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and prayer to guide him through his five years at Syracuse. Page 20

US issues travel alert for Mexico

By Rebecca Kheel Asst. News Editor

The U.S. State Department issued an updated travel alert for Mexico last month, citing violence related to drug cartels throughout the country, most severely along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Bystanders have been injured or killed in violent attacks in cities across the country, demonstrating the heightened risk of violence in public places,” the travel alert said.

Unlike last year, Syracuse University did not release a notice of the State Department alert to warn students planning to go to Mexico for

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The steps of sorrow

Carrie ellmore-tallitsch presents the piece “Lamentation” as part of the Martha Graham Dance Company’s performance in Goldstein Auditorium in Schine Student Center on Tuesday. The piece was originally choreographed by Martha Graham and adapted by Beverly Emmons. It premiered Jan. 8, 1930, at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre in New York. The contemporary dance company was founded in 1926 and has since received international acclaim as one of the best contemporary dance ensembles in the United States.

Faculty debate opposite-sex partner benefits

By Beckie Strum Asst. News Editor

Faculty and staff have debated the importance and practicality of extending health care to opposite-sex domestic partners since Syracuse University released its new benefits proposal in January.

“No one thinks giving to these people is a bad thing,” said Robert Vangulick, a philosophy professor and former member of University Senate’s Budget Committee. “But it

will cost a fair amount of money at a time when many employees are being asked to significantly pay more for their health benefits. Can we afford to do this? That’s what I wanted to have a discussion about.”

The administration decided to extend health care benefits to the opposite-sex partners of SU employees who are not legally married as part of the new employee benefits proposal that will be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval Thursday.

Some faculty and USen committees said they are worried about the fiscal repercussions of the benefits extension. Others, including the administration, the Working Group on Sustainability and a majority of USen members, say it is an overdue extension that is financially insignificant in comparison to the overall budget.

The administration has been holding forums over the past six weeks in order to get employee feedback on

the various changes and cuts the university will be making to the benefits. Several adjustments regarding retirement and dependent tuition benefits have been made in response.

The changes will save the university $3 million.

In addition to extending health benefits to opposite-sex domestic partners, the proposal offers a $1,000 tax offset of federal tax to same-sex domestic partners. see benefits page 6

NPR host urges value of strong news reporting

By Caitlin Donnelly Staff Writer

To estimate the number of people slaughtered in a battle, it’s easiest to count the heads. It was the first lesson Scott Simon learned about war coverage while on assignment in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Since then, the host of National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Saturday” has reported on wars in Kosovo and Kabul, covered post-Sept.

11 Ground Zero and interviewed Ozzy Osbourne.

Simon attracted a full audience to Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday, where he discussed the future of journalism, new media technology and the art of surprise. His lecture, “Covering the World,” was one of eight cross-disciplinary University Lectures held at Syracuse University this school year.

“In the future, will journalism be a

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SU student business takes off

By Lorne Fultonberg Staff Writer

When junior economics major Ryan Dickerson created the Rylaxer in the summer of 2008, he wasn’t trying to make money or even market the product to others.

Back then, Dickerson was a typical freshman feeling cramped in his Flint Hall dormitory room, uncomfortable in his bed and dissatisfied with his “crappy” wooden chair, he said.

“After sitting in that chair for a semester and trying to sit on my bed for a semester, I developed lowerback problems,” Dickerson said.

“My back was always hurting, and I needed to come up with a way to make it so I didn’t have to change my lifestyle in order to be comfortable.

So I changed my living environment.

I just didn’t want to have to sacrifice comfort in my own home if there was a way to solve it.”

That summer, Dickerson went to work in developing the first Rylaxer: a bolster — not a pillow, as Dickerson pointed out — that is finely tuned to the human body to provide for maximum comfort. It’s a product that can turn a twin bed into a couch and support your back at the same time.

The entrepreneurial project has taken off among SU students and is gaining national recognition in business magazines. Dickerson credits the resources SU offers to entrepreneurs for his business’s growing success.

He’s currently working on two new versions of the product that he hopes will premiere this summer. He sees the prospect of students themselves customizing Rylaxers and potentially even re-selling individuals’ designs to other students.

“That’ll hopefully be able to separate us from everyone else,” Dickerson said. “We’ve designed some really cool concepts on how we can take this from a baseline product to something that’s really extraordinary.”

The Rylaxer’s “secret sauce,” Dickerson said, is its ability to fit the user’s body. When creating the product that summer, Dickerson took everything into account, such as the most ergonomic angle for a person’s back while sitting.

Dickerson estimated that he spent 20-30 hours during the summer with a futon specialist from the Abba Upholstery, Foam, and Futons store in Gaithersburg, Md., developing the first prototype of the product.

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jenna ketchmark | asst. photo editor mary mcfadden, a fashion designer, presents her collection to students during her lecture at the Warehouse Auditorium on Tuesday.

McFadden showed how her designs were influenced by ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Renaissance Europe and China.

Fashion designer talks role of art history in collections

By Rebecca Saxon Contributing Writer

Mary McFadden, an acclaimed fashion designer, found inspiration for modern fashion in ancient cultures, she told a crowd at the Warehouse Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon.

“My designs remain faithful to the classical,” said McFadden, who’s been lauded as an “archeological designer” for blurring the lines between fashion and history.

Her lecture, “Goddesses: Symbol of the Ancient World and the Mystery of the Creative Mind,” included a slideshow of her personal photographs taken all over the world juxtaposed with her modern reinterpretations. The presentation was followed by a Q-and-A session.

Throughout the slideshow, McFadden took audience members on a visual journey through Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Renaissance Europe, China and more historic cultures.

“I photograph peoples of the land, their feel for color and cloth,” she said.

It’s these nuances in style that she has discovered all over the world that “removes man from the primordial.”

The lecture functioned as a history lesson and a lesson in McFadden’s artistic taste. She showed photos of

horizontal bands elongating the body in Egyptian pharaohs’ tombs juxtaposed with her own contemporary interpretation, a draped white dress with elaborate ornamentation and banding.

McFadden went on to show how the fascination with the moon, the sun, the water and the land in ancient civilizations come into play in her collections. These abstract organic motifs present themselves in many of her evening coats and tunics. Another motif she examined was the pyramid, which exhibits itself in both her jewelry and clothing lines.

McFadden illustrated the inspirations for her different wedding gowns, which have a range of African, Roman and Celtic influences.

She showed how nuances present in these ancient cultures manifest themselves in her silhouettes, fabrics and drapery.

McFadden was a self-taught fashion designer, and she said her study of anthropology enabled her to create her designs.

She majored in anthropology in college because the professor fell in love with her, she said.

“Current fashion design students have a much better chance than I had,” McFadden said. “You have teachers.

That’s a running head start.”

At the end of her slideshow and lecture, McFadden opened the floor for questions, though some thought she gave mostly half or unfinished answers. Sara Armet, a senior fashion design student, said she wished she could have heard the full answers to her classmates’ questions.

