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Graduation speaker announced JPMorgan CEO choice sparks debate

By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor

Students have expressed concern and enthusiasm since Thursday’s announcement that JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon will speak at the 2010 Syracuse University commencement.

Debate sparked among students regarding JPMorgan’s relationship dimon with the university and the process by which Dimon was selected.

Some students are also questioning whether Dimon was on the list of sug-

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Interim dean of Maxwell appointed SU to build $4.3 million green transportation center downtown It’s over

the syracuse university men’s basketball team’s season came to an end Thursday, as the No. 1 seeded Orange lost to No. 5 seeded Butler, 63-59, in the West Regional semifinals in Salt Lake City. Clockwise from top left: SU head coach Jim Boeheim looks into the crowd as he answers questions during the postgame press conference; SU forward Wes Johnson pulls his jersey over his face during the game’s final seconds; injured senior center Arinze Onuaku cries in his locker following the game; and senior dance team member Katie Hudson wipes away tears after the game as she walks off the court at EnergySolutions Arena. See page 20

By Rebecca Kheel Asst. News Editor

By Dara McBride Staff Writer

A new transportation center offering charging stations for electric cars will be built downtown near Syracuse University’s Center of Excellence.

Plans to build the $4.3 million transportation center next to the Syracuse Center of Excellence building downtown were announced Tuesday

by Syracuse University’s Office of Planning, Design and Construction.

The center will also serve as a Centro bus stop and a place to store bicycles.

“The design is focused on inno-

vative environmentally sustainable features,” said Eric Beattie, director of SU’s Office of Planning, Design and Construction.

The project will be funded through a combination of government aid and university expenditures. A federal grant from the Department of Transportation will pay for 80 percent, and the rest will come from SU’s capital projects budget, Beattie said.

Planned features for the center include solar power, accommodations for bicycles, charging stations for electric vehicles and a rain gar-

den to prevent storm water runoff from entering the municipal sewer system. A bus shelter and stop on the Connective Corridor bus route will also be added, and parking for commuters will be provided.

The building will be open to the public and won’t be SU-exclusive, Beattie said. The project is important because it solves area parking and commuting problems and will serve as a transportation link to the surrounding neighborhoods, he said.

Designing the project began in summer 2009, and the final design approval

is anticipated for spring 2011, Beattie said. Final landscaping touches should be completed by 2012, he said. Erdy McHenry Architects of Philadelphia and Syracuse firm O’Brien and Gere are designing the center.

The Syracuse Center of Excellence building, located downtown at 727 E. Washington St., was officially opened March 5. The building features laboratory and office space to research and promote a “green” lifestyle, including geothermal heat, solar panels and carpet made from see transportation page 7

Michael Wasylenko was named interim dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Thursday and will take over in midsummer, when current dean Mitchel Wallerstein leaves.

“He’s someone wasylenko who has assumed u n iver sit y-w ide leadership responsibilities and studies and so on, and he’s someone who’s

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Scientists say FDA ignored warnings

Israeli forces seal off West Bank

Urgent warnings by government experts about the risks of routinely using powerful CT scans to screen patients for colon cancer were brushed aside by the Food and Drug Administration, according to agency documents and interviews with agency scientists, The New York Times reported.

An estimated 70 million CT scans are performed in the United States every year. As many as 14,000 people may die every year from radiation-induced cancers as a result, researchers estimate. The use of CT scans to screen healthy patients for cancer is particularly controversial. For patients, navigating the debate can be difficult because doctors, patient advocacy groups and manufacturers often endorse positions that are in their economic selfinterest. The FDA has done little to assess whether the rapid proliferation of scans is in the best interests of patients.

Israeli security forces said they will close the West Bank region from midnight Sunday to April 6, CNN reported. Only people who need medical attention and journalists with appropriate credentials will be allowed to cross, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. Humanitarians, doctors, lawyers and other professionals will also have access based on approval by the civil administration.

About 1,250 religious workers, along with 550 students and teachers, have permission to leave Judea and Samaria, the IDF said. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the closure during the Passover holiday. Closures preventing Palestinians from traveling out of the occupied territory are not uncommon during Jewish holidays. However, the latest comes amid increased tension between Palestinians and Israelis.

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crime briefs Roommates from an apartment on 1017 Harrison St. reported a larceny at their residence at 4:22 a.m. Saturday, according to a Syracuse police report.

Jonathan Schwebel, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, told police that four MacBook laptops were taken from his roommates, the report said.

Schwebel told police he returned to the apartment around 2 a.m. after a night out, and his roommate Jason Werner, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, was at the apartment when he returned. Twenty minutes later another roommate, Gabriel Grossman, a senior in Whitman, returned to the apartment with their friend Jesse Duetch, the report said.

Grossman was the first to notice his computer was missing, along with his iPod Touch and Bose headphones. Duetch, Schwebel and another friend, Alexandra Breines, noticed their computers were missing, too, the report said.

The roommates said they openly welcome friends and neighbors to freely enter and exit the apartment unannounced. Grossman said it was normal for people to come and go all night, the report said.

There was no sign of damage to any windows or doors, the report said.

• Syracuse police issued citations for open containers to two Syracuse University students Sunday shortly after midnight. Both Michael Desir, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lucas Behnke, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, were holding open 12 oz. containers of Keystone on the 400 block of Euclid Avenue, according to the police report.

• Diego Reymondez, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, reported a burglary at 609 Walnut Ave. on Friday at 2:56 p.m., according to a Syracuse police report.

His roommate, Robert Riggio, a senior in Whitman, told police he was sleeping when an unknown male walked into his room and woke him up. Upon seeing Riggio, the male said, “Oh sorry, bro,” and left the house, the report said. Riggio said the male was Hispanic, about 30 years old, and thin with crooked teeth, the report said.

Riggio saw the back door was open and noticed it had been broken into and that the lock had been broken. A Playstation II, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 64, sleeping bag and Dell laptop were taken from the apartment, the report said.

—Compiled by Beckie Strum, asst. news editor, rastrum@syr.edu

cheryl mowczan | staff photographer cris haltom leads the “Body Trust and Mindful Eating” session of the body image symposium, held Saturday in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Haltom guided Syracuse University students through balancing and appreciating the food they eat.

Student group hosts first body image symposium

By Katie Van Brunt Contributing Writer

To raise awareness of and dispel myths about eating disorders, Body Related Issues Discussion Groups, Education and Support held its first body image symposium Saturday in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Speakers at the symposium described how eating disorders are a legitimate psychological disease and how they are a much more serious

problem than people think. They also explained eating disorders are not a “rich white girls’” disease but affect everyone, both sexes, any race, all shapes and sizes. The symposium ended with a student-made movie and a raffle, which involved the distribution of Syracuse paraphernalia.

The symposium was set up in different rooms throughout Newhouse and focused on all different types of topics related to eating disorders.

Each session was structured as a dis-

cussion with a Q-and-A component.

The sessions ranged from “Big Fat Lies,” a session about media influence on self-image, to “Keeping it Healthy: Positive Exercise Habits for Life,” which offered tips about how to remain active every day.

“I thought it was good. It’s nice to have the myths and facts. This whole thing was really good for awareness,” said Jackie Tillman, a student in the Dietetic Internship Program.

The point of the symposium was to

get people talking about and understanding what it is like to have an eating disorder, said Harriet Brown, an assistant professor of magazine journalism and a co-adviser for BRIDGES. She also said she hoped to help create a different idea of what it means to be thin in this country.

Approximately 4 to 5 percent of all college-age women have some sort of eating disorder, according to statistics presented in the “Myths & Fact see body image page 6

Act increases federal help to reduce student loan debt

By Katrina Koerting Staff Writer

The student loan bill signed Wednesday by President Barack Obama as part of the health care bill will give students more help with their student loans.

“It’s wonderful news not only to SU students, but to students across the country,” said Youlonda CopelandMorgan, the associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student

aid at Syracuse University.

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, more commonly called the student loan bill, reforms the Pell Grant and Federal Perkins Loan Program.

The act will make sure the amount of money that goes toward Pell Grants increases each year to match the inflation of the cost of living, such as food, books and other things needed at college but not included in tuition, Copeland-Mor-

gan said. It will also allow students to not pay interest to banks.

The act will quadruple the money for Pell Grants, adding $36 billion.

It will also add $5 billion of federal money to the $1 billion set aside for Perkins Loans. Copeland-Morgan said it was too early to tell how much additional money SU will receive.

A Pell Grant is given to a student in a low-income family. The cost of the school and whether they are fulltime students also factor into wheth-

er they are given the grant. A student can receive up to $5,000, which does not need to be paid back.

The act also changes where federal loan money goes. Instead of sending it to banks to be distributed, money will now go directly to students or the universities, according to the law.

