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Working hard Students feel the

Diverse appeal Columnist discusses the need for

effects of the decrease in work-study funding.

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Chancellor-designate Kent Syverud to maintain focus on diversity issues.

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Falling in line Syracuse’s sophomore offensive

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linemen bring unique athletic backgrounds into the fold.

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Phases II, III to begin in late Oct.

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ferent projects during the last couple of years. She added the organization has been more effective because of an increase in returning members each year. This, she said, has contributed

The Connective Corridor will enter phases two and three in late October, beginning with construction, building renovations and extended partnerships with local arts organizations.

The Connective Corridor, introduced by Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor in 2005, aims to connect the university and downtown area through a $42.5 million, three-phase transportation and streetscape improvement project. Phase one was completed last fall, while phases two and three are slated for completion in November 2015.

Phases two and three will happen simultaneously, with renovations being made from Forman Park on East Genesee Street and extending downtown to Firefighter’s Memorial Park on South State Street, said Linda Dickerson Hartsock, who oversees the corridor as director of SU’s Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development.

Construction will begin in Forman Park, where renovations will look similar to those made on East Genesee Street already, such as bike racks, bus stops, brick pavers and distinctive Connective Corridor design elements such as signs and green bike lanes, Hartsock said.

Beneath the pavement, there will be green infrastructure components such as rain gardens, which will manage, harvest and reuse nearly six million gallons of water, she said.

In addition, 175 new trees will be planted in the area, she said.

“The street itself will literally be a new street, from building to building,” she said.

The Connective Corridor will

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Graduated change Graduate Student Organization plans to better advocate for student needs, increase presence

By Meredith Newman and Natsumi Ajisaka

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o President Patrick Neary, the Graduate Student Organization is “coming out of a dark age.”

Just five years ago, the GSO, which represents the interests of Syracuse University graduate students, had only about 12 members. There was a surplus of money the organization didn’t utilize and there wasn’t a spark to better the lives of Syracuse University graduate students.

Now, Neary and GSO’s 40 members want to become an active voice for graduate students on campus.

This year, the organization has goals of improving the living wage for graduate students who are teaching assistants, bettering contracts and increasing the participation of graduate students within the organization.

“I’ve watched the GSO grow from an organization that does very, very little — frankly — that had surpluses and couldn’t figure out how to spend all of the fee, to an organization which is the reverse situation,” Neary said. “Which I think is better.”

Since its founding in 1968, the GSO has evolved to where it now funds other graduate student orga-

spencer bodian | asst. photo editor (TOP) PATRICK NEARY, GSO president, collects votes for senators at Wednesday night’s meeting. (BOTTOM) ZAID JILANI explains why he should be elected for a senator-at-large position at the meeting. nizations as well as career services, and provide grant programs to graduate students, Neary said.

Gabrielle Chapman, associate dean of the Graduate School, has worked closely with the GSO on dif-

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SU allows free entry into game

By Trevor Hass Asst. Sports Editor

All Syracuse University students will be granted free admission to the Syracuse-Tulane game on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Carrier Dome in an effort to draw additional fans, SU Athletics announced in a press release Wednesday afternoon.

“Nothing would help our team more than a full and loud student section in the Dome on Saturday,” Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said in the release.

SU Athletics listed the attendance for the Orange’s 54-0 thrashing of Wagner last Saturday at 33,299, but the crowd appeared to be much smaller.

Shafer encouraged students to come and be the Orange’s “12th man” against the Green Wave.

Students who already have purchased a ticket to the Tulane game can pick up a free ticket to any future Syracuse football home game this fall or nonconference men’s basketball game.

In a different press release also sent out Wednesday, SU Athletics urged fans to arrive early to avoid lengthy lines. All fans in attendance will be screened using a metal-detection wand.

Small bags and purses will be searched, while oversized purses and backpacks are prohibited.

The gates will open at 11 a.m., according to the press release. tbhass@syr.edu @TrevorHass

drew osumi | staff photographer sam spector, an SU Food Services employee who receives work-study, fixes condiments at Sadler Dining Hall during his shift on Wednesday afternoon. Food Services is one of the highest paid work-study opportunities on campus, paying a starting hourly rate of $9.80.

Gradually decreasing financial aid affects work-study

By Alfred Ng Asst. News Editor

With work-study funding at Syracuse University gradually declining for the last few years, student-employees on campus are feeling the effects of decreased work-study grants.

Though this year’s amount of funds for work-study at SU has been about the same as last year’s, the amount has been constantly decreasing for the last six to seven years, said Ryan Williams, associate vice president for enrollment management and the director of scholarships and

student aid.

Work-study is a program that distributes pay for student jobs based off a student’s financial package. The funds are pre-determined through the student’s financial aid award, and students can choose to earn any amount of the funds allocated to them.

With only a limited fund, the Office of Financial Aid has had to ration how work-study aid packages are distributed among students, he said.

“Students who are juniors and seniors who have not used work-study fund in their underclassmen years

will either have reduced work-study or have it removed, in order for us to give it to students who are more interested in using it,” Williams said. He added students might see a decrease in earnings from previous semesters, depending on how much they work.

“If a sophomore student was awarded $2,500 for work-study and they only earned half of it, our assumption is that it’s the same amount they would earn in their junior year,” he said.

The change in the distribution of work-study funds has caused problems for some students who are work-

ing campus jobs and who are dependent on this money.

Sarah Feltz, a sophomore biology major, said she was awarded $3,200 in her freshman year for work-study.

Because she didn’t earn the full $3,200 while working her freshman year, she said she only originally received $800 this year.

Feltz said she had wanted to work the full year for the entire amount, but was unable to because of how late in the semester her job was assigned.

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USAS demands SU cut ties with brands not signed with accord

By Zane Warman Contributing Writer

This fall, the Syracuse University chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops is aiming to raise awareness of manufacturing conditions in Bangladesh with the “End Deathtraps” campaign.

On Tuesday, USAS delivered a letter to Chancellor Nancy Cantor pressuring the university to cut ties with companies that haven’t signed onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, said Jose Godinez, the chapter’s leader. The group’s goal is to

change the companies to which SU licenses its products, and the eth-

“Every day, workers are putting their lives at risk in order to produce apparel for America.”

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ics that surround those companies.

In April, the factory Rana Plaza collapsed and killed more than 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh, Godinez said. The campaign was created due to the organization not wanting something similar to happen in the future.

In the wake of the collapse, activists have been asking companies to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, Godinez said. The accord, he said, is a legally binding agreement between brands and unions.

