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Jason Benetti uses disability as motivation to achieve career success in announcing

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His calling J ason Benetti had already answered the question once.

Now having to entertain the follow-up touched a nerve.

Walking through the terminal of Newark Liberty National Airport, a security officer stopped and politely asked if he needed a ride.

“No, thanks,” Benetti said.

It was a question that he’s been asked before. Hampered by a noticeable crutch in the way he walks due to his cerebral palsy, unwanted sympathy is something Benetti often declines.

“Are you sure?” the security officer asked.

This time, Benetti was mad.

“How could I not be sure?” Benetti quipped. “I’ve given you my answer. I didn’t deliberate.”

For Benetti, the moment insulted his capabilities. But it also provided him with an opportunity to consider a different perspective.

“I need to realize that not everybody parses words like I do,” he said, reflecting on the incident. “Not everybody puts value on words like I do.”

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UBE report outlines student concerns with advising process

By Justin Mattingly staff writer

Even though advising is a part of every Syracuse University student’s college experience, a recent survey has found the process is not up to par.

“I’m displeased with the advising service at SU. It is confusing and rather unhelpful,” a student commented in the survey.

Students made 362 other negative comments like this in the Undergraduates for a Better Education’s

report that was released early last week. The report, which features the findings of a survey conducted in the spring of 2013, showed feedback about advising at SU, specifically in the College of Arts and Sciences, and gave recommendations on how to solve the problems in advising.

UBE was founded at SU in 1986 as a student-lobbying group that strives to strengthen undergraduate education and garner student opinion.

Sawyer Cresap, a junior policy studies major and co-president of

UBE, said the group received a high number of negative comments about advising in the comment section of the fall 2013 report, which looked at higher education overall.

“That was in addition to the fact that advising is an issue that affects all students as a gateway to learning, and is something we saw that could easily be improved in key ways,” she said.

The group spent three months developing the survey, getting it approved by a review board and sending it to students. It then took them

five months to write the report, Cresap said.

UBE received 787 responses to the survey, of which 46 percent were negative across all colleges. William Coplin, director of the public affairs program at SU and adviser to UBE, said that even though 14,000 students go to SU, 787 responses are still “better than nothing.” It gives UBE a starting point for future surveys and reports, he said.

Cresap said UBE expected a variety of comments from CAS students

because it contains many different majors and there is no set track to earning a diploma. However, she said, the group was surprised by the amount of negative responses.

Kandice Salomone, associate dean of advising and academic support in the College of Arts and Sciences, said in an email the student feedback is extremely helpful for her team to develop more effective ways to work with students.

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Of Jessica Reuveni’s five tattoos, her first has the most spontaneous story.

As a senior in high school, the currently sophomore social work major had a rebellious phase, skipping school to go visit Occupy Wall Street.

When she and her friends stumbled upon Washington Square Park, she noticed a man holding a sign. It read: “People care so much about money, but nobody cares about dinosaurs.”

Although she was overwhelmed by all of the people running around in fountains and acting foolish, the sign ended up being the part of the visit that consumed her thoughts.

“I felt like it was literally targeting me. All I could think about all day was this stupid sign,” she said with a laugh.

When she got home from the Occupy Wall Street festivities, she decided to head over to Starlight Tattoo in Rochelle Park, N.J. Bill Tinsley, the artist of four of her five tattoos, proposed three hand-drawn dinosaurs to her, and she immediately picked one to get inked on the inside of her bottom lip.

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Her life had run smoothly up until a year and a half ago, when her big sister, Gabby, was hit and killed by a drunk driver.

The rest of her four tattoos all memorialize Gabby.

On the side of her right finger lies the numeral five — her sister’s

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Her right rib is home to a small angel and, on her back, the quote, “& I will always be the lucky one” next to three birds.

The final piece is a quote from Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” written on her left rib.

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guy realizes he’s living in a perfect place and it’s ideal, but he realizes that it’s not what he wants.”

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SU, local community debate adding bike lanes to Euclid Avenue

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When she was a freshman, Emma Edwards would walk past a board outside the policy studies office displaying names of the Remembrance Scholars in that major.

“I remember thinking ‘I wonder how much work it takes to get up there,’” Edwards said.

Edwards said she developed an interest in the Pan Am bombing and how it has become a part of the Syracuse University campus.

She later decided to apply to be a Remembrance Scholar for next fall.

Now Edwards, along with 34 other SU students, has been selected as a 2014–15 Remembrance Scholar, according to an announcement released Monday. Every year, 35 scholars are selected to represent each of the see scholars page 8

names to know Thirty-five students were named Remembrance Scholars for the 20142015 academic year.

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Green thumb TONY DALLAS, a junior medical engineering major, picks up dead weeds at the Morningside Community Garden on Monday afternoon as part of SU’s Earth Week. “I like these activities and felt like I needed to get out and be involved in the community,” Dallas said. michael liu contributing photographer

Divest SU, ESF approaches chancellor

By Ellen Meyers asst. news editor

Syracuse University and SUNY-ESF students marched from the Quad to Chancellor Kent Syverud’s office Monday morning to deliver letters and signatures persuading him to discuss fossil fuel divestment with the Board of Trustees.

About a dozen Divest SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry members brought letters to Syverud’s office in Crouse-Hinds Hall. Ella Mendonsa, a member of Divest SU and ESF, said she hoped to meet with Syverud to discuss what the university’s next steps are.

“I hope he continues Syracuse’s sustainable legacy,” she said. “We’re actually known as one of the leading schools in sustainability in the nation and I think we should stand behind that. I think that’s what makes us a great school.”

It took the organization about a week and a half to organize the event, Mendonsa said.

Of the 70 letters students had for Syverud, some were handwritten, while others filled out a stock letter that Divest SU and ESF provided.

According to the stock letter, 496 colleges, local governments and religious institutions are campaigning to stop investing in the fossil fuel industry.

Students and faculty gathered on

the Quad to share why they think divestment is important. Bob Wilson, an associate professor and the director of undergraduate studies in geography, reflected on Earth Day’s founding and SU students’ role in the first Earth Day. He said SU students planted trees, demanded action for a cleanup downtown and met with the mayor.

Earth Day was the most physical symbol of 1970s environmental awakening. People led, politicians and university chancellors followed.

Bob Wilson associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in geography

“Earth Day was the most physical symbol of 1970s environmental awakening. People led, politicians and university chancellors followed,” Wilson said.

The 1970s also came with a legislative movement defined by envi-

ronmental consciousness. Wilson used the Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act and other acts of Congress as examples of this.

Once several students and faculty members spoke, they walked to Crouse-Hinds Hall — many holding up signs. Then, they climbed six flights of stairs to the chancellor’s office and showed Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, the letters.

They also handed him a Student Association resolution from the 57th Legislative Session supporting SU’s divestment from fossil fuel companies and the resolution from the April 16 University Senate meeting that also outlined support for the divestment petition.

Quinn said Syverud was at a meeting when the students arrived. He added that the SU administration was not aware of the rally or the fact that letters would be delivered until they saw an article published in The Daily Orange that morning.

Mendonsa said she and other members of Divest SU and ESF have emailed Syverud multiple times. They asked him to meet to discuss divestment, but she said they never received a response.

