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Running back Carter charged with assault

By Rebecca Kheel and Conor Orr The Daily Orange

Syracuse University football player Delone Carter was charged with misdemeanor assault in connection with a physical altercation he had with an SU student on Feb. 27, said Deputy Chief Joe Cecile of the Syracuse Police Department.

The charge was levied Wednesday carter after Carter and teammate Ryan Gillum were questioned by detectives regarding the matter, Cecile said. Gillum was not charged in the incident.

The altercation happened on the 300 block of Waverly Avenue at roughly 1 a.m., Cecile said. A vehicle containing Carter and Gillum was struck by a snowball, and the SU running back responded by confronting a group of students nearby in front of Kimmel Hall.

Cecile said he did not believe the students Carter confronted were the ones who threw the snowball at the vehicle.

“A snowball was thrown at the vehicle, they came back to the scene, got out, there was a verbal confrontation between them and two other males — neither of which threw the snowball — and at some point Mr. Carter threw a punch at one of the other individuals,” Cecile said.

Carter, Syracuse’s leading rusher and slated starter, struck SU student William Hotaling, Cecile said.

Hotaling, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, fell to the ground and hit his head, Cecile said. He was later treated for facial injuries.

Hotaling declined to comment on the incident. “At this time I can’t really make any comments,” he see assault page 4

Jamie Dimon is an appropriate 2010 commencement speaker.

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the best of their abilities, ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ this weekend as thier annual show. Page 7

coach Doug Marrone, quarterbacks Ryan Nassib and Charley Loeb both make a case for reps with the first team. Page 16

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Students rally at Hendricks

Police rule out foul play in death of non-SU student

By Beckie Strum Asst. News Editor

By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor

Jamie Matz stood on the bottom step of Hendricks Chapel holding a sign.

A group of students danced around him, banging pots and pans.

They sang. They chanted. But Jamie Matz remained quiet and composed, steadily holding his sign above his head, letting it speak louder than he was.

“I’m not another uninformed student protesting,” his sign read.

“JPMorgan Chase was forced to take the TARP money. They didn’t need it.”

Matz was one of about 60 students on the steps of Hendricks Chapel for the “Take Back Commencement” rally Friday on the Quad. But, unlike the protestors, he wasn’t there to denounce the university’s choice of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon as the 2010 commencement speaker. Matz was there to defend the commencement decision.

“I just didn’t want to be embarrassed that only this side of the story was being represented,” he said.

Since the announcement of Dimon as commencement speaker March 25,

jenna ketchmark | asst. photo editor ashley owen, a senior magazine journalism and geography major, chants during a rally protesting the choice of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon as commencement speaker. student reactions have been mixed.

The most vocal students are speaking out against Dimon because they are unhappy with the process by which Dimon was chosen, the corporate banking world he represents and JPMorgan’s ties with Syracuse University. They organized Friday’s rally and created a “Take Back Commencement” petition and Facebook group.

The rally was meant to bring

together all of the student discontent and vocalize it. The students stood on the steps in front of Hendricks for nearly two hours, even as it began to rain, holding signs, dancing, and singing original songs and chants.

The steps were decorated with a range of colored signs showcasing the protestors’ discontent with Dimon. The signs read phrases such as “Biden, Goodall, Vonnegut, WTF see rally page 4

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Cabinet members support speaker selection process Student Association released a statement Sunday supporting the process by which JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon was selected as the speaker for this year’s commencement May 16.

A group of students from the Class of 2010 gathered last spring to compile a list of possible speakers, taking suggestions from members of the rest of the class. The students then compiled a list of 40 potential

speakers, including their top 15 choices. Dimon, who was among the top 15, was chosen by the administration.

“Our decision to support this choice comes from our mission that students should always have substantial representation whenever important decisions are made that affect all students of Syracuse University,” the statement released by SA said.

SA supports students who wish to express their beliefs regarding the choice but will not support students who are disrespectful at the commencement ceremony, the statement said.

SA President Jon Barnhart declined to comment further on the matter when reached Sunday evening by phone.

— Compiled by Kathleen Ronayne, asst. news editor, kronayne@syr.edu

A body was found near the water tower in the woods behind the Skytop offices on South Campus at around 12:30 p.m. Friday, said Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh.

The body was identified, but Walsh could not release the name until the police notified the family of the deceased, he said. The body was not a Syracuse University student.

The Onondaga County Sheriff’s office could not be reached for further comment on the identification or cause of death as of Sunday night.

The cause of death was unknown Friday, but there appeared to be no foul play involved, Walsh said.

“There was nothing suspicious,” he said.

Around 2:50 p.m. the body was transported from the scene to the medical examiner in an unmarked ambulance. The examiner will determine the cause of death, Walsh said.

A young woman discovered the body while she was jogging through the area at the end of Skytop Road.

Walsh believes the woman who found the body is an SU adjunct professor, he said.

The woman who found the body, which was 10 to 15 feet away from the path, did not have to leave the trail to see the body, Walsh said. It would have been obvious to anyone walking along the trail, he said.

The police have not blocked off any part of the woods or trail, and the scene has been completely cleaned up, Walsh said. Students are free to go into the area, he said.

At the scene were the Department of Public Safety, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department, ambulances from the Town of DeWitt, paramedics and a rescue fire truck. rastrum@syr.edu A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on April 16.

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Car accident knocks out power Friday

Organizers expect high attendance

By Beckie Strum Asst. News Editor

By Susan Kim Staff Writer

Organizers of this year’s SU Showcase said they are expecting a decent turnout of students and academically stimulating student presentations at Monday’s event, despite controversy surrounding the reinstatement of classes.

SU Showcase, which focuses on sustainability this year, will begin with the celebration of the university’s first rain garden. During the day, fellows will present their works on the Quad, in Hendricks Chapel or scattered throughout campus. About 30 students from Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry have been chosen to present their works, said Steve Parks, director of SU Showcase.

There will be three consecutive 15-minute presentations every hour on the Quad, Parks said. The fellows will then hold a 15-minute Q-and-A session with the audience after the presentations, he said. Students had to submit their presentations before being chosen as fellows.

Some presentations include research about local waterways, a discussion of students’ waste and recycling habits in the dining halls, an activity about judging the price and nutrition of groceries, and a debate about the nation’s moral responsibility to share emergent green technology.

Most of the plays and performances, such as a collaborative presentation among SU service workers, students and faculty that reflects on the lives of the university service workers, will be held in Hendricks Chapel.

