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Fighting chance Students will gather in the

Center of attention Macky MacPherson, grandson of SU

for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday. Page 3

highlights the benefits of the College of Human Ecology’s planned relocation. Page 5

Carrier Dome on Saturday night in hopes to contribute to cancer research. Page 9

head coaching great Dick MacPherson, is reaching his dream as Syracuse’s starting center. Page 24

DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT New name, location mark latest step in College of Human Ecology’s constant evolution

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ine decades ago, the women studying home economics at Syracuse University would perch on the Slocum Hall steps at lunchtime — waiting to flirt with the men downstairs.

Those women, students in what is now known as the College of Human Ecology, shared Slocum Hall with the male agriculture, architecture and business students.

Today the steps outside Slocum Hall are gone, and the College of Human Ecology has classrooms and offices dispersed in eight campus

Sport Management DEPARTMENT OF SPORT MANAGEMENT

B.S. Sport Management Minor in Sport Management 7 full-time faculty members 215 undergraduate students Fast facts In April 2008, David B. Falk donated $5 million to create the David B. Falk Center for Sport Management. Plans to build the center were halted in September 2009.

With Falk’s most recent donation, the college’s name change will reflect an emphasis on the sport management major.

Marriage and Family Therapy DEPARTMENT OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY

M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy Fast facts The school offers a doctorate degree, but did not accept applications for the program this year.

The department is headquartered on James Street, at the Liberty Resources and Brownell Mental Health Clinic, giving students easier access to clinical practice.

buildings, including Lyman and Sims halls, and buildings on Euclid and Ostrom avenues.

“It has certainly changed,” said Sarah Short, a nutrition science and dietetics professor and graduate of the College of Home Economics — one of the former names of the College of Human Ecology.

Changes for the ever-evolving college continue. Two weeks ago, David and Rhonda Falk, 1972 and 1974 graduates, respectively, promised a $15 million donation to SU to help the college centralize in one location.

The gift will also officially change the name of the college to the David

What makes up the College of Human Ecology?

With seven distinct subject areas and five different departments scattered across campus, it’s anything but simple

Child and Family Studies DEPARTMENT OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

B.S., M.A., M.S. and Ph.D. Child and Family Studies Minor in Child and Family Policy, with the Maxwell School Fast facts Undergraduates work with the Early Education and Child Care Center on South Campus as part of a required practicum.

In December, John Reilly donated $3.5 million to create the Jack Reilly Learning Campus for Child Care Excellence.

B. Falk College for Sport and Human Dynamics on July 1.

Along with the new name, two new buildings, new master’s programs and heavier recruitment of female and international students are all changes in store for the College of Human Ecology.

Humble beginnings The study of human ecology at SU dates back to 1917, when courses in the School of Home Economics were offered through the College of Agriculture. The few courses in cooking, sewing and nutrition studies were

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Hospitality Management DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FOOD STUDIES AND NUTRITION

Nutrition Science and Dietetics

B.S. Hospitality Management 130 undergraduate students Fast facts The program began in 1986, under the name of food systems management.

In 2008, the department of hospitality management was created at the College of Human Ecology, only to be cut two years later.

The last class able to major in it is the Class of 2014.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FOOD STUDIES AND NUTRITION

Public Health

Social Work

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, FOOD STUDIES AND NUTRITION

B.S. Nutrition and Dietetics, B.S. Nutrition Science, M.A. and M.S. Nutrition 8 full-time faculty members 158 undergraduate students 15 graduate students Fast facts Classes in nutrition and dietetics have been offered at SU since 1917.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK

B.S. and M.S. Social Work Minor in Gerontology B.S. Public Health 13 full-time faculty members M.S. Child and Family Health in 160 undergraduate students the Global Community 235 graduate students 9 full-time faculty members Fast facts 130 undergraduate students The School of Social Work celFast facts ebrated its 50th anniversary in Public health undergraduates produce the twice-yearly Healthy 2007.

Seniors participate in a practiYou magazine.

Seniors are required to do a cap- cum, working 16 hours a week at local human services agencies. stone project and a nine-credit internship in the area.

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Sheraton to complete 235 room updates

By Meghin Delaney ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Despite facing some difficulties in the process, the Sheraton University Hotel and Conference Center is still on track to complete renovations on time.

Updates on the last few of the 235 guest rooms will be completed Friday, said David Heymann, the general manager. Renovations initially began on the top floor, and a few rooms on the third floor have yet to be completed. All 235 guest rooms were expected to be completed by April.

“So we were pretty true, give or take a few days,” Heymann said.

The ongoing renovations have not come without issues, however. The Sheraton has recently experienced problems trying to accommodate prospective students and their families for Syracuse University’s Spring Reception for accepted students, Heymann said. But this will not be a problem for the hotel once commencement rolls around, as all rooms will be available by then, he said.

“We’re accommodating as many as we can right now,” he said. “After this week, when we have all our inventory back, we’ll be able to accommodate more.”

The hardest part of the renovations — which cost between $3 million and $3.5 million — has been getting the materials, Heymann said.

All of the materials are ordered from overseas, and sometimes come in broken or damaged, he said.

The rest of the renovations in the hotel are scheduled to be completed

by December. The hotel plans to begin renovations on the bar, Seasons at the Hill, in July, and renovations will begin on Rachel’s Restaurant in November, Heymann said. The fitness center phase of the renovations is already completed, he said.

The Sheraton lost one guest room during the renovating process, knocking the total number of guest rooms down to 235.

One floor of the newly updated

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Campaign promotes giving back Group utilizes Quad to educate on philanthropy

By Dara McBride NEWS EDITOR

Chalk messages and signs have appeared on the Quad this week as Syracuse University’s Student Philanthropy Council worked to educate students about philanthropy.

Thursday marks the day when the academic year is 85 percent complete.

It’s significant because 85 percent of the cost of running SU is covered by tuition, and room and board funds, said Helene Kahn, development associate in SU’s Office of Development.

The other 15 percent is covered by the gifts from alumni and friends of the university. Symbolically, this is the day philanthropy kicks in, Kahn said.

The SU Student Philanthropy Council has been passing out pamphlets and decorating the Quad with messages in chalk this week to educate students about philanthropy. The event’s purpose is not to raise more funds, but to inform students of the importance of alumni donations and help students learn more about those who have donated to campus, Kahn said.

Every student benefits from the gifts of others, Kahn said.

“These gifts don’t just come out of the blue, these scholarships don’t just come out of the blue,” she said.

The past year has been filled with major donations to SU, including Howard and Louise Phanstiel’s gift of $20 million to establish a scholarship fund; John and Patty Reilly’s gift of $3.5 million to build a day care center on South Campus; and David and Rhonda Falk’s gift of $15 million to relocate the College of Human Ecology to the College of Law building.

SU is also in the final 17 months of its billion-dollar campaign, Kahn said. The campaign aims to raise $1 billion by the end of 2012.

Small donations are also significant, Kahn said. In 2010, gifts less than $100 combined to a total of almost $1 million, and they totaled more than $1 million in 2009, Kahn said. Kahn, who graduated from SU in 2010, said she hoped students

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valeria aponte | contributing photographer MARY GARRARD, a nationally renowned art historian, delivers the annual Doris Lecture in Gifford Auditorium on Wednesday. Garrard used examples of Renaissance art created by males to show the gradual shift away from depicting women as strong forces of nature.

Art historian discusses portrayal of women during Renaissance period

By Marwa Eltagouri CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Mary Garrard asked a crowded audience Tuesday in Gifford Auditorium to look at Renaissance art from a different perspective — a feminist one.

Garrard, a nationally renowned art historian, came to Syracuse University to deliver the art history department’s annual Doris Lecture, titled “Art Versus Nature: A Renaissance Competition in the Key of Gender.” She is this year’s William Fleming Visiting Professor in Art History.

During the lecture, Garrard discussed the content of her new book, “Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art and Gender in Renaissance Italy,” in which she examines the several gender references hidden in Renaissance art.

Garrard’s lecture focused on her concerns about famous pieces, including Botticelli’s “Primavera” and Brunelleschi’s dome for the Santa Maria del Fiore Basilica. The tendency of Renaissance artists to gradually shift away from depicting

women as strong forces of nature is a cause of worry, she said.

Centuries before the Renaissance began, nature was considered to be a divine, female being, Garrard said.

The ancient Sumerians embodied this belief through their worship of Natura, a “Mother Earth” figure, as the drive behind the natural world.

During the middle ages, Natura’s powers were transmitted to a masculine God, and while it was still believed she gave birth to the earth, it was this new God who was believed

to have designed it, she said. Soon the creative and innovative Natura was fully replaced, demoted from her power and forced to exist simply in trees and rocks, she said.

Natura is now mixed with other female figures, including the Virgin Mary, Venus and the Goddess Diana, Garrard said.

“As the artist’s power grows, nature’s agency shrinks. Natura is steadily demoted from mother goddess to paralyzed icon,” she said.

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Sbarro to continue sales at SU after filing bankruptcy

By Joe Genco STAFF WRITER

Pizzeria chain Sbarro Inc. announced Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it works to reorganize its ownership and eliminate debt to stay in business. The changes are not anticipated to effect business operations at Syracuse University.

Sbarro is based in Melville, N.Y., and has 10 locations in Central New York, including four on Syracuse University’s campus, according to

the company’s website. It also has locations in the Great Northern malls, Carousel Center and Syracuse Hancock International Airport, according to the website.

The company, which has more than 1,000 locations in more than 40 countries, reached an agreement with investors to reduce its debt and get new financing, and it will continue to operate business normally, according to a news release on Sbarro’s website published Monday.

Sbarro’s bankruptcy filing report-

ed total assets of about $471 million and approximately $487 million in debt, according to an article published Monday in The Post-Standard.

Sbarro’s legal counsel, Kirkland and Ellis LLP, and financial adviser, Rothschild Inc., are advising the company.

The company’s reorganization plan involves eliminating $200 million of debt to bring Sbarro’s debt down to $175 million, according to the release. Sbarro is also trying to get approval from the U.S. Bankrupt-

cy Court for the Southern District of New York to attain a $35 million bankruptcy financing agreement, according to the release.

“We believe this plan represents the best opportunity for Sbarro to clear a path for future growth by restructuring its debt in an effective and timely manner,” said Nicholas McGrane, interim president and chief executive officer of Sbarro, in the release.

Sbarro officials could not be

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Arduous train ride provides glimpse of population density, adventure in China

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here I was, smack in the middle of an elderly lady burping up her dinner of noodles and yogurt and a rather large man sitting on a set of newspapers spread across the floor. His sweaty back wobbled against my right leg as the train rattled a little on the tracks. The windows fogged up because of the body heat inside the car as the nighttime countryside whooshed by.