Though the groups have yet to meet, Quinn said the university has created a committee on socially responsible investing, and he hopes that they will quickly receive and review the letters. ekmeyers@syr.edu

One evening, when Melissa Fierke was eight-and-a-half months pregnant, a city bus began to turn as she was crossing the junction of Euclid and Ostrom avenues on her bicycle. Fierke had to swerve to avoid being hit by the bus.

This has happened multiple times to Fierke and other bikers on the road, she said. It happened again last fall, said Fierke an assistant professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the creator of a bicycle safety committee there. Fierke said she rides her bike to work every day.

“We’re invisible,” she said of cyclists. “If you ride (on) Euclid, you very quickly come to understand that there are two parking lanes — not dedicated bike lanes.”

Fierke, a new member of the Southeast University Neighbor-

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The South East University Neighborhood Association was formed in 1973 and serves the neighborhood at the southeast corner of SU. The group advocates for legislation to protect residents and to secure funding for the neighborhood. hood Association, or SEUNA, attended a meeting at the Erwin First United Methodist Church on Euclid on Monday night. Fierke was one of the community members who shared her thoughts on ways to re-evaluate the current layout of parking and bike paths on Euclid.

The meeting, titled “Imagining Euclid Avenue,” was facilitated by 28 graduate students in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University as part of a class called Collaborative and Participatory

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Tina Nabatchi, an associate professor at Maxwell, teaches the class and said about 50 people were at the meeting at its peak. Attendees included members of landlord associations, homeowner resident associations like SEUNA, student residents, SU faculty and staff, city government officials and others, Nabatchi said.

“With public participation — unless you do an RSVP — it’s really hard to tell if you’re going to get five or 500 (people),” Nabatchi said. “When people hear ‘public meeting,’ they think of that standard format where you have two minutes at the microphone and this is not that model. If people knew (that), they would’ve been a little bit more enticed to come out.”

In the meeting, participants were split into groups at different tables to discuss short and long-term options for rethinking bicycle lanes on Euclid. Five short-term and three long-term options were proposed to a variety of community members.

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compile the data from the groups and surveys that were passed out and create a report for officials in the city of Syracuse and at SU and SUNY-ESF, Nabatchi said.

When people hear ‘public meeting,’ they think of that standard format where you have two minutes at the microphone, and this is not that model. If people knew [that], they would’ve been a little bit more enticed to come out.

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“There was an absolute consensus that Euclid Avenue as it is today isn’t working,” said Ed Pincar, a master of public administration

candidate who is in Nabatchi’s class.

Pincar led a diverse discussion group of three students, a middle-aged father and an older woman.

“We wanted to make sure that the diversity here at this event was reflective of the diversity in the community itself,” said Amy GoodallAyres, another MPA student who led a different group at the meeting.

The logistic team of the class promoted the event on social media, by emails and by fliers.

But it was also promoted by word of mouth.

Fierke will continue to call for reforms after the meeting, as she has an online petition to harbor support for the issue. The petition currently has 1,073 of the desired 1,500 signatures and more than 12 pages of comments.

After acquiring all 1,500 signatures, Fierke said it’s a matter of putting the numbers down on paper and SEUNA presenting them directly to Mayor Stephanie Miner, SUNY-ESF’s president Quentin Wheeler and SU’s chancellor, Kent Syverud.

As for the time frame, Fierke is optimistic, saying she’s hoping to have it accomplished by the end of May. rjshafer@syr.edu

neighborhood watch Melissa Fierke, an ESF professor, created an online petition to gather support for creating bike lanes on Euclid.

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How many signatures are needed for the petition.

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How many pages of comments the petition has received.

The Southeast University Neighborhood Association, which covers areas like Euclid Avenue, serves an area of more than 2,500 households.

The petition was originally created by the Euclid Bike Safety Committee, a group of Syracuse University and ESF students, faculty and staff.

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he state of New Hampshire, along with much of the country, continues to live in the past.

Rather than make the decision to join the ever-growing campaign for human rights, state lawmakers failed to repeal the death penalty in New Hampshire by one vote.

After the House lawmakers passed the bill by an overwhelming majority, New Hampshire’s governor Maggie Hassan said she would sign the bill if it passed through the Senate according to an April 17 Washington Post article.

Unfortunately, the Senate vote ended in a 12-12 tie and the issue will be tabled for another time.

In reality, the vote had very little practical application. New Hampshire hasn’t had an execution since 1936 and it only has one prisoner currently on death row. Regardless, the failure of the Senate to effectively repeal the death penalty displays a way of thinking that’s almost archaic.

After several decades of public support for the death penalty, the general consensus has shifted heavily toward the opposite view. A 2010 study run by Lake Research Partners showed that a clear majority of voters would pick some alternative to the death penalty in murder cases.

It’s an outdated practice that has no place in an age where civil rights are becoming more and more important.

The real issue here is that any argument put forward for the continuation of the death penalty has little to no empirical support. One popular argument is that executing a convicted murderer is less costly than keeping them in prison for life. The opposite seems to be true for most states.

A 2011 study from California added up the cost of every death penalty case in the state since 1978. The study considered these factors: pre-trial and trial costs, costs of automatic appeals and state habeas corpus petitions, costs of federal habeas corpus appeals and costs of incarceration on death row. All told, these costs added up to more than $4 billion in California alone.

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shows figures like this. Faced with these numbers, it seems hard to believe that the death penalty would ever incur a significantly lower cost than incarceration.

Another argument in support of the death penalty claims that it acts as a deterrent against murder and other violent crimes. Again, studies suggest the exact opposite. A survey of the country’s top criminologists revealed that 88 percent of them say the death penalty does not act as a deterrent to murder.

In addition to the fact that any supporting argument has stout evidence against it, the ethical issues are obvious. It seems wrong to label the U.S. as a champion of human rights when it remains legal to execute death row inmates.

As if that isn’t bad enough, many death penalty cases display blatant racial biases. According to a 2014 study from the University of Washington, jurors in the state are three times more likely to recommend a death sentence for a black defendant than for a white defendant.

Lastly, when people are being exonerated from death row at increasing rates, it’s wrong to condemn a person to death when there remains a chance they might be innocent.

New Hampshire was very close to seeing the light last week and may still get there. However, the fact that they will be just the 19th state to see reason and repeal the death penalty is alarming.

The bottom line is that the death penalty is cruel and offers no benefit to the country or its citizens. As such, it’s high time that the rest of the country joins the 21st century where people’s lives matter.

Chris Piemonte is a senior political philosophy major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at cmpiemon@syr.edu.

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4 days until Mayfest editorial | by the daily orange editorial board

Euclid bike lane requires compromise Cyclist safety is a major concern along Euclid Avenue, but there must be a compromise between commuters and drivers to reduce the amount of accidents along the street and create safer conditions for cyclists.

College students make up the highest percentage of bike commuters in Syracuse.

According to the Euclid Avenue Bicycle Safety Plan, there are about 500 cyclists on Euclid Avenue throughout winter and fall.

Advocates for the Euclid Avenue bike lane have received more than 1,000 signatures for their petition asking for change along the street, as cyclists are at a high risk of being hit by cars.

Currently, Euclid Avenue caters to cars and cyclists by providing alternate side parking, but it still does not have a dedicated bike path.