Jon Barnhart, president of Student Association, said the newly implemented fellows program places more see showcase page 6

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Speaking through silence

grace coon, a senior at Baldwinsville High School and a member of the LGBT community, wears duct tape to participate in the Day of Silence on Friday at Hinds Hall. The tape represents the feeling among members of the LGBT community that they often have to stay silent about their sexuality.

Nader criticizes practice, corporitization of American democracy

By Susan Kim Staff Writer

The theory of democracy is out of line with the way the United States practices democracy, said Laura Nader, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, on Friday during her address in Maxwell Auditorium.

“The democratic vision that we

gave to the world is believed in different parts of the world,” she said. “We have given the world a vision they are excited about.”

During the lecture, titled “If You Want to Spread Democracy You Have to be One,” Nader, the sister of fourtime presidential candidate Ralph Nader, spoke about how corporate America destroyed democracy.

Democracy is the one thing for which America is admired by the rest of the world, she said. Nader called for an anthropological study of the United States to discover what went wrong in American democracy.

People in the United States are taught the ideology of democracy, Nader said. But the practice of true democracy has been lost as corpora-

tions are slowly starting to control everything; and Americans need to start reacting to get the practice of democracy back on track, she said.

“If you don’t, then you’ll lose more and lose more, and you’ll lose it incrementally,” she said.

She also said there has been a 100year transition from regional capi-

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A motor vehicle accident created a power outage for 3,400 residences in the East neighborhood Friday around 3 a.m., said Karen Young, a media spokeswoman at National Grid.

Power went out after a 2005 GMC Envoy, operated by Gregory Davis, 22, of Syracuse, crashed into the side of a house at 520 E. Brighton Ave. and broke a nearby utility pole, said Syracuse police Sgt. Gary Bulinski.

By 4:30 a.m., approximately 3,000 homes had power again after National Grid switched them to a different power line, Young said. All but 30 residences had power back by 9:30 a.m. After National Grid repaired the fallen utility pole, the remaining homes had power around 10:30 a.m., Young said.

The broken utility pole interrupted the flow of electricity in the area between Comstock and East Brighton avenues, Young said.

The driver may have been intoxicated, Bulinski said, but that will be determined by further investigation.

Police originally received a call from a Sonoco clerk alerting them to a suspicious man by the gas station on East Brighton Avenue, Bulinski said.

When a policeman arrived at the scene and approached Davis, he ran to his car and fled the scene, Bulinski said. The officer got back in his car but lost Davis once he drove away, he said.

“There was no car chase,” he said.

The officer found Davis later that night, Bulinski said. Once Davis saw the officer he sped up, lost control of his car, swerved to the left and crashed into the home of Bob Johnson, Bulinski said.

After crashing, Davis tried to flee the scene again, Bulinski said.

“The guy got out and ran and was caught behind the house,” he said.

Davis suffered lacerations as a result of the crash, and a Rural/ Metro ambulance transported him to Crouse Hospital for treatment, Bulinski said.

Charges against Davis are still pending, while crash investigations and reconstruction to the house are underway, Bulinski said. rastrum@syr.edu A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on April 17.

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said, “but as the facts come to light they’ll speak for themselves on the events of that night.”

Cecile did not confirm the driver of the vehicle Carter was in, nor did he confirm when Carter is slated to appear in court. Calls to the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office were not returned.

Michael Vavonese, Gillum’s lawyer, said he is upset with the way police handled the investigation and questioning of his client. Vavonese said he told police he did not want them questioning his client, as he prefers police work with his client through him.

Vavonese would not elaborate on his concern on how police handled the case. He stressed Gillum was not charged with or a suspect in the assault.

“My client has never been charged with anything and has done nothing wrong,” Vavonese said.

George Raus, Carter’s lawyer, said he believes Carter and Gillum’s civil rights

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were violated by the way police handled the matter.

He said it is his understanding that Syracuse police detectives approached Carter and Gillum in the middle of Wednesday’s football practice and handcuffed them in front of their teammates without arresting them.

“They carted them off to jail knowing they had attorneys and didn’t contact the attorneys,” Raus said. “It’s an obstruction of civil rights, and whoever that detective is should be fired.”

Raus said he believes the approach was used as a form of intimidation and that he would not be surprised if it was used to get Gillum to implicate Carter in the assault.

Raus was not contacted by police to be told they had his client until 10 p.m., approximately seven hours after Carter and Gillum were taken in, at which point Raus expressed his anger and was hung up on, he said. Carter and Gillum would not have needed to explicitly request their lawyers to the police for the lawyers to be contacted, Raus said, as the police already knew they were being represented and were told not to question them without a lawyer.

Raus plans to pursue repercussions for the police but has not yet decided an appropriate place or form, he said.

Raus could not provide any more information as he said he has not met with his client since the incident and has not reviewed police reports. He said he believes Carter’s court date is in May but did not know the exact date.

Carter and Gillum did not participate in Syracuse’s Spring Game, which took place Saturday at the Carrier Dome.

SU head coach Doug Marrone said the two have been suspended for the spring — which ended Saturday — but will not give out any further information.

“I just want everyone to know that I’ve been consistent in the past of not divulging anything for the team violations,” Marrone said. “They’ve just been suspended for that. As of right now, they have just been suspended for the spring.”

sity and JPMorgan with a drawing of Otto the Orange and the JPMorgan logo holding hands, reading “So happy together?”

Audra Coulombe, Mariel Fiedler and Ashley Owen led chants in protest. Throughout the demonstration, students shouted, “We are the students, we’re here because we pay, and we don’t want to hear what Dimon has to say.”

Howie Hawkins, who will run for governor of New York under the Green Party, and MinnieBruce Pratt, a professor in the writing program, stood on the steps with the students to show their support. Hawkins spoke for about 10 minutes about the damages JPMorgan has inflicted over the years on the public, including during the recent financial crisis. Pratt read a poem showing her support of the students’ decision to speak up.

“The organizing they are doing, to me, represents the best ideals of education,” she said.

“They are looking at the connections between the speaker and real world and their own lives in terms of the economic implications.”

But through the commotion, Matz remained in the same spot, holding his sign. He stared straight ahead, rarely interacting with the protesting students.

“I feel that a lot of people are speaking and protesting when they are clearly uninformed about the whole situation,” he said.

Coulombe said she wouldn’t mind engaging in conversation with the opposition but does not appreciate being called ignorant and uninformed.

“I want them to come so that they can engage

us in conversation, and we can talk about it, but that’s not happening,” she said. “They’re just standing there angry and they’re not talking to us, and we are more than happy to talk to them.”

Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Senior Vice President and Dean of Student Affairs Thomas Wolfe also came by to see the protest. The two discussed the issue with Fiedler and Owen, two of the group’s leaders, on April 9, Cantor said.

