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Animal instincts Researcher’s work with gorillas helps her discover her Asperger’s. Page 3
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Good call More readers support SU’s commencement speaker. Page 5
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Play that funky music DJ Big Sugar Daddy B, the Guy from Across the Pond, among others, host Tuesday night’s WERW radio show, “Funk Love.” Page 9
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The man behind the curtain Kevin Donahue is one of the best-kept secrets in collegiate lacrosse. There’s a lifetime worth of reasons why he is so valuable to the Syracuse program. Page 20
Making change
1000 0000 00 A history of The Campaign for Syracuse University:
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SU’s billion-dollar campaign on track despite potential setbacks
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ith less than $300 million left to fundraise, The Campaign for Syracuse University is on track to reach its billion-dollar goal by 2012, said Thomas Walsh, the executive vice president for advancement and external affairs. The billion-dollar campaign, which went public in 2007, is a capital fundraiser in which all monetary gifts to any part of the university are counted. Despite the recession, which brought heavy losses to
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SU’s endowment, donations to the university have remained steady, reaching more than $718 million by the beginning of April. But the campaign is entering a more difficult phase in its ability to raise money, Walsh said, which is necessary to build and complete many campaign initiatives. “If we can maintain that $100 million a year in the next three years, we can finish the campaign on time,” Walsh said. The university began counting money toward the billion-dollar campaign in July 2005 but didn’t announce the campaign until July 2007.
The two quiet years, from 2005 to 2007, saw an unanticipated number of gifts to the university, totaling more than $500 million by the time the campaign went public, said Brian Sischo, SU’s vice president for development. “The basic psychology is to have at least 40 percent of the goal before you go into a public phase,” Walsh said. “$400 million would have been fine to launch at, so the $500 million served us well when the going got rough.” Beginning the campaign $100 million ahead of schedule helped in fall 2008, when the
market plummeted and many prospective donors began tightening their purses, Walsh said. Before the market fell, the campaign was averaging $120 million a year. That number dropped down to about $100 million during the 2009 fiscal year. “The $100 million was very good considering that year saw the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression,” Walsh said. The goal by the end of December 2010 is to be at $800 million, Sischo said. “It doesn’t mean we’re out see campaign page 6
Stimulus bill helps create jobs at SU By Jon Harris
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Grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have created more than 55 jobs at Syracuse University so far, according to the U.S. government’s official Recovery Act website. These jobs are just a small portion of the 2.2 million to 2.8 million jobs that have been created following 2010’s first quarter, according to the latest stimulus report from President Obama’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Summers. SU received seven grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, totaling more than $10 million, according to the Recovery Act website. The money was granted to SU to create research jobs and Work-Study, all which went into effect this academic year. SU received $10 million of the $787 billion granted
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Dean Gonzalez on sabbatical until mid-August By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor
Bethaida Gonzalez, dean of University College at Syracuse University, went on sabbatical April 14 and will be returning to the university in midAugust, said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs. “Dean Gonzalez requested a sabbatical after a set of intense, challenging assignments and activities during the past year,” Quinn said in an e-mail. Gonzalez could not be reached for comment as of Tuesday night. Roberta Jones, assistant provost for interdisciplinary programs, will fill the position as acting dean of University College until Gonzalez returns, Quinn said. Gonzalez served as interim dean of University College from 2004 to 2007. She was officially named to the position of dean on June 22, 2007, and took over the position on July 1 of that
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campus briefs • Donald Meinig, a professor of geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Monday. Meinig joins 229 leaders in the sciences, business, public affairs, humanities and arts, and the nonprofit sector to be elected as the new class for the academyís 230th year. The academy was founded in 1790 by John Adams, the second president of the United States, to study the needs and problems of society. Historical members have included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. The new class of members will be inducted Oct. 9 in Cambridge, Mass.
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• Sixteen teams will compete in the semifinals of the Panasci Business Plan Competition on Friday. A total of 38 students from 16 different majors will compete in the semifinals. After presenting their business concepts to Syracuse business professionals, four teams will be chosen to advance to Saturdayís finals. The winning team will receive up to $40,000 to launch its business. Some of the competing projects include biodegradable sandwich bags, a filtration system to extract oil from water and an aggregate news source. • Twenty-six finalists have been named for the fourth annual Mirror Awards, sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The Mirror Awards honors journalists reporting on the media industry. The seven different award categories received almost 200 entries. The categories include best single article in traditional media and digital media, best profile in traditional media and digital media, best commentary in traditional media and digital media, and best indepth piece in traditional media. The winners are celebrated at a luncheon in New York City on June 10. Source: syr.edu —Compiled by The Daily Orange news staff
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A Bengali beat Broto roy plays tabla drums during Tuesday night’s “Ganga: The Music of Bengal” in Hendricks Chapel. The group, comprised of four members, performed 10 traditional Bengal folk songs. All the instruments used during the performance were handmade in Bengal. Taking their name from the Ganges River in the Indian subcontinent, the music group first appeared in the American folk music scene in 1984 and has been performing at folk festivals across the United States and internationally since.
As a child, Dawn Prince remembers her family’s abnormal behavior. At the dinner table, her uncle would balance food on his head and recite pi out to 300 places. Her grandmother would sporadically quote scriptures throughout the day, while her grandfather would arrange his food in certain patterns before he ate it. But it was not until elementary school that Prince noticed she had unusual behaviors, too. Prince, an anthropologist, primatologist and ethnologist, spoke Tuesday night in Watson Theater about her experiences living with Asperger’s syndrome. Prince is now an author and lecturer who travels the world speaking about autism and ecology. She also spoke about how she discovered her disability through working with gorillas. Prince said she realized she was different than the other students in school when she was young, but didn’t know her specific disability. Every sensory image to her — a bright light, a loud noise — captured her attention. She was quickly overwhelmed by her surroundings, which she called “a sensory nightmare.” As a result, Prince said she would often shut down in school and have meltdowns afterward at home. “In school, there was nothing for me to do with all the sensory input I accumulated during the day,” she said. “Once I was home, I was able to take it all out.” Little was known about Asperger’s syndrome, a variant of autistic disorder, when Prince was a child, she said, and her condition remained undiagnosed as she struggled through school. When she reached high school, Prince said she decided to drop out and leave home. She lived on the streets for five years, using illicit drugs and alcohol as a type of “self-medication,” she said. But one day, Prince found comfort in the gorillas at a zoo in Seattle. “Suddenly, this world that had always been too fast and too bright slowed down,” she said. For weeks, Prince would come to the zoo and sit in front of the gorillas for hours. Eventually, she was offered a job. At the zoo, Prince worked with a population of silverback gorillas and found inspiration in see Prince page 6
Falling short of national trend, SU professors see smaller pay increase By Lorne Fultonberg Staff Writer
The rise in professors’ salaries across the nation this year was the lowest it has been in 50 years, according to an annual study from the American Association of University Professors released April 12. Salaries across the country rose by an average of 1.2 percent for this academic year, lower than last year’s inflation rate of 2.7 percent, according
to the study. For Syracuse University professors, the report found their salaries increased even less than that, only .5 percent. Kal Alston, SU associate provost for academic administration, said the study isn’t much of a cause for alarm on campus. “These studies are really blunt instruments because all of these institutions that they’re surveying are all really different,” Alston said. “They
have different sources of funds. There are different sources of income and different mixes of faculty in their disciplines.” SU made the decision to freeze salaries for about half of its faculty members for this academic year due to the economic downturn, Alston said. Professors making $50,000 or above were not eligible for raises with the exception of those who had just received tenure or a promotion.
