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Mikela Almeida, a junior on the rowing team, was at a party one weekend night when she felt violated. The boy she danced with was drunk and made her feel uncomfortable. So she asked one of her male athlete friends to help her out, and he took care of the situation. “It was a situation I was never put in before, so I commend (my friend),” she said. Nearly 50 students gathered at Goldstein Student Center on Monday night to discuss sexual assault on campus with a panel of nine Syracuse University athletes. The
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taylor miller | asst. photo editor Amadou gueye, chandler jones and lucy schoedel , a freshman member of the track and field team, a junior football player and a senior women’s hockey player, respectively, discuss sexual assault on campus during a panel with six other Syracuse University student-athletes Monday night.
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ilic Stevanovic, a senior finance and accounting major, always knew he wanted to go into business but was nervous about entering the job market. “I honestly did not see myself graduating and getting a job right off the bat just because the economy was so bad, and I was getting rejected left and right,” Stevanovic said. With the unemployment rate currently at 10.2 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for seniors to graduate and immediately enter the job force is bleak. Students are turning to internships and undergraduate programs to bridge the time between graduation and full-time jobs. Despite a difficult job market, the prospects for this year’s graduating class look a little better than last year’s.
When Stevanovic was offered a paid internship with accounting firm RSM McGladrey and Pullen, it seemed like a good way to build his résumé and spend a summer before returning to school to pursue a master’s degree in accounting. He said this is becoming a standard procedure for students planning to become certified public accountants. “Everything so far has been going according to plan, and after graduation I’ll be interning at RSM and hopefully be offered a full-time position for after graduate school,” Stevanovic said. Michael Cahill, director of the Center for Career Services at Syracuse University, said most seniors who visit Career Services plan for jobs or graduate school after graduation, but there has always been a willingness to accept an internship with a company if it leads to a job offer. Traditionally, more seniors enter graduate school
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during poor economic times, Cahill said. About 21 percent of the Class of 2009 planned to go on to graduate school. “At this stage, that’s not the preference students would have,” Cahill said about the opportunity for seniors to take internships. “So that’s not the priority of seniors to look for internships. They’re still looking for permanent jobs. They would prefer to have that, but at the same time they may be looking at opportunities that will bridge the summer while they continue to look for full-time jobs.” Summer internships are a lastminute opportunity to help build résumés or provide an opportunity to “try something on” before looking at it seriously as a job, Cahill said. He has only talked to a handful of seniors looking for internships and does not consider there to be too many more students accepting internships post-
The New York State Board of Regents unanimously voted April 20 to approve a pilot program allowing non-university institutions, such as Teach for America, to create their own master’s degrees programs in education. “In a sense, we’re trying to promote a revolution,” said Saul Cohen, an at-large member of the Board of Regents. Under the program, a student teacher will be granted a master’s degree in education from the Board of Regents after receiving on-the-job training through alternative educational groups like Teach for America. But officials in Teach for America and education schools said they are unsure of the program’s potential effectiveness. The program was created in response to increasing criticism about the underpreparedness and lack of practical training education schools provide to teachers. Teach for America recruits college students to serve as teachers in low-performing schools throughout the country, and the New York City Teaching Fellows program recruits people from different professional backgrounds with no teaching education. The point of the program is to ensure internships and classroom experiences are integral parts of new teacher training. It will follow a medical model, in the sense that medical professionals need to undergo a residency period in a hospital to practice medicine, Cohen said. The hope is that this program will have teachers undergo the same experiential training in a classroom, he said. “I don’t know how I feel about it. I think you should have a formal education, actually,” said Jen Britton, a freshman elementary and special education major. The majority of the funding will come from the U.S. Department of Education’s “Race for the Top Fund.” The fund is for “states that are leadsee degree page 6
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graduation than normal due to tough economic times, he said. SU typically sees about 75 to 80 percent of students employed full time within six months of graduation and 15 to 20 percent moving onto graduate school, Cahill said. Statistics from the Class of 2008 show 77 percent employed and 18 percent entering see internships page 6
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Senate Republicans voted to block the start of floor debate on the Financial Oversight Bill, The New York Times reported. Democrats needed 60 votes to cut off the filibuster, an obstructionist tactic being utilized by Senate Republicans, but fell short with only 57 votes. Republicans accused Democrats of rushing the process, and they said they are determined to win significant changes to the bill. Yet Democrats said there was a broad agreement between the two parties on a majority of the legislation, and the Republicans were just stalling the agreement. Democrats also accused Republicans of leaving the country vulnerable to another financial crisis by siding with wealthy Wall Street interests. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska decided to vote with Republicans because he was concerned over the tightening of the rules on derivatives trading. A derivative is a financial instrument that has a value determined by the future price of something else. Although the Democrats thought they had reached an agreement on most of the bill beforehand, Republicans had warned for a week that they planned to oppose the current form of the Financial Oversight Bill. Majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada changed his mind at the last minute, as he decided to side with Republicans on the bill, according to The New York Times. Strategically, this allows Reid to call for a repeat vote when he is ready. In the next few days, the regulatory discussion is expected to answer a question raised by Republican Senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. He is concerned whether the Financial Oversight Bill still houses loopholes that could allow for future taxpayer-financed bailouts. Democrats say the bill is proposed specifically to prevent such catastrophic bailouts. But Republicans insist these bailouts are still possible in the current bill, as the language presumes losses for shareholders and creditors of failing firms, according to The New York Times. Despite the wording of the current bill, some Republican senators are weary to continue delaying an agreement on the Financial Oversight Bill. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that he eventually expects some Republicans to support the bill and reach a bipartisan agreement. A new urgency by Senate Democrats developed this past weekend, as party leaders are trying to squeeze major energy bills and immigration reform into an already full Congressional calendar. With the current economic climate, both Republicans and Democrats agree that they expect Congress to approve of an overhaul of the financial regulatory system eventually. The overhaul is expected to be the most sweeping reform since the aftermath of the Great Depression, according to The New York Times.
