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Give me a break A study shows students who

Won’t budge Jimmy Paul calls on the GOP to

Staying strong An SU freshman battles cancer for the

Pro life Former SU lacrosse players like Cody Jamieson find

take breaks while they work are less stressed. Page 7

stand its ground when making cuts to the 2012 federal budget.

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Alumna’s gift establishes professorship

By Meghin Delaney ASST. NEWS EDITOR

A new professorship, established through a $1 million pledge, was created in honor of a College of Visual and Performing Arts alumna, Syracuse University officials announced Friday.

The Iris Magidson Professor of Practice in Design Innovation will be based in the college’s Department of Design, accordMAGIDSON ing to a Friday SU news release.

Magidson, a 1964 VPA alumna, former professor and current Advisory Council member, committed the $1 million pledge, according to the release.

“Iris is not only an outstanding VPA alumna and valued member of the college’s Advisory Council, but also a former member of our design faculty,” said Erica Blust, VPA’s director of communications, in an email.

Ann Clarke, dean of VPA, could not be reached for comment. Lucinda Havenhand, chair of VPA’s design department, declined to comment.

The college expects to employ the first professorship before the fall 2011 semester begins. The emphasis

Time for renewal SU library looks to update space, adapt to changing curricula with budget funds

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By Stephanie Bouvia STAFF WRITER

proposed boost of thousands of dollars to E.S. Bird Library’s funding has school officials hoping the longstanding problems with Bird can be resolved.

Cramped quarters, carcinogens in Bird’s basement and challenges in keeping up with changing academic curricula have presented obstacles to updating the library.

But the budget for the 2012 fiscal year

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could provide approximately $900,000 to the library. About $400,000 of that would be funded on a recurring basis, increasing the base amount of money the library receives by $400,000. The other $500,000 would be a one-time allocation, said Pamela McLaughlin, director of communications and external relations at the library.

The budget still has to be finalized and passed by the Board of Trustees, but Tom Sherman, a member of University Senate’s Library Committee, said the board usu-

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carly reeve | contributing photographer E.S. Bird Library has faced challenges with a budget less than those at peer institutions. As a result, students must work around cramped study spaces, elevator updates and overshelving of books. The library could receive more funding for the 2012 fiscal year to solve some of its long-term problems.

Japanese Student Association collects more than $7,500 to aid earthquake victims

By Debbie Truong STAFF WRITER

Three days after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Japan, Syracuse University’s Japanese Student Association assembled to collect donations for victims.

The fundraiser, which began March 14, concluded March 31 after raising more than $7,500, said Midori

Shiroyama, JSA’s vice president and a communication and rhetorical studies graduate student.

The donations will go toward the Consulate General of Japan in New York, where the proper Japanese government officials will distribute the funds to affected areas at their discretion, Shiroyama said.

JSA distributed collection boxes

across campus and set up tables to collect contributions on March 21 and 22 in both the Schine Student Center and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Shiroyama said.

Students also had the opportunity to write messages of condolence on Japanese flags at the tabling sessions, Shiroyama said.

Though financial contributions

are necessary, Shiroyama said heartfelt responses, such as the written messages, will offer a humane comfort to the Japanese that no amount of money could generate.

Shiroyama said she was pleasantly surprised by the outreach of support from both the SU community and surrounding universities. JSA was contacted by several

individual departments, students and faculty at SU interested in contributing to fundraising efforts.

SU’s JSA has also joined Action for Japan, a group established by students at Cornell University, Shiroyama said. The JSA is using the group to help promote a charity concert that will be held at St.

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APRIL 5, 1934 “Bourbonic Plague” Breaks Out in Zoology Laboratory One hundred and seventy-five birds in the laboratory of Dr. Reginald Manwell, of the zoology department, have died in the past eight weeks from a disease known as bird cholera, which is as fatal to birds as the terrible bubonic plaque is to man. While Frederick Goldstein and his two colleagues were experimenting with bird malaria, this deadly affliction seized and killed nearly all of the creatures before the nature of the disease was found.

The spread of the disease has been very rapid until only about 30 birds were left in the laboratory. Bird cholera, or bird plague, shows no signs on perfectly healthy birds until 24 hours before the death of the bird.

This type of disease affects only birds, such as canaries, starlings, sparrows and other types of small birds.

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Although the spread of the disease is not certain, it is thought that small insects and mites, which hide in crevices and cracks in the floor and walls, are the carriers. It is believed that these little mites and insects, hardly visible to the naked eye, suck the blood of the birds, thereby giving the disease to the attacked birds. The bird that has been exposed may throw seeds and bits of dust into a nearby cage, exposing other birds to the disease.

Utmost care is being taken to prevent the birds from contact with one another. The floors will be scoured and cleaned, and the cages will be boiled so that there will be no possible chance of the insects attacking the birds.

Germ Called Pasteurella

The germ that causes this plague is called Pasteurella. This name suggests the name of Louis Pasteur, who first experimented with the disease several years ago. It is not the same type of disease, but it is very closely related. There are eight to 10 different species of this disease, with black cholera being one.

The problem now confronting the experimenters is to stamp out the plague using the few remaining birds that have not been affected. Although a serum was perfected by Pasteur, it has not been used by the experimenters. While little yellow canaries and small sparrows jump and swing in their cages at any time, subject to this fatal disease, experimenters are doing all in their power to stop the “birds’ bubonic plague.”

— Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, lgleveil@syr.edu This excerpt was taken from the full version of this article published April 5, 1934

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Activist to speak about water crisis

By Breanne Van Nostrand STAFF WRITER

Clean water activist Maude Barlow will speak Tuesday about the stress of global water resources. It will be the final University Lectures event of the semester.

“The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water” Clean water activist Maude Barlow will speak to students.

Where: Hendricks Chapel When: Today, 7:30 p.m.

How much: Free

Barlow’s lecture, “The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water,” will be held in Hendricks Chapel at 7:30 p.m. and will address how the misuse of water may be contributing to global warming, according to a Syracuse University News Services release published March 29.

Globally, water has become the new gold, said Esther Gray, senior administrator for academic affairs, in an email. Access to clean water can be an instigator of war, Gray said.

The world population is expected to increase another 40 to 50 percent in the next 50 years and will result in an increased demand for water, according to the World Water Council’s website.

Though the crisis may appear irrelevant to some, more than one out of six people globally — amounting to more than 1.1 billion people — lack access to clean water, according to the website.

In the United States, some states are fortunate enough to have an abundance of accessible water, Gray said.

However, Barlow claims California only has about 20 years of clean water left, according to the release.

Barlow was appointed as the United Nations’ first senior adviser on water issues in 2008, according to the release. She is also chair of the board of the nonprofit organization Food and Water Watch and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement that strives to protect the world’s fresh water from trade and privatization, according to the project’s website.

Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, was instrumental in the United Nations’ decision to recognize the human right to water and sanitation in July 2010,

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shijing wang | staff photographer TAYLOR CARR , chair of Student Association’s Student Life Committee, speaks at Monday night’s meeting in Maxwell Auditorium about the cyberbullying resolution passed by assemblymembers. SU’s current Code of Conduct contains no explicit mention of cyberbullying.

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Resolution calls on university to address cyberbullying

By Sean Cotter STAFF WRITER

Student Association members unanimously voted Monday to pass a cyberbullying resolution, which calls for Syracuse University to explicitly mention cyberbullying as a form of harassment in the Student Code of Conduct.

The resolution, which is a joint effort by SA, the Residence Hall Association, Pride Union and the Pan-Hellenic Council, also calls for SU to take a stand against cyberbullying, said Student Life Committee chair Taylor Carr. Carr said SU needs to educate the student body about cyberbullying and how to become active in stopping it.

At SA’s meeting, Assemblymember PJ Alampi also presented the results of a student survey about meal plans, and SA announced a recognition program in which student organizations can be nominated for a $100 prize.

SA President Neal Casey called the cyberbullying resolution “unprecedented” and said it affects each of the four organizations involved in a different way.

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The resolution, passed at Monday’s meeting, calls for SU to specifically address cyberbullying in the Student Code of Conduct.

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HE SAID IT “The problem is, if it happens to you, you have no real outlet to say ‘Well this is where in the Code of Conduct it said that you can’t do this, and this is what needs to happen.’”

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The U.S. government defines cyberbullying as any harassment that occurs via the Internet, cellphones or other communication devices, Carr said. Thousands of people are now witnessing bullying online, he said.

“It’s not just the people on the playground seeing it. It’s the thousands of passive viewers who can view it online,” Carr said. “It’s the anonym-

ity of it — of posting something, of sending something where you don’t have to know who’s doing it. And combating it is much tougher.”

In the current Code of Conduct, a potential case must meet four criteria to be considered harassment.

Something written or spoken must go beyond the bound of free speech, be interpreted as “fighting words,” be directed at a specific individual

or individuals and be likely to cause an immediate breach of speech, Carr said.

Carr said an act of cyberbullying may fall under harassment as defined by the Code of Conduct, but the lack of any explicit mention of cyberbullying makes it difficult for students looking for help.

“The problem is, if it happens to

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Cultural insensitivity at other colleges, SU signal need for forum on diversity Recently, the University of California, Los Angeles has been in a bit of an uproar. A couple of weeks ago, a junior named Alexandra Wallace uploaded a now infamous video about Asian students in the library. In her video, she rants about the “hordes” of Asian students accepted into UCLA who annoy her in the library by talking on their phones, and she recommends that they go outside when making phone calls to check on their relatives for “the tsunami thing” so that they won’t disturb the other students in the library when they get bad news. What was particularly upsetting to me was that she was (though she withdrew from school following the uproar) a political science major. I shudder at the thought of her becoming a political figure.

Here’s the question: Would the same level of indignation and anger have been aroused in our campus community? Here at Syracuse University, according to our SU Facts website, we have a 23 percent minority-student population, which might seem substantial. But from my own personal experience, lack of multicultural understanding is more often the norm rather than the exception.