The freeze will end following this academic year, and a 2 percent meritbased salary raise program will take its place next year. Alston also said SU can’t be judged by the national average because the study looks at a multiplicity of schools, ranging from small to large and public to private. “The reports do concentrate on the big averages,” she said. “That’s like comparing apples to oranges. To me,
it doesn’t really say very much.” John Curtis, director of department research at AAUP, said he agreed that although smaller, private colleges are those that have generally seen their salaries affected more, how greatly they have been affected differs on a case-by-case basis. The economic difficulties are the same across the board, but the reasons they persist and the ways to deal with them can differ, he said. see salaries page 6
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across the nation. The official number of jobs created at SU due to the Recovery Act is 55.77. One job is equivalent to a full-time job, totaling 40 hours per week. This measurement of jobs in terms of full-time positions is why it’s possible to have 0.77 of a job, said Cheryl Arvidson, associate director of communications of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board. Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the Federal Stimulus Plan, into law in February 2009. The stimulus was implemented to stop the economic free fall that was happening in the United States, said Donald Dutkowsky, an economics professor at SU. “The economy was going through a horrific recession, and gross domestic product was really shrinking at a large rate,� he said. “It was basically designed to stem the economic hemorrhaging that was taking place.� The stimulus contains $787 billion in total funds, which are distributed among three categories: tax benefits; contracts, loans and grants; and entitlements. From the stimulus’ start in February 2009 to April 9, 2010, it has paid out $314.6 billion of the total $787 billion, leaving $472.4 billion still left to be paid. The total $314.6 billion includes 168,185 loans, grants and contracts that have been awarded. SU is being awarded precisely $10,154,228. The $10.1 million paid to the university is distributed among seven grants. The most generous grant totals $8,341,022 and reportedly created 15.14 jobs. This award is primarily for research, as $3.3 million of it is going toward
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continued support for the High Energy Physics group at SU. The funds going toward the physics group also account for 7.19 of the 15.14 jobs created from the award. Remaining research initiatives in the award include studying dark matter, organic chemistry materials, active cell culture and the formation of water molecules, among others. The focus and expanded funding for research is in line with the university’s Center of Excellence and its green initiatives, Dutkowsky said. The awarded funding goes to research such as the investigation of the formation of water molecules, which will aim to help understand the “complex chemistry linked to the emergence and sustainability of life,� according to the Recovery Act website. The water formation investigation was awarded $528,461 from the
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stimulus and created 0.20 jobs. The second-largest award is for SU’s Federal Work-Study program, which received $669,358 and has created 33.87 jobs so far. The stimulus has had a positive effect on the university, as more and larger awards are now available for students, said Kaye Devesty, director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs. The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs always encourages employers to hire students in ways that complement their studies, and now it’s easier for students to find, apply and
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get jobs, Devesty said. “It’s been good for us because we’ve had students ask for Work-Study when they haven’t been able to use it in the past,� she said. The grants to the Work-Study program and research initiatives total $9,010,380 of the total $10,154,228 paid to SU and 49.01 of the total 55.77 jobs created. The remaining amount is spread out among five grants: improving public health literature reports; HIV prevention; understanding of the relationships among interpersonal stress, mood regulation, alcohol lapse and patterns of alcohol use; studying alcohol use and health in young women; and studying the health consequences of teenage childbearing. The direct effect of the stimulus on universities is the expansion of grant funding, especially to green initiatives, Dutkowsky said. But the indirect effect is the stabilization of the economy that allows students to remain enrolled at SU despite the rising expenditures of a private university, he said. The federal government is taking a more active role in the Recovery Act, and some people would prefer an alternative route that focused on helping small businesses, Dutkowsky said. “The biggest problem that people had with it is it expands the federal deficit,� he said. “It expands the deficit with a lot of government appropriations.� Daniel Fitzpatrick, SU College Republicans president, said he doesn’t see the stimulus as a reliable method to create jobs. “All it’s done is put us deeper in debt,� he said. “The creator of jobs are businesses.� As of March 24, New York state ranked second in reported jobs from the stimulus with 42,781 created and/or saved jobs from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. New York also has a current unemployment rate of 8.9 percent, which ranks 28th out of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico, according to the Recovery Act website. Fitzpatrick said he doesn’t agree with the $219,000 being paid to SU to study alcohol use and health in young women. This money isn’t necessary, as a Facebook group could accomplish the same objective, he said. The stimulus’ effectiveness is “laughable,� as $5,000 was once paid to a nonexistent district, he said. Arvidson, associate director of communications of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, said Fitzpatrick was making the suggestion the money disappeared, but he was “plain wrong.� “Early on, there were some instances in recipient reporting. Either through typo or district information, they put in the wrong information,� she said. All the money that was sent by mistake was accounted for, and the mistake occurred because many people are unaware of which congressional district they live in, Arvidson said. People can no longer make this mistake, as the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board corrected the form that requires recipients to report on what they’re doing with the money they received from the stimulus, she said. Dutkowsky, the professor of economics, said historians will take a long time to examine how much the stimulus did to prevent the continuation of the economic free fall. “Historians are going to evaluate just how many jobs it saved or how many jobs it kept or how much it stemmed the hemorrhaging of the economy,� he said. “The bottom line of where we are now is we are out of the recession,� Dutkowsky said. “We’ve got a ways to go to get full recovery, and we’ll only get to that when the unemployment rate gets down to about 5.5 percent.� jdharr04@syr.edu
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Dimon proves to be good choice for 2010 commencement speaker I am writing to express my most fervent support for Jamie Dimon. While the campus community has heard from many students and faculty from across campus — from the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management to L.C. Smith and, surprisingly, even from Whitman! — we have not yet heard the voice of that small but earnest minority of students that I represent: those who worship Jamie Dimon as a god. We believe, yes, that Jamie Dimon is a good chief executive officer, and that he is a model worthy of emulation; but unlike those students who end their praise for Mr. Dimon there, we acknowledge the full uniqueness of his nature and accomplishments. Could a mere mortal possess the vast and arcane knowledge necessary to acquire both Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual? Could one who is not
let ter to the editor possessed of the fullness of the deity have practiced banking that was not entirely scurrilous and unethical? What being not overflowing with infinite goodness and mercy would finance — at interest! — the construction of a health care center that cost nearly three times the amount of his annual bonus? None but the god Jamie Dimon, ruler of all he surveys, abundant with wealth and, as this university has seen, gracious toward those who serve him. We should not only be glad that Mr. Dimon is coming here; we should be prepared, in thanks, to offer our very selves in ecstatic worship this bright and glorious May 16.
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Dimon will bring intellect, international perspective to SU campus The recent protests on campus suggest that many students are unhappy with the choice of Jamie Dimon as commencement speaker because of his leadership of JPMorgan Chase & Co. at a time when the United States is in the midst of a historic banking crisis. In fact, in Jamie Dimon we have a true hero of the crisis: As the chief executive officer of the one major U.S. bank that had most prudently managed its risks in the housing derivatives marketplace, Mr. Dimon was called upon by the US Treasury Department to evaluate, in a single weekend, the possibility of rescuing a fellow U.S. bank, Bear Stearns, in order to prevent the possible melt-
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down of the international financial system. Buying Bear Stearns meant taking on a company with a $400 billion balance sheet, with a stock price that was plummeting. In an amazing display of financial analytics and personal courage, Jamie Dimon and the JPMorgan staff determined that they could, in fact, come to the rescue of Bear Stearns and, more importantly, help to prop up the worldwide banking system and continue to maintain the fiscal stability of their own company. Since that time, Mr. Dimon has been lauded by many. “Some came to Washington for help. Others came to Washington to help,” said Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposit
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let ter to the editor Insurance Corporation. From Frank Rich, a columnist for The New York Times, comes kudos for Mr. Dimon’s March 2007 letter to shareholders in which he warned of potential “negative scenarios” from “recent industry excesses.” As a result of Mr. Dimon’s actions and the work he directs as JPMorgan CEO, JPMorgan has now emerged as the strongest financial institution in the country. This means that the important business of providing capital to businesses to support their growth and the growth
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of their work force, and of providing the consumer credit we all use to buy homes, take vacations, and put our kids through college, is safeguarded. It is Syracuse University’s great fortune that the university has been engaged in a partnership with JPMorgan for several years. As a result of this partnership, our students are gaining invaluable experience in corporate business environments. L.C. Smith has also worked with the School of Information Studies and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management to create a one-of-a-kind undergraduate curriculum that speaks to the need for trained technologists able to work in global enterprise technologies. Our
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faculty has also been privileged to apply their skills in cyber security to the challenges of information assurance, fraud detection and other issues facing global companies today, using JPMorgan databases and actual business situations as the basis of their work. Jamie Dimon will bring intellect, international perspective and a keen sense of the needs of tomorrow’s economy to SU’s campus when he joins us for commencement. I welcome his presence with us next month.
