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Gadhafi implicated in bombing

Opening acts announced for DJ Diplo

By Jon Harris

Baltimore native rapper Rye Rye and indie rock band The Postelles will open for DJ Diplo of Major Lazer on March 26 as part of Hillel at Syracuse University’s 60th anniversary celebration.

The trio will perform at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium in front of more than 1,000 students, said Michael Weiss, president of Hillel.

First-level tickets for the show sold out Tuesday afternoon, but due to overwhelming student responses, 400 additional balcony tickets will go on sale Thursday, Weiss said. Tickets are

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Libya’s former justice minister told a Swedish newspaper Wednesday that longtime Libyan leader Moammar al Gadhafi personally ordered the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, according to an Associated Press article published Wednesday.

All 259 passengers on board the plane died in the bombing, as well as 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland. Thirty-five of the victims were Syracuse University students traveling home from studying abroad in London and Florence. One Libyan man, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was convicted for the bombing.

“I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie,” said former justice minister Mustafa Abdel-Jalil in an interview with Stockholmbased tabloid Expressen, according to the AP article.

Gadhafi, the 68-year-old who has controlled Libya since a 1969 military coup, never admitted to ordering the bombing, although he accepted Libya’s responsibility of it, according to the article. In 2008, Libya finished paying $1.5 billion to the relatives of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103, according to an article published in The New York Times on June 10, 2009.

Abdel-Jalil, who stepped down as the justice minister of Libya because of the country’s crackdown on antigovernment demonstrations, failed to describe the proof, according to the AP article.

Ed Galvin, director of SU’s archives and records management who manages the Pan Am Flight 103 archives, said there is currently no substantial proof to back up AbdelJalil’s claim.

“It’s an opinion right now,” he said.

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Budget cuts may rescind Say Yes grant

By Stephanie Bouvia Staff Writer

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a spending bill Saturday to cut $61 billion from the federal government’s budget, which could affect the relationship between Syracuse University and Say Yes to Education.

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What is Say Yes? sarah kinslow | contributing photographer

Big time Big Sean, a rapper from Detroit, performs in Schine Underground Wednesday night to a sold-out crowd. The concert, put on by the Winter Carnival Committee and the Bandersnatch Music Series, also featured performances by student group The Fly and rapper Donnis. The concert kicked off a week of events for the annual Winter Carnival. See page 11

Say Yes to Education, Inc. is a national, nonprofit foundation committed to increasing high school and college graduation rates for the nation’s urban youth.

Say Yes promises free college tuition to nearly 100 universities for those who meet the residency, graduation and admission requirements.

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Workers transport gas turbine

By Meghin Delaney Asst. News Editor

Workers from Project Orange Associates moved a gas turbine module through some Syracuse University streets Wednesday without issue.

The turbine moved from the Project Orange site off Taylor Street to a storage facility on Brighton Avenue, according to an SU News Services alert e-mailed to students Tuesday.

The move began at 10 a.m. and finished at about 4 p.m., said Sara Miller, associate director of SU News Services. Weather permitting, workers will move a second gas turbine module Friday, Miller said.

All students received an e-mail informing them of the move, and South Campus residents also received an e-mail encouraging students to take an earlier bus because of possible traffic delays.

The vehicle transporting the wind turbine traveled at a low speed, 5 mph, and was escorted by the Syracuse Police Department, according to the e-mails. The turbine move was expected to slow and delay traffic on streets in the university area, including Waverly and Comstock avenues.

Other streets in the area mentioned in the e-mail included Jamesville Road, Ainsley Drive, East Brighton Avenue and Burt, Almond, Taylor, South Townsend, East Adams and Genesee streets, according to the e-mails.

Police vehicles escorted the transportation unit as a means of traffic control, said SPD Sgt. Gary Bulinski. He did not know the number of vehicles present during the move.

Bulinski also said there were no calls of accidents as a result of the move.

Demolition of the Project Orange steam plant, which had smokestacks that were visible from University Avenue on campus, began in January, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Jan. 31.

The company cut off steam supply to SU in October 2009 because of disagreements about faulty turbines and steam production costs, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 21, 2009. In an agreement made with SU in 1990, Project Orange provided the university with a 33 percent discount on steam purchases above a specific quantity, according to the article.

Heinrich Kirschner, facility manager for Project Orange, declined to comment on the gas turbine transportation. medelane@syr.edu

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david zarefsky, Jeanette K. Watson collaborator in the Syracuse University Humanities Center, speaks about former President Abraham Lincoln’s view of war and peace in the Killian Room in the Hall of Languages. Zarefsky, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, delivered the first of two lectures for the Syracuse Symposium’s “Conflict: Peace and War” on Wednesday. He will deliver his second speech, “Lyndon Johnson on War and Peace,” April 27. He has authored six books and more than 70 articles.

Event to help students find job opportunities in Asia

By Audrie Tan Staff Writer

Unlike Ivy League schools that are highly regarded overseas, Syracuse University is a school unheard of to some companies in Asia. Chao Dou is working to change that.

“I wanted to get our name abroad so that when I go to Asia, they will know what Syracuse is, besides just knowing Cornell and Harvard,” said Dou, a junior architecture major and president of Work In Asia, a studentrun initiative at SU. Work In Asia will bring in four

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The student-run initiative to help students find job opportunities in Asia will feature four speakers.

Where: Martin J. Whitman School of Management When: Friday, 11:30 a.m.

How much: Free speakers, three of whom are SU employees, Friday to help students find job opportunities in Asia. The initiative’s event will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the Martin J. Whitman School

of Management atrium and will focus on China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

The speakers include Shane Berkeley, executive director of investment bank operations at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Hong Kong; Chung Chen, professor of managerial statistics in Whitman; Chuck Reutlinger, associate director of SU Career Services; and Julie Riverso, SU Abroad admissions counselor for Strasbourg, Hong Kong and Beijing.

Work In Asia, which submitted a petition last semester and is waiting

to become a recognized student organization on campus, began with the intention of promoting SU overseas.

The initiative opens doors for interested students by helping them locate job opportunities in the region, Dou said. Work In Asia also helps students familiarize themselves with the culture in specific areas — something students may find intimidating, Dou said.

Dou said he hopes more than 80 students will attend the event Friday. Last year’s event drew about 70 students. see asia page 6

Former professor remembered for athleticism, environmental focus

By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor

As Allan Drew plugged away near the end of a race, he ran not only to run but to win.

“When he could smell the finish line, when he was maybe five, six miles from the end, there was no more stopping,” said Drew’s friend, John Allen. “There was no more slowing down.”

Competitive in both running and biking, Drew also set a goal at 60 years old to bike around 10 of the Finger Lakes before he turned 70. He completed nine, never able to complete the final trip before metastatic prostate cancer led to his death Friday.

Drew taught as a tropical forest ecology professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry

for 30 years until last fall. His memorial service will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the University United Methodist Church, which he attended for more than two decades.

Friends and family members remember Drew for his competitive nature in athletics but also for his quiet personality outside of sports.

He held a passion for the environment and traveled around the world

for his work.

Drew taught a tropical forest ecology course for more than two decades, and it took him and nearly 15 students to Dominica in the West Indies each spring. It was Drew’s favorite course, said David Newman, chair of ESF’s Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management. Drew also performed botanical research in see drew page 6

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Hillel anniversary celebration, donation bring campus together The immediate sellout of the DJ Diplo concert vindicates Hillel at Syracuse University after the student organization fought through semesters to get the funding to pull off the upcoming 60th anniversary celebration.

With mash-up, dubstep and techno DJs gaining popularity, Hillel chose an artist with broad student appeal. Hillel’s successful event shows special-interest student groups — whether religious, ethnic or political — can rally student participation through music.

editorial by the daily orange editorial board Rather than celebrating its anniversary by bringing in a prominent Jewish speaker or holding a dinner for Hillel members, both of which would have been great ways to honor a long history at SU, the organization will bring SU students from all backgrounds together to celebrate. Music and comedy performances,

such as the one Hillel will hold and many others student groups put on each semester, consistently prove to be the few tools that unite the student body for various causes and celebrations.

With that, Hillel also demonstrated a laudable dedication to strengthening the campus outside its organization by donating half the proceeds from the concert to Hendricks Chapel.

Housed in Hendricks for decades before moving to its own site, Hillel members said they wished

to give back to the chapel. Their donation will fund Hendricks’ interfaith dialogue initiative, an incredibly relevant and essential cause on a religiously diverse campus like SU. The communal effort — through funds from Hillel’s donors and the chancellor, as well as the help of University Union — to see Hillel’s 60th anniversary concert to fruition is likewise commendable, as it proved to be an endeavor that truly benefits more than one slice of campus.

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Industry old-timers bring most innovative style to NY Fashion Week

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ust like the latest fashion crazes, New York Fashion Week came in just as quickly as it left, with Feb. 17 as its last day at Lincoln Center. Fashion Week has since moved onto London and will head over to Milan and then end in Paris by March.

As a whole, New York Fashion Week showed great designers with beautiful collections that featured bright colors, great accessories and tough outerwear. However, much to my dismay, trends from the spring, and even from last fall, still resonated throughout many of the designers’ collections. Militaristic elements were still present in most outerwear pieces, as were neon colors. Also, the 1970s look drenched at least half of the designers who showed at New York Fashion Week. Yes, it was definitely an iconic time in American sportswear and glamour, but Marc Jacobs already set the tone for the neo-’70s in his spring collection, and a season later it seems like everyone else has jumped on board.

“Walking into the Marc Jacobs show tonight, a retailer remarked, ‘We have to come here in order to find out what we’ll be seeing

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i’m judging you next season,’” wrote Style.com’s Nicole Phelps.

“His point: The lush colors and Lurex that have been everywhere this week were inspired by the ode to the 1970s Jacobs delivered last time out.”

This Marc Jacobs inspiration many designers have taken on doesn’t really settle nicely in my eyes, but I do understand why one would look up to him. Jacobs has become an icon, and as a designer, he’s my first runway thumbs-up for the season.

During New York Fashion Week, Jacobs’ collection was much more restrictive and tight when compared to last season’s, and he said the loose and flowy styles of last year was exactly

what he wanted to steer away from.