Who the Federal Perkins Loans Program will be available to is now more generous, Copeland-Morgan said. A Perkins Loan is given to a see Pell grant page 7

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‘SU copes’ article should consider peers affected by student deaths Many people have passed away on the Syracuse campus and students deal with death in different ways. However, don’t you think the students and faculty on this campus could have figured this out themselves without having to read an entire article listing each of the deaths and how they occurred?

The point of my e-mail is not to criticize the entirety of the article or how Syracuse counsels its grieving students. However, as one of Jordan

let ter to the editor Schaffer’s best friends, not only from Syracuse, but also as a friend who grew up with him for the past nine years in Montville, N.J., I do not appreciate the way this article uses him as an example of how students have coped with these deaths.

Not only is Jordan’s name splattered on the front page in a nonchalant matter, but the “freshman girl” is not named. Despite her extreme concern that the dormitory Jordan died in is supposedly “haunted,” she is kept anonymous.

Half the people living in DellPlain Hall today do not even know that this event occurred last September. So thank you for creating more unnecessary anxiety among freshman and sophomore students.

Jordan Schaffer had been in my life since I was 11 years old, and as a matter of fact, I live in DellPlain. DellPlain was the only dorm choice available to me during the housing lottery last

year. I have had to deal with it every day for the past semester and a half. I do not care what the correct measure of coping is, but considering I have had to live there, I have been able to push these thoughts to the back of my mind. I am sure whoever is also aware of this tragedy has had to do so as well. I do not need an article, now or ever, reminding me of this situation.

I understand the author meant no harm, but maybe whoever approved this article should have thought about those who were deeply affected by Jordan’s suicide. The article explains in a quote, “But as deaths became more frequent, those who were not directly affected were desensitized and ignored it, she said.” Well, thank you for demonstrating your own point, but by using Jordan as a “hook” for your article, his death was minimized.

The author is desensitized to the situation as well. She blatantly ignored how this article affects anyone who was close to Jordan or who might live in DellPlain. There are three students beside myself who attend Syracuse who also grew up with Jordan. The four of us were

greatly affected by this situation, as one could only imagine. The truth is that, a year and a half later, Jordan’s death is still affecting each of us in one way or another.

Just because whoever wrote and approved this article may not have been directly affected

by Jordan’s death, it does not mean they have the right to single out this specific death or bring it up without warning or permission. Yes, many other deaths are mentioned, but suicide is far different from an accidental death. I know those at The Daily Orange are smart enough to realize this. When you mention Jordan’s suicide up front in the article, I am sure the readers don’t immediately assume he was a happy, awesome, well-loved kid. That is the stigma suicide provides, and you know what, that’s exactly who Jordan was, but no one reading this article will ever know that. I wish the author knew the truth behind his tragic death before it was used inappropriately as a lead into a story.

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Help end intergenerational culture war, contact Students for Sensible Drug Policy Regarding Samuel Blackstone’s March 23rd column, if health outcomes determined drug laws instead of cultural norms, marijuana would be legal.

Unlike alcohol, marijuana has never been shown to cause an overdose death, nor does it share the addictive properties of tobacco. Marijuana can be harmful if abused, but jail cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents.

The first marijuana laws were enacted in response to Mexican immigration during the

let ter to the editor early 1900s, despite opposition from the American MedicalAssociation. Dire warnings that marijuana inspires homicidal rages have been counterproductive at best. White Americans did not even begin to smoke pot until a soonto-be entrenched federal bureaucracy began funding reefer madness propaganda.

Marijuana prohibition has failed miserably as a deterrent. The U.S. has higher

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rates of marijuana use than the Netherlands, where marijuana is legally available to adults 18 and older.

Students who want to help end the intergenerational culture war otherwise known as the war on some drugs should contact Students for Sensible Drug Policy at SchoolsNotPrisons. com.

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Senior class giving campaign aims to create feeling of celebration, not guilt I was taken aback by some of the comments in Alex Silverman’s letter in Thursday’s Daily Orange. I am very respectful of his opinions regarding the senior class giving campaign, which are shared by some other students. I, for one, have no certainty of what is coming my way in roughly 50 days. I am not employed, and for the last four years, I have paid full tuition at SU. There are, however, a few issues I would like to bring up in response to Alex’s letter. First, the campaign, “Class Act,” is being chaired by me and Carlye Eder, both SU seniors, so his suggestion that a $36,000 employee resign is unnecessary. Second, we are not trying to create a feeling of guilt, but one of celebration.

Last year, students from the Class of 2009 decided to bring back senior class giving, after a lapse of more than three decades. The idea did not come from the Office of Development.

This year, once again, students approached the Office of Development to establish a campaign.

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LET TER TO THE EDITOR We are not implying the College of Human Ecology is “winning” by any means; I think it is amazing that our smallest college has the highest participation. Also, it’s great that SU’s library, a sometimes ignored university unit, has received several gifts from students. Furthermore, between Tuesday, when our last e-mail went out, and Friday, 13 seniors made a gift. I invite Alex and others to look at some of the feedback provided by students about why they chose to give on our Web site (classact.syr.edu).

I understand that Alex is a student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where he probably benefited from a new, state-of-the-art building. Now, if it was not for the generosity of the Newhouse family and many, many other donors, such an opportunity would not have been

possible for any Newhouse student.

Lastly, I would like to point out that SU is not unique in this venture.

The Class of 2009 at Georgetown University had 55 percent participation in senior class giving. There are many other universities I can point to with even higher participation rates, but I thought I would bring to light the example of a Big East conference rival. And as a reminder, this is about participation and believing in an institution that gave us such a great experience, not about how much people give individually.

It may sound cliché to some, but I do not think I will ever be able to give back to Syracuse University what it has given to me: a quality education, four years of amazing experiences, tremendous friendships and, yes, the willingness to give.

This is why I choose to say “thank you” to all who give to SU. Go Orange!

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WWOLF provides alternative opportunity for travel, exploration

pring Break has come and gone and I’ve returned from Almost Heaven, W.Va., cool and refreshed. I was sad to leave the Blue Ridge Mountains, where colorful splashes of green and yellow overwhelmed every scenic overlook and wild animals roamed the small quaint town of Franklin, W.Va. I had no real expectations for my Habitat for Humanity trip, but now that I’ve gone, I’ve been moved by the hospitality of strangers and have seen the powerful effects volunteers make in the lives of people I otherwise wouldn’t have met. This experience drew me to the organization World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOLF).

WWOLF is a global network of farmers and volunteers who are

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“living, learning, sharing organic lifestyles” and working together to provide organic farming and spreading the idea of sustainable living across the globe.

Created in the United Kingdom in 1971, WWOLF is now an international “exchange” organization that “in return for volunteer help, hosts offer food, accommodation and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles.” Volunteers, also known as “WWOLFERS,” chose which location they would like to live in and make direct contact with their host families. It’s similar to study abroad, but instead of building an educational commitment for several months, volunteers learn the ins and outs of farming organically and the ecological contributions WWOLF makes in

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my ultimate quest each country.

The most wonderful aspect of WWOLF is the plethora of destinations the organization offers to people who are genuinely invested in making the commitment. For those who love to travel and are once again confronted with the reality of a dwindling bank account, this may be the great alternative. WWOLF volunteers, aka “WWOLFERS,” and WWOLF hosts don’t pay to stay or host. Other than the small fee paid to

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the WWOLF organization itself and the plane ticket, volunteers are practically staying for free in a foreign country, living as part of the family with their hosts.

My exploration south has exposed me to a different aspect of the volunteering culture that I truly loved: the sense of camaraderie everyone had on the trip. Everywhere we went, we were overwhelmed with the generosity and gratitude of these local homeowners and construction workers that we worked with.

Hoping to elevate the experience from this past trip, I’m trying to see if I can travel during the next year or so to India as part of the country’s national chapter of WWOLF. According to wwolfindia.org, “India had 1,426 certified organic farms produc-

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ing approximately 14,000 tons of organic food/ produce annually.”

But my fascination with India was also spurred by the country’s everlasting sense of history and culture, and if the opportunity arises that I can actually make the trek as a fellow “WWOLFER,” it’ll be another thing crossed off my bucket list.

It’s only during our 20s that we can go on these trips without the headaches of worrying about jobs and internships. Take a chance and volunteer for an organization like WWOLF. It’ll expand the definition of volunteering and spice up the everyday mundane.

Angela Hu is a sophomore magazine journalism and English and textual studies major. Her column appears weekly, and she can be reached at ajhu01@syr.edu.

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really widely respected within Maxwell, across the university and, I know, outside the university as well,” said Eric Spina, SU vice chancellor and provost. “It really became a relatively easy call that Mike was the perfect person here.”

Spina chose Wasylenko, the current senior associate dean of Maxwell, to be the interim dean after seeking nominations from Maxwell faculty and staff. It was decided Wasylenko was most qualified to serve during the transition period between the time Wallerstein leaves and when a permanent dean is chosen.

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gested speakers provided by the senior selection committee.