“Is this worth it?” I thought to myself, as I prayed to get off this nine-hour hell ride as soon as possible.

Andrew swab

beijing bureau chief This is traveling by train in China. It is cramped. It is crowded. It tested my limits. It all started when some of my friends decided to go

to the port city of Qingdao. It is a nine-hour trip by train, but I couldn’t have been more excited.

Qingdao is a coastal city with wide beaches and the home of the sailing competition for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Germans colonized the city in the early 20th century, leaving behind German architecture and the beer factory for Tsingtao, one of the most famous beers in China. There are European-style churches next to restaurants selling strange sea creatures out of less-than-sanitary tanks next to stores selling beer in paper bags.

Little did I know, half of the trip’s adventures would be in the journey to get there. A one-way train ticket to Qingdao cost about 17 U.S. dollars to travel more than 550 miles. In the United States, it is three times as expensive to go onefifth the distance. Travel in China is cheap, but you get what you pay for.

And what I paid for was entering a train that was beyond maximum capacity. It’s like riding the New York subway in rush hour for about a whole workday.

My friends decided to travel down in relative luxury. The “hard sleeper” train has a bed and a pillow and is kept quiet for the night. Meanwhile, the “hard seat” is crowded with people, including burping grandmas and sneaky individuals who pay to stand only, but then try to take seats from unsuspecting seat purchasers.

The Beijing Railway Station doesn’t warn those unprepared for the arduous ride. There were waiting rooms upon waiting rooms in its upper floors crammed with people sleeping on

newspapers, backpacks full of who knows what and even each other. And of course, as with any train station in China, there’s a McDonald’s to serve all the hungry and tired masses.

The station was named one of the “Ten Great Buildings” in Chairman Mao’s Beijing, and it holds up to the name on the outside. If you can get past the hordes of sleeping people and confusing signs, what awaits is pure adventure — and an example of the extreme population density in China.

It is said that, “It’s always darkest before the dawn.” That’s why, by the seventh hour of this ride, I wanted off that train. My legs cramped, my neck felt crooked in the wrong direction.

The carriage started to smell bad. But in the spirit of adventure, I moved my leg away from the sweaty back; tried to ignore the burping grandma, Chinese pop music and the laughs from old men playing cards behind me; and fell asleep.

At 7 a.m., the train finally stopped in Qingdao, my destination. And outside the station, I was rewarded with one of the most beautiful scenes I have ever seen. Half a mile from the train station lay the Yellow Sea. Ocean waves crashing on brown rocky shores and lapping up on graveled beaches. It was paradise. The sun had just risen, and I had survived this escapade.

And was it worth it? Hell yes.

Andrew Swab is a junior magazine journalism and international relations major. His column appears occasionally.

He can be reached at ajswab@syr.edu.

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Centralized building vital for College of Human Ecology’s future Two Syracuse University graduates pledged $15 million to the College of Human Ecology, which will change its name to the David B. Falk College for Sport and Human Dynamics this summer.

The donation by David and Rhonda Falk, class of ’72 and ’74, respectively, will allow for a new graduate major, more intense female recruitment and the move into the former College of Law building, once the law school’s new building, Dineen Hall, is completed. The disparate buildings that comprise the College of Human Ecology hinder its ability to foster a student community, and the donation and relocation will greatly revitalize the culture of the school.

Departments and schools with central locations, such as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications or the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, offer landmarks that incite a sense of pride and attachment. Human Ecology requires this home base even more so because the six majors — in some cases — have little to no overlap. A central space would allow students who may

editorial by the daily orange editorial board never have class together, such as a child and family studies major and a sport management major, to mingle.

A central location will also make day-to-day administrative operations easier, as the current administrative office sits on the fringe of campus, nestled discretely among off-campus student housing. A more significant change is the centralization of professors’ offices, some of which are located off campus at Drumlins because of a lack of space.

As the college also expands recruitment efforts to women and international and graduate students, a central location will also facilitate tours, which are made more difficult by the college’s dislocated state.

Though big changes to the culture of the school are a ways away, students, professors and alumni can certainly look forward to a strengthened community as a result of the Falks’ donation.

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Contrary to review, Spears’ most recent album tops charts, pushes boundaries of pop music In response to The Daily Orange’s review of Britney Spears’ new album, “Femme Fatale,” it is obvious that the reviewer not only knows very little about modern pop music, but also lacks any real knowledge of the very artist he reviewed, other then what he can read on the nearest tabloid rack.

What the reviewer seems to have missed is that this wasn’t Spears’ “return” to music. Instead of analyzing thoroughly the actual music at hand, the reviewer takes multiple jabs at Spears’ breakdown, which he seems to have forgotten took place

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Spears has only had four No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100; three of them were released after 2008, including her most recent single, “Hold it Against Me,” which debuted at the top of the chart, making her the second artist to have multiple debuts at No. 1.

Spears has stated in multiple interviews that her goal for this album was to be something for her fans to dance to, and that it is. For the reviewer to claim that “Femme Fatale” is a “disappointing letdown” to loyal fans is pure fiction. Fans

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let ter to the editor and critics alike have praised the album, even some reviewers going to the extent of calling it “her best album yet.”

The reviewer contradicts himself repeatedly, blaming Spears for her poorly written lyrics, even though earlier claiming that Spears didn’t in fact write her own lyrics, and then once again claiming that she wrote the ending songs “halfhearted and unmotivated.” With

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quick fact checking, it is easy to discover that Spears didn’t write any of the songs on “Femme Fatale,” so to blame her for the lyrics is irresponsible journalism.

For me, this album didn’t get the fair review it deserved. Although it’s recently announced debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 will say enough, it is sad that people today still harp on her personal life, instead of focusing directly on her music and the influence it has on her competition. Her 2007 release, “Blackout,” was referred to in Rolling Stone as “possibly the most

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“Femme Fatale” explores new territory for American pop music and is a sign of what is to come. It isn’t meant to be some lyrically profound album — which dance-pop album is? According to the reviewer’s last sentiment, “…Baby One More Time” is her better record. Obviously someone has never heard “E-mail my heart.”

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mostly taken by female students, said Short, the nutrition science and dietetics professor.

“There weren’t any men in home economics,” Short said.

The School of Home Economics evolved into its own college, the College of Home Economics, in 1921.

The first male student enrolled in 1940 after the college expanded its focus beyond cooking and sewing to nutrition, food science, dress design, household technology, child care and many other areas of study, Short said.

The college’s early focus on home economics mirrors the histories of other universities with human ecology schools.

Cornell University offered three courses related to home life in 1903 and established the Department of Home Economics in 1907, housed in its College of Agriculture, said John McKain, assistant dean of communications of Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.

The courses were originally offered after a letter-writing campaign of farmers’ wives revealed that women wanted help with everyday household activities, specifically with making household chores faster and more efficient, McKain said. But over time, the courses started to gain more of an academic focus, and the Department of Home Economics evolved into the College of Human Ecology.

“Research was a key factor,” McKain said.

“There were highly technical fields rooted in home economics, and by 1968 it had become its own college.”

At SU, the college’s original name changed to the College for Human Development in 1971, Short said. Then the name changed again in 2001 to the College of Human Services and Health Professions, and again in 2008 to the College of Human Ecology. The official change in July will mark the college’s fifth name change and the third in the past 10 years.

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The college is home to six majors: child and family studies, public health, marriage and family therapy, nutrition science and dietetics, social work and sport management. Last May, the college announced the hospitality management major would no longer be offered to incoming students.

David Essel, who graduated from SU’s College for Human Development in 1979, helped create one of the majors when he was a student.

An aspect he liked most about SU is that the professors worked with him to choose his own educational path, he said.

“One of my professors, Dr. Shantzis, saw that I was struggling,” Essel said. “He knew I was into health and fitness and sports, but at that time there was no degree that even remotely involved those things except education.”

Together, they devised a new degree called health selected studies. This major was designed for students who didn’t want to go down the education path, but still had a passion for health studies and teaching, he said. The degree has since evolved into the health and wellness program.

Essel works as a life coach and has written five books, and he said he owes his success to his SU experience.

“It made the biggest difference in the world,” Essel said. “Sometimes the best opportunities in life are the ones that don’t work out, but everything I touched upon groomed me, so when I went for my master’s, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.”

Changing times Next May, the college’s new name — the David B. Falk College for Sport and Human Dynamics — will appear on the diplomas of students, said Michele Barrett, communications manager for the college.

The school’s new namesake, Falk, is a sports agent who has influenced his field for more than 30 years. As recognition for his continued support of the sport management program at SU, the new college name is just one part of an ongoing process of changes there, said Michael Veley, chair of the sport management department.

“From a branding point of view, Mr. Falk has made his legacy in the sports industry,” Veley said. “So when you talk about human dynamics, it encompasses everything that the college does very nicely.”

Diane Lyden Murphy, dean of the College of Human Ecology, declined to comment for this article.

In April 2008, the Falks donated $5 million to establish the David B. Falk Center for Sport Management, which endows a faculty position and funds a lecture series, among other purposes.

Veley said he hopes having “sport” in the new name will not only help with recruitment

“So when you talk about human dynamics, it encompasses everything that the college does very nicely.”

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efforts, but also make it a nationally recognized program.

The college also expects to continue a trend of increased application numbers, said Barrett, the communications manager for the college. This year there has been a 7.5 percent increase in undergraduate applications and a 21.8 percent increase in graduate applications, she said.

The college expects much of its future growth to come from graduate students, Veley said. A new interdisciplinary master’s program — called sport venue and event management — is in the works, he said.

The College of Human Ecology is pulling expertise from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and the School of Information Studies to create the graduate program.

Veley also said he would like to see more diversification in the future, specifically in the sport management department. Right now, the program is 79 percent male and 21 percent female, according to the department’s website. The current ratio for the college as a whole is two female students to each male student, according to SU’s enrollment database.

“We hope that the new program offerings will appeal to more females and international students,” Veley said. “There is a huge upside for women in sports, and we’d like to break down some of those traditional barriers.”

The college is also developing an executive education program in Budapest, Hungary, set to begin in September, Barrett said. The college is creating the program to focus on understanding effective drug policies in both the United States and Europe. Dessa Bergen-Cico, an assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology, will run the program, Barrett said.

The college will undergo another change when it centralizes into one building rather than eight separate locations. The college will move to White and MacNaughton halls, the law school’s current location, after the College of Law moves into Dineen Hall in a few years.

