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Community reacts to diversity talk

By Debbie Truong Enterprise Editor

A day after about 250 students and faculty assembled in the lower level of Hendricks Chapel to voice concerns about campus self-segregation, racial stigmas and perceived lower standards for minority students, some faculty are working to address these issues.

Sophomore Ronald Taylor, who spearheaded the “Healing the Scars” event, closed the evening by urging audience members to use the panel as a launching pad to bridge the schisms attendees and panelists said promote campus self-segregation and discomfort.

Faculty members, including Hendricks Dean Tiffany Steinwert, are joining students in continuing this effort. The next step involves helping

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SU increases lobbying to keep politicians aware of local issues

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overnment representatives don’t know everything. Often, decisions made in Washington, D.C., affect constituents in ways representatives don’t even realize.

That’s where lobbying comes in.

As budget cuts and funding crunches become the norm at national and state levels, SU has increased spending on lobbying to keep government representatives

informed and aware of issues that matter to the university community.

SU spent $280,000 on lobbying in 2012, an increase of $140,000 since 2002, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics released at the end of January.

The 2012 total is a $40,000 increase from 2011, when the university spent less than normal on lobbying due to leadership changes within SU’s Government and Community Relations office.

SU generally spends about $60,000-$80,000 per quarter on lobbying efforts, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

In comparison to other schools and educational organizations, SU is ranked 71st out of the 686 schools that reported spending money on lobbying last year. The majority of schools and educational organizations that filed lobbying reports in 2012 spent $100,000 or less on lobbying, according to the Center for

Funding progress

Due to increasing public budget pressure and the elimination of earmarks in Congress, SU must find new ways to advance its interests. To do this, the university has invested more in its government and community relations and has worked to lobby government officials and representatives. These steps have led to more funding for university projects and initiatives, including the ones listed below.

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Colleges across America may soon be required to reform how they report sexual assaults that occur on campus.

If enacted, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, or SaVE Act, would require colleges to provide victims of sexual assault with contact information for legal, health or counseling services on campus.

The SaVE Act is a provision of the Violence Against Women Act, which is currently awaiting congressional action in the U.S. House of Representatives. The SaVE Act would

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Rower talk focuses on adventure

By Kerry Wolfe Staff Writer

sam maller | asst. photo editor (From left) Dorene quinn and yvonne buchanan, professors in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, are the founders of the Teen Visual Art Development program. The organization provides free artistic opportunities and resources to local high-schoolers.

Local funding allows student arts program to expand

By Brett Samuels Contributing Writer

Support from local organizations has allowed the Teen Visual Art Development Program to expand its reach within the local community and better the art skills of Syracuse teens.

The Teen Visual Art Development Program provides free artistic instruction to Syracuse high school students so they are able to develop portfolios, which can often help them gain admission to college-level art or design programs.

The program, founded by Syracuse University professors Dorene Quinn and Yvonne Buchanan, was awarded a grant and in-kind support for 2013. The program applied for the grant in 2012 and is now being applied, Quinn said.

The grant was awarded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Gifford Foundation, according to the Near Westside Initiative February newsletter.

Quinn said the program has

relied on monetary grants and inkind donations since it began in 2011.

It started with the goal of giving urban high school students without financial resources opportunities to study art. In 2011, the program had only seven students, and has since expanded to 24 students, Quinn said.

“We want to remove as many obstacles as possible so we can provide free high-quality art materials and challenging, college-level instruction to our students in an environment that replicates a college

experience,” Quinn said.

High school students with sufficient financial resources often take many years of additional classes to develop their art skills while in high school, and Quinn said she wants students in the program to be on a level playing field with those students, regardless of their financial situation.

She added that the program aims to help prepare students for college classes with the hope they will make a smooth transition to college life see art program page 6

Study determines millennials are most stressed

By Maggie Cregan Staff Writer

If stress levels on campus seem high, it may be a result of more than midterms. The American Psychological Association recently named the millennial generation the most stressed demographic in the country.

While millennials, ages 18-33, reported the same stress levels as generation X-ers, ages 34-47, millenials found higher levels of stress acceptable. The study also found millennials are the age group most

“Emotionally, I completely shut down.

I stop reaching out to my parents. I stop talking about my problems.”

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sophomore exercise science major

likely to stay awake at night due to stress during the past month or experienced an increase in stress in the past year.

Courtney Banks, a master’s student in television, radio and film,

has seen her personal stress levels increase as graduation nears.

“You’re worried about school, you’re worried about how you’re going to pay for school,” she said.

“You know in six months you’re

going to get a letter from Sally Mae asking for their money back, and you don’t know how you’re going to pay for that.”

Millennials in the APA’s survey named work, money and job stability as the greatest causes of their stress.

Millennials themselves admit the negative health consequences of their stressful lifestyles. According to the APA, only 27 percent of millennials claim to eat healthy, and only 29 percent believe they’re see stress page 7

To row the ocean requires courage and perseverance. Roz Savage had enough to do so — solo — three times.

Savage, a record-setting ocean rower, is the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. Her journeys have taken her more than 15,000 miles across the water, all within the confines of a 23-foot rowboat.

Savage kicked off this semester’s University Lectures series in Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday night.

She shared her insights on life, motivation, spirituality and sustainability with members of the Syracuse University community in her lecture, “The Human Condition: An Ocean Rower’s Perspective.”

Now retired from rowing, the 2010 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year works to spread environmental awareness. She said the conviction she had to spread an environmental message motivated her throughout her journey across the Atlantic, the first of her three ocean crossings.

“I wanted to leave a legacy,” she said, “to have done something to have made this world a better place.”

She encouraged audience members to get out of their comfort zones and use their power to change the world for the better. It is time for the developed Western world to redefine success and replace conspicuous consumption with conservation, she said. Friendship and a sense of community are more important than a fat paycheck, she added.

Savage’s rowing journey began after she realized she was dissatisfied with being just one of the millions commuting to an office. This prompted her to write two obituaries for herself. One described the life she see savage page 7

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Three more speakers are scheduled for this semester’s University Lectures Series:

• March 5: Conor Grennan, president of Next Generation Nepal • March 19: Jim Richardson, photographer for National Geographic Magazine • April 4: David Henry Hwang, award-winning playwright

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16th season of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ should be show’s last

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lympian Aly Raisman, Beverly Hills Real Housewife Lisa Vanderpump and comedian Andy Dick. They shouldn’t be in the same sentence, let alone the same room, but that’s about to change.

These mismatched sort-of-celebrities will be fox-trotting and mambo-ing toward the gold on the 16th season of “Dancing With The Stars.”

The star-filled lineup, announced earlier this week, will also feature a Disney kid, an American Idol, a boxer, a soap opera heartthrob and a football player. The competition officially starts March 18 on ABC. The roster sounds more like a very elaborate joke setup than an actual television show. After 16 seasons, it’s simply time to let “Dancing” go.

When “Dancing” was in its prime, it was the No. 1 show in America. More than 27 million people tuned in to watch season three’s Dallas Cowboy Elliot Smith take home the gold.

But the dance competition show has been bleeding viewers for the past five seasons. This past November’s finale was down 27 percent in ratings from the year before, at 16.7 million viewers.

“Dancing” first broke onto the television scene in 2005. That same year, now-President Barack Obama began the first year of his sen-

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the one that got away ate career, the iPod Shuffle hit the market and Hayden Christensen still thought he could have a healthy acting career. “Star Wars: Episode III” was the highest grossing movie of the year.

Now, we’re in President Obama’s final term, Apple probably owns our brains and there are three shiny new episodes of the “Star Wars” saga around the bend. Eight years later and it’s a whole new world. Somehow, “Dancing with the Stars” isn’t the only 2005 show still being broadcast. “How I Met Your Mother,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Bones,” “Supernatural” and “The Office” were all parts of 2005’s freshman class.

And every single one is now on its last leg.

Somehow, two more of 2005’s shows will return for yet another season this fall. Both “How I Met Your Mother” and “Supernatural” will start their ninth season, thanks to early

renewals. No one expected Ted Mosby to take this long to meet the mother on CBS’ aging sitcom. Most loyal viewers are waiting for him to just blame it on a dating site and wrap this whole mess up.

As a loyal “Supernatural” viewer, I’ve watched the genre go from a tight, five-season arc to seasonal attempts at keeping the plot together. After the writers took the Winchester brothers to literal hell and back, it’s hard to go bigger than that.

It’s hard to let these rapidly aging shows go.

When they started, most of us were in middle school or just beginning high school. Now, we’re supposed to start acting like real adults and consider what exactly we want to do with our grown-up lives.

Just like the horrible 14-year-old fashion and crushes we left in the past, it’s time for television executives to let us do the same. The only thing older than these eight-seasoners is “The Apprentice,” and no one wants to be compared to Donald Trump.

Ariana Romero is a junior magazine journalism and political science major. Her column appears every week. She can be reached at akromero@syr. edu or followed on Twitter at @ArianaRomero17.

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Cultural significance of ‘Harlem Shake’ lost in viral video fad

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e’ve all attempted the “Harlem Shake.” It’s a movement that even I – not the most athletic or graceful person in the world – can attempt. The shoulders and hips move in a dynamic flow that allows for personality in a swaying of the upper body.