Commencement, a joint ceremony for SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, will be held May 16.

JPMorgan has an on-campus technology center located in Lyman Hall that opened in October. Sixty SU students intern at JPMorgan facilities each semester, according to the university’s Web site. The technology center allows students the opportunity to take classes, land internships and search for jobs, and JPMorgan promises $30 million to the university over the next 10 years. The partnership also created a

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“The announcement is almost anticlimactic by the time it comes out, I mean for me, but I feel very good,” Wasylenko said. “It’s a good opportunity for me.”

Wasylenko will take his position at the beginning of August, when Wallerstein leaves to begin his position as president of Baruch College, a City University of New York school.

Wallerstein was appointed president of Baruch in February, after serving as dean of Maxwell for seven years.

Wallerstein is delighted Wasylenko was appointed as his temporary replacement, he said.

He believes Wasylenko is well qualified because of his work as the senior associate dean, the secondin-command at Maxwell, Wallerstein said.

As interim dean, Wasylenko plans to continue the initiatives and programs Wallerstein started. He has already worked on these initiatives with Wallerstein, so there will not be any major changes in Maxwell while he is interim dean, he said.

Wasylenko said he hopes to continue the merger of the international relations and public administration programs, as well as distribute more research money to the faculty. There was not much time for these initiatives to develop under Wallerstein, Wasylenko said.

“I’m just going to continue the good work of the dean,” Wasylenko said. “We’re on the right path.”

Waslyenko will hold the position until the time a permanent dean is chosen, a date Spina said it

still unknown. Spina will lead a national search to fill the position beginning in late spring and continuing into the next academic year.

Waslyenko will have the option of applying to be the permanent dean as part of the national search, but he said he would have to see how he likes being interim dean before applying.

“I think the most important thing, as the provost indicated in his announcement, is that the school needs to continue pursuing all of its initiatives and all of its programs,” Wallerstein said. “I know that Dr. Wasylenko is fully supportive of that and will provide excellent leadership.”

minor in global enterprise technology.

“Hundreds of students are benefitting from it,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs. “It’s creating tremendous opportunity.”

Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina also spoke of the benefits of SU’s collaboration with JPMorgan, saying the partnership provides “untolled, incredible opportunities for students” and the potential for groundbreaking research.

But some students reacted to the choice with discontent.

Jen Gramer, a senior history and art history major and a senior class marshal, said she has heard concern from other marshals and students regarding JPMorgan’s $30 million investment in the university last year. Aside from the university’s ties with JPMorgan, she said, many students do not feel it is appropriate to have a corporate banker speak given the current economic crisis.

“I think, in general, a lot of people feel like it’s a bit off-putting to have a banker speaking in this sort of economic and political climate,” she said. “I think a lot of people would have rather had a different sort of speaker.”

Mariel Fiedler, a member of Students for a Democratic Society, said choosing Dimon as the commencement speaker gives JPMorgan approval despite the banking industry’s involvement in the recent financial crisis.

“This kind of reeks of something going wrong,” said Fiedler, a senior broadcast journalism and English and textual studies major.

Other students disagree, saying Dimon’s strong leadership of JPMorgan throughout the financial crisis makes him someone who showcases strong leadership.

Larry Seivert, a senior finance major, former Student Association president and 2010 class marshal, said it’s important to focus on someone’s strength as a speaker rather than just how well his or her name is known. For Dimon to rise to where he has in the financial world,

Seivert said, he probably has the poise and speaking skills to make help him deliver a good commencement address. He also said JPMorgan is one of the only large banks that didn’t receive any bailout money.

“Jamie Dimon was always in a lot of different spotlights,” Seivert said. “He is really well known for being one of the best CEOs out there, one of the most accomplished, and he really carries a lot of presence and lots of experience.”

JP Morgan’s business model also gives Dimon attractiveness as a speaker, said Muss Akram, an engineering student and senior class marshal.

“The fact that JPMorgan Chase did really well during the recession goes to show something about good leadership in that organization,” he said.

He said Dimon’s ties to the university were something that the selection committee looked at as a strong point because it has created jobs and opportunities for students on campus.

Stephanie Chen, a senior magazine journalism major, said she did not know who Jamie Dimon was when he was announced.

“I don’t really understand why or what the thought process was behind it, but I’m sure our class could have picked people that were a lot more interesting than he,” she said.

Members of Students for a Democratic Society are hoping the university will seriously evaluate student concerns and consider finding a new speaker, said Ryan Hickey, president of the organization. If Dimon remains the commencement speaker, he said, the administration could expect opposition at commencement.

The group will not try and prevent Dimon from speaking, but it may bring signs or not wear the traditional commencement gowns, Hickey said. He also said members may wear black arm bands to “represent the death of the university as a learning institution” because Dimon and SU’s relationship with JPMorgan Chase represents the corporatization of the university.

Some students are also raising concerns that

Dimon was not one of the preferred choices put forth to the administration by the selection committee.

The selection process begins about a year prior to commencement. The committee is made up of senior class marshals from each school and college and the student representatives to the Board of Trustees. The committee meets several times to discuss possible commencement speakers, also taking student suggestions from the university’s Web site. The committee ultimately submits a list of about 40 to 50 suggestions with the top 15 selections in a separate list.

One class marshal, Chad Brooker, was abroad during the selection process last spring but said he was still very involved in the group’s discussions. He said that while he thinks Dimon is a great choice for a speaker due to his extensive résumé, he said he does not remember any discussion involving adding Dimon to the list.

Gramer, a senior class marshal who was added to the committee late and not involved in the selection process, said she heard complaints from other marshals that Dimon was not on the list or a favorable choice. But she spoke with Susan Germain, SU’s executive director for special events who worked closely with the student committee, and was assured that Dimon was on the final list.

“That is outright not true,” Germain said. “I will tell you he was unequivocally on the list.”

A copy of the list obtained by The Daily Orange by a class marshal does include Jamie Dimon in the names of the top 15 choices. The list was attached in a forwarded April 22 e-mail from one of the head class marshals. The other names listed in the top 15 are Kofi Annan, Maya Angelou, Tony Blair, Anderson Cooper, Ellen DeGeneres, Tina Fey, Bill Gates, Robert Jarvik, Michelle Obama, Larry Page, Colin Powell, Robin Roberts, Muhammad Unus and Jack Welch.

“Do I think he’s a great choice? Yes,” Brooker said. “Whether he was the right choice to make?

That’s questionable.”

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About Eating Disorders” session of the symposium. Brown believes that, at SU and around the country, there are few people who acknowledge this statistic and spread awareness of eating disorders, she said.

“They talk about alcohol problems and drugs, but it’s rare to have a conversation about eating disorders,” Brown said.

Brown said BRIDGES started in 2006, and its purpose is to publicize the issues of eating disorders on campus in an organized fashion.

The symposium has been in the works since the group’s inception in 2006, but did not happen until Saturday because the group was not able to organize it until then, Brown said.

Brown said she would like to make the symposium an annual event based on the high turnout and participation of approximately 100 people. knvanbru@syr.edu

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tudents struggling to concentrate, hoping to take off the freshman 15 or trying to drink in moderation can look to a new Syracuse University Web site that aims to provide solutions.

The site, called LiveU, is a collaboration between health and wellness students in the College of Human Ecology and health and wellness units in the Division of Student Affairs and Hendricks Chapel.

Launched March 23, LiveU aims to promote healthy living practices for college students, said Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president of health and wellness in Student Affairs. SU encourages students through this Web site to care for their health and wellness in a more holistic way, focusing on all facets of a balanced lifestyle, Dayton said.

Dayton said now is the most important

time to address these issues with students because of the pressures this generation faces.

“There are many more demands on students — both academically and outside the classroom,” Dayton said. “Sometimes too much stress and the inability to cope can lead to more serious depression and anxiety, and I hope this site can be one preventative measure to help students stop, slow down and check in with themselves before things get out of hand.”

Bonnie Shoultz, the Buddhist chaplain at Hendricks Chapel, said LiveU was created to be a place where students could investigate different ways of coping with stress. She said the site is meant to address students’ needs to find meaning in their lives, to be social and to give to their community.

“We would hope that this site will give students another resource for dealing with depression and anxiety and a place to go to

“Sometimes too much stress and the inability to cope can lead to more serious depression and anxiety, and I hope this site can be one preventative measure to help students stop, slow down and check in with themselves before things get out of hand.”

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recycled materials. SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry are both partners.

Some SU students said they considered the transportation center a good idea on the university’s behalf, but they said they believe the effects will be more beneficial to the city than directly to SU.

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student usually from a middle-class or lowerincome family. They can receive up to $20,000, which they pay back over time with an interest of 5 percent.

Before the bill was passed, it was heavily negotiated due to the amount of money it called for and what it would cost the government, according to articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Students will begin to see the effects starting next school year, Copeland-Morgan said.

