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Disasters spur safety adjustments By Brianna Quaglia
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Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Political unrest. All of these issues have affected international students studying abroad this semester. Syracuse University Abroad officials say they have maintained concerns about safety, but circumstances like these have happened before. “Study abroad doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s in the real world,” said Jon Booth, executive director of SU Abroad. “We’ve been running programs continuously for 50 years, and we’ve had the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the war in Iraq. We’ve had to deal with SARS, flu scares and, of course, the Pan Am flight in 1988.” Situations like these will happen, and there will be some risk involved, Booth said. “We’re constantly monitoring world news. We have emergency procedures and protocols in place, and we revise them every semester, if not more frequently,” Booth said. SU Abroad handles every situation differently, Booth said, but there are many safety precautions put in place for students. Students receive a predeparture orientation that identifies the risks, an emergency contact card, a 24-hour toll-free hotline and an access code to International SOS, an organization that provides students with contact information for a reliable, English-speaking doctor. Following the Japan disaster, political unrest in the Middle East, a student drowning in Spain and the death of two college students who got caught in a crossfire between soldiers and drug traffickers in Mexico last year, some universities are rethinking their abroad programming, according to a March 17 article in The New York Times. Many U.S. college students preparing to leave for Japan to start spring study programs are debating whether or not they should cancel
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stephanie lin | design editor TIM LARACH (FAR RIGHT) , a freshman sport management major, waits outside Chipotle Mexican Grill on Tuesday. Larach made the first purchase at the new store — a steak burrito and quesadilla.
Students began gathering outside Chipotle Mexican Grill on Marshall Street at least a half-hour before the restaurant officially opened for the first time Tuesday. “We have had a line to the door all day,” said manager Josh Freeman. “Now we just have to keep up with all of the orders.” But the line moved quickly, and Chipotle processed between 110 and 120 orders per hour, Freeman said. Later in the day, at 7 p.m., every seat was taken, and the line began to snake its way out the door. Chipotle opened its doors for the
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Activist highlights importance of protecting clean water worldwide By Breanne Van Nostrand STAFF WRITER
The difference was clear to Maude Barlow when a Mexican man presented two full water bottles during a World Water Council forum a few years ago. One bottle was filled with water from the five-star hotel where he was employed, and the other contained water from his home village. The difference? The water from the man’s home was unsafe to drink, Barlow said. Barlow, a clean water activist,
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spoke at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday. She is the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a global initiative aiming to protect fresh water supplies from trade and privatization, and chair of the board of the Food and Water Watch nonprofit organization, which ensures water and food are accessible and safe. She was appointed as the United Nations’ first senior adviser on water issues in 2008. Despite what may have been taught in early school days, the planet is running out of clean water, Barlow said. Through displacement of clean water, water tables are steadily being destroyed, which is creating a global crisis, she said. “Water is the gold of our time,” Barlow said. Humans are using water supplies faster than they can be replenished because newer technologies are available, Barlow said. A survey found that demand for water will
sean harp | staff photographer MAUDE BARLOW, a clean water activist, speaks to students in Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday. Barlow is co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a global initiative aimed at protecting fresh water. outgrow supply by 2030, she said. Lack of access to clean water is the largest killer of small children, and every three seconds, a child dies of a waterborne illness in developing countries, Barlow said. The issue is the largest human rights issue at present, she said.
Barlow insisted on the recognition of water as a human right. Barlow said a resolution that confirmed the right to water and sanitation for all human beings was passed in the U.N. General Assembly in June 2010.
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Female student robbed Tuesday in Thorden Park A female student was robbed while walking through the Thornden Park amphitheater Tuesday morning, according to a Department of Public Safety email alert. As of Tuesday evening, the case is still being investigated, said DPS Capt. John Sardino. At 10:30 a.m., an unknown male came out of a bush with a knife and proceeded to steal jewelry and a book from the victim, who reported the incident to DPS. The cost of the stolen items was within $100, Sardino said. The student did not sustain injuries. The Syracuse Police Department responded to the call, Sardino said. As of now, there is no more information to release, Sardino said, and he would not comment further than the information provided in the email alert sent to students. The suspect was last seen traveling on foot northeast in the park toward South Beech Street, according to the DPS email alert. DPS provided the following description of the suspect: a black male in his mid-20s, with a thin build and 5 feet 11 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a dark blue hooded sweatshirt, black jeans and white sneakers. This is the first public safety notice email sent to students campuswide since early February. Sardino said this is because that was the last time an email alert was needed. DPS emailed a notice Feb. 10 reminding students to protect their belongings during a string of larcenies at the beginning of the semester. The last incident prompting a public safety alert — also a daytime robbery in Thornden Park — occurred Jan. 28.
Program named in Top 10 The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities program in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management was named as one of the 10 Best-In-Class programs by Inc. magazine, according to an April 4 Syracuse University news release. The program offers experiential training in entrepreneurship and business management to disabled soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines who supported the operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, according to the release. The program was founded in 2007 and has since expanded to other business schools outside SU, according to the release. — Compiled by Meghin Delaney, Dara McBride, The Daily Orange, medelane@syr.edu, dkmcbrid@syr.edu —A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on April 5.
staci fanelli | staff photographer HASEEBA SYED (LEFT) and Kamilah Pickett, the secretary of the Muslim Students’ Association and an author, respectively, speak in the Jabberwocky Cafe in Schine Student Center on Monday. Pickett shared her struggles on being an African-American Muslim woman.
Muslim women share stories to dispel myths By George Clarke STAFF WRITER
Kamilah Pickett says she has seen every form of stupidity come her way because of her modest dress. “It’s easy to view someone else as an ‘other’ when you don’t know their story,” she said. Pickett, an African-American Muslim and author of the piece “Ten Things About Me,” dispelled myths about Islam by sharing reallife stories about herself and other Muslim women at the Jabberwocky
Cafe on Tuesday night. Three University of Chicago students started the Hijabi Monologues in 2006 to challenge common notions about female Muslims with stories of their everyday lives, according to the america.gov website. Pickett, who converted with her mother at age 12, joined the group in November 2009. The term “hijab” applies not only to a traditional head covering for Muslim women, but also to a form of modesty they are expected to
practice. “It’s a piece of fabric, not a magic wand,” Pickett said. Varsty Muhammad, a secondyear child and family studies doctoral student, started practicing Islam in 1998 after shifting among several other faiths, including Baptist Christianity. At first she wore her hijab only to attend her temple, but she began wearing it full time in 2000. She chooses to cover her hair with fabric and leave her neck
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uncovered, although Muslims with more traditional views tend to cover their necks as well, she said. In her view, modesty is required, even if the hijab and its many styles are optional, she said.