They offered the students Hendricks Chapels to use to discuss the issues further after the commencement ceremony.

Commencement speakers receive both positive and negative reaction every year, Cantor said.

“I don’t know that I actually thought through exactly how people would react, but every commencement speaker gets reactions,” she said.

“This one is particularly intense, and I would expect it to be because of the urgency and timeliness of the global financial crisis, which affects everybody.”

Ponchos and umbrellas came out as the rain began to pour toward the end of the protest, but the students kept dancing and shouting. Matz left before the end of the protest. In spite of Matz’s claims that the protesting students were uninformed, Fiedler said she felt differently and thought the protest was a success.

“It’s pouring rain, but you can hear the energy,” she said. “I’m happy. An enlightened minority is always better than an ignorant majority.”

rhkheel@syr.edu ctorr@syr.edu A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on April 15.

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Industry of commencement speaker not important; experience, knowledge they possess matter most

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fter reading the countless articles that have expressed discontent with the selection of Jamie Dimon as the commencement speaker for this year’s graduating class, I believe the time has come to finally set the record straight about all of the incredibly false, baseless and propaganda-like claims that are being circulated.

None of the articles published thus far have cited any real or relevant facts pertaining to Dimon or JPMorgan Chase & Co. In regard to JPMorgan’s supposedly selfish actions of 2009, in 2009 alone JPMorgan lent more than $200 billion to 295 companies to help foster growth and create job opportunities. Moreover, JPMorgan raised $102 billion for states, hospitals, schools and nonprofits. JPMorgan was also behind the financing of a $22.3 million health care center in the Bronx, N.Y., and the financing of a $915 million project for the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. It was concurrently responsible for the delivery of unem-

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ployment and benefits to more than 12 million people in 2009. In the heart of the financial crisis, Jamie Dimon directed JPMorgan in the hiring of 6,000 employees, strictly designated to help homeowners avoid foreclosure. As for the $25 billion in bailout money JPMorgan accepted despite not needing it? The bank actually lost money by accepting it because it was unable to lend any of the money at a rate higher than the 5 percent that was required to pay it back at.

Everyone also seems to be mysteriously hell-bent on JPMorgan’s bonus payout throughout the crisis. In 2008, the gross income of JPMorgan was down 64 percent. In response to this, the bonus payout to senior executives was reduced by 67 percent. In 2009, the combined payout of firm-wide salaries, benefits and incentives was 27 percent of total earned revenue, 6 percent lower than JPMorgan’s average of 33 percent over the prior five years. To put this in perspective with other industries, JPMorgan’s ratio of combined salary and compensation

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let ter to the editor to net revenue is equal to that of corporations in the fast-food industry.

As for Jamie Dimon himself? In 2008, Dimon refused to take a bonus due to JPMorgan’s poor performance, and he did not receive a cash bonus in 2009. Dimon received $7.8 million in restricted stock and $563,562 in restricted stock options. The conditions of the bonus prevent Dimon from selling 75 percent of his shares until after he is no longer with the company.

In fact, 65 percent of all of Jamie Dimon’s bonuses have been in stock, and he has yet to sell a single share.

That means that not only has he not touched a single dollar from his 2009 bonus compensation, but also from 65 percent of all bonuses he has received as chief executive officer of JPMorgan.

How can you even remotely continue to emblazon Dimon as belonging to the same stature of individuals that cheated the financial system?

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have blindly declared JPMorgan a contributor to the global financial crisis we find ourselves in today.

Let’s think this over: JPMorgan purchased Bear Stearns in March of 2008 at the request of the government, and after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, JPMorgan bought Washington Mutual. In buying these two banks, JPMorgan effectively took responsibility for not only the costs of them going under, but also the staggering $553 billion in collective failing assets they controlled.

In comparison, all the other bank failures combined (approximately 200 of them) cost the FDIC a mere total of $55 billion. Additionally, JPMorgan’s average monthly lending to other banks in need of financial help (i.e. its competitors) was more than $100 billion per month throughout 2009.

Overall, under Dimon’s guidance, JPMorgan raised $178 billion for the financial industry. That accounts for almost 10 percent of the total capital needed to rebuild the financial system.

In summary, JPMorgan lost

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money on the bailout funds, raised, financed and loaned billions of dollars to those in need (including its competitors), and still remained profitable throughout every quarter of 2009. You’re trying to tell me you don’t want to hear the CEO of this company speak?

It doesn’t matter what industry a commencement speaker may be associated with or what company he or she may work for; the only thing that matters is what experience or knowledge they possess and what accomplishments they have achieved throughout their lifetime that can motivate others to succeed. In the financial crisis we find ourselves in today, there is no one else as qualified as Jamie Dimon to fill this role.

Proper research of Dimon’s incredible leadership as CEO of JPMorgan would quickly reveal the true value of having him as Syracuse University’s 2010 commencement speaker.

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capitalism to corporate capitalism. Communities that have built enterprises with their own hands and their own prosperity have lost hope because corporations are claiming the fruits of their labors, she said.

“A cultural revolution of the gospel of wealth is replacing the gospel of work, which means a superiority of capital over labor,” Nader said.

To fix the shift away from democracy, in which hard work is valued over wealth, the United States needs people from other parts of the world to come and study the nation to get a diagnosis of what is wrong, Nader said.

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Outsiders can help us recognize problems, which Americans are reluctant to admit to and fix, she said. And not only are Americans reluctant to fix their problems, they are lying to themselves and believe they have no problems to fix, she said.

“Lying is more than deception,” Nader said.

“The liar wants what is unreal to be accepted by actuality. Untruth becomes reality.”

Megan Lucas, a freshman international relations major, said the lecture was interesting because Nader defined what made a democracy effective and ineffective from a new perspective.

“I really liked the fact that she was looking at this from an anthropological perspective,” she said, “rather than a political science perspective.” shkim11@syr.edu

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emphasis on the academic quality of students’ works.

“I’m hoping that the fellows program will show that this event is really being remodeled and rededicated toward the academic interests of students,” he said.

The organizers tried to focus on a diversity of the types of research, Parks said.

Students who have not yet chosen a major get a chance to see a variety of approaches to the topic of sustainability, from communications, science and other majors, he said.

For seniors who will be graduating next month, there will be two career sessions about getting a job in the green economy, during which they can meet with local business representatives, Parks said.

Barnhart, who helped set up the career sessions with members of SA, said the sessions will give students who are not fellows a chance to see how they can get into the green job market, such as through internships or job offers.

SU Showcase will also attract students who have an interest in globalism and environmentalism and want to see the projects their colleagues have been working on over the past few months, Parks said. But he also said he realizes not every student is happy with the theme.