According to a Feb.15 article by The Root, the dance was created in 1981 by a man named Al B, who once danced during intermissions at the Entertainer’s Basketball Classic in Harlem, N.Y. It is a piece of urban culture, a celebration of life and soul in an upper Manhattan neighborhood that has seen its share of poverty, brutality and suffering. Outsiders can only try to interpret the dance.

However, for millions who attempt to recreate the dance via YouTube, the interpretation is pure chaos, executed in unicorn costumes.

The standard viral video of the dance consists of an individual bobbing to “Harlem Shake” by Baauer, a song with an in-and-out techno beat. Fifteen seconds into the song, an auto-tuned voice is heard: “Do the Harlem Shake.” Then, pure chaos as people gyrate, try to crunk or awkwardly sway.

Essentially, it’s like a middle school dance on excessive steroids.

The viral “Harlem Shake” videos have received responses from individuals in the heart of Harlem. A video posted on YouTube shows individuals with horrified expressions watching the remake “Harlem Shake” videos on an iPhone.

Common reactions include: “What are they doing?” “That’s not the Harlem Shake” and “Find a new hobby.” The final message of the video is written in large, white block letters: “Please use the Harlem Shake Responsibly.”

Six days after its release, the reaction video reached more than seven million views.

I admit that I have been a part of two “Harlem Shake” videos. The groups I filmed with saw the fad as something to which we could add our own signature.

A large group of us gathered, put on onesies,

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the new breakfast club masks, brightly colored leggings, wigs, tutus, old Halloween costumes and anything else of dramatic and ridiculous proportion.

Like any other viral meme, we put our mark on the dance, filmed and shared.

Fads are always predictable, and only briefly entertaining.

So why do we continue to create videos when we know they result in negative consequences?

As the final words of the “Harlem Shake” reactionary video suggests, we often abuse our ability to easily recreate and share. Of course, the fads we produce, for the most part, are harmless.

But perhaps as one of the most popular fads, the “Harlem Shake” videos have proven the irresponsibility of our obsession with video trends.

We unintentionally took something culturally significant from a particular place and made it ours.

Of course, the fads will continue; there is no going back now. However, we need to remember that what we perceive as truly insignificant may, in fact, have roots in something beyond our corner of the universe.

If we ignore this for the sake of an entertaining 30-second video, then we are putting our trending addiction before someone else’s culture.

I only wish I had thought about this when I put on a pink onesie and Batman mask and “did the Harlem Shake.”

Anna Hodge is a freshman magazine journalism major. Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at ahodge@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @annabhodge.

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Diversity issues must be concern for all at SU Establishing a public dialogue concerning the large, but often unacknowledged, issues that shape the culture of Syracuse University’s campus community is imperative.

Tuesday’s event, titled “Healing the Scars,” should be a starting point for combatting social barriers and diversity concerns at SU. The event aimed to start a campus-wide dialogue, and allowed students to express concerns about the overarching diversity issues on campus, self-segregation and professors tokenizing minority students in the classroom.

The Daily Orange Editorial Board recognizes the importance of these issues on campus, and wants to see the campus-wide discussion continue and grow.

Though Tuesday’s forum generated much discussion, it should only be the start of an extended campaign that evolves to include the voices of more members of the SU community.

It is the movement’s longevity that

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board will allow substantial change, not just a dialogue, to take place.

Students should make use of all platforms available to them at SU to amplify this conversation.

At the forum, most students in attendance identified themselves as part of a minority group. Ronald Taylor, the event organizer and a sophomore at SU, said only 10 of the 300 groups he reached out to responded. Some criticized the lack of faculty and administration in attendance.

Those who did not attend should pay attention and read about this call for a better understanding of diversity. It affects all walks of life here on campus. With the efforts of more individuals, the seeds of thought planted at “Healing the Scars” can become powerful and progressive.

With enough support, these

discussions can eventually lead to real change.

Those already passionate about making a difference at SU concerning diversity issues can cultivate greater student and faculty support for the movement by taking advantage of the opportunities available to publicize this cause.

The students involved in this initial discussion should continue to invest their efforts in spreading the word to ensure a comprehensive campaign. Future success in other elements of the movement, like the sit-in Taylor is organizing in the Schine Student Center, will depend on the ability of those involved to create vaster awareness of why it is important to examine these issues.

“Healing the Scars” was a motivating launch toward a greater cause at SU. Those already involved should continue to put their efforts toward gathering more student and faculty support to begin addressing the social barriers on campus.

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Tech giants work to extend human lifespans; longevity will alter societal infrastructure

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he idea of immortality has long been a staple in the realm of fantasy, but with scientific advances forcing us into the next stage of our evolution, it may not be long before the dream of an indefinite lifespan becomes reality.

One of the most beautiful things about life is that our moments are fleeting; but technology has allowed us to capture and leave behind more evidence of our existence than ever before – perhaps even the good sense to know when to stop playing God and enjoy what we have in the present.

Many futurists, like Google Director of Engineering Ray Kurzwell, see the limits of our biological aging as small obstacles to be overcome as we move toward greater technological singularity, or the emergence of super intelligence through technology.

In the future of singularity, our life spans will be longer, and technol-

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Google has been spearheading this progress by introducing projects like Google Glass, the wearable computing device that augments your reality as you view it, and Google Now, an application that predicts your needs before you’ve even searched for it.

Soon, even the process of taking out your smartphone to take a picture or type in a search box will be too slow for the next generation of consumers for whom singularity seems inevitable.

These tech giants are not only looking to build long-lasting devices, but also long-lasting users. Last week, Al Jazeera reported that Google founder Sergey Brin and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg have joined Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner

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virtually real in backing research prizes to extend human life.

The innovators and their spouses awarded 11 scientists $3 million each to launch the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, a nonprofit that seeks to reward scientists for medical innovations.

According to federal statistics, we’ve gained 30 more years to our collective lifespans during the past century. The average U.S. citizen can now live to be 78.

That number could potentially increase as biotechnology advances.

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Although no single “longevity gene” has been found, medical technology has helped increase our chances of survival, along with better nutrition and higher education.

But even if we are eventually able to avoid death from natural causes, our societal infrastructures would not be able to function on this new timeline.

Japan is suffering from its own citizens’ good health, living to an average of 82. Twenty-three percent of the country’s population is older than 65, and by 2050, that number will increase to 40 percent.

Japan’s Finance Minister, Taro Aso, attracted criticism for publicly encouraging elderly citizens to “hurry up and die,” as the state budget has been strained by the medical care required for the world’s oldest citizens.

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the United States if everyone were able to add 15 years to their lifespan. The retirement age would have to be pushed up, social security would either have to drastically change or disappear, and people would likely pursue at least two different careers in order to support themselves for longer.

We are quickly elevating ourselves to demigod status through the aid of technology and scientific advances that push us beyond the limits of what we thought humanly possible.

But if our resources, societal structures and tiny human brains can’t keep up with these monumental shifts in our digital landscape, we may ultimately find that for a few to defy death, the majority will suffer.

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President of disaster relief company to speak at Whitman

By Levi Stein Staff Writer

Famed entrepreneur, business mogul and television star Sheldon Yellen will speak to the Syracuse University community Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s Lender Auditorium.

Yellen will present a lecture called “Restoring Opportunity Today,” and will discuss clips from his appearance on the CBS show “Undercover Boss.” The lecture, which is co-sponsored

by Whitman and the Entrepreneurship Club, will take place after a networking session titled “Three Things an Entrepreneur Should Know About Business,” according to a Feb. 21 Whitman news release.

Yellen is best known as the CEO of BELFOR Holdings Inc., a premier disaster restoration company that serves 29 countries worldwide, according to the release.

The company is the world’s leading provider of property recovery services in North Ameri-

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Alcott for federal relations and Whiteman Osterman & Hanna for state relations, he said.

Many actions are considered lobbying, besides asking government representatives for funds or other favors, Persons said. The university frequently contacts congressional representatives to update them on issues in the SU community or gather information on a university initiative. Both of these actions are reported as lobbying activities, he said.

It’s very common for colleges and universities like SU to have lobbyists, and having this

ca, with more than 150 offices coast to coast and 6,400 full-time, experienced restoration specialists, according to the release.

In recent months, Yellen’s company has been dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

The storm recovery, which has affected many members of the SU community, will most likely be a topic of discussion, said Lindsay Wickham, events and communications manager for the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship.

“Yellen is a man of many great accomplishments and exemplifies SU’s ‘Scholarship in Action’ initiative,” Wickham said in an email.

“Also having insight from entrepreneurs definitely inspires and motivates students.”

For aspiring entrepreneurs, Wickham said it is never too early to start thinking about the future or hear a story of someone who has built such a large, successful company.

Yellen was invited to speak to the Entrepreneurship Club after he met member Jacob Levy, said Brandon Eng, a sophomore entrepreneur-

ship and marketing major who is the director of speakers and marketing for the club.

Eng said Yellen expressed interest in speaking to students about his experiences in entrepreneurship. After more than a year of scheduling conflicts, the club finally settled on a date.

“Yellen appeals to college students because he went from being part of a lower social class to becoming a very successful individual,” Eng said. “He works very diligently, and failure is not part of his vocabulary.”

Hearing from successful professionals provides motivation for aspiring entrepreneurs, said David Erhlich, a junior accounting and entrepreneurship major and president of the Entrepreneurship Club.

