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Freedom fighter Umar Cheema, a Pakistani

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journalist, received the 2011 Tully Free Speech Award Thursday. Page 3

urges students to give up drinking bottled water.

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“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” brings the audience to its feet. Page 9

Providence 13-3 on Saturday to bounce back from the first loss of the season. Page 20

SU fashion group to host Wale

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Lending a hand

ASHLEY WHEELER , a sophomore health and exercise science major, helps paint a wall during The Big Event Saturday. The Big Event is an annual service day run by OrangeSeeds, a leadership empowerment program for first-year students. It took place on South Salina Street and the surrounding area. Students and faculty from Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry aided the community by picking up trash, planting lilies, cleaning a local church and painting a mural. Check out a multimedia piece on The Big Event at dailyorange.com.

Panel compares academic integrity policies to SU

By Liz Sawyer STAFF WRITER

Gary Pavela isn’t satisfied with Syracuse University’s current Academic Integrity Policy. He says it lacks a very important asset: students.

The current policy does not include a student-run board to hear academic integrity cases, said Pavela, director of SU’s Academic Integrity Office. It has been his goal to change that since he was hired two years ago. On Friday, members of student-run honor councils at other schools came to SU to attend a luncheon and panel discussion to

examine the role and responsibility college students have in protecting academic integrity.

Faculty began discussing proposed changes to the Academic Integrity Policy on Wednesday.

The proposals would differentiate between academic dishonesty and negligence, place tighter sanctions on dishonesty, and revise academic dishonesty appeal procedures, according to an April 14 article published in The Daily Orange.

Research has shown institutions with effectively managed honor programs and significant student

leadership have fewer cases of academic dishonesty, Pavela said. The luncheon, held in the Sheraton University Hotel and Conference Center, compared the honor systems of four different colleges: SU, Vanderbilt University, Princeton University and the University of Maryland.

Panelists were allotted 15 minutes each to explain how their own systems function, as well as give advice to faculty members on how they can best promote academic integrity and reduce dishonesty. About 35 people attended the luncheon.

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Rapper and lyricist Wale will perform Saturday night in Goldstein Auditorium as a part of Fashion Conscience’s annual fashion show.

Fashion Conscience, a student organization dedicated to showcasing underrepresented designers and speakers from different racial and socioeconomic classes, considered bringing Wale for the fashion show since the summer, said Tuso Boothe, the group’s vice president.

“He’s not just someone that talks about shaking his a** or gun shots going off or doing drugs,” she said.

“He’s someone that could represent the organization in a different light.”

This year’s fashion show, titled “90210,” focuses on styles with an old Hollywood, 1920s feel, Boothe said.

The week preceding the show, Fashion Conscience will hold other promotional events, such as a hair care and nails forum and a lecture from Street Etiquette, a team of two New York City designers.

Tickets for the show are available

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Health Services interviews 3 candidates for director

By Meghin Delaney ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Syracuse University Health Services just finished the interviewing process for a director and is now moving into the formal decision-making process for the three candidates.

Rebecca Dayton, associate vice president of student affairs for health and wellness, said in an email that Health Services will likely offer the position to a candidate in the next few

weeks, but that there was currently no new information. She would not release the names of the candidates.

In December, Kathy VanVechten, special assistant to the director of Health Services, said Health Services “absolutely” expected to assign a new director during the spring semester.

There are three weeks left in the spring semester.

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CRIME BRIEFS • A State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry student was arrested Friday at 2:01 a.m. on the 700 block of Lancaster Avenue, according to a Syracuse police report.

Dustin Loss, 23, was arrested and charged with one count for violating the city’s nuisance party ordinance, according to the report. He was released on an appearance ticket and will appear in Syracuse Community Court on May 6.

Anthony Mandia, 23, an Onondaga Community College student, was arrested at the same location and charged with one count for possession of an open container, according to the report. The Lancaster Avenue location has been the scene of several fights, disturbances and party complaints, according to the report.

When the Syracuse Police Department officers arrived on the scene, they asked Mandia if he was a resident of the house, which he wasn’t.

The officers then told him to leave, but Mandia said the police had no reason to be there.

The officers were invited inside the residence by Loss to discuss the noise complaint. Mandia then told the officers they had no right to go into the house. The officer told Mandia again the party was over. Mandia ignored the request, and an officer escorted him outside.

Mandia then said, “F*** you, I’m leaving, but I’m taking my beer with me,” according to the report.

The officer warned him he would violate the city’s open container statute if he entered the sidewalk with the beverage. Mandia ignored the officer’s request and was arrested. Mandia appeared in Syracuse Criminal Court on Friday, according to the report.

• Robert Moesch, 22, was arrested Thursday at 3:30 a.m. on the 100 block of Victoria Place, according to a Syracuse police report. He was charged with one count of lewdness and indecency, one count of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree and one count of littering, according to the report. He appeared in Criminal Court at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to the report.

• Jason Wang, 21, a senior in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, reported his 1995 Honda Accord stolen Friday at 100 Stadium Place, according to the report. The car is valued at $ 2,000.

Wang told police he parked the car behind his house on April 9 at 8 p.m., according to the report. But Friday at 6 p.m., Wang went to use his car and noticed it wasn’t parked where he left it, according to the report. The case remains open.

• Criminal mischief was reported

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stacie fanelli | staff photographer UMAR CHEEMA , a Pakistani journalist, speaks to students in Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium Thursday about his experiences of being tortured. Cheema was kidnapped for writing critical arguments about the government in 2010 and was intentionally run over by a vehicle in

Pakistani journalist receives award, recalls kidnapping

By Jillian Anthony STAFF WRITER

After Pakistani journalist Umar Cheema was kidnapped, tortured, dumped and blindfolded outside of Islamabad, Pakistan, for writing critical articles about the government, he had a choice to make: stay silent or share his story.

Cheema’s captors warned him that if he spoke to the media, he would be picked up and tortured

again, this time more severely. But Cheema, dedicated to a free press in Pakistan, knew he had to speak.

“I told myself that speaking up is the only option,” Cheema said. “Staying silent is not an option for me.”

Cheema told students his story and insights on the importance of a free press Thursday night in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Cheema received the Tully Free Speech Award at Syra-

cuse University seven months after his Sept. 4, 2010, abduction and the following Pakistani media frenzy.

Cheema was selected from 11 nominees by a committee of SU students and faculty, including Joel Kaplan, associate dean of professional graduate studies in Newhouse, and Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech and a professor of communications law and journalism. Past award win-

ners include captured and tortured Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho and Zimbabwean journalist Frank Chikowore, who was jailed by the government for his writings.

The committee looks to award someone who has faced challenges to exercise the right to free speech, Kaplan said.

When Cheema began his journalism career in Pakistan a decade ago,

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Say Yes receives $7,500 for summer program

By Stephanie Bouvia STAFF WRITER

The $7,500 given to Say Yes to Education during last Monday’s Syracuse Common Council meeting will go toward purchasing supplies for the summer program, in which Syracuse University students are involved.

The money comes after Say Yes avoided losing a $400,000 grant due to state budget cuts. The majority of the money will be spent purchasing sup-

plies for art, music, dance, sports and drama activities, said Pat Driscoll, director of operations for Syracuse Say Yes. A member of the Common Council could not be reached for comment.

Say Yes is a nonprofit organization that works to academically and financially support students from urban schools. The summer program runs from July 7 to 28 and is offered to these students free of charge, Driscoll said.

SU is involved with the Say Yes program and is a key component to the summer program, as many of the summer camp staff members are SU students, Driscoll said.

“The students will work in the classroom with Syracuse City School District teachers to provide academic support and provide enrichment types of programs, too,” Driscoll said.

Students at the summer camp will focus on academics, such as reading,

writing or arithmetic, each morning.

In the afternoon, the students will participate in enrichment programs, such as swimming, dancing or guitar, Driscoll said. Staff members for the program go through training and preparation two weeks before it begins.

Driscoll said he feels the summer program is important for the students involved in Say Yes. “Having students engaged dur-

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“Once faculty know that academic integrity is important to students, it will become even more important to faculty,” Pavela said.

A summary of the discussion and “best practice” suggestions presented by panel members will be published at the SU Academic Integrity Office website, according to the luncheon invita-

“Once faculty know that academic integrity is important to students, it will become even more important to faculty.”

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tion. As of Sunday night, the website had not yet been updated.

The academic integrity forum held Wednesday discussed immediate issues with the policy that needed to be addressed, while Friday’s luncheon served as an example of where SU is headed in the next few years, Pavela said.

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in different packages, she said. A gold package for $10 gets a person entry into the fashion show and the concert. A platinum package, costing

of the panelists were chairs for their university’s student-run honor committee or council, meaning that it is the students who investigate, hold hearings and vote on academic integrity cases.

