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Accelerated ambition Money raised through the late iSchool dean’s fund will aid a student-venture program.

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A new chapter Story Project for first-generation students grows

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Tour of the town The Daily Orange Editorial Board suggests SU tours go through Marshall Street.

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Varied visits Students touring the SU campus may get a different experience depending on the time of the year.

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Spring forward The Syracuse softball team’s high hopes rely on pitcher Jenna Caira.

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hen Amanda Lashua told her mother she planned to attend college, the only thing she heard was laughter.

“She thought I was joking,” said Lashua, who went to high school in New Hampshire. “She didn’t actually think I was going to do it.”

To her mother, seeking a postsecondary education was ridiculous. After all, neither she nor Lashua’s father went to college. So at age 16, Lashua began the long journey of being not only the first in her family to complete college but also the first to do so on her own dime.

Lashua, now a teaching assistant and a graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences working toward her chemistry doctorate, decided to share her journey with the Syracuse University Story Project, a mentorship initiative created for students who are the first in their family to attend college.

After starting last year for graduate and undergraduate students, the Story Project is now opening its doors to faculty and staff who were once first-generation college students to share their stories and give current first-generation students advice. Individuals who are the first in their families to attend college are invited to submit their stories to be posted on the

Tickets for DJ Diplo sell out Tuesday

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brian norris | contributing photographer AMANDA LASHUA , a College of Arts and Sciences graduate student, smiles outside the LIfe Sciences Complex. She is a first-generation college student. project’s website within the Office of FirstYear and Transfer Programs website.

For the Story Project creator, Sudeshna Majumdar, the role of a first-generation mentor is crucial — especially because 18 percent of the students in the Class of 2014 are first-generation students, she said.

Students with a collegiate family can look to their parents for guidance, but first- generation students are without such tools, said Majumdar, a graduate student in the School of Education.

A first-generation student herself, Majumdar began the program by gathering first-generation students in a focus group practicum for the Office of Multicultural Affairs. The goal of the study was to see

what made first-generation students successful.

Yet once the initial study was over, the students sought further interaction, having bonded over their unique background and common experiences.

“They realized that they need this space where they can meet people like them,” Majumdar said.

Lashua, the graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, did not have a space like this when she went to college.

At age 17, she obtained a GED and went to college because she dropped out a year early from high school. As she packed her bags for her undergraduate studies, her SEE STORY PROJECT PAGE 6

DJ Diplo and two unannounced opening acts will perform to a sold-out crowd in Goldstein Auditorium on March 26.

The concert, co-hosted by University Union and Hillel at Syracuse University, sold all 915 tickets by 1 p.m. Tuesday, said Michael Weiss, president of Hillel.

“It feels amazing to have sold out within 27 hours,” he said. “To see such an amazing student response so quickly shows that we really picked the right person and chose someone with such campus-wide appeal.”

Diplo, a Philadelphia-based American DJ, has worked and collaborated closely with artists such as M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, Britney Spears and Linkin Park, according to a UU press release. The two opening acts are finalized and will be announced within a week, Weiss said.

The concert is part of Hillel’s weeklong 60th anniversary celebration and will be a great way to increase Hillel’s exposure, Weiss said. Chancellor Nancy Cantor, whose financial contribution will help fund the show, said she was happy the event has the student body buzzing, Weiss said.

“I think this really proves that Hillel does more than just religious programming,” Weiss said. “We’re

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Construction company unveils plans for student apartment complex at SU

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Construction for the student apartment complex announced in the fall is expected to begin during the summer.

Syracuse University has selected Education Reality Trust Inc., formally known as Allen and O’Hara Development Co., to develop, own and manage Campus West Apartments, the housing unit intended for College of Law students, graduate students and upperclassmen, according to a Feb. 22 EDR press release.

“We know there is an ongoing need for housing options for law and graduate students,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, in an e-mail.

The complex will have a total of five

floors, four of which will be residential floors with 312 beds in 191 studios and one-, two- and four-bedroom units. The ground floor will include a combined coffee shop and convenience store; a clubhouse with a fitness center, computer lab and business center; and a Department of Public Safety office, according to the release.

Construction is expected to begin this summer, but the EDR team is still seeking local government approval, according to the release. The expected completion date for Campus West is summer 2012.

Campus West will be located near the Carrier Dome, two blocks from the College of Law and one block from Dineen

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courtesy of education realty trust Education Realty Trust will build Campus West Apartments near the Carrier Dome. Construction is expected to begin this summer and last through 2012.

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Jason Wiles and his colleagues wanted to find out how the theory of evolution is taught and viewed in Muslim cultures and countries to form better teaching methods for Muslim students in Western schools.

So they started a four-year study on the teaching and acceptance levels of evolution in Muslim societies. Wiles, an associate professor of biology at Syracuse University and associate director of the Evolution Education Research Center, presented the research data Friday. The presentation took place at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “If teachers in schools are faced with Muslim immigrants, they might not know what they’ve been taught about all kinds of things,” Wiles said in a phone interview.

The study, focused on Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Turkey, Indonesia and Muslim populations in Canada, is an attempt at developing a better base of understanding between Muslim and Western societies, he said.

Thousands of scientists, teachers and high school students in Muslim nations were surveyed for the study, Wiles said. For Wiles and his colleagues, translating survey questions into the many languages and dialects posed challenges.

For each language the survey was translated into, Wiles and fellow researchers had to get three independent translations, he said. Experts in the language then further groomed these translations until they had the correct connotations and wording, Wiles said.

“Just getting it to a point where we were fairly confident that we were really asking what we wanted to ask was quite an endeavor,” he said.

The results of the study were mixed and do not paint a single portrait of how Muslims view evolution, he said.

“There’s not one single Muslim way of thinking about evolution,” Wiles said. “And the variety of thought that you find across the Islamic countries and cultures is just as broad as you find in Western cultures and countries.”

Wiles said this variety of thought is based on Muslims’ differing interpretations of the Quran, particular religious sects, previous knowledge of science and personal experiences.

The political climate within differing see wiles page 6

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Equal lessons shirley avrami , head of the Research and Information Center for the Knesset, the house of representatives for the state of Israel, discusses disability legislation on Tuesday in Crouse-Hinds Hall. Her speech, “Research on Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities in the Israeli Parliament,” described disability-related research that the Knesset administered. Avrami focuses her research on attitudes of Knesset members about enacting the Equal Rights for People with Disabilities law. She also wrote the book “His Last Letter Remains.”

CNY student innovation program receives $1.7 million

By Jon Harris Asst. News Editor

Shortly after Raymond von Dran passed away on July 23, 2007, his widow established a fund named in his honor.

More than three years later, approximately $1.7 million was pledged to the Raymond F. von Dran Fund through individual gifts and an annual dinner called “Forever 60,” which celebrates von Dran’s birthday. Von Dran served as the dean of the School of Information Studies from 1995 to 2007. He died suddenly before his 61st birthday.

On Feb. 16, the iSchool announced the funds pledged during the past three years would go to the Student Start-up Accelerator, giving the program stability to continue into the future, said Stacey Keefe, executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Experiential Learning.

