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Springtime for SU Pulp offers some fun options for

Native son Gerry McNamara was the face of

the Saturday SU-Westcott route. Page 3

Board comments on the changes to the 2011-12 academic calendar. Page 5

students staying in the area for Spring Break. Pages 10-11

Syracuse basketball. Now he’s back with the Orange as a graduate assistant coach with hopes for more. Page 20

SU to start Fall Break in 2011-’12

DPS plans to check locks during break

By Meghin Delaney ASST. NEWS EDITOR

As students prepare for a week of relaxation from Syracuse University, the Department of Public Safety is gearing up to keep crime down during Spring Break.

DPS will follow a similar security plan to the one used for Winter Break, said DPS Capt. John Sardino.

On Wednesday, DPS officers and the Office of Residence Life officials tried to talk to as many South Campus residents before they left for break, he said. They are leaving behind pamphlets to remind residents to lock the doors and pull the curtains shut before leaving.

“The plan is to follow up on Monday after most students have left with a more physical check of the doors and windows to make sure everything is locked up tight,” Sardino said.

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Planned power outage affects South Campus

By Michael Boren ASST. NEWS EDITOR

left to right: daily orange file photo; sean harp | staff photographer; james redenbaugh | staff photographer Since she took over as Hendricks Chapel dean, Tiffany Steinwert has brought multiple speakers to campus. In addition, she spoke at Take Back the Night (left), the inaugural Veterans Day ceremony (middle) and attended the groundbreaking for Habitat for Humanity’s fourth student-funded home.

Endlesspossibilities Hendricks Chapel dean reflects on many aspects of 1st year on the job

By Dara McBride NEWS EDITOR

Power in several buildings on South Campus went out Wednesday night during a planned outage.

National Grid turned off the power at about 9:30 p.m. in the South Campus area due to repairs that needed to be made to a washed-out National Grid pole. Power was back up by 2:45 a.m. Thursday, according to the Department of Public Safety. Power was not expected to come back on until 4 a.m. Thursday, according to an e-mail sent to students Wednesday just after 11:30 p.m.

Buildings expected to lose power included the Slocum Heights apartments, all three Skyhalls, the Goldstein

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iffany Steinwert spends very little time at her desk.

“I’ve gone far and wide, met many people and have begun to build connections and think about where my work will continue,” said Steinwert, dean of Hendricks Chapel. “The fi rst year is a year where you begin to map the landscape.”

Steinwert began as the dean of Hendricks on March 1 last year.

During her fi rst year as the dean, she spent her days meeting with students, groups and committees, organizing events and familiarizing herself with the campus and community. As the dean, she said

her job isn’t to do all the work but to facilitate others in their own efforts.

“I empower others to do the work that they’re called to do,” Steinwert said. “There are very few places where the work I do as a pastor, scholar and organizer all come together. Hendricks Chapel touches every part of the university and the community. There are an infi nite number of possibilities of things we could do here.”

But endless possibilities offered through the chapel are both a blessing and a curse.

“If I could clone myself, I would.

If I could hire 25 people, I would.

Finding all the time so that the possibilities can be done well is

“” “” “There are an infinite number of possibilities of things we could do here.”

Tiffany Steinwert

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difficult,” she said.

One project Steinwert picked up was the “Three Faiths, One Humanity” trip, run by the chapel.

Through the program, students travel to an international destination where a variety of faiths are practiced, and they participate in different religious traditions.

In line with her history of supporting interfaith initiatives, Steinwert broadened the scope of SEE STEINWERT PAGE 8

Classes will be reinstated on three religious holidays, and students will receive a week off for Thanksgiving beginning next semester, the university announced Wednesday.

One reason for the changes is the expanding demographics of Syracuse University, said Thomas Wolfe, SU’s dean of student affairs.

“We are drawing students from much farther away than we ever have, not just the Northeast,” he said.

The extended days off for Thanksgiving — which SU officials are calling Fall Break — will allow students from outside the area to find better prices on travel arrangements and give them more travel time so they don’t have to leave the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Wolfe said. During this academic year and in previous years, Thanksgiving break started on a Wednesday.

The university will also reinstate classes on Yom Kippur, Eid al-Fitr and Good Friday, according to an SU news release on Wednesday. Students who are absent due to a religious observance are allowed to make up missed exams and assignments, but they must notify professors of the absence within the first two weeks of school, according to SU’s religious observances policy.

Hillel supports SU’s decision to reinstate classes on religious holidays, including Yom Kippur, said Lowell Lustig, executive director of Hillel at SU. Historically, the three religious holidays SU canceled classes for have only protected Jewish, Christian and Muslim people, he said.

“We all feel in Hendricks Chapel across the board that we needed to take a step back and see if this really made sense anymore,” he said. He also said Hillel knew the reinstatement of classes on religious holidays could come at some point.

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Centro to cut routes, raise fees

By Jon Harris Asst. News Editor

Centro is proposing discontinuing all trips on the Westcott-Syracuse University route on Saturdays, a decision discussed at a public hearing downtown Wednesday evening.

The hearing, held by the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority, which owns Centro, lasted from 5 to 6:45 p.m. Wednesday in the Syracuse Oncenter. Centro is proposing service and fare structure changes, which would become effective April 25, in an effort to help close an estimated $4.8 million deficit, according to its website.

The hearing was held to get feedback from Centro riders about the proposed changes. Six Centro officials — three from its management team and three from its board — listened to comments from riders, who urged them to reconsider the proposed hike

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Work in progress sonia sanchez , poet and activist, speaks to students in Maxwell Auditorium as the 28th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Public Affairs lecture Wednesday. She gave a speech titled “The legacy of Martin Luther King: How we must continue his work.” The lecture was originally scheduled for Feb. 2 but was canceled because of inclement weather. Sanchez is the author of more than 16 books and is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Poetry Society of America’s 2001 Robert Frost Medalist and the Harper Lee award.

iSchool students to spend Spring Break in California

By Liz Sawyer Staff Writer

Twelve students will spend their Spring Break escaping the bad weather. But instead of lounging on a beach, they will learn about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

For the first time, the School of Information Studies will send a group of students to California for a Spring Break immersion experi-

ence. The students will visit various companies and learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship.

“We’re taking them to what is the original and the epitome of entrepreneurship, and we’re putting them in at the ground floor,” said Julie Walas, director of undergraduate recruitment for the iSchool and a chaperone on the trip. “So these students get a true cultural immersion experience

into what it really means to have the life of an entrepreneur.”

Students will be required to document their experience through a blog post while in the Valley, as well as through a reflective paper and a presentation once they’ve returned to campus, Walas said. They will also receive two credits for attending, she said.

Members of the group come from

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Jonathan Razzano has skipped upward of 20 classes this school year.

Razzano’s situation is not unique, according to an online article published by The Chronicle of Higher Education that found skipping class is a growing trend among college

students. The article, titled “Actually Going to Class, for a Specific Course?

How 20th Century,” was published Feb. 27.

The availability of lecture slides online have given students an excuse to miss classes regularly, according to the article. A senior at the University of Maryland at College

Park said in the article that he won’t attend class if he doesn’t have to because technology continues to give students more reasons to skip.

Razzano, a sophomore geography and economics major, said he disagrees. He skips classes regardless of whether professors post their lectures to Blackboard or not, he said.

RideShare website for SU launches

By Jessica Wiggs Contributing Writer

“It definitely helps, but it’s not the end-all factor,” he said.

Instead, a host of other influences help determine Razzano’s decision to skip class. Lack of sleep, being too busy and being drunk from the night before play more significant roles than technology, he said.

Students seeking a way to travel safely during school vacations now have an online option.

Student Association began Syracuse RideShare last week, a carpooling program that makes traveling easier and more effent, said Greg Boilard, SA’s co-chair of the Student Life Committee. SA has been promoting the program this week before the start of Spring Break.

Students traveling off campus can post their travel needs online to notify other users where they wish to travel, and drivers can also post their information online, Boilard said. The website, SyracuseRideShare.syr.edu, automatically matches riders to drivers, he said.

Boilard said this program has three initiatives: to help students who want to carpool, to help staff members who want to commute to campus together and to protect the environment by thinking green.

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all majors and range from freshmen to graduate students. Students from Le Moyne College and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry are also attending. Many of the students attending have an entrepreneurial background — some have their own business or ideas for one, and others are just innovative thinkers, Walas said. see ischool page 6

Study shows technology makes skipping class easier for students

By Debbie Truong

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Obama’s enacted policies demonstrate relatively moderate political agenda

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I must disagree with Jimmy Paul’s column published in The Daily Orange on March 8, titled “Obama guilty of playing race card in response to political criticism.” It is reasonable for President Barack Obama to say that racism is a factor in the opposition to his presidency, although I will concede to Mr. Paul that there are many policy complaints that are far more to blame.

The policy disagreements Mr. Paul cites, however, are frequently overblown and require ignoring evidence about the actual political landscape. Contrary to Mr. Paul’s accusations, Obama does not demonize the Tea Party and has hardly brought about a “sharp left turn.” To support his accusation of “demonization,” Paul quotes Obama as saying that his opponents are motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiment.” This comment is not inflammatory — it’s a completely accurate assessment of the stated views of some of his outspoken opponents and has nothing to do with race.

As for the “sharp left turn,” though Obama is liberal in his rhetoric, actions speak louder than words. His enacted policies have been very conservative relative to those of our presidents going back to Franklin D. Roosevelt. His health care bill is very similar to one introduced by a group of Republican senators in 1993, including Iowa’s Chuck Grassley, a fierce opponent of “Obamacare.”

Was Grassley a socialist in 1993, according to Republicans? Obama has also extended many of George W. Bush’s worst policies, and his appointees have repeatedly dismissed lawsuits against clearly unconstitutional actions by the Bush administration. This is hardly radical liberalism.

Obama’s enacted policies have nothing to do with socialism and, although authoritarian,

let ter to the editor also stop far short of dictatorship that conservative pundits stoke fear about. He is no Joseph Stalin, but he is perhaps Richard Nixon with charisma. So why do conservatives oppose him?

Are they racist? I agree with Mr. Paul on this one: as a general rule, no. But there are influential conservatives, including most recently Mike Huckabee, who claim that Obama is foreign, suggesting a more subtle race-influenced nativism rather than outright racism. Why do they believe he’s foreign despite all the evidence to the contrary? He doesn’t look like what they think of when they think “American,” therefore they suspect he isn’t one. It is perfectly fine to say Republicans criticize Obama on the issues without bringing race into it at all. But when, according to recent polls, a majority of Republicans now believe with absolutely no evidence that he was born in Kenya, what else are we to assume but that they are at least somewhat racially motivated?