“While we appeal to a broad set of students, I understand not every student will be interested in sustainability,” he said.

Parks also said he believes the controversy surrounding MayFest and SU Showcase will not affect student turnout because students have accepted that the two events are different.

MayFest is a social event, but SU Showcase highlights academic work, he said.

“Students are smart enough to say this is one event and MayFest is another one,” he said.

Because SU Showcase has become more specialized, Barnhart said he is expecting a lower turnout this year than in previous years. He also said it is unfortunate that there will be students who will not attend the presentations because they have class.

Andrea LaMothe, a senior television, radio and film and policy studies major, said she would not attend SU Showcase because it interferes with her classes and because she has too much work. She also said she thought students would be more likely to attend if classes had been cancelled.

“With it being the last few weeks of the semester, I know that other commitments, like studying and finishing projects, are more important right now,” LaMothe said.

But Parks said scheduling conflicts should not be a problem for most students, and he hopes 20 to 25 people show up for each presentation.

“The day is long enough and there are enough sessions that most students who want to attend (SU) Showcase will be able to attend one or two events,” he said.

Students will be surprised by how powerful the presentations are, Parks said.

“I’ve had a chance to see the research and talk to the students, and it’s been really gratifying to see the students who are going to present,” he said. “I have no question that the students who are going to present will be really interesting and represent quality work.” shkim11@syr.edu

“Seniors know best what the SU experience is all about.”

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As a senior, you have a unique perspective. You can look back on your four years at SU and see not only how much you’ve learned, but how much you’ve grown as a person.

Like Laura, you can also see what it takes for every student to get the best education possible. Give to the 2010 Senior Class Giving campaign, and you’ll help each future student’s experience be an unforgettable one.

So look toward tomorrow. Go to classact.syr.edu to give today!

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mackenzie reiss | staff photographer The First Year Players performed “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” Thursday through Saturday nights. Though the performance had many singing and acting flaws, it was expected of the freshman and first-year non-drama majors. The musical is a rendition of the 1988 movie starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine.

Rookie behavior As expected of freshman, non-drama majors, First Year Players hit awkward notes, imperfect acting in rendition of ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’

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espite the enjoyable and entertaining plot and characters, First Year Players’ Thursday-through-Sunday presentation of the musical “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” fell flat vocally.

“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” follows two con artists, Lawrence and Freddy, who cross paths on the French Riviera. Lawrence Jameson (Kevin Slack) is a very successful swindler and has created a lavish life for himself off convincing young women to give him money for his cause, which is creating an army to offset some revolutionaries supposedly threatening him.

If that sounded far-fetched and overtly campy, that’s because it was.

Freddy (Eric Adamus), on the other hand, is a newcomer to the world of conning and when the two men meet, they quickly realize the south of France isn’t big enough for the both of them. What ensues is a battle to con a vulnerable woman. Winner takes all.

The play is based on a 1988 film

starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine. The film was not a musical, but David Yazbek’s music and lyrics helped the film transition smoothly into a smash Broadway musical hit, which opened in 2005. Later that year, the show would be nominated for a whopping 11 Tony Awards.

Critics often moan when rights to recent Broadway hits descend into the realm of high school and other amateur musical productions, and rightly so. Students often try to tackle larger-than-life, mammoth productions like Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” or “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” A choice in shows is based on their interest or appeal, rather than realistic thinking.

Unfortunately, FYP fell into that death trap this year.

“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” came after the success of “Urinetown” last year. FYP stuck to the same route of choosing a lesser-known comedy popular among those interested in the theater industry.

FYP is composed of non-theater majors who are freshmen and first-

But these students aren’t professionals. Their work can’t be compared to that of the drama department, where students spend every waking moment perfecting the musical theater trifecta: acting, singing and dancing. year transfer students. The staff is comprised of upperclassmen and previous FYP cast members, making the group almost a fraternity in its own right. With this in mind, it’s important to remember that no matter how the performance turns out, these students were in it for the experience.

While the majority of the show’s actors had strong stage presence and developed characters, vocal ability just was not on point. Many a note in “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” was cringeworthy, and many an actress had the range of someone who’s never taken a voice lesson. In fact, one of the strongest vocal moments came from a solo from Heather Newkirk, a freshman music history major and ensemble member. Raw talent seeped through, which made the sometimes-painful

performance still an enjoyable one.

But these students aren’t professionals. Their work can’t be compared to that of the drama department, where students spend every waking moment perfecting the musical theater trifecta: acting, singing and dancing.

So yes, there were lots of missed notes. Yes, famed choreographer Jerry Mitchell would have cried had he seen some of the male ensemble dancing. Yes, I was left wondering how hard it was to do an eight-count of the tango. Yes, the lighting sometimes cast shadows on audience members’ faces. And yes, it looked like the female ensemble members were wearing prom dress-sale rejects.

But that’s OK. Because despite FYP’s numerous setbacks, it is just a group of happy kids who want to put

on a show. Think of “Glee.” We can’t all be Rachel Berry, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still give all the other kids a chance to shine.

In their own way, these actors did shine. Eric Adamus, a freshman advertising major, was perfectly lovable in his performance as the Zach Galifianakis-type con man Freddy.

He was so adorable stripping down for sex; we were rooting for him.

Kevin Slack, a freshman television, radio and film major, played Lawrence. He led the play swimmingly with a strong characterization.

Brittany Hadley, a freshman in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries, sang high notes that filled your soul. But Cole Tucker, a freshman mechanical engineering major, as Andre Banhouver was probably the show’s highlight with his accent mastery, vocal delivery and overall stage presence.

Sure, the show could have used some work. But the audience left the show with a smile, and as an actor, that was all you can really hope for. gmillerj@ syr.edu

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egularly consuming alcohol may put teenage girls at a higher risk for developing benign breast disease in their 20s, according to a recent study conducted by Harvard researchers.

“Our main finding was that adolescent girls in high school and college who typically had seven drinks total each week were 50 percent more likely to develop benign breast disease in their late 20s. Also, drinking three or more days per week greatly increased their risk,” said Catherine Berkey, lead researcher and biostatistician at Harvard Medical School.

The study, called the “Growing Up Today Study,” discovered teenage girls who drink heavily are more likely to develop the symptoms of benign breast disease including unusual bumps and cysts in the breast, which are known risk factors for breast cancer,

Study shows drinking in teenage years increases risk of breast disease

according to the research published in the May issue of Pediatrics.

Through surveys and in-depth interviews, Berkey conducted research with a team of health professionals who initially planned to study the causes of obesity in youth, she said. It was from this research that the team made the discovery of the correlation between alcohol consumption and this precursor of cancer.