Although each of the university systems run a little differently, the students had similar tips for the faculty at SU. The visiting students stressed the importance of setting clear expectations. Having the Academic Integrity Policy written only in the syllabus isn’t enough, they said. Panelists suggested putting the policy on all exams, quizzes and homework assignments because it would serve as a constant reminder not to deviate from it.

Austin Elder, honor council chair at Vanderbilt, was the first to present.

“Yes, it’s our responsibility as the student to do our own work, be honest and follow the guidelines. But professors should take responsibility, too, in making sure the students are equipped with the tools to do their own work. It’s a twoway street,” Elder said.

Elder said even simple tricks, such as making different versions of exams, using plagiarism detection software and rewarding students for correct citations, significantly help to deter academic dishonesty.

Shaun Gates, honor council chair at the University of Maryland, said Maryland operates under a system that Pavela, Academic Integrity

Office director at SU, co-authored in 1995, before he began working at SU. The student system is so effective because “students understand students,” he said. He explained because council members take classes with other students, they are under the perception that they are more likely to get caught if they cheat.

Pauline Nguyen, honor committee vice chair at Princeton, said she believes having an entirely student-run system forces students to take greater responsibility for their work. Nguyen said she finds the structure fitting because peers judge one another’s work throughout their academic careers, and students are most affected by peers’ actions.

While each of these panelists described the difficult situations they are often put in, they said their experiences have been formative and an area in which they are able to improve the university.

This is why Pavela is so adamant about moving in this direction.

“The key is that students at SU are not being given the leadership opportunity to manage and influence their own culture on the issue of academic integrity,” Pavela said. “It’s a shame.”

Eric Montgomery, a senior linguistics studies major at SU, was the final panelist to speak.

He was the first student in SU history to chair a hearing panel on academic integrity because before last year, the policy prohibited a student

from doing so.

Montgomery, a hearing committee member, said he sees a need for change in the Academic Integrity Policy.

“I think the awareness of student involvement in academic integrity is crucial to bringing that culture that other schools have to (SU),” Montgomery said.

Pavela said he believes this discussion was a step in the right direction to getting students more involved.

“My hope is that a seed has been planted,” he said. “And what that seed will grow into is some version of greater student authority over academic integrity issues at SU.”

$25, includes the show and concert, in addition to a meet-and-greet with Wale. The platinum package also includes an autograph and a photo with the artist.

The group sold 543 tickets as of Thursday night, Boothe said. Goldstein Auditorium gave Fashion Conscience a capacity of 875 chairs.

She said she expects to sell out tickets by Monday morning.

This is not Wale’s first performance at Syracuse University. He performed to a sold-out crowd for University Union’s Bandersnatch Concert Series in 2009. The Washington, D.C., rapper is known for his singles “Chillin,” “World Tour” and “Pretty Girls.” He has worked with Waka Flocka Flame, Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne. Wale recently signed with Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group.

The show will benefit the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Boothe said. She said she wanted the show to give back to the community, but also have a wide appeal. That is a large reason why Wale will be performing, she said.

“He’s not just a rapper, he’s a lyricist, a poet

“He’s not just someone that talks about shaking his a**, or gun shots going off, or doing drugs.

He’s someone that could represent the organization in a different light.”

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ing the summertime, having them be part of a summer program that combines academic and enrichment programs is an added bonus,” he said.

Last year 1,800 students signed up for the program, and this year’s goal is to sign up 3,600, Driscoll said.

The Syracuse Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs is currently looking to hire 15 additional aides for the summer program, Driscoll said. The aides could be anyone with experience working with children or in the city school district, he said.

At the end of February, before the New York state budget passed, it was unclear whether or not the budget cuts would affect the way Say Yes operates. Say Yes was in jeopardy of losing a $400,000 grant that had already been given to the program, and it was unclear how or if that would affect SU’s

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Measuring up On Friday, students from Vanderbilt University, the University of Maryland and Princeton University came to SU to give tips on promoting integrity, and how the system in each school functions. The main difference between these schools and SU’s Academic Integrity Policy is student involvement. Each of the schools have student-run honor committees or councils, something SU does not have.

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in his written work,” she said. “He has a lot of pride in his music, like we have a lot of pride in our organization.” smtracey@syr.edu

“Having students engaged during the summer time, having them be part of a summer program that combines academic and enrichment programs is an added bonus.”

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relationship with Say Yes. But Driscoll said the cuts have not changed anything between Say Yes and SU, and that Say Yes was able to keep its grant.

“Syracuse University is a very valuable invested partner in this whole mission,” Driscoll said. “Say Yes is certainly lucky to have a major university with a reputation like SU’s to be a part of this.” snbouvia@syr.edu

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SU students can aid school district in financial shambles The Syracuse City School District faces one of the gravest financial and operational moments in its history.

State cuts to public education, in addition to a nearly $50 million budget shortfall, forced leading administrators and the school board to make deep cuts that will undoubtedly affect the quality of education in the city schools.

The district is dealing with an urgent dilemma: how to provide a quality education to disadvantaged students with less and less money.

Regardless of their major, interests or extracurricular activities, Syracuse University students can step up to assist by simply being role models and sources of inspiration to students in the city schools.

Buried in the host of bad news, Say Yes to Education has provided a glimmer of hope for the district. Last week the Syracuse Common Council passed a resolution to give the organization and the city’s students $7,500, which will help double the number of students in Say Yes’ summer program. Not only do SU students help tutor throughout the school year, but

editorial by the daily orange editorial board several will stay and help out with the summer program.

SU is not responsible for, nor capable of, uplifting every corner of this economically depressed city. But students can take it upon themselves to help the schools in a variety of ways, whether that means tutoring through a traditional volunteer program; reaching out to specific departments, such as drama or science; or fundraising for a city athletic team or student organization. Civically minded students must see that aiding the city schools can have the most profound effect on the city and its future.

Young adults have the innate ability to connect with and inspire teens and children in ways their parents and teachers cannot. The city has a wealth of college students who can provide hard evidence to the city’s youth that college is attainable, necessary and worthwhile.

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Students should commit to quit drinking unhealthy, destructive bottled water The New York Public Interest Research Group and the Green Campus Initiative have started a Take Back The Tap campaign, highlighting the horrors and environmental destruction for which bottled water is responsible.

American bottled water consumption used the energy equivalent of 32 million to 54 million barrels of oil in 2007 — enough gasoline to run about 1.5 million cars in the United States over the course of the year. America has one of the best public water systems in

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the world. Our water systems are actually more heavily regulated and therefore essentially safer then bottled water.

Independent testing of bottled water has found chemicals ranging from fertilizers to industrial chemicals such as phthalates, which are hormone disrupters.

Along with hazards to our health, the main problem with bottled water is the environmental damages that water bottles cause by creating patches of garbage in the oceans and causing certain death to fish and

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let ter to the editor birds whose main diet component is now plastic. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a 3.5 million square kilometer area in the North Pacific — twice the size of Alaska — that contains more than 20,000 bits of floating plastic per square kilometer.

A simple breakdown for the penny-savvy consumer shows that tap water ranges from $0.002 to

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$0.003 per gallon, compared to up to $7 per gallon for bottled water (purchased in single-serving 16- or 23-ounce bottles).

Join the Back To The TapSyracuse University Facebook group, showing your commitment to eliminating bottled water from your life. The easiest task, which literally takes a second, is to post your Facebook status to say that you will no longer be drinking bottled water because it’s foolish to your wallet and to the environment.

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director began in September 2009, when former director James Jacobs took a job as the director of health services at Ohio State University, according to a Nov. 9, 2009, article in The Daily Orange.

In September 2009, SU placed advertisements in national forums, such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and the American College Health Association. SU wanted to make the search national, as opposed to only focusing on existing employees, to encompass a large applicant pool, Dayton said in the article.

Once the committee chooses the finalists, it will bring them to campus to be interviewed, Dayton said in the article. At that point, there will be an open forum for the candidates to present their qualifications and plans to students, faculty and staff to be evaluated.

The search committee is co-chaired by Colleen Bench, director of the Parents Office, and Cory Wallack, director of the Counseling Center. Members from across the university community interested in how Health Services runs, such as representatives from the Office of Academic Affairs and the Department of Recreation Services, are also included, according to the article.

Wallack and Bench could not be reached for comment for this article.

FINDING A DIRECTOR The search for a director of Health Services has been ongoing since 2009. Here is a breakdown of some key events in the process.

Early September 2009

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Former Director James Jacobs left Syracuse University and took a job as the director of health services at Ohio State University.

The search for a new director began.

SU placed advertisements in national forums, such as The Chronicle of Higher Education and the American College Health Association.

