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The greek community came together to make sandwiches for the Samaritan Center in the Schine Underground Sunday.

Alumnus Scott MacFarlane debuts a documentary on the history of WJPZ radio station.

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No. 4 Syracuse fell to No. 12 Virginia 75-56 on Saturday, and the Cavaliers captured the ACC regular-season title. Page 20

Students remember classmate Sophomore known for cheerful outlook, positivity

By Brett Samuels asst. news editor

Jessica Hauffe came to Syracuse University from the other side of the country.

But while the San Jose, Calif. native was attending SU, her friends say she brought some of the California sunshine with her.

“She was a really fun loving individual who made everyone smile,” said Ruo Chen, a sophomore architecture student. “She made the mood better and was one of those people you always wanted to have around because she was so bright. Her presence was so noticeable.”

Hauffe, a sophomore studying architecture at SU, died Thursday in Syracuse after a brief illness. see hauffe page 10

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KYLE FENTON, a member of Otto Tunes, an all-male a cappella group at Syracuse University, sings at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Mid-Atlantic Quarterfinals Saturday night. The Mandarins, an all-female group at SU, hosted the event in Hendricks Chapel.

Three other SU groups, Groovestand, Main Squeeze and Orange Appeal, competed. The University of Rochester Yellow Jackets came in first place out of 10 groups, followed by IC Voicestream from Ithaca College and Otto Tunes in third. The Yellow Jackets and IC Voicestream will move on to the ICCA semifinals, which will be held in late March.

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A house rebuilt Delta Lambda Phi fraternity to return to SU campus with plans to recolonize, expand outreach

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hen Paul Mercurio first approached Aaron Goldsmith last summer about restarting Syracuse’s Delta Lambda Phi chapter, Goldsmith wasn’t crazy about the idea.

Goldsmith had already passed on the concept of rushing a social fraternity when he was a freshman. He

had other commitments scattered across the SU campus.

Goldsmith told Mercurio he’d think about it.

“I looked at all my other time commitments and there was a lot of them,” Goldsmith said. “But I figured it’s worth a shot. And even if I had to pull out, at least I could get other people involved in it to carry it on, with or without me.”

Goldsmith came into his fall semester of his junior year only

having a vision. He had no other members and no real foundation.

But he did have Mercurio, a former graduate student at SU, who started the school’s original Delta Lambda Phi chapter in 2003, only to see it collapse due to lack of recruitment after just nine pledge classes.

DLP — a gay, bisexual and progressive male fraternity — had once been a staple at Syracuse, and it was Mercurio that tasked Goldsmith with

leading a recolonizing effort that has now taken almost a full year.

Mercurio said he didn’t choose Goldsmith for any particular reason, but thinks he’s the right person for the job.

“You don’t need some sort of preordained prophecy,” Mercurio said.

“Anybody could be this person, it’s just the fact that he stepped up.”

After graduating from Boston University, Mercurio came to the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2003 as a graduate student. He had gone to the LGBT Resource Center to try and gauge interest in Delta Lambda Phi. He didn’t prepare a grand presenation. He just passed around a signup sheet.

“I just went to the Pride Union thing,” Mercurio recalled. “I said ‘Hey,

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Actor to speak at SU April 1

By Ellen Meyers asst. news editor

Fans of the Fox comedy “New Girl” will have the chance to see one of its leading men up close this spring.

Actor Max Greenfield will speak at Goldstein Auditorium on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. as a part of a collaboration between The Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life and University Union.

Tickets will go on sale Monday at the Schine Box Office for $5. The event is open to the public.

Greenfield, who plays Schmidt on “New Girl,” will cover topics like his past television and film work and what it’s like to be a Jewish actor in a Jewish see new

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Problem solver uses technology to innovate

By Jen Bundy staff writer

Terence Nip has always been a problem solver.

The senior computer science and math double major taught himself how to program in middle school using only a search engine and trial and error after wanting to add new features to a website.

This intellectual curiosity has stayed with Nip throughout his life and in his time at Syracuse University.

Nip is currently a teaching assistant for programming classes in the computer science department, where he pushes his students to find answers on their own.

“Students care about the answer and the grade, but teaching is about understanding the material,” he said. “Students are better served asking me more questions than if I just gave them the answers.”

Nip doesn’t just help computer science students solve problems: Nip created a website called Bookpricr.com, which allows students at SU to compare textbook prices easily between the SU Bookstore and Amazon.

“I thought if I am doing this, everyone else must be,” he said. “It was about understanding the student mentality and fixing a problem that exists.”

The website is a side project he worked on to help students find the best prices.

“I got to do something that mattered to me,” he said. “Something that can help other people and make their lives less painful. Money doesn’t matter to me.”

Nip said the computer science department on campus gives students the tools to fix everyday problems.

“The computer science program is a little family,” he said. “Whenever you are stuck, you can ask people for help. There is always an open door policy, not just with students but also professors.”

Nip said the stereotype that computer science majors may be socially awkward or never having fun is also completely false. The majors all understand the same inside jokes about programming or Microsoft.

“We hang out together and are actually a very social major,” said Nip. jbundy@syr.edu

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Grant to aid female veterans

By Anna Merod staff writer

Kelli Ulhberg, a senior fashion design major, carries sandwiches in the Schine Student Center Underground during “Just Bring Your Hands,” an event in which fraternities and sororities made meals for The Samaritan Center, a local soup kitchen. frankie prijatel staff photographer

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Chapters collaborate to support soup kitchen

By Jackie Frere staff writer

Members of Syracuse University’s greek community planned to make as many sandwiches for the hungry as possible in a one-hour span. But with the intensity of the participants’ spirit, they ran out of bread and supplies in just 15 minutes.

Students from 50 fraternity and sorority chapters came together Sunday to craft 1,815 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for the Samaritan Center, a local soup kitchen.

The Samaritan Center provides 300 meals each weekday and serves lunch on weekends, said Karen Belgrader, development director of the Samaritan Center. The Samaritan Center sees 800 volunteers a month and supplies 114,000 meals a year to the homeless and less fortunate, she said.

The event, “Just Bring Your Hands,” kicked off National Ritual Celebration Week for greek organizations nationwide.

“I think you often see greek life being portrayed from one side — the party side of things,” said Kevin Aziz, brother of Phi Delta Theta and a junior computer science and mathematics

major. “We definitely have a strong presence in giving back to the community. It’s a really rewarding experience and a really great way to give back.”

More than 30 tables in the Schine Student Center Underground held eight to 10 members of different fraternities and sororities. The Underground was a flurry of students and sandwich bags as “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” by the Buckwheat Boyz and other songs blasted throughout the room to amplify the excitement.

Students competed to make the most sandwiches in one hour. For every five to six sandwiches each table made, a student ran them to the front of the room and a representative marked tallies on a sheet under their table number.

Greek members, with visible enthusiasm, crafted sandwiches so fast they ran out of supplies in under fifteen minutes. They originally hoped to make at least 900 sandwiches in an hour, but the students made over 1,000 in a fraction of the time.

Chanel Peguero, a member of Sigma Iota Alpha, said she enjoyed meeting new people and was there to win.

“It’s a good way to get a lot of people to do something good and give

back to our community at the same time,” said Peguero, a biology major.

“It’s a competition and everyone is intense. We have to beat the other teams, while at the same time meeting someone new that we’ve never worked with before.”

The Samaritan Center received the sandwiches and hopes to work with Syracuse University in the

It’s a good way to get a lot of people to do something good and give back to our community at the same time.

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future. Evan Konecky, a graduate assistant in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and brother of Delta Tau Delta, said he anticipates the event will become a tradition for the SU greek community. He organized the event with five governing council members.

Konecky said each philanthropic event can also educate students. He said he hopes students heard about the Samaritan Center and understood why the students donate money and time each year to organizations in Syracuse.

“It’s not just helping the local soup kitchen, it’s serving our community,” Konecky said. “Hopefully we do well this year and next year, and maybe students will take ownership of this project and run with it.”

Jamie Baron, a new member of Delta Delta Delta, made sandwiches in her first greek philanthropic event.

She said she enjoyed the experience and looks forward to the next event.

“It was really fun and everyone was really excited,” Baron said. “We ran out of bread so fast, and that’s awesome. Everyone was so into it.”

Belgrader, the development director from the Samaritan Center, spoke to the students about the center and thanked them for their service.

“It’s an amazing feeling to have all of these students standing here in line to come and help out,” Belgrader said. “It’s amazing that people will outreach and help one another.” jmfrere@syr.edu

Female veterans in the Women Veterans Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship program will be able to pursue more entrepreneurial ideas, thanks to a new grant.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced that Syracuse University received a $1.3 million federal grant on Feb. 24, according to an SU News release published the same day.

The 3-year federal grant is a continuation of the partnership between the U.S. Small Business Administration and SU’s Institute for Veteran and Military Families to sustain the V-WISE program, said Ray Toenniessen, director of new initiatives and external relations for IVMF. “When women leave the military, they are much more likely to turn their back on their veteran status,” he said.