The majority of the clothes were in black, navy, white and burgundy, which could’ve posed a problem of lackluster color, but what balanced out the colors were Jacobs’ unique use of texture.

Polka dot overtones were dominant throughout, with many of the polka dots made from rubber and lace, two types of material not often found together. With the variety Jacobs offered and his fearless way of translating fashion into something wearable, his collection was definitely one of the best this season.

Another designer worthy of looking up to is the always relevant Anna Sui. Inspired by the Ballets Russes in London, Sui searched for the middle ground between the punk-rock Mod girl and the flirtatious Dandy girl. Needless to say, Sui captured the essence of it perfectly.

Geometric art nouveau patterns graced the runway with pops of electric greens and oranges throughout. Tweeds and velvets were mix and matched into each look, which created beautiful textures and a different look to the eye. Notable accessories included her printed sheer tights

and her animal hats.

Sui’s collection was young, flirtatious and very reminiscent of the rebellious Londoners we’ve all wanted to be in one point of our lives.

This was one of Sui’s strongest presentations yet.

Besides Jacobs and Sui, other noteworthy designers include Alexander Wang, the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte, Jason Wu, and Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, all of whom — compared to Jacobs and Sui — are young in the industry. Though it makes sense Jacobs and Sui are sure wins for unforgettable collections, what needs to be praised about them is that rather than establishing themselves as just longtime veterans of fashion and regurgitating their own past, they are still in the frontier of creating new concepts and styles in fashion. And this is what we should truly appreciate and take away from this New York Fashion Week.

Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at vho@syr.edu

College admissions should look beyond superficial markers of success Monday’s Daily Orange editorial poses a false choice between the quality and value of a Syracuse University education and a thoughtful admissions strategy that seeks to ensure diversity among the student body. Rather than devaluing the SU degree, diversity — in the classroom and on campus — makes college a richer and more productive learning experience for all, better preparing students for success in an increasingly complex and diverse world. The editorial mistakenly equates exclusivity with quality. Exclusivity enforced by selective admissions favors those in our society who are already advantaged. As an end in itself, selectivity does little to ensure high-quality educational experiences. My view is informed by my personal experiences as a student and 35 years of university teaching.

I worked on a factory assembly line after school while my high school friends from more fortunate families had time to do their homework and be tutored for their SATs. They often got better grades or higher SAT scores than did I. Many of them went on to Ivy League and other exclusive schools. I did not. I applied to SU, but I was not admitted. I went to a less selective college.

I spent my winter, spring and summer breaks at the factory, not traveling with friends to Mexico or Europe. But I worked hard at my schoolwork; and because some of my professors

LETTER TO THE EDITOR were especially supportive, I did well enough to go to graduate school, though not well enough to get into a “top-tier” graduate program. SU rejected me for doctoral studies, too.

By the age of 25, I had completed my Ph.D. at the State University of New York Binghamton (then considered a second- or third-tier school).

Despite not being from a prestigious school, the education I got was outstanding, and I learned skills for teaching, research and publishing that many of my colleagues who went to more prestigious schools did not learn. Working through college and graduate school introduced me to worlds I would not otherwise have seen or experienced, and this enriched, too, my own educational experience. My experiences in the classroom and outside have enabled me to achieve much.

The experience of being an outsider to academic selectivity and my anthropological work in a wide variety of communities — especially on racial and ethnic health disparities in Syracuse — showed me how important it is to meet people on their own terms and to look beyond superficial markers of success. Thus I much prefer university admissions policies, like ours at SU, that seek to create a student body com-

posed of individuals who differ substantially from one another yet share a seriousness of educational purpose.

But diversity is not an end in itself. Rather, the careful construction of a diverse student body enhances the educational experience of everyone on campus. Before joining the SU faculty, I taught at both highly selective schools and at less prestigious schools. I’ve found that selectivity too often comes along with limited insight into the many alternative ways that people create meaningful lives. Selectivity created by a singular focus on SAT scores and similar measures results in classrooms and campuses where a limited range of points of view and ways of engaging the world are reproduced and alternatives dismissed without serious consideration.

I teach in the fields of peace and security studies, as well as in public health, and I often present classes with work on the causes and consequences of structural inequalities in societies around the world. When those classes are made up of students with similar backgrounds and experiences, many of whom have never met or surmounted the challenges of such structural obstacles, the students often find it hard to credit the alternate realities described in the works they read. But when the class contains students who have surmounted such challenges, the reality of those alternatives

comes alive.

The reverse is true, too. When students who have surmounted structural challenges are in the classroom with those whose lives have been sheltered by privilege, new and promising ways of engaging the world open for them. In both cases, the differences of experience — social, cultural and geographic — in the classroom enrich the conversations and learning for all students.

The choice is not between quality and value on the one hand and diversity on the other in the SU experience. Indeed, when selectivity and exclusivity become ends in themselves, they easily become another way of saying that a school should only admit students who look and think like those already on the student body.

By valorizing selectivity based on relatively superficial aspects of a student’s achievement in high school, rankings such as the U.S. News and World Report do a real disservice to all of us. I hope the SU community continues to admit students based on an appreciation of who they are and who they show they might become. This makes the university a better place at which to live, to work and to learn.

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Human rights violations in Libya require action from international community

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wo weeks ago, front-page photos from Egypt of bloodied protestors and stone-throwing battles shocked and awed, eventually contributing to Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow. News from Libya this week, lacking any photos or clarity, has been even more disconcerting as Mommar al Gadhafi slaughters his people and pledges to rid his country of dissent house by house if he has to.

Having imposed a near-complete information blackout in Tripoli, Gadhafi has reportedly ordered the use of warplanes, helicopter gunships and high-caliber machine guns on unarmed civilians. For the sake of sanity, thinking about international human rights usually happens in international relations classes. When a zany dictator starts killing his own people, though, we have to dust off the notes and think hard about why such crimes still occur.

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over the last decade was the agreement at the 2005 U.N. World Summit to draw up the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine. The specifics are complicated, but the basic gist is this: States ought to protect their citizens from violence that qualifies as a proper human-rights violation, but when states fail to do so, the international community has agreed to a responsibility to step in.

The “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine was a major step forward for the United Nations, but it has practically no legal teeth. It does, however, represent an important commitment by countries that have the capability to prevent tragic violence, and breaking that commitment presents a serious moral failure.

The International Crisis Group published a clear set of demands for international action on Tuesday, including an immediate no-fly zone over Libya to prevent airborne attacks on civilians, strong sanctions

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too left for politics against the Gadhafi regime and the promise of international prosecution for crimes against humanity.

Last evening, President Barack Obama made a speech reiterating his administration’s and the international community’s condemnation of human-rights violations in Libya.

Condemnation means nothing for Libyan citizens ripped in half by high-powered weapons — it isn’t enough.

The International Crisis Group’s demands are sufficiently modest to be reasonable, but the situation is extremely complex, and foreign service officers probably haven’t slept in

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weeks. One possible explanation for inaction goes as follows: By banning foreign journalists and shutting off the Internet, the Gadhafi regime has successfully barred clear evidence of human-rights atrocities from the rest of the world. That the modern world allows this is absurd: If a leader can successfully control information coming out of his country, that leader can order brutal violence with impunity, and international actors can’t do much about it.

Absurd dilemmas for the international community, such as this, are encouraged by the clearly inadequate state of the United Nations. Serious reform needs to happen, and the full range of possibilities lies outside the scope of this column. The most extreme, naïve reform is the creation of an international military response force for quick deterrence of clear state-sponsored violence. Instead, cynics might argue simply and justifiably that the United Nations is the

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best we can hope for in the reasonable future. Calls for extreme reform might simply be the pipedreams of idealistic undergraduates.

This line of reasoning may be right most of the time, but in the face of ludicrous and preventable civilian deaths, naïveté is completely appropriate. We should feel outraged, and we should argue for the United Nations to get better, no matter how implausible the argument may be.

Flagrant human death is a simple thing, a naïve thing, and it clearly overrides the complexities of international diplomacy. We shouldn’t have to wait for drastic front-page pictures for change — by the time we see any from Libya, atrocities will have been erased and the evil done.

Scott Collison is a senior philosophy and physics major. His columns appear occasionally, and he can be reached at smcollis@syr.edu.

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Costa Rica and traveled to Puerto Rico.

After Drew contracted prostate cancer nearly 15 years ago, he wrote a book titled “My Race with Prostate Cancer, A Runner’s Journal,� unveiling how he came to grips with the disease, Newman said. Drew treated the illness like he treated his athletic endeavors, Newman said. “He fought it very hard,� he said.

Though Drew retired in December, he agreed to come back in the fall if he was physically able to, Newman said. Drew taught right up until last semester with the cancer. “It was hard, but it was very important for him he finish the course,� Newman said. “And he did.�

Drew had two distinct sides to his personality that existed compatibly, said his widow, Beth. In a room full of people, he was quiet. But when he ran and biked, he displayed a competitive pride, Beth said. “He seemed to be able to take these differing aspects and create them comfortably within

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himself,� she said.

Beth and her two children took mini-vacations to watch Allan compete in track meets around upstate New York, ranging from Albany to Rochester, Beth said. When Allan’s daughter

“He absolutely lived with the cancer. He did not let the cancer dictate his life.�

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and son were seniors in high school, he also took them along with his students to the West Indies.

Five months before his cancer diagnosis, Allan and his family took a cross-country trip to Tucson, Ariz., where they spent a fall semester in 1995 while he taught a class. The family members didn’t have a lot of their normal responsibilities because they lived in a rental house and traveled through the Grand Canyon, Beth said. “That was a magnificent time in our lives,�

she said.

Allan underwent surgery the summer after he discovered he had cancer, and his family thought it had vanished until it resurfaced five and a half years later, Beth said. For nine years, Allan went through radiation and hormone treatments. He started chemotherapy when his son graduated from Syracuse University in 2009 but still managed to teach a brand new course, Beth said. “He absolutely lived with the cancer,� she said. “He did not let the cancer dictate his life.�

Carol Boll, who knew Allan from church for 25 years, still saw him swimming laps in Archbold Gymnasium last semester. “All of his friends knew what he was dealing with,� said Boll, a writer in SU’s Office of Public Affairs. “But he was determined to live life on his own terms, and he was determined to do what he enjoyed as long as he possibly could.�

At church, Allan bought “boxes and boxes� of fair trade coffees and sold them to members to ensure that Latin-American workers received fair wages, Boll said.

