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Under investigation An SU group revisits cold

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columnists discuss the best line of action to take in Syria.

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Equal entitlement SU officer works to further improve effect of Title IX on campus

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By Levi Stein Staff Writer

ince a 1995 lawsuit brought issues of female athletics to the forefront, Syracuse University has continued to place great importance on equality both within the bounds of Title IX and beyond.

Created in 1972, the law encompasses more than attempting to achieve equality for female athletes. It includes components such as equal access to higher education, career education, education for pregnant and parent students, employment, sexual harassment and standardized testing.

Educational institutions that receive federal money are required

to designate at least one employee as a Title IX coordinator.

For SU, that representative is Cynthia Maxwell Curtin.

As the university’s Title IX officer, Curtin, who has been in this position for about a year, has the responsibility of ensuring SU follows Title IX. She also deals with issues encompassing gender equity in education, specifically regarding sexual harassment, equity in access to programs and equity in science, technology and athletics.

Curtin, who also serves as the executive director of Equal Opportunity, Inclusion and Resolution Services, said the idea of the law only focusing on athletics see title IX page 6

Title IX history In May of 1995, eight female athletes sued Syracuse University for not accomadating the interest of female students.

At the time of the lawsuit, the university funded 11 men’s varsity teams and nine women’s varsity teams. Just prior to the lawsuit, Syracuse announced a plan to add a women’s varsity soccer and women’s varsity lacrosse team.

The suit, called Boucher v. Syracuse, claimed the university’s athletic department was discriminating against female student-athletes, violating Title IX. The students also asked a judge to immediately elevate women’s lacrosse from club to varsity status.

The court found SU had a sufficient history of expanding athletic participation opportunities for its female students because it had added women’s teams in the years following Title IX.

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The two-weeklong, annual New York State Fair ended Monday night. The fair featured several amusement rides such as a Tilt-A-Whirls and ferris wheel. Food offerings included a 25-cent milk bar, a dollar potato booth and fried-food booths. One of the fair’s main attractions was the poultry section, which celebrated its 100th anniversary. There was also an area for visitors to watch a cow giving birth. The Grandstand stage featured various musical acts like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Carly Rae Jepsen, OAR and Fall Out Boy.

2012 SU graduate dies at Electric Zoo EDM festival

By Alfred Ng Asst. News Editor

A Syracuse University alumnus died at the Electric Zoo music festival Saturday morning, leading to the cancellation of the last day of the festival.

Jeff Russ, 23, graduated in 2012.

He went to the festival with several of his fraternity brothers and friends, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

Electric Zoo is a three-day event held during Labor Day weekend featuring electronic dance music, including acts such as Avicii, Tiesto and Krewella.

Russ last tweeted a photo of the festival’s Group Therapy Stage on Friday at 8:43 p.m., less than seven hours before he died at Harlem Hospital. EMS workers rushed him to the hospital from Randall’s Island,

where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival at 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, according to the NYPD. Causes of death have yet to determined, but it appears that MDMA — also known as ecstasy or molly — was involved, according to a statement released by the Office of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Another attendee died, which city

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Lightning strike sends 2 DPS officers to hospital, damages patrol car

By Alfred Ng Asst. News Editor

A lightning strike sent two Department of Public Safety officers to the hospital Sunday night, one with an injury to the back of his head and several burns across his body.

Before a thunderstorm started at 11:55 p.m., DPS officer Stanley Prue

and DPS senior detective Edward Weber were parked outside of the Skytop Office Building on South Campus, said DPS Chief Tony Callisto.

The two officers were there on Orange Watch patrol duty, he said.

Callisto said Prue had stepped out of the car to stretch. When his left foot hit the ground, lightning struck the

patrol car, shocking the officer and launching him 4-6 feet away, close to where the car’s bumper was, Callisto said.

Weber — who was in the vehicle when it happened — did not suffer any serious injuries, he said.

“It had taken him a couple of minutes to realize what happened,” Cal-

listo said. “He literally noticed Stan was there one second and gone the next.”

After finding Prue lying unconscious nearby, Weber checked to see if he was still breathing and called for an ambulance on the emergency radio, Callisto said. Both Syracuse University Ambulance and Rural/

Metro arrived within a few minutes and took both officers to Upstate University Hospital.

Weber was released at about 4 a.m. on Monday, but was told to check with his doctors before returning to active duty, Callisto said.

Prue is conscious, but still in the see dps page 6

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SEPT. 3, 2003 Virus and SPAM cause Orangemail breakdown The SOBig virus, names for its enormity, has potentially infected several thousand computers connected to ResNET as of last night, flooding Orangemail in-boxes and eventually causing a breakdown in the Orangemail system.

In response, Computing and Media Services has hired extra personnel to help deal with the overload of problems caused by the SOBig virus, the Blaster worm and increased SPAM. The effort, which cost an estimated $25,000 per week, is funded by the students’ ResNET fees and the CMS budget.

CMS personnel, including those specifically hired to combat the viruses, will be available to help students in residence halls every day for the next week.

“This has never happened before,” said Ben Ware, vice president of researching and computing. “We’ve never had this level of infection on student machines.”

Essentially, two problems are plaguing the CMS network.

This weekend, CMS officials identified six student computers that were generating more than 1,000 pieces of SPAM each, The emails were allegedly unintentional and were soliciting prescription and non-prescription drugs.

CMS shut down the computers within several hours, but the computers were still responsible for this weekend’s Orangemail backup.

The SOBig virus is primarily responsible for the other email problems, including sending high volumes of emails through the system. Deborah Nosky, IT communications manager with CMS, also speculates that last night’s Orangemail malfunction, which lasted from about 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., can be attributed to a high volume of mail caused by the virus. The virus uses both email user’s address book and addresses found on HTML pages to spread and send more emails.

“That’s why you might not recognize some of the names of the people that you get it from,”Nosky said. Infected emails are relatively easy to recognize because of their IMB attachment and uniform subject lines such as “Thank You,” “Wicked Screensaver” and “Details.”

While the SOBig virus doesn’t affect the estimated 10 percent of users with MacIntosh computers, Nosky strongly encourages students to download CMS’s recommended McAfee scan for the latest version of the product protection.

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By Natsumi Ajisaka Asst. News Editor

chase gaewski | photo editor Ruby Cowherd participates in the 2013 Rally to Improve Birth. Her mother, Sarah Cowherd, is one of the founders of the local chapter.

Rally advocates for expanding options for giving birth

By Chase Gaewski Photo Editor

On Marshall Street on Monday, women and their children united for a common goal: to have more options for mothers giving birth.

Improving Birth, a national birth advocacy group, organized the 2013 Rally to Improve Birth, which took place in more than 170 cities across the country, according to an Aug. 26 Improving Birth news release. BirthNetwork CNY hosted the Syracuse rally. The rally highlighted multiple

issues such as expanding options for giving birth and educating women on their rights regarding childbirth.

People gathered on the corner of South Crouse Avenue and Marshall Street. The crowd left Marshall Street at 11:30 a.m. and marched toward Crouse Hospital, chanting, “Peace on Earth begins with birth.”

