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April 1 would require chain restaurants to include calorie counts on menus. Page 7
Board suggests the university turns MayFest celebrations into a yearly tradition. Page 5
life of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s chef. Page 9
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Budget meeting proceeds quickly, little debate occurs By Sean Cotter STAFF WRITER
Student Association’s budget meeting ran without major dispute and lasted 45 minutes Monday, a contrast to prior years when meetings have run more than an hour. Comptroller Jeff Rickert, who presides over the Finance Board, said he was “amazed” about the shortness and ease of the meeting. “It definitely went smoother than
it has in the past, and for lack of anything better to contribute it to, I’m going to say it definitely had something to do with the financial vision,” Rickert said. Student organizations requested a total of $600,713.45 in funding for their fall 2011 budgets and received $237,825.57 from SA, with $119,702.43 available for appeals. There is $429,442.17 set aside for spring 2012
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alyssa stone | contributing photographer PETER BLANCK , chairman of the Burton Blatt Institute, founded the BBI in 2005 at Syracuse University to work with people with disabilities. The institute has more than 60 workers, many of whom have disabiliites.
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Alumna in talks with SU lawyers about clothing trademark issue By Debbie Truong STAFF WRITER
After disagreement about whether or not a Syracuse University alumna’s business idea interfered with SU’s trademarking policy became public last Thursday, the university is looking to resolve the issue this week. In 2009, then-SU student Alyson Shontell had the idea for Syracutie, a clothing line for girls and women, and began the application process to trademark Syracutie in 2009, according to an article she published to the
Business Insider website Thursday. Because she is in the process of talking with the university, Shontell declined to comment for this article. Shontell’s idea was met with enthusiasm during an initial phone call with SU’s trademark and licensing director, according to the Business Insider article. The director said he did not believe Syracutie would infringe on any of SU’s trademarks and referred her to a number of apparel vendors, according to the article.
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wo members of the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University will stand before a court in Florida on Tuesday morning and defend a woman who claims she was fired from her job because of her disability. Peter Blanck, chairman of the BBI, and Matthew Dietz, a Burton Blatt Advisory Board member, are both presenting in the case, which will occur at the 11th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Jacksonville, Fla. The BBI, housed in Suite 300 of Crouse-Hinds Hall, works to advance the participation of people with disabilities in society. It has a staff of more than 60 individuals, many of whom have family members with disabilities or are disabled themselves. Tuesday’s case will involve Sherrie Kaw, who was fired in 2006
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because her condition, cardiogenic syncope, caused her to faint while at her job. The School District of Hillsborough County called her a danger to herself and the children around her. When Dietz presented this case last year, the jury ruled Kaw’s termination was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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“They based their decision on the negative stereotypes that the ADA is all about,” said Dietz, the lead lawyer on the case. Though the jury ruled in Kaw’s favor, the judge overruled the decision in what is called a judgment as a matter of law. The American with Disabilities Act was originally written in 1990 and amended in 2008. The amendments in 2008 expanded the definition of people with disabilities and made it easier for people with disabilities to get recognition from the law. But since Kaw’s case began in 2006, and since laws that change rights do not have a retroactive effect, Blanck and Dietz are fighting the older and narrower law. Dietz said if Kaw’s case was considered under the new law, it wouldn’t be an issue. “If you don’t look at issues with disabilities in a multidimensional SEE BBI PAGE 6
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CLARIFICATION >> In the April 11 article titled “Relay For Life | Teams raise more than $150,000,” the final amount of money raised was unclear. The number in the story was as of Saturday at 5 p.m., before the start of Relay for Life. The final amount announced on Sunday at 4:30 a.m. was $165,753.04. The Daily Orange regrets this miscommunication.
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The South Side Innovation Center, which was founded fi ve years ago, is now one of two finalists for the National Business Incubator Association’s Incubator of the Year award.
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Continuing the journey The film “300 Miles to Freedom,” created by an SU professor and an alumnus, chronicles the life of an Underground Railroad hero.
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Against all odds Syracuse football fullback Tombe Kose has embraced the underdog role all his life, dating back to his childhood in Sudan.
CORRECTIONS >> In multiple references in the April 11 paper, including in the article titled “Back for more: Ra Ra Riot energizes crowd in 1st Syracuse performance in two years,” the last time Ra Ra Riot played in Syracuse was misstated. Ra Ra Riot performed at Funk ‘n Waffles and The Sound Garden in August 2010. The Daily Orange regrets these errors. In the April 11 article titled “Music industry must reinvent business model to attract paying subscribers,” the writer’s last name was spelled wrong. The correct spelling is Bamford. The Daily Orange regrets this error.
APRIL 12, 1961 Cleveland Urges UN Peace Corps Former Dean Harlan Cleveland of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs has called for the development of a United Nations Peace Corps as a means of combating a probable move by the Soviet Union to copy the United States program now getting underway. Cleveland, now assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, said existing United Nations and other international agencies are in great need of assistance of the kind dedicated young people can provide in underdeveloped countries. International Peace Corps volunteers could serve as staff assistants and technicians’ helpers in United Nations programs in various capacities, he told the Washington Council of the Experiment in International Living.
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“The UNESCO education program, which is going to concentrate in Africa this next year or two, could use Peace C orps volunteers as teachers or teachers’ helpers,” Cleveland said. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. “It could put some of them to work in the actual building or schools with native materials, using cheap and efficient designs that have already been worked up,” he said. “For some volunteers, a particularly exciting prospect might be to help in the archeo-
logical digs in the upper Nile Valley, part of UNESCO’s attempt to save some of the Nubian monuments that will otherwise be lost forever under the waters that pile up under the Aswan dam,” Cleveland added.
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Peace Corps members also could serve in malaria eradication and sanitarian programs of the World Health Organization and in the Food and Agricultural Organization’s fight against animal diseases and locust control, he said. “The work will not be easy,” Cleveland warned. “It doesn’t take very much skill, but it does take a good deal of dedication to go out into the countryside jabbing the flanks of animals with inoculation needles and spraying dirty one-room hovels with DDT. “But for Americans to do these things in company with people from other countries would doubly intensify the experience and help a whole generation of Americans learn not merely how to work for, but how to work with, the people.” — Compiled by Laurence Leveille, asst. copy editor, lgleveil@syr.edu This excerpt was taken from the full version of this article published April 12, 1961.
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SU center celebrates 60th year By Diana Pearl Staff Writer
When Hillel at Syracuse University came to campus 60 years ago, it called the basement of Hendricks Chapel home. It wasn’t until 2003 that the Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life, the organization’s current building, opened after an alumni donation. The Winnick Center is only one of the most recent changes for Hillel, the central organization for Jewish students at SU. The group began celebrating its 60th anniversary on campus earlier this month, and on Tuesday will host the Eternal Light Gala Award Dinner, a formal gathering in New York City. The event will include a performance by College of Visual and Performing Arts students and presentations commemorating Hillel’s anniversary. “Being a part of Hillel is not just a Jewish experience, it’s a human experience,” said Lowell Lustig, the executive director of SU’s Hillel who headed a campaign to build the new center. “We want this to be a place where all students can feel free to come and spend time with friends.” Hillel first came to SU in response to the university’s growing Jewish student population, said Brian Small, Hillel coordinator of programming. SU was one of the few universities at the time that had a welcoming attitude toward Jewish students. Due to this welcoming attitude, in addition to the support of two nearby synagogues, Hillel was formalized at SU. Throughout the rest of the 20th century, the organization grew in size, at one point becoming the largest Hillel chapter in the nation. Small said he believes Hillel will continue to bring quality programs to campus and, by doing this, increase student involvement. The first Hillel center in the nation was established in 1923 at the University of Illinois, according to Hillel’s national website. Today, Hillel is the largest collegiate organization for Jewish students in the world, with more than 500 chapters internationally, from South America to Syracuse, according to the website. Hillel’s purpose on the SU campus is to provide a nurturing community for Jewish students, Small said. It also looks to provide engaging programming that will attract students see hillel page 6
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kelly cutrone , a reality television star and fashion publicist, signs copies of her latest book, “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You,” in Shemin Auditorium in the Shaffer Art Building Monday. The Syracuse University student-run fashion publication, Zipped magazine, brought the New York Times best-selling author to campus for a lecture. She shared her knowledge in fashion and entrepreneurship with attendees. Cutrone has appeared in the MTV reality shows “The Hills” and “The City.”