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Recycling law implemented in NY due to student support By Karin Dolinsek STAFF WRITER
Recycling electronics just got easier for New York state residents after a law went into effect Friday as a direct result of student efforts. “No politician goes into office thinking environmental policies will be their priority, and it’s difficult to get environmental laws on the agenda. Student lobbying really helped,” said Ted Traver, project coordinator for the New York Public
Interest Research Group at Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. In support of an e-waste recycling program, students from the SU and ESF chapter of NYPIRG have written to, called and met with elected officials over the past couple of years, according to a March 31 news release from NYPIRG. The group’s efforts to educate people on campus and in their com-
munities about the e-waste problem resulted in then-Gov. David Paterson signing the bill into law on May 28, according to the release. The Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act, a new state law requiring manufacturers to collect and recycle discarded electronic equipment, went into effect April 1. The law makes being environmentally responsible easier for New York residents. The law requires manufacturers to “establish a con-
venient system for the collection, handling, and recycling or reuse of electronic waste,” according to the Department of Environmental Conservation website. Manufacturers of electronic equipment are also responsible for recording the discarded electronic waste and will be monitored by the Department of Environmental Conservation, according to the website. E-waste is an informal name
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their plans, according to the article. If students cancel, they could lose a semester’s worth of academic credit because their home college campuses are well into the spring term, according to the article. As for SU, Booth said its extensive study abroad program opens students to new situations and cultures, and there is inherit risk associated with that experience. “If you never go anywhere, nothing will ever happen to you,” Booth said. When political turmoil broke out in Egypt in January, the four students studying at the American University in Cairo through SU Abroad’s World Partners programs were told to evacuate, according to a Feb. 9 article in The Daily Orange. All the students were flown out of Egypt by Feb. 2 and given the option to continue their studies at locations in Istanbul, London or another country in the Middle East, according to the article. SU Abroad’s World Partners programs have suspended the affiliated program in Cairo for next semester, but may reinstate it for spring 2012, Booth said. After a 9.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Japan in March, SU’s abroad office contacted the four students there and suggested they consider coming home or pursuing SU Abroad’s program in Hong Kong, Booth said. But SU Abroad has not canceled the two Japan programs the four students are in, he said. Booth said all four students are OK. Two of the students were planning to study at Waseda University, but were in between semesters and staying in Tokyo when the earthquake hit.
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The abroad office urged the students to leave Tokyo because of power outages, but left it to the students to make the final decision. “We told them we were reserving judgment if they could return for spring, and one student is going to the Hong Kong program,” Booth said. Another student visited friends in southern Japan to be away from Tokyo, he said. That student will return to Waseda University in May to continue studying, as the start of the semester there has been postponed until that month. The remaining two students studying in Japan were more than 300 miles away from the most hard-hit area and nuclear plant when the earthquake hit, Booth said. They had already made travel plans to visit Okinawa, so SU Abroad encouraged them to keep their plans and bring their belongings with them, Booth said. Following the earthquake in Japan, the Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center of International Services also offered counseling services and advised students whose hometowns were
in the affected area of Japan to remain in the United States, according to a March 11 article in The Daily Orange. At the time the earthquake struck, there were 58 international students from Japan on the SU campus, according to the article. “There aren’t as many students trying to go home now as we had right after the earthquake and the tsunami,” said Charter Morris, assistant director for immigration and scholar services. “We did have a few people who wanted to go home immediately.” Travel to and within Japan remains difficult, but the conditions have improved, Morris said. Some students were simply trying to get in touch with family and friends back home, which the center helped make possible, Morris said. “We’ve accounted for everybody, we know where everybody is,” Morris said. The Slutzker center is now reaching out to recently admitted Japanese students to see if they still plan on coming to SU in the fall, Morris said. “We’re seeing if they need assistance or need us to delay their entry so they can take care of things back home,” he said. Yui Matsumoto, a senior international relations major who has family in Japan, is currently studying at SU’s Strasbourg location, where she said she feels “pretty safe.” She has also studied abroad in the highly populated city of Hong Kong and in Madrid, where she said she would firmly guard her purse. She has retained ties to those back in Japan and contacted several SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry alumni currently in or near Tokyo to make sure they and their families were safe.
Conditions in Japan depend on the area. In the Tohoku area where the earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear threats have affected residents, the living condition is still devastating, Matsumoto said in an email. In other parts, Matsumoto said, life is going on as usual. “My family lives in western Japan near Kobe/Osaka where there was no actual damage of the earthquake,” Matsumoto said, “and things are completely the same over there.” bquaglia@syr.edu
EVACUATING
Other universities have recently pulled students from abroad programs around the world. Some of the universities include:
New York University
The school pulled 50 students and staff from three sites in Cairo, Egypt in January after the protests began in January.
Boston University
The school ended its 20-year-old program in Nigeria after two French citizens were kidnapped in January.
University of Michigan
After the U.S. Department of State discouraged travel to Egypt in January, the school had nine of their students return to the United States.
Cornell University
In February, the school relocated students in New Zealand when an earthquake hit and heavily damaged the campus.
Temple University
After the earthquake hit Japan in March, the university offered to fly 200 students back to main campus. Source: The New York Times
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SU must protect free speech when amending harassment policies Student Association, in collaboration with Residence Hall Association, Pride Union and the Pan-Hellenic Council, passed a resolution Monday recommending Syracuse University amend its definition of harassment to include cyberbullying to its Student Code of Conduct. The addition of cyberbullying to the Code of Conduct is incredibly important, but the language must not compromise students’ free speech. The Internet facilitates anonymity and publicity, amplifying any embarrassment or frustration resulting from online harassment. The Student Code of Conduct should change with the times, as those with malicious intent have found an easier way — via the various websites, online forums and new media technology — to cause harm without being caught. However, SA and the other organizations involved should have considered and recommended the specific language to be added to the
editorial by the daily orange editorial board student codes. As was expressed at the meeting, without suggesting an exact phrase, the amendment will certainly stall at the administrative level. Amending the definition of harassment in the Code of Conduct raises another important issue — the need for incredible clarity. The current definition of harassment in the Code of Conduct is too vague, and with this amendment, the university should also consider revising and clarifying exactly what harassment constitutes. There is a fine line between public satire and harassment. Clearly drawing that line will protect students from harassment and unfair punishment. The administration should consult the Tully Center for Free Speech if they heed SA’s suggestion and amend the Code of Conduct.
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rotests this week in Afghanistan against the Dove World Outreach Center’s Quran burning ceremony have led to more than 20 deaths. Pastor Terry Jones, leader of the Quran burning, has denied responsibility for the violence, and Internet chatter generally equates the Quran burning to burning the American flag, an act clearly protected under the First Amendment. There seems to be at least a causal connection between Jones’ Quran burnings and the murders in Afghanistan: Quran is burned in the United States; video is broadcast on Internet via church website; violent extremists generalize from video that Americans hate Muslims; riots begin in Mazar-e-Sharif; lots of people die. This doesn’t imply in any straightforward way that Jones bears ultimate responsibility for the killing, but he obviously incurs some moral culpa-
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bility for encouraging violence, given he knew the likely consequences of burning the Quran. The idea that all of the responsibility for these events falls on those abroad is ludicrous. Very few situations warrant the limitation of First Amendment rights, and importantly so. But because more than just our political community is involved, and because of the emergent nature of modern communication, First Amendment jurisprudence hasn’t been fully worked out for a rapidly globalizing world. Brandenburg v. Ohio was the latest Supreme Court case to deal with restricted speech that causes imminent danger. This is speech akin to “shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre,” as Justice Wendell Holmes put it in 1919. Brandenburg established a test for restricting speech based on the danger it causes — it must intentionally incite immediate and likely lawless action.
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too left for politics Restricting speech like Jones’ on this basis would be a serious legal stretch, but it’s worth thinking about. The likelihood of violence was clear and known to Jones through warnings from as high up as the president, encouraged by his original plan in September. The protests began four days after Jones burned the Quran, but almost immediately after his speech percolated into the Afghan media. Jones didn’t specifically incite violent action, but it could be argued that he had the intention to incite violence given his indubitable knowledge of the consequences.