Toenniessen added that female veterans are less likely to attend veterans’ events or apply for and receive veteran benefits.

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States not adopting Medicaid raises health issues

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wenty-five states have yet to adopt the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act. This Medicaid expansion was set to begin on Jan. 1 this year.

The legislation expanded Medicaid coverage to cover adults earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. For a household of four, 138 percent of that level is $32,499 annually.

The states that have not adopted the expansion are disproportionately in the Southeast and Mountain West states, according to the February 2014 report by the American Mental Health Counselors Association.

The states that have rejected the Medicaid expansion are clearly attempting to make a statement in opposition of the Affordable Care Act. However, the consequences for rejecting this expansion are vast, particularly for those with mental illnesses. Government funding for uninsured individuals is essential for the wellbeing of our society.

The Medicaid expansion took steps toward resolving the underfunding for mental health care and the growing issue of mental illnesses in the United States. The Affordable Care Act significantly expanded mental health coverage. In the past, mental health care has not received the same amount of attention as other health issues. It is essential that mental health care be considered as legitimate of an issue as physical ailments and diseases.

Putting political issues aside, states should be providing mental health care for uninsured Americans.

The February report reveals that by refusing to accept the Medicaid expansion program, 4 million uninsured people with

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a serious mental illness, in serious psychological distress or who have a substance use disorder will not get the coverage they need.

Ironically, 70 percent of uninsured individuals with a serious mental illness are residents of 11 of the southern states that have not adopted the Medicaid expansion, the report also showed.

The funds for the expansion have already been incorporated into the federal budget and the cost for the individual states is low, according to the report. Rejecting the expansion has serious consequences for uninsured Americans, particularly those who suffer from a mental illness.

It also brings up a more serious issue for those who are below the poverty line. People with serious mental illness are much more likely to fall into that category. For example, only 25 percent of people with schizophrenia are steadily employed. According to the American Mental Health Counselors Association, one in six adults who would qualify for the Medicaid expansion have a serious mental illness.

This is an issue because without preventive care, mental health issues are more likely to affect potential employment and socioeconomic mobility. By not getting the support they need, they continue to be unemployed and cost the government and society in other ways.

For all serious illnesses, preventative care is essential to avoid emergencies and other ramifications. Moderate mental health conditions can escalate into extreme circumstances that result in hospitalizations, homelessness or delinquency. Mental health issues can have far reaching effects on families, neighborhoods and communities.

Preventative services minimize these effects and benefit many people.

Without comprehensive coverage, many who earn near or below the poverty line will not have access to preventative services because the states they live in refuse to be a part of the Affordable Care Act ’s Medicaid expansion.

It is clear that addressing these issues early on is essential to limit the consequences of mental illness. By not adopting the Medicaid expansions, these 25 states are denying people necessary mental health care.

The magnitude of this is enormous. According to data released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 18.2 percent of American adults suffer from perpetual mental illness. It is clearly not an isolated issue that affects a select number of people. This issue deserves more attention than it has received and must be addressed.

Mental health issues are not only serious, but also widespread. Regardless of how states choose to fund mental health services, it is essential that uninsured individuals have access to preventive and emergency services.

Rachel Potter is a junior political science and sociology major. Her column appears weekly.

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letter to the editor

SU student engagement should increase Syracuse University is the place that we call home during the four long years (or five... I got you Architecture majors) of earning a college degree. One year for the new friends and independent bliss of being free from parental “advice.” Two years for the mandatory dining hall food. Three years for finally mustering up the courage to spray paint your accomplishments on the bathroom door of Chucks, and four years for realizing that the most difficult part of college wasn’t studying for finals or finding a way to finish your capstone on time, but turning to face an empty room as you leave for your first real job and realizing that you won’t be coming back.

This campus means a lot to many of us, and we have to take more time out of our busy schedules to speak up about the issues that we, the undergraduate students of Syracuse University, truly care about and want to see changed in our community. We must make a promise to ourselves and our university that we will stop investing our time talking about what we could be doing, what we should be doing, unless we are truly willing to invest our time in planning and carrying out the actions which have the capacity to make those ideas become reality.

I have heard students say that the South Campus buses are overcrowded. I have heard students say that self-segregation is a problem on campus. I have heard students say that they don’t agree with next year’s three percent raise in tuition.

I have heard students say so many things, but I have heard so few of them talking about the steps they are taking to make a change. For me, this is what I want to change. I have seen the great things that our students are capable of accomplishing, but I know that we can do more and I know that if we choose to do so, we will do more.

So, as you pack your bags for Spring Break and turn to face a nearly empty room, remember that you are coming back.

Remember that you have the time and resources, whether you know it or not, to make the changes on our campus that can, and will, last far beyond your final goodbye.

Start with an idea, begin with a plan and make it your prerogative to find a way to make our university better for having had you in it.

Amanda M. DeNardo Representative for the College of Arts and Sciences, Student Association

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Infighting in feminist groups detracts from focus

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hen it comes to anything on the internet related to feminism, the comments section often mirrors Onondaga Lake: dark, murky and probably not good for your health. The comments can range from insults of the actual article to threats on the author’s life. The problem is that these comments are not left by sexist men or internet trolls, they’re left by the very people women should be uniting with: feminists.

It is important for the feminist movement to have open discussions and for everyone’s voices to be heard. However, it seems that when you bring feminism to the internet, critiques are not constructive or conducive to our overall progression.

Instead, we have people attacking each other about grammar mistakes, accusing each other of not being true feminists and creating an environment that discourages communication.

One could argue that this is a typical comments section for any website and normally I would agree, but the same people have started writing full-length articles instead of just comments. On Feb. 22, feminist writer Julie Burchill wrote an angry piece on intersectionality — the concept that women face different forms of oppression based on other minority groups they belong to — for Salon.com.

Burchill began by making a few good points about some feminist writers discouraging communication. Then she went on to berate transsexual women, referring to them as “gender-benders” and “dicks in chicks’ clothing.” She seems to think transsexual women aren’t real women and therefore don’t go through the same struggle.

Her article reinforces the notion that some have it worse than others. There seems to be a constant argument of who is more oppressed between minority

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At the end of the day, oppression is oppression. It isn’t something that can be quantified or compared.

No one wins the “who is more oppressed” game because they’re all still being oppressed.

Don’t get me wrong, intersectionality and other differences within the feminist community are important issues that need to be addressed. We all need to acknowledge and appreciate each other’s differences.

We also need to acknowledge the fact that we are all being oppressed in different ways. But we still should remember that those ways are all connected by our gender.

Feminism is defined as the establishment of equal social, political and economic rights for all.

Although all of these discussions are important aspects of feminism, it’s important that we don’t take our focus off of the main goal because we’re too busy fighting.

Of course, there are going to be disagreements, women are human beings too. We are dynamic and come to the table with different experiences and ideas for feminism. This is especially true because feminism and women’s rights are very sensitive topics.

But, infighting doesn’t have to be a problem for the feminist movement. As long as we focus on our main goal and continue to uplift and support each other, a little disagreement is perfectly fine.

Mandisa Shields is a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at meshield@syr.edu and followed on Twitter @mandisashields.

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SU should embrace fraternity’s return Delta Lambda Phi, a fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men, is planning to return to Syracuse University. Its return will be positive for both the greek and the LGBT community, which should work with the fraternity to create a beneficial and lasting relationship.

The fraternity became a formal chapter on Oct. 22 in 2003, and spent nine semesters on SU’s campus before it disbanded due to a lack of interest.

DLP is nationally a social fraternity and was a social fraternity when it was founded at SU, but it will be returning as a multi-cultural fraternity at SU. To make sure the fraternity can sustain itself on SU’s campus, members should promote it to incoming freshmen, as well as the LGBTQ Learning Community and the LGBT Resource Center.

DLP should work with other campus groups, particularly the LGBT Resource Center. The center can help by educating students about the fraternity, as well as collaborating on events with DLP. In the same way that schools at SU promote professional and academic fraternities, the Resource Center should promote DLP. DLP’s return sends a positive message to a university where both the greek community and the LGBT community are major components of student life.

With all kinds of fraternities on campus, such as professional, service and academic fraternities, DLP’s return would fill a much-needed niche.

The many greek organizations at SU should be receptive and inclusive of the LGBT-friendly fraternity.

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DLP’s presence on campus shows the strength of the LGBT community at SU. This new fraternity should be embraced by the greek community to foster a progressive and inclusive environment.

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daniel molloy, a research scientist from SUNY-Albany and a SUNY-ESF graduate, samples zebra mussels from a river in France and dissects them. Molloy used bacteria to create a solution to get rid of invasive mussels like the zebra mussel. courtesy of l. giamberni

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Alumnus creates a chemical-free solution to eradicate invasive mussels in lakes

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SUNY-ESF graduate has devised a way to reduce the number of invasive mussels living in the Finger Lakes in a natural, chemical-free way.