Our campus needs to engage in serious dialogue about multiculturalism and diversity, and hope that through our discussions and the understanding that emerges from them, we can also begin to affect the greater Syracuse community and draw them into those conversations.

There are some programs already in place, such as the SU Intergroup Dialogue and the STOP Bias effort. But these programs are not widely publicized, and more can still be done.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR As an Asian-American student, I have had several experiences with racism in our Syracuse community, both on and off campus, with students, faculty, administrators, community members and complete strangers. It has become so commonplace that my minority student friends and I often trade stories about our latest run-ins with people who displayed ignorance and insensitivity. As part of a graduate organization called the Coalition of Multicultural Public Affairs Students at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, I have been involved in organizing the inaugural Inclusive Governance Conference on April 8, which will seek to discuss issues of race, ethnicity, disability inclusion and gender diversity within the workplace. The conference is free to all and will engage not just our campus, but the greater Central New York community as well.

Events such as the Inclusive Governance Conference (www.compasigc.org) are only the first important steps in engaging more than just minority students. Rather, the entire campus and wider Syracuse community must also begin to participate in such discussions. As a wise professor once told me, we must recognize that your oppression feeds into my oppression, and my oppression feeds into your oppression.

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Practical, academic experience make Jim Steinberg excellent choice for Maxwell dean This summer Jim Steinberg, current deputy secretary of state under Hillary Rodham Clinton, will take over as the dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. The decision by the 22-member search committee and the administration marks a great moment in the history of the school, as Syracuse University brings in a versatile and experienced candidate.

With Maxwell’s exceptional reputation, the variety of notable candidates with practical experience in public administration and policymaking is no surprise. But Steinberg’s experience in academia as the dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of

editorial by the daily orange editorial board Texas at Austin gives him the background necessary to guide a school at a pivotal moment in its history.

Since last spring, Maxwell has faced important structural changes to its undergraduate component and its relationship with the College of Arts and Sciences. Steinberg led LBJ to form a new joint program with the UT law school and helped create interdisciplinary research institutes. His experience collaborating with other colleges shows promise as he steps into a somewhat complicated role

as a dean of a partially independent school.

When Steinberg spoke with students during his visit to campus, he presented new plans and ideas he had for the school. Among these ideas was a suggestion to open up centers in different regions of the world, including those of less strategic importance to the United States. This idea would attract more international attention to the school and bring in faculty members and students who would expand the variety of expertise at the school.

Steinberg’s commitment to integration at the university and global levels may prove to make the coming years an exciting time for Maxwell and SU.

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Conservatives in Congress must adamantly push for cuts to entitlement

here are certain times to compromise, and there are other times to draw a line in the sand.

When it comes to avoiding a government shutdown, congressional Republicans should be prepared to compromise. The paramount battle will be about the inclusion of entitlement reform in the 2012 budget, which is where conservatives must concentrate their energy and stand firm.

A fight about spending and government funding has been ongoing since Democrats failed to pass a budget last fall. Unwilling to vote for an embarrassingly large spending bill just weeks before a midterm election, liberal lawmakers were content to kick the can down the road. So here we are.

If an agreement is not hammered out by April 8, the government will shut down. Republicans seek approximately $60 billion in spending cuts over what’s left of the fiscal year, but they are meeting predictably fierce opposition from Democrats, as well as insatiable Tea Partiers. The former is averse to even the most miniscule

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fiscal adjustment, while the latter is intent on an immediate ideological victory and will not settle for such a small figure.

Unsurprisingly, the current budget battle has been completely politicized. Regardless of the final number in spending cuts, it will be a drop in the bucket, making little improvement to America’s dismal economic future. The argument about the 2011 budget has made for fun talking points, if little else.

On Wednesday, for example, a most alarming sound bite came courtesy of Rajiv Shah, head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, who made the curious claim that the Republican budget bill would kill 70,000 children. This is a classic case of the “Think of the Children!” defense, and Shah believes cuts to international food and health assistance would lead to mass deaths across the globe.

In the face of such irresponsible demagoguing, establishment Republicans have two options.

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voted for reagan The first is to waste valuable time, energy and political capital in arguments with people like Shah, explaining how today’s economic climate makes it unfeasible to fund every program that has been funded in the past. They could scold alarmists on the left who employ scare tactics to continue printing off more money for inefficient government programs. They could concoct an equally bogus figure about how many children in the United States would be harmed after their parents run out of money trying to pay off trillion dollar deficits.

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putes and gear up for the main event: entitlement reform in 2012.

The GOP proposal for the 2012 budget will be officially unveiled Tuesday, and fortunately it will include broad structural reforms to massive entitlement programs that are bankrupting America. Medicare and Medicaid — often considered an untouchable “third rail” of American politics — are tackled head-on.

If high-ranking officials in President Barack Obama’s administration have the gall to argue that small USAID cuts will result in 70,000 dead children, just watch how ferociously they will kick and scream once Medicare and Medicaid are on the table.

Republicans must be prepared to dig in their heels. The 2012 spending bill is where Republicans can make their mark, where they can fulfill the expectations of November’s electorate.

Conservatives have been forced to take the lead because Obama has not.

Nor has he signaled any intentions of doing so in the near future. Obama’s proposed 2012 budget does not

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reform the tax code, does not reform entitlements and does not balance the budget. It does, however, raise the national debt by $13 trillion and create $8.7 trillion in new spending over the next decade.

The most irresponsible budget proposal in recent memory has been countered by a sensible, desperately needed rebuttal. Republicans were elected to change the course of reckless Washington spending and to get a hold of gigantic, unsustainable entitlement programs. Winning this long-term budget showdown is tremendously more important than ensuring a few billion dollars more in cuts over the next six months.

With only the lower chamber of Congress in their control, Republicans must pick their battles wisely.

Contributing to a government shutdown — over something so insignificant — is a bad place to start.

Jimmy Paul is a senior political science major. His column appears every Tuesday, and he can be reached at jdpaul01@syr.edu.

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ally deviates little from the original budget.

To Sherman, the money provided to the library in the budget is far overdue.

“The library has been chronically underfunded for 30 years, it’s not like this is a new problem,” he said.

Bird currently has a shortfall of $4 million compared to other peer institutions, and while the additional $400,000 being proposed is a step in the right direction, it is only 10 percent of what SU needs to close the $4 million gap, Sherman said.

Once the budget is finalized, library officials will determine how to apply the funds, McLaughlin said. The specific areas the money will go toward are not yet known.

“I don’t think we know because we haven’t planned on it being there,” she said. “Once we know that the budget is solid, we’ll move ahead.”

The library has many areas that need financial support, McLaughlin said. Some of the areas the library will focus on if it receives the increased funding include staff salaries, new staff positions, additional collections, furnishing and renovations.

The library is currently facing a challenge in keeping up with academic fields that frequently change or are updated, such as forensics, McLaughlin said. If the library doesn’t have money, then it can’t support the changes in those areas, McLaughlin said.

“We already don’t have the resources needed by faculty to conduct research in those areas,” she said.

Paul Preczewski, president of the Graduate Student Organization and a member of USen, said graduate students need resources like electronic journals to work on their master’s thesis, dissertations and research.

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of the position will be on teaching graduatelevel courses, according to the release. The college will follow SU’s Search and Hiring Policy for faculty positions to fill the professorship, Blust said.

“The ideal recipient of the professorship will be an active design professional who practices interdisciplinary application to design,” she said.

Magidson returned to SU 36 years after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in advertising design to teach communications design in 2000, according to the

Who is Iris Magidson?

Iris Magidson, a 1964 College of Visual and Performing Arts graduate, is a former SU professor and a member of the college’s advisory council. Before teaching at SU, Magidson worked as a designer and design editor at Clairol Inc. and parent company Bristol-Myers Squibb’s businesses from 1969 to 1995, and opened her own firm as a visual communications consultant in 1970. She also works with nonprofit organizations, volunteering in New York City and Hilton Head, SC.

“I don’t think we know because we haven’t planned on it being there. Once we know that the budget is solid we’ll move ahead.”

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“The definition of library is changing a little bit in that it’s becoming much more computerized,” he said.

Sherman, the member of USen’s Library Committee, also said the library should be able to support curricula that have changed over time. He cited drastic changes the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has had to make to its curriculum in response to the journalism field moving in an online direction.

“Those resources, if they’re not there, can really hurt the faculty,” Sherman said.

The library has faced other challenges aside from adapting to changing curricula. Plans to renovate Bird’s basement stalled in 2009 after tests showed carpeting in the basement contained a carcinogen called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. This is still an issue that has yet to be resolved, McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin said the Environmental Health Office recently arranged for more testing, but didn’t have the results. The issue with the removal of the PCBs has been in the hands of other people in the university, she said.

“The library very much wants to be able to move ahead with those renovations,” she said.

“We are following through as much as we possibly can.”

Some other problems in the library, such as

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release. She taught until 2006, and during that time, she worked to bring professionals into the classroom, according to the release.

Magidson previously worked for Clairol Inc. and parent company Bristol-Myers Squibb’s businesses from 1969 to 1995, initially as a designer and then as design director, according to the release.

She has worked as a visual communications consultant with her own firm since 1970, according to the release. Magidson currently uses her skills and experience to help nonprofit organizations, according to the release.

Blust said: “The professorship will expose students to an individual with successful professional practice experience at an international level.” medelane@syr.edu

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the space issue for both students and books, are already in the process of being resolved.

There are plans to build a storage facility on South Campus, next to Hawkins Warehouse, that will store materials that aren’t often used in the library, McLaughlin said.

Students would be able to request these materials through the library catalogue and have them sent to Main Campus, McLaughlin said.

There will also be a small reading room in the facility for people who need to use a number of materials stored there, she said.

Even though the facility will create shelf space in the library, it will be a difficult task to execute, said Sherman, the member of USen’s Library Committee.

