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For as long as she could remember, Ginger Gunnip needed a break.

Her mother struggled with psychological issues and a back problem.

Her father popped in and out of her life, usually too busy dealing with his drug addiction to support his family.

So Gunnip did the job for him. She supported her mother and older sister.

Worked at an airport to make money.

Left home after refusing to move to Wisconsin. Found a job at a research lab during a high school recruitment assembly. Got a herniated disk in her back at 19 and was fired before it completely healed.

By the time she turned 23, she was ready for a break. So she joined the Army and was deployed to Iraq a few months later.

“It’s funny when that’s break for you,” Gunnip said.

Now the 27-year-old sophomore biomedical engineering major is one of 177 student veterans at Syracuse University, a population of students that has increased by 31 percent since last year.

SU has continuously been a place for veterans. When the first class of veterans graduated with the G.I. Bill in 1950, the group was one of the largest classes in university history. But as times have changed, so has how the university chooses to serve its student veteran population.

The recent growth in the number of student veterans since the Post9/11 G.I. Bill, enacted in August 2009, prompted the university to improve outreach initiatives for veterans.

From establishing a new veterans center to creating writing and business programs, SU began to offer ways that made for an easier transition from military life to civilian life.

For Gunnip, returning to civilian life meant leaving the war in Iraq for an education in Syracuse. It meant a chance to start a new family with her husband and their baby. It meant an opportunity to release some of the stress she experienced in the Army.

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es Peterson hadn’t planned on going to college. He graduated high school in June 1942 and took a job as a shipping clerk. He was drafted into the Army less than a year later.

But when Peterson heard about the G.I. Bill, he decided to attend college. He ended up at Syracuse University because it was one of the few colleges that accepted his credits from Springfield Junior College, where he studied after returning from the war. SU made the transition to college easier than other schools at the time by granting veterans sophomore standing if they took classes during the summer.

“A bunch of us elected to go to Syracuse so we would not waste another year,” Peterson said.

Peterson graduated from SU six decades ago, in one of the largest graduating class-

es in SU history. Commencement that year was held in Archbold Stadium, as the class was too large to hold commencement in any campus building, Peterson said.

The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was enacted nationally during Chancellor William Tolley’s tenure. Although the bill didn’t require universities to accept veterans, Tolley recognized the opportunity and accommodated for the increased student population.

The Class of 1950’s commencement was one of many held during the World War II era. SU had become a leader nationwide for its commitment to helping returning soldiers receive an education. From 1943 to 1952, the university held two or three commencements each year, according to SU Archives.

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courtesy of su archives Wes Peterson, a member of the class of 1950 and U.S. Army veteran, got his first color camera the day of the 1950 commencement ceremony at Syracuse University. This photo of the ceremony, held at Archbold Stadium, was taken with his camera.

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By Meghin Delaney Asst. News Editor

J. Craig Venter, a scientist known for his research with the human genome, will deliver the 2011 commencement address, Syracuse University officials announced Friday.

Venter will speak to SU, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and SU College of Law graduventer ates on May 15.

This year marks the first year College of Law graduates will join SU and ESF graduates for one ceremony, according to the release.

Law students have always been invited to participate, but they were generally preparing for finals during past SU and ESF commencements, said Susan Germain, executive director of special events. A change to the law school’s academic calendar made participation more feasible this year, said Jaclyn Grosso, director of communications and media relations at the College of Law, in an email.

The College of Law graduates will still have their own commencement ceremony on May 13, Gross said. Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, Delaware attorney general and a 1994 graduate of SU College of Law, will speak at the ceremony.

Venter has previously spoken at events for both SU and ESF students.

Venter spoke on SU’s campus about two years ago for the dedication of the Life Sciences Complex, Germain said.

Germain said she thinks students who attended the dedication probably nominated Venter because of his work. His speech really seemed to impress the people at the dedication, she said.

She also said Venter’s speech at commencement will cross many disciplines, not just science or genomics.

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campus briefs • Carina Villanueva, a sophomore in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, was arrested Friday at 4:15 p.m. at Carousel Center, according to a Syracuse police report.

Villanueva, 20, was charged with one count of petit larceny and is due to appear in Syracuse Criminal Court for her arraignment April 12 at 9:30 a.m., according to the report.

• A graduate student’s apartment was burglarized Friday on the 100 block of Smith Lane at 3:20 p.m., according to a Syracuse police report.

Akhan Almagambetov, a graduate student in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and his wife, Elise Almagambetov, are residents of the apartment.

Elise had her purse, four credit cards, $20 in cash and a Nikon digital camera stolen from the apartment, according to the report. The total value of the stolen items is $193.

The two residents told the Syracuse police officer who responded to the burglary that a black male — wearing a leather jacket with light brown on the front and dark brown on the back, with red and white lettering on it — was inside the apartment, according to the report. The suspect was described as 6-feet tall, 180 pounds and wearing black faded jeans and a baseball cap with red and white lettering, according to the report.

Akhan said he and his wife were sleeping when they heard someone inside the house. Akhan then said he went down and observed the suspect next to his computer table, which had two laptops on it, before asking the suspect what he was doing. The suspect responded, “My bad, this isn’t Mike’s crib. He just told me to come and get it off of his computer,” according to the report.

The suspect then left the apartment. Akhan said his wife noticed her purse was missing, and he noticed his keys, which were on a hanger inside the door, were missing as well, according to the report.

Officers checked the door, and it did not appear there was any force used to open it, according to the report.

• Two Department of Public Safety cruisers responded to a cat stuck in a tree on Ostrom Avenue at approximately 10:40 p.m. Sunday. The cat was stuck in a tree next to Thornden Park and still had not been rescued as of midnight Monday.

The constant cries of the cat — stuck about 20 feet up in the tree — could be heard as people walked along the sidewalk on Ostrom. A DPS officer said at 10:50 p.m. Sunday that the case had been turned over to the city.

Derrick Allen, a second-year graduate student, reported the cat stuck in the tree shortly after walking nearby.

He said he had contacted 911, and the operator said the cat will come down when it becomes hungry, Allen said.

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A sold-out crowd of students pushes toward the front of the stage as DJ Diplo performs in Goldstein Auditorium on Saturday night.

Diplo kept audience members energized through his unpredictable, upbeat act. Hillel at Syracuse University sponsored the event.

Diplo’s mesmerizing beats, chaotic lights captivate audience

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he wave of neon lights shook frantically, controlled by an unforeseen force.

Then suddenly, the pace halted.

The bright colors slowed down, moving methodically to the bass that commanded every movement.

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On stage stood DJ Diplo, the conductor of the organized chaos taking place in Goldstein Auditorium. As the headlining act of Univer-

sity Union and Hillel’s concert Saturday night, Diplo had students wrapped around his frantic fingers, controlling their every move with thumping beats and fluctuating tempos.

“From start to finish, you have the same mind state,” said Erik Knapp, a junior biology major. “The music dictates how you move

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Massachusetts senator Researcher discusses gap signs copies of book at SU between male teens, adults

By Karin Dolinsek Staff Writer

Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) signed copies of his autobiography — which illustrates his abusive childhood and rise to public office — Saturday at the Syracuse University Bookstore.

The line for autographs started forming 30 minutes before the event, which began at 1 p.m. and lasted for an hour. While Brown was signing copies of his book, “Against All Odds,” he shook each person’s hand and gave advice to students.

“Education is very important,” he said. “Study hard.”

In his memoir, Brown opens up about his difficult childhood. After

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his parents divorced when he was 1 years old, his mother supported him with welfare benefits. Brown, then 10 years old, was sexually abused by a camp counselor who threatened to kill him if he told anyone. He also suffered physical abuse from his stepfathers.

This book is the first time Brown mentioned anything about his abuse to the public.

Brown often shoplifted during his childhood and was arrested for stealing record albums when he was 13, he said in his memoir.

“How could I do this?” Brown wrote in the book. “I did it the same way I stole food. I was eleven or

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Somewhere between growing up too fast and never growing up lies “GuyLand.”

Michael Kimmel, a researcher on men and masculinity, spoke Thursday in Room 001 of the Life Sciences Complex to outline the research findings from his book, “GuyLand: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.” Through his research, Kimmel discovered a stage of development that has emerged between childhood and adolescence, spanning a decade and not ending until men hit their 30s. He coined the stage “GuyLand.”