McFadden’s quirky personality came out after someone in the audience asked her to describe herself.

She revealed she’d been married 11 times and was once a “play girl.”

“I tried cabaret. It wasn’t good enough,” she said.

Another audience member brought up fashionista Lady Gaga, who McFadden said she admires for straying away from casual fashion.

Lady Gaga is one of the reasons why the “tables are turning from people dressing in prison costumes,” McFadden said.

Some students who attended the lecture said they were disappointed that McFadden did not show more of her eccentric personality.

“It was definitely unlike any lecture I’ve been to in college,” said Armet, the senior fashion design student. “Here she is, presenting artifacts on slides and reading a report.

It was right out of the 1950s. It was an

outdated way of presenting it.”

But Armet said she was able to see the beneficial aspects of the lecture as well.

“She blurred the lines between fashion and artifact,” Armet said.

“People are so stuck on being innovative these days, but she brings new life to fashion without having to be over the top. She pulled so directly from history. She recreated it.”

Laura Vientos, a senior fashion design major, said the lecture gave her a good idea of how McFadden would receive students’ work in the personal critiques that followed the lecture. Vientos said she is also inspired by historical periods.

Both Vientos and Armet said they would have liked to get a little more personal background and details on McFadden’s process of getting into the industry and who she worked alongside to do so. Armet and Vientos said they thought the inclusion of these things would have benefited the seniors getting ready to try to break into the fashion world themselves.

Regardless, Armet said she enjoyed the presentation.

“I felt so privileged to be in the room with her,” she said. “You could feel the celebrity presence in the room.” rssaxon@syr.edu

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Spring Break.

Students who are planning on spending their Spring Break in Mexico said they feel safe going there despite the travel alert because they are going to tourist areas. Ravi Masand, a senior communications and rhetorical studies major, said to ensure his safety, he plans on carrying little cash with him as well as staying in a large group.

“I’ve talk to my dad about this,” Masand said.

“I’m going to be prepared. I went and saw facts about Cancun and they said it was pretty safe, so

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made were never intended for profit,” Dickerson said. “We needed a solution for our own lives, so we just made the solution for (ourselves).”

Even so, students in contact with Dickerson began noticing the Rylaxer, often mistaking it for a couch. Eventually, Dickerson said, people started wanting their own.

Since then, Dickerson has sold 16 Rylaxers in all and was recognized in the March issue of Inc. Magazine, a New York-based business magazine. Inc. featured the Rylaxer and Rylaxing Company as one of nine America’s Coolest College Start-ups for 2010.

“It used to be that you end up being an entrepreneur after 10 or 15 years of working for someone else in corporate America,” said Mike Hofman, executive online editor of Inc. Magazine. “But now, with the explosion of Web-

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I’m not worried.”

The State Department also issued a travel alert about Mexico in spring 2009 for similar concerns of drug-related violence, also advising students traveling to Mexico on how to stay safe.

Approximately a week before Spring Break, SU sent an e-mail about the alert to the university community, cautioning students planning on travelling there for the break.

SU spokesman Kevin Morrow did not respond to calls Tuesday regarding the university’s stance on the travel alert.

According to the State Department, more than 100,000 American college students travel to Mexico each year for Spring Break. To help ensure the safety of student travelers, the State

Department released a pamphlet called “Spring Break in Mexico — Know Before You Go” with the travel alert.

“While the vast majority enjoys their vacation without incident, several may die, hundreds will be arrested, and still more will make mistakes that could affect them for the rest of their lives,” the pamphlet said.

To avoid these dangers, the pamphlet recommends “using some common sense,” such as avoiding excessive alcohol consumption, not visiting parts of the country know for excessive violence and not carrying pocket knives, as that can result in weapons charge.

based businesses, plus with the grim job market we’ve had in the last couple of years for college graduates, we’re seeing more and more students beginning to take the entrepreneurial plunge very early, in their teens and 20s.”

The magazine featured businesses of all varieties, ranging from a textbook-renting service to a company that records funerals on CDs. Anyone can vote on the Web site for their favorite product, but Hofman said the magazine’s feature is not a contest whatsoever. The proprietor does not receive anything for “winning.”

That wasn’t a problem for Dickerson, who enjoyed the media attention he has received and the experience he’s had.

“Now it’s gone from really an incubated, very small business concept to something that could really be a profitable business, which is mindblowing to me,” he said. “I thought this was just going to be an entertaining résumé builder.”

Currently, Dickerson is only a part-time student because the economic downturn forced

him to lighten his courseload in order to save money, he said.

He credited his success to the Couri Hatchery, a program set up within the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The Hatchery helps foster student entrepreneurship by providing the office space and the resources. Dickerson also found a mentor in Thomas Kruczek, executive director of the Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship, which houses the Hatchery program.

“I can be professional here,” Dickerson said of the Hatchery. “I have a cubicle. I have a conference room here. It makes it a little more real.

And I guess that reality made me want to work harder, and it’s just gone well.”

Kruczek said although Dickerson still has plenty of work ahead of him, he has the entrepreneurial characteristics required to succeed in the business world.

“When I talk to entrepreneurs that are successful, you can usually see that passion that they cannot wait to get up in the morning to work,” Kruczek said. “The passion he has for his product was just so, so huge. To me, what Ryan did is what

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profession or a hobby?” Simon asked.

Simon discussed how it is becoming more difficult to determine what news is true with rules, ethics and profits straddling the line of professional journalism and amateur blogging. As technology makes news coverage easier, he said, professional reporters now have to compete with civilian Twitter updates, mobile phone calls and video posts to report on events in real time, such as the earthquake in Chile.

Elizabeth Reyes, a sophomore photography major, said she was intrigued by the importance Simon placed on social media tools when reporting.

“I was surprised to hear he uses Twitter, but I guess it makes sense,” she said.

Simon also discussed how news organizations that focus primarily on pleasing a certain demographic are not being truthful to their audience.

“When you lose surprise of the audience, you sacrifice what real journalism is supposed to do,” he said. “You have to sometimes outrage them.”

While some news organizations may label themselves as liberal or conservative, Simon said “Weekend Edition Saturday” and the other NPR programs try to appeal to the whole country and report things that are interesting, regardless of the reactions they may provoke.

Despite the lecture’s title, “Covering the World,” Simon only briefly mentioned specific experiences he had while reporting in the field. Ruitong Zhu, a freshman international relations major, said she was disappointed by

entrepreneurship is all about. He saw a problem and he found a solution to fix that problem.”

But Dickerson couldn’t have done it alone.

He tapped into resources across the campus community.

“If I wasn’t at Syracuse, this would never have happened,” he said.

Although he is in the College of Arts and Sciences, Dickerson turned to the business school to pitch and plan his idea. He also utilized the College of Law to establish Rylaxing as a limited liability corporation, the College of Visual and Performing Arts to improve the product, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications to advertise and the School of Information Studies to make a Web site.

