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Firing squad Vicki Ho analyzes the firing of

That’s amore SU alumnus shares his love for pizza with

Benefits of relocation The DePaul program is head coach Oliver Purnell’s latest

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top Dior designer John Galliano.

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rebuilding project. Page 17

Pell Grants could face large cuts

By Mark Cooper Asst. Sports Editor

Alyssa McKinley knows the importance of the Pell Grant Program. So much so that she wouldn’t be attending Syracuse University without it.

“If it wasn’t for the federal aid I got, I would be going to community college,” said McKinley, a sophomore television, radio and film major. “No doubt.”

With the ongoing proposals and debates in Washington, D.C., on cutting spending from the federal budget, Pell Grants could be on

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Student shuttle to Wegmans, Target to begin Saturday Staff Writer

Shay Frey and her roommate once had to take a bus to the Regional Transportation Center near Carousel Center and then transfer to another bus to make the trip to Wegmans.

Now the 4.9-mile trip from College Place to Wegmans will become easier because Student Association is funding a bus shuttling Syracuse University students to Target and

By Breanne Van Nostrand Staff Writer

Samantha davis and stephanie tardugno (LEFT TO RIGHT), a junior fashion design major and a sophomore in the S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications, respectively, look on as the DanceWorks club runs through a rehearsal of “Cirque Du Cuse” in Goldstein Audiorium in Schine Student Center on Wednesday. The show premieres Friday at 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium. DanceWorks is celebrating 25 years at Syracuse University. Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office. Tickets are $4 with a SUID and $7 for general admission.

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Protest planned for best-selling author’s book

Wegmans bus

The Student Association-funded bus will shuttle SU students to Target and Wegmans.

Where: College Place When: 1 p.m. Saturday How much: Free Wegmans beginning Saturday.

If all goes well, SA plans to run the bus every Saturday until April 30, excluding March 12 and 19 because of

Spring Break, said Taylor Carr, chair of SA’s Student Life Committee.

There are more than 960 people attending the event on Saturday, according to the Facebook page made for the event, but Carr said he doubts that many people will actually be there.

The first bus will leave College Place at 1 p.m. It will then travel to Goldstein Student Center to pick up students who live on South Campus

and arrive at the Target in Fayetteville, the first stop, at 1:28 p.m., Carr said.

The bus will then travel to the Wegmans in Dewitt, arriving at 1:40 p.m.

The bus will run loops to these four locations until the last bus leaves College Place at 5 p.m. The final loop will pick up students from Target at 6:28 p.m. and from Wegmans at 6:40 p.m.

It will arrive at College Place at 7 p.m.

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A group of students plan to protest apparent racism in one of political commentator Michelle Malkin’s books when the author and blogger

“Repressive Civility and the Criminalization of Conservatism” The Syracuse University College Republicans is bringing Michelle Malkin to speak.

Where: Maxwell When: 7 p.m.

How much: Free

speaks on campus Thursday.

Malkin will present the lecture “Repressive Civility and the Criminalization of Conservatism” on Thursday in Maxwell Auditorium at 7 p.m. The lecture will address

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Guild to add local student opportunities

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lisa kahaleole hall , speaks Wednesday in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in E.S. Bird Library. She shared her recent work on women of color and queer of color cultural production in the 1980s and 1990s in the lecture, “Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something.” The talk analyzed conditions that helped produce the work during those decades. Hall is the chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. She has a Ph.D. in ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Now settled into its new location downtown, the Syracuse Innovators Guild is looking to explore more opportunities to work with students at Syracuse University and area schools.

Syracuse native Mo Morsi is the co-founder and vice president of the guild, an organization that offers people a “hackerspace,” or a place to work on collaborative projects while socializing and having fun.

“Hackerspaces around the world have formed with the concept that if you bring smart people together and give them the resources, they will do cool things,” Morsi said.

Morsi said he saw the need in the Syracuse community for a space where people could meet and socialize. The guild moved into its current location at 224 Harrison St. in Syracuse in January.

“Home is where the heart is,” he said in an e-mail. “Syracuse needs this. We need the hacker spirit. We need people to come together to innovate while having fun at the same time.”

The creators met in February

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Alumna to focus on healthy eating habits Authors to speak on issues facing city school systems

By Valentina Palladino Contributing Writer

Amid the greasy foods that fill college dining halls, an alumna of Syracuse University’s nutrition program is working to emphasize the body image of healthy eating habits.

Stop Counting, Start Living

A discussion with dietician Cynthia Sass.

Where: Heroy Auditorium When: 7 p.m.

How much: Free Cynthia Sass, a nationally acclaimed registered dietitian, will lead the discussion “Stop Counting, Start Living” on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Heroy Auditorium. The discussion will center on taking food’s focus off calories to produce healthier eating habits and on the American culture’s relationship with body image, according to an SU New Services press release on Feb 22.

At the discussion, Sass will also

highlight her newest book, “Cinch!

Conquer Cravings, Drop Pounds and Lose Inches,” which helps readers understand the effects healthy eating habits have on bodies and minds, according to the release. The discussion is sponsored by the Nutrition Education and Promotion Association, the Joan Christy Food and Culture Program, and the College of Human Ecology.

College is a constant nutritional challenge with dining hall meals and fast-food chains often providing most students’ meals, said Angela Fish, president of the Nutrition Education and Promotion Association.

Pressures to maintain a certain body image can lead to extreme dieting and excessive calorie counting, Fish said.

Thursday’s discussion aims to challenge popular body images and educate students of the various ways food can provide nutrients and health if it is consumed smartly, Fish said. She said she also hopes Sass will show nutrition students how to use their education in new

“I think Cynthia Sass shows how much you can do with a background in nutrition. It’s important for students to know their options as nutrition majors.”

Angela Fish

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ways after graduation.

“I think Cynthia Sass shows how much you can do with a background in nutrition,” Fish said. “It’s important for students to know their options as nutrition majors.”

A three-time New York Times bestselling author, Sass co-authored “Flat Belly Diet!” and “The Flat Belly Diet! see sass page 6

By Nick Gallagher Warren Staff Writer

Urban schools face problems not because of the students but because of the system they are in, according to a book by three professors from New York City.

“Our Schools Suck”

The authors of the 2009 book will speak to students as part of the School of Education’s Landscape of Urban Education lecture series.

Where: 220 Eggers Hall When: 4 p.m.

How much: Free Gaston Alonso, Celina Su and Jeanne Theoharis, authors of “Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education,” will speak Thursday at 4 p.m. in 220 Eggers Hall. Their lecture is part of Syracuse University’s School of Education’s Landscape of Urban Education Lecture Series.

Their book, released in 2009, details the problems of urban education and who is to blame for them.

The three are all associate professors of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and wrote their book to shed light onto the growing problems facing public education, especially in urban areas, according to the book’s website. In the book, the authors discuss the root of these problems by including the voice of young black and Latino students who are told they are the problem with the public school system, according to the website.

George Theoharis, associate professor in SU’s School of Education and a coordinator, said the book is unique because it looks at urban education from the rarely seen perspective of the urban student.

“Hopefully, the lecture will challenge students’ assumptions of urban see schools page 6

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Acquittal of antigay church affirms First Amendment let ter to the editor The 6-foot tall letters that sprawl around Newhouse III serve as a constant reminder to me of the sometimes overlooked tangibility of our First Amendment rights as Americans. My political science education at Syracuse University also serves as a constant reminder to me of the magnitude of our freedoms as Americans and how we take for granted the preponderance of things we’re allowed to do, without a fear of our government.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, the famously antigay, antimilitary and antipretty-much-everything. The “church” was sued after it protested the funeral of fallen marine Matthew Snyder in 2006 and caused “emotional distress” to the family.

What a paradox.

There will always be debates about where free speech ends. But it’s even harder to protect the people who use that freedom to revile the very people who give them the protection to speak.

Confused? Me too.