There is one other option I can think of that has nothing to do with race. A majority of Republicans approved of the policies I mentioned above until the moment a Democrat entered office. I suspect that they agree with many of Obama’s policies, but can’t bring themselves to support a Democrat. So a few cling to absurd reasons to oppose him through accusations that he’s a foreigner or a spy or a Nazi. And that’s not racism or nativism, it’s just partisan loyalty creating denial about Obama’s real policies.

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Reinstating classes on holidays benefits many, but may hinder religious observance The Syracuse University administration, in collaboration with Hendricks Chapel, reinstated all classes on three religious holidays for the 201112 academic year and lengthened the Thanksgiving break to a full week.

The change presents significant benefits, but it also complicates religious observance on Eid al-Fitr, Yom Kippur and Good Friday.

Students certainly celebrate these three holidays. A large number of students go home for Yom Kippur each fall. To make this calendar change fair, the university must hold professors to SU’s academic policy, which states students can miss classes for religious observance given they inform the professor in the first two weeks of the semester. Professors and departments must give students the ability to make up tests and homework from those holidays without penalty.

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by the daily orange editorial board will benefit any student who lives outside the Northeast and who must buy expensive plane tickets to get home for what was a relatively short break. On that same note, there are a number of students who must stay at school regardless of the length of Thanksgiving or Spring Break.

Perhaps the university should consider keeping a dining hall open or find another way to provide for the students who must stay here alone. In time, this will become more important as admissions tries to increase the number of students from outside the Northeast and the United States.

The change will also save professors and students from wasting time in minimally attended classes because many students — even those who live

in-state — skip Monday and Tuesday of Thanksgiving week.The reorganization of time off exchanges three religious holidays for two additional days off in the fall. This is the second time in two years the university has taken away a day off — administrators took away MayFest in fall 2009.

Most students don’t just squander days off. The time is usually spent with a mixture of relaxing and catching up on work. Even still, relaxing does not constitute a waste of time, as many of us have heavy workloads in addition to extracurricular activities.

A day off in the middle of a semester can academically or mentally benefit students in ways an additional day of Winter or Summer Break won’t. In light of this reduction, SU should consider adding a nonreligious day off, such as Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day or President’s Day, all three of which many other universities take off.

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Drama at Paris Fashion Week reveals intense stress of evolving industry

he globetrotting Fashion Week finished its final day in Paris on Wednesday and left the industry wondering, “What the bleep happened last week?”

Normally known as the most glamorous and straightforward of all the Fashion Weeks, Paris took a steep turn into the twilight zone this season with rumors and drama following above like some dark rain cloud in a cartoon strip.

Paris Fashion Week started out in a dark place, with John Galliano guillotined from Christian Dior days before Dior’s runway show. This initial rumor turned into a whirlwind of chaos in fashion, with the industry’s top moguls voicing their opinions through newspaper interviews, blogs and namely Twitter. Simply type in “#PFW” into your Twitter search bar, and you’ll feel as if you were in the middle of all the drama, too.

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Galliano’s departure quickly placed a heavy load on Paris Fashion Week as the media scrutinized every major designer’s collection while placing bets on which designer would replace Galliano as Dior’s next creative director.

“It doesn’t help that there has been so much tension around the shows since the Galliano scandal and chatter about who might replace him, because, as usual, the people doing the speculating don’t have enough information,” wrote Cathy Horyn in her New York Times column published Tuesday. “For designers already at big houses, the pressure must reach absurd levels.”

Next up in the Parisian drama was Balmain creative director Christophe Decarnin’s absence at his own show. Rumors about him having a mental breakdown and being sent to a psychiatric hospital soon unfolded.

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i’m judging you According to Hint Mag, an online fashion site, Decarnin was sent to the hospital in mid-January and hadn’t been back to Balmain since.

New York Times writer Eric Wilson reported Sunday that several assistants left the label because there was no “clear direction” at Balmain.

Chloé’s head designer, Hannah MacGibbon, was also piled onto the drama.

Her future now lies on thin ice after rumors surfaced about her contract not being renewed, Wilson

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reports, “according to people knowledgeable about the house, who said the reaction to her show on Monday could determine whether her contract is renewed.” After reading several poor reviews on Chloé’s presentation, I fear this rumor will soon become reality for MacGibbon.

So what gives? Is there something in the Paris water we don’t know about?

Perhaps all this negative commotion in the industry is caused by the immense amount of stress put onto designers as of late. With top designers forced to create at least four brilliant collections every year while appeasing the luxury end, the commercial end, the editorial end and the corporate end, I can see how a designer’s own voice can be lost in translation.

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lable need to keep up with social and digital media, fashion has, in a way, turned into this cracked-out industry where keeping up with it is a job on its own.

The recent turmoil at Paris Fashion Week doesn’t surprise me or even fascinate me anymore because of the numbing effect of the media. But then again, this is the life and career designers, fashionistas and even I have signed up for.

I guess that’s why we have entertainment like Lady Gaga comically walking the Thierry Mugler runway to keep us sane.

“Once you end, you start again,” Ronald Frasch, president of Saks Fifth Avenue, said to Wilson. “It’s our business.”

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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Shay Colson, director of West Coast relationships for the iSchool, came up with the idea for the program when he visited a startup incubator in San Francisco, where he is based. He said he realized if students had a chance to see these spaces, they would be more aware of resources they have available through the Syracuse Technology Garden and in Central New York.

Students will arrive in Mountain View, Calif.

— in the heart of Silicon Valley — on Monday afternoon and stay until Friday. The trip originally cost $3,000, but with an outpouring of support from the board of advisers at the iSchool, who donated a significant amount from their own personal funds, the cost of the trip decreased significantly, Colson said.

Students only ended up paying $500 for the all-inclusive trip, which made it possible for students to go on the trip who wouldn’t have been able to go otherwise, Colson said.

The goal of the excursion is to get students networking with companies and to have them use the knowledge at SU and in their own lives.

He has arranged for the students to meet with SU alumni who work for these enterprises, as well as managers and employees who represent the technical end of the business.

“I want students to see the whole range of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Val-

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more inclusive, he said. There may be a reaction in the Jewish community from parents or students who feel Yom Kippur should be a holiday and that SU doesn’t go far enough in offering academic holidays, he said. But Hillel is prepared to address that issue individually and collectively, he said.

Problems have occurred in the past when professors or departments ignored the religious observances policy because they were unfamiliar with it or didn’t value it, Lustig said. But those issues are few and far between, he said.

“Most professors are very understanding, and when they’re not, most of the time they will be told that there’s a strong policy and that they have to be respectful,” Lustig said. “And most of the time they get it.”

Wolfe said the university collaborated with Hendricks Chapel officials to make the decision to reinstate classes.

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Student Center, the Tennity Ice Pavilion, the Skytop Office Building and the Inn Complete.

Heating was also affected.

A National Grid pole, located on Ainsley Drive between Jamesville and East Brighton avenues, was being held up by only a set of circuit wires, said National Grid spokesman Stephen Brady.

National Grid became aware of the situation Wednesday during a routine helicopter patrol of the area, Brady said. The pole was located on a steep incline before the ground underneath it washed out, Brady said. He said it was unclear what caused the pole to wash out, although the storm earlier this week may have caused it.

Special equipment was brought in from Watertown, N.Y., for National Grid to repair the dangling pole, Brady said. It is possible a much

ley — everybody from two people and a laptop who just had the idea of getting started and their office is in a coffee shop, all the way up to the kings of Silicon Valley, like Facebook and Google,” Colson said.

Visits will also be made to LinkedIn, eBay, Stanford University and a technical museum, and students will travel everywhere from San Francisco to San Jose, Colson said.

“Entrepreneurship is not limited to any one school or any one program,” Colson said. “Any student can engage in this community, and I think that really is demonstrated by the group that is making this trip.”

Jason Blanck, a television, radio and film graduate student, will go on the trip. Blanck is preparing to launch his e-commerce website, Brooder.com, in April and hopes the businesses in San Francisco will teach him more about startup culture and how to market his site.

Moné Clarke, a freshman information technology major, said she believes the experience will provide her with valuable information for the business side of her field.

“If I ever want to start my own business, I can incorporate all of the tips that they gave or different ideas they used to start up,” Clarke said. “I think I will have a foot up from other students, being that they didn’t have that firsthand experience at the companies.” egsawyer@syr.edu

Tiffany Steinwert, dean of Hendricks Chapel, said SU’s strong religious observances policy will ensure that students can observe their own religious holidays.

“The change in academic calendar will in no way prevent students from practicing their faith,” she said in an e-mail.

Wolfe insisted SU is not taking anything away but strengthening university policy with the changes. He said SU takes students’ ability to observe religious holidays very seriously.

“The value in this is that we want to be inclusive of all religious communities,” Wolfe said.

Though other universities hold their Fall Breaks earlier than November, Wolfe said adding time to the Thanksgiving Break fits the geographic diversity of SU. More than one quarter of the 2010-11 class came from outside the Northeast, according to an SU news release.

In addition to travel time, the extra days will give students time to prepare for the end of the fall semester, such as for finals or papers, Wolfe said. mcboren@syr.edu

taller pole needs to be set, he said.

Initial reports first informed students the outage was expected to occur between 6 and 8 p.m. When the outage was first announced, Brady said it was unclear how long or how many people the outage would affect.

South Campus residents were encouraged to turn off desktop computers or any sensitive electrical or electronic equipment prior to the outage, according to an e-mail sent to South Campus residents.

By 11:30 p.m., many building emergency generators were operational, according to an e-mail sent to students. A Slocum Heights generator was expected to be operational by midnight.

The Goldstein Student Center remained fully operational during the outage. The DPS put out additional patrols on site throughout the process. dkmcbrid@syr.edu — A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on March 9.

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The number of patrols in the South Campus area will also increase during the break in response to fewer student eyes and ears on campus to report suspicious activity, he said.

“Students are typically good at reporting stuff,” he said. “But if they’re not there, we don’t have that mechanism to count on.”

DPS patrols will mainly focus on the physical security of the area because they will not be responding to as many student calls, Sardino said.

DPS hopes to cut down on crime by restricting access to South Campus through the gates near the University Village Apartments and near Jamesville Avenue, Sardino said. The main entrance will be through the Welcome Center entrance, he said.

During Winter Break, officers acted in a similar manner with lock checks, increased patrols and decreased accessibility to prevent suspicious activity or crime on campus, Sardino said.

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Razzano said his lack of class attendance has not yet adversely affected his GPA because none of his classes mark absences. He usually refrains from skipping two consecutive meetings and feels he is up to date on all of the class material, he said.

As a paying student, Razzano said he thinks it’s his right to skip classes at his discretion.

“I’m paying for the school, so it’s my choice if I want to go to class or not,” he said.

Vanessa Amigh, a freshman public relations major, offered a similar take. Amigh has slept through three class sessions this semester and said it’s easier for absences to go unnoticed in large lectures that do not require “clicking in.”

The availability of lectures online is not the main motive behind her absences, but it does make her decision to skip class easier, she said.