“I’d like to, through example, show the product of exactly how much this university’s capable of,” he said. “It’s all about uniting all the schools as opposed to being like, ‘We’re the No. 1 in this, we’re the No. 1 in that.’ Why can’t we just be the No. 1 in everything?” lefulton@syr.edu

“Journalism has never confronted as grave a crisis and threat to its existence as it does today. That’s what they told me 25 years ago.”

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the lecture.

“I was expecting more discussion about his work experience throughout the world,” she said.

While he may not have discussed much about his experience covering the world, he did talk about the importance of diversity in reporting, in the newsroom and in his own family.

“My wife is French Catholic, I’m from a diverse religious background and my daughters are from China. I’m the only American. Take that, Lou Dobbs,” he said to a laughing crowd.

Although journalists face difficulties reporting diversity, as well as learning new technologies, he said the journalism world has always been confronted with struggles.

When Simon started at NPR in the 1980s, he received a similar warning today’s journalists are hearing.

“Journalism has never confronted as grave a crisis and threat to its existence as it does today,” he said. “That’s what they told me 25 years ago.” cmdonn01@syr.edu

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All men are created equal, abolish ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

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t has taken America a long time.

We’re not a completely colorblind nation that has fixed the preponderance of its social problems. We’ve made plenty of strides to fulfill the Declaration of Independence’s “all men are created equal” promise. We are a nation that has implemented countless policies to enable blacks, Latinos, women, the disabled and several other minorities’ equal opportunities to contribute positively to American society.

However, there is still one debate going on right now that is denying the rights of gay Americans, and that is the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

President Obama is working to abolish the policy while Army Secretary John McHugh, as well as Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, have testified against it.

The fact that we have established a policy to deny any able-bodied human being who wants to protect this country is absolutely ludicrous.

When President Truman implemented an executive order in 1948 to desegregate the military, he knew it would be unpopular. However, Truman recognized the need for this step toward equality because he understood the value of patriotism and recognized that patriotism has no face and no skin color. Patriotism shouldn’t discriminate, it should empower. The executive order says, “It is essential that there be maintained in the armed services of the U.S. the highest standards of democracy, with equality of treatment and opportunity for all those who serve in our country’s defense.”

The theory behind Truman’s executive order does not reign completely true today.

While I understand that “don’t ask, don’t tell” was established as a protection of homosexuals who wish to serve in the military, this does not mean that there should be an outright

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as confused as the next guy ban on allowing them to serve in the military. Several experts, from sociologists to psychologists, have said that scientifically there is nothing wrong with having openly gay people serve in the military from any standpoint.

The prejudices presented against the gay community in the U.S. through “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” seem to represent all too well how the U.S. hasn’t come around to the idea yet. It baffles me how we can live in a country where “all men are created equal” but that isn’t represented in our “excessively liberal” society today. That’s not to say that this should even be a partisan issue. No soldier in our great military is any more or less important than any other, and that should be reflected universally. Any person who wants to dedicate their life for American freedom, especially in the tumultuous world we live in today, should be allowed to do so.

It’s also a shame that we force homosexuals already serving in the military to be scared to represent themselves honestly. They’re dedicating their lives to our ultimate cause, but we have created a culture where we cannot recognize their individuality.

This country is great, and our military is a large reason why. It’s hard to forget sometimes that these heroes voluntarily put themselves on the front lines, but secretly we’re just trying to push them to the back.

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Extending benefits to same-sex couples has not been contested because these couples do not have the option to get married, Vangulick said.

“But if we have to hold down health care costs and at the same time extend them to oppositesex partners who have the option of choosing to marry, then it will completely offset the changes to the health care benefit,” Vangulick said.

Those changes include a proposal for approximately half of SU faculty to increase their health care co-payment by 14 percent, Vangulick said. At the USen meeting March 4, the administration justified the raise as necessary to pay for the rising costs of health care.

But the $600,000 in savings from the payment increase will be offset by the extension of health care to opposite-sex domestic partners, Vangulick said. The extension will cost $600,000, according to estimates by the USen’s Budget Committee.

For these same financial reasons, both the Budget Committee and the Committee for Women’s Concerns expressed reservations about providing benefits to opposite-sex domestic partners, according to their respective reports on the benefits proposal.

But many committees and members of the faculty and staff have supported the health care extension, said Kevin Quinn, vice president of public affairs, in an e-mail.

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opposite-sex domestic partner benefit in 2007.

That proposal has been undergoing research since it was proposed, said Thomas Keck, a member of USen’s LGBT Concerns Committee.

Based on a survey of all employees, who were asked to clarify their relationship and marital status, 437 faculty and staff could choose to participate in benefits extension to their domestic partner. Approximately a fourth of that number is graduate assistants, who would be inexpensive to cover because they are generally young, Keck said.

“Most won’t sign up,” Keck said.

The university estimated only 110 employees will sign up for the benefit when it is put into place, according to the benefits proposal report.

The $600,000 benefit cost is approximately .005 percent of the total $131 million budget, Quinn said.

In addition, offering health care to oppositesex domestic partners has been successfully in place at 38 percent of colleges and universities nationwide, Keck said. Of 30 of SU’s peer institutions, 59 percent had this particular benefit in place, he said.

Beyond the financial argument for the program, Margaret Himley, a professor of writing and rhetoric, said marriage isn’t for everyone and these people should have equal access to the same health care as married people.

“It bumps up against social issues. As an LBGT person, I’m well aware the legal action marriage isn’t, for some people, the way to go,” Himley said. “This is about who we, as a community, are and if we’re going to func-

“It bumps up against social issues. As an LBGT person, I’m well aware the legal action marriage isn’t, for some people, the way to go. This is about who we, as a community, are and if we’re going to function like a community and not like pockets of sameness.”

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tion like a community and not like pockets of sameness.”

It’s not unreasonable, Himley said, that in an overhaul of benefits, for the people who are privileged in regard to benefits, to give a little bit up for those who aren’t, Himley said.

“It’s symbolic,” she said.

The degree of support the benefit has garnered from faculty and staff was enough to change the position of Doug Armstrong, a professor of anthropology.

At the March 4 USen meeting, Armstrong proposed a motion to vote on the particular benefit because he was unclear on the reason behind offering a benefit to couples who could get married.

“I heard my colleagues speak, and this is something they wanted, so I’m supporting them,” Armstrong said. “I can support people having a choice. I wouldn’t recommend it to someone, but it’s an option.”

Now that the university has chosen to incor-

porate the opposite-sex domestic partner benefit, Armstrong said the university needs to move forward to find more ways to keep tuition from rising without taking this away from faculty, such as rebuilding the endowment.

Ultimately, the proposal will be a part of the final benefits proposal that is presented to the board of directors, Quinn said. The proposal shows SU is a progressive institution that does not ignore the health care needs of their employees’ family members, Quinn said.