“As a student, there is only so much you can learn in a classroom from a textbook,” he said.

“It is always great to hear stories from successful entrepreneurs and their paths to the top.”

BELFOR started as a relatively small company, Erhlich said. Because of savvy leadership

and a smart business plan, the company eventually grew into a billion-dollar business.

Yellen is also known for his philanthropic perspective, overall positive attitude and for treating employees like family, Erhlich said.

After appearing on “Undercover Boss,” he made significant changes to improve the company.

Said Ehrlich: “We believe that hearing Sheldon’s stories about personal experiences in business and as an entrepreneur will be insightful for everyone and we hope it inspires others to follow their dreams.”

type of representation in Washington is very important, said Mike Fulton, a board member for the American League of Lobbyists. Lobbyists help schools keep track of both opportunities and potential pitfalls related to legislation and regulation, he said.

“The federal government is a big partner for universities and colleges in that it funds everything from veteran’s benefits to Pell grants to research,” he said. “Someone needs to be watching to make sure that Syracuse University is getting the most opportunity from the federal government that it can possibly get.”

Many colleges and universities also belong to trade associations, which can lobby representa-

tives on national education issues of concern for many schools, Fulton said.

SU belongs to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, a membership association that lobbies on issues affecting independent colleges, including student aid and tax and regulatory provisions, according to its website.

Belonging to these types of organizations allows SU officials to focus on issues more specific to the university, rather than larger national higher education issues, Persons said.

University officials pay attention to a few key issues, such as appropriations and legislation related to student aid and higher education. SU also lobbies to advance specific research areas and issues that develop through community partnerships, Persons said.

Many of SU’s lobbying efforts fall under the area of education. Twice in 2012, university officials contacted New York senators and representatives about the activities and funding needs of Say Yes to Education, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

SU also contacted representatives four times in 2012 about the university’s programs to increase college and high school graduation rates, and three times about the university’s interests abroad, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

In the area of appropriations, officials contacted Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and urged them to vote to restore funding to the National Science Foundation’s political science program, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

In May, the U.S. House of Representatives

voted to eliminate funding for the program, according to a May 11, 2012 Inside Higher Ed article.

The university also works with the City of Syracuse and Onondaga County to alert representatives about issues and initiatives important to both partners, such as the Connective Corridor, Near Westside Initiative and Save the Rain initiative, Persons said.

These partnerships with the city and county have resulted in more state and federal funding for community projects, he said.

The partnership’s lobbying efforts helped the Syracuse Center for Excellence receive more than $100 million in state and federal funding, Persons said. More than $40 million in state and federal funding went toward the Connective Corridor initiative.

Specifically within SU, a $10 million contribution to the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs allowed the school to establish the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs. The Life Sciences Complex and Ernie Davis Residence Hall have also each received $5 million in state funding, Persons said.

Funding for these types of projects is one example of the benefits of colleges and universities hiring lobbyists, said Fulton, the American League of Lobbyists board member. Schools that are not engaged in government relations risk missing out on important relationships and funding opportunities from the U.S. government, he said.

“It’s like the lottery,” Fulton said. “If you don’t play the lottery, you can’t win the lottery.”

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gram, and they’re from the community, and that’s what we look for – impact and involvement,” Solomon said.

Officials in the portfolio program applied for a grant as a part of the Gifford Foundation’s “What if Mini Grant Program,” which Solomon said is designed to provide a little extra funding to programs with the potential to have an influence in the community.

Solomon said the program provides a great opportunity in the arts for local teens.

“The program opens doors to city high school students who wouldn’t have access to a good arts program,” Solomon said. “Not everybody is going to be a football player or athlete, but the arts are another great way to express to yourself.”

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and complete their degrees in the future.

One of the recent donations came in the form of in-kind support from VPA. Quinn said VPA students have provided help by instructing teens in the program.

One of the donors that funds the program is the Gifford Foundation, a local group focused on helping organizations who help people in their communities. The foundation gave $3,500 to the portfolio program, said Sheena Solomon, director of neighborhood initiatives for the Gifford Foundation.

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svitlana lymar | staff photographer Roz savage, a record-breaking ocean rower who crossed three oceans by herself, speaks at Hendricks Chapel on Wednesday as part of the University Lectures Series.

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was currently living, while the other chronicled a life of adventure and risk.

“I arrived at a fork in the road and took the ocean less traveled,” she said of her decision to walk away from a stable career and pursue the life described in the more exciting obituary.

She set off across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005 as a part of the Atlantic Rowing Race, becoming the first woman to complete the race solo. She crossed the Pacific in three stages between 20082010 before rowing the Indian Ocean in 2011.

Her time rowing all three oceans was not without its trials. She faced death by dehydration when her water converter broke, lost contact with land when her satellite phone died and briefly lost her boat when she jumped into the water to retrieve a fallen boat hook.

She described the feeling of completing her row across the Atlantic – the first of her three

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getting enough sleep.

Randall Jorgensen, a professor of psychology at Syracuse University, pointed out that stress can affect almost every aspect of life.

“You have biological manifestations of stress, you have affective manifestations of stress, you have interpersonal manifestations of stress and you have mental or cognitive manifestations of stress,” he said.

Stephanie Hussey, a sophomore exercise science major and member of the women’s field hockey team, has noticed the emotional consequences of stress in her life.

“Emotionally, I completely shut down. I stop reaching out to my parents,” she said. “I stop talking about my problems.”

There are theories abound as to why millennials’ stress levels have risen above those of their parents and grandparents.

“It’s probably got to do with expectations,” said freshman Mike Duplessis, who pinned millennials’ stress on pressure to match their parents’ success in worse economic conditions.

Jorgensen, the psychology professor, agreed and said that unlike millennials, prior gen-

ocean ventures – as a combination of finishing an Ironman triathlon, winning an Oscar and getting out of jail.

“It was the worst 103 days of my life, but the sense of achievement was great,” she said.

Her time on the ocean taught her that she is just another animal, and that Mother Nature will not spare her just because she has opposable thumbs and an over-developed brain, she said.

It was frightening at times, but Savage said she emerged from the experience ready to face new challenges.

“It was a maturing process, putting myself into a scary, solitary situation and coming back a grownup,” she said. “It was deeply character-building.”

Hendricks erupted in applause at the lecture’s conclusion. Harriet Hwang, a junior social work major, said she found Savage’s lecture inspiring.

Said Hwang: “It gave me the chance to really look at my life.” kwolfe01@syr.edu

erations had a “social contract” that promised upward mobility.

“There was always this sense that we would do at least as well as our parents, and there was a sense that education would make a difference and that we could get educated for a reasonable price,” he said.

But millennials now face uncertain futures.

Although this generation grew up in a relatively stable time, wars in the Middle East, poor job prospects and an “incompetent government” create a sense of uncertainty not unlike “walking on thin ice” as they get older, Jorgensen said.

Amid these stressors, many millennials are struggling. The APA found only 29 percent of millennials believe they’re doing a good job of managing their stress, which is less than in any other generation.

Fifteen percent of millennials turn to alcohol when stressed, according to the APA. The study found 51 percent of millennials relax through exercise, but even more turn to music, the favorite stress reliever for the demographic.

Jorgensen recommended using stress as a source of information for personal growth.

“Stress is a part of life,” he said. “The idea is to learn how to coexist with your stress.” mmcregan@syr.edu

Taylor organize a sit-in at the Schine Student Center, where students will wear coordinated white shirts marked with the phrase, “I will define myself.” Details on the sit-in are expected to be emailed to students in the coming days.

“The students do have a next step planned: a sit-in in Schine. I think that will be an opportunity for the conversation we had in Hendricks Chapel to move outside the Chapel,” she said. “It’s something that would have an impact on people that did not come to the dialogue at Hendricks Chapel.”

On Tuesday, students spoke out about personal instances on campus where they felt stigmatized because of race. Some felt they were considered academically inferior and were expected to speak as a representative of a racial group in classroom settings. The experiences presented by students are not unique to SU, but are indicative of furtherreaching attitudes in American culture, Steinwert said.

“What students were talking about in terms of being tokenized in their classes, having their peers refer to them in ways that were disrespectful and having people dress up in culturally offensive costumes, all of those things I’ve witnessed in the wider American culture,” Steinwert said. “I don’t think those types of attitudes or experiences are any more or less pervasive at Syracuse University.”

Event attendees and panelist Whitney Clinkscales voiced criticism about what they considered an underwhelming presence of white students in Tuesday’s audience. While Steinwert said she would have liked to see more white students in attendance, a disconnect in the experiences of minority and white

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students contributes to that. White students often aren’t aware of the racial slurs, stereotypes or tokenization that minority students encounter, she said.

Steinwert added that white students might feel uncomfortable or marginalized by attending events centered on race and minority issues. Further education on white privilege is needed to help alleviate this, she said.

“There’s sometimes a sense of guilt and shame surrounding white privilege that can paralyze people. Some feel so badly about their privilege that they don’t engage it or attempt to dismantle it.”

But James Duah-Agyeman, director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, said that while event organizers should always strive to coordinate a diverse panel and generate a diverse audience, there is value in minority students speaking to a crowd of primarily minority students. The Office of Multicultural Affairs co-sponsored “Healing the Scars” with Hendricks.