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Former EIC faces forgery, theft charges By Kathleen Ronayne Asst. News Editor
A junior newspaper journalism major at Syracuse University was issued an appearance ticket Sunday for petit larceny and forgery in the third degree, two Class A misdemeanors, according to a Syracuse police report. The student, Stephanie Musat, was editor in chief of The Daily Orange in fall 2009 and enterprise editor in spring 2010. Musat was let go from The Daily Orange due to a violation of staff policies on March 23. Police issued the ticket to Musat at 6:10 p.m. at her home on Sumner Avenue Sunday, according to the report. The charges were committed February 21, and Musat is scheduled to appear in court May 7, according to the report. kronayne@ syr.edu
Carrier to fund green research By Meghin Delaney Staff Writer
Carrier Corporation will donate $ 35,000 to Syracuse University’s Sustainable Enterprise Partnership, a program aimed to further research in sustainability, the corporation announced Thursday. The announcement of this donation coincided with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a perfect time, said Lisa Cleckner, assistant director of operations at the Center of Excellence. “Earth Day is a good time to announce something like this,” she said. “Companies are recognizing the responsibilities they play to the environment.” Carrier partnered with SU to further develop SU’s sustainability goals, which Carrier supports, said John Mandyck, vice president of sustainability and environmental strategies at Carrier. As part of the program, Carrier will have experts speak to students as guest lecturers, provide mini-grants and help with curriculum development. “We believe that solutions to today’s environmental challenges require new thinking that Syracuse University can deliver to students through sustainability partnerships like those with Car-
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carly piersol | photo editor jon barnhart, Student Association president, further explains SA’s statement on the commencement speaker selection process, released April 18. SA said it supported the process by which JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon was selected.
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Student Association continues to support the university’s decision process for choosing commencement speaker Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., SA President Jon Barnhart said during SA’s Monday night meeting. The meeting was advertised to the student body as an open forum in which students could ask SA any ques-
tions regarding actions it has taken the past semester or its future plans or offer suggestions. Only a handful of students outside the Assembly showed up to the forum. During the meeting, SA’s recent statement in support of the commencement speaker selection process was discussed. After a two and a half hour meeting among cabinet members on April 14, SA decided to release a statement about its stance on the overall process,
Barnhart said. “The cabinet came to an ultimatum that we did want to send a statement,” he said. “The best thing we could do was look into the process and see if the process was followed.” Students in the Class of 2010 had the opportunity to make nominations for commencement. Class marshals, who serve on the commencement speaker selection committee, narrowed down the list to 15 possible speakers, Barn-
hart said. Dimon was among the 15 names on the list presented to the administration. Barnhart compared the selection process to University Union’s process to choose Block Party acts. Students make nominations for who they would like to see at Block Party, and a shorter list is compiled based on student input. UU chooses who will perform based on costs and who is available. see sa page 4
Pepsi donates $1.5 million to SU veteran entrepreneurship program By Joe Genco Staff Writer
PepsiCo Inc. will donate more than $1.5 million during the next three years to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans, a program run through the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, the company announced Thursday at a press conference in Times Square. PepsiCo will donate money from its new “Dream Machine” recycling kiosks to the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans, or EBV, a program that teaches entrepreneurship skills
to disabled United States veterans and helps them start their own businesses. PepsiCo will donate $500,000 to EBV each year for the next three years, and it will give an additional $250,000 for every 10 million pounds of material collected in the Dream Machines, said Joe Jacuzzi, a PepsiCo spokesman. The machines are electric recycling kiosks for bottles and cans that keep track of how much people recycle with a rewards program through greenopolis.com. A Facebook page was created for the Dream Machine program Wednesday.
PepsiCo already has kiosks in operation in California and North Carolina and plans to have 3,000 installed by the end of the year, Jacuzzi said. The fact that the Dream Machines will benefit veterans will get more people motivated to recycle, Jacuzzi said. Even in places where it is accessible, people don’t always participate in recycling, he said. “Research shows that people like helping make the planet more green,” Jacuzzi said, “but they still need an additional reward to recycle.” Partnering with EBV made sense
for PepsiCo, Jacuzzi said, because it already has a partnership with America Corporate Partners, a group that helps veterans find jobs. PepsiCo provides about 50 mentors to the program. The Whitman School founded EBV in 2007 and has funded it completely through the donations of SU alumni and private donors, said Mike Haynie, EBV director and assistant professor of entrepreneurship and emerging enterprise. EBV accepts 45 applicants each see pepsi page 4
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rier,” Mandyck said. The company also donated to other SU sustainability activities. In 2005, Carrier pledged $1.5 million for the creation of a world-class laboratory at the Syracuse Center of Excellence, Mandyck said. “Carrier Corp. has been a really strong supporter of the Center of Excellence and the Sustainable Enterprise Partnership,” Cleckner said. “These donations and the collaborations are deepening our connection.” The company donated to the Sustainable Enterprise Program three times, totaling more than $100,000. The donated money will
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discussion became heated when the members of the panel discussed their experiences with how their coaches’ languages related to the way they viewed women. Other topics addressed included negative stereotypes of athletes, friendships among teammates and respecting female athletes. “Often, there is a view of student-athletes that isn’t always positive,” said Jessica Henry, a junior marketing major who led the discussion. “But we need to show that student-athletes are student leaders.” Henry started the discussion, titled “SU Athletes against Sexual Violence,” by asking the audience to list stereotypes about student-athletes. Among some of the responses
be used to support three main projects. “We have initiatives in three areas: research mini-grants, seminar series and curricular activities. The funds will be used to support all of these,” said Elet Callahan, the faculty director of the Sustainable Enterprise Program. The sustainability program has used the money to bring speakers to students and has provided partial scholarships. Adam Werbach, the global chief executive officer of Saatchi & Saatchi S, spoke to students in November 2009, at an event co-sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Partnering with Newhouse was part of the program’s goal to reach across professions in addressing sustainability. “We know sustainability cannot be understood from the lens of just one disci-
pline, and this gives our program a unique characteristic,” Callahan said. The Sustainable Enterprise Program involves the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, and the Center of Excellence’s Environmental and Energy Systems division. The program aims to offer highquality education and research on sustainable enterprise through a transdisciplinary curriculum, according to the program’s website. Carrier is a leader in heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration systems, according to its website, and made $11.4 billion in revenues in 2009. The company is a subsidiary of United Technology Corporation, based in Hartford, Conn. The company
has distributors in more than 170 countries on six continents, according to its website. Since 2006, the company lowered its greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent. Its focus is on delivering environmentally responsible, energy-efficient systems, services and solutions to the world, according to its website. Lauren Allen, a freshman international relations major, said Carrier’s donation will be beneficial in helping promote sustainability at SU. “I think it’s really great that Carrier donated money to help develop new methods of sustainability,” she said. “With the direction our generation is leaning toward, we need to sustain as much energy as possible.”
were unfair privileges, such as getting to miss certain classes or assignments and being offered money to play for the university. But Lucy Schoedel, a member of the women’s hockey team, said not all athletes follow the stereotypes. Negative characteristics in athletes are merely more noticed than average, she said. The discussion then turned to the language coaches use when addressing athletes. Almeida, the member of the rowing team, said her coaches often told her to “man up” or “play like a man.” “If I was more aggressive, I was playing like a man, acting like a man,” she said. Amadou Gueye, a freshman on the track and field team, said he has as much respect for female athletes as he does for male athletes.