Local residents, including children, carried signs and handed out fliers emphasizing various issues in maternity care.

Aimee Brill, one of the founders of

BirthNetwork CNY, said community members attended to call for better birth outcomes for all women and to raise awareness about the high infant mortality rate in the United States.

Brill said part of the rally was to educate the public about the lack of birth options, as well as open up dialogue with medical professionals.

“Women feel forced and feel restricted in their own choices,” she said. “Our options are limited.”

Women are often limited in terms of where they give birth and how

they’re positioned, as well as who’s in the room, Brill said.

She said that in several states, a woman isn’t allowed to deliver vaginally after a cesarean section, despite inadequate scientific evidence to support this hospital policy. Because of this, women are inadvertently pressured into expensive procedures such as cesarean sections for subsequent pregnancies, she added.

The repercussions from having multiple cesarean sections can be see rally page 6

Civil rights activist to deliver keynote speech for NAACP, SAS event

By Rahimon Nasa

NAACP’s national website.

Staff Writer

Civil rights activist and journalist Myrlie Evers-Williams will be the keynote speaker for a convocation co-hosted by the Student AfricanAmerican Society and the SU’s newly re-charted NAACP chapter.

The organizations announced Saturday the fall convocation will be held on Sept. 12 in Huntington Beard Crouse’s Gifford Auditorium at 6 p.m.

Evers-Williams served as chairman of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998; is a life-long civil rights activist and worked alongside with her late husband Medgar Evers, according to

“Myrlie EversWilliams is a true example of someone who knows her purpose in life and lives by it every single day.”

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Her experience in activism and in the NAACP made Evers-Williams the ideal speaker, said Danielle McCoy, president of the Student AfricanAmerican Society and one of the event coordinators.

“This year, we will be collaborating with the NAACP chapter in light of them being reinstated on campus as well as sharing some of the same common goals as an organization,” McCoy said.

In previous years, the society hosted the fall convocation and brought influential African-American scholars such as Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West to campus. It is the orga-

nization’s largest event, McCoy said.

“Myrlie Evers-Williams is a true example of someone who knows her purpose in life and lives by it every single day,” McCoy said. “I am very confident that her keynote address will spark the fire in a lot of my peers in hopes of motivating them to be a part of the change.”

Evers-Williams is also known for her commitment to seeking justice for the death of her husband, who was murdered in 1963 by a member of the White Citizens’ Council, according to the website.

Before his murder, both Evers and see evers-williams page 8

This summer, Syracuse University professors and students traveled down south to further investigate the truth.

The Five Cities Project, part of the Cold Case Justice Initiative, recently concluded its reinvestigation of at least 100 unsolved murder cases from the civil rights era.

The team consisted of College of Law professors and law students.

The caseload was a mix of requests from families not satisfied with official reports, and new cases found through old news articles and documents.

The project focused on five cities in the South: Jacksonville, Fla., Nashville, Tenn., Jackson, Miss., Baton Rouge, La., and Atlanta, Ga. The team spread out among these cities, finding at least 100 cold cases not included on any other law enforcement lists, said Janis McDonald, co-director of the initiative and a professor of law.

In these cases, decades-old grief and a lingering suspicion of a family member’s listed cause of death are common.

The families are happy to have their suspicions validated, and the killing acknowledged, McDonald said. Although the initiative does not have the power to prosecute, it promises families a thorough investigation.

“What struck me the most is that they simply want an acknowledgement from someone in a position of authority that their loved ones did not die in vain,” Mark O’Brien, a law student who worked on the project, said in an email.

Some want their family member’s death certificate corrected to state the cause of death as homicide, rather than an accident or suicide.

The reasons for unsatisfying results are complex, she said.

During the civil rights era, the FBI failed to interview key witnesses, follow up with them or were deliberately misled by paid informants, McDonald said.

But during that time, agents also faced limitations, such as communities that mistrusted them and a director at the time who didn’t prioritize these cases,

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US intervention in Syria lacks rationale, not in Americans’ best interests

nother Middle Eastern country, more shady “evidence” and another administration desperately trying to gain support for yet another military intervention.

Here we go again.

Americans are being told that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on Aug. 21, and we must strike.

To understand why attacking Syria should be vehemently opposed by every American, you must first understand exactly what is going on there.

As it has been widely reported, the biggest and strongest of the groups fighting Assad are al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic extremists.

Bloomberg reported Friday: “radical Sunni Islamists are emerging as the prevalent force seeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad, according to military analysts in Europe and the Middle East.”

These groups have stated time and again that their main objective is to take control of the country and establish an extremist Islamic state.

Are we really about to put the lives of our troops at risk and spend millions of dollars in the process (billions if a missile strike turns

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the last free american into something more) to do little more than grant al-Qaida their wish?

Roughly 40,000 civilians have been killed in the Syrian conflict. A military intervention, especially a bombing strike, would only kill more.

Our intervention in Iraq resulted in the deaths of more than 100,000 civilians, with the highest intensity of deaths occurring during our bombing operations of the first three weeks.

The U.S. says the Syrian chemical attack killed about 1,400 civilians. It would take just a few of our bombs landing off target before we match or exceed that total.

And if you somehow think this is necessary collateral for establishing a peaceful democracy, I’ve got news for you: we’ve tried doing that, and it doesn’t work.

Now the big question is: who used chemical weapons?

Despite providing no concrete evidence it was Assad and acknowledging it is not “100 percent” sure, the Obama administration is giving no thought to the possibility that it was the murderous terrorists whom Assad has been fighting.

On Sunday, Secretary of State John Kerry presented his only piece of concrete evidence to date. This evidence proved the chemical agent sarin was used; something Kerry says points to Assad.

However, as reported by Reuters in May, we know that members of a Syrian al- Qaida offshoot were in possession of sarin.

According to NSNBC International, there have also been claims from high-ranking members of these same groups that their colleagues have chemical weapons.

The latest comes from The Associated Press veteran reporter Dale Gavlak, who after dozens of interviews with witnesses, doctors, rebel fighters and their families, is reporting that the chemical weapons used in the attack were provided to the rebels by the chief of Saudi intelligence.

So why, against a country that is of no threat to us, would we launch a military intervention that will kill more civilians, aid our sworn enemy, punish the wrong side, help terrorists take control of an entire country and – if Russia, China and Iran get involved as they have stated they would – possibly spark World War III? Perhaps those individuals and corporations misleading you have something to gain — either through campaign funding or increasing their bottom line – from massive defense spending, government contracts, newly accessible resources and all the other perks that come along with war.

Raytheon Company, a leading American arms corporation, has seen its shares skyrocket as a result of a possible attack on Syria, as reported by International Business Times.

Like all defense contractors, Raytheon spends millions of dollars a year on lobbying and campaign funding. Among its top three recipients: John Kerry and President Obama.

Just something to think about.

Nick Smith is a senior broadcast and digital journalism major. His column appears weekly.

He can been reached at nxsmith@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @Nick_X_Smith.

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Student body must become more aware of Title IX program, officer position as resource There is an uninformed notion surrounding the purpose of Title IX. The Title IX law is commonly known to involve athletics, but students should be aware of its depth beyond the athletic field.