This year, SU is giving about $14.5 million in Pell Grants to about 3,400 students, or about 25.5 percent of the student population. The uni-

find out about the other supports available to them,” Shoultz said. “It recognizes that students face major challenges and that there are many ways of meeting those challenges.”

Featured topics on LiveU include mental and emotional wellness, called “Mind”; spiritual wellness, called “Spirit”; physical wellness, called “Body”; and involvement in local and regional philanthropic events, called “Community.” Subsections of the page, Coping, Recharge, Work It Out, Feel The Love and Party Animals, provide suggestions for rejuvenating mid-semester. The site also has links to various resources both on and off campus. The “Relaxation Station,” a video link, provides guided meditation and relaxation techniques for students seeking relief.

The Web site accepts articles from contributing writers, including students, staff and other health professionals in the local Syracuse community. Issues addressed in the articles include “Top 5 Drinking Games That Put You At Risk,” yoga, positive thinking and the SU community’s contribution toward the Haiti relief effort. The articles suggest coping strategies for the stress, loss and pressure that many students experience during their college career.

Jilian Jancuska, a yoga instructor for Recreation Services and a health writer for a publication in New York City, said she was excited to write for LiveU. The article she

contributed to the Web site, titled “Bridging The Gap: Working Out & Well Being” was written in the “Body” section of the site and encourages students to stop, to be mindful of the moment and to breathe.

“My hope is that students feel inspired to take an active role in their well-being,” Jancuska said. “I get very excited at the prospect of introducing yoga and mindfulness to this particularly passionate, creative, hard-working and often stressed-out community.”

Shoultz, the Buddhist chaplain, has been involved in the development since the inception of the Web site. The Web site and its contributors will continue to evolve as they receive feedback, she said in an e-mail.

“This is just the beginning,” Shoultz said.

“There will be many changes, content will change regularly and there will be other ways it will change, depending on the feedback that is given.”

Nicole McDermott, a sophomore magazine journalism major, said she will visit LiveU for wellness and stress-release tips.

“It’s a lot more college-oriented than a health magazine Web site,” McDermott said.

“A lot of what we learn at school is like ‘hangover cures’ and other things from people our age, but this Web site is very conversationally written and offers better alternatives.” cemcfarl@ syr.edu

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Justina Rose, a sophomore civil engineering major, said the transportation center is a positive development in the area’s attempt to go green, as are Centro buses running on bio-diesel, hybrid and compressed natural gas buses.

Jessica Afriyie, a freshman marketing major, said SU’s green initiative has encouraged her to adopt thoughtful habits like recycling. She said the new transportation center is another positive move for SU. “I think that’s a great thing for the school to

do. Everyone is aware of the effect of pollution and we have to be proactive,” Afriyie said.

She had concerns about the cost of the new building, but because it is funded mostly by a state grant and will promote green technology, she said she is not that worried.

“I think it’s worth it,” Afriyie said. “As of now it looks like it’s crazy, but in the long run we’ll be saving more money.

versity is giving $3.2 million in Perkins Loans to about 1,860 students. Some students receive both forms of aid, Copeland-Morgan said.

The number of students on Pell Grants has increased over the past four years, she said.

Last year, 21 percent of the student population received Pell Grants, about 500 students fewer than this year.

“I think it reflects the change in the demographics over the years and the divide between the growing number of families that are at the lower end of incomes in the country,” CopelandMorgan said.

Shannon Mayo, a junior social work major, said she is thankful the bill passed and she is able to receive the loan and grant.

“I know my parents would pay for me 100 percent if they were able to, but some families

just aren’t able,” she said.

The Perkins Loan has helped her by offering lower interest rates, which make them easier to pay off. She said the interest rates on the loan she took out freshman year through a bank will cause the total cost of the loan to double if she pays it back a little each year as the bank suggested.

Her friends, who also need loans for school, were affected by the student loan bill as well, she said.

“Even friends that are middle class, if they didn’t receive financial aid (they) would be affected,” she said. “Sometimes just a few thousand dollars is the difference between whether you can go to school or not.”

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They become asst. feature editors at The Daily Orange.

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ABC Family’s “GR∑∑K” will air its season finale tonight with a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C., leaving the cast with some big decisions to make. Scott Michael Foster plays the character Cappie, a college senior who is resisting graduation and still settling on a major. Here, Foster talks to The Daily Orange about his career path, the friends he has made on the show and what he has learned about greek life in the past three and a half years on the set.

On being involved in greek life in college I was in college for a very short period of time and it was a community college where I went.

It didn’t have a greek system.

On if “GR∑∑K” portrays greek life accurately

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I think our writers and creators try to depict greek life fairly and as accurately as possible without showing things the network wouldn’t want to show. But I think we try to do a fair job of showing the reality of it, what actually happens, pros and cons, because there’s both in life. And I think we’ve tried to show both those sides.

On what would be a good major for Cappie You know, he’s had so many chances to major in something. You know, I don’t know. I guess there’s a funny answer for this and a real answer for this. The funny answer would be you’ve seen him take this class with Rebecca,

this sex theory class that would be a good major for Cappie. Or a real one would be to study philosophy or something like that, where he can have his wisdom put to use.

On the Omega Chi revenge plan They sort of have this big revenge plan that they’re going to serve up. It turned out really well. It’s like one of those things when you’re watching a movie and at the end of the movie it all ties together and you’re like, I don’t know how they thought of that because it’s so many details and it all had to be planned out just right. The plan they did was really elaborate and I think you will really enjoy it.

On what to expect from Cappie next season I’m not sure, we haven’t gotten any tips for that yet. I’m not sure that next season will take us to graduation or right before, so you can expect some “senioritis” out of the people. I’m not sure.

We’ll have to see when the scripts come.

On Cappie and Cassie’s relationship I’ve always said this in interviews, I think that Casey and Cappie belong together and they love each other. I want to see them together.

But like they said in the last episode, when Cappie’s parents came, maybe this is just a relationship in your life that’s just supposed to be there for a certain time and that’s all it’s good for. But I’ve always advocated for them staying together for a long time, but who knows what will happen with them.

On if Scott Michael Foster sees Cappie ever wanting to grow up I think in Cappie’s existence he’s going to grow up at some point and he’s going to want to grow up at some point. Is that going to happen in the near future? Probably not. I think he’s addicted to the life he has, and I think he’s more afraid than anything to let go of that and be the neighbor, Mr. Hilgendorf. So I think he wants to hang on to what he has as long as possible, until it’s weird that he is still in college and he needs to grow up.

On what Foster has learned about himself since starting “GR∑∑K” That’s a tough one. I don’t know how to answer that. I feel like I’ve grown up in the last three years. And that’s not only just myself but playing this character. So if learning about myself is growing up with myself, then absolutely. I’ve learned a lot about myself.

On if he would be in the greek system if he returned to college I think it would be weird if I went back to college now, but I think I would join it because it looks like there’s a big family connection, a social connection and you can do a lot with what the greek system has to offer. So I would totally do it.

For the Daily Orange’s complete interview with Scott Michael Foster, check it out dailyorange.com. rltoback@ syr.edu

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more of a riveting mess.

The stage design of Gette Levy, a senior scenic and lighting design major, is gorgeous.

It gives a distinctly 1930s feel to the play.

Marc Fisher, a junior design and technology major, sets the scenes with grand lighting that transforms the entire production into a relic of years past. And without the craft of senior theater design and technology major Caroline London’s costume design, the play would be significantly less spectacular.

Ultimately, Robert Moss’s direction of “Room Service” is a peppy treat from beginning to end, perfect for students looking for a feel-good performance at SU Stage.

And just because the site exists, that doesn’t mean nerds can’t find love anywhere else. As the site says, “being a geek is an asset.” As Koppel said, geeks aren’t nerds, so interacting with potential lady friends shouldn’t be too difficult. Just save the Darth Vader helmet for the third date. Not that I would know. While it’s great for geeks to have a product that places their interests together, a geek doesn’t need to be with another geek in order to be truly happy.

Though, having “his” and “hers” lightsabers would be pretty sweet.

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By Gregory Miller Staff Writer

illed to the brim with pants falling down, feigned measles and everything in between, Syracuse University Drama’s latest production, “Room Service,” is a successful slapstick comedy.

This latest production is a feel-good romp about a Broadway producer putting on the show of a lifetime. He’s got the script, the actors, the ideas — the only thing he doesn’t have is money. This is a problem, seeing as he’s living in a hotel room with a bill that would make Bill Gates cringe.

When the hotel catches on to the producer’s inability to pay up, chaos ensues. It creates a hilarious string of events.

Charles Kirk, a sophomore acting major, leads a talented cast in his portrayal of Broadway producer Gordon Miller.

Kirk’s character holds the play together, acting as a Ricky Ricardo in a sea of Lucille Balls. Kirk is at his best when he’s prancing around like the pompous man Miller is, though his cartoony vocal choices can be a little too reminiscent of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss.

