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Budget concerns continue

By Dara McBride Staff Writer

Faculty members demonstrate concern with Syracuse University’s proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year, citing issues with the budget’s lack of transparency and a growing number of administrators.

The proposed budget for the 2011 fiscal year will be presented to the Board of Trustees for approval Thursday. Faculty members have cited other issues, such as a lack of transparency and potentially unnecessary spending. Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina and Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Kevin Quinn countered some of those arguments, saying the growth in the number of administrators helps the student body.

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justin cole and andrea rosko, executive director and alternative break coordinator, respectively, work onsite as representatives for the Syracuse Univerity and State Univeristy of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

SU/ESF Habitat is sending six alternative Spring Break trips out next week. About 130 students will travel to the southeast of the United States to build houses for those in need. SU/ESF Habitat is one of the top five largest Habitat college groups in the country. see Page 7

SU partners with Census Bureau to ensure completion

By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor

All Syracuse University students, along with college students nationwide, must participate in the 2010 U.S. Census, a survey distributed once every 10 years.

SU students received an e-mail Wednesday that explained the data collection process for students on and off campus. All students who live in university housing, including residence halls and South Campus apartments, will receive the Census questionnaire from the university.

Students who live off campus will receive the Census form via mail.

The United States Census Bureau will work with SU and other colleges and universities for the next two months to ensure all students are included in the 2010 Census.

The Census ultimately takes a snapshot of the country at a point in time to determine representation in Congress and the allocation of more than $400 billion in federal funding, said Laura Walbon, a partnership specialist with the United States Census Bureau. SU is one of 91 colleges and universities statewide to actively partner with the Census Bureau to help obtain student information.

It is important for students living

on and off campus to fill out the form because it determines how much money the Syracuse community receives, Walbon said.

“Nine months out of the year the students are living in that community, relying on public transportation, roads, hospitals, campus safety, that kind of thing,” she said. “It’s allocated based on those numbers.”

Questionnaires will be passed out in all residence halls with a designated spot for students to drop them off, said Diana Napolitano, government relations associate in the Government and Community Relations Office. The questionnaire has seven questions.

A primary concern of the Census Bureau is to ensure off-campus students fill out the questionnaires as well. It is easy to distribute them to students on campus, but it is much harder to make sure that students who live off campus collect the form from the mail, fill it out and mail it back, Walbon said.

“We want to make sure students on and off campus are counted,” Walbon said. “The students who live in off-campus housing are hard to reach out to.”

The mail forms will be sent out across the country between March 13 and 17. Representatives from the see census page 4

DPS plans security for Spring Break

By Margaret Amisano Staff Writer

When Brianna Johns de Moll goes home for Spring Break, she’ll be taking everything she owns with her — not because she needs it, but because she’s scared it will get stolen.

“I woke up to police cars outside my window last time there was a burglary on Small Road,” said de Moll, a sophomore communications design major. “I’m just not taking that risk.”

According to Department of Public Safety Chief Tony Callisto, DPS will still be in full force during Spring Break.

Although there has been a number of burglaries this semester, Callisto said they are occurring less frequently than in the past. In light of

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Whitman students to teach business in Africa

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Kenneth Meyer , director of the guitar studies program at Syracuse University, plays guitar Wednesday in Setnor Auditorium. Meyer has won awards from the Barlow Endowment, the Eastman School of Music and the Argosy Foundation.

Five Syracuse University students will spend Spring Break in Djibouti, Africa, starting Thursday to teach entrepreneurial skills to locals, the U.S. military and a nongovernmental organization.

“The goal of the trip is to help locals start or grow their own business,” said Amanda Nicholson, faculty adviser for SU’s chapter of Students in Free Enterprise and a retail management professor.

The student group is part of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management’s Empowerment through Entrepreneurship initiative to develop sustainable business and promote economic growth. The mission statement for the trip is to help develop the Djiboutian economy by teaching entrepreneurial skills and sustainable business practices, according to the trip’s handbook.

The group will partner with Pacific Architects & Engineers, Inc., a nongovernmental organization that is part of Lockheed Martin Company, and SIFE. This is the eighth year Whitman students have worked to bring entrepreneurship to Africa, but it is the first year of Empowerment through Entrepreneurship, as well as the first time students will be traveling to Djibouti.

The students will stay at Camp Lemonnier, a U.S. military base in Djibouti.

“While we’re in Djibouti we’re going to be working half the day with the PAE and U.S. military members doing live teaching about the entrepreneurship process,” said Dan Kinney, a senior in Whitman and president of SIFE. “The second half we’ll be working with the entrepreneurs, with the U.S. military, with PAE. Then when we leave, the U.S. military and PAE can keep everything going.”

The students will be working with locals to identify viable business projects that can continue to grow once the group leaves, Nicholson said.

They will also help fund the projects.

“We’re probably going to sit with these people and look at what their

ideas are, how viable they are, how they’re pricing product, if it’s a product business or a service business.

We’ll be looking at marketing, with the hope of the plan to gear them in the right direction and help them become successful,” Nicholson said.

Kinney said he is optimistic about the trip and hopes students will continue traveling to Djibouti in future years.

“The goal is to expand to other countries. This is a pilot run and if it’s successful, which I hope it will be, I don’t see why it won’t continue after this year,” Kinney said.

The team, led by Nicholson and entrepreneurship professor Neil Tarallo, consists of two seniors, two sophomores and one freshman. Students within SIFE who could bring in the specific skills needed to successfully train the locals were sought after most, Nicholson said. One student speaks fluent French, which will help facilitate communication with the locals.

This past semester, members of SIFE attended weekly 8 a.m. conference calls with PAE and with the U.S. military in preparation for the trip.

They have been teaching the organizations about entrepreneurship and consulting, Kinney said.

Kelly Fisher, a senior retail management and marketing major, said she is looking forward to getting real-world experience in what she has learned in school.

“As a student, I think there is definite value to being able to apply classroom knowledge to benefit communities where citizens don’t have the kinds of resources that we have here at Syracuse,” Fisher said.

Fisher also said she is confident the team will be able to face the cultural challenges of working in Djibouti.

“In terms of helping develop the local businesses in Djibouti, I really am trying to keep an open mind because so much is going to change and develop once we’re on the ground getting hands-on with the participants and their businesses,” she said. afpopesc@syr.edu

Bandersnatch Music Series announces special guest for Miike Snow

By Andrew Swab Asst. Copy Editor

University Union announced Tuesday that Theophilus London will be the new special guest for the Bandersnatch Music Series’ Miike Snow concert.