“Who decides on which books move, and how do you move 60,000 books and keep it in order?” he said.

Shelving has also been added on the fourth and fifth floors of Bird to try and compensate for the lack of space, McLaughlin said. Tables were also moved to the lower level to make the library more spacious and useable, McLaughlin said.

Last year, the library looked into moving excess resources to an off-campus storage facility four hours away in Paterson, N.Y., due to the lack of space. But after much protest from students and faculty, SU called off those plans.

Even with the recent addition of space, some students still notice cramped quarters in the library.

“I use it mainly to have an area where I’m not as distracted to do work, but sometimes there’s never enough space,” said Mariel Stein, a senior psychology and policy studies major who uses the library three times a week if she has a significant amount of work.

If the renovations in Bird happen, McLaughlin said the library has the funding to build one or two classrooms in the basement, create a new layout and buy new furnishings.

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you, you have no real outlet to say, ‘Well, this is where in the Code of Conduct it said that you can’t do this, and this is what needs to happen,’” Carr said.

He also speculated it may be more difficult for cyberbullying to meet all of the criteria of harassment. This is because the idea of it causing an “immediate breach of the peace” is a little more unlikely than with face-to-face harassment, given the anonymity of online bullying, Carr said.

Carr cited Caldwell College, which has a statement about cyberbullying on its website, as a school taking steps in the right direction. The college’s definition of cyberbullying resembles the U.S. government’s definition, and its statement says such action is punishable by suspension, loss of housing or mandated community hours, Carr said. SU needs to have a statement like this to recognize cyberbullying as an issue, he said.

“We just want the Office of Judicial Affairs — and thus, the handbook — to acknowledge the existence of cyberbullying, define what it is and say this is a type of harassment that we won’t tolerate, just as we do with the other forms: that it’s punishable just as other forms of harassment are,” Carr said.

Assemblymember David Woody raised concerns about the resolution’s lack of specific suggestions on what wording to include for the changes to the Code of Conduct. He noted the possibility that the resolution may slow down within the administration.

But Carr said he felt the university would start looking into the resolution after receiving it.

Facing challenges

E.S. Bird library has faced many challenges during the past few years. Some of the major current issues include:

Cramped quarters

Space issues for students and books are still in the process of being resolved. The library has plans to build a storage facility on South Campus, next to the Hawkins Warehouse, that will store materials that aren’t often used in the library. Students will be able to request these materials through the library catalogue and have them sent to Main Campus. There will also be a small reading room in the facility for people who need to use a number of materials that are stored there.

Carcinogens in the basement

Plans to renovate Bird’s basement stalled in 2009 after tests showed carpeting in the basement contained a carcinogen called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. This is still an issue that has yet to be resolved. The Environmental Health Office arranged for more testing, but the results are not yet known.

Keeping up with changing academic curriculums

The library is currently facing a challenge in keeping up with academic fields that frequently change, such as forensics. If the library doesn’t have money, then it can’t support the changes. Tom Sherman, a member of USen’s Library Committee, said the library should be able to support curriculums that have changed over time.

He cited drastic changes to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications curriculum in response to the journalism field moving in an online direction.

But for now, the library will wait for the final budget to be passed. snbouvia@syr.edu

Outside of the cyberbullying resolution, Assemblymember Dylan Lustig announced that SA has created a recognition program in which people can nominate organizations for a $100 prize. The prize would go toward an organization’s miscellaneous funds for something like a celebratory pizza party, he said. This money will come from SA’s operating budget, Lustig said.

At Monday’s meeting, Assemblymember Alampi also presented a survey about meal plans.

He found that 50 percent of the respondents had a 14-meal plan and that 80 percent of those people eat 12 meals or fewer per week. Seventysix percent of students surveyed said they were concerned about the money they were losing by paying for these meals and not eating them, Alampi said.

If a student with 14 meals per week in the dining halls uses only 12 meals per week, they are paying for $780 of meals per academic year that go to waste, he said. Alampi suggested creating a rollover program for meals and raised the possibility of receiving SUpercard money for unused meals or having a store on campus where students can use meal swipes to shop.

This is currently possible at The Warehouse, but it is not on campus, he said.

Other business discussed: • SA President Neal Casey has changed his stance on the “smoke-free campus initiative” and is now in favor of a full smoking ban on campus.

• Freshmen Sean Dinan, Kyle Coleman and Shane De Vreese and sophomore Amy Snider were elected to be undergraduate senators in University Senate. spcotter@syr.edu

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Study finds taking breaks may reduce stress, save energy

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ndividuals may be more productive and less stressed while studying if they stop to refuel, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

The study, included in a March 25 article on The Wall Street Journal’s website, found avoiding a problem in the short term by sleeping or doing leisure activities may reduce stress and help solve the conflict by restoring people’s individual resources, such as energy.

“We have a finite amount of resources and energy,” said Julie McCarthy, coauthor of the study and associate professor of organizational behavior at the University of Toronto. “If we don’t allow ourselves time to recover, we’ll slowly, you know, keep getting more and more stressed out until we burn out.”

McCarthy and co-author Tracy Hecht, an associate professor of management at Concordia University, also observed that individuals who reached out to others for emotional support experienced more stress — another counterintuitive finding.

People have to train themselves to take regular breaks, even though that may be

frowned upon in an industrious culture with Puritan roots, McCarthy said.

“Avoidance-focused coping can be a good thing. Sometimes we have to mentally disengage from the task at hand,” she said. “By taking breaks, you are going to be more effective. You have to capitalize on your brain power.”

The so-called go-getters, who adopt a problem-focused approach in resolving conflict, may develop an inability to disengage from roles that create stress, which can lead to obsessive behavior, McCarthy said.

Boundaries between the various roles an individual plays — such as the role of student, employee and significant other — could become blurred with a strict problem-solving approach. This might decrease life satisfaction and increase “inter-role facilitation,” meaning participation in one role might decrease the participation in another role, according to the study.

Dispositional tendencies, such as individual personality traits and temperaments, also affect inter-role facilitation, according to the study. So the same problem may seem like a threat to one person and a challenge to another.

Unless a person realizes that some

goals can only be achieved through incremental steps, it’s likely the person will feel overpowered, McCarthy said.

“I’ve had students coming into my office really overwhelmed and upset,” she said. “Some problems are big — they take more than a day to solve.”

Whatever a person’s coping style, balance is key, McCarthy said. Though short-term avoidance may be beneficial, completely dodging a problem will likely compound anxiety in the long run.

Laura DePalma, a senior television, radio and film and English and textual studies major, said it’s sometimes difficult to juggle multiple roles.

“I feel like it can be hard to manage sometimes, so I try to focus on one thing at a time and finish it before moving on,” DePalma said.

Ultimately, whether a person’s coping method is avoidance, a problem-focused approach or an emotion-based one, the ideal option depends on the conflict and its circumstances. In all likelihood, a person doesn’t want to be too reliant on any single coping technique, McCarthy said.

“It’s knowing when to use what strategy,” she said, “and not to overdo.” chlevin@syr.edu

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said Farhana Sultana, assistant professor of geography at SU, in an email.

Though there are many water-abundant areas in the United States, there are pollution issues as well as water stress, Sultana said.

Water stress results from an imbalance between water use and water resources, according to the World Water Council’s website.

Sultana organized the March 2010 international conference “The Right to Water.” The conference acted as a platform for students, scholars, practitioners and activists to discuss the issue over two days. Barlow was unable to attend the conference, Sultana said.

It is imperative people begin to understand the water crisis, Sultana said. The crisis can only be addressed if all stakeholders, including governments and individuals, participate in a global movement, Sultana said.

“Water is about power and control, and we need to critically engage in understanding what it means to have safe water or not,”

“Water is about power and control, and we need to critically engage in understanding what it means to have safe water or not.”

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Sultana said.

Sultana said she hopes the lecture will motivate research and action from students.

She plans to moderate a student discussion with Barlow. Sultana’s students have read Barlow’s books and watched her documentaries in preparation.

Katelynn Moreau, a freshman advertising major, was surprised to hear the United States is also experiencing the effects of the water crisis. She said the thought of not having clean water was frightening.

“I’d like to learn more about this because it impacts everyone,” Moreau said. “It’s an important topic that I don’t really know a lot about.”

Paul’s Cathedral on April 12 at 7 p.m.

After gathering the donation boxes Thursday, JSA is now working to distribute new boxes across campus through the end of the school year and at the commencement ceremony in May, Shiroyama said. She said the organization hopes to involve the family and friends of graduating seniors in fundraising efforts.

Although Shiroyama recognizes the funds raised by JSA are minimal relative to the widespread destruction in Japan, the amount will help offer resources vital to survival, such as shelter and food to evacuees, she said.

“It will contribute to the small things,” she said.

Shiroyama said it is understandable that media attention is gradually drifting away from the earthquake coverage in Japan to more recent upheaval in places like Libya.

But it is important to remind the public of the difficult road of recovery still awaiting Japan, she said.

After worrying about the well-being of two Japanese exchange students following the earthquake, Jessica Wilkerson, a sophomore computer science major, said she commended the JSA’s fundraising campaign.

“I think we have a very diverse, international student body, and part of being in college is expanding your worldview and helping the world around you,” she said. “When you combine those two things, it’s important to band together to help the families affected.”

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The percent of the Earth’s surface covered in water.

1 The percent of water on Earth that is fresh water and therefore drinkable.

887 The approximate number of people in millions who do not have access to drinkable water.

2.6 The approximate number of people in billions who do not have access to sanitation services necessary for reasonable health and hygiene. source: The World Bank

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Japan, causing a devastating tsunami that covered cities and farmland in the northern part of Japan. The tsunami even set off warnings on the U.S. west coast and in South America. The earthquake was the most powerful to ever hit Japan.