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The main problem this reasoning runs into is the “heckler’s veto,” a situation in which speech is silenced because of the reaction of an upset crowd. If First Amendment exceptions allowed this, negative reactions of bigots in the south would have silenced the civil rights movement. Any unpopular view could be restricted by the force of the majority — and unpopular views make democracy work. The “hecklers” in this case are very far away, members of a clearly removed political community from ours — can the idea of “heckling” even apply here? Global political debate like we have in the United States is still an aspiration — Jones will never really dialog with Muslims in Afghanistan; a worthy yet unpopular view is unlikely to contribute to global political debate to the degree that it does in our domestic political community. Incendiary speakers can, however,
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cause murders of innocent people, even if much responsibility falls on interlocutors. This asymmetry between the relatively limited nature of the global political community and the gravity of human death might justify restriction of speech that knowingly incites sufficiently deplorable violence. Giving Jones even the modicum of publicity of this page feels wrong, but it’s worth pointing out the consequences of incendiary free speech in a globalizing world. Jones is clearly responsible for horrible violence, and he ought to realize as much. Some brave district attorney might even work out an argument along these rough lines to turn the widespread condemnation of Jones’ speech into real punishment. Scott Collison is a senior philosophy and physics major. His column appears every Wednesday, and he can be reached at smcollis@syr.edu.
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Joey DiStefano, a freshman environmental engineering major who attended the lecture, agreed with Barlow and said having water is a human right, and something people require daily. “Drinking water is just the same as breathing air,” he said. To alleviate the global water crisis, Barlow said it is necessary to conserve and protect water at its natural sources, along with recognizing it as a public trust. “Nobody should be unable to receive water because they can’t pay for it,” Barlow said. “We have to change the way we live, socially and globally, based on principles of equity, justice
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and sustainability.” Barlow denounced the consumption of bottled water if clean, safe tap water is available. More than 250 billion liters of water are put into plastic bottles, and if placed one on top of the other, the tower of bottles would reach the moon and back 65 times, Barlow said. There is no substitute for water, and it has already begun to spur conflict between the rich and poor, Barlow said. Clear examples of this can be found in resort areas where five-star hotels are located in close proximity to extreme poverty, like in the case of the man from Mexico. To address the water crisis, it needs the same political attention as that of the climate crisis, Barlow said. Though individuals can aid the effort by paying attention to their own water usage, large companies use the majority
of the world’s water supply, Barlow said. Private sector interests participate in water trading, buying out small farmers’ water property rights and hoarding them, she said. Large companies often exploit poor areas for their water supplies, depriving them of what little they may possess, Barlow said. Though there is a large fight by activists against companies in developing countries, Barlow said the world is still witnessing the enclosure of water commons by private sector interests. Water can teach people how to live with one another, but the road to fixing the crisis is not going to be easy, Barlow said. “We must remember what we were all born to do,” Barlow said. “Leave the world a better place.” brvannos@ syr.edu
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for electronic products that are no longer in use, according to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery website. Products covered under the law include computers, televisions, VCRs and DVD players, among other electronic equipment, according to the website. Many of these products can be reused, refurbished or recycled, according to the website. “Unfortunately, electronic waste is one of the fastest growing and toxic parts of our nation’s waste stream,” Traver said. When electronic items are thrown into landfills or burned in incinerators, they create pollution and introduce heavy metals and toxins into the environment, putting public health at risk, according to the release. In addition, researchers estimate 75 percent of old electronics are in storage, in part because of the uncertainty of how to recycle the materials, according to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery website. “I have about four cellphones lying around my house,” said Lexi Headley, a senior English and textual studies major. “I have no idea what to do with them, and I’m not convinced that they are actually waste. If I knew how or where, I would recycle them if they really aren’t useful anymore.” kvdolins@ syr.edu
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first time on Marshall at 11 a.m. Tuesday, making for the second Chipotle in the area. The other location opened in October on Erie Boulevard in DeWitt, N.Y. Chipotle has taken the place of King David’s Restaurant on Marshall after the Syracuse Common Council unanimously approved Chipotle’s proposal on Nov. 8. Chipotle’s Marshall location will now be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The menu consists of burritos, tacos and quesadillas, along with other Mexican foods. The restaurant employs many students and is still hiring, Freeman said. The restaurant filled with a buzz during the day as a constant flow of customers chatted and listened to mariachi and alternative rock music playing on the sound system. Greg Shillinglaw, a junior broadcast journalism major, and Stacy McDonald, a junior accounting and finance major, came to Chipotle for the long-awaited opening. “I love Chipotle, but I’m all about the burrito bowl,” Shillinglaw said. “Plus now I don’t have to go all the way to Erie to get one.” The Erie location is about five miles away from the Marshall restaurant. Kevin Gick, who is in charge of marketing for Chipotle in the area, said he does not think the two locations will take business away from each other. “There is a big enough gap between the stores for them both to be successful,” Gick said. “But we are very happy to be on Marshall Street.” Gick said he thought the new location would be convenient for students. Not all students were able to make it to the Erie location, and some — like Diane Kort, a freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management — are thankful Chipotle has opened a restaurant closer to campus. “I really like Chipotle, but I have never been to the other store,” Kort said. “I think a lot of students are like me and wanted to go, but didn’t have a car.” Crickett Karson, public relations representative for Chipotle, said the goal the company has for its newest location is simple. “We don’t have any set numbers we are trying to achieve,” Karson said. “We just want our customers to enjoy a really good burrito.” ndgallag@ syr.edu
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“It’s just material. It doesn’t make you a Muslim,” she said. Zohura Ali, a senior finance and accounting major who attended the monologue, practices Islam and chooses not to wear a hijab, although her mother and two older sisters wear it. She said her mother believes the hijab can help both men and women suppress temptation and favor intellect over appearance. “You can cover your hair and act like you’re good, but still do all these bad things,” Ali said. Azhar Ali, president of the Muslim Students’ Association and a sophomore health and exercise science major, said the “biggest misconception” of Islam is that the hijab is a form of oppression upon women. Some of the most “driven, focused and goal-oriented” women he has met choose to wear the hijab, said Ali, who attended the monologue. Said Ali: “It helps you focus on exactly why you’re here.” geclarke@ syr.edu
TACO TIME
Here’s a sampling of the Chipotle Mexican Grill menu.
Burrito
Tortilla, choice of rice, beans, meat, salsa and cheese or sour cream. Add peppers and onions instead of beans for a fajita burrito.
Burrito bowl
Just like a burrito, but served in a bowl with no tortilla.
Tacos
Your choice of crispy corn or soft flour tortillas with meat, salsa, cheese or sour cream and romaine lettuce.
Salad
Chopped romaine lettuce with choice of beans, meat, salsa and cheese, with chipotle-honey vinaigrette. Source: Chipotle Mexican Grill menu.
