of the other collections. Sui and Antonoff called on the beloved ‘60s to provide ladylike silhouettes for psychedelic patterns and prints. Yet again, these designs were a much-appreciated divergence from minimalism, a change New Yorkers should take to

that halfway through the movie, Roberts becomes rebellious and chops off her hair, hence the extensions.

Roberts makes the director wait a minute to start shooting the scene so she can write down lines in a notebook from which her character reads.

Between scenes, I mingle with other extras and swap stories of previous experience on film sets. For most extras, this is their first film.

Leah Slater, a sophomore acting major, points out how different film acting differs from stage acting, specifically when Cusack, one of her favorite actors, spoke so softly that it was hard to understand him.

She adds it took her awhile to decide what to wear. She even asked for her roommate’s opinion.

“I didn’t want to look like I was trying too hard, but I wanted to still look cute,” she said.

I agree, making a mental note to tell people exactly what I wore — chances are the audience will see my shirt sleeve more than my face on the big screen. klross01@syr.edu

heart for fall.

But the show that had everyone talking was Marc Jacobs. The star of the New York fashion scene, Jacobs stunned the crowd with a bizarre collection straight out of Wonderland. The outerwear-heavy show played with crazy proportions, trippy colors and prints and featured furry chapeaus reminiscent of the Mad Hatter that will most likely perch on the heads of every street-style star come fall. Though this collection will be a difficult one for your average non-fashion person to pull off, Jacobs’ message — to be crazy, to be unique, to be you — can be universally acknowledged and applied.

Despite its seeming lack of cohesiveness, Fall 2012 Fashion Week offers much to contemplate between now and next fall. When fashion month concludes after the shows in London, Milan and Paris, use the new trends to plan your fall wardrobe, but don’t rely too heavily on them. After all, if Marc Jacobs can be different, so can you.

Julie Kosin is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every other Monday. She can be reached at jkkosin@syr. edu. Follow her on Twitter at @juliekosin.

Lively marathon gets students grooving for Habitat for Humanity

By Kim Powell

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sauntering forward onstage, the singers of all male a cappella group Orange Appeal belted out the first note of “Beth/Rest” by Grammy Awardwinning buzz band Bon Iver.

Grooving to the music, the members jokingly snuck up behind one another while dancing to the rhythm. They weren’t the only ones who danced.

Students flocked to the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium on Saturday night for an all-night dance marathon. Hosted by Syracuse University and the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry chapter of Habitat for Humanity, this second Dance Marathon raised funds for their second house in Westside, Syracuse.

“Habitat for Humanity is a body of committed advocates who promote affordable and economical housing,” said Mo Finn, co-executive director and junior television, radio and film major.

The night featured live music, pizza and a lot of dancing. DJ Tim from Black Tie Entertainment kept the tunes pumping from 6 p.m. to midnight. Tickets were $3 and an additional $5 for a T-shirt. Several attendees bought tickets at the venue.

The dance floor was never empty. Couples paired up, some attendees broke out their best back bending moves for the limbo line and a group of friends danced into their own miniconga line around the auditorium.

All through the night and in between performances, the DJ and a few student acts kept the crowd moving with old school songs like Jock Jams’ “Everybody Dance Now” and The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me,” along with current hits like Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” and crowd favorite “Cha-cha Slide” by DJ Casper.

A moving cover of Coldplay’s hit song “Paradise” was Orange Appeal’s final selection. Alex Amadeo, pianist and Orange Appeal’s musical

director, led the group. The closing number was an emotional and slow rendition, but it still gave the audience a beat to tap their toes to.

The next performers keeping the dancers going were members of the newly founded band The Monk That Bought Lunch. Lead singer Kevin Colson kept the crowd in sync with melodic hard-hitting acoustic tunes. After their final song, “The Laughing Dollar,” the crowd cheered and whooped for the band to play more.

Saxophone player Jimmy Corbett hit the crowd with a few more notes.

Natalie McCrudden, a senior environmental engineering major, said she enjoyed the group’s soulful performance.

“They carried the show and were a great band all around, here to have a good time,” she said.