Luckily, most of the actors’ voices are a little more soothing, such as the sultry Lori Pasqualino, a junior religion and acting major, as Christine Marlow.

Pasqualino owns the role in part thanks to

her made-to-perfection costume, but more so to her commanding stage presence.

There’s no wonder the Miller made her his star, let alone his girlfriend.

Breaking away from the other admirable efforts, Chris Dwan, a junior musical theater major, as playwright Leo Davis stands alone as the strongest performance. Davis is a small-town guy who has just given up everything to come to Broadway and make it big. He’s naïve, little and has the demeanor of someone who’s never been kissed. When he’s not getting laughs at his own dispense, he’s helping someone else find a way to do the same.

An ensemble of other enjoyable actors is what makes the play so entertaining to watch. Amos VanderPoel, a sophomore acting major, plays Sasha Smirnoff, a Russian room service waiter with Hollywood dreams. VanderPoel’s accent is hilarious, making him an audience favorite every time he walks on. He’s got competition only in Robert Simpson, a junior acting major, who plays Miller’s stage manager.

Simpson’s New York City accent is just annoying enough to make it adorable.

Together, Simpson and Harry Binion, Miller’s director (junior acting major Brad Koed), act as Miller’s right-hand men. They often are more hindering than helpful, which makes the plot that much see room service page 8

courtesy of su drama Chris Dwan (seated), a junior musical theater major who plays Theo Davis, a playwright, and Robbie Simpson, a junior acting major who plays a stage manager, perform one of their many humorous scenes from ‘Room Service.’

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ho needs dinner and a movie when you can spend a date discussing the finer points of Middle Earth or your computer’s processing power?

Surprising, but true, there’s a wealth of geeks out there whose quest to find love is more difficult than any quest in “World of Warcraft.” Single “Star Trek” and “Harry Potter” fans are out there, it’s just a matter of finding them in the sea of geek naivety.

(You’d be shocked to know how many girls don’t even know what planet Spock is from.)

Luckily, there is a beacon of hope for all loveless geeks. “Geek2Geek,” a dating Web site tailored toward matching single geeks, knows that

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it’s hip to be square geeks are far more interested in playing “Call of Duty” than enjoying long walks on the beach.

“It would be better for geeks to go on a site where everybody who was there wanted to meet someone who was outside the mainstream of interests,” said Spencer Koppel, founder of Geek2Geek, in an e-mail.

Rather than describing the perfect

date, users can attract a partner by describing the perfect fight between Superman and Batman. (For the record, Batman would win.) Here, geeks are free to act like themselves, where a common ground has already been established.

No longer must a geek’s homemade battle axe and Viking helmet be kept a dirty secret. Koppel said having others to confide in and support each other about social taboos is exactly what geeks need. While most people can cry to one another when they fail a test or lose a job, “Lost” geeks also need a shoulder to cry on after the series finale.

“Though it’s difficult to be a geek, especially a younger geek, the very

qualities that make someone a geek are the ones that give them strength and teach them to survive in the world,” Koppel said.

According to the Web site, geeks are actually better lovers than any other person in the world because they look through shallow requirements, like beauty and money, and accept people for who they really are. That’s mostly true, except for the money part.

Life-size Master Chief statues aren’t cheap, you know.

Another problem the site tries to solve is the geek’s public image. Just because geeks’ interests don’t jive with the vast majority, it doesn’t mean they can’t function in society. Just ask a geek who their favorite Jedi Knight is

and they’ll never stop talking to you.

Apparently, people who can’t function in society are actually nerds.

Nerds, which Koppel said he tries to differentiate from geeks, are the ones who carry the negative social stigma.

“The word ‘nerd’ is almost never used on the site,” Koppell said.

While the site seems great for guys, Koppel said Geek2Geek struggles with attracting a larger female presence. But instead of looking at them as girls, the site has to look at them like any other geek. “That’s been a challenge,” Koppel said. “But we try to focus on their interests — vampires, “Harry Potter,” Renaissance fairs, for example — to find them.” see steinbeiser page 8

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ow in its fourth season, “Rules of Engagement” is on a painfully slow track toward cancellation. Content to spin its wheels with no real progression, the show follows a married couple, an engaged couple and their single friend through the stereotypical ups and downs of relationships.

“Rules of Engagement” is a prime example of a series that has tried to revamp the old comedy sitcom formula of showcasing different couples in various stages of their lives.

Unfortunately, the show brings nothing new to excite viewers.

“Rules of Engagement” features Jeff Bingham (Patrick Warburton) and Audrey Bingham (Megyn Price) as spouses who often give advice to the freshly engaged couple, Adam Rhodes (Oliver Hudson) and Jennifer (Bianca Kajlich). David Spade rounds out the principal cast as Russell, the stereotypical bachelor who constantly harps on his friends in relationships for being locked down with the same woman for the rest of their lives.

The show is fi rst and foremost about relationships. Jeff and Adam often talk about the rules of marriage, and their wives complain

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about the same. Russell, meanwhile, continuously praises how great it is to be single.

The telling sign that a show is losing its momentum is when new characters are added to the cast. At the start of Season 4, Russell’s assistant, Timmy (Adhir Kalyan), became a regular cast member. This is when the show began to lose focus from the original cast members and the original premise. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. The characters of Timmy and Russell play off each other well, and some of Timmy’s interactions with other characters are sometimes the best scenes in certain episodes. This is because Timmy helps Russell make more jokes about his personal life.

Timmy being a recurring character on the show means less focus on the couples.

Kudos goes to executive producers Tom Hertz and Doug Robinson (a Syracuse University alumnus) for adding another character that Russell can play off. However, the permanence of Kalyan’s character on the show is quickly becoming a distraction to what was originally a show about looking at the different stages the couples are going through in their lives.

There are some funny moments in the

show, but the trouble is that they are buried deep within the dialogue. When the funny moments are unearthed, they feel contrived due to a studio laugh track in the background.

The sad fact is that multiple members of the writing and producing crew come from successful sitcoms like “Frasier,” “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The King of Queens.”

It’s a huge disappointment that this show isn’t significantly funnier. The difference is that in all the aforementioned sitcoms, the stories were based on the deep development and individuality of each character. You see this method trying to be used in “Rules of Engagement,” but the cast’s personalities are just cookie-cutter characterizations that have been on television for decades.

“Rules of Engagement” has been satisfying CBS executives for the past four seasons with an average of 8 million to 14 million viewers a week, depending on its time slot. But the show has never had a full season of episodes (most sitcoms usually consist of 22 episodes).

So maybe the CBS executives will see that once they solve their smaller problems with characterization and plot development, they have other issues to deal with. jawalk05@ syr.edu

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By Jared Diamond Staff writer

est Virginia guard Joe Mazzulla walked into Bob Huggins’ office in the winter of 2009 with tears welling in his eyes. Mazzulla could barely lift his left arm, still trying to recover from a devastating shoulder injury that threatened to cost him his career.

Mazzulla asked his coach a difficult question and expected an honest answer: “What am I going to do if I can’t play?” Huggins recalled him saying.

The truth was that the odds were stacked against him. No basketball player had ever returned from this particular surgery to repair a fractured growth plate, Huggins said. To lighten the mood on that winter day, he fed Mazzulla a joke about potentially playing soccer instead of basketball. “You don’t need your hands for that,” Mazzulla said.

Mazzulla recounted that story in the locker room Saturday night with a grin on his face.

He had just walked off the Carrier Dome court a hero, scoring a career-high 17 points to propel the second-seeded Mountaineers to a 73-66 victory against No. 1 seed Kentucky in the Elite Eight.

Behind Mazzulla’s play and a team-high 18 points from Da’Sean Butler, WVU (31-6) is off to its first Final Four since 1959, marking Huggins’ first trip to the national semifinals since taking Cincinnati in 1992. The win also served as validation for Mazzulla, who spent more than a year rehabbing the injury that once seemed hopeless and battling through depression and legal trouble.

When the final buzzer sounded, Mazzulla rushed to find Huggins and wrapped him in a giant bear hug. This was the moment he had been waiting for.

“I never want him to forget how much appreciation and how much I recognize what he has done for me on and off the court,” said Mazzulla,

who was temporarily suspended from the program after being arrested last April on charges of domestic battery in a bar in Morgantown, W.Va. “I always have to be the first one to say ‘thank you’ and ‘I love you’ to him.”

Mazzulla started Saturday’s game at point guard, in place of injured starter Darryl “Truck” Bryant, who broke a bone in his foot in practice this week. In the days leading up to the East Regional, Mazzulla heard constantly that West Virginia would struggle because they lacked strong point guard play. After all, the Mountaineers’ only healthy point guard, Mazzulla, averaged just 2.2 points in 35 games off the bench this season.

“I was real concerned, I’m not going to lie,” Bryant said. “I know Joe can handle the job, but that’s such a tough situation without your starting point guard. I honestly never could have expected this.”

