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Family matters Zvi Bielski speaks on family,

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Carter to be reinstated as SU student

By Rebecca Kheel ASST. NEWS EDITOR

left: matthew ziegler | staff photographer; right: max nepstad | staff photographer NICO SCOTT (LEFT, 28) AND DONTE DAVIS (7) are two of the 28 players The Daily Orange has found who have left the SU football program since Doug Marrone was hired as the head coach. Marrone made it his policy during the season to not discuss players who had left.

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departed Stories from the other side of SU football’s 28-player exodus

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hen Lamar Middleton remembers his time at Syracuse, he thinks about all of the opportunities he had. Growing up in the desolate city of Newark, N.J., they were opportunities Middleton never thought would come.

So when he thinks about it, he remembers the relationships that he

built. With his friends and coaches in the Syracuse football program. With professors and teaching assistants in his classes. With students in his drama and acting minor.

Before the opportunity of coming to Syracuse was presented, Middleton never thought any of this would ever be possible. That’s why he remembers when it was all taken away from him: April 18, 2009, when he was kicked off

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the football team and effectively out of the university.

“Everything was rolling,” Middleton said in a phone interview a little more than one year later. “And my focus level was so high, I didn’t think it could’ve been broken.

And once that happened, that really sent me down because that was my life.”

After being let go from the team for a curfew violation, Middleton became one of 28 players The Daily Orange has found that have vanished from the program in the past year. SU head coach Doug Marrone said he did not know the exact number, but said it was “somewhere in the numbers (The Daily Orange) mentioned.”

As the departing players piled up in a turnover of massive proportions, no reason was given for their exodus.

It became Marrone’s policy to not discuss players who were no longer with the program. Nothing more than an e-mail from the program or a passing statement from Marrone accompa-

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nied each player’s exit. A day later, each player was removed from the team’s official roster.

Some turnover has come to be expected with new coaching regimes.

More than 10 players left the Michigan program when Rich Rodriguez replaced Lloyd Carr as head coach following the 2007 season. At Tennessee, 11 players departed the football SEE DEPARTED PAGE 14

Fee for credit required by unpaid internships burdens students

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atherine Haas plans to pay $931 to have an internship this summer. The junior marketing major will be working in the marketing department at Epic Records, where an intern is required to receive academic credit in lieu of pay.

“It would be nice if I could get a paid internship, but since I can’t do slave labor, I have to have the credit

from the school to do the internship,” Haas said.

While internships that require credit aren’t necessarily on the rise or typical of all majors, Haas’ situation is not unique. Some students feel pressured to take them when they are not offered competitive paid internships and when positions where credit is required are more common than internships without any form of

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Syracuse University running back Delone Carter has worked out a deal with the university that should allow him to return to school and football at the beginning of the fall semester, his lawyer, George Raus, told The Post-Standard on Tuesday.

Carter was suspended and banned from campus April 20 after being arraigned on a misCARTER demeanor assault charge in relation to a Feb. 27 incident, Raus told The Daily Orange that day.

Carter will remain suspended for the rest of the spring semester, as well for the summer. As a condition of his reinstatement, Carter will also have to complete 200 hours of community service, Raus told The Post-Standard.

A suspended student can be reinstated by submitting a written petition to the Office of Judicial Affairs. The petition must include evidence that the student has completed particular tasks specified at the time of suspension and evidence that he or she has been a productive citizen during his or her time away from the university, SU spokesman Kevin Morrow said. He did not specify what Carter did to get reinstated, nor did he confirm Carter was suspended then reinstated.

Raus declined to comment further Tuesday evening to The Daily Orange.

Carter was charged with misdemeanor third-degree assault April 14 for punching William Hotaling, a junior in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, in the face.

Carter, teammate Ryan Gillum and another unnamed person were driving in a black SUV when it was struck by a snowball on the 300 block of Waverly Avenue around 1 a.m. Feb. 27, according to police reports.

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Maxwell’s future stirs talks, fear

By Beckie Strum Asst. News Editor

Plans to distance the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs from the College of Arts and Sciences have incited a variety of fears and concerns among faculty.

“Out of a desire to strengthen the Maxwell School, we will weaken the College of Arts and Sciences, which is truly the heart of a liberal arts education,” said Jackie Orr, a sociology professor.

Professors seem to have come to a consensus on one issue — the need to openly discuss and debate the plans at length. In response, the Arts and Sciences faculty council will be hosting an open forum Wednesday afternoon. Some faculty concerns include the potential negative effects the plans could have on the quality of academic programs, the pace at which plans are moving forward and the prospect of a complete split between the two schools.

Currently, Maxwell is part of Arts and Sciences and does not have its own governing bodies or undergraduate programs separate from Arts and Sciences. Humanities, natural sciences and math fall under the Arts and Sciences umbrella, while the social sciences and professional programs, such as international relations and public policy, are a part of Maxwell.

Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina introduced plans to untangle the two schools in an e-mail sent March 26, titled the “Whitepaper,” which outlined plans to give Maxwell more autonomy in deciding Maxwell-specific curricula, tenure and promotion, and an exclusive undergraduate program, according to the Whitepaper.

Spina responded to the first wave of faculty concerns by e-mailing a revised Whitepaper proposal. Chancellor Nancy Cantor also responded to worries voiced at Wednesday’s University Senate meeting with assurances that faculty would play an active role in carrying out the Whitepaper’s proposals.

Divisions in opinion among professors are not along college or departmental lines. While many Maxwell professors are supportive of the proposed changes, some social science professors said they do not believe their department should be isolated in Maxwell when their field is inherently a part of the liberal arts tradition found in Arts and Sciences. see whitepaper page 4

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SU adopts federal changes to student loan programs

By Jon Harris

Contributing Writer

All new and returning students applying for fall 2010 financial aid at Syracuse University and planning to borrow a federal student loan are required to participate in a new Direct Loan program mandated by the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. As SU students apply for financial aid for 2010-11, they must now file a Federal Direct Loan Master

Promissory Note, said Kaye DeVesty, director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs.

The note is required to receive loans through the new program and must only be filed once while the student is at school, she said.

Universities across the United States are participating in the new program. The House of Representatives passed the act last September, and President Obama finalized the program March 30 by signing the

final budget reconciliation bill as the last piece of the Democrats’ health care reform. Included in the reconciliation bill is the overhaul of federal student loan programs that will save taxpayers almost $68 billion over the next 11 years.

The new program ends government subsidies to private lenders and provides students with guaranteed loans from the U.S. Department of Education using funds obtained from the U.S. Treasury.

For the 2010-11 school year, SU is participating solely in the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan program, offered to universities by the Department of Education, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs’ website. Non-Direct Loan schools must submit an Electronic Application for Program Participation to join the new program.

DeVesty said the financial aid see loans page 7

Questionable online homework resource raises in popularity at SU

By Dara McBride Staff Writer

When college student Adam Richman found himself and his peers overwhelmed with work, he turned to entrepreneurship for help.

Richman helped create a site, cheaphomework.com, that provides a staff to complete a student’s homework in exchange for money. Syracuse University ranked as one of the top three users, Richman said.

“We just heard a lot of people complain that they didn’t want to

do their homework anymore, that they’d prefer to go out, enjoy their night,” Richman said. “We always saw on people’s Facebook statuses, ‘Hey, I’d pay someone $20 to do my math homework,’ ‘I’d really like to go out tonight, does anyone know someone who could write me an essay?’ And we thought we should probably capitalize on this.”

Richman named Arizona State University, University of Central Florida and the University of Massachusetts as other big users.

More than 500 assignments have been completed since the site began about a month ago, and between 50 and 100 of those are from SU, said Richman, a college student at an undisclosed university. He said he does not know how the site became so popular among SU students.

The site operates with a staff of about 10 college-educated people, mostly graduate students, located throughout the United States, Richman said.

“They’re located all over the

United States, so if an assignment comes in at 3 a.m., we have someone on the West Coast that can complete it, we have someone on the East Coast who can complete the assignments during the day,” Richman said. “The person who does our math just graduated from Stanford.”

Richman reviews every assignment for quality and neatness, spending five to 10 minutes checking that it matches the student’s see homework page 6

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As a professor of sociology, Orr is concerned the plan will distance her from Arts and Sciences’ programs and faculty in women and gender studies or African American studies, to which her field is closely tied, Orr said.

“For sociology, in particular — structurally speaking — we will be asked to turn our backs on the interdisciplinary studies, on the humanities, on religion, on philosophy,” she said.

Faculty strictly in Arts and Sciences are also concerned about the future relationship between professors in the two schools and the effect the change might have on the quality of academics.

One of the proposals in the Whitepaper calls for separate governing bodies in Maxwell that would handle faculty hiring, tenure and promotion. This would change the current system in which a mixture of professors from Maxwell and Arts and Sciences faculty sit on tenure and promotion committees.

Mark Brown, a professor of philosophy in Arts and Sciences, said taking Maxwell faculty out of the discussions of tenure, promotion or curricula could have a corrosive effect on quality and standards of the Arts and Sciences departments.

“It’s significant to have a broad variety of

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backgrounds. If you’re evaluating someone in mathematics you’d think to have all math, but to leave it entirely to them is too narrow,” Brown said. “So you bring in the philosophers and physicists that help in quality control.”

Brown said departments can become complacent with their standards, but the outside view that Maxwell brings to promotion and tenure decisions regarding humanities or the sciences provides essential constructive criticism.

Deborah Pellow, a professor of anthropology in Maxwell, and Brown said the social sciences provide a natural and necessary bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences. These two very different fields would be left without the social sciences to play the role of translator during faculty and committee meetings if Maxwell were to pull away from Arts and Sciences, Brown said.

“They’re our translators,” Brown said. “If you take social sciences out, you leave behind two groups that don’t know how to talk to each other.”