Allan and Boll co-chaired the church’s creation stewardship group, whose members replaced the church’s light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs and reduced the amount of used paper products, Boll said.

A quiet yet knowledgeable man, Allan also showed a film several times a year at the church about environmental issues, such as global warming, hydrofracking and food security, Boll said. “He was very conscious of sustainable issues and very careful to practice what he preached in that regard,� she said.

Barbara Fought, an SU associate professor of broadcast and digital journalism who knew Allan for 18 years, also recalled Allan’s dedication from church. Allan would meditate twice a day, every day, which she said takes a lot of discipline and time management.

His passion about justice and concern for the environment allowed Fought to become more conscious about taking care of the environment as well, she said. “He really walked his talk,� she said. “His life embodied what was valuable to him.� mcboren@syr.edu

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Riverso, the SU Abroad admissions counselor, said there is an increase in the number of students interested in studying abroad in Asia, and many students have also expressed interest in working there after they graduate.

Riverso said there have been a couple of American students from SU who started their own companies in Beijing.

SU Abroad presents opportunities to network with students at local universities in these cities, said Riverso, who will speak Friday about

“I think it would be neat to have more opportunities for students to find jobs abroad.�

Julie Riverso

SU Abroad admissions counselor

what SU Abroad can offer students.

Riverso said Work In Asia also helps students network with fellow students who come from countries in which they want to work. “I think it would be neat to have more opportunities for students to find jobs abroad,� she said. “And I think the key is networking — nothing is easier than networking nowadays because you’ve got so many tools at your disposal. The world’s getting smaller every day.�

Reutlinger, the associate director of Career Services who will speak at the event Friday about resume writing and interviewing, said he supports the initiative’s efforts and sees it as a complementary group to Career Services, providing a regional focus for which Career Services may not be staffed.

Though it is not new to see companies in Asia actively recruiting students, Reutlinger said there is an increase in American students interested in finding jobs in Asia, citing a booming economy and increased opportunities for internships abroad as prime reasons.

Reutlinger said Work In Asia has the potential to become a vital group if its members can make connections with alumni and companies abroad to generate student interest and provide enough incentives for students to seriously consider working somewhere other than home. “The fact that we have a lot of students in our study abroad program testifies we’ve got a lot of students who like to see the world,� Reutlinger said. “But I’m not sure how many students would entertain picking up and working abroad for some time.� atanying@syr.edu

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its correspondents interviewed Abdel-Jalil in the Libyan city of Al Bayda outside the local parliament, according to the AP article. A longer version of Abdel-Jalil’s interview will be published in the Expressen’s print edition on Thursday, according to the article.

Al-Megrahi was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and told by doctors he only had three months to live. He is still alive, and controversy surrounds his release, including speculation of a deal between BP and the British government.

U.S. senators began questioning in July whether BP officials encouraged the British government to release al-Megrahi so they could secure an offshore oil deal with Libya worth $900 million.

The medical prognosis behind al-Megrahi’s release was unsupported by science, according to a U.S. Senate report released Dec. 21, which was co-signed by Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), among others.

Evidence indicates the two Scottish doctors attending to al-Megrahi had no training or experience treating prostate cancer, according to the report. Al-Megrahi’s prognosis was potentially influenced by false accounts from Libyan-hired doctors or pressure of economic and political consequences, according to the report.

Abdel-Jalil told Expressen that Gadhafi gave the order to al-Megrahi, according to the AP article. Abdel-Jalil also said Gadhafi did everything he could to get al-Megrahi back from Scotland to hide the order he gave, according to

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In August, President Barack Obama’s administration requested al-Megrahi be sent back to prison after questions surfaced regarding the bomber’s medical prognosis and BP’s alleged involvement in his release.

Every year, 35 SU seniors are chosen as Remembrance Scholars in honor of those who died in the bombing. Two students from Lockerbie are chosen to study at SU for a year as Lockerbie Scholars. The scholars plan Remembrance Week during the fall semester to remember those who died.

Duncan McNab, one of this year’s Lockerbie Scholars and a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the allegations against Gadhafi could provide closure to victims’ families if they are proven true. It would be a good thing for the victims’ relatives to know for sure who in the Libyan government was behind the 1988 attack, he said.

“It’s not especially surprising, but we’ll have to see what kind of evidence comes out of it,” McNab said of Wednesday’s news.

Galvin, the archivist, said the university is paying close attention to the events unfolding and is fully supportive of the victims’ families.

“We’re watching it closely,” he said. “There’s a great connection between the university and victims’ families.”

Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, said he has gotten to know many of the victims’ family members over the years and looks for SU to continue to support the families in the United States and in Lockerbie.

Every time the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing comes up in the news, it creates an emotional response at SU, he said.

The university’s thoughts are with the victims of the bombing and their families, said

Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, in an e-mail.

“Given the tremendous suffering this terrorist act caused innocent citizens, their families and their communities, we have always wanted

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justice to be served in this case,” he said. “Anything that can help make that happen, such as today’s information, is a positive thing.” jdharr04@syr.edu

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The budget cuts may cause the U.S. Department of Education to rescind a $400,000 grant to SU that supports the Syracuse Say Yes program, said Pat Driscoll, who will become the Syracuse Say Yes leader in March. Where the cuts will be made has not yet been determined.

Driscoll said he understands the nationwide desire to cut back on earmarks for various programs, but he hopes local delegates will see the importance of the program and preserve the $400,000 grant.

“I certainly understand Congress’ mission of trying to do more with less,” Driscoll said.

“My hope is that our local delegates, whether local or federal, will see how important Say Yes to Education is for families in the Syracuse area and advocate for funding to keep the program moving forward.”

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$5 with a valid SU ID and can be purchased at the Schine Box Office at 11 a.m.

“We toured the balcony, danced around by ourselves and realized that there’s enough room for everyone to dance and have a great view,” said Bandersnatch Music Series co-director Jonathan Groffman. “Opening these seats will make sure no one’s left out.”

Rye Rye is a 20-year-old American rapper and dancer whose debut album, “Go! Pop! Bang!”

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“SU is a key player, especially when it comes to resources. I don’t think this will impact the relationship between Say Yes and SU, it’s just an obstacle right now.”

Pat Driscoll

Future local leader of Say Yes to Education

Say Yes to Education Inc. is a national nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the academic performance of students in urban areas. Syracuse has adopted the program and reached out to all public schools in the city, providing services to families and children in the area. One service includes financial aid sup-

will feature multiple collaborations with female singer and rapper M.I.A. Her single “Bang” appeared in the film “Fast & Furious” (2009).

The Postelles, a New York City-based indie group, has performed at music festivals Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo. Several artists the band has opened for include Kings of Leon and the Cold War Kids.

The acts round off a diverse concert showcasing talent and energy, Weiss said. In selecting the openers, University Union and Hillel officials wanted to make sure the entire show could appeal to every audience member.

“We realized the acts could be eclectic and

port for those who complete the program and choose to go to a Say Yes-affiliated university, such as SU. Out of the total grant money, $132,000 has already been used for afterschool programs in elementary schools, said Kevin Quinn, SU’s senior vice president for public affairs. The rest of the money would also go toward those programs, he said.

If the remainder of the funds were rescinded, it would be the first time the government has taken funds back from SU after a contract was in place, Quinn said.

But even if SU loses the grant, Driscoll said he does not expect it to affect the relationship between the university and the Say Yes program.

“SU is a key player, especially when it comes to resources,” Driscoll said. “I don’t think this will impact the relationship between Say Yes and SU, it’s just an obstacle right now.”

Quinn agreed and said the university is strongly committed to the Say Yes program.

“It’s beyond encouraging for Hillel and clearly shows that the campus wants this, needs this and has an interest in this.”

Jonathan Groffman

co-director of Bandersnatch Concert Series

didn’t have to be DJs to get people dancing,” Groffman said. “Rye Rye has amazing beats, and The Postelles are a different kind of sound

SU officials have already reached out to representative Ann Marie Buerkle and New York state Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to showcase the importance of the funding for the Say Yes program, Quinn said.

Driscoll said he does not know when SU or the Say Yes program will find out if the grant will be rescinded. It is unclear at the moment how many students will be affected if the grant is taken away, Driscoll said. He said he hopes it will affect only some of the operations within the Say Yes program, but if the grant is rescinded, other resources will be explored, including making an appeal to officials to reinstate the money, he said.

“SU and the Say Yes program would certainly work to ensure that our schools and the children are not impacted by any loss in funding,” Quinn said. “We certainly hope that we’re able to utilize all the funding to support the program.” snbouvia@syr.edu

but pop-y.”

The concert is brought to SU through a joint effort by UU and Hillel, and it is funded partially

by Chancellor Nancy Cantor and UU’s Bandersnatch committee. Based on the positive student feedback of the upcoming concert, Weiss said he hopes Hillel will continue large-scale campus events in the future.

“Selling out an entire show within five days is incredible,” Weiss said. “It’s beyond encouraging for Hillel and clearly shows that the campus wants this, needs this and has an interest in this.” mainthia@syr.edu

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Settling in

Alpha Gamma Delta members experience first spring recruitment process

By Bianca Szklaruk

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ithout a house, the recently recolonized Alpha Gamma Delta women’s fraternity is finding other ways to welcome its spring pledge class.

“A house doesn’t define a sorority,” said Bianca Cortez, AGD president and junior civil engineering major. “But it is kind of special to have our meetings in Hall of Languages, where our founders had their meetings.”

The AGD women’s fraternity participated in its first formal recruitment this spring since recolonizing in the fall. After a successful recruitment, the women’s fraternity has met quota with a new spring 2011 pledge class. Cortez did not have the exact number of pledges.

Now almost three weeks into the six-week process, current AGD members are excited about the pledges and potential sisters, Cortez said. The members enjoy watching the pledges make connections with one another, as well as with the active sisters, she said.

“I think it’s going well. They have new member meetings to get to know each other and to learn about what it means to be an Alpha Gamma Delta,” Cortez said. “It’s been fun get-

ting to know them and see them making connections.”

During spring recruitment in January, AGD held rounds in locations on and off campus.

