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Record high University Union sells more

Tech-friendly Columnist Kevin Slack

Musical competition Some of SU’s very own reflect

Shoring up the end A more calm and mature Beckett Wales looks to

Juice Jam concert tickets than ever before. Page 3

discusses Gen Y and Gen Now’s dependence on technology.

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on their experiences on “American Idol.” Page 11

fill the hole left by Nick Provo at tight end in an offense that needs him to succeed. Page 20

Policies set to report child abuse

By Meredith Newman ASST. COPY EDITOR

Syracuse University’s Joint Working Group met Friday to reflect on recent accomplishments, as well as discuss necessary changes for the future.

The Joint Working Group’s goal is to analyze SU’s policies and the university’s responses to allegations of misconduct. The group consists of both Board of Trustee members and university administrators, with trustee Howard Phanstiel serving as the chairman.

One of the Working Group’s major accomplishments was the recent release of directions for all staff and faculty to follow when reporting child abuse, said Kal Alston, senior vice president for human capital development.

“It’s a guide for people to know where they can get assistance if they see something,” Alston said.

“Obviously, if they see something happening, we want them to call 911, but that’s not always what’s happening. Sometimes it’s just a suspicion or a question, and we want to give them the access to people who could help them unwind their concerns.”

The specific procedures, which were released on Friday, have instructions for mandated reporters and “all other members of the University community” who witness or have suspicions about questionable behavior, such as child abuse, within the SU community.

Mandated reporters are individuals, such as physicians and psychologists, whose profession legally requires them to report suspected child abuse or maltreatment.

The document also emphasizes the importance of informing the Department of Public Safety and agencies such as the Syracuse Police Department of any suspected abuse. This way, the university can keep track of what is happening and “intercede in whatever way they need to,” Alston said.

Developing these directions for

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sam maller | staff photographer This past week, students have waited in line for about 15 to 20 minutes to buy their textbooks from the SU Bookstore. With the closure of Follett’s Orange Bookstore last spring, the SU bookstore is now the only place on campus for students to purchase textbooks.

SU Bookstore remains sole campus textbook provider

By Breanne Van Nostrand SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER

At 9:30 a.m. on the first week of classes, the Syracuse University Bookstore is already buzzing with students navigating the aisles. It’s a familiar sight for bookstore employees and students, a sort of tradition

repeated semester after semester.

But unlike years past, there are no longer any students making their way to Marshall Square Mall in search of textbooks. Follett’s Orange Bookstore, a longtime textbook supplier for SU students housed in the mall, closed in February.

Though there are numerous other ways to buy, rent and sell textbooks both online and in person, the SU Bookstore is now the only nearby, in-store option for students seeking to buy the textbooks their professors assign each semester.

The bookstore has been adjusting

to a slight increase in orders from professors who had chosen to use Follett’s in years past, said Kathleen Bradley, textbook and general division manager at the SU Bookstore.

“It’s been interesting because we certainly didn’t know how many

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Carnegie construction creates dust, elevator problems

By Dara McBride STAFF WRITER

After one student was hospitalized for an allergic reaction to dust, and members of the mathematics department complained that students on crutches didn’t have access to an elevator, Carnegie Library renovation

planners are reviewing procedures.

The several million-dollar project at Carnegie, home of the mathematics department and Science and Technology Library, underwent construction for the first time while classes were in session last week.

Planners expected renovations,

which began in May, to be complete or nearly complete by the start of the fall semester.

Members of the mathematics department raised concerns about the project’s effect on students and Eugene Poletsky, chair of the mathematics department, alerted

construction and university officials of these concerns on Friday.

Eric Spina, vice chancellor and provost, and Eric Beattie, director of Campus Planning, Design and Construction, dealt with the issue that day.

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4, 2001 Clintons visit state fair, tout new advisory group and upstate area Agriculture and Syracuse University.

Although the two seem to have little in common, Sen, Hillary Rodham Clinton disagrees.

“Syracuse University is an integral part of any effort to try to include in the economy of New York state,” Clinton said Saturday morning during a visit to the New York State Fair.

“We’re looking for good idea anywhere we can find them.”

At a breakfast with about 400 people in the Empire Room at the Fair, Clinton a Democrat from New York, announced an Agriculture Advisory Group, which she created to inform her about the state. She organized the committee, comprised of members from academia and the private and public sector, in an attempt to better the upstate economy. No SU professors will formally advise Clinton, but several faculty members from Cornell University were included.

Coming from a home where farming is a way of life, former President Bill Clinton said of the two places in the state he felt he could help, upstate was one of them.

“I know one or two things about farming,” Bill Clinton said. “I’ve been fiddling with this stuff for 35 years.”

In the state and across the country, small farmers are struggling to subsist, with little help from the government or local residents, Hillary Clinton said. People need to be aware of where their food with its origin, she added.

With a system such as that set-up, “… colleges and other purchasers who buy food in bulk can choose New York products,” she said.

Part of the problem, Hillary Clinton said, is that few people in the state know how important the agriculture industry is to the economy — an issue easily remedied, she added.

After shaking the hands of nearly every guest at the breakfast, the Clintons trekked through a crowd of thousands awaiting their presence at the rest of the fair. The pair began visiting the fair in 1999 when Hillary Clinton was campaigning for elect office.

Sen. Clinton has only once come to the SU campus since her election. In March, she visited SU’s New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and Software Engineering. There, Clinton spoke about a bill she had just introduced in the Senate that would help create jobs in the upstate area and improve the economy. No students were invited to that event.

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LED video boards, 360-degree ribbon board unveiled in Carrier Dome PETE SALA, Carrier Dome managing director, led the renovations to the stadium that took place during the summer. The Dome has new LED video boards, a 360-degree ribbon board, a wireless network and credit card system. The new display boards are located at each end zone and two corners of the stadium. Daktronics Inc. ran the renovation beginning in May, which was sponsored by Pepsi.

2012 Juice Jam sells most tickets in concert’s history

By Erik van Rheenen ASST. FEATURE EDITOR

This September’s Juice Jam concert featuring electronic disc jockey Calvin Harris and rapper Childish Gambino is the highest-selling Juice Jam concert in University Union history.

The official ticket sale count as of 3:30 p.m. Friday, the last ticket count taken, was 7,022 tickets, 22 more than the previous highest-selling Juice

Jam. Juice Jam’s 2010 concert, featuring mash-up artists Super Mash Bros., alternative rock band Passion Pit and hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, previously held the record.

“It’s really exciting to think that our undergrad population is around 13,000, and more than half of them bought tickets,” said Sarah Fleisher, director of public relations for UU. The show has an 8,500-ticket

capacity. Students can still pick up tickets for the show at the Schine Student Center Box Office or online.

Tickets are $10 for SU students, staff and faculty with valid identification.

“We definitely have the potential to sell out this year,” Fleisher said.

Fleisher credited the caliber of the concert’s headlining acts for playing a part in the record-breaking ticket

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Juice Jam

Featuring Calvin Harris and Childish Gambino Where: Skytop Field on South Campus When: Sept. 9­. Event opens at noon and first act will take the stage at 1 p.m.

How much: $10 for SU students, faculty and staff with valid identification

Students explore different methods to obtain, keep work-study jobs

By Jill Comoletti CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Approximately 6,000 Syracuse University students obtain federal workstudy jobs both on and off campus every year.

Though this is a high number, Human Resources Student Employment Services Manager Camille Donabella said the number of students seeking employment is increasing, which means the demand for jobs may not match supply.

“The reality is that students across

the country need to work in order to offset the cost of attending school, so the job market may be quite competitive,” Donabella said.

New job openings are posted almost every day on www.sujobopps. com, a site where students can find and apply for both work-study and non work-study jobs at SU. Workstudy applicants are often hired based on their availability, so willingness to work certain hours could be what leads to a job, Donabella said.

“Not all work hours are during the

day; there are a number of jobs where you might have to work evenings or weekends. If you have more availability, your chances of finding work may increase,” Donabella said.

Meredith Jeffers, a sophomore English and writing major and a work-study employee at Sadler Hall’s front desk, said she received an email last spring alerting her of available front desk positions. Her availability matched up perfectly with the shifts Sadler needed covered, and therefore she received the position.

Cassie Pettinati, a sophomore interior design major, said being proactive helps to secure a workstudy position. Pettinati received her work-study job after going to Archbold Gymnasium during her first semester and asking the managers about job openings for the following semester. She said she went through the application process and secured a job within about a week.

“The interview process was really quick, and I think because I applied so

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No matter how mild the storm, hearing another hurricane is bound for the Gulf Coast is a nerve-wracking experience for Syracuse University students and faculty from the area.

“It makes no sense, but when something bad is heading for Mobile, I want to go back there,” Victoria Pruitt, a senior magazine journalism major who has lived her whole life in Mobile, Ala., said in an email. “I just want to be with my family when something like that happens and it’s really hard for me to just have to sit here and watch for Facebook updates and wait for text messages.”

Hurricane Isaac, which was later downgraded to a tropical storm, hit the Gulf Coast last Wednesday, causing flooding and power outages throughout the area while simultaneously dredging up memories of Hurricane Katrina, which first made landfall in New Orleans seven years ago.

While Katrina didn’t cause much trouble for Pruitt’s family, she said Mobile was shut down for about a week due to power outages, and the city hosted many refugees fleeing New Orleans.

Kevin O’Keefe, a senior policy studies major who lived in Baton Rouge while he was in high school, said the worst part of Katrina was the number of people who fled to Baton Rouge, doubling the population of the 250,000-person city overnight.

When Katrina hit, O’Keefe’s father had just become chancellor at Louisiana State University and had to adjust to the job while dealing with the destruction left by the hurricane.

His father opened the LSU football and basketball stadiums to house displaced people, O’Keefe said.

Hurricane Gustav, which hit during O’Keefe’s senior year of high school, did much more damage in the Baton Rouge area, he said.

“Trees were blocking traffic, everyone’s yard was destroyed and no one had power for about two weeks,” he said. “Grocery stores limited each buyer to 10 items per person and you had to wait hours because of shipments not being able to get into the city.”

Andrew Waggoner, a music professor who was born and raised in New Orleans, said it was not until Katrina that people in New Orleans realized

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Apple, Samsung case creates wide implications for smartphone purchases

here are thousands of possible lunch combinations for the average student. Peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff, and peanut butter and jelly are the most ubiquitous.

Well, in the smartphone arena there are dozens of manufactures, but the proverbial PB&J and PB&Fluff are Apple and Samsung, respectively. Apple holds the title as the United States’ most valuable company by market cap, weighing in at just above $600 billion. Samsung leads global manufactures with a 23.5 percent market share of cellphones. It’s evident both of these companies have formed a near oligopoly of the industry.

The first recipe of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich appeared in 1896 in Good Housekeeping magazine. Massachusetts baker Emma Curtis published the recipe for peanut butter and Fluff in her promotional booklet in 1918 to lure customers to the newly invented Fluffernutter.