The law provides more than just equality in athletic programs and plays a role in our everyday lives.

Title IX, founded in 1972, provides no mention of athletics, and prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex at federally funded schools. The law further promotes diversity and equality at Syracuse University across various boundaries.

Title IX encompasses 10 components, including access to higher education, career education, education for pregnant and parenting students, learning environment, math and science, sexual harass-

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board ment, standardized testing, technology and employment.

Cynthia Maxwell Curtin is SU’s Title IX compliance officer and ensures the university complies with and carries out gender equality. Curtin has now held her position for one year, and should better promote awareness of her position and details of Title IX. This way, students can better understand the law’s purpose of creating gender equality on campus. If students are aware of Curtin’s role, they could be more likely to use her as a campus resource.

The university should do more to expose Curtin’s role during events such as parents’ weekend and orientation week. Once her

role is more profoundly recognized, students will view Title IX more seriously than as just an athletic pursuit.

Syracuse University is in compliance with Title IX and has improved its awareness of the law.

For the 2013 freshman orientation, The Office of First-Year and Transfer programs implemented a new online alcohol education program called Think About It, a Title IX program that includes a lesson on sexual assault.

This marks a positive step in the right direction by the university. To continue progress with Title IX, SU and Curtin must work to make her presence more available on campus, as her role fosters a climate of opportunity, inclusion and diversity at SU.

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he Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons to murder thousands of its own citizens should be understood for what it is: an international crisis.

Retribution from the West is necessary and warranted. Inaction from the U.S. and other Western democracies signifies a win for violent, Middle Eastern dictatorships and will certainly lead to more senseless killing.

Syria is in the midst of a civil war that has taken the lives of approximately 100,000 people, according to UN calculations. On Aug. 21, the Syrian regime, led by dictator Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons to kill, by U.S. calculations, 1,429 of its own citizens, including 426 children, according to John Kerryís public address.

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approval prior to any attacks and he must accept whatever outcome he receives from Congress.

The window of time to launch a military attack to catch the Syrians off-guard has already closed. An attack at this stage would primarily be a show of force. However, this does not mean an attack is unwarranted.

President Obama correctly realizes an attack is necessary but, taking from the examples of Iraq and Afghanistan, understands it would be unwise to act without congressional approval.

On Aug. 31, President Obama stated in a public address, “I’ve long believed that our power is rooted not just in our military might, but in our example as a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Waiting for a congressional vote before attacking makes the situation more about the Syrian people themselves than about a hasty response

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MICHAEL HACKER a chain reaction conservatively left from horrified Western democracies.

The U.S. knows it would be entering a conflict that runs deeper than simply the intrastate conflict in Syria. The Syrian regime is a direct ally of Iran and one of many antiIsraeli, anti-American countries in the Middle East.

Iran and Syria both pledged to bomb Israel if they believed Mr. Assad was personally in danger from Western attacks. It is also likely Iraq would send militants to Assadís aid if this occurred. Any action between Syria and Israel would inevitably involve Lebanon, adjacent to both Syria and Israel.

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Nonetheless, the United States and other Western countries cannot sit idly by while Syria murders its own citizens using chemical weapons, which 188 countries have pledged to never use, stockpile, or transfer under the Chemical Weapons Convention, according to ForeignAffairs.com.

Those opposed to attacking Syria primarily question the purpose and ramifications of a military response.

We must give greater weight to the consequence of inaction than the outcome of an attack. Inaction on the part of Western countries will signify to violent dictatorships throughout the region that we are scared to intervene following the failings of Iraq and Afghanistan.

To these countries, inaction will mean they have a right to continue the abject killing of their own people and the stockpiling of deadly weapons of mass destruction.

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Assad is not an isolated dictator.

He is the leader of a regime but not a supreme ruler. If the military leaders in Syria feel the costs of using chemical weapons are too high, they will force Assad to fold his hand.

This sort of pressure can only come from a Western military response.

A collective Western response would be the ideal situation but, currently, a military response from the U.S. and France seem most likely.

At the very least, congressional approval is necessary before the U.S. takes any action.

The Syrian people deserve protection and retribution from the rest of the world, but the American people, through the arm of the legislative branch, deserve to be consulted with before our leaders take action.

Michael Hacker is a senior political science major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at mahacker@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @mikeincuse.

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is a common misconception.

“Title IX has a much greater reach than just sports,” she said. “It covers the classrooms, too.”

Curtin said her main roles include working with faculty, students and staff to assist people with issues.

She said the university provides students with a source of information to understand and report harassment when such incidents happen in the community.

The university encourages victims or bystanders of sexual harassment to contact Curtin, who ensures that concerns are investigated. Her roles include providing interim relief — no contact orders, escort services and counseling resources — if it’s requested and needed, according to the Department of Public Safety’s website.

The website also lists DPS, the Counseling Center, Hendricks Chapel chaplains and the Advocacy Center as other ways to get help.

The university also implemented a new online alcohol education program for incoming freshmen. This program now includes a sexual assault component.

Curtin noted her job has given her the opportunity to work with talented people across campus in a “joint effort of commitment to a culture of respect.”

While there have been no major problems associated with Title IX recently, Syracuse has run into legal issues in the past.

In May of 1995, eight female athletes sued SU, claiming the university was discriminating against female athletes and violating Title IX. The students also asked a judge to imme-

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diately change women’s lacrosse from a club to a varsity sport.

The case originally resulted in a ruling in favor of SU. Then, there was a subsequent appeal and partial case reversal. By the time of the reversal, the university had already created women’s varsity lacrosse and soccer teams — with softball on the way.

Curtin, the Title IX compliance officer, said the case ref lects the university’s commitment to creating equal opportunities for both men and women.

Renee Baumgartner, deputy director of athletics at SU, said in a June 24, 2012, Post-Standard article that she experienced challenges when starting the women’s golf program at the University of Oregon, such as driving 12 hours to purchase team uniforms and building the team on one scholarship Baumgartner said in The Post-Standard article she hopes “women of today” appreciate the efforts of those before them in setting a strong foundation for female athletics.

Though the university has remained compliant to Title IX during Curtin’s time at SU, this is not the case at other universities. Thousands of schools across the United States don’t comply with the law, according to TitleIX.info.

The U.S. government has launched various investigations against schools such as Yale University and Dartmouth University, according to an Aug. 1 NCC News article.

Curtin said it’s important for students to be aware that assistance is always available to those who are in need or to those who feel discriminated against.

Said Curtin: “Problems can be fixed.” ldstei01@syr.edu

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physically and mentally damaging, Brill said.

She said the organization is proud to raise awareness that “women are tired of birth being taken away from them.”

Green Party mayoral candidate Kevin Bott also attended the rally. He also works as the associate director for Imagining America.

“There’s a really robust birth community here in Syracuse and central New York, and so this group is a lot of moms and dads and birth workers and birth activists who are trying to bring attention to what’s happening

in the birth culture nationally and locally, and to improve birth outcomes for women and families,” Bott said.