There is no doubt that publicly disparaging someone who gave up his or her life for the country is despicable, but the Supreme Court made the right ruling. As long as the “church” protests within the confines outlined by the city it protests in, it should be able to say whatever it wants.

We all have things we’re passionate about.

Even though these people may be brainwashed to hate or operate under indisposed, misguided opinions, they still have a right to express whatever they want so long as it’s not an immediate threat to anyone’s physical health. If they are passionate enough to travel all over the country and spend all this money defending themselves in courts of law, then they should be allowed to protest.

The ruling disgusts me as much as the next guy, but we can’t let an extremely small minority of disillusioned people operating under foolish pretenses distract us from the fundamental freedoms we hold true as Americans.

David Hess Kaplan

Junior broadcast journalism, political science and history major

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As Pell Grants face massive cuts, SU must aid current students before future students A bill sitting in the Senate could slash billions of dollars in Pell Grant awards, which the federal government disburses to help lower-income students pay for college. Syracuse University officials said they have yet to decide how they will act if Congress signs these massive cuts into law.

About 26 percent of the campus is eligible for the Pell Grant; this statistic includes several members of this Editorial Board. Cuts to this important program could throw into jeopardy many students’ ability to stay at SU. University officials must help alleviate, as best they can, the financial burden the potential cuts could have on current

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Last spring, several University Senate members expressed concern about the rising discount rate. They worried SU could not sustain the expensive and vast amount of financial aid it offers students. Financial sustainability must be a priority, but the university must do whatever it can to ensure the students who have already invested money, time and work and have established lifelong relationships at this school will stay.

Students receiving Pell Grants

came to this school believing a portion of the cost would be covered with no long-term debt. So universitysponsored loans are not ideal, especially if these students will already struggle paying back housing, supplies or other incurred loans upon graduation.

For the officials drafting the budget for the next fiscal year: Allocating money to current students must take priority over disbursing money for next year’s and future incoming freshmen. Hearts break when a junior or senior must leave the school and start over elsewhere because college became unforeseeably too expensive.

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Firing of top Dior designer throws fashion world into frenzy

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t’s the end of a fashion era.

On Tuesday, officials from the renowned fashion label Christian Dior announced their decision to fire their creative director and famed couturier John Galliano. A video of an inebriated Galliano surfaced on the Internet Tuesday, recording him making anti-Semitic remarks at a café in Paris.

Comments filmed on camera included Galliano saying, “I love Hitler” and “Your mothers and forefathers would all be gassed,” according to an article published in The New York Times on Tuesday.

The fashion industry seems to be split in its reaction toward Galliano’s slip of the mouth. On the one hand, you have people like Natalie Portman, a spokeswoman for Dior who happens to be of Jewish descent, condemning Galliano for his actions and refusing to be associated with him in any way. You also have equally respected designers, such as Karl Lagerfeld, ashamed and angry with Galliano for putting him and the

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industry that birthed him into such a negative light.

“I’m furious with him,” said Lagerfeld in an article published in Women’s Wear Daily on Monday.

Then you have the other half of the fashion industry: people who know Galliano on a personal level and are quick to defend him. Such people include Patricia Field, a “Sex and the City” wardrobe stylist and designer, who sent an e-mail blast in support of Galliano.

“But people don’t recognize the farce in it. All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s OK when it’s Mel Brooks,” Field said to Women’s Wear Daily.

Though Galliano’s future lays in a standstill in the fashion world and in the legal world — defamation and insult is illegal under French law, and one could be subject to six months to one year in prison — one more question remains at a standstill: Who will take over as the creative director of Dior?

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i’m judging you including Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue UK and Fashionista.com, CEO Bernard Arnault of LVMH — the luxury giant that owns brands such as Dior, Givenchy, Celine and Louis Vuitton — will likely choose Dior’s successor within the corporation as it is the best and most secure decision. This means Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, Phoebe Philo of Celine and Marc Jacobs of Louis Vuitton are all in the forefront of one of the biggest fashion shufflings to date.

Experts flagged other fashion bigwigs outside of LVMH, such as Alber Elbaz of Lanvin; Christian Lacroix, prominent couturier; and Stefano Pilati of Yves Saint Laurent.

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I’m not much of a bookie, but if I had to put my college savings into fashion’s roulette table, my money is on the following three people: Jacobs, Lacroix and Tisci.

Jacobs has done great work for Louis Vuitton, but the brand goes down in history as much more of a leather goods label than a fashion label. In this case, sometimes it’s better to stick with what a company knows best. Jacobs hasn’t had the opportunity to showcase his ability at couture fashion in neither Louis Vuitton nor his eponymous label.

With such talent, Jacobs could flourish at a brand like Dior.

Lacroix would be a bold move on Arnault’s part because he isn’t apart of LVMH and has been out of the fashion industry since his own label filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

This opportunity, however, would be a great comeback for one of the best couture designers in history.

Lacroix’s creativity could change the Dior label’s aesthetics in a new and exciting way.

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Tisci is the safety net in LVMH for me. Similar to Galliano’s reputation at Dior, Tisci truly made Givenchy into the brand it is today.

And with his experience in couture design, the transition would be an easy one. Galliano also started in Givenchy before making his move to Dior, so if Tisci follows in his footsteps, the eerie resemblance could easily raise goose bumps in the fashion industry.

Whoever Arnault decides on for Dior, it will truly be ground shaking, as if the drama in Galliano’s life isn’t enough of a fashion earthquake already. It will be interesting to see what unfolds in the news in the next few days, as I’m sure all fashionistas are thriving on this newfound energy.

After all, what is fashion without a little bit of drama?

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

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the chopping block. The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill, H.R. 1, that cuts about $ 60 billion from the federal budget, including $ 5.7 billion from the Pell Grant Program, according to a U.S. News and World Report article published March 2.

For each individual student, passage of the bill would result in an $845 reduction on the maximum Pell Grant available, which is currently $5,550 per year, according to the article.

SU has not made a decision on what will happen if the Pell Grant Program loses funding, said Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid. The university will consider everything from increasing loans by a small amount to looking into if SU will put in more money from its own resources to fund the difference, she said.

Copeland-Morgan said the university is committed to ensuring that students will have the financial aid needed to attend SU, even if the Pell Grant Program is partially cut.

“Obviously there are a set of discussions that will need to take place to talk about how we make adjustments, to make sure that we can keep our commitment to our continuing students. And that’s the message we’re giving to our students,” she said.

For the incoming freshman class, merit and financial aid are given out when the students

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students and maybe change students’ minds about urban education,” he said.

George also said he is excited about what the three speakers can add to the School of Education’s series and proud to see his sister, Jeanne, present her work.

“One of my favorite things about her lecture is that my colleagues were the ones who wanted to bring her, Su and Alonso to SU, which means my sister is getting recognition for her work without me advocating for it,” George said.

John Jardin, a sophomore education and mathematics major, said he is interested to learn more about the issues discussed in “Our Schools Suck.”

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the necessity of free speech, according to an e-mail statement from the Syracuse University College Republicans, the group hosting the event.

Malkin is a New York Times bestselling author, political commentator and blogger known for her conservative views. She often makes appearances on the Fox News Channel.

The event is a chance to hear from a wide range of political opinions at SU, according to the College Republicans statement.

The College Republicans are happy to bring Malkin, according to the statement. But not all students are pleased with the decision to bring in Malkin, author of “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror,” which was published in 2004. Malkin argues the creation of internment camps for JapaneseAmericans was not fueled by racism but by a

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receive their admissions decision in late March, Copeland-Morgan said. But she said there’s no guarantee the federal government will have decided its cuts by then.

“We’ll have to just look at everything that we’re doing and make the best decision that we can, fully being aware that we may not have enough info by the time we have to award our freshman students,” CopelandMorgan said.