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The process has been finalized to three candidates and the interviewing stage has finished, but a director has not been named.

Health Services officials said they planned to have a director in place by the end of the spring semester.

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he was told how hard it would be, but he didn’t believe it, he said.

Cheema usually covers politics and security issues, work other people are generally scared of doing, he said. He writes for the influential newspaper The News, which has faced major trials from the government and has been financially punished by multiple regimes, Cheema said.

In 2004, Cheema was purposefully run over by a car, resulting in multiple fractures in his left leg that left him unable to jog until just recently, though the incident did not deter him from his work, he said.

“I want to do something for my people,” Cheema said. “I feel that my efforts have brought some changes. There is a change of mind taking place among the ruling elite, and they realize they are being exposed by a journalist like me and others, so I feel satisfied.”

Cheema described Sept. 4, 2010, as the day his freedom was robbed. He was walking 10 minutes from home at about 3 a.m. after a night

“There is a change of mind taking place among the ruling elite, and they realize they are being exposed by a journalist like me and others, so I feel satisfied.”

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out with friends when two cars cornered him.

Several people got out, introduced themselves as members of the Islamabad police, and told Cheema he had to come with them. They handcuffed him behind his back, blindfolded him and threw him into the car.

They brought him to a home in an abandoned area, where he was taken to a room and stripped naked. They tortured him with a long piece of leather and a wooden rod, condemning his writing, and later discussed molesting him,

at which point Cheema asked for mercy. They shaved his head and eyebrows and forced him to make a video and pose for objectionable photos, Cheema said.

When it was over, one of the torturers told Cheema, “Now the torture inflicted on your body will go on for life, and you will remember it.” They again blindfolded and handcuffed him and dropped him off at his car an hour outside Islamabad. After warning him not to tell anyone, they sped away.

“I removed the clothes on my face and you know that it was after eight hours, I saw the sunshine, and it was very pleasant,” Cheema said.

Cheema immediately drove to his editor’s home, where he told her everything, and the story was publicized “loud and clear,” Cheema said. There was a great public outcry, and the prime minister personally called him to condemn the act.

Though a criminal and judicial investigation was put in place, no one has been caught or accused. Cheema said he believes it was the act of a government intelligence agency to try and end his journalism career, he said.

Imran Khalid, a doctoral student in environmental policy at the State University of

New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry is originally from Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and thanked Cheema for his decision to speak out.

“Pakistan hasn’t had a free media for a long time, and it’s been instrumental in bringing democracy back to Pakistan,” Khalid said.

“Pakistan is a difficult country to work in, and it’s people like him who are going to make a difference if Pakistan moves forward.”

Gutterman, director of the Tully Center, said it’s one thing to hear about free speech in a classroom and another to actually see someone who faces challenges just by showing up to work every day.

“Reporters like Umar really face significant threats and challenges, and our students and their citizens need to recognize that,” Gutterman said.

Though Cheema lives in fear and has placed himself under voluntary house arrest for safety reasons, he still writes for The News and believes he is meant for the journalism profession.

“No matter what kind of experience I have had,” Cheema said, “it is my strong determination to continue doing what I am doing.” jianthon@syr.edu

CRIME BRIEFS FROM PAGE 3

Friday at 9:45 p.m. on the 500 block of Euclid Avenue, according to a Syracuse police report.

An unknown suspect shattered both driverside windows of a 2001 Audi A6 on Euclid Avenue, according to the report. The damage is estimated at $150, according to the report.

The car’s owner, Timothy Kianka, 22, spoke with police on the phone and said he couldn’t meet with them because he was at a formal dance. He said he had no idea who would damage his vehicle. The vehicle was hit with a pellet gun, shattering the windows, according to the report. The case is closed pending further suspect information.

— Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. news editor, jdharr04@syr.edu

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arts of last season’s 74-foot Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree were made into paper at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry on Friday.

The paper made on ESF’s paper machine will be used for a special edition children’s book that Habitat for Humanity will produce, said Raymond Appleby, manager of pilot operations at ESF. The paper will go into book covers and bookplates, Appleby said.

“This was a very special project for us,” he said.

Appleby said his family tries to visit the tree at Rockefeller Center every year, although they did not make the trip this year. The tree was grown in Newburgh, N.Y., near the Hudson Valley area.

ESF has had a paper science and engineering program since the 1920s, according to an ESF press release. ESF was the first college to offer academic

courses in pulp and paper in the United States and the first to have an on-campus pilot paper plant, according to the release.

The project was even more special because it benefited Habitat for Humanity, Appleby said, and there was no hesitation from ESF’s staff to help out.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree was donated to Habitat for Humanity and milled into lumber, which will go toward a Habitat for Humanity project. A representative from Habitat for Humanity could not be reached for comment.

Appleby said plans to get the tree to turn it into paper at ESF have been in the works with Habitat for Humanity since last November. After representatives from Habitat for Humanity surveyed the ESF facilities, it was agreed the processing could happen on campus, Appleby said.

Although everyone involved enjoyed taking part in the process, Appleby said making the special paper would be a one-time event.

For about two and a half months, the parts of the tree not suitable for lumber have been cooking at the ESF plant. When ESF received scraps of the tree, they first had to be stripped of bark and the wood had to be chipped. The chips have been soaking in a pressure cooker to remove the natural glue from the wood fibers, Appleby said.

What was left after the soaking process were dark brown fibers, Appleby said. On Friday the fibers, which were unbleached, were added to a basic pulp mix, formed into sheets of paper and cut into 3-by-3 and halffoot sheets.

But the process is not yet complete, Appleby said. Soon the sheets will be cut down again to a useable size, and making the book can begin. dkcmbrid@syr.edu

EARTH WEEK

The State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry will celebrate Earth Week this week with a variety of events. Here are some events for each day this week: • On the ESF Quad on Monday, there will be hula-hoops, hats and organic care products for Earth Week, according to an event listed on the ESF calendar.

One special fabric-decorated hula-hoop will be raffled off with all the proceeds going to the Humane Society. Knit hats will be available for purchase with hemp jewelry, homemade soaps and witch butter.

• In Marshall Auditorium on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m., a speaker will discuss how to be more sustainable, according to an event listed on the ESF calendar.

• On the ESF Quad on Wednesday, local venders, students, faculty and staff will sell their goods and crafts on campus from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as part of the 2011 Earth Week celebration, according to an event listed on the ESF calendar.

• Thursday’s Coffee Haus will take place outside from 7 to 10 p.m. in honor of Earth Week, according to an event listed on the ESF calendar. Free food and coffee will be served, and attendees are encouraged to bring their own plates, cups and utensils, according to the event listing. A suggested donation of $2 will go toward Bike Syracuse.

• An Ultimate Frisbee tournament will take place on the ESF Quad from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, according to an event listed on the ESF calendar.

The winning team will receive $100 to Alto Cinco. Signing up for the event is free, and free food will also be available.

— Compiled by Meghin Delaney, asst. news editor, medelane@syr.edu

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Students stream live local events

By Victoria Ipacs CONTRIBUTING WRITER

About three years ago, Matthew Sul� livan was a member of a few differ� ent bands and thought of possible ways to promote his music through live streaming videos. He envi� sioned a future with venues broad� casting live content onto the Web. He made his idea a reality: his current business, VenueSpy. The company, with the help of a $5,000 grant from the Raymond von Dran Awards, launched its Beta version of the site during a three-day launch event, which started Thursday.

The website, VenueSpy.com, gives users a free preview into live events, concerts and activities taking place at participating venues. The venues channel streams live on the site, at the venue owner’s discretion.

Currently, VenueSpy’s five clients are DJ’s on the Hill, Funk ‘n Waffles, The Lost Horizon, King of Clubs and Bar. These clients pay a monthly subscription fee to receive high-def� inition audio and video equipment installation, as well as an administra� tive channel on the website.

Eight months ago, Sullivan, a senior marketing major, pitched his business idea to a couple of inves� tors, but they did not grasp the concept. Sullivan sought the help of friend Kerry Maguire, a junior communication and rhetorical stud� ies major. Although Sullivan had the entrepreneurial and business skills he’d acquired in school, he needed help with Web design and other technical aspects for Ven� ueSpy.com. Maguire had faith in the project, and his girlfriend, Erica Riker, joined the pair. Riker is a junior graphic design major at Onondaga Community College.

Now Sullivan, as CEO, appre� ciates his large team, which has grown to 14 people.

“Our infrastructure is so com� plicated, it couldn’t possibly happen without such a diverse team,” Sul� livan said. “Every single one of us has a unique skill set, and they’re all necessary.”

Riker, the team’s art director, designed the company logo and cre� ated the look and feel for its website.