“For people who actually see how hard that women work, we have a high respect for them,” he said. Just because there may be degrading language on the field does not mean that will occur off the field, Gueye said. Athletes know how to differentiate between the life on and off the field, he said. And his teammates, especially those he respects, help to keep him in check, he said. When you spend that much time with your teammates, they become your friends and your brothers, said Josh White, a junior football player. “You don’t spend as much time with your coach as you do with your friends,” he said. “They’ve been through the battle with me. They even shed blood with me.” But even teammates cannot always stop each other from doing something wrong, said
Shamel Lewis, a member of the track team. A female member of the audience challenged his statement. She said if teammates respect one another, they will listen to what they have to say. Athletes are leaders and many students look up to them, White said. They should be responsible for creating awareness of situations like sexual violence, he said. But he also said non-athletes should take the initiative to educate athletes as well. Tiffany Viruet, a sophomore social work major, said the panel helped to maintain a riveting discussion with the audience. “It was a necessary dialogue between role models and normal, everyday students,” she said.
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summer who come to SU for an all-expensespaid nine-day stay to learn entrepreneurship skills. Instructors include Whitman professors and other volunteers, who have included Fortune 500 company chief executive officers in past years, Haynie said. EBV also operates programs at the University of California, Los Angeles, Florida State University, Texas A&M, the University of Connecticut and Purdue University. In 2009, the U.S. Department of the Army named EBV a national “best practice for programs serving soldiers and their families,” according to EBV’s website. Now that it has a national sponsor in PepsiCo, EBV hopes to expand to more colleges, run its program more than once a year and start new programs, Haynie said. Of the 20 veterans who completed the training in 2007, 17 own their businesses today and four made more than $1 million in revenue last year, he said. One new program helped by the donation, called EBV Families, will teach family members of disabled veterans. EBV Families will run for the first time this fall and will be designed and delivered in part by students in a social entrepreneurship class, Haynie said. Haynie, a veteran of the Air Force who helped found EBV in 2007, said it is more important to help our veterans now than ever before. “Experts estimate that about 30 percent of everybody deployed overseas to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2001 will return with a disability,” he said. “And I feel we need to do what we can to help these people.”
“Students understand the UU process,” he said. “The commencement speaker is picked through almost the same process, and they’re not happy about it. That’s the analogy I use to describe the process.” In 2002, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was chosen as the commencement speaker. Some students disapproved of the administration’s choice due to the Giuliani administration’s record of racially profiling blacks and Latinos, The Daily Orange previously reported. At that time, the 46th Session of SA took action by denouncing the administration’s commencement speaker choice. It also made recommendations to get students more involved in the decision process. Since then, Barnhart said, the administration increased student involvement drastically. “From the recommendations to the way it used to be, it doesn’t seem like there was much student involvement,” Barnhart said. Part of the SA cabinet met with Chancellor Nancy Cantor and her cabinet to discuss the commencement speaker selection process, among other topics. Barnhart asked if there was a way to make the selection process more student-centered than it already is. No changes have yet been made to the process, Barnhart said. Although SA hosted an open forum for students to ask questions, the majority of questions came from Assemblymembers themselves. In addition to discussion of the commencement speaker, Ben Schott, president of Undergraduate Student Association at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said Barnhart’s administration helped foster a better relationship between Syracuse University and ESF students.
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Supreme Court should prioritize animal well-being before entertainment
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n April 20, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed an existing federal law banning the creation and sale of dog-fighting videos and other depictions of animal cruelty. The court ruled 8-1 to overturn the law on the grounds that the First Amendment was infringed. Despite the ruling, there is still a possibility for Congress to more specifically outlaw animal cruelty videos. Similar to the way child pornography is outlawed because of its immorality, dog fighting and “crush videos” should be as well. Crush videos show small animals being tortured to death by women in bare feet or in high-heeled shoes. Although a very small portion of the population that takes pleasure in watching animals being violently abused, most people find such videos are obscene. The law was based off this moral
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basis. It stated that a depiction “in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded or killed” is illegal if the acts are illegal in the state in which it was filmed. The law made exceptions for “religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical or artistic value.” This language, though, was found to be flawed by a majority of the court. Although there is a moral consensus rejecting the videos, the court ruled that the law enabled the government to restrict free expression. The majority decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, claimed that, “While the prohibition of animal cruelty has a long history in American law, there is no evidence of a similar tradition prohibiting depictions of such cruelty.” Though animal cruelty may be illegal, videotaping it is legal. Justice Samuel Alito had a differ-
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to the left, to the left ent stance when he wrote the dissenting opinion. He claimed that the law was valuable because it criminalized a great portion of videos depicting animal cruelty. By doing so, the market for animal cruelty videos was weakened. Because of this, there was a decrease in animal cruelty overall. He also pointed out that it was hard to penalize the individuals depicted in the videos because their faces are rarely shown. By making the videos illegal, it would have a similar effect to penalizing the individuals.
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A law needs to be passed banning the sale of crush videos and dog fighting. There has already been a law proposed to ban crush videos. The First Amendment was not designed to protect the interests of individuals who take pleasure out of watching as animals are killed by a woman in high heels. Nor was it created so that dog-fight videos could be produced. Regardless of the abuse, there is an underlying issue of animals being used for our entertainment. Mohandas Gandhi’s famous observation on the issue was that “the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Exploiting animals for the purpose of entertainment reflects badly on the United States. Whether it is “sport” hunting, greyhound racing, the circus or crush videos, there is no valid justification for this type of
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“entertainment.” We might consider it fun to watch or do, but we rarely appreciate animals’ perspectives. They don’t matter to us. Obviously, based on the number of individuals who enjoy watching this entertainment, others think animal entertainment is acceptable. This is why many, including Chief Justice Roberts, find that animal cruelty is not quite comparable to child pornography. The government is compelled to protect those subjected to child abuse. Unfortunately, the case is not the same with animals because we do not value them as much. Despite our objection to the videos, if we do not elevate our treatment of animals, there is no reason why the government will extensively protect them. Harmen Rockler is an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. His column appears bi-weekly and he can be reached at horockle@syr.edu.