Copeland-Morgan said the university hopes to see the government progress and clarify the issue by late March, when financial aid and scholarship packages are given out to incoming freshmen. Resolving the issue would not only be beneficial for SU but for students as well. She said she wants to make sure the process does not derail a student’s confidence about the affordability of college.

SU sent out an e-mail Feb. 24 informing students of the potential cuts to federal student aid.

The e-mail encouraged students to take action by sending personal e-mails to U.S. representatives and senators about what the Pell Grant means to them.

SU’s Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs worked with the Office of Government and Community Relations to send out the e-mail, Copeland-Morgan said.

Beth Rougeux, associate vice president of government and community relations for the university, signed the e-mail. She said the bill will move to the Senate now that it has been passed by the House. The Senate will propose its own version of the bill as well.

Since the federal budget for the 2011 fiscal year hasn’t been passed yet, it makes things

“Hopefully the lecture will challenge students’ assumptions of urban students and maybe change students’ minds about urban education.”

George Theoharis

Associate professor in School of Education

“As someone going into education, I see that there are some flaws in the public school system,” Jardin said. “And I am interested to see what changes current educators think need to be made.” ndgallag@syr.edu

genuine security need, according to the book jacket.

Second-year College of Law student Laura Hirahara is the granddaughter of two Japanese-Americans who met at a preliminary holding center before they were sent to an internment camp in Arkansas. When a classmate invited her to Malkin’s speech Friday, she was angered by Malkin’s views regarding internment and was reminded of her grandparents’ negative feelings toward the issue, Hirahara said.

After reading part of the book and watching numerous videos and interviews on YouTube, Hirahara said she decided to organize the protest against the “radical and racist” ideas Malkin presents in the book.

Hirahara said protestors plan to meet at the law school at 5:30 p.m. to organize and make signs before moving outside to Maxwell at 6 p.m., where Malkin’s speech will take place.

Information regarding the protest was distributed to both law and undergraduate stu-

“If it wasn’t for the federal aid I got, I would be going to community college. No doubt.”

Alyssa McKinley

Sophomore television, radio and film major

even more complicated, she said.

“Right now it’s hard to tell what’s going to happen, and that’s why it’s important that people make calls or e-mails so that they can let people know that this is important to them,” Rougeux said. “As soon as we hear, we’ll also get that info to our students.”

In the meantime, McKinley, the sophomore who uses a Pell Grant, plans to appeal to her representative.

“I’m definitely planning on filling that out,” McKinley said. “I need my Pell Grant desperately.”

McKinley also said she hopes the university will help her out if she needs it following a federal aid cut.

Neal Casey, Student Association president, said it’s the obligation and civic duty of every student to let their representatives know how their legislation will affect them.

“A lot of students do not follow politics as closely as some people think they should,” he said. “So it’s the university’s job and our job as a student government to let them know what’s happening. Because these students could potentially affect a student’s ability to attend college.”

By The Numbers Current proposals in the nation’s capital regarding federal budget spending cuts would affect the value of Pell Grants, which low-income undergraduates around the country receive each year.

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The dollar amount, in billions, that would be cut from the federal budget because of a bill passed recently by the U.S. House of Representatives. For the cuts to happen, the U.S. Senate must approve the bill.

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The dollar amount, in billions, that would be cut from the Pell Grant Program as part of the $60 billion cut from the federal budget.

845

The dollar amount that would be cut from the maximum Pell Grant for each individual student with the passage of the bill in the U.S. Senate.

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The dollar amount of the current maximum Pell Grant available to individual students.

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The dollar amount of the maximum Pell Grant if the bill is passed in the U.S. Senate.

Source: U.S. News & World Report article published March 2

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Cookbook” before writing “Cinch!” Currently she works as a contributing editor, blogger and columnist for Shape magazine and regularly contributes to publications such as Remedy magazine, Tennis magazine and Athlete’s Quarterly, according to the SU news release.

Sass is also one of the first registered dietitians to earn board certification as a specialist in sports dietetics, and she serves as the sports nutritionist for the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Rays, according to the release.

Sass’ discussion at SU and the information from her book should give insight on how students can implement nutritious eating strategies into daily routines, said Marissa Donovan, fundraising chair for the Nutrition

dents by e-mail, and multiple peers expressed interest, Hirahara said. A Facebook event page was created for the protest and lists fewer than 20 students as “attending.”

The protest, considered a “waste of time” by some, is not intended to spur a debate of party politics but rather to shed light on Malkin’s statements, Hirahara said. The last chapter of Malkin’s book uses the act of internment to justify the present national security policy, including the detainment of Arabs and Muslims in the United States, according to a statement on the protest’s Facebook page.

“This isn’t an issue of liberals versus conservatives,” Hirahara said. “It’s an issue of racism.”

Third-year law student Cindy Trinh was involved in helping Hirahara spread the word about the protest and said she felt strongly toward the issue due to her Asian-American descent.

Trinh said the protest is an effort to expose the radical and irresponsible claims

Education and Promotion Association.

“We thought Cynthia Sass would be a good role model to explain how healthy eating can fit into any lifestyle and how it can become a natural thing people don’t always have to think about,” Donovan said.

Laura Hollahan, a sophomore psychology major, said she thinks Sass’ discussion will be a useful forum for students to learn the connections between body image and food.

The discussion will also be useful for students to learn how to get the most from meals rather than just totaling calories, Hollahan said.

“I think if you focus on eating nutritionally, you’re more likely to have a better body image,” Hollahan said. “You gain a better outlook on what you’re eating if you think of food as nutrients rather than just a bunch of numbers and calories.” vlpallad@syr.edu

Malkin has made. The protestors will hand out f liers with facts about the book and hold signs, but they are unsure about whether or not they will attend the speech, Trinh said.

She mentioned the possibility of expressing disagreement should Malkin hold a Q-and-A session.

In the College Republicans statement, the organization emphasized its mission to serve as a point of congregation for conservative students, not to impose its views.

“It must be stressed that our mission as a student organization is not to impose our views.

Instead, we strive to serve as a point of congregation for conservative students,” according to the statement.

Igor Gitstein, treasurer for the College Republicans, said he was fine with students voicing their opinions.

“Everyone has a right to their own opinion, this is the United States,” Gitstein said. “We welcome all opinions.” brvannos@syr.edu

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Some local unions oppose Common Council’s decision to amend living wage law for airport concession workers

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oncession workers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport learned Monday their employer, Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services, no longer has to abide by the city’s living wage law.

The living wage law was enacted in 2005 and guarantees all city employees, or employees of companies under city contract, a minimum wage of $10.08 per hour with health benefits or $11.91 without health benefits. The Syracuse Common Council voted 6-2 in favor of amending the living wage law at Monday’s meeting, meaning Delaware North does not have to follow the city’s living wage law.

Some local unions, including the Unite Here Local 150 and the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed the amendment.

Jeff Bellamy, executive director of the Syracuse Alliance for a New Economy, said he was at the meeting to support the living wage ordinance and opposed amending it.

“It takes true courage and true fight to enforce the living wage,” he said.

Delaware North threatened to leave the airport if forced to abide by the ordinance, which would leave the airport without a vendor. Ann Marie Taliercio, president of the Local 150 union, said she believes it was an empty threat and cited a recently

settled lawsuit between Delaware North and Los Angeles.

Delaware North spent eight years in court battling the enforcement of Los Angeles’ living wage, which requires employers to pay their employees $14 an hour and provide complete family medical coverage, according to a notice to correct form from Los Angeles’ office of contract appliance. Delaware North lost the lawsuit and was forced to pay eight years in back wages, according to the notice. The company remains at the site today.

Syracuse issued a request for proposals last fall asking for potential vendors to fill the space at the airport. The request for proposals offered a two- or three-year contract and required more than $1 million in capital improvements. No one replied. Taliercio said she spoke with two companies, and they said “no one will bid on a short-term contract with high upfront investment” because the companies are not given a fair opportunity to make back their money.