Kimmel’s research is based on

about 400 interviews, mostly with white middle-class males.

Four factors account for why GuyLand is emerging now: a longer life span and more time to pass through the five major milestones of adolescence; permanent jobs being less common; parents who tend to “micromanage” children; and changes in women’s lives, Kimmel said.

“GuyLand remains a very gender-unequal stage of development,” Kimmel said.

In 1904, most people crossed the five major development milestones — education, jobs, marriage, kids and moving out of their parents’

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university was meant to hold only 6,000 students. But by 1946, enrollment tripled, as the university accepted 9,464 World War II veterans.

From 1946 to 1948, veterans accounted for 70 percent of the male student population, according to SU Archives.

As a result of the G.I. Bill, SU grew from a small liberal arts school to a nationally known university that continued to expand as it accommodated for more students.

“Once we accepted all of these students to come to campus under the G.I. Bulge, we had proved that we could handle that type of crowd, so why would we go back?” said Mary O’Brien, reference archivist of SU Archives.

Housing Although housing arrangements were not suitable for the influx of veterans in 1946, rather than turning them away, Chancellor Tolley found ways to house students.

Prior to the war, men lived in fraternity houses or Sims Hall, and women lived in old Haven Hall, Winchell Hall and cottages around campus. In 1944, Sims Hall became a women’s dormitory for freshmen. The U.S. Department of War provided SU 300 temporary buildings — 200 for housing and 100 for classrooms.

The 200 prefabricated buildings were made of metal and housed single men where Manley Field House now stands. Single men also lived in barracks at Collendale on East Colvin Street and in metal buildings on the hill of South Crouse Avenue and Irving Avenue. Some married couples lived in trailers at the Drumlins apple orchard, which became known as “Mud Hollow,” according to the February 1987 issue of SU Magazine.

But it wasn’t enough to accommodate for all of the veterans. Other veterans lived at the New York State Fairgrounds, an Army Air base in Mattydale, and Baldwinsville Ordinance Works, 45 minutes away from campus, said Ed Galvin, director of archives and records directory of SU Archives.

Peterson, the 1950 alumnus who began his education at SU as a sophomore under the G.I. Bill, lived in three different places during his three years as a student, starting in the barracks at Collendale.

Although the G.I. Bill allowed veterans to get a free education, it did not cover the costs of eating and housing, Peterson said. During his second year, Peterson moved to his fraternity house and became house manager, which waived his housing cost. He also waited tables at the fraternity to get free meals.

The summer before his senior year, Peterson married his first wife and made arrangements to live in the trailers at Drumlins. The trailer, which measured about 7-by-22 feet, had a backroom with a table, kitchen facilities and a living room.

“The trailers were really small,” he said. “I

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next level,” Germain said. “The project is so cutting edge, and it’s going to be a part of every one of us.”

Venter also spoke to ESF students about three years ago, said ESF President Cornelius Murphy. Murphy said Venter’s research is “absolutely extraordinary.”

“It’s certainly already beginning to change how we view human illness and treat human illness,” Murphy said.

Venter is the founder, chairman and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofit research-based organization with about 400 scientists dedicated to microbial, human, plant and

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would go in one end and close the door so my wife could watch TV on the other end.”

Tanney Oberg, another 1950 alumnus who attended SU under the G.I. Bill, also recalled his living conditions in Drumlins.

“We had no hot water, no bathroom in the trailer. We had to walk up the street to a community bathroom and shower,” he said.

Despite the hardships, veterans were thankful for the opportunities they were given, Oberg said.

Education Many veterans did not originally plan to go to college until the G.I. Bill provided them with the opportunity to receive a free education, Peterson said. By the time they attended college, many were already married and ready to move ahead in their lives.

“You have to re-enter that different mode of living where everything involves learning and homework,” Peterson said. “It wasn’t easy. It was tough, but well worthwhile.”

Whereas students just out of high school focused more on the social aspect of university life, veterans focused more on their studies, he said.

“Our attitude toward it was different, as we were driven to learn this stuff,” he said. “When you get out of high school, you’re not as driven.”

Veterans were treated equally as students and expected to fulfill requirements just like anyone else, Peterson said.

Arnold Friedman, a nonveteran 1950 alumnus, said because he attended the university with veterans, he got double the education.

“We learned how older people acted and behaved, how they had taken their life and put it back together after having lost 20 percent of it,” he said.

By 1948, enrollment quintupled in the College of Applied Sciences — now known as the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science — and forced the college to move to a vacant General Electric plant on Thompson Road, said O’Brien, the reference archivist of SU Archives.

Traditionally, men studied engineering, but during this period, a handful of women also joined the school. Lynne Sebbard, a 1950 alumna, was the only woman who studied electrical engineering in her class.

She chose engineering because she identifies with her father and wanted to follow in his footsteps, she said.

“I didn’t measure up to that kind of brilliance that he expressed, but I was very close to my father,” she said.

In high school, her principal advised her not to apply for the engineering program because he said she would never get in with all the veterans returning. But when SU’s dean of admissions visited her school, she told him she wanted to go into engineering. After looking at her grades and work, he said she could do it and that he’d like to see women in the field, she said.

But by her senior year, Sebbard was conflicted by the career path she had chosen. She considered majoring in math or physics instead,

environmental genomic research. The institute also studies social and ethical issues in genomics.

In May 2010, Venter announced the creation of the first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell, according to the release. He and his team at The Institute for Genomic Research decoded the genome of the first free-living organism at the institute in 1995, according to the release.

Venter won the 2008 United States National Medal of Science and the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award, according to the release. In 2008, Venter was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

The selection process begins more than a year in advance, and students, staff, faculty, alumni and Syracuse community members are allowed to offer suggestions. The official speaker

courtesy of su archives Wives of veterans living in the Drumlins trailer camp and university housing units shop at the Cooperative Food Store in Drumlins, housed in a prefabricated building. but realized she would lose credits and have to extend her college years.

Sebbard continued to deal with how people viewed her as a woman in the field of engineering. She said she wasn’t considered feminine or as someone to take out on dates.

“Frankly, part of it was a battle in femininity,” she said. “It was tough for me because I felt I was considered a buddy.”

Changes 1953 marked the end of the G.I. Bulge, as the university went back to having one commencement a year, said O’Brien, the reference archivist of SU Archives.

When Bradley Strait arrived on campus in 1950, the first thing he noticed was the sea of temporary buildings.

“There were houses along the streets, but between the houses, they had packed prefabricated buildings,” he remembered. “That’s the thing that probably struck me before anything else.”

After one semester, he left for the Korean War. He returned in February 1955, graduated in 1958 and later became the dean of the School of Engineering.

The year he graduated, SU took down the first temporary building. The rest gradually disappeared throughout the next 40 years. On May 10, 1991, the last temporary building was removed from South Campus, said Galvin, director of archives and records directory of SU Archives.

Many alumni said the most significant change they see when they visit the university is the inner Quad buildings, which didn’t exist when they were students. They include Huntington Beard Crouse, Hinds Hall, Link Hall, the Physics Building and the Heroy Geology Building. The engineering school has also seen

selection committee, made up of students, then creates a shorter list of speakers to present to the chancellor. The chancellor makes the final decision based on the candidate’s relevance to SU, availability and cost.

Senior class marshals Katie Lewinski and Justin Cole were both involved in the selection process of selecting. They said the committee tried to select speakers who were experts in their field but also someone whose work can relate to a broader audience.

“I cannot think of a more active player in our society right now in the field of genomics than Craig Venter,” Cole said. “His work is very pertinent and very timely. He’s brilliant.”

Both Lewinski and Cole said they have already received positive feedback on the selec-

courtesy of su archives Prefabricated housing units were constructed to hold the overflow of students on campus after the G.I. Bill. changes since 1950.

“It’s tremendous compared to what they had before,” said Peterson, who recently visited for his 60th class reunion.

When the university reached its peak of 19,698 students in 1948, it never went back to the small liberal arts school it used to be.

“It was one of the best things that ever happened to Syracuse University,” said O’Brien, the reference archivist. “The combination of having a very forward-thinking, forward-seeing chancellor. It was a big, giant step that wouldn’t have happened except for those circumstances.” lgleveil@syr.edu

tion of Venter.