Being able to have a building for the whole college is a major benefit, said Josh Berman, a freshman social work major. Having a unified building will bring sense of “togetherness,” he said.

But he expressed some concern about the name change. When he first heard it would be changed, he said he didn’t think much of it.

“I was a little disappointed that the name was going to be changed because the largest amount of programs in the college are all human-based programs,” Berman said.

Still, he said including Falk’s name in the new title will benefit the college and increase admissions.

“Before we weren’t really associated with anyone in particular,” Berman said. “It’s more than just cool, it’s important. It gives us a reputation and a level of importance.” hawentz@syr.edu

THROUGH THE YEARS

Since its foundation, the current College of Human Ecology has gone through many changes. Here are some of the major changes:

1917 The study of human ecology began at Syracuse University when courses in the School of Home Economics were offered through the College of Agriculture. Mostly female students took classes in cooking, sewing and nutrition studies.

1921 The School of Human Economics evolves into its own college, the College of Human Economics.

2011 The college name changes to David B. Falk College for Sport and Human Dynamics. A $15 million gift will help the college relocate to the buildings currently occupied by the College of Law, which will move into Dineen Hall once it is built.

1940 1971 Nineteen years later, the first male student enrolled in the college.

2008 Only seven years later, the name is changed to its current title: the College of Human Ecology.

The college’s original name changes to the College for Human Development.

2001 Again, the name changes. This time to the College of Human Services and Health Professions.

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fter a 5-4 vote that came with heated debate, the Syracuse Common Council approved a tax increase that will cost city residents less than $1 in county taxes for the upcoming fiscal year.

The council will use the approximately $260,000 in tax revenue — 97 cents from each tax-paying city resident — to fund repairs of elevators in the downtown Public Safety Building that District 1 Republican Councilor Matt Rayo said are in a “sad state.”

“Everyone agreed the elevators needed to be fixed,” Rayo said.

Despite the agreement, debate arose about how to allocate funds for the project. Rayo, fellow Republican Ryan McMahon and two other democratic councilors eventually voted against the bill. They opposed any form of taxation, instead preferring to shift funds in the city budget to pay for the elevator repairs.

Four other councilors in favor of the bill proposed adding the small amount to the 2012 citycounty abstract, which city taxpayers fund to pay for county-owned buildings within Syracuse each year. With the passage of the bill, the tax increase will be added to the abstract for one year.

The total cost to repair the elevators is estimated to be $426,000, according to the March 28 Common Council agenda. Under the resolution, the city will pay 61 percent — about $260,000 — of the total repair costs for the elevators from the gained tax revenue, according to the March 28 Common Council agenda.

Council President Van Robinson had to break a 4-4 tie in the vote to pass the bill. The Common Council president can only vote in the event of a tie.

Councilor-at-Large Democrat Pamela Hunter was not present at the meeting. The vote was Robinson’s first as council president.

For councilors like Democratic Majority Leader Kathleen Joy, this bill was a “creative way” to finance the much-needed repairs to elevators.

That, combined with the fact that the tax will only be on the abstract for one year, pushed her to support the measure.

“It was a way to finance it without bonding or mortgaging or taking money out,” Joy said. “I thought it was a good idea. It was a creative way to finance a big-ticket item like this for a building that’s used by both county and city residents.”

The issue fell under Rayo’s jurisdiction, as he is chair of the Intergovernmental Services Consolidation Committee on the Common Council. He said he was reluctant to add any tax increase to city residents.

“I was hoping the city would be able to find somewhere else in the budget to be able to pay for it, instead of raising what obviously is only a very small tax,” Rayo said.

The city pays more than $1 million per year, or 61 percent, toward the upkeep of the Public Safety Building, according to the March 28 Common Council agenda.

Along with Joy and Robinson, who broke the tie, Democrats Pat Hogan, Tom Seals and Nader Maroun voted to support the method.

Democrats Lance Denno and Jean Kessner joined Rayo and McMahon to oppose the bill.

Rayo said he thinks the Common Council will be more willing to add onto the abstract — in both small and large amounts — because of this decision.

McMahon also called it a “terrible precedent to set.”

“In the grand scheme of things, all we’re doing is

illustration by alejandro de jesus | art director making this community more and more expensive to live in,” he said.

Denno said he voted against the measure because it came after the biggest tax increase in the city’s history — a 6 percent increase in property taxes in this year’s budget. Rayo said he, McMahon and Denno all voted against that measure as well.

The 97-cent tax increase to repair the elevators was on the council’s agenda for just two weeks. Joy said she has been in the Public Safety Building’s elevators “many, many times.” From her personal experience, combined with opinions she heard from experts, Joy said she felt relieved when Robinson cast the deciding vote and when the measure was resolved rather swiftly.

“I’ve never been stuck in the elevator,” Joy said.

“But when the experts tell me it’s dangerous, I believe them. The city is not in a financial position to spend money where it’s not needed. If you’re telling me it was necessary, I believe it.” bplogiur@syr.edu

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reached for comment.

David George, SU’s director of Food Services, said in an email that the university was notified about Sbarro filing for bankruptcy before it happened, but was told the bankruptcy is finance-related and would have no effect on operations at SU. The university is monitoring the situation closely, George said, and any changes will be addressed as they arise.

SU owns a Sbarro franchise, and all of the pizza served on campus is Sbarro pizza, he said.

This includes Schine Student Center, Goldstein Student Center, Kimmel Food Court, the Carrier Dome and all of the dining centers, George said. There is also a Sbarro location in Brockway Food Court, according to Sbarro’s website.

Star Zhang, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, said he has never liked Sbarro pizza, so any potential change at SU won’t affect him.

“I never get it, so I don’t really care what happens,” he said.

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would keep this generosity in mind when they become alumni.

A website for the council will launch Thursday and will help students learn about donating to the university, said Chelsea Damberg, a member of the council and junior broadcast journalism and policy studies major. The site will include a message board where students can post thank you messages to alumni who have donated.

Damberg said she plans to donate to SU both as a student and as an alumna.

“It’s how you leave your mark on the university,” Damberg said about the importance of donations.

Zach Fisher, a member of the Student Philanthropy Council and a senior broadcast journalism major, has helped this week to educate students about philanthropy by handing out pamphlets with facts about how the university is funded.

“Without gifts from alumni, tuition would be at least 15 percent higher,” said

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But Emily Becker, a sophomore political science and policy studies major, had mixed opinions about Sbarro.

“Sbarro can be hit or miss,” she said. “If they leave, we should bring in Domino’s. I’d rather order Domino’s than get Sbarro from Kimmel.” jdgenco@syr.edu

A LONG TIME COMING

Pizza and pasta chain Sbarro announced Monday it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The bankruptcy filing was expected as reports first emerged last week that the company was considering such an action.

Lenders temporarily agreed on March 3 for the third time not to foreclose on Sbarro’s assets so that $176.3 million in debt could be recovered. The agreements, which Sbarro filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, say the company missed interest payments, failed to comply with debt promises and disputed a default notice it received.

The forbearance agreement with lenders expired April 1.

Source: The Associated Press

“Without gifts from alumni, tuition would be at least 15 percent higher.”

Zach Fisher

MEMBER OF THE STUDENT PHIL ANTHROPY COUNCIL

Fisher, who plans to donate when he is an alumnus.

Fisher joined the philanthropy council when it formed in the fall as an opportunity to connect with alumni and find out more about who gives back to their alma mater.

He met the Phanstiels earlier this year and said they were a couple who were “truly happy to give back” and share their success.

But Fisher also said not every gift needs to be large.

Said Fisher: “Whether the gift is $ 20 million or $ 20, it’s the thought that giving back will be an opportunity to help succeed.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu

shijing wang | staff photographer Sbarro filed for bankruptcy Monday, but the franchise owned by Syracuse University is still operating. Students can find Sbarro in Schine Student Center, among other places.

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The link between femininity and nature continued to weaken as male artists gained recognition for their skills and sought to separate themselves from depicting nature, she said. Art went from being symbolic to being a display of talent and creativity, she said.

Garrard’s first example of the weakened bond between nature and femininity in art is Brunelleschi’s dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore Basilica. Before Brunelleschi took over the reconstruction, the cathedral was a site of imagery dedicated to the Virgin Mary, she said.

The Florentines wanted to add a dome to represent the shape of the virgin’s breast, a symbol of her ability to nourish and protect, Garrard said.

The egg-shaped dome would also serve as another female symbol — of Mother Nature’s egg and her fertility.

“Brunelleschi wanted to redirect the dome’s significance from biological to technical, though,” Garrard said. “As masculinists took over, the reasons of the egg were kept secret.”

Garrard further explained how male artists

SHERATON FROM PAGE 1

valeria aponte | contributing photographer Students may opt to live in the Sheraton University Hotel as part of on-campus housing beginning in the fall. The hotel underwent complete renovations to all 235 guest rooms.

Sheraton guest rooms will be available for SU undergraduates as part of the SU housing process for the 2011-12 academic year, Heymann said. The 235 rooms received all new features and fixtures, including furnishings, lights and shower walls.

Carpets and lighting in the hallway were updated as part of the renovations as well.

Students can begin choosing housing in the Sheraton during the sixth phase of the housing reservation process, which begins Tuesday, said Sara Miller, assistant director of SU News Services, in an email. No incoming first-year students can live in the Sheraton, Miller said.

Rooms in the Sheraton are part of an expansion of on-campus housing options for students.

Students are also able to live in the Parkview Hotel on East Genesee Street, the Park Point Syracuse apartment complex and University Village Apartments.

The rate for students living in the Sheraton next semester is $4,100, Miller said. Students must also check out before the 2012 commencement if they stay in the hotel next year, according to the Housing Reservation Booklet.

challenged female nature in art through the use of beauty, as well as how they transformed from symbols of nature to decorative aspects of a work. This is seen in Botticelli’s “Primavera,” which depicts the transformation of a free nymph to a married woman, she said.

Garrard focused on the beauty of the graces at the center of the painting, which show how the artist has the ability to create an unrealistic representation of beauty, she said. From then on, images of beautiful women in art are not about the actual woman, but about the artist’s creativity.

Sarah Grzymala, a second-year graduate student in art history, said she liked how Garrard’s lecture tied into the content of her previous books.

“But what I thought was really enlightening was how she tied the previous female perception of nature to the art,” she said. “I think it makes a great springboard for people to do further research from.”

Lexi Iorio, a sophomore painting major who attended the lecture, agreed with Grzymala.