It gives workers the opportunity to refuse unsafe work without facing

repercussions, he said. Godinez said companies have to pay for renovations of factories they’re producing out of, among other things.

USAS is pressuring Cantor to add a clause to SU’s policies that would promise the school would not make apparel with brands that did not sign the accord, said Godinez, an undeclared sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

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Quick Facts about the factory fire When: Aug. 24 Where: Rana Plaza in Dhaka City, Bangladesh What: 1,130 garment workers were killed

Now: Inspired an accord for stricter safety standards on Bangladeshi textiles

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Miss America Organization, pageants provide role models for women As a seven-year pageant contestant, I feel that it is necessary to debunk some of the misconceptions surrounding pageants, particularly the Miss America Organization.

First, the women I have encountered through pageants are emotionally strong and intelligent. Many have overcome extreme adversity and use that experience to educate through their platforms and personal stories.

Life-threatening illness, bullying, depression, child abuse and domestic violence are a few examples of challenges which my fellow contestants have overcome and which have inspired their platforms - platforms hoping to change our world.

Furthermore, the “lifestyle and fitness”

category, also known as “swimwear,” is one of the most positive and attractive aspects of competition for contestants. As someone who has struggled with maintaining a healthy lifestyle in the past, I now have an active support group of pageant sisters who uplift and encourage each other to stay fit and healthy. America, as a nation, is infamously unhealthy. It is fantastic to have role models who inspire women to be active and healthy.

Moreover, most pageants welcome and encourage women of all shapes and sizes to compete. This has taken the emphasis off physical appearance and focused on inner beauty and achievements. The National American Miss pageant is a prime example of this. It is beau-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR tiful to see confident and inspiring women of all shapes and sizes winning pageants.

Despite stereotypes reinforced by pageant outsiders, the women who compete in pageants are the most confident, genuine and supportive people I have ever known. The most fiercely competitive pageant in which I ever participated was the Miss New York pageant, which Nina Davuluri won this past July. I have never experienced such an intense level of competition, with an even greater level of camaraderie. The degree of sportsmanship and support of this sisterhood is unparalleled.

If this past Miss America pageant has revealed anything about society, it is that a woman’s worth is not skin deep. It has proven just the opposite. However, it also has revealed that there is still a great deal of racism and ignorance in our country today. Fortunately, Miss America, Nina Davuluri, has been educating others through her platform – “Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competence” – and now has the opportunity to do so on the national level. She is intelligent, strong, driven and someone women across the world can view as a role model.

Now that is true beauty.

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MISS UPSTATE NEW YORK 2013

Professors should understand Jewish students’ desire to observe holidays “You are going to miss the most important class of the year.” These were the words of one professor responding to an email from a Jewish student asking for the day off to observe the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. This is one of the many upsetting stories we heard this week.

Each fall, 3,000 Jews across campus celebrate the two most holy Jewish days of the year, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. These holidays, collectively known as the High Holy Days, are a special time for the Jewish people to reflect, repent, and pray for a good year to come.

Unfortunately, with the Syracuse University’s current Religious observance policy, many students find it difficult to observe these holidays in a traditional and fulfilling way.

Three years ago, the university created

the current religious observance policy, which allows students, in theory, to be excused from class for any religious holiday they choose to observe, without the fear of being penalized academically. Students are asked to complete an online form on MySlice and are subsequently expected to make up any work they may have missed.

This system, though well-conceived and intentioned, is needed for two reasons: 1. Because of Judaism’s adherence to a lunar calendar, the dates of the holidays are inconsistent and frequently fall on weekdays.

2. Jewish holidays, especially the High Holidays, forbid work or creation of any kind.

This includes schoolwork and a number of other everyday activities, depending on your personal

LETTER TO THE EDITOR level of observance.

We have seen that many of the faculty and staff do not adhere to the religious observance policy and do not understand why Jewish students ask for time off. Students frequently feel pressured to come to class by professors or do not receive accommodations that fairly allow for them to make up work.

In an ideal world, students of all faiths should not have to choose between their education and staying faithful to their religious beliefs.

If Jewish students cannot be given days off to observe, which would be our preference, we respectfully ask the administration and staff

to partner with Hillel to enforce the existing Religious observance policy. Professors and staff should, at minimum, encourage students to worship, refrain from holding tests and quizzes, provide notes or recorded lectures for makeup work, and not collect assignments on major Jewish holidays.

The Hillel Jewish Student Union, with the Chabad House at SU, wishes to help promote and support spirituality on campus through education and advocacy. Join us this year as we spread understanding and support students’ rights to worship freely.

Zach Goldberg

PRESIDENT, HILLEL JEWISH STUDENT UNION

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GSO tackles issues confronting graduate students, teaching assistants The Graduate Student Organization is increasing its presence at Syracuse University, and could promote necessary change for teaching assistants across campus.

Sixty percent of graduate students who serve as TAs — about 1,400 members of Syracuse University’s graduate student population — earn an annual salary that falls below the living wage, according to a study done by GSO last semester.

The living wage is adjusted annually. Among other faculty members, TAs receive the largest wage increase. Still, they receive the lowest salary.

GSO plans to confront the student contracts that contribute to this wage. Currently, graduate students need permission from their department if

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board they want to take on a job outside of their TA position, or else violate their student contract.

The university should allow graduate students to hold a part-time job to balance the low wages they earn as TAs. These graduate students are not only working to earn a degree, but they are adults who deserve the right to choose the jobs they take on — especially with the low wages they already receive.

TAs are students, but serve as educators. Many teach courses, write up course assignments and even take student work home to grade.

They are a necessity to

the university and should be treated as such.

It is commendable that GSO is working to promote and improve the role of graduate students, particularly TAs. GSO represents an effective, student-run organization that is focusing on issues pertinent to its targeted demographic.

Other ideas GSO presented for the university focus on include when a graduate student is notified of his or her hire, as well as the lack of childcare facilities for the 15 percent of graduate students who are — or will soon be — parents.

These steps could have substantial effects on the graduate student body, a demographic that deserves the leadership and support of an organization like GSO.

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Upon starting chancellorship, Syverud should focus on diversity issues

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ust shy of 20 years ago today, a familiar-sounding story stamped page three of The Daily Orange. Under the heading read seven words: “Diversity forces colleges to face racial division.”

For nearly every Syracuse University student, this phrase should be an unfortunate echo and the realization of a solemn fact: in 20 years, not enough has changed.