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ollege students across California are helping pay for the state’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit. California State University, the University of California and the California community college systems will be forced to trim costs if Gov. Jerry Brown imposes widespread cutbacks to all three tiers of the public higher education system for the coming school year. The CSU system alone is slated to receive a $500 million reduction to its budget, said Liz Chapin, an administrative assistant of the CSU public affairs team. That amount could rise to as much as $550 million once mandatory costs, such as the increased cost of living and health benefits for employees, are factored into the budget, she said. Although the CSU system braced for the financial hit by raising $225 million in increased tuition earlier this school year, individual campuses were told to make further cuts for the 201112 year, Chapin said. “The previous year we had raised tuition, and we recently raised it in November to prepare for the difficulties. We’ve done that to provide more of a safety net, as far as funding goes,” she said. The available budget was divided among the CSU campuses, with less funding allocated to larger, more revenue-generating campuses such as California State University Northridge, San Diego State University and California State University Long Beach, Chapin said. There are 23 CSU campuses, according to the CSU website. Thousands of eligible applicants were denied admission to CSU Long Beach in response to the universityÕs $34 million reduction in funding, said David Dowell, vice provost for enrollment and director of strategic planning. “The greatest tragedy of all is that, because of the cutbacks, there have been thousands of students not able to go to college,” he said. In an attempt to spare students and protect classes, CSU Long Beach is cutting from areas like transportation first because it will have the least effect on students, Dowell said. Should a larger proposed billion-dollar cut to the CSU system pass, CSU Long Beach could withhold up to 2,800 class sections from students, he said. Dowell said he sympathizes with students protesting the cutbacks. “The budget cuts are eroding the quality of
education,” he said. With droves of students being turned away from the UC and CSU systems, community colleges are looked upon as a more financially beneficial alternative, said Juan Gutierrez, director of public relations at Pasadena City College, one of CaliforniaÕs community colleges. Gutierrez said the effects of the $10 million decrease in funding to Pasadena City College will be felt. The $10 million decrease is part of the $800 million budget cut California’s community college system could face. Since community colleges do not deny admission to students who fulfill the necessary requirements, higher enrollment rates have made registering for classes increasingly competitive, Gutierrez said. Essentially, students are paying higher fees for fewer classes, he said. The per-unit cost of classes will be $36 for the 2011-12 year, up $10 from the current year, Gutierrez said. That rise comes after Pasadena City College offered early retirement packages to eligible faculty to stave off layoffs and other means of fiscal conservation. Jennifer Thai, a communications major at Pasadena City College, said the aftermath of cutbacks made in previous years has caused visible dissatisfaction among a student body eager to transfer to larger institutions. “Students are frustrated when they cannot get classes they need. Several classes have also been cut, which lengthens the amount of time it takes students to transfer out or graduate,” she said in an email. Kristin Little, a freshman molecular environmental biology major at UC Berkeley, said the cuts to the UC system have resulted in lengthier waiting lists and campus protests. The system is facing cuts of $500 million, according to the UC website. Because lower-division prerequisites are offered with less frequency, they close out quicker, causing students to delay their enrollment in required classes for a semester, Little said. Little said she feels increasingly shortchanged by California’s higher public education system. “There seems to be no end in sight to the cuts in education, and the future of society depends on the education of the next generation,” she said in an email. “Thinking about how education is free in some countries, this seems absolutely ridiculous.” dbtruong@syr.edu
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In memoriam By Bethany Bump STAFF WRITER
Part 2 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 back to end cancer. Part Two of this series explores the ways in which SU honors, mourns and remembers the fallen.
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Ceremony allows community to honor, grieve those lost to cancer jenna ketchmark | design editor A luminaria in the Carrier Dome reads “In Support of Ellen,” referring to a cancer victim. Relay For Life commemorates the lives of those lost to the disease. This year’s event will take place April 9.
ypically, one mourns alone. Behind closed doors and under covers, you can hide the raw grief that demands release. The tears that escape honor your grandmother, your great aunt, your father, your loveable Rottweiler, your best friend. One night of the year in the Carrier Dome, members of the Syracuse community grieve together. They openly share their vulnerability in a ceremony of remembrance for their lost loved ones. No closed doors or covers are needed. ••• Katie Hoole loves what she sees during Relay For Life. The energy is boundless, students goof around with their friends, people play games and sing and clap and dance. But for one hour after sundown, the sophomore policy studies major watches more than 2,000 people fall silent in communal remembrance. At 10:15 p.m., the word “hope” lights up one end of the dome. “I think while you’re at Relay, you can sometimes forget why we’re there,” said Hoole, chair of Relay’s Luminaria Committee, “because it’s just so much fun, and there’s so many students and activities.” The Luminaria Ceremony is usually described as the most memorable part of Relay. After dark, the Syracuse community honors people who have survived cancer or loved ones lost to the disease. Lining the Dome are glow sticks placed in individual bags filled with sand. Each one bears the name of a person who has battled cancer. As the Dome lights turn off and the bags begin to glow, participants walk a lap in silence. They think of the loved
ones who left them too soon. “I think a lot of times when you grieve in front of other people, it can be seen as maybe awkward — if other people aren’t feeling the same way as you or you don’t want to make them feel bad,” Hoole said. “But during this one hour, everyone is either appreciating the fact that they haven’t been touched and thinking of all their loved ones wherever they are, or they are remembering those who lost their lives to cancer.” During the lap, once people arrive at their luminaria, they sit down next to it as friends and family gather around them.
Sorority sisters and fraternity brothers spot one another and join together in support. By the end of the hour, Hoole said she enjoys seeing the huge clumps of people who speckle the Dome. “For those people who have not been directly affected by cancer and are able to see that, that’s important,” Hoole said. “And for those who are outwardly expressing their emotions, it’s also nice to see other students around who are going through the same things as you.” ••• During Sarah Butensky’s silent lap last year, she came across what she considered a rare scene. A group of fraternity brothers were huddled in a group, all of them crying. “It caught me off guard,” said Butensky, a junior anthropology major. “It made
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SU Dance Team looks to excel in 1st national competition By Erica Murphy STAFF WRITER
The dancers began in a straight line. Some stood upright while others crouched close to the ground. They leapt from one position to another, contorting their bodies in fluid movements. The music hit a crescendo, accentuating their stronger, sharper dance moves. After a few more twirls, the dancers fell to the ground and entered the next portion of their dance with fresh black makeup smeared across their faces.
In the dance studio at Ernie Davis Hall last Tuesday, Syracuse University’s Dance Team prepared for its first-ever national competition. The team will head to the National Dance Alliance Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship in Daytona, Fla., on April 6. Specifically in the NDA competition, the Division I-A team will compete against 16 teams from across the country with the hope of snagging the first-place trophy. “Even though this is our firstyear competition, I think the girls
will do really well,” said Katie Lappin, the team’s head coach of two years. “We’ve spent so much time talking about it, and now it’s actually a reality.” On Thursday, the first day of the competition, all the teams perform. The top eight chosen from there move onto the final round. The bottom eight will compete in the Challenge Cup for the last spot in the finals. On Friday, the remaining nine teams battle for the first prize. The NDA competition will air on FSN on April 23 and 24.
Lappin’s team signed up for the Boston competition in the summer and attended the three-day NDA camp in August. All teams learned a dance the first day and performed it once in front of the judges. Their scores determined which teams received a bid qualifying them for nationals. SU clinched one of the 16 spots. “We have worked so hard for this,” Lappin said. “It shows how motivated the girls are to make a name for themselves as a competition team.”
The judges also awarded the team a partially paid bid to nationals. To fund the rest of the trip, the team did its own fundraising and made nearly $10,000. With the fundraising taken care of, the team focused on learning a new dance. The dancers chose an “Alice In Wonderland” theme, complete with music from the movie and bright turquoise dresses. A choreographer showed them the basics, but the captains made the routine their own.