As a result, cyclists may be victims to

accidents. Parked cars that blatantly disregard the regulations can also act as an obstacle.

With such an influx of cyclists along Euclid Avenue and on Syracuse University’s campus, safety must be ensured. At the same time, Euclid Avenue is one of the busiest streets near campus, and parking should not be completely eliminated in favor of bike lanes.

As a compromise, Euclid Avenue should dedicate a single side of the street to parking, and the opposite side to a two-way bike lane, similar to the two-way bike lane that exists along University Avenue.

The bike lane along University Avenue has a raised sidewalk, separating cars from the cyclists, making it safer for both groups.

Euclid Avenue would benefit greatly from this addition, because a designated bike lane separate

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from the road may reduce the possibility of some accidents — such as drivers hitting cyclists and cyclists riding into car doors.

A two-way bike lane allows parking to remain on Euclid Avenue — a street that is already congested with cars. It would also allow cyclists to ride in both directions, without being forced to go against traffic.

A safer bike lane may also encourage more people to consider riding bicycles. This could further reduce carbon emissions by lowering the number of cars being used, and provide alternatives for potential commuters besides buses.

While cyclist accidents on Euclid Avenue are frequent, eliminating parking on a crowded street would be difficult and unrealistic. This compromise would benefit both drivers and cyclists and improve the environment of the campus as a whole.

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Committee issues report on diversity

By Jessica Iannetta staff writer

During Student Association’s second-to-last meeting of the semester, the assembly discussed several initiatives related to self-segregation and diversity on campus.

Student Engagement Committee Chair Sawyer Cresap gave a report on her committee’s initiatives this semester, including a survey about self-segregation and diversity on campus. The survey showed that students do believe self-segregation is an issue on campus.

The committee is now working on ways to address this issue and make students more aware of diversity, Cresap said.

“Students don’t only believe that self-segregation exists on campus, but they believe that it’s a problem,” she said. “There was an overwhelming response for the need for dialogue.”

The committee is currently working with the Dean’s Team, a group of student advisers in the College of Arts and Sciences, to add a discussion on diversity issues to the freshman forum classes, Cresap said. Another way the committee is working on this issue is through the #ITooAmSyracuse campaign, which kicked off Friday afternoon on the Quad.

The campaign features students holding a sign saying how they represent diversity and the hashtag #ITooAmSyracuse.

Also in her report, Cresap noted that the Student Engagement Committee has become more focused on surveys and data this semester. Still, Cresap said, SA needs a new way to survey the student body and learn about relevant issues. In the future, the committee hopes to work with the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment to conduct surveys that are more representative of the student body and that people will take seriously, she said.

“If you go through Facebook, yeah it gets you good information but people will always question your methodology,” Cresap said. “So if we work with an already established body, it will take the pressure off all of us.”

Alumni Board Elections

The election for the Class of 2017 seat on the Alumni Board was tabled until next week after four rounds of ballots failed to produce a candidate with the required two-thirds of assembly votes. The position, which the representative will hold for the next three years, involves attending alumni board meetings and interacting with alumni in various ways, both on and off campus.

Recorder Malik Evans, Martin J. Whit-

sawyer cresap, chair of the Student Engagement Committee, gives a report on the committee’s initiatives from this semester. She shared the results of a survey that polled students on diversity and self-segregation on campus. tiffany gomez contributing photographer

man School of Management Representative Katie Hochrein, College of Arts and Sciences Representative Jack Harding and College of Visual and Performing Arts Representative Eric Evangelista all ran for the seat.

All four candidates passed through the initial qualifying round of ballots. After the second round of ballots, no candidate received the required two-thirds vote and the field was narrowed down to Harding and Hochrein, who received the most votes. Neither Harding nor Hochrein received the required votes in the next two rounds of voting and the assembly voted to table the election until next week.

Other business discussed

• President Boris Gresely announced that the Division of Academic Affairs will now pay one-third of the cost of the newspaper readership program. The approximately $80,000 program, which provides free New York Times and USA Today newspapers to students, was previously paid for only by SA and the Division of Student Affairs.

• During his president’s report, Gresely announced that he will be a member of the university committee that’s looking into the issue of fossil fuel divestment on campus. SA and the University Senate have both passed resolutions supporting the divestment of fossil fuels.

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advising concerns in UBE’s report.

“The Arts and Sciences advising system is terrible,” one student said. “Why the school thinks that a geologist will have any idea how to help an anthropologist in their course requirements is beyond me!”

The UBE report provided policy recommendations for CAS advising, including: increasing the number of professional advisers, providing more liberal arts core advisers, allowing more open office hours for the dean of advising, giving short surveys on the quality of advising each year and creating a new advising website.

Cresap said SU currently has a professional advising system, but it has more faculty advisers than professional advisers. She said the new professional advisers would be SU employees and bolster the ones SU already has.

To help make recommendations, the report compared SU’s advising system to those of peer universities, including Duke, Georgetown and Vanderbilt. UBE found that 12 of 13 peer universities assign students to professional academic advisers.

Chris Libonati, a freshman newspaper and online journalism and policy studies major and UBE member, said the current CAS advising website is hard to navigate. He said he thinks the website should be modeled after the University of Central Florida’s.

“The UCF website is kind of like one-stop shopping when it comes to advising,” he said.

“Having a website like that would probably allevi-

ate some pressure from advisers and students.”

Cresap said UBE met with Salomone, the associate dean of advising in Arts and Sciences, who said she was positive about the group’s recommendations and looks forward to working with Cresap and Emily Ballard, the group’s other co-president, in the future. She said she plans to gather additional feedback and review UBE’s recommendations.

“In the meantime, I also plan to implement UBE’s recommendations regarding our website,” Salomone said. “My goal is the same as UBE’s: to provide the highest quality academic advising services as possible.”

The group hopes the report will start a conversation at all levels of the university.

“We want students to recognize the structure of the university, the amazing teachers, the many bureaucracies, the many offices and to lean away from personal anecdotes and have an intimate knowledge of what is actually going on in advising,” said Nedda Sarshar, a freshman English and textual studies major and UBE member.

While UBE’s fall 2013 report looked into the quality of higher education at SU, UBE hopes this report will affect how funding is distributed, Cresap said.

Coplin, UBE’s adviser, said he appreciates what the group is doing to bring awareness to issues within SU. Said Coplin: “I applaud UBE for trying to represent the interests of undergraduates in an institution that is supposed to be democratic. I applaud the existence of a group that is trying to hold the university to its commitments.” jmatting@syr.edu

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scholars students who died aboard Pan Am Flight 103, which went down over Lockerbie, Scotland. The students who apply must be graduating the following December or May, and are tasked with educating the campus about events surrounding the bombing.

Though Tonya Bauer didn’t have any previous knowledge of Pan Am Flight 103 before attending SU, she quickly learned about it during her time at SU. The first person she met was a Remembrance Scholar, she said in an email. She was also a resident adviser to a Lockerbie Scholar.

Bauer, who is currently studying abroad in London, said she heard at 6 p.m. London time on Friday that the Remembrance Scholars had been selected.

“I frantically started looking through my email because I hadn’t gotten a notification on

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my phone,” she said.