Did Good Housekeeping sound the alarm and seek damages after Curtis potentially copied the “look and feel” of its peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I doubt it.

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wayfarer love affair But Apple filed its first lawsuit against Samsung in April 2011, in part for infringing upon the iPhone’s “look and feel.” Since 2011, variations of the lawsuit spread to 30 courts in four continents. Samsung has sued Apple for infringing on its patents regarding the Samsung Galaxy product line’s 3G technology.

Apple’s assault is much more broad, encompassing the “look and feel” question.

What constitutes look and feel? When a peanut PB&J and PB&Fluff sandwich are placed side by side, do their outward appearances constitute differentiation or does quantification come after the first bite? Is user experience the unequivocal judge of intellectual infringement or can mere

Advertisement about Middle East inaccurately displays region’s complexities The issues at stake in the Middle East are complex and confusing. Not everything is, though — some things are just plain wrong.

The “advertisement” by the group, Facts and Logic about the Middle East, contained at least one assertion that was neither factual nor logical.

The writer of the essay claims that the primary cause of the Palestinian refugee problem is that in 1948, “broadcasts by the advancing Arab armies appealed to the resident Arabs to leave their homes so as not to be in the way of the invaders.”

As anyone who has seriously examined this claim knows, it’s nonsense. And do invading armies typically prefer to move into territory cleared of all of their friends and inhabited exclusively by a hostile population?

LET TER TO THE EDITOR More well documented — by Israeli historians, it should be noted — are forced expulsions of the populations of Arab villages. Needless to say, the Arab armies also made Jewish villages disappear. It’s a complicated and tragic story, and propaganda pieces like this are depressing to anyone who yearns for a peaceful, just and humane resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Leonard S. Newman, Ph.D.

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The Daily Orange fails to demonstrate responsible journalism with advertisement Typically, universities and colleges provide the opportunity and context to encounter, examine and encourage diverse views and positions on any given issue or subject.

Differences, no matter how strong, may be expressed, so long as they are well supported, evenhanded and civil.

In its editorial capacity, The Daily Orange has the opportunity to demonstrate responsible journalism. It failed to do that, though, by publishing incendiary advertisements, such as the one titled Arabian Fables (II) in the Aug. 30 issue.

LET TER TO THE EDITOR If the editorial objective is to accommodate any opinion, no matter how offensive and questionable, then attempts should be made to invite opposing viewpoints and responses so that readers themselves can exercise their judgment and come to their own conclusion.

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industrial design dictate a product’s feel?

Apple’s iPhone has proven to be a cash cow for the company. The iPhone profit margin between April 2010 and March 2012 was a staggering 54 percent, and the iPad profit margin was 28 percent.

Apple was seeking intellectual patent infringement damages of $2.5 billion, dating back to the iPhone’s original release in 2007. In addition, Apple wanted an outright U.S. ban of Galaxy Nexus series products.

The recently released ruling from the San Jose, Calif., jury awarded Apple with a fruitful victory totaling $1.05 billion. Samsung was found guilty of infringing on several utility patents related to Apple’s iPhone and iPad. The awards from the trials are not of great importance, but rather the far-reaching legal ramifications have the potential to shape our purchasing options in the coming years.

One of the infringed-upon patents deals directly with Apple’s multi-touch gestures, like pinch-to-zoom or the manipulation of documents by dragging. In some cases, 20 Android-

powered Samsung smartphones may be pulled from stores nationwide.

The nine-member jury was presented with dozens of charts, diagrams and prototypes that sought to prove that Samsung naturally innovated its products through traditional means, as opposed to Apple being the victim of a deliberate scheme to copy.

An undeniable truth is that both Apple and Samsung’s mobile hardware foster the 21stcentury, high-tech entrepreneurial landscape, where innovative third-party apps vie for both user traffic and substantial monetary reward.

Samsung, the PB&Fluff sandwich in this situation, plans to appeal the decision, while Apple, the PB&J sandwich, heads for an injunction. The stakes are high across the globe, and this high-tech patent quandary will continue as these companies and others continue to innovate.

Jared Rosen is a sophomore advertising and marketing management major. His column appears weekly. He can be contacted at jmrose03@syr. edu or followed on Twitter at @jaredmarc14.

Dalai Lama is neither peaceful nor compassionate in his actions, words Tenzin Gyatso, doing business as the Dalai Lama, is coming to Syracuse University as part of an event for peace. The university gave the Dalai Lama his own SU Internet page, and promotes him by calling him, “His Holiness.”

The question is this: What makes the Dalai Lama so holy? How does the Dalai Lama qualify for a title of “His Holiness” when he talks about peace and compassion, but does the opposite of being peaceful and compassionate?

Here are some important details about the Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama has spent his life as a Nazi sympathizer who embraces, promotes and champions neo-Nazis, convicted Nazi war criminals, violent terrorists and brutal dictators such as: Shoko Asahara: He is the “religious leader” who poured poisonous Sarin gas into the Tokyo Subway killing many and wounding thousands.

The Dalai Lama praised him and, according to respected journalist Chris Hitchens, Asahara paid millions of dollars to the Dalai Lama as explained in an April 2008 NPR article.

Dr. Bruno Beger: He was an officer in Hitler’s Nazi SS and was convicted of perpetrating mass murder at Auschwitz, a Nazi Death Camp in Poland. Beger was a lifelong friend of the Dalai Lama, and the Dalai Lama promoted a book written by Beger. Beger claims that the previous Dalai Lama’s government invited Hitler’s

LET TER TO THE EDITOR Nazi SS to visit Tibet.

Heinrich Harrer: He was also an officer in Hitler’s Nazi SS and in Hitler’s Nazi Storm Troopers according to a Jan. 10, 2006 New York Times article.

Harrer and Beger were both officers in Hitler’s Nazi SS organization. It was Hitler’s Nazi SS that ran the Nazi death camps and Nazi concentration camps. Hitler’s Nazi SS was responsible for the deaths of many millions of men, women and children. This same Heinrich Harrer, lifelong friend of the Dalai Lama, did a photo op with Adolf Hitler himself.

Did you also know that the Dalai Lama admitted to the New York Times on October 2, 1998, that he headed his own armed guerrilla army to fight the Chinese? So what does a holy man need a guerrilla army for?

So the major question is this: With the sordid past and present of the Dalai Lama, why address him as, “His Holiness”?

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All Americans owe special gratitude to organized labor groups for holiday The reason we celebrate Labor Day is largely because of the contributions made by unions to the betterment of America’s workers. The idea of a Labor Day holiday itself was conceived and promoted by labor organizations.

The numerous beneficial influences of organized labor cannot be ignored. Most of the benefits workers now enjoy are directly attributable to unions. To cite but a few: the 40-hour work week, paid holidays and vacations, sick leave, grievance procedures, collective bargaining and generally superior wages.

LET TER TO THE EDITOR Unfortunately, succeeding generations have come to take those benefits for granted. Most of those benefits came about because of unions and soon became the norm for union and many nonunion workers, as well.

All American workers owe a debt of gratitude to organized labor for its achievements.

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Gen Y last to know life without total technology dependence

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hat are the kids into these days, Kevin?”

I was in a meeting the other day when someone sitting at the table, a middle-aged man, turned to me and asked me that question.

People who know me would laugh because I’m quite possibly the worst spokesman ever for Generation Now, but in this context (ignoring the mildly creepy phrasing of the question itself), we were talking about literal kids of 13 or 14 years old.

I had absolutely no idea how to answer the question.

I stammered out some gibberish about Justin Bieber and iPods, and we moved onto a different subject.

But the question stayed with me, and I realized something pretty strange: We’re the last generation that knows anything about the nontechnological world of just a few years ago.

What are people going to be like in the future, now that each new generation’s birth, life and death exist in binary code?

The kids born from about 19891993 are bridging the gap between the terrestrial universe and the universe where we post pictures on the Internet of every meal we eat for everyone to see. We grew up and became adults while simultaneously cellphones, computers, and everything else matured at the same time. Suddenly all devices have some kind of camera in them.

All our medical, financial and personal information is stored in hard drives rather than file cabinets.

When I was a kid (I guess being 21 means I no longer qualify as a “kid.”

I couldn’t drink when I was 7), I had to remember every single phone number I would ever need — all my childhood friends, my relatives, my school, my doctor — all of it was in my head. Numbers we couldn’t remember were written down on a sheet of paper taped to the back of a cupboard in the kitchen.

Now I can remember my house

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world on a string phone number and … that’s pretty much it. Everything else is in my phone. If my phone dies, utter catastrophe. I am unable to function as a human.

Radio, books, newspapers, television, film: just a few of the mediums that got destroyed (though professors in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications would feverishly tell you that they’re “evolving”) during our adolescence.

Kids after us — the generation in high school now — they’re the first ones to grow up entirely under the cloud of instant gratification. It’ll be interesting to see how they’re different from the rest of us. I see this going one of two ways: They’ll develop into superhuman information-spewing droids that turn our society into something out of a Ray Bradbury novel, or they’ll regress into fat blobs of sugar like the people living on a spaceship in “Wall-E.” But my being wholly unable to shed light on the cultural preferences of people just a few years younger than me pretty well illustrates how stratified we’ve become in the past decade or so. Do I feel a million years old right now? You bet. What are the kids doing these days? MyFace? Do they still watch SpongeBob? Are we doomed to some kind of Twitter-based apocalypse once we hand over the reins to the next generation? Probably.

However, it’s possible you’re asking the wrong guy. I still have a BlackBerry. So what do I know?

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Comstock intersection needs improvement As part of the Department of Public Safety’s pedestrian safety campaign, officers will attempt to reduce dangers on campus streets by handing out information cards and talking to students on campus.

At a university level, it would seem this kind of education should not be necessary, but history at Syracuse University proves otherwise.

The Comstock Avenue and University Place intersection is undeniably one of the most dangerous and populated intersections on campus, and it deserves special attention. In the spring semester, two students were hit by cars on Comstock Avenue. Based on information DPS has accumulated about the intersection, the problem seems to rest with the pedestrians and not with the cars.

The nature of Comstock Avenue is

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board inherently dangerous — its slight hill makes it difficult for drivers to see.

The road, two lanes on each side, is wider than is customary.

There are many steps community members can take to help alleviate the problem. Having more police in the area could discourage students from jaywalking, and it could ensure an officer is on the scene in the case of an accident.

Adjusting the time of the walk signal and green light could keep students from crossing the street when they are not supposed to.

Enforcing the speed limit could help slow cars down.

Students must be patient. Being

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a few minutes late to class is better than potentially being struck by a car. They also should not wear headphones while crossing the street, which drowns out traffic noise and increases the risk of an accident occurring. Students who are out on a weekend and who may be drunk have slower reaction times and muddier thought processes. It would be impractical to expect students to change their social patterns and would be difficult to change the nature of the road, so more plausible, easier steps can be taken.

Drivers should know they are driving through an area with heavy foot traffic and should slow down to avoid injuring a pedestrian.

It may seem simple, but these accidents are often preventable.