London is a Brooklyn-based artist who combines electronica and indierock with hip-hop. He performed in 20 countries on tour last year and has come out with two mix-tapes.

Harry Roberts, co-director of

the Bandersnatch Music Series and a sophomore in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, said Miike Snow and London are artists with a similar sound.

UU had previously announced that the band Delorean would be the special guest to perform at the concert, but Delorean had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts.

The Bandersnatch Music Series

is a subdivision of University Union Concerts that features up-and-coming artists in Schine Underground.

Both Roberts and Alison Murphy, the other co-director of the Bandersnatch Music Series and a junior in the Bandier Program, said there has been a lot of positive publicity on the Internet for London.

“We thought that he would be a good draw. We think that he is a name that will be pretty big in the

future,” Murphy said.

A lot of the praise for London comes from the United Kingdom, Murphy said.

Roberts said London previously spoke at Syracuse University as part of the Bandier Story of Leadership lecture.

Lucas Sacks, a sophomore in the Bandier Program, said he heard London speak alongside his manager in music business classes. Sacks said he is not a fan of rap music, but in the

class, London seemed like he had the potential to become popular.

“He seemed like a genuine musician,” Sacks said. “I think in a year he could be a lot bigger.”

Sacks said he believes London was a good choice as the special guest for the Bandersnatch series.

“I think he’ll spark a lot of interest,” he said. “He’ll help get a good draw of people.” ajswab@syr.edu

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BUDGET FROM PAGE 1

After being a member of Syracuse University’s Budget Committee for more than a year, Jeffrey Stonecash, a political science professor, said he still had unanswered questions about the bigger picture, so he began to look into the budget himself.

“You start piecing it together and reading the fi nancial reports of the university and you sort of can piece the whole thing together,” Stonecash said about research he did using the Web and documents obtained at budget meetings.

Stonecash said the growth in administration is a countrywide problem. He said he is not convinced the number of administrators has been looked at seriously enough, especially considering that tuition is increasing and faculty are being told the budget is in trouble.

While most universities froze faculty searches, SU hired the largest amount of faculty in 20 years during the past year, Spina said. But the number of administrators has not followed suit, he said.

“In the last two years we have not hired

SECURITY FROM PAGE 1

this, DPS will not be taking any extra security precautions over break but will be maintaining its normal level of Spring Break security. If there is a spike in burglaries, DPS will increase monitoring in that area, he said.

a lot of administrators,” Spina said. “People have been coming and going, but the net number has actually decreased.”

The ratio of administrators and support staff to faculty decreased from 1.9-to-1 in 1998 to 1.7-to-1 in 2010, according to a new analysis process that was created last year to look at growth of administration. An analysis of changing director titles from 2000 to 2008 shows that 27 of the 63 new director positions were in the schools and colleges.

Spina also said faculty has been shuffled, with promotions accounting for many of the new administrative positions. Of the 198 increases in director titles between 2000 and 2008, 111 were promotions, according to the analysis. Spina said measuring growth by the number of administrators is a false indicator because people are promoted, but no one is hired to fi ll their old positions.

“Look back six or eight years ago and there were a certain number of directors, and you look now and it’s a bigger number,” Spina said. “But then if you actually ask the harder question — how many of those people have been promoted to a new title versus how many people have been hired — you get a very different answer.”

The campaign to raise $1 billion by 2012

has also contributed to the rise of administrators, said Quinn, senior vice president of public affairs. The university brought in administrators to the campaign, which will later help students by funding fi nancial aid and new buildings.

Despite Spina and Quinn’s statements that administrators will help advance the university, Stonecash and other faculty members remain weary of the university’s budget priorities.

Student protest and faculty discussion has kept the budget a current issue with a call for more transparency and increased awareness about the budget.

“I’m still really troubled about the endowment,” Stonecash said. “I am worried that the budget is not being constrained, and the solution to that is to withdraw principal from the endowment.”

Stonecash and Robert McClure, a university senator and professor of political science and public affairs, have spoken out against the budget, looking at increased spending on fi nancial aid, more higher-paid professionals and employee benefits as areas of concern.

“I’ve had a growing sense of uneasiness for three, four, five years, as it seemed to me expenditure were rising rapidly,” McClure said.

Difficult economic times make budget woes particularly worrisome, McClure said. He also said the budget structure and expenditures need to be more transparent. He was not convinced all university expenditures were necessary, such as spending on athletics and university promotion.

“I’m concerned that I don’t yet have a true accounting of all the expenditures and where money is coming from to fund some of the expenditures,” McClure said. “One is they’re from the endowment, the other from the academic enterprise of the institution itself.”

McClure said the loss of the resources would affect the missions of the individual schools.

Stonecash also raised questions about fi nancial aid, but he said that did not mean he was against it. He said he depended on fi nancial aid to get through college but is concerned with what increased fi nancial aid meant for the budget.

McClure said he knows making serious changes to the budget itself or the overall process would take a long time.

“You can’t change these things overnight,” McClure said.

“On South Campus, we’ll have full staffing during the break,” Callisto said. “There will be officers there 24 hours a day, and our residence hall officers are actually on duty throughout the break, also. We’ll be checking residence halls on a regular basis.”

This week, Crime Prevention officers are rattling the doors of South Campus apartments to see if they’re locked as part of the “Lock

Your Door” campaign. The officers also hang safety tips on the doorknobs of South Campus and off-campus apartments. This is done about six times a year, especially before breaks, said Crime Prevention Manager James Thompson.

“We found 40 apartments unlocked that we could have walked right into,” Thompson said of the South Campus rounds on March 9. “Sometimes there’s up to 100 to 150 apartments found open while we’re walking around.”

The recently installed security cameras on both Main Campus and South Campus will continue to be monitored constantly as well, Callisto said.

The most recent campus burglary occurred in DellPlain Hall on Feb. 28. A laptop, wallet, $126 and an iPod was stolen from the fi fth floor.

There was no evidence of forced entry, Callisto told The Daily Orange. DPS could not determine if the items were stolen by an SU student or a Syracuse resident, Callisto said.

DPS’ Crime Prevention Unit has joined forces

with the Office of Residence Life to remind students of proper safety precautions to take regardless of whether they are staying here, going home or traveling abroad.

DPS and ORL are also handing out and placing fliers on cars with general safety tips and important phone numbers, Callisto said. Thompson also said South Campus has sent out a mass e-mail issuing the same advice on the fliers.