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graduate school. Statistics from last year’s graduating class were lower than anticipated, Cahill said, with 66 percent employed full time, a 10 percent drop from 2008, and 22 percent in graduate school after graduation. Cahill said there were more people unemployed six months later and probably a few more people with internships than normal. Despite last year’s numbers, Cahill said it looks like job opportunities are on the rise. “The economy really had a major impact on last year’s graduates. For what we’re seeing so far, and what we’re hearing from a lot of the people who do the surveys across the nation, this year’s class is expected to fare better,” Cahill said, citing a spring report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers that predicts employers will hire 5.3 percent more college graduates than in 2009. Senior mechanical engineering major Lionel Selwood will be working for General Electric Co.’s
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two-year undergraduate Operations Management Leadership Program. He will be rotating jobs and locations every six months, working in places like Atlanta, Houston and potentially Milan, Italy. Selwood interned with GE for two previous summers in Schenectady, N.Y., and received an offer to interview for the program during his junior year. Selwood said he expected to have a job after graduation but was not always certain. As a graduating senior with job plans, he said he is an exception among his peers, many of whom are concerned with finding a job. “I see a lot of people still looking, companies not returning e-mails or calls. The outlook is real bad right now,” Selwood said. Alex Piliouras, a senior television, radio and film major and the founder of CuseMyCampus. com, said although he currently does not have post-graduation job plans, he is not looking for an internship to pass the time. “I’ve had three internships in the past, so I have plenty of experience and my résumé is pretty stacked,” Piliouras said. “So, personally, I’m not going to seek an internship just on the off-chance
that it could lead to a job. If it doesn’t, then I’m providing free labor to a company that might have paid me to perform the exact same duties but under a different title, like production assistant.” He said it was difficult to look for jobs in television production since most production companies would not look for someone to work beginning in June. He said he is not worried about his lack of employment. Piliouras said as of now, he isn’t worried about the lack of positions and plans to look for jobs from home after graduating. He said he plans to apply to multiple jobs and network with people in the field. “I’m really not stressed about it because I know that something will come along eventually. I can’t exactly expect a position to present itself just because I’m looking for it,” he said. Lynne Mundy, an accounting major who graduated in December, said she always envisioned herself getting a job after graduation. “My sister had about a week between graduation and her first day, which I absolutely did not want, but after a month off or so I figured I’d be working to get out of my parents’ house,” she said.
“Though, after four years of college, free meals, laundry and rent don’t seem like such a travesty anymore,” Mundy said. After Mundy graduated, she began working toward her master’s in accounting, which she will finish in December. She already has a position lined up to start in August with Pricewaterhouse Coopers, known as one of the “Big Four” accounting firms. Cahill encouraged students not to rely on the foreboding job statistics. He said in the end, the likelihood for a student to find work comes down to his or her potential. “You have to determine what the best path is for you and then if you can become as effective as you possibly can of putting yourself in front of the employers who allow you to do those things, who can allow you to be successful, to do something you want to do,” Cahill said. “And if you are successful in articulating to those people what you have to offer, the value you could bring to their organization, you’re going to find that the statistics don’t really mean anything.”
after graduation. But some in higher education, like Gerald Mager, the associate dean of the School of Education, expressed their concerns about the proposal because it would grant a master’s purely from professional experience. “We can’t think that if we put them in the classroom they’ll learn on the spot,” Mager said. “I think that is a very serious shortcoming of the proposal.” At SU’s School of Education, education majors must accumulate more than 500 hours in a classroom as an undergraduate, Britton said. She said she thinks a master’s degree from a graduate
school will not only help as a teacher but in other fields as well. Mager said he was hesitant about the idea that students directly out of undergraduate education could be the main teacher in a classroom. But Cohen said the teachers-in-training would still be held to high standards. “Any non-academic institution which applies for this kind of training has to apply to the same standards of any university,” he said. Mager also said he was unsure of the effects on the School of Education but said they would probably be minimal. Kendra-Lee Rosati, a recruitment director for
Teach for America, said it is still unclear how the Regents’ plan will affect Teach for America. “Unfortunately, this is a brand-new program and we just don’t know enough about it yet to speculate about what effect it will have,” Rosati said in an e-mail. Mager said ideas like this have been entertained throughout education circles for a long time. But Cohen emphasized that this recent announcement was the culmination of 42 years worth of effort. “The national consensus is that improving teaching is absolutely crucial,” Cohen said. “Everything else has been tried and hasn’t worked.”
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he University of Pennsylvania will extend its health insurance coverage beginning in the fall to cover the costs of a gender change for undergraduate students. The coverage will include unlimited psychological coverage, such as therapy sessions and hormonal treatments. Surgeries, called gender confirmation, up to $50,000 will also be covered. The decision comes after two years of planning and will only increase student health insurance costs by a few cents. The Lambda Alliance pushed for the change in policy, said Tyler Ernst, a sophomore chemical and biological engineering and finance major and the chairman of the Lambda Alliance, Penn’s main LGBT organization. The idea was not proposed to fight the administration, he said, but to address an issue that affects a small yet significant portion of the Penn community. The idea for funding gender confirmation surgery was in the works for around two years, Ernst said. “It started with the LGBT Center and the former Lambda chair, and it’s been in the works for a while,” Ernst said. “It’s really something we had to push for. We are doing something meaningful. It’s a small community of people, but the impact is really huge.” The Lambda Alliance was required to pitch the concept to the Student Health Insurance Advisory committee at Penn. Lambda did its own research and decided $50,000 was a reasonable amount to request for surgery coverage, Ernst said. Costs for gender confirmation surgery can reach around $50,000 for a male-tofemale transformation. Costs are less for femaleto-male transformations but still significant. “SHIAC did its own independent research and came up with a similar number,” Ernst said. “It raised prices by maybe seven cents a student.” Bob Schoenberg, the founding director of the LGBT Center at Penn, said the low price raise makes the plan less objectionable to some. “I would guess that even the students who would oppose it in principle wouldn’t be troubled by the premium,” Schoenberg said. Students at Penn are required to be covered by health insurance, according to Penn’s health insurance policy brochure. If they opt not to pay for the Penn Student Insurance Plan — the plan under which the coverage will be added that is distributed by Aetna — they must prove they are covered under another health insurance plan.