A few minutes later, Bauer received a message that notified her she had been selected.

“I read it three times, then read it out loud to my roommate just to make sure it was real,” she said.

For Lauren Strand, a junior sport management and marketing management major, the news that she had been chosen as a Remembrance Scholar brought tears of joy. After the excitement subsided, she called her mother.

Strand, Edwards and Bauer all said they hope to educate the community and campus about the events of Pan Am and encourage more participation in Remembrance Week events.

Though she has been chosen as one of the 35 scholars for next year, Edwards said she still thinks about the board outside the policy studies office.

Said Edwards: “I just keep thinking about how proud my adviser would be.” blsamuel@syr.edu

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JONATHAN LOUIE, an associate professor in the School of Architecture, produced and managed the Parti Wall project, a student-created installation. Louie, an SU graduate, also curated a traveling exhibit based in California titled “On the Road.” connor martin staff photographer

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Architecture professor bridges function, aesthetics in exhibit

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onathan Louie stands, hands on his hips, examining his latest architectural installation.

The structure in front of him is a mixture of polished mirrors, hanging yarn and whitewashed wooden planks. A projector casts shadows across a thin sheet while a polkadotted canvas hangs beneath a trio of plasma screen TVs. There’s even a wine glass or two.

This is Parti Wall, a student-created

installation Louie produced and managed. It’s a 4-foot-high grid consisting of nine rooms, each representative of a different mentor at the Syracuse University’s School of Architecture. It took three days to complete, and as of April 8, is now sprawled in its entirety across the atrium of Slocum Hall, eclectic draperies and all.

“The students and mentors who made these rooms, they had to also consider the adjacent sections,” Louie said. “I wanted to show this collaboration, this event, between mentors with varying artistic and

The Parti Wall installation took three days to put together, and is located in the atrium of Slocum Hall. connor martin staff photographer

architectural sensibilities.”

Louie, an assistant professor at SOA, said that many architects think a tension is developing in their field –– a split between those who focus on form and function, and those who are more concerned with aesthetics and beauty.

If such a barrier does exist, Louie has spent the better part of his career actively demolishing it with nothing but a drafting table and a multitude of worn-down pencils.

When he’s not educating SOA students on the intersection between art and architecture, he can be

found by Los Angeles pool sides and Palm Springs putting greens, where he just finished curating “On the Road,” a California-based traveling exhibit that meshes architectural practice with artistic form.

“These installations, if they’re sitting in a white gallery, they lose their charge,” Louie said. “I’ve always been interested in finding new ways to convey ideas, and how you can use an event like this as a protagonist for your work.”

Louie has carried this mentality all the way from his youth to see parti page 14

aster means different things to different people. It can be a time of religious devotion and family get-togethers, the end of 40 days without chocolate or just a threeday weekend.

In France, Easter is a huge celebration for both actively religious and secular populations, a MAGGIE day of church CREGAN FOOTLOOSE bells ringing and AND FANCY plenty of miniaFR EE IN ture chocolate FR ANCE eggs. But holidays like Easter can also show students who are studying abroad that, even at the tail end of the semester, their adopted cities can still have something new to show them.

Many of the holiday traditions in Alsace — the northeast corner of France, where Strasbourg is located — reflect the region’s history of being passed between France and Germany.

For example, children in the rest of France wait for the Easter Bells, not the Easter Bunny, to bring them chocolate and painted eggs.

Don’t ask me about the logistics of how bells move, let alone carry Easter baskets.

Many children in Alsace, however, believe in the German tradition of the Easter Bunny. Seventy years after peace brought the last change of power in Alsace, the bells versus bunny debate still rages.

Several Alsatian families also follow another Germanic tradition of hanging colored Easter eggs from the branches of small trees or bushes. This tradition is festive and colorful, and it also adds a certain sense of symmetry to the Christian calendar.

The French in general use Easter as an excuse to step up their already excellent chocolate and pastry game. Starting two or three weeks before Easter, small cafes and sandwich shops begin overflowing with chocolate eggs and bunnies. In Strasbourg, you’ll also find a unique Alsatian contribution in the form of “lammele,” the French word, or “osterlammele,” in Alsatian, which are lamb-shaped pastries sprinkled with powdered sugar.

One French tradition that was a little harder to get used to is the observance of a bank holiday the day after Easter. On that Monday, almost all businesses shut down or otherwise severely restrict their see cregan page 14

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MEGHAN sinisi The Orange Girl embodies SU spirit by supporting teams with baton twirling Text by Anna Hodge contributing writer

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eghan Sinisi was nine years old when she first twirled fire.

Nearly 10 years later, standing before a crowd in front of Carnegie Library on the Syracuse University Quad on April 11, Sinisi throws three flaming batons high above her head. A few moments later she catches them, one after another.

Applause erupts from administrators and students, at Chancellor Kent Syverud’s inauguration.

She twirls and spins. The crowd can’t seem to take their eyes off of her. Young girls point at her.

She is The Orange Girl.

••• The Orange Girl is a tradition grounded in SU history, dating back to Sept. 26, 1947.

Called “100 Men and a Girl,” the act made its debut in Archbold Stadium to premiere the new head drum majorette and fire baton twirler. To this day, the SU Marching Band performs with one featured twirler, appropriately named The Orange Girl.

Now, The Orange Girl is an 18-year old SU

freshman from Altoona, Pa. Although currently undeclared, she wants to become a communication and sciences disorders major and someday earn a master’s degree in speech pathology.

Her mother, Lori, is surprised she doesn’t have more broken windows in her home.

“Before she went to college, winters were rough because Meghan couldn’t practice outdoors,” Lori said. “So batons were always twirling, hitting the ceiling and walls.”

Lori twirled as a young girl, and regrets leaving the sport. When her former twirling coach

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I love the feeling of being nervous before a performance because afterwards I feel so accomplished.

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Pam Maierhofer came back into town, Lori entered her 4-year-old daughter into twirling

lessons at TheShowTwirlers twirling studio.

••• Sinisi was 16 years old when she first threw knives.

She claims the movement of throwing knives holds the same requirements as baton twirling: hand-eye coordination and rapid body movement.

Sinisi practices these motions for 10–15 hours per week. She is capable of catching up to three batons in her left hand, her right hand, behind her back, between her legs and on her neck.

Sinisi does not have a coach at school, so she relies on the mirrored walls of the fencing room. She also records her practices on her phone to play back for review.

“I love the feeling of being nervous before a performance because afterwards I feel so accomplished,” Sinisi said. “I have aspired to twirl in front of thousands since I was a little girl. So it’s truly a dream come true each and every time I run out onto the field.”

••• Debbie Bernhart, Sinisi’s coach, recently got a call from the grandmother of one of her twirling students. For a class assignment, the 10-year old girl wrote a letter about someone she admires most.

Bernhart was not surprised to learn it was Sinisi, whom she admired for her strong work ethic.

Bernhart started teaching twirling as an assistant at the age of 14, and has been training young girls for more than 50 years. She has been training Sinisi for the past six years.

Bernhart describes Sinisi as a hard worker, perfectionist and a role model for the younger girls who train at her studio, where Sinisi assists.

She recounts the recent Christmas party, which Sinisi attended wearing her Orange Girl uniform.