One in three American births result in a cesarean section — double the highest recommended rate by the World Health Organization, according to the release.

Sarah Cowherd, another founding member of BirthNetwork CNY, said she believes hospitals should pursue simpler and less expensive strategies such as having more midwives on staff.

“It would make a huge impact in the rates of inductions and cesareans. It would really challenge the current model,” she said. dcgaewsk@syr.edu

chase gaewski | photo editor kevin bott (center), the Green Party mayoral candidate, marches toward Crouse Hospital from Marshall Street in the 2013 Rally to Improve Birth on Monday afternoon.

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officials also said appeared to involve MDMA. The event’s organizers canceled the music festival’s last day due to “serious health risks.”

“He loved SU. All the friends and the times he had there were very important to him It was the best years of his life.”

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issued a statement shortly after, deciding to cancel the festival, sending their “deepest condolences” to the victims’ families.

Russ’ death triggered a reaction throughout the EDM world on social media, with the very disc jockeys he looked forward to seeing tweeting their condolences about his death.

Tiesto tweeted on Sunday: “My thoughts are with the family and friends of Jeffrey Russ and Olivia Rotondo...”

Russ had planned for months to go to Randall’s Island in New York City with his friends, said his sister Melissa Russ.

She said he loved electronic dance music, and was excited to go to Electric Zoo. “He went to almost all the EDM events,” she said. “He and his friends from Syracuse had been counting down for months.” alng@syr.edu

On the Electric Zoo website the promoters

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hospital’s burn unit in a substantial amount of pain, Callisto added early Monday afternoon. Callisto said that Prue will also have to check with doctors before returning to duty.

The patrol car that was struck was a brand new DPS vehicle, a 2013 Chevrolet Caprice, he said. He said the vehicle’s back-

door was damaged, the paint has “gone right down to the metal” and decals were melted along the car.

“It’s a reminder to everybody that when there’s a storm brewing, the best place to be is inside,” Callisto said. “But the reality for DPS officers, firefighters and EMS responders is, when they have to respond, they don’t have a choice. And that comes with the danger of the job.” alng@ syr.edu

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Curtis announces 3 appointments to cabinet; another confirmed President Allie Curtis has announced three appointments to cabinet, filling most of the high-level seats vacated during the past few months. Curtis also announced that cabinet confirmed a Board of Elections and Membership chair.

The student assembly still has to confirm all the appointments and elect the Board of Elections and Membership chair, but here’s a better look at the new officers and their goals for the upcoming semester.

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Appointed; student assembly to vote to confirm her on Tuesday

Position: Chair of the Student Life Committee Goals: D’Amore said she’s look-

ing to continue the committee’s relationship with the Department of Public Safety. Safety is “one of the biggest things on this campus,” she said. She said she’s also looking to continue the work of the Food Advisory Board.

Any student can join the DPS Advisory or Food Advisory boards, she said.

She was abroad in the spring, but served on the Student Life and Public Relations committees during the 56th Session.

Nia Boles

Appointed; student assembly to vote to confirm her on Tuesday

Position: Chair of the Student Engagement Committee Goals: Boles said she’s looking to work on Impact Week — the organization’s signature week of community service. She said it appears it will be held in October.

Another goal Boles said she has is working on solving diversity issues on campus.

Diversity doesn’t just include race, but socioeconomics and even the connection between Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, she said.

She said she wants to create intergroup dialogue sessions for freshmen students, and hopes this can be done by next fall.

Boles was elected to SA last spring.

Dan Hernandez

Taylor Bold

Position: Chair of the Board of

Position: Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee

Cabinet confirmed him; student assembly to vote to elect him on Tuesday Elections and Membership

Goals:Hernandez said he wants to continue improving the SA office, new member orientation, as well as streamlining the SA interview process.

Making sure new representatives know what they have to do in their positions will help make sure they don’t get overwhelmed and drop out of the organization, he said.

The reason he wanted to be chair, he said, is because it’s the culmination of the work he’s done in the organization. That includes making a PowerPoint presentation and slideshow for new representatives.

Hernandez served on the board under PJ Alampi and Jenn Bacolores.

Appointed; student assembly to vote to confirm him on Tuesday

Goals: Bold said he was

inspired to join SA because he was taking Arabic classes, and saw there wasn’t a minor available. And that’s one of his main goals: to get a minor in Arabic created by the end of the semester.

He also said he wants to work on improving academic advising.

Besides tuition, he said, advising is the most pressing issue with academics on campus. Problems with advising range from students not knowing who their adviser is, to not staying in contact with them, Bold said.

Bold has been involved with SA since the spring semester of last year.

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McDonald said.

The investigations aren’t without their frustrations. One of the most recent cases they looked into saw the suspect die before they could be convicted, McDonald said, because federal prosecutors moved too slowly. In other cases, family members of the victim have died, she said.

The investigations drew on multiple sources. Databases, courthouse papers, old FBI files. Warehouses full of old documents.

News articles from the civil rights era — especially from African-American newspa-

“In many ways, answers to what happened and why are more important to them than seeing someone convicted.”

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pers, which reported more information on the deaths during that time.

The students did most of the research, while McDonald and Paula Johnson, the other co-director of the initiative, met the families of the victims.

“When a report says ‘self-defense’ or ‘suicide,’ it gives us pause,” said Johnson, who’s also a professor of law. The team also consulted community organizations, which may know of incidents where some people dispute the official record, she said.

The students vet the deaths for details on the death certificate that don’t add up, then pass them on to Johnson and McDonald, who review them.

Some family members are “gung-ho” for

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Evers-Williams opened and managed the first NAACP Mississippi State Office, according to the website.

“When her husband was alive, she worked closely beside him on issues such as voting rights for African Americans and desegrega-

photo courtesy of cold case justice initiative (from left) John Steele and Diane Nash march in Philadelphia while remembering the lives of past civil rights leaders.

an investigation, but others hesitate, not willing to “go down this road again,” Johnson said.

“We don’t make any demands on the family that they pursue an investigation,” she said.

Victims’ families are no longer just children and siblings, but grandchildren, too. The older generation of a family will sometimes keep the murder a secret from the younger generation.

This is sometimes out of concern for their well-being, or because it’s too difficult, Johnson said.

“Sometimes it’s simply too difficult to say that their mom or dad was shot and killed because they were black,” she said. The question all the families have to figure out, she said, is when it’s appropriate to do so.

But an important goal for the families is

to acknowledge what really happened to their loved ones, said O’Brien, one of the students who worked on the project. He added investigating these cases is a big responsibility that no one takes lightly.

Said O’Brien: “In many ways, answers to what happened and why are more important to them than seeing someone convicted.”

tion in schools, which coincide with some of the same issues that we are still facing now in 2013,” McCoy added, who is also a senior political science and African-American studies major.

Ronald Taylor, president of SU’s NAACP chapter, said he hopes Evers-Williams’ experience with the civil rights movement 50 years ago will guide students to discuss what the major issues affecting African-Americans are

today and what can be done to solve them.

“Myrlie brings a great deal of insight we’re hoping that she’ll be able to further conversation for our generation,” he said.