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me feel more connected to them. Not to stereotype, but we don’t picture frat guys crying. And to see them hugging each other and crying, it makes me feel comfortable myself to let it out and just cry.”’ Butensky bought a luminaria this year for her great aunt and grandfather who died from cancer. She will also honor two family members and a close family friend who have battled cancer and are currently in remission. “It’s been over 10 years now, but it’s one of those things where it’s nice to have a day where you really remember them and you honor them,” Butensky said. “It gives you an emotional connection back to them to say, ‘I remember you and I still love you, even though you’ve been gone for so long.’” It might be emotional, she said, but seeing everyone else and their luminarias around the Dome, watching the names of loved ones affected by cancer projected on a big screen, is
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“We’ve come such a long way, you have no idea,” said Bethany Whitley, the team’s captain and a television, radio and film and acting major. “But it’s like we’re dropping into a different world, just like Alice.” The dance must incorporate three different styles: jazz, hip-hop and pom. The team starts out with the jazz portion and ends with its standard hip-hop formation, which the dancers regularly perform at basketball games. In two minutes, the team packed in triple spins, one-arm jumps and upside-
overwhelming in a good way. You see that you’re not the only one grieving, she said. Hoole can identify. At school, students want to be put together, able to work and focus on their studies. And that can make it difficult for those dealing with death to allow themselves to grieve. “When you’re away from home and you’re with a new group of friends, even ones you’ve only known for three or four years, it’s hard to let yourself be emotional and show that side,” Hoole said. “But it’s important to because you can’t accept it without that process. So it’s important to cry and to let yourself be vulnerable.” ••• Thomas Wolfe knows how to die. The senior vice president and dean of student affairs has counseled SU students and faculty members dealing with cancer, some of whom eventually died. As they work through the reality of their illness, by embracing death, Wolfe said he saw each one of them as teachers. “Each one of them, in some way or another, has imparted to me how to die and taught me a lot about how to live,” he said. “And for that,
I will always be grateful. How a person dies is oftentimes for me how they have lived.” In past years, SU has lost faculty members and some students to cancer. It’s painful for students and colleagues to watch them in their last few months, Wolfe said. “I have seen classes of students just transformed by the power of how someone has embraced life to the point where they can also receive their death with great grace and courage and strength,” he said. “And especially if you teach, there’s that part of you that teaches right to the end.” In his counseling experience, Wolfe said those affected by cancer — either themselves or those dealing with the death of a loved one — might grieve differently because the disease can last many months, even years. The time allows people to resolve issues and ideally come to peace with their lives, Wolfe said. Those who anticipate death can finish their business, say their goodbyes and rely on friends, family or faith to carry them to the end, he said. “When you get to that place, it brings out
in you and in others this opportunity to really go in a very deep place in that relationship,” he said. “Sometimes the dying process strips away all of the pretenses and things, and people communicate at a much deeper level. It’s a very intimate moment.” Wolfe will attend Relay on Saturday evening to address participants with words of support and recognition of the community’s efforts against cancer. He plans to dedicate the night to his father John, an SU alumnus, who died from cancer 12 years ago. “I take it as a time to remember with them, because everybody’s got somebody on their mind,” Wolfe said. “When they light up the Dome for the Luminaria, it’s just a rich and very moving experience. I’m so honored to be among that community of people because they do it with such dignity and such respect for life.” By the end of the Luminaria Ceremony, the word “cure” lights up the opposite end of the Dome. The participants know their work against the disease is not yet done.
down lifts. “It’s a high-intensity routine,” Lappin said. The dancers juggled perfecting this routine while creating new dances for the basketball season. They dedicated four days a week and four hours a day to practicing. On top of that, they had two scheduled workouts per week as well. “The difficulty came in while having to make new basketball dances and still practice for nationals,” said Megan Griffo, a sophomore magazine journalism major. “We didn’t want to ignore either responsibility.” Griffo also said SU’s team is in a different position than a lot of other teams in the competition.
“The difference between us and other schools is that we go to a school where basketball is very important,” Griffo said. “Not every team has to go to all the games, but we do.” Because of SU’s well-known basketball program, the Dance Team has always been a Carrier Dome-based team, as well as a college-based dance team, Whitley said. “Competing is a really big thing at other schools,” Whitley said. “We’re the new kids on the block, but we’re creating a foundation for the years to come.” Since she first took the position, Lappin made it her mission to take the team to a national competition. Once a collegiate dancer at the University of Albany, she
wanted her team to experience the satisfaction that comes from competing at the national level. “I think the girls are going to do well,” she said. “With their improvements from last year to this year, I think they will really fit in with the competition.” Lappin gathered the dancers to work out the glitches in the routine. After running through it again, huffing and puffing, the dancers talked about what went wrong and how to improve. Walk with purpose; spot your turns; sharpen your arms, Lappin said. They want perfection and won’t stop practicing until their plane takes off to Daytona.
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urrounded by boutiques and mini-marts, you might not notice Brickstone Eatery. Having just opened less than a month ago, the new cafe doesn’t even have its own sign yet. But for those looking for a place to grab a salad or sandwich, sip on some coffee and hang around, Brickstone is a great place to check out. Located in the space vacated by Bleu Monkey Cafe, after the sushi restaurant moved down the street, Brickstone serves paninis, salads, soup and desserts, available to eat in or to go. The food on the menu isn’t necessarily creative or groundbreaking, but the establishment fills a need on Marshall Street by supplying a place to get a substantial meal, sit, drink coffee, do work or chat. The cafe was nearly empty when we got inside, with a few people coming and going with takeout orders, but that didn’t make me feel uncertain about taking out my laptop and staying a while. The café’s organization and flow were confus-
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the dressing was “delicious.” She picked around the turkey and still had some leftovers to bring home. As a caffeine addict, I had to try the cafe’s latte selection. I went with a nonfat caramel macchiato ($4.15 for a medium) and thought it was a great effort. The drizzle of caramel sauce on the top added sweetness, and the espresso seemed well brewed. I could tell that coffee wasn’t necessarily the emphasis of the cafe, but it had a good variety of specialty drinks. Brickstone brews Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters coffee, a Central New York roaster located about an hour away in Victor, N.Y. I was particularly happy about that welcome change and can see myself stopping there in the future to grab coffee to support a local coffee roaster instead of always frequenting the chains. We ended our meal with a piece of tiramisu, a portion big enough for two to share. The tiramisu didn’t taste homemade and lacked any distinct espresso taste. After trying it, I wished we ordered one of the other desserts — the cafe offered a delicious-looking chocolate peanut butter pie and numerous types of cheesecake. But we ate it anyway. Dessert is dessert. The nondistinct cafe seems like the perfect place to escape campus, grab lunch and relax or work in solitude. Although at fi rst confused about where to order and put off by the plastic dishes and lunch trays, we were happy with our meal and found it a welcome alternative to ordering Jimmy John’s time after time. Instead of settling for the louder atmospheres of the more popular restaurants, or the miniscule portions of pastries in Starbucks, head to Brickstone Eatery and enjoy a cup of coffee and a real sandwich in peace. knmciner@syr.edu
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Weekend losses humble Syracuse, expose team deficiencies By Ryne Gery STAFF WRITER
Before Syracuse even stepped on the field Saturday, it was having a bad weekend. The team had to take three different planes to get to Tampa, Fla., at 1:30 a.m. after its first flight was canceled. And the problems didn’t stop there. When SU did start playing, head coach Leigh Ross said the 80-degree weather presented another challenge for her team. And on the field, her team was swept by South Florida as a result of sloppy defense and a quiet weekend at the plate. “We didn’t get any breaks, nothing went our way and we had a lot of obstacles,” Ross said. “You know how you just have those bad days? It just carried over into two days.” For a Syracuse team off to its best start in program history, the three-game sweep was its first losing weekend of the season. SU (24-8, 3-3 Big East) fell behind early in all three games after errors led to big USF first innings. The Orange offense couldn’t carry the team either, as it managed just four runs in the three games. After a 4-0 loss Sunday, Ross told her players
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And for the first chunk of that season, it seemed like a brilliant decision. As he struggled to adjust to the college game, Marasco was labeled an overly confident or even cocky freshman. At Somers High School in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., he was the focal point of the offense. At Syracuse, the offensive scheme was vastly different. After a goal and two assists in the Orange’s opening contest, Marasco was held to one point through the next four games. “They asked him to do a lot of things offensively that oftentimes aren’t within a team concept,” Carcaterra said of Marasco’s time at Somers. “It was more of a ‘give the ball to JoJo’ approach to offense and let him do his thing. And that’s not really what college lacrosse is about.” But after that fifth game in his freshman season, something clicked. He scored twice in a 9-8 win over Hobart. He dished out four assists the following game against Villanova. He tallied his first career hat trick against Princeton in the Konica Minolta Big City Classic two games later. He was reshaping his season and showing everyone glimpses of the talent that made him a top five recruit. He displayed that perhaps it wasn’t so absurd to let him wear that No. 22. At some point. But three days after his hat trick against the Tigers, Marasco’s season came to a crashing end.