The first weekend rounds were in the Schine Student Center, and the second weekend rounds were in the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel and Conference Center on University Avenue.

The sisters kept a positive outlook throughout recruitment despite being new and not having a house to work out of, Cortez said. AGD will move into the Butterfield House on Comstock Avenue in the fall.

“We looked at it positively. Since most new members didn’t know much about greek life, it was pretty level. We kept positive, and overall, us being new didn’t have a negative effect,” said Cortez.

Cortez said she was very pleased with how AGD’s first formal recruitment went. The women’s fraternity felt prepared and confident through the support from nearby alumnae, other AGD chapter presidents and SU’s PanHellenic Council, Cortez said.

“For being the first, I think it went really well,” Cortez said. “We had a lot of help from alumnae on campus to help us prepare, and we

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Although newly recolonized, the women’s fraternity does not have complete freedom in how recruitment and pledging are run. The pledging process began on Bid Day, and the women’s fraternity is adhering to the guidelines set by their founders and followed by each AGD chapter. The recruiting and pledging processes for the SU chapter have been planned since

November, Cortez said, and there is also a new member coordinator.

The primary focus of the pledging process is to educate the pledges on the history of the women’s fraternity and what it means to be a sister, Cortez said. The pledges meet weekly, but Cortez could not specifically elaborate on what they did because of regulations. blszklar@syr.edu

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the sweet stuff in the middle

Food’s benefits are in the eye of the consumer ALICIA SMITH

do the body right

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s an aspiring health writer, I’m always on the lookout for the latest discoveries in healthy lifestyle. Lately though, it seems as if everything benefits our bodies in some way. Reading about the health benefits of our guilty pleasures can make us feel better about our habits. Dark chocolate bingers can munch with confidence knowing their treat of choice is laden with antioxidants and helps lower blood pressure. Serial nap takers can rest assured they are reaping the benefits of more energy, a stronger immune system and better focus during class.

Why does there have to be a health benefit in everything we do? Sometimes I take a nap because I have a paper due tomorrow, and I’ve already baked a cake, cleaned my bathroom and pursued every other method of procrastination known to man. Dark chocolate often calls my name simply because I like its comforting, slightly sweet richness.

Every night, my father has a glass of red wine after dinner. He calls it a “medicinal beverage.” Red wine is known to contain antioxidants that may help prevent heart disease by increasing levels of good cholesterol.

I picture myself in the future, cracking open a bottle of my beverage of choice: Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.

“Kids, where’s the bottle opener?

Mommy needs to take her medicine.”

I don’t think I can pull it off quite like my father can.

Lucky for beer drinkers who want to imbibe wholesomely, researchers have managed to reassure lovers of hops that their drink of choice is a-OK. According to a 2011 article in the American Dietetic Association’s member publication, ADA Times, moderate consumption of beer has shown to improve cholesterol levels, reduce risk of blood clots and lower the risk of both Type 2 diabetes and gallstones. Some dark beers may even contain as much fiber as a small apple.

I may drink a beer to feel good but not because I’m feeling a little clogged up, to put it nicely. Tylenol is medicine, and booze is booze. Healthy food is for fueling my body, and beer is for fun times and socialization. So if I want to increase my fiber intake, I’ll grab an apple. And when I get a SEE SMITH PAGE 12

Third time’s the charm

Big Sean riles up crowd; opening acts fail to generate large response

By Danielle Odiamar

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ow music pulsated through Schine Underground as students glanced up at the dimly lit stage, quietly awaiting the performance. The energy in the crowd slowly built with each performance, but based on the crowd’s response to each, it was clear the audience was there for Big Sean.

Big Sean headlined Wednesday’s concert, co-sponsored by the Syracuse University Winter Carnival Committee and the Bandersnatch Music Series, a subdivision of University Union.

Though the first two acts gave solid performances, the crowd’s responses to both were weak in comparison to the energy and excitement created by Big Sean’s performance.

First up was The Fly, a duo composed of SU juniors Keith Ramon Smith, also known as Sir Jove, and Farasha Baylock. Sir Jove ran onstage donning a cape and top hat, his bulging eyes lined with black. The vocalist spent his time onstage jumping and sporadically falling down and convulsing on the ground as he wrapped himself in electrical chords.

“It was a surprise,” said Joshua Romero, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. “They were really outgoing and outrageous, a great opening act.”

Meanwhile, Baylock, clad in tight spandex and heels, rapped aggressively, taking on different pitches and

sarah kinslow | contributing photographer CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Big Sean headlined the Winter Carnival concert Wednesday night. Rapper Donnis’ performance was underwhelming. Junior Keith Smith, “Sir Jove,” opened the show.

turned up his microphone, he engaged the crowd with a strong delivery of each line.

“He came with an energy,” said Dean Engberg, a sophomore psychology major. “But the way the crowd was responding, it felt flat, I think, because people had trouble understanding him.”

“If you guys don’t get anything out of this, remember this: do what you f***ing want, and don’t let anyone tell you what to do.”

Big Sean

CONCERT HEADLINER

voices, even screeching loudly into the microphone at one point. Her antics received cheers from the crowd with shouts of “You kill Nicki Minaj!” and “Nicki who?”

Though the crowd seemed entertained by their theatrical and musical style, the atmosphere still felt calm, and the back half of Schine Underground had yet to be filled.

After a long wait, rapper Donnis finally appeared on stage, receiving a weak response. However, when Donnis

The wait for Big Sean’s performance created an entirely different atmosphere in Schine Underground.

Anticipation and excitement in the crowd was building as people began to sing Big Sean’s tunes and dance to the booming music.

The previously roomy venue became tighter as people clustered around the area, surrounding the stage. Latecomers rushed in just in time to catch the headliner’s performance.

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craving for a hit of antioxidants, I’ll reach for a filling handful of blueberries rather than a fleeting glass of wine — but to each his or her own.

My father, whom I deeply admire for his constant pursuit of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, among other things, should drink his wine in heart-healthy bliss. If a food or drink you love has health benefits, then all the more reason to eat or drink up. As for me, I reserve my Sam Adams for Friday nights, when I’m in celebration of getting through another homework-filled week or when I simply have a craving for that crisp, fruity foam.

The moment Big Sean ran onstage, the energy the audience reserved during the first two performances erupted through the crowd.

“It was amazing. I loved it, I loved him,” said Celine Rahmen, a sophomore English and textual studies major. “Once he came out onstage I was so satisfied. He’s what I came for.”

The 22-year-old rapper performed a number of his big hits for the crowd, including his newest single “My Last,” which he called his anthem. The single will be released on his highly anticipated official debut album, “Finally Famous: The Album.”

His album, set to release next month, took up so much of the rapper’s time that he “developed a crick in his neck,” he told the crowd. His quest for the perfect female masseuse in the

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crowd began.

The Detroit-native not only tried to pick up girls but also spent time talking about personal topics, asking people in the crowd if they had relationship problems. He even spoke about his 90-year-old grandma who helped him stay out of trouble when he was younger.

“I think he really showed his character, his personality with this performance, talking about his grandma and his family,” said Romero, the undeclared freshman.

All eyes were on Big Sean, the obvious crowd favorite, who generously shared the spotlight.

He invited Donnis back onstage for a song and performed with rapper SAYITAINTTONE for the later half of the show.

The strongest response from the crowd came from Big Sean’s remix of Gucci Mane’s “Lemonade.” He peeled his shirt off, receiving cheers of approval as the crowd pushed even closer to the stage.

With everyone huddled close to the front with room to spare toward the back of Schine Underground, you could barely tell the show was sold out. DJ Mo Beatz, who backs up all of Big Sean’s performances, said the venue was surprisingly small compared to other universities they perform at.

“I heard the show was sold out, but it didn’t seem like it,” Mo Beatz said. “They could have had more people, and it would have been more hyped.”

Overall, Mo Beatz and SAYITAINTTONE were impressed with the people in the audience, describing them as “interactive.”

“I gave someone in the crowd the mic, and they fi nished every damn line for real,” SAYITAINTTONE said. “I was like, ‘Damn.’ I was impressed.”

As the performance came to a close, Gabz Landman, co-director of Bandersnatch and a junior in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, commented on the show’s success.

“It exceeded my expectations,” Landman said.

“It was one of my favorites so far at Syracuse.”

Big Sean, who performed past the set performance time, ended the show with an energetic performance of his hit “Bulls***.” He even shared some words of wisdom.

“If you guys don’t get anything out of this, remember this,” said the rapper. “Do what you f***ing want, and don’t let anyone tell you what to do.” dmodiama@syr.edu

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Events THURSDAY, FEB. 24 August Wilson’s “Radio Golf” Varied times, Feb. 23 to March 13 Archbold Theatre $15 for students, $25-48 for adults The Syracuse Stage will present playwright August Wilson’s classic, “Radio Golf,” about a man wanting to become the first AfricanAmerican mayor of Pittsburg.

FRIDAY, FEB. 25 Video release – “The Peter-Zone” No time Online release Free Syracuse University students Alan Peterson, Steve Darby, Evan Fonseca and Kyle Kuchta will release their short comedy film “The Peter-Zone.” The movie goes through a night with Peterson attempting to hold his own in the presence of an intimidating girl.

Hoots & Hellmouth performance 8 p.m.

The Red House $5 at the Schine Student Center Box Office SU’s Music and Entertainment Industry Student Association will bring grassroots-folkrock band Hoots and Hellmouth to the Red House Friday. The Northbound Traveling Minstrel Jug Band will open the show.

SATURDAY, FEB. 26 Academy Awards Gala Fundraiser 6 p.m.

Auburn Public Theater Raffle tickets cost $25 each, $50 for a donation and one raffle ticket Steve Hytner (“Seinfeld”) Todd Lattimore (“La Cage aux Folles”) will host a night celebrating the Oscars. Interview opportunities, dinners and a performance by the Absolute Dance Company are some of the points of interest of the night.

SUNDAY, FEB. 27 Make your own silk scarf 1 to 5 p.m.

May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society, 3800 East Genesee Street “A modest fee” to cover materials, the workshop Fabric artist Barbara Weingart will lead a workshop to make personal silk scarves.

Everyone will leave with a self-created scarf.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1 Beauvais Lyons lecture 6:30 p.m.

Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building Free Beauvais Lyons, a printmaker, will visit Syracuse University and present a lecture Tuesday evening as a part of the Department of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. He teaches printmaking at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville.

— Compiled by the features staff

BEER 101, PART 1 As the first of a two-part series, we are going to explore various beer terminologies and break down what beer actually is in terms of ingredients and how it’s made, as well as distinctive qualities of several prominent styles in America.

What is beer? Simply: beer is an alcoholic, carbonated drink made from fermented grains. Specifically: yeast, malt and hops.

Together with water and some food science, we have beer.

Malt: This cereal grain determines carbonation, color, alcohol content and the viscosity of a brew. Just like planting a seed in a garden, it is covered in liquid and starts to grow. Once it starts sprouting, the malt is dried and roasted. This allows the starch in the seeds to turn into fermentable sugars.

Hops: Hops are the flowering cones of the hop plant. They counterbalance the sweetness malt creates by adding bitterness to the beer (think of the combination of tea leaves and water).

Coincidentally, they look like small, flowery pinecones and belong to the same scientific family as cannabis (aka marijuana).

Water: You all know what water is, but interestingly enough, how hard or soft it is can drastically change the flavor of the beer, just as it would tea.

Yeast: Yeast is a living fungus that forms colonies of single cells. It’s in charge of eating the fermentable sugars from the malt and releases carbon dioxide and alcohol as a byproduct.

Fermentation: The process by which something becomes alcoholic. As you may have put together, the yeast eats the sugars in the malt and creates alcohol and beer bubbles — thus we have beer.

These are the only ingredients necessary to make beer, but consider how many different areas of the world beer is made in. Companies often use different hop strains and malt, creating thousands of unique brews with different flavor characteristics.

Dark beers are created when malt is roasted more and light beers when they’re roasted less. The heavy pine smell and bitter taste is from more hops overbearing the malt in the beer.

A sweeter beer has leftover fermentable sugar that wasn’t eaten up by the yeast and turned to alcohol. Lastly, very alcoholic beers require more hops and malt to allow for more sugar to be created and fermented.

Read next week to learn how to taste and rate a beer, as well as key characteristics of common styles.

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What do you think about SU’s Winter Carnival?

“It’s a tradition — people who were students here 70 years ago did it, so I think it’s cool that we still do it.”

Ali Phalen

junior advertising major

“It sounds like a good time. I keep getting e-mails about the events, and there seems to be something fun for everybody.”

Rachel Ahart

“The most exciting part is the chili cook-off — there’s free food, and it’s a fun atmosphere.”

Emily Ann Brandstetter

senior television, radio and film major

“It’s a good idea and a fun way to celebrate the winter months because we’re all sick of them.”

Heather Siemienas

junior musical theater major

freshman history major

Skrillex concert shows dubstep’s rising popularity

By Ian Feiner

Contributing Writer

Gregory Babcock has been DJing since high school. While playing at Syracuse University fraternities and house parties, the sophomore illustrative photography major noticed the growing positive response to the progressive blend of dubstep and house music.

Skrillex concert

Dubstep group to perform locally Where: Westcott Theater When: 8 p.m.

How much: Sold out So he wasn’t surprised that tickets to see Skrillex, a Los Angeles house and dubstep musician, sold out before he could nab one.

Performing at the Westcott Theater this Friday, Skrillex will bring the latest of the house and dubstep genre to Syracuse, said Dan Mastronardi, a promoter at Hollerback Productions who booked Skrillex due to the increasing popularity of his type of music.

“Skrillex is hot right now. At the Westcott, that’s what we do: book new and up-andcoming artists,” he said. “The show sold out in less than a month.”

Taking on the name Skrillex, Sonny Moore, former frontman of the post-hardcore band From First to Last, has shifted his focus to the electronic wave scene that’s becoming more accessible and mainstream. Moore has been fusing house and dubstep genres together since 2008.

Sophomore biology major Ryan Boniello, a dubstep creator and enthusiast, described the transformation from older European dubstep to the newer, more progressive beats.

“The original dubstep was smooth, clean — consistent wobbly bass over glitchy drum beats, and that was considered the most recognizable characteristic of that era,” Boniello said. “But only when the crazy, overwhelming, distorted wobble bass and glitchy drums with house influence came to the scene did it become mainstream.”

Babcock, also a contributing photographer for The Daily Orange, said he acknowledges the genre’s growing popularity.

“I like dubstep, but I don’t love it. I’m a bigger fan of French House and Nu-Disco. I see dubstep as the hardcore music of the electronic world,” he said.

Many would agree with Babcock that new dubstep is becoming more popular. Devon James Stewart, a senior film major, started DJing on campus three years ago under the name Chemicals of Creation with his right-hand man Jon Kunz, a junior computer art major.

Stewart said students on campus like to hear typical electro-house mixes with popular songs, but dubstep is evolving from the relaxing mellow jams to something much harder when fused with house music. Devon called this phenomenon the “evolution of ‘brostep.’”

“The mixing of styles shows the versatility of someone like Skrillex. I have no choice but to respect someone with talent like that,” he said.

Skrillex’s appearance represents a new wave of electronic music that has been infiltrating the lives of teens and students across the United States. Though the concert at the Westcott sold out quickly, many students hold a certain bias against

dubstep — a preconceived notion that all dub music is hardcore and from England.

Sophomore television, radio and film major Gautam Badgujar said the hardcore persistent wobbles of European dubstep made him feel like he was being brainwashed at times. But when fused with house music, he said, it’s almost impossible not to dance to it.

Though Badgujar may not love all that dubstep has to offer, Rusty Decker, a sophomore music industry major, said he enjoys most electronic music. He bought his ticket the first week they went on sale and cannot wait for the night of the show.

Skrillex’s music and upcoming performance represent the evolution of the music students listen to every day. Though dubstep has mixed reviews, it’s almost impossible to walk into a fraternity house on campus and not hear the weebles, wobbles and womps at one point in the evening. The one-man band’s sold-out concert infers one thing — dubstep has a grip on the local music scene. imfeiner@syr.edu

Sports reporting organization to start chapter at university

By George Clarke Staff Writer

Brenna Wilson’s obsession for sports began at age 13. After watching a baseball game, Wilson couldn’t get enough. She started following all the Boston sports and watched ESPN religiously. Before long, a family friend suggested she pursue a career as a broadcaster.

Wilson, now a junior broadcast journalism major, is a founding member of the Syracuse University student chapter of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

The professional group grants connections and awards to its base of more than 1,000 members.

Dave Goren, the association’s executive director, first spoke with Karen McGee, assistant dean for student affairs at the S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, early last fall. Goren came to the campus and met prospective members at the Feb. 9 basketball game against Georgetown. The first interest meeting for students took place Wednesday.

The Syracuse chapter will elect its student

officers in early March. McGee said students will be in full control of the chapter. She hopes the chapter can attract both the big names in sports broadcasting and the success stories of the current generation, she said.

“You can always have people to aspire to,” she said, “but if you really want to get a job in the industry, you want to know people who just did it.”

The national organization formed in 1959, but the organizing of student chapters began just after Goren took his post last year.

Syracuse is the second school to open up a student-run chapter of NSSA — the first was established at the American Military University, an accredited online university.

It’s no coincidence SU will have one of the first student-run chapters: Goren, the association’s director, is a university alumnus.

Goren, who won the 2009 NSSA Sportscaster of the Year award two months after losing his North Carolina broadcasting job, said he worked his way there through Syracuse’s student broadcasting crews.

“I started at WAER from the time I walked in the door as a freshman,” he said. “It’s kind of a no-brainer to get Syracuse involved.”

The Syracuse chapter is about bringing professional connections to campus, Wilson said.

“Wherever you go, there’s a Syracuse alum,” she said. “You’d think that we’d have at least something.”

“It’s kind of a no-brainer to get Syracuse involved.”

Dave Goren NSSA executive director

Wilson spent last summer filming for the New England Patriots’ in-house video team, where she logged film, created children’s animation packages and produced a full video package. She even filmed “All Access” interviews with the team’s biggest names.

All of it comes from Newhouse connections,

she said.

Priyanka Vohra, a junior broadcast journalism major, said she came to Newhouse for its relations with alumni and professionals and used them to land a dream internship with the Speed Channel Cable Network in Charlotte, N.C. “I know the Newhouse family is everywhere,” Vohra said. “We’re the bridge between those in the industry and those who want to be.”

Goren compiled a list of more than 100 accredited journalism schools during his first year in the position. He said Syracuse tops that list not only for its great interest in the chapter but also for his connections with the university. He said the national group is in a rebuilding phase, but student chapters will be independent and influential.

“Some of the best ideas I have ever used came from interns of mine, and I certainly don’t put it past Syracuse students to come up with some good ideas for us,” Goren said. geclarke@ syr.edu

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By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER

ate-blooming action star Liam Neeson was always meant to headline bullet-laden thrill rides. The Academy Award-nominated star of “Schindler’s List” and “Kinsey” rocketed to fame in the action genre with 2009’s “Taken,” the biggest box-office surprise of the year. The producers of his latest action venture, the ambitious but immensely disappointing “Unknown,” knew exactly what they were getting when they signed Neeson, whose unique blend of fatherly wisdom, quiet intensity and effortless charm qualifies him as the ideal middle-aged action hero.

Apparently, the director of “Unknown,” Jaume Collet-Serra, didn’t know what he had to work with. The Spanish filmmaker takes Neeson’s presence for granted, using him as little more than a tool with which to advance a narrative that builds toward a predictably mundane barrage of twists.

Influential biotechnology professor Dr. Martin Harris (Neeson) arrives in Berlin with his wife, Liz (January Jones), to speak at a hugely anticipated summit at which a Saudi Arabian prince (Mido Hamada) will be present. As Harris checks into the hotel, he realizes he left his briefcase at the airport. On his way back to the terminal, he’s embroiled in a devastating car accident that sends him to the hospital with a limited memory of what happened and who he even is. He remembers his wife and the hotel he was supposed to stay in, but when he shows up at the hotel for the first time, Liz does not remember him.

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As Harris navigates Berlin, he learns his life in America has been erased and that another Dr. Martin Harris has replaced him. Nobody will confirm his identity — his only hope is a former Stasi agent (Bruno Ganz) with a drinking problem. Harris manages to scrounge up occasional clues, signs hinting he might not be the man he thought he was.

