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Tour de film An SU sophomore spent the

The right time?

Students discuss the debate

The sweet life An SU senior finds his calling at

Lock and load SU prepares to face Heisman Trophy

summer traveling with the Tour de France. Page 3

surrounding the construction of Park 51 in New York City. Page 5

candidate Jake Locker and PAC-10 power Washington. Page 24

a chocolate pizza shop. Page 11

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Juice Jam 2010 first to sell out

By Elora Tocci ASST. COPY EDITOR

photo illustration by bridget streeter | photo editor

This year’s Juice Jam music festival sold out Wednesday for the first time in the event’s seven-year history.

Wednesday morning, 4,715 tickets had been purchased for Sunday’s Juice Jam. By the end of the day, the Where: Skytop remaining 285 Field tickets sold out.

When: Sunday, The high noon number of tickets sold indicates the level of excitement University Union and students have for the concert, said Samara Shwidock, UU public relations director.

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High stakes

By Rebecca Kheel

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University, nation investigate synthetic marijuana after students overdose

other aliases — is a legal form of

for insomnia, said among his

that, you just feel the effects

synthetic cannabinoids, chemi-

group of friends who tried it the

continuously, continuously,

angerous and mysteri-

cals that mimic the effects of

same night, only he had a mild

continuously, continuously, just

ous.

marijuana’s

reaction, but still felt uncom-

beating down on you harder and

fortable.

harder. … You just feel like you

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high-inducing

That’s how Taylor,

ingredient, tetrahydrocannabi-

a Syracuse University sopho-

nol (THC). The chemical can be

Taylor said the effects felt

want to sit on a floor in a corner

more, would describe Spice

sprayed on any type of leaf, usu-

were much stronger than any-

and just chill because it’s so

after trying it for the first — and

ally an herb, and smoked.

thing he ever felt from mari-

overpowering.”

last — time a few weeks ago.

In recent months, Spice has

juana and lingered about four

While Taylor felt weighed

“There’s no concrete evi-

spiked in popularity across the

times longer than marijuana.

down by Spice, the high

dence of what’s in this product,

United States — including at

When he first inhaled, he felt

induced panic among some of

and that makes it kind of fright-

SU, which has seen two students

a small buzz. Fifteen minutes

his friends.

ening because you don’t know

hospitalized from it — prompt-

later, the effects revved up,

what you’re getting,” said Tay-

ing law makers, university offi-

causing an intense feeling of

freaked out, said that they did

lor, who chose not to disclose his

cials and users, alike, to note its

heaviness for the next hour.

not like it at all,” he said.

last name. “It scared the crap

dangerous effects and call for

out of me.”

its prohibition.

“Everything gets a little bit heavy, and everything gets a

Spice — also known as K2,

Taylor, a California native

little bit overbearing,” he said.

Demon, Genie or Spike, among

with a medical marijuana card

“And then for a good hour after

“A couple of people cried,

During opening weekend, the Department of Public Safety at SU responded to two SEE SPICE PAGE 7

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NGO moves to SU, recruiting student interns

By Beckie Strum NEWS EDITOR

Far away from her office in Syracuse, Sarah Peterson explored, for the first time, the city streets of Casablanca, Morocco, this summer.

The sprawl of shanty houses, raw electric wires hooked up illegally and open sewage in the slums of the city’s outskirts brought home the importance of Peterson’s new job with the Near East Foundation.

“This was real life,” she said.

Peterson, who received a master’s degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in May, is the new program officer at the Syracuse University branch of NEF. The foundation opened an administrative

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BP releases report on Gulf oil spill

Court dismisses lawsuit involving CIA

Americans object to Islamic center

China takes lead in clean energy

BP released the results of an investigation Wednesday that pointed some of the blame on itself, but heaped more of it at other companies, according to The New York Times. The investigation was done

by Mark Bly, BP’s safety chief, and a team of 50 other people made up of mostly BP employees.

The investigation began shortly after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, which killed 11 people and spilled nearly five million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The 193-page report brings attention onto its contractors, including Halliburton, which did the cement jobs on the well, and Transocean, which owned the Deepwater Horizon rig.

The report focuses less on the drilling decisions of BP and puts more emphasis on what rig workers from Transocean did hours before the rig exploded, according to The New York Times.

A majority of Americans say the planned Islamic center and place of worship in Lower Manhattan should not be built, according to The Washington Post. Two-thirds of those polled are against the building of the Cordoba House Complex where the twin centers used to be. Of those who are opposed to the construction, 82 percent say it’s because of the location. But 14 percent – 9 percent of all Americans – say they would oppose the building of a Muslim community center anywhere in the country. The poll also revealed that nearly a third of Americans see Islam as encouraging violence, which is little changed in recent years, according to The Washington Post. The new poll was done by The Washington Post and ABC News.

A federal appeals court dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday involving the CIA’s practice of seizing terrorism suspects and moving them to other countries for interrogation and imprisonment, according to The New York Times. The ruling gave the Obama administration a major victory in its effort to advance its favorable view of executive secrecy. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed the lawsuit by a six-to-five vote against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., a subsidiary of Boeing accused of arranging transfers for the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, according to The New York Times. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the case because of five former prisoners who were reportedly tortured because of the program. ACLU said it would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

Changsha, the provincial capital in south-central China, and two other adjacent cities are emerging as leaders of clean energy manufacturing, according to The New York Times. The cities are making solar panels for European and American markets, getting into wind turbines and developing new equipment to manufacture solar panels. Here in the United States and over in Europe, clean energy companies are struggling and are cutting jobs.

Some companies are even moving their operations to China. China’s clean energy industry is now more than one million jobs strong, and its success is in large part due to aggressive government policies, which risk breaking international rules, according to The New York Times.

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Lab space created in Bowne Hall

By Dara McBride Asst. News editor

Construction is almost complete on the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, located on the third and fourth floors of Bowne Hall.

Construction to convert chemistryteaching labs to SBI research labs began in October 2009, said Sara Miller, associate director of news services at Syracuse University. The project will be completed in October, with the exception of first and second floor hallway improvements, which will be scheduled for completion over semester breaks, Miller said.

Biomaterials are natural and synthetic substances designed to treat, augment, or replace tissues and organs of the human body as treatments to disease or injury, according to the institute’s website.

The biomaterials institute is composed of faculty members from SU, the State University of New York College

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kirsten celo | asst. photo editor Alex Carmedelle , a sophomore television, radio and film major, sits on the steps of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with his camera and bicycle. Carmedelle spent the summer filming behind-the-scene videos of the Tour de France for team HTC-Columbia.