Students who are leaving their cars on campus should also be sure to make sure nothing inside them is in plain sight, Callisto said.

DPS also wants to make sure students staying on campus keep safety in mind, Callisto said.

“We want people to report to us anything that’s unusual behavior,” Callisto said.

Unusual behavior includes people walking around trying doorknobs to see if they’re unlocked, entering a neighbor’s apartment where they do not live or walking around with suspicious tools, Callisto said.

CENSUS

with Census officials, Breed said.

Included in the university’s directory information are a student’s e-mail address, current and permanent address, phone number, home college, major, dates of attendance, full/parttime status, class year, academic awards and honors, and athletic participation, according to the Registrar’s Web site. Not all of this information is relevant to the Census, but the officials will have access to any of that information they may need, Breed said.

In order to ensure that college students are not counted on both their own Census form and on their parents’ form, there is a note on the top of the mail forms saying not to include children who do not live at home for most of the year.

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bureau will be in the off-campus community at the end of April going to houses from which they have not received a questionnaire back.

Normally the follow-up would not begin until May 1, but representatives want to make sure they connect with students before they go home for the summer, said Dave Walsh, the local Census manager.

Kristen Kuhles, a local senior partnership specialist with the Census and the community liaison between the Census Bureau and SU, said a table was set up in the Schine Student Center on Feb. 24 and 25 to inform students about the upcoming Census. Only about 50 to 100 students stopped by the table, she said, which had promotional materials to give to students.

The university’s responsibility is to deliver the forms to students in university housing and collect them. If students do not fill out the forms, Census representatives will go the Registrar’s Office to obtain student information from the directory, said Maureen Breed, the university registrar.

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CENSUS DIRECTIONS On campus: Questionnaires with seven questions will be passed out in the residence halls. There will be designated drop-off spots for students to leave their completed forms.

Off campus: Students will receive the Census form in the mail like any other citizen. They will have to mail the form back to the Census Bureau.

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Extended senate discussion needed after issues remain about university’s budget We commend The Daily Orange for its coverage of important budgetary and procedural issues facing the university. We write now to expand certain aspects of that coverage and to correct others. The D.O. described the University Senate as the governing body of the university. It is not; that is the Board of Trustees. But USen does have certain powers in regard to curriculum, and on many other matters it has advisory functions. In regard to budgetary matters it has no authority but participates through its committee structure in the formation of recommendations.

USen serves as a forum for serious, informed deliberation of matters of concern to the campus. It requires a willingness to engage diverse views with an open mind and provide a full hearing to opposing arguments and replies. All senates are committed to carefully reasoned debate, but that is all the more true in a university community. But at last Wednesday’s meeting, USen fell far short of its ideals.

Wednesday’s meeting was called to consider two large topics: next year’s budget recommendation and the administration’s proposal for multiple changes in the university’s benefits program. Both raise major questions about which there is a diversity of opinion, as was apparent in the reports from the various USen committees on the benefits proposal, some of which expressed serious reservations about a few of the proposed changes.

Setting a single meeting to address both issues severely limited the time available for discussing them.

It was announced at the outset that the meeting would be limited to 90 minutes and that all speakers should keep their remarks brief and not read

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Given those time constraints, it was surprising that nearly 25 minutes of the meeting were devoted to the chancellor’s reading of two lengthy statements, one on the budget and one on the benefits proposal.

Reports from the Senate Budget Committee on the budget and five USen committees on the benefits proposal consumed most of the remaining meeting time.

When it was finally time for discussion and debate, it was under the very confusing rule that the benefits proposal and the budget issue were to be debated simultaneously. The two are connected but raise distinct issues, and it would have made for a more coherent dialogue to have addressed one and then the other. The press of time supposedly prevented this.

Senators nonetheless attempted to engage in the sort of process that has traditionally characterized the work of USen, and one member rose to move a sense of the USen resolution, which was duly seconded, regarding an element of the benefits proposal on which two USen committees (Women’s Concerns & Budget) had raised concerns in their reports — the extension of health benefits to opposite-sex domestic partners who choose not to marry.

Immediately some members, including administrators, vocally interrupted and asserted that no motions or votes were to be permitted on the benefits proposal — a remarkable assertion about USen on an important issue, on which the senate always has the option of expressing its views by resolution. There should

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have been an immediate ruling from the chair that the motion was indeed in order. The proposer had been recognized, the motion was properly made, seconded and was germane to the issue under discussion. Instead there was chaotic discussion until it was finally acknowledged that the motion was in order.

Given the chaos, the proposer of the motion was never given the opportunity to speak on behalf of his motion as he should have been.

Indeed no one had a chance to speak in favor of the motion. What followed instead were only two comments.

One member objected to the motion as personally insulting and deeply offensive, a comment which aimed to de-legitimize the motion, which in fact expressed the fiscal concerns raised by several USen committees.

Only one other comment was permitted, and it was not relevant to the motion.

At that point the chair abruptly announced that it was time to call the question and proceed to a vote.

But calling a question must be done by a motion (not debatable) that itself must be voted on. Chaos then resumed, with many people speaking at once, followed by a procedurally questionable vote. The chair ruled that the motion to call the question had passed, though it was unclear that it had received the required twothird majority. An immediate vote on the main motion followed, and it was rejected without having been discussed.

The issue is not the outcome of the motion, but the total unwillingness of some members to allow it to be debated, by wrongly claiming that motions were not permitted, by attempting to de-legitimize it, and by completely precluding any debate

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Calling the question is a relatively extreme measure intended to limit debate that has gone on too long, rather than to prevent debate from ever beginning. That’s why it requires the two-third majority that it probably did not receive.

Its use Wednesday was an abuse of power and contrary to the ideals of USen that call for open and thorough debate and the willingness to listen to and consider conflicting views.

It was obvious that in the eyes of many, the question was already settled before there had been any possibility for debate. The chancellor had given her judgment in her statement on how she had chosen to balance competing concerns, and no debate was to be permitted on the possibility that the senate might officially express a contrary view on any part of the proposal.

Our concerns have been shared with professor Eileen Schell, chair of the Senate Agenda Committee, who chaired Wednesday’s meeting. She has acknowledged that some parts of the meeting were not handled well, and she has committed to improve

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the future process. In fairness to Schell, she was placed in a difficult, if not impossible, situation by the timetable that had been imposed.