Despite these concerns, Jeffrey Stonecash, a professor of political science in Maxwell, said he thinks the autonomous committees and governing bodies in Maxwell used to address faculty matters are long overdue.

“As for tenure, promotions and curriculum, I always thought it was the weirdest thing in the world that we have no governing structure,” Stonecash said.

The Whitepaper also proposes the creation of a small “signature undergraduate program” in Maxwell. The program will capitalize on the reputation of Maxwell to attract strong undergraduate students, according to the Whitepaper.

But professors like Orr and Pellow are particularly concerned with the motivations for this new program, they said. Rather than create a program out of an educational need for students, the program is being presented as a marketing strategy with no regard to the effects it might have on other departments, Orr said.

“Market and money concerns seem to be driving the creation of that major,” Orr said. “They should be driven by an intellectual desire. We are developing this program to sell the Maxwell brand to undergraduates. My job is to develop curriculum, not sell a brand,” she said.

Many professors in both schools said they are weary of how fast the administration is trying to move the plans forward without thorough discussion.

“The most fundamental part is it appears these significant changes are being rushed without an adequate opportunity to discuss whether this is best for all or part of the parties involved,” Brown said.

Brown said it is clear the administration is moving forward with the plans in the Whitepaper at the end of the semester because Maxwell Dean Mitchel Wallerstein is leaving, and the college will need to begin a new search in the

upcoming months.

During the search for a new dean “they wanted to say exactly what the dean’s responsibility is and Maxwell’s role in relation to the College of Arts and Sciences,” he said.

Don Mitchell, a professor of geography, also said the changes to the relationship between the two schools seem rushed.

Although Mitchell agrees with some of the proposed changes, he believes the proposals and future implementation should be in the hands of the faculty and not “top down,” he said.

The Wednesday faculty meeting open to all Arts and Sciences faculty — including Maxwell — will provide an opportunity for some of these concerns and grievances to be talked about constructively.

Forty faculty members in Maxwell signed a letter to Spina, the vice chancellor, outlining a set of questions that still need to be answered before any part of the plans to distance the two colleges and make Maxwell more autonomous go forward.

“What affect will these new structures have on Arts and Sciences? What are Maxwell’s concerns? Institutional concerns? What will they be?” Orr said. “It shocked people because very few people knew this was coming. All the answers to these questions need to be addressed before we move forward.”

“There’s basically a federal law that says if you do work, you have to be compensated for it, which is totally fair. Companies, whether they don’t have the budget for it or whatever the reason is, they use the loophole of providing credit to students,” said Kelly Jean Brown, assistant director of the Career Development

Center at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

When a student is not paying for summer tuition, he or she must pay the university an additional fee for the credit. At Syracuse University this summer, the cost of a credit for a full-time undergraduate student is $931. The cost is more for graduate students and less for part-time students, said Rhona Jones, internship coordinator at the SU Center for Career Services. One credit is usually enough to fulfill an employer’s requirement, though a student can register an internship for up to six credits if desired, Jones said.

Each summer, about 250 students take internships for academic credit that are processed as electives through the Center for Career Services. This statistic is not representative of SU, however, because there are some students who register their internship credit through their individual colleges, Jones said. The number also includes students who chose to take an internship for credit even if the company does not require it.

Molly Reynolds, a junior social work and psychology major, was offered academic credit for her unpaid internship in Africa but didn’t want to pay for more than the travel expenses she will already have.

“I don’t need (the credit). I think it’s pretty ridiculous, having to pay for an internship,” she said.

Some students register the credit through local community schools, a cheaper option, but there is no way to track the number of students who do, Jones said. Although she is not involved with transferring the credits, Brown said she believes most programs would rather accept credits from SU than from other schools.

Other students work part-time jobs to either pay for the credit or to earn the money not being made at an unpaid internship.

“A lot of students find it difficult,” Jones said.

“There will be quite a few students or parents who contact us to see if there is any other way or if there is any financial support available.”

Some students find their own loopholes in the system.

Matt Rivers, a senior broadcast journalism major, has had two internships that required academic credit. He didn’t need the credit to go toward his degree, so he told his employers that

he was getting credit when he wasn’t.

“They give you those papers and make sure you have them signed, but no one checks up with you,” he said.

But Jones said she has noticed that internships in the communications industry have become stricter when it comes to requiring credit.

“Over the last three or four summers, companies by and large have become stricter and stricter, like they would insist on being able to see the registration on the student’s schedule before they’d let them walk in the door,” she said, adding that she knows of one student who wasn’t allowed in the elevator at her internship until she could prove she registered for an internship credit.

Still, in what Jones called “a major change,” NBC Universal recently reversed its previously strict policy on requiring academic credit and began accepting letters of support from the university so students don’t need to pay for a credit.

Despite the fact that some students may not want to pay for credit for their internships, Jones said there is some value in doing so.

“From a student’s point of view, a credit internship brings in a whole extra dimension of learning,” Jones said. “They have a faculty sponsor who’s communicating with them, making suggestions, helping them interpret and understand what they’re experiencing. And there’s the value of having it on their transcript.”

“Some (employers) may decide or may calculate that a credit internship involves a more serious intent on the student’s part. But in general, what they tend to look at is what the experience was like and what the student learned from it,” she said.

When Haas, the intern at Epic Records, interned for the same company last year for credit, she helped with press release kits, mail and invoices, work she said was educational in terms of her major.

She would have preferred doing a paid internship instead of receiving credits for two summers in a row, though, she said. But she still appreciated the experience, saying, “It looks good for my résumé.”

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Bielski shared inspirational story of family’s courage, bravery Few people may know that the 2008 film “Defiance” was based on a true story. The university was honored to have the son of the main character, Zvi Bielski, speak to a crowded room in Schine Student Center on the night of April 26. Zvi’s father, Zus, passed away in 1995, but Zvi still gives moving and thrilling talks about his family and growing up. Bielski kept insisting that his family was ‘normal,’ despite the fact that they saved more than 1,200 Jews from imminent death in Nazi hands by smuggling them out of ghettos and into their community in the woods for more than two years.

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ers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron, accepted any Jews aboard, including women, children, the sick and the old.

Despite being plagued with a technical difficulty in showing a video, including a scene from the film, Bielski fielded questions from an audience of close to 200 people from the community and university before the problem was fixed. He shared touching memories of his father and how people he saved would constantly approach him wherever they traveled. Much to Zvi’s wife’s dismay, they often showered him in kisses, among blessings and praise.

These stories were numerous among the four brothers. Zvi also told softer stories about his input into the production of the film, visiting the

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let ter to the editor set and his travels to where the camp once was in Western Belarus.

The stories from Bielski’s day-today life really showed insights into his father and uncles. Zus, who owned a trucking company, once brought home two cub bears on their way to the circus. When Zvi opened their front door, to his father’s surprise, he was bitten on his butt — the audience was spared seeing the scar. Or, when Zvi recalled that every Saturday night his family would have huge gatherings with singing and dancing, all of the guests were saved from the

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Zvi’s mother also accompanied many of his stories. When Zvi and his brothers would prod their mother about the Luger she wore on her hip during the war, a gift from their father, she reminded them she never shot it, only polished it. After Zvi’s mother first agreed to a date with Zus in exchange for her parents being rescued from the same ghetto, its occupants were killed soon after her parents escaped.

However, Zvi stressed his father and uncles were no angels. They lead gorilla attacks on the Nazis and killed many people with stolen German weapons. They often left Nazi heads hanging on limbs as a sign to other Nazis. They tracked down German

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citizens known for turning in Jews to the Nazis and killed them. They even killed one of their own militants who refused to take a woman and child with him when the entire camp had to flee from the Nazis.

For the entire night, perhaps the best insight was when Zvi approached his father late one night with a simple question: “Do you have any regrets?”

Zvi paused for a moment and said his father simply said, “Not being able to save more people.” With that, the courage, bravery and memories one family had to kill and save people alike will be remembered.

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requirements.

“We do everything from papers to all questions on quizzes to essays and book reports to science projects to math homework,” Richman said.

There’s no set price per assignment, but factors like the length, amount of research and time affect the costs. Students include an estimate of how much they’d like to pay, but they can’t use a school e-mail address for privacy reasons.

Richman uses the service himself and said it was nice to know he is not the only student overwhelmed with work. He said he recognized the site was morally wrong, but without federal laws forbidding plagiarism, Richman saw nothing wrong with operating the business.

“I don’t really see how there are no state or federal laws that relate back to doing someone’s homework,” Richman said. “Obviously, there are going to be professors that aren’t too happy about it. What we’re doing is morally wrong, but I don’t think there is anything

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illegal about it.”

Richman described the company as a tutoring service and said it is up to the student to decide how to use the service. A disclaimer on the website states the business is a tutoring service and students decide how to use it within the guidelines of their high school, college or university.

SU’s Academic Integrity Policy considers papers downloaded from the Internet or obtained from a paper mill to be plagiarism.

Richman recognized students would likely get in trouble for using the site but did not consider the business to be a particularly bad moral offense in the long run.

“There are a lot of things that are morally wrong, but if you’re an entrepreneur and you run a company, money comes first, I guess,” Richman said.

Gary Pavela, director of SU’s Office of Academic Integrity, said that the university has been encouraging faculty members to discuss and respond to homework in class in an effort to curb plagiarizing.

“We are reminding students that solid research shows that those who fail to do their own home or lab work are significantly disadvantaged in subsequent examinations, including national examinations for graduate and professional schools,” Pavela said. “Using these services isn’t only unethical — it’s stupid. A waste of hard-earned tuition money.”

Pavela said the number of students using the site might be questionable, given the source.

“Promoting honesty doesn’t seem to be their highest priority,” Pavela said.

Students should be careful of the decisions they make regarding academics because of potential issues later in life, Pavela said. He called attention to the advertising slogan the site uses: “Party now and pay later.”