An actor dressed as Santa Claus also attended — but, the group of young girls was far more interested in Sinisi.

“It was hysterical,” Bernhart said, laughing at the memory.

••• Justin Mertz has witnessed Sinisi’s supposedly sharp tongue. The two admit to partaking in mutual banter.

“The first time she said a snarky comment, I remember thinking, ‘did that come from the quiet girl from Pennsylvania?’”

The director of the SU Marching Band first met Sinisi in his office in Crouse College on April 15, 2013. Sinisi came with both her mother and her father.

“During the audition, it was obvious she was qualified,” he said. “I was sold immediately.”

In his nine years as director of the marching band, Mertz has encountered three Orange Girls.

“But Meghan is by far the most fearless twirler,” Mertz said. “This little girl is afraid of nothing.”

••• Now, Sinisi is preparing for the regional championships in June, where she will compete to individually qualify for national championships.

“The most important thing to me is representing Syracuse well at competition. After that comes making all of the previous Orange Girls proud and continuing a long tradition, then comes winning,” Sinisi said. “I work hard to improve myself and my twirling and make my position at SU well known, but I hope that all my hard work pays off just as much as it has so far by holding a twirling title as Syracuse’s Orange Girl.” ahodge@syr.edu

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n orange teapot with blue polka dots; an oar from the Syracuse University rowing team; Otto plush toys and bobble heads; 10 vintage SU basketball and lacrosse posters, covering an entire wall.

These are a few pieces of the Orange memorabilia inside Kathleen Joyce’s office in Link Hall, almost all of which were gifts from students.

As assistant dean for student recruitment, Joyce has handled undergraduate and graduate admissions for the L.C. Smith School of Engineering and Computer Science for 20 years.

Her job responsibilities include meeting prospective students and organizing events for them, but they don’t stop there.

When prospective students become current students, Joyce steps out from under the umbrella of admissions by writing recommendation letters, giving advice and simply being there when students need someone to talk to.

“Many students come back to me because they’ve already met me,” Joyce said. “I like to remain a part of their experience here and even after they graduate.”

Joyce received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SU in 1992 and 1997, respectively, and is working towards her Ph.D in higher

education. Because there wasn’t much emphasis on recruitment when she was in high school, Joyce remembered not being excited about college until she received her SU acceptance letter.

To a first generation college student from New Jersey, Syracuse represented a great adventure.

Joyce recalled visiting SU for the first time when she and her mother drove up for the spring reception for admitted students. They stepped foot on campus and were immediately struck by the campus’ beauty.

“All I know is that my mom and I were sitting on the steps of Hendricks Chapel, and all of a sudden we looked at each other, and we both had tears in our eyes,” Joyce said. “We just both knew in our hearts that this was the school for me.”

After graduating, Joyce started working for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, but when she began taking classes at the School of Education, she took an open writing position in L.C. Smith and wrote for the college’s newsletters.

Six months later, the dean asked her if she wanted to work with high school students in admissions. Aside from being a part of the Dean’s Team of the College of Arts and Sciences during her time at SU, she had no experience and no real training whatsoever. Nevertheless, she said yes, and in doing so, found her calling.

“This whole job has taught me so much about myself,” Joyce said. “But to be honest, it has never really felt like work and a lot of it has

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to do with the students.”

Shannon Tronick, a 2007 alumna, met Joyce when she first visited Syracuse as a high school senior. She remembers feeling “like an individual person and not just another recruit” when they talked. Though she already graduated, Tronick still keeps in touch with Joyce.

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She’s the reason why many engineering students end up picking Syracuse.

Shannon Tronick 2007 alumna

“Kathleen really goes the extra mile and puts her heart and soul into her job,” Tronick said. “She’s the reason why many engineering students end up picking Syracuse.”

Such was the case for senior chemical engineering major Mileysa Ponce. With SU and Duke University as her top choices, Ponce said that Joyce greatly influenced her choice to attend SU, calling it one of the best decisions she’s ever made. They met at an event called the Women’s Overnight, where prospective female students spend the night at the university learning about its engineering programs.

“Right away she made me feel so at home,” Ponce said. “Her energy and love for Syracuse was really genuine.”

Coming from a graduating class of only 32 students, Ponce wanted to find the same feeling of a close-knit community at Syracuse, and she did, thanks to Joyce. The two now run the Women’s Overnight program side-by-side, working throughout the year to ensure its success.

Last spring, when Ponce found herself in a difficult situation with her classes, she remembers sitting, crying and feeling disappointed.

Not knowing what to do, she picked up her phone and called Joyce.

“I knew she was the person who would be able to help me, because the biggest thing is that she cares,” she said. “In that moment, she really made me feel like everything was going to be OK.” Terrie Monto, graduate recruitment coordinator for L.C. Smith, called Joyce a “morale booster” and commended her dedication to the faculty, students and parents.

“With Kathleen, I’ve never seen a request go unanswered,” Monto said. “And she’s always upbeat, always happy. There is never bad day with her.”

Once, a colleague told Joyce that if she had a dollar for every hug she ever gave, she would be rich beyond belief.

“But you know, I’m already rich,” Joyce said, smiling. “I’m rich with all the right things.” clramire@syr.edu

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evival efforts are tricky.

When a band breaks up, even for the most amicable reasons, it sends a message that the story is over. That great journey a band takes its fans on is precious, especially when it ends. To some, it’s sacred.

So making the decision to reunite and put out new music should not be taken lightly.

Fortunately, The Afghan Whigs did the right thing by getting back together. The painfully underrated ‘90s alternative rock band just put out “Do to the Beast,” their first album in 16 years. While it may not be as brutally beautiful as their earlier work, in all its grungy glory, it comes very close.

As if the odds weren’t stacked against them enough, The Afghan Whigs put out this solid record without their original lead guitar player.

in sync If you like this album, check out these tracks:

1. “Black” by Pearl Jam 2. “Blow Up the Outside World” by Soundgarden 3. “Asking for It” by Hole 4. “In Bloom” by Nirvana 5. “Rid of Me” by PJ Harvey

The band announced in February that Rick McCollum was no longer a member of the group and all the lead guitar parts on the album were recorded by a variety of other guitarists.

McCollum’s absence is not even noticeable on “Do to the Beast,” which is packed with the same sludgy, guitar-driven alternative rock that gave the band a place in the ‘90s grunge scene.

One of the best parts of “Do to the Beast,” and

all of the band’s music, is Greg Dulli’s vocals. He has that soulful growl made famous by the likes of Chris Cornell or Eddie Vedder, but he’s much more likely to slip into a falsetto when the music calls for a more vulnerable delivery.

Part of the problem with reunion efforts is that voices change as singers get older, especially rock singers who may not seek the proper methods for taking care of their vocal instrument.

But that’s not a problem for Dulli. “Do to the Beast” sounds like a natural continuation from their last album and the music is even better.

The greatest examples of the growth of the band members as musicians come from two very different songs: “These Sticks” and “Can Rova.”

“These Sticks,” the closing track, is the longest song on the record, clocking in at just less than six minutes. The Afghan Whigs use that time to take listeners on a journey through dynamic ranges and lush instrumentation.