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books Follett’s was ordering and using, so there’s been a learning curve for us,” Bradley said. “But it’s been working well.”

Online textbook sellers along with students buying and selling books themselves are the only form of competition for the bookstore that remains in the wake of Follett’s closure. But it has been difficult to judge how sales have been because the store is busy with classes starting, Bradley said.

“I’m thinking they’re going to be alright,” she said. “We’re not so much concerned with sales as much as making sure we’re getting stuff into the students’ hands as soon as possible.”

Bradley also noted she has seen an increase in students placing their book orders online through the SU Bookstore.

The bookstore has the advantage of proximity, as students can pay a visit to the Schine Student Center instead of waiting for their books to be shipped from locations across the country.

For sophomore international relations major Adam Roecks, that proximity was key. He bought all his textbooks from the SU Bookstore this semester, though he said his preferred method is ordering online on websites like

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reporting child abuse took a significant amount of time, Alston said. The document went back and forth among various parties to make sure it had the right components.

“We got a sense that individuals may not be

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Amazon.

“I didn’t really have the time to order them because it would take too long and I need them

“We’re not so much concerned with sales as much as making sure we’re getting stuff into the students’ hands as soon as possible.”

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for class,” Roecks said.

Alexandra Hordes, a freshman child and family studies major, also relied on the SU Bookstore for her textbooks. She elected to order them online and have them sent to her dorm room in Day Hall so she wouldn’t have to carry them.

Others, like sophomore Beth Waters, put a little more time into finding better prices. The forensic chemistry major said she joined Facebook groups and posted what she was looking to buy or sell.

entirely comfortable or sure of what they’re seeing,” Alston said. “They’re not sure what it is. People are human beings.”

Another major accomplishment that was discussed in the Working Group’s meeting was the policy changes made to summer programs.

With 5,000 school-aged children part of the SU summer programs, the university provided additional training and discussion

The average annual cost for college textbooks per student is $1,260, according to a Jan. 31 news release from the 20 Million Minds Foundation.

Bradley said she recognizes the expense at which students buy textbooks.

“The books are expensive. I’m not going to say they’re not,” she said.

Bradley noted the bookstore’s rental and guaranteed buyback options for students. The amount of used books available this year is the largest she has seen in her 26 years at SU. The bookstore tries to maximize the availability of guaranteed buyback, Bradley said, but late orders from professors often stand in the way of doing so.

“It’s hard. It’s so frustrating when faculty members don’t place their orders early enough before the end-of-semester buyback, and what’ll happen is all the students go home, and they didn’t get what they should have gotten for their books,” Bradley said. “It’s unfair to our students.”

Even more change lies ahead for the SU Bookstore. In July, the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency voted in approval of a 30-year tax exemption for the development of a new bookstore on University Avenue.

The current bookstore in Schine will relocate to the University Avenue location, which will also host a fitness center, Bradley said. Schine

structurally cannot support the bookstore on its main level, so the new space will be a better allocation, she said.

Tom Valenti, a developer involved with the project, said he hopes to have the new facility ready by fall 2013, according to a July 9 article in The Post-Standard.

“There was some holdup over the summer,” Bradley said, “But it’ll be a nice opportunity.”

with those managing camps or individuals who may interact with children. Parents and participants were provided with information of who to contact should any concerns arise.

to provide the SU community with thorough and proper training. The plans for training were made in the summer, but couldn’t be executed until students, faculty and staff were back on campus.

“We will be doing one set of training for people who do investigations and one for people who are on the various adjudicating bodies, such as the Office of Judicial Affairs,” Alston said. “All of those folks will be getting a thorough training in the policies and the ways in which they should think about adjudicating those cases.”

There are also plans to develop a broader training with the potential help of an online element, Alston said.

“We can’t get 17,000 students and 8,000 employees in one room,” Alston said. “We’re going to work through the best ways to touch the most people with information because it’s helpful for people to know what the policies are and how they’re responsible for carrying them out.”

Alston said she thinks the Working Group will continue through the end of the academic year, but said she hopes it accomplishes a majority of its goals by this December.

Said Alston: “It never pays to be too satisfied in our efforts, but I do think people have worked pretty hard to get us to this point and I feel like we have a pretty good road ahead of us.”

“We really addressed the major issues that were particular to athletes and were successful in moving on to the broader campus.”

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Members of the Working Group will be meeting with supervisors from the summer programs to address any issues that might have occurred. Alston said she didn’t think there were any major problems due to her close contact with those in charge of the summer programs.

Alston also recently hired a Title IX officer, Cynthia Maxwell Purtin. She said Purtin will be deeply involved in policies relating to sexual harassment, abuse and assault. As Title IX officer, Purtin will also deal with issues encompassing gender equity in education, specifically in regards to sexual harassment, equity in access to programs and equity in science, technology and athletics.

The Working Group has given the Athletic Department’s policies priority, Alston said.

The Working Group has worked with the Athletic Department to rewrite five policies.

Such changes include an age limit regarding the participation of minors at basketball games, an emphasis on the no hazing policy and the supervision of minors during team practices.

The Working Group is currently in the process of rewriting the Athletic Department’s employee handbook.

Alston said that the handbook was “getting dusty” and needed to be updated. The new handbook will be online and more dynamic.

“We really addressed the major issues that were particular to athletics and were successful in moving on to the broader campus,” she said.

The Working Group’s current priority is

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The Syracuse Common Council voted 5-4 in July in favor of a 30-year payment in lieu of tax agreement for a new Syracuse University bookstore. The store will move from the Schine Student Center to a new location on University Avenue. Cameron Group LLC, a private development company, will build the store, rather than the tax-exempt university. SU will lease the property to the Cameron Group for $1 a year, but the private development company is not tax-exempt. Because the company can only complete the project with tax breaks and will employ 10 workers, a PILOT was secured. Cameron Group LLC will pay the city of Syracuse $64,400 a year over a 30-year period.

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The Joint Working Group, composed of seven SU Board of Trustees members and university administrators, was formed in response to child molestation allegations made against former associate men’s basketball coach Bernie Fine. The Working Group analyzed policies involving the university’s management of young people, sports programs, intern programs and summer camps. The Working Group recently released directions for all staff and faculty to follow when reporting child abuse. The directions also emphasized the importance of informing law enforcement agencies of any suspected abuse.

The group also made changes to policies for the university’s summer programs.

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Syracuse Student Sandbox rated among best mentorship programs

By Andrew Muckell STAFF WRITER

Students enrolled in upstate New York universities aspiring to start their own companies are now turning to the Syracuse Student Sandbox.

The Sandbox, a local business incubator for fledgling college students and young entrepreneurs, was recently rated as one of the most promising business mentorship programs in the country.

The Sandbox conducts three-month-long programs to teach aspiring business owners how to form an entity for themselves, to give feedback regarding products under progress and to ensure readiness and financial stability, according to the Sandbox’s website.

In August, the Sandbox’s summer program concluded with Demo Day, an event in which groups of students pitch their ideas for products to an audience of corporate representa-

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the destruction that hurricanes could inflict.

“When there were storms, some people would stay behind and have a big party,” he said.

“It wasn’t taken very seriously.”

But Hurricane Katrina changed all that.

While Waggoner’s family now lives farther inland, Katrina destroyed the neighborhood Waggoner grew up in.

“Katrina showed everyone and really made clear that the whole area is extremely fragile,” he said.

Waggoner said the Netherlands, a nation

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sales. Harris is creating buzz by performing before the release of “18 Months,” his third studio album slated for release at the end of October. Childish Gambino appeared at most of the summer’s largest festivals, including Lollapalooza in August, Bonnaroo Music Festival in June and Coachella Music Festival in April.

“They’re huge names right now and have been trending,” Fleisher said. “Especially since Calvin Harris has collaborated with some bigname artists, including Rihanna.”

Fleisher also said both artists have grown in

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far in advance, it was a lot easier,” Pettinati said.

Some students choose not to pursue workstudy jobs because of involvement with other activities or internships, Donabella said.

Sarah Hosie, a sophomore biology major, qualified for work-study but said she doesn’t have time to go through the process of searching for a job with her busy schedule. Instead, she said she will be a teaching assistant for a biology lab and will volunteer at several animal shelters, which will allow her to focus on her major.

Many jobs on campus are secured for students who qualify for federal work-study, and students who do not qualify are excluded from applying, making the process of finding a job quite difficult.

Sophomore Chris Jacques, a chemical engineering major, did not qualify for work-study but wanted a paying job, so he applied to be a

tives and a panel of judges offers criticism.

At the end of the day, Camille Malkiewicz, who earned her master’s degree in advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in June, was rewarded $1,000 for her craft kit idea, Craftistas.

“This year, teams had an opportunity to pitch their ideas and services to about 30 accredited institutions present, and Craftistas has a very strong chance of becoming successful,” said John Liddy, director of Syracuse Student Sandbox.

Malkiewicz said the physical space provided by the Sandbox, in addition to the business connections, was invaluable to her in the beginning stages of Craftistas. She said she is appreciative of the people at the Sandbox that helped make her vision a reality.

Malkiewicz said the combination of the communal aspect of the Sandbox and the hard work

of the mentors and staff makes the program a helpful tool.

“The Sandbox is the ultimate access for any student who wants to start a business but doesn’t have the resources,” said Nick Mancini, a senior information and technology major who launched three apps through the Sandbox. “Nine times out of 10 you will not succeed on your own, but the Sandbox gives you an opportunity.”

Mancini, whose most popular app, UpFront, notifies restaurant goers when their table is ready, attributed the Sandbox’s success to the quality of the mentors and means provided.

“They offer so many good resources that you usually don’t have access to and, over the two years I’ve been involved, it’s gotten better and better,” Mancini said.

In 2010, 12 teams of students signed up with the Sandbox in the summer to develop product ideas and gain personal experience in business,

according to the website.

In 2012, 68 students from seven different schools participated in the 12-week program, Liddy said.

Mancini said the Sandbox “grants an opportunity that doesn’t exist for a lot of students,” by mentoring them on how to “deliver oneself and one’s ideas to big corporations.”

Liddy said one of the benefits of working with the Sandbox is that it creates “a soft landing patch for students,” in case a business idea fails. Most importantly, the Sandbox works to promote auspicious products and services, and establish a career for hardworking, young entrepreneurs.

Said Liddy: “If we can provide a realistic opportunity for students, after graduation, to create their own career instead of pursuing one, then we’ve done our job.”

that exists largely below sea level, is a prime example of what technology and large amounts of public funds can do to prevent flooding and storm damage. But similar investments have not been made in New Orleans, he said.

“There’s been a lot of talk about how the Army Corp. of Engineers has improved (the levees), but this was a relatively small storm,” he said. “If we have another Katrina-type storm, they might be in trouble.”

Local meteorologist Tom Hauf said he agrees and that the real problem with hurricanes like Katrina and Isaac is the amount of rain they produce.