Liam Neeson’s performance in ‘Unknown’ becomes saving grace of film

The twist that defines the film is not necessarily ludicrous, but it’s the core problem with the production. Collet-Serra seems to believe the twist will be great enough to justify 90 minutes of throwaway action sequences and occasionally laughable dialogue — it isn’t. Any fi lm that relies on its ending to compensate for otherwise mediocre fi lmmaking is unworthy of the viewer’s time, and “Unknown” is no exception. For ColletSerra, the thrill is not in telling a story but in ending it, meaning the audience members end up wasting a great deal of their time.

The first casualty of a twistdependent thriller is the first and second acts’ predictability, with too much attention paid to the reveal and not to the events that make it powerful. No matter how large the scale, a thriller’s every plot point should be as carefully executed as its final twist. In “Unknown,” not only is every action sequence aggravatingly contrived, these disappointingly bland scenes dilute the impact of the climax. As the picture winds down, there’s little left to care about.

If not for an expectedly terrific performance from Neeson, the film might have been unwatchable. Seemingly ageless, Neeson is capable of inspiring great faith in his audience despite his age and assumed lack of athleticism.

When the film is at most predictable, Neeson assures us we’ll be rewarded — but only as admirers of one actor’s skill. smlittma@syr.edu

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Kuwik attempts to become SU’s reliable No. 2

By Jarrad Saffren Staff Writer

To Kelly Saco, having an ace on a college softball team is not unique. The measure that separates the good teams from the great ones is their No. 2 starter.

“Almost every team has at least one frontline starter,” said Saco, SU’s starting first baseman, “but the successful teams are the ones that have an elite No. 2 also.”

For the Syracuse softball team, that elite No. 2 could be sophomore Stacy Kuwik. After ace and No. 1 Jenna Caira, Kuwik could be the second piece that pushes SU back to the NCAA tournament and beyond. She showed flashes last season, and she’s looking to fully solidify herself in that crucial second role this season.

“It’s a catch-22,” SU head coach Leigh Ross said. “Because while you want to throw your best two starters out there as much as possible, you’re going to struggle if one of them isn’t performing well.”

Last season, Caira’s dominant performance during SU’s hotly-contested stretch run culminated with her winning the Most Outstanding Player award of the Big East tournament.

Buried in the Orange’s postseason run, though, was the emergence of Kuwik. As a freshman, Kuwik pitched nearly as well as Caira during SU’s run to the Big East championship.

It didn’t start that way, though. Following a 4-1 decision against Iowa last March 16, Kuwik sat at 1-4 with a 4.62 earned run average. Over the course of the season’s final two months, however, Kuwik turned her season around by going

5-6 and lowering her ERA by more than a full run. (She finished the regular season at 3.31.)

“Q stepped up huge for us,” Saco said of Kuwik. “She took a load on stepping into that spot as a freshman, and she took a lot of pressure off Jenna to win every game she started.”

If Kuwik can carry her late-season emergence into the 2011 campaign, SU will have the one-two pitching centerpiece all softball teams crave. And Ross is fully confident in her rising sophomore.

“Stacy doesn’t get as much attention because she’s our No. 2,” Ross said. “But I think we have the top two starters in the Big East and probably the northeast region.”

After a 3-0 start to the 2011 season — including a seven-inning, one-run complete game effort against Texas-San Antonio — Kuwik made her coach’s proclamation ring true.

But in the final game of last weekend’s Bama Bash tournament against now-No. 2 Alabama, Kuwik was lit up for six earned runs in just 2 2/3 innings of work. Though the lackluster effort ballooned her ERA to 4.34, Kuwik is accepting it as a learning experience.

“They were the most potent offense I’ve ever faced,” Kuwik said. “But facing such a quality opponent so early in the season will benefit me once we start Big East play and hopefully a run at the (NCAA) tourney.”

In many ways, Kuwik’s emergence mirrors the emergence of the SU softball program. And if Syracuse is to top last season’s first round NCAA tournament exit, Kuwik will have to continue working toward joining Caira as an elite frontline starting pitcher. No one is more

aware of that than Kuwik.

“Just look at the U.S. Olympic team,” Kuwik said. “The pitchers are always the catalysts for their medal runs. First, it was Jennie Finch and Lisa Fernandez, and now it’s Monica Abbott and Cat Osterman.

“I need to be on Jenna’s level in order for our team to achieve our goals.” jdsaffre@syr.edu

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The Syracuse softball team continued its torrid pace to start the season by winning three of its five games in the Bama Bash tournament in Alabama last weekend. SU’s only losses were to No. 2 Alabama twice. The Orange beat Big East rival Louisville. Jenna Caira is excelling on the mound as the team’s ace, as she has gone 4-1 with a 2.68 ERA thus far. Syracuse continues its early-season tournament stretch this weekend in Palm Springs, Calif., where it will play a slew of West Coast teams.

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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor Jojo marasco will take on his brother, Matthew, on Sunday when Syracuse plays Army at the Carrier Dome. Matthew is a starting defender for the Black Knights.

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game meant to Matthew.

“He kind of was quiet about it, didn’t really say much because I wasn’t playing,” JoJo said.

“It was a great moment for him. He’ll remember that win for the rest of his life.”

Sunday is the rematch. Syracuse will look to avenge its loss from a year ago, doing everything possible not to lose to Army again on its own turf.

When JoJo spoke to Matthew last night, they didn’t talk about the game. They didn’t have to.

They know what it means for both sides. When all is said and done, the game goes beyond the field.

“We just talked about normal things,” JoJo said. “We didn’t even really talk about the game.

It’s going to be exciting to see him because I haven’t seen him in two months.”

Rich at least doesn’t have to worry about watching Matthew cover JoJo during the game.

Matthew told JoJo he will likely cover SU’s other attack, Stephen Keogh. But going up against a teammate’s brother won’t change the way Keogh plays.

If anything, Keogh said, he’s looking forward to the challenge of trying to beat JoJo’s brother.

“I might try and throw some chirps in there, try and beat him to the cage and score a

couple goals on him,” Keogh said. “It’s a pretty cool feeling.”

So when Rich and his family watch on Sunday, they will be rooting for both sides. The only thing that makes this game easier to handle is it isn’t a postseason matchup.

It’s the postseason games when Syracuse and Army meet, when one son can help end the other’s season, that are the worst for Rich to have to sit through.

“My biggest hope is that both teams will have excellent years,” Rich said. “If they get into the NCAAs, hopefully it won’t be in the first round.

If they meet in the semifinals or the finals, so be it. But to watch one knock the other out in the first round, that’s depressing.”

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Sibling rivalry When Army comes to the Carrier Dome on Sunday to take on Syracuse, the two Marasco brothers — SU’s JoJo and Army’s Matt — will go head to head. Here’s a look at their side-by-side measurables:

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JoJo

5-10 180 Attack Sophomore

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5-8 190 Defense Senior

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Orange preps for tournament with weekend set vs. Eagles

By Andrew Tredinnick Staff Writer

Julie Rising knows what’s at stake this weekend. For Syracuse, Friday and Saturday are chances to prepare for the College Hockey America tournament.

That’s because the opponent SU is playing this weekend will be the same team it lines up against in the conference tournament next weekend.

The Orange has a tuneWho: Niagara up matchup against NiagWhere: Tennity Ice ara this weekend. After Pavillon When: Friday, 7 p.m. being swept by the Purple Eagles late last month, the Orange is looking to get back on the right side of the matchup.

“They’re definitely our rival,” Rising said of the Purple Eagles. “We’ve gone back and forth with them the last couple years, and they’re a building program as well, so we would definitely like to beat them.”

The weekend series will decide the No. 2 seed in the tournament. The other team will be the No. 3 seed. Syracuse (11-15-6, 5-6-3 CHA) currently trails the Purple Eagles (11-14-5, 8-4-2) in the standings by one point. The Orange has clinched a trip to the semifinals because it is four points ahead of Robert Morris, the current fourth-place team. The Orange holds the tiebreaker against

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the Colonials by earning a 2-0-2 mark against them this season.

Since Niagara swept SU in the final week of January, the Orange has won just one of its last six contests. The recent slide is marked by an increase in penalty minutes and a lack of consistent scoring.

Sophomore Isabel Menard realizes these are some of the glaring issues that need to be fixed if the team wants to make a run in the conference tournament. Menard said the improvements need to be made now more than ever.

“We had a bit of a struggle this year, learning to play against teams like Niagara,” Menard said. “We have to be really disciplined. We have to play good defensively, stay disciplined and get shots on net.”

SU head coach Paul Flanagan thought his team played well on the road in Niagara in January. In the team’s first game against the Purple Eagles, SU outshot the Purple Eagles 28-18. Flanagan said the game felt like it had playoff implications. The heated atmosphere overwhelmed SU, and with 21 seconds in regulation, Syracuse goalie Kallie Billadeau yielded the deciding goal. A day later, the Orange fell 3-1.

The hostile environment taught Syracuse numerous lessons about what the team will need to do this time around against Niagara.

“It’s important for us to play well and get our offense rolling,” Flanagan said on Jan. 25.

keith edelman | web editor Julie Rising and Syracuse take on rival Niagara this weekend. The weekend series will decide the No. 2 seed in the College Hockey America conference tournament.

“We have to figure out how to respond, how to compete, how to put the puck in the net, how to keep it out and get back to basics.”

The rivalry with Niagara stems from the nature of the games between the two teams in the past. The Orange has faced the Purple Eagles in the league tournament in each of its first two seasons. SU beat Niagara last season to win its first ever postseason game.

In the two matchups this season, Syracuse struggled to get the puck past Jenni Bauer, one of the best goalies in the league. Bauer has collected three CHA Goaltender of the Week awards this season. She frustrated Syracuse in

the first two meetings, giving up just one goal.

The amount of times SU has faced Niagara in recent years has enabled the team to focus on what they feel is most important.

Syracuse will look to get out on the rush and beat the opposing defense down the ice. Rising feels if they can get Bauer to move laterally, they will be able to overcome her ability to defend the goal.

“We need to focus on our systems,” Rising said.