As part of the response, there will be an additional opportunity for extended senate discussion and debate on budget issues at the next USen meeting on March 24. Unfortunately, by that point the administration will have presented its recommendation on next year’s budget to the trustees, who will have acted on them. Nonetheless, many remaining issues about the university’s budget and finances deserve detailed consideration by the senate as whole.

We hope and expect that at that meeting the senate will by its actions reaffirm its traditional commitment to fully hear competing points of views and to consider any proposals put forth by colleagues on their merits and the arguments offered for and against them.

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ctivists for the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, along with more than 200 advocates for higher education, went to Albany Tuesday to speak with legislators and urge them to vote against the proposed cuts to SUNY, said Alejandro FernandezLovo, project coordinator for the Syracuse chapter of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

“In our opinion, they’ve been cut enough,” Lovo said. “The cuts will be coming in, and they’ll be coming in hard.”

ESF, along with all the SUNY schools, could soon be the victim of a drastic cut in state funding if Gov. David Paterson’s proposed budget is passed. In response, ESF students have actively protested the cuts during the past few months by writing letters, signing petitions and publicly demonstrating.

The SUNY system stands to lose $ 95 million in funding, and the Tuition Assistance Program could be cut by $74.3 million under Paterson’s budget proposal. Lawmakers will announce their decision about the budget in April and will officially vote by the end of May. Many of the activists came from NYPIRG, which encouraged student involvement through a letter-writing campaign. NYPIRG brought 42 personal handwritten letters to Albany and gave them to Senate Majority Leader John Sampson and Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver.

There seemed to be a consensus among lawmakers in Albany that this is a painful but necessary cut, Lovo said.

“They were telling us that our state is broke and everyone is going to be feeling

alex pines | staff photographer Snowmen built by members of the New York State Public Interest Research Group hold signs on the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry quad protesting statewide budget cuts to public university funding. these cuts that will come from all sectors,” he said.

Despite the dreary outlook, legislators are considering keeping the TAP award the same, at least for next year, Lovo said.

“From what we gathered, if SUNY cuts come through, TAP will be covered, but next year there will be cuts also,” Lovo said.

Daniel Amirian, a senior environmental studies major, said cuts to the TAP program would be detrimental to lower- and middle-class students. Less assistance would require some students to work longer hours to pay tuition, which could lower their academic performance and hurt their chances at higher education, said Amirian, also an NYPIRG member.

“It is my sincere hope that the TAP program is spared,” Amirian said. “It’s an incredibly valuable program for New York students.”

In addition to speaking with legislators, ESF students and NYPIRG members have been showing their dissatisfaction with the cuts for months. NYPIRG held a protest Feb. 19 against the cuts on the ESF quad. Participants built snowmen holding signs that condemned the cuts, Lovo said.

“The signs were a visual to tell Gov. Paterson to not keep students out in the cold,”

he said.

Kristen Gloeckler, a sophomore aquatics and fisheries science major, participated in a NYPIRG protest last semester on the ESF quad.

“We had a petition and asked anyone walking by to sign against the SUNY cuts,” Gloeckler said. “We gave them a Band-Aid because everyone is hurt by the SUNY cuts.”

Despite a low turnout because of cold and rainy weather, the group collected 30 signatures for the petition, she said. NYPIRG also ran a calling campaign and urged students to call their senator to explain how the budget cuts would affect them.

“It’s one thing to get a bunch of names on paper, but it’s another thing to have them call and hear why the budget cuts would hurt them,” Gloeckler said.

The cuts are going to make it more difficult for many students to go to SUNY schools because affordability is a selling point for them. If the cost rises, students will go to community colleges instead of SUNY schools, Gloeckler said.

Beyond tuition increases, Gloeckler said she’s worried that cuts could prevent ESF from updating lab equipment, upgrading buildings and having sports teams. She is also worried that vital opportunities could

be reduced as a result of the cuts.

“One of the really great things about ESF is that they have a lot of opportunities to do research, which is really important to get into grad school or get farther into the scientific world,” Gloeckler said.

But Lovo said although the cuts will be difficult to accommodate without reducing the quality of education, ESF has the funding to pull through. ESF has a strong donor base that will help protect the college from feeling the full effects of the SUNY budget cuts, Lovo said.

ESF’s Undergraduate Student Association supports Paterson’s Empowerment Act, which will allow individual SUNY schools to set their tuitions as a means of dealing with the cuts, said Ben Schott, president of the association. The Undergraduate Student Association also supports the rallies and protests being held against the budget cuts.

Schott said students must stay involved in New York legislation, regardless of the outcome.

“Most importantly,” Schott said, “whatever legislation is passed and however this turns out, it is essential that students continue to play a large role in how legislation is shaped and how SUNY evolves.” jlsiart@ syr.edu

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magine Syracuse University without long chicken nugget lines at Ernie Davis Dining Center. Imagine falling asleep without intense vibrations from neighboring walls. Imagine no classes to wake up late for. For the

approximate 350 students staying at school for Spring Break, campus will be abnormally still.

“As much as I love vacations, I sometimes feel tired after them because I’m constantly doing so many things,” said Rachel Frost, a sophomore stage management major who is required to stay on campus because she has theater rehearsals. “It’s nice to be here at school having nothing to do, be in PJs all day and catch up on TV.” For some students, spending Spring Break at school is nothing new.

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New York City arena ever since he saw the six-overtime spectacle between the Orange and Connecticut during last year’s Big East tournament. He said he vowed not to miss out on the event ever again.

But the road toward the ultimate Orange Spring Break is not for the weak of heart. While some spend hours waiting in airports for their flights to Spain, Porcelli devoted his time to waiting at the Carrier Dome in hopes of getting tickets for the game at the Garden.

“They sent an e-mail out to student ticket-holders saying that they had 50 tickets for the season ticketholders available and the box office was opening last Thursday at 7 in the morning,” he said.

In comparison to standing outside the Dome in the dead of winter for hours on end, sitting in an

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realize Habitat at SU went to Louisiana, or I would have done it in previous years, too.”

Though the trip will send many veterans, like Dornton, to volunteer this Spring Break, there are also newcomers looking to enjoy their Spring Break with Habitat.

Alaina Mallette, a freshman international relations and Spanish major, just joined the organization a few weeks ago and is going to West Virginia to volunteer during Spring Break.

“I’m looking forward to getting to meet the people in the community,” Mallette said. “I’ve heard the community is really close, and it seems like it would be a really great experience being able to meet the people we are helping firsthand.”

Mallette said she first got interested after hearing friends talk about their past experiences with Habitat.