“As we saw through the past six weeks of open campus discussion, benefits are something that employees feel strongly about, and as we expected, there was a lot of pro-and-con discussion about the changes proposed,” Quinn said. “The bottom line is that through this specific proposal, we will be able to provide access to health care for an important group in our university community and also control costs moving forward.” rastrum@syr.edu

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Relaxing research Researchers at the Center of Excellence study effects of comfort on productivity

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By Sapir Vangruber Contributing Writer

he ability to adjust the environment around a workspace, how it increases productivity and how it can be done in an environmentally friendly way is currently being researched at Syracuse University’s recently dedicated Center of Excellence.

“There is an accumulation of evidence that shows when individuals are given the ability to control their own environment, they are happier and more productive,” said Ezzat Khalifa, a professor of mechanical and

What is the Center of Excellence?

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aerospace engineering at SU and the director of the New York Strategically Targeted Academic Research Center for Environmental Quality Systems.

The researchers at the Center of Excellence’s Carrier Total Indoor Environmental Quality Laboratory will set participants up in situations that replicate daily work life. The experiments will measure how factors such as temperature, air quality, humidity and air flow affect workers’ productivity and how these adjustments can be made to consume the least amount of energy. Because research has just begun, there are not yet results.

The laboratory is split into two spaces.

Researchers will set up a room where participants will be able to adjust their individual environments, while the other room has a preset environment.

Researchers will measure productivity differently, depending on the type of task they are asked to perform while in the room. For example, if participants are processing insurance, their performance can be measured quantitatively, Khalifa said.

Although most indoor environments, like offices, have predetermined conditions, as many as one-third of the people in that environment will be unhappy with those settings due to psychological differences and unsymmetrical rooms, Khalifa said.

To determine if the adjustable rooms are

illustration by molly snee | art director practical and can reduce energy use, Khalifa has also conducted experiments around the world, including in Denmark, Japan and Singapore.

He tested different factors, such as where people are sitting, doing work, wearing summer clothes or wearing winter clothes in order to determine an efficient way to minimize energy consumption and maximize productivity.

When two adjacent cubicles with two individuals customizing their own settings have differing temperature preferences, energy consumption can be minimized by bringing

one level of temperature down to the lowest that occupant can tolerate and raising the adjacent cubicle’s temperature to the highest they can tolerate, Khalifa said.

Khalifa said he hopes his research will expand beyond office space into environments like cars and airplanes. Some cars already have something similar to what he would like with the feature of separate control of airconditioning and heating on the driver’s side and passenger’s side.

The next step in Khalifa’s research will be to assess the efficiency of ventilation systems, he said. svangrub@syr.edu

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n his coverage of Milan Fashion Week, Booth Moore, a fashion critic for the Los Angeles Times, questioned fashion styles

influenced by the comeback of 1980s trends, considering the status of the global economy.

Now, he said, would be an opportunity for “collective sacrifice” rather than “conspicuous consumption” of 1980s excess. But it goes back to human nature: survival of the fittest — or in this case, survival of the flashiest.

“It could be that when opportunities are scarce, survival of the fittest means survival of the most loudly dressed,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

Moore recognized the bold styles are not something you wear to blend in with the crowd, a theme which defines this spring’s trends.

Florals are a staple to any spring wardrobe but have been pushed past the limits of the typical dress. Designers planted botanic patterns on everything from blazers to shoes and tights.

Shoulder pads have evolved into exaggerated shapes, sequins were mixed with studs to reinvent the glam rock look and neon shades have resurfaced to add attitude to any outfit.

“The shoulder pad idea this time around had an edgy feel and less ‘working women,’ and therefore really took off,” said Jodi Belden, an accessories assistant at Elle magazine. “Fashion is always about reinventing.”

Many of the major fashion designers included the strong shoulder look with their female spring collections. Balmain, a French fashion house, featured a military-style shoulder that was adorned with tassels and sequins, while Chanel, another French fashion house, created a puffy, feminine look. Sticking to tradition, Givenchy, a brand of clothing and cosmetics, employed a tailored sophisticated style, and blazers a rounded shoulder.

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But Lanvin, a high-end women’s apparel line, took the trend and amplified it with one-shouldered, sculpted dresses that are guaranteed to stop traffic.

Just in time for spring, Verscace, Louis Vuitton and Zac Posen revealed collections created around the brightest hues of pink, green and yellow with the intention of announcing your arrival. Non-pieces were incorporated into psychedelic patterns like Versace’s line, combined with muted hues as seen in Louis Vuitton.

Bryn Poulous, a public relations representative for Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A., a luxury clothing company, explains that the rebirth of trends lies solely in the hands of the designers.

“A trend comes back into style when a major designer has a really great show and gets a really good response from the fashion community.”

Poulous said that top magazines will feature the trends within their fashion pages. Keeping with the status quo, Vogue continues to be the most influential fashion publication. The style then trickles down from magazines to other mainstream designers and stores will pick up on the trend. The styles will then be delivered to the masses — such as retailers like H&M and Forever 21.

With the current recession and designers’ needs to still appear larger than life, recreating the daring trends of past decades seemed like the only logical choice.

Italian designer Roberto Cavalli took country-inspired florals and combined them with sheer fabrics and statement shoulders for his spring 2010 collection.

Cavalli told Moore that the pieces that stand out are the ones that will define a season.

“Today romanticism simply doesn’t feel like the right choice,” he said. “You need to attack in order to win. I have declared war on the crisis.” letousig@syr.edu

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Placed with the right styles and coordination, guys should not be afraid to show some skin

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yracuse is finally thawing, which means guys can toss away those coats and grab anything they can to show off their freshly toned biceps and calves. But be careful: Take off too much and a spring look quickly becomes a “Guys Gone Wild” video gone bad. Heed this advice on the hottest trends of the spring season and you’ll transition to the summer just fine.

One of the easiest ways to be in with the times is to throw on a pair of good old-fashioned boat shoes. Sperry Top-Siders have been a hit for years, but with the Gucci brand flooding the runway with the yacht-side staples, the shoes are a bigger hit than ever. This season in particular features a variety of bright colors. A.J. Ellis, a senior retail management and marketing major and the founder of street style blog “The Stitch Society,” said that these shoes work for any guy.

“They work great if you color code the shoes to your outfit,” he said. “Play with the color tones the shoes themselves have in the different parts.”

The best part?

“They look even better worn-in,” he said.

“You don’t need to buy a new pair because they just get hotter.”

While the distressed look doesn’t work across the board, color is everywhere this season. Major eyewear designers are turning away from sleek features to chunkier, color-infused frames this year.

“Chunky works better on most faces,” Ellis said. “If you have a fat face, slim glasses will make it look like the fat is pouring out on either side. That’s like muffin topping your face.”

Phillip Crook, a graduate student in arts journalism, agreed that thickness and color are the best accessory accents.

“It’s in line with the hipster vibe, a little more updated rock ’n’ roll,” he said.