“They have a real good defensive core, so we have to find a way to get through their defense. We have to break down their goalie … get a lot of shots and really prepare us for the tournament.” adtredin@syr.edu

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court hathaway | staff photographer John Thompson III implemented the Princeton offense at Georgetown. The Hoyas’ head coach learned the system both as a player and as an assistant coach under Peter Carril, who created the quick-paced offense.

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teve Goodrich still remembers the running joke his head coach at Princeton always told.

Pete Carril never meant it seriously, but it still told the story of the offense that eventually became synonymous with his coaching career.

“He always joked that if he had better athletes, he’d press and run fastbreaks,” said Goodrich, who played at Princeton from 1994-98. “It was always tongue-in-cheek kind of stuff.”

But Carril never worried about pressing or running fastbreaks. Instead his only concern was making sure his players executed clean passes and good backdoor cuts. In the Princeton offense, that’s all that matters.

Carril created a style of offense, the “Princeton offense,” that has been implemented throughout college basketball as his former assistants and players took what they learned and added their own style as head coaches. One of those former assistants, John Thompson III, took it to Georgetown and uses the offense with nearly as much success as Carril did.

When Syracuse travels to Washington, D.C., on Saturday, it’ll be facing a fast-paced offense of passes around the perimeter and cuts to the inside.

Carril taught Thompson the vaunted Princeton offense while Thompson played at Princeton from 1984-88 and was on staff as an assistant during the 1995-96 season. Now Thompson teaches it to the Hoyas.

“I think each year, you look at the personnel that you have,” Thompson said. “It’s coming up with a way to play that gives that group a chance to win.”

Back when Goodrich ran the Princeton offense, the only statistic that ever mattered was the number of assists he made in a game.

It told him how he did in running Carril’s

offense. In the Princeton offense, it’s never about one player notching the most points or the most rebounds. Instead it’s how one player helped his teammates get opportunities to score.

“The guys who come to play there have to subjugate their desire to show what they can do individually and say, ‘The best thing I can do is help my teammate get a good shot,’” Goodrich said. “It takes a different kind of kid who can say, ‘The best thing I can do is help my teammate get a basket.’”

In 1996, that’s what Goodrich did. He was that kind of kid in one of the most infamous Princeton offense plays when the Tigers played UCLA in the NCAA Tournament.

With the score tied with 21 seconds left in the game, Carril called one of his signature plays: the “center-forward.” Goodrich took the ball to the top of the key while forward Gabe Lewullis drove the basket. Goodrich gave him a look but didn’t pass, and Lewullis retreated to the outside. The defense thought it was a busted play.

But Lewullis quickly cut back to the inside, took a bounce pass from Goodrich and made the layup.

Goodrich and Lewullis caught the Bruins’ defense off guard, and Princeton upset the favorite 43-41.

“It was kind of like a counter to a counter,” Goodrich said. “It was incredibly gratifying to pull that out. … We kind of made them not play their best.”

Goodrich said Thompson’s pedigree as a player and assistant under Carril is what has allowed him to have so much success at Georgetown. He understands the intricacies, can read defenses as well as Carril and comes up with counterplays.

“He’s an awesome coach,” Goodrich said.

“He’s got the technical expertise, but he’s also

Famous Princeton offense evolves, lives on through coaches like Thompson preparing his kids to compete against the best guys in the country. And he does that really well.”

Running the Princeton offense doesn’t mean the coaches who swear by it change their recruiting styles. For Northwestern head coach Bill Carmody, it’s all about looking for the same type of player: athletic, skillful, a strong desire to win.

Carmody, another former assistant under Carril, looks for good basketball players and teaches them the way they’re going to play.

“I look for the same thing everyone else does,” Carmody said. “It’s a misconception that it’s hard to learn and pick up. … If you’re going to be good, everyone has to be fairly versatile. I don’t know if that means selfish or unselfish or anything like that.”

Basically, if a kid can play basketball, then he can learn the Princeton offense, Carmody said.

Arguably one of the best at the Princeton offense was former Tiger and current Oregon State head coach Craig Robinson. An innercity kid from the south side of Chicago, Robinson never experienced a formal offense until he got to college.

“I was used to playing more up-tempo, more free and easy. Less of a system, less of a program,” Robinson said. “It was different for me.

It didn’t take long playing for Coach Carril and playing at Princeton and winning so many games that you started to understand spacing and passing and cutting. The ability to do skillful things.”

With Princeton beating more talented teams, it didn’t take long for Robinson to believe. Carril’s offensive system was the reason behind the success. It was enough to convince Robinson to continue to implement it in his own head coaching career.

Robinson said Thompson, specifically, has so much success with the Princeton offense

because of the players he can bring into Georgetown. They’re all great athletes and natural basketball players. And from what Robinson sees when he watches the Hoyas play, that gives Thompson the ability to allow his players to almost run their own variation of the system.

“It seems like his guys have a lot more freedom to do things on their own,” Robinson said.

“Which I think is really good.”

Georgetown’s system is a result of Thompson’s days learning from Carril. And along with Thompson is his assistant coach, Mike Brennan.

A former Tigers player, Brennan is in his second season on Thompson’s staff. He knows the Princeton offense inside and out. Thompson trusts him and lets him impart his knowledge of the game onto the players, whether or not that knowledge centers on the Princeton offense.

“It’s one thing to sit up in the office and have all these great thoughts and ideas,” Thompson said. “To be able to get that on the court and have the kids understand them is one of Mike’s strengths.”

Together, Thompson and Brennan continue what Carril started all those years ago. They might be running the offense with better Big East-quality players, but it all comes back to the same ideas.

Passes. Cuts. And all-around athleticism.

Goodrich orchestrated one of the most famous plays in the Princeton offense’s history, but he respects the evolution of the offense taking place at Georgetown.

“It’s a great combination because he understands the history and the tradition of Georgetown obviously very well,” Goodrich said. “And then he’s been able to bring his style of basketball to kids that are better than the ones he coached at Princeton.” cjseman@syr.edu

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mitchell franz | staff photographer SCOOP JARDINE (11) and Syracuse will look to continue their win steak Saturday at Georgetown. Jardine and Rick Jackson (right) will try to continue to play the way they did against Villanova, where Jardine scored 20 points and Jackson shot 89 percent from the field.

performance.

For Jackson, it was an attacking offensive game in stark contrast to the last game Syracuse played against Georgetown. On Feb. 9, Jackson played the fi nal five minutes of the game as a coy offensive player due to his four fouls — two of which were called on offensive charges. His forced lack of aggression lost the game for SU (23-6, 10-6 Big East) the fi rst time, and against Georgetown (21-7, 10-6 Big East) this Saturday (noon, CBS) at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C., Jackson will need to continue to play the way he did offensively against Villanova.

“When you sit for nine, 10 minutes, it is hard to come back in and have that same killer edge, especially when you have four fouls,” Jackson said on Feb. 9. “You don’t want to commit silly fouls, and that’s what happened.”

Jackson utilized that “killer edge” against Villanova. More importantly, he used it on the offensive end. In 38 minutes, Jackson attacked the Wildcat bigs vertically in a near-perfect offensive game, going 8-of-9 from the field.

That 89 percent clip from the field came not because of sharp shooting. It was due to a hunger to take shots from the easy spots Jackson fought for. Five of the eight makes came on dunks, and one came on an alley-oop layup.

The layup was just one of several alley-oops on the night for Jackson, who hammered home pass after pass from Jardine as the duo took over in their hometown.

Carl Arrigale, Jackson’s high school coach,

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(23-6) SYRACUSE AT GEORGETOWN (21-7) VERIZON CENTER, NOON, CBS

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GEORGETOWN 72, SYRACUSE 69

Georgetown has won nine of its last 11 games in the toughest league in America. That’s not too bad.

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Georgetown scores the same. Rick Jackson will not have another four-foul, four-point game.

Two big road wins this week for the Orange.

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SCOOP JARDINE

6-2, 190, JR. 12.4 PPG, 5.9 APG

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CHRIS WRIGHT

6-1, 202, SR.13.1 PPG, 5.4 RPG

BRANDON TRICHE

6-4, 205 SO. 11.4 PPG, 2.6 RPG

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JASON CLARK

6-2, 175, JR. 12 PPG, 4 RPG

KRIS JOSEPH

6-7, 210, JR. 14.7 PPG, 5 RPG 12 PPG, 8 RPG, 6 SPG

Jardine is coming off a big game, and Wright, who scored just six points against the Orange on Feb. 9, has averaged 15.7 in the three games since.

Both Triche and Clark have the ability to create their own shot and will need to be heavily involved offensively. Clark came up big in Georgetown’s win inside the Carrier Dome.

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AUSTIN FREEMAN

6-3, 235, SR. 17.8 PPG, 3.6 RPG

Freeman isn’t a small forward but will likely be matched up against Joseph all night. Both will be looking to bounce back from disappointing performances.

FREE THROWS Syracuse and Georgetown enter Saturday’s matchup tied for fifth in the Big East standings with a 10-6 conference record. And the two teams are just a half-game out of third place.

A dunk by C.J. Fair in Syracuse’s win against Cornell on Nov. 30 has been nominated in a “2011 Dunk of the Year” competition..

STAT TO KNOW Outside of Austin Freeman’s 19-point night Wednesday, the rest of the Hoyas shot just 5-of-35 (14.3 percent).

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SYRACUSE 71, GEORGETOWN 70

If Rick Jackson stays out of foul trouble, Syracuse has matured enough since the last game against the Hoyas to win on the road.

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6-8, 240, JR. 13.1 PPG, 11.0 RPG

NATE LUBICK

6-8, 238, FR. 4.1 PPG, 3.5 RPG

Jackson is coming off two huge games and faces a less experienced, inferior opponent in this matchup.

The Hoyas were able to frustrate him with double teams last month.

BAYE MOUSSA KEITA 6-10, 213, FR. 2.4 PPG, 4.1 RPG

JULIAN VAUGHN

6-9, 250, SR. 8.5 PPG, 6.1 RPG

Moussa Keita matches up much better with Vaughn than Fab Melo did in the first matchup. Vaughn came up big for the Hoyas in the first game and has more polish than SU’s big men at this point.