“It’s OK if we’re preaching to the choir,” Duah-Agyeman said, adding that those conversations can help strengthen and generate interest from students who don’t identify as a minority.

Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president for student affairs, said Tuesday’s panel contributed to conversations already in motion on campus. A council of division and inclusion within the Office of Student Affairs was implemented during the summer and is headed by Duah-Agyeman.

Wolfe said the university is forward-looking in trying to anticipate the needs of an increasingly diverse campus and “will prepare for that day in Syracuse University’s future when we will be a majority minority community.” dbtruong@syr.edu @ debbietruong

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State of happiness Researchers at University of Vermont determine happiest areas of country based on tweets

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ome areas of the country are happier than others, according to a team of researchers at the University of Vermont. Researchers came to this conclusion after collecting more than 10 million geo-tagged, or locationbased, tweets and scanning them for their use of “happy” and “sad” words.

They found that people living on the West Coast or in the New England area used positive words more frequently than those in the Southeast. Hawaii was ranked as the happiest state in the country, while Louisiana was the saddest, according to the study.

The study also ranked individual cities. Napa, Calif., had the highest number of positive tweets. Beaumont, Texas, was the most depressed, based on average word choice, according to the study.

“We created a list of the 50,000 most commonly used words online, and then asked users of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to score the top 10,000 of those words on a scale from 1 (sad) to 9 (happy),” said Lewis Mitchell, the study’s lead author, in an email.

They then compiled these scores to come up with an average happiness scale called The Language Assessment, Mitchell said. The study described this scale as a “hedonometer.”

The words classified as happy ranged from descriptive

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adjectives like “nice” and “beautiful,” to objects such as “rainbow,” “wine” and “beach.” Words that were deemed negative included “hate,” “smoke,” and “traffic,” as well as an array of swear words, according to the study.

“It’s interesting that both wine and family popped up in the study,” said Clay Gregory, CEO of Visit Napa Valley, the city with highest number of happy tweets, in an email.

“Over 95% of our wineries are family-owned, so I think that sense of community and quality and dedication is really woven into the fabric of who we are.”

Using Twitter’s “garden hose” feed, a service that allows access to 10 percent of all public statuses, Mitchell and his team sifted through tweets in search of the words listed on the scale. Each tweet was sent from a cell phone where the user had elected to share their location. Researchers created an algorithm to determine which locations had the most positive and negative tweets.

“I think that, in general, tools like this and the ‘big data’ approach of looking at unusual data sources such as Twitter can give us unique and real-time insights into cities and geographies,” Mitchell said.

The team of researchers compared its results with existing measures of factors such as socioeconomic status and obesity. It discovered that wealthier areas generally produced happier tweets than places with more poverty.

Also, they found obesity rates were higher in unhappier cities, according to the study.

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Some critics have suggested that the context of the tweeted words could cause inaccurate results. For example, if someone had sarcastically tweeted, “I love getting parking tickets,” that tweet would contain the positive word “love.”

This was a common criticism, Mitchell said. To provide the best results, the study avoided particularly short tweets.

“We deliberately want to remove ourselves from the experiment and not make any judgments about the context or ‘meaning’ of any of these sentences,” he said.

But they did occasionally remove the names of states and cities to ensure they did not affect results. One example listed in the study said Hawaii’s state initials, HI, could be mistaken for the word “Hi,” which is listed on the happiness scale as a positive word, Mitchell said.

“We had to cut out a few words from each collection of tweets, such as the names of states and cities, as these were biasing the results somewhat,” Mitchell said.

He said because the study was conducted on such a large scale, any problems caused by out-of-context words were minor, and did not affect results as a whole. He said the team compared its results with those from earlier experiments and found they were in agreement.

Said Mitchell: “They certainly tell a consistent story, and relate well to underlying social, economic and health factors such as those above.” ecwozny@syr.edu

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be a significant policy change of how college assaults are handled since the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990 and the Campus Sexual Assault Victim’s Bill of Rights of 1992, according to a Feb. 19 article by The Huffington Post.

“Incidences like these are far too common to go unnoticed.”

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executive director of Vera House

“Creators of the SaVE Act worked with colleges across the country to try and come up with a better language about the prevalent issue that is campus sexual assault,” said Randi Bregman, executive director of the Vera House, a domestic and sexual violence service agency based in Syracuse. “The natural result of improved dialogue on these issues is better reporting.”

The SaVE Act would attempt to teach disciplinary officials how to better respond to sexual assault incidences through annual training. It would also require that crime reports include instances of stalking and domestic violence.

Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety currently includes stalking and domestic violence in its documented incidents of sexual assault, according to its Campus Safety brochure. The SaVE Act would require safety departments, such as DPS, to build upon current procedures by providing victims of stalking and domestic violence access to the same resources as victims of other sexual assault incidences.

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At least 75 cases of sexual assault were reported on college campuses within the first six weeks of the current academic year, according to a survey of media reports by The Huffington Post. Still, many instances continue to go unreported. More than 54 percent of incidents of sexual assault went unreported between 2006-2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s website.

Universities are currently required to take action once a sexual assault is reported and provide resources for victims, but are not obligated to provide a prevention policy, according to The Huffington Post article. To increase awareness of sexual assault among students, the SaVE Act would require schools to hold informational prevention programs for all incoming students and new employees.

“By going beyond traditional risk reduction alone and covering primary prevention, consent, bystander intervention and reporting options, we will begin to change the culture of tolerance for sexual violence and the silence that surrounds it,” said S. Daniel Carter, director of Public Policy for Security on Campus, Inc., in a Sep. 19 article by The Huffington Post.

Bregman, director of the Vera House, said the SaVE Act would directly address the misconceptions about sexual assault on college campuses. The SaVE Act may also help improve elements of trust between a victim and legal officials.

“Once this act is passed, I think we will definitely see a lot more improvement in how these instances are reported,” Bregman said. “It’s really important that people know that a safe environment exists to hold defenders accountable.” apalme05@syr.edu

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the sweet stuff in the middle

The moment I started, the butterflies vanished.

Performing is something I take pride in and I’m great at.

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chase gaewski | photo editor (TOP AND LEFT) DOMINIQUE KING AND CINEVE GIBBONS , members of the Black Reign step team, practice a routine with other members in Hendricks Chapel. Black Reign is the only co-ed and non-greek affiliate step team on campus.

Step it up Black Reign prepares for upcoming dance, celebrates camaraderie of group

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he curtains closed. Antonya Jeffrey breathed deeply, taking in one of the most fulfilling moments of her life. It was the end of her first performance with her step team, Black Reign.

“From that moment, I immediately felt a connection to my teammates that became long-lasting,” said Jeffrey, public relations chair of Black Reign and junior communication and rhetorical studies major.

For Jeffrey, stepping is a form of expression that luxuriates in the physicality of movement. It helps her communicate by harmoniously combining the vigor of the steps with the fluidity of the sound produced. It’s her passion, and it has allowed her to pro-

duce the perfect equilibrium between he r classes and practice schedule.

The team’s most recent video, “The Power of Stepping,” which was produced by Syracuse University, received more than 1,405 views on YouTube in its first week. The team’s routines are exuberant modern dance pieces set to beats, produced essentially by foot and handwork.

The routine featured in the YouTube video will be performed again on March 29 at the Goldstein Auditorium in celebration of the group’s seventh anniversary. The routine showcases the neat, almost obsessive orderliness and control of step dancing, which clashes with the groups’ delight in physical profligacy.

The urge to step led some students to form Black Reign in the spring of

2005, Jeffrey explained, adding it was the only non-greek step team on campus. Active greek step teams include Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Beta Sigma, Iota Phi Theta and Omega Psi Phi, according to the OrgSync website.

Stepping is unique to African-American dance, which originated by combining military close-order and exhibition drills and African foot dances.

Stage routines and movements of popular rhythm and blues groups such as The Temptations and The Four Tops also heavily influenced the dance style, according to “Soulstepping: African American Step Shows,” written by Elizabeth Fine.

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Social media rejuvenates job search

By Leanna Garfield STAFF WRITER

Now hiring: full-time tweeter.

An increasing number of Syracuse University graduates are being hired for social media as professional tweeters and Facebookers — and they’re getting paid to do it.

John Burke, a 2012 alumnus, said he always knew he wanted to work in the aviation industry. He admired JetBlue Airways’ social media presence, and reached out to their Twitter handle to discuss aviation news and job postings. In one tweet, Burke mentioned he aspired to be an airline CEO. Then David Barger, the CEO of JetBlue, tweeted at him.

“Talk about the most stressful 140 characters of my life,” Burke said.

Barger asked how he could help, and connected Burke with JetBlue’s vice president of talent, Bonny Simi. Burke and Simi corresponded through email, and she invited him for a tour of the building and “informal informational interview.”

“When I came to visit and met some of the leaders, I was able to show my enthusiasm and knowledge of JetBlue,” he said.

A week later, Simi offered Burke an internship as her coordinator and special projects manager.

Currently, 429 SU alumni have the words “social media” in their current job title on LinkedIn. Also the 40th most popular skill on LinkedIn, social media has experienced an annual increase of 33 percent.

SU students and graduates are not just landing jobs in social media – employers are also using it to recruit them. In 2012, companies used social media for more than 80 percent of job openings, Ventana Research reported.