It is important to keep that color rolling with bright-faced watches, a recent trend amongst timetelling powerhouses like Breitling and Omega.

“A really funky watch can really evoke personal style and make a statement,” Crook said.

“Just don’t bling it out.”

Bright colors work great with the staple of all spring staples — the deep V-neck tee.

“Straight guys are afraid of these because they see gay guys wearing them with chains. But they can totally pull them off,” Ellis said. “But all guys should realize they’re great because they show off pecs. Staring at cleavage is a two-way street.”

This season, ladies aren’t the only ones who can show off their legs. In line with the past few years, plaid shorts are a great way for guys to grab a little color without too much effort. Pull out a color from the pattern and find a similar tone for your top.

“It’s easy to do — it’s like dressing by numbers,” Crook said. “Just don’t match. The dead match is ugly. Find shades that are a few colors lighter or darker.”

Spring is also the perfect time to switch out jackets for blazers. Ellis said it’s all about mixing casual and formal with this look.

“It’s good for going out, or even going to the beach,” he said. “Roll up the sleeves and unbutton the shirt underneath. It’s casual, but it shows you put some thought into it.”

Keep these tips in mind and you’re on your way to a trendier spring. Just, dear God, stay away from fedoras.

Said Ellis, “No matter what, you can’t pull it off. gmillerj@syr.edu

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By Alexander Hemsley STAFF WRITER

ts plot is based on an epic poem. Its game controls are derived from “God of War.” But these two elements factored together are executed terribly, giving players no reason to even pick up the game “Dante’s Inferno.”

“Dante’s Inferno,” which was released in February, is a rare breed of video games: one based on historic literature. Much like the promotional movie “Dante’s Inferno: An Animated Epic,” based on a historic poem, the developers take a large number of artistic liberties with the story. Not all succeed.

Based on the first part of the famous poem “The Divine Comedy,” by the medieval poet Dante Alighieri, the story follows the character Dante as he attempts to rescue his love interest from the depths of hell. In the original “Divine Comedy,” Dante traveled through the nine circles of hell. He did not forcibly fight anything within hell. Instead, he traveled through the circles as peacefully as possible.

So, to spice things up, Visceral Games makes Dante a rebel who holds no reservations about murdering anything in his path. The heavy symbolism of the original poem is replaced with extensive blood, guts and gore, and overexposed breasts. To appeal to a wider audience, the developers rewrote much of the story to render the original poem irrelevant.

At first glance, there seems to be no reason to make these vast changes. But these atmospheric changes are an attempt to keep gamers interested.

Uninteresting storylines are nothing new to video games. These games can usually stand on their own because of high-quality game mechanics alone. Visceral Games chose to copy something rather than create its own. “Dante’s Inferno” blatantly rips off “God of War,” a similar game from SCE Santa Monica Studio.

As players travel through hell, they slowly realize that this “new” game is just a copy of this well-known favorite.

In both games, the player can perform either a heavy or light attack. Or they are given the option to chain them together to perform combination attacks. The problems with “Dante’s Inferno” start to emerge after the appearance of enemies that take more than one hit to die. In “God of War” the combat is smooth, fluid and gratifying.

In “Dante’s Inferno” the game play feels sticky, awkward and, at some points, broken.

The response of enemies to the light attacks makes it feel like Dante is wielding a pillow

instead of a scythe. The heavy attacks take so long for the animation to run that most enemies can get one or two hits on Dante before the attack is actually executed.

Sadly, any attempt that Visceral Games has made to create something original within the game simply ended horribly. Arenas were added near the end of the game to increase playing time, but they ended up being the most tedious part of the entire game. The game forces the player to beat each arena while still meeting a certain criteria such as “lose ‘X’ percentage of life” to “kill every enemy without ending your combo.” Every one of them just adds irritation to the overall experience and makes the player want to put down the controller and walk away.

The problems with “Dante’s Inferno” run deep. It could have been a great story, but it ended up being lackluster. The actual playing of the game creates more frustration than enjoyment. With nothing exciting or new about this game, players have no reason to play it. Instead, save $60 and buy “God of War III” when it comes out in three weeks. vhemsley@syr.edu

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Grabbing chicken nuggets at Ernie Davis Dining Center should not be the epic quest it feels like

isten, Ernie Davis Dining Center. I’m sick of your crap. I go twice a day with one goal in mind and it never comes to fruition. But tonight will be different.

I know what you want to do. You’re trying to break me, starve me into submission. But you don’t know how far I’ll go, or what I’m willing to sacrifice to get my prize.

Tonight, those chicken nuggets will be mine.

You’ve beaten me before. Many a night I’ve entered your dining center with an empty stom-

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broken heart and a belly full of rage. This time, things are different. This time, it’s personal.

What’s that, you say? It’s 6:30 p.m. and you’re packed with ravenous underclassmen?

Sounds like a challenge to me. Sure, that line goes out the door and halfway up Comstock Avenue, but I’m not worried. I can stand the wait. You’ll get yours and I’ll get mine.

See, this time, I’m gonna paint your white counters red with sweet and sour sauce. No mercy. No prisoners.

You think a measly entrance line will turn me back? You’ve got another thing coming. I’ll ninja my way up to the front of that bad boy and swipe in faster than you can say, “Why does that kid have a sword?”

And am I supposed to be afraid of that genetically engineered mush you call “vegetables” at the salad bar? Please. I’ve eaten much fouler things to get my daily serving of fiber.

And do you really think I’m gonna let that cute chick cut me off at the entrée line just because I’m single and those leggings make her backside look like two bran muffins slow dancing? Come on. It’s rush hour and nice guys finish last in this jungle. I’ll gladly pass up that hors d’oeuvre for a shot at the main course.

Look, buddy. You’re not dealing with some 90-pound cheerleader who’s picking daintily at the spinach at the vegan bar. I came to play. I’m not leaving here without consuming my weight in vegetable oil and sodium. Once I get to the front of the line, your chicken supply will be gone faster than Tiger Woods’ pants at an LPGA Tour event.

What’s my secret, you ask? Preparation.

While you were sleeping, I was waiting. While you were serving breakfast, I was watching.

While you were handling the lunch crowd, I got myself ready by slaughtering a goat and listening to “X Gon’ Give It To Ya” on my iPod. Now it’s time for the ultimate showdown. I’m talking Syracuse vs. Georgetown. Backstreet Boys vs.

‘N Sync. Roe vs. Wade. Fersh vs. Ernie.

I know there are risks involved. Your obstacles are enough to turn even the most carnivorous dining center patrons into spineless vegan beatniks. Heck, the last guy who thought he could beat the system ended up 6 feet under a pile of leftover beef goulash.

Still, come nighttime, I’m strapping on my eating boots and taking you down. It won’t be pretty. It might get dangerous. There will be casualties. But when all is said and done, I will stand triumphant on a battlefield of grease, breading and honey mustard.

And by God, those chicken nuggets will be mine.