“Obviously, there are going to be professors that aren’t too happy about it. What we’re doing is morally wrong, but I don’t think there is anything illegal about it.”

Adam Richman “More than ever, in this economy, students need to know what their transcript says they know. Prospective employers are screening with extraordinary care,” Pavela said.

Ben Bradley, professor of ethics at SU, said he has encountered several issues with plagiarism in the past, all of which originated from online sources. One semester, Bradley found four to five papers out of 20 that were plagiarized, he said. After noticing a change in a student’s writing style, Bradley said, he would look on Google for the original source.

“There’s lots of stuff that’s morally wrong that’s not legally wrong, such as just lying to people,” Bradley said. “But you shouldn’t do it.”

In response to problems, Bradley said he has assigned fewer papers and relied on in-class exams. He said it was a shame he could not allow students the extra time to learn how to write a paper. Ultimately, Bradley said the issue was with students, not the operators of online sites.

“Should we do anything about this guy who is doing people’s homework for them and getting them to pay him? I guess I don’t really

view our beef as being with him so much as with our students,” Bradley said.

Shakira Smith, a freshman information management and technology major, said she uses the online study resource StudyBlue, an operation that pays students for uploading notes from classes. She said she has been using the site for the past semester and that it helps her study and interact with other students in her class.

Smith said she did not previously consider StudyBlue to be unethical but could see how allowing access to students too lazy to go to class might be considered wrong. She said stress to complete assignments drives students to plagiarize.

“Students become so stressed and are afraid of receiving low marks, so they are convinced that they have to buy work off of others,” Smith said.

Itthiphol Suratsombat, a junior psychology major, also uses StudyBlue. Suratsombat said he has used the site for the past school year to get notes from missed classes and considers the practice ethical.

“I think it’s ethical because you’re not copying someone’s assignment. It’s OK to share notes. Professors actually tell you that you should get notes from your friends if you don’t make it to class, and this is what StudyBlue is used for, to get notes,” Suratsombat said.

But Suratsombat said using a site like CheapHomework was unethical. Although he knows someone who has bought a paper online, he said it was not worth it.

“People that do that are lazy and unmotivated to do their own work,” Suratsombat said.

“When you’re not doing your own work, you put yourself and your integrity at risk, but some people think they can get away with it so they do it.” dkmcbrid@ syr.edu

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fronting Hotaling and his roommate, Alex Fay, near Kimmel Hall. Carter then struck Hotaling once in the face, causing him to fall to the ground while the three returned to the SUV and drove away, according to the report.

Hotaling was not involved in the decision to allow Carter to return to school in the fall, said his lawyer, Sidney Cominsky.

Cominsky said he and Hotaling do not approve of the decision to allow Carter to return to the university, and he believes the overall approach to the case from all parties

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office has tried to inform students about the new requirement of the promissory to the best of its ability and has thus far not received complaints or too much confusion. She said students “are taking it in stride so far.”

Jesse Feitel, a freshman broadcast journalism major, said filling out the promissory note was more difficult than he had anticipated.

“I wasn’t able to recall the PIN number that I made a year ago,” he said. “And it was a real hassle to try and create a new one, especially because I was too busy to set aside time to call.”

Despite complaints from student lenders surrounding the new Direct Loan program, DeVesty said the program was strong now.

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has given Carter special treatment because he is an athlete.

“He shouldn’t receive special treatment,” Cominsky said. “He should be treated as any other student. If school rules say he should be suspended, then he shouldn’t be allowed back.”

Cominsky said he believes Hotaling has been made into the wrongdoer over the course of the investigation and charge. He also said he believes Raus’ attitude toward the case has lacked seriousness.

“What everyone’s going to find is that (William) is absolutely innocent,” Cominsky said. “Right now he’s suffering physically and emotionally. His only mistake was walking down the street.”

Though Raus has expressed his desire to

negotiate a settlement on the criminal charge, Cominsky said he “suspects the DA understands the seriousness of the situation and will do the right thing and deliver a criminal conviction.”

The SU Student Code of Conduct lists “physical harm or threat of physical harm to any person or persons, including but not limited to: assault, sexual abuse, or other forms of physical abuse” as a violation, according the Office of Judicial Affairs’ website. Violence-related violations of the Code of Conduct can result in punishments including disciplinary probation, suspension, indefinite suspension, expulsion and community service, depending on the severity of the injuries, according to the Office

of Judicial Affairs’ website.

Morrow said he cannot comment on Carter’s status as a student.

“Due to federal law — the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA — and university policy, officials of Syracuse University cannot discuss the specifics of a student’s academic record or standing without the student’s authorization,” he said in an e-mail.

In addition to getting Carter reinstated at the university, Raus told The Post-Standard he would try to negotiate a settlement with the district attorney’s office regarding the assault charge pending in civil court.

Education is the school’s lone lender, which “provides some stability in the program,” she said.

SU also requires the College Scholarship Service/Financial Aid Profile and Free Application for Federal Student Aid to be completed each year, but neither of these applications will change because of this new program. Both applications were due April 15 and the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs will soon send out a reminder to students who didn’t fill out the promissory note yet, DeVesty said. Depending on when students complete their financial aid tasks on their MySlice account, awards will be sent out to returning students in late May or early June, she said.

SU currently participates in the Federal Family Education Loan Program that allows students and parents to borrow from private lenders and banks. Through the old program, students could borrow a Federal Stafford or Federal PLUS Loan through a private lender,

according to the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs’ website. Students who borrowed last year and will be borrowing next year have to pay two separate lenders, according to the website.

As long as students are enrolled in school on at least a half-time basis, the previously borrowed Stafford Loans will continue to be deferred, DeVesty said.

“If loans weren’t deferred, I couldn’t afford to go to college, especially a school like Syracuse,” said Jacob Klos, a sophomore mechanical engineering major.

The shift to federal Direct Loans has been planned for months, and SU is ready for the change, DeVesty said.

“It’s a secure way to get funding for our students,” she said. “Because we used to work with many lenders, we had to change.”

In addition, the government has also increased the amount students can borrow each year and expanded repayment methods,

DeVesty said.

Pell Grants will also directly benefit from the new program, and that’s definitely a good thing, she said. The White House said the new law will increase the maximum Pell Grant to $5,975 from $5,550 by 2017 and will provide 820,000 more grants three years after that, according to an article published in The New York Times on March 30.

Starting in July 2014, students who borrow federal Direct Loans will be able to cap repayments at 10 percent rather than the current 15 percent. If those students keep up on payments, their balances will be met after 20 years rather than 25 years, according to the article.

The interest rate of the new program at SU is 7.9 percent, while the previous Federal Family Education Loan Program, or FFELP, loan rate was 8.5 percent, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs’ website.

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hirty PCs in Steele Hall and the Energy and Computing Management training rooms have been upgraded in an effort to promote sustainability and save money.

Rather than buying new computers, the university upgraded the PCs to avoid purchasing new hardware and to save money and resources, according to an SU news release.

“By doing this, we didn’t have to purchase 30 new machines, and we also kept the old machines from having to be recycled in the recycling center through e-waste,” said Melissa Cadwell, marketing manager for SU’s Sustainability Division.

The 6-year-old PCs have been rebuilt to run the Windows operating system and other programs from a remote server rather than having

the software installed on the computers themselves, a practice called “virtual clients.” This allows the resources and software to be used elsewhere when the PCs are not in use, according to the news release.

ECM is a department within Business, Finance and Administrative Services that provides computing support and cost-effective energy services. ECM includes SU’s Sustainability Division, which was formed in 2007 and serves the university, as well as the city.

The computers have also been outfitted with the newest Windows operating system, Windows 7, Cadwell said. The upgrades originated as the universitywide effort to upgrade all PCs to Windows 7.

When Windows 7 came out in October, the university announced it would upgrade computers, starting with those in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, The Daily

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Orange reported in November. Using Windows 7 will also help decrease energy consumption, as it only uses 1 watt of electricity in sleep mode as opposed to the 75 watts Windows XP uses.

In addition to saving money, the upgrades will also prove to be more environmentally friendly. Virtual clients extend the life of PCs, but the lifetime ultimately comes down to how users treat them, Cadwell said.

The PCs will also save energy by automatically powering off at 6 p.m.

“By converting these PCs in a sustainability aspect, we are keeping old PCs out of the landfill and we are upgrading the application of the

PCs,” she said.

Users will not notice a difference between the virtual client and a regular PC, as the two look very similar, Cadwell said. The two also have similar computing speeds.

The upgrade to Steele and ECM is not the first time the university will be using virtual clients, according to the news release. SU has used virtual clients since 2003, and other locations that use them include the Department of Public Safety’s closed-circuit television monitoring systems and the Physical Plant. svangrub@syr.edu

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Fashion’s Conscience week brings designs to Syracuse

By Elora Tocci Staff Writer

Willy Wonka, Cirque du Soleil and fashion are coming together at Syracuse University this week.

Fashion’s Conscience is currently hosting “Fashion Week 2010,” a week of modeling, fashion shows and fashion-related forums on campus, with a merged Willy Wonka and Cirque du Soleil theme. Fashion’s Conscience is a student organization devoted to recognizing the contributions of minorities in the fashion industry.

The week kicked off Monday afternoon with a fashion show in the Schine Student Center.

It will end Saturday in Goldstein Auditorium with a show titled “Fashionably Aware” and a performance by rapper Fabolous.

“We’re really excited about Saturday night,” said Ayoni Warburton, a senior fashion design major and president of Fashion’s Conscience.

“People may come more for Fabolous than for the fashion show, but those people are definitely in for a pleasant surprise.”

This semester’s Fashion Week took more time and energy to plan, Warburton said.

“Connecting with designers, promoting the shows, distributing fliers, transporting designers’ pieces to Syracuse — it’s a lot of work,” Warburton said. The group also focused more on networking within the industry to establish connections for this and future Fashion Weeks.