MLB, iSchool Newhouse student travels with, films Tour de France partner for web design contest

By Lorne Fultonberg Staff Writer

By Laurence Leveille Asst. Copy Editor

A contest in the School of Information Studies could bring students face to face with executives from Major League Baseball, as well as provide opportunities for future internships.

Students taking iSchool courses have the opportunity to participate in the MLB.com University Challenge, a contest in which teams of two to five members propose innovative ideas for areas in need of improvement on MLB.com, said Julie Walas, the coordinator of the contest.

“We’re really hoping to inspire creativity and inspiration,” Walas said. “We’re hoping a student can do anything, from design a new database to design a new element to their website.”

The idea for the contest stemmed from a conversation between iSchool alumnus John Frost, Walas and a current MLB.com employee about reaching out to college students and connecting students with employers, Walas said. Joe Kanakaraj, a 2001

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It was an ugly day at the Tour de France — foggy and cold, with plenty of rain.

But it was the perfect day for Alex Carmedelle. An opportunity to record a video of cyclists struggling up a hill, battling the elements.

So he got up at 6 a.m. and began driving to the top of Col du Tourmalet, a 6,939-foot climb. The rain fell in buckets, the wind picked up and Carmedelle couldn’t push himself to nap, so he waited. And waited. And waited. He waited for 11 hours in the

rain, hours the sophomore television, radio and film major would call, “the most miserable of my life.”

But in the end, he said, it was worth it. After all, it was just another day at the office.

Carmedelle spent his summer filming behind-the-scenes videos for team HTC-Columbia, a highly competitive cycling team that placed 15th in this summer’s most prestigious — and most grueling — bicycle race, the Tour de France.

Every July, cyclists from around the world gather to traverse mountains and countryside in a 2,262-mile

campaign — roughly the distance from Syracuse to Flagstaff, Ariz.

Carmedelle was with them every pedal of the way, and said it was every bit as grueling for him as it was for the riders.

“Working for the Tour de France is a grind because, logistically, it’s a nightmare,” Carmedelle said. “You have 200 riders that come with a support staff and the media and race staff.

The Tour de France probably moves 2,500 people a day: Moving from one city to a start city, then doing the race, then a finish city, then a sleep city, then you do it again the next day.”

Carmedelle’s job was to create short, one-to-two minute videos every day of the race, documenting the team and what had happened in the race that day. Carmedelle was constantly in motion, shooting new footage, interviewing athletes and team members, and then piecing together two videos in the same day.

Kristy Scrymgeour, in charge of marketing and communications for team HTC, said Carmedelle was constantly working. She said he would collect footage first thing in the morning, and then, see tour de france page 6

Documentary screening in Thornden Park to protest hydrofracking

By Rebekah Jones Staff Writer

Documentarian and Sundance Jury Prize winner Josh Fox will lead a discussion on hydraulic fracturing Thursday night in the Amphitheatre at Thornden Park, following a viewing of his Where: award-winning Amphitheatre in film “Gasland.”

Thornden Park The evening When: Thursday is set to begin at 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

How much: Free 6:30 p.m., with music from local

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bands Summer People and RunOn Sentence, followed by speeches and appearances from New York state Sen. David Valesky, Onondaga Nation representative Jeanne Shenandoah and representatives from Mayor Stephanie Miner’s office.

Hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, is the process of increasing the flow of gas from bedrock through fracturing the underground shale with a mixture of 99 percent water and sand and one percent chemicals. The process’ potential effects

on the environment are disputed.

Concern over the preservation of Skaneateles Lake, from which Syracuse receives its drinking water supply, along with a multitude of other concerns, aided the passing of a moratorium against hydrofracking in August, with a New York Senate vote of 49-9 in favor.

In order for the one-year moratorium to become a law, it will need to pass the State Assembly vote and be signed by Gov. David Paterson.

The vote is expected to take place following primary elections next

week, when the assembly completes its recess.

“Gasland” follows Fox’s crosscountry examination of hydraulic fracturing after a natural gas company approached him to lease his land for drilling.

Thursday’s event is designed to educate the community on the dangers of hydrofracking and raise awareness for the upcoming vote, said Dereth Glance, executive program director for Citizens Campaign for the Environment and see hydrofracking page 8

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Debate over Park 51 raises questions of respect, rights

Arguments against building conflict with American values Editors Note: The following is the personal opinion of the writer and is not necessarily the official position of the U.S. Army or the Syracuse University Army ROTC program.

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hen I raised my right hand three years ago to join the Army ROTC, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.

I chose to keep private my views regarding political and social hot topics, as I did not think it proper to voice my opinion regarding such matters, given my career choice. I now see a direct challenge to what I swore to uphold, and much to my dismay, it’s from my fellow Americans.

Enough is enough.

This Islamic center is not a slap in the face to Americans. If anything, it is a slap in the face to the terrorists and their ideologies. By embracing the Islamic center so close to the hallowed ground of the World Trade Center, we say to the world that we are a greater people than the evildoers who attacked us while preaching hate and religious manipulation, that we do not believe it is America vs. Islam.

The legality of the Islamic center’s construction is not in question. Rather, the sensitivity of the Islamic center’s proximity to ground zero is the lynchpin of the entire issue. If the radius of what qualifies as ground zero’s hallowed ground extends two blocks to the location of the Islamic center, then what about the other establishments in the same radius? A strip club? A betting parlor? Neither establishment would be allowed so close to Auschwitz or Pearl Harbor or the Pentagon. Shouldn’t all establishments in the same radius be held to the same standard, or does the

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and so it goes “insensitivity” only apply to Muslims?

Unfortunately, this issue has gone far beyond a matter that only concerns the people of District 8 in New York City. Across the nation, maddened ignoramuses have embraced the psychosis of Islamophobia, allowing mob mentality and fear mongering to govern their logic and basic reasoning. Protestors have gone so far as to torch half-built mosques, stab Muslim taxi drivers and picket the streets with blood-lettered signs that advertise their biases and closed-mindedness.

Mark my words: If such blatant displays of pettiness continue or escalate, there will be more attacks from extremists. This time, however, they won’t be from Saudi Arabia. They will be from places like Tennessee, Michigan, and Maine. Moderate Muslims of this nation are possibly the greatest allies we have in combating terrorism. If the Islamophobes continue on the same marching path, they will not only render the word “moderate” a term of the past, they will be directly feeding the fire of Islamic extremism.

The naysayers scream, “Have you forgotten Sept. 11?” in a remarkable display of ignorance.