The girls, aged 9 to 15, answered questionnaires from 1996 to 2001, and again in 2003, 2005 and 2007, Berkey said. The questions related to their alcohol consumption in the previous year.

In the 2005 and 2007 surveys, the results showed 147 women had been diagnosed with benign breast disease. The correlation between drinking habits and this diagnosis became clear as the research team investigated it further.

The study led the team to believe lowering alcohol consumption among females could prevent some cases of breast cancer and benign breast disease. With the growing number of detected cases, it was clear to the research team that lifestyle choice could greatly affect the amount of women who contracted benign breast disease, Berkey said.

The Harvard University School of Public Health defines binge drinking as five drinks in one sitting for men and four drinks in one sitting for women. Recent data have also shown an increase in the number of young female binge drinkers in the United States. Girls today are four times more likely than their mothers were to begin drinking by age 16, Time magazine reported in its April 1 issue.

The study of the link between drinking patterns and breast disease and cancer is ongoing, Berkey said. Although the study’s findings were among adolescent women, the team’s long-term goal is to eventually study cancer and other diseases among adults, she said.

The research team could not determine whether there is a safe amount of alcohol young girls can drink without a higher risk for developing breast cancer, Berkey said. The ongoing research will eventually lead to a more precise estimation of those risks and their relation to young women.

“As more of these young women develop benign breast disease,” Berkey said, “we can re-evaluate these study results as well as investigate other possible causes of BBD and breast cancer.” cemcfarl@syr.edu

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ttention comic book, “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” and, yes, even “Captain Planet and the Planeteers” geeks. We are not alone.

It happened around the time they started throwing their — dare I say it — own conventions. I mean, that is our territory. Our shtick.

Their passion for the socially unacceptable could rival and even surpass ours. These aficionados have officially achieved “geek” status.

While they don’t dress up as space aliens and do have girlfriends, they are a force that could possibly join our elite ranks.

They are NASCAR fans.

While a NASCAR nerd would tell you that it the acronym stands for The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, that’s just a polite way of saying “turning in left circles.” Sure, the sport has been around for decades, but it seems within the past few years, the event has spawned its own subculture. To most people, though, NASCAR fans are better known as hillbillies.

“People interpret it pretty much as you would expect: being very hick-ish,” said Alex Brewer, a sophomore communications and rhetorical studies major and a NASCAR fan.

Brewer said NASCAR fans also carry a bad reputation for acting simple-minded.

As much fun as it would be to completely belittle every ridiculous detail of the culture — from the T-shirt cannons to the baffling car sponsors, such as driver Kevin Conway and ExtenZe — I can’t take on the task. When a geek cuddles up with a Pikachu doll in his or her Spider-Man pajamas, it leaves little room to criticize other people’s behaviors.

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But seriously, it’s about time NASCAR fans had someone stand up for them. Except for that ExtenZe part.

“It’s a sport that takes a lot of intelligence,” Brewer said. “That’s the major frustration I get. Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson … they’re all intelligent people.”

While all geeks receive the stigma that you have to be brainy to be a nerd, it seems that NASCAR enthusiasts have the opposite problem. However, being misunderstood by society connects geeks and hicks. Kind of like when the X-Men teamed up with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fight the corrupt Senator Kelly during … on second thought, forget it.

All I’m trying to say is that NASCAR fans, like all geeks, have dedication. We’re willing to wait 12 hours outside for the latest Nintendo system release. They’re willing to sit down just as long to watch cars drive in endless circles. They have the Indy 500, we have the San Diego Comic-Con. We have Darth Vader, they have Dale Earnhardt Jr. The key for making speedway haters appre-

ciate the sport is pretty much the same routine that geeks practice. Sit them down and actually make them watch the thing. Go with something broad and enjoyable to everyone. Once given a real experience with geek culture, a lot of people actually don’t mind it. But then again, there was that time I tried convincing my friends to play Wolverine with steak knives. For some reason they still won’t answer my texts.

The key part to understanding the NASCAR culture is understanding the fans. Just like geeks, they just want to have as much fun with their passions as possible. So what if most of them wear trucker hats and treat Bud Light like

a delicacy? If nerds have shown the world anything, it’s that stereotypes rarely apply in real life. Except for the Wolverine knife game. Your reputation might take a hit with that one.

“You’d be surprised about who likes NASCAR and who doesn’t. I’ve met a lot of kids who don’t look like NASCAR fans but absolutely love it,” Brewer said. “Sure, it’s misunderstood, but it’s misunderstood like a lot of things.”

Flash Steinbeiser is a communications and rhetorical studies and writing major and the feature editor at The Daily Orange. In his perfect world, NASCAR would allow the Batmobile to race. He will continue to wait to see this. His column appears every Monday and he can be reached at ansteinb@syr.edu.

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‘Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again’ shows continual emphasis on female cast, reflects on past decade with clips, cast interviews

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here isn’t really another comedy show in the history of television comparable to “Saturday Night Live.” It is the only comedy show to continually to reinvent itself every week with new material, new characters and innovative, outrageous humor after being on the air for 35 years.

NBC’s “Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again” chronicled the show’s legendary late-night sketches from 2000 to 2009. It featured interviews from past and present cast members, including the “Not Ready for PrimeTime Players” (the original name of the cast from the first season), to express what the show has meant to them during their time on “SNL.” The last few years of “SNL” have focused on breaking down the “boy’s club” stigma that’s been with the show since its incarnation in 1975.

Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch and Kristen Wiig have broken the sexual boundaries that the show had by breaking the stereotypes of what is OK for a female comedian to say and do on television to achieve laughs.

Fey is often billed as a trailblazer for the women of “SNL” because she was with the show for so many of its firsts. She was the first woman to become a head writer for the show in 1999 and the first female co-anchor of “Weekend Update” in 2001. The “Weekend Update” segment would eventually have a female cast in 2004, when Poehler replaced Jimmy Fallon to anchor alongside of Fey. The show’s “Digital Shorts” introduced the age of the online viral video. In 2005, Andy Samberg’s “Lazy Sunday” immediately became an Internet sensation, prompting “Digital Shorts” to be a weekly fixture on the show. Numerous other shorts also went viral on YouTube, including “Mother Lover,” “Jizz in My Pants,” the Grammy-nominated “I’m On a Boat” featuring T-Pain and “Dick in a Box” featuring Justin Timberlake, which won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.

Executive producer Lorne Michaels refers to election season as a time when “SNL” has its best sketches. The 2000 and 2004 elections brought many jokes by Will Ferrell playing President George W. Bush. Chris Parnell would pick up the spot-on impressions after Ferrell’s departure from the show. Darrell Hammond

famously played Vice President Al Gore, Bush’s opponent in the 2000 election.