The goal of this year’s Fashion Week is to make the SU community more aware of Fashion Conscience’s presence, Warburton said. All of the models in the fashion shows

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“Last year the crowd we saw at Fashion Week was big enough, but this year we decided to host more shows and a culminating event to get more of the industry involved. This semester’s Fashion Week allows us to embrace more of the campus.”

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Vice President of Fashion’s Conscience and a senior retail management and marketing major

are SU students. The clothes they model come from SU students and designers across the country both near and far. Today’s show will feature garments from Some Girls Boutique on Marshall Street.

“We really want to showcase pieces from designers who might not have many opportunities to get their names out there,” Warburton said.

Today’s show will start at 7 p.m. in Schine.

Thursday’s show, titled “Fashionizing,” will be held at 6 p.m. in Schine 304, and Friday’s fashion show by students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts will start at 7 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium.

At the beginning of the week, the fashion shows featured a bright and comical Willy Wonka style. Toward the end of the week, the designs and makeup will become progressively darker and more infused with Cirque du Soleil elements, especially on Saturday, Warburton said.

Monday’s fashion show, which was moved from the Quad to Schine due to rainy weather, generated buzz among students.

“We had styled models standing in Schine holding fliers promoting Fashion’s Conscience, and people kept coming up to the models to ask about it,” said Shatara Miller, the vice president of Fashion’s Conscience and a senior retail management and marketing major.

Although the organization held Fashion Week last semester, it hosted fewer shows and the events did not lead up to a sizeable finale.

“Last year the crowd we saw at Fashion Week was big enough, but this year we decided to host more shows and a culminating event to get more of the industry involved,” Miller said.

“This semester’s Fashion Week allows us to embrace more of the campus.”

Although most of the week is dedicated to fashion shows, the group also hosted a forum Tuesday, titled “She Was Asking for It.” The goal of the forum was to open a dialogue about how clothing choice can influence sexual violence because those issues are important, Miller said.

Fashion’s Conscience hopes to continue hosting Fashion Week and expanding it every year, said Terry Kezoh, a sophomore public health major and member of the organization.

“The most exciting part for me is to see other people getting excited about our events,” Kezoh said. “The theme this semester is something really different, and it’s fun to see people anticipating our shows.” ertocci@syr.edu

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Hardest part of letting go is saying ‘bye’ danny fersh

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carly piersol | photo editor Zach Sheldon (left), vinny jacobbi and tom bruccetti created and designed T-shirts that advocate for MayFest to remain at its traditional home on Euclid Avenue. Sheldon and Jacobbi have sold more than 200 T-shirts and plan to wear them Friday.

One big SU students design, sell T-shirts in opposition to MayFest changes

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tudents stood on Euclid Avenue last week selling homemade T-shirts that read “Euclid Avenue, F*** Walnut” on the front and “Long Live MayFest on Euclid” on the back. Their efforts did not meet the approval of the Syracuse University administration.

Someone made a complaint. The students were soon approached by a Syracuse police officer who told them they needed a permit to sell the shirts on the street. After speaking to the students, the officer actually agreed that the original MayFest, once held on Euclid Avenue, was “fine the way it was,” said Tom Briccetti, a junior art video major who designed the shirt.

“It really leads you to question why the university is so adamant about changing what works,” said Zach

Sheldon, a junior communication and rhetorical studies major. “(The police officer) indicated that law enforcement had no problems with previous MayFests and cited that the change in location was just as much a mystery to law enforcement as it is to the student body.”

In response to the moving of MayFest to Walnut Park, Vinny Jacobbi and Sheldon led the charge in creating the “official” MayFest T-shirts, which they hope will inspire reaction among students on SU’s campus. They have sold approximately 200 shirts so far and have plenty of shirts yet to be delivered.

“We wanted to mirror everyone’s feelings about MayFest through the T-shirt,” said Jacobbi, a sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and a magazine journalism major. He said the aim for the apparel

is to have the university notice the disappointment students feel.

“Historically, T-shirts have been a way to make a statement,” said Fred Easton, a supply chain management professor at SU. “It’s a tried and true method.”

But social network technologies may be more successful in circumstances such as this, Easton said.

With MayFest occurring on Friday, Jacobbi and Sheldon continue to promote their shirts to the student population. The team advertises through social networking sites, word of mouth and fliers. The students even deliver the shirts to customers’ doorsteps when they order one.

Sheldon said creating the shirts was a step-by-step process. The students originally got the idea from Jacobbi’s friend, who attends the State University of New York at Brockport.

He made similar shirts when changes were made to the university’s annual “Brock the Port” celebration.

Briccetti was then recruited to help the duo with the venture. Before they distributed the T-shirts, Jaccobi and Sheldon made a Facebook group to gauge interest. The shirts do a great job of relaying the message that it is all about Euclid, Briccetti said.

With strong responses on the social networking site, the team designed the shirts and ordered them from Holy Shirt!, a local T-shirt manufacturer.

“They made the shirts because students are not happy with the decision to hold MayFest in Walnut Park and are going to party on Euclid anyway,” Briccetti said. “The administration and the city need to realize that kids don’t want to be roped in on Walnut and be restricted to four beers.” see t-shirt page 12

ext semester when I go to Spain to study abroad, it will mark another eight months before I come back to Syracuse University.

I know you don’t think it’s a big deal. After all, what do you care if some hack columnist takes a vacation? Life goes on. You’ve got friends to see, classes to attend and parties to go to. Plus, it’s not like that hottie in your Wednesday lecture is any less likely to sleep with you once I’m gone.

Still, let’s face the facts. You’re gonna miss me.

Sure, you can get by on your own.

Maybe you’ll find something else to read on Hump Day. But will that something really entertain you like I can? Any chump can make you giggle a little, but only I can shock, appall, amuse, arouse, inform and offend you the way you truly deserve.

I’m a rare breed. Seldom will you find a man with such talent that he physically knocks you over with his words. And his karate skills … But mostly his words. I do that every week with my wit, eloquence and powerful roundhouse kick.

Right now you might be wondering how you benefit from all of this.

After all, does anybody actually like getting roundhouse-humorcolumned in the face? It’s debatable, a topic worthy of epic discussions that might last for weeks on end.

For all you doubters, let me remind you that since I stepped onto this campus we have recovered from a recession, given every American health insurance, invented the iPad, experienced “Avatar” in 3-D and witnessed the rise of Snooki. Oh, and that whole swine flu thing. Oops.

Coincidence? Maybe. Would all of this have happened whether or not I existed? Probably. Am I gonna take credit for all of it? You bet your sweet bippy.

I play a much larger role in your life than you realize. Every Wednesday I make your day that much better with my stunning combination of sex appeal, potty humor and good oldfashioned chauvinism.

I turn your frowns into smiles, your clouds into sunshine and your see fersh page 12

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Sheldon said there are a lot of opinions about how MayFest should take place this year. This shirt just represents one perspective that is popular among students.

Jacobbi acknowledged the university is cracking down on MayFest with the intention of looking out for Syracuse residents. However, he said he feels that the celebration does more good than harm, giving students one day of freedom to celebrate the end of the school year.

“It gives students a sense of community,” Jacobbi said.

Even after their effort to sell the shirts was put to a stop by police officials, the boys did not stop spreading their message. Instead, they said it encouraged them. They expect most people who purchased the MayFest shirt to wear them on MayFest.

Jacobbi said money was not their incentive.

It was their need to convey the feelings they had toward the school revamping the festival, he said.

Though Jacobbi is a transfer student and has never been to MayFest, he wishes to participate in

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drunken mistakes into sober successes.

Obviously, there are more effective ways to demonstrate my greatness than by bluntly stating it to you. However, none of the alternative methods are as efficient as this one, and time is of the essence, for soon I will be gone. Plus, the skywriter I hired just sold his plane to pay off his gambling debt.

So, I hope this column served its purpose

a tradition he has heard so much about.

Sheldon said what he loves most about the original MayFest is the atmosphere.

“Ask anyone what they did for the event last year, and odds are they spent part of that day among the throngs of people on Euclid Avenue,” Sheldon said.

Though freshmen have yet to experience the real MayFest, the message has caught their attention.

“The shirts represent the student desire to hold onto a longtime tradition,” said Michael Diamond, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. “It gives the student body a chance to escape the incredible stress surrounding finals together and have a good time,” Diamond said.

Diamond said he is concerned about never being able to experience the annual SU pastime that many students have gotten to enjoy and rant about.

Sheldon and Jacobbi said they will be wearing their T-shirts on Friday and also hope to see other students oppose Walnut Park by wearing their shirts.

Sheldon said, “I hope to spend a majority of it where it belongs.” ygalstya@syr.edu

and made you appreciate what you have.

Because next semester, nobody will be around to tell you how awesome I am.

Hasta luego, Syracuse.

Danny Fersh is a sophomore broadcast journalism major and his column will no longer appear.

For a spectacular semester, he would like to thank Flash and the Featchies, Meredith, his four roommates, the Sadler crew, the Watson gang, the Fersh/ Markus clan, Uncle Richard, Uncle D’wayne, Dona Hayes, Professor Cremedas’ mustache, Laurence Thomas, Christie Perry, Mos Def, Carmelo Anthony, The Situation and, of course, John Stamos. Danny can be reached at dafersh@syr.edu.

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Trying to fix problems from previous installment, ‘Just Cause 2’ only frustrates players

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t may not be a groundbreaking game or even an immersive one, but at the very least, “Just Cause 2” allows players to destroy everything and anything in sight. However, even this does not save a bland story with horrible characters that leaves players with an average, unmemorable experience.

The first “Just Cause” was released on the PlayStation 2, the original Xbox and Xbox 360 simultaneously. The choice of platforms — spanning two different console generations — causes a number of technical issues. From unrealistic physics to poor voice acting, every aspect of the game seems broken.