Ninety-eight percent of recruiters used LinkedIn to hire candidates, with a 94.5 percent success rate. Nearly half used Twitter.

Carly Getz, a senior public relations and marketing major, said she uses social media to network. She works at Blue Highway Inc., a subsidiary of SU, as a digital marketing intern. She manages Blue Highway’s social media accounts, publishing health and technology-related content.

“People who are blindly applying to jobs are doing the wrong thing,” she said.

Kim Brown, the assistant director of alumni programs and a consultant at SU Career Services, frequently tweets jobs to students and encourages them to brand themselves through social media.

Her Twitter handle, @kimincuse, has more than 4,000 followers.

“I’ve had some of my online followers come up to me and yell, ‘Kim in ‘Cuse! It’s so nice to meet you in real life!’ Everyone knows me by my Twitter handle,” she said.

Brown, who also teaches a broadcast and digital journalism course at SU, said she wishes students would learn how to use social media responsibly.

“Engaging a diverse audience of students, faculty, alumni, sports fans, other schools and potential students was extremely challenging.

It took us some time to develop a voice and learn to handle some sensitive topics and situations when they came up.”

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“I learn way too much about my students’ Halloween plans from their public Twitter accounts,” she said.

Businesses are starting to understand the importance and profitability of social media, especially because it costs nearly nothing.

Phil Mackey, a sports columnist and reporter for “The Reusse & Mackey Show” on 1500 ESPN Twin Cities radio, works closely with the social media team for Hubbard

Broadcasting. His company is currently looking to hire a full-time social media strategist. He said the radio industry worries about staying relevant in a digital age.

“Ten years ago, the only radio options in your car were local AM and FM stations,” he said. “In 2013, I have the ability to listen to SiriusXM in my car, as well as any other radio station in the country, just by using Bluetooth connectivity and iPhone applications.”

He believes branding through social media will increase the fan base of 1500 ESPN Twin Cities radio. His sales staff uses social media to attract new clients by searching for local businesses that follow Mackey.

Most small businesses use social media to increase brand recognition and modernize customer service.

“Companies have this unbelievable ability to see what customers are saying about their products, and they need to manage that,” Brown said.

When John Burke was a student, he worked for #44Social, the social media team at SU. He said he quickly learned that his tweets represented an entire university.

“Engaging a diverse audience of students, faculty, alumni, sports fans, other schools and potential students was extremely challenging,” he said. “It took us some time to develop a voice and learn to handle some sensitive topics and situations when they came up.”

As networks continue to grow, Mackey believes social media will not only serve as an identity of a company, but also of an individual. Both Burke and Getz anticipate it will become more difficult for students to stand out to employers.

Whether on or offline, Burke believes it is important to be authentic.

Said Burke: “Post interesting articles relevant to your industry. Follow and engage with people at companies you admire. If they are receptive and come to your profile and see that you’re not just begging for a job, but just being yourself, it will speak volumes about you.” lmgarfie@syr.edu

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The final weekend in February is typically an uneventful one for the movies, and this weekend was no exception. This weekend’s top grosser was holdover “Identity Thief,” followed by newcomer “Snitch.” Given the unenthusiastic weekend at the box office, a preview for next weekend’s much more exciting slate includes the highly anticipated “Jack the Giant Slayer.”

A quick overview of this weekend shows “Identity Thief” in its third week regaining the top spot with $14 million. The film has already grossed more than $93 million domestically, which is impressive considering it only cost $35 million to produce. What is especially noteworthy is that by Friday, the film will become the first in 2013 to surpass the $100 million mark.

Not bad for a thief.

Capturing the second spot was newcomer “Snitch,” which collected $13 million. There is not much to say about the film, other than that it stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Perhaps he should stick with family movies and ensemble-based films, rather than venturing out into a solo lead role.

Now, onto next weekend’s most anticipated

film: Warner Bros.’ “Jack the Giant Slayer.”

Ever since Disney struck gold in 2010 with “Alice in Wonderland,” grossing more than $1 billion, rival studios have been following suit with the hope of adapting popular children’s tales into box office behemoths.

Sure, there was slight success in Universal’s “Snow White and the Huntsman” last summer, but just look at the fizzling results of other fairytale adaptations. There was Warner Bros.’

“Red Riding Hood” in 2011, Relativity’s “Mirror Mirror” last March and Paramount’s “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” last month, all of which failed to resonate with audiences. Given the trend of struggling fairytale adaptations at the box office, it will be interesting to see how Warner Bros.’ “Jack the Giant Slayer” performs next weekend.

With a production budget of $195 million, the film is a huge risk for Warner Bros.

While the studio has marketed the film heavily, the problem is that the film’s target market is ambiguous. Though “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a fabled story, one has to wonder whether this film adaptation is a family movie or adult-centered fantasy-action,

which can easily affect the film’s gross. In order for a film to be successful, it needs to clearly identify itself beforehand.

Another reason why “Jack the Giant Slayer” will likely not do well at its opening next weekend is because of Disney’s $200 million epic, “Oz the Great and Powerful,” which opens in two weeks. These two films are in clear competition with one another, and there is a low chance audiences will be more excited to see “Jack the Giant Slayer” in its second weekend than they will seeing “Oz the Great and Powerful” its opening weekend. Thus, it appears Warner Bros. will be facing a similar situation to last year’s Disney disaster, “John Carter,” which had a production budget of $250 million and only made $30 million its opening weekend.

If this is the case with “Jack the Giant Slayer” next weekend, Warner Bros. might need to throw away their magic beans and take out their checkbooks to write off this disaster.

— Written by Ian Tecklin, staff writer, ijteckli@syr.edu

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ohn McClane is one beloved action hero who should’ve stayed retired. Sadly, with the last two “Die Hard” sequels, he’s joined fellow aging icons Rocky, Rambo and Indiana Jones, still shooting and punching way past their prime.

“A Good Day to Die Hard” waters down the classic Bruce Willis franchise with a lazily uninspired plot, hollow dialogue, overblown action and implausible stunts. Throwing in a token “Yipee ki-yay motherf***er” doesn’t magically fix a crap movie.

The series pulls a “Rocky IV” and drags our hero to Moscow to help his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney), who has been arrested for

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murder. The humor relies heavily on fish-out-ofwater Americanisms, like McClane butchering Russian translations while the taxi driver sings Frank Sinatra in a heavy accent.

McClane catches up with Jack just in time to botch his carefully orchestrated escape with political prisoner Yuri Komarov (Sebastian Koch) after an explosion during their trial. It turns out that Jack’s fine — he’s a CIA agent and Dad just blew a three-year operation.

Komarov and the McClanes find themselves on the run from an army of Russian mercenaries with machine guns and helicopters as they track down a “secret file.” Naturally, there’s some corrupt Russian bureaucrat named Viktor Chagarin (Sergei Kolesnikov) behind the terroristic plot, which involves a stockpile of weaponized uranium, but he’s barely given enough face time to matter.

Amid the running, jumping and shooting is a forced father-son bonding narrative, as John and Jack reconnect mostly through gruff oneliners and shrugs.

“A Good Day” overcompensates with more big explosions, chase sequences and shootouts than some of the other “Die Hard” movies, but these Russian thugs are child’s play for McClane. The plot feigns urgency and relevance, and its “big twist” is utterly predictable.

Even the Chernobyl-set climax tries too hard.

The film’s shortcomings start with the villains; these dull Russians are walking stereotypes. There’s the tattooed, muscle-bound brute, the devious femme fatale and the cocky bad guy blurting lines like, “You know what I hate about Americans? Everything, especially cowboys.”

The unconvincing evil mastermind pales in comparison to icons like Hans and Simon Gruber. His weak personality is strung together with clichés like “Goddamn Americans think they’re so smart.” He tells the McClanes, “You’re out of your jurisdiction,” right before Jack hurls him to a grisly death by helicopter blade.

OK, that part was funny.

But Jack McClane’s personality is as empty as the villain’s. Courtney’s acting is all intense stares, imitated Willis mannerisms and grunting dialogue. They act alike and stand in matching poses, guns slung over their shoulders, but the relationship has no deeper resonance.

Willis’ performance is more of a caricature of John McClane than genuine acting. In “Die Hard,” the feds were bumbling idiots and

McClane was the smart guy. But this time, he barrels into an active CIA mission cracking lines like, “Let’s go out and kill all the scumbags,” and “We’re not gonna die today.”

The newer sequels paint McClane as some kind of invincible superhero, but he started out as a normal guy. He’s lost that identifiable everyman quality that once made him great.

By the end of “Die Hard,” he was half dead, riddled by bullets with glass shards in his feet. In “A Good Day,” he’s rammed head-on by a truck, avoids a fiery explosion by hiding behind a flimsy cardboard box and

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jumps out of several tall buildings. Then, the 57-year-old simply dusts himself off and walks away with a few scratches.

“A Good Day to Die Hard” doesn’t feel genuine. It’s a cold, gray stunt-fest more reminiscent of “Taken.” When McClane’s ringtone plays the “Ode to Joy” theme from “Die Hard” amid an excessive car chase, it symbolizes just how far the series has fallen. rjmarvin@syr.edu

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s a psychology minor, I find it fascinating that childhood behavior can give researchers an in-depth look at predicting behavior in adulthood.