Diversity-related concerns make up one of the greatest social issues experienced and witnessed at SU for both students and faculty today, just as it did in 1993. For decades, the university’s chancellors have been attempting to solve SU’s unwavering racial distresses.

Finally, one may actually be able to do just that.

In January, Chancellordesignate Kent Syverud will take over Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s position as SU’s top administrator, as announced last week. Syverud

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read up on SU’s history to prepare himself for the role.

It would be wise of Syverud to include SU’s past diversity struggles in his research.

Last spring, the most recent wave of diversity-related discontent peaked due to efforts by Ronald Taylor, president of SU’s NAACP chapter. Through a forum and a peaceful sit-in demonstration, the formulation of three main diversity concerns for students surfaced: self-segregation, the tokenizing of minority students by professors and a general discomfort among students about diversity issues.

These problem areas are remarkably similar to those expressed by students in the 20-year-old piece, which focused on the university’s need to halt the fostering of substantial racial divides.

Taylor and several other students met with Cantor and addi-

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campus watchdog tional administrators soon after to discuss the concerns, but little immediate action was taken – a concept that is problematic given the entrenched nature, persistence and current prevalence of the issues.

Just weeks before this meeting, the Chancellor Search Committee released its initial search criteria for the next chancellor, which included the charged of “strengthening the residential experience of the diverse and inclusive community.”

Given the events within the last year, it seems this criterion for SU’s chancellor may not have been fully met thus far.

Though Syverud has yet to

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develop his complete vision for the university, he has repeatedly stated he is focused on serving the students. Though Syverud also has admirable aspirations to better SU’s use of technology and increase the institution’s national rankings, focusing on one of the largest everyday problems for a large number of students already enrolled at SU should be an utmost priority.

During Cantor’s chancellorship, she worked to increase the diversity of SU’s student body. In the past 10 years, she has nearly doubled the number of first-year students from minority, and also low-income, backgrounds.

It is now up to Syverud to take imperative action in helping the rightfully changing community to reach contentment within SU. Developing a successful way to address issues of diversity will take time, but initial efforts to change a persistent problem should

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begin at the start of 2014. The first step is the essential realization that here at SU, and across the United States, aspects of prejudice are arguably still present.

My goal is not to promote politically correct idealism. It is not necessary or right to force the connection of students who choose to identify and socialize with niche groups centered upon, or connected on the basis of, a certain culture.

What is absolutely necessary is the action of SU’s administration to address one of the largest concerns the student body has repeatedly voiced; the past several months – and decades – can attest to that. How Syverud decides to approach this should be a defining factor of his tenure at SU. Rachael Barillari is a senior political science and Middle Eastern studies major. Her column appears weekly. She can be reached at rebarill@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @R_Barillari.

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Survey of 15 Midwest colleges shows majority oppose concealed handguns on campus

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new study conducted by Ball State University found that a majority of students who attend college in the Midwest oppose concealed handguns on campus, even though lawmakers in the region are pushing for the opposite.

Published in the Journal of American College Health, the study, which surveyed 15 Midwest colleges, found that 78 percent of 1,649 undergraduate students were shown to be against concealed-carry handguns and would not choose to obtain a permit if it was allowed. Those who saw advantages were both more likely to be male and own a gun. The majority of women surveyed said there were more disadvantages to concealed handguns, according to a Sept. 9 Ball State news release.

The study also reported that most students believe allowing concealed weapons would increase the rate of suicides and homicides on their campus, according to the release.

The study did not reveal which colleges were surveyed.

“The issue of allowing people to carry concealed weapons at universities and colleges around the U.S. has been raised several times in recent years,” Khubchandani said in the news release. “This is in spite of the fact that almost four of every five students are not in favor of allowing guns on campus.”

This year, Arkansas enacted a law that gives colleges the choice to decide whether to have concealed-carry on their campus, according to a June 24 Huffington Post article. Other lawmakers have attempted to introduce laws allowing students to carry arms on campus but failed. Nineteen state legislatures this year alone have introduced bills to allow

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work as much as someone else that had the job the whole year,” Feltz said. “I make less than I expected to one year, and then I get less the next.”

Williams, the director of scholarships and student aid, said students can appeal for their work-study awards to be raised.

Feltz said she sent in an appeal hoping to match the amount she was given during her freshman year, but only got an additional $500.

Certain employment opportunities on campus, such as SU Literacy Corps, are entirely dependent on work-study paying for workers, said Camille Donabella, manager of student

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also continue to provide grants for external renovations.

As part of the current round of the Facade Improvement Program, 56 buildings have applied to receive these facade grants, Hartsock said. The grant recipients will be chosen within the coming weeks, she said.

The Facade Improvement Program creates opportunities for private investors to get involved with improving the area by pur-

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Seven states in total currently allow concealed weapons on college campuses: Colorado; Utah; Wisconsin; Mississippi; Oregon; Kansas; and Arkansas, according armedcampuses.org

Many colleges in Arkansas have banned concealed-carry on their campuses. The state law requires these universities to revisit their policies every year if they decide to prohibit concealed-carry, according to a June 24 Huffington Post article.

employment services.

The minimum amount of work-study a student needs to receive in order to work for SU Literacy Corps is $1,800, said Eden Lapsley, a SU Literacy Corps tutor.

Lapsley’s work-study award was lowered, but still stayed above the $1,800 mark.

Colleen McAllister, associate director for literacy initiatives, said this happens often, with tutors being unable to return due to changes to their work-story.

Lapsley said SU Literacy Corps was down 30 tutors from usual, and lower work-study awards made it even more difficult to hire new employees.

Williams, the director of scholarships and student aid, said the financial aid office usually tries to accommodate students inter-

ested in SU Literacy Corps by providing the minimum requirement — if they demonstrate the financial need.

For students who want to earn more money without depending on work-study aid, Donabella, suggested working with other employers on campus.

She gave SU Food Services as an example, saying it was one of the highest paying employers on campus at $ 9.80 an hour.

But for students like Lapsley, working with SU Food Services had never been an option.

“I don’t want to waste my time at Food Services f lipping hamburger patties,” she said.

“I wanted a job that would be more worth the experience while being in college, which to me, Literacy Corps fits perfectly.”

chasing and renovating “run-down buildings,” she said.

Laura Ryan, general manager of Strong Hearts Café, said local businesses are expecting to see facade improves in the Forman Park area. There are several rundown businesses in the area that still need improvements, she said.