Many of these technical problems made the original “Just Cause” ironically enjoyable. Much like watching a terrible movie and loving it for its cheesiness, “Just Cause” was memorable due to its apparent flaws. Sadly, when the sequel fixed many of these issues, the personality of the game was also “fixed.”

“Just Cause 2” follows the story of Rico Rodriguez, a secret agent on the fictional island of Panau, located somewhere in Southeast Asia. The sequel removes the goofiness and insanity from the first game in favor of a more serious storyline. Many video game developers attempt to create a memorable atmosphere, but few actually make it work. Avalanche Studios in “Just Cause 2” is not one of them.

Instead of using the story as a springboard to challenge the player, it hinders the overall experience.

Some of the best parts of the first game came from the mischief players could do with the grappling hook, a tool players are given early in the game.

Thankfully, the grappling hook appeal was not changed from previous installment. Thanks to the grappling hook, the game’s most enjoyable features came from the ability to attach an enemy to a car or an elevator and watch them fly up into the air or be dragged on the ground. The senseless action that players can do does not end there. Crazy stunts such as attaching a house to a hijacked helicopter, launching a boat hundreds of feet into the air or blowing up miles of trees in seconds are all possible. Most of the situations can be best described as only possible in a video game. The silly moments become the rare joys that this game possesses. If only that trend continued with the rest of the game.

The majority of the missions are both repetitive and forgettable. Two missions clearly reference the show “Lost” and the “James Bond” series. One mission actually sends the player on a quest to locate a single hatch in an area where 30 or 40 are located.

Overall, “Just Cause 2” improves the technical flaws of the first installment, but in doing so, it loses its character and soul. The sequel does not possess the charm of the first game. It isn’t a video game that’s so bad it’s good. This game is just bad.

To put it simply, “Just Cause 2” is “Grand Theft Auto” minus the satire of American culture. It’s just an average game released during a time of year when there are not many new releases. Pick it up if you’re looking to kill 20 to 40 hours. Otherwise, pass up this poorly crafted title. vhemsley@syr.edu

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program by the end of spring practice during former head coach Lane Kiffin’s first season on the job.

But with each passing day, the number at Syracuse flew beyond the norm. One after another they disappeared, and Marrone saw the numwber of scholarship players on his 2010 spring roster dip to just 49 non-specialists.

A coincidence became a trend. Marrone would vaguely address who, what and when. But he would never discuss why. And so the question became why. Why the mass exodus from the Syracuse football program?

“I don’t know. You would have to get that from them,” Marrone said. “I think it’s important for them in life to explain what their situation was. … I think you’ll find out there are a lot of reasons for each individual person.”

“We’re talking about curfew ” Lamar Middleton just wanted to read Doug Marrone the letter. The letter that explained why he should remain on the team. The letter that admitted he was wrong about what had happened that night at 231 Slocum Heights.

“He wouldn’t let me read him my letter,” Middleton said. “… Basically, Coach Marrone was treating me like I was some bum off the street asking for a dollar. He didn’t want to speak to me.

He told me that ‘you’re done.’ He said you have to move on and go play with somebody else.”

Middleton penned the letter after he was let go by Marrone due to what Middleton describes as a “simple misunderstanding of one night last spring semester of the curfew situation.”

Marrone confirmed Middleton’s dismissal but wouldn’t comment on the specific case, saying only that it was a “violation of team rules.”

Middleton’s ex-teammates, Donte Davis and Nico Scott, similarly describe the situation.

Because they were both there that one night at 231 Slocum Heights. In the four-apartment complex, they lived upstairs, and Middleton lived directly below them.

The situation arose, all three say, as they came back from a T-Pain concert in Goldstein Auditorium on April 17, 2009, the night before the spring football game.

It came one night after Middleton says he was in the hospital for what turned out to be a “stomach bug.”

He ended up missing a 6 a.m. meeting the next morning, and said it added to another previous misunderstanding he had with the coach — Marrone, Middleton said, believed him to be an alcoholic. “(Marrone) thought I was an alcoholic because I told him that I had a Long Island ice tea,” Middleton said. “After that, he tried to put me on alcoholic counseling. I said, ‘OK, if that’s what I need to do to gain your trust back, then I will do that.’”

Marrone would not comment on specific incidents with his former players. But he did say that if he feels a player is in “trouble or is struggling” for a variety of reasons, he will determine whether to direct those players to the appropriate counseling services.

“If I saw a player that had given me any types of signs for anything — and it’s such a wide range — yes, I’m going to contact our trainers,” Marrone said. “And I’m going to contact the player to encourage him to go for counseling.”

That night, coming back from the concert, Middleton and Davis engaged in an argument with a graduate assistant checking their apartments at curfew time, which both said was at 10:30 p.m. Walking into his apartment, Davis said, it was 10:15.

Middleton got the call to Marrone’s office the next morning, the day of the spring game. There sat Marrone, the graduate assistant and the rest of the Orange defensive staff.

That was it. He had missed curfew, Marrone told him. Just like that, Middleton was gone. He didn’t get a chance to speak in the meeting.

“Basically, he was saying that he gave me enough opportunities,” Middleton said. “And that was it.”

He, his teammates and good friends were stunned. He went into a “shell,” Scott said, composing the letter and begging Marrone to read it. When it happened, Middleton saw it all slipping away.

“When I got kicked off the team, we’re talking about curfew, man,” Middleton said. “We’re talking about curfew. And a curfew that I really didn’t miss. We’re talking about curfew. We’re not talking about a rape charge. We’re not talking about DUI. We’re not talking about any of that. We’re talking about curfew.”

For Marrone, once again, he would not delve into specifics. But he talked about the importance of making the imposed curfew.

“We do have curfew restrictions for the players for their benefit,” Marrone said. “From the standpoint of whether they’ll be able to go out on the field and perform at a level where they will not have injuries occur to them, so they get the proper amount of rest or to a standpoint of them being home at the right time so they can start school the next day and go to classes fully alert.

“I’m not going to go back to a ‘he said, she said,’ but we do have a curfew for our players at different times during the year for different reasons.”

“Boot camp” JohnMark Henderson’s sanctuary was the Manley Field House parking lot.

Drained from a grueling practice and admittedly tired of every rule Marrone’s staff enforced, Henderson would often retreat with some of his teammates to the parking lot. For them, it seemed like the only place they could gather and just vent.

“After practice, we weren’t happy,” Henderson said. “So there was a lot of moping around.

After practice sometimes, the only thing keeping us together was to go out in the parking lot and talk about how much we hated it and wished it wasn’t like this.”

Henderson couldn’t accept the tight-shipped Marrone. It just wasn’t what he was used to.

As he came into Syracuse, Marrone instilled a system built around the components of discipline and structure. Two elements he says are necessary to keying the success of any organization.

“When you look at any successful organization,” Marrone said, “whether it be in sports,

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Randy McKinnon, a safety who recorded 11 tackles for SU last season, leaves the program. McKinnon plans to graduate early this May and pursue a graduate degree at Southern Methodist.

whether it be in business, or whether you want to say it has discipline or structure, it has those components in both. And I just think that when you get in, you go ahead and you try to build a trust factor between player and coach.”

As Randy McKinnon says, players either “love it or hate it.”

For McKinnon, a safety who recorded 11 tackles last season, it was not a reason he left the program. (He says he hopes to graduate early this May and focus on pursuing a master’s degree at Southern Methodist.) Growing up in an Armyheavy family that enforced strict discipline, McKinnon just thought of it as a continuation of his roots. That’s why he didn’t have a problem with the rules other players thought were petty.

Marrone’s disciplinary structure included rules that barred players from growing facial hair or any hair that hung out of their helmets during the season. Last season, the players weren’t allowed to wear wristbands or any accessories during games.

Marrone says the rules are strictly meant for safety. He repeats the word over and over, giving the same speech to all his players and recruits.

But the combination of those restrictions with the demanding practices, Henderson couldn’t take it anymore more. The game he grew up loving, playing since he was a 6-yearold, wasn’t fun anymore, he said. And so in October, Henderson decided to transfer to Prairie View A&M, becoming the 21st player to leave the program since Marrone’s hire.

“I did feel a little disrespected. That’s what it was,” Henderson said. “Because I wasn’t told any of this when I came here. I wasn’t told I would have to cut my facial hair. I wasn’t told they were going to strip every little thing away from us like accessories.

“It felt like a boot camp. It just wasn’t fun at all.”

“Thank You” Coming out of high school and into the Syracuse football program in 1983, Marrone says his attitude was just like the players he coaches now.

In the strict disciplinary system of legendary SU head coach Dick MacPherson, a coach he now fondly refers to as “Coach Mac,” Marrone did not always see eye to eye with him. In the other role now, though, he gets it.

“When I was a player here, there were a lot of things Coach Mac did that I did not agree with,” Marrone said. “And all of a sudden, when I left college and went along in my career and became married and had children, I’m always calling Coach Mac and I’m always saying, ‘Hey, I get it now. Thank you.’”

This is the basis of Marrone’s system today. With a penchant for discipline and structure, he knows not every player is going to agree with his style.

But he believes that down the road, he’ll get those calls like his to MacPherson. Calls he says he already gets from former players who go through the NFL Draft process.

“That’s what we’re trying to do,” Marrone said. “We’re just trying to do the right thing for the players so that we’re trying to have the consistency for the long haul.”

It’s a system that former players agree is exceedingly different from Greg Robinson’s, the coach Marrone replaced last season.

March 22, 2010

JohnMark Henderson, a junior college transfer recruited by Marrone who came to Syracuse after spring practice, leaves the program and transfers to Prairie View A&M. He would later say it was because Marrone’s program felt like “boot camp.”