“It was very informative,” she said. “It was good seeing the perspective of someone who doesn’t just know what they’re talking about, but who has actually seen the art, too.” meltagou@syr.edu

“We’ll be business as usual for graduation and all our rooms will be available then.”

David Heymann

GENERAL MANAGER OF SHERATON UNIVERSIT Y HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER

The floor available in the Sheraton will house 68 students in open doubles. Heymann said he expects to fill these rooms.

“The rooms that are earmarked for them, we’ll fill,” he said. “We’re not booking rooms for the students, the university is handing us a list.”

An open house was hosted in the Sheraton on Monday with more than 50 students touring the facility, Miller said. Attractions to living in the Sheraton for students include having the bathroom cleaned once a week, access to the fitness center and pool, and living in a safe location, she said.

Said Miller: “We expect them to be very popular.” medelane@syr.edu

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the daily orange

the sweet stuff in the middle

part 3

reaching for hope

SOFIA MEIJAS $8,540

CELEBRATE HONOR FIGHT BACK

CARMEN GENOVESE $3,155

SARA FREUND $2,525

Foot soldiers Fundraising efforts hit close to home for event participants

Text by Bethany Bump STAFF WRITER

Photos by Andrew Renneisen ASST. PHOTO EDITOR

Relay For Life Where: Carrier Dome When: 6 p.m. Saturday to 5 a.m.

Part 3 of 3: Every year, the SyraSunday cuse community gathers in the Carrier How much: $20 entrance fee Dome to celebrate cancer survivors, honor loved ones lost to the disease sues in their way. They might travel and fight back to end cancer. Part through a lymph or hide in a white Three of this series acknowledges those blood cell. Eventually, they announce who fight for the cure. themselves by ravaging the body they’ve invaded. Too often, they end he abnormal cells grow uncon- a life. trollably. They first arrive Not everyone is willing to sit back innocently enough, manifest- and watch. ing themselves as an unusual lump ••• barely worth mentioning. Or a cough The camaraderie that came from supthat lasts a little too long. Or a bruise porting a good cause with friends that, for some reason, just hasn’t gone marked Sofia Mejias’ last two years away. at Relay For Life. She remembers The cells spread, invading other climbing onto a tall friend’s shoulparts of the body, destroying tis- ders, playing chicken with her frater-

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nity brothers and sisters, convincing a friend her crooked haircut looked good after she donated hair.

This year makes her nervous, though, after her father dealt with cancer for the second time.

“I don’t know how emotional I’ll get, and I don’t really know if I’m OK with letting people see me that emotional,” said Mejias, a junior ceramics major. “Since he’s been hit with it twice, I don’t know if I’ll really be able to handle it as much.”

Mejias has fundraised for Relay since she was a freshman. But by sophomore year, the fight for the cure became personal. Her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer and only told his family when he went in for surgery. His treatments were successful. This year, though, doctors discovered an obstruction in his bile

duct that turned out to be cancer yet again.

The cancer is currently out of his system, and Mejias’ father continues to receive regular chemotherapy treatment.

Mejias leads the pack in Relay donations. She has raised $8,540 as of Wednesday, according to the Relay website, nearly twice the amount as the No. 2 top participant.

Each year she participates, she surpasses her personal fundraising goal. Last month, when she was a few hundred dollars short of her $8,000 goal, she began announcing prizes on Facebook — mugs and cups she made herself — for the first 20 people to donate $15.

“I’m sure when my dad was a kid he never thought that he was going

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to get cancer,” Mejias said. “I never thought that he was going to get cancer. You don’t know who’s going to be affected by it, and it’s just really good to help out other people and be a little selfless sometimes.

I just feel better about myself when I know that I’m helping a bigger cause.”

While working at New York City’s Memorial Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center, Mejias saw devastated families deal with a child’s death from cancer. Their devastation pushes her to fight for the cure, as does her father. A high survival rate isn’t enough.

“I definitely think we have to fight to the point where we find a cure,” Mejias said.

“Everybody’s important. Everybody makes an impact on the world. Life’s too short to live it in sickness. It just needs to go away. Cancer just needs to end. We can fight cancer. It’s doable.”

••• Recurring thoughts pass through Carmen Genovese’s mind every day. What does it mean if I develop a cough tomorrow? Does it mean my cancer is back or does it mean I just have a cold?

As each year passes, though, he wonders less if he will live to see his 30th birthday.

The 26-year-old graduate student in clinical mental health counseling was diagnosed in February 2006 with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — just four months after his wife, Emily, went into remission from her own cancer. Life was on hold. Life was surreal.

“If you get diagnosed like I did in my 20s, it totally shapes your career,” Genovese said. “It affects your relationships. You’re at that point where you’re supposed to be exiting your family of origin and launching into your own life. It

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resets a lot of that.”

Genovese has raised $3,155 as of Wednesday, making him SU’s No. 3 fundraiser at Relay. The cause is the most important one he will fight.

Giving back, he said, was necessary.

“I realize that I’m lucky to have survived, and I’m lucky to have the opportunities to go back to school and have a shot at a career, and one that I actually love,” he said. “So I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon.”

He met Emily at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he was studying to become an engineer. Soon after they were engaged, Emily went home to spend the summer with her family and within a week was diagnosed with Leukemia.

The time spent taking care of his wife, and eventually himself, helped Genovese realize how he wanted to spend the rest of his life.

He didn’t want to spend it behind a desk. Or in a cubicle. Or as the self-proclaimed shy and quiet guy. He didn’t care if he was rich. Just short of earning an engineering degree, Genovese made the decision to become a counselor.

“I felt that because I had these experiences as both a survivor and a caregiver that I’d be in kind of a unique position to help other young adult cancer survivors,” Genovese said.

He hopes to eventually work in a hospital setting, where he can counsel cancer patients and their families. He wants to spend his career fighting back.

••• One day this semester in her philosophy class, Sara Freund’s professor stopped in the middle of a lesson to announce a $200 donation to her Relay cause. The freshman psychology and writing major had emailed him earlier asking for a small donation, as she had with other professors and students.

“I was just so shocked because that’s not something that people do,” Freund said. “They don’t just randomly donate $200, especially if there’s not a personal relationship there. And that’s a lot of money to pledge.”

As of Wednesday, Freund has raised $2,525, making her the No. 6 fundraiser out of 2,126 registered participants.

This weekend will be her seventh Relay, but her first at SU. At her Florida high school, she fundraised each year for Relay, often as a team captain.

“It just makes me feel so good when people actually take the time out of their day to go and donate money,” she said. “And I tell them every time, it really means so much to me.”

Relay is unique because it culminates its fundraising season with a final event, Freund said. Everyone is working toward the same goal.

Everyone is trying to beat cancer. But it’s more than just raising money, she said.

“When people donate, they’re just really supportive,” Freund said. “It lets me know that people really care about this, and I’m not the only one thinking about it.”

She isn’t the only one who thinks about it.

Almost a fifth of SU’s student population camps out in the Carrier Dome one night a year to fight back against cancer.

••• Behind the scenes at Relay are Kelsie Bouchard and Janae DeRusso, co-chairs of the annual event.

They can’t go to the Dome without identifying it with Relay For Life, DeRusso said.

When the lights are off and the luminarias lit, when the music plays, and when “hope” and “cure” light up the stands, everything is on pause for DeRusso.

“That moment to me is just so special because

of all the work we’ve done the last 10 months to get to this point,” she said. “Now we’re sitting back and we’re with 2,000 friends and we’re really making a difference. It’s just so different from any other fundraiser or event you could be a part of.”

Bouchard will cap off a sleepless week with a sleepless Saturday night. The energy and emotion she has poured into fighting back for the past four years keep her from feeling tired.

“Literally for me, it’s electrifying,” she said.

“I don’t feel anything less than excited because I know that what we’re doing is making a difference, and I’m so proud to see our diverse campus community come together. Our campus is doing its best this weekend to make a difference, to cause change.”

••• Every year, a handful of students go well beyond Relay’s request to raise just $100. They don’t do it to rank on a list. They do it to get a dollar closer to the cure. Each person does it to celebrate those who have conquered cancer, to remember the lives of loved ones lost too soon and to fight back against a disease that has touched his or her life in one way or another. blbump@syr.edu

SU RELAY BY THE NUMBERS* 135,009.76 total dollars raised

2,126

total participants

250

total teams *Data figures as of Wednesday night Source: main.acsevents.org

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Orange Pulse Dance Troupe to hold 8th annual showcase

By Soriana Stern Contributing Writer

Victoria Birsen always wanted to dance on stage. Growing up, Birsen didn’t take any dance classes, but as a student at Syracuse University, her dancing dreams lingered on.

This past fall, the undeclared sophomore in

Jock Jams

Where: Goldstein Auditorium When: 8 p.m. Today How much: $4 with valid SU ID, $6 for

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the College of Arts and Sciences followed her friend to Orange Pulse Dance Troupe’s rehearsal and found a place where she could pursue her childhood dancing aspirations.

This year, she’s one of 125 members who will perform in the troupe’s eighth annual charity showcase.

Called Jock Jams, the event will take place Thursday in Goldstein Auditorium at 8 p.m.

In previous years, Orange Pulse Dance Troupe was not big enough to host a showcase with only the dancers from its group.

Up until last year, the team invited dancers from SU’s other dance organizations, including DanceWorks and the Black Reign Step Team, to participate in its showcase to help fill it out.

But this year’s showcase, featuring just the troupe’s members, will celebrate the group’s growth. The theme of this year’s performance is “Get Pumped Up,” reflecting a sporty, athletic spirit, said Mariel Stein, the troupe’s president.

“We really want to get you pumped up,” said Stein, a senior psychology and policy studies major. “Some songs will go along with that theme throughout the show to carry it on.”

The troupe members created a theme because they wanted a bigger turnout. The troupe’s public relations personal co-chair, Krissie Oja, said she hopes the event will generate even more interest in the group. Last year, 600 people attended the event. This year’s goal is 700, said Oja, a junior hospitality management major.

The show will raise money for the Wacheva Cultural Arts Dance Studio in Syracuse.

Wacheva emailed the troupe this past summer and asked for its help. The previous building Wacheva and Parents Promoting Dance, a Syracuse dance organization promoting self-esteem though art, were housed in was shut down by eminent domain, a state action in which government seizes private property.

The two dance companies moved to a rundown building at 117 Harvard Place. It was

what is the orange pulse dance troupe?

• Founded in 2003, Orange Pulse Dance Troupe is currently in its eighth year as a recognized Syracuse University club sport and student organization.