The event’s bands and musicians joined the crowd to dance the night away until the clock hit midnight. Exhausted students departed after a night of fun and helping the community. kepowe01@syr.edu

HELPFUL HABITAT Here are two other events Habitat for Humanity puts on at SU: Habitat for Humanity offers unique Spring Break trips. Every spring, Habitat for Humanity sends more than 100 students to varying locations in the Southeastern area of the United States. The students build and renovate low-income housing.

The cost of the trip is typically less than $350.

Every October, the Shack-A-Thon annual fundraiser can be seen on the Quad.

Hosted by Habitat for Humanity, students from various campus organizations create and live in shacks for three days and two nights. Their goal is to raise awareness on the issue of affordable housing.

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nearly eight minutes into the game.

With SU in a man-down situation after two illegal body check penalties, Albany capitalized for two goals in eight seconds. Albany was playing with confidence and thinking upset.

But SU didn’t panic and goaltender Matt Lerman gathered the defense for a quick talk.

“I have a great defense in front of me,” Lerman said. “We went down a couple men early, and Albany got their first quick one, and I just looked at Brian and brought everyone in and I told them to keep playing some good, solid defense and stay out of the penalty box, and I’ll have their back.”

Lerman and the defense kept Albany off the board for the final seven minutes of the opening quarter. Then the Orange offense started to click and evened the score at 2-2 heading into the second quarter.

That’s when the Syracuse defense ratcheted up the pressure even more. After firing off 12 shots in the first period, the Great Danes managed just four in the next 15 minutes.

Marr pinpointed his team’s lack of execution on offense in the second quarter as the difference in the game. The Great Danes continuously failed to get quality scoring chances.

Meanwhile, Syracuse’s offense registered six goals in the period to make up for the slow start.

“They score a quick two on you, you think they’re going to try and get more,” SU attack Tommy Palasek said, “but they held on down there and gave us the chance to score goals.”

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Miles Thompson had nowhere to go. The Albany attack was helpless as he tried to break free from Brian Megill, who met him with shove after shove in the back.

Finally, Thompson crumbled under the constant pressure, flipping the ball high in the air across the field with no recipient in sight before getting knocked to the ground by Megill.

And as the ball rolled off the right sideline, the Syracuse defender motioned down the field with his right hand to signal the Orange would take possession with a chance to add to its six-goal lead.

“I thought Megill did a great job on Miles and really kind of tied him up a little bit,” Albany head coach Scott Marr said. “Miles is our quarterback, and so we see seven goals. If Miles has a day, maybe we’re at 10 or 11 goals, and it’s a different story.”

A dominant performance by the Syracuse defense helped carry the No. 7 Orange to a 12-7 victory over Albany in the Carrier Dome.

The unit held Albany scoreless in the second and third quarters to build an insurmountable eight-goal lead heading into the final 15 minutes. The Orange kept its opponent off the scoreboard for a 40-minute span that stretched across all four quarters.

Led by Megill, who forced five turnovers and blanketed Albany’s top playmaker, the defense buckled down and limited the Great Danes’ opportunities after they jumped out to a 2-0 lead

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The number of players who scored for Syracuse against Albany on Sunday. The Orange used a balanced attack to run away from Albany heading into the final period of play.

After halftime, with a six-goal lead, Syracuse continued its brilliant performance on defense.

Megill harassed Thompson into his frustrating turnover early.

And then the SU defender prevented a golden opportunity for Albany on its next possession.

Megill poked the ball away as Albany moved toward the net with what would have been a oneon-one with goaltender Dominic Lamolinara.

The SU defender then scooped up the loose ball and cleared it, keeping the Great Danes from getting a shot from in close.

“I thought our matchups were pretty good and the game plan going in,” SU head coach John Desko said. “We really didn’t want to let those guys get too close to the goal because they are such good finishers.”

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Tommy Palasek finds Derek Maltz all alone on the left side of the net for Syracuse’s 10th goal.

The Orange took a commanding 10-2 lead into the final quarter and cruised to victory.

The Orange exploded for six goals in the second quarter to take an 8-2 lead into halftime. All eight goals were scored by SU midfielders in the half as the offense came to life after falling behind by two goals early.