The song begins with a fingerpicked electric guitar that has the same eerie vibe as Radiohead’s “Street Spirit (Fade Out).” Whenever The Afghan Whigs start a song softly, the music sounds suppressed, suffocated, like it’s struggling to erupt.

And then it does. Powerful, almost tribal drumbeats drive up the energy on “These Sticks.” Strings and horns creep in. And suddenly, Dulli is wailing over a wall of sound and you almost can’t remember how you got there.

Where “These Sticks” is the best example of The Afghan Whigs’ grasp on dynamics and their ability to take listeners on a journey, “Can Rova” is the best example to date of the band’s skill in creating soundscapes.

The reverb-laden ballad uses a gently strummed acoustic guitar as its foundation, with clean electric guitar drop-ins swirling around and even some strings easing in and out of earshot. It sounds wide-open, desolate but warm.

And as if expressive vocals and strong music weren’t enough to make “Do to the Beast” a success, Dulli is still writing some of the most

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heartbreaking lyrics in rock. And “Can Rova” is perhaps the best reason why.

The song is about escape. It starts off sounding like a romantic plot to run away with a lover and ends as one of the most crushing breakup songs in recent rock memory.

Its strength lies in its simplicity, but there’s just enough poetry in the writing to keep it from being dull.

“As those city lights die, I’m on my way,” he

sings in “Can Rova”. “You gonna see me light a fire some hot day. But you don’t need me, you don’t need me, you don’t need me. I don’t need you anymore.”

Reunions only work when the musicians involved have something left to say, and if “Do to the Beast” is any indication of what Dulli still has on his chest, one can only hope this isn’t the last we hear from The Afghan Whigs.

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parti his professional career, shaping his ideas throughout extensive travels.

Louie was born in Hawaii. He pronounces the state’s name differently, placing a hard islander emphasis on the last syllable before reverting back to his mainland accent. Growing up in Honolulu instilled in Louie a sense of leisure and beauty, he said, planting the seeds that would grow into his artistic aims within the architectural field.

As he strides between the partitions of Parti Wall, he reflects on the installation as a summary of his field as a whole; all of these different mentalities coming together to coalesce when they could have violently clashed.

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“Architecture, really, is just an accumulation of tons of different ideas,” Louie said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to have many inspiring mentors throughout my life and career. You could say that everything I do now is, in part, their work –– a collection of their ideas.”

Upon graduation from Syracuse University as an undergrad in 2007, Louie pursued further studies on his own whims. His wanderlust eventually led him to Holland, where he continued to explore architecture.

“I did some work in New York, I did some in Boston,” he said. “I moved out to Seattle. I’ve been everywhere.”

Bess Krietemeyer, also an assistant professor at SOA, is exploring ideas similar to Louie’s. She said that architects are assuming this new role of a bridge between function and aesthetics.

The struggle to balance function and aes-

thetics is synonymous with architecture itself, she said, and the solution to the problem lies in exploring new ways to express ideas.

“I really think that technology and beauty can coexist,” she said. “You don’t have to place yourself in one camp or another. It’s a matter of placing yourself in the middle.”

Louie has been comfortably seated there for a while now.

Alan Smart, a fellow assistant professor of Louie’s, is there beside Louie. Smart said that much of the future of urban planning depends on architects changing their approaches.

“You have these people, myself included, who don’t look at the problem as being, ‘What is architecture?’” Smart said. “Instead, we try to ask, ‘What is architecture for, and what is it capable of?’”

Louie remembers the road trip he took last year to get to Syracuse following the SOA’s job

offer. He stopped in Utah to see “Spiral Jetty,” an earthwork of mud and clay by Robert Smithson, a renowned land artist.

The jetty extends into Great Salt Lake, and as he walked on the black basalt rocks, Louie remembered thinking that he felt like a giant walking on stars, like the jetty was his own personal solar system.

“I think we should be having fun with architectural discipline,” he said. “I’m always going to have to think about scale, location, time and cost. But it can become so interesting if you just stand back and get out of your own way.”

As he takes a final step back to see the expressive Parti Wall from the outside, Louie’s smile widens, as if wondering when he’ll complete his own Spiral Jetty, complete with stars for the next generation of giants to walk on.

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you’ve come to love. There’s also the blissful return to a life of not picking up the check at dinner.

And, if you’re as lucky as I am, your parents might even bring you Reese’s peanut butter cups.

Of course, for all college students, Easter brings one other timeless tradition too: looking forward to summer vacation while simultaneously dreading exams. Easter becomes a de facto last hurrah for students studying abroad in the spring.

Luckily, there seems to be enough leftover Easter chocolate in Strasbourg to last students through finals week.

cregan hours. It seemed to me that more restaurants, cafes and stores were open on Easter Sunday than Easter Monday.

As one restaurant owner explained it, “Only asses work on bank holidays.”

No matter what new traditions study abroad students may find themselves exposed to, spending holidays abroad introduces a universal one: having to exchange holiday greetings with loved ones back home via text message and Facebook posts. For some lucky abroad students, however, Easter is an occasion for family members to come visit.

Being abroad with your parents has its definite perks. There are the obvious altruistic reasons, like spending time together, catching up and introducing them to some of the sights and people

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Maggie Cregan is a sophomore history and magazine journalism major. From Cleveland to Syracuse to Strasbourg, she enjoys rocking out and getting hopelessly lost. If you want to talk to her about this column, or are Keith Richards, reach her at mmcregan@syr.edu and follow her on Twitter at @MaggieCregan_SU.

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benetti broadcaster for the Syracuse Chiefs, and parttime play-by-play man for ESPN, Benetti has always had a passion for words, ever since calling video games alone in his room as a child.

But his words are also a way to prove people wrong. A way to change perception. Cerebral palsy, a disease that affects the nervous system, was something Benetti developed after battling a lung disorder at birth that almost cost him his life.

Today, Benetti struggles to look people in the eye. When he walks, his knees buckle.

But his voice and his words have the ability to make everyone forget that in an instant.

“He knew that there was a way where he could impact other people and get them to think differently,” said Mike Couzens, a former Chiefs broadcast intern and current ESPN broadcaster. “If they met him they’d be like ‘You’re Jason Benetti?’”

••• Despite being a frail little kid, confidence was never something Benetti lacked. He spent his summers rehabbing from surgeries and went to school in a wheelchair, but never felt bad for himself.

When Benetti was in fifth grade, his parents asked him what instrument he’d like to play for his school band.

“A tuba,” Benetti decided without hesitation.

Today, Benetti admits that wasn’t a sound decision. The largest instrument for a boy that hardly weighed 70 pounds.

“I should have come home,” he said, “and my parents, if they were truly realists would have said, ‘Look, we’re getting you a trumpet. Go away.’”

But the gesture meant more than just getting to play an instrument that he was ill-equipped for. It meant that his parents believed in his capabilities and were willing to invest in him.

“It’s his choice. And it’s not our decision to say, ‘No, give me the tuba and go play the trumpet,’” said father Rob Benetti. “We tried to create an environment where you foster anything your child has an interest in.”

It was his parents’ belief in him that established a belief within himself.

••• But as he grew older, Benetti became more self-conscious about his condition on the air.

When he called games at WAER as a student at Syracuse University, he’d consciously use as many big words as possible to make sure people knew his disease didn’t affect his brain.