However, it would be the parodies of the 2008 election in the 34th season of “SNL” that the show reached its comedic peak. Millions of viewers tuned into the show to see impressions of Sarah Palin (Tina Fey as a guest star), Hillary Clinton (Amy Poehler), Barack Obama (Fred Armisen) and John McCain (Darrell Hammond). These impersonations earned “SNL” some of the best reviews and ratings of the decade.

The 34th season premiere, where Poehler and Fey introduced their Clinton and Palin parodies, garnered 17 million viewers on Sept. 13, 2008.

The episode would be the most watched season premiere since 2001 and the second-most watched episode ever in the show’s history.

Over the course of that season, the real politicians appeared in sketches as themselves and met the actors who successfully played them.

Fey would go on to win an Emmy in 2009 for her portrayal of Sarah Palin.

But credit more recently has gone to female members of the cast. Poehler and Wiig went head to head at the 2009 Emmys for Best Supporting Actress. It was the first time cast members have been nominated in a major acting category.

Cast members have also been successful in their post-“SNL” careers. Former cast member Tracy Morgan stars with Fey in the awardwinning NBC comedy “30 Rock.” Poehler went on to produce and star in her own NBC comedy, “Parks and Recreation.” Jimmy Fallon has moved on to host the late-night talk show “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.”

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Despite shaky past, Syracuse finishes strong, tops Loyola

By Brad Kallet Staff Writer

It was becoming an ugly trend.

Before Syracuse hosted Loyola in the Carrier Dome Friday night, Syracuse had lost three games to ranked opponents by just a goal apiece.

With SU trailing the Greyhounds in the second half, it appeared as if the syracuse 18 Orange was in for another villanova 3 disappointing finish.

But on this night there syracuse 13 was a different feel down loyola 11 the stretch.

The No. 10 Orange (9-4, 4-1 Big East) was able to stand its ground on Friday, defeating No. 13 Loyola, 13-11, in front of 412 fans at the Carrier Dome. Though SU dismantled Villanova (7-6, 0-5) Sunday, 18-3, the real challenge of the weekend came on Friday night. Coming off a heartbreaking one-goal loss to No. 11 Notre Dame last Sunday, Syracuse needed to prove to itself that it could defeat a fellow Big East power, especially in a tight contest.

“I think we came in today knowing that we had to come away with a win,” senior attack Halley Quillinan said. “We knew that we were going to face a strong Big East team looking to come in here and upset us in the Dome. At the end, we kept our composure,” The Orange came out of the gate with a vengeance, scoring three quick goals in the first eight minutes to take an early lead. Loyola responded with three goals of its own before senior midfielder Christina Dove gave the

“I think we just got our composure and our confidence back. We brought it together. We started talking and communicating again and decided to go at full pace.”

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Orange a lead with her first goal of the game.

The Greyhounds scored three of the last four goals in the half to take a 6-5 lead into the break.

SU had been here before. Deadlocked in tight games against quality opponents, the Orange has found itself on the short side of the stick more often than not this season.

On Feb. 27 SU fell to No. 4 Virginia, 14-13.

Then on March 21 the Orange was narrowly denied what would have been a monumental upset, losing to No. 1 Northwestern, 13-12. And then there’s the Notre Dame game, which proved especially damaging considering that it came at the hands of a Big East opponent.

Syracuse knew that it couldn’t let another close one slip away.

The second half didn’t begin as the Orange would have liked, as Loyola scored a little more than two minutes in for a two-goal lead, the Greyhounds’ largest of the evening.

christiNA DOVE attacks a Loyola defender during Syracuse’s 13-11 Big East victory over the Greyhounds. Dove finished the game with a career-high four assists.

But about seven minutes into the half, the momentum began to turn.

The Orange was outshot 18-8 in the first half as its offense rarely had the ball in its own territory. But suddenly Syracuse began to play a quicker game, moving the ball effectively and giving itself ample opportunities to score. After numerous missed shots, freshman attack Tegan Brown broke the ice with a free-position goal at the 20:29 mark.

“I think we just got our composure and our confidence back,” Brown said. “We brought it together. We started talking and communicating again and decided to go at full pace.”

Following Brown’s goal, the Orange began to wake up. SU scored three of the next five goals

before freshman attack Michelle Tumolo scored what would be the eventual game-winner on a picture-perfect pass off a fast break.

The Carrier Dome crowd erupted louder than it had all season, and the Orange never looked back en route to a victory.

“I think we were in a bit of a funk coming off the Notre Dame game,” head coach Gary Gait said. “And I think they had a little bit of self-doubt. We just had to play the game, and instead of stopping to make passes and cutting at three-quarters speed, they decided to go at full speed.”

Though Syracuse has not had a wealth of success in close games thus far, Quillinan admits that she enjoys when the games are tight. She believes that it brings out the best of her ability and gives her team a chip on its shoulder.

Luckily for the Orange, that chip finally resulted in a win.

“I like close games,” Quillinan said. “I like a battle. I like being competitive. I like walking in knowing that the other team is ready for a fight. To see the fire in some of my teammates’ eyes — like Michelle (Tumolo) and (freshman midfielder) Bridget Daley — that just makes me better and pushes me harder.”

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Orange replaces slow offense with aggressive defensive front

By Rachel Stern STAFF WRITER

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — All Justin Pennington could do was look up at the sky and shake his head.

The Rutgers senior midfielder came into the game against Syracuse leading the Scarlet Knights with 32 points on the season. He’s third in the Big East in points and goals per game and fourth in assists per game. But Sunday, with Syracuse longstick midfielder Joel White, breathing down his neck all game, nothing came easy.

“He is a great midfielder who just keeps getting better and better,” White said. “But our defense as a whole played very well, and we had real good help defense the whole game. We just tried to make it tough for him.”

With his team yet to put the ball in the back of the net and trailing by five with five minutes to play in the third quarter, Pennington was called for holding. He walked off the field slowly, the frustration seeping out. As he shook his head he

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really made a big difference for us,” Desko said.

“He got us the goals in the first half and got us a few more in the second half.”

Just as he has done all season, Daniello led the Orange when it was in need of offense. The Big East leader in points per game (3.3) nearly doubled that total Sunday night against the Scarlet Knights.

looked up to the sky in search of answers.

He took a knee on the sideline and pushed his stick into the ground.

The Rutgers drought ended just a minute later when Andrew D’Agostino scored his first career goal to make it 6-1, Syracuse. But it took 40 minutes and 42 seconds.