Improvements such as streetlights have helped customers feel “more comfortable” venturing into the area the cafe is located in, Ryan said.

Ryan said the city had made continuous improvements to Forman Park across the

street from the cafe, such as new benches, updated landscaping and a new fence for a parking lot near the cafe.

Partnering with those connected in the community, such as business owners, has been helpful in informing Connective Corridor planners what really benefits the city, Hartsock said.

“We get excited about that stuff,” Hartsock said. “Those things are in many ways just as rewarding and just as important as building bike lines and infrastructure. They have to work together and go together.”

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to better organization and more activity.

“This year, they’re really just trying to do the right thing for students,” Chapman said.

Graduate students make up about 30 percent of the SU student population. In the fall of 2012, there were 6,231 graduate and law school students, including part-time students, out of the total 21,029 student population, according to the university’s website.

Of these graduate students, 1,400 are teaching assistants that are employed by the university, Neary said, and about 60 percent of those TAs fall below the living wage.

This is a statistic GSO is working to change.

Last semester, GSO conducted a survey looking at how many graduate students earn below the living wage versus above living wage in the Syracuse area, he said. The university does a lot in assuring wage fairness, he added, but the administration “has never done much” in terms of tracking graduate students.

It’s considered a violation of a teaching assistant’s contract if the student has an additional job outside of his or her respective department,

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risk in order to produce apparel for America,” Godinez said.

This summer, Godinez spent 10 days in Bangladesh, meeting with survivors and families of those lost, hearing their stories, he said. He said traveling to Bangladesh inspired him to take action.

Godinez wants to build upon the recogni-

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unless the departments sign off on it, he said.

Because of this, GSO is hoping to generate pay increases for TAs for the 2015-2016 academic school year. Changes cannot be made to the 20142015 budget because it is already set.

“Part of our point is that if you’re not going to raise pay, especially for departments that are in a low amount of money each year, can you lock us out of that clause?” Neary said.

Neary added that every employee at SU receives a cost of living adjustment each year.

Graduate students receive the largest adjustment, with about 3 percent per year. Other employees usually receive about 1 percent.

Despite this increase, the graduate students still receive the lowest amount of compensation.

“We are definitely always trying to always acknowledge that the university has done very nice things for us paywise in the past,” Neary said. “This is less of a pitchforks and torches versus we’ve identified some problem areas, and we would like to fix them.”

The below living wage has been a consistent issue, said Pat Dawes, GSO comptroller. From what Dawes has seen, he said this has traditionally been the case for graduates that aren’t in the mathematics or a science department, such as humanities students.

The GSO plans to have an “aggressive timeline” for pursuing this initiative, Neary said, in which he will be making a presentation to the University Senate’s budget committee in October about these potential changes, as well as meeting with the Graduate School dean.

‘I think they’ve been as responsive as the administration can be,” Dawes said. “Syracuse University has a large bureaucracy, so it takes time to change.”

Dawes added the GSO is recommending the university define a set minimum wage based on what is a livable salary for teaching assistants, instead of allowing it to vary from department to department.

Another initiative the GSO is focusing on this fall is trying to make sure TAs are better notified of when their contracts are being renewed.

The GSO, Neary said, hopes to push departments to inform TAs of the status of their contract renewal earlier. There have been instances, he said, where TAs were informed of their contract renewal a week before the semester started.

“Which means a week out, you don’t know if you have employment or not and you’ve already signed your lease,” he said.

At the Wednesday GSO meeting, which was the organization’s first official business meet-

ing of the year, Neary said he’s negotiating with the administration to create a deadline for TAs to be aware of their contract status.

The goal, he said, is to have an across-theboard deadline at the end of May. GSO’s final, major initiative for this semester is to improve participation within the organization.

“We’re missing a lot of people,” Neary said.

While involvement has improved during the years, GSO plans to reach out to departments that lack representation.

Dawes, the GSO comptroller, said the goal for this year was to get as much campus representation as possible.

“It’s a fairly long-term problem just because graduate students do have such busy schedules, but we have been getting better,” Dawes said.

“I’ve been a member of GSO for four years now and we’ve had minor increases every year.”

But to increase representation, Neary said, GSO needs to focus on the students.

“We’ve done a great job talking to the administration, but not so great job talking back to students,” Neary said. “Now we’re doing a lot more directly for students.”

tion the group established through its “Badidas” campaign last year, which condemned Adidas’ handling of the PT Kizone factory closure. Nationwide, USAS boycotted the company, which refused to pay $1.8 million in severance to 2,800 Indonesian garment workers.

“School after school cut their contracts with Adidas,” said Joy Perkett, campaign coordinator of the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State. “That was a successful campaign.”

Perkett, who has worked with student groups across the state, said the most successful schools she has witnessed are the ones that are willing to be aggressive.

USAS’ campaign has been openly received by administrators, who said they are willing to hear the group’s requests.

Jamie Cyr, director of auxiliary services, said in an email they are in the process of scheduling a meeting with USAS. There has been a positive relationship with USAS, as well as an “open line of

communication,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, in an email.

“We look forward to meeting them to hear their concerns,” he said.

Godinez said USAS does not want the focus of its campaign to be the letter delivery, but rather the involvement of the student body. He said the group encourages students to attend rallies and send their own messages to SU administrators.

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luke rafferty | video editor The Syracuse Stage opened its 41st season Wednesday with the premiere of “Blithe Spirit.” The new season consists of six plays. Some are considered classics, while others are new to Syracuse. After celebrating its 40th anniversary this summer, the Stage looks forward to celebrating more upcoming milestones.

Syracuse Stage staff focuses on future improvements as 41st season commences

By Joe Infantino

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veryone from Tiny Tim to the Wicked Witch of the West has walked across its stage at one point in the past four decades, but there are many more characters still to come.

Syracuse Stage, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this summer, started its 2013-2014 season Wednesday with the premiere of “Blithe Spirit.” As part of an anniversary gala in June, Whelan published “Syracuse Stage 40 (Celebrating 40 Seasons),” a book documenting the theater company’s past. While it was meant to revel in the theater’s rich history, Jeff Woodward, the managing director, is more concerned about the company’s future.

“Part of our goal is to just keep pushing to the next step,” he said, “and not to compromise our standards and mission while we do it.”

As the managing director, Woodward said his most important responsibility is to support the vision of the artistic director. This season, that meant generating the most exciting set of plays possible. Tim Bond, artistic director for six seasons and counting, was unavailable to comment as he has been preparing for the opening show, but Whelan said the process doesn’t adhere to a set of rules, and consequently changes year-to-year.