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“One of the main points that we want to get across is that the situation is a little different at each college and university,” he said. “So it’s very important for faculty members and interested members of the community to understand the specific situation at that particular college or university.” In addition to freezing salaries, SU’s administration decided to fight the recession by cutting $12 million from the administrative units’ budgets. The university’s goal was to cut in the least painful places, meaning that it didn’t want
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of the woods,” Walsh said. “$300 million is a lot of money to raise, and it’s a very tight environment. But things are beginning to loosen up. Conversations that were on complete hold as of last year are beginning to open up.” Although donors are starting to recover from the initial effects of the recession, Walsh foresees the campaign entering a more difficult phase because the university has, for the most part, tapped its highest-donor pool, he said. The campaign will now be relying on a wider pool of donors, he said. But that doesn’t mean the next pool of donors won’t be able to offer significant gifts as well, he said. Although the campaign has done well in spite of the recession, the endowment has suffered almost unmatched losses, falling from just over $1 billion to around $630 million in the 2008 fiscal year, said Barbara Wells, SU’s treasurer.
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to cut programs, raise tuition or stop searching for new faculty, Alston said. The university’s strategy has been working, too, Alston said. Enrollment numbers have continued to increase, which Alston said is especially important for SU because it is a tuition-driven institution. The cost of tuition will increase by 4 percent for the coming academic year, the lowest raise at SU in 44 years. Jeff Stonecash, a political science professor, said he thinks the way SU navigated the rocky economic period is impressive. “We seem to have gone through this pretty well,” he said. “There are some places where they’ve taken 8 or 10 percent pay cuts, and we didn’t do that. I’m not quite sure how we did it,
but we’ve done it.” The lack of salary increases didn’t upset Stonecash, who said professors are pretty well paid as it is. The average salary for a professor at SU is about $112,500, which is higher than the national average of $109,843, according to the study. “I think in a time when you have almost one out of five people in the economy who are really hurting, for me to complain about not getting a raise, I find that a little strange,” Stonecash said. “In many ways, I’m surprised we didn’t get a cut.” Other SU professors said that because professors are essential to any university’s work, they shouldn’t receive salary freezes or cuts.
“The main mission of this institution is teaching, unless I’m missing something, and so your rank and file are professors,” said James Dabrowiak, a chemistry professor. “It’s not the sports organizations or the athletics.” The trend of low salary increases across the nation, including at SU, is likely to persist into the next few years, as long or longer than the recession lasts, Curtis, of the AAUP, said. “We usually see higher education lagging behind the rest of the economy by at least a year or two,” Curtis said, “which means that it could easily be another year or two of pretty tough times in higher education.”
The endowment is made up of gifts to the university that are invested, rather than spent immediately, and the university spends only the interest from the invested donations. So far, $200 million of the billion-dollar campaign has been given specifically to the endowment. Although any gifts to the university are beneficial, Wells said that if she had to choose between money that is spendable and money that has to be invested in the endowment, she’d take the investment because the endowment will provide support for years to come. Besides building the endowment, the two most important allocations of incoming donations are to strengthen programs for students and to attract distinguished faculty, Walsh said. “It all spins the basic wheel of faculty and students,” Walsh said. Since the campaign started, the university has created 30 new endowed chair positions, bringing the total number to around 75, Sischo said.
“The $100 million was very good considering that year saw the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.”
paign has also had to make some changes to the way fundraisers reach out to potential donors, Walsh said. Promotion for the campaign began with print publication distribution and on the campaign website. Now the campaign has expanded to Facebook and YouTube, he said. The campaign has seen the most success in tapping into donors with particular affiliations, such as the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the School of Information Studies, WAER 88.3 FM and athletics, Sischo said. But some units at the university don’t have alumni or another kind of defined constituency, such as the SU libraries or general campus upkeep, and face a greater challenge attracting donors to invest in them specifically, Walsh said. “There are a lot of unglamorous things we have to do, like seal the parking lots at Manley Field House,” he said. It’s much harder to attract outside sources to invest in these kinds of projects, Walsh said. Although the future of the economy is beginning to brighten, Walsh said, there is still a lot of competition for charitable gifts, especially ones to help immediate and important causes. “People naturally gravitate toward issues that are very easy to understand,” Walsh said. “It’s both a challenge and opportunity to show how donating to a university is making a difference.”
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As a result of the campaign, the university has also been able to expand programs that provide fieldwork for students in various regions of the world, Walsh said. Such programs include the semester in Los Angeles, the engineering program in Dubai and an initiative in Atlanta to study cold cases from the Civil Rights era, Walsh said. Expanding and creating programs in which students can get field experience is a central priority in the campaign, and Walsh expects more programs to be created as the campaign continues, he said. The billion-dollar campaign has also resulted in the building of the Carmelo K. Anthony Center and the Life Sciences Complex. But Walsh said the university is less focused on building right now. In light of the rise of social media, the cam-
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year, according to a June 2007 SU news release. She was also a candidate for mayor of Syracuse in 2009. She currently serves as the executive director for SU’s chapter of Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate
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observing their behavior. When Prince was asked to observe one sick gorilla, her disability became a gift. “In this context, I just rocketed, took pages of notes and was able to pinpoint where the gorilla was sick,” Prince said. During a study session with the gorillas, Prince said she observed a gorilla using combined tools to catch a moth. This action was previously unheard of, and Prince immediately sent her findings to the Jane Goodall Institute. From her findings, Prince was asked to write books on her research. After working with gorillas for 13 years, Prince returned to school to get her doctorate in interdisciplinary anthropology. After she left the zoo, Prince’s disability became more apparent in her day-to-day life, affecting her relationship with her partner and
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Programs, a national initiative that works to create programs that will prepare students for success in post-secondary education, according to SU GEAR UP’s website. Eileen Jevis, public relations manager at University College, declined to comment on the matter and directed all comment to Quinn. kronayne@syr.edu
her son. It wasn’t until then that she started researching her condition and realized she had Asperger’s syndrome. After that, she began speaking with others about her experiences living with autism Brianna Silvestri, an undeclared freshman, said she was amazed at how Prince first learned to deal with her Asperger’s syndrome through her work with gorillas. “It was interesting how Prince took her interactions with gorillas and applied it to humans,” she said. During her lecture, Prince said she wanted to talk to other people not only about gorillas, but the importance of being connected. “For me, the biggest blessing has been to go all over the world and hear people say your story is a human story,” she said. “It’s not a story about a disability or being a woman or being queer or gorillas. This is a story about what we all struggle with as we exist in the world.” algree03@syr.edu
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hree students wanted to solve the problem of hunger in Africa. So they created Ag 4 Africa, an organization aimed at helping to develop rural parts of the sub-Saharan, specifically Ghana. The business, created by Holly Tassi, Ryan Seeram and Tamara Cohen, has now been chosen as one of three finalists in the Dell Social Innovation Competition and will compete in this weekend’s Panasci Business Plan Competition. Ag 4 Africa, which began as a project in an SU entrepreneurship class, plans to work on
“The excitement of the people in Ghana for the business plan shows us we can actually advance this and make it happen.”