“I hear once you build one (house) you want to go out and build a whole bunch more,” she said.

“Sometimes I wish I was going to lounge in the sun for Spring Break, but I know in the long run it’s so worth it to do what I am doing because you get to bond with people on a different level and it will be so rewarding.” rltoback@syr.edu

airport might seem like paradise all on its own. But this didn’t matter to Porcelli. He was going to get those tickets. He was going to see the Orange play.

“We decided to get there pretty early, I think about 4 to 4:30 in the morning,” Porcelli said. “So to even want to get up and wait in line in the freezing cold that early in the morning, (it) goes to show how big of a fan I am.”

Regardless of how the team does once he’s in New York, Porcelli said he knows his trip will be a memorable one, even if it is only 250 miles away.

Curse waiting in lines. Curse the beach. This is the Big East tournament. This is national television. This is Porcelli’s Spring Break.

“Watching the basketball team and seeing the surprising success and just to see them do well in the tournament in New York City when it’s more publicized than the regular season (and) just before the NCAA Tournament,” Porcelli said, “just the whole situation is pretty exciting.” ansteinb@syr.edu

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Stephany Tan, a senior English and advertising major, is a Syracuse vacation veteran.

Because her home is in Miami, she feels it is too much of a hassle flying back for such a short period of time. “I don’t really look forward to going anywhere warm,” Tan said.

“I look forward to being able to get all my work done and relax a little bit.”

All residence halls will remain open during the break, but dining and fitness centers are closed and buses barely run.

Frost has a car on campus, so she will be able to drive off campus to get food. Tan, on the other hand, does not have a car, so she plans to rely on takeout.

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the Office of Residence Life, said students who remain in the residence halls during Spring Break have the opportunity to feel a part of a smaller community.

“New connections can be formed that perhaps did not develop during the year,” Nestor said. “Being able to come together in the lounge to watch a TV show, play a game, study together and eat some meals together can help foster new friendships.”

William Longcore Jr., also an assistant director at the Office of Residence Life, said that since the break is short, loneliness must not be part of the decision to stay on campus or not.

But considering only a small percent of any resident hall’s population remains on campus, students can feel the effect. Tan and Frost both said staying on campus is “lonely.” tpollock@syr.edu

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Not every technological gadget needs to accompany your Spring Break trip JESSICA SMITH

dmit it. You’re a slave to technology. It’s OK, there’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s just something that is becoming increasingly obvious as new technological advances emerge and are adopted into your cannon of gadgets.

This observation is particularly apt during springtime, when college students disperse to various continents and beach resorts to plague locals and employees around the clock. In the middle of all this debauchery, it’s more than safe to say we’ll all be maintaining contact with friends, family and even potential employers.

The charm of distance is officially 6 feet under. In a “video-killed-the-radio-star” type of transition, snail mail has been replaced by phone calls, phone calls by e-mail, e-mail by text, text by BBM and so on. Distance is no longer a factor of separation. Despite the fact that hundreds or even thousands of miles may separate individuals, the only real change is the actual physical placement.

Whether you’re going on Spring Break in Mexico, Spain, Ecuador or Rome, you can virtually travel back home by implementing one of seemingly endless modes of communication.

Many people opt to go with the old reliable cell phone. Most European countries and vacation resorts offer the option of “renting” a cell phone. Often, they will even rent it to you for free if you book far enough in advance. Too good to be true? Yep. Sure, the allure of the free cell phone is appealing, but beware: It is a sneaky façade.

These companies graciously do not charge for incoming calls or texts, but each text you send will run about 50 cents, depending on the company, and the variations on outgoing call rates

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our ram is bigger than yours are great but are all fairly steep. That phone you rented for free in Barcelona, Spain, to text your sister just ended up costing you as much as that weeklong Vespa rental you had your eye on.

For those who can implement great selfcontrol, this is a good system to use. Friends and family at home can buy a calling card and call your phone with no charge for you. However, you may find it difficult to refrain from drunktexting that attractive native you met on the beach. So long, Vespa.

So if you don’t want to break the bank or lose one of your favorite gadgets this Spring Break, just leave the gadgets at home. Live a little and experience how your parents partied when they went on Spring Break. Although you may be a self-admitted slave to technology, break the bonds a little and use your hotel or hostel’s wired phone for a change. I promise that although they may look a tad silly, they still work.

Jessica Smith is a dual information management and technology and television, radio and film major. If you’re going on Spring Break and try to contact her at jlsmit22@syr.edu, she’ll know you didn’t actually read this article. Rude.

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In lieu of the recent rise in temperature, I picked up a 6-pack of what I like to call “warmer weather beer.” Dogfish Head’s Aprihop is a wonderful bridge from the dark, spicy winter beers over to the more spring-oriented fruity and flowery brews. Aprihop is an India Pale Ale, so it has a nice hop aroma that is slightly fruity with a dark caramel overtone. Aprihop pours an orange-amber hue and has just the right amount of carbonation to make it quite refreshing.

Aprihop delivers a wonderful cast of sweet apricot, mango and even a hint of lemon. Supporting actors include a balanced hop bitterness and a smooth caramel body. With fine carbonation, well-rounded flavors and a unique overall presence, I would skip Magic Hat’s Number Nine and try one of these.

I picked Wagner Valley IPA on a whim but was then happy to discover that it was a product of New York. The closer your beer source, the more fresh and better tasting it will be. This was certainly the case with Wagner Valley, as it was easily one of the more appealing IPAs I’ve recently consumed. My first impression was great, as I got a nose full of orange and grapefruit citrus. The flavor was fairly bitter, with a major hop presence and good amount of carbonation. For an IPA, this was really easy to drink and tasted just fine. I am intrigued

by Wagner Valley as a brewery and look forward to trying more.

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Fall from grace Tim Burton fails yet again at recreating a classic film with the disappointing ‘Alice in Wonderland’

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ith an uninspired remake of “Alice in Wonderland,” director Tim Burton solidifies his standing as perhaps the most overrated director currently working. Since he peaked in the mid-’90s with his masterpiece “Ed Wood” (1994), Burton has focused on remaking treasured works that were considered untouchable. From the laughable “Planet of the Apes” (2001) to his disappointing remake of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005) and mediocre adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” (2007), Burton’s creative edge has been noticeably softened.

Few of Burton’s devout followers realize that his fi lms are routinely more expensive than Steven Spielberg’s projects. His fi lms are not merely formulaic, but they follow a strict narrative pattern he’s created for his hyperstylized universe. Were it not for Johnny Depp, Burton’s work would be all but intolerable.