“It’s hard to please everybody,” Lewinski said. “There’s no speaker we could possibly get that everybody on campus is going to love.

That’s the challenge.”

Jelani Chance, a senior accounting and finance major, said he thinks Venter’s work has had a strong effect in the science world. Chance said a speaker who can send seniors into the world feeling confident is important.

“I just want someone to send me off feeling good,” he said. “We need someone to remind us that life isn’t over, and while college will always be a part of us, we have to accept it being behind us.” medelane@syr.edu — A previous version of the article appeared on dailyorange.com on March 25.

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J. Craig Venter to offer relevant commencement speech J. Craig Venter will likely offer a strong and compelling speech at the 2011 commencement ceremony.

Venter was a leading scientist on the Human Genome Project and ranked among Time magazine’s “People Who Mattered” in 2010.

Venter offers a marked change from the long line celebrities, political figures and journalists who have spoken at Syracuse University’s commencement ceremonies throughout the past decade. This year’s commencement speaker caters to a new section of the SU student body.

He should also appeal to journalism and public policy students interested in the vast and ongoing effects of his

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In comparison to last year, Venter is a far less controversial speaker, and it is possible the university meant to play it safe with an academic whose achievements and relevancy are indisputable. Furthermore, May marks the third year in a row someone who already has ties to the university — Venter spoke at the Life Sciences Complex dedication in 2008 — speaks at commencement.

Despite this, Venter remains a strong candidate for a graduation speaker

and honorary degree.

Some students are expressing disappointment at not knowing who Venter is. But once they discover what he’s led — namely, one of the most important scientific undertakings of the century — they should immediately recognize how relevant their commencement speaker is and how important he was to advancing medicine, alternative energy, genetics and much else.

If college graduates do not know the crucial influences of the Human Genome Project and Venter’s research, then at least they’ll have the chance to learn on May 15.

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J. Craig Venter. Brilliant man, I’m sure. But let’s be honest. The man in the wheelchair outside Starbucks would’ve been a better choice. Your students actually know him. They’ve even paid him, so you would save money. And a college degree would help him attain a better standard of living.

I supported Jamie Dimon last year. He is a well-known person.

He was a justifiable choice amid the complaints from last year’s students. But in this year, my last year at this school, the decision has been made to ask a relatively unknown person (relative to college students, who this ceremony is for, not your elitist board and friends or colleagues) to give the speech.

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and blows us away. But come on.

This guy? Really? This is Syracuse University. How many notable alumni do we have? Where are they? Why not have someone come back who sat where we will in May? Someone who understands the spirit of the university? Who still calls us the Orangemen?

I am extremely disappointed that I will have to explain to 99 percent of the people I talk to about my commencement who the speaker was, because they will not know who he is either.

Way to go, Nance. What’s next, taking away our free speech? Oh, wait, that’s already been done at the College of Law.

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twelve and hungry all the time.”

But Brown changed his life. He graduated from Boston College Law School and served on the Army National Guard. In 2010, Brown won the U.S. Senate seat held by democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy for more than 40 years.

Linda McHugh, Brown’s aunt from Newark, N.J., said she came to Syracuse to see her nephew. Because of her dysfunctional relationship with Brown’s father, she hasn’t seen her nephew since he was 2 years old.

They recently reunited while the two families attended basketball games in Boston.

“The reunion was such a blessing,” McHugh said. “Scott and I never had the experience of having a close family, and that’s all we wish for our children to have. I never had the opportunity to see him grow up, and it’s a dream to me to see him now.”

McHugh said she is blown away by Brown’s success.

“He pushed and drove himself forever,” McHugh said. “None of us can take credit, he did everything by himself.”

One of Brown’s daughters, Arianna, is a sophomore pre-med student studying at SU. Students and people from outside Syracuse attended the book signing to meet Brown.

“I bought the book for my dad’s birthday,” said Jules Peixoto, a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major who was second in line to get an autograph. “It’ll be a great present because we’re from Massachusetts, and my parents really like him.”

way she knew how: writing. She did it with the help of a group created to offer student veterans a creative outlet to express their emotions.

Eileen Schell, chair of the writing program, founded the Syracuse Veterans’ Writing Group in March 2010 and opened it up to veterans around the Syracuse area. One Saturday a month, typically from 10 a.m. to noon, about half a dozen veterans gather at the writing center.

They spend the morning writing about their military experiences, sharing their work and receiving feedback.

But the meetings are more than just a chance to participate in a writing workshop, Schell said. They are a place for veterans to reflect publicly about their military life, without the fear of being judged. Veterans of different generations — from those who had been in Vietnam to those who just came back from Iraq — come together, share and listen.

“I don’t see it as therapy, but I think stories can have healing effects,” said Schell, co-director of the Syracuse Veterans’ Writing Group.

“It’s a space to support the kind of reflection and analysis and storytelling that many veterans like to undertake.”

A few years before the writing group was created, a veteran-specific business program — called the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities — was established at SU in 2007.

The Martin J. Whitman School of Management recognized the need to accommodate post9/11 student veterans and offered entrepreneurship training to those with psychological or physical disabilities, said Raymond Toenniessen, director of the veteran outreach programs.

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The number of student veterans who applied for the program, which caps its class at 25 veterans, began to increase over the years, Toenniessen said. So did the type of disabilities. There were some amputees. Many suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Others had vision problems. Some were as young as 19, others as old as 55.

The program serves as an “intervention” for the student veterans, Toenniessen said, and it helps them heal.

The 2007 pilot class had 20 student veterans, Toenniessen said. Seventeen of them now have a business that serves as their only source of income. Five posted revenues of more than $1 million. One posted revenues of more than $4 million. Two posted revenues of more than $15 million for a joint venture.

“It’s given them something they really want to go for, really want to succeed,” Toenniessen said.

But veteran-specific programs on the SU campus only recently came into existence.

Christopher Collins served in the Marine Corps immediately after graduating high school. He went to Iraq twice, from 2003 to 2006, and served in the infantry. By the time he enrolled at SU, he was 22 years old.

“It was hard the first year, I’m not going to lie,” said Collins, a senior information management and technology major. “It took me a while to get adjusted to the college lifestyle.”

Things he had been taught in the Marine Corps — especially about vigilance — carried over into his campus life. Collins didn’t like the bigger classes. He wasn’t too fond of people sitting behind him, either. And sometimes he was cautious of his surroundings when he walked around campus.

Then there were the people. Most of the students were grateful and thanked him for his service, he said. But some were immature. Others lacked discipline. A few just wanted to know how many people he killed in the war.

“They don’t understand — I don’t really fully expect them to because they haven’t been there, and it’s just a really tough concept to grasp,” he said.

SU claimed to be a veteran-friendly campus, Collins said, but the university did not cater to student veterans’ needs during his first two years. He wanted to exchange war stories.

He wanted to share his experiences without being asked to explain the military lingo. He

wanted to bond with other veterans, even if they had been in a different branch. He needed a “getaway.”

It was a sentiment shared by many student veterans. SU alumnus Brian Lance, who transferred to SU as a magazine journalism major, wanted that getaway, too.

The 2010 graduate served in the Navy from 1999 to 2004 and was stationed in Asago, Japan.

Lance went from regular high school student to Navy veteran to 26-year-old junior in college — an experience shared by few others.

“Being a student after being in the military is a lot different than being a student the first time around,” he said. “I was a lot older, and I didn’t have the same common experiences as everybody else.”

That five-year age difference was the biggest obstacle. Interaction with undergraduate students was limited. So was his involvement in campus organizations, except when he served briefly as the opinion editor of The Daily Orange.

“For me, I felt kind of distant,” he said.

That was until the SU chapter of the Student Veterans of America was established in 2009.

The same year, the SU Veterans Resource Center opened at University College.

“If anything, it gave us a place to hang out and swap stories,” Lance said.

For Lance and many others, having that place was important. Student veterans became more visible on campus. They found people who were closer to their age.

The Veterans Resource Center, which provides a lounge for student veterans to gather or use as a quiet study space, is a place on campus for them to call home, said Keith Doss, a veterans adviser.