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farms to plant more bambara, a critical crop, in order to alleviate hunger and poverty in Ghana. The competition, to be held May 5 in Austin, Texas, includes a 15-minute presentation and 15-minute Q-and-A session by all three finalists, followed by an awards ceremony. The other two finalists are from Wesleyan University and the University of Texas at Austin. Tassi and Seeram, both seniors in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and Cohen, a 2009 alumna, developed the idea last semester during EEE 457: “Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management,” which required students to create a unique business idea and launch it. They came up with the idea after searching “hunger
in Africa” in Google, Seeram said. “In order to solve our problem, we asked where the biggest problem is, and we said Africa,” Seeram said. The students found a book, “The Last Crops of Africa,” which detailed grains, fruits and vegetables in the continent, Seeram said. From the book, the group chose bambara, a groundnut similar to the peanut, as they thought it would be the most beneficial crop, he said. The group chose to focus on Ghana based on its central location near the ocean on the southern boarder of Africa, Tassi said. Additionally, bambara is already growing there, she said. They also wanted to choose somewhere less risky to start operations and a place where there is a need to improve the quality of life and poverty situation, Seeram said. The students are currently working on making connections to start their business and build experience. The group has already spoken to Ghana Nestle about making bambara into milk, and they said it was still in the research process, Seeram said. They also spoke to the senior sourcing manager of Starbucks about how much soy Starbucks uses and how they would go about testing if they had a substitute for soy. Tassi will travel to Rwanda this summer, where she will work for the Ministry of Agriculture helping farmers to generate income and have access to markets. “We want to spread it as much as we can, and the scalability of this project is what makes it interesting,” Tassi said. Tassi said if the business becomes a reality, the money will go toward research in obtaining seeds and building relationships with people at Nestle and Starbucks. Seeram said: “The excitement of the people in Ghana for the business plan shows us we can actually advance this and make it happen.” svangrub@syr.edu
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t’s 10 p.m. on a Tuesday. Behind the heavy locked door, a sign reads “on air.” And from the speakers of any computer, the sounds of DJ Big Sugar Daddy B and a slew of other radio personalities can be heard. But at 1 a.m., Big Sugar Daddy, or “Shoog,” along with every other character in the time slot, goes back to being Phil Blechman, a sophomore acting major. Blechman, who said he’s always had an interest in voice work, started his own WERW-AM 1570 show, “Funk Love,” his freshman year. “I always loved the fact that no one can see you and they have to picture what you look like based on how you sound,” he said. Blechman’s inspiration came from his roommate, who then also hosted a radio program, called “The Pregame Show.” “Funk Love,” is a fun, upbeat, comic radio show where Blechman performs very different and fun characters to jam out to funk music and talk about anything and everything, from current news to relationships to love and sex, Blechman said. “The first time I did the show, I was oddly very comfortable. It was a peculiar feeling, but it was a fun way to perform. Anything I wanted to do or say was legal,” Blechman said. Blechman places importance on having fun while hosting the show. He finds if he is having fun, everyone listening will enjoy the show even more. As his alter ego, Shoog, Blechman was slightly less articulate but just as passionate about what he does during the show. “How do I get on the air? I funk. What do I do during the show? I funk. What happens when I funk? ‘Funk Love,’” Blechman said. Guy from Across the Pond is another alter ego of Blechman’s and is often accompanied by a slew of other characters that guest host the show. “Guy from Across the Pond orgasming on the live radio,” Blechman said, “That’s the funniest thing from the show.”
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andrew burton | special projects editor Phil Blechman hosts the WERW radio show “Funk Love” by por traying different characters such as “Big Sugar Daddy B” and “Guy from Across the Pond.” Blechman star ted hosting the program as a freshman and centers on funk music and comedy.
Top 10 ways to detect whether friends are high from 4/20 festivities
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or us law-abiding citizens, yesterday was like any other day. For our weed-smoking peers, it was a national holiday. After spending the day with some cannabis-loving friends of mine (for research purposes), I now know how important April 20 really is. Imagine Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Mardi Gras all wrapped up into one fat joint celebra-
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f*** it, we’ll do it live tion complete with fireworks, beads and turkey. Now stop bathing for a
week, put on some tie-dye and replace those things with a Frisbee, video games and Taco Bell. That’s 4/20. Still, while their customs remain unique, potheads are getting better and better at hiding their lifestyle when they walk out in public. No longer can we rely on age-old indicators like bloodshot eyes, hemp clothes and bright orange fingerprints from Cheetos seasoning. We have to look deeper than that.
Now, I would never partake in such illegal shenanigans, but I do have some friends in high places. So, after studying them for a day, I’ve compiled a list of 10 easy ways to tell if your friends are high, even if they’re trying to hide it. 1. Memory loss.Studies have shown that someone under the influence of, say, Pineapple Express, will repeat themselves again and again because they
forgot they said it in the first place. 2. Sweatpants count as formal wear. And socks are downright swanky. 3. Memory loss. Studies have shown that someone under the influence of, say, Purple Haze, will repeat themselves again and again because they forgot they said it in the first place. 4. They know exactly how much money they have on their see fersh page 12
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It’s the end of the year and you don’t want to be in class anymore than you want to party on Walnut Avenue. We get it. As the sun gets brighter, it only casts a darker shadow in the classroom that has become your jail cell. However, there are ways to actually use spring fever to your advantage. We’re not saying it’s going to be easy or anything.
Suggest that class be held outside
While professors may try to hide it, we all know the truth. They want to be out and frolicking free just as much as we do. So why not take advantage of their love for the great outdoors and suggest an outdoor class session? With any luck, it’ll be held on the Quad. Here, you’re free to talk, wave and maybe even stare at some friends playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee, while everyone else hears the drone of Pavlov’s dog theories.
Plan an internship interview during the middle of the week
Unless your professor kindly refuses a paycheck from the university every month, he or she can’t discourage you from pursuing a career. With summer almost here, now’s the time most companies hold interviews for seasonal internships. Should you be asked to visit the office, make sure it’s smack-dab in the middle of the week. Just remember when you’re meandering through Los Angeles that this trip is for business, not pleasure.
Volunteer to give campus tours
You’re not cutting class, you’re fostering the future … right? While this might get you off the hook for that dreaded 8 a.m., just remember that wearing a blue and orange rugby shirt is the social equivalent of painting a big red target on your back for all your peers to see. But hey, by any means necessary, right?
Organize another Jamie Dimon protest.
Whether or not you actually support the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. as this year’s commencement speaker, protesting his arrival seems like the cool thing to do. Just tell your teacher you’re practicing your First Amendment right to free speech and you’ll be all set.
Say “Screw it” and remain under the influence until the last final. Fake it ‘till you make it, my friend. Fake it ‘till you make it.
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Student website aims to interest college students in worldwide topics By Rebecca Toback ASST. FEATURE EDITOR
After being declared the world’s youngest student reporter to have a regular news segment on national television, Patrice Innocenti needed a follow-up act. Innocenti created a segment for MSNBC, “On Campus,” when she was 18 years old. The senior broadcast journalism major decided to create the international news website, The World On Campus, based on her experiences as an on-air reporter for ABC News Now and an analyst for MSNBC. Innocenti’s site, theworldoncampus.com, targets college students, with the aim of providing them with up-to-date international news. Anyone can submit videos or written stories to the site, which is updated daily by Innocenti, the editor-in-chief. World on Campus has not only original stories, but also videos and articles from other news sources such as NBC, CBS and Reuters.
Innocenti said on a typical week she gets two original posts for the site. Devon Heinen, a fourth-year broadcast journalism and sport management major, has produced multiple stories for The World On Campus. He became involved with the site after learning about it from Innocenti, who is in his RTN 565: “Television News Producing/Anchoring” class. Heinen said he enjoys seeing his videos on the site because they have a wider reach than in the classroom. “It’s not just college kids looking at the site,” Heinen said. “People at NBC and other major networks can see it. It’s a win-win for everybody. Patrice gets good stuff for her site, and I, as a contributor, get international exposure. It’s a mutual relationship.” Heinen’s videos have been about the effects of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, the influence of social networking on college athletics and the economic results of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament being held
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in Syracuse. “With Vancouver especially, everyone had some sort of interest, so you can generate that kind of an interest with an angle that’s not talked about that often and get that many more people interested in your stuff,” Heinen said. Aiste Ptakauskaite, a graduate student in the television, radio and film program, is another contributor to World On Campus. When the website launched, Ptakauskaite said she received an e-mail about it and thought a video story she had done would be a good fit for the website. Her first story was about the life of an international student on campus and how the student kept their identity. “Patrice liked the story, she posted it and came back to me a few months later and asked me to do more stories and said my story get a lot of hits,” Ptakauskaite said. Ptakauskaite also did video stories for the website about an art diplomacy conference at Brown University and a social entrepreneur-
ship conference in Denver. “I think the website’s a good idea because it increases the voice of students,” Ptakauskaite said. “It’s not just a website, it presents a diverse community of students. The opportunities of the website are still to be explored.” “It’s important for students to be able to communicate with each other in different countries and have a place to go to express their opinions and check out what’s happening abroad,” Innocenti said. Innocenti said many people overseas have contacted her with positive feedback on the site. Her biggest efforts right now are getting more content up for people to check out, she said. “Patrice spent a lot of time and money developing the site and getting it done professionally,” Heinen said. “She’s an amazing person and going to go far — she’s going to be a big name. So, it’s cool to be a part of something as special to her as World on Campus.” rltoback@syr.edu
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Danny Bateman, a sophomore acting major, helps Blechman out whenever the opportunity arises. Playing off his last name, Bateman’s character on the show is named the Grand Master Bates. “Phil and I have very different personalities. Where he is very relaxed and goes with the flow, I like some structure and to know what’s going on,” Bateman said. “I think it makes for a good collaboration. When we are on the radio we just enjoy playing off each other.” Blechman also said he thinks it is hard to keep a strong rhythm when talking to himself in multiple voices. Having a good rhythm, Blechman believes, is an essential part of keeping listeners tuned in. No matter who is in the studio, what keeps the show strong is the passion and dedication Blechman’s characters provide. During Spring Break, both Blechman and Bateman were still in Syracuse and decided the show must go on. Because it was Spring Break, the Schine Student Center was locked and the two had to spend 30 minutes trying to get in. Eventually a group of people who were taking a night class let the pair into the studio. Katie LaMark, a freshman musical theater major, is a regular listener of “Funk Love.” “Phil’s a great guy to talk to. That’s definitely a huge part of why he’s a good radio host. He’s very candid with people.” LaMark said. “The hosts really play the part, too. They all go on with a character kind of an alter ego that’s not only fun to listen to but showcases a kind of over-the-top theatrical style that really fits the music.”