Daniel Molloy, a research scientist from the State University of New York at Albany, created Zequanox, a biological control agent. It’s made up of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CL145A, a bacteria that kills the mussels, said John Farrell, an associate professor of environmental and forest biology at The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Molloy first gained experience with biological control agents doing his doctoral thesis at ESF in the 1970s. He tried to find a biological control method for black flies in the Adirondack Mountains.

“They gave me an incredible education,” he said, “I loved ESF.” Molloy eventually came up with a way to control the flies, and now every month, teams travel to the Adirondacks and apply the control agent, he said.

When the zebra mussels appeared in the 1990s, the Department of Environmental Conservation asked Molloy to come up with a control agent for them.

“It took me 20 years,” he said. “I tested over 700 bacteria and only one killed the zebra mussels.”

The goal of his research, Molloy added, was to prevent people from applying chemicals inside of power plants. He wanted to give them the choice of a much safer control agent.

There are two forms of the invasive mussels: zebra and quagga mussels, Farrell said. They have little larvae with a thread called a bissel to attach to and grow onto native mussels.

The mussels were originally introduced through ballast water, which sailors use to stabilize ships traveling across open oceans, he said. The sailors discharge the water carrying the mussels into the Great Lakes in order to take on cargo.

Now, the mussels have spread across the United States and changed multiple lake ecosystems, Farrell added. They are filter feeders and have a tendency to clog pipes, which can adversely affect nearby industries.

Mussels can also drastically change the food webs in a lake’s ecosystem, which makes it more important to stop them from spreading, said Jesse Olsen, a senior in aquatics and fisheries sciences.

“They make the water clearer because they filter the water column. That causes more algae, which affect the food webs,” he said.

The mussels were first found in 1988 but

were suspected to be in the Great Lakes region for a couple of years prior to that, Molloy said.

The mussels filter phytoplankton out of lakes and rivers, which alters the ecosystem, he said. Only freshwater mussels can attach to the hard surfaces.

The mussel’s presence have wide ranging effects on ecosystems, including getting rid of plant algae’s fine particles, clogging up industrial pipes and people cutting themselves on the mussels’ shells while walking into lakes.

Zequanox has been cleared to be used for treating the pipes and infrastructure that mussels have infested, Farrell said.

“A lot of industries use chlorine to kill mussels,” Farrell said. “This would be an advantage that is nontoxic.”

Molloy said he wants all plant operators to switch over to Zequanox, because it would be a lot safer for those who handle it.

Right now, the control agent is being used exclusively in power plants, but golf courses are starting to use it, Molloy said, as golf courses tend to draw water in from infested lakes or rivers and get clogged up.

People also want to use Zequanox to control the lakes in New York, but added that research still needs to be done to figure out what the agent’s concentration should be and how long it

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Here are descriptions of the invasive mussels.

Zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha Zebra mussels are small freshwater mussels that get their name from the striped pattern on their shells. The species was originally from southern Russia, but it has been accidentally introduced to other parts of the world, becoming an invasive species.

Quagga mussel Dreissena rostriformis bugensis A quagga mussel is a subspecies of freshwater mussel. The shell is either striped or zig-zagged, Quagga mussels are indigenous to the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine.

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Ask the experts: What if military funding is decreased?

By Tamara Rasamny staff writer

On Feb. 24, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed shrinking the military budget to its smallest size since before World War II. The Daily Orange spoke to Robert B. Murrett, the deputy director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, and Jayson Fischer, a sophomore aerospace engineering major who is also an ROTC member.

Both offered their thoughts and opinions on the proposal and its potential effects on the U.S. military.

The Daily Orange: Why do you think Chuck Hagel is considering this now?

Robert B. Murrett: Cutbacks are driven by strategy, and moreover, by resource considerations stemming from the Budget Control Act and follow-on legislation.

Jayson Fischer: I guess it’s because everything in Iraq and Afghanistan is settling down and we’re drawing out of that.

That was our last major conflict. We don’t really have any major conflicts going on right now.

The D.O.: What do you think this means for the U.S. military?

J.F.: The U.S. military is definitely going to take a massive hit. Shortening the budget has always been a problem for the military because it can’t afford to pay the people. Especially if you get 20 or more years of service, you get a percentage of your paycheck after you retire from the military, so that’s still a lot of where

the bill is going — to the veterans. They obviously don’t want to shorten up the manpower because having a strong military has always been a main part of our country, so places where they take it out is the training.

The D.O.: How will it affect the U.S.’s security?

R.M.: They will result in slightly smaller force levels for the U.S. military, but our overall national security will still be sound.

J.F.: We won’t see the effects for a couple of years, but it’ll definitely cut back on the new incoming military personnel.

D.O.: Do you think it’ll affect the ability to fight opponents?

R.M.: We will still be able to counter our adversaries, and our ability to train and equip our forces will still be of a high standard.

J.F.: When there’s any sort of war or conflict, numbers do play a major factor. It won’t be as big of a factor as it would’ve been in the Civil War or the American Revolution, but it’ll still play a significant factor because if you don’t have the manpower you don’t do anything. But technology wise, we’re so far advanced that we can accomplish more with less people than we could in World War II. The D.O.: What do you think this means financially with training and actual missions?

J.F.: In ROTC, I’m supposed to be doing a training session this summer, which for the past 30 years has been 28 days in Alabama with six sessions. This is the first year that, because of all the budget cuts, it got shortened to five sessions and only 22 days. They can’t afford to pay everybody. So the area that it is affecting most is the incoming people.

The D.O.: How do you think it’ll affect the public perception of America’s safety?

R.M.: There may be some public perceptions regarding overall safety/security, but this is not a new thing. Many of us lived through more significant cutbacks in the ‘70s and ‘90s.

J.F.: The military doesn’t really do too much inside the country unless there’s something major going on inside the country. One thing that might happen is the National Guard will get a lot smaller, so if the National Guard gets a lot smaller, they would have less people ready to move in if there was a natural disaster. The National Guard gets called in from all around the country and goes help to clean up and make sure everyone’s OK. But if that decreases, the public may say, “Hey, there was a disaster, why didn’t the country help us?”

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aaron Goldsmith, a junior information technology major, designs promotional materials for Delta Lamba Phi. Goldsmith hopes to recolonize DLP, a gay, bisexual and progressive male fraternity, which was originally founded at SU in 2003. margaret lin photo editor from page 1

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this is me, this is what I’m about, this is the fraternity and it’s a good time.’”

But what started out as a safe haven and a brotherhood for gay men wanting to find a comfort zone within the greek community quickly disintegrated. The five members of the Alpha class graduated, and those remaining weren’t willing to put the time and the effort into getting more to join.

By the time the chapter closed down after its ninth pledge class, there was just a small handful of members left.

“Some of the people that were remaining weren’t very interested in rushing and getting new brothers,” Mercurio said. “You’ve got such a great brotherhood, that sometimes you forget the brotherhood needs to be perpetuated.”

Mercurio said it was extremely difficult to watch the chapter he started go through what it did. He had been a part of a thriving group at BU, and despite his best efforts to get the SU chapter to keep recruiting kids, it eventually lost its charter.

But he’s taken a backseat to the new founding fathers. It was his idea, but it’s become their venture.

One of those new members, Ivan Rosales, said he looked to join DLP when he first got to campus thinking it was active. He was disappointed to learn it had closed down years before.

So when the LGBT listserv sent out an email about the startup, he didn’t hesitate.

“It reminded me of when I originally wanted to be a part of it, coming in my freshman year,” Rosales said. ”I decided to give it a go.”

A group began to form. What started out as just Goldsmith has now grown to 10 people. He, along with Adam Magill and Goldsmith’s honors fraternity little Myles Chalue, made up the original executive board, and started interviewing people that responded to their advertisements.

The three of them asked questions to each potential new member. They wanted to find people that had a vision preventing the fraternity from repeating its own history.

“We’re not looking for people who are just looking to party,” Goldsmith said. “We’re looking for people who are invested in the organization, who will actually be a part of it.”

Magill said the only way that DLP won’t get its charter back at SU is if the students somehow do something wrong. DLP’s national headquarters, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and the LGBT Resource Center, is in support of having Syracuse become the 31st chartered DLP chapter.

The group’s executive board has been meeting once a week, while the rest of the recruits

come in for bi-weekly meetings. At first, their relationship was strictly professional, but now they’ve all become closer friends.

“It’s one of those things where it really has to start organically,” said Rob Lydick, director of communications at DLP national headquarters. “You really need to have a group of people interested at a university to bring this to life.

“I think that there already is a step in the right direction.”

There’s still a lot of work to be done. DLP Nationals requires that the group complete a petition detailing their plans for the chapter.

After that part of the process is done, a representative from the national headquarters will decide whether to make them a colony until they’re chartered in about three or four semesters.

“We want to have this brotherhood where 10 years down the road we can all come back together and we can all be like, ‘Remember that time in college when we decided to do this crazy thing and it ended up being one of the greatest things you’ve ever done,’” Magill said.