• Open to anyone with a penchant for dance, this performance group doesn’t require auditions or previous experience and consists of a range of dancers. The troupe offers members classes in a variety of styles, including jazz, tap, ballet and hip-hop. Tailored to each dancer’s experience, the classes differ in level.

• Dance classes are taught by students.

transformed into a dance studio to serve children and adult dancers.

After seeing the before and after photos of the space, Ashley Maines, Orange Pulse’s philanthropic chair, decided the troupe would help out. All proceeds from Jock Jams will go toward aiding Wacheva in maintaining the new studio.

“I chose them because we both share a love of dance. I wanted to allow for their studio to grow as Orange Pulse has grown,” said Maines, a senior child and family studies and political science major.

The dance troupe is not just for lifelong dancers. About 30 to 40 percent of inducted members are beginners. Dancers participate in up to five different classes, and classes

are classified through level and style. The membership of the group has grown in the past years. Last year, the group had just 93 dancers.

“We are a dance troupe that welcomes all dancers,” Maines said.

The dancers practice the routine, which features hip-hop, jazz, contemporary and tap, at least twice during rehearsal. Orange Pulse’s choreographers also upload YouTube videos of their dances for members to practice routines at home.

Birsen, the undeclared sophomore in Arts and Sciences, has dedicated her free time to practicing for the showcase.

“It’s hard work, but every time I get up and do one of the dances, even during prac-

“I chose them because we both share a love of dance. I wanted to allow for their studio to grow as Orange Pulse has grown.”

Ashley Maines

Orange Pulse Dance Troupe’s philanthropic chair

tice,” she said. “And even if the choreographers are drilling us every time, I always have fun.” sostern@syr.edu

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“Getting involved and donating money for people that need help.”

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Events THURSDAY, APRIL 7

Third annual Asian American Trivia Game 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Rm. 275, College of Law Free

In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, the Korean Law Students Association and the College of Law are hosting a trivia event on campus. Participants can win prizes and lunch will be served on a first-come, first-serve basis.

MFA 2011 Opening Reception 5 to 7 p.m.

Shaffer Art Building Free

The Masters of Fine Arts graduate students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will present works from their respective programs in this gallery. There will be work from 17 visual artists and 20 musicians and composers on hand.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Trans-Siberian Orchestra 8 p.m.

The OnCenter, War Memorial Arena Tickets starting at $65 The renown combination of electric rock and classical orchestra pieces will collide in Syracuse this weekend. The Trans-Siberian

Curse of the Starving Class

Orchestra will stop at the OnCenter during their “Beethoven’s Last Night” Spring 2011 tour.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

“Predators, Porn and the Law” All day College of Law, Hendricks Chapel Free

The College of Law and the Syracuse Law Review will present “Predators, Porn and the Law: America’s Children in the Internet Era,” a series of discussions dealing with the safety of children in the age of today’s technology. The conference starts at 9 a.m. in the College of Law, and will end with a keynote address by Marc Klaas at Hendricks Chapel at 3 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

by Sam Shepard

Comedian Myq Kaplan performs 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The Syracuse Jewish Community Center $25 for tickets

Myq Kaplan, of “Last Comic Standing,” will be performing at the Jewish Community Center. Billy and Adam, of Snakes, will host the event. Tickets can be ordered online through syrajews.org.

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Our favorite indulgences should be enjoyed in moderation

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hen we were 5 years old, a McDonald’s cheeseburger was a celebratory lunchtime treat. Calories were as unfamiliar as the opposite sex, and trans fats were as foreign as puberty. Now it seems that food and guilt go hand in hand too often, and the blissful ignorance we experienced with our favorite edible indulgences is a thing of the past.

Society is becoming increasingly aware of the negative and positive effects food can have on our bodies, depending on the choices we make. We’re told to count our calories, limit sugar and lower our sodium intake. With so many rules, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

Developing a healthy relationship with food is hard when you’re trying to find a balance between overindulgence and being overly obsessed with calories.

The Food and Drug Administration is on a mission to curb the obesity issue currently plaguing the United States. On April 1, the FDA made a new rule requiring that chain restaurants, retail food sellers and vending machines display the calorie counts of items on the menu.

A November 2010 article from CNN reported that, according to a study published in Pediatrics, eating disorders are becoming more prevalent among children and teenagers in the United States.

Simultaneously, the number of overweight people in the United States is growing. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 2007-08, 68 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Clearly, not everyone is experiencing guilt while eating.

I applaud the FDA’s efforts to make us more aware of our food decisions and protect us from making unhealthy food choices. If an obese person notices the calorie count of a Whopper during his or her daily Burger King run and is disturbed enough to change his or her ways, that’s a step in the right direction. I fear, however, that food is in some ways becoming more of an enemy than a friend, and meals are unnecessarily turning into mathematical equations.

ALICIA SMITH

do the body right Don’t get me wrong — I am not advocating gorging on doughnuts and Butterfinger bars.

Rather, I am encouraging balance. We need to be aware that eating french fries every day is not a great idea, but enjoying them every once in a while is OK. Eat lots of vegetables, and occasionally follow it with some ice cream.

We should care about our bodies enough to eat wholesomely, and care for our psychological state enough not to agonize. Diners should read labels and take note of restaurant’s calorie indications, but without becoming fixated on every number.

It’s easy to take our taste buds for granted.

People who are sick, dying or depressed lose their appetites. As healthy people, we should take advantage of our opportunity to enjoy a good meal. Food can simultaneously give us pleasure, disease, nourishment and entertainment (e.g., Rachael Ray and the dancing California Raisins). But taking the risk to enjoy food could result in some enjoyable experiences.

While studying abroad, my friend Liz and I shared one of the best meals of our lives in Florence. I ate more pizza and pasta than I ever imagined my stomach could hold, and we washed it down with red wine and gelato.

Dr. Robert Atkins may have rolled over in his grave, but it’s a memory I will forever cherish. I would recommend everyone travel to Florence and do the same thing, just not every day.

Alicia Smith is a graduate student in the magazine, newspaper and online journalism program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at acsmit05@syr.edu.

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FITTED HATS

It’s baseball season, apparently. So says my sports-obsessed suitemate. I enjoy baseball, but what I like even more are baseball hats. More specifically I love fitted, flat-brim hats.

Last summer I attended a Yankee game and, under some strange delusion, convinced myself I could pull off a nice, black 59fifty. Not only did it look ridiculous on me, but I also bought the wrong size and ended up giving it to my best guy friend, upon whose head it looks much more fitting.

But seriously, have you ever seen a guy’s hat collection? Every single time I see my previously mentioned male bestie, I am amazed at the variety of headwear that always graces his well-trimmed head.

Each hat is different, with often-adorable team mascots and awesome color combinations. They are undeniably eye-catching. And how on earth does it magically hover on the back of his head?

My amazement quadrupled when he brought me to Flight Club in New York City over Winter Break. If you’ve never been, just know that it is the Holy Grail of headwear and footwear for men. When I first walked in, I thought the walls were covered with wallpaper that had shoes and hats all over it. Nope, the walls are just literally covered floor to ceiling in every style, brand and color combination of shoe and hat you could dream of. I was inspired, to say the least.

So as the cold-weather ski caps are stowed away for springtime, I am determined to give my fitted hat dreams a second chance.

Why can’t I wear a fitted hat? Every time I try one on, my friends simply just laugh and shake their heads. So what if these hats are typically found on the heads of men twice my size, who are also 10 times as cool? I could be that cool. I just need someone to measure my head.

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

SPRING AND SUMMER SEASONALS

We finally made it to April! It doesnt’t feel like spring quite yet, but that won’t stop our favorite breweries from churning out their light but flavorful warmer-weather seasonals. This week, we’ll taste two spring and two summer releases from some wellknown breweries.

Vinyl Lager (Spring)

Magic Hat Brewing Co.; Burlington, Vt. Style: Amber Lager ABV: 5.1 percent

Vinyl’s reddish-copper brew lives up to its style visually, but the head retention is low, fading quickly. It smells like sweet malts and caramel, and has a hint of woodiness. Upon first taste, the sweetness of the biscuity and caramellike malts comes through and has a slightly bitter finish. This light but wellflavored beer is a must-try.

Spring Blonde Wheat Ale

Blue Moon (Coors Brewing Co.); Golden, Colo.

Style: Pale Wheat Ale ABV: 5.4 percent

This brew lacks quality ingredients and flavor. It pours a golden color and has a strong head that quickly fades, but maintains high carbonation. Mild and citrusy, it smells of lemon, orange and faint wheat. Opt for better wheat ales.

Harpoon Summer Beer

Harpoon Brewing Co.; Boston, Mass.

Style: Kolsch ABV: 5.5 percent

Great for winos, Kolsch beers pour very pale and have light to medium body with medium carbonation. A mild hop bitterness blends with a vinous (think white grapes) flavor. Try Harpoon’s for a mild but refreshing beer.

Otter Summer

Otter Creek Brewing/Wolaver’s; Middlebury, Vt. Style: Pale Wheat Ale ABV: 4.9 percent

This beer is so light, it virtually has no smell or flavor. Its smells faintly, if at all, of citrus but not much wheat. Its medium carbonation masks the meager citrus and wheat flavors. With less carbonation, this beer might be mistaken for lemon seltzer. Avoid at all costs.

— Compiled by Lucas Sacks, staff writer, ldsacks@syr.edu

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lmost as rare as a decent horror movie or war film is a taut, perfectly constructed thriller. Duncan Jones’ riveting “Source Code” proves there’s truly nothing more enjoyable than a thriller that doesn’t rely on violence to engage its audience, but exercises its potential as a work of palpable suspense.

Jones, whose directorial debut, “Moon,” was one of the most celebrated breakthroughs of 2009, is no one-hit wonder. His second feature, despite its disappointingly mushy ending, is as enrapturing as modern mainstream thrillers come.

Capt. Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) has no idea why or how he arrived on a Chicagobound train. He feverishly attempts to gain his bearings when, eight minutes later, the train is incinerated by an onboard bomb. Stevens is immediately transported to a cell-like room.

The image of Capt. Colleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga) appears on a closed-circuit television.

She informs him that he is inside the source code, an invention that allows one to enter into someone’s body in the final eight minutes of his or her life.

The train bound for Chicago was just the first of multiple, cataclysmic terrorist attacks, and Stevens has a few more chances to stop it and save millions of lives. With each trip back to the train, he becomes more intensely enamored with one of the fated passengers, Christina Warren (Michelle Monaghan), the driving force in his attempts to thwart the terrorists. The soldier has a new, even more powerful motive as he inches closer and closer to solving the past.