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at one end of the field for the whole game, waiting for the play to come to him, he’s now making plays at both ends of the field. The increased running and conditioning are what poses the biggest challenges for Harris at this point. The defending remains the same, but doing it while having exerted that much more energy is what Harris said he needs to work on the most in practice. “You have to try your hardest, run your hardest in conditioning,” Harris said. “You really
to stick together. She is writing it off as a bad weekend and believes the record start is a better reflection of her team right now. Ross said the team is keeping the same attitude and hopes it will lead to success again. The confidence that has powered SU all season was missing last weekend, though. The Orange made eight errors over the weekend, including five in a disastrous first inning Sunday. The five errors tied a single-game program record and led to four unearned runs in the loss. Junior pitcher Jenna Caira, who had two errors in that inning, said the team was too uptight to start the game. After the first error, the players felt extra pressure to avoid making the next mistake. “If you start thinking that you don’t want to make the error,” Caira said, “you’re going to become a magnet, and the ball’s going to come to you.” The ball found Caira early on. In the bottom of the first inning, USF’s leadoff hitter laid down a bunt on the first pitch. Caira fielded the ball and threw it off the runner’s back. The
ball skipped into the outfield, allowing her to advance to second base. The next hitter hit a groundball to Caira and her throw pulled first baseman Kelly Saco off the bag. After the first few errors, Ross called time to calm her team down, but the damage was done. The first two errors opened the floodgates and the Bulls capitalized on three more errors in the inning to score four runs. Caira said it came down to making errors on routine plays. “USF put the ball in play,” Caira said. “They caused us to make the plays and forced us to make errors at times.” Ross thinks the team got nervous after the first few errors. After a crisp warm-up before the game, Ross was surprised by the defensive struggles. “It was like, ‘What? Again?’” Ross said. “When that started happening, started unraveling right from the get-go, it was, ‘Oh boy, this isn’t what we expected.’” The sweep was an abrupt end to an eightgame winning streak in which SU dominated its opponents.
Junior catcher Lacey Kohl said the losses give SU more to work on moving forward. She said the team is better than its weekend performance showed. After the humbling weekend, Kohl said Ross reminded her team that it can’t relax after its early-season success. “Just more of like a wake-up call for us,” Kohl said. “Just knowing, like, ‘Hey, we still have work to do.’” Ross thinks her team is still the same team that started the season. Now SU has to learn how to handle the added pressure that comes with success. After winning the Big East tournament last year and earning a national ranking earlier this season, SU’s conference opponents are gunning for the Orange. And the team struggled with that pressure all last weekend. “It will be more about dealing with the target on our back and trying to overcome that feeling of everybody could be coming after us,” Ross said. “Still playing our game despite that pressure.”
He suffered a leg injury against Cornell, and it knocked him out for the rest of the season. He might have been able to return late in the NCAA tournament, but Army upset the Orange in the first round as Marasco watched from the sideline.
taken notice. “You can tell,” SU senior midfielder Josh Amidon said. “He’s carrying the ball up better, passing, feeding, shooting a lot better. He’s finding the back of the net a lot more. You can tell that he’s put in his time.” Marasco is currently tied for the team lead with 22 points. His teammates said his vision has improved, he’s stronger, he’s quicker and he’s a better leader, among the many other praises. But what hasn’t changed is that brash confidence, the trait that led him to ask for the No. 22 as a freshman. And in defender Brian Megill’s mind, Marasco could not wear the number without it. “When everyone’s coming up to you saying, ‘Oh, JoJo, No. 22,’ you’ve got to have some sort of cockiness about you,” Megill said. “You can’t lay low when people make fun of you. Or if you’re not doing well, you’ve got to keep your head on your shoulders and do the next play.” But Carcaterra sees another reason beyond confidence that pushed Marasco to ask for the legendary jersey. He said twice that Marasco was the hardest-working player he has ever seen. And Carcaterra — a former All-American himself — has played with Casey and Mike Powell, among other lacrosse greats. And he believes Marasco wanted that No. 22 to push himself even harder. “I think that’s his approach to wanting that number,” Carcaterra said. “It had nothing to do with him feeling like he was the best or he was confident. I think it was almost to put more pressure on himself to be great, because he wants to be great.”
Both Marasco and Carcaterra agreed he isn’t there yet. The mentor would like to see Marasco use his instincts more often and create highlights off feeling rather than through structured plays. And he believes Marasco has the potential to do that. His expectation for the sophomore is to be one of the best players in the country and to leave a lasting mark on Syracuse lacrosse. He said those are also Marasco’s goals for himself. And the sophomore knows it won’t be “2-2 Easy” to get there. “It’s a great feeling to be up there with some of the greatest to ever play here in the country,” Marasco said. “I still have a lot of work to get my name up there, hopefully be like them.”
on the field. Harris may be a backup to White now, but the way he’s played shows Desko what his defense could look like going forward. Specifically, what Syracuse could look like at the long-stick midfield position. “We’re very happy with his progress so far,” Desko said. “I think it’s going to help us keep our defense strong in the future, too.”
the fourth quarter and was replaced by sophomore David Hamlin. After he came out of the game, Lade was on the sideline with ice on his left ankle and never returned to action. After the game, Desko said he hadn’t yet spoken to the trainers, but thought Lade only twisted his ankle and didn’t seem concerned about the injury. Lade is an All-American defender and arguably Syracuse’s best at the position. Lade almost always has the responsibility of covering the most dangerous scorer of SU’s opponents. Through eight games, Lade is fourth on the team in groundballs with 17.
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“He’s carrying the ball up better, passing, feeding, shooting a lot better. He’s finding the back of the net a lot more. You can tell that he’s put in his time.”