“Hurricane Katrina was a category-three

“There’s been a lot of talk about how the Army Corp. of Engineers has improved (the levees), but this was a relatively small storm. If we have another Katrina-type storm, they might be in trouble.”

storm, and after it hit, the media packed up thinking the storm was over,” he said. “Then the flooding began and they had to unpack their bags. Everyone is under the impression Katrina was a huge storm.”

As stronger hurricanes that bring more rain become more frequent, and erosion of the land around New Orleans continues, Waggoner said he fears the city may not be habitable for much longer.

“It’s a vicious cycle,” he said. “It’s very hard to watch.”

popularity after being nominated for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. Childish Gambino’s “Heartbeat” is nominated for Best Hip-Hop Video and Harris’s “Feel So Close” earned a bid for Best Electronic Dance Music Video.

University Union has yet to announce Juice Jam’s special opening act, but plans to in the coming days. Fleischer said that the organization is still finalizing details for the act.

The ninth annual Juice Jam will take place at Skytop Field on South Campus on Saturday, Sept. 9. Doors open at noon and the first act will take the stage at 1 p.m. ervanrhe@syr.edu

peer advisor for engineering students.

“I wanted to help the freshmen with their transition and make sure their first year was much easier than mine,” Jacques said.

If a student who qualified for work-study can’t find an open position, Donabella said there are a few alternatives. Students can use their work-study awards during the summer through various nonprofit organizations across the country. Students can also obtain work-study jobs at nonprofit organizations in Syracuse, such as the SUNY Upstate Medical University and the new 3fifteen thrift store, she said.

Donabella recommended that students keep an open mind when applying for jobs.

Though some jobs may not seem ideal in terms of responsibilities and hours, they could end up being a good fit.

Said Donabella: “Not only does a job provide you with a paycheck, but it gives you the opportunity to build a strong resume, learn new skills and meet new people.” jccomole@syr.edu

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A student who originally had a math class in Carnegie had to have classes transferred to sessions meeting outside of Carnegie after being hospitalized for a severe dust allergy during the first week of classes, Poletsky said.

Beattie said the dust control procedures for the renovation project are under review, and improvements to prevent dust from escaping work areas will be made where possible. He said he does not recall another instance of a serious reaction to dust as a result of construction on campus.

A professor in the mathematics department encountered a student on crutches hopping up the stairs due to confusion regarding use of the elevator. It was unclear whether the first floor entrance granted access to the elevator, located within the library section of the building, or if a key was needed. The accessibility issue was addressed after the professor reported it.

Keys will now be available at the main desk at the entrance of the library for students to gain access to the second and third floors, Beattie said.

The renovations include a fully accessible elevator that is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and does not require a key. Beattie said the accessibility improvements to the building are a priority of the project and, although an installation date for the new elevator is not set, the elevator will most likely be installed within the next two years. dkmcbrid@syr.edu @ daramcbride

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Lawsuit may allow Apple to increase smartphone market dominance

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By Andrew Feldman STAFF WRITER

pple was awarded $1 billion on Aug. 24 in a patent infringement lawsuit between Apple and Samsung regarding similarly designed smartphones.

Apple accused Samsung of stealing some of its patented ideas, most notably the “pinchand-zoom” function, which allows a user to interact with the screen and maximize images by pinching it.

“Design patents deal with how something looks or feels to the user, not the underlying technology that makes it work that way,” Jason Dedrick, an associate professor in the School of Information Studies, said in an email.

The “pinch-and-zoom function” patent corresponds to simply opening or minimizing an

application, which are generic operating system functions, said Janet Marsden, a Ph.D. candidate in the iSchool.

The lawsuit argued that Apple owns the idea of the finger motion itself, rather than just the exact software code that creates the motion, she said.

Scott Fay, associate professor of marketing in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said in an email that he expects Samsung to appeal the decision. But if the verdict remains, the ruling could have a very large impact on the smartphone industry, with huge benefits for Apple. “(Apple) would effectively be able to limit their competition, either by forcing competitors to remove their products from the market or by charging competitors license fees in order to keep their products on the market,” Fay said.

“Either way, Apple benefits by having higher market share and/or collecting royalties.”

Consumers may also be hurt by such strict enforcement of patent laws. The laws will limit the amount of product choices, which will force competitors to raise prices due to licensing fees.

In order to remain competitive, Apple may also raise its prices, Fay said.

Fay said it was more difficult to predict the broader implications of the verdict. The ruling could indicate the court’s willingness to uphold tenuous patents, which would mean more patents would need to be secured, thus leading to even more lawsuits due to patent violations.

He said both of these factors would make working in the smartphone market more expensive and would also give consumers

fewer products to choose from.

This could just be a single ruling that does not change the court’s policy on enforcement of patent laws, Fay said. Samsung has other smartphones on the market that did not violate patents, so it may just market those more extensively. Samsung could also develop smartphones with slight changes, such as changing the shape of the phone, thus avoiding patent infringement.

Said Fay: “Technology is constantly evolving, as are consumer preferences. So, the ‘best’ smartphone two years from now is likely to be quite different than the ‘best’ smartphone on the market today, regardless of what the court ruled in this case.” amfeld01@syr.edu

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our months, 50 pounds. Are you kidding?

When beginning the packing process last week, I glanced incredulously between the one bag I was allowed to bring and a closet bursting with clothes. “How is this ever going to work?” I thought, while simultaneously trying to calculate how much begging it would require for me to convince Mom to split the cost of checking an extra bag.

Fast-forward: I leave for Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday and, miraculously, I’ve pretty much made my weight limit.

Although, being that girl walking around the airport wearing 75 percent of the jewelry she owns will definitely help.

Though the winnowing process was intense and yes, at times painful, recognizing the difference between certain articles’ metaphysical and physical weights helped me let go.

Packing the heavy, barf-colored sweater I’ve insisted on wearing to family holiday parties for the last few years may have knocked out about six different T-shirt options, but at least I’ll have something to curl up in on Thanksgiving or Christmas when I’m missing my fam-

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going, going, gone ily. Bringing the pair of bright yellow sneakers that carried me all over New York City might mean I don’t have room for my gold sequined skirt, yet every time I look down at my feet, I’ll see not just where I’m going, but everywhere I’ve been.

Of course, there were also more practical packing decisions.

Goodbye, five-inch wedges, which wouldn’t fare well on Istanbul’s hilly streets. Hello, chunky, short boots, ideal for mosque visits, ruin explorations and hiking the ancient footpath, the Lycian Way. Out go the short dresses and neon tops in favor of longer skirts and a rainbow of cardigans. Not only will dressing

create so many new organizations devoted to disability inclusion, more than any other in the country.

Wiener said their organization, the Disability Cultural Center, is the first of its kind, and its aim is to create an accepting environment rather than one where people with disabilities feel they need to be fixed.

“Disability is not something over which we

more conservatively show respect for the fact that I’ll be studying in a predominantly Muslim country, but I also hope to avoid looking so blatantly foreign, even though my mangled pronunciation of the Turkish word for thank you — “tesekkur ederim” — will probably give me away.

Replaying the same disc of “Teach Yourself Turkish” ad nauseam while stuffing belongings into a suitcase brought back a rush of memories. I remembered preparing for family vacations and weeklong excursions with friends, the thrice-consulted checklists and the last second scramble to squeeze in one more pair of flipflops. I recalled the times I’d seen my friends packing their bags to go abroad — their giddy excitement now my own.

I remember some of the unpacking, as well, and how almost everyone has told me how four months end up going by too fast. I pictured myself three years ago, packing for Syracuse for the first time; how then, like now, I was launching myself into a grand adventure with no real idea of what to expect.

Packing up inevitably means leaving

certain things behind, and as I plant my last goodbye kisses on cheeks and lips, and dole out my final hugs, I wish that certain people could scrunch up and hop in my suitcase to come with me, although that would mean chucking out a few more dresses. At least stamps and postcards are light, and Skype doesn’t weigh a thing, thankfully. And, I have room to slip in that friendship bracelet, this birthday gift and one borrowed T-shirt I “forgot” to return.

Much like John Denver, all my bags are packed and I’m ready to go. Unlike Mr. Denver, I do know when I’ll be back again: In January, I’ll be leaving on a jet plane on my way home. However, I have a feeling I won’t be exactly the same person when I return as I am now, as I prepare to leave. Who knows what else I may have packed with and within me by the time I return?

Four months, 50 pounds: Let’s do this.

have to triumph,” Wiener said.

This movement for greater acceptance and awareness of cerebral palsy began a few decades ago in Australia, with a woman named Anne McDonald.

When McDonald was 3 and her parents became aware of her disability, they placed her in an Australian institution where she was neglected for 14 years.

It was through the help of a counselor, Rosemary Crossley, that McDonald was finally able to escape in 1978. Even after she had left, she faced daily discrimination and had to stand trial to manage her own finances.

While McDonald’s cerebral palsy hadn’t affected her intellect, most people thought she was incompetent because of her difficulties communicating. This negative stigma from the public had been what put her in the institution when she was a child.

Christine Ashby, the director of the Institute on Communication and Inclusion and assistant professor in the Inclusive Elementary and Special Education Program, knew Crossley and McDonald from their occasional visits to the U.S. and said this was common in the past.

“Years ago, that was a huge battle that folks with cerebral palsy faced,” Ashby said. “Getting people to realize that ‘just because my body doesn’t move quite the way I want it to, I still

have lots of thoughts and ideas.’”

This treatment is what spurred McDonald to become a major advocate of changing this public perception of cerebral palsy and all disabilities. Her success led to her being invited to disability conferences worldwide, and she was awarded the personal achievement award in the 2008 National Disability Awards.

McDonald died in 2010 and a statue of her was built in her home of Victoria, Australia, in honor of how she had helped change the public view of mental disability.

While much progress has been made for those with cerebral palsy, there’s still a lot left to do. More awareness of the condition and all disabilities in the public eye are needed to create a truly accepting environment, even at SU. “College campuses often focus on diversity in terms of race, class, gender or sexual orientation,” Ashby said. “And don’t account for disability.”

SU still leads the growing movement among universities in the U.S. and will continue to in the future. As Anne McDonald worked for more awareness in the whole world many years ago, SU is doing the same for the world of higher education.

Said Wiener: “We don’t just want to be good enough. We want to be better.”

Jillian D’Onfro is a senior magazine journalism and information management and technology dual major. Her column appears every Tuesday.

She can be reached at jidonfro@syr.edu.

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he annual American Idols: Live Tour, which makes its way around the country just a few months after each season’s end, will be in Syracuse on Tuesday. The show will bring big crowds and big names, but for some students past and current with more personal ties to the show, it brings something deeper: a hint of nostalgia.

Janine McElhone and Bryce Garcia met their freshman year at an a cappella competition at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

McElhone competed with her coed group, Groovestand, and Garcia, with the all-boys a cappella group, Orange Appeal.

When McElhone’s team won, and all were celebrating in the hotel, she made her way to her classmates’ room to congratulate them for trying their best.

The two met and have hit it off ever since.