Donte Davis, a four-year receiver with the Orange, decides to transfer to Hampton. After saying he “wasn’t on the same page” with former SU receivers coach Jaime Elizondo, Davis said he spoke with Marrone and “came to a mutual understanding.”

January 2010

Doug Marrone is hired as the head coach of Syracuse football. “Today is the greatest day of my life,” he said.

Nick Speller, an offensive tackle who played in seven games for the Orange in 2009, leaves the program after two years with the team. He says later it was because of “uncertainty” of not playing and with academics.

December 2009

Lamar Middleton is dismissed from the team after what Marrone said one year later was a “violation of team rules.”

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Just hours before the start of spring practice, Mike Jones, a former running back and starting kick returner for SU, leaves the program. Later, he says he left because of academic reasons, giving praise to Marrone in the process.

Mike Jones, an ex-Orange running back who made noise by leaving the team just hours before the start of spring practice on March 22, is an advocate of the way Marrone ran the program.

Jones said he left the team because he wasn’t happy with where he was headed academically at Syracuse.

Jones pointed to an incident in March 2008 in which SU players Paul Chiara and Mikhail Marinovich were chased on foot by police after allegedly breaking into Manley Field House.

After deliberation, Robinson decided to keep both on the team. (Marinovich, a rising junior, is still on the team.) Under Marrone, Jones said, that wouldn’t be the case.

“Yeah, I don’t think they would’ve been anywhere near the team anymore,” Jones said.

“Even in the past year, the little things that people do wrong, they get punished for.

“There’s no bullshit allowed.”

So even though they lament the fortune of their good friend and teammate Middleton, and though they may not have agreed with the ultimate verdict, Davis and Scott defer to their former head coach. They respect his system and his decision-making.

“Coach Marrone came in and what he wanted to do was instill discipline on the team to help better the program,” Scott said. “He set rules and boundaries for the team to abide by. If you follow the rules, everything else will take care of itself. I’m going to leave it at that.”

“I mean, I think he didn’t have to go that far,” Davis adds. “But then again, I was seeing what he was trying to do. Because coming off (Robinson), we got away with a lot of things. (Marrone) was just a stickler on doing the little things right.”

“Dolls” Middleton, the player who missed curfew and was removed from the team, had just gotten the script. He was about to immerse himself in it for the next three months.

In addition to likely starting at defensive tackle, Middleton was a drama and acting minor at SU. He was likely to earn one of the lead roles in a production called “Dolls” at Syracuse’s Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company last July.

“Dolls” was one of the things that Middleton lost when he was forced to leave Syracuse. Without a scholarship, he and his family couldn’t afford to pay the bills themselves. Telling his mother and seeing the devastation on her face, he almost couldn’t take it.

He still imagines himself up on that stage, the crowd clapping for him for something other than football. Acting still remains one of his true loves. But like his football career at Syracuse, his acting career and his life at the university vanished when he was kicked off the team.

“He didn’t just kick me off his football team,” Middleton said. “That was my life.”

Middleton has found a second opportunity at James Madison, where he recorded two tackles in limited action last season.

But he yearns for it all back. To be with his old friends and teammates — his “family.” To read Marrone the letter. To go back to his life.

“I never got to talk to Marrone after that,” Middleton says. “… I love Syracuse. I still want to go back after all that.” bplogiur@syr.edu

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Testa uses father’s guidance literally as Orange pole-vaulter

By Chris Iseman Contributing Writer

Growing up, Leah Testa would always be reminded of one thing by her father, John: “The sky is the limit.” That one short but meaningful phrase served as a form of motivation to keep trying to improve as a pole-vaulter.

It was as if her father knew exactly what was to come.

“Growing up, she was always hearing that positive reinforcement,” said Leah’s mother, Sandy Testa. “(Her father) is a very positive person and has tried to instill that in her.”

Testa, a pole-vaulter for the Orange track and field team, has endured a transition period from high school to the collegiate ranks on the field. After struggling to adjust to the competition level during her first two years on campus, Testa has become an integral part of an emerging Syracuse track and field team as a junior.

Following a decorated high school career where she competed at the state championships

four times, Testa found herself having to go back to the basics of pole-vaulting. In addition to facing a higher level of competition, Testa also had to adjust to a new brand of coaching at the Division I level.

But despite the struggles and frustration, Testa knew she’d have to weather the storm and keep working on her technique.

“I was really bummed last year, but I never considered just stopping because I’ve done it for so long,” Testa said. “I wouldn’t know what else to do.”

Once Testa, a Rochester, N.Y., native, arrived as a freshman, she expected to do well right away. She quickly found out that wouldn’t be the case. She encountered setbacks that she would have to overcome if she wanted to be successful for the Orange.

As she struggled during her first two years, her confidence level fell more and more.

Although she wasn’t getting the results she wanted, she never considered leaving the team.

But there were times when her coach wasn’t so sure.

“I give her credit for sticking through it,” SU’s assistant coach Enoch Borozinski said.

“There were times where I thought I might not see her the next year.”

For the Orange, it’s a good thing she returned.

At her second meet of the year, the Syracuse Welcome Back Invitational, she was the women’s champion — jumping 3.4 meters. A few meets later, she was also the women’s champion at the Syracuse Invitational with a jump of 3.6 meters.

“Her recent improvements have just been about her having a little bit of confidence in herself as a pole-vaulter and bringing it to the competitions,” Borozinski said.

Her path to becoming a champion pole-vaulter for the Orange didn’t come easy. It required improvements not only to her technique, but also her mindset.

Eventually, she was able to make those adjustments. But it took a lot of time and a lot of patience.

Since she started with the Orange, her coach said she has gotten both stronger and faster. But her biggest improvement has been her confidence.

Now Testa doesn’t think about not being able to make a certain height. When it comes to what she could do during competitions, what used to be “if” has become “when,” her mother says.

“It isn’t ‘if I do better,’” Sandy said, “now it’s ‘when I hit that mark.’”

Though Testa overcame the struggles she faced during her first couple of years, she’s not quite where she hopes to be by the time she’s finished. Instead, she still believes she could be even better with some small technical adjustments.

Which is good for Testa because she still isn’t completely satisfied. After all, she’s still reminded of those words she grew up hearing from her father.

“I’m happy I’m doing well, but it should’ve come sooner,” she said. “I still want to jump a foot or two higher before I graduate.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Caira throws 12 shutout innings in SU’s 2-game sweep of Nittany Lions The Syracuse softball team posted two victories against Penn State Tuesday in a nonconference doubleheader in University Park. The Orange (27-20, 9-7 Big East) won the first game 2-0 and the second by a score of 6-1 to extend its current winning streak to four games.

SU pitcher Jenna Caira picked up both wins for the Orange in her best performance of the season. She threw 12 shutout innings, racking up 20 strikeouts and giving up just two hits over the course of both games.

Caira fired her third one-hitter of the season in game one, striking out 13 Nittany Lions with only two walks allowed.

The game was deadlocked 0-0 until a two-run blast from third baseman Hallie Gibbs gave

Syracuse the lead in the top of the seventh. It was her third home run in as many games. This was the Orange’s first win against Penn State (28-18, 7-7 Big Ten) since 2001.

Head coach Leigh Ross turned to Caira once again to make the start in game two for the Orange. Her dominance continued as she allowed a single hit over five innings, striking out seven while walking one.

After a weekend series with Connecticut in which the team belted four home runs, the hot bats continued for the Orange. Gibbs and freshman Stacy Kuwik each hit two-run blasts in a four-run fifth inning that blew the game open. Gibbs now leads the team with six long balls, giving her 19 for her career.

SU entered the doubleheader 1-7 against Penn State all-time and had never won at University Park.

Next up for the Orange is a return trip to Pennsylvania to take on Pittsburgh this

weekend. Syracuse plays three games against the Panthers, who currently sit fifth in the Big East.

— Compiled by staff writers Michael Cohen and Mark Cooper

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As final game in Dome nears, SU seniors aim for No. 1 seed

By Brad Kallet Staff Writer

The seniors on the women’s lacrosse team are confident heading into the postseason. But they almost don’t want that portion of the season to come.

For these seniors who were instrumental in taking this program to the next level, the final games at the Carrier Dome mark the end of an era.

“Going into this last game, it’s a little bittersweet,” senior attack Halley Quillinan said.

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championship, but I almost don’t want it to come yet. Saturday will potentially be my last game in the Dome. So, it’s a little sad.”

On Saturday No. 9 Syracuse (12-4, 6-1 Big East) will host No. 12 Georgetown (9-5, 6-0) in the Carrier Dome in its regular-season finale.

In addition to it being Senior Day, Syracuse will have an opportunity to secure a No. 1 seed in the upcoming Big East tournament. Depending on how the NCAA tournament schedule unfolds, Saturday may very well be the last game that this group of seniors ever plays in the Dome.

This crop of Syracuse seniors has the Orange playing its best lacrosse of the season. SU has won five straight games, three of which were on the road, and currently sits second in the Big East conference standings, right below the Hoyas. And with a victory against Georgetown on Saturday, Syracuse will position itself nicely to secure a very favorable seed in the NCAA tournament.

Senior attack and co-captain Jackie DePetris says the team is very excited about its chances to get back to the final four, but admits that for the seniors, this postseason will be a different experience altogether.

“I think that every senior playing for a championship has that chip on their shoulder and that edge because it’s your last attempt at winning,” Quillinan said. “And so going into this Big East championship, I’d like to go out the way I came in. My freshman year we won the inaugural Big East championship and I’d like to leave that way, too.”

But with the Big East tournament a week away, these seniors have more on their minds.

jamie de pould | staff photographer halley quillinan is one of nine seniors looking to lead the Orange to a No. 1 seed in the upcoming Big East tournament. Quillinan is second on Syracuse with 38 goals.