Hear me clear: I have not forgotten Sept. 11, nor have the people who support our MuslimAmerican brothers. The outrage and desire to destroy those who dared to attack my countrymen runs as thick in my blood as it did nine years ago. I have patiently waited nine years to begin my career in the Army and am finally a mere nine months from being entrusted with leading soldiers head-on in close combat against such enemies of freedom. However, I implore you to understand that it was not Islam that attacked America. It was 19 men of a radical group that bastardized the Islamic faith for their own political and psychotic objectives, claiming religion as their justification for their methodical propagation of evil. To hold all followers of Islam accountable for the actions of 19 “Muslims” is insanity.

I consider myself a staunch patriot. However, patriotism is not merely a matter of destroying the nation’s enemies, playing the national anthem or wearing an American flag pin. It is a matter of standing for the principles we have collectively agreed to uphold, no matter how emotionally difficult or contentious they may be at times — in this case, the principle of religious freedom.

Our morals and values are at risk with this Islamic center, not from building it close to ground zero, but rather from the wave of Islamophobia that is awash across the nation as a result.

One of our greatest tools in mitigating the fanatic ideology of the Sept. 11 perpetrators and their disciples is tolerance. We preach it, we a about it, we put it at the base of great statues.

But in the hour of truth, we must decide if we, in fact, stand for the principles of our Constitution, or if it is merely empty rhetoric, paid lip service by many and embodied by few.

The world is watching, and we risk undermining everything this country represents as the free world if this path of ignorance and discrimination is continued.

Matthew Karrenbauer is a senior political science and Middle Eastern studies major. He is a guest columnist and can be reached at mpkarren@syr.edu.

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Rauf has right ot build, should have decency not to

ASHINGTON, D.C. — If Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf managed to purchase the entire 16-acre superblock on which the World Trade Center once stood, there is no doubting his legal right to build whatever he desires in that location.

It follows naturally that Rauf should have the same right to build a 13-story mosque and community center two blocks away from ground zero, on land he legally purchased.

Yes, of course he has that right.

But even if he is acting within his rights, there is no guarantee the appropriate action will be taken.

The mere right to build the proposed Cordoba House does not ensure that Americans will lock arms at Rauf’s side while he constructs a monument to Islam a mere two blocks away from the most cowardly, most tragic, most atrocious attack our nation has ever endured — an attack carried out in the name of radical Islam.

Common sense, decency and sensitivity are desperately lacking in the plans to build such a mosque. It is beyond frustrating, and approaching discouragement, to consider that ground zero may sport a mosque before receiving a proper memorial. Imagine being informed of this possibility on Sept. 12, 2001.

While the 19 hijackers who murdered nearly 3,000 Americans certainly comprise a minority of Islam, similar offshoots continue to exist and operate across the globe. Islamic extremists pose a constant threat to life and freedom. To deny this is to put your head in the sand.

To construct a shrine to Islam in such proximity to Islamic extremism’s greatest success — even if those extremists do not represent the religion as a whole — is to disgrace the Sept. 11 victims and their families.

Supporters of the mosque seem unable to come to grips with the possibility that one could oppose the ground zero mosque and still manage to respect the religion of Islam. Opposition and respect are not mutually exclusive, and automatically treating them as such is mindless.

President George W. Bush often reminded us that those 19 hijackers also hijacked a religion. He referred to Islam as “a religion of peace.” Both of these are true, but neither provides justification for a mosque at ground zero.

Rauf’s group claims to be interested in promoting healing and understanding. But, surely, they can understand why their proposed Islamic center will not allow grieving New Yorkers to heal. A mosque in that location will do more harm than good, opening up old wounds rather than building bridges to a progressive future.

Putting forth their best efforts to defend the mosque, liberal activists have concocted a straw man argument. They claim that oppos-

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change it back ing the mosque’s construction is at odds with the First Amendment, that doing so would trample over religious freedom ensured by the Constitution.

Nonsense. No reasonable American denies the constitutional right to build the mosque, but plenty of reasonable Americans would like to see Rauf and the developers voluntarily decide on a different location.

A recent Fox News/Opinion Dynamics Poll clearly spells this out. While 61 percent of respondents agree the Muslim group has the right to build the Cordoba House, 64 percent also feel that such a mosque would be wrong and inappropriate.

President Barack Obama weighed in on the debate, displaying an uncanny ability to both confuse and to pander. He spent one evening professing his support for the mosque during a Ramadan dinner hosted at the White House, before correcting those remarks within 24 hours. The next afternoon, Obama completely backtracked, claiming he was merely standing up for religious freedom in general rather than endorsing the construction of this mosque in particular. While Obama’s position was incomprehensible, the left-wing talking points have been crystal clear.

It has been implied — in some cases, not so subtly — that Islamophobia is the root cause of the mosque opposition. A textbook tactic from the left, as anyone in disagreement with liberal ideology is charged with bigotry or racism.

It has even been said that another religion could have easily motivated an attack not dissimilar from that of Sept. 11. While I am skeptical of the premise, especially in the year 2010, let’s accept it for the sake of argument.

Say a bunch of Christians got a wild hair to fly jumbo jets into America’s proudest symbol of capitalism, or 19 crazed Jews perverted their religion in such a way that murdered 3,000 innocent civilians.

Less than a decade later, how would Americans feel about the prospects of a similar religious structure two blocks away from that ground zero?

Rest assured, the backlash would be identical. We would vehemently oppose the construction of that church or that synagogue.

Not there. Build it anywhere but there.

Jimmy Paul is a senior political science major. He is currently in Washington, D.C., taking part in the Maxwell in Washington semester. His column appears occasionally, and he can be reached at jdpaul01@syr.edu.

what should happen at park 51? a) It’s a mosque and there’s no way it should be built. It’s insensitive ad completely disrespectful. b) It’s a community center, and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be built. c) I think everybody should like everybody d) I have no idea what this is about

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Despite VMA antics, Kanye West is still the man

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his Sunday marks the 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards, as well as the oneyear anniversary of the infamous Kanye West-Taylor Swift incident.

West instantly and rightfully received harsh backlash for his actions, but he actually did Miss Swift a favor. Before you make that face and start calling me names — stop yourself. Think back to those few seconds right before Kanye stormed the stage. Yes, that moment right after Taylor’s name was announced.

What was your first reaction? It was “WTF,” wasn’t it?

Kanye did Taylor a huge favor. A favor anyone who has ever received an award the public didn’t think they deserved, would have prayed for.

For the record, I’d like to state that I am a huge Tay-tay fan. Her first single “Tim McGraw” never fails to make me smile, and I’ve pretty much listened to “Mine” on repeat since it was released over a month ago. Actu-

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ally, I’m listening to it right now.