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She said her favorite part of the show was that Blechman and his guests have as much fun hosting the show as she does listening to it. Blechman’s brother, Henry, a Syracuse University alumnus from the Class of 2007, said that Phil has always loved to entertain. “Even before he was into theater, I remember him showing off card tricks to my friends,” Henry said. “That personality and talent has developed into real skills in his theater work and other projects.” Beyond talent, the characteristic Henry finds most impressive about his brother is his work ethic. He said Phil is one of the hardest-working students he knows of at SU. Although the Blechman brothers aren’t able to spend as much time together as they would like, Henry said that when they do catch up they are the best of friends. “He’s very passionate about theater and entertainment, and he puts in long hours and seemingly endless energy to accommodate all his projects,” Henry said. Kevin Murin, a sophomore communications major at Central Connecticut State University, has known Blechman for about 10 years and considers him to be his best friend. “I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t like
Phil,” Murin said. “He’s always been passionate about the things he loves and dedicated to everything he does.” Murin said that this dedication ranges from playwriting to staying awake for 19 hours to beat a video game. Although Murin doesn’t like funk music as much as Blechman does, he listens to “Funk Love” weekly to support his friend. Mary Ann Pianka, a freshman acting major, also listens to the show to support Blechman. She admitted she has a secret crush on the Guy from Across the Pond and enjoys when Blechman gives her shout-outs. Although Blechman joked that the show often gets thousands of listeners, LaMark wishes that more people knew about the show. “I think there’s a lot more a studentrun station can offer than people give it credit for,” LaMark said. For the show, Murin wishes there were a wider range of genres. “Three hours of funk is a lot,” he said. Like Murin, Bateman is a fan of other genres, but he doesn’t mind that “Funk Love” just sticks to one. “Although Phil (Blechman) may not actually know this, I didn’t start listening to funk until the radio show,” Bateman admitted. “I am more of a classic rock guy. As soon as I started listening I was sucked in. There is something that is groovy to it, and every song is completely different.” Blechman said he would one day love to go into a career in radio and take “Funk Love” to the professional level. In the meantime, he conveyed his favorite part of being the DJ of “Funk Love”: “The Funk. And the Love. And thinking that it makes girls find me more attractive.” abbienst@ syr.edu
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SUpercard account. There’s only so much money you can spend on the midnight pizza slice-popcorn chicken-quesadilla combo with fries and a burger before you start keeping track of expenditures. 5. Short attention span. The average pothead can look at you for about 10 seconds before something shiny distracts them. Don’t worry — that doesn’t mean you’re boring … it’s just fun to look at shiny things. Like mirrors. Or computer screens. Or bald people. Hehe … bald people … What were we talking about again? 6. Memory loss. Studies have shown that someone under the influence of, say, Blueberry Yum-yum will repeat themselves again and again because they forgot they said it in the first place. 7. They can’t speak in complete sentences. This isn’t so much a product of mental failure as it is a byproduct of eating Doritos by the bag. 8. They watch the History Channel after midnight. It’s amazing how their re-enactments seem more realistic — and more suspenseful — every time. 9. They can’t stop giggling. OK, this one’s obvious, but it’s still a foolproof sobriety test. Let’s face it — if a corny joke, a crappy humor column or Dane Cook is making someone laugh, there are probably drugs involved. 10. Memory loss. Studies have shown that someone under the influence of, say, Bo Jackson Cabbage will repeat themselves again and again because they forgot they said it in the first place. Danny Fersh is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and his column appears every Wednesday. He’ll be signing Crunchwrap Supremes tomorrow night at Kimmel for anyone interested. He can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.
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hen dining at an ethnic restaurant, it’s important to approach the experience with an open mind. Unfortunately, an open mind won’t make The Black Olive’s food taste any better, lower its unreasonable prices or improve the poor service. Located in Armory Square for a little more than a year, The Black Olive specializes in Mediterranean cuisine. The menu is loaded with classic Greek dishes such as gyros, souvlaki and falafel, with some American standards such as burgers, turkey sandwiches and french fries sprinkled in. On a recent weeknight visit to The Black Olive, it was surprising to see only two or three open tables in the medium-sized dining room. The room was populated by couples and a few large parties, but despite the crowd, there was no wait to be seated. The décor in The Black Olive is rich and romantic. Tables and chairs are made from dark cherry wood and crisp, white tablecloths add a formal, but not stuffy, feel. Rust-colored walls and dim lighting enhance the mellow vibe, along with Greek paintings and gold accents scattered throughout the restaurant. The meal began with pikilia ($9), which was a delectable appetizer dish that was perhaps the highlight of the night. A large platter loaded with lots of warm pita triangles was paired with four different Greek spreads: classic hummus, tzatziki sauce, roasted pepper hummus and a garlic-potato mash. Each spread was singularly delicious, and some tasted even better when combined. The tzatziki was especially tasty, as the cool, cucumber-flavored yogurt was the perfect complement to the toasty pita bread. However, the enjoyment of the scrumptious appetizer was slightly marred by the lack of plates, silverware and napkins. After trying to grab the server’s attention for a solid 10 minutes, she finally took notice and delivered the missing items. For dinner, the Cyprus Shrimp ($14) was not nearly as appetizing as the menu’s description — and the price — suggested. A single skewer of spiced, grilled shrimp was served with a small helping of roasted vegetables. The shrimp’s char-grill flavor was intense, overpowering both the delicate taste of the shrimp and the spices. The vegetable mixture, which included potatoes, yellow squash, carrots and broccoli, was well flavored, but the soggy texture made the side dish unappealing overall.
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Pikilia appetizer.
One of the quirkiest options on the menu is the Athena Burger ($7.50), a sandwich topped with a fried egg and bacon and served with a side of orzo pasta. While the burger was tasty enough and the breakfast-friendly additions made for an interesting flavor, the portion size belonged on the kid’s menu. Order this for dinner and plan to stop at a nearby pizza joint afterward, as you’ll probably still be hungry. The burger’s side dish didn’t help the situation. The only detectable flavors in the bland orzo were butter and salt. To make matters worse, the flavorless pasta was served lukewarm. Dessert, thankfully, provided another bright spot in the meal. Delicious homemade chocolate chip cheesecake, topped with fresh whipped cream, made the dinner’s not-so-appealing memories fade fast. Overall, the experience at The Black Olive was mixed. Lows like the soggy vegetables and absentee silverware were balanced by Greek peaks like the yummy Pikilia and decadent cheesecake. If you can handle the ups and downs, The Black Olive is worth going Greek for. mcmurp05 @ syr.edu
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doesn’t display them because he doesn’t like the attention.” With his coaching pedigree, Donahue could have easily landed a paid coaching position at another Division I university. But he said he’d rather stay behind the scenes. He loves teaching at West Genesee way too much. “I think if he wasn’t working up (at Syracuse), I think he’d still be right over at West Genny,” said Bob Deegan, a former colleague of Donahue’s at Camillus Middle School.