While campaigning for office, Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said the airport concession workers were covered by the living wage law, according to an article published in The Post-Standard on March 30, 2009. Before becoming mayor, Miner also represented employees and unions as a labor lawyer starting in the late ’90s.

“What we’ve seen from the administra-

tion is a deep ambivalence about the living wage,” Miner said in the article. “It is the law of Syracuse to pay the living wage, and the administration has put forward flimsy legal rationales to avoid it.”

Phone calls to the mayor’s office seeking comment were not returned.

Not all speakers at the meeting were opposed to the amendment. The two Delaware North employees, Cindy Summerford and Karen Kimball, attended the council meeting to show their support for it.

Summerford, an employee of 45 years, and Kimball, an employee of 24 years, asked the council to pass the amendment so they

could keep their jobs at the airport.

Job losses shouldn’t have been a concern because the Local 150 changes companies all the time, and the union doesn’t lose any jobs or benefits, said Taliercio, president of the Local 150 union.

This is not the first time the city has faced issues with the living ordinance.

Patrick O’Halloran, an employee of Murbro Parking in 2008, had to sue the city to receive his living wage that year, according to an article published in The PostStandard on Nov. 9, 2008.

“Unfortunately,” Taliercio said, “the city’s attorneys have attempted to evade the law.” bpfortna@syr.edu

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and Goldstein, the last stop, at 7:07 p.m.

Carr said SA is excited the opportunity to provide this service has finally presented itself. SA’s communications team spread word about the event through SA’s weekly posts, SU News e-mails, Twitter and CitrusTV, he said.

Many students, mainly freshmen, have complained they couldn’t go to the grocery store because they didn’t have cars, said David Woody, an SA assemblymember and former chair of the Student Engagement Committee

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2010 to discuss forming the organization, he said. Although the organization is still in its early days of formation, it became a registered nonprofit in New York in November, Morsi said.

Most of the guild’s events are open to the public and include activities like movie and game nights, a weekly open house, workshops and classes, Morsi said. The guild held an open house Wednesday at 8 p.m. and will host a game night Saturday at 8 p.m., according to the guild’s website. The organization’s first workshop and class will be on March 18 at 7 p.m., according to the website.

The group’s initiative is based on collaboration between people with various interests working on projects in a relaxed and fun atmosphere, he said. It’s up to the members to work on projects they are interested in and

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who first began the initiative.

SA hasn’t been able to start the program in the past because of funding, Woody said, although SA has talked about the program before. Woody could not give the exact cost of providing the service.

When the Student Engagement Committee first attempted to run the bus from campus to Wegmans and Target, the program funding was to be split among SA and the two companies, but one of the two companies chose not to help fund the program during the final step.

Last semester, SA created a student advancement fund, which is meant to prevent similar situations. The fund was designed to help SA fund necessary student services by setting aside

make the most out of the space, Morsi said.

In the future, he said the guild hopes to do more community service projects with local volunteers and bring technology to the community and schools. Several people in the Syracuse City School District and area universities have expressed an interest in doing some projects, such as robotics competitions, with some classes, Morsi said.

The guild’s office is full of gadgets and learning resources, and books in PDF and paper format will be available on various topics, including how to program an iPhone, according to the website. The group is also planning collaborative projects, such as building a giant keyboard for the RockBand video game, according to the website.

“It sounds very innovative,” said Michael Tassini, a sophomore anthropology major. “If it appeals to a lot of people, it could be cool. But it sounds like it would only attract a very specific group.”

a small portion of the student activity fee.

SA did not use the student advancement fund to begin the program this semester. For the trial run, it used money leftover from its operating funds and funding from the Office of Student Affairs. SA is looking into getting funding from elsewhere in the future, said Andrea Rosko, chair of the Board of Elections and Membership Committee.

If this Saturday’s trip goes well, Woody said SA hopes to receive the funding from Wegmans and Target to split the cost of the service with SA and make it a permanent Saturday bus route.

“The plan from the beginning was to get both Target and Wegmans on board and run the

“Home is where the heart is. Syracuse needs this. We need the hacker spirit. We need people to come together to innovate while having fun at the same time.”

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One of the creators of the Syracuse Innovators Guild

Visitors can currently use power tools like resistors and capacitors, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, digital resources, a wireless highspeed network, a projector and other resources at the guild’s office, he said.

Students and adults of all ages frequently

show every Saturday,” Woody said.

Frey, the freshman graphic design major who took the bus to the Regional Transportation Center to reach Wegmans, said she is very excited about the bus service. Frey found out about the Wegmans bus when someone invited her to the event on Facebook, she said.

“It’s a pretty big thing because the people without cars don’t always know people with cars,” Frey said. “It’s nice anyway now that we can just take a bus. I can only imagine the seniors’ feelings without cars.” hawentz@syr.edu — Asst. Copy Editor Laurence Leveille contributed reporting to this article.

visit the space, Morsi said. Many of the current members have a background in areas like software and electronics, he said, but librarians, musicians, mechanical and civil engineers, and businessmen have also shown interest in the organization.

“The idea has a lot of backing,” said Chelsea Kowal, a senior biomedical engineering major.

“Some of the major problems in our society stem from problems with technology, so I think it’s an extremely good idea if you give people access to tools to create things to further their technological ideas.”

The group welcomes donations to keep expanding the variety of resources it offers to the community, and nonmembers are always welcome to visit the office, Morsi said.

“It’s been a great ride, but I just want to have fun, not make this about work or experience,” he said. “It’s just about having fun and nerding, geeking out.” kvdolins@syr.edu

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By Danielle Odiamar Asst. Feature Editor

Last December Marcus Neal, a sophomore computer engineering major, attended a concert called Blush. The show featured three Syracuse University students as the headliners,

Revival concert

A concert by SU students, for SU students Where: Spark Contemporary Art Space When: 8 p.m.

How much: Free rapper Jordan “Jay Foss” Foster and Chemicals of Creation, an electronic and dubstep DJ duo.

Mainly organized by Ade Coker, founder of Act1v Music Agency and an SU graduate student, the show was co-hosted by experience design company Enormo.us, the brainchild of two SU graduate students, David Chenell and Eric Cleckner. The pair worked on the marketing, production and overall theme of the show.

“An artist in that show did a song that I was on, so I jumped onstage, did the hook for it quick and jumped right back offstage,” said Neal, better known by his rap persona Indo. “After the show, I was like, ‘Yo, I gotta get in on the next one,’ and Ade was like, ‘We’ll make it happen.’”

Coker kept his word. On March 4, Act1v Music and Enormo.us will host their second collaborative show, Revival, at the Spark Contemporary Art Space in downtown Syracuse at 8 p.m.

The show’s lineup once again features Jay Foss and Chemicals of Creation, with the addition of Indo. The partnership provides a platform for SU students to collaborate, network and share their passion for their work.

“There are so few outlets for performance outside of just house parties and rapping with friends,” said Foster, a sophomore communication and rhetorical studies major. “This is a cool way of knowing you have a set show.”

The idea behind Revival came from an effort to revitalize people’s energy and enthusiasm through a cohesive blend of different sounds as the warmer spring season nears.

“We’re all students, but we all have different lifestyles, different styles, so it’s a chance for good music from all over to come together,” Neal said. “We all love to perform and want to get our music out there and have fun with it.”

Coker’s business focuses on doing just that. Act1v Music helps promote see revival page 12

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cott Wiener’s career started with a journal — a pizza journal.

As an undergraduate at Syracuse University, he traveled across the country with his college band, Highjack Jupiter, during school breaks. He always made sure to organize trips around famous pizza places in each city they would play at. Any observation he made about the pizza, he wrote in the journal.

“One of my friends made me this diary. I could fill in dates, times, location, toppings, any comments I had. It had a whole rating system. I’d fill in the blanks,” said Wiener, a 2004 alumnus with a degree in television, radio and film. “That pizza journal really translated.”

Wiener converted his love of storytelling and his passion for pizza into a full-time job with Scott’s Pizza Tours.