Taylor said one of his goals for the upcoming event is to educate students on some of the major policy discussions that are relevant in the nation.

Taylor described issues such as high incarceration rates, education, gun violence and the

Trayvon Martin case as some of the issues he and his organization hope to start a dialogue about on campus.

“Educationally, why is it that you see African-American men in particular more so incarcerated rather than in school or in colleges or obtaining an education?” Taylor said. “That’s a conversation we’re really going to be having this semester.”

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Off-campus students craft easy, delicious meals, utilize few ingredients BACON BOLOGNESE PASTA

By Jessica Cabe ASST. COPY EDITOR

Ramen noodles are a staple for college students, but for about $3 per meal, you can eat pasta that’s a little healthier.

Angela Zonunpari, an arts journalism graduate student, recommended her redsauce pasta for students who live off campus and have to cook for themselves.

“I think it’s a wholesome food,” she said. “You don’t have to make anything else with it.”

Zonunpari begins by boiling the pasta in a saucepan with olive oil and salt. In another pan, she fries bacon bits. After the bacon is cooked, she sets it aside in a bowl and uses the same pan to make the sauce.

She puts three tablespoons of Wegmans

COCONUT CURRY SALMON

By Katie Richards ASST. FEATURE EDITOR

Steven Freund’s parents instilled in him a passion for food and cooking at a young age.

After spending a semester abroad in Italy, the senior chemistry and chemical engineering major began to love food even more.

“That’s when I really started getting interested in cooking for myself,” Freund said.

In his off-campus residence, one of Freund’s go-to dinners is a quick and easy salmon dish. It takes approximately 25-30 minutes to make, including preparation and plating time.

Freund begins by taking a fillet of salmon with the skin still in tact. He places it in some aluminum foil and adds a splash of coconut curry simmering sauce. If coconut curry is

meat sauce into the pan, a splash of olive oil and sprinkle of garlic salt. She lets it cook for a couple of minutes before adding salt, pepper and cheese. She said she prefers a little spice, so she adds chili powder.

Finally, she pours the sauce over the noodles and mixes in the bacon bits. As a last step, she adds basil for taste and presentation before enjoying her quick and easy meal.

Zonunpari said she usually buys her ingredients in bulk, but each meal comes out to about $3. She said the dish could be made even cheaper by leaving out some spices.

“It’s very easy to make and it’s not very expensive,” Zonunpari said. “You can just play around with it. If you have the pasta and sauce, you can just add other meat to it and change it up.” jmcabe@syr.edu @Jessica_Cabe

not appealing, Freund said you can easily add a different sauce.

“The sauce is from Wegmans,” Freund said. “It’s really easy to find very tasty sauces that you just use a little bit of, and it makes cooking a lot easier.”

After incorporating the sauce, Freund wraps the salmon and sauce in a small tinfoil package and places it in a pan filled with boiling water. He sets his timer for 20 minutes and continues to add water as the fish cooks.

With five minutes left, Freund places broccoli in a separate pot of boiling water to steam. This ensures the fish and vegetables are finished at the same time.

He then takes the broccoli off the heat to cool, removes the fish from the foil and plates the dish. Then, it is ready to eat. kjrichar@syr.edu @ktjrichards

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SU alumnus opens off-Broadway play ‘American Games’

By Ian Simon-Curry STAFF WRITER

For a recent Syracuse University graduate, the culmination of months of hard work is about to pay off, making dreams a reality.

“American Games,” a play by 2013 graduate Kevin Slack, will premiere in New York City on Sept. 3 thanks to an impressive cadre of SU alumni.

Slack, who previously wrote the “Generation Y” column for The Daily

Orange, said his play tells the story of baseball phenomenon Henry Wool as he decides to leave the sport amidst fame and success.

The play first premiered in 2011 in Syracuse, but the version showing in New York City is vastly different.

Slack cut 70 pages and added another 120, all in just a week — one full scene and portions of two other scenes are all that remain of the original.

“I’m never doing that again,” said

Slack, reflecting on the marathon of writing and editing.

The play’s upcoming premiere is the result of work by Five Point Productions, a production company that came together earlier this year when its members were seniors at SU. Five Point Productions approached Slack in May about submitting his play to The Araca Project. The Project works in partnership with the University of Michigan, Florida State Uni-

versity, Northwestern University and SU to give graduates of those schools resources to produce Off-Broadway shows in New York City.

The production company proposed the play to the Araca Project in May, cast the show in June and began rehearsals in August. Continuing to keep things in the Syracuse alumni family, the play was directed by 2012 graduate Phil Blechman, and four cast members are also Syracuse-educated.

Slack graduated from SU with a degree in television, radio and film and a minor in theater. He wrote his first play in high school, but he credits an honors playwriting course with formalizing his passion for the art.

He spoke about his past work with a sense of sarcastic embarrassment, describing rereading a one-act play he wrote a few years ago as “like a teen girl reading her

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“As a writer, you have to have all those clubs in your bag,” Slack said about his varied writing experience.

Slack said he especially likes playwriting because, unlike other forms of writing, it allows him to be more involved in the creative process. He was present for the entire “American Games” casting and rehearsal process, but he didn’t go to every rehearsal because he didn’t want to continuously hear his own writing.

According to a May 2013 article in The Daily Orange, Five Point Productions member Andy Striph described “American Games” as being “about whether or not a young person can handle the responsibility life is throwing at him.”

Appropriately, Slack and his team are in that exact situation. As recent graduates, the group members are teaching themselves how to survive and succeed in a tough industry.

“We’ve had plenty of screw-ups in the past two months,” Slack said, but he added that mistakes are often his best teacher.

By Naomi Falk CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Creating a defining unifier between one’s career, family and philosophy is a serious undertaking, but Zoe Schapira has conquered this feat with a tattoo that represents those three aspects of her life, in balance.

Schapira, a junior earth sciences major with a focus in environmental science, got her first tattoo at 18: a small Taurus sign located on the lower left part of her back.

“I truly believe I fit the characteristics,” Schapira said.

Zodiac signs are something she’s believed in since she was a little girl, and thus felt no hesitation in moving forward with her first ink.

As with many of those who’ve felt the rush of a first tattoo, Schapira decided to get another just last spring — a black and white sugar maple tree with delicate, detailed branches reaching out in all directions. It looks as if the tree were beginning to wake up after a long winter.

When she worked in an art gallery in high school, Schapira saw many of her brother-inlaw’s pieces circulate the walls. There was one

Fortunately, the structure of The Araca Project allows its participants plenty of independence to learn and make mistakes. The program covers the entire cost of the theater space, provides each show with $3,500 in starter funds and gives box office support for each performance.

For “American Games,” Five Point Productions was responsible for raising the funds for the rest of the show’s expenses.

The Araca Project also runs a weeklong intensive workshop nicknamed Boot Camp that gives its participants a crash course in getting a show up and running. The program seeks to “embolden these artists to recognize the power of the entrepreneurial spirit,” according to The Araca Project website.

The entrepreneurial spirit Slack and Five Point Productions display is apparent in their first Off-Broadway production, and Slack said “American Games” is just the beginning. The company hopes to continue to present new work by young artists.