“I tried to be too smart when I started,” Benetti said. “It was basically like, open up a thesaurus and I’m doing radio. I want to get this word in and that word in and I want people to know that I’m smart.”

But he changed that mind-set as a college senior. He sent one of his tapes to Ian Eagle, a broadcaster and SU alum. At the time, Benetti considered himself one of the best, but the advice Eagle responded with had him surprised.

“I said to him, ‘You’re really smart, but you don’t have to prove it every single time you’re making a point,’” Eagle recalled. “’Pick and choose your spots.’”

In the booth now, that same overcompensation is no longer there. Benetti allows his deep voice to take over the booth. It’s his witty humor and banter that engages listeners. And it’s his expansive vocabulary that brings it all together.

••• His talent has had him traveling this past winter around the country calling high-profile college basketball games for ESPN. One day he’d be in Memphis, the next in the Bronx.

But his passion is baseball. He prides himself on his ability to not just read off the plays, but to relate to the audience.

“If there was a beach in Central New York, we’d be at it right now,” Benetti said with a smile as he led into his broadcast on a sunny

Sunday afternoon.

He can be fun on the air, but he is also meticulous in all of his calls.

As the game goes on, Benetti color-codes the game in his scorebook. Blue pencil means a run, green is for walks, pink is an error, orange is a strikeout and substitutions are in red.

Along with his current broadcast partner, Kevin Brown, Benetti has a game that they play on the air, called “Have you been there? No.” If ever the topic of a specific city or country comes up while they’re calling a game, Benetti will ask Brown, “Have you been there,” to which Brown says “No.” It’s a rouse by Benetti to make fun of Brown for not being an experienced traveler, but also a tactic to bring life to a broadcast. It’s Benetti’s job to create a stage and a backdrop to the three-hour game.

••• Benetti developed the talent to engage with the audience throughout his career.

Now, Benetti offers aspiring broadcasters advice to improve in that regard, just like Eagle did for him. Each season he brings on broadcast interns to assist with Chiefs’ radio productions. At the beginning of his Chiefs tenure, he hired Couzens.

Couzens is now an ESPN broadcaster, but at the time he was a Benetti protégé.

“When I started working with him,” Couzens said, “I thought that I knew what good was.”

But Benetti didn’t just want to get Couzens a job; he wanted to make him a genuine broadcaster.

So when Couzens made Benetti a tape for him to listen to, Benetti didn’t mince words with his critique.

“Send me one next time that sounds like you care about what you’re doing,” was the response that Couzens got in an email.

Between innings of a Chiefs-Scranton-Wilkes Barre Yankees game that the two called together

the following summer, Benetti asked Couzens to use a different inflection of his voice.

Ultimately, he grew frustrated with Couzens and kicked him out of the booth to watch the rest of the game in the stands.

Benetti wasn’t going on a mindless rampage.

His process had a purpose. He didn’t want a broadcaster that just called a game. He wanted one that would connect with the audience, and that valued what he said and the way he said it as much as Benetti did.

“What was the greatest way for him to express himself?” Couzens asked rhetorically. “It was through words. So those words really had to take on a deeper meaning for him and a greater significance, because that’s how he defined the other people who could only hear his voice.“ ••• Benetti would like for his life to be defined by what he’s accomplished, not by the way he walks, or the uncontrolled gaze of his eye.

He’s accomplished quite a bit and is poised to accomplish even more.

Part of him doesn’t want to be an inspiration.

He doesn’t want people to view him as someone who has overcome something. But another part of him knows that his story will inspire people to not be defined by their disability.

“He’s really not (disabled),” Brown said. “It doesn’t affect what he does with his voice or what he does with his mind. To say something like that is impressive, that he succeeds in the face of something, actually sort of limits what he can actually do.”

But even though he doesn’t want people to think of his story as one of overcoming a hardship, it’s still his disability that has made him who he is.

It motivated him to make his brain a thesaurus. It motivated him to value each word he spoke.

“I wouldn’t trade it,” Benetti said. “I really wouldn’t.”

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ontario with Coach Miller on various levels,” Smyrniotis said. “And that helps because you know the coaches and you know what kind of environment they’re going into.

“When he went over to Syracuse, the one great thing that he did was he realized the very good potential in players in this market.”

Getting Nanco and Halis paid huge dividends for Syracuse this season. Halis was second on the team in goals scored with six. Nanco was third with four. Thomas and Murrell were two cogs in a defense that often

In today’s media network, the success of our Canadian players has been pretty evident. Nowadays players are aware of success of other Canadian players in the States.

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anchored the team.

Thomas and Murrell played with each other on the U-18 Canadian National Team, and Halis and Nanco were teammates with Sigma FC and on the same high school team at St. Edmund Campion Secondary School.

And while Halis and Nanco were making their college decisions, Thomas made an effort to strengthen the Orange’s reach in the area.

“I played against them for two years in high school soccer,” Thomas said. “I was talking to both of them when they were going from page 20

jakubowski Gould, SU’s special teams quality control coach, saw Jakubowski’s highlight tape following his senior season. And after visiting campus, the kicker-punter combo pledged to the Orange just months after finding out where Syracuse even was.

Riley Dixon was offered a scholarship by the Orange at the end of last season and seems to have solidified his spot as the team’s starting punter. But with rising senior Ross Krautman missing much of last season with a hip injury and rising junior Ryan Norton sidelined this spring, Jakubowski is ready to contend for kickoffs and field goals in the fall.

“My high school needed a kicker senior year, so I went in and did all three kicks and loved every minute of it,” Jakubowski said. “I always thought it would be great to compete in college and now I have that opportunity. I obviously want to try and get on the field right away.”

While Jakubowski’s ascension from a soccer player kicking and punting to a kicker and punter who once played soccer was a product of his hard work, it was also circumstantial.

Wheaton Warrenville has sent kickers to Michigan State and Illinois in recent years, mainly because head coach Ronald Muhitch places a strong emphasis on the position.

So when Jakubowski expressed interest in joining the team for his senior year, Muhitch planned to make him the next in line.

“I challenged him that he had to catch up on his kicking, punting and field goal skills for this change to work for him and us,” Muhitch said.

“The rest of the story was all his effort and diligence.”

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through the recruiting process, and letting them know how good of a school Syracuse was.”

All of the players are very close. They hang out at school, all live within in an hour of each other at home and travel back together for the holidays.

They, as a group, have worked to bring in new, Canadian players into the SU program, and Miller sometimes asks them to reach out to athletes that he is recruiting.

Nanco said he’d been talking with several players from Sigma FC that might be interested in coming to play for the Orange.

“They talk to us and tell us who they’re looking at, and if we know this guy or this guy from Canada,” Nanco said. “Sometimes we do know them and we talk to them and see if they’re interested and what they’re looking to do.”

Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre said that, now, with Canadian players seeing the success that their countrymen are having, it’s fostering their interest in SU. “In today’s media network, the success of our Canadian players has been pretty evident,” McIntyre said. “Nowadays players are aware of success of other Canadian players in the States.”

McIntyre said that his team’s ability to recruit these top athletes from Ontario is a reflection on where his program is headed.

With a trip to the round of 16 in 2012, followed up by a solid first season in a brand new conference, it’s not just about developing a pipeline of players north of the border.