“No one’s checking up on you. It’s easy to get notes from people. Notes are online,” she said.

“It makes it easier to know you’re not going to miss as much.”

Samantha Ackley, a freshman accounting major, said there was a legitimate reason behind her only absence this school year. Ackley skipped class the day before a test to study, she said. Skipping classes on a regular basis would make Ackley feel guilty, she said.

“I feel like I’m paying for these classes,” she said. “I should go and learn what I’m paying for.”

Ackley said the online accessibility of lec-

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The program has been in the works for the last year and is now open to all students at Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Boilard said. RideShare has not yet gained much attention around campus because it has only been available for a week, he said.

A commercial for RideShare was made

by SA, Boilard said. But there were some problems launching the commercial, so SA is working to air it after Spring Break.

Boilard said SA members have made pamphlets and will hang posters in the dining halls to promote the program. SA wants to get the word out so students can take full advan-

Not one burglary or attempted burglary was reported during Winter Break, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Jan. 18. Since the plan used during Winter Break was successful, DPS will use the same one, Sardino said.

“Unless we see that it’s not working, we will probably treat all breaks very similarly,” he said.

Sardino stressed communication between roommates as one of the easiest and most effective ways to increase security, whether on South Campus, off-campus or in residence halls.

“Taking that 30 to 60 seconds to make sure you have plans as to who is the last person to leave and who is to be responsible for doors and windows is very important,” he said.

Unlocked doors were the cause of three separate break-ins and burglaries on Feb. 27, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on March 1.

During the break, Sardino said, students should bring home any moveable valuables, such as electronics, expensive cameras, jewelry or anything of significant value. medelane@syr.edu

ture slides would never factor into her decision to skip class. Slides posted to Blackboard do not convey as much information as a live lecture would, she said.

“If I’m there, I feel like I learn more, even if the slides are on Blackboard,” she said.

Patricia Burak, a professor of Russian literature in translation in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the conversation-based aspect of humanities courses makes it difficult for students to skip multiple classes.

“Anything that deals with life issues, you can’t post on Blackboard,” Burak said.

Burak recognizes situations like illness, emergencies or school-sponsored functions may force students to miss sessions occasionally. But she said students should only skip class for a “really legitimate reason.”

Steve Blusk, an associate professor of physics, said he uses clickers to ensure attendance in large lectures. He said though it is difficult to keep track of faces in a 250-person lecture, clickers that track student identification numbers manage attendance just as effectively.

Blusk is opposed to micromanaging student lives, as they should make decisions for themselves, he said. However, he said students have to “live and die by those decisions.”

In smaller 20-person lectures, Blusk said he is more aware of individual attendance records. Poorly performing individuals with low attendance are judged more harshly than students with high performance and low attendance, he said.

Said Blusk: “They’re not taken all that seriously as a serious academic student.” dbtruong@syr.edu

tage of the program, Boilard said.

Joseph Matarazzo, a freshman accounting major, said he had never heard of the program before. Trying to find a ride home for Spring Break, Matarazzo put his name and contact information on the SA bulletin board in the Schine Student Center.

The SA bulletin board is a place for students to post their names and contact information if they are either looking for a ride or offering one.

Although Matarazzo does not mind having his contact information on the bulletin board, he said a company or organization like RideShare could do a better job of finding a ride for him because using the bulletin board means he has to rely on someone to answer his post and offer him a ride. jawiggs@syr.edu

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In residence Pre-medical fraternity to colonize at SU in the fall

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n international medical fraternity will join the campus ranks next fall, aiming to bring together pre-medical students to help them prepare for the competitive nature of medical school.

Eric Davis, one of the founders of Phi Delta Epsilon at Syracuse University, received e-mail confirmation Wednesday that the fraternity will colonize at SU. The fraternity is only for pre-med students, he said.

Davis and co-founder Paul No, both sophomore pre-med students, have already reached out to SU professors and plan to reach out to local hospitals for members to find internship opportunities in the medical field, Davis said.

He predicts about 30 students will join the fraternity next fall.

About 15 people attended a general interest meeting about the fraternity on Feb. 18 and were thrilled by the possibility of it, Davis said.

“They liked the fact that we would all be pre-med and that we’d be able to do our work together,” he said.

In a time when pre-med students are competing with applicants of all different backgrounds and connections for medical school, Phi Delta Epsilon will aim to make SU pre-med students

just as competitive as those at other schools, such as Johns Hopkins University and Yale University, said No, the other SU pre-med fraternity founder.

Rather than just helping members receive good GPAs, the fraternity should give members the opportunity to work with other pre-med students, No said. Some pre-med students apply to medical school with decent grades but don’t get in, he said.

“That’s the biggest problem: a lot of students that have the grades, but they’re not well-rounded,” No said.

No and Davis developed the idea to bring the fraternity to SU after Davis spoke with a friend during Winter Break at the Phi Delta Epsilon fraternity at Binghamton University, where the first Phi Delta Epsilon pre-med fraternity started in 1994. After hearing his friend highlight how members worked together to reach medical school, Davis went home and researched the fraternity, he said.

He then told No about it, and both reached out to Phi Delta Epsilon’s CEO when they returned to school in January, Davis said. During an hourlong conversation, Davis and No found out what they needed to do to start the fraternity at SU and learned about the history of Phi Delta Epsilon, Davis said.

Davis and No are officially recognized as an interest group of the fraternity until they colonize next fall, Davis said. An interest group is responsible for finding university faculty who will help students discover resources to get into medical school, said Phi Delta Epsilon CEO Karen Katz.

“Our fraternity has more than a handful of interest groups around the world,” she said.

Though Phi Delta Epsilon started in 1904 as a medical fraternity, it didn’t start pre-med chapters until 1994. Now the fraternity has 45 pre-med chapters, Katz said.

When determining whether or not to colonize at a university, Phi Delta Epsilon officials look at the number of students who apply to the university and get into medical school, the number of pre-med majors, the type of education in the area and where partners and physicians are, Katz said.

“When we start a colony, we do so only if we know that the student group will thrive for years to come,” she said.

The founders of the SU chapter will hold another general interest meeting March 25 in the Lundgren Room of the Life Sciences Complex, where Davis said the group will continue to hold meetings in the future. mcboren@syr.edu

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the program to include faiths beyond Christianity, Judaism and Islam, renaming the program “Many Faiths, One Humanity.”

This Spring Break, 11 students will travel with Steinwert to London. The group will learn and participate in traditions from every religion represented, including celebrating St. Patrick’s Day and visiting a Pagan stone circle.

Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Pagan students will be on the trip with Syracuse University’s Buddhist chaplain. This is the first year the program will partner with SU Abroad.

In London, the students will work with Anne Beffel, an associate professor of art, design and transmedia, to create videos that will look at the world from a nonviolent perspective and hopefully foster dialogue, Steinwert said. Students have been participating in video workshops. An installation of their work is planned for when the students return.

Creating a solid artistic program for the chapel has been one of Steinwert’s focuses.

“There have been ways in which art has always been integrated into the life of Hendricks Chapel, but what I wanted to do was to really create a sustainable Artist in Residence program,” Steinwert said.

Steinwert also began a luncheon series at the chapel that gives students an opportunity to have a conversation, rather than just hear a speaker.

Guests such as Brad Hirschfield, a Rabbi and author, and Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, have already presented as a part of the series. Jimmy Creech, former executive director of the North Carolina Religious Coalition for Marriage Equality, will speak later in the semester.

Much of Steinwert’s work over the past year has been a continuation or extension of the work of her predecessors.

Thomas Wolfe, now senior vice president and dean of student affairs, held the position before Steinwert. When Wolfe left the post in 2008, Protestant chaplain Kelly Sprinkle took over as the interim dean.

Wolfe selected the search committee for a new dean and began holding interviews in fall 2009 to fill the position. Once Steinwert was chosen, Wolfe said he saw her naturally take to the role.

“It was just really obvious,” Wolfe said.

“She has a very clear understanding and commitment to interfaith dialogue and work.”

Wolfe describes Steinwert as “fun, bright

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in prices and cut in routes.

The area outside the university will be the most affected by the proposal.

The proposal changes most Saturday bus schedules to match Sunday schedules and discontinues many 12:30 a.m. trips on weekdays to match late-night weekend services. Several route changes also would be made throughout Central New York, including in Liverpool, Solvay and Baldwinsville, among others.

Eighty-five people attended, according to a sign-in sheet. Several attendees addressed the board during the meeting and voiced their displeasure about the route changes around Central New York and the fare hikes. Some held signs in protest of the proposal.

Many of those who spoke said they rely on Centro for transportation because they are

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and articulate.” He believes it is her “ability to combine her strong voice for justice with her compassionate concern for others” that makes her the right person for this position.

“I don’t think there’s another job in the country like that job. Our chapel plays a role in the campus community in a variety of ways.

Yes, it is the home of all faiths, but it’s a place for all people as well,” Wolfe said.

Sierra Fox, a senior vocal music performance and religion and society major, sat on the search committee that selected Steinwert.

She is currently the president of the Hendricks Chapel Choir and the vice president of Student Pagan Information Relations and Learning.

“Her intelligence and interest in interfaith work and discussion were just immediately extremely relevant,” Fox said. “She’s caring and thoughtful and really just sharp as a tack.”

Fox recalls a time during the interview process when a student asked a question about the history and architecture of the chapel. When Steinwert answered, she quoted the textbook of Hendricks with extremely specific information, which was impressive, Fox said.

Fox believes it is Steinwert’s ability to listen that makes her good at her job.

“She really just wants to understand where people are coming from and is able to quickly and intelligently assess where they are and how she should go about doing what’s best for them,” Fox said.

Prior to coming to SU, Steinwert was a teaching fellow at Boston and Harvard universities. She also served as an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and as a senior pastor with Cambridge Welcoming Ministries. After receiving the position, she and her partner, Joshua Arrowood, moved to Syracuse with their infant son.

Today, Steinwert balances her home life with her dean responsibilities. The first thing she does when she wakes up in the morning is spend time with her now 20-month-old son.

Before going to bed, she checks her e-mail. She sleeps with her phone close by in case she is needed in the event of an emergency.

As Steinwert looks to her future at SU, she hopes to shape a plan for the chapel as well. A team of 16 people from across the university will work for six months to craft a strategic vision for the chapel that will benefit the campus as a whole and the community beyond, as well as give Hendricks a direction in which to grow.

Steinwert said she hopes to see Hendricks help people, especially students, ask the big questions of life.

“I want them to come to Hendricks Chapel,

without a license or vehicle. Attendees also told Centro representatives that the spike in fares would hurt senior citizens and disabled people who ride the bus. The riders on a fixed income will also feel the effects of the proposed changes, several speakers said.

“The fare increases may not seem to be that large, but people on fixed incomes are facing their second consecutive year of no cost-of-living increase,” said Sabrina Rautio, a representative from Syracuse United Neighbors, which is on South Salina Street.