The center helps them with their paperwork, sometimes with the certification process for the Department of Veteran Affairs and other times with referrals from local organizations. It also helps student veterans with on-campus problems, such as with the housing office, and raises awareness for veteran-specific organizations.

Student veterans’ presence on the SU campus is valued, Doss said.

“They’ve all made contributions to our country and served our country,” he said. “Bringing that onto campus shows a very large dedication to not only what they’ve done, but to the different experiences they can offer to the SU campus.”

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Ribbon Campaign pledge taken by the men in the auditorium, vowing to “never commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.”

The White Ribbon Campaign started March 25 and stems from a mass murder of 17 feminist women in Montreal 20 years ago, said a Vera House representative who spoke at the end of the lecture. The Vera House advocates for ending domestic and sexual violence, according to its website.

Members of A Men’s Issue were asked to stand up in an effort to acknowledge that men are already part of the battle.

Seth Finkelstein, co-president of A Men’s Issue, introduced Kimmel. The group advocates against sexual violence and tries to redefine conventional notions of masculinity. A Men’s Issue organized the event, along with the R.A.P.E. Center, Vera House, Students Advancing Sexual Safety and Empowerment, and Pride Union, Finkelstein said.

Lous DiFazio, co-president of A Men’s Issue, said the event was a testament to what the group can do together.

“I hope people will start to think about GuyLand more and how it might affect them and others,” he said. “Similar to what Dr. Kimmel says, we need to experience GuyLand more consciously.”

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house — by the time they turned 19, Kimmel said.

The most important reason for GuyLand is the changes in women’s lives, Kimmel said. Females feel entitled to sexual pleasure, which may make men feel unbalanced, Kimmel said.

The definition of femininity has evolved while men’s sexuality remains fixed, men feel compelled to “police each other,” Kimmel said.

Violating the conduct may have repercussions, such as being labeled “gay,” which is usually intended to diminish masculinity, Kimmel said.

Fear of the “that’s so gay” comment keeps men silent, Kimmel said.

Men are compensated with the acceptance to a fraternal bond, in which they constantly need to prove their worth. A “bros before hoes” mentality helps to perpetuate this behavior, Kimmel said.

GuyLand is not going away, but there are ways to approach it ethically, Kimmel said.

Bringing more men into the conversation and addressing issues together with women is one approach, Kimmel said.

Another is locating like-minded men and organizing groups, such as A Men’s Issue.

Kimmel’s lecture concluded with a White

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Equal representation

A resolution allows for more campuses to be included in Student Assembly

By Jess Siart STAFF WRITER

W

ith the passage of a resolution last Tuesday, graduate students at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry will now have greater representation in SUNY’s Student Assembly.

The resolution, authorized by the SUNY Board of Trustees, enacted emergency rulemaking to add graduate student representation in the SUNY Student Assembly to many SUNY campuses, including ESF. The ratification was necessary to allow for the new rules to be in effect for the April 8 and 9 conference of the assembly.

With the resolution, ESF will have graduate representation and voting rights at the conference for the first time, said Lewis Grove, president of ESF’s Graduate Student Association. SUNY Albany, Binghamton, University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University already had graduate student representation in the Student

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State University of New York trustees passed a resolution March 22 that gives graduate students more representation in the SUNY Student Association.

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Assembly, he said.

“ESF is an important campus in the SUNY system. It only makes sense that we are represented on the SUNY level,” Grove said.

Grove said the resolution may have been enacted to increase SUNY campus solidarity against budget cuts. Although ESF has endorsed the budget cuts to the SUNY system, the SUNY Student Assembly is against the cuts, Grove said. He said he is not sure what exactly will be on the agenda at the conference, but voting on a resolution to condemn the cuts is likely.

“What that vote means or how much we are going to exercise that power, I don’t know yet,” Grove said.

While the budget cuts could mean tuition hikes, most graduate students wouldn’t be affected because many of them are financially supported through research or graduate assistantships, Grove said.

The speed with which the SUNY Board of Trustees authorized the resolution simply seems like a way to start getting greater graduate stu-

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dent representation faster, said Elizabeth Miller, an environmental studies graduate student.

“It’s always a little odd when things are passed really quickly like that,” Miller said.

“But there doesn’t seem to be any harm in the speed. It doesn’t seem like a cloak and dagger, fly-by-night sort of thing.”

Despite ESF already having a Graduate Student Association, Miller said the new representation included in the resolution can only bring about good things. She hopes the increased representation will help engage the graduate student body and encourage students to leave their offices, take a break from research and get involved, she said.

The biggest challenge to this resolution will be finding graduate students who have time to dedicate to the position, Miller said.

“I hope whoever becomes a representative makes it a serious part of their graduate career,” Miller said. “If it feels transitory or lacks an identity and a clear voice for the constituents, it would harm instead of help.”

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Scott Shannon, dean of instruction and graduate studies at ESF, said the SUNY Board of Trustees is trying to recognize the importance of graduate students in the SUNY system, something ESF already does.

“We recognize that our graduate students are an extremely important part of our student body at ESF, which is fairly unusual within the SUNY system, as our graduate students make up close to a third of the student body on campus,” Shannon said.

Graduate students contribute to SUNY’s overall mission as much, if not more, than undergraduate students, especially at a researchbased campus like ESF, Shannon said. The shift toward more graduate student representation will allow for the group to have more direct contact with the SUNY administration, he said.

“It will provide a voice at the highest level in the system for organizations like our GSA,” Shannon said. “Having a voice directly in Albany will definitely help graduate students.” jlsiart@syr.edu

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had been passion, you’d be in there. But it’s not, so it was OK.” This seemed odd because passion is what makes a performance.

Gentle Gentleman performed two Bruno Mars songs. The fi rst one was “Just the Way You Are,” during which he twirled around a pretty girl. The song ended with another pretty girl storming on the stage, giving hope for an interesting twist. Unfortunately the appearance fabricated into nothing more than 15 seconds of dirty looks, with both girls stomping off the stage in betrayed rage. The act ended with Mars’ “Grenade,” a confusing pick in regard to the scene beforehand.

But nothing could compare to the next act,

the hot tranny mess that was Double Rainbow.

With a well-done but distracting video playing on the screen behind them, the troupe spread their awkwardness across the stage to a mix of Cee Lo Green’s “F*** You,” Madonna’s “Express Yourself” and Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” The general concept was great, as they alternated the Madonna and Lady Gaga songs to display the controversial similarities.

However, the dance moves were weird, and the Madonna portrayer wore a bizarre outfit that had me questioning who he was at fi rst.

Further, Lady Gaga’s strapless ensemble kept falling down, revealing his nipples, and rather than playing it up, he continued to keep adjusting it throughout the performance.

They lost the crown to troupe Biggie Smalls, which was an equally awkward performance of a girl and guy dancing around to

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Britney Spears and Ke$ha songs. Both troupes were bad, but Biggie Smalls was clearly considered the lesser of the two.

Making a special guest performance was Drag King Windz. She was, without a doubt, a crowd favorite, evident through the number of girls — and guys — who flocked the stage during her performances. Her smooth moves and perfected swagger even had me questioning whether I should consider playing for the other team.

Speaking of which — back to the hand job.

Audience members were encouraged to go up to the stage during the numbers and give tips to the performers, who accepted them in some form of a sexual gesture. So with a dollar bill in hand, I skipped up to the stage during Miss Pandora Boxx’s fi rst performance and waved my arm in the air. She took the dollar, grabbed

my hand and rubbed it up and down her crotch. I’d say it lasted about nine seconds. All tips are donated to charity (they tallied $153 at the end of the show), and watching students get their faces shoved into crotches was one of the more hilarious aspects of the night.

Closing out the show, Miss Pandora Boxx performed an epic number to Storm Large’s “8 Mile Wide.” A song that quickly had everyone in the audience singing along to the chorus, “My vagina is eight miles wide, absolutely everyone can come inside!” It was a “vigantic” execution of sass and a high-energy ending to an overall successful evening.

“Well, you know, I’ve suffered from an extra wide vagina for a long time,” said Miss Pandora Boxx. “So I was fi nally happy to fi nd a song that made me feel welcomed.”

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professionals. Despite three acts of physically tiring scenes, she doesn’t lose her energy. By the end, the entire audience became deeply emotional from her performance.

“The Miracle Worker” sends messages of perseverance to the audience, inspiring all to conquer obstacles and never give up hope.