ESF student remembered as intelligent problem solver By Michael Boren Asst. News Editor
After losing a leg, Lloyd Eldred saw his dream come to life when his grandson, Weston, used farm equipment to build a 2-plus acre pond. Weston’s grandfather stocked the pond with fish and went up to it nearly every day before he died. The pond was one of many projects Weston tackled until his own death on April 2. Funeral services for Weston, a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry student on leave, were held Saturday. The cause of his death remains inconclusive, though it may be linked to pneumonia, said Weston’s father, Randy. “We buried him up at the pond, and he wanted to be buried next to his grandfather,” Randy said. To fulfill Weston’s wish, his family plans to move the body of Weston’s grandfather from Owasco Cemetery to the pond. Family members recall Weston
as an ultimate problem solver, even at the age of 10, and a selfless student who loved to tutor others. He had planned to return to ESF this fall. “He was very giving, and to a fault almost,” said his mother, Ellisa. “He would put other people before him all the time.” After Weston started attending ESF in 2009, his mother convinced him to leave school temporarily to focus on his biodiesel project, she said. Weston started collecting vegetable oil nearly six years ago for the project, which would have allowed him to make quality biodiesel on a larger scale than he had before with previous projects. He was two months away from completing his latest project before his death. Not even his parents understood the biodiesel project completely. But there wasn’t anything Weston couldn’t do or couldn’t fix, Randy said. “I taught him how to weld, and I’ve been welding for 30 years, and he can weld better than I can,” Randy
said. Weston’s mother still remembers how he wrote chemistry books for leisure. Between the ages of 10 and 12, Weston also discovered a way to dry his hockey equipment by connecting a box to a furnace in the basement. By those young childhood years, Weston had already become a problem solver, Randy said. “Actually, it was abnormal,” he said. “I mean, I couldn’t compare how smart he was, and not because I’m his father saying that, he just — you don’t realize how intelligent he was.” Weston started attending Cayuga
Community College in 2003, six years before he enrolled at ESF. As Weston would later recall in his graduation speech at CCC, he left college to fulfill his grandfather’s dream of building the pond. He returned to CCC in 2007 and discovered another passion a year later when he walked into the college’s Academic Support Center. He helped tutor someone in biology and continued tutoring from then on, allowing him to meet other teachers and students. Weston loved tutoring because it allowed him to help others, Randy said. see eldred page 8
Donations Weston Eldred’s family has established a scholarship at Cayuga Community College in his memory. Gifts can be made to: Weston Eldred Scholarship Fund Cayuga Community College Foundation 197 Franklin Street Auburn, NY 13021
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Total Relay for Life fundraising exceeds previous year’s by more than $13,000 As event co-chair of the 2011 Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry Relay For Life, I owe it to my committee to write a response to Monday’s story “Relay For Life: Teams Raise More Than $150,000.” The headline is factually correct yet misleading and not representative of our total fundraising efforts. At the 4:30 a.m. Closing Ceremony, in front of a few hundred students, we announced we had raised $165,753.04 , and the total has crossed $170,000 since. The $152,214 figure in The Daily Orange article was grabbed from our website’s ticker, which represents online fundraising only, and included none of the money raised from the dozens of on-site fundraising events or the 238
attendees who registered at the door. We are so proud to have reached $150,000 online before the event kicked off Saturday night. One other news organization made the same mistake but immediately corrected its article when we reached out Monday morning. Two years in a row, The Daily Orange has neglected in its post-Relay coverage to mention that the fundraising total has broken the previous Syracuse Relay record. I am so proud of my committee and Relay’s 2,400 participants for breaking last year’s record Closing Ceremony total by more than $13,000, a fact that I hope does not go unnoticed.
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MayFest in Walnut has potential to become long-term spring tradition On April 29, Student Association and University Union will host the second Syracuse University-sanctioned MayFest celebration, including free beer for those of age and free food and entertainment in Walnut Park. Although partying is bound to return on Euclid Avenue this year, the continuation and improvements to the Walnut celebration show the university’s willingness to support a spring celebration for students, given it can monitor students’ safety. In fall 2009, many students expressed shock when the university reinstated classes on SU Showcase, a day off formally known as MayFest, which students turned into a day for a massive Euclid block party. And though the memory of the Euclid party remains a source of resentment for some upperclassmen, the university-sanctioned party on Walnut has the potential to become a new — albeit tamer — student tradition. SA responded to student feedback — namely the need for guest passes to the event. This important change
editorial by the daily orange editorial board will allow the hundreds of friends in town for Block Party to share the day alongside their SU cohorts, and will provide more incentive for students to at least split their time between Walnut and Euclid. As the memory of MayFest as a Euclid party fades with each graduating class, the university should seriously consider giving the full day of MayFest back to students as a spring weekend, with canceled Friday classes. As this past weekend reaffirmed, SU students, who spend the majority of their spring semester cloistered inside or trekking through ice and snow, are genuinely thrilled when temperatures creep up in the final weeks of the semester. SU should offer a day, as hundreds of other universities in far more manageable climates do, that welcomes the beautiful weather.
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In light of federal government almost shutting down, campus must take U.S. debt seriously The federal government’s near shutdown is a great opportunity to reflect on the basic tenants of our political system. Speaking in sweeping generalizations, the Democrats would rather see more services and higher taxes, while the Republicans would rather see fewer services and lower taxes. The American public, of course, wants more services and lower taxes. Sometimes agreement is so hard to achieve that the politicians stop trying and shut down the government. Thankfully, this outcome was avoided this time. The eventual compromise between the two parties has resulted in spending that is higher than revenue from taxes in all but four of the last 41 years. Each year the gap is bridged by borrowing,
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and each year the amount the United States owes increases. How much does the U.S. government owe today? $100 billion? $500 billion? Try $14.3 trillion! Here is how that looks: $14,300,000,000,000. To put it in perspective, if a stack of hundred-dollar bills worth 1 million dollars is 43 inches tall, a stack of hundreds equaling our national debt is 9,704.86 miles high. Even scarier is the fact that this stack is projected to double in height in just 10 years if the government continues to spend and tax as it does now. Unfortunately, with more baby boomers retiring and health care costs rising, spending on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, three of the biggest federal programs, will increase. So the stack is heading
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let ter to the editor for the moon. The problem with borrowing is that the money, trillions and trillions of dollars in our case, has to be paid back at some point. If lenders don’t think it will get paid back, they stop lending. And this would be what Leonard Burman, a professor and former executive director of the Tax Policy Center, calls “catastrophic budget failure.” The United States would not have enough money to pay its army, its postal service or any federal employees. The only solution would be to print more money. Inflation would skyrocket. The economy would collapse.
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So how do we avoid this doomsday scenario? First of all, start caring! Not knowing what your country owes is like going on lavish shopping sprees and never checking your credit card balance. It’s just not smart. The solution will require higher taxes and lower spending, so whether you are a Republican or Democrat, you are not going to like it, but it’s much better than the alternative. We have to start voting for politicians who are ready to address the rising debt by spending less than we tax and taxing more than we spend. We have to demand this of our politicians. Sounds crazy, I know. But what’s really crazy is spending 14 cents of every dollar we pay in taxes just on interest. We will be doing that in 2021.
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Policy Students for Fiscal Sustainability, a graduate student group at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is holding a conference to better inform students and community members of this issue and to discuss a range of solutions. Experts from different sides of the political spectrum will share their insights on Friday. On Saturday, a panel featuring Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and New York State Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli will discuss fiscal challenges on the local and state level. Both events are free and open to the public. More information is available at www.ourbudgets.org.