She said she refers to various forms of media for creative inspiration.

She uses films, fashion, art blogs, pop culture and even Lady Gaga to evaluate where society is progress� ing visually.

“You have to be in touch with every facet or you’re going to miss

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s Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre stepped up to the microphone, she pulled back her sleeve and furiously traced letters out on her arm. Spelling bee moderator Rona Lisa Perretti explained that this helps Logainne, the first speller of the First Year Players’ production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” visualize the spelling before she gives her final answer. The quirky character set the audience up for the pandemonium about to unfold.

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One notable performance was given by Yulia Gorman, a freshman Russian studies major, as Logainne, the youngest yet most politically aware speller who acts as a ray of light throughout the spelling bee.

Another was Maria Dell’Anno, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sci� ences, as the hilariously witty Rona.

“Putnam County” reminds us all of what it is like to want what we covet most of those pesky, yet awkwardly explorative, younger years of

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(FROM TOP) Bryce Garcia, center, as Chip Tolentino and the cast of First Year Players gather onstage for the ensemble number, “My Unfortunate Erection.” Casey Kulik, who played speller William Barfee, performs “Magic Foot.” Jon Corton thrilled audience members with his lively interpretation of homeschooled speller Leaf Coneybear.

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life. The show takes place at a spelling bee in an underground school gymnasium and features six main spellers, each vying for the title of Putnam County Spelling Bee Champion.

With the original production normally showcasing just nine to 11 performers, FYP had the daunting task of doubling its onstage presence to accommodate the always overwhelmingly large turnout for auditions. FYP is an on-campus organization for non-theater majors who have a budding interest in the performing arts.

“There were so many talented kids that auditioned, we wanted to expand the cast to have all that talent be a part of the show and ultimately part of the organization,” said director Kimberly Ndombe, a senior television, radio and film and political science major.

Because the show normally calls for a smaller cast, there aren’t many dance numbers to accommodate this cast of 24. Head choreographer Lisa Bondi, a senior communications design major, said she took risks in adding dance sequences to a musical that is not dance-centered.

“I got to take a step back and figure out which numbers in the show to choreograph and which to leave alone,” she said.

Her effort was best materialized in the dizzying and hysterical musical number “Pandemonium,” where the large ensemble runs all around the stage and dances wildly, matching the song’s title. The choreography added an essence of classic musical theater to a modern musical.

Music director Nina Elias, a senior magazine journalism major, said she wanted to make this production of “Putnam County” completely original to FYP’s multitalented cast members.

“I absolutely did not want the songs to sound like an imitation of the cast from the soundtrack,” Elias said.

She successfully tweaked the original arrangement and voices���������������������� , �������������������� layer��������������� ing������������ the different vocal parts in the challenging ensemble numbers and blending them all magnificently with one another.

The moment in “Putnam County” where this was exhibited greatest was during Olive Ostrovsky’s “The ‘I Love You’ Song.” She laments her desire to see her parents, who are not present at the spelling bee. She wants them to be near her in that moment of the spelling bee when she truly needs them. This was the highest point of the musical as a whole

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something, and relevance is absolutely crucial,” Riker said.

Junior computer science major Bob Ho, who Sullivan called a “jack of all trades,” said this business could change the way people engage in nightlife.

“I believe VenueSpy can digitize the nightlife by giving people a sneak peek into bars or clubs,” Ho said. “We could revolutionize how bars and clubs are now and connect people all over the world.”

Maguire, president and chief operating officer, said the team stood among a crowd of a couple hundred people on Saturday at DJ’s on the Hill and reflected on the company’s progress.

“VenueSpy is on a roll, and we are ready to take on new clients and revolutionize the way people plan, advertise and experience live

and in Meghan Flaim’s performance.

“I imagined what I would feel like if my parents didn’t come to see the show,” said Flaim, a freshman vocal performance major.

Flaim laid her heart and soul on the stage as Olive. The emotional pain and longing for her parents were honest and moving.

Another standout was �������������������� Jon Corton, a freshman communication and rhetorical studies major. He showed incredible comedic and emotional range as Leaf Coneybear, an easily distracted speller who spells his words while in a trance. Corton performed his highly expressive, over-the-top character with a noticeable dedication to the acting craft.

His abilities shone in the song “I’m Not That Smart,” where Leaf talks about how his family and everyone else around him tell him just that. The song is an emotional seesaw, alternating between sadness about the world telling him of his supposed inferiorities and Coneybear’s fun, bubbly personality. Corton performed the song with all these emotions, taking the audience with him through both the high and low points.

The most noticeable and enjoyable factor of “Putnam County” was the sense of community clearly felt by each performer onstage and staff member in the audience. Co-producers Kieran Siao and Nick Deyo, along with many others in the cast and staff, described FYP as a big family whose hard work and dedication produce the musical each year. With a family of numerous incredible cast and crew members, there’s no wonder why “Putnam County” was S-U-P-E-R-B. nbsilver@syr.edu

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A bit of background on the show the First Year Players performed this year: “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a critically acclaimed and box-office success, premiered on April 15, 2005, on Broadway, and was directed by James Lapine. Rachel Sheinkin wrote the script and William Finn composed the music and wrote the lyrics.

Some of the words spelled in the show are: Boanthropy: When a person believes himself or herself to be an ox Capybara: A rodent indigenous to South America that can grow to be four-and-ahalf feet long Hasenpfeffer: A traditional German stew made from marinated rabbit

local events,” he said.

Riker said this company is the result of the “blood, sweat and tears of the whole team.”

“This is a 24-hour job; there is no time to take a break, no time to mess around. This is moving at a neck-breaking speed, and we’re all at the top of our game and making things happen no matter where we’re living,” she said.

The VenueSpy team members hope the business concept will catch on, giving them the opportunity to expand to other regions like New York City and Boston, Sullivan said.

He said the three-day launch offered the team members a lot of feedback, and they will work out the kinks in their business plan and website. VenueSpy has seen its eight months of hard work pay off and is gearing up for the future.

“I never picture myself being in this kind of a position, but this team of people is special,” Sullivan said. “Now I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else in the world.”

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think it’s safe to say we’re no longer denying the “preposterous” idea of reality television not being exactly what we’d call… real. In the last decade or so, reality programs have slowly transitioned from passing as somewhat believable to blatantly set up and scripted. Why else would these shows require a writing team? A perfect example is MTV’s “The Real World.”

Now in its 25th season, the series has come a long way from the moderately interesting first season set in New York City. In its first ’92 season, cast members fought about legitimate roommate issues, such as forgetting to do the dishes or accidentally leaving the peanut butter jar cap off. Fast-forward more than 20 years later and we now see pregnancy scares, domestic abuse, alcoholism and every other outplayed media stereotype. Creators Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray must’ve caught on that real-life drama is what brings in positive ratings.

But where to draw the line between what’s real and what’s instigated by producers? After the network’s series finale of the reality show “The Hills,” the camera dollies out to show a fully equipped film crew shooting the final scene on a professional lot in Los Angeles. MTV’s self-afflicted reputation of fooling the viewer into

believing a fake story may have injured the validity of its other reality shows. This justifies the idea of the entire season of “The Real World: Las Vegas” being completely staged and scripted.

Just take a look at the cast. There’s Adam, the 22-year-old ex-con coping with his drunken belligerence. He has a secret girlfriend from home, yet pursues roommate Nany, a 21-year-old with an ex-alcoholic mother and absent father. She splits with her boyfriend of six years for Adam and hopes to locate her biological father. Clearly it’s a match made in heaven.

Throw in Dustin, the 24-year-old cliché fraternity guy who was once featured on a gay pornographic website with other fraternity guys.

Hiding this from his roommates, he’s kind of dating the sweet 21-year-old Heather, who at age 14 turned to alcohol as a result of her brother’s struggle with brain cancer.

Next up is the ever-so-outspoken Leroy, who is not afraid to say what’s on his mind (shocker for “The Real World,” right?). Before Leroy went nuts and smashed nearly all of the house’s glasses, he had a sexual encounter with roommate Naomi, a self-proclaimed “emotionally hard and defensive” 22-year-old, also with parental issues. And to even out the absurdity is Mike, an religious, awkward, recent ex-virgin who still needs help “mackin’ it.” Quite a mouthful, huh?

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MTV has unsuccessfully rounded up what seems to be the fakest cast in the history of the series. Every interaction among the roommates comes off as excruciatingly forced. Every time Nany speaks, I’m curious as to how many times she has rehearsed her dialogue. Leroy’s outlandish behavior, which led to destroying the house, in reaction to Adam’s drunkenness last week was an Oscar-worthy performance. Dustin’s sensitivity to conversations regarding homosexuality seems very much directed. Stop me if I sound too brutal, but watch one episode and you’ll see what I mean. Not to mention, there has to be a teleprompter feeding the roommates what to say in the confessionals. If not, then every single cast member is a producer’s dream.