He travels around New York City on tour buses and on foot, taking tourists and native New Yorkers alike to famous pizzerias and related landmarks.

He believes pizza has a history most people don’t understand.

“I found there was such an amazing story that wasn’t really being communicated,” he said. “A whole story that’s so dense and incredible.”

At SU, Wiener said the pizza disappointed him. He said it was never “destination pizza,” the kind people would travel miles to eat.

Wiener’s roommate at the university for three years,

Drew Silverman, always sensed Wiener’s passion for a good slice of pizza — and knew he couldn’t find it in Syracuse.

“Normal college students get pizza late at night,” Silverman said. “You’d order Domino’s or Papa Johns, and when you’d pick up the box, you could see the look of disappointment on his face.”

Wiener created the idea for a pizza tour when he planned an event for his 26th birthday. He rented a tour bus and invited his friends on a tour of New York’s pizza parlors.

“When that ended, they wanted to sign up and do it again,” he said. “That immediately became the pizza tour.

People wanted to do it more.”

Dan Wiener, Scott’s brother, said that experience is still alive in Scott’s tours today.

“He makes everyone on that bus feel like his pal,” Dan said.

Dan occasionally visited various shops with Scott before the tour kicked off. When they’d stop at a pizzeria, it was never just to get a slice of pizza pie.

“He’d start asking questions: Can I see the oven? How do you make your dough? Where do you get your cheese?

What kind of tomatoes would you use?” Dan said.

Instead of just guiding people to several parlors in the Brooklyn area, Scott wanted to provide an extensive background to the 16 pizzerias featured on the tours. Walking tours start off at the site of the original Lombardi’s, the first pizza store in North America. The group then stops at an artesian Italian cheesemaker’s shop, where tourists see pizza tour page 12

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or a mere $636 per year, you can have unlimited access to the Wildberry. This Syracuse bronzing machine is Hakuna Matata Tanning Salon’s premiere tanning bed, equipped with 46 turbo-powered 160-watt body lamps, neck and shoulder tanners, and three high-pressure facial lamps.

Unfortunately for the local youth, the Wildberry may soon be unattainable. Currently more than 30 states regulate indoor tanning for minors. New York is now among the states considering bills barring anyone under the age of 18 from bronzing sans sun.

Because it’s a city where the sun is as rare as a snowless January day, it’s no surprise tanning is so popular in Syracuse. The reality of this hit me when I learned my apartment complex offers unlimited tanning to its tenants. Lindsey Conrad, a graduate student in literacy education from Wilkes Barre, Pa., and no stranger to cold weather, started tanning before she enrolled at Syracuse University as an undergraduate.

“In high school, I would tan for events, such as the prom or the semiformal. I would get a package for two weeks or a month before the event and then go every day,” Conrad said.

Obviously legislators don’t put a premium on thwarting pasty prom pictures. Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, is one of the most common types of cancer in the United States. In 2010, 8,700 Americans died of the disease and 68,000 new cases of melanoma were reported. According to a study published in the March 2011 issue of Pediatrics, the intensity of UVA radiation

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do the body right produced by some tanning units can be 10 to 15 times higher than the midday sun. That sure doesn’t sound like “hakuna matata” to me.

It’s no secret lung cancer, another common cancer, is often attributed to smoking cigarettes. Onondaga County tries to protect young people from picking up unhealthy

habits by requiring residents to be at least 19 years old before buying cigarettes, so why not put a legal age on tanning? The world would be much healthier if smoke breaks and tanning beds were things of the past.

Those who disagree with me may argue this legislation would be a slippery slope of overly-parental preventative laws. Before we know it, legislators will ban cupcakes to prevent obesity and high heels to avoid broken ankles. Why not ban waking up while we’re at it? After all, fatigue has been plaguing campuses lately.

Regulating tanning, however, would be anything but dicey. We’d have fewer orangetoned youths roaming the city, and the

potential for fewer melanoma cases is worth the legislation. The only ones who would lose if the law were passed are the tanning companies, and quite frankly, I’m willing to make tanning salons the sacrificial lamb if it means even one less cancer patient.

If I ruled the world, I would banish tanning salons entirely. I’d also banish cigarettes, winter temperatures below 50 degrees and Oscar performances by Gwyneth Paltrow. Unfortunately, though, I have yet to be granted that power, so the proposed tanning legislation will do.

Alicia Smith is a graduate student in the magazine, newspaper and online journalism program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Her column appears every Thursday,

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Beer 101, Part 2 of 2

How to taste and judge beer 1. Decant:

Once you have your beer, the first step is to decant, meaning pouring from a bottle or can to the appropriate glassware. There are many types of glasses for beer, so the easiest way to learn what style goes with what beer is to simply do a search online.

A pint glass will work for most if you have no others available.

2. Look:

Color: We know how toasted the malts are based on the color.

Head: The amount of foam when the beer is poured.

Head-retention: The amount of head left over after the beer settles.

Lacing: Foam clinging to the sides of the glass (named for it’s resemblance to Belgian lace curtains).

3. Smell:

Nose: It is said that nearly all of what we call “taste” comes from our sense of smell, so smelling the beer is important and will help you determine if the taste follows the nose.

Swirling: Just like wine, if you swirl the beer briefly, you will release the aromatics and get a better idea of the overall flavors.

4. Taste:

Mouthfeel: It means what it sounds like — how the beer feels in your mouth and the density of the body.

Heavy? Light? Carbonated? Flat?

Carbonation: The amount of carbondioxide bubbles can greatly affect the taste and mouthfeel of the beer.

Balance: There is a beginning, middle and end to every taste. In a wellbalanced beer, the equilibrium comes from malt sweetness during the first sip, the flavors come through while the beer sits in your mouth before you swallow it, then the hop bitterness comes just on the end as you swallow or lingers on the tongue just afterward.

Don’t forget temperature is a major factor in the flavor profile. The beer will not smell or taste as strongly of the key flavors if it is too cold, and it will go flat if it is too warm. Finding the balance will allow you to truly understand what the brewer intended for his or her beer.

Overall: Aside from just liking the way it feels, smells and tastes, you have to compare the beer in question to other beers within the same style. If you say you like Keystone and give it a 5/5, also keep in mind other American light lagers as a comparison, such as Yeungling, which most would rate higher, and use something like that as a comparison.

Now that you know how to judge a beer, go off and try a couple!

— Compiled by Lucas Sacks, staff writer, ldsacks@syr.edu

taste fresh, handmade mozzarella. At Bleeker Street, they discuss tomatoes’ role in a pizza before heading to a restaurant equipment store for a lecture on brick ovens.

Scott’s only co-worker, JoAnne Ling, ties the tour back to her Italian-American roots. Her grandmother came from Italy the same time Gennaro Lombardi walked off the boat into New York City. Ling said she and most pizza tourists usually connect with Scott’s endeavor.

“Pizza’s relevant to the way they grew up,” she said. “It’s very resonant with everybody, the same way they’re interested in themselves and their own history.”

Scott found Ling after placing an advertisement on Craigslist, asking for a hand with his tours. He required all the applicants to tell him their favorite pizza shop and why. Ling picked Pepe’s in New Haven, Conn., for its clam pizza covered in garlic and Romano cheese.

The love Scott has for a good story reflects in the enthusiasm and passion he holds for his job, Dan said.

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and manage talented musicians and provides them with outlets to perform. The alliance with Enormo.us comes from Coker’s belief in the importance of live performances.

“The idea behind this kind of collaboration is that a concert is more than just showing up and listening to music,” Coker said. “There’s a

“Pizza’s relevant to the way they grew up. It’s very resonant with everybody, the same way they’re interested in themselves and their own history.”

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But Scott didn’t always pursue the perfect slice. For two years, he held a steady job in a recording and TV production studio. Realizing he would rather focus on pizza, he took a financial leap and quit. Scott lived on a friend’s boat for three years, where he continued to develop his tour idea.