Said Slack: “We’re using this company to get our work out there. We’re figuring out how to get this show up and position ourselves to succeed in the future.” insimonc@syr.edu @incrediblyian

in particular that caught her eye — the sugar maple. After asking him for a copy to hang in her room, she began pondering the idea of making the image more permanent.

Schapira and her older sister, the artist’s wife, decided to each get the tattoo, both perfectly centered on their upper backs.

Denny Long, who owns Against the Grain Body Art in Slippery Rock, Pa., stenciled the artwork and brought the vision together. He even used Schapira’s tattoo as his Facebook cover photo, a sign that the piece is one to be celebrated.

Only taking one break between outlining and shading, the process took roughly three hours.

Schapira said the most excruciating parts were the spine, where she said the pain reverberated throughout her body, and the meticulous details on the upper branches.

Visually, the tree ties into Schapira’s desired career path. She said she wants to focus on how the environment can be conserved rather than researching a more fleeting resource like oil.

Even more than this, though, the maple is Schapira’s family tree. She said she will always have her tattoo as a reminder — her tree of life.

“This tattoo represents my family,” she said.

“Mine isn’t particularly big, and my siblings are all I have. I don’t have aunts or uncles. I don’t have cousins. It’s important to always remember where our roots are, even once the branches have spread out.” zhschapi@syr.edu

shira stoll | staff photographer ZOE SCHAPIRA’S second tattoo, designed by her brother-in-law, represents both her family and her roots. Her older sister has the same tree tattooed on her back.

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By Elaina Crockett CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ohn Mayer may not necessarily have a way with words.

The 35-year-old artist has made headlines for blunt, if not overtly rude, comments regarding race and his sexuality. But tabloid headlines aside, he returned with a strong enough comeback to remind us of why we praised him in the first place.

Mayer’s sixth studio album, “Paradise Valley,” was released by Columbia and Sony on Aug. 20, and it cannot be labeled by one genre.

He successfully mixes a variety of music styles including folk, country and blues, appealing to a wide audience.

Mayer’s success began in the early 2000s with hits including the sultry and beautiful “Your Body is a Wonderland” and a John Lennon’s “Give Peace a Chance”-inspired “Waiting on the World to Change.”

Although successfully topping charts, Mayer lost a lot of respect for not keeping his dirty laundry out of the public eye.

His fall from grace included his use of the N-word in a “Playboy” interview and his inability to maintain a stable relationship with women, including Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston. But despite his bad boy attitude, the artist proves on his latest album that he’s still the best at what he does.

The album art for “Paradise Valley” is sentimentally all-American, featuring Mayer in a blue shirt with an oversized blanket draped over his shoulders. He is looking pensively off in the distance, surrounded by weeds in an empty field under an overcast sky.

The opening track, “Wildfire,” is equally idealistic. Mayer sings of landscapes and the beginning of a romance. The song sounds as if it were performed live, somewhere in the South, due to the undertones of familiar conversation and the homey clank of spoons against knees.

The Connecticut-born artist taps into the very heart of American southern music with an almost southern drawl and simple, yet beautiful, lyrics.

“Dear Marie,” the second track on the

John Mayer puts personal blunders behind, reinvents musical style

album, was a risky addition. One of his many exes, Taylor Swift, wrote the controversial “Dear John” in 2010 as an ode to a disastrous relationship, rumored to be about Mayer. Critics raised eyebrows at her blatant lyrics, including, “Don’t you think 19’s too young to be played with?” hinting at a big age difference like the one between Mayer and her.

While “Dear Marie” probably isn’t about Swift, the song leaves a recognizable taste of love lost, and the possibility of what could have been if fame hadn’t taken Mayer away from his first lover.

Other love songs include “Waitin’ on the Day” and “Paper Doll,” in which Mayer is disputably a talented lyricist, comparing an inconsistent woman to a paper doll and sampling from “Rock-a-bye Baby” in a more adult and jazzy style.

His strongest song on the album is “Who You Love,” featuring love interest Katy Perry. The song is haunting and melancholy, telling the age-old tale of never being able to control the one you love. The song might

even give some insight into their actual relationship, which adds an element of mystery and juicy celebrity goodness. The song ends with a giggling Perry saying, “You’re the one I love.”

Another surprise artist on the album is Frank Ocean, featured on the reprised version of “Wildfire.” A classic Ocean tune, the song is short with multiple layers and depth.

Ocean sings about a Parisian woman while Mayer gently harmonizes along, strumming chords. The song is long enough to make the listener want more while still telling an intricate story, slightly reminiscent of Ocean’s “Acura Integurl.”

The album closes out with the bluesy “Badge and Gun” and the Woody Guthrie-esque “On the Way Home,” which plays a part in Mayer’s task to take the listener on a musical and spiritual journey, unraveling the bits and pieces of his life, allowing his audience to see a side of him we almost forgot existed. ekcrocke@syr.edu

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HACKED: Allen outplayed by Hackenberg in Syracuse loss

By David Wilson SPORTS EDITOR

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — There was one moment Saturday when Drew Allen looked like the quarterback he was expected to be.

Jeremiah Kobena PENN STATE 23 blazed past Malcolm WilSYRACUSE 17 lis in the third quarter and Allen got enough time in the pocket. He stepped into a perfectly arced throw, over the top of Willis and into Kobena’s outstretched arms at the 10-yard line for a 55-yard completion.

“It’s fun to watch when it’s perfectly timed and the trajectory is beautiful,” SU quarterbacks coach Tim Lester said. “He put it up in the air, Kobena ran the perfect route.”

But the fun came too sparsely for Lester and the Orange’s (0-1) coaching staff. Allen completed just 16-of-37 passes for 189 yards and a pair of interceptions in Syracuse’s seasonopening 23-17 loss to Penn State (1-0) in front of

61,202 at MetLife Stadium. He was outdueled by a true freshman — Christian Hackenberg went 22-for-31— and completed too few of his supposedly signature deep balls to outweigh the poor decisions.

There was the deep ball to Kobena, a 13-yard completion along the right sideline to Adrian Flemming and a 27-yard strike across the middle to Ashton Broyld, but there were also passes that sailed down the field and out of bounds or into coverage.

Only 43.2 percent of his passes ended up in his receivers’ hands. Two passes ended up in the hands of Allen’s opponents. None ended with one of his targets standing in the end zone with the ball.

“We came up short,” Allen said. “Ultimately we wanted to come out with a win.”

For the first half it wasn’t entirely his fault — SU was simply reluctant to open up its offense.

He stumbled on the first play of his Syracuse career, slipping in the backfield for a 3-yard loss. He followed it up with a pair of completions, and even threaded a ball past a defender for the sideline completion to Flemming.

He completed his first five passes, but just one of his next seven to finish the first half 6-for-12. Just two of those completions, though, went for more than 10 yards.

“That was by design,” Lester said, “trying to establish the running game, not putting him in some of those awkward situations early and then open it up as we kind of settled

into the game.”