Danny Fersh is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and his column appears every Wednesday. He would like his readers to know that Abram Olchyk is responsible for what, if anything, you found humorous about this column and that Amy Hayden is awesome. Also, ninja swords are expressly forbidden at Ernie Davis, though the goat-slaughtering policy is surprisingly ambiguous. Danny can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.

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By Zach Brown Asst. Copy Editor

Heading into last weekend, Syracuse ice hockey head coach Paul Flanagan talked about his young program taking steps as it grows older.

About improving as the program expands beyond its first two seasons.

Last year, the Orange finished fourth in the College Hockey America conference and won nine games in its inaugural season, leading to a first-round exit in the conference tournament.

Just a year later, SU finished third in the CHA and doubled its win total. The Orange was nationally ranked for the first time, coming in at No. 10 in both polls in the middle of the season. And last weekend in the CHA tournament, Syracuse won its first-ever playoff game before suffering a 3-1 loss to Mercyhurst in the championship.

Now, with the second season in the books, Flanagan said he thinks the team could continue to grow next year. Syracuse (18-17-1, 8-8 CHA) will lose three key players from its defensive unit, including goalie Lucy Schoedel, who has started every game in the Orange’s history.

But none of the forwards are seniors this year, meaning everyone on the offensive end will be back from a vastly improved offense.

Flanagan believes that the experience the team gained this year will be a huge help for Syracuse when next season begins.

“I think the big thing probably is, collectively, just getting that experience, getting into some playoff games and learning how to fight for a championship,” he said in a phone interview Tuesday. “Overall, we had the eighth-toughest strength of schedule in the country. We played some pretty good teams. …

I think that we battled pretty much all year, and I think that really helped us, too.”

This year, Syracuse’s roster was filled with freshmen and sophomores making major con-

nate shron | staff photographer lisa mullan is one of the many Syracuse players returning to a young Orange team next season. Head coach Paul Flanagan hopes the experience his team has gained this year will translate to even more improvement next year in the program’s third season. tributions. Arguably its best-scoring line was composed of two freshmen, Isabel Menard and Holly Carrie-Mattimoe, and a sophomore, Lisa Mullan. Menard finished the year with the most points on the team (37) and CarrieMattimoe and Mullan ranked fourth and fifth, respectively.

That line may be one of the most dynamic in the country come next year, should Flanagan keep them together. And now they have a full year of game experience that includes a couple game-winning goals, among other highlightreel scores.

“It’s good to find a line, especially with two freshmen,” Mullan said earlier this year.

“Hopefully we can carry that on for the next three years.”

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young players built up this year will help Syracuse take the next step in Flanagan’s plan. He wants the Orange to get to 20 wins and work its way into the NCAA tournament conversation.

But in order to do that, he said, there is a smaller step SU has to take — winning close games. Eleven of Syracuse’s 17 losses this year came by one-goal margins. Although the new faces were a key part of the Orange’s improvement, a more experienced team may have been able to turn some of those close games into victories.

“We’ve got to learn how to win those onegoal games,” Flanagan said. “I mean, we won quite a few games, too, by one goal, but that’s the big thing, winning the one-goal games. … If we can take half of those one-goal losses and turn those into victories, now you’re into 20-plus wins, hopefully.”

Winning close games could be tough, though, with the loss of the three seniors.

Replacing Schoedel and defensive leaders Brittaney Maschmeyer and Gabby Beaudry could be a daunting task.

But Schoedel said earlier in the year that this season’s success was all about the younger players.

“They’ve been amazing,” she said. “They’ve had some pretty influential games. Without their performance in those games, our success, the Top 10 wouldn’t have happened — hands down. They’ve made some huge differences for us this year.”

“I would think that we’ve made a bit of a name for ourselves and that we’re not just some secondyear team that nobody pays any attention to.

As evidenced by our record and all those one-goal games, I think that indicates that no one’s taking us lightly.”

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And Flanagan feels that his team can get even better next year, especially with another season together under its belt.

“I would think that we’ve made a bit of a name for ourselves and that we’re not just some second-year team that nobody pays any attention to,” he said. “As evidenced by our record and all those one-goal games, I think that indicates that no one’s taking us lightly.” zjbrown@ syr.edu

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half his body weight.

“So from there on,” Christopher said, “I knew he was going to be a very strong guy.”

Of course, Arinze’s lineage suggested he could be a dominant athlete. Back in their native Nigeria, Christopher and Anastasia were star runners. Anastasia was also a standout handball player. It was a sport that reminded her of basketball and a reason she introduced her son to the game.

All of the men in Arinze’s life are tall. His great-grandfather, he was told, was who his mammoth figure came from.

Still, growing up, the quiet Arinze thought of becoming a doctor. Anastasia remembers these goals. It was his disciplined Christian background that taught him that his responsibility was to the church and to others.

Things changed, though, when Arinze got his first taste of basketball.

“I started playing organized in the fifth grade,” Arinze said. “I was in Catholic school there, and they finally got a basketball team.

Since then, I was just hooked.”

Learning the hard way Patience, Arinze was taught, is a virtue.

In the Bible, Thessalonians advises readers to “be patient with all. See that no one returns evil for evil.”

But on the basketball court, this was an acquired trait — prayer alone could not teach him to put up with this.

Those who know Arinze are well aware that his Achilles’ heel lies at the free-throw line.

Even today, the 6-foot-9, 261-pound center spends the remainder of most practices eyeing down the 15 feet between the stripe and the basket that determines whether he has a good game or a bad one. This year, Onuaku is shooting a lowly 43 percent at the line.

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At Episcopal (Va.) High School, his coach, Tim Jaeger, saw this exploited. He watched Arinze shoot free throw after free throw. One would go in, and …

“The next one hits the shot clock,” Jaeger said. “You just don’t know what’s going to happen. You have to recognize that nobody wants the shot to go in more than him. So it’s not for a lack of concentration or trying. And if you’re frustrated as a coach, as a teammate, as a fan, just imagine how frustrated he must be.”

Opposing teams knew this, and with each and every game they forced him to the line.

Defenders weren’t even coy about their intentions. It was clear the ‘hack-a-uaku’ game plan was on.

But Arinze never lashed out. At first it was frustrating, but eventually, he accepted the inevitable. Jaeger remembers talking with his center about how to deal with these situations.

Referees weren’t always going to be on his side.

Sometimes, he’d have to just suck it up, take a deep breath and keep shooting.

Besides, on paper it was a proven fact, and Arinze knew it: If a team were playing Episcopal, it was the only way to contain him. Jaeger remembers the double teams, the triple teams and the sagging zones. Each left his center tired, beaten down, worn-out. It eventually made him a better player overall.

And when the other team didn’t hack him, didn’t cloud him with defenders, that was evident, too.

“There was a game in which a team in our league decided just to play straight man defense,” Jaeger remembers. “They would not change that strategy. And he had 38 points and 21 rebounds. I think that was the only time a team tried to do that, because they could see what Arinze could do.”