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a much greater extent.

The casting for “The Miracle Worker” proved spot-on with each actor on stage giving heartfelt performances. The performers filled the part they were given to the best of their abilities. As an ensemble, the cast worked off of one another’s portrayals and made the play’s scenes more memorable. It was Jacqueline Baum, however, who stood out and lifted the production to its greatness.

Baum, who portrays Helen Keller, gives an absolutely spellbinding performance. Having no lines in the show’s entirety and using only physical acting to convey emotion, the 11-year-old Baum outperforms the entire cast of seasoned

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EGO Alter lterE Drag kings and queens switch gender roles with dynamic, comedic performances

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never thought I’d begin a Friday night by giving half a hand job to a professional drag queen. But more on that later.

Friday night was Pride Union’s annual Totally Fabulous Drag Show Finals at Goldstein Auditorium. Host and professional drag queen Miss Pandora Boxx was undoubtedly the star of the show with her sassy remarks and candid personality.

With lines like “My cooter is glistening with fabulousity,” Miss Pandora Boxx insulted drunken audience members, deem-

ing them whores and prostitutes. “She’ll be outside in the alley after the show, naked and charging 50 cents,” she said, addressing a particularly obnoxious audience member.

“I know, her rates went up,” she said.

With three categories — King of the Hill, Queen of the Hill and the newly added Troupe of the Hill — the performers all put their best transsexual faces forward to perform to the sold-out auditorium.

“I think the drag show this year was amazing,” said Miss Pandora Boxx at the end of the show. “I was very, very impressed, and that says a lot because I’ve

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seen a lot of drag shows.”

Best known for her spot as contestant on the second season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Miss Pandora Boxx commented on the competitors’ ability in regard to the reality show.

“I don’t know, you never know who’s in the wings there,” she said. “I certainly think Miss Jen Derbender has a career ahead of her.”

Referring to the crowned Queen of the Hill, Miss Jen Derbender’s performance was drag show perfection. The muffled audio made the concept a bit confusing, but it luckily didn’t sacrifice the performance. Miss Jen

Derbender strutted through her number with all the divalicious attitude you’d expect from a drag queen, with equally talented backup dancers shaking it in the background.

Jack Dailey was robbed of a title, with Gentle Gentleman being crowed King of the Hill. Both performances were good, but Jack Dailey’s number had the energy and variety that should have won him the title.

His last number, Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls,” had him stripping his leather jacket and grinding on the microphone pole. One of the judges commented, “If the category SEE DRAG SHOW PAGE 8

Helen Keller’s touching story moves Syracuse Stage crowd

By Noah Silverstein STAFF WRITER

The story of Helen Keller transmits a powerful message of overcoming near impossible feats. Keller rose to international fame through her autobiography “The Story of My Life,” which documented her struggles with deafness and blindness.

Keller’s extraordinary life story still reaches people through William

Gibson’s play “The Miracle Worker,” which premiered on Broadway on Oct. 19, 1959, and is now playing at Syracuse Stage in Archbold Theatre through April 23.

Based on Keller’s autobiography, the play centers on her encounter with Annie Sullivan, who helped her understand the world she couldn’t see or hear. To help their 6-year-old deaf and blind daughter, Capt. Arthur

Keller and his wife, Kate, employed Sullivan. A major part of Sullivan’s work included reversing Helen’s difficult behavior, a result of her parents’ constant coddling and spoiling, and making connections between words and their meaning.

Syracuse Stage’s production, directed by Paul Barnes, beautifully captures the battle Sullivan and Keller endured to achieve the miracle

of Helen’s understanding. The energy in the show, which could easily have lagged, was never missing throughout all three acts. This allowed the story to maintain its integrity.

The scenic design of the play, created by Michael Vaughn Sims, offers a realistic view of a Southern home in late 19th century Alabama. Due to the blind and deaf main character, the set had to be made into a place where

someone with such impairments could realistically move around. Aesthetically, the set draws the eye with bright bursts of color and stunning set pieces.

The costume design, crafted by Tracy Dorman, greatly contributes to the authenticity of the play’s setting.

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By Ryan Parks Staff Writer

omedy Central’s decision to make Donald Trump the latest victim in its semi-entertaining Roast Series seemed like a cop-out. With a list of ex-roastees including Carson Daly, David Hasselhoff and Flava Flav, one can imagine how easy it must be for a comedian to steal already popular insults from the media and convert them into “original” material. But surprisingly, Trump’s special provided some first-rate entertainment.

Thanks to the comedic brilliance of his merciless roasters, the Trump mudslinging saved the typically unamusing Comedy Central roasts.

The host of the event, Seth MacFarlane, could not have been more perfect. With an unfathomable knowledge of pop culture, the genius behind “Family Guy” crushed the Donald and his group of guest celebrity roasters. His jokes were the best of the night, due to his impeccable timing, satire and unpredictability, in addition to his ridiculous and racy references to topics having nothing to even do with Mr. Trump (much like “Family Guy”).

First up was Lisa Lampanelli, easily the most vile and vulgar female comedian to ever exist. Every time

she hits the stage, the “Queen of Mean” always delivers. Though she had the crowd roaring, Lampanelli relied on recycling favorite topics of sexually transmitted diseases, her infatuation with black men, and the male and female “anatomy.”

How she managed to relate Trump and sexuality we’ll never know, but the fact remains that she was still on her A game.

Next was Whitney Cummings, an up-andcoming comedian whose attractive appearance camouflages her brutally lewd personality. One might call her the next Sarah Silverman, only Cummings doesn’t look like a horse. Though her material proved predictable, her delivery was still very strong. She made quite a few cracks at Big D for his use of money to obtain young women, status and, of course, his infamous headpiece.

Larry King barely made it to the stage without croaking, which is exactly what every other comedian poked at him for. Despite all of the “grandpa’s about to die” jokes directed at him, King took the jabs like a champ and spent his time making legitimate stabs at Trump and the clan. The late-night legend was unexpectedly one of the best, continuously pulling the self-made millionaire down the “old man” road alongside himself.

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Snoop Dogg showed his diversity in talent by maintaining the same comedic level as those before him. Excelling mostly in his timing, the old school rapper outed Trump for smoking with him and even called him out for carelessly putting many of “his people” on the streets. All in good fun, it was impressive at how easily his material flowed, but I guess that’s normal for someone who’s been rapping for 40 years.

And then it happened. Everyone’s favorite degenerate, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, had the cricket’s howling at how unfunny he was once he began listing off insults (bad ones, at that) toward Whitney Cummings. After bragging about the amount of money and women he has at his disposal and failing to stay on the topic of Trump, it began apparent his material was merely a series of statements. Keep your day job, whatever that even is.

Thankfully, Anthony Jeselnik is good at what he does. The young comedian received a lot of criticism for being the most unknown out of the bunch, but his dry energy, combined with his clever attacks, proved he had the goods. Most of his time was spent roasting his fellow comedians, but that didn’t stop him from

bashing Trump’s casino failures and enlightening him that no one would care if he got cancer.

Basically, anyone who can make an audience laugh after the nuclear explosion of the “Sitch” deserves a lot of credit.

Closing up was Jeff Ross and Marlee Matlin.

Ross, a comedian known mostly for his roasting abilities, delivered a subpar performance. A “good job, buddy” pat on the back, if you will, but nothing too different from the cliché Trump jokes.

What was most shocking was Matlin. Famous for her Oscar-winning role in “Children of a Lesser God,” Matlin was weirdly — yet satisfyingly — perverted toward the Donald with her jokes. She, like King, was a great sport in getting hassled for being partially deaf, but was still able to bash the man of the hour with jokes of his chauvinism and lack of talent other than his monetary blessings.

Finally, the Donald was given his chance at redemption. As good as he was, it was kind of hard to remember any of his comebacks after he announced he really is running for president in 2012. I don’t know what’s more upsetting: his campaigning or the fact that his justifications for running made him sound like a suitable candidate. Does Big D have what it takes? Looks like he might get the last laugh after all. reparks@syr.edu

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Cultural groups merge, brew cohesive show

By Jada Wong

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Raisa Ho and Rico Setyo anxiously awaited their cue to go onstage and perform an acoustic mashup of current popular songs. For these seniors, this would be their last time performing onstage in Schine Underground.