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“We were dodging from up top, and they must have had a game plan going in, probably not knowing a lot of our middies. They weren’t quick to go to them. I’m guessing they wanted to see if we could dodge to score, and fortunately, the guys did in the first half.”

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Syracuse committed nine penalties Sunday, leading to 10 man-up opportunities for the Great Danes. Albany only capitalized on four opportunities, but the Orange has to be more disciplined moving forward.

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Albany was held scoreless for a 40-plus minute stretch Sunday. After taking an early 2-0 lead, the Great Danes struggled to get any good looks and didn’t score again until the fourth quarter.

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By the time Albany finally scored its third goal about four minutes into the fourth quarter, the once animated Great Danes’ sideline was emotionless aside from a few coaches clapping.

Marr and the Great Danes knew the game was already over. The scoreless second quarter was too much to overcome.

And Marr could only wonder how the story would have been different if the Syracuse defense hadn’t stifled his team in that decisive period.

“We just executed poorly, especially on the offensive end,” Marr said. “And I think if we had done a better job of that in the second quarter, the game wouldn’t have gotten out of hand.

“We would have been in it at halftime, and it would have been a different game.” rjgery@syr.edu

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Biruta — who finished with 21 points and seven rebounds — against its 2-3 zone by ending the contest on a 10-2 run to win its seventh straight.

“Scoop made good plays down the stretch.

That’s what you hope for from a senior guard,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “I think he’s been doing it all year.”

Coming off an abysmal shooting game at Louisville in which he went 0-of-8 from the field, Jardine said the key to Sunday’s performance was aggressiveness. Jardine energized the offense both with his intuitive dishes and capacity to score.

In the final minute of the first half, he drove into the paint but couldn’t maneuver his way to the rim. He faded away to his left, lofting up a lob near the rim, where C.J. Fair came through to finish another shot and put the Orange up 38-34.

Five of his seven assists were results of lobs to the rim that Fair, Brandon Triche or Dion Waiters finished.

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Fair poured in a game-high and career-high 21 points Sunday to help lead SU past a scrappy Rutgers team 74-64 on the road. He did the bulk of his damage, 14 points and six rebounds, in the first half to keep the Orange afloat offensively. Fair’s timely offensive rebounds and efficiency from the field frustrated the Scarlet Knights in what was arguably the best game of his Syracuse career.

The sophomore replaced starting power forward Rakeem Christmas at the 17:46 mark of the first half and remained on the floor for the final 38 minutes.

He scored all but two of his 14 first-half points in the final 6:57 of play, including a stretch where he accounted for 10 of 12 points for the Orange.

“C.J. was great in the first half,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “He was unbelievable in the first half.”

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Jardine’s 3-pointer extends the Orange’s lead to seven points, eliminating the Scarlet Knights’ chances of a comeback.

The Rutgers guard finished the game with seven points, going 3-of-13 from the field and 1-of-8 from beyond the arc. The freshman also committed three turnovers.

make a lot of them, and I just have to play with freedom,” Jardine said.

Syracuse led 40-34 at halftime, but the lead never grew larger than seven in the first 19 minutes of the second half. Rutgers matched SU punch for punch with a frenzied crowd behind them. The Scarlet Knights have defeated No. 14 Florida, No. 23 Notre Dame and Connecticut in The RAC. At times, Syracuse looked like the next victim.

But the Orange remained resilient. As Rutgers closed within 42-39 early in the second half, Jardine drove hard toward the basket from the left wing. Myles Mack fouled him on the way in, and as Jardine watched his runner bank in as the whistle sounded, he celebrated emphatically.

When Eli Carter knocked down a 3 to pull Rutgers within 53-50, Jardine drove and dished to Kris Joseph at the top of the key to counter.

After the Scarlet Knights got within two just a couple of minutes later, Melo buried two huge free throws in a one-and-one situation, keeping the Orange ahead 58-54 with seven minutes left.

“I thought those were two big plays,” Boeheim said. “Then Scoop. The rest was Scoop.”

Jardine carried the Orange past Florida in December with clutch plays down the

stretch. He was deadly from 3 to bury Connecticut last weekend.

The senior played with veteran poise and courage again Sunday.

“We make shots,” Joseph said. “The leadership, making the right plays down the stretch, that’s huge and that’s what we did.”