When tuning into this current season, viewers will be struck by the high-quality production value.

“Visually it looks like a real television show,” said junior finance major Kurt Yuen. “I forget that I’m watching what’s supposed to be real TV.” According to its site, The Nevada Film Office assisted MTV in this season’s production. The prestigious company has done a wide range of well-produced commercials and TV programs, such as “American Idol,” “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Cake Boss,” as well as a vastly eclectic list of films including “The Godfather,” “Ocean’s

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Eleven,” “Transformers” and “Rocky Balboa.”

Judging from its track record, the company knows how to put a production together. Perhaps one can accredit this season’s composition to the company, which serves as another potential example that this Las Vegas season is fake.

Terrible actors, great cinematography and ridiculously far-fetched storylines — sounds like scripted TV to me. Maybe I’m being too cynical.

Maybe MTV just spent some time casting genuinely good contenders and decided to hike up its production value.

Or maybe not. Still in denial? Tune in Wednesday at 10 p.m. and see for yourself. raparks@syr.edu

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Caira shines in SU’s sweep of Villanova

By Ryne Gery Staff Writer

Jenna Caira was perfect through four innings.

But suddenly she was in trouble after giving up a walk and a single to start the fifth inning of the opening game of the series Saturday against syracuse 2 Villanova. Then with out, second baseman villanova 0 one Stephanie Watts dropped syracuse 10 a fly ball in shallow right that allowed a runner villanova 1 field to advance to third base.

Watts got the force out syracuse 6 at second. But with runvillanova 0 ners on first and third, Caira still needed one more out to end the inning with the score tied at zero. Caira struck out the next batter swinging, blowing her away with a rise ball.

“I was trying to really utilize my rise ball,” Caira said. “It’s a pitch that I’ve been trying to work on for a really long time, and I felt that in order to get to that next level, I need to throw that pitch more.”

Caira used all of her pitches well this weekend to lead Syracuse (29-10, 8-5 Big East) to a three-game sweep of Villanova. The Orange never trailed the Wildcats en route to winning 2-0 and 10-1 on Saturday and 6-0 on Sunday.

Caira earned all three wins and held Villanova to one run and five hits in 16 innings.

Syracuse needed Caira at her best in the first game as the Orange managed just one hit through four innings. After Caira’s big strikeout in the fifth, the team finally broke through to score.

Watts led off the fifth inning with a drag bunt single and advanced to third base on a line drive down the right field line by Lacey Kohl. Shirley Daniels pinch ran for Kohl and forced the Villanova catcher to throw the ball into center field on a steal attempt.

george clarke | contributing photographer jenna caira pitches to catcher Lacey Kohl in SU’s weekend sweep of Villanova. Caira pitched all three games and recorded wins in each of them, allowing just one total run. SU has won five consecutive games following a five-game conference losing streak.

Watts scored easily on the overthrow to give SU the lead. Jasmine Watson added a solo home run in the bottom of the sixth, but Caira only needed one run of support. She pitched a perfect sixth and got out of another first-and-third situation in the seventh to finish the complete-game shutout.

The dominant performance set the tone for the rest of the weekend. Caira carried a nohitter through three innings in the second game Saturday and was never threatened by the Villanova lineup. The SU ace said she had to stay focused after each win, even though the Wildcat hitters didn’t pose much of a problem.

“I can’t let up,” Caira said. “And if I’m able to keep that type of momentum for myself, that’s going to carry through to the rest of the team.”

Her teammates were sharp in the field and gave her run support in the final two games of the sweep. But it all started and ended with

Caira in the circle.

Caira said she used the cold and windy weather to her advantage this weekend. The pitcher made the opposing hitters uncomfortable by jamming them with fastballs on the inside corner.

Kohl, Syracuse’s catcher, said Caira did a good job mixing her pitches and spots to keep hitters off balance. And by jamming the hitters, Caira gained a mental edge.

“If they foul one off and get one off the foot or they jam themselves, it stings for a while,” Kohl said. “So just jam them hard to get inside because they’re least likely to swing at it again.”

Kohl said Caira also used her power pitches inside to finish off hitters after setting them up with changeups. The changeup slows the batters’ reaction, making it hard to get around on a fastball on the inside corner, Kohl said.

Center fielder Veronica Grant said it was

good to see the pitching staff recover after a tough outing against Notre Dame the previous weekend.

“I think it was important for them to bounce back and have the reassurance that they could come back and stay strong,” Grant said. “Knowing that they could come back and hold teams to zero (runs) like we used to.”

Caira baffled the opposing hitters all weekend, leaving Villanova’s hitters helpless at times — striking out looking and on check swings.

The Wildcats never figured Caira out, despite seeing her in all three games.

The pitcher credits her catcher for making sure the hitters always saw something different every at bat.

Said Kohl: “Just kind of keeping them off balance and guessing and not knowing what’s going to come next.” rjgery@syr.edu

Early-inning scoring paces Syracuse in 3 conference wins over Wildcats

By Jarrad Saffren Staff Writer

Syracuse broke away from its power dependency this weekend against Villanova. For a team struggling to put enough runs across the plate, that change was much needed.

It was exemplified in the first inning in Sunday’s series finale. SU had a chance to strike early against Villanova with two on and no outs. And catcher Lacey Kohl came up with a clutch double to put the Orange on the board.

A grounder to the right side of the infield by Rachel Helman scored the game’s third run.

“We jumped on good pitches instead of letting them go by,” Kohl said. “We also didn’t go after any junk.”

In a five-game stretch this past week against conference bottom-feeders Providence and Villanova, the Orange made that first statement on each occasion. SU’s lineup carried momentum from Thursday’s doubleheader win against the Friars and created early damage in two out

of three games against the Wildcats this past weekend.

In the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Orange jumped to a 9-0 lead after three innings before cruising to a 10-1 victory. On Sunday, paced by three consecutive hits to start the game, the Orange jumped to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first before riding the dominance of relaxed pitcher Jenna Caira to a 6-0 win.

SU got on the board first in each of its three victories over the weekend. The Orange also scored in the first inning in two of the three games.

“If we’re able to build that momentum through the early stages of the game, it helps us carry it through the rest of the game,” Caira said. “One of our goals is always to get 10 hits a game.”

The early outbursts were marked by a string of hits, walks and sacrifices that allowed the SU lineup to drive runs across in a variety of different ways. They were also a stark contrast to the power-dependent offense that marked

the five-game losing streak prior to the current winning streak.

In the Orange’s three-game set with South Florida, the Bulls jumped to at least a two-run lead in the first inning of each game. SU found itself behind by four runs after the third inning of its first game against Notre Dame in a doubleheader sweep.

The early deficits built a natural mindset among the Orange players that they needed a quick strike to get back into the game.

“It’s important to get ahead in the beginning because once you get the momentum going your way, it’s hard to stop it,” SU catcher Lacey Kohl said. “It’s easier to stay down than it is to stay up.”

In the early stages of the South Florida and Notre Dame games, the SU offense was often too patient in an effort to work the opposing pitchers. After the Orange fell behind, its hitters began chasing bad pitches as they frantically tried for a quick fix to make up for lost time.

Of the mere 10 runs SU scored in those five

games, seven were via the long ball. Against Providence and Villanova, the offense regained the happy medium that had allowed it to be so successful all season long.

Those runs came aplenty in the early innings of both Saturday’s and Sunday’s games. It gave Caira, SU’s ace, a chance to relax a little bit, knowing she had a comfortable lead behind her the whole way.

“It’s a comfort thing for the pitcher and defense. It helps us relax a little bit,” Caira said.

“But you also want to make that first statement that you’re here and ready to play.”

The Orange’s quick-strike capability has meant SU couldn’t be counted out of any games this year. But as outfielder Veronica Grant insists, it’s the lineup’s other strengths that complement the power game in the first place.

“We have so many players who can do so many different things,” Grant said. “A threerun homer is much more valuable when it’s the icing on top of a six-run rally.” jdsaffre@syr.edu

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Ryan Nassib Nassib started on a down note, as his first pass landed in cornerback Kevyn Scott’s hands and Scott ran the interception back for a touchdown. But Syracuse’s starting quarterback was solid after that, completing 14-of-24 passes for 227 yards. Near the end of the first half, Nassib completed a 53-yard bomb to Jeremiah Kobena.

By Mark Cooper Asst. Sports Editor

Phillip Thomas ran over to the White team’s sideline after the final whistle in celebration.

But the safety in his red jersey wasn’t completely welcome.