Although the LGBT Resource Center has been a good base for him to get to know people, Goldsmith said DLP could add a different dimension to the LGBT community at SU. It’s not the typical social fraternity, and Goldsmith said it’ll be listed as a multi-cultural fraternity. He said he doesn’t want to force people to have to pass through during the Interfraternity Council rush events.

But even if it isn’t listed as a social fraternity, it serves the same function. Goldsmith said he’s not worried about being pigeonholed as a “gay fraternity” because, in a sense, that’s exactly what it is.

“It is a gay fraternity, but it’s not just that,” Goldsmith said. “I want to move away from that stigma, but have it at its core.”

Just months ago, Goldsmith said he wasn’t even sure he wanted to be a part of an organization like this. Now he’s on the brink of being the chapter’s founding father by next semester.

And while Mercurio has taken in this process mostly from the sidelines, he has still given advice to Goldsmith whenever he’s needed it.

He’s been through it before, and is excited to see it happening again.

In his attic, Mercurio has a box full of mementos from the last time the chapter existed. He said once it gets recolonized, he plans to share it with Goldsmith as a celebration.

For Mercurio, it’s all come full circle. For Goldsmith, it’s a legacy that he’ll always have.

Even though Goldsmith will only be at SU for another year, he hopes the brotherhood he’s creating will continue for years to come. sblum@syr.edu | @SamBlum3

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gillibrand in nine different cities. The grant will allow the V-WISE program to continue educating and training female veterans or military spouses in starting or growing their own small business, he said.

“This is really the first program around small business and entrepreneurship that’s been created and launched specifically for the female veteran community, to give them a safe and comfortable environment and to help them build that network of female veteran business owners around the country,” he said.

Many of the women stay in touch with each other after they complete the program, Toenniessen said. With more than 1,000 women who have completed the program, V-WISE plans to create an alumni chapter program to create a more supportive community, he added.

“The V-WISE alumni chapter program will help formalize alumni chapters of graduates all over the country,” Toenniessen said. “We work with them to tie them in with their local communities and local resources, whether those be government resources or private resources as well.”

V-WISE is a three-stage educational program, Toenniessen said. The first stage is a two

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new girl character, said Zach Goldberg, the president of the Hillel Jewish Student Union.

Goldberg said he approached UU with a list of people Hillel wanted to bring on campus and asked for their opinions and assistance.

Picking Greenfield as a speaker was a “very easy choice” for Hillel, Goldberg said.

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week basic online course for businesses, then the women are sent to one of the V-WISE locations for a three-day training program, he said.

For the final stage of the program, V-WISE forms connections between the women and small business development centers in the U.S., including partners of the SBA, Toenniessen said.

“We now not only give them the instructional piece, but also the practical resources to help them knock down some of those barriers on their way to launching a business,” he said.

Toenniessen said veterans are twice as likely to launch a successful small business than those who have not actively served in the military.

In December, Gillibrand wrote a letter to the SBA, advocating the administration to award the federal grant to SU, according to the press release.

The grant attests to SU’s and the IVMF’s strong dedication to the veteran community, Toenniessen said, and he was excited to continue IVMF’s partnership with the SBA. Said Toenniessen: “From the IVMF, I know we are looking forward to our continuing partnership with the Small Business Administration with running the V-WISE program and to providing the training, education and resources to hundreds, if not thousands more women veterans over the next few years.” almerod@syr.edu

“We were like, ‘oh, here’s somebody who is in the public eye who is Jewish and also very proud of it,” he said.

Sam Weinberg, UU’s director of collaborations and a former advertising representative for The Daily Orange, said Hillel contacted UU and wanted to get its show on a bigger scale.

Said Weinberg: “We’re going to help them and show them the ropes so that they can continue to do this themselves in the future.” ekmeyers@syr.edu | @Ellen_Meyers

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hauffe Chen met Hauffe during the first semester of their freshman year in an introductory architecture class. Chen said the two ended up in the same discussion groups following a lecture, and rather than discussing the class readings, the group got to know each other.

Chen also had a class with Hauffe during their second semester on campus, and Chen said Hauffe kept a positive attitude during an otherwise stressful class.

“She was always smiling and telling jokes,” Chen said.

Chen added that sometimes she would become stressed out in her studies, but Hauffe would remain calm and keep a level head.

Architecture students take studio classes where they work on projects each semester.

During Hauffe’s freshman year studio class, she became friends with Taylor Hagan, also a sophomore studying architecture.

Hagan said she and Hauffe also had been in the same peer-advising group, which is where she initially met Hauffe. However, the two got to know each other better within the environment of their studio class.

“I just remember in that studio everyone became really close and it was kind of like a second family,” Hagan said.

Professor Bruce Abbey taught that class. He said he remembered Hauffe as “being talented and eager to learn,” and called her “an ideal student.”

Hagan added that in addition to being cheerful and able to laugh during stressful times, Hauffe was always willing to reach out to friends and see how they were doing.

Hagan lived in Day Hall during her freshman year, while Hauffe lived in Flint Hall. She said Hauffe would randomly text her and the

two would hang out when they were bored.

One time in particular during freshmen year, the two were together late at night the evening before a final review the next day in studio. Hagan said they were both freaking out about it, but they ended up finding a way to relax together.

“We just ended up running through the quad that night and it was kind of ridiculous but it was me and her and we did like a lap around the quad to relieve stress,” Hagan said. “It was just a little moment that happened that I remember with her.”

Chen remembered a different instance at the beginning of a semester when the campus was mostly empty. She said her and Hauffe were planning on going to the mall but instead spent time walking around places on campus they didn’t know about.

“I don’t really get out much once school starts so that was fun seeing her in a different setting other than studio,” Chen said.

Timothy Stenson, chair of undergraduate programs in the School of Architecture, said he did not know Hauffe personally, but said he knew of her through other people.

Stenson said Hauffe had a reputation as a nice, engaged student. He added that Hauffe volunteered by mentoring incoming freshmen.

“People liked her very much,” he said.

In addition, Stenson said the School of Architecture is a tight-knit community, and that each class is a pretty cohesive group. He said he believes Hauffe’s death “really hit her classmates full force.”

Stenson added that he reacted like others, saying he was surprised and sad to hear that Hauffe had passed away.

With the School of Architecture forming such a close community of students and staff, many reacted with shock and sadness. Her friend Hagan said she will keep holding onto the fond memories she had with Hauffe.

“I’ll always remember her in a very special way,” Hagan said. “She meant a lot to all of us.” blsamuel@syr.edu

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Amazing weekend at #wjpbanquet29. Got to spend time with great friends, watch Rick Wright get roasted, & see the WJPZ documentary. #Radio

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WJPZ alumni gather for hall of fame induction, documentary on station’s history

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ith a voice tailor-made for a radio jockey, Bill Bleyle devoted the first few moments of his induction to the WJPZ radio station Alumni Association Hall of Fame — the same station he helped build by hand — to a Hunter S. Thompson quip.

“The radio business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs,” Bleyle said, pausing long enough to let his punch line simmer.

“There’s also a negative side.”

But on a brisk Saturday afternoon in a swanky Sheraton Hotel

room stuffed with WJPZ alumni — most with “Real Broadcasters Wear Orange” shirts draped over their shoulders — the radio business, or at least the WJPZ business, felt less like Thompson’s cruel-and-shallow money trench and more like a celebration of a radio station that’s always been in flux.

Around a hundred WJPZ alums flocked to the Sheraton Hotel on Saturday for a pair of reflective reunion events: the premiere screening of Scott MacFarlane’s “Greatest Media Classroom,” a half-hour documentary recollecting WJPZ’s ups-and-downs over 40 years of broadcasts, with founding fathers Bleyle and Greg Hernandez’s hall of fame inductions following right on the tail of the screening.

“It’s thirty minutes because as broadcasters, we know not to go too long,” MacFarlane, a 1998 alumnus, wisecracked as he introduced the documentary, a pet project of his that was described as both two years and 40 years in the making.

With snappy comedic timing, a lone jovial heckler called out, “This better be good,” in the quiet moments following MacFarlane’s remarks.

Throughout the documentary, the audience swelled with laughter and applause, pointing out familiar faces and voices from vintage photographs and sound bites with cheers and the occasional pat on the back.

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Habitat For Humanity to spend Spring Break volunteering

By Bodeline Dautruche contributing writer

As many students gear up to head to beautiful beaches, resorts and clubs for Spring Break, several Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students are

breaking ties from the norm.

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out from school and extracurricular activities, some students are tak-

ing on more work during the break to help those in need. This Spring Break, Habitat for Humanity’s SU/ SUNY ESF chapter will offer three alternative trips to Chicago, Greenwood, South Carolina and Northern Ocean, NJ. Students who are interested in the trip still have a chance to go, and each trip costs around $350,

including transportation and food.

“I believe students should choose a spring break trip volunteering because they get to meet new people who also attend the same school as well as making an impact on someone’s life,” Danielle Benavides, an executive director of Habitat for Humanity, said in an email. “It is a great opportunity overall

because they are able to travel, make new friends and learn more about construction and challenging themselves.”