Despite proposed changes to the Westcott-SU Centro bus route, only one university student spoke up at the hearing. Johanna Birkland, a doctoral candidate in the School of Information Studies, said cutting the Westcott route could hurt students.

“I don’t think that a lot of students know that they’re proposing cutting that route or know that there’s going to be any changes,” said Birkland, who rides the Westcott route. “It’s going to hurt a lot of students who can’t get transporta-

andrew renneisen | staff photographer tiffany steinwert, dean of Hendricks Chapel, stands inside the chapel. Steinwert recently completed her first year at SU. She used the year to get to know the campus. not just because they have a religious service on Sunday or Friday, but because they’re wondering about the world and asking significant questions,” Steinwert said. “I hope to grow

Hendricks Chapel from a place where people come to a place where people come together.”

tion, particularly graduate students who live off campus and depend on the Westcott route.”

Steven Koegel, director of marketing and communications for Centro, said most SU students who live on campus ride the bus for free, which could explain why only one student attended the hearing. Although students don’t pay the fare, Koegel said the university reimburses Centro nearly in full for the bus services.

“In essence, every student’s fare is paid for

by Syracuse University, and it will continue to be so,” he said.

Koegel said Centro has received less funding from New York state during the past three years. He said Centro has used reserve funds to compensate for the reduction in state funding.

Centro has lost $12 million in funding over the past three years from the New York state mortgage recording tax and the state government, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on March 1.

The proposal would also increase the cash

bus fare from $1.25 to $2 for most of Centro’s services. But riders who buy multi-ride or unlimited ride passes would pay $1.50 per ride rather than $2. In 2009, Centro also raised its fares, from $1 to $1.25, Koegel said.

“We’ve just run out of options to the point where we now have to take a look at raising the bus fare and reducing some services that aren’t carrying as many people as some of our other routes,” Koegel said. “So it’s something we’ve, unfortunately, had to turn to try and balance our budget.”

The changes were proposed about a month ago, and Centro’s board will meet at the end of March to either approve or change the proposal, he said. But Koegel said it is unfortunate Centro has to propose the changes to its services and fares.

Said Koegel: “We understand that these people depend on public transportation to do their daily needs, and it’s never fun when you have to propose changes that will affect people’s lives.”

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STYLE GUIDE

For the past two weeks, we have explored what beer is, how it’s made and how to taste and judge it. The next step is to learn what the different kinds of styles are, how they taste and how they differ from one another.

Ale vs. Lager

Ales are made with cultured yeast, which ferments at the top of the vessel at high temperatures. This means a quick fermentation process occurs (about a week). The smell is strong, and there will likely be residual sugars not eaten by the yeast and turned to alcohol.

Lagers are essentially the opposite.

The yeast ferments at the bottom of the barrel at lower temperatures, where the lagering process takes several weeks to months. This produces a brew with a clean, refreshing taste.

Some of the oldest beer styles are German, such as Bock, Pilsner, Hefeweizen and Dunkel. Since 1516, the German Purity Law has been in effect, stating beer could only be brewed with barley or wheat, hops and water.

(Yeast’s function was unknown, and it was totally wild at this time.) All German beers are still brewed to these stipulations, but the United States has led the way in brewing with adjuncts (beer additives), such as oats, rice, fruits, spices, coffee beans or chocolate, as well as more hops and malt to increase the alcohol content.

Pale Ale: English style ale that is usually more alcoholic and hoppier than most pilsners. They are slightly bitter, crisp and refreshing. (A popular brand is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.) India Pale Ale: Created by Brits who sent their pale ales to India. They added more alcohol to pale ales and increased the hops, making it bitterer.

Flavors and smells are citrus, evergreen, floral and herby (Harpoon IPA).

Hefeweizen (wheat beer): Ale or lager brewed with malted wheat.

These are light and fruity, and the wheat is unfiltered in the bottle, creating breadiness. Think citrus, and even bread (Blue Moon).

Stout: Because of the success of porters in England (dark, low-alcohol ales), extra stout porters were made (shortened to stout) with more alcohol, sweetness and bitterness than standard porters, which are traditionally lightly sweet and chocolatey (Guinness).

There are many variations on these styles. Most European versions are very traditional, and many American versions are higher in alcohol and bolder in flavor. It’s up to you to figure out what tastes best. Try as many kinds as possible and be open to suggestions! Cheers!

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

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Do not let Facebook ruin self-confidence

t facilitates flirtation, announces marriages and sparks divorce. It allows for poking friends, befriending strangers and etching on the walls of loved ones without getting off the couch. To say Facebook is just a website is downplaying its all-encompassing presence in our lives. It’s my go-to tool for cyber communication, procrastination and the occasional stalk-fest.

Recent scholarly studies, however, reveal how the social networking tool affects more than our productivity.

In a study published Feb. 24 in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, researchers compared three groups of college students in a lab for three minutes. Students in the first group stared at blank computer screens; those in the second group looked in the mirror; and the students in the third group spent their time looking at their Facebook profiles. After three minutes, the participants were given an assessment for self-esteem. The researchers found the students in the Facebook group experienced a spike in self-esteem, but the other students experienced no noticeable change in how they felt about themselves.

It’s no surprise the acts of admiring your carefully selected profile pictures and scanning your wall to read the accumulation of kind messages can cover up any self-worth blemishes. But what about when you venture to other people’s profiles and discover they are prettier and have more friends, thoroughly decorated walls and accepted

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Another article, published in the January 2011 issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, concluded that looking at other people’s Facebook pages can cause us to believe they have better, more exciting lives than we do. The neverending list of exuberant status updates flooding my newsfeed while I’m having a bad day doesn’t exactly improve my mood’s status. A simple session of procrastination can quickly turn into a downward spiral of self-deprecation and pity.

Who would’ve thought a few clicks could lead to decreased self-appreciation or an inflated ego, all depending on whose profile you’re looking at?

The debate about whether Facebook is a help or hindrance to good mental health is difficult to settle. From my experience, the results of both studies are valid. When several friends leave kind comments or “like” my attempts at witty status updates, it momentarily validates that my

Monster truck show to make 1st appearance at Carrier Dome

By Megan Griffo CONTRIBUTING WRITER

They are 12 feet tall and 12 feet wide and a minimum of 10,000 pounds. They boast 1,500 horsepower, cruise 100 miles per hour and sit atop tires 66 inches tall. They wear names like Grave Digger, Maximum Destruction, Captain’s

Advance Auto Parts Monster Truck Jam

The Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam monster truck show will make its premiere showing at Syracuse University.

Where: Carrier Dome When: Saturday, 7 p.m.

How much: $15 to $50 for adults (with $5 discount tickets available at participating Advance Auto Parts stores), $10 for kids Curse and Madusa. They are, in every sense of the word, monstrous. And they will roar through the Carrier Dome.

The Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam, a touring monster truck show, comes to Syracuse Saturday. Dome and Monster Jam officials said hosting the first monster truck show at Syracuse University will open the floor to a wide range of events.

Since becoming the Dome’s managing director last January, Pete Sala hoped to host this kind of event. He said he is excited to see it finally happening and to receive such an enthusiastic response. As of now, an attendance of 20,000 to 25,000 people is expected.

Monster Jam and the Dome have been eyeing each other for the past few years. Sala’s goal was — and still is — to make the Dome home to a wider spectrum of events. In the past year, he has reached out to several organizations.

Blake Tatroe, Monster Jam’s promoter, was ecstatic when Sala showed an interest in a monster truck event. Tatroe said Sala has hit on monster truck shows while they’re growing in popularity.

Matt Cowie, Monster Jam’s show operations director, said the setup will take five days. For this to happen, a quick transition must occur, turning the Dome into a stage for destruction.

“We have quite a bit of work to do,” Sala said.

When Monster Jam arrived Tuesday morning, the Dome was ready to get dirty. To prep the Dome for the show, the turf was covered with a layer of plastic and 4,000 sheets of plywood, Cowie said, and they will be sheltered with 2,500 yards of dirt.

Monster Jam rents dirt locally and will transport it in dump trucks to and from the Dome. This is an all-day process. By Thursday, the event staff will begin decorating, setting up banners and creating an authentic monster truck feel.

While the transportation, dumping and pickup of massive amounts of dirt may seem messy, the entire process runs smooth. Cowie’s staff is remarkably small, but he said it’s efficient.

Even after setup, Cowie’s staff monitors the dirt, keeping its moisture levels consistent by periodically spraying it with water. They also watch the air quality. The Dome’s airflow, which keeps its roof pressure up, naturally assists this process.

Monster Jam breaks down into three parts: a pit party, monster truck racing and monster truck freestyle. QUAD WARS and motocross events give the trucks a chance to cool down between the race and the freestyle.

“The entire experience is, in a word, insane,” Tatroe said.

The procedures involving its setup and cleanup, luckily, are not. Cowie said the turf will be visible again as early as Sunday morning.

Sala believes the entire show will run smoothly and be wildly successful. He sees Monster Jam as the first of many to come through the Dome.

“I’d like to reintroduce and open up opportunities to the Dome that people didn’t have before,” Sala said. “I want to put Syracuse University back on the map.” mjgriffo@syr.edu

goal of being a humorous writer isn’t necessarily far-fetched. I feel pretty great about myself until photos from a friend’s Spring Break pops onto my screen, featuring a bikini-clad high school classmate with a six-pack frolicking through my newsfeed. I instantaneously feel bloated and simultaneously regret throwing back spoonfuls of Ben and Jerry’s and attending Syracuse University instead of somewhere with sunlight.

Be it their weekend social life, relationship status, physical appearance or lack of favorite books, people have things they wish were different about them. Facebook can potentially illuminate these self-declared flaws every time we log in. Preventing Facebook from taking the reins on our self-esteem and general mental health is as easy as moving your mouse. I may be Facebook friends with my second grade neighbor’s stepsister’s best friend, but my accepted friend request doesn’t come with jurisdiction over my self-esteem. If you pass the time by profile browsing as I do, remember it’s highly probable someone with the wardrobe of your dreams is probably looking on jealously at your pending Syracuse degree and impressively clever status updates right now. At least that’s what I’d like to think.

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.

Look for her on Facebook, but if you can’t find her there, you can contact her at acsmit05@syr.edu.

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ust because youíre stuck in Syracuse and not jetting off somewhere warm doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun. Treat yourself to a tasty meal, pamper at a local spa, or take in the local nightlife. Pulp offers some close, convenient choices for some local entertainment.

— Compiled by The Daily Orange Feature staff

PERSPECTIVES by kathleen kim and danielle parhizkaran | the daily orange

What are your plans for Spring Break?