“He’s playing for both teams, and we’re kind of like, ‘Get out of here,’” SU linebacker Dan Vaughan said.

Thomas and the other two Syracuse safeties that suited up for Saturday’s Spring Game worked double shifts, playing for both the White team and the Blue team. Thomas, Jeremi Wilkes and Joe Nassib all wore red and rotated on and off the field in pairs, manning the safety positions.

Thomas finished with six tackles and a pass breakup and showed no lack of energy as the game wore on, even if he rarely came off the field.

“I’m still good to go right now,” Thomas said afterward. “I’m not tired at all, and I could go all day. … But (the safeties) prepared well for this, and we got in shape pretty well for this.”

The Orange’s deficiency at safety has come due to a rash of injuries at the position throughout the spring. Projected starting strong safety Shamarko Thomas sat out the entire spring after undergoing surgery on his left arm. Walkons Zachary McCarrell and Chris McKenzie suffered head and knee injuries, respectively.

McKenzie’s is a torn ACL that will cause him to miss the entire 2011 season. And Olando Fisher has been hampered by an ankle injury that kept him out Saturday.

So that left Thomas, Wilkes and Nassib.

Wilkes was a cornerback last season. Nassib is listed as a cornerback and is a walk-on. But at least two of them were on the field for all 104 plays ran on Saturday.

“I just thought they handled it well,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said. “We took our time in some things and extended some timeouts and things like that and made sure of the rotation going in. But we wanted to have a game. So I knew there was a possibility that we could have some injuries and fall a little bit short. We had a good plan.”

For Thomas, the opportunity to play for both squads gave him an inside look at both offenses and defenses. He felt it gave the safeties an

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the White team to the win.

The other three starting offensive linemen — Michael Hay, Macky MacPherson and Justin Pugh — as well as wide receiver Marcus Sales and fullback Adam Harris, started for the Blue team.

And to end a spring where Syracuse’s defense somewhat unexpectedly got the better of the SU offense in most practices, the common thread continued. Despite more youth on the Orange defense, the Syracuse offense is rustier than its defensive counterparts. Bailey and Nassib attributed the struggles to the fact that the usual learning curve requires time.

“We definitely have to improve, but you have to look at things,” Bailey said. “When you flip-flop O-lines, flip-flop receivers, chemistry is kind of

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“As a whole, it’s good to play on both defenses because you get to see what everybody can do,” he said. “Ones, twos, it’s a good thing.”

worries.

“I think I look at the rest of the spring,” Marrone said of the special teams. “And how much we’ve done and how consistent we’ve been.”

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Shane Raupers attributed much of his struggles to the lack of a live rush. Punts and field goals occurred without a defense, and that affected his mechanics.

“Usually we have a live rush in practice,” said Raupers, the SU punter. “So it kind of threw us a curveball on that. I think we’re just, everything was a little slower because you know you have time.”

Raupers wasn’t the only special teams player to struggle Saturday, as Syracuse’s kicking game missed three field goals. After making 18-of-19 field goals a year ago, Ross Krautman missed his only opportunity from 41 yards out.

And Ryan Lichtenstein, SU’s starting kicker in 2009, only made 2-of-4.

Lichtenstein missed the first one, a 30-yard attempt for the White team that sailed wide despite no rush. But Krautman’s only field goal attempt of the game was even worse. His 41-yard try was a line drive that didn’t look like it ever got higher than the crossbar.

With the White team leading 13-7 late in the game, Lichtenstein had a chance to seal a win.

But his 37-yarder hooked wide left.

At halftime, Krautman worked alone for a time, kicking field goals and moving back after each kick. He was able to knock down field goals from 50-plus yards, and they weren’t low line drives like his earlier kick, quelling some of the

Antwon Bailey ran for 118 yards on 20 carries and was a handful for the Blue team defense to take down on every handoff. … The biggest plays of the day came in the passing game.

White team quarterback Ryan Nassib hit wide receiver Jeremiah Kobena for a 53-yard bomb just before halftime, and Blue team wide receiver Dorian Graham took a short pass and ran for a 38-yard gain in the fourth quarter.

off. But I think they did an all right job overall.”

The structure of the scrimmage was a changeup for Marrone in his third year as SU’s head coach. In 2010, with not enough players for a split-squad game, Marrone conducted a controlled scrimmage pitting offense versus defense. And with a point system in place to reward the defense for select accomplishments, the offense won 66-58.

This year was different, though. And as a result, Hackett attributed much of both units’ offensive struggles to the simple fact that unfamiliar players were working with one another.

“A lot of people will never understand how hard it is to divide up the team and put all of these random guys right next to each other,” Hackett said. “It is difficult.”

But Bailey and Nassib’s numbers came about slowly. In the first half, not a single offensive touchdown was scored. In the second, only one was converted.

The contingent of SU’s first-team skill players on the White team eventually steered Shafer to victory. And after a slow first half, play opened up. The White team finished with a surprising 343 yards of total offense, an average of 6.7 yards per play on 51 plays.

“I think our mental errors have decreased substantially, like knowing the play,” Nassib said. “Knowing where to line up, what route to do and what adjustments to make.”

In 2010 the offense went for 400 total yards on 88 total plays, including four touchdowns. On Saturday both teams totaled 104 plays.

After the game, Hackett said he was happy with the play of his offense. The numbers and especially the points may not have been there, but it wasn’t about points Saturday.

It wasn’t about wins and losses either. Even if his Blue side lost.

Said Hackett: “I’m supposed to be morose.”

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Can I kick it?

Special teams was one of Syracuse’s biggest strengths a year ago, as kicker Ross Krautman made 18-of-19 field goals and Rob Long was one of the Big East’s best punters. But in Saturday’s Spring Game, SU struggled in both places. Krautman and Ryan Lichtenstein combined to make just two of five field goals, and Shane Raupers struggled with both distance and hang time on punts. Here’s a look at the five field-goal attempts in Saturday’s game: Kicker

Distance (yards) Quarter Result

Lichtenstein 30 Krautman 41 Lichtenstein 34 Lichtenstein 25 Lichtenstein 37

1st Missed 2nd Missed 2nd Made 2nd Made 4th Missed

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Kevyn Scott Scott made the play of the day, intercepting Ryan Nassib’s first pass attempt of the game and returning it 33 yards for the first score of the game.

The Blue team’s starting cornerback jumped on a pass in the flats to Alec Lemon and ran to the end zone as the Blue team took a 7-0 lead.

Dan Vaughan Vaughan came up big Saturday, laying a couple of big hits on Blue team players.

He hit tight end David Stevens to force a dropped pass and stood up running back Steve Rene after a short gain.

DOWN

John Kinder and Jonny Miller Neither of the two quarterbacks who were a part of SU’s recruiting class a year ago showed any signs of improvement. Kinder ran mostly quarterback keepers, but the White team’s defense got to him quickly in the backfield much of the time. Miller threw just one pass — an incompletion.

Prince-Tyson Gulley Gulley, the Blue team running back, couldn’t get anything going Saturday. Gulley was held to 31 yards on 13 carries.

HERO Antwon Bailey One of the big questions entering the spring was whether or not the Orange could sufficiently make up for the loss of Delone Carter at running back. The new de facto No. 1 running back did a lot to quiet those concerns. He was the star Saturday, rushing for 118 yards on 20 carries and the only offensive touchdown.

ZERO Ross Krautman Krautman, who made 18-of-19 field goals a year ago, tying an SU field-goal accuracy record, was atrocious on his only fieldgoal attempt of the game. His 41-yarder was a low line drive that likely never got high enough to be above the crossbar as it wobbled into the end zone.

Turning point

0:38 Third quarter

Antwon Bailey scampers into the end zone from a yard out to give the White team its first lead of the game, 13-7. It was also the first offensive touchdown of the game for either team, after three quarters in which the offenses produced four field-goal attempts and two made field goals.

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The number of consecutive goals Syracuse scored against the Friars on Saturday. After the Orange fell behind 3-2, SU didn’t yield another goal for the remainder of the game. Syracuse scored eight goals in the fourth quarter alone.

The Syracuse defense held Providence scoreless for the final 50:07 of the game Saturday. It limited the Friars to just 12 shots on offense. PC’s leading scorer, Jake Nolan, couldn’t find the back of the net on either of his shot attempts. His only production came in the form of a single assist.

THE BAD Slow start

Despite the 10-goal margin of victory, SU trailed 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 in the first quarter.

Midfielder Bobby Eilers netted a goal with 3:49 left in the first quarter that leveled the score for the final time. From that point on, Syracuse went on a 10-0 run to close the game.

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STORYTELLER

“We kind of switched up our offense a little bit. We just started getting more movement and being unselfish, just throwing the ball around quickly.

It was a little too close early, but we pulled away.”