A Mike Poole jumper brought RU within 64-62 with three minutes to go. A defensive stop would provide the Scarlet Knights with an opportunity to tie the game — something it didn’t do in the second half.

Off a feed from Waiters, Jardine took the ball on the right side. After the game, he said he thought his defender figured he was going to drive baseline.

Instead, he dribbled back toward the middle and buried a critical two points from 18 feet away.

Rutgers had two possessions to cut into the four-point lead and didn’t score. One missed shot and two turnovers.

Those blunders cost Rutgers as Jardine rose for 3 with just more than a minute remaining — sinking the shot and the upset-minded Scarlet Knights.

“I work on my game so much for these moments,” Jardine said. “I can take criticism.

I’ve been taking it my whole career. And with that being said, it helped me for those moments to go out there and make winning plays for my teammates to win the game and for myself.”

“He is the best—that’s what is not fair about Syracuse. You think you have everything covered, and then C.J. Fair comes along, who is the best rebounding wing we’ve faced all year.”

an excellent pass from Jardine.

Later, he took to the offensive glass. First by attacking the weak side for a tip-in after a James Southerland missed jumper, then for the emphatic dunk off the Jardine air ball. “(That’s) just position and trying to time where and when the ball is going to go off at,” Fair said. “Sometimes I came up lucky — I think someone shot an air ball, and I was right there. That’s all it is about getting position and not giving up on a play.

“We’ve got good players on the perimeter, and sometimes I think defenders watch them operate and lose me.”

But in the second half, the Rutgers defenders watched Fair.

They watched as he demonstrated versatility, stepping out to the right corner to bury a 3-pointer that pushed the SU lead to 51-46 with 13:39 remaining. They were still watching as he cut backdoor to dazzle the crowd with a reverse, two-handed alley-oop off a perfect feed from Jardine.

“Oh my god, that was the highlight,” Melo said. “I loved it.”

The highlight-reel dunk would be Fair’s final field goal of the game after shooting 6-of-8 from the floor. He played the role of decoy for the final 11:50, as the Scarlet Knights’ defense finally began to key in on the Orange forward.

Fair continued to leave an imprint on the game defensively, though, chipping in a pair of steals in the final two minutes of the game.

The first resulted in the critical fourth foul on Rutgers center Gilvydas Biruta after SU guard Dion Waiters attacked the rim at the other end of the floor. The second saw Fair dart into the passing line and snatch Rutgers forward Dane Miller’s save attempt under the Syracuse basket.

That allowed Boeheim to call a timeout and set up a play that ended with a coldblooded 3-pointer from Jardine to extend the lead to seven with 1:12 to go.

On the next Syracuse possession, Fair iced the game with a pair of free throws that gave the Orange an insurmountable nine-point cushion.

“He was insane,” Melo said. “He was insane the whole game.”

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points were the result of equal parts hustle and crisp offense.

His first two points of the game came at the free-throw line, where he was a perfect 8-of-8, after a quick drive to the rim in transition.

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Biruta gives Rutgers boost; Triche struggles in 2nd half

By Michael Cohen and Mark Cooper THE DAILY ORANGE

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — After Kadeem Jack grabbed his own offensive rebound and muscled it up and in over Fab Melo, Jim Boeheim had seen enough. With a quick flick of his finger, the Syracuse head coach signaled for an unorthodox, yet necessary, substitution.

Freshman power forward Rakeem Christmas re-entered the game at the 8:19 mark of the first half, an unusual return for the Orange.

“I think early they were doing a really great job of attacking and keeping (Melo) involved,” Boeheim said. “Later, they weren’t attacking him as much. They were taking different shots, and he was in position to get the ball.”

Melo’s inability to be assertive and aggressive in the game’s opening minutes earned him a seat on the bench, as the Rutgers frontcourt picked apart the 2-3 zone early. Scarlet Knights’ center Gilvydas Biruta played splendidly Sunday, scoring a team-high 21 points.

Unfortunately for Rutgers (12-15, 4-10 Big East), 14 of those points came in the first half.