“My parents had a lot of questions about me starting this tour thing,” Scott said. “I was going completely on my own, and my parents always told me, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’ No one in my family had ever been a tour guide before.”

Scott’s passions and sacrifices have paid

whole experience, it’s a whole environment for creativity.”

Chenell, an information studies graduate student, said Enormo.us’ work as a storytelling company has helped create that experience.

Enormo.us helped develop the overall feel for the performance by designing posters, setting up a website and creating the show’s theme through color, lights and stage setup.

“We’re trying to make the show different from just another concert by branding the

off since the business started in 2007. The tour currently ranks at No. 1 for New York City tours on yelp.com, a website that judges businesses.

In 2008, the tour ranked one of the Top 10 in the country, Scott said. He has made appearances on the Cooking Channel and the New York Daily News. This Tuesday, he started judging for the three-day International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas.

Though the business has been steadily successful, Scott said he doesn’t want it expanding too much.

“I never want to have a situation where I’m not doing any tours,” he said. “It kills me when I can’t do them. I don’t ever want to think of myself as sitting behind a desk.”

His friends and family believe he makes the tours fun. No one else could do what he does, said Silverman, Scott’s roommate.

“Anyone could throw someone in a bus and walk them around the city. The places he goes to are online. We don’t need a tour to do this,” he said. “The whole energy of the tour, he has unbelievable knowledge and passion for this.

“Scott is more passionate than anyone I know is about anything.” smtracey@syr.edu

show,” Chenell said. “What’s it like when you get there? Where is the stage put? Where are the lights put? Just taking in the whole experience and directing it beyond just a normal show.”

This kind of cooperative spirit among students plays an increasingly valuable and necessary part in furthering their careers. Several students recognize the importance of building a reputation and relationship with those in the same field.

“I think a lot of students understand that if you build yourself as a hard worker and a good performer, people are going to want to work with you and pay you to do what you love,” said Devon Stewart, a senior film major and one-half of DJ group Chemicals of Creation. “If people are willing to put in the same time and effort, that’s a worthwhile relationship you need to pursue.”

“The idea behind this kind of collaboration is that a concert is more than just showing up and listening to music.”

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founder of Act1v Music Agency

Foster agrees and claims the effort to collaborate springs from a desire to not only show off personal work and skills but also to learn from one’s peers.

“Collaboration is important to me because I love to see how other people express themselves in terms of art,” Foster said. “It’s a beautiful thing to mash different perspectives of art together and get something unique out of it.” dmodiama@syr.edu

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By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

In all three years of the program’s existence, the season has finished the same way for Syracuse. It faces Niagara in the first round of the playoffs.

By now, head coach Paul Flanagan and his teams are used to the routine.

“There are no unknowns,” Flanagan said of the matchup with Niagara. “Sometimes when you watch tape on a team you haven’t played, it’s hard to pick little nuances up.

So I think just the fact that we’ve competed means we know each other pretty well.”

Syracuse’s playoff stretch, a stretch that will be started and completed in a matter of three days, begins Friday at Tennity Ice Pavilion. Robert Morris and Wayne State will meet in Thursday’s play-in quarterfinal with the right to take on top-seeded Mercyhurst. Meanwhile, the winner of the Syracuse-Niagara matchup Friday will reach the conference title game Saturday to face the winner of Robert Morris-Wayne State and Mercyhurst.

Winners of its final two regular-season games, Syracuse (13-15-6, 7-6-3 College Hockey America) enters the playoffs perhaps with increased expectations. The four Saturday goals marked SU’s highest scoring output since Jan. 14.

“That was a good precursor for what to expect now Friday,” junior forward Megan Skelly said. “We definitely have positive energy going in, and we have some confidence because we did beat them both nights.”

Recent momentum aside, the back-to-back victories weren’t enough to leapfrog Niagara in the conference standings, as the Purple Eagles (11-6-5, 8-6-2) will enter the playoffs as the second seed. SU is 2-2 against Niagara this season, so the success of late certainly doesn’t warrant overconfidence.

“But we also can’t get too confident in our abilities,” Skelly said. “Because, you know, we have to get ready and prepare. Perfect our passes and come together as a team.”

The two schools have split the previous two playoff meetings. As a No. 4 seed in 2009, SU fell to the Purple Eagles 3-2. As a No. 3 seed last year, it won 5-3.

Although Niagara’s stronger playoff seed this season will give them a technical homeice advantage, Syracuse will be playing in its home building. Something that certainly bodes well for the Orange. Niagara finished this year 4-10-4 on the road (3-4-1 in conference), and the Orange season concluded with an 8-7-3 mark at home (6-2 in conference).

In 2011, the two schools split their fourgame season series with each team sweeping the other playing at home. Including the playoffs, SU leads the all-time series by a slim 7-4-2 margin.

“We’re pretty familiar,” goaltender Kallie Billadeau said of Niagara. “But the main thing we’re focusing on is driving the net and crashing for rebounds. They collapse into their goalie, so they block a lot of shots.

Getting a lot of shots on net is our main goal.”

Billadeau, a first-year player who will get

ashli truchon | staff photographer Megan skelly and Syracuse will face Niagara in the College Hockey America tournament on Friday. SU went 2-2 against the Purple Eagles in the regular season. her first look at the in-state postseason match up this weekend, finished the season with a 2.87 goals-against average after playing in 20 of the team’s 34 games. Her 541 saves trail her Niagara counterpart, Jenni Bauer, who had 702 saves in eight more games.

Though Syracuse and Niagara are separated by a difference of 165 miles, the two schools are much closer on the ice. Only three wins separate the teams in the all-time series, and they’ve each scored seven total goals in the four games this season.

Friday’s playoff game will be commonplace for two teams that have both been there before. It might come down to which team can throw in a new wrinkle that provides even the slimmest advantage.

“Well, there’s no secrets between either team,” Flanagan said. “We played each other four times this year and also most recently.

They might throw a couple twists from last weekend, but I think we’re pretty evenly balanced. We match up well against each other.” zoirvin@syr.edu

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can get away from his defender. … You’re either going to get out there early and help him out, or you’re going to rely a little more on your goaltender and maybe them missing the goal.”

Even if Syracuse is able to remove Bratton as a shooting threat, there’s still Virginia’s potent attack of Steele Stanwick and Chris Bocklet.

Both had two goals against SU last year, and Desko said much of Virginia’s offense goes

“This is one of the most offensively minded games in college lacrosse. For people to talk about that all week, I think it motivates our defense to come out and put on a good showing.”

John Galloway SU goaltender

through Stanwick. The Cavaliers dodge defenders and get the ball to Stanwick, who then finds the open players to create scoring opportunities.

Stanwick becomes even more potent when a

defense’s focus is on him. Rather than finding other open players, he’ll get open himself and take the ball to the net.

“He’s very opportunistic,” Desko said. “If you overplay him in any way, he’s going to take advantage and try to dodge you.”

The past four games between Syracuse and Virginia were decided by only one goal. And in all of those games, the Orange gave up at least 10 goals to the Cavaliers.

Galloway said for a team that prides itself on defense, it’s an amazing statistic. And it’s one he wants to change on Friday. Galloway said he doesn’t want to see the Cavaliers score any more than eight goals.

Virginia was held to eight or fewer goals just once last season. In that game, no less, the Cavaliers won 7-5 against North Carolina.

“That’s going to be our goal,” Galloway said.

“We’re not looking to get scored on more than 10 times by any means. Even seven or eight I think we’re going to look at as a failure.”

Both Virginia and Syracuse have experienced offenses, but the Orange is still trying to work out some of the kinks from its previous two games. That’s especially true when it comes to giving up fewer turnovers and not rushing the ball to the net.

The Cavaliers lack experience at defense, as two of the three close defenders are first-year starters. The Orange has a chance to exploit two inexperienced defenders who likely won’t be used to the atmosphere they’ll be in on Friday night.