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Baltimore Woods Nature Center: Located in Marcellus, N.Y., a brief 20-minute drive from campus, Baltimore Woods Nature Center is a spacious 180 acres to do with it what you please. There are nine trails equaling 6 miles, open every day from dawn to dusk. Visitors can pick up a 3-D map illustrating each trail, as well as the major features of the trail. That’s almost as good as J. Biebs in 3-D. Want to make it even more fun? Bring some snowshoes. But the best part is there is no site visitation fee, which is perfect for the typical starving student.

Onondaga County parks: Right in our own backyard and only $1 to get in, there are a variety of parks you can attend. One is Highland Forest, the county’s oldest park, which has 20 miles of trails and many attractions. Bask in the winter wonderland with a 30-minute sleigh ride for only $5. You can also snowshoe or cross country ski. This is an easy way to get out of the house or apartment. Even better, you can rent a shelter to stay in for the night. But don’t want to pay anything besides your dollar? Grab your sledding gear and go on the 500-foot slope of Skyline Hill. It beats rolling down the Mount on a lunch tray.

Tanglewood Nature Center and Museum: Tucked in Elmira, N.Y., and a two-hour drive, it is well worth the wait. The trails are manageable, mainly about a mile each. However, for those who just want a quick stroll (or are very out of shape), there are a few trails less than half a mile. If you want to make it a little more fun or difficult (or both), then pick up those snowshoes for only $4 an hour. Do you know snowshoeing burns 1,000 calories an hour? So cancel those gym memberships and just whip those out.

Once you get tired, head to the free museum, where you can do a variety of activities — but most importantly, where you can see and hold some animals. You had me at animals.

SELF INDULGENCE

For a tanning session, head over to Garbos Salon Tanning Centre and Day Spa at 732 S. Crouse Ave., recommends Shelby Fenster, a sophomore broadcast journalism major.

“Syracuse is just so cloudy and dreary,” Fenster said. “If you can have that opportunity to be in the sun and feel like you’re somewhere else, I think it’s definitely worthwhile.”

Just a stroll away from Marshall Street, the salon offers three tanning options: “Bahama,” a 10-minute standing booth; “Aruba,” a 12-minute bronzing bed; and “Cancun,” a 20-minute high-pressure bed. Students with the semester package, currently $75, can use all three. Rotating rooms with every session eliminates unwanted tan lines and allows for an even tan, said Dominick Barbano, owner of Garbos.

The salon also specializes in airbrushed tanning, and its 12 staff members provide manicures, pedicures and Brazilian waxing.

For students with cars, Fenster suggests they try Apollo Tanning, located at 102 Towne Drive in Fayetteville.

“Apollo runs a lot of specials that I really think are helpful for students,” she said.

Open seven days a week, Apollo doesn’t take appointments, so you can just walk right in — and your first visit is free. Currently, the salon offers two deals: 10 sessions for $29 and 20 sessions for $49, said Tom Sgroi, owner of Apollo.

Also in Fayetteville, Royal Treatment Day Spa sits at 7237 Highbridge Road, off of Route 92. This full-service spa and permanent makeup studio offers massages, facials and head-to-toe body treatments, among other services.

Olivia Perez, a junior biology and anthropology major, stepped in the spa for the first time last week.

“It’s a great place to unwind,” she said. “It’s just you and your mind.”

Using a 10 percent discount student coupon, Perez opted for the $99 “Take Care of Yourself” special. The one-hour massage included a mini-facial, featuring deep cleansing, masking and moisturizing.

The friendly, professional staff will impress students, Perez said, and the warm, heated rooms will let their minds drift away.

“You definitely feel like you’re in Cancun getting a back massage,” she said.

“You don’t even feel like you’re in cold, blustery Syracuse.”

CHOW DOWN

With the dining halls on a limited schedule and the luxury of some free time, Spring Break is the perfect chance to explore the Syracuse food selection beyond your meal plan.

If you’re feeling timid about sampling new flavors or simply feeling lazy, a great place to trick your taste buds into believing you’re somewhere sunnier is just a short walk away. Syra-Juice, located in Marshall Square Mall, is a familiar eatery perfect for a quick, delicious lunch.

“We make everything homemade, down to the salad dressing fresh every day,” said Tim Melnik, Syra-Juice’s manager. “It’s not organic, but it’s as close as you can get.”

The menu also offers a wide variety of wraps and salads, many of which are vegan- or vegetarian-friendly. All these options are also very affordable, with most meal choices costing $6.25 at most.

Melnik suggests the chicken burrito, Syra-Juice’s most popular item, which includes chicken, rice, black beans, salsa, sour cream and cheddar cheese. It also comes with chips and salsa. To complement the Mexican-style meal, order the miraculous Hangover Cure (banana, carrot, apple juice, ginseng and ginger).

“I plan to go home because I miss my family.”

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“We are taking a cruise from Miami to Jamaica and then to the Grand Cayman Islands.”

Samantha Birsen and Katherine Pease

SENIOR HOSPITALIT Y MANAGEMENT MAJOR AND SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAJOR, RESPECTIVELY

OUT ON THE TOWN

The Turning Stone Resort and Casino: Whether or not you’ve visited Turning Stone, you’ve definitely heard of it. A local cure for boredom (and money loss), the casino is a nice place to go when you want to get out of the area. As long as you’re over 18, you can place some bets at the tables and dine at any of the casino’s 10 eateries. Attend a show at the new LOL Comedy Club on March 16 or turn heads March 17 at the St. Patrick’s Day Party at Turning Stone’s Club Lava.

Singers Karaoke Club: Admit it, you love karaoke — and yes, singing in the shower counts. Why not test your talents right here in Syracuse? The club, right off of Erie Boulevard, provides a fun atmosphere and is open daily until 2 a.m. So stop by Sunday for the club’s New Song Night, or tap your boots to music selected on Texas Tuesday. You’ve got nothing to lose. And if you really do embarrass yourself, at least it’s Spring Break — there probably won’t be many people around to laugh at you.

Marshall Street bars: If all else fails, bring back the classics and hang out on the Marshall Street scene. Faegan’s Café & Pub, Chuck’s Cafe, Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar, Harry’s Bar and DJ’s on the Hill are just a few. They’ll stay open during Spring Break, and without the crowds, you won’t have to wait as long to get your drink on. And don’t worry, all of the bars still have their drink specials, so your allday happy hour at Chuck’s can continue.

“I am doing the alternative Spring Break with Habitat for Humanity.

I’ll be going down to Florida to build homes, basically.”

Brian Kiely

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Needs adjustment Sci-fi film based on short story fails to translate writer’s original vision

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“THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU” Director: George Nolfi

Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson Rating:

2/5 Popcorns

By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER

n his brilliant short stories, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick recreated the world in his attempts to understand the concepts of free will, humanity and memory.

“The Adjustment Bureau,” based on Dick’s short story “Adjustment Team,” is perhaps the least complex and least rewarding of Dick’s great screen adaptations, which include a couple of highly entertaining movies (“Total Recall” and “A Scanner Darkly”), one nearmasterpiece (“Minority Report”) and one of the five greatest sci-fi movies ever made (“Blade Runner”).

A conspiracy thriller that harkens back to the past with its 1950s design and costuming, “The Adjustment Bureau” might have been more enjoyable if it didn’t come from the mind of the man who redefined sci-fi storytelling, as it invites inevitable comparisons. A film based on one of Dick’s stories naturally has enormous potential, but director George Nolfi was content with merely churning out a new Matt Damon vehicle.

A tough politician from New York City, David Norris (Damon) is alternately described as a GQ politician and a future leader of America. A slanderous article ruins his first Senate campaign, and while going over his speech in the men’s room, he runs into a witty and sharp dancer named Elise (Emily Blunt). They are forced to part ways before exchanging information. After announcing his defeat, David accepts a lucrative job at a venture capital firm and, on his way to work, happens upon Elise on her morning commute. David soon learns

the encounter was never supposed to happen.

David arrives to work and finds his immobile colleagues frozen in time. He’s then chased down by men in old-fashioned suits and hats who tell him about the Adjustment Bureau, a secret (supposedly God-like) organization that ensures humans do not deviate from their destined life paths. They tell David if he ever sees Elise again, he’ll destroy both their lives. If he reveals what he knows about the Adjustment Bureau, he’ll be lobotomized.

With his future turning bright yet again as the frontrunner in the Senate race and as Elise becomes one of the world’s most prominent dancers, David is forced to decide exactly which is worth living for.

In the short story on which the film is based, Dick explores themes that never fail to fascinate him: the concept of free will and the existence of God. Of all his filmed works, this film is closest to “Blade Runner” (based on the short story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”), which explored the nature of creation and what it means to control one’s own mind.

In “The Adjustment Bureau,” David grapples tirelessly with the concept of free will, refusing to believe he has none, even after the chairman of the Adjustment Bureau, Thompson (Terence Stamp), confirms it

does exist. The way in which David refuses to give up is what powers the picture, and a dependably superb performance from Damon certainly doesn’t hurt.

Though David is endearingly passionate in his struggle to achieve happiness in a world working against him, the conflict is not nearly as potent as the source material suggests it could have been. Nobody in the film, besides Damon or Blunt, is the least bit interesting, and the Adjustment Bureau case workers are occasionally laughably stiff. A taut thriller demands smart dialogue more so than any other genre, save perhaps a refined comedy, but Nolfi is content to merely lay out the basic points without furnishing his characters with necessary depth.

Though it’s gripping for the most part, “The Adjustment Bureau” lacks the spark that makes any conspiracy thriller truly riveting. Damon and Blunt make a fine couple, but the plot is simply too contrived to be considered as anything more than serviceable entertainment. smlittma@syr.edu

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(21-10) ST. JOHN’S VS. SYRACUSE (25-6)

BRETT LOGIURATO

SYRACUSE 68, ST. JOHN’S 61

Rick Jackson will dominate on the glass against a St. John’s team that looked shaky Wednesday. SU moves on to face Connecticut in the semis.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, 2 P.M., ESPN

STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

Syracuse takes on St. John’s in the Big East quarterfinals Thursday in the second matchup between the two teams this season at Madison Square Garden.

In the first game, the Orange shredded the Red Storm in that Jan. 12 meeting, 76-59. The win pushed an undefeated Orange team to 17-0. St. John’s defeated Rutgers, 65-63, in the second round of the Big East tournament Wednesday.

The winner of the SU-SJU matchup will play the winner of Pittsburgh and Connecticut in the Big East semifinals.

POINT GUARD

SHOOTING GUARD

FREE THROWS

SMALL FORWARD

Syracuse forward Rick Jackson was named the Big East Defensive Player of the Year on Monday.

SCOOP JARDINE

6-2, 190, JR. 12.6 PPG, 6.0 APG

DWIGHT HARDY

6-2, 196, SR. 17.9 PPG, 1.9 APG

BRANDON TRICHE

6-4, 205, SO. 11.2 PPG, 2.8 APG

PARIS HORNE

6-3, 189, SR. 7.7 PPG, 1.6 APG

KRIS JOSEPH

6-7, 210, JR. 14.2 PPG, 4.9 RPG

D.J. KENNEDY

6-5, 214, SR. 10.7 PPG, 5.7 RPG

Hardy struggled against Rutgers, making only 5-of17 shots. Not surprisingly, St. John’s struggled to pull out a win. Jardine is putting everything together at the right time of the season for SU.