Following the earthquake and consequent tsunami, Japan struggled with its rescue effort. To make matters worse, the country faced the worst nuclear emergency since Chernobyl as leaks of radioactive gas and explosions occurred in three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, which suffered partial meltdowns. Japanese officials were forced to turn to desperate measures as radiation traces were found in Tokyo’s water and in water traveling from the reactors into the ocean.

As of March 31, the official death toll stood at more than 11,600, and more than 16,000 were recorded as missing.

The final toll is expected to reach almost 20,000. More than 190,000 people are currently housed in temporary shelters, and tens of thousands of others left their homes due to the nuclear crisis.

Source: The New York Times

Continuing support

Although the Japanese Student Association concluded its initial fundraiser after raising $7,500, the association plans to hold another campaign on campus throughout the end of the year and through commencement in May. The funds raised are being sent to the Japanese Consulate in New York.

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CELEBRATE HONOR FIGHT BACK

courtesy of haley buchan HEATHER BUCHAN , a freshman in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma cancer when she was 16 years old. Her sister Haley has been a vital support structure in Heather’s life.

Haley chronicles her sister’s most intimate moments living with cancer through art and photography. Heather did not return for her second semester at Syracuse University after her cancer returned.

Day byday SU freshman withdraws from school to fight 2nd battle with cancer

By Bethany Bump STAFF WRITER

Part 1 of 3: Every year, the Syracuse community gathers in the Carrier Dome to celebrate cancer survivors, honor loved ones lost to the disease and fight to end cancer. Part One of this series serves to celebrate one of SU’s own survivors.

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here’s a feeling that grows as you near the light at the end of the tunnel. The sigh of relief you know will escape your overwhelmed body when you reach your journey's promising end. “Everything’s going to be OK,” it whispers.

Heather Buchan saw the light in December.

And by the end of the month, the Syracuse University freshman would see it disappear the moment her doctor delivered the news: Her cancer had returned.

Nothing could prepare anyone for that. But Buchan learned the day she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 16 that there was never any certainty to living with cancer, and there was no certainty to living without it.

Too young for this As she got off the school bus, a 16-year-old Heather took off her scarf, despite the winter cold in Clifton, N.J. She felt a giant lump on her neck. When she showed her mom, she reassured her daughter it was probably nothing.

To be sure, her mom took her to the emergency room for a CAT scan, where a biopsy confirmed their unspoken fear: cancer.

“I remember squeezing my parents’ hands,” Heather said in a phone interview. “My mom was digging into my dad’s hand. I was crying. Would I lose my hair? Could I still do things after school?”

Her sister Haley, currently a senior painting major at the University of Hartford, was sitting in the car with her dad when she learned Heather had cancer.

“I said, ‘OK, what can I do? What comes next? Is it curable?’ That was the first thing going through my mind,” Haley said in a phone interview. “Am I going to lose my best friend? Am I going to lose my sister? I couldn’t picture my life without her being in it.

“It was probably the most terrifying moment of my entire life.”

She sat in the car with her dad while they both cried.

For the first six months, Heather underwent intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Hospital visits eventually became less frequent.

Haley coped by making art. Whenever she felt like she was “going to a dark place,” she poured her feelings into abstract paintings, which she eventually named “The Cancer Catharsis Series.”

She documented Heather’s experience in black and white film.

“I wanted to show her firsthand how beautiful she is through every step of the process,” Haley said. “You can't just wallow in things.

Life is so beautiful, and everything happens for a reason. Even if it's unfortunate, I think there's a bigger picture.”

She was ready to give Heather the finished documentary after her first round of treatments was over. But it wasn’t the right time yet.

Return to normalcy During recovery, Heather still had to undergo treatments for 18 months. By January, only one

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five-to-10 minute walk each way to the subway or the extra cross-town bus you have to take.

Start with Craigslist Take a look at what is out there by starting out looking on Craigslist.

Every New Yorker starts their search there and that’s where all brokers will post listings in order to attract clients. The market changes so rapidly from year-to-year and month-to-month, it is the best place to look to get a somewhat accurate idea of what is on the market for you.

Use a reputable broker I don’t say this because I’m biased, but it is honestly the best way you will be able to find what you’re looking for.

Your broker will be your tour guide, therapist and general middleman for navigating the big city rental market.

Make sure the brokerage is a member of a well respected real estate board, (in NYC it is REBNY) which will mean the agents in the company and the brokerage agree to hold themselves to higher, ethical standards.

Expect a broker fee, but it’s worth it With summer coming and the economy on the rebound, prices have skyrocketed and owners have stopped offering to pay the broker fee for agents. However, I assure you that it will be worth the money. Generally, you can expect to pay around 15% of one year’s rent.

Legally, no place can tell you they will only accept that and won’t negotiate.

If you hear this from someone, run the other

way! There is some leeway to negotiate but do make sure that you understand brokers work on commission so the time they put into you has to be worth it for them.

There’s a premium for short term You should expect to pay about half-a-month’s to a month’s rent for the broker fee alone if you’re looking for a short-term rental. It is just as complex as doing a regular rental so the broker will put in just as much time as if you were looking for a 12-month lease.

Don’t be afraid to look into short-term rentals that are unfurnished if you’re coming down for an internship. There are a number of companies in NYC that can furnish you apartment cheaply for $200-500 a month.

A lot will come together quickly at the last minute Most buildings know their availability four to six weeks before you need to move. You shouldn’t start seriously looking until that time.

Six weeks out, start looking at Craigslist seriously and see what listings are up there. Contact brokers, take some time to interview them on the phone and see how they handle you and if you feel a rapport with them. You’ll be spending a lot of time with this person and don’t want to be annoyed by them! 4 weeks out, you’ll be able to work with the broker seriously to find something that will be available.

Buildings will want everything from you except your first born You’ve found your building, but now be warned:they’ll want to know a lot of personal information from you to the point where you may feel it’s very invasive. With strict laws in NYC that favor the tenant, buildings will be very strict with whom they let in.

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April Fools’ Day tech jokes trick Internet users

t’s no joke that technology is rapidly changing life as we know it. But last Friday, on the nation’s most celebrated day of trickery, technological innovation donned a whole new side of itself. Some of the world’s biggest names in technology and news have harnessed the abilities of technology to take advantage of the gullible population in formulating this year’s most viral and entertaining April Fools’ pranks, and to great effect.

The day’s best jester is inarguably technology giant Google.

The prank that has garnered the most attention is the Google Motion Beta. In its April 1 press release, the company stated, “The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed … now you can control Gmail with your body.”

This nifty addendum to Google’s popular Gmail service claimed to use a computer’s camera to track user movements to open, reply to and write new emails. The video, created for authenticity in this prank, followed the Google format and was almost entirely believable.

Google, following its own “go big or go home” precedent used a multifaceted approach to dupe the gullible. On its release page, http://mail. google.com/mail/help/motion.html, the company provided safety precaution guidelines, a short blurb on how this technology would soon be adapted for Google Docs and charts of appropriate gestures.

While this prank was executed well, it folded too soon. Google exposed itself with the “Try Gmail Motion” button on the home page, which, when clicked, opened a message stating, “April Fools! Gmail Motion doesn’t actually exist. At least not yet…”

Another entertaining, but not as believable, April Fools’ prank is one played by the popular blog The Huffington Post. Seemingly prompted by disgust over The New York Times’ new paywall (which, unfortunately, isn’t a joke), the blog decided to implement a paywall of its own.

The post, under the name of Arianna Huffington herself, stated, “If you … are not an employee of The New York Times, you will continue to have full and free access to our news, information, opinion, and the rest of our rich offerings.”

The article goes on to reveal the constraints New York Times employees will face, referring to its most popular package where “Times employees can view the first six letters of each word at no charge (including slideshows of

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The comment section following this post gleans with supportive remarks of the satirical blog post. Aranx, a “Huffpost Super User,” replied with her statement, “Finally found a tasteful April Fools that makes a point and is actually funny not dumb.” No joke.

Even coffee giant Starbucks hopped on the technology-inspired April Fools’ bandwagon.

Playing with the heartstrings of every dedicated coffee-consumer out there, Starbucks jokingly announced its new smartphone app, Starbucks Mobile Pour.

Originally posted in the officially starbucks. com blog, the statements claimed that, thanks to ideas offered by consumers, seven of the biggest Starbucks-consuming cities will have two baristas on scooters per square mile to serve the tech-capable and caffeine-deprived inhabitants.

The blog post continued to state, “We’ve even made ordering easy with our Mobile Pour app for your smartphone. Simply download it, allow it to pinpoint your location, select your coffee order and keep walking. Your fresh, hot Starbucks brew will be in your hands before you can say abra-arabica.”

A few other good tech gags worth mentioning are Google’s job posting for an auto completer (requiring employees to guess what users need to search for before they finish typing it), the announcement of Atlassian’s new app Angry Nerds (a techie take on Angry Birds) and LinkedIn’s new version of friend recommendation (Albert Einstein would make for a great networking opportunity… if only he weren’t dead.)

If you’ve gotten through the past five days believing any of the aforementioned pranks, I apologize for bursting your bubble. But someone had to do it.

Jessica Smith is a junior information management and technology and television, radio and film dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at jlsmit22@syr.edu.

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Maybe it’s just because I love red hair or possibly because I love a smooth Barbadian accent, but most likely it’s just because she’s smokin’. I must admit — I have a girl crush on Rihanna.

Snagging two major magazine covers this month, Rolling Stone and Vogue, she’s impossible to ignore. And those two covers are perfect fits for her, as she dominates the music charts and refuses to be overlooked with her fearless fashion risks.

Let’s talk style first. The red hair’s great, but ever since she stepped onto the scene in 2005 with her breakout song “Pon de Replay,” she has constantly reinvented her image. First as a Rastafarian teenager, next as a leather-clad dominatrix and now sporting a soft, feminine style, she kills it with every look. And as if her curves weren’t coveted enough already, she’s been getting in even better shape (if that’s even possible) for her role in the upcoming film “Battleship,” coming out next year.