Regardless, I’m not looking to attack her or undermine her success.

Since she hit the country scene in 2008, home girl has received 106 nominations from 18 award shows, racking up over 70 wins. She’s undoubtedly talented, and there is no denying that 2009 was her year. Two CMTs, two ACMs, four Grammys, five CMAs, I don’t feel like continuing, but you catch my drift — girl definitely knows how to crank out the hits.

I love “You Belong With Me,” but let’s be real, the music video never really had VMA written all over it.

Kayne’s outburst saved Taylor from the harsh grasps of critics everywhere. Since the rest of the 2009 VMAs pretty much turned out as predicted, Swift would have been the first one on whom they pounced.

But she got to keep her pride (and her Moonman) as we all shook our heads at that asshole, West, for picking on

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really? country music’s sweetheart.

And in addition to doing Swift a favor, he’s actually his own PR genius. He knew exactly what he was doing when he stormed the stage. By immediately apologizing, he got to be the big bad wolf, and then the good guy because he admitted how wrong he was.

“Coincidentally,” he was scheduled to appear on Jay Leno later in the week. The perfect opportunity for him to express how “ashamed” he was for his actions.

Ultimately, he helped put the VMAs back on the radar. Everyone had basically forgotten about the

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scandalous Madonna-Britney kiss from 2003, and the VMAs were turning back into just another awards show. West took it upon himself to stir the pot back up.

And whatever your opinion of him or his antics, you can’t deny that West is still the man.

Who else has the balls to compare himself to Jesus? Yeah, his 2006 comment had the country questioning his sanity, but if you’re going to compare yourself to anyone, it might as well be Jesus.

And if you haven’t already started following him on Twitter, you’ll be happy to know that since Sept. 4, he’s been busy tweeting his apologies toward Taylor, her family, her fans, his fans, the press, etc. Tweeting every three minutes, nonetheless.

Finally, “Graduation” is easily one of the best hip-hop albums of the decade, and one of the few albums I own in which I can genuinely say I love every song.

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Then again, my iTunes “Most Recently Played” list includes the soundtrack from the first season of Glee, in addition to Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA,” so I’m not sure if I should be commenting on what qualifies as musical genius.

In the end, Kanye got the attention (and is performing at Sunday’s VMAs), Taylor got America’s continued affection and Beyonce walked away with Video of the Year. Happilyever-afters really do exist.

Actually, we could all learn a valuable lesson from Kanye. Next time you see someone in need, redirect the attention and make an ass out of yourself. You’ll have time to apologize later.

So, Kanye, man, keep doing your thing. I got your back.

Lauren Tousignant is a junior communications and rhetorical studies and writing major. She is the opinion editor at The Daily Orange, where her column appears occasionally. She can be reached letousig@syr.edu.

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as the race was going on, produce the film while on the bus traveling to the next town and upload when the right Internet connection became available.

“And then he’d basically start again as soon as we got off the bus when the race was finishing,” Scrymgeour said. “He’d start again with his filming and work into the evening.”

Carmedelle grew up with the sport of cycling.

His father, Bruce, began riding recreationally 25 years ago and said Alex has been watching the Tour de France since he was seven or eight years old.

This summer was his third trip across the Atlantic to see the sport’s biggest event, and he regularly attends the Tour of California. He’s even met cycling stars Lance Armstrong and Mark Cavendish.

At the end of 2006, when a family friend bought Team T-Mobile and changed the name to HTCColumbia, both father and son were thrilled, especially when Bruce was named its chief financial officer.

“This was an extremely unusual opportunity for an American to basically go in and operate one of the top teams in the sport,” Bruce said. “I tell people who don’t know anything about cycling, ‘Imagine that your best friend buys the New York

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Yankees and asks you to come help run it with him and sit on the bench next to the manager.’

That’s kind of what the equivalent was for me.”

Alex was asked to shoot videos for the Tour of California because it would have been expensive to fly the company’s regular videographer to the United States, Bruce said. From there, the company was so impressed with Alex’s work they asked him to do the same job for the Tour de France.

Alex jumped at the opportunity.

“I had to take it,” he said. “It was nothing short of a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Alex spent time with the team, interviewing team members before and after races, and filmed all aspects of the race. He felt like a VIP, he said.

He was part of a circle that he said everyone — fans, journalists, autograph seekers — was trying to get in.

But the job was difficult. The cyclists didn’t always want to be interviewed, especially after a less-than-desirable stage or a session with the media. Some of the riders always refused to speak to Alex, others only spoke on rare occasions. Ultimately, it was up to him to find a story one way or another, and in a limited amount of time, he said.

“It was pretty much a COM 200 project every day of my life for 23 days,” Alex said. “It was like a multimedia storytelling project, except instead of having three weeks and time to edit, I’d have, like, five hours. The longer it took, the worse it was because people would start to go to sleep on certain sides of the country, so information became less and less pertinent.”

Seth Gitner, a newspaper and online journalism professor, taught Alex in a multimedia storytelling class in the spring. He said he was proud of his former pupil’s application of storytelling skills.

“I know he has the capability of doing high

quality work,” Gitner said. “It’s always nice to be able to see students take what you’ve done in class and apply it to the real world.”

The experience reinforced Alex’s idea that broadcasting and news production were not for him. He’d rather go into television writing, he said. He occasionally got frustrated with a stressful job that was never ideal, and the hard work caught up with him, leaving almost no time for personal enjoyment.

“Before I did Tour of California, I thought this would be really fun,” Alex said. “After Tour of California, I knew it wouldn’t be that. It was a job.

It was not a vacation. Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, you’re complaining about going to Europe.’ No. I didn’t see Europe. I saw the inside of a bus, I saw the side of a road and I saw the inside of, like, 24 horrible hotel rooms.”

Alex’s videos received more than 54,000 hits on YouTube, and the team plans to invite him back next year to do the same job. And although Alex’s European travels were hardly a vacation, he said he still walked away with a valuable experience and plenty of stories to tell.

After 23 days of moving hotels, sleeping short hours and working all day, a fatigued Alex and his HTC-Columbia team made it to the final stage in Paris and began to unwind. He walked off the bus, spied the Eiffel Tower and walked to a roped-off section of the Champs Elysses.

“Me and my boss have a glass of champagne, and I take my champagne and go sit on the curb with this journalist I’d been talking to throughout the tour,” Alex said. “And I’m sitting on the Champs Elysses with a glass of champagne, knowing that I had just done all this, and I just smiled and said, ‘I guess that was worth it.’” lefulton@syr.edu

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student overdoses on Spice who needed to be taken to the hospital, said DPS Chief Tony Callisto.