Each location will offer different community service opportunities. More than simply working on houses, Benavides said that, in her experience, she has also worked on see habitat page 14

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z89 documentary WJPZ, starting from its earliest iteration — the one Bleyle and Hernandez were there to remember. WJPZ was built with a 10-foot tall antenna perched atop Day Hall, a compressor purchased from an Army/Navy Store and $20 turntables.

“I walked up the steps to Day Hall to my old room on Day 7,” said Hernandez, a 1976 alum and WJPZ lifer, “and I remembered how that walk kept me skinny. It was a tremendous thrill to get to see buildings that were there when I was, and the new ones, too.”

The documentary marched through WJPZ’s story at a torrid clip, covering struggles with the university, the quest to land a coveted spot on the FM dial and some alterna-

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tive outcomes for the station: WJPZ could’ve easily become WOJZ or WWJZ during the switch to FM, and during its AM days, Z89 was 10 spots higher on the dial than its nowfamiliar call number.

The audience’s constant interactions with both each other and the screen stilled during a segment about the station’s coverage of the Pan Am Flight 103 tragedy. The film also commemorated the loss of WJPZ broadcaster Steven Berrell, who was aboard the plane.

The mood lifted again as “Greatest Media Classroom” chronicled the station’s evolution through modern changes in technology, and a collective “aww” rose from the audience from a particularly sentimental segment about alumni getting hitched post-Z89.

MacFarlane’s documentary was met quickly

with a loud and long standing ovation. Alumni like Danno Wolkoff, who started at the station in 1983 before graduating from Syracuse University in 1986, waxed nostalgic about their time spent in the studio.

For Wolkoff, a career in radio was an afterthought — until working at Z89 nudged him toward thinking that radio might be something he wanted to do post-graduation.

“I lived in Marion, and a friend asked me to be on his show,” Walkoff said, “The station gave me my life. It was absolutely phenomenal to see, just to be a small piece of that puzzle.”

During his induction speech, Bleyle noted how the station “started with sparks that turned into flames,” a nod to the nickname Z89 students of the late ‘80s earned from music press: “flamethrowers.”

Hernandez, who mentioned embracing Syracuse’s winter weather to walk around campus and reminisce, said it was astounding to see the completely revamped studio, missing the vinyl and reel-to-reels he was so accustomed to working with during his WJPZ tenure.

“This generation is still keeping the broadcast light on. Looking back, I see the same spark we had in students who are doing this today,” he said.

“Greatest Media Classroom” bottled WJPZ’s history in a 30-minute runtime, but so did the Comstock Room in the Sheraton for a Saturday afternoon, bringing together the same sense of history the documentary did.

Said MacFarlane when the credits stopped rolling: “Now all we need is a sequel.” ervanrhe@syr.edu | @TheRealVandyMan

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Rico’s Ristorante 320 E. 1st St. (315) 432-1862 Sundays: 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Tuesday - Saturday: Lunch 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Dinner 3:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Taste: 5/5 Distance: 3/5

Scene: 5/5 Service: 5/5

Price: 5/5 Total: 4.5

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(LEFT) Rico’s Ristorante serves soup with full course meals. While the main dishes were delicious, the chicken soup with pastina was lackluster, compared to the antipasto salad that also came with the meal. (RIGHT) The cannoli at Rico’s Ristorante was crispy on the outside and filled with creamy mascarpone with a hint of lemon. keegan barber staff photographer

THERE CANNOLI BE ONE Rico’s Ristorante serves up some of Syracuse’s best Italian food with family ambience

By Vekonda Luangaphay staff writer

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hen I went to Rico’s Ristorante, all I could think was family, family, family. The whole place just screamed, “Enjoy a family dinner here and make it a weekly tradition!”

The restaurant is known for its grandmastyle homemade dishes which come in big portions. The two entrees I tried were exactly that.

But most importantly, Rico’s was delicious, and might just be my new go-to restaurant for Italian-American cuisine.

The lighting was dim and even across the restaurant. Dark oak wood outlined the walls, ceilings and corners. Black and white family portraits were evenly spread out across the ivory-colored walls of the whole dining area.

Every entree on the menu can be enjoyed a la carte, for a lower price, or as a full course dinner, for a higher price. I had the fullcourse Eggplant Parmigiana, which came with antipasto and soup, and then a coffee or tea and a house dessert after the entree.

If I had gotten the Eggplant Parmigiana a la carte and paid $11.95 instead of $14.95, it would’ve only gotten me a garden salad before my entree.

The course size you order depends on how hungry you are. Worth and cost are two different things, and for me the cost of the full course dinner was worth it.

The size of my first course, the antipasto,

was very generous. It was a plate piled with iceberg lettuce, salami, a few big pieces of mild cheddar cheese and diced black olives, with an indulgent amount of crumbled blue cheese topping the mound.

I could’ve asked the waiter to take away my salad when the second course came, the soup, but I wanted to finish it.

The soup I ordered was their homemade chicken soup with pastina, a rice-sized pasta, and what you get is all in the name: the shredded chicken, the chicken broth, and the pastina. The soup was a bit too salty for me, and I didn’t care to finish it like I wished for the antipasto.

By the time my Eggplant Parmigiana came, I was already half full, because by then I had already ate the complimentary bread, antipasto and soup. Before taking my first bite of the Eggplant Parmigiana, I first thought, “I need to leave room for dessert and tea.”

The Eggplant Parmigiana was a huge size portion set right in the middle of a wide white plate. It was drowned in a plentiful amount of marinara sauce, which I liked very much. The eggplant was tender and I could easily slice through. What I love about Eggplant Parmigiana is how the breaded eggplant, mozzarella cheese and marinara sauce come together so well after it cooks in the oven. Rico’s did this dish justice.

The marinara sauce was thick with tangy tomatoes, which balanced the savory herbs, oregano and basil. The flavors were well-developed,

and I wouldn’t be surprised if they simmered the sauce for a whole day before serving it.

Even though I failed to save much room for dessert and tea, I had the cannoli, which was delicious. I could taste the subtle tang of its lemon zest through the creamy vanilla-flavored mascarpone filling. The outer shell was slightly crispy when you first break in a bite, and then became pleasantly chewy as the rich and smooth texture of the filling mixed with the soft crispy shell. The tea was a satisfying,

comfortable ending to this full dinner.

Everyone eating around me appeared to be laughing over their hearty meals. The whole ambience was friendly, warm and comforting, from the scenery to the food.

You could hear soothing classical Italian music over the buzzing atmosphere, which added to the homey-yet-elegant feel.

Having Eggplant Parmigiana at Rico’s is my new tradition, and it should be yours too.

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Brands bring wearable technologies to reality during Fashion Week

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ou can use your phone to turn off the lights. You can use your phone to pay taxes, buy tickets, and change the channel on your TV. And now, you can use your phone to change the way your clothes look — even while you are wearing them.

Phone-controlled garments are only one of the many ways that technology has taken over fashion. At the most recent Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, wearable technology of all shapes and forms made a show-stopping appearance.

CuteCircuit is one brand that embraced the digital fashion revolution at Fashion Week. Its garments and accessories were bedazzled with hundreds of tiny LED lights that would glow and project different images and patterns as its models sauntered down the runway.

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habitat gardening, breaking down sidewalks and working on local churches with Habitat For Humanity.

SU’s Habitat for Humanity chapter, a nonprofit organization known for building homes for those who are in extreme levels of poverty or have had their homes destroyed in natural disasters, does a lot of work in the Syracuse community by representing the organization’s initiative each weekend.

“We work to enhance community involve-

fabrics they develop with the LEDs are as thin as other fabrics, with microscopic batteries.

It was at the Wearable Technology Fashion Show that we saw many of these new, revolutionary technologies meeting fashion garments. The show was organized by Tech in Motion, an event series for local tech communities across the U.S. Models came out wearing 3-D printed work, LED clothing, Google Glass and more unusual fashion designs.

The first piece of wearables to come down the runway were pairs of 3-D printed heels created

by Continuum Fashion, a Manhattan-based group that specializes in unique 3-D printed shoes. Other projects that the company is working on include 3-D printed bikinis and dresses.

Another company, TheLaserGirls, took the

trend of nail art and used 3-D printing to create stylized, protruding patterns for your nails.

Also at the show was San Francisco-based company SENSOREE. The group uses sensors to read the wearer’s excitement levels, and connects these sensors to display LED lighting in an array of bright colors for the ultimate mood halo.

There are also technology companies who are pushing for partnerships with designers.

Technology has taken over so many industries — media, education, employment — that it was only a matter of time until it took over the fashion industry as well.

Intel Corp., one of the largest computer technology companies in the world, announced that it is teaming with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Barneys New York and Opening Ceremony to create some wearable tech. The project will launch with a small bracelet, made through collaboration between Intel and Opening Ceremony.

Misfit is the maker of the Shine, a smooth

disc that acts as an activity tracker. Misfit’s piece is part of an increasing number of wearable tech that is making an honest effort to look good. Sorry, Google Glass.