The issues seemed evident: Allen tended to stare down his receivers and had no problems with throwing the ball where defenders were.

His completion to Flemming was nearly intercepted. So was a swing pass in the third quarter to Prince-Tyson Gulley that ended up giving the Orange a first down.

At the end of that period the recklessness finally caught up to him. He gunned a pass straight into Stephen Obeng-Agyapong’s chest for his first interception.

His second came on a desperation heave during SU’s final drive, but several passes bounced off defenders’ hands in jump-ball situations as he tested throws downfield.

“Drew is a competitor,” Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said. “I liked his moxie, I liked his energy and I liked his fight.”

On the other side was an even less experienced signal caller. Hackenberg was wildly impressive in his debut, throwing for 278 yards and two touchdowns, but mixed in with the f lashes of stardom were the mistakes of a freshman.

He threw his first career interception in the second quarter when Jeremi Wilkes jumped in front of a pass to Jesse James. His second turnover, an interception by defensive end Robert Welsh, nearly let Syracuse back into the game when the Orange capitalized with a Jerome Smith touchdown run. “(Hackenberg’s) got a tremendous future,” Penn State head coach Bill O’Brien said, “but

we’re not ready to waltz him into the College Football Hall of Fame and certainly not the NFL Hall of Fame — we’re just saying he’s a talented guy.”

He was certainly benefitted by the play of Allen Robinson — the wide receiver was suspended for the first half and scored a touchdown on just his second play from scrimmage — but he also made a spectacular 54-yard throw to Eugene Lewis to give the Nittany Lions their largest lead, 23-10, with 11:39 left in the game.

It was the turnovers, though, that ultimately defined the inexperienced quarterbacks’ play in this year’s New York’s College Classic.

For every chance the defense gave SU, its offense seemed to hand it away. After Wilkes’ interception, Smith fumbled. After a strip and long return by Brandon Reddish, Syracuse came away without any points. Syracuse managed just 10 points off PSU’s four turnovers.

Allen’s first interception was simply a careless mistake. His second was understandable, but squashed any chance at a Syracuse comeback.

Allen said he didn’t have any jitters making his first career start, but it was still his first game in an SU uniform. He wasn’t the Orange’s savior like some built him up to be, but he can only get better.

“I’m proud of that guy right there,” Shafer said, pointing at Allen.

His quarterback nodded.

“He’s going to be a damn good football player.”

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half, when the Hawks subjected the Orange to its smothering brand of soccer.

Perea’s shot deflected off of a cluster of defenders and found the back of the net.

The Orange relished in the few moments when Hartwick’s defense wasn’t set, and a few moments was all it needed.

Said Perea: “The second half was the way we should have played all along. We had a slow start, but it all came together when it needed to.”

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In the 20th minute, SU slowed down play considerably. Sophomore Stefanos Stamoulacatos, freshman Alex Halis and junior Jordan Murrell played tic-tac-toe on the left side of the field while the Hawks’ defense sat in an impenetrable pyramid.

At a distance, the Orange’s quick passing was pleasing to the eye. But when any player attempted to dribble toward the box, the once distinguishable pyramid turned into an amoeba around the ball.

“That was because we were playing slower and building through the back,” said junior forward Grant Chong. “They definitely pressured us, which we expected, we just had to break in and I think we did successfully.”

It was Chong, in the 50th minute, who took SU out of its slow start and onto the scoreboard. He settled a lob pass from Halis, took two dribbles and unleashed a rocket into the top-right corner.

That was all Syracuse needed to catapult itself into a more comfortable, effective philosophy.

“In the second half, it was about keeping the tempo high,” McIntyre said. “Getting that first goal, and then eventually the second, helped us do that.”

As the game wore on, SU didn’t possess the ball as methodically as it did in the first half. But the possessions it did have were more purposeful, as evidenced by the game’s decisive goals.

Nine minutes after Chong gave the Orange the lead, Perea pushed the lead to 2-0. Once the Orange earned a throw-in in the attacking third, Murrell scanned the field for a target.

With most of Hartwick’s players casually walking with their heads down, Perea stepped into open space and Murrell put the ball at his feet. It was the space that wasn’t there in the first

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our communication kind of broke apart.”

While Allen was mediocre in his Orange debut, let’s remember what he’s working with: a first-year head coach and an inexperienced wide receiving corps. Even the offensive line, a group that struggled to handle an aggressive Nittany Lions front seven, has two new starters. So let’s hold back on the calls for Terrel Hunt, at least for another two weeks.

Yes, Allen’s 43.2-percent completion rate was off-putting. And yes, his first interception, thrown right to Stephen Obeng-Agyapong at the end of the third quarter, was egregious and

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Broyld appears to have improved significantly from last year already. He led all Syracuse receivers with four catches, totaling 46 yards and emerging as Drew Allen’s early favorite target.

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Reddish’s strip of Penn State wide receiver Allen Robinson and impressive return was a game-saver at the time.

The Syracuse cornerback finished with five solo tackles.

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The O-Line struggled to create holes for running backs Jerome Smith and PrinceTyson Gulley. SU quarterback Drew Allen got rocked frequently, including early in the fourth quarter when Stephen Obeng-Agyapong pummeled him into the ground.

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Robinson looked every bit the part of a player who led the Big Ten in receptions, yards and touchdowns in 2012.

Everything changed when he came into the game in the second half. Quarterback Christian Hackenberg had his No. 1 target back and started looking like one of the top quarterback recruits in the country.

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Gulley was swallowed by the Penn State defense when he ran up the middle. He had no wiggle room when he ran to the outside. He rushed for just 24 yards on 12 carries and struggled to break free.

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Number of receiving yards for Robinson, all of them coming in the second half after he sat out the first two quarters.

No Syracuse player totaled more than 55 yards. Broyld, Jeremiah Kobena and Christopher Clark – SU’s top three receivers on Saturday – totaled 124 yards among them.

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inexcusable.

But one game doesn’t tell the whole story.

Especially with the unit he’s working with, and especially against an above-average Penn State defense.

Remember, this is a guy who hasn’t started a football game in five years, who only began getting the majority of first-team reps 10 days before the season opener and who’s used to throwing to bigger, faster Big-12 targets.

Had he remained at Oklahoma his cast would’ve consisted of senior 1,000-yard receiver Jalen Saunders, standout sophomore Sterling Shepard and 6-foot-3 senior Lacoltan Bester — not the No. 2-playing-No. 1 receiver West, unproven senior Adrian Flemming and stilllearning slot man Ashton Broyld.

Expecting immediate greatness and heroic bravado from him this quickly is unrealistic.

Quarterbacks coach Tim Lester agreed that communication in particular is where Allen and the offense need to improve the most.

“Those things he’ll continue to get better at because that’s hard to do,” Lester said. “It takes a lot of time to get comfortable.”

Allen’s blunder with West was just one example of that lack of chemistry. Later on the same drive, Obeng-Agyapong blitzed around the left side untouched, de-cleated the 6-foot-5 Allen and slammed him downward into the MetLife Stadium turf.

Was it Allen who missed the blitz pickup, or did right tackle Ivan Foy, in his first season as a starter, just whiff on the block?