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— both Jewish and non-Jewish. In addition to offering an annual summer Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel, SU’s chapter is working with a consultant from national Hillel headquarters on a five-year strategic plan to expand and connect with more students on campus, Lustig said. Hillel just received a grant from the Hillel national office to hire student interns next year to help carry out this five-year plan. In the past, Hillel has struggled with issues such as space and involvement. But with the creation of the Winnick Center, the campus
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group has come a long way since its days in the basement of Hendricks. “When the building opened, we saw the true potential for Hillel,” Small said. For many students who have been involved in their synagogues or Jewish life at home, they want the opportunity to maintain this involvement in college, which is what Hillel provides, Small said. Hillel acts as a second home for many of the students involved, he said. Michael Weiss, student president of Hillel, said it has become the place he views as home at SU. “Some students find their home in their fraternity or sorority, some in their sports teams,” Weiss said. “For me, Hillel has become my place at SU.”
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ment can use to help people,” Blanck said. Blanck said his economic research showed that the benefits of the law outweighed the costs. He founded the BBI in 2005 when he came to SU. Blanck is a University Professor, the highest faculty rank granted to only eight people before him. Blanck has worked with Chancellor Nancy Cantor to create an institute that focuses not only on research and writing, but also on taking action. “We want to do things that are credible and scientifically rigorous, but have a real impact,” he said. “And we’ve been really fortunate, I think, to do a lot of those things.” The institute takes its name from Dean Burton Blatt, who died in 1985. Blatt came to SU in 1969 as a professor in the School of Education. He was named dean of the School of Education in 1976, according to the university’s website. Blatt was a forerunner in the field of disability services, according to the website. He wrote
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framework, you’re going to get bad law, and that’s what’s happened in regard to the ADA,” Dietz said. The BBI has been instrumental in disability awareness and change across the globe, said Blanck, chairman of the institute. The BBI has several other offices across the country, including Washington, D.C., New York and Atlanta. The BBI employs a variety of professionals from many different fields, including lawyers, policymakers, psychologists, social workers, economists and many others, all working toward improving disability services, Blanck said. “That’s what makes it so interesting. It’s an eclectic and interesting group that approaches problems in real time and from multiple perspectives, but also with the disability community,” Blanck said. “We don’t study the disability community, we work as members of and part of the disability community.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission cited Blanck’s research in its final rules and regulations for the employment provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to a March 25 news release from the BBI. “That’s the whole point. What you want to do is write things that are useful, that the govern-
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Chelsea Wagner, former social action vice president for Hillel, has been involved with Hillel since attending FreshFest, the Hillel preorientation program, before her freshman year.
more than 100 books and articles, including his famous photo story “Christmas in Purgatory,” which highlighted the awful conditions of asylum living. He was honored with awards for his work. “He inspired a whole generation at Syracuse to focus on civil rights, human rights, particularly around disability,” Blanck said. “I think the key is to build on what is a very strong disability culture here.” Rachel Patterson, a graduate student in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs working toward her master’s in public administration, is a research assistant at the BBI. Patterson, who has two younger siblings with disabilities, was drawn to SU because of its expansive history in disability work. Patterson has spent most of her time at the BBI working with Michael Morris, CEO at the BBI, tracking Medicaid changes in New York state and how they will affect people with disabilities. She said it is important to have something like the BBI on SU’s campus because of the university’s history and reputation in the field. She also believes the BBI can have a broader effect, she said. “Broadly, it’s important to have organizations writing, publishing and thinking about disabilities because it’s not something that’s always considered,” Patterson said. “Compar-
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ing it to issues of diversity or equality, it’s on its way, but it hasn’t quite gained that status.” Morris, the institute’s CEO, heads the Washington, D.C., office, analyzing and writing policy and working with Congress and the White House. Before joining the BBI, Morris was the national executive director of United Cerebral Palsy, which works to provide support services to people with disabilities. Morris came to Washington, D.C., 30 years ago, after he was named the first Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Public Policy. Morris’ research has been implemented by Congress, according to the BBI website. He said disability services have always been the focal point of his professional career. In addition to providing strategic direction for the office, he oversees the day-to-day management of the office’s projects. The goal is to make people more aware of how disabilities affect individuals and their families, Morris said. “We are focused on problem solving and really building solutions for the 21st century so that the next generation of people with disabilities really has all the opportunities that anyone else has,” he said. Blanck and Dietz plan to argue under this principle during the court case on Tuesday. “In some ways, I think we’ve already won,” Dietz said. “We’ve won in the sense that we’ve raised awareness, we’ve made a statement on behalf of our client that this sort of discrimination is going to be fought against.” mjfahner@syr.edu
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“I met many of my closest friends through Hillel, and even more friendly faces to smile at around campus,” Wagner said. Wagner also credits her former position on the Hillel student board with offering her the ability to give back to Hillel. It is worth the responsibility of serving on the board to give back to an organization that has given her so much, she said. For the future, Weiss said he would like to see Hillel connect with all the Jewish students on campus. “We know that there are almost 3,000 Jewish students on this campus,” Weiss said. “And there’s no reason that we shouldn’t be reaching all of these students.”
What is the Burton Blatt Institute? The institute, located at Syracuse University, is an organization that works to make progress on the economic, social and civic participation of people with disabilities in a global society. The organization is working to achieve this vision by creating a collaborative environment — with business practices and entrepreneurship — to promote public-private conversation and create the ability to change policy, people and systems through education, communities and the workforce. The BBI seeks an endowment of $50 million or more to allow $2.5 million per year for the expansion of centers and operations. The institute, commonly known as the BBI, is named after Burton Blatt, who lived from 1927 to 1985. Blatt was a pioneer in civilizing services for people with mental retardation, an avid advocate of deinstitutionalization and a countrywide leader in special education. Blatt, who was dean of the School of Education and Centennial Professor at SU, was the director of the university’s Division of Special Education and Rehabilitation. Blatt also founded the Center on Human Policy. Source: bbi.syr.edu
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Proposed FDA law would require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus
By Haley Behre
“I truly believe it will help let the general public know how genuinely healthy seafood is.” n an effort to curb obesity in America, the Food and Drug Jane Uzcategui, an instructor of nutrition science and Administration has proposed a law that would require dietetics at Syracuse University, said the law would change certain food establishments to clearly label nutrition the eating habits of those who are interested, but would not information on their menus. affect those who are not. The requirements were proposed April 1 and would man“Large restaurants have standard menus and the customdate chain restaurants and vendors with 20 or more locations er base is larger,” Uzcategui said. “They tend to be frequented to post the calorie count for each menu item. more, which increases the impact to dietary health.” Approximately one-third of people’s total calories are Venues such as movie theaters were removed from the prepared outside the home, said Diana Monaco, an FDA proposed law after much outcry from theater chains, accordpublic affairs specialist for New York state. Although con- ing to an article published in The New York Times on April 1. sumers can generally find nutrition information on packaged The National Association of Theatre Owners does not foods at home, restaurants think it would be helpful to do not typically supply them, supply nutrition informaMonaco said. By making this tion because a tub of popcorn information readily availcould be more than 1,000 caloable to people, they are able ries, Uzcategui said. to make the best choices for “The movie theater industhemselves and their families, try is pushing back because Monaco said. they do not want to be seen in About half of the consuma negative light,” Uzcategui ers in a study saw the calories said. “And they are trying to posted, and approximately 28 make money.” percent of those who noticed Brian Wettering, general the posted calories said the manager for AMF Strike ‘N information influenced their Spare Lanes on Brewerton ordering, according to an Road, said he thinks it is a benarticle published in The New efit that bowling alleys would York Times on Oct. 6, 2009. not be included in the law. The New York is one of six bowling alley has nutrition states, two cities and two information available for peocounties to already have a ple who want to see it, but it law that requires labeling of does not want the information nutrition information to some to be displayed for everyone to degree, Monaco said. States see, Wettering said. and local areas are able to cre“If people see how many ate their own provisions when calories there are, they may they see fit, Monaco said. not purchase the item,” WetAs part of the proposed tering said. “It would hurt the law, movie theaters, bowling revenue I bring in. A cookie alleys and other establishis a large number of calories, ments would not be required and they are more likely to go to display nutrition informawith the healthier choice or tion because their primary no choice.” goal is not to sell food, Monaco Uzcategui said New York said. The law also would not City conducted a survey to cover alcoholic beverages. see how effective displaying The proposed law is not calorie information was in the only measure FDA is takpersuading people to choose ing to curb obesity, Monaco a healthier option. The results said. A lot is being done with indicated it had little effect. public education to teach peoPeople should pay more illustration by alejandro de jesus | art director ple about healthier options, attention to nutrition educaMonaco said. The FDA also provides information on labeling tion, push others to educate children and monitor what and eating for a healthy heart and lower sodium intake, is offered to children, Uzcategui said. But Uzcategui also among other tips, on its website. believes the proposed law could be somewhat effective. Blake Catlin, general manager of Red Lobster on Erie “I am an advocate that consumers should have as much Boulevard, said he believes the law will positively affect Red information so they can choose to use it,” Uzcategui said. Lobster, which has 648 locations in the United States. “This is a personal right.” hmbehre@syr.edu “Seafood is the healthiest choice out there,” Catlin said.