The Student Start-up Accelerator, a partnership between SU and the Syracuse Technology Garden, aids Central New York college and university students to start nonprofit

and for-profit businesses.

The original purpose of the fund was to name the iSchool after Raymond, but Gisela von Dran, Raymond’s widow and an iSchool Board of Advisers member, saw the need for money toward student innovation and decided that was where the donations should go, Keefe said.

Gisela made the decision to dedicate the money to the Student Startup Accelerator and will continue to raise donations for the von Dran Fund endowment, Keefe said. In each coming year, $50,000 will be taken out of the endowment to provide funding for student ventures, which include inventive ways to improve the world, she said.

To compete for the $50,000 worth of funds, students pitch their venture ideas to judges, including Gisela, at Emerging Talk, an annual student-run conference, said Elizabeth Liddy, dean of the iSchool. The conference brings together entrepreneurs, organizations, investors and students, she said.

“It’s really energizing, and it’s a great merging of the community

supporting the university and the university supporting the community,” Liddy said. The Student Startup Accelerator is open to all student entrepreneurs from colleges and universities in the Syracuse area.

Liddy said the fund allows Raymond’s legacy to live on today. There will now be more new startups for students because of the money pledged to the program, she said.

“They don’t take accounting just to take accounting,” Liddy said. “It’s because now they have their own startup, and it really matters that they know how to manage the money.”

The goal of the Student Start-up Accelerator, which will be renamed in honor of Raymond, mirrors his own ambition, Liddy said.

“He was great,” she said. “He was very energetic, very forward-looking.

He was probably the primary force behind the whole national, now international, movement in iSchools.”

Before joining SU, Raymond served as the dean of the information schools at The Catholic University of America and the University of North

Texas. He established distance education programs in the library and information science fields at three universities in the 1970s and created research centers and Ph.D. programs see von dran page 6

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All faculty, staff, students and alumni at SU are welcome to participate in a contest for the renaming of the Student Startup Accelerator in honor of Raymond von Dran. A $1,000 firstplace cash prize will be given to the person who submits the winning name. Four $250 honorable mention prizes will also be awarded. The deadline for suggestions is March 20 and all submissions should be sent to excel@syr.edu. There have been 50 submissions so far for naming the Accelerator, said Elizabeth Liddy, dean of the iSchool.

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The student traffic on that staple street provides a lot more truth to student life today than wistful anecdotes from a time when the front doors to Carnegie Library once opened.

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Tour guides must include major points of Syracuse University’s nuclear campus on high school student tours. But few less important structures may give prospective students an element of community in the stark winter months.

The typical tour starts from the administration building at Crouse-Hinds Hall, winds through the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, on to the Carrier Dome, back through the Quad and past E.S. Bird Library. But Marshall Street sees student traffic regardless of the temperature. Marshall serves as a visual of the intersecting aspects of campus life and the city: school spirit, student recreation and the sadness of Syracuse poverty.

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SU schools, colleges have increased diversity, selectivity simultaneously We were dismayed to read the editorial from The Daily Orange Editorial Board in Monday’s Daily Orange regarding the approach to admissions at Syracuse University.

The underlying assumptions about pedagogic goals and strategies for their attainment are faulty, and the assertions about diminished quality of admitted students are not supported by fact.

The editorial suggests that SU’s acceptance rates have risen “alarmingly” and that “the chancellor and her top officials moved SU’s recruitment strategy in a direction focusing more on inclusiveness, ultimately diminishing selectivity and perhaps prestige.” The data over the past 10 years tells a different story. In 2002, the acceptance rate at SU was 80 percent. In 2010, the rate was 59.7 percent.

Perhaps of greater concern in reading the editorial is the apparent assumption that a more inclusive and diverse campus is in some way incompatible with greater selectivity and academic excellence. Again, as many of our schools and colleges can attest, we have statistically become more selective and more diverse by

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every measure of that word. And we are proud of it.

Median SAT scores have remained constant over the past 10 years, and the average high school GPA has risen. Our campus community has become more international in composition and has greater breadth nationally.

Increased enrollment of Pell-eligible students reflects a yield rate that is higher than for all students. While achieving economic diversity in the student body, this actually lowers admission numbers and increases our selectivity.

We deans applaud and support Chancellor Nancy Cantor and her administration’s vision and strategy toward admissions. While the strategy is focused on undergraduates, we believe our graduate and professional programs are significantly enhanced by a campus community that includes a diverse undergraduate student body. Moreover, some of us have pursued similar admission strategies aimed at increasing diversity and inclusiveness in our graduate programs.

Our university has always stood for inclusiveness. We accepted

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LET TER TO THE EDITOR women long before it was fashionable, and many students came to Syracuse when other institutions turned them away because they were a different race or creed. Syracuse committed to educating the GIs; it has had a long history of educating international students. Those inclusive values have built this institution, and they continue. Long may those values guide us!

John F. Kennedy reminded us that “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” Universities have an obligation to open their doors of opportunity to all citizens who share its values and hunger for education; it is our social obligation. To do less is to fail society.

So what does the above have to do with the acceptance rate at Syracuse?

The admission enterprise is complex.

While it is true that Harvard and Princeton accept 10 percent or less of applicants, each will also aver that about half of the students who apply to those institutions qualify for

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admission. These schools also value a diverse class. If a school wants a diverse class, it needs lots of qualified applicants. Harvard also creates opportunities for many students. Its average financial aid package is more than $41,000 per year, according to its website.

In fact, having 50 to 60 percent of applicants qualified for admission at Syracuse can be a strength, not a weakness. The way to reduce our acceptance rate is to attract even more qualified applicants. Sounds strange, but that’s the algebra.

As deans, we are acutely aware of the improvement in the quality and the diversity of our students in parallel with a reduction in the admission rate. Several of the undersigned are alumni as well, and we all share the desire to have Syracuse University continue its clear rise in quality, both in fact and in the estimation of others. A scan of the extent of activity across campus reflects a changed reality. Beyond the sheer increase in the number of applications, we have achieved a revitalized campus and a faculty supported in unprecedented ways. Our pool of bright, agile, engaged and diverse students is the

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Hall, the College of Law building that will be constructed in the Raynor parking lot, according to the release.

EDR will fund the project with its On-Campus Equity plan. This plan allows universities to use EDR’s equity and financial stability to fund the project. This will allow SU to avoid debt and use its funds for other campus initia-

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Muslim nations is also a cause of wide-ranging thoughts about evolution, he said.

It is difficult to draw distinctions between traditional Christian thoughts concerning evolution and Muslim thoughts because of the similar varieties in belief, Wiles said.

Linda Ivany, a professor in the earth sciences department, said she sees a need for a better understanding between the sciences

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in the same field in the 1980s, according to the von Dran Fund website.

During his time at the iSchool, the number of faculty and students almost tripled, and the school’s master’s degree program in information management and the Ph.D. program in information science and technology were ranked second in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, according to an iSchool website

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tives, according to the EDR website.