But a look is nothing without a strong persona. And that’s definitely what keeps audiences spellbound by this femme fatale. Rihanna has every fan and critic wondering if she really is the kind of girl to be into “S&M,” or does she just want someone to make her feel like the “Only Girl in the World”? Both. Ri-Ri is by no means a simple girl, and her complex, multifaceted personality has the world wrapped around her finger, wondering what she’ll do next.

Rihanna has mastered the ability to mold into an array of different characters with a broad scope of appeal and talent — the mark of true stardom. So you can sing and dance — who cares? Show us passion, versatility, a yearning to push the limit. I’ll pay attention to someone like that.

— Compiled by Danielle Odiamar, asst. feature editor, dmodiama@syr.edu

nostalgia nook A few days ago, my friend and I were discussing themes for our conjoined May birthday party. (Nothing is better than having a friend who has the same birthday as you.) After some debate and moments of “No, seriously, what should the theme be,” we decided on a ’90s-themed party — but more specifically, ’90s Nickelodeon shows.

Maybe I’m biased, but the ’90s were wonderful when it came to cartoons. I have fond memories of sitting on the couch with my younger brother and soaking in hilarious and ridiculous Nickelodeon shows. No one has the right to argue that current Nick shows, such as “iCarly,” are better than the ones that were on while I was growing up. Because you’d be wrong. Very, very wrong.

I can’t talk about all the ’90s classics, but here are some of the ones that stuck out for me.

For 10 seasons, “All That” was all that. The sketch comedy show featured weekly musical guests and was a tweeny version of Comedy Central. And very toned down, of course. With skits like “Good Burger,” starring Kel, a dumb but loveable teenager who never could do anything right was known for his famous, “Welcome to Good Burger, home of the good burger, can I take your order?” Spinoffs from “All That” included “The Amanda Show” and “Kenan & Kel.” I don’t know what I would have done if I had never had my “Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda Show.”

Also, TLC’s theme song for “All That” was catchy — I still have it stuck in my head.

“Are You Afraid of the Dark?” was always an excuse to curl up next to those cute tweeny boys. No, that’s a little too extreme. That cute boy whose hands you could hold. Centered on the Midnight Society, the episodes were frightening, yet you couldn’t draw your eyes away from the screen. But I am a scaredy-cat, so maybe you shouldn’t listen to me.

“CatDog,” whose protagonist was a hybrid of a cat and a dog, was amusing due to the brothers’ constant bickering. I mean, poor Cat, he had to survive Dog’s need to chase the garage truck and listen to rock ‘n’ roll.

This show was perfect for someone who had a sibling (like yours truly), who could relate to such conflicting dynamics while still remaining BFFs. But alas, who can forget the classics of “Rugrats” (being a baby never looked so fun), “Rocket Power” (woogie, woogie) and “Hey Arnold!” (stoop boy’s afraid to leave his stoop).

This truly is nostalgia. My birthday needs to come faster.

— Compiled by Colleen Bidwill, asst. feature editor, cabidwil@syr.edu

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Interpersonal character relationships drive plot of SU Drama show

By Noah Silverstein STAFF WRITER

In “Curse of the Starving Class,” Syracuse University’s drama department provides a fresh and realistic portrayal of a dysfunctional, lower-class family that experiences a struggle with authority and the maintenance of its ranch. The dark comedy is now playing at Syracuse Stage through April 10.

The story of the Tate family is one that is not uncommon. The family members have communication issues, and their ignorance for one another’s personal challenges hinder their ability to move past even the smallest of conflicts. Eventually they experience moments of revelation that change their lives, usually for the better. The story of the Tate family’s experience with this sort of dynamic with much higher stakes makes the story very original.

Gerardine Clark, a professor in the drama

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month after her diagnosis, Heather was in remission. The disease was absent from her body, but the possibility of it returning in the future loomed.

Heather continued monthly treatments at Upstate University Hospital during her first semester at SU. She had no trouble jumping into campus life. She became a volunteer coordinator for Habitat For Humanity, joined Community Council and participated in SU’s “Build Your First Year Experience” pre-orientation program.

“I definitely found that since I had been in the hospital so much before that, I was trying to catch up and do so much on campus,” Heather said. “I was sick of doing nothing. I had meetings every day of the week just because I wanted to be so involved, like I was making up for lost time.”

Justin Cole, a senior economics and public policy major and chair of Relay for Life’s advocacy committee, didn’t know Heather had lymphoma until he asked her if she could make a Thursday Habitat meeting. She said she might not be able to attend because of chemotherapy treatment.

“I just literally stood there speechless, in awe of this person who, battling through all of this other crap, all of these treatments that she had to go through, was also doing all of these other things,” said Cole, whom Heather considers a good friend.

When Heather heard SU’s Relay event was more popular than 2010’s Lupe Fiasco Juice Jam concert, she got excited. She had plans to bring in her old hair for Locks of Love.

Haley, abroad in Spain at the time, couldn’t help but wonder what would happen if her sister’s cancer came back. “You can’t help but have that nagging thought in the back of your mind,” she said.

During Winter Break, Heather planned her final scan. She would be cancer-free, she thought. Everything would be good.

Right before the scan, Heather said she had a weird feeling she couldn’t place.

Dashed hopes In her last month of school that fall semester, Heather needed a blood transfusion after her blood count dropped precipitously. It was just a cold, she thought.

But that final scan and a biopsy back home confirmed a relapse. During her first streams of consciousness coming out of anesthesia from

department, directs SU’s production of “Curse of the Starving Class.” The task of making this show come to life is not an easy feat, due to its deeply emotional content. Clark’s direction displays writer Sam Shepard’s work beautifully and to its greatest artistic potential. Each scene and act weave together cohesively, leaving questions to be answered and problems to hopefully be resolved. Clark’s vision and motive for each of the characters shine through continuously.

The only misstep is that the play is challenging to understand for those whose knowledge of drama and the nuances that bring a play to fruition are less developed.

Much praise must be given to scenic designer Sarah Oziemkowski, a junior scenic design major, whose set for “Curse of the Starving Class” transports the audience to the desperation and near poverty that is the Tate family’s ranch in 1960s California. The set is reminiscent of a television stage, aes-

thetically realistic and seemingly functional for real use.

Will Pullen, a sophomore acting major, takes on the emotionally distressed son Wesley Tate and shows great dramatic ability in his portrayal, which stays consistently strong in the many different situations he experiences.

The maturity his character takes on shines through, making him the authoritative force in many of the play’s scenes, especially between him and his mother. The epitome of Pullen’s dedication to the role is shown in a brief yet powerful nude scene, where he charges across the stage without any clothes. He demonstrates great courage in this scene, which is tastefully directed and superbly performed.

Alanna Rogers, a senior acting major, plays the role of a morally selfish and burned-out mother with a professionalism of a Broadwaycredited actress. Her every action stayed consistent with the ideas and motives she set out

for her character. Though her character loses power in many of her scenes with her onstage son, Rogers’ presence reigns superior.

Another notable mention goes to Phil Blechman, a junior acting major, as Weston Tate, the alcoholic father who experiences a lifestyle shift as the play progresses.

Performances that were not as strong belong to Ross Baron, whose portrayal of Sgt. Malcolm, while brief, brought down the energy of the rest of the production and seemed lost among stronger performers.

Overall, the cast of drama department students dealt with difficult material, which they had to bring to life and use to generate sympathy from the audience. The performers did incredible work, with some of the major players shining brightly. nbsilver@syr.edu A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on April 4.

the biopsy, Heather asked the doctor if it came back. “Is it back? Is it back? Did it come back or not?” Groggy and barely awake, she kept asking. It was.

“I just remember screaming and crying and my parents holding my hands,” she said.

It didn’t feel like “the second time” until Heather began losing her hair. Haley began drawing again.

Heather underwent treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where a bone marrow harvest would be less painful for her donor. Without healthy bone marrow, cancer patients are unable to make the blood cells needed to carry oxygen, fight infection and prevent bleeding.

Doctors don’t require, but prefer a bone marrow donor to be a perfect match in tissue type.

For Heather, her savior is her sister Haley.

“She was so happy that she was my perfect match, she was crying,” Heather said. Her sister giggled in the background as she snapped pictures of Heather without her wig.

“I’m glad I could be the one to give her that,” Haley said. “I would give anything for that girl.

She deserves it. All I can say is she’s an amazing girl. She’s amazing.”

The transplant, set for April or May, requires Heather to be in complete isolation for a month on a low microbial diet. Until then, Heather will enjoy time with her family. Her little sister and brother mother her, Heather said, often pat her head and give her hugs and kisses.

Resilient spirit Heather won’t be able to attend Saturday’s Relay For Life because of her hospital stay. But she has no doubt she will participate next year.

For Cole, the Relay advocacy committee chair, Heather is the best example of why people should donate to the Relay cause. Cancer doesn’t discriminate, he said, and she represents the randomness of it all.

“She makes you encouraged by her words, by her compassion, by her optimism, that you need to donate,” he said. “You need to help in any way, shape or form that you can because she doesn’t deserve this. No one deserves this.

It just motivates you to work as hard as you can to make sure that she’s cured and everyone else is cured.”

Haley is proud of her sister every day, she said. Whether they’re playing outside, trying on clothes or eating at the kitchen table, Haley said she is still documenting Heather’s journey.

“She’s the most amazing person I think I’ve ever known,” Haley said. “She’s so resilient. If

courtesy of haley buchan HEATHER BUCHAN continues to live her life as normally a possible, despite her battle with cancer. At SU, Heather was actively involved in several student organizations. there was one word to describe my sister, it’s resiliency. Seeing her trek through all of this makes me proud.”

After the transplant, if her immune system holds up, Heather plans to return to SU in the fall.