They want to win the Big East regular-season championship in their final home game. They want their fellow seniors to play their hearts out in front of the home fans that have cheered and supported them for four years.

They want the storybook ending.

“I’m really excited,” DePetris said. “I think the energy right now is huge. It’s our last game and this game means a lot. I just hope that all the seniors play the game of their lives because at this point it’s going to mean that much to all of us.”

SU’s seniors said that over the past four seasons they have formed a very close relationship and a tight-knit bond. It is noticeable on the field. It is noticeable on the sidelines.

But in addition to the camaraderie among teammates, Gait said he has gained a true

appreciation for this class of seniors. Gait was named head coach in their sophomore season, and they helped ease his transition back into Division I lacrosse.

As soon as Gait’s tenure began, their talent propelled Syracuse into the upper echelon of women’s lacrosse. Gait recognizes what a special group this is, and it may be just as hard for him to see these players leave as it will be for them to go.

“They’ve played a huge part in taking this program from a top 20 program to a Top 10 program consistently,” Gait said. “It just shows what type of players they are, what type of people they are, that they have the skills, the leadership and the personalities to make that happen here at Syracuse.” bckallet@syr.edu

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face.

“They have a chance,” Bucktooth says with a glimmer of hope and pride in his voice. “They will go to college. Things are going to change.”

To understand why so few Native American students go to college is to dissect a culture that has lived in this area for thousands of years.

Onondaga is a sovereign nation of roughly 2,000 people living on 7,300 acres of land just 10 minutes from the Syracuse University campus.

They are one of six groups that comprise the Haudenosaunees, better known in the United States as the Iroquois. They are also one of the few Native communities that still have traditional chiefs, faithkeepers and clan mothers.

The Onondagas value history and family above all, and they have remained private and protective of their culture. Their commitment to these ideals has allowed them to survive while other Native American nations have disappeared.

“If it comes down to community and family versus education, it’s going to be community and family, no questions asked,” said Regina Jones, an assistant director in SU’s Office of Multicultural Affairs who also runs the Native Student Program.

Decades of exploitation and abuse created an intense skepticism of the American educational system. This mistrust led to apathy and a general lack of knowledge about how to even pursue an education off the reservation.

As a result, there are countless Native lacrosse players who never made it to college.

Syracuse’s current roster contains two: Cody Jamieson and Jeremy Thompson, who both faced difficult roads before arriving.

But there is now a growing belief on the Nation that educational opportunities are coming. It has been four years since Chancellor Nancy Cantor created the Haudenosaunee Promise, a scholarship program allowing Native students who meet certain criteria to attend SU for free.

Cantor is quick to point out that the scholarship is not an entitlement, but a way to honor the growing relationship between SU and the nearby Native communities. To be eligible for the Promise, a student must be a certified citizen of one of the six Haudenosaunee nations: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca or Tuscarora. More importantly, the students must meet Syracuse’s admission requirements and standards.

The scholarship has already been a shift in attitude regarding college. Bucktooth says the

Native communities consider Cantor a hero.

No longer does education seem unattainable.

Bucktooth did not consider college until his junior year of high school, when former SU lacrosse coach Roy Simmons Jr. offered him a scholarship.

That, he says, will not happen anymore because the Promise has firmly planted the notion in the minds of Native American children.

“What this has done is make students say that they don’t care if nobody helps them or believes in them,” Jones said. “They say, ‘Syracuse University says I can go to college.’ You wouldn’t believe the difference it has made in all our Nations.”

Haudenosaunee communities have mistrusted American education for decades, dating to the turn of the 20th century, when the U.S. government forced Native children off the reservation and into boarding schools.

“A lot of them never come back,” said Neal Powless, a counselor for the SU Center for Career Services and a Redhawks player. “When they come back they’re different. They don’t know what it means to be Native.”

Nowadays, the Onondaga Nation feeds into the LaFayette public school district. The combined junior and senior high school has 400 students altogether. Approximately 25 percent of them are Native. The Onondaga Nation School, an all-Native K-8 building on the reservation, is also considered part of LaFayette’s district.

Danielle O’Mara, the Native American liaison to the LaFayette district, said this “generational trauma” will never completely disappear.

During an interview earlier this month, Jones pointed out a Native American student’s science project that sought to compare the effects of rain water versus bottled water on plant growth. The pots were marked “sky water” and “The Man’s water.”

“We’re always going to mistrust the United States,” Jones said. “We’re going to mistrust people that aren’t Native. That goes back generations. It’s part of who we are.”

That inherent mistrust makes Cantor’s job even more difficult. There is a fine line between accessibility and exploitation. That’s why Syracuse University has hesitated to push the benefits of higher education onto younger children.

“We have to be very respectful of autonomy,” Cantor said. “We don’t want it to look like we are appropriating their culture. It has to happen naturally.”

It is starting to. Cantor said she feels a mutual trust forming, but it will be a long process that cannot happen in just three years.

Even as skepticism has started to wane, many Native families are still unaware of the steps required to go to college. Thompson needed a

year at Onondaga Community College, a season of box lacrosse in Canada and then another year at OCC before he was cleared to play at SU. Though he started in the LaFayette district in fifth grade, he did not realize he needed to maintain certain grades to play lacrosse in college. He knew nothing about the NCAA Clearinghouse until it was too late.

The LaFayette administration is trying to combat this problem. Principal Paula Cowling and O’Mara started an advisory board intended for Native parents to ask questions about the college process. The most common request was to start teaching about the Clearinghouse at a younger age.

“They still need to take an active role to make sure they are checking the website, taking the right courses, making sure they’re passing,” O’Mara said. “We can show them everything, we can give them all the information, but it is still up to that child to do what he has to do.”

Cowling said experiences like these are teaching her the motivational power of lacrosse on Native students.

Tom Turner, Thompson’s former special education teacher at LaFayette, called lacrosse the “greatest carrot dangling in front of these kids to get them into college.”

And sometimes even that isn’t enough. Only the most dedicated and determined players, such as Thompson and Jamieson, fight through the barriers. The rest slip through the cracks.

Mike Abrams, a member of the Redhawks, falls in that category. His brother Marshall played at SU from 1997-00. Mike played two years at Herkimer Community College but did not pursue an opportunity to continue his career. He instead left school to become an iron worker with his father.

“I didn’t like school too much,” Abrams said.

“It was hard. I couldn’t balance the work and lacrosse.”

Even for lacrosse players who reach college, it is sometimes difficult to find the motivation to continue. When he arrived on campus, Thompson said he felt lost and confused — caught between the two worlds. He wanted to keep playing lacrosse, but the safety and comfort of his life on the Nation beckoned.

Thompson, like many Native American students, wants to spend his life on the reservation. College hasn’t always seemed necessary or worthwhile.

Perhaps the most challenging part of Jones’ job is convincing students like Thompson to remain in school. She believes it is possible to combine education with Native customs. Dif-

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ficult, but possible.

“Jeremy sat there and wondered, ‘Why am I here?’” Jones said. “My answer was, ‘Get your degree. You can do whatever you want after that. You can go learn your language, you can spend time with your elders, learn how to do ceremonies. You can have both.’”

SU lacrosse coach John Desko delivers a similar message to his Native players. During the fall semester of 2008, former SU defender Sid Smith came into his office and said he was quitting the program. College was too difficult. He needed to be back on the reservation with his family.

“I said, ‘Sid, you don’t understand what you represent to your people and your culture,’” Desko said. “You can do both. I told him to keep going to class, and we’re going to find a way to get you graduated.”

Smith heeded his coach’s words and played an integral part of SU’s national championship runs in 2008 and 2009. He remained in school this year after exhausting his NCAA eligibility, and Desko said he expects Smith to graduate in May. Smith, Thompson and all the Native players who have made it to college represent possibility.

Desko said former players have been the best tools to inspire younger Native American students to pursue a college education, and he expects them to become more integral moving forward.

Lacrosse is still the easiest avenue for Native American students to go to college. But it seems that umbrella is starting to spread beyond athletics. Jones constantly explains to the students that the reservation needs educated people.

The Onondagas recently installed a water line on the Nation. Abrams said they had to hire outside engineers because there weren’t Native engineers to do the job.

“We need our own people doing these things,” he said. “We shouldn’t be looking to the outside.”

More importantly, Jones said, they need educated people to ensure the Onondagas do not lose any more land or rights.

Change comes slowly on the Onondaga Nation. The attitudes and beliefs have been the same for thousands of years. But expectations are changing. Native American students are starting to believe they can go to college.

It will always be difficult. There will always be a clash between two worlds. The key is finding a way to combine the two into something meaningful.

“Our values and our culture are our foundation,” Jones said. “No matter what you learn, no matter what you know, you carry those values with you. That will never change.” jediamon@syr.edu

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opponents have fared much better. Syracuse’s seven wins outside the Big East have come by only 4.6 goals per game. Unranked Hobart, one of SU’s longtime rivals, took the Orange to overtime before losing on a Stephen Keogh score. Cornell lost on a buzzer-beater by senior Chris Daniello.

“I think people understood what we were getting into when we joined the Big East,” Galloway said. “I think people also understand that it’s a young conference and it’s going to keep growing, and we still have a very tough strength of schedule.”

But that strength of schedule could be better if it included the likes of No. 6 Loyola or No. 10 Massachusetts, teams SU has consistently played in recent years. Taking their places instead are St. John’s, Villanova and Providence, who Syracuse had played a combined five times prior to this season.

And because the Big East conference won’t be awarded an automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament until next year, head coach John Desko acknowledged he would prefer to go up

against those other opponents this season.

“Probably this year … because of how it might affect our RPI at the end of the year,” he said.

The current poll might already be showing some of that Big East influence on the Orange.

Despite easily disposing of the Friars Saturday, Syracuse dropped down to No. 2. Virginia took over the top spot after winning an ACC conference game over No. 3 Maryland.