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But in July 2010, a day before Syracutie was to be legally trademarked to Shontell, she received a call from SU’s licensing director, who told her SU lawyers advised against the trademark application due to Syracutie’s likeness to SU’s name. Shontell argued the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office didn’t oppose the trademark, and that Syracutie was based off the city of Syracuse, not the university. The licensing director persisted and told Shontell the lawyers recommended she grant the trademark rights to SU, for which she would not be compensated. Shontell consulted a number of faculty and
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programming, with $50,000 extra allocated for appeals that semester. Talk about CitrusTV’s operating budget lasted longer than any other budget discussion. Passing the financial vision for this semester was one of the early goals for SA, said SA President Neal Casey. SA successfully passed the vision Jan. 25, several weeks earlier than it did in past years. Casey said in addition to the early passage, groups benefited from this year’s financial vision being longer and more detailed. “In the past, groups have been very confused as to where they stand. This year expectations were clearly set, so that was able to quell some of the concerns,” Casey said. Rickert said this year there was better communication between the groups requesting
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students for legal advice in a mass email titled “SU alumni needs your help by EOD tomorrow! Trademark issue.” Receiving positive feedback and encouragement from advisers, Shontell composed an email opposing SU’s offer, according to the article. SU was given three months to stake their claim after filing the opposition. Eventually, the Nov. 15, 2010, deadline to oppose the trademark passed, and Syracutie legally became Shontell’s, according to the article. When she met with SU’s lawyers in January 2011, Shontell was asked to sign paperwork allowing her to be the sole licensor of Syracutie, which would prohibit anyone, including the university, from using the word without her permission. As compensation, she would have to grant the trademark to SU for free, according
to the article. Shontell was told by SU lawyers the university could sue or cancel the trademark if she disagreed, according to the article. Months have passed and Shontell is still mulling over the offer. “If I take SU’s deal, I’ll have to turn myself into a full-blown distributor without being able to reap the easy benefits of licensing my mark, which was my plan all along,” she wrote in the article. Shontell and SU lawyers will meet this week to try to work out an agreement. Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, said in an email that the university is eager to settle the Syracutie trademark issue with Shontell. “Alyson is an outstanding example of the
entrepreneurial spirit emblematic of our students and alumni, and we look forward to reaching an agreement with her that will enable her to bring her work to the marketplace,” Quinn said. Shontell is now selling Syracutie apparel online; but without the university’s support, outside vendors are afraid of purchasing her merchandise. She has also received an offer for her trademark by an entity outside the university, which she is also considering. Shontell’s trademark is now at a crossroad. She wrote in the article: “Do I sell my company in its very early state and in a sense admit defeat? Do I give the university my trademark and become the sole licensor? Or do I hold strong and keep trying to sell Syracutie myself?”
money and the Finance Board. He said this was probably because everyone seemed to have read and understood the financial vision, which provided more specificity for groups seeking money. “I think our recommendations this year have been much more straightforward than they have been in the past,” Rickert said. The $119,702.43 designated to be allocated for appeals is more than twice the amount allocated last spring for the same purpose. Rickert said the large amount of money for appeals might have contributed to the calmness of the groups that were denied funding or did not receive as much as they had hoped. Appeals are due Thursday and will be voted on by SA next Monday, Rickert said. He said many of the reasons for turning down requests were clerical and communication issues that can be sorted out next week.
The longest discussion at SA’s meeting was on CitrusTV’s budget. Assemblymembers Eugene Law and David Woody said they found the lengthy description of the funding breakdown difficult to follow, causing the voting for the bill to be postponed until the end of the meeting. Rickert said the Finance Board spent four to five hours on CitrusTV’s budget, which was the most time they spent on any organization’s budget. The assembly ultimately voted in favor of the Finance Board’s recommendation that CitrusTV receive $299,642.02 of the $490,321.02 it requested in its operating budget. The money for operating budgets does not factor into the amount granted or requested for fall 2011 programming. This amount requested is $100,000 more than CitrusTV requested last year, in large part due to a desire to make more of the technology high-definition, Rickert said. He said the organization was granted about $40,000 more than it received last year. Rickert said he spoke to CitrusTV’s general manager, Ben Slutzky, after the meeting. Slutzky questioned some of the choices the Finance
Board made in allocating the money for CitrusTV’s budget. Rickert said CitrusTV was free to appeal for more money. Slutzky could not be reached for comment by The Daily Orange. After many groups’ budgets were considered and passed, representatives from many of the groups present at the meeting stood and thanked the assembly and the Finance Board for granting the group money or considering its request. University Union, Syracuse University Ambulance, Pride Union and National Pan-Hellenic Council representatives were among those who received money and thanked SA. Organizations whose requests were denied, such as the Student African American Society, also thanked SA and said they would apply for appeals, which will be allocated at next week’s meeting. Both Rickert and Casey said they were pleased with the way the meeting went and how financial decisions have been made so far this year. Said Casey: “A great financial vision like this — I think you saw tonight it’s made a huge impact.”
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600,713.45 307,528.00 The total amount of money requested from SA by student organizations for fall 2011.
The amount of money available to SA to grant to student organizations for fall 2011.
237,825.57 119,702.43 The amount of money granted by SA for fall 2011.
The amount of money available
for fall 2011 appeals.
Source: Student Association meeting minutes
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He graduated from CCC in 2009. His family has established a scholarship at the college in his memory. CCC faculty were deeply saddened by Weston’s death, said Margaret Spillett, director of public relations and institutional communications at the college, in an email. “By all accounts, he was an exceptionally gifted student and he touched the lives of many people here. Wes will be sorely missed,” she said.
Individuals had written nearly 40 entries of their memories of Weston on his online Guest Book page by Monday night. Ellisa said she has been approached by people she did not know, explaining how her son helped them. One girl told her she was made fun of in high school and Weston was the only person who was kind to her. The girl eventually left for the Army. When she came back, Weston reached out to her to give her connections and make her feel at home. “It didn’t matter who you are,” Ellisa said. “He would help you, he would be compelled to help you.” mcboren@syr.edu
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stacie fanelli | staff photographer PATRICK MAHAR flambés chicken in the basement kitchen of Sigma Phi Epsilon. As the fraternity’s chef, Mahar has cooked bizarre meals, like chocolate chip pancakes with grilled chicken.
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the Dome,” he said. “Their concerts were over Thanksgiving, and I and the staff was working on the Thanksgiving buffet, and they came down for dinner. Here I am, 18 years old, carving meat for Mick Jagger.” Mahar fondly remembers the band’s extra tip for the meal: tickets to the sold-out concerts at the Carrier Dome. Mahar, a Syracuse native, hasn’t ever strayed far from the Dome, as his career has flourished within the city’s limits. His business ventures,
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Students start business selling DJ equipment to fraternities By Liz Sawyer STAFF WRITER
When Barnett Klane decided to start his own business, his father wasn’t happy. He worried his son would have a difficult time juggling academics and a social life, let alone all the work that comes with being the CEO of a company. But at 19 years old, the sophomore marketing and management major successfully launched Klane Con-
sulting LLC this past February, a business dedicated to providing highquality audio and lighting equipment to fraternities. “The general consensus among fraternities is that they just aren’t satisfied with the current way of buying their speakers,” Klane said. Klane attributes his knowledge of the speakers business to his father, who works as a sales manager for Electro-Voice, a major manufacturer
of audio equipment. When Klane’s friends discovered this connection, they badgered him about getting speakers, and he realized the high demand for such products. Klane profited on this need and has started touring other college campuses to sell equipment. On April 3, Klane Consulting traveled to Cornell University, broadening its appeal to other universities. Klane founded the company as a
sole proprietor, but recently decided to become a limited liability company, or LLC. The transition established Klane Consulting as a more legitimate business, he said. This is when Klane enlisted the help of his friends, fellow Syracuse University sophomores Keegan Slattery and Jack Farley. “We’re putting out a very professional brand, but with a little swagger to it,” Klane said.