EDR was chosen for the West Campus project due to its history with the university, said Lou Marcoccia, SU’s executive vice president and chief executive officer, in the release. It is the same company that built University Village Apartments, and it is also working with Hueber-Breuer Construction Co. Inc. to construct Centennial Hall, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s first residence hall. lgleveil@syr.edu

and religion. She said this is an issue every time she teaches evolution.

Ivany thinks it’s important for scientists to remain sensitive to students’ religious backgrounds, she said.

In an increasingly globalized environment, Ivany said she thinks projects like Wiles’ study are going to become increasingly important.

Said Ivany: “It’s going to become more of an issue to understand how some of those countries that are now becoming really globalized, how their science is progressing as well.” jwklau@syr.ed u

created in memory of Raymond.

Raymond also helped bring the iSchool to the Quad in Hinds Hall. Because Raymond had built up the iSchool to a prominent position, then-Chancellor Kenneth “Buzz” Shaw said the school was as worthy as any other to be on the Quad, Liddy said.

“In terms of schools, that’s a big thing to be able to have a building of your own and be on the Quad,” Liddy said. “I’ve always thought that was one real indication of what Ray had done for this school.” jdharr04@syr.edu

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mother, after realizing Lashua was in fact leaving for school, threw her belongings out of their second-story balcony. She screamed at Lashua and told her never to come back.

Lashua was alone, and her only support came from federal financial aid checks she applied for herself.

Pulling 60-hour workweeks, she took as many jobs as possible to pay for her remaining tuition bill. She even worked nights as an exotic dancer.

This didn’t leave much time for friends, let alone any who could relate to her experiences.

“I can’t tell you how many mornings I woke up thinking, ‘I’m not going to make it,’” Lashua said. “And you have no support because nobody understands. You just feel very alone.”

But using their shared experiences, such as working full time while pursuing a degree as guidance, the Story Project mentors look to support and meet with first-generation students on a regular basis. Whether they just chat while drinking a cup of coffee or fill out a scholarship application together, mentors ensure the students are not only thriving in the college environment but also have someone who understands their unique perspective, Majumdar said.

“It’s a common experience,” Majumdar said. “But I hope, in the commonality, they fi nd connection.”

Michelle Tarshus, a sophomore information management and technology major, has found that connection since joining the Story Project.

Before Tarshus joined the group, she said she felt disconnected from the rest of her peers in high school because she was half-Caucasian and half-Filipino. That feeling carried over when Tarshus enrolled at SU, and she almost dropped out of school, thinking the experience was not

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showing that we really know how to put on a good show and get our name out there.”

Fifty percent of the concert’s profits will be donated to Hendricks Chapel to help fund its new interfaith programming curriculum. This marks the sixth Bandersnatch Music Series show to sell out, including the most recent Big Sean and Donnis performance in Schine Underground on Wednesday.

Jeff Bieber, who is familiar with Diplo and his two-man group Major Lazer, bought eight tickets for the show just 30 minutes after they went on sale.

“For me it was a no-brainer,” said Bieber, a

for her, she said.

Tarshus was not aware she was a first-generation college student until Majumdar reached out to her after seeing Tarshus’ parents’ level of education on her records. With the Story Project, Tarshus is able to connect with other students and form the personal relationships she never had.

By relating through their challenges as firstgeneration students, Tarshus and other students in the project reached out into the community, educating local high school students about the college application process and the importance of an education beyond high school.

“I started feeling more and more welcome.

I felt that family connection,” Tarshus said.

“After that, once I started engaging more, I got more involved.”

Now that the Story Project is expanding its scope to both faculty and staff, students have the opportunity to hear from a wider variety of sources, such as Lashua. When she first submitted her story, she thought it would be rejected, assuming her history would be too depressing for a group interested in inspirational education.

But as she spoke with other first-generation students about her financial situation, the hurdles of applying for college and past relationships at home, Lashua met her best friend — Christina Jones, a sophomore broadcast journalism major.

As Lashua became more involved with the group, she realized the importance of mentors for first-generation students. She said her own experience might not have been hard had there been someone to console and inspire her.

Now that she has the opportunity to help similar students, Lashua won’t put it to waste.

Said Lashua: “The final line I put in the essay was: ‘When life goes to kick you in the a**, turn around and punch it in the face.’” ansteinb@syr.edu

sophomore marketing major. “It’s going to be a high-energy, very electric show.” Four of the tickets are for Bieber and a few friends who asked him to buy tickets. The other four tickets may be given away to other friends, he said.

Tickets for only the first level of Goldstein were available to ensure all students can stand during the show and dance. As of now, UU and Hillel officials have not considered selling balcony tickets. Second-level seats would confine students to sitting down and may take away from the atmosphere of the show, Weiss said.

“It’s a constant buildup,” said Bieber, describing Diplo’s performance style. “He’ll wait to get a crowd going, and once he starts he doesn’t stop.” mainthia@syr.edu

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ate Stewart is preparing for a class that’s a little different from others at the University of Washington’s Experimental College: “Flirting 101.”

Stewart, who is also a dating coach and therapist, didn’t originally intend for her class to be called “Flirting 101.”

“I wanted to start a class called ‘Geek’s Guide to Girls,’ geared toward male geeks who wanted to learn how to communicate with girls, but Experimental College wouldn’t allow a class geared specifically to a male demographic,”

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she said.

Experimental College, founded in 1968, offers affordable, noncredit courses in alternative education, according to the website.

The course catalog offers everything from traditional language classes to more adventurous courses, such as “It’s Time to Write Your Screenplay” and “Beginning Trapeze,” according to the website.

The lack of social interaction among people in the Seattle area inspired Stewart to design her own “Flirting 101” course, she said. The course was a necessary addition to Experimental College because people in the Seattle culture tend to be more removed, she said.

Many people in the area are of Northern European descent, Stewart said, which makes them more isolated and polite. People from warmer climates, such as Italy or the Caribbean, tend to be more outwardly friendly, she said.

“We call it the ‘Seattle freeze,’” Stewart said. “It’s not that people are unfriendly, but people here tend to be quieter, more stoic.”

Much like the rest of UW, Experimental College runs on seasonal quarters, not semesters.

Stewart is preparing to begin teaching her third quarter of “Flirting 101” at the end of March. Typically, there have been about 10 students in her class each quarter, she said. Stewart said with the publicity the Seattle media has given her course, she anticipates higher student registration in

the coming quarter.

Students pay $66 for the course, and the class is open to the general public for a $90 fee, according to the Experimental College website.

Stewart also said she is working on creating another class to add to the curricula, called “Flirting 201,” which will focus on topics such as speed dating, the potentially awkward first date and Internet dating, through which she met her fiancé.

Though Stewart was not the first person in the Seattle area to create a course geared toward the topic of flirting, she did design her own course material for “Flirting 101.”

The class is less of a lesson on flirting and more about connecting with others and “being brave,” Stewart said.

Jessica Rawlings, a participant in Stewart’s class last quarter, said the most important idea she learned from the course was to “strike while the iron’s hot.”

“Kate told us just not to think too much about it while you’re doing it. It should be natural and comfortable,” Rawlings said.

“You should feel comfortable just walking up to a person, talking to the other person and getting to know them.”

Stewart’s best piece of advice for anyone who wants to learn how to be a better flirt is to be friendly.