The Golden Boy Syracuse head coach John Desko first noticed Donahue’s knack for teaching and leading in high school. During their time on the West Genesee High School lacrosse team in the early 1970s, Desko constantly teased Donahue for being the brainiac of the bunch. Each time the coaches praised Donahue in front of his teammates, it gave Desko more ammunition to fire off another joke. “We used to call him the Golden Boy when he played in high school because he was the guy that was always doing the right things and the one coaches used as an example to the rest of the team,” Desko said. “He was always a serious student and a committed athlete.” The Golden Boy eventually brought his Midas touch to Syracuse, where he co-captained the Orangemen alongside Desko to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 1979 and collected All-American honors for manning the team’s midfield three times, making first team in his final season. Meanwhile, off the lacrosse field, Donahue assembled his own collection of academic
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awards. In true Golden Boy form, he claimed dean’s list honors as he pursued a bachelor’s degree in biology. “When I had time to watch TV, I ended up gravitating to the science shows or doing my own readings on science,” Donahue said. “The material was just naturally interesting to me.” That passion for science paid off. Upon graduating from SU, Donahue immediately landed a job as a science teacher at Camillus Middle School. But in the process, he never once abandoned his passion for lacrosse. He needed athletics to complement his academic obligations. For the following seven years, Donahue served as the middle school lacrosse coach and as the JV assistant coach at West Genesee High School. That was until he got the call.
The coach Bob Deegan remembers when Donahue was offered a voluntary position on Roy Simmons Jr.’s coaching staff. Deegan, then a colleague at Camillus Middle School and the JV coach at West Genesee High School, said both he and Donahue were torn over the circumstances. The opportunity to reunite with Desko and Simmons was appealing. The opportunity to leave a successful high school program that he established wasn’t. “It was a big decision,” Deegan said. “He was a big part of our success at the high school here, too. He questioned the hassle and thought, ‘Am I going to be able to work it out where I can teach here, get up there on time, and still do the same kind of job as a teacher?’” But that wasn’t the only stipulation. Donahue needed his wife’s blessing. By accepting the job, he would essentially inherit the burden of two full-time jobs, leaving little time for family life. That meant less time to talk. Less time for romantic outings. And a few more lonely nights. Despite all the detractions, Laurie Donahue encouraged her husband to resurrect the Golden Boy legacy and impart that knowledge to the future of Syracuse lacrosse. And Donahue claims he is forever indebted to her. “My wife allows me to do this,” Donahue said. “She takes care of all the bills, the food being on the table, everything being washed. Without all the things she does, I wouldn’t have been able to do this at all. I’m up to here doing everything I do as is, but without her help doing all that, this would be impossible.” Donahue would be rewarded for his bold decision. In his first season on Simmons’ staff, he inherited the opportunity to mentor two talented twins from British Columbia — Paul and Gary Gait. And the Gait brothers flourished under his tutelage, collectively shattering NCAA scoring records and leading the Orangemen to two NCAA titles. They would eventually be inducted into the National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame. But his list of his midfield protégés doesn’t stop there. Charlie Lockwood. Roy Colsey. Steve Vallone. His résumé is overflowing with stars he produced. “A lot of that success at Syracuse is because of him,” said Deegan, who still coaches at West Genesee. “You can see it right away. He has a knack for saying the right thing at the right time. It’s not an accident. He’s been through it. He’s studied it. He’s confident in what he’s doing and he’s good at what he does.” Once Desko took over in 1999, Donahue’s responsibilities as an assistant coach expanded even more. In addition to working with the midfielders, he was assigned to develop the squad’s faceoff men — an integral aspect of the Syracuse offense. It’s been Donahue’s specialty. Most notably, he molded Danny Brennan — a key cog in the Orange’s 2008 championship run — into a faceoff machine. During his senior year, Brennan etched his name into the record books, leading the nation with a 66.7 faceoff winning percentage.
daily orange file photo kevin donahue (right) was a three-time All-American midfielder for Syracuse from 1977-79. He helped direct SU to the program’s first NCAA tournament berth as a senior. “If you look at Syracuse lacrosse and the stats of our faceoff guys, Kevin (Donahue) is a huge part of that,” Desko said. “He’s scouting the other team, getting guys ready for different techniques, evaluating our guys as far as which techniques they should be using against the opposing players. “He’s a very important part of our coaching staff, and (there’s) not a lot of free time in the day for him, but he gets it all done.” And Donahue has nine championship rings to show for it.
The family man Despite his success in both realms, Donahue continues to question his ability to juggle his responsibilities. When he first joined the SU coaching staff, Donahue only had his wife to worry about. Along the way, though, he became a father of three children — two boys and one girl. That’s where things get difficult. Donahue makes every effort to spend time with his family. He said he tries to have dinner with them. But it doesn’t usually happen. After practices, Donahue usually allocates time to evaluating game film and organizing his lesson plans for the following morning. The latter has proven to be a challenge, considering West Genesee recently implemented the use of SMART Board technology into its curriculum. “He’s actually had to work harder this year and with more passion because he has so much more information to express,” said Collin, his eldest son and a junior attack for the Orange. “He still has a lot to learn.” He’s still learning how to deal with scheduling conflicts, too. Two weeks ago, Donahue’s
youngest son, Dylan, played a lacrosse game against Baldwinsville High School — the team coached by his brother. Among family members, it was billed as the battle between the Donahues. Unfortunately for Kevin, he couldn’t attend. He was busy with his coaching commitments. “It killed me not being there,” Donahue said with his voice softening. “I don’t like missing their games. But I try to make it up to them other ways.” And Collin recognizes that. Growing up, he experienced his share of games without his father in attendance. But Collin said he always atoned for his absences during the school week. “As hard as he worked, he always seemed to put aside a few minutes here and there to do things he enjoyed with us,” Collin said. “He would have time to come out to the front yard and shoot around with us and do other things.” Those “other things” also included some science talk. In addition to inheriting his father’s love for lacrosse, Collin also gained an affinity for science. And by college, he decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and pursue a degree in earth science education. But that’s what Donahue lives for. Whether it’s his son, his students or his players, he relishes the opportunity to instruct and influence anyone willing to learn. “He’s the reason I’ve been shooting so well this year,” said Miller, the SU midfielder. “And honestly, he treats me exactly like he treated me in class. He’s always upbeat. He’s a great teacher and listener. I think he’s literally one of the hidden secrets in college lacrosse.” dsmorais@syr.edu
Who is kevin Donahue?
For 22 years, Kevin Donahue has roamed the sidelines as a vital assistant coach for Roy Simmons Jr. and John Desko. But for all of that time, Donahue has also been a full-time eighth-grade earth science teacher at West Genesee Middle School. Even with the juggling act between his two careers, Donahue has racked up Hall of Fame-like vitals during his time as a player and coach at SU: •Three-time All-American as a midfielder at SU (1977-79) •Former SU head coach Roy Simmons Jr.’s first first-team All-American (1979) •High school and collegiate teammate of SU head coach John Desko at Camillus’ West Genesee High School •As a first-team All-American as a senior, led SU to its first NCAA tournament invitation (1979) •A part of nine national championship teams as a coach •Jay Gallagher Award (national assistant coach of the year) winner (2001) •Inducted into the Upstate New York chapter of the Lacrosse Hall of Fame (2006)
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DePetris’ infectious energy carries Orange into matchup with local rival By Brad Kallet Staff Writer
Jackie DePetris was on a mission. She was moving from one teammate to another, asking, ‘Are you coming?’ ‘Are you coming?’ And every one of her teammates nodded with enthusiasm. ‘Yes, I am!’ The senior attack and co-captain was in charge of a talent show for SU athletes later that evening and insisted that her entire team come and support the cause. Right in the midst Who: Cornell of the season, it is Where: Schoellkopf Field unlikely that these When: Today players wanted to spend their free evening sitting in Goldstein Auditorium and watching athletes flaunt their unusual abilities. But the entire team showed up for their captain. DePetris, one of three captains on No. 10 Syracuse (9-4, 4-1 Big East), will lead her team into Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, N.Y., on Wednesday to take on Cornell (4-7, 3-3 Ivy League). Though DePetris is by no means the most explosive player on SU, she was voted to be the lone offensive captain by her teammates in the fall. While her quality play makes her a candidate to receive this honor, her eccentric personality and constant drive are what really make DePetris a special teammate. “I mean, she’s a great teammate,” senior midfielder Christina Dove said. “She’s always positive, and I think that’s the main component.