Though DPS has not been called for any overdoses since, the two have prompted concern among university officials.

Prior to students returning to campus this semester, SU had not seen any cases of students using or overdosing on Spice, said Chris Cederquist, associate director of SU’s Counseling Center’s drug treatment program, Options.

“We’re brand newly aware of it and haven’t really run into anything in our world at this point,” Cederquist said in mid-August.

But in response to the two overdoses, Options organized an information session last week to educate the Division of Student Affairs about the drug, though Cederquist said his knowledge on Spice is primarily from online research.

Student access to Spice is relatively easy, as it is sold on Marshall Street at both Down Under Leather and Exscape. It runs at about $22 per gram. Both stores declined to comment for this article.

Typically, the drug is technically marketed as incense and has a warning label telling consumers it is not to be smoked. Yet many websites and head shops stock it next to tobacco and smoking paraphernalia, boasting of its potent effect upon smoking.

Because Spice is legal, the university cannot do anything to prevent it from being sold nearby, Callisto said.

The only thing campus safety can do is issue citations for students smoking Spice in their rooms, as smoking indoors is against the Student Code of Conduct, Callisto said.

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of Environmental Science and Forestry and the Upstate Medical University Hospital. SBI also hosts undergraduate and graduate research opportunities.

“It capitalizes on existing strengths in biomaterials that were already at SU,” said Jay Henderson, an assistant professor in SU’s Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. “It’s not starting from scratch. It’s building on.”

Undergraduate and graduate students will be able to use the lab as a shared space for studies on cell culture and tissue engineering, molecular biology, polymer synthesizing and polymer characterization, Henderson said.

Although the institute started in 2007, this will be the first time the institute has a physical location, Henderson said. The project was made possible in part through an alumnus gift, but he said he was unaware of the donated amount or overall project cost.

The SBI has been developing for some time, said Jeremy Gilbert, founder and professor of

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iSchool alumnus, and Mike Hoffman, SU graduate of 1993, also helped organize the contest alongside Frost, Rubin and Walas.

On Sept. 17, the deadline to enroll in the competition, each team will receive a problem it must solve. Over the course of two months, each group will draft proposals based on three criteria: creativity, practicality and professionalism, according to the MLB.com University Challenge website.

In mid-October, teams will have a teleconference with representatives of MLB.com to ask

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larly to alcohol. Intoxicated students on campus will receive citations, similarly to how someone over 21 who is intoxicated from alcohol would.

“Certainly the goal here is not to punish people, but more importantly, to educate them,” Callisto said. “That’s ultimately what we want. We want people to get treatment because this is a dangerous trend.”

The Office of Residence Life is treating Spice similarly to candles or incense, which students are not allowed to have in dorms, said Terra Peckskamp, director of residence life. Should it be found in a dorm room during a routine inspection or should a student be seen with it in the building, it will be confiscated and the student will be written up.

ORL has yet to confiscate any Spice from residents, Peckskamp said.

Taylor, the sophomore who tried Spice, said he believes the university is taking the most reasonable approach in treating Spice like alcohol, in light of Spice’s legality. But if it were plausible, he would like to see the university ban it.

Spice first landed on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s radar in March 2009 after Customs and Border Protection mistook it as a shipment of marijuana, said Michael Sanders, a DEA spokesman. It is currently listed as a “drug of concern” by the DEA. Spice does not show up on drug tests and smells like incense, traits that made the drug’s popularity rise. Because the popularity of Spice “took off like wildfire,” Sanders said the DEA is somewhat playing catch-up in studying and prohibiting it.

The active ingredients in most forms of Spice were first formulated in labs in the late 1980s for research purposes, Sanders said. There are currently five known variations of the synthetic drug, with only one, officially called HU-210, illegal under the Controlled Substances Act, as it con-

tains actual THC. Lawmakers are finding it difficult to make the drug illegal nationally because of the multiple, and somewhat unknown, chemicals used to make it, Sanders said. Should the DEA outlaw one form of Spice under the Controlled Substances Act, manufacturers could tweak one small compound to make the drug legal again. The DEA needs to figure out a way to word a law to cover all potential sets of compounds.

“This could be a revolving door of legislation,” Sanders said.

Some experts say Spice is more dangerous than marijuana. Dessa Bergen-Cico, a health and wellness professor in the College of Human Ecology who organized an August drug policy forum at SU, said the fact that Spice is synthetic increases its potential for harm.

“Don’t tamper with Mother Nature, so to speak,” she said. “Synthetic drugs are, in general, more dangerous because there aren’t the same control mechanisms for the production of it. In nature, there can be limited levels of potency, even though we may change the concentration higher, for example in marijuana plants.”

While Spice is still legal federally, many states have exercised their rights to ban it within their borders. Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia all outlawed Spice, according to an article published in The Washington Post on July 10. Mississippi also outlawed Spice on Aug. 27, according to The Reflector, Mississippi State University’s student newspaper.

As the New York Legislature continues considering a bill to legalize medical marijuana, a bill to ban the sale of Spice in New York is also currently under consideration by the state Senate, according to the Senate’s website. The bill would prohibit the sale of anything containing synthetic cannabinoids, define what compounds constitute

cannabinoids and impose a $500 civil penalty for violating the law.

“While producing a marijuana-like high, dangerous side effects reported include hallucinations, vomiting, agitation, increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure and other adverse conditions,” according to the justification section of the bill.

Multiple calls to the office of Sen. John Flanagan (R-Long Island), who sponsored the bill, were not returned for comment for this article.

Based on his experience, Taylor, who grew up being told a joint with dinner was as viable an option as a glass of wine, said he thinks Spice should be outlawed, as he does not see any potential therapeutic benefits from its use. It could be more harmful than harder drugs like cocaine, as it requires fewer quantities to overdose, he added.

“I think the one thing about Spice that maybe doesn’t make it as dangerous as those is the sense that you don’t need a lot to get hurt, but I think that also makes it more dangerous,” he said. “You could take one hit of this, and it could really ‘f’ you up.

Most people that experience overdoses on cocaine, it’s after they’ve done enough to write their name in it six times.”

But he said the harsh effects some of his friends experienced could be due to a bad reaction with prescriptions they were on, such as antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication.

Some of the friends he smoked with told him they would replace smoking marijuana with the new drug because it is cheaper, legal and easier to access.

Regardless, Taylor advised fellow classmates not to turn to Spice in search of a legal high.

“Is it really worth the possibility of sweating and getting yourself to the point of anxiety that you actually go to a hospital for it?” he said. “No, not at all. Nothing is worth that.”

biomaterials, in an e-mail.