The goal remains the same, though: To organize a season that generates excitement among patrons.

The Stage is doing that this year by producing six plays, three of which are new to Syracuse.

These include “Scorched” — Oct. 23 through Nov. 10 — “The Whipping Man” — Jan. 29 through Feb. 16 — and “Chinglish” — Feb. 26 through March 16. But there are also some traditional shows that the Stage has relied on each season, like a family-oriented play during the holidays, Whelan said — this winter’s show is “A Christmas Carol” — Nov. 23 through Dec. 29.

“The Glass Menagerie” — April 2-27 — and the seasonopener “Blithe Spirit,” a comedy about a novelist who, in the face of writer’s block, holds a séance to stir inspiration for his next story, complete the list.

“Like any theater, we owe a debt to classic tales,” Whelan

said. “We owe a debt to revisit them and see if they speak to our age as well.”

The challenge in making the artistic director’s vision a reality is finding the resources to do so, Woodward said. For that, the theater needs to attract as large of an audience as possible. Dur-

ing a time when the performing arts have generally struggled financially, Woodward said the Stage has adopted an innovative set of programs to boost community engagement.

To accommodate the visually disabled — a daunting task

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2013-2014 SEASON

Directed by Peter Amster Nov. 23 - Dec. 29

“Blithe Spirit” Written by Noël Coward Directed by Michael Barakiva Sept. 18 - Oct. 6

“The Whipping Man” Written by Matthew Lopez Directed by Timothy Bond Jan. 29 - Feb. 16

“Scorched” Written by Wajdi Mouawad Translated by Linda Gaboriau Directed by Marcela Lorca Oct. 23 - Nov. 10

“Chinglish” Written by David Henry Hwang Directed by May Adrales Feb. 26 - March 16

“A Christmas Carol” Written by Charles Dickens Adapted by Romulus Linney

“The Glass Menagerie” Written by Tennessee Williams Directed by Timothy Bond April 2-27

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Saranac autumn variety pack leaves satisfying taste

By Avery Hartmans

BEER BITES

Let me start by making a confession: I am kind of a lightweight.

I decided to pay homage to the one week of perfect weather Syracuse will have all year by trying out a local brewery, where I sampled Saranac’s 12 Beers A Falling variety pack, which is brewed in Utica.

But six beers — there are two of each variety in the pack — is a lot for me to drink and be able to wake up for my 8:25 a.m. class, so this is going to have to be a two-part series.

After having less-than-satisfying beer experiences the past few weeks, I decided to start strong with the Pumpkin Ale. It was magical. The Pumpkin Ale was essentially autumn in my mouth, offering a full range of flavors, all of which I adored. It contained just the right amount of pumpkin, sort of like the beer equivalent of a pumpkin spice latte, with hints of cinnamon and cloves. Plus, there was a surprising, yet pleasing gingery aftertaste, which rounded out the overall spiciness of the beer and left me feeling simply delighted.

But because I liked it so much, I kind of chugged it. It was then that I realized I should probably stop binge drinking fall-inspired ales.

So I switched to something slightly different, though still in the ale family, for my next beer.

Saranac’s Irish Red intrigued me, not only because I am both Irish and vaguely a ginger, but also because I’d never had an Irish Red before, which seemed like an over-

sight on my part.

The Irish Red did not disappoint either. It was richer than the pumpkin ale, a little deeper and more flavorful but still sweet, kind of like a baby step toward actually enjoying India Pale Ales. It also made me feel really in touch with my Irish roots, like I should be in a pub, knocking them back with inappropriately handsy men who speak with brogues, rather than drinking alone in my bedroom while I researched Gaelic drinking phrases.

After two light beers in a row, however, I needed a change of pace. I opted for the Black Forest, German-style Schwarzbier, which is one of Saranac’s core beers and is available yearround. This lager was so dark, it almost looked like a stout, and I was expecting a taste similar to Guinness.

Not that I don’t love Guinness, but the Black Forest pleasantly surprised me. While it was dark, it wasn’t heavy or thick, so I felt really tough drinking it, but wasn’t full after just one.

In fact, it instantly made me crave a snack, but the kitchen was just too far away.

Sadly, after knocking back the Black Forest, I felt compelled to cut myself off. Polishing off the rest of the pack, which included the Harvest Ale, Octoberfest and Pale Ale, would have been a little too much for me.

But my liver and I are working on that for next week.

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in such an aesthetically focused field as theater — the Stage designates certain performances during each production to be equipped with a headset and a prerecorded narration of the show. Detailed set and costume descriptions and commentary on the actors’ actions allow even those who can’t see the opportunity to experience the theater as it should be, Woodward said. And for the hearing impaired, two performances of every play are open captioned: Dialogue is run across a screen like subtitles during a movie.

The Stage’s most engaging relationship with the community, however, has been with Syracuse University, Whelan said.

According to Whelan’s book, Syracuse Stage owes its 40 seasons to the university.

The Stage, located at 820 E. Genesee St., has been affiliated with SU since 1974, when SU pulled it from the ashes of what was the failed Syracuse Repertory Theater, which closed because of its expensive business model: The theater operated as an acting company, meaning there was a staff of actors who were always paid, regardless of whether they were in the current play.

“What happened, though, was that it was successful enough that everybody began to see the value of having a theater company in Syracuse,” Whelan said. “That’s when the Stage and Syracuse came together because they could reduce the inherent conf licts if they had one person running both the drama department and the theater.”

With time, employees at the Stage have been integrated into SU’s drama department. Tim Bond is its artistic director and Whelan is a

part-time instructor. Whelan said the professors at the Stage teach mostly in the technical department. Therefore, the lights, stages and costume designs for SU productions are all done by professionals, making them “of the highest quality,” Whelan said. And drama students also have opportunities to design,

“We describe ourselves as kind of a teaching hospital. We are joined at the hip with the drama school.”

Jeff Woodward

SYRACUSE STAGE MANAGING DIRECTOR

produce and act in Stage productions throughout the season.

While the Stage and the drama department work very closely together, they are still separate entities.

“We describe ourselves as kind of a teaching hospital,” Woodward said. “We are joined at the hip with the drama school.”

That guidance and experience has paid off, as the SU drama department was ranked the 20th best in the world this summer by the Hollywood Reporter, among the ranks of The Juilliard School and Carnegie Mellon University. Whelan said SU and the Stage are both in an advantageous position to capitalize off the other’s success moving forward.