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She’s always upbeat and trying to get everyone fired up, and I think that’s really important in keeping our team together and keeping everyone in good spirits.” DePetris leads in a way that is consistent with her warm and affable demeanor. Freshman attack Michelle Tumolo said fellow co-captain and junior goalkeeper Liz Hogan is the fieriest of the captains, motivating her team by pumping them up with words of encouragement. But DePetris has her own style. The Radnor, Pa., native maintains her composure and remains calm, assuring the players that they have what it takes to succeed. “Jackie (DePetris) is one of the most positive people you’ll ever meet,” senior defender Eileen Finn said. “She perks everyone up and always has your back, no matter what.” Though DePetris has had a very solid career as a member of the Orange, she has seen her ups and downs. Her best season came in her sophomore campaign in 2008. DePetris started 18 of 21 games that season and scored 21 goals. But last season, her role in the team’s offense dramatically lessened. DePetris didn’t start in any game and only had five goals on the season, a significant drop-off from the year prior. In her final season, DePetris is starting again for head coach Gary Gait and is producing like she was when she was an underclassman. In 13 games this season, she has amassed 17 goals and two assists while picking up 10 ground balls. Gait is pleased with DePetris’ return to form
jamie de pould | staff photographer jackie depetris (left) has co-captained Syracuse to a 9-4 start this year. DePetris has scored 17 goals while taking on a more active leadership role in her senior season. from two years ago, but he also acknowledges that it is her dedication off the field that makes her stand out. DePetris usually heads up the numerous community service initiatives in which her team is involved. Above all, DePetris loves having the opportunity to provide guidance to her younger teammates. She understands the importance of making the less-experienced players feel comfortable. “It’s been really exciting,” DePetris said. “It’s fun because we have a lot of freshmen, which means a lot of new faces. And with that there is a lot of teaching. And they teach me because I’m becoming more of a leader in my own way.”
Gait is the first to admit that he is thrilled to have DePetris serving in a leadership position. Not only does he feel that she is an exceptional role model, but he also believes that her ability to communicate with her teammates makes her such a valuable commodity. “She’s been through it all, from starting to not starting to starting again,” Gait said. “It’s nice to have somebody on the team that you can talk to who has that experience, that has been around, and is outgoing and willing to help. It makes my job a little easier.” bckallet@syr.edu
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Orange sees matchup against Cardinals as proving ground By Mark Cooper Staff Writer
aaron katchen | staff photographer veronica grant will be a part of the first nationally televised games in program history when SU faces Louisville Wednesday. Grant said she is nervous for the contests.
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that level of pressure. “She sent me a few Bible passages, and that
helps me keep a peaceful mind,” Grant said. “So I brought those with me, and I’m going to read it on the plane and probably before we play.” Ross can repeat the message of “it’s just another game” as much as she wants, but this time it doesn’t apply.
When Syracuse steps onto the field against Louisville Wednesday, it will be more than just another Big East doubleheader. The Orange is fighting history. A history of Cardinals dominance over SU. Louisville is consistently near the top of the Big East standings. Syracuse is typically in the middle of the pack. Louisville has won eight of nine games against the Orange all-time, and Syracuse has never won on the Cardinals’ home field. “This is a big day for us to prove (ourselves),” head coach Leigh Ross said. “(Assistant) coach (Wally) King said it a few weekends back. ‘It’s time to prove if you’re pretenders or contenders.’” The Orange (23-17, 7-4 Big East) is third in the Big East standings, and Louisville (27-15, 6-5) is tied for fifth. A pair of wins in Wednesday’s doubleheader would strengthen the Orange’s hold on a top-three position. The Orange would put itself in prime contention for second place. It would be two wins over a team that SU beat for the first time in school history last season — a pretty bold statement for the Orange to make. A statement to catch the attention of the rest of the Big East. “In the Big East, we’re known as the underdogs,” sophomore Lisaira Daniels said. “People don’t pay as much attention to us. (They think) that they can just run all over us. It’s really important for us to win.” In order for Syracuse to make that statement, it must get off to a quick start. The difference between the wins and losses in Big East play for the Orange is intensity at the start of games. The team has proven that when it comes out of the gate focused, it can play with anybody. “We love being visitors,” sophomore Stephanie Watts said. “If we score in the first couple innings, that keeps the morale high for the rest of the game.” The Orange is coming off a weekend series in which it took two of three from Villanova. The team finished on a strong note, blowing out the Wildcats 11-1 Sunday. Jenna Caira was the win-
Except to sophomore Lisaira Daniels. Daniels, a transfer from Georgia, has grown accustomed to playing in front of a television audience. Last year in Athens, Ga., she played the final seven games of the season on either ESPN or ESPN2 as the Bulldogs made a run to the NCAA Women’s College World Series. But she still remembers the butterflies that she felt the first time playing in front of the cameras. “(I thought), first of all, I’m a freshman. Second of all, I’m starting, now they are making cameras involved and it’s going to be on ESPN,” Daniels said. “… So yeah, of course I was freaking out.” Daniels hopes that the pressure won’t affect the way her teammates play. Wednesday gives the team a chance to spread the Syracuse name across the country from a softball standpoint. After all, the team is just three years removed from a 21-31 season in which it started 2-13. This year’s team sits third in the Big East standings, only one game out of second place. Ross sees the chance to play on ESPNU as
ning pitcher in both of the games. Louisville played Big East powerhouse Notre Dame last weekend and handed the Fighting Irish its first loss in conference play all season. Part of the reason that Louisville is behind Syracuse in the standings is that the Cardinals are 2-4 against the top two teams in the Big East — Notre Dame and DePaul. Meanwhile, Syracuse has not played a team better than ninth in the Big East. The Orange did play 10 games against ranked teams in nonconference play. But those were weeks ago, and Syracuse went 1-9 in those 10 games. Ross still sees the experience against those ranked teams as an advantage. Syracuse also has experience against Louisville’s ace pitcher, Kristen Wadwell. The Orange scored eight runs in the nine and one-third innings Wadwell pitched against the team last season. “I think we played teams that are higher than Louisville’s caliber,” Ross said. “The key for us is to get past (Wadwell). By looking at (Louisville’s) record and the way things are going, teams are getting on her early. If we can get past Wadwell, then we’ll have a good shot.” Syracuse also has to worry about Louisville’s leadoff hitter and catcher, Melissa Roth. Roth leads the Big East as of Sunday with a .455 batting average and 14 home runs. She’s also a dual threat, with 13 stolen bases in 15 attempts. Roth hit two doubles in the two games against Syracuse last season. “Maybe she’ll have a bad day,” Ross said laughing. The Orange would be 9-4 in conference with a sweep Wednesday and in prime position to set itself up with a good seed for the Big East tournament. Syracuse has not won a game in the tournament since 2005. History points against the Orange. But this year’s team feels like it can reverse that. “If we beat Louisville, nothing can get in our way,” Daniels said. “I don’t want to predict the future, but I would love to win both games.” mcooperj@syr.edu
a way to help build the program in the future. It isn’t often that prospects in the western half of the country can watch SU play, so a big-time performance tomorrow can leave an imprint in their minds come signing time. “It will be nice for us to represent Syracuse on a national level,” she said. “I think it says (people) are starting to recognize where our program has gone and where it’s going. … I know for me it will be really good because I can make sure all of the recruits I have on my e-mail list know to watch us.” Still, Ross knows it can’t be all business tomorrow on the field. She told her players to go out and have fun when they play and to simply enjoy the opportunity. Words she may live by during the fourth inning of tomorrow’s game. As part of ESPNU’s coverage, Ross will conduct a live interview from down on the field. Not sure what to say, she asked a friend what she should do during her moment in the spotlight. Said Ross: “He said to cuss like a sailor and make it memorable.” mjcohe02@syr.edu
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Despite lack of size, Lade keys defense By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Copy Editor