“We’re going to try and get the ball around a couple times, settle the offense,” midfielder JoJo

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor john galloway and No. 1 Syracuse take on No. 2 Virginia Friday at home. Galloway will look to hold the Cavaliers to eight goals or fewer for the first time in his career.

Marasco said. “We’re going to go right after them. We’re not going to give them a chance to settle or relax. They’re going to be in the Dome for the first time. It’s going to be tough for them.”

But against Virginia, the biggest responsibility will fall on the shoulders of the SU defense to stop the quick Cavalier shooters. That’s where the threat to Syracuse’s first loss of the season

looms.

It’s also what’s driving the Orange defense to put a stop to the Cavaliers’ offensive attack.

“This is one of the most offensively minded games in college lacrosse,” Galloway said. “For people to talk about that all week, I think it motivates our defense to come out and put on a good showing.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Purnell’s first head coaching job was at Radford. In his third year, Ron Bradley, his top assistant at DePaul, joined him. The team was coming off a 7-22 record in Purnell’s second year. Then Radford went 22-7 that third year — the third-largest single-season turnaround in NCAA history at the time.

Purnell’s approach, Bradley said, is to build the entire program.

“Not only does he coach the team and do all those kind of things, he pays attention to what kind of music is played at the games and everything that deals with the program,” Bradley said. “And that’s the kind of challenge that he enjoys.”

For Purnell, the next challenges started with Old Dominion, which had a combined 28 wins in the two seasons prior. In Purnell’s final two seasons at ODU, the Monarchs had 21 wins in each. At Dayton, his next stop, the team won six games the season before Purnell was hired. Shortly after Purnell arrived, they were in the NCAAs. And Clemson, Purnell’s most recent rebuilding job, gives Bradley hope for their DePaul team.

“It’s very similar to the first year at Clemson,” Bradley said. “We certainly struggled this year and that first year at Clemson.”

That first 2003-04 season at Clemson, Purnell and Bradley were back together for the first time since the late 1980s and early ’90s, when the two were at Maryland and Radford.

The team finished 10-18.

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started to turn things around,” Bradley said.

“We went from 10 wins, and then the second year we were in the NIT. So the proof is in the pudding, as they say.”

The turnaround Purnell was able to accomplish at Clemson was especially impressive to Strickland.

“Clemson is maybe the least sought-after job for basketball in the ACC,” Strickland said.

“He takes it, turns it around. I think two or three straight NCAAs. I mean, this guy never got a great job and yet every time, he made it into a great job.”

Former Clemson star and current Washington Wizard Trevor Booker was a part of Purnell’s transformation at Clemson. He saw firsthand Purnell’s qualities as a coach.

“He built the program up,” Booker said. “He did a great job the four years I was there and a couple years before I was there.

“I expect the same thing (at DePaul). That program was kind of down, so I’m expecting him to build that program up.”

To do that, Purnell has started by doing what he always does: build inch by inch. The team will have six or seven new players coming in as part of next year’s class, Bradley said. And with Chicago, Purnell and Bradley have a new recruiting tool.

Paul Webb thinks Purnell can accomplish a turnaround. When Purnell was an assistant under Webb at Old Dominion in the ’70s and ’80s, he got a sense of what Purnell would become.

“I always felt, you know, after we got into it, that whatever job that he got and whatever the conditions of that program was when he took the job that he would do a good job,” Webb said.

It won’t be easy doing the same in the Big East, arguably the best conference in the coun-

try. But it’s not impossible.

“It was a very tough situation that he went into,” Webb said. “It’s going to take a few years.

It’s not going to happen overnight.”

And Purnell knows that. It’s that inch-byinch mantra that has worked for him at every head coaching job that gives DePaul hope. Even if the Blue Demons have just one Big East win this season.

“There are moments of frustration for me,” Purnell said. “But at every stop and everywhere I’ve been, it’s been a process. … This is what I signed up for. So you have to push that frustration aside.”

Bradley cites Purnell’s optimism and interest in building a complete program — not just going by wins and losses — as traits that exemplify Purnell’s abilities.

And keeping his eyes off of DePaul’s record

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might be the best thing for him as he looks to rebuild. Strickland, the former assistant, knows if anyone can turn the program around, it’s Purnell. His record at those past schools and more than 400 total wins speaks for itself.

Purnell isn’t going yard by yard. He’s going inch by inch. That, along with his poise and vision, Strickland said, has been — and will continue to be — the key to his success.

“He has had to go in with his overalls on and start to put in foundations when there was none,” Strickland said. “He never got a job where the foundation was laid and had a semblance of a program already in place.

“Sometimes you get jobs where good guys go and take a better job. … But he never got one of those. He got jobs where people got fired. And God, has he turned them around each time.” rnmarcus@ syr.edu

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Harvard looks for first Tournament appearance since 1946

By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer

Keith Wright had to choose between Princeton or Harvard. He received interest from a number of schools but narrowed his choices down to two of the country’s best universities. But Wright was choosing based on basketball.

Of the two schools, Princeton’s program is more renowned. The Tigers have made 23 NCAA Tournament appearances in school history, compared to Harvard’s one. Princeton even made it to the Final Four once.

But Wright chose Harvard.

He said his decision came down to his desire to do something special for his school. More specifically, he wanted to get Harvard to the NCAA Tournament. The last time that happened was in the middle of World War II, and even then the squad did not make it past the first game.

“When we were recruited, they were saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be so awesome to make history?’”

Wright said. “That was really the selling point for me. And why I chose to come here is to accomplish what is right in front of us, which is really to win the Ivy League championship and go to the tournament.”

Sixty-five years later, the tournament is again beginning to look like a possibility for the Crimson (21-5). The team is second to Princeton

in the Ivy League. Harvard has only two games left to secure the top spot in the league and a berth into the tournament. To do so, Wright and Co. will have to avoid the recent defensive breakdowns that have plagued the squad of late.

The first of Harvard’s two conference losses was to Princeton. The Crimson dominated the first half, leading by as many as 11 points and preserving a lead for the duration of the half.

Yet the Tigers took control of the second half, quickly turning the lead around. They kept Harvard at arm’s length through the end of the game, winning 65-61.

“We had that game in our hands, and we kind of let it go,” Wright said. “We’ve been really focusing on playing with a lead. We need to learn how to play with a lead.”

In the following game against Pennsylvania, the Crimson blew an 18-point lead. The game ended up going into two overtimes, although Harvard pulled out an 83-82 win.

The problem in these games was a lack of focus as a team, Wright said. With the lead, the players lost the sense of team urgency and relaxed into a more selfish state.

Yet since that early game, the young team has settled into a better rhythm, winning six of its last seven games. Junior Oliver McNally said the team just needed time to come together.

“We’re still young, and we’re still gelling together,” McNally said. “So I think as the season’s gone on and we’ve gotten more game time and more practice time, we’ve just gotten better at it.”

Harvard’s run in the Ivy League has pushed perennial forces Penn and Cornell further down the standings. In part, this is a comment on the strength of the league as a whole. Although its teams are still not breaking the Top 25 polls on a regular basis, Cornell, the conference champion from a year ago, did make a run into the Sweet 16 last year.

This season, however, Cornell is 4-8 in conference play and is hovering at seventh in the eight-team league. Austin Morgan, a sophomore guard at Yale, said games are often much closer than they appear in the rankings.

“There’s a lot of parity in the Ivy League,” Morgan said. “One of the things is that the teams’ records aren’t always a good indication of how close the teams are.”

The Ivy League doesn’t have a conference tournament, so for Harvard, these final regularseason games are even more important. The Crimson is coming off its second loss in the Ivy League to Yale on Saturday. McNally said the team had a few of those mental lapses on defense, which made the difference in the 70-69 loss.

If the Crimson is to control its own destiny, it now must win both of its remaining games to win the league. Although winning the league will be a big step for Harvard, McNally said the team’s ultimate goal is to advance deep in the tournament and make history at some point.