“That is a great accomplishment,” said White, who had three caused turnovers. “Any time you hold a team to zero goals, it doesn’t matter who the team is, that is a step in the right direction.”

Though Pennington ended up with two goals, the Rutgers offense could get nothing going against the defensive pressure of White, John Lade, Matt Tierney and Brian Megill.

Lade, Tierney and Megill — all New Jersey natives — pushed the Scarlet Knights out close to midfield. Anytime they tried to penetrate the defense, they were met with a forearm or two.

Though the Syracuse offense was slow to get started, the defense had no problem picking up the slack.

“We just try to play good defense because we know our offense is going to get going,” White said. “We just looked to hold it down until they get started up.”

Megill led the team with four caused turnovers and was all over the field. Tierney used his big 6-foot-4 frame to outmuscle an equally large counterpart Rutgers’ attack Kory Kelly. And Lade followed around a quick Tad Stanwick, who tried to slither his body in front of the net from behind the goal but was not able to get past Lade.

“I think it was another great defensive effort,” said SU head coach John Desko. “Especially in the first half.”

When there was a rare breakdown, there was John Galloway in net. He finished the day with seven saves.

With two minutes to play in the first quarter and the score knotted at zero, it appeared as if Rutgers would get on the scoreboard first.

Working from behind the net Stanwick snuck past Lade and stood on the doorstep on the right

side. He unleashed a shot, but Galloway jumped up to make a stick save.

“A couple cracks they might have found, Galloway was there,” Desko said. “I think he was four saves on four shots in the first half. So there was no breakdown on the defensive end of the field.”

And the SU defensive effort even helped fuel the offense. Chris Daniello wasn’t worried even though his team struggled to score. Despite a 20-minute drought, SU found themselves up by two at the half.

“They kept them scoreless, and they just played phenomenally tonight,” Daniello said.

“They played solid defense.”

But the defense is far from satisfied. After letting up five goals in the second half, White was quick to focus on the “slip-ups.”

Said White: “We played real well, but there were some things in the second half that we need to work on.”

On Tuesday night against Cornell, he scored the game-winning goal as time expired. Tonight, he got his team going in the first, and after some halftime adjustments, the rest of the Orange followed suit.

“We changed it up at halftime and changed up our shots,” Daniello said. “I wanted to get something going for us in the first half, and then the rest of the team kept it up.”

The Orange scored nine goals in the second half. Tim Desko and Cody Jamieson had two goals apiece. But Tim Desko was quick to point

out just how important Daniello was.

“Daniello played great,” he said. “He scored a lot of goals and put it in the back of the net when no one else could.”

After Daniello scored his last goal of the game with 7:48 to play in the fourth quarter, he trotted off the field as if nothing special had just happened. As he stood with his arm resting on his stick, his teammates swarmed around him

and patted him on the helmet.

But for him, it was simple. He was just stepping up when he needed to. Doing whatever his team needed.

“I don’t have a problem going up top and changing it up,” Daniello said. “I scored when we needed to get going and liked my matchup from up top.”

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Points for senior attack Chris Daniello, a careerhigh for the Cross River, N.Y., native. He scored four goals— also a career-high— and dished out two assists to power the Orange offense.

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The senior matched a career-high with four goals and added two assists to give him a personal-best six points against the Scarlet Knights. He was the only player on either team to score in the first half and scored back-to-back goals in the fourth quarter to help the Orange pull away.

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The Scarlet Knights coughed the ball up 26 times on the day, contributing to their lack of offensive output. Their attack and midfield couldn’t handle the SU pressure, as the Orange defense forced 17 of those turnovers.

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The two teams scored a combined two goals in the first 30 minutes of action.

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With strong spring, Hay looks to key suspect offensive line

By Tony Olivero Asst. Sports Editor

Over the course of Syracuse’s 14 spring practices, only one player stole a spot with the first-team offense or defense — junior offensive tackle Michael Hay. Granted, Van Chew did ascend to the starting Z wide receiver spot after Mike Jones left the team.

Adam Harris also stepped into the first-team slot at full back after Carl Cutler suffered a torn ACL in his left knee. But in both cases, both Harris and Chew were essentially given the spots. Each prior starter wasn’t on the field this spring.

Josh White, the starter at right tackle entering spring ball, was. White practiced all spring.

But from the tail end of the second week and into the third week of spring practice, Hay overcame White for the starting spot at right tackle.

“In the last three to four practices, (Hay) has really stepped up and made the largest improvement (of anyone on the team),” SU head coach Doug Marrone said.

Hay — a junior transfer from Nassau Community College — played well enough in the minds of Marrone and the rest of the coaching staff in spring practice to overtake White on the depth chart and earn the starting nod with the first team Saturday. Hay partook in nearly every snap at the right tackle position with the first-team offense.

Marrone was pleased with the performance as he stressed the fact that Hay earned the starting spot due to a knack for Marrone’s new offensive system.

“He really has a good understanding of the new system,” Marrone said. “I’m happy with his progress — he’s done a very good job in the run game for us. We’ll keep developing in the pass-protection phase, but as far as his assignments, they have been very good the past three to four practices.”

The competition between Hay and White will continue into the summer. And that’s all White can ask for.

“Coach (Marrone) just wants us to go out and compete, so he bumped me back, thinking I could focus a little bit more,” White said. “Mike Hay is doing his job, and we are just going to get it done.”

Sales back in WR discussion Following a spring where Marcus Sales seemingly disappeared at every practice, the rising junior wide receiver re-entered the discussion for a starting spot with his 158-yard,

two-touchdown performance Saturday.

It came entirely against SU’s second-team defense, but Sales was the offensive star for the Orange in Saturday’s Spring Game. The performance came after a down spring for Sales where the wide receiver failed to move up from the third-team spot at the X wide receiver position.

“I’m excited to go back and look at how he played today and in the rest of the spring to make a true evaluation of him,” Marrone said.

Sales, who started five games last year and was third on the team with 28 receptions to go along with three touchdowns on the season, took reps behind starters Alec Lemon and Hofstra transfer Aaron Weaver over the course of the Orange’s 14 practices. Lemon, Weaver and rising junior wideout Van Chew made more big plays in the spring than Sales. “(Sales’ performance) just gives him more opportunities to compete,” SU’s wide receiver coach Rob Moore said. “That’s what it does.”

After the game, Sales acknowledged the opportunity his performance gives him heading into the summer. To Sales, it’s simple. He’s just doing what is asked of him. And after a tough spring, Saturday put him back in the discussion.

“That’s my job, to catch the ball,” Sales said.

“It’s just my job to go out there and do work.”