Said Whelan: “When you have new energy, new blood, it becomes fun, because there are new ideas and new challenges. You get exposed to a whole new way of working.” jtinfant@syr.edu @joeinfantino

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CRAVE ARTS IMMERSION FESTIVAL Where: The Connective Corridor and

Syracuse University When: Friday – Saturday How much: Free; optional $22 concert ticket This two-day visual and performing arts festival includes an after-hours circus coordinated by SU Arts Engage and a crowd-sourced multimedia art project called Dear Syracuse With Love. On Saturday afternoon, people dressed as zombies perform a “Thriller” flashmob at City Hall Commons. That night, Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, hosts a multimedia “Happening” concert in the Goldstein Auditorium for $22 per ticket.

SAVES THE DAY CONCERT Where: The Lost Horizon When: 6:30 p.m. Saturday How much: $15.50

sam maller | asst. photo editor A lion lounges at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. The zoo houses more than 700 animals, including elephants, penguins and monkeys.

Rosamond Gifford Zoo houses wide variety of animal species

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By Katie Richards ASST. FEATURE EDITOR

ake a walk on the wild side this weekend with a trip to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Located at 1 Conservation Place, approximately 10 minutes from campus and accessible by Centro bus, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo houses more than 700 animals, from penguins and elephants to red pandas and snow leopards. The extensive 43-acre property opened in 1914 as only a four-acre space, according to Jaime Alvarez, director of public relations for the zoo.

Even as colder winter months approach, students should not be discouraged from making the trip off-campus, as 60 percent of the exhibits are indoors. And during the zoo’s Snow Leopard Days — every day in January and February — tickets are half price at $4, Alvarez said.

“We are really affordable,” Alvarez said. “It’s cheaper than going to the movies.”

Students can plan a full day at the zoo with numerous activities and amenities available.

Food is available at the Jungle Café, and the reasonably priced menu has a variety of options including salads, sandwiches and pizzas.

If you choose to visit on the weekend, before the end of the month, you might catch an animal demonstration, which Alvarez explained to be a 20-minute show where attendees view animal feedings, ask the animal keepers questions and learn interesting facts about the animals.

“We do an elephant demonstration at our Asian Elephant Preserve, which is our new facility on our wildlife trail,” Alvarez said.

“They will bring a couple of elephants out to the yard and do a couple of demonstrations showing them balancing with a foot raised or them laying down and putting their feet up in the air.”

Emmie Martin, a senior magazine journalism major, had her own unique elephant experience at the zoo when she went with her honors

class HNR 230: “Challenges of Zoo Management.” Students on the class trip received a backstage pass and saw elephants up close, pet their trunks and watched as they did tricks like balancing on their front two legs.

“The zoo is known for their elephants and their birds, but they have a mix of everything,” Martin said. “You feel like you can see everything, but at the same time not feel overwhelmed.”

Other zoo demonstrations include penguin feedings and bird shows, which feature different birds from the zoo’s collection. Plus, one of the zoo’s latest attractions is a giant Pacific octopus named Ophelia who, Alvarez said, likes to entertain guests by sticking her tentacles on her aquarium’s glass.

But even if you don’t like octopi, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo has something for everyone. kjrichar@syr.edu @ktjrichards

Fresh off its eighth album release, altrock band Saves the Day is coming to Syracuse. The self-titled album was released Sept. 17 and has received generally positive reviews so far with a 4.5 out of 5 rating from national music magazine Alternative Press. The Lost Horizon is the third stop of the band’s month-long nationwide tour to promote the album.

Supporting acts include Into it. Over it., which is releasing a new album on Sept.

24, and indie-rock band Hostage Calm.

SALT CITY SPIRITS GHOSTWALK Where: Onondaga Historical

Association Museum When: 6-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday How much: $8-15 Enjoy an early-evening walk through the Near Eastside and experience the city in a way you’ve never experienced it before.

You’ll encounter people acting as ghosts and spirits from the past, dressed in authentic attire, waiting to share stories with you. Presented by The Onondaga Historical Association, the Salt City Spirits Ghostwalk lasts approximately an hour and a half, and reservations are required.

Tours leave every 15 minutes and will take place rain or shine.

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free-flowing.”

Hunt was the unquestioned second-stringer in the Orange’s first two games of the year – losses to Penn State and Northwestern. He only saw the field for a garbage-time drive against the Wildcats in which he drove Syracuse down the field for a touchdown.

But his 15-of-18, 265-yard, three-touchdown performance against the Seahawks not only pushed him ahead of Allen in the quarterback

“It’ll be: See how Terrel’s playing and adjust to the elements as we go.”

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but losing Charone doesn’t affect us as far as how we call the plays,” Swinney said.

“With the guys that we have at tight end and receiver, we feel good about our ability to throw the football.”

Addazio wants ‘hard-nosed’ practices Boston College head coach Steve Addazio harnessed his inner Shafer during the ACC coaches’ teleconference.

The Eagles are off this weekend, but play No. 8 Florida State on Sept. 28, so one reporter asked Addazio how he would prepare his team this week.

His response sounded like one Shafer could be using next week.

Said Addazio: “We’re going to use this bye week to try to get a jump start. We started today. We’ll be working tomorrow, and then Friday is like a game week Tuesday for us. We wanted to have a really good physical, hardnosed, first-second down, full padded, go-get-it deal on Friday, so that puts us one day up.” sebail01@syr.edu

race, but far enough to the point where Shafer may not even play the senior on Saturday.

“It’ll be: See how Terrel’s playing and adjust to the elements as we go,” Shafer said.

Shafer and quarterbacks coach Tim Lester agreed that in Tuesday’s practice, SU’s only session since the Wagner game, Hunt appeared confident and threw a sharp deep ball.

That ability to throw the ball downfield was the biggest knock on him throughout training camp and entering the season.

“He did a good job, threw some good balls,” Shafer said. “He only had one that I thought was maybe not a good deep-ball throw, but for the most part he looked good.”

Clemson moving on without Peake Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd lost one of his favorite targets last week when Charone Peake tore his ACL in practice last Wednesday.

The junior wide receiver, who’s made four career starts, had eight receptions for 84 yards in 2013. No. 3 Clemson is now down to just six scholarship wide receivers.

“That’s a tough loss,” Tiger head coach Dabo Swinney said during the ACC teleconference.

“We felt he was poised for a great year and is a great talent.”

Clemson will play its first game without Peake on Thursday when the Tigers travel to Raleigh, N.C., to face North Carolina State.