“We were extremely nervous because we wanted to make our last performance the best,” said Ho, a marketing and supply chain major.

“Rico and I wanted to top all our previous performances, so it was even more stressful.”

Their performance was met by loud cheers from the audience members, who sung along to hits such as Rihanna and Drake’s “What’s My Name,” Katy Perry’s “California Gurls” and Keri Hilson’s “Pretty Girl Rock.”

Schine Underground was transformed into a café last Friday for Café con Bubble Tea, an event hosted by Syracuse University groups Asian Students in America (A.S.I.A.) and the Latino Undergraduates Creating History in America (La L.U.C.H.A.). Attendees were treated to student performances, fresh beats by hip-hop duo Magnetic North and emotional words by award-winning slam poet Daniel Custódio. One hundred tickets were sold for the event.

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While Diplo had a spellbinding effect on the audience, it came later than expected. Two hours before Diplo took the stage, indie rock band The Postelles and hip-hop artist Rye Rye built anticipation for the main event.

The Postelles, with its traditional four-piece rock set, played to a small and static crowd. Glow sticks and neon lights barely moving, the small crowd stood still, less than captivated by the New York City-based rockers. As more audience members trickled in, Rye Rye quickly caught their attention with spitfire lyrics and a beat produced

by Diplo himself. Dressed in a bright orange and purple jacket and pink pants, Rye Rye and her backup dancers frantically hopped around stage.

The audience members followed suit, waving

The second performer, Tyler Rice, whose stage name is Huey Calhoun, showed his sensitive side with a short poem about his mother.

As he fi nished, the crowd wanted more, and Calhoun delivered with a poem about love.

The audience chuckled at his witty lines: “How about we do a little mathematics — how about you add me, subtract him? Me over your place?

Sounds like a really good fraction.”

Rice, a sophomore marketing major, said the feedback he received from the show was genuine. The audience members provided him with an unbiased opinion of his performance, he said.

“I didn’t tell my friends to come tonight because, as friends, they’ll always support you,” Rice said. “Friends will say you did well regardless, but other people will give you real feedback. “ One of the night’s headliners was AsianAmerican hip-hop duo Magnetic North. One of the members, Derek Kan, was dressed in a green Adidas track jacket, jeans and blue Nike sneakers. His partner, Theresa Vu, was decked out in a fedora and bomber jacket. The pair got the crowd laughing as they poked fun at the “Asians in the Library” YouTube video. Later, Kan and Vu drew the crowd to its feet with

their hits “It’ll Work Out,” “Summertime,” “Home:Word” and “Drift Away.” Though technical difficulties disrupted Magnetic North’s performance, the duo continued, and the crowd clapped in unison to supplement their beats.

Slam poet Custódio then took to the stage to deliver his heart-wrenching and emotional poems. His raw words drew gasps from the crowd as he spat out his anger about Daddy Yankee, professed his love for his mother and expressed sadness at the fading Latino identity.

Veronica Abreu, vice president of La L.U.C.H.A., said her favorite act was Custódio’s.

“He was amazing, he almost made me cry a couple times,” said Abreu, a junior communication and rhetorical studies major. “There are a lot of people who don’t know how to express themselves as well as he does. He really hit some soft spots.”

Rice said events like Café con Bubble Tea are beneficial for the SU community because it creates connections between diverse groups on campus.

“I feel like people came together and broke boundaries,” Rice said. “With a campus as big as this, it’s segregated. But these events bring people together.”

their neon lights in the air to the rhythm of their movements.

“I don’t really listen to that genre of music, but I thought she was fun,” Knapp said. “She had a lot of charisma, and she got the hype up.”

Following Rye Rye’s set came a 10-minute interlude as the stage set up for Diplo. The normal lighting flooded out the neon glow, and students moved aimlessly, unsure of how they should move without a beat’s instructions. But the lights dimmed again and the neon glared brighter, encouraging the crowd back to the stage, awaiting the next command.

Dressed in a suit and tie, Diplo took his post behind his switchboards and laptop. His hands rapidly moving over his equipment, he began a tense buildup before asking, “It’s a party tonight, right?”

The audience screamed, “Yes,” and Diplo released a low but heavy drop, sending the crowd

into a frenzy. Energized by the bass’ thud, Goldstein became an explosion of neon light. People in the balcony, who had mostly remained seated, stood up and threw their glow sticks into the crowd on the ground floor.

Students suddenly became Diplo’s puppets, precisely moving in conjunction with his pulse.

Remixing numerous hits, including “Black and Yellow” by Whiz Kalifa and “Blame Game” by Kanye West, and spinning original tracks from his time with DJ group Major Lazer, he repeatedly told the students, “Make some f***ing noise.”

And they did. The crowd formed circles around dancers who whipped their glow sticks and other neon lights around like nun-chucks, creating a dizzying effect. Some even removed their shirts, sweating heavily from the physical demands of Diplo’s dubstep.

Toward the middle of his roughly 90-minute set, Diplo slowed the crowd’s velocity down. Transitioning from his original beats to remixes, the neon lights became tame, moving with control and direction.

But these lulls did not last long. Just when the audience started feeling comfortable, Diplo ratcheted up the tension. Purple, yellow and orange glow sticks rose into the air, shaking in anticipation for another drop. Sent back into pandemonium, the lights once again moved without rule, their only restraint being Diplo’s desired tempo.

This pattern continued throughout the entire show. As the crowd’s excitement ebbed and flowed with Diplo’s music, the DJ continued his hectic movements. Stripped down to a white tank top, he refused to stop, constantly leading one song to the next with seamless transitions.

In the final buildup, the excitement reached its capstone when Rye Rye’s break-dancers hopped onto stage once again. Dancing with Diplo for one last drop, their efforts sent everyone into a manic dance. Illuminated only by the hue of their glow sticks and strobe lights, the crowd finally regained control of the concert, this time forcing Diplo to move faster and harder for a climactic finale.

“Toward the end, I stayed in the back, and to just look up and see everyone’s silhouettes defined by glow sticks was so cool,” said Eva Lyons, a senior biology major in the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. “Dubstep is our generation, and I’m really glad everyone was into it.”

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Leigh Ross was happy with her team’s approach at the plate from the first pitch at Rutgers on Saturday. But even after a four-run first inning, the SU softball head coach didn’t think it would be a record-setting day.

“All I knew was that syracuse 23 the girls were really hitrutgers 0 ting the ball hard,” Ross syracuse 5 said in a phone interview rutgers 2 Sunday.

Syracuse (24-5, 3-0 Big syracuse 10 East) earned a three-game of Rutgers (10-18, rutgers 2 sweep 0-3) over the weekend, highlighted by a 23-0 win in the opener. After the best start in program history in nonconference play, SU started off its Big East slate with a bang. The Orange won 5-2 in its second game Saturday and finished the series with a 10-2 win Sunday.

The 23 runs and 19 hits in the first game set single-game program records. This year’s team also set the previous record when it scored 15 runs against Gardner-Webb on March 5.

SU hit five home runs in the game to power the team to victory. Senior Hallie Gibbs went 3-for-5 with seven RBI and two home runs to lead the Orange offensively. Freshman Jasmine Watson drove in five runs on three hits, including a home run. Juniors Stephanie Watts and Kelly Saco also hit home runs in the game.

The offensive outburst, which included two seven-run innings, came in support of Jenna Caira and Stacy Kuwik on the mound. The pair combined for a no-hitter that saw just two Rutgers batters reach base.

The domination continued in the second game, when SU jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the

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official athletic site that she implemented a press in the second half that the Rockets practiced for just 15 minutes a few days prior to the game.

Hillsman said the Rockets defense tightened up inside.

“They just did a good job second half when we got the ball to the high post of just sitting down in Kayla’s lap,” he said.

But Syracuse still led 50-39 with 14:25 to go.

From there, everything went the Rockets’ way, especially for Naama Shafir. The guard finished with a team-high 22 points, including a 3 to tie the game at 58.

Everything Syracuse did came undone. Soon enough, SU and Toledo went to overtime tied at 62. It was the first overtime game of the season for Syracuse.

“They made some plays down the stretch, and we missed some shots that they wish they could have back,” Hillsman said. “And that was the game.”