Mazzulla did more than just handle the job.

His performance earned him East Regional MVP honors. He had gone up against heralded point guard John Wall (19 points, nine rebounds) — likely the No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NBA Draft — and matched him step for step.

“We couldn’t have won this game without him,” Bryant said.

WVU managed to handle the Wildcats (35-3) and their slew of potential NBA first-round draft picks with a swarming 1-3-1 defense. The 6-foot-2 Mazzulla played most of the game at the bottom of the zone, trying to contain the 6-foot-11 Kentucky center DeMarcus Cousins. Mazzulla’s quick hands and pesky play frustrated him throughout the night.

Cousins finished with 15 points, but he was unable to establish himself down the stretch.

“At one point during the game he looked at me and said, ‘Are you serious?’” Mazzulla said.

“I said, ‘Yeah, I’m serious. You’re going to have to punch me in the face to get me off you.’”

The Mountaineers caught fire in the second

matthew ziegler | staff photographer joe mazzulla scored a career-high 17 points in West Virginia’s win over topseeded Kentucky in the East Regional final Saturday at the Carrier Dome. half, shooting 57.1 percent from the field in the game’s final 20 minutes. Mazzulla found ways to penetrate the Kentucky defense and slash to the basket for layups, helping his team go up by 16 points with 4:25 remaining.

But Mazzulla fouled out of the game with 2:22 left, and the Wildcats made one last run.

West Virginia missed a bevy of free throws, and Kentucky managed to cut the deficit to as little as four. With Mazzulla pounding on the floor and screaming encouragements from the bench, the Mountaineers barely held on.

Afterward, Mazzulla sat by his locker, over-

whelmed with excitement. He wore the net from the basket like a necklace.

He had been the first one to start cutting it down.

“I said our motto — an opportunity for kids to fulfill their dreams,” Mazzulla said. “We’ve done one of them, and we have two more games to fulfill our highest dream.” jediamon@syr.edu A version of this story appeared on dailyorange.com March 27.

Despite crop of NBA prospects, inexperience costs Kentucky in Elite Eight

By Andrew L. John Asst. Sports Editor

John Wall wasn’t ready for his season to come to an end. Like every player in the NCAA Tournament, he too had a dream of cutting down the net after the national championship game in Indianapolis.

But when Wall fouled out with 51.3 seconds left against West Virginia Saturday, the window on that dream came to a close.

As he exited the floor, for perhaps the last time in a collegiate game, he took one final look at the scoreboard and embraced Kentucky head coach John Calipari before taking a spot on the bench and draping a towel over his head.

For Wall and his young Kentucky squad, it was the end of the line. Reality hadn’t surpassed expectations. Hype had not been justified.

“I didn’t want it to stop,” Wall said in the locker room after the game. “I’m sad and disappointed we didn’t make it as far as our goals.”

Despite looking invincible through its first three games of the NCAA Tournament and boasting a roster full of high-profile NBA prospects, inconsistency and inexperience ultimately cost Kentucky a trip to the Final Four.

The Wildcats struggled against a more seasoned

West Virginia squad, falling 73-66 at the Carrier Dome in the East Regional final.

Despite earning the No. 1 seed in the East Regional, bouts of inconsistency plagued the Wildcats throughout the season. Against South Carolina and Tennessee, simply having superior talent wasn’t enough to escape with victories.

Against the Mountaineers — when WVU made a second-half run — Kentucky crumbled.

“It was one of those days where we weren’t making shots,” Wall said. “Usually we win these type of games.”

Slicing to the basket in transition, Wall finished the night with a game-high 19 points, nine rebounds and five assists before fouling out.

But he struggled to find his shot, finishing just 7-for-18 from the field and only 4-for-8 from the charity stripe. Similar struggles were evident up and down the Kentucky roster.

Against Cornell Thursday, the Wildcats shot the ball poorly yet cruised to a double-digit victory over the less-talented Ivy League school.

But when facing the Big East tournament champion, Kentucky lacked the necessarily poise to emerge victorious.

Instead, Kentucky’s youngsters kept desperately hoisting shot after shot from beyond the arc.

As a result, UK shot just as poorly as it did against Cornell (12.5 percent) from beyond the arc, but it shot it from downtown twice as many times (32).

“We’ve had shooting days like this,” Calipari said. “But we won anyway because maybe the teams weren’t quite as good as West Virginia.

But today that team was too good for us to shoot like we did from the free-throw line and still win the game.

“I think there were times that the inexperience hurt us.”

Defensively, having the quicker, longer, better athletes didn’t seem to matter. Kentucky couldn’t make a stop and let backup point guard Joe Mazzulla have a career day. So with 2:33 left in the game and trailing 64-53, the Wildcats had to resort to fouling as their primary defensive strategy.

When West Virginia left the door open by missing free throws, the Wildcats couldn’t convert on the other end. After sinking eight consecutive free throws in the clutch to seal the victory against Cornell Thursday, freshman point guard Eric Bledsoe shot just 1-for-6 from the line Saturday. As a team, UK shot just 10-of22 (45.5 percent) from the line in the second half after sinking 6-of-7 in the first.

Despite its immense talent, Kentucky’s

immaturity and lack of poise was on full display in the clutch.

“I never wanted to think of this feeling,” freshman center DeMarcus Cousins said as he wiped the sweat from his brow Saturday. “I wish I could just wake up from a bad dream, but this is real.”

Arguably, not since Michigan’s Fab Five has college basketball seen a young group this talented. And as the postgame celebration began and John Denver’s “Country Roads” blared in the background, this Kentucky squad walked off the court together for perhaps the final time.

Wall and Cousins headline a quartet of UK players that are expected to be lottery picks in the NBA Draft this June.

And in the somber locker room after the game, a dejected Cousins couldn’t help but sit and wonder what could have been with this Kentucky squad.

“It hurts. And the part that hurts the most is that we’ll never get a chance to play with each other again,” Cousins said. “I’ve never had this much fun in my life. I just wish we could’ve ended on a good note.” aljohn@syr.edu A version of this story appeared on dailyorange.com March 27.

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By Tyler Dunne Managing Editor

SALT LAKE CITY — Granted, Syracuse players cushioned their answer with the mandatory “Give Butler credit” discloser each time. But they made it clear that the better team did not win Thursday night.

“Honestly, no,” Jackson said. “They just had a smart game plan. Give it to their coach. Their coach had a great game plan out there.”

A big part of that game plan was to go right at Jackson and outmuscle Syracuse.

Next to Butler’s antagonizing man defense, this was the most surprising revelation from Syracuse’s 63-59 loss in the Sweet 16. The Bulldogs — a team fueled by quickness, not size — pounded Syracuse inside. Butler’s frontcourt, never to be mistaken for a bodybuilder lineup, bullied the outright Big East champions.

Butler did dull the game’s tempo to a crawl, but that wasn’t the difference.

“We’re used to teams playing like that,” point guard Brandon Triche said. “It was more of them being tougher than us, pushing us around and knocking us off our spots. That’s what guided them to a win.”

The breaking point came with 2:44 left and Syracuse holding a 54-53 lead. Butler’s Matt Howard pinned Jackson against the hoop, scored and the Bulldogs never trailed again.

Howard was a gnat Jackson couldn’t shake off all night.

Failing to utilize his decisive size advantage, Jackson scored only four points in 35 foul-

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can happen to a team that simply cannot score, a team that gave up 23 points off turnovers and a team that registered its lowest first-half point total of the year.

But during the game, the looks of panic and uncertainty were omnipresent, foreshadowing what would eventually be the bite of reality that brought Syracuse’s dream season crashing down to earth.

Take, for example, the cringe on Scoop Jardine’s face midway through the first half as he tried to muscle off a Bulldog defender just inside half court. Jardine’s driving lane was blocked to one side, and with a quick move to his left he barely got off a pass that was picked by Butler forward Gordon Hayward and returned for a quick two.

Or the way Rick Jackson watched in disbelief as Butler’s Matt Howard pivoted his body around Jackson’s backside to deliver a crushing block, forcing Syracuse back to the drawing board as its head coach, Jim Boeheim, signaled for a damage-control timeout.

It was a look of mounting aggravation. A deep gaze that suggested the odds were stacked against him.

“I don’t know what it was,” Jackson said.

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plagued minutes. At times, he was trapped by a horde of collapsing Butler defenders. Other times, he passively faded away from the rim.

For the first time, Arinze Onuaku’s absence was woefully obvious. With Onuaku (quad) still sidelined, Syracuse lost its pick-your-poison tandem in the paint. Usually, one of the two drew an undersized forward and attacked. Someone benefited. Someone forced opponents to respect the Orange’s inside game.

Jackson particularly has shown the rare ability to annex from the flow of a game all season. With a set of slick offensive moves, he has torched lightweights Florida (21 points, 11 rebounds), Providence (28 points, nine rebounds) and Villanova (19 points, eight rebounds).