It’s about getting the top Canadian talent.

“I think we’re in that conversation with the caliber players of both Chris and Alex, who were extremely highly recruited student-athletes,” McIntyre said.

“The fact that they were attracted to Syracuse suggests that we probably are moving in the right direction.”

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Muhitch put Jakubowski on an offseason workout plan that would lead into his senior season. It included six new footballs and a kicking net, Kohl’s Kicking Camp for individual instruction in all areas and weekly rotations that included punting on Mondays, kickoffs on Tuesdays and field goals on Wednesday.

The Orange took notice of Jakubowski when Gould saw a tape of his senior highlights.

SU quarterbacks coach Tim Lester — who played quarterback at Wheaton Warrenville and knows Muhitch — went to Muhitch’s office regarding Jakubowski. And after Jakubowski visited Miami (Ohio) and Missouri several times, Syracuse emerged as the best fit.

“The final closer is always having to find a college match for our kids,” Muhitch said. “All of his kicking duties will have to be applied to the college dimensions and factors.”

The night after Jakubowski watched the Tigers miss the postseason, he and his dad went to the field with the stands empty and no one else around.

After kicking and punting in middle school, he hadn’t played football since the ninth grade, but lined up a field goal at the 40-yard line. His dad held it and he sent the ball 50 yards in the air and through the uprights.

And something told him that had he been given a chance from 20 yards the night before, his foot would have done the trick.

“That’s when I knew I had to get back to football and start kicking again,” Jakubowski said. “I could have hit it, and here I am, getting the chance to keep kicking.” jcdoug01@syr.edu | @dougherty_jesse

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tight ends footwork and all that stuff, it makes them better,” Acosta said. “We do have talent at that position.”

While Parris, a junior, has emerged as the frontrunner to start at tight end, Acosta said the competition is still open. If Moore or Provo beats out Parris, Acosta said, that’ll just push Parris to improve even more.

It’s a good problem to have, he said — three young players with strong upsides, the ability to excel in multiple facets and the desire to improve.

Parris’ shining moment came against Boston College. After losing a game Parris said SU should have won to Pittsburgh the week before, the Orange was on the verge of missing a bowl.

When you have a coach that can really sit down and rip apart their footwork and all that stuff, it makes them better. We do have talent at that position.

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Syracuse trailed the Eagles 31-27 with 2:08 to go, but Terrel Hunt ignited an eight-play, 75-yard drive capped by Parris’ second career touchdown.

Parris said the play was in the works for weeks. He talked with offensive coordinator George McDonald at halftime, and the two decided it was time to bust it out. The defender kept overplaying him, so Parris knew he could

elude him and burst toward the end zone.

It worked perfectly.

“I think I was probably more excited than Josh,” Moore said. “I ran out on the field and gave him a big hug, the second one of the day. It was an overwhelming feeling.”

Parris and Moore have become extremely close. As Moore has learned the nuances of tight end — he played center in the Spring Game and tackle in high school — Parris has been there to help.

“When he first came in, his steps were horrible,” Parris said, smiling and glancing at Moore. “He was still blocking like a tackle.”

“Open field last year, I had tunnel vision,” Moore said, as the two cracked up and had trouble reeling in the laughter.

But now, Parris said, Moore is more comfortable playing the position. Acosta said the 6-foot-5, 248-pound Moore uses his size to his advantage. He’s a skilled run blocker, too, but the main thing they’re working on is his speed.

One of Moore’s best assets is his multidimensionality. He’s translated his blocking proficiency to the tight end slot, and sometimes even catches the defense off guard.

“You think he’s blocking but he’s going out on a tight end screen or something,” Hunt said. “It’s the best thing for him because he’s able to be versatile.”

In spring practice, Parris, Moore and Provo mainly operated on a swiftly moving three-play rotation. When Moore’s in there, his mentor, Parris, zeroes in on his movement and technique.

When Parris is on the field, the roles switch.

Syracuse’s fast-paced offense may allow the trio of tight ends to get more reps, with players constantly coming on and off the field. There’s a lot of movement, and potentially many more catches in store.

Said Moore: “Just keep the water ready, because there’s going to be a lot of running.” tbhass@syr.edu | @TrevorHass

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By Trevor Hass asst. sports editor

Now that he has a tight ends coach in Bobby Acosta, Kendall Moore expects to be pushed to his limit much more than he was last season.

“It’s exciting to have a tight ends coach this year,” Moore said, “because I can actually progress as a tight end.”

Moore and Josh Parris showed flashes of potential last season — like Parris’ game-winning touchdown against Boston College, or Moore’s athletic touchdown grab against Northwestern — but they combined for just 19 catches and were seldom targeted in Syracuse’s offense.

Now, with a new coach assigned to the tight end position, an up-tempo offense and another year of experience, Parris and Moore, along with rising sophomore Tyler Provo, are preparing to be more involved in the offense.

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recruiting

(CLOCKWISE FROM TOP) SKYLAR THOMAS, ALEX HALIS, CHRIS NANCO AND JORDAN MURRELL are all from Ontario. (left and right) chase gaewski managing editor (top) sam maller staff photographer (bottom) luke rafferty video editor

Canadian crossing

4 Syracuse players continue path from Ontario to Orange soccer

By Sam Blum asst. copy editor

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t’s a joke on the Syracuse men’s soccer team that the Canadian players have their own section of the Manley Field House locker room.

It’s more coincidental than intentional, but for Chris Nanco, Alex Halis, Jordan Murrell and Skylar Thomas, the arrangement makes sense.

“Chris and Alex look up to

Jordan and Skylar,” SU recruiting coordinator Mike Miller said. “We’ll continue to get more Canadian players from Ontario and all of Canada in here and we’ll continue that pipeline.”

At the beginning of this season, Halis and Nanco joined Murrell and Thomas in Syracuse, thus bolstering what is already a strong pipeline of players from Ontario.

Since 2005, there have been 11 Syracuse players from the province. And with Syracuse’s move

to the Atlantic Coast Conference, Canadian players are coming in greater numbers and bringing others with them.

“Maybe it was an underachieving school in the past,” said Bobby Smyrniotis, who coached Halis and Nanco with Sigma FC, “but you can really see that the new staff has an idea of where they want to take the soccer program.”

Smyrniotis attended a Syracuse-Connecticut game last season, and often watches his

former players through an online video feed. He said he’s happy that he sent his players to Syracuse, and that it was all because of the relationship he developed with Miller.

He got to know Miller in his last season at the University of Evansville in 2009, and the two have become close friends since Miller joined the SU staff the following year.

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Jakubowski preps for Syracuse

By Jesse Dougherty asst. sports editor

All Evan Jakubowski could do was watch and wonder.

W heaton Wa rrenv ille (Ill.) South High School needed a 20-yard field goal to reach the playoffs for the first time in over a decade.

It sailed wide. And because Jakubowski, a junior at that time, chose to play soccer instead of football that fall, he sat in the stands as the Tigers’ season came to a close.

“I felt that I could have hit it,” Jakubowski said. “It was frustrating.”

Jakubowski, who is unrated on Scout.com and listed at 6 feet, 175 pounds, committed to Syracuse as a preferred walk-on on April 9 after a swift recruiting process. Chris see jakubowski page 16