Now juniors at Syracuse University, the two have been dating for over a year, and their passion for music, performance and extremely obvious compatibility are just as strong. They emit ambition, confidence and determination, demonstrated by their tendency to break into their own rendition of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.”

They auditioned for “American Idol” within a year of one another.

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BRYCE GARCIA AND JANINE MCELHONE , a junior television, radio and film major and junior information technology major, respectively, sing a duet cover of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours” while reminiscing together over their “American Idol” attempts in past seasons.

SU offers services, support for cerebral palsy

By Max Antonucci STAFF WRITER

When it comes to being a boyfriend, Connor Boyle hasn’t let down his girlfriend, Ashley Wisniewski. He has supported her continuously, even when it meant going through tedious exams with her until she felt comfortable with the material. He’s been nothing but positive.

Boyle has never let the fact that he has cerebral palsy get in their way.

“We’ve literally gone through a Princeton Review practice test,” said Wisniewski, a senior psychology major. “And if I didn’t understand something, he’d explain it to me.”

Boyle is a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry chemistry major who graduated last year. He has a minor case of cerebral palsy that’s

limited to restricting control of movement in part of his legs.

That didn’t stop him from running cross-country in high school or becoming involved with the Alpha Phi Omega community service fraternity at Syracuse University, and he’s now studying at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for a Ph.D. in chemistry.

Since entering college, Boyle has come to accept cerebral palsy as a part of his identity and doesn’t need any physical assistance in his daily life.

“I realized some time in high school that most nice people shouldn’t really care,” Boyle said.

“And, that I should ignore what anyone with a negative attitude thought about it.”

Cerebral palsy is a disability referring to brain damage that impairs

motor functions, communication and sometimes intelligence, which affects about one in every 400 people.

“Disability is not something over which we have to triumph.”

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DIRECTOR OF THE DISABILIT Y CULTURAL CENTER

A few months ago at SU, a citizen in a wheelchair was paying a visit to the campus. But during her visit, she was immediately struck by a thought: The entrances to several of the buildings weren’t accessible to her. She was referring to Huntington

Hall and Hoople Hall, which were out of her reach.

Diane Wiener, director of the Disability Cultural Center, heard her and immediately made several requests to the university. SU services wasted no time and quickly began to address their buildings’ accessibility, and even began looking into other buildings that had similar issues.

“They’re creating a playing field in which everyone has equal access,” Wiener said.

This instance underscores how SU has helped lead a movement in making education more inclusive to those with disabilities, including cerebral palsy.

The groups that are currently at SU are the Lawrence B. Taishoff Center on Inclusive Higher Education,

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the moon and every place she could think of, and Minaj had so much fun dancing on the beach that she could barely contain her chest. Yet Perry and Rihanna stood out from the pack. In Perry’s video for “Part Of Me,” a broken heart leads to cutting her hair and binding her chest up “Mulan”-style as G.I. Perry joins the Marines.

In Rihanna’s video, she and her boyfriend have a tumultuous love story. Fighting, drugs and alcohol come into play, and their obsession with each other comes to blows. Darts are thrown, and Rihanna throws up cartoon ribbons. What’s more impressive, though, is the cinematography and editing of the video.

Several scenes use time-lapse photography, special effects and green screen effects that go perfectly with the chaos of the song. Give those crazy kids a Moonman.

By Ibet Inyang STAFF WRITER

he Video Music Awards are quickly approaching, and are set to have a hilarious host in Kevin Hart and plenty of great performances, from One Direction and Green Day to Rihanna and Frank Ocean. But the awards are the biggest part of the night.

Here are a few predictions on which nominees will take home a Moonman.

Best Male Video Nominees: Chris Brown’s “Turn Up The Music,” Drake feat. Rihanna’s “Take Care,” Frank Ocean’s “Swim Good,” Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend,” Usher’s “Climax” This year’s list features drunken nights in Tokyo from Breezy, random slow motion birds from Drake and even awkward car leaning from Bieber. However, Usher and Frank Ocean rose above the madness. Usher’s video for “Climax” showed off his theatrical side, spending most of the video sitting in his car outside of his old flame’s house, which isn’t creepy at all. Viewers see real inner turmoil as the singer decides if he should stay in the car and keep daydreaming about his lost love or bust into the house and shoot up his ex’s new man.

Ocean’s video for “Swim Good” takes the cinematic cake. The song is a dark but upbeat suicide note, matched by a video in which Ocean mysteriously drives around in a samurai suit. He finally emerges from the car wielding a samurai sword that somehow makes the car blow up. He walks away with blood on his sword, possibly from the girl he was imagining throughout the song.

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Best Female Video Nominees: Beyonce’s “Love On Top,” Katy Perry’s “Part Of Me,” Nicki Minaj’s “Starships,” Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris’s “We Found Love,” Selena Gomez & The Scene’s “Love You Like A Love Song” Queen B dropped it like it was hot even while pregnant, Gomez sang of love in a karaoke bar,

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Nominees: Drake feat. Rihanna’s “Take Care,” Gotye feat. Kimbra’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake,” M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris’s “We Found Love” When it comes to the biggest video of the year, simple story lines and fancy pyrotechnics won’t cut it. The most creative and artistic video has to be something so out of the box that it doesn’t even make much sense.

That’s were Gotye comes in. The Australian singer’s first No. 1 hit has gotten plenty of airplay since its release. However, the eccentric video was spoofed by “Saturday Night Live” for its interesting concept. Gotye and Kimbra are seen throughout the video singing while their bodies and the walls behind them are gradually painted.

The singer pulled out old-school, stop-motion animation to create the effect, and the result features the two magically painted into the backdrop, which is actually based on a piece of artwork created by Gotye’s father. The quirky concept is possibly the most creative work we’ve seen all year and is definitely worth a VMA. ieinyang@syr.edu

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Radio station tallies iconic hairdo at state fair

By Cheryl Seligman COPY CHIEF

Uncle Jesse, portrayed by actor John Stamos in “Full House,” had one. So did Patrick Swayze, who was deemed the “Sexiest Man Alive” in a 1991 issue of People magazine.

Pictured on a sign at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, N.Y., these men flaunted mullets, and 248 fairgoers as of 2 p.m. Monday did, too.

A local rock music radio station, 95X, counts how many mullets are seen at the fair each year.

The mullet count tradition began roughly five years ago, said a 95X on-air personality known as Joe D. He said it was something fun to do to pass time at the fair.

But for better or for worse, the 2012 count trailed far behind that of 2011’s fair.

“We’re not going to break 300,” said Joan

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Provoked by a friend who told her, “This is your year. You’re going to college. This is the time to do it,” McElhone auditioned in MetLife Stadium, just 10 minutes from her house, the summer before her freshman year. Having been a fan since season one, her friends and peers alike always urged her to try out based on her singing in choir.

Her rendition of “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

by Bonnie Raitt won her the golden ticket to Hollywood a few months later.

“In every round before Hollywood, you’re in

Kump, a promotions tech for Cumulus Media, which owns and operates 95X, on Friday. “We’re going to get, like, half of last year.”

The radio station would have needed to see about 350 more mullets in the fair’s final evening in order to come close to last year’s total, which amounted to more than 600.

A mullet, which is a certain style of haircut, is known to be “short on top, long in the back,” Kump said. “Or, business in the front, party in the back.”

The 95X mullet count is more than just a tally; it’s also a contest that any fairgoer can enter. The person who most closely guesses the total number of mullets that will be seen at the fair will win free haircuts for a year.

Kump said that since Syracuse is a city, people don’t associate it with mullets. But there’s a great deal of farmland in the area, she added,

which means a lot of mullets, too.

As of noon on Friday, the daily count was four — three women and a child with “really unfortunate layering jobs,” Kump said. The overall count was 191. Inevitably, some mullets might have been counted twice, but then again, some could have been overlooked.

A few of the fair’s mullets were nearly impossible to miss.

“There’s one that we counted, it’s a little iffy on the short in front, it’s more that he’s balding,” Kump said. “It’s kind of horrendous.”

Amanda Siracusa, a West Genesee High School student, also saw an unforgettable mullet at the fair on Thursday. She worked at Louie’s Lemonade, which was located next to the 95X platform.

“He was short and skinny, very punk, kind of, and his mullet was amazing,” she said.

“Purple on top and green on bottom.”

Many passers-by stopped to admire the board displaying the 2012 mullet count. Some took photos and most laughed, uttering statements like, “sweet” and “that’s awesome.”

“It’s kind of a joke,” said Barb Parker, a fairgoer from Elmira, N.Y. She also said there are many alternative names for a mullet.

Sam Russell of Trumansburg, N.Y., said his favorite nickname for the hairdo is “Kentucky Waterfall.”

Kump saw a lot of long hair at the fair this year, but as the count reflects, not as many mullet haircuts as in previous years.

“I have this slightly joking hypothesis,” Kump said. “With this economy, people don’t get their hair cut.”

a huge crowd, where not everyone is necessarily good,” said McElhone, an information management and technology major. But, she explained, once there, she felt somewhat on the same level as other performers. “Hollywood, in general, was very intimidating.”

McElhone was cut after her first round in Hollywood.

Though McElhone missed all her finals in her first semester of college and had to arrange to take everything so early that she had not even learned some of the material, it was worth it.

Little did she know her boyfriend would audition just a year later.

Garcia was one of thousands to audition in Pittsburgh in July 2011. Having watched the show

for a long time with his dad, and being influenced throughout his life by singers and guitar players in his family, he finally went for it.

After he sang, “Bless The Broken Road” by Rascal Flatts, Randy Jackson asked him to perform another song on the spot. “Hey, Soul Sister” by Train pushed Garcia through to Hollywood.

Garcia made it one round further than McElhone, the group round.

“My group round was crazy,” said Garcia, a television, radio and film major. He and his group stayed up until 4 a.m. the day before their performance and woke up a few hours later, at about 6 a.m.

“Every year there’s sort of ‘that group,’ that drama-filled group. That was my group,” Garcia said.

Garcia’s group was OK until the day they had to audition. That day, a girl in his group was not feeling well and fainted a couple of times before the group was set to go on.

They planned to perform without her, switching vocal assignments and dance moves to make up for one fewer person.

However, right before the performance, she made a quick decision, saying that she was OK, and Garcia’s group went back to their original routine.

She fainted on stage.

Garcia was so stressed and worried about the group’s overall performance that he forgot the words when his opening solo began.

“I got on stage and the piano started playing, and I just blanked,” he said. “I told myself I wasn’t going to make an excuse. If I was going to go home, it was definitely going to be because of my own self,” he said.

McElhone and Garcia would like to audition again — “together this time.”

Though their experiences differed, the two learned similar lessons in and out of Hollywood.

“It taught me to work on understanding the importance of trusting yourself. They wont believe you’re good if you don’t believe you’re good,” said McElhone, who changed her song three times before her first audition.

Gary Butterworth, a 2004 alumnus, worked on the other side of “American Idol.”

After the summer he graduated, Butterworth was looking to pick up any temp job he could. After some searching on Craigslist, he stumbled upon a production assistant job for the Washington, D.C., stop of the audition tour of “Idol.”