Now the three students act as partners and market a variety of products from Electro-Voice, as well as 150 other brands to their fraternity-based clientele, Klane said. Before, fraternities were limited to getting equipment online, such as Guitar Center, which is more tedious than having suppliers come to their houses and letting them test the products themselves, Klane said. His comSEE KLANE PAGE 12
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our ram is bigger than yours add music. Video Editor’s audio library has hundreds of songs linked right to the page for easy access and insertion. Just click, hold and drag, and you can have Otis Redding’s “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” over the video of your family reunion at that lake you like so much. To make your video live, type in a name for the video in the box that prompts you to do so, and click “Publish.” Eureka, you’re either going to get a lot of hate mail for committing an atrocity to anyone who has eyes and ears, or you’re going to feel like a failure when your video accumulates 11 views over a three-year period. If editing software has been the only thing standing between you and a viral video, go off and find some funny children or a really bad song. Thanks to YouTube’s Video Editor, you can become insanely popular for your hidden talent in playing spoons. Jessica Smith is a junior information management and technology and television, radio and film dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday, and she can be reached at jlsmit22@syr.edu.
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including catering companies and being a partner of four restaurants, began in Syracuse. Mahar also grew up surrounded by people in the food industry. His mother was a bakery manager and his brother managed fast food restaurants. He currently spends his days feeding the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers, something he’s done on and off for seven years. Looking back at his successful career, such as helping to cater 10,000 private banquets, Mahar can’t complain. “I’ve already accomplished a lot of my career goals, now it’s kinda like relax and enjoy life,” he said. What once began as satisfying the general public shifted to satisfying those in greek life. He’s also done brief stints at fraternity houses Tau Kappa Epsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Mahar not only feeds the brothers on campus through a food service management company, he also pervades his business model, such as a la carte lunches, to other campus’ chapters. Mahar, who credits his successful business model to his background in owning restaurants, offers a little tough love to his clients. “I know you’ve been doing this way forever, now we’re going to do it my way,” he said. What’s his way? A fairly laid-back day. A la carte lunches. Buffet dinners. Preparing menus and ordering and receiving stocks of food. “Some days I wonder, ‘I’m surprised they actually pay me to do this,’” he said.
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the occasional banter between Mahar and the brothers who walk by to say hello or grab their lunches. A louder noise, a phone’s vibrating tone, breaks through the kitchen, and Mahar grabs his cellphone to read a text. A brother has
“Some days I wonder, ‘I’m surprised they actually pay me to do this.'" Patrick Mahar
chef at Sigma Phi Epsilon
ordered pancakes. Mahar’s model consists of three options: a meal plan consisting of two meals a day for five days out of the week, 40 lunches for $200 or a single meal for $7. But the brothers have an advantage: the option to text their order. “They roll out of bed, order their lunch, take a shower, thank God and then come down,” he said. As he starts preparing the pancakes, he says he never knows what he’ll be asked to make for lunch. He smiles and says, “My first order was chicken fingers, and my last order can be pancakes.” When the order is done, Mahar places the meal on one of the Styrofoam plates stacked on the counter. He puts the meal on another counter beside the door for the brothers to eventually pick up.
11 a.m.: More orders pile up. Eggs. Toast. Chicken Caesar wraps. Bacon cheeseburgers. When the brothers pick up their meals, they politely thank Mahar, and many stop and make
small talk. Mahar credits his happiness toward his job to his positive relationships with the men in SigEp. “It’s really rewarding, I think, and I also get to watch these guys mature and have successful careers.” Their comfortable nature with each other is seen by constant teasing, such as when a brother asks if he could have an omelet, and without missing a beat, Mahar responds with a cheeky smile and says, “No.”
Noon: A deliveryman arrives later than expected. His fellow worker has fallen out of the back of the truck, meriting a hospital visit. Mahar talks with the man, signs a form and begins unpacking the boxes. One of the first items he pulls out is a huge bucket filled to the brim with chicken. He smiles and says, “I go through an average of four of these a week.” To put it into clearer terms, Mahar claims to use up to 80 pounds of chicken breast a week. It’s the busiest time of the day as many brothers file down to order wraps, paninis and more breakfast items.
1 p.m.: Scoping out the boxes, Mahar finds there are items missing. He makes a phone call to the supplier and leaves a message recounting what’s missing. Before he hangs up, he pauses and remembers to say, “Oh, this is Pat from SigEp.” “Probably should have told him that before,” he says with a smile. He begins unpacking large quantities of food to stuff into the two refrigerators located in the kitchen. As he grabs a large bag of ravioli, which requires him to use two hands, he laughs and says, “They are growing boys.”
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2 p.m.: Mahar doesn’t serve any food to the brothers past 2 p.m. For the next three hours, he begins prepping and preparing a dinner buffet. He turns on a classic rock radio channel and becomes immersed in his cooking. He is constantly moving, putting items in refrigerators and placing things in the oven or on the stove. A pile of boxes, which once held food, is stacked outside the door. He needs this time. Although he says he mainly prepares chicken and eggs for lunch for the brothers, these next few hours let him actually do what he wants to do: cook. “I get to be creative,” he says. Hours later, he proudly smiles as the brothers dive into his buffet line consisting of salad, rolls and linguini with clams. Through continual compliments and conversations, Mahar’s presence is easily seen. And he knows it. “When the pledges start, the brothers explain to them, the person not to piss off is me,” he says. “Not if you want to keep eating.” cbidwill@syr.edu
food for thought
When a brother of SigEp consistently orders his own, unique and peculiar lunch item, it becomes permanently remembered by being tagged as an item on the "Legacy Lunch" list, which hangs on the basement kitchen door.
Items include:
• Chocolate chip pancakes with grilled chicken • Grilled burger topped with Philly cheesesteak, bacon and smothered in cheese • Pepperoni, turkey, bacon, lettuce, green pepper, black pepper and mayo in a wrap with fries.