Either way, these are problems that take time to work out — and who’s to say Hunt would be any better?

Allen’s poise and talent were apparent at moments on Saturday. The 55-yard, over-thetop connection with Jeremiah Kobena was a glimpse at what he can do when the offense is flowing properly.

It was a reminder that Allen could have been starting for the Sooners this year. His competition under center would have consisted of Blake Bell, the powerful runner aptly nicknamed “Belldozer” with the inability to throw for distance or precision, and redshirt freshman Trevor Knight, who started OU’s first game of the season.

After the game SU head coach Scott Shafer said Allen will be a great football player. Lester echoed the sentiment that the job is his for the immediate future, and running back Jerome Smith called him “the sheriff.”

So give Allen a chance. Northwestern and Wagner offer two more opportunities for Allen to improve before the coaching staff should decide to either stick with him until SU loses bowl eligibility, or go with Hunt.

If Allen is unable to pick apart a lesser Seahawks defense in the Carrier Dome on Sept. 14, by all means go ahead and give Hunt a chance. He’d have time for a tuneup game against Tulane and a bye week to prepare for Clemson. But the next two weeks should be Allen’s regardless of his performance against PSU. With 14 days’ worth of time and repetitions as the unquestioned starter, he’ll have every chance to prove the job should be his.

Stephen Bailey is an asst. sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at sebail01@ syr.edu or on Twitter at @Stephen_Bailey1.

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THEY SAID IT “Out of all the plays, that play I just felt like I wasn’t in my own body.”

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The fight was fun.”

The past couple months of intensity and obscenities weren’t an act, but rather a window into the coach that Shafer will be.

Less than 30 seconds into his first-ever postgame press conference as a head coach he said his defense played a “tough-ass football game.”

When answering his first postgame question as a head coach he raved about the “tough, hardnosed football” Drew Allen played in his first game as an SU quarterback. His demeanor was virtually unchanged from the last time he spoke publicly, on the Thursday before kickoff back in the Iocolano-Petty Football Wing of Manley Field House.

A 5-yard completion by the Nittany Lions on the first real snap of the game sent Shafer’s visor hurtling toward the ground. His signature headwear went flying again in the second half after a pass interference call against Keon Lyn. It wasn’t always pretty — in fact, sometimes the game was downright ugly — but Shafer still guided Syracuse within one score as the Orange took the field for its final possession.

“I thought we were going to win the damn thing,” he said in typical Shafer fashion, “I really did. I thought we were going to win the doggone game.”

The only thing from training camp, it seems, that may have been out of the norm was the tight-lipped secrecy.

He didn’t want to reveal his starting quarterback, and for good reason, and wants to keep up the image he’s created in the months leading up to the season. But after Saturday’s game he was in a sharing mood.

He said he settled on Allen as his quarterback 10 days prior and even admitted that his

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“It was where I thought we were going to be,” Shafer said. “I didn’t think we were in a position from a confidence standpoint to go out there and blow them out. They are too good of a football team.”

And that’s just where he had SU as time winded down in the fourth quarter. After the game, running back Jerome Smith called Allen a “sheriff.” Shafer, though, was a general, leading his unwavering men toward the edge of victory.

Shafer’s confidence and enthusiasm has gotten his players to buy in. Even as SU fell short on the first gameday of the Shafer era, there’s a sense of the leader he will be in his years at Syracuse, and it’s the same one he’s been for his first few months.

“I don’t want to win for myself,” Allen said at the podium after Shafer’s press conference, “I want to win for the guy that was just up here talking, and all those guys in the blue and orange.” dbwilson@syr.edu @DBWilson2

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AST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Drew Allen swung his fist in frustration again and again.

Another chance wasted. Another opportunity for Penn State to extend its lead given.

Syracuse was trailing Penn State 23-10 with 11 minutes left — seemingly its last reasonable chance to come back for a signature season-opening victory — when on a second-and-12 from the Syracuse 33-yard line, Allen flung a 12-yard out route for Jarrod West.

But the ball sailed through noman’s land and out of bounds. West ran a corner route.

Allen stared him down across the field, gaping irefully, before turning and whizzing his right arm around four times.

“There were times when we showed a lot of great things on offense, and then there were times that it wasn’t so great,” Allen said. “And I felt like in those times it wasn’t so great,

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ziniu chen | staff photographer DREW ALLEN receives a snap during Syracuse’s 23-17 loss to Penn State on Saturday. Allen completed 16-of-37 attempts and threw two interceptions in the loss, the last of which killed a fourth-quarter drive.

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AST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Even on the heels of a loss, Scott Shafer was the same man.

The 30th head coach in Syracuse history stood at the podium Saturday after his first game, a 23-17 loss to Penn State in New York’s College Classic. There was, of course, a tinge of dejection and disappointment that should come with every loss, and he was a bit more revelatory than he was during a summer that ended with practices being closed off to the media. But there was also the same fiery passion that’s marked his first eight months at the helm of the program.

He still cursed and he still uttered his signature “hard-nosed” catchphrase. His visor was on the ground by the end of the first play from scrimmage and a handful of other times as the afternoon turned to evening at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. He was, in other words, the same old Scott Shafer.

“I hate to lose,” Shafer said after the game. “It makes me sick to lose, but I had a blast. Ever since I was a little guy I wanted to do this. I slept well last night, I wasn’t nervous. I couldn’t wait to go and it was fun.

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sterling boin | staff photographer Syracuse celebrates during its 2-0 win over Hartwick College on Monday night at SU Soccer Stadium. The Orange improved to 2-0-0.

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It’s not that Syracuse’s forwards didn’t want to shoot, they just couldn’t find the space.

If an Orange player was anywhere strikSYRACUSE 2 near ing distance, HARTWICK 0 three Hartwick defenders crowded around him. The crowd begged for a shot, but there was no space for SU to operate in the attacking third. As each hollow opportunity passed, a tactical adjustment became increasingly inevitable.

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But when head coach Ian McIntyre stood in front of his team after a scoreless first half, a tactical adjustment wasn’t on his mind. Instead, he urged his team to speed up its play and seize the opportunity to entertain the home crowd.

“He said we had to impose ourselves, because this is our home field,” said junior midfielder Nick Perea.

“We had to play faster because that’s our game.”

On the heels of a sloppy first half, an increase in energy was what No. 20 Syracuse (2-0-0) needed to edge

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Hartwick (0-1-1) 2-0 at SU Soccer Stadium on Monday night. In its first home game of the season, the Orange looked slow and, at times, confused in the early going. But once SU found its speedy identity, the Hawks simply couldn’t keep up.

“We started slow, we were definitely sluggish,” McIntyre said. “We had a lot of possession, but didn’t create enough quality chances. When we broke their initial line of pressure, we started to look good and get those opportunities.”

BY THE NUMBERS Syracuse’s yards per carry as a team during Saturday’s 23-17 loss to Penn State.

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SCOREBOARD Women’s soccer

Syracuse 1, Colgate 0

Field hockey

Syracuse 4, Hofstra 1

Volleyball

Penn State 3, Syracuse 0