“Try not to be scared by flirting,” she said. “It starts simply, with people making eye contact and smiling. Just be friendly and be brave.” mekosoff@syr.edu

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Well, I know at least one Knicks fan who’s (expletive)ing ticked off

y roommate, Josh, can best be described as a loud Long Islander — and I love him for that.

No matter where he goes, it’s never long before everyone around him knows exactly what he’s thinking. Josh possesses many traits that make him a fantastic friend and roommate — a good heart, a great sense of humor, a lower-back tattoo with my face on it, etc. — but tact is not one of them.

If he has an opinion, he wears it on his sleeve.

Josh loves to debate any and all takers on a wide array of topics, ranging from politics to proper manscaping techniques. However, one subject holds an extra special place in his heart: sports.

Whether it’s baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, boxing, mixed martial arts, curling, track and field, Quidditch, hockey, dodgeball, hop-scotch, tennis, beer pong, soccer, Frisbee, jousting or anything in between, Josh has an opinion on the game and every aspect of it. This is especially true for his beloved basketball team: the New York Knicks. He watches every game and knows the team roster so well that sometimes the starting lineup seems like five additional roommates.

So when the Knicks traded four of their five starters for Syracuse alumnus Carmelo Anthony, Josh was downright traumatized.

Granted nobody died, but the poor guy spent all night grieving in his typical outspoken nature.

In fact, his emotional progression can be broken down into five distinct phases: Denial: “Wait, what? Are you serious?

There’s no way we gave up our whole team for one (expletive)ing guy. No. This has to be a mistake.” (Frantically reloads ESPN.com on his laptop.) “There’s no way this happened. There. Is. No. (Expletive)ing. Way. Danny, I swear to God if

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Danny Fersh is a junior broadcast journalism major, and his columns appear every Wednesday. Josh would like to extend a big “(expletive) you” to Knicks owner James Dolan and a slightly smaller “(expletive) you” to Knicks front office adviser Isaiah Thomas.

Danny can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.

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“Shut the (expletive) up, Danny! The Wizards still suck.”

Bargaining: “Yo, I’ll clean up the kitchen later if you let me kill that 30-rack.” (Mutters something inaudible while pouring another beer.) “I’d take that trade back in a (expletive)ing second. Danny, stop giggling or I’m putting down my drink.”

Depression: (Shakes his head solemnly.)

“They’re never gonna be contenders. And we’re (expletive)ing out of beer. (Expletive) my life.

(Expletive) you, too, Danny. (Expletive) the Knicks. They’re so (expletive)ing stupid. And (expletive) basketball. (Expletive) this. (Expletive). (Expletive).”

Acceptance: “You know what? I’m OK with it. We got Melo, and it’s not such a bad trade.

Actually, we might end up better off, so suck it, Danny. One more word, and I’m getting that tattoo removed.”

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onathan Stahler has conducted tours for high school students interested in attending Syracuse University for the past two years.

In those two years, he’s seen the effects of his tours firsthand.

“I’ve had a lot of kids come up to me when they’re freshmen, thanking me and telling me how I influenced their decision,” said Stahler, a senior sport management major. “One of them is even in the sport management program. Having

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that much of an impact means a lot.”

Toward the end of the academic year, more and more tour groups are seen around campus, with prospective students toting orange canvas bags full of SU literature and asking probing questions about the university.

The campus tours are condensed into one-hour run-throughs of SU — buildings, student life and academics. In the minds of high school students, tour guides and admission officials, there are a few pros and cons associated with the visits.

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This aspect goes two ways: Tour guides can share their own experiences at the university and personalize the walkthroughs to meet the interests of the high school students and their families.

With tour guides coming from various backgrounds and pursuing different majors, their perspectives can humanize the tour of a school with an undergraduate population of about 13,000, said Charlotte Tefft, associate director of undergraduate admissions.

“People relate to that,” Tefft said. “The tour guides make it memorable. They may show a certain place, but it’s their special place on campus.”

Some guides open their tours by asking students what majors they might be interested in at SU. Amanda St. Hilaire said this can influence how the tour goes and what she talks about.

“I have everyone go around so I can keep a mental inventory,” said St. Hilaire, a junior broadcast journalism and international relations major. “I won’t say much about (the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications) if no one wants to hear about it.”

In a university with 14 schools and colleges, 20 residence halls, several campus landmarks and a nearby State University of New York campus, the tours have a lot of ground to cover. Keeping the visits to a general overview can ensure that most students will have their interests addressed.

“The point of the tour is not to show every building but highlight the colleges and give people a warm sense of what it’s like to be a student here,” Tefft said.

Going to each and every building on campus might be a bit overwhelming for the groups involved in the tour, said Adam Davidson, a tour guide and senior finance major.

“If you went to every building, it’d be too much,” he said. “The way the tours are now, they give a nice overview.”

STUDENT INFORMATION SESSIONS Before some of the tours, students and parents meet with an admissions counselor to discuss what will happen on the tour and the general overview of the university. After that, the parents and students are separated, and the students are led to another room by one or several guides. In this smaller group, high school students can be more candid with current SU students.

This is a unique part of the tour, said Max Solomon, a junior at Randolph (N.J.) High School. Other colleges he had been to, including the University of Florida, Cornell University and Lehigh University, had not prepared these kinds of information sessions.

“A lot of kids asked questions, and they weren’t embarrassed because their parents weren’t around,” he said. “That was definitely the best part of the tour so far.”

Stahler, the senior sport management major, said high school students usually ask about the social and academic aspects of the university when they’re separate from their families.

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The weather comes with the territory once a student decides to study at SU. High school students and their families on the tours might expect an occasional flurry but are put off by snow squalls.

A family from Toronto, Canada, visiting the university went on a tour Saturday afternoon. The mother said she was surprised and slightly annoyed by the heavy winds and frigid snow that welcomed them to the campus.

One of the only cons of an SU tour can be the unpredictable weather, Stahler said.

“I’m definitely not looking forward to a tour when the weather is bad,” he said. “Everyone is miserable. Snowing isn’t bad, but it’s worse when it rains.”

When the weather takes a bad turn, tour guides usually give their tours inside, through the windows of some of the buildings, including the glass-covered Newhouse III or Huntington Beard Crouse Hall.

Tours of the campus usually occur at three times during the day: 9 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. The amount of student activity on campus can vary depending on the day of the week and the time of that specific tour. Some tour guides say families look forward to seeing some student interactions on campus, but this can be hard to come by on a Saturday morning.

“If they come at 9 o’clock in the morning, they’re not in for much in terms of seeing students. I usually give the morning tours, and it’s hard to see anyone up then on the weekends,” Davidson said.

The weather can also restrict the amount of activity on the campus, Stahler said.

Both tour guides and admission officials agree that families coming to see the university are usually very intent on seeing a dorm room — the place where their children may be living for the next few years. Unfortunately, during the fall and winter, this might not happen.

“We’re full to capacity in the dorms,” said Emily Moloney, a tour guide and junior advertising major. “We don’t have an open dorm room that we can just show people.”

This is because of a mix between SU students’ privacy and safety, said St. Hilaire, the senior broadcast journalism and international relations major.