Horne is the best shooter the Red Storm has to offer at 37.9 percent from beyond the arc. Triche is shooting 4-of-13 in his past two games.

Joseph has been something of an afterthought after his 21-point performance against Rutgers.

Kennedy could frustrate him on defense, as he’s fourth in the Big East with 1.8 steals per game.

POWER FORWARD

CENTER

COACHES

SYRACUSE 73, ST. JOHN’S 68

TONY OLIVERO

SYRACUSE 74, ST. JOHN’S 72

Here we go again.

A pples for th

e boys

STAT TO KNOW Teams receiving a double-bye in the Big East tournament are just 7-6 overall since the conference instituted the format two years ago.

BIG NUMBER

ANDREW L. JOHN

The Johnnies caught a break Wednesday, but the New York bias is nullified in this one.

The last time Syracuse was a No. 4 seed in the Big East tournament, the Orange fell 57-54 to Boston College in the quarterfinal round in 2004.

RICK JACKSON

6-9, 240, SR. 13.1 PPG, 10.7 RPG

DWAYNE POLEE II

6-7, 193, FR. 4.3 PPG, 2.5 RPG

Jackson is the most dominant big man in the Big East, and he has a huge size advantage here.

Polee isn’t much of a threat, and many of these minutes will likely go to the bigger Sean Evans and Dele Coker.

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

JUSTIN BROWNLEE

6-7, 219, SR 12.1 PPG, 5.3 RPG

Brownlee does his best work in the second half, scoring 6.6 points and shooting 53.4 percent in the second half. Moussa Keita needs to be more of a force on the glass like he was against DePaul (seven rebounds) than in the previous four games (10 combined).

JIM BOEHEIM

W-L: 854-299 34 SEASONS

STEVE LAVIN

W-L: 166-88 7 SEASONS

Lavin has molded his SJU team well to fit his style of play in his first season as head coach. He’ll go head to head against Boeheim, who has a career record of 45-26 in the Big East tournament.

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The number of teams that have beaten St. John’s in Madison Square Garden this season. That team was Syracuse, who blew out the Red Storm 76-59 on Jan. 12.

tennis

In senior season, Kalhorn solidifies back end of SU’s rotation

By Andrew Tredinnick STAFF WRITER

Simone Kalhorn doesn’t care what position she is in the Syracuse lineup. She has played just about every one of them.

It’s more important to beat the player on the other side of the net, she said. And the Syracuse co-captain has succeeded so far this season in the No. 5 Who: Cornell and 6 positions.

Where: Drumlins Tennis On Thursday, a Center familiar — and not When: 6:30 p.m. so friendly — foe awaits.

Kalhorn lost all of her singles matches against Cornell in each of the last three seasons.

But Kalhorn is having a banner senior year, with a team-best 8-1 record. And the senior will look to buck the trend against the Big Red as the Orange takes on Cornell on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the Drumlins Tennis Center. The Orange (9-2, 4-0 Big East) has beaten Cornell (6-2) in tight contests in each of the last two seasons, and the Big Red will likely provide SU with a challenging match yet again.

“They’ve given us problems in the past,” Syracuse head coach Luke Jensen said. “They’ve beaten us, and we’ve beaten them. We took

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them out last fall in an invitational, but all the matches were close.”

The last three seasons provided Kalhorn with the experiences necessary to become an elite player for the Orange this season. Kalhorn saw doubles play from every position and gathered experience at every singles position except at No. 1. For Kalhorn, the skills acquired in previous seasons are more valuable than what position she is playing at this season.

She played through a particularly difficult freshman campaign at the No. 2 singles position, winning just nine matches. Kalhorn, Jacquelynn Tang and Christina Tan — the seniors remaining from that season — struggled to an 11-14 record, but those trials made the group stronger.

Now they are playing the best tennis of their careers.

“They got hammered, and they lost a lot,” Jensen said. “I see a lot of seniors on other teams getting out of shape or mailing it in and riding out their string, but they’re practicing harder than ever before.”

Kalhorn’s work ethic earned her the role of co-captain for the Orange this season. Despite playing from the No. 5 and 6 positions, she relishes in her captaincy. She is the lone senior to play in each of SU’s matches this season.

And Kalhorn has had success as a doubles

player, too. Alessondra Parra explained her partnership with Kalhorn has made a mark on the way she plays at both the singles and doubles level. The duo forged a relationship while playing 20 matches together during Parra’s freshman season.

Kalhorn and Parra teamed up to play in a professional tournament this summer, which helped the two build trust and gain a competitive edge.

“She leads by example and has an amazing work ethic,” Parra said. “She’s willing to share a lot of what she knows to help other players.

Those three things end up adding up into someone you can rely on and that is willing to put so much out on the table for you to succeed.”

Kalhorn is approaching a milestone as well.

With nine wins, Kalhorn will become the 26th player in Syracuse history to win 100 games.

The transformation from playing as a freshman to now, four years later, has led to team and individual success.

“I guess it’s exciting that I can win that much for this program,” Kalhorn said. “I know it’s because I’ve been able to improve each year on my game, and that’s more of a win to me than the number of matches I’ve won.”

Kalhorn has grown into a more complete player in her fourth season at SU. But on Thursday, she will look to complete a missing piece from her career — beating Cornell from the

“I guess it’s exciting that I can win that much for this program. I know it’s because I’ve been able to improve each year on my game, and that’s more of a win to me than the number of matches I’ve won.”

Simone Kalhorn

SU TENNIS PL AYER

singles position for the first time.

She started her career at the No. 2 singles position, but for Kalhorn those numbers mean nothing. This year’s team is in a much better position to succeed, and her success lower in the SU lineup is a large part of the reason why.

“I know that we have a deep team all the way through,” Kalhorn said. “I’m happy to play anywhere knowing that only one point in the match matters.” adtredin@syr.edu

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alone, sinking 10-of-11 free throws 100 feet away from the 2003 national championship trophy he helped win for Syracuse as a freshman guard.

“Feels like yesterday,” McNamara says.

“Problem is, this thing goes by way too fast.”

Despite a three-season sabbatical from Syracuse basketball, the man SU head coach Jim Boeheim dubbed as his “perfect leader” never really left. The love was always there, whether playing professionally for Olympiakos B.C. in Greece or fishing for catfish with his brother Timmy at their cabin halfway between the McNamaras’ hometown of Scranton and Syracuse.

In his heart, Gerry never wanted to leave. He has always been here, in this exact spot shooting free throws — this very concealed spotlight invisible to the legions of Syracuse fans and Scrantonians who once swooned every time he uncoiled to unfurl a 3.

To him, Timmy, his father Chiz, and one of his best friends and mentees, Andy Rautins, McNamara’s return to coach at SU was the obvious next step. Another one of McNamara’s mentees, SU sophomore guard Brandon Triche, skipped ninth grade earth science at Jamesville-Dewitt to catch a glimpse of the fire McNamara now helps instill in Triche.

And to Rautins, who played with and was coached under McNamara, there are even traces of Boeheim and SU assistant coach Mike Hopkins in McNamara.

“Gerry is a Syracuse lifer,” Rautins said.

“Watching him at practice sometimes, he looks like Boeheim. He sits and watches, hand on his lip. He’ll just sit there, watching. But it’s also a style Hopkins has. He gets people fired up like (Hopkins) does. They pattern each other, Gerry and Hop.” For McNamara, it was meant to be. And his life speaks to that — from the time, as a tike, he tiptoed around his backyard court the size of a matchbox to his trial tiptoeing the 3-point line at Madison Square Garden.

“I wanted to pursue a career in coaching,” McNamara said. “I wanted to come back and do something I love for this Syracuse program.”

Yes, McNamara’s life is one of winning. But the mindset Timmy describes as “confident yet humble” was never on greater display than five years ago at the Garden.

••• Five years ago, a pale and prideful 22-year-old ripped the breath out of a college basketball nation.

One day after another, he provided the drama.

His knack to simply win shone through. It’s the same mindset from bleary-eyed trips to Montrose, Pa., when Chiz and Timmy would never have a shot to top Gerry. While they set up the boat, Gerry had already reeled in three catfish.

“He is one of those guys when the game is on the line, he always wanted the ball, and not everybody wants to be in that position,” Chiz said. “And he wants to do that all the time.”

With the ninth-seeded Orange trailing Cincinnati by two, McNamara split two Bearcat defenders and nailed a once-in-a-lifetime 3-point runner with 0.5 seconds left. Since that day, Gerry’s practiced the shot once: last season, while goofing off with Rautins and SU guard Brandon Reese.

“One of the greatest shots I have ever hit,” McNamara said. “Part luck, part skill. But to just hit that shot moving forward to send us to a second game…”

The noon draw with the nation’s titan in Connecticut. This time, instead of a once-ina-lifetime shot, McNamara just took one he

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always does. With 5.5 seconds left, his stop-andpop 3 sent the game into overtime.

“The second shot was just a deep 3,” McNamara said. “Under the circumstances, was necessary.”

Between games, SU trainer Brad Pike was the “main reason” McNamara was able to perform. The pain in McNamara’s groin was so bad he had to squeeze his leg in an attempt to brace himself before sneezing.

It was the most pain he had ever gone through. To put on socks, he laid on the floor.

He physically couldn’t lift his legs to 90 degrees.

Still, he fought.

“I am going to wear myself to the bone,” McNamara said. “And that’s really what I did.”

With the help of Pike’s successful impromptu task of creating a bath full of six laundry bags of ice for McNamara in his hotel room — and his own will — McNamara played on after frosting twice a day.

“We were kind of like, ‘Fix it after the season,’ and he was going to play,” Pike said. “There was no way he wasn’t going to.”

In the semifinals, he did it again. He hit a 3 with 48 seconds left to propel SU into the Saturday championship game with a one-point win.

And on Saturday, SU became the first school in Big East history to win games in four straight days to capture the crown. Pitt lost to a battered McNamara. He did it.

Timmy and Chiz became sudden celebrities. Midweek, Chiz sat at a red light waiting to park at the Garden, looked out the window and suddenly jumped out to snag a newspaper, the cover of which read “Mac-Mania.”

A bystander asked him if he was “Gerry’s dad.”

“I said, ‘Matter of fact, I am.’”

••• McNamara says he never spoke with Boeheim about coaching under him during his playing days. But as Gerry grew up in the working class house 33 feet from the Star Salon on West Market Street, Chiz knew Gerry’s current job would come.

“I don’t think there was ever a question in my mind he would stay with the game forever,” Chiz said.