SU players have been emphatic about the polls’ lack of significance during the regular season, as many NCAA athletes are. But this could foretell things to come once the tournament field is set. The Orange might be stuck with that No. 2 or No. 3 seed, giving it a slightly more difficult path to the champion-

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But for now, all players like longstick midfielder Joel White can do is wait and hope that these Big East teams show visible improvement over the conference’s inaugural years.

“The first couple years, I think it’s going to be down and I think it may hurt our strength of schedule,” White said. “But at the same time, I think (having a Big East conference) is good for the game.” zjbrown@syr.edu

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ENERGY STAR - SAVE HEAT REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT FLAT AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY ALL NEW, VERY CLEAN WWW.UNIVERSITYHILL.COM 422-0709 EXT 32 OR EXT 30

ENERGY STAR - SAVE HEAT + MONEY REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT FLATS ALL NEW, VERY CLEAN 422-0709 EXT 32 OR EXT 30 WWW.UNIVERSITYHILL.COM

Take Advantage of Newly Reduced Rents During the Final Days of Leasing for 2010-11

Renting for 2010-2011 4 Bedroom Townhouse 1104 Madison St #10 Available June 1, 2010 Fully Equipped Kitchen Off-street parking & On-site laundry 3 Great floors to this attractive apartment 2 Full Bathrooms 1 Balcony One low price!

Sign a lease before April 30 and get $25 off the rental price when you mention this ad!

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3 Bedroom Apartments Only 7 Units Left!!

210 Comstock Ave #3 ($625/month/bedroom) 216 Ostrom Ave #4 ($585/month/bedroom) 608 Walnut Ave #1 ($575/month/bedroom) 1205 Harrison St #2 ($595/month/bedroom) 1205 Harrison St #3 ($595/month/bedroom) 1208 Harrison St #5 ($745/month/bedroom) 1210 Harrison St #2 ($525/month/bedroom) 4 Bedroom Apartments Only 2 Left!!

1205 Harrison St #5 ($545/month/bedroom) 1206 Harrison St #9 ($535/month/bedroom) Rental Office Located at 1201 Harrison St. Tours given weekdays after 11am (315) 422-7110 www.campushill.com

(315) 478-6504

1,2,3,4 and 5 Bedroom Apartments

www.oprdevelopers.com

309 Euclid Ave 510 Euclid Ave 621 Euclid Ave 921 Ackerman Ave 117 Redfield Place 145 Avondale Place

Hardwood floors Huge living room with fire place Separate dining room Nice ketchen with new applicances and pantry Off-street parking and garage Large deck perfect for barbecuing or sunbathing!

Each room has large closets.

Email: Norman@NRJrealty.com

Available for 2010-2011 Fully Furnished, Laundry, Parking, Full-time Maintenance and Management Wall to Wall Carpet and/or Refinished Hardwood Floors Remodeled Kitchens and Baths University Area Apts.

1011 E. Adams St. #30 479-5005

www.universityarea.com PRIVATE FURNISHED STUDIO APTS. ENERGY STAR - SAVE HEAT + MONEY REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THREE BEDROOM APARTMENT FLATS ALL NEW, VERY CLEAN 422-0709 EXT 32 OR EXT 30 WWW.UNIVERSITYHILL.COM 1106 Madison, Corner Ostrom, 5 to 7 Bedroom, Walk to Campus, Parking, Laundry, $350 Per Bedroom, Available June 1st, 446-5186.

OPR Developers Walk a little, Save a lot!

810 Livingston Ave 3 Bedroom Apartments Available August 1 110 Comstock Ave Very Close to Campus

4 Bedroom Apartments

Updated Appliances in Kitchen

1104 Madison St

Large Bedrooms

5 Bedroom Apartments

Wall to Wall Carperting

1104 Madison St 810 Livingston Ave

Off-street Parking and On-site Laundry Sign a lease before April 30 and get $25 off the rental price when you mention this ad!

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Call Erica or Kristina 300 Euclid Ave (315) 478-6504 www.oprdevelopers.com

ENERGY STAR - SAVE HEAT, MONEY REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THREE BEDROOM HOUSES ALL NEW, VERY CLEAN 422-0709 EXT 32 OR EXT 30 WWW.UNIVERSITYHILL.COM

ENERGY STAR - SAVE HEAT, MONEY REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THREE BEDROOM HOUSES ALL NEW, VERY CLEAN 422-0709 EXT 32 OR EXT 30 WWW.UNIVERSITYHILL.COM D.N. DRUCKER LTD. Apartment Rentals 315-445-1229 www.dndruckerltd.com Studio - 1 - 2 - 3 Bedroom Apartments Available Local Management 24 Hour On Call Maintenance

AVAILABLE NOW! Leasing for 2010-2011

300 Euclid Ave

Gorgeous 4-bedroom home available on Westcott Street

5 Bedroom Apartment

1011 E. Adams St. 509 University Ave. Carpeted, Air-conditioned, Furnished, Secure, Laundry, Parking, Maintenance.

Available for 2010-2011.

University Area Apts.

1011 E. Adams St. #30 479-5005 www.universityarea.com 202 Ostrom. 2 bedroom Apt. Walk to campus.

Parking, Laundry, 446-5186 Available June 1st

100 Stadium Place (1) 5-bedroom Apartment 718 Ostrom Avenue (3) 1-bedroom Apartments 740 Ostrom Avenue (1) 3-bedroom Apartments All Apartments Offer On-Site Laundry On-Site Parking 24-Hour Maintenance

Renting for 2010-2011 3 Bedroom Apartments at 110 Comstock Ave Available June 1, August1, August 27

Call Mary 315-446-4555 x 208 D.N. DRUCKER LTD. Apartment Rentals 315-445-1229 www.dndruckerltd.com 205 Comstock Ave. Studio - 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments Available Furnished, Includes Utilities Local Management 24 Hour On Call Maintenance

ELEGANTLY OVERLOOKING PARK: 1108-1205-1207 Madison 1-2-3 bedroom aptslofts-or house;All luxuriously furnished, heated, hot water, off-street parking. NO pets. Some pictures on web site: Fine-Interiors-Syracuse.Net

Call (315) 469-0780

Fully equipped kitchens Wall-to-wall carpeting Large bedrooms with full size closets Most apartments have at least 1 balconies Off-street parking and On-site laundry Sign a lease before April 30 and get $25 off the rental price when you mention this ad!

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SPORTS

wednesday

april 28, 2010

page 20

the daily orange

m e n ’s l a c r o s s e

Weak Big East hurts SU’s RPI

By Zach Brown

YIS LAX MACCC

Asst. Copy Editor

Culture

shock

Tradition on reservation forces decision between home, unfamiliar territory

By Jared Diamond

A

Staff Writer

collection of some of the region’s finest lacrosse players gathers twice a week at the Onondaga Nation Arena to honor its heritage.

The Haudenosaunee people consider lacrosse the Creator’s game. These men treat it with the deference and respect required to transcend sport into religion.

It’s a typical Thursday night, and the Onondaga Redhawks are practicing. The players are between the ages of 21 and 35. Watching them is a

will halsey | asst. photo editor the onondaga redhawks are a lacrosse team made up of players between the ages of 21 and 35. Though the squad consists of former SU player Brett Bucktooth, many members of the team chose to forgo an education for life on the reservation.

revelation. Their style lacks the organization — or is it stuffiness? — of the game played at the Carrier Dome.

But they compensate for it with grace and natural ability.

It’s as if the sticks are an extension of their hands. The ball zips around the box so fast it’s tough to follow the action. There is likely enough ability here to draft a Division I lineup, but a majority of the players remain unknown to the average fan.

Despite their talent, almost nobody on the team played collegiate

lacrosse. Or went to college at all.

Freeman Bucktooth, the Redhawks’ assistant coach, watches the team with emotions ranging from frustration to sadness. His son Brett played lacrosse at Syracuse from 200306. He sees players on the Redhawks who could have excelled in college lacrosse but couldn’t conquer the academic hurdle.

“They never had

a chance,” he says, shaking his head.

Then he looks across the arena.

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Max Bartig was irritated on Saturday. Despite an easy 14-5 victory over Providence, “frustration” was the word tossed around by Bartig and junior goalie John Galloway following the contest. The Friars used a standstill, milk-the-clock strategy despite trailing the entire game, a style of play Galloway said was “not lacrosse.”

Many Orange teammates echoed Bartig and Galloway’s feelings in interviews Tuesday. But with the conception of the Big East lacrosse conference this season, SU will have to play Providence as a conference opponent every year.

It may have to get used to that frustration.

SU has played four of its six Big East conference opponents thus far this season. The level of competition in those games has not matched that of the Orange’s (11-1, 4-0 Big East) nonconference schedule. And with the likes of Providence, Rutgers and St. John’s in the conference, all of whom are in the bottom half of the RPI rankings, playing in the Big East could ultimately hurt No. 2 Syracuse’s seeding come NCAA tournament time.

And Thompson said all the Orange can do right now is hope those conference foes improve over the next couple years.

“The only thing we can hope for is better competition,” Thompson said. “As the years go on, the different schools are going to get different people, better (athletes), so you can only hope for that, for the league to get better.”

But for this year, the conference does not seem up to par with the Orange. Through the Big East games SU has played, it is beating teams by an average of eight goals per game.

And that includes the conference’s second- and third-place teams — No. 13 Villanova (9-4, 3-1) and No. 15 Georgetown (7-5, 3-1).

The Hoyas did only trail by a goal at one point in the fourth quarter before SU pulled away to a 15-12 win. But they were the only ones to stay close to the Orange. Syracuse’s biggest victory this year was its 20-6 win over the Wildcats, and both Rutgers (5-7, 1-3) and Providence (0-12, 0-4) only mustered five goals against SU’s defense.

The Orange’s nonconference see big east page 18