Tefft said that on the Prospective Student days, during which already-accepted students are offered tours of SU, guides bring groups through a residence hall. Room tours are also more frequent during the summer because there are fewer students on campus.

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Korean–Japanese restaurant combines familiar dishes with zesty tastes

By Molly Gallagher Contributing Writer

sian cuisine in Syracuse is usually synonymous with a take-out order at the Bleu Monkey Café or a stop at Sakana-Ya for a bite of pricey chicken teriyaki. But KoreanJapanese restaurant Secret Garden lets you try more exotic foods without completely leaving your comfort zone. Flavorful appetizers, fresh sushi and reasonably priced entrees make for a delicious, family-style meal.

Open seven days a week, the restaurant sits next to Han’s Oriental Grocery at 2731 Erie Blvd. Last Wednesday, we arrived hungry. The restaurant’s small door, flanked by wooden posts surrounding the Secret Garden name, makes it appear small. But when we stepped inside, we were surprised by the spacious room, filled with several wooden tables, booths and seating at the sushi bar. Half of the tables were full, and we chose to sit in a booth, which provided a cozy atmosphere to share a conversation. The low hum of talking in the background did not disrupt our meal.

The helpful and tentative staff answered our questions when we asked about the Korean appetizers. We chose to share several dishes.

To start, we ordered the ddeok bok gi ($6.95), steamed rice cakes in a spicy sauce.

First, the server brought out five (free) Korean banchan, or side dishes. Tiny, white bowls held kimchi, a cabbage dish with a slightly sweet seasoning, yellow beans, seaweed and bean sprouts. These dishes allowed us to sample foods we would have never ordered otherwise. Our favorite of the five dishes were daikon radishes marinated in ginger, vinegar, sugar and salt. The surprisingly sweet dish contrasted with the salty seaweed.

The rice cakes, dipped in tangy chili sauce, had the same texture of al dente pasta.

The next course arrived while we were munching on appetizers. Yaki Soba ($12.95),

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Monday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Tuesday–Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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Sunday: 1 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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glorianna picini | contributing photographer Left to right: Some side dishes that Secret Garden serves include kimchi, seaweed and pickled daikon radishes. The American Dream Roll is filled with tempura shrimp. a noodle dish with shrimp and vegetables, looked like Chinese lo mein but tasted less greasy and salty. Our first sushi roll to arrive was the Tropical Roll ($8), medium-sized rolls wrapped with barbeque salmon, avocado and cucumber. The roll wasn’t overloaded with barbeque sauce,complementing the sticky white rice that did not crumble apart when picked up with chopsticks The dinner sushi special ($18) arrived last.

The staff said the specials vary every night.

When we saw how elaborately arranged the rolls were, we didn’t want to touch the platter.

Surrounding a crab salad and seaweed salad, the rolls included an American Dream Roll,

filled with tempura shrimp and topped with spicy tuna and avocado. Though it looked heavy, the roll had the right balance of spicy mayonnaise and smooth avocado. At other sushi joints, fried tempura tends to overpower a roll, but here the shrimp tempura wasn’t overly crunchy. Also included in the dish were six pieces of yellowtail, salmon and tuna sashimi — raw fish sliced over beds of rice soaked in Saki. Surveying the sushi bar, we could see it was stocked with fish. The staff informed us the rolls were made with fresh fish, which made each bite even tastier.

Though we didn’t mind passing around each dish as it arrived, we would have preferred a

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5/5 chillies little more time between our appetizers and main dishes. The combination of various rolls and the noodle dish could satisfy three people, and sharing dishes allowed us to try more.

The restaurant could also serve as an ideal date getaway or a homey place to enjoy a solo meal. Secret Garden’s charm is in its name — a secluded restaurant off of Erie Boulevard. The menu features dishes you won’t find on campus. Try something new at Secret Garden, and you’re appetite and wallet will thank you. mggallag@syr.edu

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Syracuse displays confidence through Jensen’s ‘I Am’ poem

By Andrew Tredinnick STAFF WRITER

Every time Alessondra Parra enters the Drumlins Tennis Center, she slaps the poem stuck to its wall.

The poem, titled “I Am,” serves as a steady reminder of what the Syracuse tennis team is expected to be all about. The poem is about the constant preparation and mindset that goes into winning every match: eating right, practicing hard and the dream of winning the U.S. Open.

“How we prepare and how we compete is what is going to define us,” Parra said. “In the end, we will get the result we want as long as we put in the hours, and we’re smart about how we do put in those hours.”

Head coach Luke Jensen exudes confidence in everything he does, from his time as a professional player to when he covered tennis for ESPN. To Jensen, confidence is a quality as important as any when it comes to playing tennis.

Jensen wrote the poem in his second year with the program as a way to channel his expectations to his players. And Jensen’s confidence has trickled down to his team. The theme rises before every match: Respect everyone, but fear no one.

For junior Emily Harman, that mindset has carried Syracuse past certain difficult oppo-

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three 3-pointers in the fi nal minutes of the fi rst half.

An Iasia Hemingway layup cut the deficit to eight with about a minute to go. It was the first

nents this season. Even following a loss to Boston University this past weekend, the confidence that has become a defining characteristic, starting with Jensen, has enabled the team to move on.

“Whenever you walk on the court and someone looks as confidently as we do, it’s something they definitely take into consideration,” Harman said. “To be able to have that confidence every day and not really worry about the results is a huge asset to this team, and that starts with the coaching staff.”

The poem is just one of the examples of how Jensen continues to instill a positive attitude into his players. At the beginning of the semester, Syracuse players took time to paint numerous quotes from athletes, such as Arthur Ashe and Muhammad Ali, onto the walls at Drumlins.

A motivational quote serves as reinforcement for what the team has set out to accomplish in the beginning of the season. For example, take the one from Vince Lombardi that reads “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

Jensen has posted similar reminders throughout the complex.

“Our program is all about inspiration and taking the next step forward,” Harman said.

“Not only for collegiate athletics or academics but for the next step after that.”

When Harman came to SU three years

ago, she had trouble buying into what the program was all about. Entering a young squad, Harman hoped growth would eventually take place.

Now she sees a shift in the attitude of the freshmen on this year’s Syracuse team. With leaders such as Harman and Parra, as well as the three seniors, Jensen’s wisdom is now heard from his veteran players.

“There’s a level of confidence that you have to have as a tennis player,” Harman said. “For (the freshmen), it’s huge to have that leadership around and for all of us to be very supportive of them and guide them in

this process.”

Jensen’s goal is to establish a professional attitude among his players in everything they do. If players do not show a positive attitude at practice, that negligence ends in sprints.

Jensen knows it’s a simple concept. You have to think like a champion to become one.

“If you walk in and say, ‘I’m a really good player, and I have really good players around me, I go to the best university in the world,’ you’re going to compete like that,” Jensen said.

“You’re going to play without fear, and in the end that’s what we’re trying to develop here.”

time SU was within single digits in an 11-minute span.

“Going into halftime, I think we were down by eight, that’s key,” Hillsman said. “We could have been down 20 to 25 at halftime.”