Swinney suggested Adam Humphries and freshman Gerome Hopper as wide receivers who could help fill the void left with Peake’s injury. Either way, the coach won’t change up the offense.

“We definitely want to run the football,

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By Tyler Piccotti CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Freshmen Karlee Farr and Serra Degnan followed a similar path during their trek toward featured roles on the No. 5 Syracuse offense.

Both were multisport athletes in high school.

In addition to playing field hockey, Farr was a member of the track team at Donegal (Pa.) Who: Boston College High School, Where: Chestnut Hill, Mass. where she helped When: Friday, 4 p.m. set a school

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record in the 4x100 relay. Meanwhile, Degnan kept busy by running track and playing both basketball and softball at Wyoming Area High School.

The two made the 2012 Pennsylvania AllState First Team in field hockey after scoring a combined 147 goals during their years of high school competition.

But through the first three weeks of the 2013 season, both have struggled to find their offensive touch.

They’re hoping that changes this weekend when Syracuse (6-0) hits the road to take on

No. 17 Boston College (5-1) on Friday at 4 p.m. in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and returns to face No. 6 Princeton (3-1), the defending national champion, at J.S. Coyne Stadium on Sunday at 3 p.m.

“As a freshman coming in, you hear about all these teams and you can’t wait to compete against them and see how well you do,” Degnan said. “It’s going to be a battle.”

Although Farr and Degnan have already worked their way into the starting lineup, finding the back of the net hasn’t been as easy.

Despite logging 345 minutes in game action, Degnan has been held scoreless through Syracuse’s first six contests. She said that she’s not entirely frustrated because the team has been winning, but she also admitted that scoring that elusive first goal this weekend would be a huge confidence boost.

“I’d probably die and keel over,” Degnan said.

“It would certainly be exciting.”

Head coach Ange Bradley is confident that Degnan’s persistence will be rewarded very soon.

“Serra’s going to score this weekend,” she said with a smile.

Farr recorded her first and only collegiate goal against Michigan State on Sept. 6.

“It was definitely as cool as I thought it would be,” Farr said of the experience. “Emma Russell gave me a great pass to set me up for the goal. It

was great to get the first out of the way.”

Both agreed that there has been a significant learning curve at the college level. Specifically, Degnan said the speed of the game is quicker and the talent pool is much more balanced.

However, they also said the camaraderie among the squad has made the entire process much easier.

“I’m taking advantage of every opportunity that I have to keep learning and growing,” Farr said. “I’ve had a lot of great support from my teammates and coaches, so that helps.”

They may not have made much of an effect on the stat sheet quite yet, but their role on the bench and in the locker room has been significant. Bradley said their intangibles have been a valued contribution for a team that relies on both young talent and veteran leadership.

“Tenacity, guts, courage … their mentality is very good,” Bradley said. “They’re not too high, not too low. They’re very present mentally.”

They will need to bring every bit of that cerebral focus this weekend, as Bradley expects the team’s first Atlantic Coast Conference game on Friday to be “hard-fought” the entire way.

Not that it scares Farr and Degnan. The two freshmen are up for the challenge.

“It’s going to be a really big step for the team,” Farr said. “We really want to show our presence in the ACC.”

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ter of gravity helps with defending shorter, quicker players.

“I have to be decently fast myself,” Ibeagha said. “With a smaller guy it’s hard because they are quicker and they do have that pace. It really just comes down to moving my feet and making sure that I have them in front of me at all times.”

On Wednesday afternoon, Ibeagha admitted he doesn’t know much about the Syracuse program because of the conference realignment.

“They made the Sweet 16 last year,” he said, “that’s pretty much all we need to know and all I need to know that they’re a good squad.”

Most of the SU players said the matchup against Duke, while with a tough opponent, is just another game.

“Personally, I don’t really think about that that much,” Pasanen said. “Every game is a new game and I don’t really think about who we play.

Just another game, another day at the office.”

Same goes for the Duke defender.

“We’re looking forward to another hard ACC battle,” Ibeagha said. “To us it’s just another ACC game and we have to go out and perform to get the win.”

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watched just 90 minutes of Duke tape, he already knew the skill level of Ibeagha.

“I’ve got a lot of game tape,” McIntyre said.

“He’s 6-1, but the guy alongside of him is 6-3 and the guy up front is 6-3. And the guy they bring off the bench is 6-3. We’ll come up with a game plan to help us.”

Regardless of Ibeagha’s accolades and accomplishments, the Syracuse players who will be held responsible for going against him said they don’t really care whom they face. And for the players on the SU offense who knew specifically about Ibeagha, they feel SU has what it takes to face him.

Midfielder Juuso Pasanen said the team will focus on keeping the ball on the ground, a theory echoed by Stamoulacatos and Emil Ekblom. Keeping the ball on the ground will prevent Ibeagha from out jumping them for headers, and will allow them to use their speed to move around him.

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starting on the Orange line. Plugging in the holes around proven senior center Macky MacPherson and junior left tackle Sean Hickey, the second-year linemen Robinson, Foy and Trudo have made names for themselves with their athleticism, as well as their unique backgrounds. Robinson had been almost exclusively a run blocker while at nearby Baldwinsville High School. Foy can do a backflip — with a couple of feet of clearance. And Trudo was recruited by Penn State for volleyball.

“They like being athletes, they don’t want to be Clydesdales,” said Will Hicks, SU assistant athletics director for athletic performance.

“They don’t want to be three yards and a cloud of dust. They like the movement skills, and those are the things that they’re good at.”

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‘The Road Raider’ When Robinson came to Syracuse, he arrived as a right tackle almost exclusively used for power running. That’s just what Baldwinsville head coach Carl Sanfilippo does.

“His nickname is ‘The Road Raider,’” Hickey said.

Hickey remembers coaches raving about his conditioning and speed during the recruiting process. But when he arrived at training camp, he’d clearly put on weight.

That’s because the 6-foot-5, 297-pound Robinson was coming off a bout with mononucleosis that forced him to miss the final game of his senior year.

Coming into camp, he knew he was already a little behind.

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weight,” Robinson said.

After playing nine games primarily on special teams as a redshirt freshman, Robinson gradually grew into the heavy-handed, bull-strong right guard who paved the way for Jerome Smith’s 2-yard touchdown run against the Seahawks on Saturday.

“Nick’s come so far in his conditioning,” Foy said. “He got his weight up, because when we first got here we were in no shape or form ready to play. Me, Nick and Rob got our weight right, got our conditioning right and got ready to play.”