Battling back One of the things Anastasia and Arinze pray for is strength. Without fail, she’ll call him before every game and together they’ll ask God to keep Arinze sturdy.

“It just gives you faith,” Arinze said. “You’re just confident in everything that you do, you don’t doubt yourself, you know God is with you at all times.”

Over time, the prayers became increasingly necessary. Tendonitis had always ripped through his knees, delivering a constant blast of pain every time he jumped up for a rebound or hit the floor for a loose ball. But eventually, the aching and soreness reached a boiling point.

He took a redshirt year in 2006 to sort out the problem, but it wouldn’t go away. Following Syracuse’s Sweet 16 run in 2009 — the year Arinze led the Big East in field-goal percentage — he went under the knife to take care of the injuries once and for all.

court hathaway | staff photographer arinze onuaku goes up for a dunk in Syracuse’s win over Villanova Feb. 27. He has worked through nagging knee injuries to become a solid low-post presence for SU. Both knees had to be revamped. If he would ever play pain-free again, this was the only way.

“Terrible process,” Arinze said. “It’s something I would never, ever want to see someone go through.”

Arinze woke up after the surgery and all the strength in his legs had disappeared. Twentyplus years of work had vanished as he learned how to be a Division I center all over again.

Rehabilitation, weight training, practice. All through excruciating pain.

He arrived at SU’s Media Day in November looking like half the player he was the year before. His weight was down, his brawny shoulders had contracted and a once gargantuan presence receded.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim cautioned reporters back then that it may be a little while before everyone saw the old Arinze.

“I mean, thank God I’m back playing again,” Arinze said.

••• This was it.

It was senior night on March 2, and the crowd at the Carrier Dome detonated into a full-blown frenzy. Arinze’s mother was at the Dome for the first time, where she watched her son act as the catalyst in an 85-66 Senior Night-thumping of St. John’s.

He only scored five points in the first half. But in the second, everything changed. He was one step quicker, he led on fast breaks and finished nearly every possession in a five-minute stretch.

Arinze would finish with a team-high 21 points.

On one play, he capped a drive with a powerful two-handed jam and pointed to Anastasia in the crowd.

“To have her there on senior night was a very special moment for me,” Arinze said.

The win gave the Orange just its second outright Big East title in program history. And as the team filtered away from the wood-based trophy, Arinze stepped back — cradling the hardware in his right arm.

He looked up toward the Dome ceiling, crossed himself and held a finger in the air as if to tell his mom that her prayers had been answered.

And as she waited for him outside the Orange locker room, her eyes filled with tears. Somehow, she already knew.

“Wonderful,” Anastasia said. “Wonderful. I just give God the glory. I can’t ask for anything better.” ctorr@syr.edu

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Chris Daniello didn’t score the game-winning goal for Syracuse in last year’s national championship game. That was Cody Jamieson.

He didn’t lead the team in goals last season.

Stephen Keogh did.

The senior attack wasn’t one of the eight SU players named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American team. He was consequently left out when the Big East handed out its preseason awards.

But right now, three games into the season, Daniello is finally gaining some much deserved recognition. The Orange attack was voted a team captain by his teammates in the preseason and has emerged as one of SU’s biggest offensive threats, leading the team in both goals (7) and points (11) this season. He’s no longer stuck behind the likes of former Syracuse stars Kenny Nims and Mike Leveille. And the Cross River, N.Y., native appears ready to go.

“I think its just opportunity,” junior cocaptain Joel White said. “We had a Kenny Nims last year and the year before. I think it’s just his turn to step up. He’s been ready to do it, but now he’s got the chance and he’s doing it very well.”

And now, three games into the season, the rest of the country is starting to take notice.

After his four-goal outburst in Syracuse’s 12-7 win over Army Feb. 28, Daniello was named the Big East Offensive Player of the Week. He followed that with a five-point performance in SU’s loss to Virginia Sunday.

But none of that comes as a surprise to his teammates. They saw his improvement from year to year. They saw the work he put in during the preseason. They have seen him develop into the Orange’s go-to scorer.

“Looking at the past three games we’ve had, when we need a big-time goal, Chris dodges from the X, and he seems to get it done day-in and day-out,” Keogh said.

Daniello’s play so far this year fits right into his role as a team leader. But it has taken time for the senior to step into that position. He came in as a freshman behind Leveille, who won the Tewaaraton Trophy as the national player of

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Outlook Coming off its first loss of the season at the hands of No. 1 Virginia, Syracuse returns to the Dome Saturday for its inaugural Big East conference game against Georgetown. The Orange offense struggled for a large portion of the UVa loss and will look to get back on track against the No. 11 Hoyas. Last year, SU goalie John Galloway tallied a career-high 19 saves against Georgetown as the Orange held on for an 8-5 win.

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Help Wanted matthew ziegler | staff photographer chris daniello has emerged to lead Syracuse in scoring in his senior season.

After being largely overlooked in the preseason, he has seven goals in three games. the year in 2008, and Nims, a three-year starter who Keogh described as the quarterback of both national champion teams.

Naturally, it was difficult for Daniello to get on the field with all the returning talent in front of him. He played in only three games as a freshman and registered just six points as a sophomore.

Last year, though, he did show some flashes of his ability, finishing fourth on the team with 21 goals. He scored against Maryland, Duke and Cornell in Syracuse’s run through the NCAA tournament. Still, that didn’t garner enough attention for any preseason accolades heading into his senior year.

But for Daniello, the lack of recognition doesn’t bother him.

“I wasn’t a big-time recruit coming out of high school like Jammer (Jamieson) and

Keogh,” he said. “I just kept working hard.

That was kind of my goal, just to work hard and eventually be a leader.”

Now in his final year with the Orange, he has taken hold of that leadership role. He has talked to Leveille and Nims and some of his other former Orange teammates. They give him advice on how to deal with certain situations and how to be the team’s captain.

He is not the in-your-face type of leader that constantly screams and yells. Instead, he leads by example and his level of play on the field.

Daniello said he has worked on being more vocal but his teammates don’t seem to think that is an issue.

“He’ll just get out on the field and do what he needs to do,” White said. “And everyone will see that and work just as hard.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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Eaton looks to keep record-breaking season going at NCAA Championships

By Rachel Marcus Staff Writer

Matt Callanan believes Jarret Eaton was born to hurdle. To Callanan, Eaton has the total package.

“He has the most natural talent in a hurdler that I’ve ever seen,” Callanan said.

But if you ask Callanan, Eaton has not relied on that natural ability alone thus far in his career at Syracuse. To his teammates on the SU track and field team, Eaton is far from complacent. He works on every little small detail, with a penchant to perfect them — to a point Callanan says he has never seen from a hurdler before.

And now, all of the work appears to be paying off.

As a junior this season, Eaton ran a Syracuse school record time of 7.68 in the 60-meter hurdles at the New Balance Championships in New York City on Feb. 4. It was good enough for a first-place finish.