Hillsman said Syracuse pressured Cincinnati’s shooters better in the second half, not even allowing the Bearcats to get off the long-

range shots that gave them the lead in the first half. After making 6-of-10 3-pointers in building a lead, Cincinnati attempted just two in the second half. It only made one.

And that made 3-pointer came with five seconds left and a 55-50 Syracuse lead, with the game out of reach.

Still, some of Syracuse’s struggles con-

cerned Hillsman. Syracuse’s starting guard trio of Erica Morrow, Tasha Harris and Elashier Hall struggled mightily on offense, scoring just nine points on 2-of-19 shooting. Morrow made two free throws in the closing seconds to avoid a goose egg in the points column.

“I don’t think overall they’re playing bad,” Hillsman said. “But I do agree we do need to get some better percentages from them shooting.”

The win means Syracuse will finish at least .500 in regular-season Big East play, as two losses in the final two games would drop SU to 8-8. That’s already a game better than last

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season’s 7-9 record.

And the Orange has a winnable game Saturday in its last home game against Providence.

That win would give SU a winning record, and it would take the team to within one game of the magic 10 Big East wins Hillsman pointed to as the number the Orange needs to make the NCAA tournament.

Currently, ESPN’s women’s basketball bracketologist Charlie Creme has Syracuse as a No. 9 seed.

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Syracuse’s offensive balance carries over into new season

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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor tim desko is one of five players who scored at least two goals in Syracuse’s 13-7 win over Denver on Sunday. Desko and teammate Stephen Keogh lead SU’s attack in 2011.

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inch or several — it didn’t matter.

When it wasn’t her mother, her longtime pitching coach Todd Martin helped her. Caira said Martin would leave work on his lunch break to work with her at a local ballpark.

And even Martin’s trained eye sometimes had trouble spotting her hop.

“You hardly even see it,” he said in a phone interview. “If your back foot is dragging on the ground or if it’s a half-inch above the ground, there’s not really an advantage gained by doing it.”

Caira was called for her first illegal pitch at the age of 12 while playing travel ball in Canada.

With her history, Ross said fear might be the biggest thing that runs through Caira’s mind in practice. When she works on reducing the hop — which is every day — the question of “What if?” is there.

“That’s a really scary thought to think, ‘I have to change my pitching style. I have to change something here. Am I going to be as good of a pitcher?’” Ross said in a phone interview.

Caira works almost extensively with new assistant coach Mike Bosch through an array of drills that all try to keep her right foot dragging.

She throws “dry pitches” without a ball around the infield dirt, looking back after each one to make sure a drag mark is visible.

A rubber band is tied to her ankle and pulled

by Bosch as soon as Caira pushes off the mound. And she practices on a ramp with a down angle in hopes of pushing straight out instead of up.

That has led to an 80 percent reduction in the size of the hop, Caira estimates.

“Lisaira (Daniels) was saying in the outfield that it looks really good,” Caira said. “Even the coaches were saying certain things like that.”

But if the 20 percent causes problems, Caira and the coaching staff are faced with a dilemma.

Caira practices throwing with less velocity, which allows her to drag her foot on every pitch. She’s found a balance of keeping her foot down and staying legal. It’s just a question of whether or not 75 percent of her can be effective.

SU catcher Lacey Kohl says she can. Though the velocity is not at its peak, Caira’s pitches move more as a result of it.

“I feel like she can totally still win games,”

After his Denver team lost to Syracuse on Sunday, iconic head coach Bill Tierney started raving about his counterpart John Desko’s program.

He discussed SU’s consistency from year to year, how difficult it was to beat Syracuse in the Carrier Dome and the athleticism of this season’s team.

But Tierney kept consistently coming back to one thing: balance.

“I believe in coaching, the way to prepare your team is the overload principle,” Tierney said. “When you play Syracuse, you’re going to get overloaded. They’ve got great athletes.”

The talent overload has become a trademark of Syracuse lacrosse in recent years. Last year, two players were within three goals of team leader Stephen Keogh’s 31, and six players tallied more than 20 points on the season.

And that same balance showed Sunday against Denver. Five players tallied two goals apiece, showing the well-balanced attack should return in 2011.

“I think, much like we’ve had the last few years, we’ve had different guys step up in different games,” said SU head coach Desko. “Instead of relying on one person to score five or six goals in a game, we’ve been able to hurt people with a bunch of guys scoring one, two, three goals in a game.”

In 2010, seven different players tallied three goals or more in a game. The Orange thrived as opponents could not focus on shutting down one particular player.

Of that group, Chris Daniello, Cody Jamieson and Max Bartig graduated. Sophomore JoJo Marasco scored a hat trick against Princeton last year and takes over Daniello’s spot this season as the midfielder-attack hybrid. Redshirt junior Tim Desko has filled in for Jamieson at the other attack spot and was one of the five players to register two goals against Denver on Sunday. The Orange also has plenty of experienced midfielders to step in for Bartig, including seniors Jovan Miller, Jeremy Thompson

Kohl said in a phone interview. “The spin is a lot faster, so the ball is going to be moving more.”

Kohl said this will lead to ground balls the Orange defense can handle.

If that proves false, though, the bulk of the pitching weight is handed to sophomore Stacy Kuwik. She “broke out of her shell,” Kohl said, when forced to take over for Caira in the Big East tournament last year. Her seven innings of scoreless relief got the team to the Big East championship.

“Talk about getting thrown into the fire,” Ross said. “It was a good confidence builder for her and also for the girls to build confidence in her as a pitcher.”

All Caira’s work for this season made headway at 10 a.m. on Feb. 12. That’s when Caira prepared to throw the first pitch of the season for Syracuse against Tennessee Tech.

Seconds later, she exhaled. An illegal pitch wasn’t called.

“It was a little bit in the back of my head,” she said. “I’m like, ‘OK, we can just continue on.’ I think if I think about it too much, it’s going to affect the way I throw.”

She must not have thought about it.

In SU’s first tournament of the season, Caira won all four games for the Orange. No

and Josh Amidon.

And that list doesn’t include senior attack Keogh, who will likely find himself ranked among the program’s Top 10 goal scorers by the end of the year.

“We want to keep it up, and we like to share it,” John Desko said. “I think we’re pretty unselfish offensively. It’s something that makes us hard to cover.”

Despite the offensive display SU put on against Denver, it did take some time for the group to click in the preseason. In an exhibition match against Hofstra on Feb. 5, everyone struggled to score as Syracuse mustered just five goals in a loss.

By the next week, though, those issues were all but resolved as Keogh, Tim Desko and Marasco led the way, combining for eight of the team’s 11 goals in a preseason win over Maryland.

And against Denver, the offense showed it had come together.

“I think we just had to get comfortable,” Miller said. “I think it was a matter of when we played Hofstra, we still weren’t really clicking as a group. As time goes on, the more you practice, I think everything kind of falls into place.”

SU did just that against the Pioneers, as Denver couldn’t hone in on one player to shut down. None of the Orange players scored backto-back goals. It wasn’t a hot stick that powered the offense. Rather, it was the players’ ability to capitalize on the opportunities they got.