For example, as a child, I was obsessed with the computer game, “The Sims.” Even at an early age, I was a control freak, and this real life simulation game was the perfect outlet.

The first step was to make my Sims. The female character would always mirror how I perceived grown-up Sarah to look: a tall redhead with big, brown eyes, the biggest boobs and tiniest waist available, all in a red, skintight jumpsuit. Super realistic.

Then, no matter what I did, my male counterpart always ended up looking like Aaron Carter – The 14-year-old Carter who was a prolific one-on-one basketball player, not the yucky, 25-year-old Carter who performed at The Westcott Theater last week.

(Side note: I actually had tickets to see him last week, but could not bring myself to go see him perform a song that wasn’t on “Aaron’s

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i put the “party” in pity party Party (Come Get It),” or see his blonde five o’clock shadow.)

Aaron and I would start our lives together with a few kids by building a home from scratch. I would buy a lot, use a cheat to get free money and build my customized fortress.

I needed to make space for the art room, music room, learning room, gym, pool, game room, garden, special sex room with the vibrating bed, and the pet’s room. I don’t know how Sims lived like that.

Once my house was perfect, my Sims would receive their schedules — my life is not all fun and games, so neither should my

Sims’ lives. Their schedules were a perfect balance of work and play. The children had to read a book, play the piano and go to the gym before they could watch television or play the pinball machine.

This would work out for a while, until eventually, the children would start to resist.

“Meed boo ra ka!” they would yell at me.

“Sorry,” I would say. “You can’t pee until you master this Bach piece.”

“Be meed doo ra ka tuu me” “Nope.”

Eventually, they would get so frustrated they’d pee themselves, right in front of the grand piano. This was gross, so as punishment, they’d go to bed without dinner.

They never learned their lesson and kept resisting their perfectly balanced schedules.

Once, one of my misbehaving Sims burnt his meal and started a kitchen fire. In my “panic,” I accidentally deleted the doors so he couldn’t get out. Whoops.

Soon, he was complaining of hunger, pee-

ing on himself and failing school so badly that he spun, magically obtained a uniform and was sent off to military school.

“Serves you right,” I thought.

Then his sister, who was doing so well and even training a puppy, started to resist.

No matter how hard I tried, she would not stop complaining about reading a book before she watched television. So, I put her in the pool and took away the ladder. When the Grim Reaper came to play rock, paper, scissors, I told her dad to lose on purpose — he did.

No matter how many times I drowned my Sims or deleted their door during a kitchen fire, they still would not listen to me.

Actually, you know what? I take back what I said about using childhood behavior to predict adult personalities. Forget everything, actually. Behavior psychology is kind of dumb and inaccurate science, don’t you think? Sometimes kids are just being kids.

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and precision,” said Ivy Rene’e, junior public health major and vice president of the team.

The team holds two major rounds of auditions: one in the spring and one in the fall, Rene’e said, adding that the team gains maximum momentum in the fall with incoming freshmen. The audition is broken down into three categories. Each participant is taught a routine in each of the categories, and is asked to perform as a group or solo, Rene’e said.

“The last round is the final dance, which ultimately decides the fate of the participant,” Rene’e said.

“Black Reign has grown over the years and is finally making strides in their goal, which is to create awareness on campus and educate people on the art of stepping.”

Ashley Holland

JUNIOR CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES MAJOR

Rene’e said she developed some of her tightest bonds with members of the group. One of these close friends was Ashley Holland, a junior child and family studies major.

The first time she performed, Holland was an excited but nervous freshman. It was at the homecoming showcase, and she was about to perform before hundreds of people, sparking in her a curiosity and thrill for what was to happen next.

“The moment I started, the butterflies vanished. Performing is something I take pride in and that I’m great at,” Holland said.

To be able to produce it, it is important that one experiences it, explained Holland, saying the Black Reign team meets at least four times a week to practice their craft.

Another aspect of Black Reign that sets it apart from other campus step teams is

chase gaewski | photo editor (FROM LEFT) DANIELLE MCCOY, DOMINIQUE KING AND JOSEPH MEDINA practice with other members of the Black Reign step team in preparation for their upcoming showcase on March 19in Goldstein Auditorium. The group was founded in the spring. that it is the only co-ed step team on campus.

For Holland, her love for her team, which she describes as her own family, has grown during her time at SU, and has developed into support and love for one another.

“Black Reign has grown over the years and is finally making strides in their goal, which is to create awareness on campus and educate people on the art of stepping,” Holland said.

She said it is the ideal fit for students who are passionate about stepping or possess interest

or skill in the art of dance, and that the most important thing in this process is commitment.

She also said that it is an art, which requires time, patience and work to develop.

For Holland, the art of stepping is one that requires the dancer to love the process and embody it in order to experience it fully.

Said Holland: “It’s never hard to balance anything that one has a passion for, one puts in the work by any means necessary. That’s the kind of love I have for step.” edparekh@syr.edu

STEP BY STEP A dance style known for isolating complicated rhythms by mixing stomping, slapping different parts of the body and spoken word, the art of stepping can be traced to a combination of dance styles, including military drill, tap dance, gymnastics and African dance.

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Syracuse looks to eliminate 2nd-half woes against ‘Nova

By David Wilson ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

When the Orange led going into halftime, it would come away with a win.

That assumption was nearly as safe as the one that said Syracuse would come away with victory when it played in the Carrier Dome.

Just once this year, SU lost a game Who: Villanova it led at halftime Where: Carrier Dome — a Dec. 2 nonconWhen: Saturday, 3 p.m. ference showdown with Temple.

Until Saturday. Since then, the Orange has held two halftime leads. Both games SU has lost.

“It’s just about maintaining” what his team does in the first half, SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “I think that basketball’s a game of runs, and obviously, when you’re playing a team that can score the basketball in bunches, you have to be able to sustain those runs.”

For the past week, No. 22 Syracuse (22-5, 12-4 Big East) has twice held control of what would have been a statement road win. Instead of adding a pair of marquee victories, the Orange remains searching for one as it looks to put an end to its second-half collapses against Villanova (18-9, 7-7) in the Dome on Saturday at 3 p.m.

It also provides an opportunity to avenge a Jan. 26 loss to the Wildcats, another missed opportunity for a marquee victory.

“Every game’s important, whether it’s a ranked

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team or not, I think it’s just important to win your home games,” Hillsman said. “I know that our RPI’s high and I know that we scheduled tough.”

It’s that same mentality SU hopes will pull it out of its second-half doldrums. For much of the season, it’s been the first half in which the Orange has exhibited sloppiness, culminating with an abysmal 15-point first half against Rutgers.

Those problems, though, appear to be solved.

Syracuse jumped out to 13- and 15- point leads against South Florida and No. 2 Notre Dame, respectively, and led both teams at halftime.

Now it’s the second halves that are the issue.

The solution that kept SU consistent this season, Carmen Tyson-Thomas said, is doing, “the same thing night in and night out.” When Syracuse is defending well and making good decisions, it’s near unstoppable. But replicating that for 40 minutes has been a problem.

“Coach constantly reminds us that those are things we need to do,” the SU guard said, “and we need to make tougher plays.”

Returning home, though, may help the Orange kick its slump. Syracuse remains unbeaten –12-0 – in the Dome this season. On Saturday, the Orange staged a second-half comeback of its own after being down four at the half against the Scarlet Knights.

When it’s played poorly for stretches in the Dome, it’s paired that with enough runs of good play to tilt the game back in SU’s favor.

“Not going to lie,” Syracuse center Kayla

allie berube | video editor CARMEN TYSON-THOMAS and the Orange have blown two second-half leads in the last week. SU will look to establish and maintain a lead against Villanova on Saturday.

Alexander said, “it’s always nice coming back home and playing in front of your home crowd in your home gym.”

Before the Orange’s first matchup with the Wildcats this season, Hillsman said Villanova is the toughest team to prepare for in the conference. The Wildcats play at one of the slowest paces in the nation – their 57.8 points per game ranks 255th in the country. Their 51.4 points allowed per game is good for No. 11.

But the keys remain the same. SU has a game plan it sticks to every game: Work the ball to

Alexander and force turnovers on defense, as long as it executes that it can play as well as it has during its best stretches.

Now SU has to worry about how it can react.

Until recently, Syracuse hasn’t had to get used to conceding these second-half comebacks. And with two games left, there’s not much time left to adjust.

“It’s just about being able to respond to some of these runs,” Hillsman said, “and we’ll do a better job of that the next couple weeks.” dbwilson@syr.edu @DBWilson2

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Long road trip continues for SU in Orlando for Citrus Classic

By Jesse Dougherty STAFF WRITER

When the 2013 regular season ends for Syracuse, it will have played 38 games. Only 10 of them will have been at home.

The team begins its season with 20 road games spread out over three weekends, plus a Spring Break trip to Hawaii.

Who: Louisiana State The Orange (4-5) Where: Orlando has already travWhen: Friday, 1:15 p.m. eled to Charleston, S.C., Palm Springs, Calif., and has trips to Orlando, Fla., and Honolulu, Hawaii, in the coming weeks.