That time, which Eaton, Callanan and SU’s coaches attribute to the work ethic Callanan harped on, was good enough to qualify Eaton for the NCAA Championships for the second consecutive year. Eaton will compete in the 60-meter hurdles this weekend in Fayetteville, Ark. This year, Eaton has the sixth-best hurdle time in the country and is the only Syracuse track and field athlete going to the NCAA Championships. He joins a select few who will be competing in Arkansas this weekend. Only 20

other 60-meter hurdlers will be partaking in this weekend’s meet.

“It all starts with the little stuff,” Eaton said.

“Small stuff can affect big stuff. I try to evaluate and criticize my work in practice so at the meets it’s routine, and I can just execute.”

Eaton will be looking to keep on executing this weekend. But from prior experience, he knows that the national championships are a different animal. The competition can swallow up a young hurdler.

Last season the competition did just that.

Eaton finished second-to-last in the 60-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships. The performance left a bitter taste in Eaton’s mouth.

The junior hurdler came to the event as a sophomore looking to make it to the finals in his event.

“There is no room for mistakes,” Eaton said.

“There is no room for mistakes. You have to be on your A-game or you will get left behind.”

Jarret Eaton

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“You have to be on your A-game or you will get left behind.”

This year any kind of finish resembling last year’s won’t suffice. He feels he has put in too

danielle carrick | staff photographer Jarret Eaton (second from left) will compete in the NCAA Championships this weekend. He is tied for the fifth-best 60-meter hurdle time in the country at 7.68 seconds. much work. He has been there before. This year the goal is a clear one — a top 5 finish. Possibly even a win.

And Eaton feels it is attainable.

SU assistant coach Dave Hegland believes it is as well, thanks to that noticeable change in Eaton’s work ethic from last year.

“The difference between this year and last year is great,” Hegland said. “He is better in every way. If he goes into the meet and does what he’s been doing all year, then he’ll have a lot of success.”

With just three days left before his second

trial at the NCAA Championships, the only thing left for Eaton to do is hurdle. Eaton and Hegland are going to keep doing what they’ve been doing the whole season. There is no reason to mess with success. The results prove that.

Now it just remains to be seen if it is all enough for a championship.

“He knows what he needs to accomplish,” Callanan said. “Last year will motivate him. He’s been thinking for a year about what happened last year, and he wants to prove to everyone that he can be the No. 1 hurdler in the country.” rnmarcus@syr.edu

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For Onuaku, 5th and final season with SU turning out to be his best

By Conor Orr

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nate shron | staff photographer arinze onuaku holds up his jersey on Syracuse’s Senior Night on March 2. He scored a season-high 21 points in the game. The center has averaged 10.7 points per game in his final season with the Orange.

Sports Editor

y the grace of God, Anastasia Onuaku’s son will play basketball for a living. This is what she prays for every day.

The skeptics will say she’s wrong.

Multiple surgeries to Arinze’s battered knees suggest he might not be limber enough anymore. His vacant glare on the court leads some to believe that there’s no intensity left inside that prevailing frame.

But Anastasia’s faith is not one to be ignored. When she speaks, she dictates her beliefs with a certain poignancy that could only come from someone who’s had her prayers answered before.

In short, there’s little she has asked God for that hasn’t come true when it comes to her son.

“I guide him with prayers everywhere he goes,” she said. “It’s not an ‘I think,’ it’s an ‘I know’ — prayer works.”

This season is just another example. In his fifth and final year at Syracuse, Arinze has battled back to become an indispensable component to one of the program’s best runs in recent memory. On the floor, he pilots one of the most revered frontcourts in the Big East. Off it, he serves as the battle-tested warhorse, a point of reference for a roster loaded with young potential.

And though it took the better part of a decade, through struggle and affliction, things are working out too perfectly to be coincidence.

It’s a sign to Arinze and his family

that everything is going according to plan.

“I know he can make it by the grace of God,” Anastasia said. “Because God is there for him every step of the way. God is the only one that makes the will where there is no way.”

Early signs Anastasia and her husband Christopher said they never prayed for a basketball player. Their wishes, back then, were much simpler.

“We just wanted a healthy baby,” Christopher said. “That’s all we were praying for was a healthy baby and a baby that would listen to his parents.

And then after that, God Almighty was the next person we handed him off to.”

But over time, inside the Onuaku apartment in Hyattsville, Md., it became increasingly clear that the signs they were receiving indicated something much more than what they asked for.

When Arinze was just learning to stand, Christopher remembers him hovering over a giant bowl on the kitchen floor. In a swift movement, he reached down, grasped it and picked it up with one hand.

“And I said, ‘Oh my God. Who is this?’” Christopher said. “I couldn’t even lift the bowl myself. It was difficult, it was hard. It was very heavy.”

When he learned to walk at 10 months, he again flaunted his unconventional skills — this time by lifting a full gallon of milk. Weighing in at almost 9 pounds, the jug was roughly

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Boeheim, Johnson take home Big East Coach, Player of the Year awards

By Tyler Dunne Managing Editor

Overlooked before the season in the Big East, the No. 3-ranked Syracuse men’s basketball team has cleaned house.

On Tuesday, Jim Boeheim was named Big East Coach of the Year and Wes Johnson was awarded Big East Player of the Year. Syracuse plays the winner of Georgetown vs. South Florida on Thursday in the quarterfinal round of the Big East tournament.

Before this season, Syracuse was predicted to finish sixth in conference — widely billed as a wild card with replenished JOHNSON pieces. After finishing as the Big East’s outright regularseason champions, the Orange (28-3) has reeled in the hardware.

Boeheim was honored for SU’s

unlikely turnaround, while Johnson leads the balanced team in points per game (15.7), rebounds (8.5) and minutes (34.5). Johnson is the first transfer from a Division I school to win the award and the fourth-ever Syracuse winner. Hakim Warrick (2005), Billy Owens (1991) and Derrick Coleman (1990) have also won. A day earlier, Kris Joseph was named the Big East’s Sixth Man of the Year.

Among a field of premier scorers — such as Villanova’s Scottie Reyn-

olds, Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody and South Florida’s Dominique Jones — Johnson’s overall game stood out.

Fighting through injuries, he has handled a wealth of minutes while scoring in double figures in 28 of Syracuse’s 31 games.

For Boeheim, this is simply more hardware. As the winningest coach in Big East history, he also won Coach of the Year in 1984, 1991 and 2000.

For Johnson, the news was somewhat surprising considering his numbers

have ebbed of late. After a furious start, he has been hobbled by a pair of injuries.

The aftershock of a head-over-heels spill against Providence and a hand injury against Connecticut has hurt Johnson’s shot. He is averaging 12.3 points in his last nine games. Others, namely Andy Rautins, have picked up the slack. Johnson recently campaigned for Rautins to win the award. thdunne @ syr.edu