That is what Denver head coach Tierney raved about most. The six-time national champion coach was fascinated with SU’s selflessness.

And he added that’s the type of performance he prefers.

“They play so unselfishly, and they care so much about winning, and they don’t mind the extra pass,” Tierney said. “You can see they get real excited when they score. They don’t care about who scores.

“As a coach, I’d much rather see that than see one guy with seven (goals) and everybody else with nothing.” zjbrown@syr.edu

illegal pitches were called, and she didn’t have to lower her velocity.

A week later, the results were similar. Caira said she has only been called for one illegal pitch in 37 innings thus far.

“Now we’ve got a few games under our belt, and she hasn’t been called,” Ross said. “You don’t want to totally forget that it could be called, but you’re starting to feel a little more comfortable.”

And that’s why Caira continues to work. She won’t settle for that 80 percent reduction. She wants to eliminate the problem and never have to worry about it.

Each day in practice, a portion of the time is devoted to that right foot. True enough, it’s not enough time to make her resort to the bat again.

But it’s about not settling with what she’s done so far.

“I’m not just going to be like, ‘Oh, they didn’t call me the first weekend, so everything is going to be fine,’” Caira said. “But I’m not going to let that affect the way I’m playing now.

“I’m here to lead this team, and if I can’t pitch every game, then I have to find other ways that I can help them.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

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Back from injury, Gueye finishes 2nd in Big East hurdles race

By David Propper Staff Writer

Amadou Gueye usually doesn’t get nervous right before a race. But when he stepped on the starting blocks at the Big East championship last weekend, he could feel the nerves churning in his stomach.

This wasn’t just any 60-meter hurdles race for Gueye. The sophomore was running in only his second meet this indoor season since coming back from a hamstring injury. He didn’t know what to expect.

What he got, though, was a second-place finish, crossing the line in 7.92 seconds.

“He really showed up huge this weekend to come out and (reach two personal records) off of really compromised training and racing for the whole indoor season,” SU assistant coach Dave Hegland said.

After the race, Gueye called the second-place finish a relief. He knew a top-tier finish was within his range, even dealing with his nagging injury, as long as he performed the way he should.

The only hurdler who topped him was Chris Kinney, a two-time All-American from Georgetown.

Coming off a strong freshman campaign, Gueye entered this season with two goals. They are goals even he calls lofty. The sophomore wanted to run a 7.77 in the 60-meter hurdles and make it to the NCAA Indoor championships.

A season of lofty goals quickly turned into a whirlwind of uncertainty for Gueye, though, when he strained his hamstring on Dec. 6, 2009.

It’s a date he still remembers vividly.

Instead of working toward his goals, he was sidelined and helpless.

“It’s real frustrating,” said long-distance runner Joseph Bubniak, who was out for part of last year because of illness. “You work many months, you get into good shape, then get an injury and then you have to take a few months off. It’s a long process, but if you keep working hard, things will come together.”

Hegland wasn’t sure how much Gueye would be able to run following the injury. He said the goals were just delayed a little bit.

But Gueye and Hegland both expected the star runner to go full speed at the beginning of February instead of still trying to feel his way around the track.

In Gueye’s first race back at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational on Feb. 5, he was still hesitant and mindful of his injury. He finished with a time he called disappointing. He said he wasn’t attacking the hurdles aggressively enough, one of the reasons he’s normally so successful.

“It was good to get a race out of the way,” Gueye said. “But the time wasn’t where I wanted it to be. I don’t know if Coach was happy about it, but I wasn’t satisfied with it.”

Because he was still injured, he didn’t want to aggravate it or make it worse. Gueye had his eyes set on the Big East championship.

Or as he called it, “the big fish.”

As a result of Gueye reeling in that big fish with a second-place finish at the Big East

championship, he still has a chance to reach both of his goals in a week and a half at the IC4A championship on March 5.

“He’s got a good chance,” head coach Chris Fox said of Gueye reaching nationals. “If he catches it really good at the (IC4A) in 10 more days, he has a shot for sure.”

Gueye understands the magnitude of this approaching race. He has to run his best to reach the NCAAs. “That’s my last chance to hit those goals,” he said, “so it’s going to be a very, very big date for me.”

Though Georgetown’s Kinney, who defeated Gueye this past weekend, is already qualified,

Gueye is right on his coattails. If he runs a time within the top 16 in the country, Gueye will have achieved one of his missions set forth before the season, all the more impressive considering where he was in December.

And Gueye said this time around, there won’t be any nerves.

“I try not to get nervous because I don’t let the moment get to me,” Gueye said. “If I was nervous, that would mean I feel I’m not prepared, and that’s not the case at all. Everybody does a good job at putting me in position to do well and to hit those goals.

“So, nervous? No. Excited? Absolutely.” dgproppe@syr.edu

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March 5 IC4A/ECAC March 5 Columbia Last Chance March 12 Virginia Tech Final Qualifier

Boston Binghamton, N.Y. Akron, Ohio Boston New York City Blacksburg, Va.

Outlook

Though SU track and field as a whole thrived at the Big East championship this past weekend, the Orange’s long-distance team didn’t turn in one of its best performances, and head coach Chris Fox took the blame afterward. “Probably my fault, but we stunk the joint out as a distance program,” Fox said. Coming up, a few more indoor meets remain, and the chance to qualify for the indoor NCAAs still lingers for some SU runners.

VanderWal leads Marietta to 1st winning season in 11 years

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

For Marietta College and head coach Jon VanderWal, Tyler Hammond was the missing piece.

He was the piece that brought a new, up-tempo style to an offense that is otherwise made up of VanderWal’s first recruiting class from three years ago. The missing piece to a team that gritted its FOR THE teeth through two losing seasons with the hope that things would turn around.

The piece that made VanderWal’s message to Hammond come to fruition.

“He said the program’s going in the right direction,” Hammond said of VanderWal’s message when recruiting him. “He said it was going to be a big turnaround, especially this year. He said he was trying to build a dynasty for this school.”

Thanks to the play of freshman point guard Hammond, Marietta finished its season a winning team for the first time in 11 seasons and fulfilled VanderWal’s vision of a breakout year.

After going only 10-16 a year ago, the Pioneers finished this season at 22-3, won the Ohio Athletic Conference championship and have a possible bid for the NCAA Division III tournament looming.

Hammond ended up as the perfect fit to the team’s offense to bring success back to the program.

Upon his recruitment, Hammond had to decide whether or not to buy in to what VanderWal told him. After he thought about it, considering the conviction VanderWal had in his voice when he told him his message, Hammond was on board. He headed for Marietta to help get things turned around in his freshman season.

He joined a group of juniors from VanderWal’s first recruiting class. They had traded

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some losses for playing time early in their collegiate careers, but now they expected those losses to turn into wins.

“Our juniors, I think, had a lot of faith in our coaching staff that it was going to be a chance to come in and play a lot right away,” VanderWal said. “But we promised them that we would continue to bring in good players so when they were juniors and seniors, we’d have a really good team.”

The team didn’t have to wait long to start to see the results of what VanderWal put together.

The Pioneers started off their season 13-0. At the time, it didn’t seem like any team could stop Marietta. Some sense of complacency started to take over.