This weekend, the team makes a trip to Orlando for the Citrus Classic, where it will meet Louisiana State, Boston College, Longwood, Texas and Mississippi State, starting with the

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attack monster that was the Thompsons — the Orange failed. Sunday’s 6-2 victory over Army was the product of holding Garret Thul and John Glesener to one combined goal.

Virginia’s visit to the Dome promises much more in a full-field clash unlike any SU has seen this season.

“It’s definitely going to be more of a challenge,” Syracuse midfielder Scott Loy said.

A meeting between teams that prefer a purer

Tigers on Friday at 1:15 p.m. After going 1-4 at the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic last weekend, the team is looking to get on track. The time on the road is bringing the Orange together, but it doesn’t have it all figured out just yet.

“I think that any time you travel as a team, you get closer,” SU head coach Leigh Ross said.

“You really bond once you start traveling.

You’re on the bus for hours, in hotel rooms, eat meals together and you get to learn a lot about one another.”

Aside from the softball and downtime, Ross uses rooming assignments to bring her team closer together. The players are given new roommates each trip, allowing girls of all positions, ages and backgrounds to get to know one another.

Senior center fielder Veronica Grant has experienced it for the last four years. She sees

the team’s adaptation to all the traveling as a process that simply takes time.

“I think at the beginning, we’re slow to get used to it,” Grant said. “But I think after that, we get in the swing of things knowing what’s coming up next, especially the underclassmen.”

At this point of the season, traveling has presented the Orange with two problems. First, life on the road is taking a physical toll on the team. Ross said she sees every year that, as the team moves deeper into its schedule, its overall stamina slightly wavers.

To keep the team in shape, coaches hold workouts on the road, get the players to bed on time and let them catch up on sleep when they have games later in the day.

“It’s hard to travel and then come back to Syracuse and go right to practice sometimes,” SU first baseman Jasmine Watson said. “Our

bodies just get tired. We aren’t necessarily tired, but our bodies are.”

The second problem the team is facing is a lack of consistent leadership. After losing seven seniors at the end of last season, the Orange is a less experienced team than it was a year ago.

As the season moves on, no players want the team to sink into mediocrity. As the Orange continues to tune up for conference play, which begins March 29, the time for players to step up is now.

“We’ve got some kids that need to pick it up and grab those leadership roles, because we have a lot of people sitting back and waiting for others to step up,” Ross said. “But playerfor-player, we can stand with any team in the country, it’s just a matter of them believing that and gaining the necessary experience.”

attacking style does not guarantee high scores, though, as both teams boast experienced defenses.

Before Tuesday’s practice, SU assistant coach Kevin Donahue stood next to head coach John Desko, leaning in and showing Desko UVA’s slide packages to figure out how the Orange can free up goal-scorers. Virginia is quick to slide on defense, Donahue said. It can get away with it and recover because the unit is big, fast and full of veteran savvy.

The Orange is preparing for an open game, Donahue said. In the half-field, SU will look to attack the Cavaliers’ defense with its size in players like Cometti and Derek Maltz, while

sticking to its normal attacking principles of width and quick ball movement.

Because UVA is so quick to slide, Loy said he expects to prepare with an emphasis on making two passes after the dodge.

with each other and then you each just sort of have to earn everything you’re going to get in the half-field against their defense.”

UVA plans to attack the Orange in transition as often as possible. Van Arsdale singled out Megill and Mullins – each at least 6 feet, 1 inch and 210 pounds – as players his team has little hope of running past in any controlled setting.

The 31-goal SU-Albany game was an exercise in full-throttle offensive chaos at times. And while both sides expect an open game Friday night, Van Arsdale recalls marveling at the Thompsons’ ball control. His team had to take that approach, not the raw dodging tactic Army did.

“To attack that Syracuse team, you need to be good off the ball because it’s going to be hard to just slug it out and run by somebody with the people that they have playing on defense,” Van Arsdale said.

Yet for all of the video analysis, known defensive talent and game planning factored into the respective staffs’ preparation, the game is more than liable to run its own unpredictable course Friday night. True to the nature of SU-UVA, this week’s matchup will be a player’s game.

“For whatever reason, it’s always taken on a life of its own at some point,” Van Arsdale said. “ … So you might look at it and say it could end up being a relatively low-scoring game, but I throw those things out the window when it comes to this one, because when both teams start flying around, sort of anything can happen.”

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The Cavaliers see a similar problem regarding how to attack the Orange. Van Arsdale scouted SU’s season-opener against Albany in the Dome and, despite the 16 goals conceded, he was impressed by the uncompromising athleticism of the Orange defense.

“They’re big and athletic, but also move their feet very well, and so they’re able to put pressure on you without getting run by consistently,” Van Arsdale said. “And I think being a veteran group, they’re pretty well-coordinated

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Greco, Carrie-Mattimoe score in last career game at Tennity

By Jacob Klinger ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

In the opening five minutes, Syracuse appeared slow by the emotion of the occasion. Skating onto the ice at Tennity Ice Pavilion for the last game with seniors and captains Holly CarrieMattimoe and Jacquie SYRACUSE 4 Greco, the Orange played LINDENWOOD 1 energized, but uncontrolled.

But before the six-minute mark, Kaillie Goodnough ripped a slapshot from inside the left corner of the zone. When the puck rebounded and trickled across the crease, Sadie St. Germain pounced to put SU ahead.

Determined, SU took hold en route to a 4-1 victory in front of 115 on Senior Night. SU’s (1914-1, 13-6-1 College Hockey America) inability to bag a second goal briefly brought back unsettling anxiety before the Orange outpassed, outshot and outplayed the visiting Lions (7-24-3, 7-10-3 CHA), sending the seniors out in style and getting both of their names on the score sheet.

“I feel like the whole game was almost a dream,” Carrie-Mattimoe said. “It’s exciting obviously, but also it’s really sad to play the last game, so I can’t really remember – I was seriously in a haze the whole game.”

She did, however, remember the matchup’s decisive sequence.

On the power play, Brittney Krebs worked the puck to Cara Johnson on the bleacher-side

boards. Johnson passed to Carrie-Mattimoe in the left corner. She crossed to Shiann Darkangelo, lurking on the crease. The sophomore forward buried her chance to restore the SU lead 2-1.

Darkangelo’s tally made the game SU’s, and ensured the Orange would use the ribbons and balloons that littered the locker room pre-game.

The Orange controlled the first period after St. Germain’s opener, but by the midway point of the second period, the Lions were running the show. Regardless of whom SU head coach Paul Flanagan sent out, LU dug in and scrapped SU back into its own half.

After Julie Knerr’s wraparound pass went unfinished, LU’s Caitlyn Post split the ice, breaking past Johnson and shooting into Billadeau. Kendra Broad put the rebound in top shelf to tie the game at one.

“We’ve had a problem all year playing 60 minutes, and I think it showed in the second period,” Carrie-Mattimoe said. “But I think we got our focus back going into the third knowing we had to come out with a win.”

With each of her teammates coming out of the locker room wearing “15” and “7” written in marker on their wrists, Carrie-Mattimoe led the Orange onto the ice for the third period. In her haze, she circled to her left toward her own goal, then peeled back to her right wobbling her head back and forth. Joined by her teammates at the blue line, she loosened into a dance.

stacie fanelli | staff photographer HOLLY CARRIE-MATTIMOE turns in the right corner in SU’s 4-1 Senior Night win over Lindenwood. She and fellow senior Jacquie Greco each delivered a third-period goal.

Six minutes later, she was celebrating Greco’s goal. Family and friends exploded off of the bleachers and onto the glass.

Less than 10 minutes later, Darkangelo made good on a Senior Night promise to return the favor of her early goal to Carrie-Mattimoe. She squared the puck for the senior at the left circle, and the forward sniped her wrist shot in the high left-hand corner.

“For these seniors … we’ve got a little bit of tradition of passing the torch with our leadership,” Flanagan said. “We’ve finally had some kids that have been here for four years and they’ve learned.”

At about 9:15 p.m., the ice was empty for Carrie-Mattimoe and Greco. With Carrie-Mattimoe under her right arm, Greco raised her stick,

bearing Carrie-Mattimoe’s No. 7 on her own wrist to the crowd. Carrie-Mattimoe did the same with her right hand, and they both absorbed the cheers and applause before walking off of the Tennity ice together for the last time.

They’ll practice again there for the next week and a half ahead of the CHA semifinals, but the building won’t look the same.

“No, not at all,” a watery-eyed Carrie-Mattimoe said. “ … It’s really different to think about being game day and being practice. I definitely will miss that. I’ll miss the atmosphere in the locker room before games. I’m going to miss a lot of things about having game days here.” jmklinge@syr.edu @MrJacobK

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Orange offense clicks in opening, closing frames of 4-1 romp against LU

By Bryan Rubin STAFF WRITER

The Orange is not usually known for scoring pretty goals, but its poised offensive attack was on display in the team’s regular-season finale.

Shiann Darkangelo scored on the power play and seniors Holly Carrie-Mattimoe and Jacquie Greco scored for the Orange as Syracuse (19-141, 13-6-1 College Hockey America) cruised to a 4-1 victory over Lindenwood (7-24-3, 7-10-3) on Wednesday night.

While the Orange offense was clicking across the board, it was the pressure it put on Lindenwood that created its scoring chances.

“I thought our 2-3 forecheck worked really well and showed on the scoreboard,” Greco said. “We had a lot more chances and buried those chances.”