Syracuse (27-1, 14-1 Big East) buckled down defensively and on the glass in the second half to earn a hard-fought 74-64 win at The RAC. Biruta surprised the Orange early in the first half by displaying a jump shot the SU players said wasn’t in their scouting report. He opened the scoring for Rutgers with a jumper from the free-throw line. He later swished home a 15-footer from the left baseline.

“He got some jump shots, and we didn’t think he would do that,” Melo said. “That wasn’t in the scouting report. … Sometimes I don’t want to get in foul trouble, so I don’t try to block everything — only if I have an opportunity. And he was pump faking many times, so that’s why it was hard to play against him.”

Biruta scored over Melo on a putback after Eli Carter missed a 3-pointer. And Melo bit on a pump fake by Rutgers forward Dane Miller, resulting in an easy drop-down pass to Biruta for a dunk. “(Biruta) has the skill, he just hasn’t played with poise or composure this year,” Rutgers head coach Mike Rice said. “So it’s nice to have a Gil Biruta sighting, and if he can do it more consistently, I think we’ll win more games.”

But the second half marked the end of Biru-

ta’s consistency. Biruta managed only one offensive rebound in the second half, and Syracuse grabbed every board when it mattered most.

The Orange yielded just two offensive rebounds in the final five minutes of the game.

When Syracuse needed it, the bigs responded. “(Biruta) did a good job of trying to decode our zone,” Kris Joseph said. “He got a couple fouls early, got the free-throw line and things like that. But we were able to make adjustments, and that’s how we are.”

Triche’s offensive struggles continue Brandon Triche was invisible in the second half. Granted, he was only on the court for six of the final 20 minutes, but his performance was forgettable.

He missed his only field goal attempt and made 1-of-2 free throws in the second half. He grabbed one rebound and turned the ball over once.

“I think Dion and Scoop have been playing so well,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said.

“But (Triche) was good at Louisville, and he’ll be good again.”

Triche’s 16 minutes on the court Sunday were the least the junior guard has played since Jan. 14 versus Providence. He scored five points, his fifth consecutive game in single digits. Triche struggled to get himself open to score points against Rutgers as he tries to fight out of his recent slump.

Percentage-wise, Triche, 2-of-4, didn’t shoot poorly Sunday. He just didn’t find himself with any opportunities.

With Syracuse ahead 46-41 in the second half, Triche found himself open for a 3 on the right wing. But the shot clanked long off the rim, and Triche committed a foul fighting for his own rebound.

Triche hasn’t scored in double digits since Jan. 28, when he led the charge against West Virginia with 18 points.

Dion Waiters said he has plenty of confidence that Triche’s offensive game will return to form.

“He’s just got to continue to play and get better,” Waiters said. “Keep working. So at the end of the day, I’m not concerned about Brandon. I know he can come in any given night and go off.” mjcohe02@syr.edu mcooperj@syr.edu

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By Ryne Gery

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A smile stretched across Carmen TysonThomas’ face as Kayla Alexander elevated for another bucket on the left block. Her expression remained the same as the layup bounced around the rim before eventually dropping in.

SYRACUSE 79 And the smile was still there as the Syracuse guard MARQUETTE 63 waited to make eye contact with Alexander before turning to run back on defense as Marquette rushed up the floor.

Tyson-Thomas’ shovel pass to Alexander seconds earlier pushed the Orange’s expanding lead to 16 with nearly 12 minutes to play, and the junior knew Syracuse was well on its way to a win.

“When they’re playing Kayla up, she’s getting deep position in the paint, we’re getting her the ball up top with lobs, so I mean it’s just working,” Tyson-Thomas said. “When your inside and your (outside) game’s working, that’s how you get Ws.” Syracuse (16-11, 5-8 Big East) defeated Marquette 79-63 behind a balanced offensive performance in the Carrier Dome in front of 892 Saturday. Four Orange players scored in double figures, and SU shot 54.4 percent from the field to run away from the Golden Eagles (13-13, 4-9 Big East) for the win.

Alexander led the way with 23 points on an efficient 10-of-13 from the field. Tyson-Thomas added 15, Elashier Hall poured in 14 and Iasia Hemingway finished with 13 in an impressive offensive performance for the Orange.

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them scoreless for more than 40 minutes, Syracuse’s offense picked up the rest and overwhelmed the Great Danes.