A thriller that could best be described as “Groundhog Day” meets “Mission: Impossible” might not draw exceptionally high expectations. Perhaps that’s what makes the film so satisfying. It’s difficult to underestimate the quantity of action movies based on tired, worn or amazingly unoriginal premises, qualifying “Source Code” as the rare high-concept thriller that delivers at every level. It easily could have devolved into a redundant pastiche of the average thriller nowadays, but Jones consistently

finds ways to jolt the audience with a refreshing punch to the stomach. Each new train ride is littered with brilliant twists; the dense characterization defies action movie convention; and there is even a great deal of genuine emotion permeating the drama.

In keeping with the style of “Moon,” set in just two locations and dependent on the charisma of its leading man, “Source Code” is easily recognizable as a Jones film, even though he’s only made two. Jones has a great understanding of visual space and form, a vital skill lost on most filmmakers, and is adept at generating suspense with just a slight, barely detectable underlying threat.

He does not ask for much from his audience as he did in the more demanding “Moon,” but the thrills of “Source Code” are no less rewarding.

Just as Sam Rockwell had been tasked with carrying “Moon” entirely by himself, Gyllenhaal was expected to go above and beyond in retaining the audience’s fascination.

Alternately frightened, frustrated, terrified, sensitive and funny, the very talented young actor offers arguably his finest performance in over five years. Such meaty roles are very rare in action movies, but this is not a great performance simply by virtue of having great material to build off of. Gyllenhaal has demonstrated his versatility again and again in masterpieces such as “Brokeback Mountain” and “Zodiac,” as well as in extremely challenging roles in “Jarhead” and “Donnie Darko.” “Source Code” is just an action movie, which makes the quality of his turn all the more impressive.

Were it not for an uncharacteristically sappy ending, which looks like it was drawn up by the head of the studio and not by Jones or the talented screenwriter, Ben Ripley, “Source Code” might have been perfect. That Hollywood trapping can easily be written off, however, when one considers what Jones was able to accomplish within the strict confines of the mainstream thriller genre, boasting a swagger to shame the Joel Schumachers and Michael Bays of this world. smlittma@syr.edu

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SU returns home for 1st time since February needing win

By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

Syracuse has been a little homesick. After limping through a six-game road trip with a 2-4 record, the separation from its home environment was evident.

“It’s always sunny and 70 in the Dome,” SU senior attack Tee Ladouceur said, Who: Connecticut “instead of other Where: Carrier Dome places, where When: Friday, 4 p.m. weather ailments can sometimes affect the outcome of a game. The Dome is nice.”

The Orange (3-6, 1-0 Big East) has only played two of its nine games at home this season, and its subpar overall record demonstrates the effects. In his three years as head coach, Gary Gait has led his Syracuse teams to a .793 winning percentage in the Carrier Dome. And with this year’s squad in desperate need of a win, it’s a better time than ever to be back in Syracuse.

Friday, SU takes on Connecticut (6-4, 0-2) in its first home game since Feb. 27.

Since Gait began his tenure in 2008, Syracuse has compiled Dome records of 10-1, 7-2 and 6-3. This year, SU is 1-1. Never before has a Gait-led team lost more than two games on the road. So far this year, it has lost five.

In its two games at home, SU is averaging 15 scores per game. In its seven on the road, SU is averaging 9.4.

“I think it’s a whole mixture of things,” Ladouceur said of the road struggles. “We’re not always on the same page together. Obviously, we’re looking to win games, even when we are on the road.”

As far as winning games in the postseason,

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there is a definite advantage for the team that owns the road-warrior mentality, Gait said earlier this season. But as far as winning games — and more importantly, building chemistry — in the regular season, playing a few within the friendly confines can’t hurt.

SU’s backup goaltender Alyssa Costantino, in her first season with the Orange, still vividly recalls the first time she set foot inside.

“I remember the first time I saw it. I actually got goose bumps,” Costantino said. “It

“I think it’s a whole mixture of things. We’re not always on the same page together. Obviously, we’re looking to win games even when we are on the road.”

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feels like a professional field, so when you walk in, you’re like, ‘Wow, this is big time.’”

Perhaps the setting the Dome provides creates a sense of intimidation for the Orange’s opponents. And after SU dominated the Huskies last season on the road, the friendly confines of the Dome are only an added advantage.

When the two teams met in Storrs, Conn., last season, the Syracuse defense forced 17 turnovers and allowed just one goal in each half en route to an 11-2 win. SU has won all 13 of its previous matchups with the Huskies and is a perfect 6-0 at home.

“All the other teams come in here and have big eyes and are like, ‘Wow, this is it,’” said SU starting goaltender Liz Hogan. “And we get to be here every day.”

Since losing to top-ranked Maryland on March 12, Syracuse has been outscored by only three goals in a five-game stretch (54-51).

It has won two of the five, but both wins came against unranked teams in Towson and Rutgers. The three losses have all come against ranked opponents in Florida, Northwestern and Dartmouth.

ashli truchon | staff photographer Tee Ladouceur (right) and Syracuse are playing at home for the first time since Feb. 27 when SU takes on UConn on Saturday. SU has never lost to the Huskies in 13 games.

The question now becomes whether Syracuse is losing because it has been playing games on the road or because it is being outplayed.

Come Friday, the answer will materialize.

Perhaps the answer to resolving the struggle is as simple as returning back home.

Syracuse now has that opportunity, and

when the Huskies visit the Dome this Friday, SU will look to get over the homesickness that has come with a 2-5 road trip.

“There are no excuses for losing these games when we’re away,” Ladouceur said.

“Those are games that we should have won, but obviously here, there is a comfort zone.” zoirvin@ syr.edu

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MACPHERSON FROM PAGE 24

interest. That interest turned into a skill.

“The long snapper, you can imagine how excited you’d be to teach an 8-year-old,” said Maureen MacPherson, Macky’s mother, with a hint of sarcasm. “But he did it, and Macky got the hang of it right off.

“I think certainly that was always Macky’s dream to play there.”

The skill stuck with him through his childhood, all the way through his high school playing days as a center at Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse. And the dream — to play football at SU — became a reality in his junior year at CBA, when he verbally committed to Syracuse. Now an even greater aspiration is being realized, as Macky is in line to take over as the Orange’s starting center as a sophomore.

starting spot.”

Macky has always been close to Syracuse football and the SU community — walkingdistance close. The MacPherson’s home lies less than a mile from both the Carrier Dome and Manley, allowing for those easy bike rides to practice.

It’s the same house Dick MacPherson lived in when he was head coach of SU. Maureen MacPherson bought the home from her parents, and with that, Macky essentially grew up living on campus. And with the SU football team at practice.

“Macky was running around, working hard, snapping the football,” Dick MacPherson said.

“We’d go eat, and then I’d take him home. He grew up watching these guys play.”

Maureen MacPherson gives her father a lot of credit for helping raise Macky. On Sundays, Dick would take his grandchildren to church, breakfast and the toy store.

Once Macky was old enough to handle it, he became a ball boy for Syracuse. He no longer needed to be kept busy at practice. Now he had a job to do.

In Macky’s fi rst game as a ball boy, he received his first hit. Maureen said one play spilled out of bounds, and Macky didn’t get out of the way in time.

“He was standing there watching, and next thing you know, his feet were over his head,” Maureen said.

Though Macky said he was too young to completely grasp everything he was taking in as a ball boy, he still reaped the benefits. Most of the time, he was on the opposing team’s sideline, he said. That was beneficial for him because he got an outsider’s opinion of players on the SU football team he adored.

And sometimes he got a scoop. While working the sideline during a Syracuse-Rutgers

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“I’m loving this. I mean, honestly, I never thought in a million years I’d be in this situation.”

Macky MacPherson

SU CENTER

It’s everything a Syracuse lifer, the grandson of one of the most heralded coaches in SU history, could hope for.

“I’m loving this,” he said. “I mean, honestly, I never thought in a million years I’d be in this situation. As a sophomore, being able to play with the ones, and I’m just trying to secure that

FINE LINE Syracuse returns four of five starters on its offensive line from last season. Only center Macky MacPherson comes into a new position. Here’s how the line figures to shape up in 2011:

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game in 2007, Macky chatted with then-Rutgers junior running back Ray Rice. They talked about how Rice originally wanted to play at SU before choosing Rutgers. Rice proceeded to tell Macky he planned to leave for the National Football League.

Macky also had the opportunity to work as a ball boy for the Champs Sports Bowl in 2004, the last bowl game the Orange played in until SU won the Pinstripe Bowl last year.

It was Macky’s bowl game experience seven years ago that set his mind toward playing in a bowl game one day.

“That’s really how I kind of knew I wanted to play Division I,” he said, “or at least the highest level I could, because I fell in love with it.”

Macky’s younger brother, Cameron, became a quarterback. It was almost too perfect to be true. One of the brothers snapped the ball, and the other dropped back to receive it.

Their mother said the whole neighborhood could watch their routine in the streets. As long as the snow wasn’t too deep, Macky would snap to Cameron out of the shotgun. Cameron would throw up a bomb down the street, and Macky ran down to catch it. The center would run back up the field of concrete, and they would do it again.

Both went on to play at CBA. Macky grew into the role of starting center. Cameron, a rising senior in high school, will start at quarterback next fall.

But it was not a foregone conclusion for Macky that Syracuse would be the next step after CBA. As a junior, he received interest from Stanford, Maryland and a few other schools, including Ivy League schools, Maureen said.

“We only heard a little bit from Syracuse, so we really weren’t sure if they were interested in him,” she said.

Syracuse’s peak point of interest came when Macky was visiting another school. He was in Boston, meeting with the Harvard head coach and watching the Crimson’s spring football game when he received a call from SU linebackers coach Dan Conley, Maureen said.

Conley, a former player under Dick MacPherson, wanted Macky to stop by and talk with the Syracuse coaching staff. When they returned home, Macky and his mother met with SU head coach Doug Marrone the next day.

Just like that, Macky was offered a scholarship to the school he’s been associated with his entire life. He jumped on the opportunity, verbally committing that day.

Macky got immediate playing time as a freshman at long snapper. Even though he wasn’t playing center, he was learning.

The Orange’s starting center was senior Ryan Bartholomew, who anticipates getting selected in April’s NFL Draft. For Macky, Bartholomew was the perfect person to have on the team to answer questions. And Bar-

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tholomew knew he had another role when it came to Macky.

“I knew he was the future of the center position,” Bartholomew said. “His way was to try to learn from me. … Because he wanted to learn, I tried to teach him as much as possible.”