Butler seemed no different — a team stuck in small ball. But by himself all game, Jackson couldn’t anchor the middle. And overall, Butler’s aggressive play took Syracuse by surprise.

“They were definitely a physical team,” guard Scoop Jardine said. “I give them credit. They played really, really together on defense.”

Jackson didn’t help his cause by picking up a fourth foul with 8:08 still to play. After the junior was whistled, a fired-up Boeheim held his arms straight up in the air to illustrate exactly what Jackson should have done.

Boeheim didn’t make excuses after the game.

He didn’t use Onuaku’s injury as a cop-out.

“We haven’t had him,” Boeheim said.

“They just played good. There’s no technical thing, guys were just out there playing. They were never shy or timid to go out and make that home-run play.”

On the other side of the ball, the Bulldogs maintained poise. There were times the Orange offense would go on its runs but were derailed seconds later once Butler could regroup.

Syracuse never had a minute inside its comfort zone. Each time down the floor, the first-option pass was cut off. Orange guards would sit at the top of the key conducting an offense that couldn’t move the way it wanted. At each and every turn, there was a Butler defender draping, emerging to cause a turnover. Turnovers that mounted and consequently snowballed: one after another.

“It was like, turn the ball over once, come back down and turn the ball over again,” junior forward Wes Johnson said. “It’s very hard to try and get out of. All those turnovers, they hurt you.”

With the way the game ended, Syracuse had the opportunity to second-guess itself in the middle of everything. Maybe, if it would have held onto the ball a little longer, things would have gone differently. If it could have stayed in rhythm for a little longer, it would have been just enough to put this whole mess behind and into the Elite Eight.

But for Nored, the look on his face as he swung out of the tunnel suggested certainty.

There were no “ifs and buts” — this is what makes Butler good. This was the game plan the entire time.

“We guarded,” Nored said. “That’s what we do.” ctorr@syr.edu A version of this story appeared on dailyorange.com March 25.

andrew burton | special projects editor jim boeheim (right) consoles Rick Jackson after SU was upset by Butler in the West Regional semifinal. Jackson said it is hard for him to call this season “successful.”

“There’s nothing I’m going to say about that. We don’t make excuses.”

The methodical, mop-haired Howard pestered Jackson as the game progressed, finishing with nine points and seven rebounds himself. Howard, hiding his lack of girth with a T-shirt underneath his jersey, isn’t the strongest player. But he compensated with rec-ball savvy. Howard successfully forced Jackson to stray away from the hoop where the SU forward wouldn’t overpower him. Jackson, a player that scores his points in bunches, never got going.

And with only freshman DaShonte Riley behind Jackson, Syracuse had no other options.

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possession, throwback forward Matt Howard powered in a shot to give Butler the lead and Andy Rautins turned the ball over.

Then, the basketball gods stepped in. Butler guard Willie Veasley heaved a 3-pointer that pinballed high into the sky and somehow whistled through the nylon. Rautins missed a trey on the other end. And with 59 seconds to go, Veasley tipped in an offensive rebound.

Tack on another free throw and cue the blank dazes. With one 11-0 run, Butler sent Syracuse home prematurely.

“I mean, we came down and made two turnovers in a three-minute span,” Rautins said.

“When it came down to it, they executed.”

A week ago, players pegged this a Final Fouror-bust season. March Madness was a failure, several attested, without a trip to Indianapolis.

No wonder the locker room felt like a funeral.

On a chair, with an ice bag on his left knee, Kris Joseph was speechless. Literally. A pack of reporters approached him and departed within seconds. To Joseph’s left was Scoop Jardine.

Sitting next to his dad, Jardine was still numb.

Still searching for an explanation.

And sandwiched between the two was Arinze Onuaku. The 261-pound frame that nobody in the NCAA Tournament ever had to absorb was slumped inside a locker. With a towel draped down from the upper shelf — blocking his face — Onuaku wiped away tears.

Of course, Onuaku’s presence could have drastically changed the outcome. Butler’s defense chopped SU’s offense to the half court.

Syracuse’s guards could never turn the Sweet 16 into a fastbreak derby. With disciplined, cau-

The Orange’s lack of depth was exposed at the worst possible time. When the final horn blared, Howard pumped his fist on his own end as Jackson and shocked Orange players walked past him.

Jackson must now prepare for life without Onuaku. Next season, he’ll have a new running mate down low — possibly incoming freshman Fab Melo.

Either way, his days with Onuaku are over.

“I’m just mad about this right now,” Jackson said. “It didn’t go our way. We got seniors, and these guys will never play again in college. This is it for them.” thdunne@syr.edu

tious ball-handlers, the Bulldogs intentionally set the game back by decades.

The 25 points Syracuse scored in the first half was its lowest total of the season. Butler set a Novocain-numbing tempo from start to finish.

“They’re a team that takes their time and tries to rock you to sleep,” Jackson said. “They move the ball and play great team basketball.”

For the seniors, this was it. The loss carries an extra sting to Onuaku. He never had his say. Sidelined all tournament with a quad injury, Onuaku was relegated to unpaid assistant coach. Most teammates left him alone in the locker room. But at one point, Jardine sauntered over.

Jardine lifted the towel up and grabbed Onuaku around the neck. There was nothing to say. Words will come later.

“Just held him,” Jardine said. “There’s really nothing you can say to a guy that didn’t even get a chance in his last year. I’ll eventually talk to him later, but I just held him and cried with him because I know how much it hurts him.”

Jardine and other underclassmen tried to stay optimistic, tried to uncover a silver lining.

Usually without luck. At heart, they know any talk of the future is forced.

For Butler, this was a program-defining win.

Coaches bear-hugged each other and players slapped the hands of fans on their way through the tunnel. For Syracuse, this was a cruel end to a storybook season.

Gripping a towel with both hands, a red-eyed Jackson continued to fight back tears.

This hurts. And he’s not sure for how long.

“It might be nice for some teams to get here, and they’re happy about it,” Jackson said, “but for us it’s not enough. It’s not enough.” thdunne@syr.edu A version of this story appeared on dailyorange.com March 25.

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After defeat, SU’s Johnson faces decision on NBA future

By Tyler Dunne and Conor Orr THE DAILY ORANGE

This couldn’t be the right time to ask the nagging question.

Wes Johnson had just finished a tearful walk from press room to locker room, swinging his arm around teammate Andy Rautins. He consoled the guard for just one of several emotional breakdowns he’d see over the next couple hours.

But as Johnson sat pinned against the locker room wall surrounded by reporters, it came out anyway.

Was this his last game at Syracuse, or did the Tournament make him hungry for another chance at the title?

“It’s kind of hard to say,” Johnson said. “I really don’t know yet.”

After a 31-point performance against Gonzaga the week before, Johnson’s stock was at an all-time high. Successfully rebounding from multiple injuries and averaging 22 points per game on collegiate basketball’s largest stage, Web sites like NBADraft.net had him pegged as high as No. 3, right behind Kentucky’s John Wall and Ohio State’s Evan Turner. If he is to strike while the iron is hot, now may be a good time.

Still, following the heartbreaking loss, there wasn’t much to say about Johnson’s future.

“He hasn’t talked about it,” SU assistant coach Rob Murphy said. “I’m sure he’ll sit down with his family, and we’ll get a chance to talk about it at that point. But no, it hasn’t been talked about thus far.”

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WES JOHNSON may have played his last game in a Syracuse uniform against Butler Thursday. Against the Bulldogs, Johnson scored 17 points and grabbed nine rebounds.

Butler never worried about making 3s. That hasn’t been the key to breaking Syracuse’s renowned 2-3 zone. First, Butler focused on defense. Second, it looked to milk the clock and get quality shots.

Head coach Brad Stevens knew that a possible Syracuse void in the middle — no Arinze Onuaku and Rick Jackson in foul trouble — would create space to drive. And with that, sophomore Gordon Hayward scored 12 of his 17 points in the second half to lead a balanced Butler attack.

“I don’t want to take anything away from ourselves, but Onuaku in the middle of that zone is a difference-maker,” Stevens said. “And when you get Jackson in foul trouble, it’s not the same.”

Hayward’s hard drive and floater at the 12:54 mark silenced a quick SU flurry. After flushing a dunk and drilling a 3-pointer, Wes Johnson had just redirected all momentum in Syracuse’s favor. But Hayward’s bucket, and Butler’s overall patience, never let the Orange race ahead.

Whenever Syracuse threatened, Butler answered. Whereas Syracuse panicked with 18 turnovers, the Bulldogs only had seven.

“Under any circumstance, I think we’re poised,” guard Ronald Nored said. “You have to be tough over the course of a game. We talk about whether we come out down 10 or up 10, it’s still basketball. There’s still many possessions left in the game.”