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pany provides a more convenient alternative to those options. Slattery, an information management and technology and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major, is a brother of Sigma Chi and sees firsthand how many speakers are damaged during the school year. Klane Consulting tries to counter this by providing higher-quality, reliable products rather than cheaper brands that don’t measure up. “We found that (Electro-Voice) fits the market for fraternities because of the capabilities of the speaker,” Slattery said. Slattery acts as the chief operating officer for the company and heads the design of business cards and the website. The partners hope the site will add another dimension to the business by making products available to everyone — even those outside of their door-to-door customer service range. Jack Farley, chief sales officer for the group, wasn’t initially on board with the idea of a startup, but quickly changed his mind when he realized what kind of opportunity it could be. Farley, an international relations major, said having three opinions on everything works well because it creates a checks-and-balance system for the group. Klane and his partners are currently holding demonstrations at SU and Cornell to test a new product line. At Cornell’s April 3 demonstration, the majority of the university’s fraternities came out to hear their sales pitch, Klane said. The partners are now in the process of clos-
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“We’re putting out a very professional brand, but with a little swagger to it.” Barnett Klane
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ing some of those deals, but because it’s the end of the school year, many of the fraternities’ budgets are strained. However, some are interested in buying for the fall. “When the semester starts and all the fraternities are collecting their dues, they have a budget to spend on certain social aspects,” Slattery said. “That’s when we can help them upgrade their systems and make sales.” Carlos Cancela, a sophomore American studies major at Cornell, got in contact with the company through the representative in his fraternity. Cancela is a DJ and purchased a stereo from Klane Consulting after its demonstration. “It’s a good group of guys who are very relatable,” Cancela said. “We got to test the speakers, and they were unbelievable. Everyone who walked in was blown away because it was insanely loud and you could hear it throughout the entire house with perfect quality.” The ultimate goal of the company is to get a representative on every major college campus in the country, Klane said. The partners hope to have at least 25 campuses on board by the end of 2011, he said. “Not many people have the chance to start a business in college,” Slattery said. “It will be a great experience for the rest of our lives to have started one on our own.” egsawyer@syr.edu
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he Foo Fighters’ “Wasting Light” is the best rock album to hit record store shelves in the past five years. Most bands try to pigeonhole themselves into convoluted subgenres that litter the music industry, following the cookie-cutter format of tacking on a colorful adjective to the word “rock” and focusing on squeezing themselves into one specific sound. The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, are the grizzled veterans of the scene, a machine cranking out angst-driven rock songs for 16 years. Instead of changing their ways, the super group, featuring former members of grunge legends Nirvana and emo-genre forefathers Sunny Day Real Estate, have honed their sound and perfected their music. The result — an honest, sincere album that deserves to be blasted at eardrumrupturing levels. “Wasting Light” was recorded entirely in lead singer Dave Grohl’s garage, and it adds a charming rawness to the group’s 11-track effort. Sure, it’s not as fully produced as previous records, but the not-quite-fully-fleshed sound fuels the album over the course of its breakneck pace. “Bridge Burning” is an absolute tour de force to start the album, and sounds its best with the volume cranked all the way up. Grohl’s vocals are ferocious and bitterly shouted, while guitarist Pat Smear astonishes with lightning-fast guitar riffs that accentuate Taylor Hawkins’ dynamic drumming. Whereas many of the band’s previous opening tracks are hit or miss, “Bridge Burning” is a dead-on bull’s-eye. “Rope” is the Foo Fighters’ strongest single since “Learn to Fly” and “Everlong.” The song starts with some echoing guitar riffs that could be the introduction to a U2 song, at least until the staccato drumbeats charge into the track. Grohl’s voice is at his most melodic, easing off the screaming that sneaks its way into most of the band’s songs, but he manages to flaunt his range in the rollicking chorus. Smear and Hawkins make for a dynamic duo on “Dear Rosemary,” a track that lacks in meaningful lyrics and struggles with uncharacteristically dull singing, but more than makes up for its shortcomings with some cleverly constructed instrumentation that highlights nifty guitar solos and drum fills.
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“White Limo” diverges from the rest of the album with its unique garage-band feel, featuring distorted screams from Grohl. It’s the Foo Fighters at the peak of their ferocity. Though it is sure to alienate some of the band’s more casual listeners, die-hard fans will clamor for the brutally raw anger the song delivers. Each track on the album maintains the Foo Fighters’ familiar sound, but with a new trick up their sleeve with every song. “Arlandria” and “Back & Forth” have a bluesy swagger that sounds like the band has deep Southern roots, a lovechild between bayou blues and rebellious metal influences. “These Days” opens as a heart-wrenching ballad, but halfway through the track, the adrenaline snaps into place and the tempo picks up to stadium-rocker level. Even the hacksaw guitar riffs that compose “A Matter of Time” seem to have slight pop-punk influences on a song that should move to top the alternative charts. The Foo Fighters take the phrase “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” to heart. Though some of the album’s similar sonic consistency may be construed as uncreative sameness, the band hasn’t reinvented the wheel. Rather, “Wasting Light” is a record that cements the Foo Fighters as the torchbearers for rock ‘n’ roll of the current generation. ervanrhe@syr.edu
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Strong goalie play fuels SU winning streak By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer
Alyssa Costantino holds her goalie stick in her hand, mimicking the routine she uses time and time again in net as a ball flies toward her goal. The top hand should lead to the ball to make a save. Step to the ball, not the shooter. A proper goaltender brings forward the back leg and ends in the position she started. The more time a goalie is in the proper stance, the better chance she has at making the save. Good position consists of plenty of things: feet shoulder-width apart, stick parallel to the body, top hand gripping the bottom of the stick head, and eyes focused on the ball. And the final part is mental. Reacting, not thinking. With everything put together to stop a shot, the Syracuse women’s lacrosse freshman goalie said goaltender is the toughest position to play in the sport. “It’s all mental, really,” Costantino said. “Obviously it’s the last line of defense, so the more a goalie can keep players out, the more you realize this might be the hardest position on the field.” Such is life for the two goalies who have seen the most time this season — starter and team captain Liz Hogan and freshman backup Costantino. They are playing, as Costantino said, perhaps the toughest position on the field. And in the Orange’s recent two-game winning streak and perfect 3-0 start in Big East play, the goaltending played a major part. After the Orange allowed double-digit goals in all but two nonconference games, Hogan has given up just 6.7 goals per game in Big East play. Hogan credits the recent turnaround to an increase in preparation. “I don’t know if it’s so much prediction, but it’s a lot of preparation,” Hogan said. “I’ve certainly been taking a lot more shots in practice. The attackers have been getting a lot of shots off. It’s really just getting in the mindset of, ‘I’m not going to let one go by me.’” This past week, Hogan earned her third career Big East Player of the Week award for a performance that included 26 saves, seven groundballs and four caused turnovers in the Orange’s past
sean harp | staff photographer Liz Hogan (2) has helped SU get to a 3-0 Big East record, playing what she considers to be the toughest position of the field. In the three wins, Hogan gave up an average of only 6.7 goals per game. Last week, she made 26 saves to garner Big East honors. three games. Both games against Connecticut and Notre Dame ended in SU victories. On the season, she leads the conference with 8.8 saves per game. She has been the “quarterback” on the field for the Orange, as teammate Costantino describes the goaltender position. “You have to be able to communicate to your players on the field because you have a bird’s-eye view of everything,” Costantino said. “You’re almost the quarterback out there, so helping your defense and letting them know what they can’t see is huge.” Costantino has also contributed to the Orange’s success at the position in her first year at SU. She began goaltending in third grade because her father was a goalie, and she wanted to be just like him. In high school, she received multiple distinctions, including All-Suffolk County and 2010 Under Armour All-American honors. This season, Costantino has played in three games for the Orange and earned the first victory of her career. She is the heir apparent to the senior Hogan next season. After SU’s season-opening victory over Colgate on Feb. 17, SU head coach Gary Gait said he was impressed with the play of Costantino, who was making her first career start. “For a freshman coming in and starting, I
thought she did a great job,” Gait said. “That’s a tough situation to be in, coming in and knowing that you got the Goalie of the Year (Hogan) sitting up in the stands and watching you, and you have to jump in goal and try and lead the defense.” In the end, the two SU goalies go back to that routine. The only thing a lacrosse goalie can do is cut off the angle and get into a position for a
chance to make the save. To do that, she must remain both physically and mentally secure. “We try to keep each other in check,” Hogan said of the goaltenders’ relationship. “If someone’s having a bad day, we can pull each other up. It’s all mental.” zoirvin@syr.edu