The Alice of Burton’s “Wonderland,” the very promising Mia Wasikowska, is a 19-year-old who resembles the heroine of “Pride and Prejudice” more than the protagonist of Lewis Carroll’s novel. Upon being offered the hand of an awkward and unap-

pealing young lord, Alice escapes down a rabbit hole and into a fairy-tale world populated by the likes of a hookah-smoking caterpillar (Alan Rickman), the perpetually grinning Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) and the storied Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp).

Alice is welcomed warmly by the Mad Hatter and his occasionally hilarious posse, but she soon finds herself out of favor with the villainous Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter).

Upon being exiled, Alice soon forges a bond with the Red Queen’s sister, the angelic White Queen (Anne Hathaway). Heated conflict arises in Wonderland, culminating in Alice’s heroic battle with a jabberwocky on ‘Frabjous Day.’ Disney’s latest rehashing of “Alice in Wonderland” is not necessarily devoid of wonderment. It just feels manufactured. Rather than experiment with the story, as Czech fi lmmaker Jan Svankmajer did to tremendous artistic effect with “Alice” (1988), Burton submits to the trappings of the Disney machine. The picture is marketed as a star vehicle for Johnny Depp, who in actuality has very little screen time, just one example of Disney misleading its audience to fi ll seats.

The special effects procured from the picture are certainly aesthetically pleasing, but the acting is, quite shockingly, the most

commendable aspect of the production. Depp flaunts his oddball charm with dependable grace, and Wasikowska really owns the fi lm as the titular character. Rickman and Fry provide outstanding voice work, while Anne Hathaway demonstrates why she is widely held as one of the most endearing actresses in the industry.

Despite the restrictions inherently placed on Disney productions, the brunt of the blame still lies with the fi lm’s supposedly virtuosic director. Burton continues to insist on casting his wife, Helena Bonham Carter, in a lead role in all his fi lms, when no one else will give her work. And for good reason: She is talentless, can play only one character and is positively annoying. The director once lauded as a creative genius appears to be more intent on furthering the action than highlighting the eccentricities of Lewis Carroll’s work of art.

Burton’s inability to compound a masterpiece out of Carroll’s text is a monumental disappointment and a sign of this formerly master fi lmmaker’s demise as an artist. Once Hollywood’s most innovative and wonderfully bizarre director, the creative force behind the likes of “Frankenweenie” (1984), “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” (1985), “Beetlejuice” (1988) and “Edward Scissorhands” (1990) should

be peaking right now, not miring himself in generic Disney fare. The director of “Ed Wood” is a shadow of his former self, abducted by the allure of Hollywood grandeur from the realm of limitless artistic expressivity. smlittma@ syr.edu

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After turbulent career, Mason priming for life after St. John’s

By Brad Kallet Staff Writer

Anthony Mason Jr. hopes he has found his way.

He didn’t have the most conventional childhood. He hasn’t had a very common college basketball career, either.

The son of a former NBA player, Anthony Mason Sr., the St. John’s forward knew what stardom was all about at a very young age.

Growing up, the younger Mason went through his share of ups and downs. With his father traveling around the country during his playing career, Mason Jr. was primarily raised by his mother. During his own playing career, he has continuously suffered through tumultuous injury after injury.

Now, with his career on the brink of its conclusion following St. John’s 57-55 loss to Marquette in the Big East tournament Wednesday, Mason hopes all of that has prepared him to achieve success in life after basketball.

Sylvester Ford, Mason’s high school coach, believes the St. John’s forward will be able to succeed in whatever that may be. He was there for Mason’s grassroots maturation.

A half-decade ago, Ford coached Mason at Fairley High School in Memphis, Tenn., where he averaged 20 points per game as a senior. He became a legitimate Division I prospect with a slew of schools to choose from. But as Ford recalls, Mason didn’t become cocky. It simply wasn’t in his nature.

“He was real humble,” Ford said. “You couldn’t tell that he was different because he

wouldn’t show it. He mixed well with the kids and didn’t act like he was somebody else. He was quite a gentleman.”

After leaving Ford, Mason chose to play his college basketball at St. John’s. Having watched his father play on the Madison Square Garden floor while in the NBA, his decision was a relatively easy one. It didn’t hurt that Mason’s father had attended high school with St. John’s head coach Norm Roberts years earlier.

As a top-100 recruit, it seemed everything was coming together for Mason Jr. Now all he had to do was play the game he loved.

In Mason’s first two seasons with the Red Storm, he was solid. His junior season was his true coming out party. Mason averaged 14 points per game and was an honorable mention All-Big East selection. The sky seemed to be the limit for the younger Mason. The NBA potential was there.

But then he came down with a season-ending injury thanks to a torn tendon in his foot three games into his senior season. After starting the season strong, he was forced to miss the rest of the year.

Mason took a medical redshirt during the 2008-09 season, preserving a year of eligibility and watching from the bench. He was without his passion; he could no longer contribute to his university and his team. However, it was during this stretch that Mason pursued one of his other interests. That interest that he hopes will be ready after basketball, as a television producer.

As Mason was rehabbing, MTV’s “True Life”

— a reality-TV series — chronicled his recovery.

For the communication arts major, it was an opportunity to get his feet wet despite the grim situation.

“I believe it was a very positive experience for Anthony,” said Mark Fratto, St. John’s director of athletic communications. “The experience of being part of a behind-the-scenes show was extremely valuable. And he was able to make some great contacts in the world of television.”

Upon his return from surgery in 2009-10, Mason wasn’t able to put up the impressive numbers that he once did. His torn tendon took that from him. After missing the Red Storm’s first 14 games for yet another injury, he ended the season scoring just 6.6 points a game.

Depending on the Red Storm’s NIT fate, Mason may have played his last collegiate game.

He didn’t have the storybook ending, and his future in basketball remains unclear.

Dave Telep, the national recruiting director for Scout.com, believes Mason will have to find his basketball career outside of the United States if he is to continue playing at the professional level. For the time being, an NBA career doesn’t seem likely.

“He’s probably a guy who’s going to have to carve out a niche overseas,” Telep said. “He’s probably going to have some opportunities. I imagine those opportunities will be overseas in some of those leagues.”

But those trials from Memphis all the way to St. John’s have perhaps readied him for the big stage. This time, the goal is Hollywood.

And Ford believes that the high school kid that he was so impressed with more than five years ago will be ready. Despite the injuries, Mason has become something.