“If it’s good, then I’ll be back,” she said. “And if it’s not, then I’ll take a whole year off. People do it all the time. A year is just a year. I don’t really like to let things get in the way.” blbump@syr.edu

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Spears’ album ‘Femme Fatale’ fails to live up to former glory

By Erik Van Rheenan STAFF WRITER

here are some things in this world you don’t want to watch, yet you still can’t seem to turn away from them. No matter how disastrous the catastrophe unfolding before your eyes gets, you can’t help but peek through the fingers of one hand and use the other hand to grab some popcorn as the meltdown happens.

You’re watching the recent career of Britney Spears.

No longer the teen vixen who was the object of most ’90s boys’ affection, Spears has been derailed by one long losing battle against swarms of paparazzi. Nostalgic listeners, who still fondly remember Spears as an underdressed schoolgirl in her infamous video “Baby One More Time,” expected a splashy return. What they got, however, comes as a massively disappointing letdown to even Spears’ most loyal fans. Her latest effort, “Femme Fatale,” is in the same sonic vein as her last release, “Circus”: Both albums offer danceable electro-pop tunes, only if the listener can get past the schmaltzy production and robotic Auto-Tune-fueled vocals.

“Femme Fatale” starts with a one-two punch by opening with its two singles “Till the World Ends” and “Hold It Against Me.” The first is a vacuous melody lacking in emotion that somehow transitions into a hooklaced chorus consisting of nothing more meaningful than monosyllabic “whoas” — exactly the sound Ke$ha hoped for when she penned it. It’s catchy and should coast to a comfortable spot on the Billboard lists, but has no real wit or charm.

“Hold It Against Me” dabbles in dubstep territory, driven by an overwhelming bass

line and outdated synthesizer keys that belong back in the 1980s. However soul-sucking the verses are, Spears more than makes up for it with a fantastically written chorus, obviously not written by her. Infamous record producer Dr. Luke lends a heavyhanded touch to the album. As the brains behind Katy Perry’s “E.T.” and Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R,” which are both hit singles, he’s no stranger to writing throwaway, catchy pop songs.

“Inside Out” is loaded with more sexual innuendos than Bo Burnham’s comedy act and is about as subtle as a car crash. Spears’ vocals are glossy and shine on the track.

But the electronic-style arrangement is headache-inducing, almost as if the producers had a contest to see how many different effects they could haphazardly inject into the song. It holds a distant second place to “How I Roll,” which starts with Spears vocalizing and breathing heavily into the microphone.

Rambling incoherently for more than three and a half minutes, its only standout lyric is “Downtown where my posse’s at, nine lives like a kitty cat.”

“I Wanna Go” is a tune for the dance floor that goes heavy on the drum machine as Spears does her best impression of her ’90s voice, but this time with less feeling and more copious doses of Auto-Tune.

Spears collaborates with Will. I. Am. on “Big Fat Bass,” the absolute lowest point of the album. Critics who have jumped all over Rebecca Black’s “Friday” should grab their pitchforks and torches and go after Spears for her lyricism. Spears was never a wordsmith on par with Shakespeare, but when a song repeats the lines “I can be the treble and you can be the bass” and “the bass is getting bigger” over and over and over, it

makes for an overblown and self-indulgent mindless pop tune.

Overall, because of a lack of consistency in song quality, listening to Spears’ “Femme Fatale” is like watching a slow-motion train wreck. The first few tracks are listenable and fun to sing along and dance to, but the album slides into mediocrity with three or four tracks in the middle, stuffed together in a one-note, pounding-bass bread sandwich.

Spears’ effort is lackadaisical at best on the last few tracks of the album, featuring the exact same instrumentation about three times over and vocals that sound like Spears picked up her check for the album before she finished writing the closing songs: halfhearted and unmotivated.

So if you choose to listen to one Britney Spears record this week, do yourself a favor and make it “Baby One More Time” instead of the hot mess that is “Femme Fatale.”

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Q&A with Ra Ra Riot guitarist, co-founder Milo Bonacci

By Erik Van Rheenen STAFF WRITER

Indie rockers Ra Ra Riot will come home to Syracuse to play their first concert since releasing their second album, “The Orchard.” They’ll perform at the Westcott Theater on Thursday

Ra Ra Riot concert

The local band’s homecoming performance Where: Westcott Theatre When: Thursday, 8 p.m.

How much: $15-$18 at 8 p.m. The Daily Orange talked to guitarist Milo Bonacci about the band’s future plans and expectations about the upcoming concert.

The Daily Orange: How did Ra Ra Riot get started?

Bonacci: I was in an electronic music class competition, and Rebecca and I talked it over one day, about if we were starting a band or something. We were all living in the Euclid and Westcott area and started playing at our friends’ houses and a lot of parties near campus. We played at Syracuse, really, until a few months into it. When we were playing, we caught a break and got our first show in New York City.

Did the Syracuse music scene help the band achieve success?

It definitely gave us some momentum to start with. You know, we were basically doing it as a hobby, and the scene wasn’t that

big, and there weren’t many bands around.

So, yeah, it gave us the courage to play a lot of shows. What I like about Syracuse is that there was a lot of room to grow, and at least when we were there, there wasn’t a lot happening in the way of live music, so we didn’t have too much competition.

the snowy and cloudy days make the sunny days that much better.

What are your expectations for your upcoming show?

What is your favorite venue where Ra Ra Riot has played?

The Westcott wasn’t around when we were playing, so this will actually be our first show at the Westcott coming up. But some of my favorite shows I’ve played here were at small houses, really intimate settings, personal shows that we all remember. It’s funny looking at recordings and pictures from those days.

What’s it like playing hometown shows?

We tend to play Syracuse once or twice a year, whenever our tour schedule lets us. We play Syracuse more often than your average touring band, but that’s largely because of our roots. It’s always great coming back.

What’s your favorite and least favorite thing about Syracuse?

I was an architecture major and spent most of my time studying and doing homework, so I didn’t get out that much. But there was always a great opportunity to meet new people and play at new places, and we always enjoy coming back.

I grew up in upstate New York, so I’d be the last person to complain about the weather, but

I don’t quite know what to expect, but we’re excited to be visiting and playing here again.

We’re doing a run of shows in April, so this is the first for a week or two of shows until we go to Japan, which honestly may or may not happen. We’re continuously on tour. Even when we have time off, we find time to go out. We’ve been trying to get one of the bands opening for us, The Generations, to come out and play some shows with us, so we’re excited to play a show with them.

How would you say you’ve progressed as a band since your time at Syracuse?

have ever expected. Like I said, it started as a hobby, and here we are now, five years later.

We’ve gotten to see the world and had the opportunity to play all kinds of places. We’re extremely lucky to have gotten to this point, and I think we just have to enjoy how far we’ve come and be grateful for it.

The definition is always changing. Early on, “making it” meant being able to play shows and still make enough to eat regularly, so our perspective has definitely shifted.

What do you have planned for the rest of 2011?

It’s a little bit up in the air. We’re working on writing new material and playing new shows, and we’ll hopefully work on writing and recording, but we’re touring a lot this year.

What’s your songwriting process like?

Largely what has changed for us is the context of how we write our music. Early on, we wrote music we would want to play at a party, and that shaped our sound for a while. So what we were writing music for changed. We were more open to exploring a more dynamic range in our music and not necessarily just something high-energy for house parties. I think we’ve embraced a kind of different perspective from our audience.

An idea will be brought up by pretty much anybody in the band. It might be just an idea for a song or a more fleshed-out picture. At some point, it becomes a collaborative process, so everyone can offer feedback and input, and even songs that came to the table more fully developed come together with collaboration. It’s different for every song. The context of when and where we’re writing is always evolving and changing.

Do you feel like you’ve “made it” as a band?

Is there anything else you’d like readers to know?

It’s all about perspective for us. Some days we feel like we’ve made it, and other times it doesn’t. It all depends on the context. We’ve definitely made it further than any of us

Not off the top of my head, but if I think of anything, I’ll say it in person at the concert. ervanrhe@syr.edu

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By Rachel Marcus Asst. Copy Editor

As the ball rolled away from the goal, Gary Gait raced toward the sideline. The former Syracuse men’s lacrosse star scooped it up and relayed it back into the field of players.

This is the norm for Gait these days. The SU women’s lacrosse head coach announced his retirement from professional lacrosse at the beginning of the season and is now solely focused on coaching.

“It’s just fun to get out there once in a while and try to demonstrate the things you try and coach,” Gait said. “It’s just a nice change of pace. It lightens up the practice once in a while and makes it fun.”

Gait, arguably one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time, is using his playing experience to get the women’s team prepared for games. The fourth-year head coach provides his team with an advantage other teams don’t have, in the form of a coach who still has some game left in him. And the step he might have lost with age doesn’t deter him.

“Certainly not like it used to be,” Gait said of

Quick hits Last 3

March 23 @ Northwestern April 2 @ Rutgers Yesterday @ Dartmouth

Next 3

Friday Sunday April 16

Connecticut Notre Dame @ Georgetown

L, 16-11 W, 11-7 L, 10-7 4 p.m.

1 p.m.

Noon

Outlook

After a 2-4 road trip, the Orange returns home for five of its next six games. SU is coming off a 10-7 loss at Dartmouth on Monday. The team has struggled against ranked opponents, losing all six games it has played against ranked teams. SU has managed to win its games against unranked teams, and it somehow still finds itself ranked in the Top 20. The team has a chance to right the ship at the Carrier Dome against its fellow Big East foes.

Connecticut is up first on Friday.

his past prime. “I used to be much better at demonstrating. But you know, it’s definitely fun to get out there and show them what they can do.”

For the players, there’s no better person to go up against than Gait. He doesn’t necessarily fit the mold of the players the team faces in its games — he’s bigger and taller — but his skill and experience provide help for both the offense and defense.

Whether it is his passes, field vision or shooting, it all helps the team.

“As a goalie, it’s great because you’re never going to see a better shot than Gary Gait,” goaltender Liz Hogan said.