The house is the quintessential Scranton abode. The entrance to the McNamaras’ comes way of an elevated stoop of wooden white steps on the side — just around the corner from the alcoved basketball court.

Inside, the basketball king of Scranton was reared by his parents, Chiz and Joyce.

And ever since 6-year-old Gerry nailed his “career’s” first “3,” the first possession down on an eight-foot hoop in a Scranton Biddy League game, Chiz — who was also Gerry’s childhood coach — wasn’t shocked by anything else that would happen.

That’s because Chiz knew Gerry had a zest and pride to him that is Scranton. Chiz would know. He was a basketball-playing Scrantonian of his own in the 1950s. That’s where he earned his nickname — the “Chizler” — by “chiseling” the ball from other defenders on the playground down the street from his childhood home. He had the same quickness Gerry does. The name stuck.

Gerry wouldn’t get a moniker of his own until his days at Syracuse, when Hopkins proclaimed him “G-Mac.” That name stuck, too. But well before it was coined, Coach Chiz raised Gerry to become a player who was an on-court coach. The kind Chiz knew Boeheim loved to have, years later, when he would see Boeheim get up, to only sit back down again when Gerry knew exactly the play to call or set to run.

And these days, the duality of player and coach, Chiz feels, is putting Gerry ahead of the curve. So is the time he puts in.

“He is a proven player,” Chiz said. “Guys respect him for that aspect of it. What he is

learning is how much time coaches put into the game. Gerry is probably (at the Melo Center) 12 hours a day, every day, loving every minute of it.”

••• Five years after it all ended, McNamara is a coach sitting six seats down from Boeheim. He’s between SU players Dion Waiters and James Southerland, who he can’t instruct. NCAA rules prevent him from that.

Where McNamara helps the Orange is with scouting. Breaking down game tape with Hopkins before SU practices, McNamara arrives every day at 9:30 a.m. He has his own office and scouts until 3:30 p.m.

His main role is penning the tendencies of each of the opponent’s best players and communicating them to SU’s players via a piece of paper. Five or six things accompany each opposing player. Sometimes there are a few more notes, such as when SU played Connecticut in February. McNamara’s main thing to key in on, Triche said, was to not even let Kemba Walker shoot the ball, never mind score.

“We knew which shots he was going to try and do,” Triche said. “We knew he would try to go in the lane and try to use a pump-fake, and we always stayed down on him, it kind of messed him up.”

McNamara works with Triche, Scoop Jardine and Mookie Jones mostly, engraining in them what it takes to perfect the duality of Boeheim’s combo-guard. It’s the role he perfected: scorer who can also run the SU offense.

Triche and Jardine are getting the hang of things as SU is on the Big East’s longest winning streak heading into Thursday’s tilt in the quarterfinals of the tournament vs. St. John’s (2 p.m., ESPN).

McNamara helped Rautins with the role last year on a No. 1-ranked SU team. The current New York Knick credits his friend with not only helping to take his game to the next level, but SU’s as well.

“Gerry kind of brought us together a little bit, brought swagger back,” Rautins said. “He maintained that edge, and I think he passed it along to me.”

Rautins had the chance because McNamara made the drive up from Scranton to Syracuse in March 2009. McNamara returned to talk with Boeheim. His professional career was derailed by injuries, some lingering from that gutsy Big East run. The groin hadn’t fully healed. McNamara needed surgery on his left ankle, but he never got it.

His professional career in Europe left him frustrated.

He surprised Boeheim before Syracuse took off for Miami for the first and second round of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Boeheim surprised him in turn.

At a crossroads in his career, McNamara was offered the job as a graduate assistant. He took two weeks to think about it and accepted when Boeheim called him back.

Since then, McNamara says college coaches have inquired about his future plans. For now, though, he professes he is 100 percent focused on coaching at Syracuse.

“A dream scenario it would be to be a part of this program for a very long time,” he said. “If that happens, the future will tell.

“For the time being, I am happy.”

••• Five years after becoming the most talked about athlete in America for a week, McNamara is content. He wants to split time between his Syracuse townhouse with his wife Katie and grueling days at the Melo Center.

Syracuse is where his life is. The court is where his spotlight lies. He is cherishing the opportunity to teach new SU players the lessons learned from days shooting on the

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magic man

In 2006, then-Syracuse senior guard Gerry McNamara took the college basketball nation by storm when he led the Orange to an improbable Big East tournament championship, carrying SU to four wins in four days. The tournament victory helped Syracuse earn a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament, after it was on the bubble entering the Big East tournament. Here’s a rundown of each game in the championship run:

First round

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McNamara took the inbounds pass and streaked up court. His team trailed Cincinnati by two with six seconds left in regulation. After weaving through the Bearcats defense, McNamara lofted a one-handed floater from just beyond the 3-point line. Seconds later, the Madison Square Garden crowed erupted in chants of “Gerry! Gerry!” The high-arching 3 dropped right in, sending the Orange to the next round of the tournament.

McNamara finished with 17 points and 9 assists.

Quarterfinals

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One day later, the result was the same.

McNamara hit another 3 — this time with 5.5 seconds left in regulation — and SU went on to beat Connecticut in overtime. McNamara matched his total of 17 points and handed out 13 assists, good for one shy of the tournament record. He outdueled his UConn counterpart Marcus Williams, who tallied 17 points and 11 assists.

It was a huge win for the Orange’s NCAA Tournament resume, as the Huskies went on to receive a No. 1 seed.

Semifinals

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Three games, three huge 3-pointers.

Once again, McNamara delivered for the Orange when the team needed it most.

This time his triple with 52 seconds left brought SU within one, and he assisted on Eric Devendorf’s go-ahead layup 35 seconds later. Then in the games waning moments, McNamara forced a turnover with 1.5 seconds left to send Syracuse to the title game. He had a game-high 17 points to lead the Orange on an efficient 6-for-10 from the field.

Championship game

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McNamara hit three 3-pointers against the Panthers to set a tournament record of 16 over the course of the four games. Despite netting his lowest point total of the week — 14 points and six assists — McNamara ran away with the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award. Were it not for his heroics, Syracuse would not have won the tournament. As a No. 9 seed, SU became the lowest-ranked team to ever win the Big East tournament. concrete patio in his backyard and on the hardwood Garden. And those who know him best think more days in the national spotlight are to come.

“It’s inevitable he is going to be whatever he wants be,” Rautins said. “Friendship aside, I think he will be one of the best coaches of all time.” aolivero@syr.edu

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Rotation of 10 leads Belmont to Tournament

By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer

When Belmont head coach Rick Byrd sits down to make a practice plan, the first thing he does is write the words “red” and “blue” at the top of a piece of paper. Next, he picks names from his 16-man roster, putting eight under each color heading. By the end, he creates two practice teams, each with at least two guards, two forwards and a center. He repeats this exercise before every practice, coming up with as many different combinations as he can.

He does not care if his starters are all together. In fact, he prefers if they’re not. Byrd said he has 10 players worthy of being starters but the ability to only play five at a time.

As a result, he developed a system so that, come game time, he gets the very best out of all 10 of them: No player usually plays for longer than 25 minutes a game.

“You can come in and take the first five guys that you want on our team, and the second five have almost if not a 50 percent chance of winning that game,” Byrd said.

Under the system, sophomore Ian Clark has the most minutes per game on the team with 24.6 on average. The Bruins have nine players who average between 15 and 25 minutes per game.

Byrd said it is the team chemistry at Belmont and evenness of talent that allow his plan to work. And the Bruins (30-4) used that chemistry to book their first NCAA Tournament trip since

“You can come in and take the first five guys that you want on our team, and the second five have almost if not a 50 percent chance of winning that game.”

Rick Byrd

Belmont head coach

courtesy of glenn gregory | belmont university athletics Rick Byrd led Belmont to an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament when it won the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament. Byrd runs practices that prevent players from getting fatigued at the end of games, and no one plays longer than 25 minutes in each.

2008 after they trounced North Florida 87-46 in the Atlanta Sun tournament championship last Saturday.

In his plan, Byrd mixes up who is on the court.

Regardless of the combination, he gets results.

The style allows the players to exert more effort for the time they are on the court, pressing throughout the game to force turnovers.

The key to the success of the system is the cohesiveness of Belmont’s team. Clark said none of the players are selfish, so the team is more effective as a whole.

“A lot of teams have a lot more egos than we do,” Clark said.

Byrd identified his team’s closeness when practices began last fall. Throughout those first weeks, he had trouble picking starters out from the bunch. So he tried giving players even time in the preseason NIT and was pleased with the results, leaving the tournament 3-1 after losing only to then-No. 24 Tennessee. From then on, the bench players got almost as much time as the starters.

As his plan developed, Byrd realized a system like this would keep his players from burning out toward the end of games — and toward the end of the season.

“We’re trying hard to maximize the effort on the floor by taking away the fatigue factor,” Byrd said.

Byrd quickly figured out that if he wasn’t worrying about saving his best three players for game day, practices could run longer, though he doesn’t always choose to do so. He was able to get more out of his players on a day-to-day basis, regardless of how much time the team had between games. Fatigue never set in.

Clark said the players could feel the benefits of less game time over the course of the season.

“You’re not playing 30, 35 minutes a game, so it allows us to practice harder in a shorter amount of time,” Clark said. “That’s an advantage because if you practice hard, the games come easy.”

Belmont had the advantage particularly toward the end of the season, when its players were still going strong. The team lost only once

since Dec. 23 and sailed through the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament to clinch an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

Junior Scott Saunders, who is one of the team’s top players coming off the bench, said the team’s success in the latter part of the season was a direct result of the restricted playing time.

“We were able to lay it on teams in the second half,” Saunders said. “When most teams get a little worn down, I think we were refreshed.”

This trip to the NCAA Tournament will be Belmont’s fourth in six seasons. In 2008, the team captured the nation’s attention when it lost by only one point to Duke in the first round after being up by one with only 20 seconds to go. This year’s team has different tactics but can build on what previous teams have done.

Although he doesn’t feel the Bruins are at the same level yet, Byrd said he hopes to reach the status of teams that have worked their way up through the NCAA Tournament ranks, such as Gonzaga and Butler. This year, he said, the team will benefit from a history of NCAA Tournament appearances because the program is no longer an outsider.

“The players can see that Belmont’s been there before,” Byrd said. “Belmont has a legitimate chance to win a game at that level, when before we would just hope to win a game.”

Student-athletes?

Stanford’s basketball team is struggling. It is seeded eighth going into the Pac-10 tournament and has a mediocre record of 15-15. It is clear the team has enough to deal with.

But now the university is making it harder to be a student-athlete. After California Watch launched an investigation into a list of classes at Stanford provided only to athletes, the university put an end to the program.

The Athletic Academic Resource Center made the list available to athletes to help them fit classes into their practice schedules. The report suggested the classes offered were less academi-

cally challenging than the classes offered to the entire student body.