Though Macky is small — he weighs 256 pounds, whereas Bartholomew weighed 298 a season ago — he makes up for it with his football IQ. Both Bartholomew and current Syracuse offensive guard Zack Chibane said he will overcome the lack of size.

Marrone is also confident in Macky’s ability to step in as starting center. Marrone, a former SU offensive lineman, said as long as Macky listens to those next to him on the offensive line, he will be fine.

“He’ll be OK,” Marrone said. “I feel good about him, I do. He’s played center, he can move, he’s smart, he’s bright.”

Macky also has Syracuse in his bloodlines.

From his grandfather’s success with the Orange to the home he grew up in less than a mile from campus, Macky was raised on the turfs of the Carrier Dome and Manley.

The center calls his grandfather after every practice and almost every night. But he isn’t calling “Coach Mac.” He’s calling his grandfather. They don’t talk Xs and Os.

MACKY MACPHERSON VITALS Age Class Position Height Weight High School

19 Rising sophomore Center 6-foot-2 256 Christian Brothers Academy (Syracuse)

Dick MacPherson said they talk about five nights a week about how he’s doing academically and how he’s adapting to the rigors of handling a college course load and playing football at the same time. Macky said the best thing he can do for his grandson is to not give any advice.

He wants to leave that for Marrone.

Dick said he’s proud of his grandson’s work to become SU’s starting center in the same way any grandfather is proud of his grandson for chasing his dreams. Dreams that started on bike rides to Manley and Sunday routines a decade ago.

“I’m very proud of who he is and how he’s working and doing the right thing,” Dick said.

“And I think the most important thing is his teammates and his coaching staff feel the same way, and hopefully they do.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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tennis

With trip to face struggling Pitt, SU looks to avoid upset

By Stephen Bailey Staff Writer

Syracuse has had its share of tough weekends this season. The Orange played a doubleheader early in the year. The next weekend, SU hosted three matches in three days. Most recently, SU head coach Luke Jensen’s squad played six matches in 12 days.

Who: Pittsburgh The Orange will Where: Pittsburgh face a different When: Friday, noon challenge Friday, though.

Rather than competing against some of the nation’s best, SU will have to focus on a lesser opponent.

But it’s an opponent the Orange can’t afford to look past in Big East foe Pittsburgh.

“They’re down this year,” Jensen said.

“But they’re up for Syracuse, just like we’re up for Pitt.”

With the Big East tournament just three weeks away, the Orange (14-6, 6-1) faces a struggling Panthers (8-9, 2-5) team near the bottom of the conference Friday in Pittsburgh. It would be easy to see this as a time to rest, a time to breathe easy. Jensen is pushing his team as hard as ever in practice, treating it like any other match as Syracuse tries to avoid an upset.

Junior captain Emily Harman knows winning this match is another step toward SU’s ultimate goal of winning the Big East tournament, and that looking past it would be a mistake.

“For any match, it’s important not to look ahead of it,” Harman said. “At this level, there’s not a huge separation between anybody. If we

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They could surprise us. We could be flat.”

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look ahead of Pitt, they could very well win.

They could surprise us. We could be flat.

“There are a lot of things that could go wrong if we just forget about them. We can’t do that. And our coaches make sure that we don’t do that.”

The Orange recognizes the proverbial target on its back. Weaker teams, such as Rutgers and Binghamton, have given SU tough matches already this season. When the Bearcats stepped into Drumlins Tennis Center on Feb. 4, they pushed Jensen’s squad to the brink.

Syracuse managed to escape with a victory over Binghamton after Harman and junior Alessondra Parra came back to win their three-set matches. The Orange wasn’t so lucky against Rutgers, losing 3-4.

SU enters each match with equal preparation and intensity, regardless of opponent, Harman said.

dave trotman-wilkins | staff photographer Maddie kobelt and Syracuse will look to avoid an upset against Pittsburgh on Friday.

The match concludes a six-match road trip for SU, which has one home match left.

“We go out in every match acting like it’s against one of the higher-ranked teams,” Harman said. “That’s why we have the leading record in the Big East. We have to continue those winning ways by doing that and by enforcing our attitude the same way each and every time.”

Harman said she knows this weekend holds a challenge her team has not yet faced. SU must keep its eyes on its opponent, rather than the calendar.

Though the Orange is focused on its lone match this weekend and using its extra free time on the practice courts, not having to prepare for multiple opponents is a nice break, freshman Maddie Kobelt said.

“I really don’t think that playing three matches in a row takes anything out of us,” Kobelt said. “But the mental aspect of just

having the one match to focus on — this one doubles match and this one singles match — overall is easier.”

A strong performance Friday would give the Orange more than just another tally in the win column. It would give Syracuse something it needs to win the Big East tournament.

SU will have to defeat four straight opponents to win its conference title. Looking at the second game before beating its opening-round opponent could send the Orange back early from South Bend, Ind., the site of the conference tournament.

“For us to be able to just look ahead at the one and only match in front of us is extremely important,” Harman said, “for the performance both in that match as well as the performance in future matches.” sebail01@syr.edu

tr ack & field

Orange’s Straneva takes lessons learned from time with US junior squad

By David Propper Staff Writer

For Max Straneva, the third time attempting to qualify for a cross country spot on the junior’s division of Team USA was the charm.

The first time, Straneva was just a junior in high school, going up against college-aged competitors. He failed to qualify. The second time and a year later, Straneva never made it to the race. A nasty snowstorm barred him from reaching Washington, D.C., where the race was being held.

But this February, Straneva finally met his goal. The third time — Straneva’s last chance of qualifying for Team USA — he qualified. He placed second in the junior men’s 8K race, nine seconds behind the winner.

When Straneva, now a freshman on the Syracuse track and field team, got on the phone with his parents following the race, they could tell their usually laid-back son was having trouble keeping his emotions in check.

“He was pretty pumped. He was pretty excited,” said his father, John. “He stayed calm, I think, during the race and had a controlled race, but when it was over, he was really ecstatic. It was fun talking to him about it.

“You could almost see him smiling over the phone, he was so happy.”

Straneva’s parents were so confident their son would qualify, in fact, that they got him the

passport he would need to go to Spain, where the World Championship took place, before the qualifier even took place.

“We were ready,” said his mother, Jo. After he made the team, Straneva, who was the only SU freshman runner, trained with Team USA. For the Orange runner, the experience was like no other.

“It was a great experience,” said Straneva.

“I really enjoyed competing against guys I’ve never seen before — never even heard of. But it’s a great group of guys that were coming from different backgrounds. A lot of them had been training harder than me, or not as hard as me. It’s just experiencing something different.”

While Straneva trained for and competed at the World Championships, SU track and field head coach Chris Fox thinks it helped him grow as a runner. Fox said it’s like osmosis — he was able to soak it all in, learning from some of the best runners in the world.

While learning from the best, Straneva proved he is one of the best junior runners in the world, placing 45th in a field that swells to more than 100.

John Straneva knows going up and training with top-notch competition is something his son needed. John said Max didn’t train very hard in high school because he was one of the top runners locally. Internationally, he was

pushed to new limits.

Max said the experience gave him a preview of what NCAA competition would be like. One slipup, and he could be doomed.

“The world race is kind of like the NCAAs. If you have even the slightest bad day, you’ll drop 20, 30 places,” Straneva said.

From Fox’s perspective, Straneva’s appearance in the World Championship just continues to give more credibility to the SU longdistance program.

“It just shows he’s able to compete on the highest of levels,” Fox said, “which I think is going to help him help our team and help himself make All-American.”

Following Straneva’s four seasons at Syracuse, he hopes to turn professional. And possibly try out for the national team again, this time at the Olympic level. Straneva said he had the chance to meet all the pro runners for Team USA, and they seemed to have a lifestyle Straneva hopes to have one day.

John thinks that’s part of the reason his son chose to run at Syracuse. He thinks SU will lead his son to that dream career. Although Straneva was from a rural town growing up, coming to Syracuse and going up against top-tier competition on a daily basis will help Straneva achieve that goal.

Plus, Straneva will learn from a former pro in Fox.

Fox’s advice to Straneva is to have confidence. It’s something he already said Straneva is not short on.

“You just got to train hard and consistent,” Fox said. “And you’ve got to believe you’re great.” dgproppe@ syr.edu

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rowing

Orange works on establishing rhythm after last-place finish

By Kevin Prise

Contributing Writer

In the week leading up to last week’s race with Yale and Cornell, the Syracuse women’s rowing team knew it would have to go “crazy” in the water to contend. Although the team did just that, it learned that without a consistent rhythm, it can’t move a boat fast enough.

“You can’t race for seven minutes without a rhythm,” said first-year SU head coach Justin Moore. “Yale and Cornell had it.”

The team heads to Boston this weekend for the Orange Challenge Cup. It will race against Northeastern and Pennsylvania, hoping to find its rhythm. Last weekend, the Orange learned that rhythm can mean everything in a race. In a boat that only includes four or eight rowers, if one rower is not able to pull her weight and maintain the ideal rhythm, the overall pace will be thrown off.

The team is now focusing on developing this consistency at practice, looking to fix what went wrong last week. Against Yale and Cornell, the Orange finished in third place in all five races. And the thing that Yale and Cornell had, that the Orange lacked, was that consistent rhythm in the water, Moore said.

So the Orange took to the water for practice this week, hoping to fix that. The team switched the makeup of each of its five boats a few times to get the right mix in each one.

The team concluded that no changes had to be made, but that tempo was still the key focus, said graduate rower Chelsea Macpherson.

With such a young team, developing rhythm can be difficult and time-consuming, and a

process that can take months. It’s a task that requires all boat members’ attention and effort for success to be realized, Macpherson said.

And with a developing team, it’s not the easiest of tasks.

“It’s going to be hard to get that rhythm,” Macpherson said. “You need the whole boat’s effort. Every single person has to be locked in.”

Macpherson has rowed for the Orange since 2006 and has seen the program change during her time at Syracuse. With a new coach in Moore this year, coupled with the young makeup of the team, she realized from the start that this year would bring new challenges. Still, although concrete results on the water may not be at the level they were at a few years ago, Macpherson feels a new start was just what the program needed.

“The old coach tried to work hard,” Macpherson said. “But the message wasn’t working for our team.”

So the program was revamped, and Moore came in with impressive credentials as a sixtime NCAA Division III champion in 11 years as head coach at Williams College. Still, making a mark on a program can take a while, especially at the college level.

When Moore started at Syracuse last summer, the team was not performing at the necessary level. The team’s indoor raw scores — including statistics that don’t need to be measured on the water, such as how hard the team pulled — were not as good as they needed to be, Macpherson said.