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THE UGLY

Providence faceoff

The Friars were abysmal from the faceoff X Saturday, going 4-of-20 for the game.

Of the four different players who took a faceoff throughout the game, two of them failed to win a single draw. Meanwhile, Syracuse had four different players with three or more faceoff wins.

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aaron katchen | staff photographer TOM PALASEK (LEFT) avoids a Providence defender in SU’s 13-3 win over the Friars on Saturday. Palasek started in place of the injured Tim Desko and tallied two points.

With Lade out, defense rallies

By Zach Brown and Chris Iseman THE DAILY ORANGE

FOXBORO, Mass. — John Lade’s left ankle forced him to miss Syracuse’s game against Princeton on April 9. He tried to play on it last Tuesday against Cornell but had to leave in the first quarter.

Prior to SU’s game with Providence on Saturday, it seemed like he would play. The senior defender warmed up with the ankle taped, not showing much of a limp. He was announced with the starting lineups just minutes before opening faceoff.

But when the Orange stormed out on the field to start the game, David Hamlin ran out in Lade’s place with Syracuse’s backline.

For the third straight game, that ankle injury he suffered against Duke on April 3 pushed SU’s best close defender to the sidelines. Although a few other Orange players had minor nicks and bruises entering SU’s game Saturday, Lade and junior attack Tim Desko were the only players to miss the 13-3 win over Providence in Foxboro due to injury.

While their teammates did say Lade and Desko were tough players to lose, they added that the rest of the team stepped up to fill those holes.

“John is such a special player back there, and we definitely miss him,” senior goaltender John Galloway said of Lade. “But I don’t think we skip a beat with the guys we had in there.”

Hamlin covered Providence’s leading scorer, Jake Nolan, throughout the game and held him to just an assist. With the sophomore joining starters Brian Megill and Tom Guadagnolo along the backline, the Orange held the Friars to just three goals. It was the lowest total for an SU opponent since a 2009 win over Massachusetts.

Offensively, junior transfer Tom Palasek started in Desko’s place. He scored a goal and tallied an assist. But with Syracuse’s fourthleading scorer out of the game, head coach John Desko said it allowed the Orange to change up its looks on offense.

Senior attack Stephen Keogh added that although Tim Desko’s injury took away a major scoring threat for Syracuse, the other players were capable and picked up the slack.

“Tim’s such a scoring threat, so not having him, you get one or two less goals a game,” Keogh said. “But we’ve got so many people capable of scoring goals. We’ve just got to run our offense, and they’ll keep falling in the back of the net.”

Galloway notches first point John Galloway might be the all-time winningest goaltender in college lacrosse history, but there was still one thing missing from his resume: an offensive point. That changed in Syracuse’s game against Providence.

After Syracuse scored its seventh goal three minutes into the fourth quarter, Josh Knight won the faceoff for the Orange and knocked the ball behind him into the Orange’s defensive zone.

Knight ran back, scooped it up and flipped it to Galloway. Standing about 20 yards in front of SU’s net, Galloway sent a pass of about 55 yards across the field to a wide-open Joel White, who was standing about 5 yards in front of the crease.

White caught the pass and quickly turned and shot the ball into the top right corner of the net to give Galloway his first taste of the offensive section of the scorebook.

“It was nice to get it, especially to Joel,” Galloway said. “I saw him flashing on the backside, and he was able to bury it in the top corner.”

Galloway said it has been something he’s tried in practice, but he hadn’t ever put it into play during an actual game.

“That’s just the fun part of the clearing game that we’ve asserted in practice,” Galloway said. “We were fi nally able to execute it during the game.”

Syracuse limits turnovers All season long, turnovers have plagued Syracuse’s offense. They’ve cut possessions short and removed valuable scoring opportunities.

Against Providence, though, the Orange finally found a way to keep its number of turnovers down so that it was much more manageable.

The Friars helped SU in that regard, though, as they stalled the ball at times throughout the game. Syracuse’s number of possessions was cut to a minimum as a result of that, especially in the first half. At the end of the second quarter, the Orange offense had given up only two turnovers, while forcing PC into seven.

Syracuse fi nished with nine turnovers, which is about half as many as it’s given up in some games throughout the year.

“I’m happy with that,” Desko said. “I thought we did much better with it. And some of it’s the tempo, too, and they held the ball a lot and we didn’t have a lot of offensive opportunities, so it was good to keep that number down, definitely.” zjbrown@syr.edu cjiseman@syr.edu

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Orange’s 2nd midfield line fuels offense

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

FOXBORO, Mass. — John Desko entered Syracuse’s matchup with Providence hoping his second midfield line would get plenty of much-needed experience. SU’s head coach Desko anticipated that No. 1 Syracuse would dominate the lowly Friars from the opening faceoff so the second midfield could get in on the action early.

The dominance didn’t happen. But as it turned out, the second-tier midfielders got their opportunity. Those minutes didn’t come during meaningless minutes in an easy blowout win for Syracuse.

Desko said the Orange ultimately needed its second midfielders Saturday.

“We were hoping they would get a lot more time today just based on what the scoreboard would read,” Desko said. “But we went to them on necessity.”

Junior Bobby Eilers turned into the unlikely star in Gillette Stadium as Syracuse ran away with a 13-3 win over the Friars. Eilers tallied his first career hat trick as that second midfield group split time evenly with the first midfielders. At the start of the year, the second unit played just two or three possessions per game. On Saturday they were part of multiple new offensive looks for the Orange attack.

“I thought today they did a good job,” senior attack Stephen Keogh said of SU’s second midfield line. “They’re supposed to be patient out there.

That’s what Coach wants, and that’s what they were doing.”

Eilers opened the scoring for the Orange on the second midfield’s first shift of the game. He crashed toward the goal from the top of the box, cutting toward his left and finishing with a shot in the bottom corner of the goal.

Later in the first, Keogh found Eilers all alone just to the left of the crease, and the midfielder fired an underhand shot into the net to tie the game at 3-3.

Before the matchup with the Friars, the midfielder had just one goal in his career — a firstquarter score earlier this year against Duke on April 3.

“Lately my teammates have been preaching to me about using my size, my speed and just keep going hard,” Eilers said. “Finally I just tried to take it out on the field, and that’s what worked for me today.”

But after the junior led SU to a three-goal first quarter, the offense turned stagnant, as it has many times throughout this season.

That’s when Desko tried multiple combinations on the offensive end, switching up units and rotating players around the field. He said the array of groupings was partly due to the absence of his son Tim Desko, SU’s fourth-leading scorer this year. Desko stayed in Syracuse, nursing a knee injury. But the head coach also wanted to see how certain lines worked together.

Junior Collin Donahue came off the bench to play attack for the entire second quarter. JoJo Marasco moved to midfield, as he has many times this year, and took reps with both the first and second lines. Josh Amidon, a senior starter for the Orange, also played one possession with part of the second group.

“It becomes more and more difficult in tight games,” John Desko said. “But today we just went with it, and it worked for us.”

Amidon, Jovan Miller and Jeremy Thompson

aaron katchen | staff photographer bobby eilers (30) carries the ball in Saturday’s win over Providence. Eilers tallied three goals in the game for his first career hat trick as SU’s second midfield line played major minutes. In total, the second midfield combined for five goals against the Friars. make up the first midfield line for the Orange.

Marasco has played both attack and midfield this season. Eilers, Steve Ianzito, Jeff Gilbert and Scott Loy take reps as part of the second grouping.

But Saturday those eight players were thrown together with no set order, at least during the middle of the game. That helped the Orange produce 40 shots, its fourth-highest total this season, against the Friars.

“It’s just we have so many good offensive players,” Eilers said. “We just have to make sure we get them all in.”

Although Desko said the new looks were successful, it didn’t show on the scoreboard until the fourth quarter. Through 45 minutes, the Orange led just 5-3.

But the Orange exploded for six goals in a fiveminute stretch in the last quarter. Eilers added his third goal of the day. Ianzito tallied his third of the year. Donahue dished out one of his three assists in that stretch.

And just like that, the second midfielders combined with some mix-and-match lines to turn around another ugly offensive performance for Syracuse.

“We’ve got so many people who can put the ball in the net,” Keogh said. “There’s so many talented people on this team. Coach just wants to get them some time on the field.” zjbrown@syr.edu

Pleasant surprise The Syracuse offense received a wealth of production from its backup midfielders Saturday en route to its 13-3 win over Providence. Here is a look at the goals scored by midfielders not in SU’s first line: Player

Goals vs. pc

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Women’s lacrosse drops 1st conference game to Georgetown The Syracuse women’s lacrosse team fell to Georgetown 12-8 on Saturday, snapping its two-game winning streak. The loss also ended SU’s undefeated start to Big East play, dropping it to 3-1 in conference games and 5-7 overall.