Gilbert said SU did not have a biomaterials department before he arrived to SU in 1999. The following year, he and associate professor Julie Hasenwinkel developed The Biomaterials Group, a volunteer group of interested faculty and graduate and undergraduate students.

Gilbert said he began to advocate for an official campus-wide biomaterials initiative in 2004, when he was associate dean for research in the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science. When L.C. Smith received the Milt and Ann Stevenson Chair, its first endowed faculty chair, in 2006, the Department of Biomedical Engineering was able to seriously look into finding and recruiting Patrick Mather as director for the institute, Gilbert said.

He said SBI did not officially take shape until 2007. The Bowne construction will give the institute a place on campus, Gilbert said.

“The new space is definitely a way to give the institute a real home and to provide a focused, integrated and collaborative research environment,” Gilbert said.

Offices will occupy about a quarter of the third floor, and the entire fourth floor will be research

labs. Faculty and administrators will move in within the next few weeks, and labs and student offices will be occupied by the end of October.

Henderson and Gilbert will be joined in the building by SBI Director Patrick Mather, associate professor Julie Hasenwinkel and assistant professor Rebecca Bader.

The SBI will allow for a level of collaboration currently not practical, Henderson said.

The space is designed to encourage collaboration through interwoven public spaces and laboratories, Mather said in e-mail.

The university has maintained the historic architecture of Bowne, Mather said. The fourth floor will incorporate the building’s original high ceilings, and decorative steel trusses have stayed.

“We are very excited about the new space,” Mather said. “The equipment we have and the beautiful designed space will make it the preeminent location to conduct biomaterials research in our region, if not the entire nation.”

Mather said without the institute, local efforts to study science and technology in the field of biomaterials would be uncoordinated. With it, Mather said, the group is able to conduct research into topics like the development of smart medical

devices that can be deployed in the body upon command by a surgeon to heal an injury or treat a disease.

William Winter, a professor in the ESF department of chemistry, is studying polymers at the institute.

Winter said he expects SBI to be around for years to come and gain a positive national reputation.

“It’s a way to bring people together who have broad similar interests and also special interests,” Winter said.

Since the physical location will be at SU, it will primarily serve SU students and researchers, he said. Students will travel between labs at ESF or SU, depending on classes.

But Winter said the collaboration between the schools would be an asset to researchers and students involved, no matter which university they were associated with.

“This is a very good example of the kind of collaboration that strengthens the universities,” Winter said.

questions and clarify case studies.

“Students will have the ability to play the role as a consultant,” Walas said.

Final proposals will be submitted Nov. 12.

Later that month, selected members of each team will have a chance to travel to New York City and pitch their ideas to MLB executives who will be judging the contest.

The winning team’s idea could potentially become a stepping stone to improve MLB.com, Walas said.

“While we’re hoping to see a direct implementation of student ideas, it could just be the beginning, and it could develop into something different,” she said.

Members of the winning team will also

receive a subscription to MLB.TV Premium Yearly for the 2011 MLB season and merchandise from the MLB shop, according to the website.

Participating in the contest gives students a chance to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-life situations, travel to New York City and visit MLB.com facilities, meet staff members and Syracuse alumni, and learn about job opportunities.

“If they take it seriously, this could lead to internships and full-time jobs when they graduate,” said Jeff Rubin, a professor at the iSchool who helped organize the contest.

Eight teams of two to four members have entered the contest so far, and contest organiz-

ers hope to see 50 to 75 participants by the Sept.

17 deadline, Rubin said.

If the contest is a success, Walas said she hopes it can expand to the university as a whole, rather than just the iSchool. Although other companies are not currently being considered for contests, they could be involved in the future.

“Forces from other corporate companies might be interested in the future,” she said. “It has a lot of potential right now.”

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office on campus this summer after being located exclusively in New York City for almost a century.

NEF began in 1915 as a nonprofit organization working to stimulate economic development, public activism and education in Middle Eastern communities. The historic move to SU will open up a wealth of internship and volunteer opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.

NEF’s “board of directors wanted to affiliate with a university in order to engage the energy and excitement that students and faculty have,” said Charlie Benjamin, NEF’s president, whose new office is located in Crouse-Hinds Hall.

“We looked at several schools, but at the end of the search, SU was the very best fit,” he said.

SU attracted the foundation with its dedication to giving students hands-on field training abroad and in Syracuse, as well as its growing Middle Eastern studies and strong public administration

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“It’s incredible,” Shwidock said. “We’re really excited to expect such a high turnout and happy that students are just as excited as UU is.”

The diversity of this year’s lineup, which includes Lupe Fiasco, Passion Pit and Super Mash Bros., has contributed to the Juice Jam buzz.

“I’ve been a huge Passion Pit fan for a while, and I was shocked when I found out they were

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programs.

“We want to have young people involved. They have a creativity, energy and idealism that is in line with the program’s goals,” Benjamin said.

NEF works by developing and implementing grassroots programs that are tailored for the community in need, he said.

Before becoming president, Benjamin worked as the country director in Morocco. A program began there in the 90s to help undo the stigma of sending girls of rural Morocco to school.

“Cultural and social norms prevented girls from going to school,” he said. “In very remote areas, there was an average of 10 percent of girls attending primary schools. For boys, it was in the 50 percent range. Many parents were reluctant to send their girls to coed schools.

Parents thought they were protecting the honor of their daughters.”

The Moroccan branch of NEF evaluated the need and developed a program that would build schools, train older women as community role

models and teach parents about the importance of sending their children to primary school.

By 2009, the number of girls enrolled in elementary school was at 98 percent, and the completion rate was 95 percent, Benjamin said.

Besides Morocco, NEF has bases in Mali, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan and the West Bank, as well as staff working in Armenia. Programs vary greatly from region to region, some enterprise-oriented, others focused on education or youth empowerment.

Benjamin said the foundation has been very flexible in how student interns and volunteers get involved.

An intern from Elon University in North Carolina received a grant to spend the summer with NEF in Jordan. She used the opportunity to take photographs, create photo stories and write a blog about her experiences in the developing area.

If they find the means, students from a range of majors and specialties can become involved in the organization, Benjamin said.

Other internships have been more conventional, such as paid and volunteer program managers.

Since coming to SU, Benjamin has taken on several undergraduate interns from the university who are project managers in the SU office.

Most internships are on a volunteer basis, but many of SU’s colleges and programs have grant money available that could provide the means to travel to and work at an NEF base abroad, Benjamin said. NEF also budgets for a number of grants for graduate students.