Butterworth worked for three days, usually from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Essentially, he “babysat” those auditioning, what he guessed to be around 20,000 people camped out overnight in tents in and around the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

He remembers it as if it was a big slumber party, mostly fun because of the fact that many auditioning were right around his age.

“It seemed like everyone there, deep down in their heart, thought they were going to win,” he said.

Butterworth was also amazed that his mark at SU was recognizable in a place as far away from the school as Washington, D.C. For three of his four years at SU, Butterworth worked in Kimmel Food Court, checking students’ IDs late at night. He was the selfproclaimed “Kimmel Bouncer.”

He saw it like a minor celebrity job, because people would know him solely for his job at Kimmel.

It followed him to D.C. He was recognized in the convention center three times during his three days there as the Kimmel Bouncer.

“It was nuts for me,” he said.

During the rest of that summer back in 2004, Butterworth also had temporary jobs at Animal Planet and HGTV. Now, he works with Voice of America Television in D.C., where he produces a weekly French TV talk show shown in Africa.

To this day, he’s never seen an episode of “American Idol.”

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SU offense enjoys historic night in McIntyre’s tenure

By Nick Toney ASST. COPY EDITOR

Ian McIntyre started the remodeling project in 2010. He wanted to morph Syracuse into an up-tempo and exciting team that the home fans “could cheer for.”

Two years later, the head coach finally followed through on that promise as his team earned a lopsided 6-0 win against Colgate (1-2-1) Monday night. The Orange (3-1) scored its greatest number of goals in a single game since Oct. 26, 1994, in an electric atmosphere at Syracuse University Soccer Stadium created by each big play and highlight-reel goal.

“That’s the type of game we’re capable of playing” McIntyre said. “And that’s the type of game our fans deserve.”

The SU fans likely couldn’t look away. If they did, they would miss a perfectly placed through ball or cross into the box. So with each ensuing SU possession, they rose to their feet and watched the team run circles around Colgate — an NCAA tournament team last season.

Each attacker moved into space without possession, and more often than not, each was hit with a pass that placed him in a position to score.

On Monday, Tony Asante drove the ball down the right sideline and hit Ted Cribley with an accurate cross for one goal. For

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University Soccer Stadium. Asante and Jordan Vale ignited an offensive onslaught to break the game open before Syracuse notched a sixth goal late in the game to finish the thrashing of the Raiders. The Orange matched its win total from a season ago when the Orange went 3-12-1.

“It was great when we scored those four goals,” Cribley said. “It was just pandemonium. It was fantastic. The reaction of the crowd shows it all.”

After a strong first half in which SU built a 1-0 lead, the Orange needed a spark to bust the game open.

In its previous match against Niagara, SU surrendered an early second-half goal that proved to be the difference. On Monday, Syracuse made sure it didn’t repeat the same mistake and exploded out of the break.

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“I’ve always made the joke that in college football, nobody covers running backs and tight ends, so it’s nice to have a guy like Beckett there that can fill in that role like (Provo), and it’s going to be exciting to see what he can do.”

That started immediately Saturday.

On Syracuse’s first offensive play of the 2012 season, Nassib lined up in the shotgun with Wales on the left side of the line. The quarterback took the snap and faked a handoff to running back Jerome Smith. Wales blew past Northwestern linebacker Chi Chi Ariguzo, who immediately turned as he realized what just happened.

Wales ran out over the middle, and Nassib found him wide open for a 17-yard pass and a first down. Perhaps it was a sign of things to come for Wales and the SU offense.

another goal, Cribley put a ball in space for Asante, who ran underneath it, trapped it and chipped it over Colgate goalkeeper Grant Reed for the score.

Those big plays weren’t as common before McIntyre took over. In 2010, he inherited a sluggish roster that attacked defenses by playing balls to their forwards and waiting. They’d resume their attack when trailing players made runs.

Senior forward Lars Muller, who once played under the former system that stressed that “wait-and-run” scheme, appreciated it just the same.

“It’s nice to not have to wait around as a forward,” said Muller, who scored in the first half when Cribley led him into the box with a precise pass. “We got to know each other in the preseason and we learned what type of runs we want and where we want the ball.

We got technically better, especially in the passing game.”

There was no wait in Syracuse against Colgate.

The offense pushed the ball up field. And in this system, players have the freedom to beat defenders with speed or to find their teammates who separate from defenders in space.

Cribley compared this team’s run-first style

sam maller | staff photographer BEN RAMIN points skyward as he celebrates his first goal for SU. The local freshman’s 77th-minute strike was the Orange’s last in a 6-0 blowout of Colgate Monday night. to a fast-break offense.

“It feels great to enjoy playing again,” Cribley said. “It’s definitely pleasing, especially from the coaching staff, that they’re able to get the best out of us.”

It showed on Monday night.

Fans were thrilled by the goals, but they also cheered loudly for the near-misses, like a cross from Vale in the 29th minute that found Muller’s head but skipped over the cross bar.

The home crowd bemoaned another nearmiss by Asante at the end of the first half that

landed on top of the goal.

But either way, they appreciated the execution. Syracuse was a three-win team last season, but with an offense capable of scoring in bulk, McIntrye knows this team is easy to cheer for.

“The home crowd was excellent tonight,” he said. “I think we’re finally playing the brand of soccer that gets fans on their feet, and that’s exciting for everyone involved.”

SU head coach Ian McIntyre said he was pleased with his team’s first-half performance and was confident the constant pressure and aggressive play would translate to goals in the second half.

Syracuse embarked on a torrid run after scoring its first second-half goal quickly.

“I think we dominated in every aspect of the game in the first half,” Cribley said. “We didn’t think one goal was enough for the effort that we’d made. The second half was the performance of a lifetime.”

After Cribley’s first career goal, Vale pushed the lead to 3-0 off a rebound from a Stefanos Stamoulacatos free kick. Jordan Murrell faked the kick and Stamoulacatos’ shot ricocheted off the post. Vale was there for the put-back.

Less than two minutes later, Asante had just the goalie to beat. He delivered a lob that found its way past Reed’s outstretched arm and into the net.

In the first half, Asante had a similar oppor-

tunity, but the ball hit the crossbar.

This time, he didn’t miss his chance.

Vale converted on his second goal a mere 34 seconds after Asante’s strike, unleashing a cannon from over 30 yards that increased Syracuse’s advantage to five.

Before Vale had the chance for a hat trick, McIntyre took him out of the game to let him rest while he gave role players some time on the field. “(Jordan) was aggravated with the coach because I brought him off,” McIntyre said. “He was going for three.”

While he considers Vale’s second goal a thing of beauty, McIntyre was also impressed with the freshman’s first goal, a scrappy play where he followed up a miss.

The goals were Vale’s second and third of the season, and sent Syracuse to the easy victory.

“The first one was a bit greedy I guess,” Vale said. “I think Louis Clark could have scored, but I wanted to score, so I came in running and

had a go. For my second goal, I thought, ‘why not have a shot?’ I hit it sweetly and scored.”

Syracuse scored in the 18th minute when Cribley drew two defenders and played a through ball to Lars Muller. Muller was wide open and beat the keeper with a scorching shot toward the left side of the net.

Freshman Ben Ramin notched SU’s sixth and final goal when he fired a shot from way outside the box that made its way past Colgate’s third-string goalie to cap a dominant night.

Syracuse has appeared to turn the page after a tumultuous 2011 campaign. But Cribley and his teammates aren’t satisfied yet.

“We’ve got really good team chemistry,” Cribley said. “I think we’ve just gelled together.

The first two wins really helped because now people come into the game confident.

“We don’t want to just match three wins. We want to go to tournaments.”

Right from the start, Hackett’s play-calling showed Wales will be a major contributor to this offense.

If Nassib had any concerns at all about losing Provo, Wales dispelled them right away. In the days leading up to the game, Wales said he and Nassib already built a game-ready chemistry early in training camp.

“The chemistry with me and Ryan, I think, is great,” Wales said. “When I run a route, I pretty much know when I’m going to get the ball. And that’s a great thing to know, because when I turn around to expect the ball, and it’s there, it’s a great feeling.”

Three plays after his first catch of the 2012 season, Wales put his blocking skills on display on third-and-4 when he drove Ariguzo off the line of scrimmage so Nassib could rush up the middle for about two yards, setting up an Orange field goal.

Throughout training camp, Wales started off each practice working with head coach Doug

Marrone and fellow tight ends Max Beaulieu and Ron Thompson. Marrone, who took over the responsibilities of coaching tight ends after last season, emphasized exploding off the line and driving the defender back.

Running at the defender, rather than staying stationary at the line and blocking from that position, was a constant focus. Day by day, Wales worked on it and improved.

In SU’s first drive of the season, Wales revealed his all-around abilities.

The lone hiccup came in the second quarter when Wales fumbled, and Northwestern’s Davion Fleming recovered the ball.

During training camp, Nassib said he expected to have the same type of connection with Wales that he had with Provo. Saturday’s game is a small sample size for sure, but it was enough to offer a glimpse at what Wales can do.

“Beckett is definitely somebody that has filled the role for the position Provo had,” Nassib said. “Beckett learned underneath Provo, so

it doesn’t surprise me that their games are kind of similar, that we have a similar connection.”

Wales said he and Provo spent a lot of time together over the past few years. While Provo taught him plenty, Wales learned just as much from how Provo carried himself on the field.

With his emotions always in check, Provo was a steady force in SU’s offense.

Hackett said both Wales and Provo play with “ferociousness.” Provo tempered his aggression, something Wales is looking to do himself. Wales saw Provo play the way he did. He watched him rack up consistent yardage.

Now, it’s his turn.

“It’s great to play behind somebody like that, or come up and learn from somebody like that,” Wales said. “And how he set goals for me to accomplish.

“It’s just things like that just make me want to play harder.”

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Holloway sets tone for stingy Syracuse ready to put resiliency to test after 3-game losing streak SU defense with tireless play

By Jacob Pramuk STAFF WRITER

By Adelyn Biedenbach CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Iona Holloway has played every minute of Syracuse’s three games this season.

Throughout SU’s season so far, Holloway’s focus has been constant. She often pushes the ball away from the attacking circle and then advances it downfield.

For 76 minutes against North Carolina, Holloway was relentless as the Orange held the No. 2 Tar Heels scoreless for one of the program’s biggest wins under SU head coach Ange Bradley.

“She was just awesome — I can’t even tell you how hard this kid has trained,” Bradley said after the game.

In a game that ended regulation with no score, the Orange’s defense was tested again and again. But Holloway and the Syracuse (3-0) defense shut down the UNC forwards long enough for freshman Emma Russell to find the back of the net in overtime for a 1-0 victory on Saturday.

Holloway was awarded Big East defensive player of the week honors for her performance.

The Glasgow, Scotland native also appeared on that list her sophomore year for efforts against Northwestern and Northeastern, and her junior year after wins against Louisville and Boston University.