Flippin’ great Foy remembers jumping on his mother’s bed as a child. That’s when he first began to experiment with rolling and flipping around.

But it wasn’t until he saw a cousin do a backflip, that the now 6-foot-4, 313-pound right tackle decided he should give it a shot.

He’s landed it once perfectly on grass, but sticks to pools for risk of landing on his neck or knees.

Still, MacPherson said he’s never heard of an offensive lineman capable of the feat, and Hicks barely flinched when he learned the news.

“He’s very light on his feet for a big guy, you don’t even hear him hit the ground,” Hicks said.

“He’s more of a big skilled guy.”

Foy made four starts at right guard last season, but felt his lack of conditioning in the second halves of games. His first start against Northwestern was particularly bad.

“After a while, I couldn’t keep up with Macky and (Zack) Chibane and them,” Foy said.

This summer, he took to the weight-loss approach. While Foy joked that Hickey’s straight chicken breast and brown rice combination wasn’t exactly attainable, he still dropped 10 pounds and feels the difference already this season.

“I just stuck with the coach Hicks regimen, did a lot of running, tried to keep up with the people I shouldn’t be keeping up with and it paid off,” Foy said. “I can say I’m one of the fastest o-lineman, maybe the third or fourth.”

Net gain For a collegiate lineman to play volleyball in high school is rare, but for one to be recruited by a Division I program is even rarer.

Trudo grew from a setter to middle and outside hitter, and began to get noticed at Penn State’s annual high school camp. A Nittany Lions All-American junior outside hitter pulled Trudo aside during his second camp for some pointers and individual teaching.

“That was when I really had a great performance,” Trudo said.

While the option of being able to play college

“Rob’s going to try to go out and knock you out, like a bull fighter. He just loves to go for the knockouts. He thinks so much about going out and killing the other person. ” Sean Hickey

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volleyball was comforting, Trudo said he never seriously considered it. Once the head coach was fired in the middle of his junior year, Trudo quit the sport to focus on football.

However, Trudo said his volleyball experience pays off in lateral quickness, agility and timing.

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Trudo has showed that lateral quickness through this training camp and into the season. Cutting has been a huge point of emphasis for offensive line coach Pat Perles, and Trudo said there’s no better feeling than mowing down a linebacker.

Take Penn State linebacker Mike Hull, for example. Trudo broke through to the second level on an outside-zone read play in SU’s season opener and took him down. Hull had to leave the game and get a knee brace put on in the locker room, Trudo said.

“Rob’s going to try to go out and knock you out, like a bull fighter,” Hickey said. “He just loves to go for the knockouts. He thinks so much about going out and killing the other person.”

And he has the strength to do it. Hicks said Trudo is the second-best bench presser on the team behind Hickey. Trudo maxes around 485 pounds and can rep 225 36 times, Hicks said.

“Trudo’s like a bull in the china shop,” Hicks said. “Everything’s high speed with Trudy.”

••• The three sophomores agreed that they’re getting more comfortable with the outsidezone read — a series of plays that is getting called more this season. Trudo and Hickey are still mastering the timing of pulling and helping, but the difference between now and camp is unmistakable.

And once these guys are able to get out in space and put their hands on opposing linebackers, the SU running backs are lengthening their gains. The Wagner game was a perfect example of that as the Orange averaged 4.9 yards per carry.

“You are right when you say that we’re athletic,” Foy said. “I know as all three of us as a group, we are all intense, are all physical and are all ready to just pound somebody out, just hit them in the mouth.” sebail01@syr.edu

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Trudo laughed about the practice looking back on it, but there’s no question — they were all out of shape. That’s where the transformation began.

Against Wagner on Saturday, Syracuse rushed for a season-high 236 yards complete with two rushing touchdowns, the first opened up by a pulling Robinson block.

The three are now sophomores,

There is no plan in place for Drew Allen to play Saturday against Tulane at 12:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome, Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer confirmed on the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday.

The coaching staff had predetermined that thenSCOTT SHAFER backup quarterback Terrel Hunt would replace Allen on the fourth offensive series of Saturday’s 54-0 win over Wagner.

He did, and by the middle of the third quarter had led SU to seven consecutive scores.

This week Hunt is the starter, but it appears Allen has fallen more than one week behind.

“If the production is good then you keep going with it,” Shafer said. “If it’s not what you need, that’s when you start to consider things, but I want Terrel to feel comfortable going out and playing

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reshmen Nick Robinson, Ivan Foy and Rob Trudo lined up on one end of the Manley Field House football field, feeling the tail end of their first summer practice as members of the Syracuse football team.

The temperature peaked at 93 degrees with humidity on Aug. 6, 2011, and Robinson

remembers thinking the session was over after the offensive linemen completed a rigorous set of manual squats.

The linemen were issued to run three 400-yard stretches — up the field and back twice with two minutes break in between.

Robinson only made it 30 yards.

“I’ll always remember that,” Robinson said.

He wasn’t alone in the struggle. Foy and

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After upsetting star goalkeeper Andre Blake and No. 12 Connecticut on Tuesday night, Syracuse continues with a game against another one of Who: Duke the nation’s top Where: Durham, N.C. players.

When: Friday, 7 p.m.

On Friday night, the Orange (4-2-0, 0-2 Atlantic Coast) travels to Durham, N.C., to play Duke (3-1-2, 0-1-1) at Koskinen Stadium. A matchup with the Blue Devils means facing 6-foot-1 defender Sebastien Ibeagha, who Topdrawersoccer. com ranked as the country’s sixth-best player overall and third best defender.

“I’ve heard he’s a really great defender,” SU midfielder Stefanos Stamoulacatos

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said. “But that doesn’t mean anything to us. We just play our game. If we move the ball fast around him, I think we can get by him.

“We have one of the best attacks in the country. Our personnel is great and I think that just one guy won’t be able to stop us.”

Ibeagha, who leads a Duke defense that has posted two shutouts so far this year, is the reigning ACC Defender of the Year.

Ibeagha is a member of the U-20 U.S. Men’s national team, and this summer, was highly pursued by the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer.

SU head coach Ian McIntyre said Monday that he’d watched one Duke game at that point, but planned to watch several more Tuesday afternoon. Despite having watched just 90 minutes of Duke tape, he

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sterling boin | staff photographer JUUSO PASANEN and Syracuse face a tough challenge in Duke, whose defense includes the reigning ACC Defensive Player of the Year, on Friday.