“Everything’s been done at Harvard,” McNally said. “It’s pretty tough to do anything here that hasn’t been done already.”

Game to watch No. 4 Duke at No. 13 North Carolina Saturday, 8 p.m., CBS

At the beginning of this season, there were whispers of the failure of the ACC. North Carolina was unranked and kept losing to unimpressive teams. But since conference play began, UNC has only lost twice. One of those losses came at Duke.

But that was a month ago. Now the two teams are battling for first place in the conference. So Saturday will be more exciting than an ordinary game between Duke and UNC. The Tar Heels came close to beating Duke the last time the two teams played. Now on its home court, UNC will attempt to prove wrong the voices that wrote off the ACC at the beginning of the year. alguggen@syr.edu

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In fast start to season, SU thrives with perfect 8-0 mark in 1-run games

By Ryne Gery Staff Writer

After the Syracuse softball team won all five of its games last weekend by one run, head coach Leigh Ross shared a quote from the book “Mind Gym” with her team.

“Fate loves the fearless.”

The mantra — from a book about reaching inner excellence — perfectly captures the team’s success late in games early this year.

Syracuse is 8-0 in one-run games this season.

The eight wins nearly match last year’s win total, when SU went 9-7 in games decided by a single run.

For Ross, playing in so many close games is a double-edged sword. Ross said the pressure situations will pay off down the road in conference play. But she also knows one bad break can lead to a loss.

“I’d like to get ahead right away,” Ross said.

“But I do like the fact that they are OK with being in a close game.”

Ross has been pushing the right buttons so far. The Orange relied on a different hero in each game over the weekend. Freshman Kealy McMullen, juniors Lacey Kohl and Kelly

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Saco and sophomore Morgan Nandin each came through with game-winning hits.

Kohl said the team trusts every member to produce in the clutch. She said the role players are just as capable as the starters to get the job done late in games.

The whole team is prepared to succeed.

“We know that if one person’s not going to get it done, the next person will,” Kohl said.

It was the freshman McMullen, a backup outfielder with just one career hit, who got it all started Friday against Utah. With one out and the winning run on third in the bottom of the eighth inning, Ross sent McMullen to the plate to pinch-hit for Nandin.

Ross said she has been impressed with McMullen since the team’s first intrasquad scrimmage. When McMullen faced the team’s ace, Jenna Caira, she put the ball in play. Ross called on McMullen to do just that Friday.

McMullen was shocked to hear her name called with the game on the line.

“I just can’t believe Coach put me in that situation,” McMullen said. “I thought she would put someone else who had more experience than me.”

Still, McMullen was confident as she walked to the plate. She said she watched Utah pitcher Generra Nielson the entire game, picking up her routine and tendencies. McMullen said Nielson was throwing a heavy dose of rise balls, so she planned to wait for a pitch down in the zone.

After two rise balls, McMullen said she got a pitch right down the middle and singled to left field to win the game.

“I don’t get to hit a lot on the team because I’m a freshman,” McMullen said. “So I just wanted to make the most of my opportunity.”

The freshman’s hit started a thrilling weekend of one-run victories. Ross said the close games give her team confidence that it can come back in any game. She said it helps her players learn to keep their composure and focus every play when they’re behind.

“You don’t always give up when you’re down by a run or two,” Ross said, “because you know we can come back.”

That confidence is valuable, but Ross doesn’t want the close games to become a trend for the rest of the season. Syracuse has come through in the clutch, but it has also gotten lucky during the streak.

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SU benefited from a defensive collapse by then-No. 11 Hawaii on Friday. Hawaii made five errors in the top of the seventh inning that led to two runs and a 3-2 upset win for the Orange.

Ross worries the close games will eventually catch up with her team.

“You start to get superstitious,” Ross said.

“You start to think, ‘Well, what if our luck runs out?’”

Kohl said all the close wins have helped the team develop a winning mentality. For SU, losing is an afterthought right now.

“It’s just focusing on putting the worry in the back of your head and thinking about winning the game,” Kohl said. “As long as we don’t worry, then we shouldn’t have a problem.”

Syracuse didn’t show signs of worry last weekend, which led to Ross providing them with the quote from the motivational book. Ross believes if her team remains fearless, fate will help them win the close ones.

“We’re just going to keep that mentality of just playing fearless,” Ross said. “And then however the chips may fall, that’s what happens.” rjgery@syr.edu

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Oliver’s travels

For 5th time, Purnell looks to resurrect program from obscurity

By Rachel Marcus

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ix words best sum up Oliver Purnell in Pete Strickland’s mind: Inch by inch, life’s a cinch.

“Every year, better kids, better players, better program or structure,” said Strickland, a former assistant under Purnell and now an assistant coach for North Carolina State.

The step-by-step process Strickland spoke of applies to every program Purnell has run — Radford, Old Dominion, Dayton and Clemson. Each new head coaching opportunity comes as another stop with heavy rebuilding.

And DePaul, the program Purnell unexpectedly took over after leaving Clemson last season, is his next challenge.

In his fifth head coaching job, Purnell faces the daunting task of rebuilding a DePaul program at the bottom of the Big East. But the

situation is nothing new for Purnell.

With his arrival at each program in the past, the team was in bad shape.

And each time, Purnell went through the same formula of turning those programs around before leaving to go do the same at another school.

“You start with things that you emphasize and the things that you talk to your team about,” Purnell said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Jan. 13. “You go out and recruit some better players as well to increase your talent level. At the same time, teaching those guys those same principles. Things that you need to do in order to win. Things from being on time to execution to playing hard to the way you conduct yourself on and off the floor.

“That’s our way of doing things, and it’s a winning way.”

That winning way is something Purnell hopes to bring to DePaul. And if the past is any indication of what lies in store for the Blue Demons program, there is reason for hope.

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REPAIR MAN At each stop along the way, Oliver Purnell rebuilds losing programs into winners by the time he leaves. Here’s a look at each team’s first and last season with Purnell as coach: PROGRAM

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FIRST SEASON RECORD

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LAST SEASON RECORD (POSTSEASON FINISH)

22-7 (none) 21-10 (NIT second round) 24-6 (NCAA first round) 21-11 (NCAA first round)

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No. 1 SU faces 1st true test in No. 2 Cavaliers

By Chris Iseman ASST. COPY EDITOR

John Galloway listed off the names on Virginia’s offense that stand as the biggest threats. Even when he thought he named them all, he remembered another. “ P i c k Who: No. 2 Virginia poiWhere: Carrier Dome your When: Friday, 6 p.m. son,” GalChannel: ESPNU loway said.

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“You just have to be ready. Whoever has the ball, you have to be ready, you have to be on your toes, and you have to expect for them to shoot it. That’s what we’re preparing for this weekend.”

Syracuse will try to stop every one of those threats Friday when it takes on No. 2 Virginia (4-0) at the Carrier Dome at 6 p.m. The game will be the true first test of the season for No. 1 Syracuse (2-0), facing

a team on its heels in the rankings.

The Cavaliers have won seven of the last eight games between the two teams. For Syracuse to change that, it will need to stop an offense that features some of the best shooters in the country.

That’s not an easy task for the Orange, especially when it comes to Virginia midfielder Rhamel Bratton.

The 2010 second-team All-American scored four goals on Syracuse in last

season’s game and has quickness that makes him tough to stop. Syracuse head coach John Desko is going into the game with two defensive scenarios in mind.

In order to win this time, one of those scenarios must keep Bratton from repeating last year’s performance.

“Bratton, he’s such a dodger,” Desko said. “He’s so athletic and SEE VIRGINIA PAGE 16

CAVALIER ATTITUDE The Syracuse men’s lacrosse team will look to snap an unusual cold streak against a Virginia team that has beaten it in seven of the teams’ last eight matchups. Here’s a look at the last eight matchups: YEAR

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