NEF’s presence on campus will also benefit faculty, said William Sullivan, assistant dean of Maxwell. Sullivan predicts professors will become more involved with the organization over time and will be able to utilize the foundation as a teaching resource, he said.

“We also believe that as the partnership strengthens,” Sullivan said, “we will be able to collaborate on funding proposals from which both the university and the foundation will benefit.”

playing at Juice Jam,” said Vania Myers, a freshman magazine journalism major. “I like that the bands aren’t all mainstream. We have the radio for that. Juice Jam is going to be a success, and I’m sure that I won’t be disappointed.”

Other students, like Gerald Obah, a junior marketing and supply chain management major, said they were surprised by the sellout.

Obah planned on buying a ticket Wednesday after class, until he found out at around 2 p.m. the concert was sold out. Obah waited until Wednesday to buy a ticket because he did not think the lineup was enough to entice a sold-out

crowd.

“This year’s lineup is just kind of ‘eh,’” he said.

Though Obah is not thrilled about the lineup, he said it will be weird not attending, as he went his previous two years at SU. Now, he said he will have to resort to asking around to see if anyone has an extra ticket.

“At the same time, I’m not going to lose sleep about not getting a ticket,” he said.

Other students said they are excited to hear the bands, but also to spread the word about their clubs and organizations, as student groups often set up tables at Juice Jam. “I’m hoping it will be better than last year because the lineup was a little lackluster, in my opinion,” said Aspen Debyah, a sophomore magazine journalism and retail management major. “But I’m excited to see Super Mash Bros. and be able to spread the word about Pi Beta Phi recruitment while I’m there.”

The weather may put a bit of a literal damper on the event, as the current forecast for Sunday

predicts temperatures in the mid-60s and a 50 percent chance of rain.

The Department of Public Safety will work with Chestnut Street Security, Inc. and the special events staff at the Schine Student Center to enforce Juice Jam safety policies.

“Juice Jam is a reoccurring event, so we already have a good security plan in place,” said Capt. John Sardino of DPS, who is in charge of safety for the event.

Students will not be allowed to bring backpacks into the event. DPS will check IDs to ensure everyone in attendance is part of the SU community, as well as monitor the perimeter to make sure no one sneaks in.

He said there will also be a command center set up to address any medical problems that may arise. “We’ll be closely monitoring the event from start to finish,” he said.

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nies like Chesapeake Energy and Halliburton, she said.

Glance, Valesky and others want to stop the rush of hydraulic fracturing and properly assess the risks and hazards associated with the process.

“The gas isn’t going anywhere,” Valesky said. “While there are potential economic benefits, it is important we ensure the safety of our public drinking water.”

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organizer of the event.

“The process uses millions of gallons of water laced with a cocktail of chemicals, many of which are known cancer-causing agents,” Glance said.

Glance said hydrofracking companies have their sights set on New York, which is abundant in natural gas. Current New York policies make New York attractive for drilling compa-

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ith zero sisters and a house not yet ready for members, the women’s fraternity Alpha Gamma Delta is trying to develop its future pledge class.

The group is meeting with interested girls later this month to join, but it won’t be the rush system typical of Syracuse University, and some SU sorority girls have mixed opinions on whether the new fraternity’s system will work.

The fraternity will be recruiting interested girls from meetings and interviews held in buildings around campus, not the house where the girls will live, said Jill Harter, the fraternity’s director of communications.

That’s because freshmen girls currently live in the fraternity’s future house: Butterfield House on Comstock Avenue. The group is planning to renovate the house and move its new members there in fall 2011.

For recruitment, the group will hold two events on Sept. 28 and 29 to casually meet interested girls, Harter said. During the three days after that, the fraternity will hold 30-minute individual interviews with the girls to tell them about the fraternity.

Three of the fraternity’s staff members came on the SU campus before school started to reach out to students and campus officials, Harter said. The staff members are trying to go to high-traffic pedestrian areas and hand out cards about open house events.

“It’s all about building relationships,” Harter said, estimating staff members have talked to nearly 500 students so far.

Being able to start the chapter on campus again is something attractive for prospective members, said Hilary Zimmerman, the fraternity’s extension specialist and one of the staff members on the SU campus.

“You get to start new,” she said. “You get to kind of create your experience.”

The fraternity staff will try to hold interviews with prospective girls in buildings near other sorority houses and within close walking distance, Zimmerman said.

But some SU sorority members don’t think Alpha Gamma Delta will necessarily have an easy transition.

“I think that they’re going to have a really

illustration by michelle estrella | contributing illustrator hard time,” said Anna Baek, a sister in Alpha Chi Omega.

She questioned where the women’s fraternity would have chapter meetings if it got girls to join.

Seeing the house where the new girls could live if they join a particular sorority is also an important part of the fi nal decision, Baek said.

“It’s something that sticks out in their head,” Baek said. “And they’ll remember.”

But other sorority members said the house will not be the fi nal decision in a girl’s soror-

ity choice.

“It’s not really the house,” said Jill Gennaco, a sophomore sister in Delta Delta Delta.

“It’s more of the people you meet.”

She said her sorority had received e-mails about Alpha Gamma Delta, and some greek members had dinner with the fraternity’s staff this semester.

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keith edelman | contributing photographer Ryan novak, a senior management major and owner of Chocolate Pizza Company in Marcellus, N.Y., smooths out one of the company’s signature chocolate pizzas.

By Aaron Gould Asst. Feature Editor

ew things have remained constant in Ryan Novak’s life. Chocolate happens to be one of them.

Strapped in a stroller at 18 months, Novak’s mother took him to the quaint chocolate shop right across the street from his Marcellus, N.Y., home. A toddler with a sweet tooth for gourmet confections, Novak would reach above the counter, feeling around for the sample tray until he found the perfect treat. Trips to the Chocolate Pizza Company became a habit as the store gained small-town popularity.

Four years later, he lost his mother in a tragic accident. Novak was faced with a traumatic experience that forever changed his life when he was just 5 years old. But he refused to let it slow him down. The chocolate shop was still in town, the experience still a part of his daily life.

Now a senior management major, Novak owns and operates the nationally recognized Chocolate Pizza Company in Marcellus his mother brought him to so many years ago.

Bonnie Hanyak, a lifelong family friend and Novak’s co-manager, built the business from the ground 22 years ago. She never thought she would hand her business to someone so young, she said, but she can’t deny he is the right man for the job.

“I must say that I have nothing but sheer joy and excitement for him. He’s young, he’s ambitious, he’s energetic, he’s got all kinds of ideas taking (the store) to levels I could never do,” Hanyak said.