Still, the Orange came out inspired for overtime. On consecutive possessions, Alexander made shots, giving the Orange a 68-66 lead with 2:13 to play. But then Andola Dortch got to the free-throw line for Toledo, drawing a foul on Morrow.

first inning. After three scoreless innings, Saco hit a two-run home run to center field to put the game out of reach. Rutgers scored two runs in the final three innings, but never threatened.

Saco, who hit a home run in each game, said she saw the ball well all weekend. She just let the ball come to her and didn’t rush her swing.

“It felt good to come up to bat and finally feel a little more confident and a little more relaxed,” Saco said. “Not be a little too antsy like I felt like I had been.”

The entire lineup stepped to the plate with confidence throughout the weekend. In the final game, Syracuse scored 10 runs for another mercy-rule win.

After SU fell behind 1-0 through two innings, it answered with a decisive four-run third inning. Watts and junior Lacey Kohl each hit solo shots to take the lead, and Saco followed with a two-run shot. The Orange scored six runs in the sixth inning to end the game.

Caira earned all three wins on the weekend.

Ross was pleased with the dominant conference start. With a tougher test against South Florida (19-15, 1-0) coming up, the Orange knew it needed to handle a struggling Rutgers team that has now lost 10 straight.

“Every weekend in Big East play is an important weekend,” Ross said. “It’s really tough to sweep a team, so this was a great start for us.”

After the weekend series, Saco is confident her team will continue to roll early in conference play.

“We should be able to take care of our business as long as we play our game,” Saco said of the upcoming series against USF. “Just stay calm if things start to go their way.” rjgery@syr.edu

The foul was Morrow’s fifth. The senior left the floor with Syracuse up two, but SU never scored again.

“We were in good shape,” Hillsman said.

“We were ahead, and we were doing things.

We needed to take care of business and win the basketball game. We missed a couple shots in the lane, and we fouled them twice.”

And after Hemingway fouled out, Hillsman inserted a different group of players meant to foul Toledo. With Morrow and Hemingway gone and Tasha Harris and Alexander with four fouls apiece, Hillsman’s lineup looked like this: starter Elashier Hall, sixth man Carmen Tyson-Thomas and bench players Coffey, Troya Berry and La’Shay Taft. It was the first time on the court in the game for Coffey and Taft.

Shafir made two free throws with seven seconds to play. Coffey managed to beat her defender to get a decent running look from the top of the arc, but her one and only shot of the night clanked high off the back rim as the buzzer sounded. Some of the record crowd stormed the court.

Just like that, Syracuse’s season was over.

“We just can’t put ourselves in situations where we don’t have our best players on the floor,” Hillsman said. “Obviously with (Morrow) not on the floor, it was difficult taking our point guard off the floor.” mcooperj@syr.edu

The Syracuse women’s lacrosse team won its Big East opener against Rutgers on Saturday, 11-7.

The win, which snapped a two-game losing streak, was in large part to the success of SU (3-5, 1-0 Big East) sophomore attack Michelle Tumolo, who had four assists on the day.

Tumolo has not started the season off with the same strength she did last year, but has had five points in each of the past two games.

Catherine Rodriguez led the team with three goals against the Scarlet Knights (6-3, 1-1 Big East). The senior is listed on the roster as a defender, but in the last few games has been pushing forward to create an offensive spark.

The offense has been strengthened by the freshmen up top, including Katie Webster, who has the second most goals on the team with 18 so far this season. She scored to put the Orange up 1-0 early Saturday. After two consecutive Rutgers goals, SU went on a run to head into halftime up 8-4.

Syracuse has struggled so far this season, with only a 3-5 record despite a preseason No. 5 ranking. The win in its first Big East game could be a step in the right direction for the Orange, although Syracuse’s three wins all came against unranked teams. The Orange is 0-5 against ranked teams this year.

SU doesn’t play again until Monday, April 4, at Dartmouth, the final game of the Orange’s six-game road trip.

Tennis The Syracuse tennis team went 2-1 over the

weekend. The Orange (13-5, 6-1 Big East) notched a pair of 7-0 victories Friday and Saturday, dominating both Army and St. John’s. SU finished off the weekend with a 4-3 loss at Rutgers.

The first two wins gave the Orange clean 7-0 sweeps in each of its last three games. With those pair of victories, SU improved to 4-4 on the road and 13-4 overall this season.

Against Army, junior captain Emily Harman and freshman Maddie Kobelt earned their ninth straight victory at the No. 1 doubles position, winning 8-2. Senior captain Simone Kalhorn and freshman Aleah Marrow took the second match 8-3, while junior Alessondra Parra and senior Christina Tan followed suit in the third spot.

SU maintained its dominance in singles play. Harman won a tough battle at the No. 1 singles position 7-6, 7-6. Kobelt cruised through her second match 6-0, 6-3. Parra and Tan took the third and fourth matches 6-2, 6-4 and 6-2, 6-3, respectively. Kalhorn won the No. 5 match 6-1, 6-2, and Marrow completed the sweep, taking the No. 6 match 6-3, 7-5.

The Orange traveled to take on Big East foe St. John’s on Saturday and earned its third consecutive sweep. But the stretch ended with a 4-3 loss at Rutgers on Sunday.

Syracuse will continue its six-game road swing next weekend as it travels to take on William & Mary on Saturday and Old Dominion on Sunday. The Orange has four matches left before the Big East tournament.

— Compiled by The Daily Orange Sports staff

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Orange defense steps up as offense continues to struggle

By Chris Iseman ASST. COPY EDITOR

VILLANOVA, Pa. — The Syracuse defense couldn’t catch a break. Standing at one end of the field, it watched the offense give up turnovers at an alarming rate. When the unit thought it had a minute or so to regroup, Villanova was running right back toward it in a furious haste to score.

There was no way to recover from the feelings of fatigue that the back-and-forth game brought.

“I think the first couple games, we were still finding our chemistry.

The last couple games, really we’ve been talking a lot better, watching a lot more film. We’ve been coming a lot more prepared.”

John Lade SU DEFENDER

“Talk about our defense being tired,” SU head coach John Desko said. “Well, they probably should be tired when they played defense

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Andrew Henrich. Minutes later, Jeremy Thompson was flattened in front of the Orange bench.

“They had very good long-sticks that could take the ball away,” Thompson said. “They were tough, they were strong.”

Syracuse committed 19 total turnovers, which drew the ire of SU head coach John Desko after the game.

The inability to get a steady offensive attack

Winning ground balls

Syracuse won the ground-ball battle 30-23 over the Wildcats. In a game that featured 42 combined turnovers, the Orange looked more aggressive in pouncing on loose balls. Long-stick midfielder Joel White and goaltender John Galloway snatched up 13 ground balls between the two of them and were instrumental in preventing Villanova from gobbling up rebound opportunities.

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STORYTELLER sean harp | staff photographer JOHN LADE looks downfield in Syracuse’s 5-4 win over Villanova on Saturday. The Orange defense held the Wildcats to just four goals and forced 23 turnovers in the win.

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“It’s two extremes, you know. It’s about as pumped as could be — you start looking at overtime with 57 seconds left. And (then we) came up six seconds short. It goes from your high to as low as you could get. It’s tough.”

For the second straight game, the Syracuse offense netted only five goals. Even though it won both contests, head coach John Desko expressed concern about the lack of production. SU was frustrated by Villanova’s physicality and was “impatient” on offense, Desko said.

THE UGLY Turnovers

Syracuse coughed the ball up 19 times against a pesky Villanova defense Saturday.

It was a number Desko said he would like to see be nearly cut in half moving forward.

SU exhibited poor passing, and players also struggled to keep the ball in their sticks, often dropping it as they attempted to dodge opponents.

for most of the game tonight. We probably played defense for three quarters of the time.”

And yet no matter how tired the Orange defense got during the course of the game, it never yielded a game-changing mistake.

Instead, it clamped down on Villanova’s versatile offensive attack and never let the opportunity for Syracuse’s offense to score slip away.

In a game in which that offense was far from its best, the defense never looked better.

For the second consecutive game, SU’s defensive unit was left with the responsibility of holding the lead at all costs. In its last game against Johns Hopkins, the defense held the Blue Jays in check for four quarters and two overtimes. Against the Wildcats, it had to hold its opponent again. The Orange simply couldn’t find the back of the net. As the SU scorers have gone into a mini-slump, the defense has kept the Orange’s winning streak alive.