Throughout Holloway’s career, the Orange defense has anchored Bradley’s successful program. And now, the senior is the unquestioned leader of the unit.

“It’s my fourth year, and as I’ve been here longer and longer, you just love the sport even more, you love the school even more,” Holloway said.

Clinching the victory on Saturday continued a 30-game home winning streak at J. Stanley Coyne Stadium. During that span, the team has dominated its opponents, outscoring them 59-7 in 11 games at home in 2011.

The last time SU lost at home came against Princeton on Sept. 6, 2009, when Holloway was a freshman.

Atop the Big East standings, Syracuse and Connecticut boast 3-0 records, both with players receiving individual accolades in the first two weeks of the season.

Holloway and four other seniors have contributed to SU’s strong start.

“They’ve been working so hard, this group of seniors,” Bradley said. “This is the first time in their tenure that they’ve been able to come and do something that they weren’t supposed to: beat a No. 2 in the country on our home turf.”

Holloway has displayed determination and dedication on and off the field, helping keep SU among the Big East’s elite and now pushing the program into the national spotlight with the signature victory.

From her Syracuse debut against New Hampshire three years ago to her contributions against UNC, Holloway has been a key cog in the SU defense.

And in her final season, she’s excited to help the Orange reach new heights while enjoying the team camaraderie.

“When I came here, I didn’t even know what a national championship was,” said Holloway.

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Then, on the very next snap, he caught a playaction pass from Nassib and cut to the outside with a move that caused linebacker Chi Chi Ariguzo’s knee to buckle, forcing him to walk gingerly off the field.

“Marcus looked like he had been here before, he wasn’t nervous,” Syracuse defensive end Brandon Sharpe said. “He was ready for the game and came out fired up.”

It took until his junior year for Sales to truly burst onto the scene the way SU fans and coaches expected he would after a standout career at Christian Brothers Academy.

And, even then, it was only in the final game of the season in which Sales 2.0 was born.

Running back Delone Carter took home Pinstripe Bowl Most Valuable Player honors, but it could certainly be argued that Sales stole the show. He caught five passes for 172 yards and three touchdowns in Syracuse’s 36-34 win over Kansas State after hauling

Leonid Yelin has already seen his team’s resilience once.

The Syracuse head coach saw his team drop the first set in last Saturday’s opening match against Bryant University at the Colgate Classic. In a 25-24 hole in the second set, Who: Nebraska-Omaha SU responded.

Where: Omaha, Neb. Outside hitter When: Today, 7 p.m.

Samantha Clarey finished with a kill and an ace to put the set away.

During a three-win weekend, it was an additional positive that Yelin took away from the tournament. And, it’s an element the Orange will need to count on in the coming weeks.

“Until they’re losing, everything is OK,” Yelin said. “After losses, they have to work that much harder. They need to see what the other teams were doing that made them better.”

After Syracuse’s success at the Colgate Classic, a winless weekend leaves the team at 3-3 heading into its game against Nebraska-Omaha at 7 p.m Tuesday. Yelin is trying to build a winning program out of Syracuse, one that competes nationally every year. And, the first-year head coach said he hopes to see his team put its resilience to the test and respond to adversity moving forward.

The Orange failed to win a set in all three of the matches at the Bluejay Invitational last weekend against tougher competition than it faced at Colgate.

“It’s definitely a lot tougher,” said defensive specialist Melina Violas. “They’re bigger girls, they can hit a lot harder.”

And tougher competition brings higher expectations for Yelin. He believes his team can work harder and play better every time it practices or competes. Coming from a program in Louisville that made 14 NCAA tournaments in his 15-year tenure, Yelin holds remarkably high standards for his players.

As Yelin attempts to change the culture of a program that has yet to reach an NCAA tournament, he looks for players to learn

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in only four touchdowns in the previous two years combined.

Nathaniel Hackett, who was the quarterbacks coach at the time and is currently SU’s offensive coordinator, said Sales had finally bought into the system in the month leading up to the Pinstripe Bowl. His practice habits improved, he was putting in the effort and everyone saw the results.

So when Sales posted another impressive performance on Saturday — he’s caught 16 passes for 289 yards and four touchdowns over his last two games — it confirmed his new identity and erased the memories of the player whose first catch of the 2010 season didn’t come until week five.

Shockingly, both Hackett and Marrone said their budding star is capable of even more production.

“I think that Marcus can do a better job. I really do,” Marrone said. “He’s come back; I think he got himself off to a good start. But, each week, we have to get better each day and raise our level.”

It’s a fantastic sign considering Syracuse

from losses and push themselves even more.

“It takes a lot of time to build a new culture,” Yelin said. “And it’s everything – how you dress, how you work, how you represent yourself. Every little thing matters.”

Yelin will get a good read on his team’s character and resilience in the next few matches.

No matter how the players respond, Yelin will be looking for more improvement. It takes something spectacular for his players to impress him. Yelin said nothing impressed him about the three wins in the opening weekend.

As one of Yelin’s former players at Louisville, Syracuse assistant coach Stephanie Cantway saw how difficult it was for Yelin to be completely satisfied with his team.

Wins alone simply won’t do it.

“It takes a lot to impress him,” Cantway said.

Yelin said the process to improve and change the culture at Syracuse will be long and tedious. It requires a full commitment from each player. He said improvements in attitude and work ethic are necessary, and they should change even more with every roadblock in the season.

This 0-3 weekend at the Bluejay Invitational is one of those roadblocks the Orange will have to overcome.

Yelin said he knows that Syracuse may not become a top-notch program in the immediate future. But, he’s determined that each player fully commits to the learning process and won’t accept anything less than a winning program.

Right now, SU is a .500 team.

To Yelin, that’s far from good enough. The Orange needs to rebound from a disappointing weekend. It’s all a part of Yelin’s process to build a consistent winner.

“It’s a lot of learning. It’s going to be an upand-down season, but as long as they continue to work and improve themselves, I think we are on the right track,” Yelin said. “Every day, the expectation has to be higher because we will not accept not to be good.” jspramuk@syr.edu

played on Saturday without its most consistent wide receiver in senior Alec Lemon. That means Sales was still able to haul in 10-plus passes, despite the fact that he was the focal point of the Northwestern secondary.

Sales said himself that he can’t be satisfied with 11 catches — four more than his previous career high — since Syracuse still wound up on the wrong end of the scoreboard.

“Maybe I need to get 13 next time to get the victory,” he quipped.

And it certainly seems possible with his recommitment to the game and the suddenly pass-happy SU offense.

That he could miss a year but not miss a beat is a testament to his talent, a reflection of the above-average work ethic that once eluded him.

It only took one game to show that Sales 2.0 is here to stay, and Syracuse is much better off for it.

Myth debunked.

Michael Cohen is a staff writer for The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at mjcohe02@syr. edu or on Twitter at @Michael_Cohen13.

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Maritime colleges fight for bragging rights in budding rivalry

By Jacob Klinger ASST. COPY EDITOR

In the first game of his collegiate career, State University of New York Maritime’s Stephen Roman played Massachusetts Maritime in a game billed as the Chowder Bowl.

Though it was the first meeting between the schools, it has since taken on greater historical importance.

“It felt like it became an instant rivalry,” Roman said.

The intensity of the matchup between the Massachusetts Maritime Buccaneers and SUNY Maritime Privateers is primarily fueled by the players’ career choices. Both colleges prepare their students for careers in the nautical industry. The players know they open the season each year against peers they will compete against for employment, as well as on-field supremacy. Alumni from both schools trade barbs on the game throughout

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MEET THE RACERS

S. Castro (Gery) The fans still pack the seats to watch this franchise racer play ball. And hey, this could be his year.

R. Ryan (Iseman) This veteran racer has come close to the big game in the past, but will he score enough points to keep pace in the standings?

K. Parker (Harris) After nearly getting away, this racer is back and ready to compete for the title. But let’s hope he won’t suffer too much while his significant other is away for the semester and can think clearly to make his picks.

M. Cassel (Toney) This racer spent the summer writing about the Kansas City Chiefs. That won’t help him now. Let’s hope he picked up some college football knowledge while he spent his time in America’s heartland.

H. Solo (Klinger) This racer pays most of his attention to the soccer field, but that’ll be useless for this competition. Maybe he can pull off a goldmedal performance and climb his way to the top in a less controversial manner than his favorite soccer star.

B. Scott (Cooper) This racer “can’t wait” to rejoin the sports world after getting a new office, but he has

the year.

That banter has been one-sided, though.

SUNY Maritime owns a 4-0 record in the series. Last season was the first since the series began that the two schools did not face off. The cruise schedule of Massachusetts Maritime’s training ship led to the game’s cancellation.

On Friday at 7 p.m., the rivalry resumes as SUNY’s cadets and a few thousand local fans will give Massachusetts Maritime a hostile welcome in Throgg’s Neck, N.Y. “I think it’s kind of a respect thing when you’re out actually in the industry after you’re through college and you look back … and know that you were the best football team,” former SUNY Maritime defensive end Thomas Boney said. “It’s kind of just being respected, being able to give them crap.”

Massachusetts head coach Jeremy Cameron and SUNY head coach Clayton Kendrick-Holmes call their respective schools the destination for in-state recruits pursuing maritime careers.

Yet in coastal states like New Jersey and Florida, Cameron and Kendrick-Holmes often

find themselves trying to lure the same players to their academies. Inevitably, one coach misses out on a prospect. Those players take the field against the once-potential teammates they spurned.

The recruiting crossfire only intensifies the rivalry.

“I actually enjoyed playing at Massachusetts Maritime because I got recruited by them and actually wanted to beat them more,” Boney said.

A.J. Gillan played linebacker and captained SUNY Maritime his junior year. But in high school, Massachusetts Maritime heavily recruited him, too. Then, the Privateers forgot him, Roman said.

Beating his Chowder Bowl rivals became an obsession.

Though only the 2009 Chowder Bowl was decided by more than 10 points, Massachusetts Maritime failed to stop New York in the three closer contests. While that dominance is a point of pride for the Privateers, it haunts the Buccaneers.

Since spring practice, Massachusetts harped on its 0-4 record against its rival,

a bad habit of rooting for teams that settle for field goals.

C. Grimes (Leveille) Will this racer be as enthused about football as she is about political reporting? Either way, don’t expect her to be too loud about it.

D. Dre (Cohen) After his favorite artist was just named as the richest in his profession, let’s see if this racer can find the same good fortune and finish at the top of this chart.

B. Harper (Wilson) Does this racer have it in him to take the competition by storm like the Nationals’ phenom? If not, we might have to shut him down toward the end, like another one of his favorite baseball stars.

P. Mickelson (Prise) After a summer on the golf course, let’s hope this racer didn’t get too much sun and can still make reasonable picks. If he picks USC next week, start up the ambulance.

G. Stiemsma (Hass) This soft-spoken racer cashed in his breakout year with a fancy new deal. But can he defend his picks better than the pick-androll?

J. Novack (D’Abbraccio) This racer is his own category on the new Daily Orange website. Will his record at the end of the season be as elite as his name?