Albany outplayed the Orange early on, winning four of the first five faceoffs and outshooting SU by four in the opening quarter. And less than seven minutes into the game, the Great Danes put pressure on SU to fire back.

After SU defender David Hamlin sent Albany attack Joe Resetarits on his back near the SU goal, both he and fellow defender Matt Harris were called for illegal body checks in the scrum. The Great Danes took advantage of their man-up situation and scored two goals within eight seconds.

“We’ve tried to be competitive because we haven’t had the success in the faceoff that we’ve wanted,” head coach John Desko said, “so some of that comes from working a little extra hard to try and get the ball, and Albany could have had more of a lead I think in the first quarter because of the penalties.”

But SU stuck to its game plan, and after

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and to have balance in scoring is big,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “I thought they did a very good job of scoring the basketball, and our team shot a high percentage.”

SU got off to a slow start, hitting just one field goal in the first four minutes of action to fall behind the Golden Eagles early. But then the Orange found its rhythm and responded with a 14-2 run led by 10 points from Alexander.

Syracuse took a seven-point lead into the half. The Orange appeared ready to break the game open after Alexander hit a tough shot inside to put SU up by 11 three minutes into the second half. But Marquette ripped off seven straight points in less than two minutes to close the gap to four.

With the momentum quickly shifting after a 3 by Marquette guard Katie Young, Syracuse needed an answer. Hall provided it on the ensuing possession with a 3 of her own from the left wing, ending the Golden Eagles’ run to give SU a 46-39 advantage.

“It was just about being at the right place at the right time, honestly,” Hall said. “… I just stepped in with confidence and knocked it down.”

The Orange didn’t get overexcited after Hall’s clutch shot as the Syracuse guard, and her teammates showed no emotion getting back on defense. Instead, they dug in and went on a 16-0 run to put the game out of reach for Marquette with just more than nine minutes remaining.

And unlike SU’s first big run of the game, Alexander got some help from her teammates.

Four different players — Hall, Alexander,

Rachel Coffey and Phylesha Bullard — scored during the decisive sequence. Coffey added a 3 after Hall’s, Bullard knocked down a jumper and finished a layup and Alexander made plays in the paint for SU. “I thought we took great shots,” Hillsman said.

“I didn’t feel we forced any shot during that run. I thought that we got good floor balance, we got the ball reversed and we got very good, good shots.”

The fifth player on the court, Tyson-Thomas, handed out two of her four assists in the game during the dominant run.

Her first came on a perfectly placed lob pass to Alexander from the free-throw line to put Syracuse up 12. Tyson-Thomas could feel the Orange taking control of the game as she held her fist in the air, backpedaled down the court and urged her teammates to keep the energy level high.

After Bullard came up with a steal and broke down the court for an uncontested layup, TysonThomas made another play. The Syracuse guard grabbed an offensive rebound off a miss by Hall and dropped a pretty pass off to a wide-open Alexander with two Marquette players around her.

That’s when she finally smiled and knew SU had the game in hand with just more than nine minutes to play.

“When we’re playing the way that we play, inside out and high-low and drive and kicking, you’re going to get open shots on the perimeter,” Tyson-Thomas said. “It’s just up to us to knock them down.”

three early penalties, the Orange finally found some chances at the net.

Hakeem Lecky scored Syracuse’s first goal on a contested shot from the right side of the field to pull SU within one.

And with a little more than three minutes remaining in the first quarter, Palasek found the spark he was looking for.

As he held the ball behind the cage, midfielder JoJo Marasco raced off the sidelines in the middle of a line change. He filled the empty space right in front of the goal, and Palasek connected with Marasco, who put the ball in the net in one swooping motion to tie the game at 2-2.

“We work on getting open on those chances when we get opportunities, and I saw a chance there,” Marasco said. “Tommy was smart enough to hold the ball and not rush it and give me some more time to get clearance on my man, and he was able to put the ball on my stick, and he made it pretty easy for me to shoot it.”

And once the Orange was at full strength, Albany had trouble finding answers for SU’s offense. Five different midfielders scored goals in the first half, and SU went into halftime

with an 8-2 lead. Marasco scored all three of his goals in the first half, Ryan Barber added two scores and Lecky, Luke Cometti and Scott Loy each scored one.