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to be filled. Catholic Charities had reached out to St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Bridgeport, N.Y., asking if anyone would be willing to sponsor refugee families. Hart and his wife agreed and became the personal sponsors of the Agbossoumondes. During the first few weeks, the Harts saw them almost every day. They explained how to use a stove, a washing machine and any other foreign device that Mawuena Agbossoumonde — currently a sophomore midfielder on the SU men’s soccer team — and his family had never seen. “We didn’t know (Hart) before we came,” said Djifa, Mawuena’s older brother. “But we heard there would be a lot of people waiting to help us.” And what Djifa and his family heard proved to be true. Since their arrival in February 2000, it’s the network of support the Agbossoumondes have received from the community that drives them. Multiple families have assisted in the development of Mawuena and his siblings in Syracuse, stemming from compassion and appreciation for the character and backstory of the entire bunch. For that, the family is eternally grateful. Mawuena realizes he wouldn’t be where he is today were it not for their assistance. “I can’t really describe it because there were so many people on the way,” he said. “Growing up, there were so many people that helped us.” ••• Karma, fate and providence. Those are the words Kenneth Schoening uses to describe how the Agbossoumonde family got to where it is today. Less than two months after the six children and their mother, Adjo, arrived in Syracuse,
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Schoening initiated their soccer careers. Coaching his son’s East Side Soccer team in Berry Park during April 2000, Schoening had the gumption to approach two African boys with “sad, long faces.” A migrant from Africa himself, Schoening conversed with the two in French. He invited them into his practice, and a few weeks later Mawuena and his younger brother Gale were part of the team. “I always try to go back and say, ‘What if I hadn’t run into them?’” Schoening said. “What if I hadn’t walked up to them? Would they have been where they are now?” Where they are now is quite remarkable. Mawuena is at Syracuse, and Gale, his younger brother, plays professionally in Sweden and made an appearance with the U.S. National Team in November. Their older brother, Messan, played soccer at St. Lawrence. But before all that came East Side Soccer, a recreational league. There, Mawuena was introduced to Daniel McGowan and Kenneth’s son Charles. Both would eventually be Mawuena’s teammates at Syracuse. Through that team, Schoening introduced the Agbossoumonde boys to the Syracuse Indoor Sports Center in Liverpool, N.Y. It became a second home. The original owner, Bob Escobar, said Mawuena and Gale were there almost every day after school playing until the center closed for the night. He never charged them because he knew they wouldn’t have been able to pay. He just wanted to give them an outlet. “To me it’s tremendous,” Escobar said in a phone interview. “I look at this and know that I was part of it and helped to provide them something when they were in real need of it.” Schoening and Escobar got Mawuena and Gale involved with the Syracuse Blitz F.C. — a
brandon weight | photo editor Trophies and medals displayed in Mawuena Agbossoumonde’s house symbolize the success the SU midfielder has achieved since arriving in the United States from Togo. traveling premier team that practiced at the Indoor Sports Center. It’s what allowed their names to begin swirling among college and high school coaches later on. In all those years — from the time Mawuena was 10 until he enrolled at Christian Brothers Academy — Schoening will never forget the winter of 2000-01. Less than a year after Mawuena’s arrival, he and Gale won their first trophy on Schoening’s team. It was a lasting achievement for the former refugees. “It was like gold to (Mawuena),” Schoening said. “One of the older brothers made a comment and said, ‘You know, Coach, back in Africa, this is like gold for us to have something like this.’” ••• Nick Ashenburg wasn’t sure how Anani found his way onto the Syracuse Blitz, but he was curious about the newcomer. So when Anani — the fourth of the six Agbossoumonde brothers — needed a ride home, he asked Nick’s parents to help. “I think we were all intrigued,” Nick said. “So one ride turned into many rides, and many rides turned into coming over to the house and spending holidays together.” That one ride was the beginning of what would effectively become an invitation by the Ashenburgs for the Agbossoumondes to join their family. With Anani and Nick playing together on the Blitz, the Ashenburgs were introduced to the rest of the family. Nick’s younger brother Ben would become a teammate of Mawuena’s at CBA after his family helped get him into the school. Ben and Mawuena became best friends. “Mawuena and Ben lived like brothers,” said Alicia Ashenburg, the mother of Ben and Nick. “They went to school together every day. They came home together almost every day from eighth to 12th grade. And then they went to practice together. They were literally like glue.” Mawuena began playing varsity soccer for CBA in the eighth grade. He played four seasons of soccer at CBA and was named to the 2006 PostStandard All-CNY First Team. In his senior year, he was the kicker for the football team. Between school, homework and soccer, Alicia washed Mawuena’s school uniform nearly every night. And the whole family helped the young boys with schoolwork. “The Ashenburg family kind of like took me in as their son,” Mawuena said. “They helped me with everything.” The help was appreciated by Adjo, who worked on an assembly line as her first job. She later worked for Arcom and then at the old Hotel Syracuse. Often, she worked two jobs at once. The Ashenburgs had the family over for holidays as well. Ben, Nick and their mother all remember the Christmas of 2001, in which they
took most of the Agbossoumondes to a midnight mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. After the mass, the Ashenburgs gave gifts to the Agbossoumondes. The prize was an Xbox. “They were just so happy and so grateful,” Ben said. “And now they’re giving us presents. It’s really just come full circle.” ••• Inside the St. Francis of Assisi Parish, the success of the Agbossoumonde family resonates. Pinned to the Youth Events bulletin board is a story from The Catholic Sun about Mawuena and his sister Dovenin. Directly beneath it is a newsletter requesting contributions for a linen drive that benefits the Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement Program. Perhaps it’s a sign. Above is the example of what a refugee family can become. Below is what one can do to give another family a chance to be like the Agbossoumondes. “We’ve remained very close personal friends,” Hart said. “Not just my family with them, but other families in our parish have maintained that type of relationship with them.” The people of the parish aren’t alone. Mawuena and his family have remained close with everyone who has helped them since their arrival in Syracuse. And now that they are settled, they give back. L.J. Papaleo, Mawuena’s teammate at SU, went through a devastating stretch in which both of his grandparents passed away in the span of two weeks. By his side was Mawuena, asking to attend the funeral services. “That meant a lot because he didn’t know my grandparents,” Papaleo said. “He knew me, and he knew we needed someone to lean on in a hard time.” McGowan, who played with Mawuena years ago through East Side Soccer, said his choice to come to Syracuse was based largely on Mawuena being here to help him transition. “I transferred from Hamilton College mainly because Mawuena was here,” he said. “If he wasn’t here, I probably wouldn’t have come.” Looking back on where they were, Adjo said she could never have imagined a life like this. Coming from where they did, it seemed absurd. But Papaleo didn’t see it unfolding any differently. The Agbossoumondes entered the hearts of the people in the Syracuse community so quickly that their bright future was inevitable. “They’re such great people that you want to help them,” Papaleo said. “If it wasn’t these three or four families we’ve been talking about, it would have been three or four other families. Everyone wants to help them. “It wouldn’t have been a problem for them to succeed here in America.” mjcohe02@syr.edu
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Cornell coach DeLuca continues proud tradition in 1st year By Katie McInerney EDITOR IN CHIEF
Last July, Ben DeLuca was left “shocked.” Jeff Tambroni, the head coach who hired DeLuca and tutored him during the past nine seasons, had announced his decision to leave the Cornell lacrosse tradition. He was headed to Penn State to try and rebuild a Nittany Lions program that has never won an NCAA tournament game. And no one, especially his closest assistant DeLuca, expected it. “He had a great situation here and a great program,” DeLuca said. “Shocked was the first thing that came to mind.” Tambroni immediately offered an assistant position at Penn State to DeLuca, who thought it over with his wife. They toyed with the idea of uprooting their young and growing family to State College, Pa., to abandon the Big Red for the Nittany Lions. Fortunately for Cornell, the perfect replacement for Tambroni was already in Ithaca, N.Y. He had been there for years. And Cornell officials knew that. The same day Tambroni stepped down, DeLuca said he was offered the job. And Deluca, a former Cornell defender himself, didn’t have to think more than “a day or two,” discussing it with his wife and his family before he made his decision. After serving as an assistant coach under the previous three Cornell head coaches — Tambroni, current Johns Hopkins head coach Dave Pietramala and program legend Richie Moran — DeLuca finally took over as head man. He remained in Ithaca and became the head coach of a program for which he had played and coached most of his life. “It’s been great,” DeLuca said. “It’s been a whirlwind for sure.” So far, so good. In DeLuca’s first season, the Big Red is 8-2 as it comes to the Carrier Dome
for a matchup with No. 1 Syracuse on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Recruited by Moran, DeLuca played for Pietramala during his senior season at Cornell. Pietramala offered him the second assistant coach position immediately upon graduation, and he took it. But after two years, DeLuca wanted to put his nutritional sciences and biochemistry degree to work. He went to New York City — “a different world,” but a cherished experience for DeLuca — to work with a sport marketing and management firm in Manhattan after graduate-school plans fell through. Soon after, he took a front office role with the National Lacrosse League. He said it was his way to stay involved with the sport of lacrosse in any way he could. But it wasn’t just lacrosse DeLuca loved — it was Cornell lacrosse. He would listen in whenever he could find games on the radio or the Internet. DeLuca never let himself stray far from the program. On Sept. 11, 2001, DeLuca was in Manhattan when two planes struck the World Trade Center. That, he said, brought him perspective. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” DeLuca said. “After 9/11, I found out you don’t realize what you have until you don’t have it anymore.” He missed working with the student-athletes. He missed having an effect on people’s lives, the way he did when he served as second assistant coach for Pietramala in 2000. He wanted to get back into it. So when Tambroni had an opening on his staff in 2002, DeLuca didn’t just accept the offer to leave the city and become an assistant coach. “I jumped on it,” DeLuca said. DeLuca admitted the paycheck didn’t compare, but it didn’t matter. For him, life in New York City was an experience necessary to bring
courtesy of dave burbank BEN DeLUCA took over for Jeff Tambroni as Cornell’s head coach prior to this season. The former Big Red defender has led No. 5 Cornell to a 8-2 record thus far.