L. James (Patankar)

This racer jumped onto the Miami bandwagon just in time for the Heat’s championship. I guess we’ll see if he picked up any winning ways when it comes to college football. Or, will he just fold under all the hype?

M. May (Pramuk) This racer just captured a gold medal this summer. Will the success carry over as he makes his picks in the fall?

A. Wambach (Hyber) Every week, this racer will kick around his predictions. Will they carry him to the top, or will he come off just a little too hyper?

F. Hockey (Biedenbach) This racer is new to the game but will have to learn quickly to not fall back. Will she compete or end up dropping those Coynes?

R. Wilson (Truitt) This rookie racer looks to make a splash in his first season. He has the starting job, but will he be able to keep it?

L. Yelin (Pollack) This is the volleyball head coach’s first season at Syracuse, and this is also this racer’s first time in this competition. Let’s see if they can both have success in their respective debuts.

D. Propper (Bronson-Tramel) This racer is ready to get started on the cross country beat. Will she live up to the legacy of her namesake and challenge for the title?

This sudoku needs a longer weekend.

defensive captain Nick Mazurkiewicz said.

He also predicted an end to SUNY’s rushing dominance, a historic advantage.

“We have a bunch of returning starters. My buddies on the line are doing excellent at practice, the linebackers are doing awesome, the D-backs are unbelievable so we have a bunch of experience coming back on D,” he said. “I think we can shut them down.”

Regardless of the result, the game will ripple into the maritime workplace. Players from both sides of the rivalry said they are constantly reminded of the game’s importance by alumni.

“My cousin graduated when I was a freshman and he was a senior captain, and I think he would be thrilled,” Mazurkiewicz said.

“He’s always following me around, and I talked to a bunch of the guys from last season and the year before that, and they’re always pushing us to win because we’re a big family out there, you know, even when we’re not with each other.”

On the field, some mild trash talk is exchanged.

Some players consider Massachusetts a better educational institution with New York wearing the label of a less serious school, senior captain Eric Heedles said.

Ultimately, SUNY prefers to point to its 4-0 record.

Yet an underlying respect for each other’s career choices prevents any deep-seeded animosity.

“We have the utmost respect for New York Maritime and in particular coach Holmes, obviously, with his service in the military,” Cameron said. “He’s a total class guy and he’s a great guy. So, you know we have a lot of respect for him and his program.”

Holmes is a 1992 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who performed active duty as recently as 2011 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The respectfully intense Chowder Bowl is like a small-scale version of the Army-Navy game, he said.

“I think our industry, the fact that it’s a smaller community that you actually work together from day one, I think it kind of heightens the — it’s an intense rivalry,” Cameron said.

“I wouldn’t call it friendly at all.” jmklinge@syr.edu

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Nassib earns Big East honors; Lemon questionable for USC

By Chris Iseman ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Syracuse revealed a new up-tempo offensive system Saturday.

Quarterback Ryan Nassib thrived in it. Nassib completed 45 of 66 passes for 470 yards against Northwestern, setting single-game program records in all three categories and earning Big East offensive player of the week honors.

“I felt comfortable with the system. I really did,” Nassib said after SU’s 42-41 loss to the Wildcats. “I felt like we put up a lot of points.

We’ve had success in practice. We were translating into the game but it wasn’t quite enough.”

SU head coach Doug Marrone said the plays were all in the playbook last season, only the pace changed. The Orange also went no-huddle throughout the game.

It worked as well as Nassib and the SU coaches could’ve hoped. He leads the nation in passing yards after the prolific performance.

In addition to the SU records, he tied the single-game, Big East completions record, and broke the conference single-game pass attempts record.

Nassib also showed an ability to make plays with his legs, running a variety of quarterback keepers to finish with 30 yards rushing.

“Ryan can handle a lot. I don’t worry about Ryan Nassib being able to handle anything,”

“We’ve had success in practice. We were translating into the game but it wasn’t quite enough.”

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Marrone said after the game. “He ran the ball.

They did a nice job of changing up their scheme and he ran the ball.

“Ball security out of the pocket was better and his footwork was better. He threw the ball really well. I don’t have a lot of issues with Ryan.”

SU focused on improving special teams Mental lapses and broken plays on special teams overshadowed an otherwise impressive performance by Syracuse in the season opener against Northwestern.

Despite a record day by Nassib, a combined 84 yards rushing by running backs Jerome Smith and Prince-Tyson Gulley, and 117 yards receiving by Marcus Sales, the Orange fell 42-41 to the Wildcats.

“I feel like we are heading in the right direction and we have a lot of hard work ahead of us,” Marrone said during the Big East coaches’ teleconference Monday. “But we probably have more things to build on now than we’ve had in the past.”

Marrone said going into week two after a 37-34 victory over Wake Forest last season, Syracuse had a long way to go. This season, the head coach said it’s time to build on the positives and move forward from the Orange’s disappointing loss.

SU faces a daunting task this Saturday when it faces No. 1 Southern California at MetLife Stadium. An improved performance on special teams will be crucial against the Trojans.

Wildcats’ running back Venric Mark returned two punts for 134 yards, including an 82-yard touchdown return. The kicks were good, Marrone said. The coverage was another story.

“Obviously, we had two very good kicks,” Marrone said. “We had good hang, we kicked

it very, very deep. What happened was we lost our contain.”

Marrone said the Orange walked through the coverage to make sure the players knew their spots, which is critical for Saturday’s game against USC. The Trojans have a number of good kickoff returners, including Robert Woods and Marqise Lee. Lee took a kick return 100 yards for a touchdown in USC’s 49-10 victory over Hawaii, and Marrone said USC punt returner Nickell Robey is as “dynamic” as Mark.

“We’re working on building on the positive,” Marrone said. “And getting ready for an opponent now that is the top-ranked team in the country.”

Stevens in, Lemon questionable for USC Syracuse wide receiver Alec Lemon is day-to-day as he recovers from a lower body injury. Marrone said how he performs this week in workouts will determine if he can play against USC. “Alec Lemon, I really don’t know,” Marrone said. “Last week, when we worked him out before the game, we really didn’t feel very

comfortable putting him back in that situation.”

Wide receiver Adrian Flemming will return to practice and will “work himself in,” but likely won’t play against the Trojans.

Marrone said tight end David Stevens, who has been working back from a lower-body injury, should be available to play Saturday.

Stevens was in uniform against Northwestern and could’ve played if the team needed him. But Marrone said it was beneficial that he did not have to play since it gave him more rest. cjiseman@syr.edu

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In return to field, Sales proves he’s ready to be go-to threat

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here was a sort of mysticism swirling around Marcus Sales, the player whose football career seemed more mythical than anything else.

He was the local boy, the former high school All-American and fourstar recruit who stayed at home to play for Syracuse, and whose commitment was the crowning jewel for a struggling program.

It meant his story was written early, his tale of triumph penned before the ink used to sign his scholarship even dried.

But no one foresees the bumps in the road that cause the fairytale to veer off into uncertainty, disaster even. In Sales’ case, those bumps were work ethic problems, poor on-field performances and an arrest and subsequent suspension that took away his 2011 season.

Saturday against Northwestern was Sales’ shot at redemption, and he seized it. The storm was weathered, the suspension served and Sales turned in an outstanding 11-catch, 117-yard, one-touchdown performance in his first football game in more than a year.

He cast aside doubts on whether his legendary Pinstripe Bowl performance was a fluke and firmly cemented himself as one of Syracuse’s most dangerous weapons for the 2012 season, even though

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not a dime back the Orange eventually fell to the Wildcats 42-41.

“I have trusted Marcus since we came here together,” quarterback Ryan Nassib said. “He made my job a lot easier. … I was really happy with how we connected today.”

On what was a record-setting day for Nassib, who threw for 470 yards and four touchdowns, Sales was undoubtedly his favorite target. Twenty-five percent of his completions were hauled in by Sales, including the seven-yard touchdown late in the third quarter that ignited the Syracuse comeback.

Most impressive, though, was how sharp Sales looked in other aspects of the game beyond simply catching the football, in which his natural abilities could often overshadow rust following his year off.

His beautiful block on Northwestern cornerback Nick VanHoose in the second quarter sealed the edge for Jerome Smith on a toss play to the outside that gained six yards.

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andrew renneisien | photo editor MARCUS SALES catches a pass in the Orange’s 42-41 loss against the Northwestern Wildcats on Saturday. Sales’ touchdown helped spark a run of 28 unanswered points against the Wildcats. He led the team in receiving with 117 yards from 11 catches. Sales returns to the field after missing the 2011 season due to suspension.

Smooth transition

Wales ready to fill void left by Provo at tight end

By Chris Iseman

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hen Beckett Wales steps onto a football field, the transformation starts to take place.

Increased intensity morphs his personality. He becomes a football player.

For the past two seasons, Wales did so at the expense of his emotions.

But the Syracuse tight end also watched and noted how the player ahead of him on the depth chart maintained a level head on the field.

With the graduation of Nick Provo, Wales is stepping into a starting role and replacing one of the Orange’s most consistent producers.

In an offensive system where tight

ends are used heavily, Wales will need to apply that lesson to the field to have success this season.

“Character. How to hold your character on the field,” Wales said.

“Not getting too emotional, not getting too under-emotional. Just keeping a level head the whole time is one of the things I learned.”

Wales is still searching for his first touchdown in a Syracuse uniform. But in Saturday’s 42-41 loss against Northwestern, he caught six passes for 49 yards — more yardage than he posted in both 2010 and 2011.

If Provo’s production in his four seasons with the Orange is any indication, Saturday’s game was only the start of Wales’ status as a go-to receiver for quarterback Ryan Nassib. In

2011, Provo caught 51 passes for 537 yards and scored seven touchdowns.

He only had two touchdowns in his previous three seasons combined.

The 6-foot-3-inch, 235-pound Wales will be counted on to help an offense looking to improve after a down season. Wales said he doesn’t feel pressure to repeat Provo’s performances, but instead is motivated to provide similar production. If there’s pressure at all, he said it’s a “great form of pressure.”

Wales is going to have his opportunities to translate that motivation into big plays for Syracuse.

“Especially at that position, what we do at that position,” offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said.

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Scoring barrage vaults SU to rout of Colgate

By Trevor Hass STAFF WRITER

Tony Asante weaved through Colgate defenders on the endline and delivered a perfectly placed pass directly toward the head of Ted Cribley.

Cribley headed the ball past goalie Grant Reed, givSYRACUSE 6 ing Syracuse a COLGATE 0 two-goal lead less than two minutes into the second half.

Players and fans celebrated the Orange’s goal. Little did they know, the barrage was just beginning.

Four minutes later, the two-goal lead had ballooned to five, and Syracuse (3-1) cruised to a 6-0 win over Colgate (1-2-1) in front of 826 at Syracuse

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Turning the corner The SU men’s soccer team

matched its 2011 win total (3) after defeating Colgate Monday night.

See dailyorange.com for a photo gallery from the game.