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“It was pretty tough just being on the sideline,” Marasco said. “And having the season I was, kind of coming into my own. It’s just tough, watching us lose like that and not being able to do anything.” But that injury and the time he missed only enhanced Marasco’s drive. It strengthened the will of a sophomore who had a personal trainer since he was in ninth grade. He continued that last summer, along with an excessively heavy dose of lacrosse. Marasco worked at Carcaterra’s lacrosse camp, played on the same summer league team as the former Orange star and worked out with him individually on skill development three times a week. And Marasco’s coaches and teammates have
have to go hard in every drill.” Ironically, his quickness in getting from one end of the field to another is what earned him a spot at long-stick midfield in the first place. Over the course of SU’s four scrimmages, the coaching staff ran him out to midfield to see what he could do, and Desko saw parts of his game he hadn’t seen before. “We tried him out there, and he impressed us going up top,” Desko said. “He was just given the opportunity.” White said Harris was still learning some aspects of the game at the start of the season. But in just a few short months, he sees a different player that’s picked up the defensive system with relative ease and maintains a veteran-like poise
Lade expected to play Desko expects defender John Lade to play Saturday when his team plays at Princeton, said assistant director of athletic communications Mike Morrison on Tuesday. Lade exited from the Orange’s game against Duke last week in
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THE HIGH ROAD JoJo Marasco is the latest Syracuse lacrosse player to don the renowned No. 22 that began its legend when current SU women’s lacrosse head coach Gary Gait wore the jersey for three seasons. Here’s a look at the history of the number since Gait: YEARS
1988-90 1991-94 1995-98 1999-2000 2001-04 2006-09 2010 2011
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Gary Gait Charlie Lockwood Casey Powell Ryan Powell Mike Powell Dan Hardy Cody Jamieson JoJo Marasco
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Supreme will, work ethic transform Pannell into elite scorer By Ryne Gery Staff Writer
Rob Pannell wasn’t good enough. He was too small. He wasn’t fast enough. As a freshman in high school, Pannell was relegated to the junior varsity lacrosse team, while the rest of his friends made varsity. For Pannell, getting cut was tough. But that failure served as motivation. Over the next year, Pannell worked with a personal trainer to improve his speed. When he wasn’t at practice or a game, he was in his backyard shooting and working on moves. “I think that definitely helped a ton in making me the player that I am today, as far as constantly challenging myself,” Pannell said. “Not getting that starting spot, I wasn’t going to accept that.” His hard work earned him a starting spot on varsity as a sophomore, but he never lost that desire to get better. Now a junior attack for Cornell (7-2, 3-0 Ivy League), Pannell is a frontrunner for this year’s Tewaaraton Trophy, given annually to the nation’s top college lacrosse player. He is currently the highest scoring player in the country in points per game. Before he could be mentioned among the game’s best players, though, Pannell had to overcome the same doubts that plagued him as a high school freshman. Going into his senior year at Smithtown High School West, Pannell was considered too small and not fast enough to play at top Division I programs. By the fall of that year, he had only received scholarship offers from Towson and Quinnipiac — the latter receiving his commitment to play. His high school head coach, Sean Keenan, remembers seeing Pannell in the weight room
every day his senior year. Keenan said it was clear Pannell could play at an elite program after his first game that year. Pannell scored nine points to lead his team to victory against a nationally ranked Garden City team. On one play in that game, Keenan was left in awe as Pannell split a double team and fired the ball into the upper corner of the net for a goal. “You could just see that he was going to be something special,” Keenan said. “You say that about a lot of kids, but his ability to make other players better sets him apart from any other player that I’ve ever coached.” By the end of the year, Pannell set the school record with 130 points, said his uncle Jim Metzger. After the breakout year, Pannell wanted to play at a big-time lacrosse program. But Quinnipiac refused to release him from his commitment. After consulting Metzger, Pannell enrolled at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, giving him an extra year to improve. An All-American attack himself at Hofstra in 1980, Metzger became heavily involved in his college decision process. While at Deerfield, Pannell still couldn’t get a release from Quinnipiac. This limited his choices to Ivy League schools because they do not participate in the National Letter of Intent program. So Metzger and his former Hofstra teammate, Vinnie Sombrotto, called then-Cornell head coach Jeff Tambroni. Sombrotto, a National Lacrosse Hall of Famer, saw Pannell play in high school and gave him a ringing endorsement. Metzger remembers Tambroni asking how Pannell compared to other top Long Island players in his class. “Vinnie said, ‘No, this kid is on a different level,’” Metzger said. “And the coach said, ‘Really?’ And he said, ‘I want him.’”
They then sent Tambroni highlight tapes of Pannell. After seeing the tapes, Tambroni contacted Pannell and asked him to visit Cornell. Pannell said he fell in love with the school and coaching staff during the visit. “I knew that this was the right place for me,” Pannell said. “Not having many other options, it was a no-brainer decision for me to make.” Since arriving at Cornell, Pannell has helped the team reach two final fours. Last season, he was named a first-team All-American and was honored with the Jack Turnbull Award as the top attack in college lacrosse. Pannell is currently leading the nation in assists per game with 3.11. And his 5.89 overall points per game are more than a full point above his next closest competitor — Jeremy Boltus of Army — who averages 4.80 points per game. Metzger believes Pannell’s dominance can only be compared to former Syracuse attack and four-time All-American Mike Powell. Powell remains the only four-time winner of the Jack Turnbull Award. Metzger said Powell had a unique ability to penetrate the defense and beat his man one-onone. And he sees that same knack for playmaking in Pannell. “Rob has that gift,” Metzger said. “You can say he’s reminiscent of Mikey Powell in terms of the way he attacks a defense and plays oneon-one.” With 200 career points so far, Pannell’s numbers validate the comparison. Through three years at Syracuse, Powell scored 218 points. Cornell head coach Ben DeLuca said Pannell is his own toughest critic. DeLuca said Pannell studies film religiously, analyzing his game and opponents. And as he did in high school, Pannell spends hours working out.
“He pushes himself every day,” DeLuca said. “You never see that young man resting on his laurels or being satisfied where he is.” After his All-American campaign last year, Pannell spent the offseason improving his shot — the biggest criticism of his game at that point. Pannell set up balls around the field and took shots from each area a couple of days a week for about an hour. He would start behind the cage and drive toward the goal line. He took shots on the run with both hands and fired some from the perimeter. The kid who was always too small and never fast enough is now one of the top players in college lacrosse. As his game has changed, though, his work ethic has remained constant. “I know the path that I’ve taken, and I was never really the star or in the limelight, so to say,” Pannell said. “I don’t take anything for granted, and it allows me to continue to work hard and continuously evaluate myself.”