So Moore immediately put a premium on being in shape, Macpherson said.

“Coach Moore has a different mindset,” Macpherson said. “Every single practice, we’re improving our fitness.”

Because of that, rowers like Macpherson and junior Tiffany Macon feel the team can still progress to the point where it can contend at the Big East championships. But that rhythm must be improved in order to contend.

“We understand exactly where we need to fix problems,” Macon said. “We have to come off the line fast and find sprints at the end.”

Moore knows pure talent is not enough to win races. Work ethic pays dividends as well, but not just over a few weeks or even months.

If the team continues to put in the amount of work it has so far this season, results will come, Moore said. Results to rival those of last

“It’s going to be hard to get that rhythm. You need the whole boat’s effort. Every single person has to be locked in.”

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week’s opponents.

“It’s a combination of genetic talent and the cumulative work in progress,” Moore said. “As painful as it is to admit, the women of Yale and Cornell have worked harder for over a year.” kmprisei@ syr.edu

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This weekend, Syracuse will embark on its third race of the young spring season. Last week, the Orange was in Connecticut where it raced against defending national champion Yale and Cornell on the Housatonic River. SU finished third in all five races. When it heads to Boston on Saturday for the Orange Challenge Cup, Syracuse will look for a better rhythm by its rowers. This week in practice was dedicated to developing more continuity among the athletes in each boat. This begins a stretch of three straight races where the Orange will compete in Massachusetts.

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the first line, which led to fatigue late in games.

Desko said from the start that he wasn’t concerned, knowing that as the season went on, his second midfield line would begin to produce.

And lately it has.

Much of the increased scoring out of the second midfield line has to do with a switch of offenses. At the start of the season, Syracuse went more with the 100 offense, which is a freelance, run-and-gun style. That opened the door

“I’d like to put 60 minutes together.

We’ve been getting everybody’s best game.

We need to play 60 minutes of lacrosse, and I think we’re capable of doing that and we can get better.”

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for turnovers and sloppy play.

So to change that, the Orange increasingly implemented the 300 offense instead. That style of offense employs set plays and puts midfielders at certain spots. With more organization, it has allowed the second-line midfielders to know exactly where they need to be.

It also leads to longer possessions, which

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor Jojo Marasco and Syracuse will look to put together a complete, 60-minute performance Saturday against Princeton. Marasco is tied for the team lead with 22 points on the season, and will guide an offense that broke out of its shell against Duke last Sunday. give the defense a break. And with longer possessions come more opportunities to score.

“We get the ball around, everyone touches it,” Ianzito said. “We get a good feel for the offense. We get comfortable with what we’re doing before we do it.”

Going forward, that second line is going to be key for Syracuse. When Desko takes

his first line off the field to give it some rest, the Orange needs to continue to get offensive production to keep up the scoring over the whole game.

But despite some of the offensive struggles, SU continues to win. Its head coach knows a complete performance is still possible. And so does Marasco. It’s just a matter of being able to

put it all together in a game. From start to finish consistently score the ball and make smart decisions.

“We’re working on it and we’re going to get it done,” Marasco said. “When we had problems scoring, it was a matter of time before we broke out. It’s the same thing with all 60 minutes.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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By Jarrad Saffren Staff Writer

Kelly Saco was initially intrigued by the thought of an alternative climate when she decided to play for Syracuse. The Orange’s first baseman — a Miami, Fla., native — had never seen snow until she arrived on campus for her Who: Notre Dame freshman season at Where: SU Softball SU. Stadium But now as a When: Saturday, noon junior, she’s tired of the cold weather.

Especially when it gets in the way of the season.

“For a while, it was new and cool, but we had a game in May last year that got snowed out,” Saco said. “Come on, where does that happen? Maybe the North Pole, maybe.”

Syracuse opened its 2011 campaign the same way all Northeast schools do — away from home.

The Orange played 27 of its 32 games in warmweather climates, and all 32 games on the road.

SU had games in seven states over the last two-plus months. But SU finally has a chance to play at home this weekend as Notre Dame comes to Syracuse Softball Stadium to take on the Orange. Syracuse is set to play the Fighting Irish, one of the top teams in the Big East, for a three-game set that starts with a doubleheader Saturday and the finale on Sunday. This weekend starts a stretch through the rest of the season in which SU plays 16 of its final 23 games at home.

That dynamic of playing an entire half-season on the road is a challenge in recruiting for SU head coach Leigh Ross, as she attempts to bring Syracuse to the level of warm-weather schools that have yearly success.

Ross remembers the first thought that came to her mind when she took the job as Syracuse head coach in 2006.

“It must be difficult to recruit kids to play softball in an arctic tundra,” Ross said. “I grew up in Michigan, but I knew Syracuse is a different animal. Especially for the kids who grew up in warm-weather climates, where they could play outside all year round.”

The college softball realm has always been dominated by warm-weather schools. Arizona and UCLA have combined to win 19 of the 29 Women’s College World Series titles since the tournament began. No Northeast-based team has won the tournament since its inception in 1982.

Those numbers prove daunting, and they are also numbers recruits see. Northeast lost to South last weekend as Syracuse was swept by South Florida.

“It’s just easier in places like Florida and

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The Syracuse softball team returns home to Syracuse Softball Stadium starting Saturday for 16 of its last 23 games this season. Here’s a look at how the team has fared at home in its past five seasons: Year

Home record

Overall record

2006 17-4 36-21 2007 4-4 21-31 2008 9-7 21-32 2009 14-4 30-21 2010 8-4 32-26

matthew ziegler | staff photographer kelly Saco and Syracuse will take on Notre Dame this weekend at SU Softball Stadium in its first home series of the 2011 season.

The Orange played 27 of its first 32 games of the season in warm weather climates, but 16 of its final 23 games will be at home.

California because you can play outside all year round,” said USF head coach Ken Eriksen.

“That’s also why warm places have a better selection of players coming out of high school.”

“It’s just easier in places like Florida and California because you can play outside all year round.”

Ken Eriksen USF head coach

Still, Ross has made progress in putting the Orange on the recruiting map recently. Six of the eight position players that start for SU are from warm-weather areas, including Syracuse’s top three home run hitters this season.

Ross points to the recruitment of freshman Kealy McMullen as a huge win for SU. “She was one of the top players in the state of Washington,” Ross said, “but we got her to come all the way across the country to play in freezing Syracuse.”

Ross has the Orange practicing indoors, even through April, to stay out of the cold.

Manley Field House has everything the team needs, with a large field, indoor track and batting cages. She said it works out perfectly for SU because none of its practices are ever postponed due to inclement weather. Plus, her players can use the batting cages at Manley as a study break while they are studying down at the Stevenson Educational Center.

Syracuse will be braving the elements in its three games this weekend. But SU pitcher Jenna Caira said she doesn’t see it as a disadvantage at all.

“It’s not a disadvantage for us. We just put on more Under Armour,” Caira said. “Against Rutgers when it was 40 degrees, I had two layers on. It’s a mental game. You just have to tell yourself it’s not cold. We double up, we triple up with Under Armour and suck it up.” jdsaffre@syr.edu

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Home turf Entering 2nd year with Orange, MacPherson achieves goals set in Syracuse upbringing

By Mark Cooper ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

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acky and Cameron MacPherson were only children, but they felt like kings. As they rode their bikes or walked or ran to Manley Field House to watch Syracuse’s football practice, the brothers were two of the guys.

Their grandfather and legendary former SU head coach Dick MacPherson would go with them, and the two youngsters could roam around the field during practice. Syracuse’s then-head coach, Paul Pasqualoni, was a former assistant under MacPherson.

“The guys would mess around with me and my little brother,” Macky MacPherson said. “They’d all just mess with us, and I think they enjoyed us being around.”

But as they grew up as part of the Syracuse program, their gallivanting started to get in the way. So in an attempt to keep Macky occupied, Dick asked the Syracuse long snapper at the time to teach Macky how to long snap.

What was meant to amuse the 8-yearold Macky’s attention span turned into an

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Still perfect, SU heads to Princeton

By Chris Iseman ASST. COPY EDITOR

Despite its perfect record, Syracuse’s season has been marred by imperfection. The Orange has flirted with a loss several times, but somehow manages to pull out win after win.

But as the second half of the Who: Princeton s e a s o n Where: Princeton Stadium progresses, When: Saturday, 4 p.m. m e r e l y Channel: ESPNU scraping by might not cut it. SU needs a more complete effort. And fast.

“For us to be winning is still a good thing,” head coach John Desko said. “But I’d like to put 60 minutes together. We’ve been getting everybody’s best game. We need to play 60 minutes of lacrosse, and I think we’re capable of doing that and we can get better.”

As No. 1 Syracuse (8-0, 2-0 Big

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East) heads to Princeton (2-5, 1-2 Ivy) on Saturday, it’s going to look to do something it hasn’t quite been able to do yet. And that’s to put together a complete game of scoring, rather than going on a run early on and slowing down for the rest of the game.

Too often, Syracuse has let teams back into the game as the 60 minutes progresses.

Against Duke, SU scored six goals in the fi rst quarter, but mustered only seven more for the rest of the game. That allowed Duke to keep getting closer and get within striking distance to tie the game. The Blue Devils scored five straight goals in the fourth period, while the Orange never found the back of the net during that time. It took only two shots.

It’s not one specific deficiency that led to this trend, although there have been some mental mistakes. With five minutes left against Duke, JoJo Marasco attacked the goal rather than keeping possession and dishing it off

to someone else to run clock. His shot deflected off the post of the goal, and Duke took over.

The Blue Devils got two chances on offense as a result of the poor decision by Marasco and scored one goal.

“It’s just all around, things we need to work on,” Marasco said. “We should be able to do some of those things and cut down on some of those problems.”

If Syracuse does cut down on those problems, its chances of putting together a complete game would get even better. Especially with SU’s second midfield line slowly starting to produce more. Steve Ianzito and Bobby Eilers both scored in the first quarter against Duke.

At the start of the year, the second midfield line was a major concern.

The group consistently failed to put the ball on frame, let alone in the back of the net. That lack of production led to more time on the field for SEE PRINCETON PAGE 20

danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor STEVE IANZITO (LEFT) and SU look to build off an offensive outburst last time out as they travel to Princeton to take on the Tigers.

TIGER BLOOD At just 2-5, Princeton is off to its worst start since 2005, when it started the season 1-6 and fi nished 5-7. That losing campaign was an anomoly in the Tigers’ recent history. Here’s a look at the Tigers’ losing seasons in the last 25 years.

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