him back to his passion. “I felt like I needed to do that to see my true calling is to be a lacrosse coach,” he said. “It gave me a great deal of perspective and ultimately helped me find my way back here. “When I left Cornell after coaching, I didn’t think I was going to go back into it. But it was about having the offer to come back to coach at my alma mater.” Nine years after getting back into the game, DeLuca has taken the reins of a Big Red team that is ranked No. 5 in the nation. DeLuca hired assistant coach Matt Rewkowski in early July. In Rewkowski’s first month on the job, he was introduced to what it meant to be a Cornell alumnus in the biggest way — the annual alumni weekend event. The weekend was “unreal” for the former Johns Hopkins player-turned-coach. But not everything has been perfect since July. Rewkowski admits there have been some “early bumps in the road,” as the Big Red fell to Army and Virginia early in the season. But the team is on a five-game winning streak as it enters the Dome on Tuesday. Rewkowski is participating in his first Syracuse-Cornell game after he served as an assistant at Hofstra for four years. And although Rewkowski was content at Hofstra and didn’t feel the need to leave a school so close to his hometown of Bethpage, N.Y., DeLuca didn’t need much convincing to bring him up. The legacy of the Cornell tradition — and the
extent to which DeLuca was involved — was enough of an argument. “Any of our players will agree that Coach DeLuca’s passion for Cornell is unrivaled,” Rewkowski said. “He played here, then he was the assistant coach and now he’s the head coach and he loves it. They’re caught by his passion for this place.” Second assistant coach Paul Richards went through the traditional hiring process, getting picked for the job in early August. Richards said his experience at Cornell has been “unbelievable.” Growing up in Baldwinsville, N.Y., he knew what lacrosse meant to the Cornell program. “I had an idea of the tradition,” he said. “But it’s been what I’ve expected and more.” Rewkowski remembers sweating in DeLuca’s office on the hot June day when he visited Ithaca for the first time to meet the newly minted Cornell head coach. The pair had been “friendly” after they both were assistant coaches and both played for Pietramala at different programs. But he was taken aback by the vision DeLuca gave him and humbled that he was considered for a position in a program with such a storied history. For Rewkowski, the decision on whether or not to become part of the Big Red tradition was obvious. Said Rewkowski: “The opportunity to jump on board with Coach DeLuca at Cornell was something I couldn’t pass up.” knmciner@syr.edu
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same time. “Over the past couple of years, he’s turned into a very good dodger, so it’s a double-edged sword,” SU head coach John Desko said. “You can’t just play him as a feeder. You can’t just play him as a dodger. So he’s got a very complete game.” One of the things that makes Pannell such a good dodger is that he keeps his head up and his eyes focused on exactly where he plans on moving. With such good vision of his destination, he’s able to get around most of his defenders with relative ease. When asked how to stop Pannell, Megill didn’t have to think too hard before giving a quick answer: John Lade. But that’s assuming Lade can play. It’s no guarantee, as the defender is still recovering from an ankle injury he suffered in SU’s game against Duke last week. Desko made a game-time decision to keep him out of the lineup against Princeton on Saturday. Desko said it will come down to another game-time decision Tuesday. “We pretty much left it up to John,” Desko said of the Princeton game. “We’re a little miffed that he still had some swelling in there. We expect him to play in the game.” If Lade’s out, then the Orange will have to adjust early to look for other ways to contain Pannell. That could mean sliding to cover him, but Megill said SU won’t call for a double team because of the other goal scorers Cornell features. With Pannell, Mock or midfielder David Lau, who has 18 goals, the Big Red has a proficient scoring trio. If Lade does play, something even he isn’t sure about, then Syracuse can look forward to having arguably its best defender cover Pannell. Lade said Cornell, unlike most teams this season, won’t slow down its tempo against the
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opportunity, they’re going to see it and they’re going to have it.” Similarly, Desko said Cornell will have enough confidence in its game plan to believe it’s good enough to take down the Orange. With a quick turnaround from Saturday’s game to Tuesday, Syracuse only had one day to
watch film. That’s all it needed, though, to see where it needs to put most of its attention. It all comes down to stopping Pannell. “He’s doing unbelievable. We have to watch out for him,” Megill said. “He’s a threat scoring, feeding, and the list goes on from there.” cjiseman@syr.edu
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Extended family In transition to US, Mawuena Agbossoumonde and family relied on support from their community By Michael Cohen | Asst. Sports Editor
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uy Hart laughed as the Agbossoumondes battled their knee-high boots. After plucking the Togolese refugee family from the Syracuse Hancock International Airport, he brought them directly to Kmart. “Of course they’re not used to wearing heavy things on their feet, and here they are in snow boots,” said Hart, the family’s sponsor. “It was really funny.” Though the boots posed problems, the rest of the store was a play-
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ground. After the family endured seven years in refugee camps in Benin, this strange place had unrecognizable objects that had to be examined.
“Wide-eyed. Absolute wonderment,” Hart said. “They’d never seen anything like it. They were like kids in a candy store.” Hart and his wife bought pants, shirts, jackets and toys for the new Syracuse residents. Their apartment on Green Street, which was provided by Catholic Charities of Onondaga County, needed SEE FAMILY PAGE 16
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SU looks to contain near ‘flawless’ play of Big Red’s Pannell By Chris Iseman ASST. COPY EDITOR
When the Syracuse defense watched film of Cornell’s offense, one player stood out more than any other. Rob Pannell’s all-around abilities were so evident that the question of how to stop him had no easy answer. In so many ways Who: No. 5 Cornell — scoring, dodging Where: Carrier Dome or passing — he can When: Today, 7 p.m. beat a defense. And
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to SU defender Brian Megill, Pannell as a player is nearly “flawless.” “His IQ of the game, it’s phenomenal,” Megill said. “The way he dodges with his eyes up, the way he can work into a transition game or fastbreak. … His all-around game is almost flawless.” No. 1 Syracuse (9-0, 2-0 Big East) will attempt to stop Pannell and the rest of the Big Red attack Tuesday when it takes on No. 5 Cornell (8-2, 4-0 Ivy) at the Carrier Dome at 7 p.m. Pannell is the catalyst of the Big Red’s high-scoring attack, as every other Cornell scorer waits to take one of
his passes to have the chance to put the ball in the cage. That’s how Pannell has racked up 28 assists on the year, and he also has 27 goals to match. Syracuse’s defense has been challenged all season and forced to shut down other teams’ offenses while the Orange struggles to score. When it goes up against Cornell, that’ll be no different. The Big Red averages 13 goals per game on the season and 14 in its last five games. Pannell is the team leader in goals, and attack Steve Mock is right behind him with 21. But most of
the focus will fall on Pannell because if SU can shut him down, then it has a better chance of shutting down Cornell’s entire offense. The junior is first in the nation in points per game with 5.5 and second in the nation in assists. Syracuse’s defenders said they are going to look to keep their sticks in on Pannell’s hands, not letting him make any easy passes. But that still leaves his dodging ability. Unfortunately for the Orange, it can’t take away both his efficient passing and dodging at the SEE CORNELL PAGE 18