While it is cool that they are making watches that can also tell you the temperature and jackets that have GPS trackers in case you lose them, I don’t want to look like a walking blob of wires and screens. I don’t want people to be able to tell that it’s technology.

The actual functionality of the wearable tech is important, but you are wearing it. It is an article of clothing or accessory first and technology second. Yes, the fact that it actually works is important, but it should look good too.

Sounds like all these pieces put a new take on the word geek chic. And I want in. Techies and trendsetters, unite!

ment of SU students. We have weekly volunteering in the Syracuse community and surrounding towns. The volunteering consists of housing based building and rehabilitation,” Arianna Rogers, a Habitat for Humanity member in charge of one of the trips this Spring Break, said in an email. “Habitat for Humanity is an organization that promotes volunteerism and home ownership in the Syracuse community and beyond.”

While working to build homes, the students will be able to meet new people and make connections that can last a very long time.

“Volunteers on the spring break trip will

have the opportunity to meet with homeowners and hear about their story, explore the local culture and do work ranging from gardening to construction,” Zhen Zheng, an executive board member, said in an email.

Zheng also said while gaining new experiences, the students will positively affect the lives of others through their volunteer work.

“This trip provides SU students to have a real tangible impact on someone’s life and offer an opportunity to hear the story from a home owner perspective of their life,” Zheng said.

The alternative spring break trips offered by

Habitat may not be the same as going to South Beach, but, in some ways, Rogers said the same fulfillment can be gained.

“People should choose attending trips like ours over a typical vacation because it allows you to make an impact on people’s lives and community while going to places you might’ve never been before,” Rogers said.

“During these trips you work alongside volunteers from the community and from other schools across the country and even some future Habitat homeowners.”

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Alexis McDonell is a sophomore magazine journalism major. Her column appears every week in Pulp. E-mail her at admcdone@syr. edu and follow her on Twitter at @AlexisMickD.

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Lamolinara plays majority of Orange’s road loss to Virginia

By Josh Hyber staff writer

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Dominic Lamolinara has started the first half of every game this season, and Bobby Wardwell has started the second half.

But on Saturday night against Virginia, Syracuse changed its strategy and Lamolinara was in between the pipes for all but 27 seconds.

The No. 6 Orange (2-2, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) fell to the No. 4 Cavaliers (6-0, 1-0), 17-12, in front of 5,102 fans at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. And for the first time this season, Lamolinara played almost the entire game.

The senior made 14 saves on 55 shots, but UVA’s James Pannell found the back of the net seven times and the Cavaliers scored 17 goals — 16 on Lamolinara.

SU head coach John Desko said it wasn’t a predetermined decision to play his veteran the entire way. But with the 39-degree weather and Syracuse a man-down coming out of halftime, he decided not to switch goalkeepers.

“We stayed with Dom, and I thought Dom played very well,” Desko said. “I think we had 14 saves to their five saves, which probably kept us in the game for a while.”

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“They got a lot of good looks,” SU forward C.J. Fair said. “They didn’t really force anything. They took their time and were able to give us different looks, different guys in the high post.”

With 11:20 to play, the game was tied at 42.

Trevor Cooney had hit consecutive 3-pointers to answer the Cavaliers’ first wave of triples — one each from Perrantes, Malcolm Brogdon and Anderson — and the Orange was entering crunch time with the confidence it had gained from a season filled with narrow victories.

But the offensive efficiency waned. Tyler Ennis missed Baye Moussa Keita on a wideopen roll to the rim. Ennis and Cooney bricked 3s late in the shot clock. Rakeem Christmas baited Mike Tobey with a pump fake, but then missed a baby hook.

“We had some good looks,” Cooney said.

“Sometimes it’s going to happen. Sometimes it’s not going to fall for you. You’ve got to find other ways to win.

“We’ve done that in other games, but we just didn’t do that tonight.”

And when UVA’s shooters stayed hot, the Cavaliers’ lead opened quickly.

Brogdon spread out the Syracuse zone with a flurry of mid-range jump shots before Perrantes hit a 3 from five feet beyond the top of the key.

Then Anderson struck with another from the left wing, and Joe Harris hit from the same spot. At the 4:40 mark, Virginia led 60-47.

“Everybody on that team, you’ve got to respect,” Fair sad. “So if you show one guy too much attention, then the next guy gets open. I think that’s kind of how it happened.”

Boeheim said the Orange focused on locking down Harris and Perrantes, who combined for just one first-half point. With the Cavaliers focusing their attack inside, the strategy worked up until halftime. They went away from their shooters — Anderson’s triple with 50 seconds left in the opening frame was their first 3 of the game.

Lamolinara had an up-and-down performance.

There were possessions he played well in, like when he saved shots by Cavaliers attacks Mark Cockerton and Owen Van Arsdale on the doorstep.

But just as Maryland did last weekend at the Carrier Dome, Virginia exploited Lamolinara with shots close to the ground, which Pannell said was part of Virginia’s game plan

from the start.

“I would much rather have made 12 saves and given up five fewer goals,” Lamolinara said.

Virginia shot early and often in its first few

possessions. Pannell and Chris LaPierre both threw shots wide right of the cage. The three shots that were on net Lamolinara saved, and the Orange took an early 3-0 lead.

But the Cavaliers erratic shooting left Lamolinara off kilter. And when Cavaliers faceoff specialist Mick Parks started to win faceoff after faceoff, the shots came faster and faster.

Pannell spun off Syracuse defender Sean Young and fired a shot by Lamolinara, extending UVA’s lead to 6-3 — finishing a streak of six straight UVA goals.

After the goal, Lamolinara talked briefly with defenders Brandon Mullins and Jay McDermott, and Young came over as well before the Orange called timeout.

On Virginia’s last possession of the half, Lamolinara made a save on the doorstep to turn away Cockerton, keeping the Orange within reach at 13-10.

He finished the half with three saves in each of the first two quarters.

“I thought Dom played great,” Syracuse midfielder Scott Loy said. “They had close to 60 shots. What more can you do? Anytime a team has 60 shots, it’s tough to keep them off the board.”

Coming out of the break, Lamolinara made two saves on Virginia’s opening possession.

The Orange trailed by two in the third, and eventually evened the score at 9-9.

With Virginia leading 13-10, Lamolinara made a save up high on Virginia attack Zed Williams. But Lamolinara lost sight of the rebound and turned around to see if the ball went in the net. It didn’t, but Pannell picked up the loose ball then tapped it in.

Lamolinara smacked his stick on the ground and clenched his fists in disappointment.

After his goal, Pannell had a message for the freshman Williams.

Shoot low.

Minutes later, with the Cavaliers leading 14-12, Williams listened. He put a shot into the bottom right of the cage underneath Lamolinara for the first goal of his career.

With Parks winning 13-of-15 second-half faceoffs, Syracuse didn’t have the ball enough to stage a comeback.

Pannell and Cockerton iced the game in the final five minutes with each of their 22nd goals of the season — both flying past the senior and into the back of his cage.

Said Lamolinara: “This one’s on me tonight.” jmhyber@syr.edu

It wasn’t until UVA started working inside out that it was able to create open shots from the arc.

“We were much better off attacking the 3-point line and letting them get what they could get inside,” Boeheim said. “We just didn’t do that in the second half.”

After Harris’ 3-pointer, it was just a matter of time before Virginia would grab the win. With each whistle, the roar of the crowd grew louder.

Ennis fouled out with 1:35 to play and “A-CC” chants broke out in the final moments.

As a raucous celebration ensued behind

them, the Orange players trudged off the court.

“They just really penetrated us, made us collapse and did a good job making us relocate out of the zone,” SU guard Michael Gbinije said. “It was just tough to match up with them.” sebail01@syr.edu | @Stephen_Bailey1

I thought Dom played great. They had close to 60 shots. What more can you do? Anytime a team has 60 shots, it’s tough to keep them off the board.

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SU tops Wake Forest, seals No. 5 seed in ACC tourney

By Matt Schneidman staff writer

Against Wake Forest, Syracuse exemplified the adage, “The best offense is a good defense.”

The Orange (21-8, 10-6 Atlantic Coast) secured the No. 5 seed for the ACC tournament in a 64-54 victory against Wake Forest (14-15, 5-11) in front of 889 fans at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston Salem, N.C. And SU did so by scoring 25 points off 26 turnovers while leaning on a strong offensive output by its trusty backcourt.

“We rotated well off the back of our press,” SU head coach Quentin Hillsman said. “We got traps and they threw the ball out.”

After a Lindsy Wright layup gave Wake Forest a 6-5 lead at 17:11 of the first half, Shakeya Leary responded with a jumper 21 seconds later.

The Orange never relinquished that lead.

Directly after the under-12 media timeout, Wake Forest turned the ball over. Syracuse took it down the court and after Taylor Ford missed a jumper, Leary corralled the offensive rebound and put it back up for two points.

The next two Wake Forest possessions were mirror images of the last, as two more Demon Deacon turnovers turned into five more Syracuse points by the 10-minute mark.