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W hen people feel as if they are living in the wrong body, it is technically known as gender identity disorder. But Adrea Jaehnig, the director of the LGBT Resource Center at Syracuse University, said that is just the technical term. “Although gender identity disorder is listed as a mental illness by the (American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), we don’t refer to transgender or transsexual people in this way,” Jaehnig said. Schoenberg worked at Penn for 28 years and began the center in 1982. The Philadelphia campus is transgender friendly, much like SU, he said. Ernst said he agrees the Philadelphia campus is transgender friendly, but he believes there are still issues that need to be addressed, such as the need for gender non-specific bathrooms and gender-neutral housing for freshmen. “As far as the university goes, it’s totally top of the line,” Ernst said. “But there’s a difference between the positive and negative. The support is definitely there, but there are issues we are still trying to overcome.” Schoenberg said he encountered people who claim the option Penn now funds will be lifechanging, as they would not be able to afford the surgery otherwise. Individuals who identify as transgender but who don’t have the ability to get the surgery can be deeply affected, Jaehnig said. “The lack of access to proper health care treatment can result in depression, emotional turmoil
or even suicide,” Jaehnig said. The plan at Penn covers only undergraduate students now, but Schoenberg said there are plans in the works for coverage of the rest of the Penn community. The university supports the inclusion of transgender-related coverage in at least one of the different insurance plans available to faculty and staff, he said. But the plans for faculty and staff coverage are still about a year away, he said. “By and large, Penn is a very open, welcoming, intelligent, understanding place,” Ernst said. “All of this makes it a very reasonable decision.” knmciner@syr.edu
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Holy American hero, Batman! What do you get when you mix devilish good looks, a rugged physique and gray spandex? Beauty, that’s what. Or rather, Adam West, television’s original caped crusader and current pop culture icon. Sure, William Shatner got to be Captain Kirk, but look where that got him. Priceline Negotiator? The only thing we’d negotiate is how to get those horrid commercials off the air. Adam West is one of the 20th century’s enduring actors, able to leap out of the shadow beset by his stint as Batman and become an interesting figure in his own right. After all, not just anyone can be the mayor of Quahog on “Family Guy.” Just the mere mention of the guy sends chills down our spine. And is it just us, or does every word he speak make our hearts melt like butter? Heads up, Christian Bale, if you don’t want to sound like you just gargled broken glass and used diapers in the next “Batman” movie, have a sit down with good old Adam.
He might not have been the most buff Batman (we saw that belly lying underneath his bat suit), but we’ll be damned if he didn’t have the smoothest voice out of every actor. And seeing as how George Clooney is on that list, that’s kind of a big deal. Sure, he admitted that he used the “Batman” gig to score ladies back in the day, but who wouldn’t? There’s no greater pickup line than, “Hey ladies, want to slide down my Bat-Pole?” But we digress. West’s reputation in modern American history should be that of a man who knew what he wanted and took it by force. What’s that? You want a series of statues based on your likeness to be produced? Say no more. DC Direct, the collectible division of DC Comics, will whip those up in a jiffy. Oh, and while we’re at it, we should make numerous documentaries about you, too? Well, since you said so, why not? Just don’t whip out that anti-shark repellent bat-spray and you’ll always be America’s No. 1 media darling. Sorry, Kirk. — Compiled by Flash Steinbeiser, feature editor, ansteinb@syr.edu
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Filmmaker to screen awardwinning documentary By Sam Littman Staff Writer
A singing albino squirrel and unfair distribution of AIDS treatment drugs are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. Leave it to Canadian filmmaker John Greyson to unite them in “Fig Trees,” his latest award-winning feature. Greyson, whose work frequently deals with homosexual themes, will screen What: “Fig Trees” the film Tuesday at screening 7:30 p.m. in the Life Where: Life Sciences Sciences Complex Auditorium When: Today, 7:30 p.m. Auditorium at Syracuse University. How much: Free “Fig Trees” centers on AIDS activists Zackie Achmat and Tim McCaskell and their fight for more fair access to treatment drugs. The film, which was influenced by Gertrude Stein and is narrated by a singing squirrel, took home a best documentary award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009. The film will be screened as part of the Transnationalizing Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies Project. Margaret Himley, professor of writing and rhetoric and co-director of the LGBT studies program, said that the work produced by Greyson, a professor at York University in Toronto, highlights LGBT objectives. “Professor Greyson’s work, and especially ‘Fig Trees,’ illustrates the challenges and urgencies of doing transnational queer analysis and thinking,” Himley said. Roger Hallas, an assistant professor in SU’s English department who helped bring Greyson to SU, said he applauds Greyson’s ability to depict controversial themes concerning homo-
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wo stick figures lie on a piece of college-ruled lined paper. Lying idly, the characters are only the product of one student’s boredom. Suddenly, they spring to life. Not only are they alive, they’re fighting one another. No, this is not a dream. Due to the effort of two Syracuse University students, it will soon be a reality. Drawing a figure on notebook paper, uploading it onto the Internet and then seeing it come to life to battle other cartoon creations will soon be typical game play with “Grafighters,” a computer game designed by Eric Cleckner, a senior advertising design major, and Dave Chenell, a senior information management technology major. Uploading a digital picture to the computer starts the game. “You can take a picture with your phone and upload it to the site and it animates it just like you think it would,” Chenell said. The idea for the game came about after Cleckner and Chenell were bored sitting in class. Chenell was drawing a dinosaur in his notebook, and Cleckner said to Chenell, “I bet my dinosaur could beat your dinosaur.” Chenell said no way, and from there the ideas started rolling. “We realize we probably aren’t the only students drawing in our notebooks instead of taking notes,” Cleckner said. “I think it has the ‘wow’ factor. It’s a doodle in a notebook and then 30 seconds later it can be dancing and fighting across the screen.”
The duo have backgrounds in technology and Web creations, so they were able to design the concepts for the website themselves and said they have been excited about the ideas they’ve come up with. For instance, a character drawn on paper with a thick Sharpie will fight better than a thin character drawn with a pencil. The way the characters are actually drawn affects the way they fight. If the character has big arms, he should be able to punch. The shape and size are supposed to determine how the characters will play.
“It’s most important to distinguish that you personally don’t control your characters with a controller or button, it’s totally based on how your character was drawn from the start,” Cleckner said. “When you upload your character, part of the process is telling the computer what each part of your character is.” The computer needs to be told where the character’s arms, head and legs are, and after the dissection of the character is complete, watching the characters fight is the only step left in the game.
“You just cross your fingers and hope the character you’ve drawn will be able to challenge the character they are playing and win.” Eric Cleckner
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“They are fighting based on how they are drawn, so that’s where it becomes kind of cool,” Chenell said. “The more you upload characters, the more you see certain trends, like which characters will be faster and stronger.” Though the animated drawings can fight any random character uploaded to the site, friends can play each other if they both upload characters and select to battle it out. But Cleckner said mystery is the fun of the game. If the character is drawn very dense, he will be very defensive. If he’s light and fluffy, he will fight weak and look frail or flimsy.