Hogue knicked up but fine Despite an Antwon Bailey touchdown run in the second half of SU’s Spring Game Saturday, Syracuse fans held there collective breath for several minutes after the play. At the end of the run, rising senior linebacker Doug Hogue remained on the ground with an apparent leg injury.

Hogue was attended to at the goal line following the play. He was then helped off the field by two teammates. The linebacker didn’t return for the remainder of the game and was later seen walking up and down the sideline without much of a limp.

SU head coach Doug Marrone was quick to dispel any rumors about Hogue’s status in his postgame presser. Hogue registered four tackles in the 66-58 loss to the offense.

“We come out injury free,” Marrone said.

“Doug Hogue went down for a little bit, but he’s back. He is fine. We just didn’t want to put him in there to jeopardize anything in the future.

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them get an edge in what should be an intriguing position battle this spring. Nassib said he expects competition and will use this summer to the best of his advantage.

And for Hackett, the first-year coach finds himself in an enviable position for this upcoming season. After all, he appears to have two guys capable of leading the Orange offense as the starter Sept. 4 at Akron.

“You couldn’t ask for that,” Hackett said. “I mean, that’s like a dream. We’ve got two great guys, very great leaders, both young. So allaround, it’s a great deal.” aljohn@syr.edu

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Loeb shines, starting role up for grabs

By Andrew L. John

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fter a freshman season roaming the sidelines with a clipboard in hand, Charley Loeb entered the Carrier Dome Saturday afternoon as somewhat of an afterthought.

Ryan Nassib was Syracuse’s starting quarterback and appeared to have solidified his hold on the position with his vast development from a year ago.

But after Saturday’s Spring Game, it was Loeb’s 259 yards passing and three touchdown passes that may have added some uncertainty to SU’s starting quarterback position this fall.

“I felt real comfortable,” Loeb said.

“It was really good to be out there and gain some experience, and we just had a lot of fun out there. It did a lot for my confidence.”

In front of a crowd of 4,752 at Syracuse’s annual Spring Game, Loeb took advantage of the most action he’s seen in more than a year. In the process, the redshirt freshman gave Syracuse fans a glimpse of just how competitive the quarterback battle could be this fall. Following the specialized scoring system from last year’s game, the Orange offense won a tight contest, 66-58.

On his first pass attempt, Loeb avoided a sack before unleashing a near-perfect spiral to an open Marcus Sales down the right sideline.

The 39-yard completion got the crowd going and, on the very next play, running back Averin Collier weaved his way through the middle of the defense for the first touchdown of the day.

danielle parhizkaran | staff photographer Charley Loeb releases a pass from the pocket in the Syracuse football team’s Spring Game Saturday. Loeb went 18-of-23 on the day for 259 yards and three touchdowns. He and junior Ryan Nassib combined for 400 yards through the air and led the offense to a 66-58 win.

“Charley had a great day today,” Nassib said. “He made some big-time throws and some big-time plays and did some great things.”

Loeb compiled his yardage by connecting on 18-for-23 passing against the Orange’s second-string defense.

Among those 18 completions was a 55-yard touchdown to Sales, a rising junior wideout, and three other downfield strikes of more than 25 yards.

Of course, as Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone was quick to point out, Loeb did all of his damage against a thin group of reserves. But that doesn’t mean his performance was

meaningless.

“I’m very happy with both players,” Marrone said. “I think what we have to do in the evaluation process, like I always say, is look at the competition. Charley’s going out there and he’s going against different types of defenders that Ryan is going out there against. … But I’m happy with the progress of both quarterbacks.”

Nassib’s numbers were less impressive overall — 141 yards and a touchdown on 10-of-19 passing. But, as Marrone said, his performance came against SU’s starting defense.

Like Loeb, Nassib also ripped off four

completions for more than 25 yards, including a 40-yarder to rising sophomore receiver Alec Lemon. Both quarterbacks were picked off once by the defense.

Quarterback coach Nathaniel Hackett called the offensive plays Saturday and was excited with the performances he saw. Though he said both players have their “ups and downs,” Hackett came away impressed with the play of two of his star pupils.

“The guys just made the passes, made the throws,” Hackett said afterward. “So it was great. From my standpoint, they both did great.”

Though Loeb’s performance has to be taken with proper perspective, coaches aren’t saying that it was a fluke. Or that there’s nothing behind it.

Nor were they saying that Nassib will undoubtedly be the starter this fall.

“It’s time now to sit and evaluate,” Hackett said. “You have to sit there and say, ‘What’s going to be the best for the team?’ And we’re going to try and make the best decision and roll with it, and that’s the process now.”

Heading into the summer, SU’s pair of quarterbacks will use a 12-week workout program to help see spring football page 14

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Single-handed

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ISCATAWAY, N.J. – For Chris Daniello, it was really quite simple. Play within the offense, and if his team needed a goal, get one.

Thirty minsyracuse 11 utes down the rutgers 5 stretch Sunday, the senior captain showed it, as he was the only one on the field that found the back of the net. Daniello 2. Rutgers 0.

“We had some good looks, and the goalie made some good saves,” Daniello said. “I just took what they gave me, and I tried to create something.”

After a slow start, No. 2 Syracuse (10-1, 3-0 Big East) got on track to beat conference counterpart Rutgers (5-6, 1-2) at Yurcak Field, 11-5, in front of a crowd of 3,253. It wasn’t a pretty game in Piscataway as the two teams combined to commit 44 turnovers.

But Daniello got the Syracuse offense started, and his teammates followed

With career night from Daniello, SU overcomes stagnant offense in win over Big East rival Rutgers during the final 30 minutes to win their eighth straight game.

Daniello registered a career-high six points. He had four goals and two assists. When shots sailed high and wide, left and right for both teams, he seemed to score at ease.

“I thought Chris played very well,” SU head coach John Desko said.

“He was a real threat. At times, he looked like he could do it whenever he wanted it. It was great he came alive, and he was certainly the reason we

got going.”

Early on, both offenses were stagnant. Play went up and down the field due to the constant turnovers. Then Daniello went to work.

He scored the game’s first goal at the 10:34 mark of the second quarter and followed it up with another score three minutes later. Daniello found himself with a short stick on him on the right side of the net. He went right at the helpless Rutgers defender and bounced in his second goal of the game.

With that, he extended the SU lead to 2-0, and that’s how it would stay until the half.

Daniello saw increased time at the midfield position due to the absence of freshman midfielder JoJo Marasco. Marasco sat out the second half against Cornell and did not make the trip to New Jersey with a lower leg injury. Daniello more than answered the call.

“Bumping him to the midfield see rutgers page 13