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JOHN THOMPSON III W-L: 228-111 10 SEASONS

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Georgetown made just 12 field goals in its most recent game, a 58-46 loss to Cincinnati. The Hoyas shot 25 percent from the field.

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and two current Neumann-Goretti (Pa.) players celebrated with Jackson and Jardine in the postgame scrum.

They spoke of Jardine’s 20-point outing, despite foul trouble, and Jackson’s slew of dunks from Jardine. The two stars on the night had combated foul trouble enough to lead SU to the win. Jackson had two first-half fouls, and Jardine sat for a crucial near-five-minute stretch in the second half with four. It was shades of Jackson versus Georgetown.

“I just think he never got into it,” Boeheim said of Jackson on Feb. 9. “He never really got back into the game. We need him, obviously, offensively. He’s been so steady for us all year, and we need him there offensively.”

In a whistle-friendly game Monday at Villanova, Jackson was again in first-half foul trouble. But this time, he avoided his third foul until the final three minutes of the game, even though he attacked the basket with the same hunger.

Jardine played the final 7:35 of the game with four fouls. And he excelled, scoring soon after he entered and breaking the Wildcat press to lead SU to the win.

Postgame, Jardine was euphoric as he introduced his Neumann-Goretti family. There was Arrigale and Lamin Fulton, a senior guard who will play at St. Peter’s. And there was a freshman, name unknown to Jardine.

But he was from Neumann, and that was all that mattered when celebrating. He was welcome after Jardine won the game for SU. A win finished off by Jackson, who coolly sank two free throws with 4.6 seconds left to end the game.

Jardine welcomed the nameless freshman

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“Everybody (is here).

Everybody. My high school team — my and Rick’s high school coach, right there!”

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to join in, promising he would recruit him to play for SU to follow in the footsteps of Jardine and Jackson, who came to Syracuse together.

In his last game at Syracuse in Philadelphia, Jackson harnessed the element that had been missing in his offensive attack. And he’ll look to continue that against the Hoyas.

Said Jackson: “They’ll always remember what you did when you came here.” aolivero@ syr.edu

Syracuse by the numbers Record: 23-6 Rankings: No. 17 AP/No. 20 ESPN/USA

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RPI: 18* Strength of schedule: 22* Projected NCAA Tournament seed: 5 *As of Wednesday morning Sources: ESPN.com and RealTimeRPI.com

nate shron | staff photograher Rick Jackson played the final five minutes with four fouls in Syracuse’s Feb. 9 game against Georgetown. Jackson was stripped of the aggression he needs to help SU.

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In competitive conference, best players go overlooked

By Rachel Marcus Asst. Copy Editor

Publicity comes with winning. Keno Davis will tell you that. And in a conference regarded as one of the nation’s best, it isn’t easy to win.

For that reason, some of the Big East’s best players are often overlooked. A team with a poor record is brushed aside. And any standout players it may have are swept along with it.

“When you’re on a winning team, you get more publicity,” said Providence head coach Davis.

It’s that simple.

Keeping with that pattern, players like DePaul’s Cleveland Melvin and Rutgers’ Jonathan Mitchell are overshadowed. And only recently has Providence guard Marshon Brooks started to receive the recognition he deserves. The individual statistics are there for all these players, but the wins, arguably the most important stat, are nowhere to be found.

Melvin, a freshman forward, averages 14.3 points per game. He ranks sixth in the Big East in field-goal percentage and averages 1.5 blocked shots per game, in addition to his 14.3 points. But he is getting little notice outside of the Big East because he plays for DePaul, a team that is 1-14 in the conference.

Mitchell, Rutgers’ leading scorer at 14.8 points per game, has caught the attention of the coaches in the Big East. Despite averaging nearly 15 points per game in the toughest league in the country, his recognition

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Yet he continues to put up gaudy numbers for his Rutgers team that is 4-11 in Big East play. The Scarlet Knights have lost six of their last seven games.

“He’s playing inspirational basketball, he’s stepping up for his team, he’s making big shots,” South Florida head coach Stan Heath said of Mitchell in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 10. “He played very well against us. He’s a very difficult matchup.

“He plays in and out, he’s got such a strong, physical body, and he makes hustle plays out there on the court as well. He’s having a very good senior year for them.”

But similar to Melvin and his 16th-place DePaul team, Rutgers is in 13th place in the Big East. Neither place attracts many headlines.

The same can be said at Seton Hall, where forward Jeff Robinson averages 12.1 points per game and 6.7 rebounds for a team with a 5-10 record in the Big East. Herb Pope is third in the conference in rebounding, and Jordan Theodore is 10th in the Big East in assists.

But even though Seton Hall doesn’t garner much attention, Pirates assistant coach Shaheen Holloway has seen progress in players like Theodore.

“It’s really easy to come off the bench and play behind somebody,” Holloway said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 3. “But for you to be that main guy every night and go out and play 30 to 35 minutes every night is real tough. So he’s making that adjustment. We put a lot of pressure on him to go out there and be our leader and to go out there and play ball.”

If there is one player in the conference who has drawn widespread attention despite being on a bad team, it’s Brooks. By now, the Big East and most of the nation have noticed Brooks despite his team’s 3-11 Big East record. As the Big East’s leading scorer and the No. 2 scorer in all of college basketball, coaches and players around the country take notice.

Brooks is the exception.

For Mitchell, the praise he gets from Big East coaches may be enough to make up for the lack of national attention he receives.

But spotlight or not, Rutgers head coach Mike Rice said Mitchell doesn’t listen to the rankings. He only cares about the team’s success.

“Everyone knows where this team was

kirsten celo | photo editor Jonathan Mitchell is one of the players in the Big East who goes largely unnoticed because of their teams’ poor performance. Mitchell averages 14.8 points per game. picked, and no one thought much of it, including J. Mitch,” Rice said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Feb. 10. “Every single day, he refuses to listen to anybody. He’s going to get the best out of this team and the best out of himself.”

Big man on campus Dwight Hardy guard St. John’s

Hardy, like St. John’s, has been on fire of late.

He hit the game-winning shot to lead the Red Storm over then-No. 4 Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Hardy had 19 points in the game, his ninth straight double-digit scoring game. In a win against Marquette on Feb. 15, he had 28 points.

This sudoku got a new couch today.

Hardy reached the 30-point plateau in three games this season.

Game to watch West Virginia at No. 4 Pittsburgh, Thursday, 9 p.m.

The last time these two teams met, Pitt pulled out a 71-66 victory in Morgantown, W. Va. West Virginia is coming off a quality win against Notre Dame, while Pittsburgh will have to recover quickly from its heartbreaking one-point loss to St. John’s on Saturday. The Panthers still have a two-game lead for first place in the conference. West Virginia is 8-6 in league play, good for 10th place. rnmarcus@ syr.edu

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Power

Jackson looks to continue recent dominance inside

By Tony Olivero Development Editor

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postgame bash was the only way to describe it. It was a Philadelphia party enabled because of Syracuse’s most brutal in-game player and his ferocious offensive attack: Rick Jackson.

Mere minutes following No. 17 Syracuse’s 69-64 win over Villanova, an Orange party ensued in a slender Wells Fargo Center corridor adjacent to the SU locker room. The likes of Syracuse-basketball present and Syracuse-basketball future, as well as members of Jackson’s Philadelphia past, were all accounted for.

“Everybody (is here),” SU guard Scoop Jardine later said of the scene inside and outside of the SU locker room.

“Everybody. My high school team — my and Rick’s high school coach, right there!”

It was the best example of postgame bliss SU head coach Jim Boeheim and Syracuse have showcased all season.

With a wide grin planted on his face before he took the press conference podium, Boeheim slapped hands with 2011 SU recruits Trevor Cooney and McDonald’s AllAmerican and Philadelphia native Rakeem Christmas — the nation’s No. 1 center for the Class of 2011, according to Scout.com.

But Boeheim’s celebration with Christmas amid the Syracuse scrum would not have been possible were it not for the play of arguably the No. 1 big man in the Big East, a senior Christmas hopes to follow. Christmas spoke with a merry Boeheim because of a specific element in Jackson’s

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He is for real A look at the difference in Rick Jackson’s game in Syracuse wins vs. losses:

nate shron | staff photographer Rick Jackson will look to continue his strong offensive attack on Saturday when Syracuse heads to Washington, D.C., to play Georgetown. He’ll try to help keep the Orange from getting swept by the Hoyas.

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Marasco brothers go head to head in tournament rematch

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Though his son will be starting at attack for Syracuse, Rich Marasco won’t be wearing orange on Sunday.

He’ll be sitting with his family as close to the 50-yard line as possible, trying to stay impartial.

Because this weekend, the allegiance of the Marasco family is torn.

“We generally go nondescript,” Rich said. “We don’t wear Syracuse, we don’t wear Army. … To be honest,

we’re probably a lot more quiet in that game when it comes to rooting for one or the other.”

When S y r a Who: Army cuse (1-0) Where: Carrier Dome takes on When: Sunday, 4 p.m.

A r m y Channel: SNY (1-1) at the Carrier Dome on Sunday at 4 p.m., SU’s JoJo Marasco will take on his brother Matthew, a defender for Army. That

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leaves Rich in a precarious situation, watching his two sons try and hand each other’s team a loss. It will make it impossible for Rich or his wife, Anna Marie, to choose sides. Instead, they’ll sit quietly during the game, looking forward to when it’s all over.

Rich said he is forced to root for his sons individually. If JoJo burns a defender, he’ll be happy. If Matthew makes a great play on an Orange midfielder or attack, Rich said he’ll clap a little bit. That is, of course, if the great

play isn’t against JoJo. But knowing one son’s team will win while the other’s will leave with a loss is what takes the enjoyment out of the game.

“It’s not my favorite game to watch when they both go against each other,” Rich said. “It’s distressing.”

Sibling rivalry aside, Sunday’s game is also the first game between these two teams since last year’s NCAA tournament game. Syracuse fell to the Black Knights in the first

round, a game stuck in the minds of every member of the Orange who experienced the game. JoJo was out with an injury and didn’t play in the game, but the loss still hurt.

When it was over, though, he still congratulated his brother. He watched Matthew and Army play Stony Brook the following week. For those 60 minutes, he wasn’t a member of the Orange. Instead, he was just a supportive brother who knew what the see ARMY page 17