“You just cross your fingers and hope the character you’ve drawn will be able to challenge the character they are playing and win,” Cleckner said. Cleckner and Chenell said they hope the game will take over the middle ground of the video game industry. Somewhere in between Nintendo, Xbox, PlayStation, iPods and mini games is where the guys hope Grafighters will stand in the gaming world. To create buzz for the game, Cleckner said they have big plans to unleash it on campus. Cleckner and Chenell said they want Grafight-
ers to become the World Wrestling Entertainment of hand-drawn characters. The two plan to focus on gaining publicity on the SU campus and then expanding to make the game into a business, with money-making involved in the long run. Cleckner said many people were skeptical about how successful the site would be and if some of the ideas were even possible. But now, Cleckner and Chenell know the game is entirely possible. It’s still a work in progress, he said, but it should be done by the beginning of the fall semester. Cleckner said they hope to have a shop online where users could exchange parts with their friends and shop for their characters. It would range from character parts to accessories to buying new moves and moving up levels. It would be free to play, but if users wanted to make upgrades they would pay for them. Alix Browne, a junior economics major, said she probably would not play the game because she has no artistic ability, but she said the game sounds intriguing. “I think it would be successful for the same reason comics and video games are successful,” Browne said. “‘World of Warcraft’ is really successful, so this sounds cool and I think it would gain popularity, too.” Chenell said he is hoping Grafighters becomes a legitimate distraction that teachers want to outlaw it from their classrooms. “If no student is ever bored in class again,” Cleckner said, “we have done our job.” rltoback@ syr.edu
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one is the focused, sonically unified production style that has characterized Cypress Hill in the past, as the band seeks to return to the mainstream with its latest album, “Rise Up.” Instead, the West Coast rap pioneers bring in a mix of outside pop production and modern inf luences. The result is an inconsistent, yet perhaps more accessible, album that will either mark the return of Cypress Hill or die as a wasted pop effort. Cypress Hill has never replicated the success of its 1993 sophomore effort, “Black Sunday.” Besides putting the group on the map, “Black Sunday” best captures its trademark style: trippy, Latin-inf luenced raps over dark and expansive beats. The focus stayed on music and the mood. As hip-hop’s aesthetics changed, Cypress Hill tried to evolve with the times, somewhat falling off the scene in the process. “Rise Up” is the first album in six years, a loud call to arms for a classic group eager to make a comeback. The album opens with the banging “It Ain’t Nothin,” a hardcore street track. B-Real’s familiar high-pitched voice sounds refi ned, as he displays impressive control of his flow over the beat. “Light it Up” is a standout track, produced by the legendary Pete Rock. Some old-school magic is recaptured over a suave, jazzy beat that complements boastful rhymes about rocking microphones. Unfortunately, a string of f lawed hard-rock collaborations and mainstream tracks cut short a promising beginning to the album. “Rise Up” is the first of this type. The song features Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who also provides his aggressive and head-bobbing riffs to the 14th track, “Shut ‘Em Down.” Cypress Hill has always toed the line between rap and hard rock, but these new songs are noticeably lopsided. Both “Rise Up” and “Shut ‘Em Down” sound like Rage Against the Machine songs that feature B-Real and Sen Dog. This is a problem. Things get worse with “Get it Anyway,” a generic track from producer Jim Jonsin, the man
behind pop smashes such as “Whatever You Like,” “Kiss Me Thru the Phone” and “Lollipop.” Accordingly, “Get it Anyway” is a standard pop-rap song that sounds insincere coming from Cypress Hill. And the trend continues. “Trouble Seeker” features System of a Down, which produces a confusing and unpleasant outcome. And the album’s biggest misfire comes on “Take My Pain,” which mixes an uncomfortable electronic loop with sloppy-sounding Everlast, who is featured in the chorus. What makes the album so frustrating is that Cypress Hill hasn’t lost it. Some of the better cuts on here could very well wind up as anthems. Naturally, the group is at its best when remaining true to boasting and smoking. “Pass the Dutch” is a hazy, blunted return to Cypress Hill’s past. Longtime group producer DJ Muggs handles the beat, and the familiar, creepy vibe should induce people everywhere to spark up. “K.U.S.H.” is another tribute to the herb, this time built on a catchy beat and self-assured rhymes about blazing. The best song, though, may be album closer “Armada Latina,” which features Marc Anthony and Pitbull. The Latin beat and Spanish lyrics have real soul — if only Cypress Hill could have tapped into these roots earlier in the album. The main issue plaguing “Rise Up” as a whole is Cypress Hill’s decision to ditch consistency in favor of experimental, mainstream collaborations. There are some good tracks, but this album is a disjointed collection of songs that often frustrate rather than relate. Maybe “Rise Up” will bring Cypress Hill back into hip-hop’s forefront with its modernized sounds. It better, otherwise the group loses a lot of style here by departing from its comfort zone of dark beats and eerie atmospheres. ajhaeder@ syr.edu
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Caira adds offensive skills to pitching prowess in 2nd season By Mark Cooper Staff Writer
Syracuse sophomore pitcher Jenna Caira did not take a single at-bat during her freshman year. So when she stepped up to the plate earlier this season against Cornell, expectations were not high. After all, she was hitting .217 (10-46) going into the game and her main job was to pitch. But after she hit three home runs in the doubleheader against the Big Red, Cornell coach Dick Blood was not surprised. “She was our top recruit for two years,” Blood said. “When we were recruiting her she was not only a force on the mound but a force at the plate.” The pitcher can hit. Caira’s three home runs against Cornell are the highlight of what has been a banner season for her at the plate. The sophomore is tied for the SU lead with four home runs on the season and is now one of the key contributors to the Syracuse offense. The Orange (25-20, 9-7 Big East) travels to Penn State (28-16, 7-7 Big Ten) for a nonconference doubleheader Tuesday. The progress that Caira has made at the plate is a main reason why the Orange is fourth in the Big East standings. And it all started in the offseason. “Coming in and being a pitcher and getting used to the college game is tough,” SU head coach Leigh Ross said. “She threw a lot more
last year and didn’t have the time to put the (swings) in. This year we were like, ‘We’re going to make time.’” With only 20 hours a week allotted for the team to practice and play per NCAA rules, a lot of the work that Caira does to improve her hitting is on her own. In games that she doesn’t pitch, Caira is in the batting cage hitting off of a tee, always tweaking her swing. The extra effort is reflected in Caira’s stats — .321 (9-28) in her last 10 games. “Once she kind of got in there and kept swinging, Coach King and I were like, ‘She’s just so powerful,’” Ross said. Caira’s strength — which produces her 67 mph fastball — carries over to the plate. Her quick hands fly through the zone. When she makes solid contact, the ball flies off her bat. Her strength was most apparent against Cornell. The Big Red tried to pound the outside corner against her, but the sophomore hit it anyway. When Cornell pitchers Elizabeth Dalrymple and Lauren Marx missed their spots, Caira took full advantage. “She was able to pull one of her home runs practically with one hand,” Blood said. “Three mistake pitches, and she made us pay for them.” A pitcher doubling as a key hitter has become more common in college softball over the past few seasons. Danielle Lawrie, the pitcher for Washington, the defending national champion,
is a fixture in the middle of the Huskies’ lineup. Syracuse freshman pitcher Stacy Kuwik also hits, batting .240 in 50 at-bats. Having Caira hit involves her in all aspects of the game. It helps her stay in rhythm rather than having her sit in the dugout, out of the action, while Syracuse is at the plate. It is also a chance for Caira to help out her own cause. If she can get a hit that provides the Orange with another run, it’s an insurance run for her on the mound. “(Being) given the opportunities a couple
times to help yourself out (is) huge for a pitcher,” Ross said. “You can’t walk away from the field saying, ‘I wish my team hit.’” Caira continues to help out her cause on the mound with her hitting at the plate. On Sunday, she went 2-3, driving in two runs in a 5-1 win against Connecticut. Her RBI single in the bottom of the fourth helped open up what was a 2-0 game. “Well, it hurt a little bit, she jammed me,” Caira laughed. “It felt good, though. Helping out the team offensively is a really good feeling.” mcooperj@syr.edu
Dual Threat: Jenna caira Pitching highlights
Hitting highlights
Feb. 27: Struck out a season-high 14 in a loss to No. 17 Tennessee.