But even with Gait’s coaching, the team has not been immune to struggles. SU is just 3-6 on the season after facing one of the toughest schedules in the country so far.

With the second half of the season about to start, assistant coach Regy Thorpe is confident the team has found the chemistry needed to pick up some more wins. He attributes the development of team cohesion to Gait.

“Certainly he was a phenomenal player in his time, and he’s a phenomenal coach,” Thorpe said. “And I think having that experience as a player, a recently retired player, not too far from the locker room, understanding the dynamics of a locker room and chemistry and the ups and downs of a season (is good). And we’ve been going through that.”

Gait and the team have a chance to finish the season above .500 with the bulk of its Big East schedule ahead. Five straight Big East games await, with four of them in the Carrier Dome.

With those games looming, senior Catherine Rodriguez says practice with Gait presents an opportunity to learn more. A chance to pick up those important wins in crucial conference games. Because even though Gait is a lot bigger than any female the team will face, his on-field demonstrations provide insight into how the best players play.

“He helps us practice defending the dodge and also trying to get those checks off because he protects the stick really well,” Rodriguez said, “and just kind of get in the movement and flow and stuff because he can obviously see the field really well.”

Gait may be done playing professionally, but

ashli truchon | staff photographer Liz Hogan is in the unique position of taking shots from head coach Gary Gait, who not only coaches but plays during SU’s practices. Gait is a retired pro lacrosse player. that’s not the reason why he grabs a stick and runs onto the field in practice. It is something he has always done.

He has a good feel for the game and knows when to be serious and when to have fun, Thorpe said.

“He’s a type of coach and player that likes to lead by example and certainly not just tell the players, but show them and demonstrate it,” Thorpe said. “So he’s great like that. “He’s a great guy to coach with. We have a lot of fun.” rnmarcus@syr.edu

Syracuse drops 6th straight game to ranked team at No. 20 Dartmouth Syracuse’s trip to New Hampshire on Monday turned sour as the team lost its sixth consecutive game to a ranked team, falling 10-7 to No. 20 Dartmouth. The loss came after Syracuse held a two-goal advantage at the half.

SU now falls to 3-6 on dartmouth 10 the season, and Dartsyracuse 7 mouth improves to 7-2.

Playing without upperclassmen Tee Ladouceur and Lindsay Rogers due to injury, SU could not maintain a 5-3 lead in the second half against the Big Green. This was partly a result of a 24-minute scoring drought spanning nearly the entire second half.

Syracuse’s last lead of the game, 6-5, came on junior Sarah Holden’s free position conversion at the 25:00 mark.

Statistically, the game was close. SU held a 26-21 shot advantage while also winning the

draw-control battle 10-9. The Big Green, however, held the advantage in ground balls, 20-19. Dartmouth’s seven second-half goals mark the fifth time this season the Orange has given up at least that many in a second half.

Senior Catherine Rodriguez scored SU’s first two goals, and Alyssa Murray and Lindsay Connell also chipped in scores. Sophomore Michelle Tumolo contributed two points off of one goal and one assist. Dartmouth junior Sarah Plumb led her team with three goals and two assists, and freshman Kristen Giovanniello recorded 10 saves.

Monday’s game marked the final nonconference contest before an upcoming stretch of five Big East games over the next three weeks.

Syracuse returns home to face Connecticut next, on Friday, April 8.

— Compiled by Zuri Irvin, staff writer, zoirvin@syr.edu

Road woes Syracuse has struggled on the road this season, compiling a lowly 2-5 record away from the Carrier Dome. The Orange is 0-5 on the road against ranked teams this season. Here is a look at how SU has fared away from home this season.

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Opponent

Feb. 20 No. 10 Stanford March 12 No. 1 Maryland March 15 Towson March 19 No. 6 Florida March 23 No. 2 Northwestern March 26 Rutgers April 4 No. 20 Dartmouth

Result

L, 11-10 L, 7-5 W, 11-5 L, 16-11 L, 16-11 W, 11-7 L, 10-7

SU’s overall record

1-1 1-3 2-3 2-4 2-5 3-5 3-6

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SU’s Misenti reflects success through outlandish hairstyles

By Nick Toney

Contributing Writer

If Forrest Misenti is running well, the entire SU distance running team knows it. Misenti’s hair is the dead giveaway.

Now famous among track team members, his hair becomes more impressive and outlandish with every victory. To the junior, the crazy cuts are all about confidence during a race.

His latest style: a five-inch-long blond rattail.

“I go into events and not even consider losing,” Misenti said. “Cross country or track, it helps to have that mental edge, and I guess the hair is just a reflection of that.”

That mental edge came in handy in SU’s last cross country season, when he took sixth overall on the 8,000-meter course at the Big East championships. And that came as the Orange repeated as conference champs. Now in track season, Misenti has battled quad injuries, but one look at his hair shows his confidence hasn’t been hurt.

The current rattail cut is still a hot topic for SU distance runners and is a real “team uniter,” SU track and field head coach Chris Fox said.

“Sometimes, I look at his head and wonder, ‘How in the world did he do that?’”

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“You’ll learn to keep away from him if his hair isn’t radical and crazy looking, but we all love it,” Fox said. “Sometimes, I look at his head and wonder, ‘How in the world did he do that?’”

Misenti’s running career may have Fox wondering the same. Misenti, a Haddam, Conn., native, was a high school cross country and track star, but prior to that, poor grades and waning interest in the sport caused him to be ineligible for the indoor season of his freshman year. When outdoor season began, Misenti wanted to quit track to try out for the baseball team.

That didn’t sit well with father Nicholas Misenti, a former runner himself. Nicholas took his son Forrest for his first race at age 6 — the 5,000-meter Lakeside Road Race in East Hampton, Conn.

When he saw his son sprint out to the lead and then hold off most adult runners at that young age, he knew Forrest had potential.

“Forrest’s two brothers and his sister all ran in school, but they didn’t have the love of running that Forrest has,” Nicholas Misenti said.

“He has the motivation to push through pain, and that’s rare. We didn’t have to convince him much.”

It was a much-needed intervention. Misenti became a two-time high school All-New England and All-American in track and was a team captain his senior year. His coaches anticipated a full running scholarship for Misenti after he placed second in the 3,200-meter at the New England Championships.

When it came time for college recruitment,

however, only a handful of Division II and Division III schools offered scholarships. Misenti insisted he wanted to run for a big-time program, and he did — as a walk-on.

Only after earning a scholarship at SU after his freshman year did Misenti exploit “one of the biggest perks of college sports.”

“I had to keep my hair short at Xavier High, or else I got in trouble,” he said. “Once I got away from the private school setting and arrived at SU, I was finally free” to try out new hairstyles.

Misenti’s newfound liberation has been on display all year. He donated 15 months’ worth

of hair to Locks of Love before sporting a “fauxhawk.” Then came Big East championships and “the zipper,” a Mohawk and mullet hybrid.

He’ll reunite his current rattail with another “zipper” if this upcoming track season goes well.

Fox thinks it will. Misenti has shown much since he walked onto the team that improvement is “almost expected,” he said.

“It’s always nice when one of our runners does well,” Fox said. “But for it to be a walk-on and also for it to be a kid like Forrest, it’s just that much better.” nctoney@syr.edu

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The Syracuse track and field team will be split up this weekend, as some members compete in the Arizona State Sun Angel and others compete at the Cornell Spring Invite. These meets come on the heels of a successful weekend at the Princeton Sam Howell Invitational this past weekend. At Princeton, two Orange athletes qualified for the Big East championships. Junior Mark Melilli qualified in the javelin with a mark of 57.15 meters, good for third at the meet. Senior Kwaku Boah qualified in the shot put with a throw of 15.12 meters.

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on ESPN networks most years in May. The next, they’re toiling away in relative anonymity. That translates to the low salaries and a constant struggle to garner attention on a national level.

It’s a life that’s anything but glamorous, but Jamieson and other former SU stars like Gary Gait say they wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Gait, now the Syracuse women’s lacrosse coach, spent two decades playing professional lacrosse for teams across the country.

“You love to play, you have a passion for the game,” Gait said. “Certainly back when I started, they really didn’t pay any money.

The leagues have come a long way, and players have opportunities now that certainly weren’t there 20 years ago. We did it for the love of the game.”

Gait and Jamieson were teammates briefly this season before Gait retired in early February to focus on coaching at SU. With Gait gone, Jamieson now holds even more responsibility in helping professional lacrosse grow in popularity. Late last year, he signed a record 10-year contract to remain in Rochester.

“That’s a big part of why I did it,” Jamieson said. “I don’t want to play anywhere else for any other team. I hope to be around a long time.”

Syracuse lacrosse doesn’t need much promoting. After basketball season, lacrosse garners most of Syracuse’s athletic attention. Not so in the pros. In Rochester, for example, this

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year’s average attendance is less than what it was in most previous seasons.

On the day before one of his team’s games, Jamieson walked into The Distillery — a bar and grill restaurant in Rochester. He sat down at his table and looked down at his placemat.

Staring right back at him was an advertisement for the Knighthawks with his picture on the left side.

After he fi nished lunch, Jamieson walked out of the restaurant and saw yet another reminder of his growing popularity in the city — popularity that comes with leading the team with 20 goals.

The Knighthawks run a promotion where fans can have their car wrapped in a team decal, with their favorite player’s picture covering the entire side of the car. The car has to remain that way for two years. Sitting in the parking lot was a car with Jamieson’s picture plastered on its side. Still, only about a dozen fans have taken part in the promotion.

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could get his truck done,” Jamieson said.

“Growing up, who’d think there’d be some stranger driving around with your face on their door?”

But despite the advertisements on restaurant placemats or the decals on the sides of cars, Jamieson said he’s rarely recognized.

That’s the nature of professional lacrosse.

Jamieson said he knows the real purpose of his pictures around the city. At the end of the day, he said, it’s not just him that the team is promoting.