It just remains to be seen exactly what that is.

“I see him excelling at anything he desires to do because he’s an outstanding young man and

he’s very articulate,” Ford said when referring to Mason’s career after basketball. “He’s dedicated to working hard, and he’ll do a wonderful job.”

Player to watch Carleton Scott In the place of injured forward Luke Harangody, junior forward Carleton Scott came up big for Notre Dame (22-10, 10-8 Big East) last week.

Scott kept Notre Dame’s NCAA hopes alive as he scored 12 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in a 58-50 victory over Connecticut (17-15, 7-11) on March 3. Three days later in the Irish’s final home game of the regular season at Marquette (21-10, 11-7), Scott’s late 3-pointer tied up the contest and forced it into overtime. Notre Dame won the game, 63-60, and Scott finished up with 14 points and 13 boards.

Game to watch Big East tournament quarterfinals No. 8 seed Georgetown vs. No. 1 seed Syracuse Today, Noon, ESPN

No. 3 Syracuse (28-3, 15-3) and No. 22 Georgetown (21-9, 10-8) will meet for the third time this season today in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament. Syracuse, which had a bye to the third round, hasn’t played since Saturday, when it was downed by Louisville (20-11, 11-7) for its first road loss of the season. Georgetown will play at Madison Square Garden for the second day in a row, having defeated South Florida (20-12, 9-9) handily by the score of 69-49. SU won both games between these teams during the regular season, beating the Hoyas at the Carrier Dome on Jan. 25 and then again in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18. bckallet@syr.edu

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SYRACUSE 84, GEORGETOWN 74

The Hoyas jump out early, but extra time has helped Johnson and Joseph heal. SU will beat the underachieving Hoyas again.

MATT EHALT

SYRACUSE 72, GEORGETOWN 66

SU has gotten big leads on Georgetown both times and won. Expect the same.

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GEORGETOWN 71 SYRACUSE 64

Will I be 0-for-3 picking the Hoyas this year? Probably.

But let’s all agree we hope it goes six overtimes.

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STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

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POINT GUARD

SHOOTING GUARD

SMALL FORWARD

FREE THROWS

Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue played basketball at Georgetown and left the school as its second-leading career rebounder.

BRANDON TRICHE

6-4, 198, FR. 8.3 PPG, 3.0 APG

CHRIS WRIGHT

6-1, 208, JR 14.2 PPG, 4.0 AVG

ANDY RAUTINS

6-5, 195, SR. 11.6 PPG, 4.8 APG

JASON CLARK

6-2, 170, S0 10.3 PPG, 1.9 APG

Jardine is playing the best he has all season, especially on the offensive end, but he will be tested against Wright. Wright scored 20 against SU last time out.

While Rautins scored 26 against the Hoyas last time, if the SU senior does that again, Syracuse will be tough to beat.

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CENTER

RICK JACKSON

6-9, 240, JR. 10.2 PPG, 7 RPG

JULIAN VAUGHN

6-9, 247, JR. 7.8 PPG, 4.6 RPG

Jackson has averaged 15.8 points over his last four. That should continue against the Hoyas as Vaughn has struggled down the stretch.

ARINZE ONUAKU

6-9, 261, SR. 10.7 PPG, 5.2 RPG

WES JOHNSON

6-7, 205, JR. 15.7 PPG, 8.5 RPG

AUSTIN FREEMAN

6-4, 227, JR. 17.3 PPG, 3.5 RPG

Johnson is the conference’s Player of the Year, but Freeman had the edge last time out, outscoring Johnson 21-16.

COACHES

GREG MONROE

6-11, 247, SO 16.0 PPG, 9.6 RPG

Onuaku is heading into his final collegiate games at the Garden, having scored a combined 52 points in his last three games. But Monroe was selected to the All-Big East first team, Expect a good matchup.

JIM BOEHEIM

W-L: 827-291 34 SEASONS

Georgetown assistant coach Kenya Hunter combined with former Syracuse guard Lawrence Moten to lead New Hampton School (N.H.) to a 23-3 record in 1992.

STAT TO KNOW Georgetown guard Austin Freedman has a 47.9 3-point percentage, the best in the Big East.

BIG NUMBER JOHN THOMPSON III W-L: 205-102 10 SEASONS

Boeheim has guided his team to two victories over the Hoyas this season already. Is Thompson III due for a victory?

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Wins Syracuse would have this year against Georgetown with a victory today. The only other time Syracuse has beaten Georgetown three times in a season was in 2003, the year the Orange won the championship.

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As Gait’s 1st ‘blue chip’ recruit, SU’s Tumolo living up to hype

By Brad Kallet Staff Writer

Michelle Tumolo had narrowed her search down to two schools. As one of the top lacrosse recruits in the country, the senior attack from Clearview Regional (N.J.) High School was deciding between Syracuse and Penn State.

She was looking for a school with a nationally recognized athletic program. Both universities fit that criterion. She wanted a school that was far enough away from her Mullica Hill, N.J., home for privacy but not too far that it was in a new time zone. Again, both universities fit the bill.

But then something hit her. No. 8 Syracuse (3-1) had something to offer her that the Nittany Lions could not.

Gary Gait.

“I basically looked at SU and said to myself that it would be weird if I gave up this opportunity to play for (Syracuse head coach) Gary Gait.”

Luckily for Gait, Tumolo passed on State College, Pa., and opted for Syracuse. So far this season, the freshman has lived up to the hype that accompanied her.

Through four games, the 5-foot-4 attack is second on the team in points with 21. She has scored six goals and dished out a team-leading 15 assists. And after her first two games at the collegiate level, Tumolo was named Rookie of the Week by WomensLax.com Not a bad start to a career.

Senior attack Halley Quillinan had the opportunity to play with Tumolo this past summer, and the senior was immediately impressed. Though Quillinan had heard about the kind of player Tumolo was, it wasn’t until she saw her in action that it really sunk in.

“The minute I saw her play in August I was excited that she was going to be a part of the team,” Quillinan said. “I knew she was going to be a special player, and she’s just scratching the surface of her potential. She’s one of the best attackers in college lacrosse right now, and that’s pretty spectacular considering she’s only a freshman.”

Tumolo’s effect on the Syracuse lacrosse program stretches far beyond her goal and assist statistics. From a long-term perspec-

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tive, her signing is a part of the direction that Gait hopes his team is heading in.