March 5: Hit a double in her first career collegiate at-bat against Campbell in a 7-5 win.
Feb. 28: Picked up her first win of the season against Cal State Fullerton. She threw a complete game four-hitter, striking out six.
March 13: Hit her first career home run and drove in three runs in a 7-4 win against Jacksonville.
March 14: Struck out 10 while allowing one hit and no earned runs in a 3-2, eight-inning win against Iowa.
March 21: Hit her first career triple against No. 24 Florida State.
March 19: Threw a one-hitter in an 11-3 victory over No. 19 Ohio State. It was the Orange’s first win over a ranked nonconference opponent since 2005. April 24-25: Pitched in all three games against UConn, going 1-1 and picking up her first save of the season. In 15 innings, she allowed four earned runs and struck out 16.
April 15: Had a career day at the plate against Cornell, hitting three home runs in a doubleheader. Caira hit a pair of home runs in game one and followed it up with her fourth of the season in game two, both Syracuse wins. April 25: Went 2-3 and drove in a pair of runs in a 5-1 win over UConn.
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With collegiate careers ending, 4 seniors qualify for Big East By Rachel Marcus Staff Writer
Chris Fox remembers the state of Syracuse track and field when he entered his first year as head coach in 2005. To put it bluntly, the team simply wasn’t that good. But five years later, that is no longer the case. And Fox has a quartet of departing players to thank for that. “They came in and we were terrible, and now we’re pretty good,” Fox said. SU burst onto the national landscape during the last four years for a multitude of reasons, one of which has to do with a group of distance runners from Fox’s first recruiting class. Brad Miller, Dan Busby, Curtis Bixler and Jeff Scull have carried the Orange on their backs the last four years, and the results are clear. All have qualified for the Big East Outdoor Championships this weekend and have aspirations of making it to nationals. But for now, the focus is on the Big East, which is the most important meet of the season so far. After last week’s solid performance at the Penn Relays, Busby is ready to finally make his mark in the Big East. He will be running the 10K for the third time, and he’s hoping that will be the charm. Busby last competed in the event during his freshman and sophomore years with disappointing results. “It has been my Achilles’ heel,” Busby said. Fox expects both Busby and his roommate, Miller, to win their events this weekend. After four years, they know what to expect at each meet. The meet is the second-most important meet of the year behind nationals.
“I would be disappointed if they don’t qualify for nationals,” Fox said. “They’re seniors and they know it.” Even though Miller and Busby have the fourthand fifth-fastest 5000-meter times in the conference, respectively, neither will be competing in that event at the Big East championships. It’s a statistic that speaks to how deep SU’s roster is. Still, Busby and Miller will need to serve as anchors if they are going to place well as a team. “It’s the one meet out of the year that we really look for team points,” Bixler said. “It’s the once race of the season when we just worry about racing people and not times.” Bixler will be competing in the steeplechase for his third and final time. Last year he came in fourth, and he is looking to drop even more time off his scores from that meet. Miller, meanwhile, is returning to SU next year for a fifth year. But for Busby and Bixler, this meet is their curtain call before regionals, and possibly nationals. “Me and Dan are looking to finish on a really good note,” Bixler said. Now seniors, the duo of Busby and Miller, along with Bixler, have experienced the ups and downs. “I’m better, more disciplined (as a senior),” Busby said. “In high school I didn’t know anything about running. I just went out and did it. I’ve learned to run a lot smarter.” He hopes that intelligence will carry him to a performance four years in the making. A performance that will hopefully propel him to nationals. Said Busby: “I want to reverse the curse.” rnmarcus@syr.edu
The end of the road With the Big East Outdoor Championships approaching, the careers of Dan Busby, Brad Miller, Curtis Bixler and Jeff Scull are quickly coming to an end. Here’s a look at how the four departing runners fared over the last four years:
Dan Busby
Curtis Bixler
Freshman: Competed in Big East championships, qualified for IC4A
Freshman: Competed in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at Big East Outdoor Championships
Sophomore: Seventh place in 5,000-meter run at IC4A, eighth place in 10K at Big East championships, NCAA regional qualifier Junior: 30th in the 5,000-meter run at the Sam Howell Invitational with a time of 15:26.29, injured for most of the year Senior: Has qualified for the Big East Outdoor Championships, IC4A and NCAA regionals
Brad Miller Freshman: Competed at the Big East championships, IC4A Championships and NCAA regionals Sophomore: 14th at Big East championships in 5K Junior: Broke the school record in the mile run during indoor season Senior: Has qualified for the Big East Outdoor Championships, IC4A and NCAA regionals
Sophomore: Participated in Big East championships and qualified for IC4A Junior: 15th-place at the NCAA Regional Championship Senior: Has qualified for Big East Outdoor Championships and NCAA regionals
Jeff Scull Freshman: Did not run for Syracuse. Competed at NCAA championship with Colorado State in 2004 Sophomore: Placed fourth at IC4A Championships in the 5K Junior: Third in 5K at IC4A and eighth in 5K at Big East championships Senior: Ran one cross-country race because of injury Graduate: Has qualified for the Big East Outdoor Championships, IC4A and NCAA regionals
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friends and hoped it would happen. I practiced every day with the team, and I still felt like I was part of the team. They didn’t make me feel like I wasn’t a part of the team, and it’s a great feeling right now.” And that momentum carried Jamieson to where he stands with the Orange this season — as one of its go-to scorers. He is currently second on the team with 23 goals and 35 points overall. And he expects it. Moreover, he expects to be better with each and every game. One year later, Jamieson is just going along for the ride and having fun — such as with his frequent behind-the-back strikers of goals. “After I scored, looking at the sidelines and watching everybody smile,” Jamieson said, “that’s what lacrosse is about. It’s about having fun, and I like bringing that kind of excitement.” bplogiur@syr.edu
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cial. Last year, after torching defenses for 28.6 points per game as a junior, rail-thin Davidson guard Stephen Curry had no choice but to become a point guard. He did and pioneered Golden State’s funand-gun offense. Now he’s a leading Rookie of the Year candidate. Within days, Curry might be joining Rautins in Dallas. Good news. Rautins’ offseason mission is the same. “I’m just going to continue to work on my ball-handling ability at the point guard position,” Rautins said. “Try to get stronger and prepare for the physicality of the league.” As for the zone-to-man switch, this isn’t anything new for Syracuse prospects. Some players make the transition better than others. The simple change from standing upright to
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crouching down to the court can be an awkward process, but Rautins insists his experience with Team Canada in the summer helps. Every summer he trades elbow shots with grown men in international play. To him, playing man defense is nothing more than hopping back on a bicycle. It’s not as daunting. “That’s something I’ve become accustomed to,” Rautins said of the man defense. “In zone, you’re relying more on the team and help situations as opposed to man-to-man, which is more one-on-one.” Granted, his window is short. So many SU standouts in recent memory — Paul Harris and Eric Devendorf come to mind — have seen their NBA hopes flame out. Be honest. You had no idea New Zealand had a basketball league. Like them, Rautins put up big numbers. But unlike them, Rautins relished his role as the unquestioned team spokesman. Soulsearching questions from reporters were embraced and analyzed. Never shunned. When
Syracuse was blindsided by Le Moyne, Rautins summoned his team for a players-only meeting. When his team rolled to a No. 1 ranking, he stayed grounded. On the court, he was the team’s heartbeat. Leadership should count for something. Glue guys abound the NBA. One Eastern Conference NBA scout sitting on press row at an SU game raved about Rautins’ leadership, insisting it’s something teams look for. But still, Rautins isn’t complacent. Checking out Spurs-Mavericks playoffs games from the locker room at night, Rautins is reminded that changes must be made. Changes he’s taking head-on. “I welcome those challenges and am working extremely hard down here,” Rautins said. “I’m around some really successful people. We’re getting in a lot of hard work here.”