“As a kid, I wasn’t thinking about having my face 50 feet long and 50 feet wide on the side of a building,” Jamieson said. “It’s for a good purpose — the Rochester Knighthawks.”

Whenever the Knighthawks play in Rochester, Jamieson’s temporary home is a hotel room in the Radisson Riverside, just a couple of blocks from The Blue Cross Arena. Most of the players all stay on the same floor, giving them the opportunity to reunite for the fi rst time in a week.

One of the challenges is not spending much time with teammates. Between games, the players return to their respective homes, where most have full-time jobs and some have families. That in itself is one of the many things Jamieson had to get used to. It’s also one of the things he misses most about his playing days with the Orange.

“The companionship,” Jamieson said. “The guys at Syracuse are defi nitely a lot tighter, especially because we were with each other every day. In the pros, you have to fi nd time.

We go out for team dinners and stuff like that. That’s a big part of it, getting to know everybody.”

Compared to some of his Knighthawks teammates, Jamieson’s life remains fairly routine. Aside from the weekend trips from his apartment in Orchard Park, N.Y., to Rochester for his team’s games, Jamieson has the ability to stay at home. With job security and what he says are fewer expenses than some of his teammates, Jamieson doesn’t have to work another job to support himself.

That’s not the case for many others who have a career away from lacrosse. They have to make certain arrangements with their fulltime employers to allow for them to miss workdays if needed. Ian Rubel works as a police officer for the Niagara Regional Police in Ontario, Canada. Scott Campbell doubles as a sales and account manager with No Panic Computing. Craig Point is an ironworker in Ontario.

“The guys that are playing have been playing for a long time, as far as their lives are concerned,” Knighthawks head coach Mike Hasen said. “So going into situations, jobs and stuff like that, they’re fully aware of their other commitments.”

When they can, the players go out for team dinners or fi nd other forms of chemistry-building opportunities. Before one game, it was ’70s night. Jamieson walked to a packed bag on his bed and pulled out a brown wool sports jacket, bellbottom pants and a vest.

“We’re professional, we show up wearing our own suits and ties,” Jamieson said. “It’s always fun to get dressed up and do something

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different and have a laugh at each other. The fans know nothing about it.”

But for Jamieson, the invisibility is what makes the difference in feeling comfortable in his new professional lacrosse life. After Rochester’s fi rst game of the season in Minnesota, Jamieson and his teammates went out after the game. It was a group of professional athletes who didn’t draw any double-takes from anyone else around them.

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“The guys at Syracuse are definitely a lot tighter, especially because we were with each other every day. In the pros, you have to find time.”

Cody Jamieson

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No matter how unknown the world of professional lacrosse is to fans of mainstream sports, those who are a part of it never want to leave. The low salaries and the weekends away from home, as well as the long workouts during the week, are all something professional lacrosse players like Jamieson have come to accept.

Just like they’ve accepted the lack of stateof-the-art practice facilities. When they’re at home, the Knighthawks practice in a facility that’s in need of an update. The Rochester Sports Garden is a nondescript building on a highway on the south side of the city. On the inside, it’s dark and gloomy.

“I don’t let little things like that bother me,” Jamieson said. “Lacrosse players aren’t too picky.”

That, perhaps, best summarizes the life of a professional lacrosse player. Jamieson and other professionals spent years preparing for this life. So they don’t mind that the attention is rarely on them or that they don’t make millions of dollars or practice in the best facilities.

“Everyone that plays lacrosse knows you’re not going to get rich off of it,” Jamieson said.

“It’s something you understand way before it happens.” cjiseman@ syr.edu

KNIGHTED

Cody Jamieson leads the Rochester Knighthawks with 20 goals this season, but he first made his mark during his collegiate career. The attack transferred to Syracuse after playing at Onondaga Community College for two years. Here are Jamieson’s totals in goals and assists during those years.

YEAR

2006 2007 2009 2010

GOALS

57 65 9 28

ASSISTS

64* 51* 3 13

*Onondaga Community College

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said. “They’ve not yet turned that play and made it their own.”

Wheatley may call it “esteem,” but for SU head coach Doug Marrone, the goal for Smith and Gulley is much more cut and dry. After Syracuse’s practice in Rochester, N.Y., on March 26 — one where Gulley was held out due to an injury he has since recovered from — Marrone tiptoed around the reality of the situation for the duo, before being prodded a second time.

He acknowledges the same truth as Wheatley. There needs to be a No. 2 guy who can produce like Bailey did last year, for they have faith Bailey can become Carter.

And becoming that No. 2 guy means becoming a BCS-caliber player in the spring.

“I’m just looking to see if I can get them on the field to play in the Big East,” Marrone said in Rochester. “If I can get that out of them, then we will be fi ne. We still got a ways to go.”

Difference in scrimmages Saturday’s scrimmage in the Carrier Dome marked a distinct shift from what happened in the Orange’s scrimmage in Rochester a week earlier. In that contest, SU started off slowly on offense before getting in sync late. Syracuse’s defense dominated in the early going.

On Saturday, however, the SU offense came out with a bang. The unit started the scrimmage from its own 20-yard line. And right from the outset, running back Antwon Bailey broke free for about a 60-yard run into the red zone.

Led by rising junior quarterback Ryan Nassib, the Orange marched 80 yards in just six plays. On the next drive, backup running back Prince-Tyson Gulley broke free for a big gain.

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“I wouldn’t say (the running back situation is) a problem, but the thing that we want to have is who’s the No. 2 guy? You’ve got Tyson and you have young Jerome back there pushing for the No. 2 spot.”

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and we made some big plays,” Marrone said.

“We had some big runs. It was exciting.”

The offense scored three touchdowns in its fi rst three possessions. Things seemed to turn, though, when Dorian Graham dropped a deep pass from Nassib as he looked to be headed to the end zone. A few drives later, Marcus Sales’ fumble turned the remainder of the scrimmage in favor of the defense.

Marrone said he couldn’t compare his team’s performance from scrimmage to scrimmage. And with both sides experiencing ups and downs, he said that as a head coach, he couldn’t get too excited about either side performing well.

“You’re playing against each other,” Marrone said. “So me as a head coach, if I’m excited about the way we started off and the big plays, then I’m not too excited about how we were playing defense at the time.” bplogiur@ syr.edu aolivero@ syr.edu — Asst. Sports Editor Mark Cooper contributed reporting to this article.

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Gulley, Smith vie for No. 2 back role

By Brett LoGiurato and Tony Olivero THE DAILY ORANGE

Blending in In pros, former SU stars like Jamieson live in anonymity

Tyrone Wheatley poses the question himself, without a direct prompt. Syracuse’s second-year running backs coach believes the fate of SU’s rushing attack lies not on the shoulders of new No. 1 running back Antwon Bailey, but on the svelte shoulders of Prince-Tyson Gulley and the brutal shoulders of Jerome Smith.

“Who’s the No. 2 guy?” Wheatley asked Thursday after practice.

With the backups — and whoever emerges as that No. 2 guy — will go Syracuse’s season. And this spring Wheatley and the rest of the running back corps is attempting to iron things out to keep up the 140-yard-per-game production of SU’s rushing attack from last season. It was a rushing attack that offensively carried the Orange to its fi rst bowl game in six seasons.

Wheatley believes the Orange will be able to do it, even if the unit as a whole has to replace the 95 yards per game from departed senior running back Delone Carter — a 2011 NFL Draft prospect tabbed to be selected anywhere from the second to fourth round.

Bailey, a rising senior who logged substantial carries behind Carter and others for three years, averaged 43 yards per game and 4.9 yards per carry as a junior. Behind him, the third running back of the group, the rising sophomore Gulley, carried the ball only 13 times in his freshman year for one touchdown.

To Wheatley, Gulley was right behind two No. 1 players: Carter and Bailey.

“Antwon by no means was a No. 2,” Wheatley said. “So with that being said, this year, I wouldn’t say (the running back situation is) a problem, but the thing that we want to have is who’s the No. 2 guy? You’ve got Tyson and you have young Jerome back there pushing for the No. 2 spot. So that’s going to be the big question mark, No. 2.”

Wheatley is pushing Smith — who played in two games in 2010 until he injured his shoulder on Oct. 1 — and Gulley with the idea of keeping SU’s running backs corps in an elevated “esteem” after last season.

The running backs coach feels the efforts of Bailey and Carter laid the foundation for that esteem.

To get there, Wheatley said the timing and understanding of plays are where Smith and Gulley need to improve — nothing unique for two young players in spring ball.

Wheatley is waiting for plays in spring practice where one of the two separates himself.

“They’re still getting the understanding,” Wheatley SEE RUNNING BACKS PAGE 21

top: courtesy of the rochester knighthawks; bottom: daily orange file photo CODY JAMIESON (TOP RIGHT, BOTTOM RIGHT) is in his rookie season with the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League. After starring at SU, Jamieson doesn’t get the same attention as a pro player.

By Chris Iseman

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ASST. COPY EDITOR

OCHESTER, N.Y. — Cody Jamieson sits on the floor of a preschool classroom, reading “One Drowsy Dragon” to a group of timid and anxious 4-year-olds. The students stare at the professional lacrosse player sitting in front of them, some in awe and others in apathy.

Either way, this is now a part of Jamieson’s life. A rookie on the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League, Jamieson is helping to grow a game that hasn’t been able to break through mainstream sports.

“Whenever I can, I defi nitely don’t mind it,” Jamieson said. “Some guys don’t like it, and then there are guys like me that enjoy it.”

Jamieson is away from the spotlight of Syracuse lacrosse, one of the many former college stars turned professionals. Often making little more than $25,000 or so per year, Jamieson and other former SU stars aren’t doing it for money, but more for the love of the sport.

Unlike most other professional sports, lacrosse lags behind in popularity and attention. One season, especially at Syracuse, lacrosse stars like Jamieson are glamorized

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shijing wang | staff photographer JEROME SMITH is battling for the second-string running back position as Antwon Bailey moves to No. 1.