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It was a similar pack that formed around Johnson after Syracuse’s victory over St. John’s on March 2, the Orange’s final home game of the season. The atmosphere was a little different then, but Johnson’s answers were mostly the same. His mind wasn’t even close to being made up. At times, he said he grew nostalgic about the Carrier Dome crowd, making his decision lean more toward staying.

And after SU’s loss to Butler, it was more of the same.

“Right now, I’m undecided,” Johnson said.

“Especially, losing like this is very hurtful, it just makes me lean toward coming back to school. But I really haven’t put that much thought into it yet.”

Number of shots Wes Johnson, the Big East Player of the Year and SU’s leading scorer, took in the final 7:30 of the game.

This and that Butler has now won 24 straight games, the longest active streak in the NCAA…The Bulldogs will advance to the Elite Eight for the first time ever…Butler’s 13 steals tied a season-high…Andy Rautins finishes his career at Syracuse with 282 career 3-pointers, which ranks second all-time behind Gerry McNamara (400). thdunne@syr.edu ctorr@syr.edu A version of this story appeared on dailyorange.com March 25.

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Gordon Hayward The Butler forward sliced through Syracuse’s vaunted 2-3 zone to the tune of 17 points on just seven shot attempts. He was also efficient from beyond the arc (2-for-3) and at the freethrow line (7-of-8). Hayward’s play was a major reason Butler was able to frustrate SU’s defense.

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With Butler leading 55-54, Willie Veasley’s contested 3-pointer rattles around, pops straight up into the air and drops through the hoop. The basket stole the momentum away from SU, and the Bulldogs never looked back.

Jackson is one of a few who could fill this spot, but the junior forward stuck out for several major hiccups down the stretch. Jackson bobbled the ball several times in the post and he ended the game with three turnovers. He also only scored four points in 35 minutes.

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tion to face the world.

For Onuaku and the boys, though, this is more about finding that reason to peel that towel off their heads and come back out. To set aside that lingering sting and realize that this was a successful season — the one no one thought SU could have.

“The expectations for the team weren’t very high,” junior forward Wes Johnson said. “The games that we won and winning the Big East outright, we’ve got a lot to be happy about.”

Heading into this year, Syracuse was college basketball’s year-old blockbuster, a team that captivated the nation the season prior but had since been forgotten. At the season’s opening, the names on the marquee hyped the likes of John Wall and Kentucky, Scottie Reynolds and Villanova, Sherron Collins and Kansas. The Orange was relegated to the 3-for-$5 bin.

SU wasn’t ranked in the AP Top 25 and was picked to finish sixth in the Big East conference. At best, Syracuse would be a fringe tournament team with first-round loss written all over it.

Then came Le Moyne. The Dolphins drove down Euclid Avenue and pummeled the Orange’s ego. Reruns on “SportsCenter” made a team considered merely insignificant into a laughing stock.

But, like a graduation party slideshow, the good moments began to fall into place. Each triumph seemed bigger than the last one as the afterthought became the topic of conversation again.

“Like Coach said, we were doubted from day one, from day one everyone doubted us,” sophomore guard Scoop Jardine said. “We proved everyone wrong, won the Big East outright, went to the Sweet 16 without A.O. when people counted us out. Then people jumped back on our bandwagon after Kansas lost, but we didn’t look at none of that. We just took it one game at a time.”

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It waltzed past the Big East conference schedule. In a league that, at its apex, had four teams in the Top 10 simultaneously, the Orange went 15-3.

Johnson was made into the poster boy, the cagey forward constantly on the receiving end of those crowd-pleasing alley-oops. Rautins became known as the floor general, the glue that held the team together. Jardine was the spark plug, the reserve force that propelled the Orange to so many of its second-half comebacks.

All these stories were written by the everexpanding number of bodies on press row and witnessed by the spiking attendance. There was something special about Syracuse basketball in 2009-10, there’s no denying that.

And as the Orange players watch the rest of the NCAA Tournament, if they can, this will be the last thing on their minds. While the talking heads jump on the Butler bandwagon, the feeling will continue to fester. Everyone will be talking about the Bulldogs playing at home, about how they embody Gene Hackman’s boys in “Hoosiers.”

“That’s the most disappointing thing,” freshman guard Brandon Triche said, “losing to a team that you should beat.”

But if it can, for one second, the Orange should take that towel off and look around.

Think about how they did something nobody else thought they could. Then, maybe, things won’t seem so bad.

Conor Orr is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at ctorr@syr.edu.

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SPORTS

MONDAY

march 29, 2010

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the daily orange

5 9 1S Y R A C U S E V S . B U T L E R 5 6 3

SHUT DOWN

Syracuse struggles, falls to Butler in regional semifinals

Despite seasonending loss, SU has reason to be proud

By Tyler Dunne

CONOR ORR

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what’s going on here?

ALT LAKE CITY — Arinze Onuaku sat motionless inside his locker, using a sideline towel to cover his face and act as a barrier between him and the gutwrenching panorama outside.

A few loud sobs were his only proof of consciousness, aside from his occasional glances behind that towel to see if the press had gone home yet.

One of his few interactions with teammates came when Rick Jackson sat down in the next locker over, peering through the steel mesh like a parishioner at confession, offering any signs of hope he could to his battered teammate.

Onuaku didn’t feel much like talking Thursday, and understandably so. Syracuse had just had its heart ripped out by Butler. The dream season was over. It was time to hide for a little.

There was no opportunity to consider the fact that this thing may have actually been a success.

“Losing never feels good at this point in the season,” senior guard Andy Rautins said. “For a team that had such high aspirations, I don’t think we’re going to be able to see the good side for a while.”

But this isn’t about Onuaku’s refusal to share his feelings. In moments like that one — moments where your heart stalls like an old generator, where your eyes see only the hazy

andrew burton | special projects editor RICK JACKSON tries to get a shot off against the suffocating Butler defense in SEE ORR PAGE18 Syracuse’s 63-59 loss Thursday. Jackson finished with four points in 35 minutes.

MANAGING EDITOR

ALT LAKE CITY — Face to face, Jim Boeheim and Rick Jackson stared at each other in a familiar portrait. One preaching, the other in disbelief.

Only this wasn’t the court. And this had nothing to do with foul trouble. Nothing to do with basketball, really. Tears pouring out of his eyes, Jackson wept and wheezed inside the locker room. Boeheim consoled him. Talked to him. And the two embraced.

Nobody in this room ever expected the script to take such a dark turn.

“We wanted to be that team cutting down the net,” Jackson said. “Maybe in the future we can look at this as a successful season, but right now we don’t feel that way.”

So Syracuse’s season ends far too soon. In one of the most bitter upsets in school history, the No. 1 seed Orange was blindsided by No. 5 Butler, 63-59, Thursday night at EnergySolutions Arena in the West Regional semifinals. A suffocating defense and late-game rally extinguished Syracuse’s season before any players expected.

“We were behind the whole game,” Boeheim said. “We were fighting to get back to even the whole game. We never had any opportunity to blow the game open.”

True, but one five-minute span may forever haunt this team as one of its biggest “what ifs” ever.

Another great escape seemed in order after a Kris Joseph dunk gave Syracuse a 54-50 lead with 5:23 to go. All season, Syracuse found a back door to a win. Grit and resolve always took over.

On Thursday, the opponent punched back.

Butler called a timeout, took a deep breath and crushed Syracuse’s dreams.

In front of his own bench, Ronald Nored — an 18 percent 3-point shooter on the season — drained a 3. Syracuse missed on the ensuing SEE BUTLER PAGE 16

Swarming Butler defense causes 18 turnovers, keys Bulldogs in upset win over Syracuse

By Conor Orr SPORTS EDITOR

SALT LAKE CITY — Ronald Nored couldn’t get enough as he burst through the fi nal hundred feet between the court and the concrete tunnel that would take him to the fuse-lit Butler locker room, primed to explode.

“Yes sir! Yes sir!”

The guard repeated it ad nauseam as he catapulted his right arm toward every Bulldog fan left hanging over the stands with an empty outstretched hand sitting near the entrance.

“Yes sir! Yes sir!”

The moment, following the No. 5 seed Bulldogs’ 63-59 upset victory over Syracuse Thursday, was a blur. The kind of light-speed con-

sciousness that would lend itself to forgetting what had just happened.

But even as he was herded toward the press table following a few twists and turns, the details were still clear. There was no question about why he was sitting in this position.

“It was our defense that was going to carry us,” Nored said. “I think it

did that.”

Leading the Bulldogs with five steals, he was the spokesman for the insatiable Butler defense that rendered Syracuse’s breakneck offense powerless. From the opening tipoff, Syracuse was backpedaling, cycling through its second and third options in a desperate search for a window of opportunity.

“They forced us into 18 turnovers playing man-to -man defense,” Syracuse assistant coach Rob Murphy said. “Very seldom does that happen.”

In the Orange locker room, the broken look canvassing each of the soggy-eyed Syracuse players told the tail end of that story — what SEE NORED PAGE16