SU’s legendary head coach has said on numerous occasions that Tumolo was his first blue chip recruit signee since he returned to Syracuse three years ago. Tumolo was ranked the No. 4 high school prospect by Inside Lacrosse coming out of high school.

And he believes that he can continue to build from there.

“Everybody sets goals, and I have a goal every year to have a Top 10 recruit,” Gait said.

“Michelle is the first, and I think our next class certainly has that same level of player coming in. And I’ll look to continue that every year.”

For the time being, however, Tumolo is making her presence felt on the field. As one of the key components to the team’s offense, she bears the responsibility of complementing both Quillinan and senior attack Christina Dove, one of the most successful scorers in the program’s history.

But even with her immediate success, Tumolo remembers why she chose to spend her collegiate career at Syracuse. And she remembers that not just anybody believes that she can get the job done.

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THE POSSIBLE BRACKET

By Matt Ehalt STAFF WRITER

There is no easy path to a title in the Big East tournament. Yet there might not be a more entertaining trio of games, presuming the top seeds win out, than the slate which could start today at noon for top-seeded Syracuse. It will be the type of rematches that make this tournament so exciting for fans. Or horrifying if you’re Jim Boeheim.

“Big East tournament, every game will be tough, it will be a nightmare,” Boeheim said. “A nightmare, that’s what it is.”

Today’s quarterfinal match might be the juiciest of the whole tournament. Thirty years of hate. Two traditional Big East powerhouses. Goliath A vs. Goliath B. No. 8 seed Georgetown against No. 1 seed Syracuse. You won’t find a sexier matchup in the quarterfinals of any other conference tournament.

Syracuse has already bested the Hoyas twice this season, including a dominating 73-56 victory at the Carrier Dome and a narrow 75-71 triumph at the Verizon Center. Rarely in this series is there a clean sweep in two games, so trying to get the trifecta will be quite the challenge for Syracuse. Georgetown looked particularly impressive in its 69-49 dismantling of ninth-seeded South Florida.

“We played them twice already. It’s Georgetown-Syracuse,” Hoyas head coach John Thompson III said after his team defeated USF. “We know what they’re going to do. They know what we’re going to do. We don’t need to go through any major strategy sessions, we know how we want to attack them and we know how they are going to attack us.”

With two wins, Syracuse would make the finals, where one of four teams await (Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Notre Dame). If the bracket plays out, that could leave Pittsburgh opposing SU. The team that has had the Orange’s number over the years. The one opponent that Syracuse can never beat. Pittsburgh has won seven of the last eight games, and if it could upset the top-seeded Orange, that would make the streak even sweeter.

For Syracuse, what a better way to end the past six years of frustration against the Panthers than a victory in the Big East tournament finals.

While these games will whet your appetite, there are no guarantees that Syracuse, Villanova or Pittsburgh will make it past the quarterfinals. That’s what the beauty of this tournament is. Any team can win, regardless the regular-season outcome. And Syracuse has some potential rematches that could be more than worth the price of admission. mrehalt@syr.edu

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Every year, a new hero emerges. Credit the Madison Square Garden spotlight, the last-chance urgency to crack the NCAA Tournament or the utter absence of the hopeless New York Knicks. Whichever the case, a new star always seems to steal the show and will his team to the Big East title game.

Last year it was Jonny Flynn. With a tournament for the ages, Flynn earned himself a sixth overall pick in the NBA Draft. This year? There are plenty of players capable of taking their teams the distance.

It’s hard to tell who the Clark Kent is right now, but a handful of players have had their clutch moments this

CONFERENCE DEPTH

By Conor Orr SPORTS EDITOR

Big East players and coaches repeat the same old line all season: This is the toughest league in the country and winning any game — regardless of an opponent — should be considered a “good” win.

But that was considered mindless coach and athlete speak during the regular-season competition, which presents the opportunity for some quality sleepers to leak through the cracks and shake up the conference and national picture.

This season, more than ever, the difference from the top seed to the bottom has never been tighter. Consider, for example, Notre Dame at the No. 7 spot. The Fighting Irish have rattled off wins against the No. 5 seed Marquette and the No. 2 seed Pittsburgh in convincing fashion, without the help of its best player.

Syracuse, in its own right, has lost twice to the tournament’s No. 6 seed in Louisville, destroyed the No. 4 seed Villanova at home and edged the No. 3 seed Mountaineers on the road.

“Yeah, we hope we aren’t going to get in (a six-overtime game) again,” Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim said. “But it’ll be a great tournament. It’ll be great games up there. We got a lot of good teams, and it is just like any team can win.”

Granted, tournament viewers won’t be treated to a miracle run from DePaul, but they’ll be able to watch teams like Marquette and Georgetown angle their way through the bracket. Both have a considerable amount of talent and would like nothing more than to improve their NCAA résumés at the last minute.

Orange fans should know best after watching their team come in as a No. 6 seed last year.

Though SU was a tournament guarantee, its dazzling performance at Madison Square Garden was largely unseen and propelled the team to a favorable No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament. ctorr@syr.edu

season in the Big East. West Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler scored the winning bucket with 5.8 seconds left in overtime to beat Villanova recently. ‘Nova’s Scottie Reynolds has taken over at times. If healthy, 2007-08 Big East Player of the Year Luke Harangody could carry Notre Dame to Saturday night. He tallied 20 points and 10 rebounds in the Fighting Irish’s win over Seton Hall Wednesday night.

There’s also Pittsburgh’s Ashton Gibbs, who has shown the ability to catch fire from deep. Gibbs has four games with six 3-pointers, including one in a win over Syracuse.

Syracuse? It’s been a different player every night.

Unlike recent years, the Orange hasn’t been dependent on one player shouldering the scoring load. That being said, maybe Andy Rautins’ experience at MSG helps. Rautins scored 20 points in SU’s six-overtime win over Connecticut last season. And with Wes Johnson still hampered by injury, Rautins has been the Orange’s most reliable scorer.

His outbursts in Georgetown and Providence proved crucial. If Syracuse needs to ride a hot hand to the title game, it’ll probably be Rautins. Before a clunker in Louisville, the senior made 27 treys in his last seven games.

In the early goings of the tournament, a few players have provided appetizers. Lazar Hayward, Marquette’s 6-foot-6 jack of all trades, scored 20 points to avoid an upset against St. John’s. And in the matinee, Jason Clark hit four 3s to help the Hoyas pull away from South Florida.

Only time will tell, but chances are somebody in a wide-open field will duplicate Jonny Flynn this year and recharge MSG into a frenzy again. thdunne@sye.edu