Game to watch Harvard vs Princeton Saturday, 4 p.m.

Harvard and Princeton have faced each other twice this season. Each team has won once on its home court, with Harvard winning the more recent of the two.

On Saturday, the teams will play one last time this season in a tiebreaking game. This time, though, the stakes are higher. The teams will compete in a one-game playoff to decide the winner of the Ivy League title and a bid to the NCAA Tournament.

The game will be played in a neutral site at Yale’s basketball stadium, where Princeton won this season and Harvard lost. alguggen@syr.edu

Associated Press Top 25 (First place votes in parentheses)

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1. Ohio State (52) 2.

Kansas (13) 3.

Pittsburgh 4.

Notre Dame 5. Duke 6.

North Carolina 7.

San Diego State 8.

Brigham Young 9.

Purdue 10. Texas 11.

Syracuse 12. Florida 13.

Wisconsin 14. Louisville 15.

Kentucky 16. Arizona 17.

St. John’s 18.

Xavier 19.

Kansas State 20.

West Virginia 21.

Connecticut 22.

Georgetown 23.

Utah State 24. Temple 25.

Cincinnati

Record

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SU hopes quick starts continue against Hoyas

By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor

Stephen Keogh isn’t ready to write off Georgetown as a struggling team. He doesn’t see too much substance in the Hoyas’ slow start.

And that includes a Georgetown goaltender who’s still trying to find his way four games into the season.

“I think they’re going to come out strong,” Keogh Who: Georgetown said. “A lot of teams, Where: Baltimore when they see SyraWhen: Saturday, 11 a.m. cuse on their schedChannel: ESPNU ule, they mark that game, and they’re going to come out high flying. Last year, they played us tough. They’re a good team.”

Syracuse (3-0) opens up its Big East schedule against No. 20 Georgetown (2-2) in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic (11 a.m., ESPNU) at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday.

The Orange’s first road trip of the season will be against a Georgetown team still looking to make its mark as a competitive team. A win against No. 1 Syracuse would do exactly that because the Hoyas’ wins so far have come against unimpressive teams in Jacksonville and St. John’s.

To keep that from happening, getting to GU goaltender Jack Davis early could be pivotal.

Georgetown has played only one team ranked in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse Top 20 through four games. The Hoyas lost 20-8 to No. 8 Maryland, giving up 14 goals to the Terps in the second half after going into halftime down by only two goals. In the game, Davis gave up 17 of those 20 goals.

So far this season, Davis hasn’t looked like a goaltender able to stop a Syracuse team that’s riding high at 3-0. Davis is yielding an average of 14 goals per game, which is 54th in the nation.

But for SU head coach John Desko, that’s still not a reason to be any more aggressive when going to the goal.

“We’re always careful in talking about the goaltenders,” Desko said. “You don’t like your guys to overthink it. … I think when they start thinking about their shots, their percentages go down.”

Desko said Davis could come out “very hot” against Syracuse, increasing his level of play against Georgetown’s biggest test of an opponent. Especially because he knows the Orange’s tendencies. It’s no secret Syracuse pushes the ball up the field and takes aggressive shots.

Many of those shots come in the first quarter, where Syracuse has outshot its opponents 33-16. Keogh said that can shake the confidence of the goaltenders early on, giving the Orange a chance to pull away with a quick lead.

Breaking Davis’ confidence — which is likely already fragile due to the slow start — early could be all Syracuse needs to do to continue its undefeated start to the season.

“The past couple of games, we’ve come out flying out of the gate, getting to the goalies early, and they get a little rattled,” Keogh said. “We’re definitely going to try to get to him early.”

Desko said the high number of first-quarter

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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor Stephen Keogh and Syracuse will look to break the confidence of Georgetown’s struggling goaltender early in Syracuse’s game against the Hoyas on Saturday in the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic. The Orange opens its Big East schedule with a 3-0 record. shots has a lot to do with the emotions of the team. In all three games, there have been reasons for the Orange to come out with added intensity.

Syracuse first came out hyped up to play its season opener. Then the Orange avenged its NCAA tournament loss from a year ago against Army. Last Friday, SU faced off with No. 2 Virginia.

On Saturday, those emotions aren’t likely to be any lower. The Orange will play at an NFL stadium in front of perhaps the largest crowd it has seen all year. And despite Georgetown’s struggles up to this point, Syracuse still expects the game to be a challenge.

“I think they’re going to be a real tough test for us,” long-stick midfielder Joel White said.

“I think they’re going to be excited to come into the big stadium and try to prove something.

Everyone’s trying to beat us.”

They might be trying, but no one’s been successful so far.

If Syracuse continues its early scoring barrage against Georgetown, it might be in for an easy victory. Especially because Orange

goaltender John Galloway is giving up almost half as many goals per game as Davis is.

Facing a goaltender who’s susceptible to caving in to aggressive offenses, Syracuse knows it has an opportunity to take the Hoyas out of the game quickly. Even if Georgetown’s offense brings its best, an early deficit could be too much to overcome.

Said Keogh: “We want to bury the ball early

“The past couple of games, we’ve come out flying out of the gate, getting to the goalies early, and they get a little rattled. We’re definitely going to try to get to him early.”

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and keep it rolling from there.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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SU hopes to build off year of progression

By Ryne Gery Staff Writer

When the Syracuse ice hockey team’s season started in October, Syracuse head coach Paul Flanagan didn’t have high expectations. With a young roster that included two freshman goaltenders, the team had just one realistic goal: to get back to the College Hockey America championship game.

Syracuse did that when it faced No. 3 Mercyhurst for the second straight year Saturday at Tennity Ice Pavilion. The Orange gave the Lakers another fight before falling 5-4.

“We didn’t really set lofty goals,” Flanagan said. “It was trying to get back to this game.”

The path back to the championship game wasn’t easy, though. With 17 freshmen and sophomores on the team, SU lacked focus and consistency throughout the year. The Orange never won or lost more than three games in a row.

The inconsistency resulted in a 14-16-6 record in the program’s third season after going 18-17-1 a year ago.

“We had some ups and downs,” sophomore Isabel Menard said. “We didn’t play as we wanted to play in some of the games.”

SU battled through winless streaks and frustrating ties. Highs like when it won three straight games leading up to the CHA title game.

And lows like the three straight losses back in late October and early November. But Flanagan said his team learned from its struggles. The young players gained valuable experience during the five-month season.

“When you get knocked down when you’re a younger team, you just have to learn from it,” Flanagan said. “Sometimes you learn lessons the hard way. That’s how kids learn, in the heat of the battle.”

At the start of the season, Flanagan just wanted his team to compete. But after finishing the season with those three straight wins over Niagara and scaring Mercyhurst in the title game, the head coach expects more next season.

matthew leistikow | staff photographer paul flanagan expects the Syracuse ice hockey team to build on its postseason experience in the coming years. SU ended its season with a heartbreaking 5-4 loss to Mercyhurst in the College Hockey America tournament championship game last Saturday.

“Our goal should be to win this league,” Flanagan said. “And then get back to this game and win this championship.”

Syracuse may enter next season with its best chance to accomplish that goal. Mercyhurst graduates its top three scorers, including the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer Meghan Agosta.

The Lakers have won all nine conference titles and remain the favorite.

But Flanagan thinks the gap between Mercyhurst and his team will narrow. He is confident the experience his team gained will make a difference next season.

That experience was most important for the freshmen goaltenders Kallie Billadeau and Jenesica Drinkwater. The key position was the biggest question mark surrounding the team in October.

After rotating most of the season, Billadeau emerged as the clear-cut starter in February.

She started seven of the last eight games, includ-

ing both playoff games. Billadeau said she struggled with the transition to college hockey, but she was comfortable in net by the season’s final stretch.

“It was tough at first,” Billadeau said. “I struggled a bit during the middle of the season, but I think I definitely grew as a goaltender.”

Billadeau said the team finally put it together in the last few weeks of the season. SU played better defensively in support of her, and it showed. Billadeau earned wins in three of the last four games in net and recorded her first career shutout in the conference semifinals.

Flanagan said Billadeau’s steady play was key for the team’s late-season turnaround. The team will depend on her again heading into the next season. Though she will be only a sophomore, she has to become a leader.

“It starts there in net,” Flanagan said. “Now have a veteran going into next year.”

Syracuse will be a veteran team surrounding

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her, too. Freshmen defenders Brittney Krebs and Akane Hosoyamada earned key minutes late in the season. And sophomore Holly CarrieMattimoe and freshman Margot Scharfe made plays offensively.

Menard, the team’s leading scorer, will also be back. She said the championship loss was painful, but it gives the team motivation for the next season.

“Keep our momentum and make sure that we remember today and get it next year,” Menard said. “We’re going to be so hungry for it.”

Flanagan also set his sights on the conference championship trophy after the loss Saturday.

And with all but the three seniors returning, his players understand the increased expectations.

Flanagan and his team are on the same page.

“If we don’t, it will be the biggest disappointment,” Billadeau said of winning the conference. “We know we can win it.” rjgery@syr.edu

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ST. JOHN’S VS. SYRACUSE11 TODAY, 2 P.M., ESPN

above: nate shron | staff photographer; bottom: daily orange file photos Gerry McNamara (right) is in his second season as a graduate assistant for Syracuse. Five years ago, he led SU to a Big East tournament championship with his heroics.

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ehind a lonely square window in the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center wall sits Syracuse’s elaborate national championship trophy. One hundred feet away, the crystal casts the spotlight on Gerry McNamara. It’s the kind of reserved “Syracuse spotlight” for which McNamara, a self-described simple man, returned to Syracuse.

In the week of the five-year anniversary of McNamara willing SU to the 2006 Big East tournament championship, he is right where he wants to be as a part of Syracuse basketball. This time as a graduate assistant coach embarking on what he hopes will be an illustrious coaching career.

His mentality is nothing but perfection — and winning, as always. His father, Gerard “Chiz” McNamara, knows it all too well, since the time he dug up a grassy knoll and poured a concrete patio, wheel barrel by wheel barrel, right behind the McNamaras’ tiny house at 915 W. Market St.

in Scranton, Pa. It’s where Gerry first honed his dream.

“His goal is to be the best coach that ever coached that game,” Chiz said. “That’s who he is. That’s what he does.”

Becoming the best is the goal. But for now, he revels being here — invisible — as much as he cherished his magnum opus four-day run in Madison Square Garden in 2006. This is as good as the spotlight of that week, when he captured America’s attention as the face of college basketball.

“To me the spotlight is never me. The spotlight is Syracuse,” McNamara says. “To me the spotlight is Syracuse, and I feel like I am in the spotlight. The reason I love what I’m doing is because I am doing it where I love to be.

“Because I care so much about this.”

••• It’s 2:40 p.m. on a Wednesday, and not a single current Orange player will touch the court for another 20 minutes. The now 27-year-old McNamara shoots see mcnamara page 15

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