In Tuesday’s game, head coach Paul Flanagan felt that when his team was passing the puck back to its blue line, the pairing

was too close together. When the defensemen shot the puck, it would just get jammed into someone’s pads.

But on Wednesday, the Syracuse defensemen did a better job spreading out so the Lindenwood forwards had trouble packing it in near the middle of the zone.

On SU’s third power play of the night in the second period, the team capitalized on tic-tactoe passing – starting from the blue line.

Cara Johnson held the puck on the boards and fed Brittney Krebs at the point. Krebs then fired a pass down to Carrie-Mattimoe in the near corner. The senior captain then quickly slid the puck to the slot where Darkangelo redirected it into the net past goaltender Nicole Hensley’s low blocker side.

“I am in the middle on the power play and we were just trying to move it around the top so I could open up,” Darkangelo said. “The goalie ended up going right and I redirected

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the puck left.”

Darkangelo’s goal gave the Orange a 2-1 lead, and ended up being the game-winning goal. But SU wasn’t satisfied with just a onegoal lead.

After losing the previous night’s contest by one goal, the Orange was determined to avoid another close, late-game battle.

At 6:17 in the third period, Margot Scharfe lined up for a faceoff to the right of Hensley. She cleanly won the draw back to Greco. With no hesitation, Greco skated to the right and fired a wrist shot. The puck traveled through several players and ultimately went untouched into the back of the net.

“That was a low shot that kind of had eyes,” said Flanagan. “It just found its way in.”

In the locker room, Darkangelo told CarrieMattimoe she was going to set her up for a goal in her final home game.

Nearly nine minutes later, Darkangelo did

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just that as Syracuse’s offense struck again.

After receiving a pass in the neutral zone from Darkangelo, Carrie-Mattimoe skated into the zone and fired a wrist shot from the left side over Hensley’s glove and into the net.

Although this was her 39th career goal, this one was different.

“I just wanted to get it on net and luckily, somehow it was a snipe,” Carrie-Mattimoe said.

“I don’t usually do that but I guess a little luck was on my side tonight.”

While Flanagan hopes his team will keep the goals coming when it takes on either RIT or Penn State in the upcoming CHA playoff semifinals, he is proud of the way his team ended the regular season.

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though, she wasn’t receiving much attention from Division-I soccer coaches. But plenty of Division-I lacrosse coaches were taking notice.

Rutgers and Penn State expressed interest in bringing Tumolo to their programs, in addition to Syracuse. Atop the list of interested schools, though, was Northwestern, one of the best lacrosse programs in the country. During that time, the Wildcats were going on a dominant run of seven championships in eight years.

But Conklin said she knew Syracuse would be a better fit.

Gait said he appreciated Tumolo’s diverse lacrosse skills, while her parents think he saw a little of himself in her.

“Gary lets her play around a little bit, they’re both exciting players,” Tumolo’s mother Carol said. “She’s always felt very comfortable around him from the first moment she met him.”

That helped lead Tumolo to Syracuse. While Northwestern’s status as an elite program attracted her, the distance from her hometown of Mullica Hill, N.J., was a concern. A more than 12-hour drive to Chicago was too long.

Tumolo and her parents made an official visit to Syracuse during her junior year. She fell in love with the atmosphere of the Carrier Dome and the location. She also felt comfortable with the team, including the coaching staff.

She signed her Letter of Intent to play for the Orange in November 2008.

The biggest selling point for Tumolo and her mother was the creativity Gait would allow her to play with on the field. Tumolo had always played a free style of lacrosse.

Conklin remembers a play she made in a tight game with 10 seconds left in regulation.

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hand, grabbed the ball out of the air and scored.

It was one of the many seemingly impossible plays Tumolo always seemed to pull off.

Conklin believed Syracuse would bring even more out of her.

“She’s entertaining and unpredictable,” Conklin said. “You never know if it’s going to be a behind-the-back, a riser or if she’s going to pass it.”

Tumolo’s unpredictable style of play is what has made her a threat for the Orange.

In her freshman year, she notched singleseason records for the most points and assists for a freshman in Syracuse history. At the end of the season, Tumolo was also the nation’s second highest-scoring freshman with 74 goals.

Tumolo contributed to the Orange’s offense in her second game at SU. With a behind-the-back shot to extend the Syracuse lead, Tumolo helped the team to a 16-7 victory over Stanford.

Each season, Tumolo progressed quickly.

Sophomore year, she led the team in scoring and in her junior year, she was named the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association’s Attacker of the Year.

Her highest honor came later in the season, when she was named a Tewaarton Trophy finalist in 2012. Tumolo was one of five finalists for the award, which Maryland’s Katie Schwarzmann ultimately won.

But Tumolo isn’t focused on the award anymore. Her goal is to help Syracuse get back to the NCAA championship and bring the program its first national title.

After losing to Northwestern in the final, she didn’t let the loss cap what she describes as the best run of her life.

“UNC and Florida back to back will stick out in my head for the rest of my life,” Tumolo said. “Out of nowhere, we came with these comebacks and it was insane.”

In the quarterfinals against North Caro-

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In the semifinals, Tumolo orchestrated yet another comeback, leading Syracuse back from a seven-goal deficit to a 14-13 win in double overtime against No. 1 Florida.

Syracuse ended up losing 8-6 in the championship to Northwestern. Tumolo isn’t hung up about the loss. Instead, in her senior year, she took the offseason to perfect her craft and work

on her leadership role.

“She’s really got to know the freshmen and younger players,” Gait said. “That’s the kind of communication you need with the leaders on the team to make sure you’re successful.”

Since the first year Tumolo started playing lacrosse, she has always been one of the best.

Now, she hopes to win the national title SU missed out on last year. And she’ll be a major factor in Syracuse’s ability to do just that.

Said Gait: “We’re expecting her to lead our offense and be the type of player that, when we need big plays, she delivers.”

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luke rafferty | asst. photo editor MICHELLE TUMOLO has dominated on the lacrosse field since her freshman season, helping to establish SU as one of the nation’s premier programs. She didn’t start playing lacrosse until high school, but was a natural from the beginning.

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ichelle Tumolo had just started playing lacrosse, but she was already passing too hard. At a four-day all-girls lacrosse camp at Clearview Regional High School in New Jersey the summer before her freshman year, Tumolo caught on to the passing drill too quickly. Her partner couldn’t keep up.

Her coach, Megan Conklin, asked the left-handed Tumolo to pass with her right hand. That didn’t work. Her passes were still too strong.

“Just the way she held the stick I could tell she was athletic immediately,” Conklin said. “I turned to my assistant coach and said, ‘This girl is going to be amazing.

Mark my words.’”

About eight years later, Tumolo continues to back up Conklin’s premonition.

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nation, sitting on the Tewaaraton Trophy Watch list for the second straight year.

The Orange’s dominant attack led Syracuse to the national championship game last year, where it fell to Northwestern.

Now, she looks to bring the Orange back for another chance at winning it all.

Tumolo didn’t start playing organized lacrosse until her freshman year at Clearview. Until that point, she was a budding star on the soccer field. But Tumolo wanted a new, competitive challenge, and Clearview’s lacrosse program was in its initial stages. It presented the perfect opportunity for Tumolo.

“Lacrosse was something new,” Tumolo said. “I played soccer my whole life. I almost felt like I was tired of it even though I loved soccer, but I just liked something new.

“When I get something new in my life, like a sport, I just want to get really good at it and I wasn’t good at it.”

Tumolo immediately backed up Conklin’s promise. She shattered records in every statistical category throughout her four years of high school. She collected the most ground balls, had the most caused turnovers and won the most draw controls —records that, eight years later, Tumolo still holds at Clearview.

Tumolo garnered the attention of Syracuse head coach Gary Gait when she was only a sophomore. Gait saw Tumolo play for the first time at a camp and instantly saw her potential.

“She stood out as a player with unique stick skills,” Gait said. “I go after kids that developed that extra stick work, and she was lefty. That’s something that I look for.”

Even though she was excelling on the lacrosse field after only two years, Tumolo still thought she would stick with soccer.

Later into her high school career,

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Brian Megill, Brandon Mullins, Matt Pratt and Chris Daddio defending an offense consisting of JoJo Marasco, Luke Cometti, Jeff Desko and Kyle Henry. Bobby Wardwell scooped up quick shots, regardless of accuracy.

“Here you go, Bob,” long stick midfielder Joe Fazio shouted out as he sprinted up the sidelines, a player on either side of him, ready to start yet another 5-on-4.

Similar scenes are likely to play out Friday at 6 p.m. in the Dome, as the No. 16 Orange (1-1) hosts No. 6 Virginia (4-0).

“It maybe has the makings of being sort of an old-time Syracuse-Virginia lacrosse game,” UVA associate head coach Marc Van Arsdale said.

The rivals are known for playing fast, open lacrosse that, in the past, has lit up scoreboards. Anti-stall rule changes promise a return to the once-routine style, after the past few meetings have featured more measured approaches.

The Cavaliers represent SU’s sternest, most complete test of the season to date. Week one versus Albany was about containing the three-headed

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luke rafferty | asst. photo editor SCOTT LOY and the Orange will be in for a difficult task Friday when SU faces Virginia at 6 p.m.