“I think our defense did a really good job of getting set,” Hillsman said. “We did a really good job getting out in transition, and we got some buckets.”

The Orange backcourt turned in another strong performance, as Brianna Butler and Brittney Sykes combined for 29 points.

Butler scored a team-high 17 points, including four first-half 3 pointers, and five in the game.

“We need (Butler) to score, and we need (Sykes) to score,” Hillsman said. “We’re trying to get them to score 30 to 35 points per game.”

“Combined, if they do that, we’re in good shape.”

After the Orange briefly pulled away thanks to a couple Alexis Peterson buckets in the second half, the Demon Deacons cut the lead to single digits at the 12:46 mark of the second half.

But as it did the whole game, Syracuse responded.

This time, Butler hit a 3 and Peterson turned a steal into a transition layup, both in a span of 23 seconds.

The Orange coasted with a double-digit lead until the 2:09 mark, when Chelsea Douglas and Hamby hit back-to-back shots to cut the Syracuse lead to just five.

Despite the fact that Syracuse didn’t hit a field goal for the final 8:33, it was able to secure its fourth double-digit victory in as many games, largely due to its suffocating defense.

“When they put the ball on the floor and attacked us, we really shut down passing lanes very quickly,” Hillsman said. “That’s the key, just getting our defense set and ready to guard them.” mcschnei@syr.edu

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By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — For the second straight game, Jerami Grant didn’t play any second-half minutes due to a sore back.

He played 13 minutes in the first frame, but didn’t warm up with the Orange to start the second half.

SU head coach Jim Boeheim said “there’s nothing wrong” with Grant, just that he simply wasn’t healthy enough to play.

No. 4 Syracuse (26-3, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) missed Grant’s presence in the second half. The Orange was outscored by 20 the rest of the way, and Virginia (25-5, 16-1) pulled away for a 75-56 win to claim the ACC regular-season title.

Boeheim said Grant practiced once this week and looked good, but he still didn’t feel comfortable playing him in the second half.

“He just has soreness and he can’t go,” Boeheim said. “That’s the way his status is.”

Virginia exploited Syracuse inside all game, outrebounding the Orange 39 to 29. SU also missed Grant on the perimeter defensively. With him on the bench, the length he usually provides to fluster shooters was no longer a factor.

In his absence, Baye Moussa Keita and Rakeem Christmas got into foul trouble. Virginia big men Mike Tobey and Akil Mitchell pummeled SU inside. Easy putbacks hurt the Orange in the second half, as the zone was exposed.

As Virginia pulled away, all Grant could do was watch. He wasn’t available for comment in the locker room following the game.

“He’s been one of our best players all year,” Boeheim said. “Obviously you don’t want to lose a guy like that. We’re not the same team, but it’s just sometimes those things happen.

“You have to try to adjust as best you can.”

Syracuse tried to adjust, but it was unable to do so. Against Maryland, the Terrapins went on a run with Grant sidelined. They climbed back into the game and nearly upset the Orange.

On Saturday at John Paul Jones Arena, the same scenario unfolded. This time, though, Virginia completed what only two other teams have done this year. And the Cavaliers did so decisively.

“We know we need him out there for the inside presence because he’s a lanky guy and he’s really athletic,” Keita said. “He’s hurt right now, so we’re just going to deal with it.”

Even in the first half, Grant wasn’t himself.

He stayed in the locker room for Syracuse’s first shoot around before tipoff, but warmed up right before the game and started. He appeared fine beforehand, but once the game started he looked out of whack.

Grant airballed a baseline jumper and heard it from the Cavalier fans. Later in the half, he spun through the lane and missed a layup badly.

He looked stiff and didn’t have the mobility that typically defines and showcases his athleticism.

Going forward, Keita believes the key for Syracuse is to be at full health entering the NCAA Tournament. Whether that means getting Grant back next game or not for a couple games remains to be seen. Keita just wants him to be healthy.

“I think his back is fine,” Keita said. “We’re going to tell him, ‘Don’t force it. Just play when you feel comfortable and 100 percent.’ I’d rather have him 100 percent than have him 75 percent now.”

There’s a hole to be filled, but SU guard Tyler Ennis is confident Michael Gbinije and Tyler Roberson will step up to the challenge.

“You can’t really replace Jerami,” Ennis said, “but our other guys came in.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

JERAMI GRANT goes up for a layup in SU’s loss at Virginia. Grant played just 13 minutes and was forced to sit out the second half with a sore back. sam maller staff photographer

Ennis sits late with foul trouble; Virginia fans storm court

By Stephen Bailey and Trevor Hass the daily orange

For the first time all season, Tyler Ennis was forced to sit down with Syracuse in a tight game late in the second half.

After being called for a charge with 9:10 left in regulation and the Orange trailing Virginia 46-42, Ennis sat for the next 2:20 as the Cavaliers pushed their lead to 52-45.

“I know my team needs me late in the game to make plays,” Ennis said, “so I can’t be in that position on the bench.”

Ennis ultimately fouled out with No. 4 SU’s (26-3, 13-3 Atlantic Coast) 75-56 loss well cemented, finishing with 13 points on 4-of-11 shooting and four assists. He picked up two charge calls and a hasty third foul in transition that kept him sidelined during part of the No. 12 Cavaliers’ (25-5, 16-1) 33-14 gameclosing run.

While the freshman point guard has picked up four fouls in five other games this season, that hadn’t forced him off the court in crunch time of a close game until Saturday.

“I thought a couple of the plays I could’ve avoided fouls with the charges,” Ennis said.

“But I’ve got to play smarter down the stretch.”

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim declined to comment on the charge calls, the second of which led him to sarcastically wave his hand toward the court. The Orange has been on

both the winning and losing side of block or charge calls in recent weeks.

A charge on C.J. Fair helped No. 6 Duke beat the Orange on Feb. 22, while a no-call on Baye Moussa Keita allowed SU to hold off Maryland last Saturday.

Boeheim did say that he thought the importance of Ennis’ foul trouble paled in comparison to SU’s perimeter defense. The Cavaliers shot 7-of-11 from 3-point range in the second half.

“I don’t think that was a factor that much,” Boeheim said of Ennis.

When Ennis returned to the court, he was put in a position that the Orange centers have often found themselves in this season.

But he didn’t appear to play hesitantly, despite the defense’s struggles.

Keita said that’s the approach the whole team has taken this season.

Said Keita: “When we play, we just go ahead and play hard. It doesn’t matter how many fouls we have or what’s the score.

“We’re just going to play every single play like it’s our last.”

Virginia fans storm court after win, provide raucous playing environment When Virginia was wrapping up its win and a matter of minutes separated the Cavaliers from their first unshared Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title since 1981, a mes-

sage appeared on the big screen.

It reminded fans not to rush the court when the game was over. A smattering of boos echoed through John Paul Jones Arena, as the fans that watched their team dismantle the Orange voiced their displeasure.

But they weren’t going to be stopped by a message on the board. When the final buzzer sounded, fans rushed the court and partied like it was 1981. They were exuberant and noisy — like they were all game.

“Last time I heard it that loud, I was at the Taylor Swift concert,” Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said. “I remember I sat there and there were 14,000 teenage girls screaming and I was like ‘I wonder if we can get it like this for a game.’

“And I’m telling you something. It either rivaled or surpassed it. It was that good.”

Fans frolicked all night long, throwing streamers into the air, chanting “A-C-C” as the clock wound down and jumping as music blared from the loudspeaker.

The postgame celebration wasn’t the typical full-fledged storming at first, though. Security guards in vibrant yellow jackets watched as fans trickled onto the court with orange shirts and clever signs. They tried to keep the madness to a minimum.

Once the fans got there, though, the chaos entered full swing. Fans hoisted other fans in the air. They swung their fists. Virginia players

even cut down the net.

The fans and players celebrated what many people deemed a longshot at the start of the season. With Syracuse, Duke, North Carolina and Pittsburgh at the forefront of the ACC, a Virginia regular-season title didn’t seem likely.

But the Cavaliers are regular-season champions. Fans were fired up from the get-go.

There was a “Tele-Tobey” costume and sign for Virginia forward Mike Tobey. There was a “London #23 Piranhas” sign accompanied by a string of piranhas with London Perrantes’ face on it. There was even an enormous Dick Vitale head that Dickie V himself posed with before the game.

“I knew it was going to be electric,” Bennett said, “but that crowd gives you something defensively. I mean it was special how intense it was in there, and the passion you got from it.”

Boeheim wasn’t convinced the crowd affected Syracuse. Crowds don’t win games, he said.

Players and coaches do.

Said Boeheim: “The only thing different about this place is their players. There’s no place that scores points. No fans that score points.

“It’s all myth, mythology that we like to build up.” sebail01@syr.edu, tbhass@syr.edu @Stephen_Bailey1, @TrevorHass

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virginia-mlax X handicapped the Orange’s attack and leaves SU still looking for its first ACC win after two tries.