But in the middle of the season, two straight losses that are as important as the wins that fill the schedule around them stick out to players.

They proved the Pioneers weren’t invincible.

On Jan. 8, Marietta lost to Heidelberg 81-77. Four days later, they fell 82-74 to Capital.

“They were important losses. We’d been focused throughout the whole year, but we kind of got complacent,” forward Kevin Knab said.

“Those back-to-back losses showed that we have not a lot of room for error and that we needed to stay focused.”

After the second loss, Marietta played what VanderWal considers the team’s best game of the year against John Carroll University. The Pioneers fought off two comebacks by the Blue Streaks and pulled away to get the 101-90 win.

Hammond sparked a second-half run to help send Marietta to victory.

That fight, that evident hunger to end the brief losing streak, proved any lingering sense of complacency was removed. Marietta returned to its original motivation to make sure losses were in the past.

“You could just tell everyone wanted to win

that game,” Knab said. “Anyone watching could see that it was probably the hardest game we played all year.”

The Pioneers finished their season 9-1 after those two losses. The combination of VanderWal’s first recruiting class and his “blazing fast” point guard, Hammond, pulled Marietta to where he predicted it would be.

With the regular-season turnaround complete, the Pioneers now set their sights on the OAC tournament and then possibly the NCAA Division III tournament.

Hammond helped bring his team to prominence in the regular season. Now he’s looking to do it in the postseason.

“We want to win all three games,” Hammond said, “and hopefully make it to the D-III tournament and make a run there.”

Games to watch

UCLA and beat the Bruins without much of a problem.

Prediction: Arizona 68, UCLA 60

No. 13 Florida vs. No. 22 Kentucky Florida barely beat Kentucky on Feb. 5 in a 70-68 victory. The Wildcats have scuffled in their last six games, going 3-3. The Gators have won eight of their last nine and will take down the Wildcats.

Prediction: Florida 65, Kentucky 60

No. 23 St. John’s vs. No. 15 Villanova St. John’s has its share of big wins against ranked teams, but they all seem to come at Madison Square Garden. The Red Storm hasn’t been quite as successful on the road.

After falling to Syracuse on Monday, Villanova is looking to avoid two straight losses at home.

Prediction: Villanova 70, St. John’s 67 cjiseman@syr.edu

No. 17 Syracuse vs. No. 11 Georgetown Georgetown already beat Syracuse once at the Carrier Dome. The Orange has clearly proven it’s vulnerable in the Big East. On Saturday, it’ll prove it again. On its home court, Georgetown will beat Syracuse in a close game.

Prediction: Georgetown 76, Syracuse 73

No. 6 San Diego State vs. No. 7 BYU This is a great battle between two teams that have dominated the Mountain West Conference all season. The Aztecs fell to the Cougars by 13 points back on Jan. 26. On Saturday, Jimmer Fredette will again lead BYU over San Diego State on the road.

Prediction: BYU 82, San Diego State 77

No. 10 Arizona vs. UCLA As good as UCLA has been in the Pac-10 this year, Arizona has been even better. The Wildcats have won their last eight games, led

by Derrick Williams’ 19.7 points per game this season. Arizona should be able to go into

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SU escapes upset bid from Cincy

By Mark Cooper ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Hop step

By Michael Cohen

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enna Caira took out her frustration with a bat. The disgruntled ace of the Syracuse softball team couldn’t take it anymore. After a full practice of working on nothing but her right foot, she needed a release.

“There was one time where we only did work on the hop for one practice,” Caira said. “And I was just so mentally exhausted.”

Syracuse associate head coach Wally King noticed that pent-up frustration and pulled her aside. He took her out to the field of the SU Softball Stadium to let loose.

“He would just toss me some balls,” Caira said, “and I would just hit as hard as I could to get the frustration out.”

What had SU’s star riled up was a problem that originated more than 15 years ago

Caira works to eliminate pitching flaw, lead SU back to postseason play

as a youngster in Toronto. Caira, a junior right-handed pitcher, has a flaw in her delivery, known as a crow hop. Prior to releasing each pitch, her right foot leaves the ground, and she takes a small “hop” forward before the ball leaves her hand. According to the NCAA rules, this is illegal.

After a regular season in which Caira won 17 games, umpires began calling her for illegal pitches in postseason play. With each illegal pitch allowing a runner to advance one base, every violation hurt SU. As a result, head coach Leigh Ross pulled Caira in the first inning of two of Syracuse’s five postseason games, and she didn’t pitch in a third.

In preparation for her junior season, Caira tried everything to reduce the height of her hop. If it couldn’t be removed entirely, it needed to be minimized in hopes of remaining in the circle for Syracuse this season.

“It’s a tough situation,” Caira said.

“Unfortunately when they call it, it ruins the rhythm.”

The crow hop has been in Caira’s motion since she first began working with a pitching coach at the age of four.

Her early coaches emphasized the importance of driving off the mound as a young pitcher. So as Caira learned to harness the muscles in her legs, she ended up pushing in the wrong direction.

“I would really push off the mound going out, but unfortunately I guess I was going up,” she said.

But Caira also remembers how quickly she tried to correct the problem. She remembers going to an old schoolyard in Canada with her mother and a bucket of balls.

There, Caira would pitch. Each time, she had to focus on keeping her foot down.

And no matter how small the lift was SEE CAIRA PAGE 13

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A 19-point deficit to the worst team in the Big East. That was Syracuse’s predicament Tuesday.

Coming off a pair of key wins last week against Louisville and SYRACUSE 55 at St. John’s, Orange CINCINNATI 53 the came out fl at against Cincinnati. SU’s fi rst field goal didn’t come until a Kayla Alexander bucket with 8:15 left in the fi rst half.

For a team not completely locked into the NCAA tournament, the slow start spelled trouble.

“Give a lot of credit, they just made some shots,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said in a phone interview after the game. “They came out, and they made some late (shot) clock 3s, and we weren’t scoring.

“I just told them play one possession at a time, stop looking at the score, get stops and get down the court and start scoring the basketball.”

Syracuse closed the gap to eight by halftime and kept the momentum throughout the early moments of the second half, taking a lead with 16:35 remaining. The Orange grabbed the lead for good with 15:38 remaining, although it had to hold on for a nail-biting 55-53 win at Cincinnati on Tuesday in the Fifth Third Arena. Despite the poor showing, SU (20-7, 8-6 Big East) still managed to seize its fourth straight conference win.

It is also the first time SU has put together back-to-back 20-win seasons in school history.

“Obviously we’re just very happy with our comeback to win the game,” Hillsman said. “In our conference, every game is tough, as you can see by tonight.”

The win didn’t come without a fight from the lowly Bearcats. Cincinnati went on a 12-0 run after Syracuse free throws to start the game, and for most of the first half, the Bearcats dominated the Orange. Cincinnati earned its biggest lead of the game on a Bjonee Reaves 3 that gave the team a 30-11 lead with less than five minutes to play before halftime.

From there, SU rallied. Closing the half on a 13-2 run, Syracuse guard Carmen Tyson-Thomas led the comeback by knocking down SEE CINCINNATI PAGE 12