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Training in Dallas, Rautins looks to again prove worth in preparation for NBA Draft
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unday and Monday blended into a blur of jump shots and barbells for Andy Rautins. At the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center in Dallas, he’s sleeping at the gym. Literally. After an 11:30 p.m. training session Sunday night, Rautins passed out inside the locker room. His apartment doesn’t get the Internet, and he had to finish some homework. So Rautins’ trainers hooked him up with makeshift amenities and hit the lights. “They threw me some blankets, and I kicked it there,” Rautins said. This is Rautins’ new life. After serving as the torchbearer along one of Syracuse’s most decorated seasons ever, it’s back to square one. Back to proving himself all over again. Monday morning, he trained at 10 a.m. Then again at 2 p.m. And again at 4 p.m. In Dallas, Rautins is redefining himself for the NBA. This isn’t a job interview. Rather, a training ground. There aren’t any NBA teams stopping by. But with each 3-on-3 game against NBA players and each set of squats, Rautins is quietly polishing two specific areas of his game. He played exclusively in a 2-3 zone at SU, so he’s drilling himself in man-to-man again. And after playing shooting guard throughout college, he’s handling the ball as much as possible. In the pros, he’ll need to. Six-foot-4 shooting guards aren’t in demand. So, in short, sleeping is a luxury. “I’m just trying to get stronger and work on my one-on-one defense,” Rautins said. “It’s a big
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country grammar change going from zone to playing more of an isolation-type defense.” Once the dust settled on Syracuse’s punchin-the-mouth Sweet 16 loss, Rautins trucked to Dallas. With the exception of a quick trip back to Syracuse, the pre-draft camp in Chicago and individual team workouts, that’s where he’ll stay until the NBA Draft. A batch of pro and college players are gradually joining Rautins in Dallas, including Golden State Warriors forward Anthony Randolph. It took four years to shed his sniper sidekick label in college. With a personal trainer, a skills coach and a strength trainer along with constant two-adays, Rautins is shedding this stereotype again. To the naked eye, players like him are a dime a dozen. This résumé is recycled annually. Highly successful college player. Deadly from outside. Team leader. A player oozing with — channel your inner Mel Kiper Jr. — intangibles. Each day in Dallas, Rautins is doing everything in his power to prove he’s different. To prove he does translate to the NBA. There are more success stories than a Nutrisystem commer-
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court hathaway | staff photographer andy rautins is currently working out in Dallas to prepare for this year’s NBA Draft. He hopes to prove to scouts that he can play point guard at the next level.
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On Senior Day, Jamieson shines year after debut By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Copy Editor
Cody Jamieson wasn’t satisfied and, standing on the other side of the Carrier Dome field Saturday, his head coach could already play Nostradamus. “It was good to see Cody play well out there,” SU coach John Desko said after the game. “He’ll probably be the first to tell you he could’ve had a couple more. But it’s good that he’s scoring at the right time of year.” Later, Jamieson was asked about his performance on the day. One that included five points on the strength of a hat trick and two assists, including a behind-the-back flasher of a goal that has become something of the norm for Jamieson in the 2010 season. The five points matched a career-high and led No. 2 Syracuse to a 14-5 victory over
winless Providence Saturday. Like his coach said — Jamieson only wanted more. “I got stopped on the crease a couple times,” Jamieson said. “Hit him in the leg a couple times.” Through many games, Jamieson only points out areas where he could’ve done better. After SU’s 8-7 victory over Cornell on April 13, he lamented the inability to beat his defender all day despite scoring twice. Saturday, those were his only comments on his finishing ability. And it marked the attitude transformation that has accompanied Jamieson all season long, his first full year at Syracuse after a rocky road that led him on the path. Almost exactly a year ago to the date on Saturday’s Senior Day game, Jamieson heard
the news for which he had been hoping for months. On April 23, 2009, he was cleared to play for the Syracuse men’s lacrosse team. It came after months of waiting in which the NCAA reviewed his junior college credits before granting a waiver to allow those credits to transfer. And Saturday, he reflected on how long of a journey it has been. “That’s what’s making this day feel so good,” Jamieson said. “There was definitely that time when I didn’t expect to be out here and definitely not out here on Senior Day. So I just kind of took it all in and had fun with it.” Jamieson played his first game at Syracuse to much hype after two eye-popping seasons at Onondaga Community College. With Jamieson,
OCC finished two consecutive seasons undefeated and won two JUCO national championships in a row. He was cleared to play for the Orange’s contest with Massachusetts last season, a game SU won while Jamieson experienced his first college minutes. That was about the only time last season he didn’t have an extended role in the Orange’s fortunes, however. It culminated in an overtime national championship victory over Cornell in which Jamieson tallied the winning goal. “There were definitely nights looking at your ceiling wondering if it was going to happen,” Jamieson said of his journey to Syracuse following that game. “So I leaned on my family and
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Double trouble In her first year at SU, Jenna
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