The faceoff guys weren’t the only issue, though. The Cavaliers killed the Orange in ground balls, 51-to-22, and scooped up plenty of loose balls that Desko said his team should have picked up after the faceoff whistle.

“The times we did get it out,” Desko said, “their wings beat us to the ball. That was disappointing.”

Syracuse did grab a pair of early draws, and built an early 3-0 first-quarter lead off of them.

But when Parks and SU senior Chris Daddio lined up for a faceoff at the 5:59 mark, Parks ran off with it in a heartbeat. Sophomore attack James Pannell scored his first of seven goals on that possession and the game was Virginia’s from there on.

To start the second frame, Daddio won the faceoff himself, but his pass for Dylan Donahue was deflected, picked up by UVA’s Joseph Lisicky and taken down the other way for a goal.

“Dumb mistakes,” midfielder Scott Loy said.

“You got to cherish your possessions, which we didn’t a lot of the times. Those few turnovers make or break the game.”

Daddio managed to win his team a total of five possessions in the first half and SU only trailed 8-6. But in the second frame, Parks took 13-of-15 against whomever Desko sent out there.

Faceoff specialists Mike Iacono and Austin Wentworth, and long-stick midfielder Peter Macartney each were thrown into the mix.

Combined, they went just 2-for-9 against Parks, who was too quick to the ball for SU. “Once you start shuffling our guys around and their guy’s still going after it and after it, he’s going to get more and more comfortable,” said Daddio, who finished 5-for-22. “But I don’t argue with the coaches’ decision. I wasn’t winning, so you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.”

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Cavalier fans that stormed the court.

“I thought for a couple of weeks that they’ve been by far the best team,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said of the Cavaliers after the game.

In John Paul Jones Arena, Virginia was the better team, by far, as all of the Orange’s glaring weaknesses exposed in the past few weeks reached a new level.

Virginia manhandled SU in the second half, hitting seven 3s en route to a 35-16 run to close the game. The score was once tied at 42, but that’s when Syracuse fell apart.

Three after 3 soared through the net as the Orange was unable to match UVA’s firepower from downtown.

“In two of our three losses, that’s been the difference in the game,” Boeheim said.

“We just did not do a good job guarding the 3-point line. Period.”

And while Justin Anderson — who led the Cavaliers with three triples — and Co. were canning 3s, Syracuse was rendered inept offensively.

It was forced to play the entire second half without Grant for the second straight game. Syracuse survived without him against Maryland, but couldn’t do so against the Cavaliers.

It’s unclear how long Grant will be sidelined, but if he misses time going forward, SU’s front line becomes that much thinner.

Staying out of foul trouble becomes that much more critical for the oft-out-of-position Rakeem Christmas and Baye Moussa Keita.

That means that Tyler Roberson may see some minutes, as he did against UVA. “When (Grant’s) out, guys are going to have to step up and fill that role,” guard

RANDY STAATS trudges off the field following SU’s 17-12 loss at Virginia. The Orange fell behind because it was unable to win at the faceoff X. UVA faceoff specialist Mick Parks dominated SU, winning 24 of the 31 faceoffs on the night. spencer bodian staff photographer

But when the Orange wasn’t committing one of its 12 turnovers or stuck playing defense because of UVA’s faceoff dominance, its attack was efficient and kept Syracuse in the game.

Although the Orange mustered just 1-of-9 faceoffs in the third quarter, a 3-1 run kept SU down by just a goal. But the Cavaliers netted four goals in the last seven minutes of the third to take Trevor Cooney said. “We’ll be fine.”

We’ll be fine.

It’s a phrase Syracuse players said when they were winning close games. They said it after the Boston College and Duke losses.

And it was the theme of a generally somber locker room after the loss to Virginia.

Though the players were somewhat dejected, they gave the same even-keeled answers they have all year.

“Just a season of runs. Teams get hot, teams cool down,” Gbinije said. “This is definitely something that we can bounce back from.”

It certainly is. It’s only one game. But at some point, Syracuse fans have to worry.

This isn’t the team it was a few weeks ago.

An aura of invincibility no longer follows the Orange everywhere it goes. As Boeheim mentioned, UVA was the first game all season SU wasn’t within striking distance in the final five minutes.

“That’s going to happen some games,” Keita said. “You can’t play great offense every game. I think this was one of those games. We were in a slump a little bit.”

But that slump has been painfully dragged out over a month-long stretch. We’ve witnessed a team go from untouchable to battered. From undefeated to knocked-off three times in just 10 days.

And from the groom of the ACC to the clear-cut groomsman.

There’s still time for Syracuse to go out on top in its first year in the ACC, but the Orange better turn things around quickly.

The conference tournament’s less than two weeks away. If SU wants to earn a No. 1 seed, it’ll have to start playing like one.

Trevor Hass is an asst. sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at tbhass@

a three-goal advantage into the fourth quarter.

Hakeem Lecky’s fourth goal brought the Orange within two at 14-12, but Park beat Macartney for the next faceoff and Zed Williams’ goal on that possession sparked a 3-0 closing spurt for Virginia that ultimately finished the game.

It doesn’t bode well for Syracuse that Desko has bigger concerns than his team’s 0-2 start to

its ACC era. Until the Orange finds consistency at the faceoff X, it might be a while before it finds its first conference win.

“Believe it or not, I thought we got better as a team tonight,” Desko said. “We got better as a team but it wasn’t good enough to beat Virginia.

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LONDON PERRANTES celebrates following Virginia’s 75-56 win over Syracuse on Saturday. His two second half 3s were daggers for the Orange, and the Cavaliers ended the game on a 33-14 run. The loss was the third in Syracuse’s last four games. sam maller staff photographer

No. 12 Virginia throttles No. 4 Syracuse for ACC regular-season title

By Stephen Bailey sports editor

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HARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A sea of orange-clad fans scurried onto the court. A star player jumped onto a chair. A head coach wiped tears of joy from his face.

The Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season championship

had just been determined and nets would soon be cut down.

But the Syracuse players were walking the other way.

“This is the first game all year that we were out of,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said. “It’s the first time that we’ve been out of the game in the last five minutes.”

It was Virginia’s fans who stormed the John Paul Jones Arena

court and celebrated winning what many called the most important game played in Charlottesville in more than two decades. The No. 12 Cavaliers (25-5, 16-1 Atlantic Coast) beat No. 4 Syracuse (26-3, 13-3) 75-56 in front of a sold-out crowd of 14,593 on Saturday, sealing their first outright regular-season title since 1981.

Justin Anderson and fresh-

man London Perrantes led a 35-16 second-half run, as the Orange struggled to close out defensively and maintain its offensive rhythm without forward Jerami Grant, who missed the second half with a sore back.

With the defeat — Syracuse’s third in four games — it loses out on the top seed in the ACC tournament, see virginia-mbb page 15

HARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Two weeks ago, Syracuse was undefeated.

The Orange was letting teams hang around, but disposing of them in the final minutes.

Everything was golden in Syracuse.

But now, after surTREVOR HASS rendering 48 WITH NO R EGA R D FOR points to No. 12 HUM AN LIFE Virginia (25-5, 16-1 Atlantic Coast) in the second half and losing 75-56 on Saturday night, No. 4 Syracuse (26-3, 13-3) has dropped three of its last four games.

Syracuse is still fully capable of winning the ACC tournament. It’s still capable of getting a No. 1 seed in the Big Dance. And it’s still capable of cutting down the nets in April.

But the Orange needs to play better if any of those three things are to happen. Much better.

Without a healthy Jerami Grant, a consistently clicking offense or an effective 3-point defense, Syracuse is more vulnerable than it has been all season.

“It’s definitely frustrating,” SU guard Michael Gbinije said. “From a player’s eyes, you kind of look at one game at a time. You just want to win every game.”

Now NCAA Tournament games in Buffalo and Madison Square Garden are no longer inevitable.

The shirts that prematurely read “All Cuse Conference” are erroneous. It was an “All Cavalier Conference” Saturday night, as one sign read amid a swarm of raucous

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DEFACED: Struggles at faceoff X hurt Syracuse in loss to UVA

By Phil D’Abbraccio asst. copy editor

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — For all the troubles that Syracuse has already encountered at the faceoff X, Virginia

supposedly had it even worse.

Going into Saturday night’s game, the Cavaliers boasted a 46 percent success rate at the X to the Orange’s 51.6.

But after one look at the final stat sheet two hours after the opening draw, that

certainly doesn’t seem like the case.

“We were prepared coming into this game as far as who they were offensively and defensively,” SU head coach John Desko said. “The one guy who did surprise us was the faceoff

man. We didn’t think he was going to win that many tonight.”

No. 6 Syracuse tried throwing four different faceoff specialists at the X to disrupt UVA junior Mick Parks, but nothing worked.

The Cavaliers (6-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) swiped 24-of-31 faceoffs en route to a 17-12 beating of Syracuse (2-2, 0-2) on Saturday night in front of 5,102 at Klockner Stadium. Difficulties at the see virginia-mlax page 19