Virginia going through rough stretch The Virginia lacrosse team lost back-to-back games for the first time since 2007. After beating Johns Hopkins in the previous six meetings, the Cavaliers lost to the Blue Jays 12-11 on March 26. Virginia lost again to Maryland 12-7 on Saturday. The team played without two-time first-team All-American Shamel Bratton in the second loss. Bratton was suspended by head coach Dom Starsia, according to Inside Lacrosse. Bratton and his twin brother, Rhamel, were suspended for the team’s game against Stony Brook in February after violating team rules. Bratton has been practicing, but Starsia hasn’t decided if he will play when No. 9 Virginia faces No. 8 North Carolina on Saturday. rjgery@syr.edu
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SU uses Notre Dame defeat as motivation with tournament play looming By Andrew Tredinnick Staff Writer
Emily Harman’s heart sunk. She walked back onto the court following a first-set defeat during last season’s Big East semifinal against Notre Dame. But before the set could even start, the match was over. The referees and coaches informed Harman that she would not have to finish the rest of her individual match because Syracuse had already lost. “It’s still a feeling that I hold onto to motivate me to get even more pumped up for a time like that,” Harman said. “I don’t want to have that feeling again. It’s one of those times where, in the moment, you really hate it. It’s a gut feeling you have, but in the end it made me better. “It made me realize where we are as a team and how much we needed to work to get better.” The match against Notre Dame remains etched in the minds of the five remaining players from a year ago. It was the definitive moment that signified Syracuse was not going to be bullied by ranked opponents anymore. A difficult schedule in the past two seasons, marked by six matches against ranked opponents, has Syracuse players believing they are prepared to make a push for a chance at redemption. SU head coach Luke Jensen explained that this stretch is the most important of the season
to gain momentum and to use what his team has encountered throughout the season to make one final push. “The next two or three weeks, we have to use all those battle scars,” Jensen said. “All of the good and bad and say, ‘Next time I’m in that situation, how am I going to react? How am I going to play? How am I going to find a little more performance for my game?’” With just two matches remaining this season, a chance at redemption is fueling Syracuse (14-6, 6-1) to gather some steam heading into the Big East tournament. SU has the second-best winning percentage in the Big East. The Orange is coming off a difficult 1-6 loss to No. 49 William & Mary that came before its 6-1 win over Old Dominion. This season, Syracuse’s most difficult test came at the hands of then-No. 9 Southern California. The Orange pushed the Trojans to a 4-3 result, and despite the loss, SU has inched closer to beating its superior opponents this season. The older players now have experience playing through pressure-infused matches. Each player has gained the ability to articulate a match and overcome adversity during anxious moments. The younger players have gotten the feel for the implications of more significant matches. The growth for players like freshman Maddie Kobelt could mean sizeable contributions on the horizon in the season’s biggest
moments. “Now in matches, I’m able to know more exactly what I want to do, and I’m able to better execute or fix the problem,” Kobelt said. “If I miss a forehand long instead of trying for that same shot again, now I know exactly what to do, whether it’s taking a little spin off or add a little more spin.” The challenging schedule has caused some astounding developments to take shape. After winning 10 consecutive matches, Kobelt and Harman combined to create the 32nd-ranked pairing in the nation. “I think that the team as a whole is a lot more battle-tested, and we’re not going to go down without a fight,” Harman said. “For us to be able to do that going into the Big East tournament, everyone knows what we’re all about, and that really puts us on the radar and it gives better competition for us as well.” The Orange routs opponents that it should rout, and it has finally started to put a scare on ranked opponents. But for Jensen, despite playing three nationally ranked teams, coming out of that portion of the schedule with three losses is unacceptable. It’s an area that will have to change in the home stretch, heading into the anticipated chance for redemption at the Big East tournament. “When you get into the Big East, you’re going to be playing higher-ranked teams than
No. 40,” Jensen said. “You better be playing good tennis in the next two or three weeks, or this season is going to end shorter than it should.” adtredin@ syr.edu
Quick hits Last 3
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Syracuse has played at home just once since March 10, and perhaps the team is starting to feel the effects of its rigorous road schedule. The Orange has lost two of its last three matches, including a Big East match at Rutgers on March 27. In its weekend trip to Virginia this past weekend, SU split a pair of matches with No. 49 William & Mary and Old Dominion. Fortunately for SU, its last road match of the regular season takes place Friday at Big East foe Pittsburgh. Syracuse will go nearly a full month — March 23 to April 22 — without a home match until it plays Connecticut in its final regular-season contest.
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Magic number Wearing program’s most coveted jersey, Marasco returns from injury to lead Orange By Zach Brown
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asey Powell lit the fire for all the mocking and badgering back in October. JoJo Marasco has only added fuel to the flames since then. After the current Syracuse lacrosse team took on the SU alumni squad in the Carrier Dome, Powell — a four-time All-American in his time at SU — looked at Marasco as they walked off the field and yelled out, “JoJo, 2-2 easy, right?” Powell was referring to the No. 22 Syracuse jersey. Marasco, the current owner of the legendary Orange lacrosse No. 22, liked the phrase so much he put it on T-shirts for his close friends and family to wear. And six months later, the sophomore still hasn’t heard the end of it from his Orange teammates. A Marasco mistake in practice is greeted by jeers of, “JoJo, you’re 2-2 soft.” When he dodges past a teammate and finishes with a goal, they want to know, “Was that 2-2 easy?” Every single practice. Marasco said he hears it 15 to 20 times daily. “I guess that’s the price you pay for taking the jersey,” he said. “I just keep playing my game, let it happen. It’s fun.” But as much as Marasco and his teammates have taken to the “2-2 Easy” slogan, it is, for the most part, inaccurate. It may look easy at times for the sophomore, especially now that he is officially next in line to build upon the legacy of Syracuse’s No. 22. As SU continues its perfect start to the season, Marasco sits tied for the team lead with, ironically, 22 points. But “2-2 Easy” implies Marasco’s talents are all natural. That he can succeed with minimal amounts of effort. That he doesn’t have to work to be the best. And to those who know him best, that could not be further from the truth. “He’s probably the hardest-working kid I’ve ever been around,” said former SU All-American Paul Carcaterra, who has trained with Marasco for the past three summers. “That’s why I continue to work with him — because he’s passionate about his training, he’s passionate about the way he approaches the game. “He wants to be an elite player. That kind of fuels his fire.” But Marasco’s first season at Syracuse — his first year working to establish himself among the elite — did not go as planned. He came in and asked to wear No. 22 immediately. The coaches didn’t give it to him. Instead, that honor went to Cody Jamieson, who was the hero for the Orange when he scored the game-winning goal in the 2009 national championship game against Cornell. see marasco page 13
top: daily orange file photo; bottom: danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor jojo marasco missed the final five games of his freshman year a season ago with a leg injury. One year later, the sophomore now sports SU’s prestigious No. 22 jersey.
Harris adds depth to SU defense By Chris Iseman Asst. Copy Editor
John Desko stood on the sideline before one of Syracuse’s practices and quickly surveyed his players warming up on the field. Of all the aggressive, strong defenders, Desko was almost certain Matt Harris was the one he’d dread having to match up against. “If there’s probably one guy out here that I wouldn’t want to cover me, it might be him,” SU head coach Desko said. “Not only is he a good cover guy, but it hurts when he plays you.” Desko and his staff saw that quickly and, with one switch, unleashed even more of Harris’ abilities. Before the season opener against Denver, they decided to implement a new game plan that they drew up for the freshman: a switch to long-stick midfielder. Eight games into the season, Harris is proving it’s the right call. At the team’s media day to open up the season, Desko included Harris into the group vying for the third defender spot. When Harris didn’t get that position, he moved into another. With a senior-heavy line of close defenders, his playing time was destined to be limited. But that’s not the case at midfield, where Harris has done a more than credible job as the primary backup to Joel White. White is arguably the best longstick midfielder in the country, winning the Lt. Donald C. MacLaughlin Jr. Award as the nation’s best midfielder last season. White also made a position switch as a freshman, from a heralded scorer in high school to long-stick midfielder in his first year at Syracuse. When he’s off the field, Syracuse can be a different team. But now with Harris filling in, the Orange can breathe easier. “I’ve been very impressed with him,” White said. “He gives us a great look when I’m off the field. He really comes out and hassles the other team.” Harris has played in every one of the Orange’s games thus far, scooping up nine groundballs. At 6-foot-2, Harris is a force on the field and adds depth to Syracuse’s already formidable defense. Still, the transition hasn’t come without issue. Harris said he played only a little at long-stick midfield in high school. He played close defense almost his entire life. Instead of staying see harris page 13