Alyssa Murray, Sarah Holden and Katie Webster had two goals apiece for the Orange in the loss. But it wasn’t enough against a Georgetown team that simply dominated SU in the second half. Despite holding a 6-5 halftime lead, the Orange could not convert in the second half and was outscored 7-2.

Down 8-5 after SU scored the first two goals of the second half, the Hoyas went on a 7-0 run to close the game. The Orange, which had scored two goals in less than five minutes to start the half, was held scoreless for the final 25-plus minutes of the game.

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the ball and stood about 20 yards in front of the net. He sent a 10-yard pass straight up the middle of the field to Keogh, who then turned around and fired a shot into the cage to give

The Syracuse track and field team traveled to two different meets this weekend, adding even more Big East championship qualifiers to an already lengthy list.

The long distance team went back to head coach Chris Fox’s early coaching roots, running in the Kent Taylor-Joe Hilton Carolina Invitational. Fox’s first coaching job was at North Carolina.

Andrew Nelson became SU’s most recent qualifier for the Big East championship, with a time of 3:53.85 in the 1,500-meter run. Overall, he finished 27th.

Other long distance runners who posted solid times were Robert Molke and Lauren Penney. The sophomore Molke finished third in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Penney, a junior, finished third in the 1,500-meter run.

As for the other meet, the Auburn War Eagle Invitational, 12 athletes met qualifying times for the Big East. Four athletes met times for the conference championship.

Hurdlers Donald Pollitt and Matthew Callan-

an both recorded personal-best times, finishing sixth and seventh. Pollitt ran his heat in 14.51.

Callanan ran his in 14.56.

SaDe Lewis nabbed an 18th-place finish in the 100-meter hurdles with a personal-best time of 14.44.

In the field, junior Ieva Staponkute placed fifth, meeting Big East and ECAC qualifying marks.

Senior Kelsey Rubeor met her personal best in the long jump and shot put.

Frank Taylor finished eighth in the long jump with a leap of 6.97 meters.

On the outdoor season, Syracuse has 33 players who have qualified for the Big East championship that takes place in early May.

SU a four-goal advantage. That goal started a barrage of rapid-fire goals.

“You knew the offense had it in them,” Syracuse goaltender John Galloway said. “It was just waiting to break out.”

Even Galloway got involved in SU’s offense, sending a long pass across the field to long-stick midfielder Joel White in the fourth quarter in a

clearing situation. White took the pass and quickly converted a goal. At that point of the game, SU’s scoring troubles were virtually obsolete.

In a span of two minutes and 13 seconds, the Orange scored four goals. That was a stark contrast to the 15-minute stretch in the wthird quarter and the start of the fourth, when it failed to find the back of the net. Within

a couple of minutes, the game went from a surprising defensive battle to the blowout that was expected.

“We just kind of went with it,” Desko said.

“We changed our offense in the fourth quarter, and fortunately it broke free in the fourth quarter with a bunch of goals.”

The freshman Murray led SU with four points in the game. Attack Michelle Tumolo had zero goals on three shots but had two assists.

Goaltender Liz Hogan had nine saves.

SU won more draw controls than the Hoyas but was dominated in the groundball battle, losing 18-5. The Orange also committed 16 turnovers, five more than Georgetown.

With the win, the Hoyas stayed perfect in Big East play. SU, meanwhile, has two straight Big East games ahead on its schedule, starting with Louisville on Thursday at 5 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

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EIGHT BALL sean harp | staff photographer ANTWON BAILEY (29) carries the ball in Syracuse’s annual Spring Game on Saturday. Bailey scored the game’s lone offensive touchdown in the second half and totaled 120 yards rushing on 18 carries.

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By Tony Olivero DEVELOPMENT EDITOR

aaron katchen | staff photographer STEPHEN KEOGH (CENTER) moves toward the goal in SU’s 13-3 win over Providence on Saturday. Keogh and reserve Bobby Eilers each recorded a hat trick as the Orange bounced back from its loss to Cornell.

Adjustment in offensive game plan leads to 8 4th-quarter goals, blowout of Friars

By Chris Iseman ASST. COPY EDITOR

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OXBORO, Mass. — John Desko had seen enough of his team unsuccessfully trying to read Providence’s defensive changes.

Standing around and waiting wasn’t working, and the scoreboard showed it.

“The defenses kind of make you do that, you have to kind of see what they’re in,” said Desko, Syracuse’s head coach. “We thought we could take advantage of their slides in the first half, and we said the heck with it. We’ll start moving.”

Syracuse broke out in the second half with nine consecutive goals — including eight in the fourth quarter — to beat Providence 13-3 in front of 5,316 in the New England Lacrosse Classic at Gillette Stadium. At the same time, the Orange defense held the Friars scoreless after the first quarter. For a while, Providence held the No. 1 Orange (10-1, 3-0 Big East) in check. In the end, though, the score looked just as badly as it usually does for the Friars (3-8, 0-3 Big East).

Syracuse has completely domi-

nated Providence in the last three games the two teams have played, with the Orange outscoring the Friars 49-11. So as the game went into halftime Saturday, the score reflected a surprising move away from those gaudy numbers.

With the score 4-3 in favor of SU, the offensive struggles against lowly Providence called for a switch of the game plan. The Orange couldn’t figure out PC’s defensive schemes.

At one moment, it would be man to man. The next, zone. Not making anything easier was the fact that Syracuse’s worst minutes were Providence’s best.

The Friars scored their only three goals in the opening 10 minutes of the game. Providence also tried at times to limit SU’s scoring by holding the ball, just as it did in last season’s game. With a little less than two minutes remaining and the score knotted at 3-3, Friar midfielder Steve Lydon took the ball behind the net and ran back and forth or stood in one place, but never passed. SU had to figure out a way to respond.

“We kind of switched up our

offense a little bit,” said SU attack Stephen Keogh, who had three goals and two assists. “We just started getting more movement and being unselfish, just throwing the ball around quickly. It was a little too close early, but we pulled away.”

For most of the fi rst half, the Orange stood around in its offensive zone. There was very little ball movement, as SU tried to take advantage of the Friars’ defensive slides. Syracuse took shots from the outside, but many of them were inaccurate and sailed high over the top of the net and went out of bounds. In the first half, SU took 19 shots but scored only four goals.

Providence had Syracuse guessing, but the Orange wasn’t able to guess right. That’s what called for the switch of the offense, and in the fourth quarter, it broke out in a big way. Ball movement became key as the Orange passed the ball around the zone to create opportunities.

With just less than 12 minutes remaining and the score at 6-3, midfielder Jeremy Thompson had SEE PROVIDENCE PAGE 18

With his fi rst glance at Kevyn Scott’s 33-yard interception return for a touchdown, Nathaniel Hackett WHITE 13 exuded elation way of a fist BLUE 7 by pump. At second thought, he recoiled into his usual offensive coordinator’s mindset.

On any ordinary day, Hackett would comb through each aspect of a Ryan Nassib failed pass to discover why his starting quarterback threw a pick-six. But Saturday, in Syracuse’s annual Spring Game, Nassib was on the other team: the White team. And Nassib’s mishap didn’t hurt Hackett — the head coach of the Blue team for the day — in his game versus usual SU defensive coordinator Scott Shafer, coach of the White team.

Rather, it helped.

“First I forgot it was Nassib, so I saw (Scott) pick it off and take it for a touchdown, so I was all excited,” Hackett said. “And then I saw it was Nassib, and I go, ‘What the heck was he doing? What was he seeing there?’”

Hackett’s body language and

reaction to Scott’s first-quarter interception summed up the game.

In an abbreviated 48-minute contest in front of 4,206 fans in the Carrier Dome, SU head coach Doug Marrone split his team up into two teams.

What resulted was a low-scoring, methodical exhibition where the SU offense struggled, failing to score many points as the White team edged the Blue team 13-7.

And with the first-team offense and defense sprinkled as evenly as possible among the White and Blue teams, the seasoned backfield of the White team — led by Nassib and rising senior running back Antwon Bailey — propelled the White team to victory in a blasé game. Bailey ran for 118 yards on 20 rushes while Nassib threw for 227 yards, completing 14-of24 attempts.

In the end, the pedestrian offensive production of the White team was enough to beat the poor production of the Blue team. Among Syracuse’s usual offensive starters, tight end Nick Provo and offensive guards Zack Chibane and Andrew Tiller joined Nassib and Bailey in leading SEE SPRING GAME PAGE 15

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BIG NUMBER The number of plays Syracuse’s two teams ran combined in Saturday’s Spring Game. This was an increase from the 88 plays Syracuse ran in its 2010 Spring Game.