Villanova couldn’t find the back of the net, either. The Syracuse defense held the Wildcats scoreless for a 36:22 stretch that spanned the second and fourth quarters. The Orange also forced 23 turnovers.

Much of that has to do with the preparation of the unit. Now more than ever, the defense has the best chemistry. Any communication issue has been resolved, leaving room for nearperfect results. And that preparation was on display against Villanova.

“I think the first couple games, we were still finding our chemistry,” SU defender John Lade said. “The last couple games, really we’ve been

talking a lot better, watching a lot more film.

We’ve been coming a lot more prepared.”

The extra film is paying off. The Wildcats feature a two-headed offensive threat in attack Kevin Cunningham and Jack Rice, who lead the team in scoring with 21 and 18 goals, respectively. And during the game, the attention shifted to those two formidable scorers.

Cunningham never found a way to break through Syracuse’s defense to get anywhere close to the net. He spent the game running around behind the cage, trying to get an open look. But he could never find one. When there was an opening, it was closed up almost immediately.

Cunningham scored only one goal — albeit a very important one — with 57 seconds left to go in the game. Rice, on the other hand, was held scoreless.

“They were really good. They were big, physical,” Cunningham said. “I thought we had some good looks on them, but we couldn’t cash in.”

That was evidenced by a near 13-minute span in the first half during which the Wildcats were beaten down by an aggressive Orange defense and never scored. Syracuse’s defensive unit had to do exactly that, as the theme of another

low-scoring affair developed early.

Even when there were defensive breakdowns, SU goaltender John Galloway became even more of a force in the goal. On a night when his 51st career win tied the NCAA Division I record for most in a career, Galloway showed exactly what he’s done for each one to pile up.

“He played tonight like he always plays,” Lade said. “He had a lot of great saves, he helped us out when the defense broke down, and I expect nothing less from him because he’s one of the best in the country.”

Almost one year ago exactly, the Wildcats traveled up to Syracuse, where the Orange beat them in a 20-6 onslaught. SU scored five goals in each period. It was almost the complete opposite that took place between the two teams one year later.

Coming into the day, though, that was to be expected. Villanova is now a higher nationally ranked program, and the Syracuse defense knew how important it was to be at its best.

“I think we executed pretty well,” SU midfielder Jeremy Thompson said. “We did what we needed to do.”

going meant the Orange’s goals came via quickhitting combinations or individual displays of skill. SU first got on the board when Tim Desko found attack Stephen Keogh sprinting across the face of goal for an instantaneous catch-and-shoot.

The second goal was much the same. Only this time, Marasco finished off a pass over the back of his head on a feed from Josh Amidon. And on the third, Kevin Drew sprinted more than half the field for an unassisted tally in transition.

But from that point, the Orange went scoreless from a stretch of 40:06, from the first to the fourth quarter.

In a game during which the Wildcats didn’t use any stall tactics against the Orange, John Desko was concerned with the lack of production.

“I want to be more composed,” Desko said.

“Everybody talks about our senior group out there and guys that have won a couple national championships. … You’d think they’d be a little more composed on the field and move the ball around and let everybody touch it.”

But with that not being the case, Syracuse was forced to capitalize on any small opening or space through which one of its attack could dart and dish.

And after 59:45 of offensive frustration, Miller took his chance with 15 seconds left. He juked on Villanova’s Mike Brennan and got his hands free enough for a quick feed to Marasco.

The sophomore caught and fired on net to suck the wind out of the Wildcat’s sails and send Syracuse home with a win.

“It’s two extremes, you know,” Karalunas said.

“It’s about as pumped as could be — you start looking at overtime with 57 seconds left. And (then we) came up six seconds short. It goes from your high to as low as you could get. It’s tough.”

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SU falls at Toledo to end season

By Mark Cooper Asst. Sports Editor

sean harp | staff photographer jojo marasco runs past a Villanova player in Syracuse’s 5-4 win over the Wildcats on Saturday. Marasco scored the game-winning goal with six seconds left in the game. The win was SU’s third one-goal victory of the season and continued the Orange’s perfect start.

Marasco’s goal with 6 seconds remaining propels SU past Villanova

By Michael Cohen

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ILLANOVA, Pa. — The final 1:17 encapsulated everything that preceded it. Syracuse showed its inability to protect the ball, Villanova took advantage, but the Orange came up with a clutch answer.

First, as JoJo Marasco tried to dodge, spin and duck away from the Wildcats’ Brian Karalunas, he lost the ball after a flurry of check attempts.

“It’s all guts at that point,” Karalunas said. “Their guy is carrying it as best he can, I’m trying to take it away as best I can. Fortunately, I won that battle…”

The win led to a transition goal the other way, as Karalunas found Kevin Cunningham waiting eagerly 10 yards away from the goal for an easy finish that tied the game with 0:57 left.

But in a last-ditch effort, the Orange escaped. With 0:06 remain-

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ing, Marasco flashed open in front of the goal and buried a shot off an assist from midfielder Jovan Miller.

Villanova was left stunned.

“Unfortunately, they scored again,” Karalunas said, finishing his thought.

With that dramatic goal by Marasco, Syracuse (7-0, 2-0 Big East) overcame its second consecutive poor offensive showing to beat the Wildcats 5-4. The majority of the 6,289 were sent home disappointed after seeing a Villanova (7-2, 0-1 Big East) team come up short in a game

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2:19 in OT Stephen Keogh 3:45 in 2OT Stephen Keogh 0:06 in regulation JoJo Marasco where it was the more physical side.

An inefficient Orange attack mustered barely enough to move to 3-0 in one-goal games this season.

Wildcats’ head coach Mike Corrado came into the game knowing his defense had to pressure the Orange.

With as much talent as Syracuse has, allowing the offense to work the ball only improves its efficiency, he said.

“They’re very effective if you sit back, so we tried to be aggressive,” Corrado said. “We’ve really adopted a very aggressive philosophy that we’re going to slide early, and we’re going to

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Jovan Miller Jeremy Thompson Jovan Miller recover, and we’re going to try to speed things up on teams.”

For the bulk of the game, the Villanova defense implemented that plan to perfection. Any time a Syracuse player tried to set up a dodge toward goal, they were beaten and bullied until the ball popped loose — at which point the fans erupted.

The aggressiveness and physicality only intensified as the game wore on. In the fourth quarter, SU attack Tom Palasek ran full speed toward goal but was stood up by Villanova’s see villanova page 14

Iasia Hemingway received a pass at the high post and turned to square her shoulders with the basket. Down one, Hemingway drove from the right elbow to her left.

It’s been the toledo 71 staple of the Syrsyracuse 68 acuse offense all year, so the play made sense with the team’s season hanging in the balance.

But she met a Toledo defender in the paint, and they collided. The referee blew his whistle for a charging foul, and Hemingway became the second SU starter to foul out.

Toledo was 8.1 seconds away from a victory.

“That’s tough because when you have her drive into the lane, they slide over and get the charge,” Hillsman said in a phone interview after the game. “It was a bang-bang call, and she just tried to be aggressive and get to the basket.”

Toledo made two free throws, and Rachel Coffey missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer. And with that, the Rockets (27-8) completed their crawl back from a 12-point halftime deficit to beat Syracuse 71-68 in front of a Toledo season-high crowd of 5,001 in Savage Arena. The Rockets moved onto the Women’s National Invitation Tournament’s final four and ended the Orange’s season in the process.

Syracuse (25-10), a team many thought were snubbed from the NCAA tournament, led 38-26 at the half. The Orange dominated much of that half, shooting 54 percent and pounding the ball inside to Kayla Alexander. The All-Big East firstteam center finished with 17 points and eight rebounds.

Her success inside also opened up the outside shooting game, where Erica Morrow took advantage. Morrow, battling a knee injury that kept her out of the WNIT first-round game, scored 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting.

“They were really going underneath screens on her and kind of playing right to her strong spots on the floor,” Hillsman said. “So she got into a little bit of a groove.”

But in the halftime locker room, Toledo head coach Tricia Cullop made a change. She said in a postgame interview with Toledo’s see toledo page 13