“We were dodging from up top, and they must have had a game plan going in, probably not knowing a lot of our middies,” Desko said.

“They weren’t quick to go to them. I’m guessing they wanted to see if we could dodge to score, and fortunately, the guys did in the first half.”

By the time SU stormed back to take control of the game, the Great Danes couldn’t recover.

When Albany finally cracked the defense early in the fourth quarter for its first goal since the opening minutes, the Orange had already secured a 10-2 lead.

With a balanced attack highlighted by eight different goal scorers, Syracuse put the Great Danes away.

“That’s huge because they’re going to have to start sliding earlier,” Marasco said. “And as long as we dodge really hard and start throwing it behind and working other plays, it let’s the offense relax and settle down, and then we can trust in each other and start opening up plays for one another.”

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PULLING AWAY

Jardine keys late 10-2 run in SU’s road victory over Scarlet Knights

By Mark Cooper

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ISCATAWAY, N.J. — Scoop Jardine sized up Jerome Seagears at the top of the key. For much of the game, Jardine penetrated against the Rutgers’ guards, passing or attempting to create his own shot in the paint.

Jardine’s instincts read otherwise in this moment. With the Orange clinging to a four-point lead and just more than a minute to play, Jardine took the space Seagears gave him and drilled a dagger from beyond the arc.

“I knew I was driving the whole game, and I knew he was going to back up off me,” Jardine said. “So I wanted to get my feet set and go into the shot with rhythm and confidence,

and I knocked it down.”

Jardine’s 3-pointer with 1:12 to play punctured the upset hopes of a hungry Scarlet Knights squad. It also capped off a brilliant sequence by the Orange guard in the closing minutes. Behind Jardine’s 11 secondhalf points — seven in the final five minutes — No. 2 Syracuse (27-1, 14-1 Big East) pulled past Rutgers (1215, 4-10 Big East) 74-64 in front of a sold-out crowd of 8,093 in The RAC on Sunday. Jardine finished with 17 points and seven assists, and C.J. Fair contributed a career-high 21 points to carry Syracuse.

The Orange overcame a Herculean performance by RU forward Gilvydas

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Fair’s career performance helps Orange top Rutgers

By Michael Cohen STAFF WRITER

stacie fanelli | asst. photo editor SCOOP JARDINE pushes the ball upcourt in SU’s 74-64 victory over Rutgers on Sunday afternoon.

Jardine finished with 17 points on 7-of-13 shooting and seven assists against the Scarlet Knights.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — The strong hedge at the top of the key forced Scoop Jardine to reject Fab Melo’s screen.

The Syracuse point guard crossed over from left to right and dove into the heart of the Rutgers defense.

He cut back to his left through the lane — away from the basket — and tossed up a contested, onehanded floater with less than a minute remaining in the first half.

The shot missed the rim by a foot.

Not even close.

But there was C.J. Fair, gliding in from the weak side to pluck the ball from the air and slam it home for the Orange.

“Son of a gun, I’ll kill C.J. Fair,” Rutgers head coach Mike Rice said.

“He is the best — that’s what is not fair about Syracuse. You think you have everything covered, and then C.J. Fair comes along, who is the best rebounding wing we’ve faced all year.”

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ommy Palasek’s confidence in Syracuse’s attack never waned.

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Syracuse scores 10 unanswered goals en route to easy seasonopening win over Great Danes

adversity early in the first quarter.

“You just have to have a short memory with it,” Palasek said. “They score two goals on you and get out on you quickly. There’s nothing you can do about it. You have to move on, and I think you just have to go back out there and remember the confidence we have in our offense and work on executing our plays and our sets.”

And with a calm determination, No. 7 Syracuse (1-0) found its scoring rhythm and never looked back.

The Orange scored 10 unanswered goals, including six in the second quarter, to breeze past Albany (0-1) 12-7 in front of 5,805 in the Carrier Dome on Sunday. As the Orange defense stymied Albany, holding

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chris janjic | staff photographer JOJO MARASCO runs past the Albany defense. The SU midfielder led the scoring effort Sunday, tallying a team-high three goals.