At first glance, John Lade doesn’t look like a defender to his own teammates. “I’d say no,” said freshman defender Brian Megill, taking second and third looks at Lade on the practice field Tuesday. “I mean, now that I see him now, I know John’s a great defenseman. But seeing him for the first time, I couldn’t see him being a defenseman, really.” Lade’s not a prototypical defender. Doesn’t look like one, at least. Coming in at 5 feet 11 inches and 190 pounds, Lade is a far cry from the 6-foot-plus, 200-plus-pound Megill and Matt Tierney that accompany him on the starting defensive line. Despite the lack of classic defender size, Lade has become the Syracuse men’s lacrosse team’s go-to defender. Since returning to the lineup after missing the Orange’s first three games with a thigh injury, Lade has keyed an SU defense that has allowed just 7.1 goals per game since his return. Case in point: Matched up with Princeton attack Jack McBride — who scores 2.4 goals per game — on April 10, Lade kept him scoreless. Matched up just three days later with Cornell attack Rob Pannell, who came into the game scoring more than five points per game, Lade held him to just three assists. “You can see the difference,” Megill said. “In the first three games, we gave up a lot of goals. When John came back, ever since then, me, him and Matt (Tierney) have just been really gelling.” But it wasn’t always this effortless for Lade, who had to work against odds stacked against him of becoming the go-to defender on the No. 1 team in the country. Odds that revolved around his frame. The questions started coming after high school, as Lade was overlooked by numerous Division I lacrosse programs. As his former Randolph (N.J.) High School teammate Mike Horowitz recalls, Lade’s recruiting visit to Penn State ended in head coach Glenn Thiel telling him he was too small. “And John basically told them,” Horowitz said, “‘You’re going to be sorry.’” Lade was frustrated at the coaches’ sentiments. So, he went to work to disprove them. “Coming out of high school, it was definitely a little chip on my shoulder,” Lade said. “I got overlooked by some of the bigger schools because of my size.” Lade ended up at Villanova in 2007. That’s where Syracuse longstick midfielder Joel White first noticed him. Later on, White got a chance to play with Lade on the U.S. Under-19 team that won the gold medal in the International Lacrosse Federation Championship in the summer of 2008. White saw past Lade’s size. Despite being 3 inches shorter than any other defender on the team, Lade stood out the most to White. Syracuse was losing senior starting defender Kyle Guadagnolo and Evan Brady after its 2008 national championship season. So, White put in a good word. “I started talking to him and got to know him,” White said. “I knew we lost Kyle and Evan Brady that year, so I kind of told him, ‘Hey man, if you want to come over, we’re going to have two spots open.’ “He was hesitant at first, but I kept talking
alex pines | staff photographer john lade (center) has become the key cog in a Syracuse defense, holding opponents to just 7.6 goals per game. After sitting out the Orange’s first three games of the season due to a thigh injury, Lade has helped propel SU to an eight-game winning streak. to him and was in his ear about getting him to come here. … I knew he would do great here.” And upon Lade’s transfer to SU before the 2009 season, White saw immediately just how Lade adjusts to the lack of prototypical size — through speed, instincts and a ball-hawk mentality. Speed, as in when Lade caught up to the Tigers’ McBride after McBride got by him and prevented him from getting off a shot. Instincts, like when Lade seems to know which way the attack wants to dodge toward the goal. The ballhawk mentality, like when Lade jumped a pass to Pannell in the final seconds of the Orange’s game against Cornell and started SU’s gamewinning sequence. And those have all led Lade to become the player he is today. In time, everyone learns there’s more to Lade than his frame. “You know that cliché,” Megill said. “It’s not the size of the dog. It’s the size of the fight in the dog. You don’t have to be the biggest guy on defense to cover the biggest guy. You just have to have good skills and good fundamentals. And John’s got all of that.” bplogiur@syr.edu
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For the first time since losing to Virginia on March 7, the Syracuse men’s lacrosse team found itself as the top-ranked team in the country when the new polls were released Monday.
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1. Syracuse 2. Virginia 3. North Carolina ( 4. Maryland 5. Duke 6. Princeton 7. Loyola (Md.) 8. Cornell 9. Villanova 10. Drexel
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Syracuse to play program’s 1st televised game By Michael Cohen Staff Writer
Syracuse head coach Leigh Ross said she would relish the opportunity to play in front of a national audience. She’d take full advantage of the chance to make herself known to the entire country. “I know for me, if I was a player, I’d really want to show off,” she said. Who: Louisville “I’d want to Where: Ulmer Stadium really give When: Today, 1 p.m. my best perChannel: ESPNU formance and let them see what I’m all about.” And as the players prepare for arguably the biggest day in program history, those words reverberate in their heads. Wednesday marks the first time in school history that Syracuse softball (23-17, 7-4 Big East) will play in a nationally televised game. ESPNU will carry both games of the Orange’s doubleheader with Louisville (27-15, 6-5) live from Ulmer Stadium in Kentucky at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. These are the only Big East softball games to be broadcast on the network this season. The television atmosphere is an unfamiliar experience for nearly every player on the SU roster. Whether they like it or not, nerves will play a major role in the first few innings of play. That holds especially true for freshman Veronica Grant. As the leadoff hitter on the visiting Orange, Grant will be the first to step into the batter’s box and the limelight Wednesday. She turned to her mother for support when trying to deal with see national tv page 16
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will halsey | asst. photo editor kevin donahue has been a part of nine Syracuse championships during his 22-year tenure as a volunteer assistant coach, while at the same time teaching middle school science. Donahue has mentored past SU greats Charlie Lockwood, Roy Colsey, and Gary and Paul Gait.
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t’s 3:30 p.m., and Kevin Donahue is already running late to practice. With a game against Rutgers only three days away, the assistant coach of the men’s lacrosse team should have already started strategizing with his fellow coaches. So far, he’s nowhere to be found. Finally, 15 minutes into practice, Donahue saunters down the stairs of Hookway Field and nonchalantly takes his place on the sidelines with a lacrosse stick in hand. For the last 22 years, this has been
Donahue’s life. Despite playing an integral role in nine of the program’s 11 championships, the assistant coach has never received a single paycheck from Syracuse University. None. He works for free. To make ends meet, Donahue has spent the last 31 years working as an earth science teacher in the West Genesee Central School District, primarily teaching eighth-graders at West Genesee Middle School. The double duty has left Donahue to shoulder the burden of a hectic schedule. “I’m up at 6, work by 7,” Donahue said. “I work until 3 teaching at school. Then I change and drive to practice at 3:30. I get home around 7. Watch tape for a couple hours. Say hi to my wife at 10 o’clock and go to bed around 10:30.”
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For past 22 years, Donahue has helped coach SU for free while teaching middle school science
So the occasional tardiness should be expected. But when does it become too much? Doesn’t he ever question his ability to juggle both? “Just a couple hours ago,” Donahue said with a slight hint of sarcasm.
Mr. Donahue Most of Donahue’s students at West Genesee don’t know about their teacher’s alter ego. In the classroom, he is recognized as Mr. Donahue, an expert on potential and kinetic energy. The students, however, aren’t aware that Mr. Donahue once emitted kinetic energy as a lacrosse player and now enacts potential energy on the sidelines. It took Jovan Miller, a junior midfielder and one of Donahue’s former middle school pupils, until high school to discover his former teacher’s other identity. During eighth grade, he had absolutely no clue. And Donahue wants to keep it that way. “I’d rather not tell (my students),” Donahue said. “I don’t
want them to see me in that light, to be honest with you. I don’t think they need to know. I’m their science teacher and that’s what I do.” Of course, every once in a while his cover is blown. About two weeks ago, a student caught a glimpse of Donahue on television and burst into class the following day to reveal the news. “I saw you on TV yesterday,” the student said to Donahue. “I hope I wasn’t picking my nose,” he responded to deflect the attention. That’s simply Donahue’s personality. When his colleagues at West Genesee congratulate him on a victory, he politely accepts the praise and initiates a new conversation. Boasting isn’t a part of his repertoire. His brother, Tom, understands that better than anyone. Just ask him where his brother keeps his nine championship rings. “They’re somewhere in a sock drawer at his house,” Tom said. “He see Mr. donahue page 14
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Top dogs Syracuse defender John Lade
is anchoring an Orange defense riding high on an eight-game winning streak. SU also recently reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in the nation. Page 17