Chocolate pizza, which is chocolate blended with toffee and other ingredients in the shape

SU student turns childhood passion into sweet career of a pizza, is a sweet symbol of what Novak has gone through to get to this point. The store sells thousands of “pizzas” per month during the Christmas season and closer to 800 over the summer. They also sell “wings” (potato chips dipped in chocolate and peanut butter), along with many other chocolate confections. Customers often buy the pizza as gifts or for corporate events.

Whether it’s tossing chocolate pizza or kicking field goals, when Novak puts his mind to something, he follows through.

“He’s really motivated and very dedicated.

Whenever he gets an idea, he sticks to it and follows it through. Which explains the whole chocolate business,” said Christie Yesersky, a graduate accounting student and friend of Novak since their freshmen year.

Chris Novak, Ryan’s father, recalls taking his son all around the country in pursuit of a football career. Ryan was a place-kicker with dreams of playing college ball when he graduated from Marcellus High School in 2006. He was a hard worker, took pride in the game and always gave it his all, his father said. But once again, routine was too much to ask for.

Ryan suffered a leg injury that hurt his chances of playing. After an unsuccessful transfer to Temple University his junior year, he knew he had to make a choice. His football career had come to a dead end. He turned to his next greatest passion, something that had been there all along: the Chocolate Pizza Company.

“I love the Chocolate Pizza Company; it’s a great product. We’re gonna make it national, we’re gonna go huge with it,” Ryan said. “So I just put all my eggs in one basket and started see candy man page 16

Stop exaggerating, your story isn’t nearly as cool as Nickelback’s demise

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ords are tough. The cast of “Jersey Shore” shows us this on a weekly basis. Still, little linguistic pet peeves manage to infiltrate our conversations daily. The ways in which other people’s language can grate our psyches like blocks of delicious sharp cheddar are abundant.

Personally, hyperbole is the bane of my linguistic existence. Our culture’s love of hyperbole reeks of the same foul passion that exists between Flavor Flav and his legion of skanks. It’s gross, it needs to be stopped, and we really, really, really need to stop encouraging it. One word reigns as the fascist dictator of this putrid realm.

“Ever.”

Maybe people are oblivious to the fact,

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your favorite – be honest word is being thrown around with all the grace and precision of Stephen Hawking on the dance floor. The word encompasses that broad period of time we refer to as the past. Yet, most of the time when I hear it spewing forth from a peer’s mouth, it emerges with all the recklessness of a junkie tweaking on crystal meth while driving on black ice in a whiteout

blizzard.

How many times have you had this conversation?

Peer: “Oh man, the funniest thing ever happened to me today.”

Me: “Do tell.”

Peer: “Well, I was walking up the stairs to my class, and my prof was walking in front of me. He was carrying a big stack of papers and talking on his cell phone, so he wasn’t paying total attention to where he was walking. All of a sudden, he clips a stair with his toe and totally eats it! The papers fly everywhere!”

Me: “So, in your view, that is the funniest thing ever? Nothing in the history of time, or at least in your life scope of reference, has compared to this glorious lack of balance? The

great Shakespearean comedies, the slapstick timing of the Three Stooges, the vast sea of television sitcoms, Ron Burgundy’s poor choice of milk on a hot San Diegan day — all these (and many more) pale in comparison to this tumble. Or so your verbiage denotes.”

Now this reaction may seem harsh, but “ever” carries such substantial weight.

Maybe the following line of thought will ring truer for the college crowd.

“Dude, you should’ve come out with us last night. It was, like, the best night ever!”

“Really, what happened?”

“Aw bro, like everyone was there. And we got super wasted. Bobby passed out, and we drew on him with a marker. Or at least I think see sommerfeld page 13

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Best Fall Seasonals

As Autumn starts to set in, we transition of from light summery beers, to spiced, warmer beers. Many brewers have seasonal releases and have already made the switch.

These Oktoberfest ales and Pumpkin Ales are some of the best seasonal style beers.

They go great with Thanksgiving and holiday season meals and add a nice complexity compared to summer beers. Here are some that you need to keep your eyes and taste buds at the ready for.

Sam Adams Octoberfest

Brewery: Boston Beer Company (Samuel Adams), Mass.

This may be the worst beer Saranac offers.

Unlike the Sam Adams and Punkin Ale, this Oktoberfest-style ale tastes like plain Saranac Ale with some added spices and honey. It has an artificial tasting spice mix like prepackaged pumpkin muffin mix. It is extremely sweet to the point that is hard to drink. Stay as far away from this meager attempt at a seasonal transition beer.

Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Milton, Del. Cost: $9.99/ 4 pack 12 oz. each

Cost: $7.99/6 pack 12 oz. each

ABV: 7.0%

ABV: 5.4%

My Rating: 3/4 mugs

My Rating: 3.5/4 mugs

This is the best Sam Adams seasonal beer by far. Maybe, even favorite Sam Adams in general! It is dark copper colored and with first pour, you smell caramel sweetness and a little nuttiness. It has a lot of winter spices like nutmeg and cinnamon hiding in the back with very little bitterness on the finish.

I recommend this to anyone interested in a mild and slightly sweet and filling winter style ale.

Saranac Oktoberfest

Brewery: Matt Brewing Company (Saranac), Utica, N.Y. Cost: $7.49/6 pack 12 oz. each ABV: 5.4%

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While the other two beers were Oktoberfest style ales, this is a pure Punkin Ale style. It has a higher alcohol content than you would expect, but hides it well, meaning it won’t taste like a shot of liquor going down. Dogfish head calls it “a full-bodied brown ale brewed with real pumpkin, brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg.” It is definitely flavorful without being overly sweet. It costs considerably more than the other two, but the quality shows. No other brewery in the US uses real ingredients to the extent that Dogfish Head does. I recommend this for anyone wanting a nice complement to Thanksgiving type desserts or sides.

—Compiled by Lucas Sacks, contributing writer, ldsacks@syr.edu

we did. I blacked out some time after midnight and woke up face-down on the floor.”

Really? That kind of sounds like a minor variation on the same story you told last weekend, and the weekend before that, and the weekend before that…

The best night ever would be far more epic in scale. Perhaps your favorite band’s van would break down outside your house, leading to a killer house show. Immediately following the set, Nickelback’s tour bus breaks down in front of your place, only it bursts into a ball of fire. You and all your pals then proceed to roast marshmallows for s’mores over the flames to celebrate the resulting miracle.

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Then you finally get up the gumption to talk to the girl/guy you’ve been crushing on all semester, and the feeling is mutual.

Everyone cleans up before they bolt, so you’re not forced deal with the mess in the morning. Nobody has an aching hangover when the sun rises. And there’d be balloons because, obviously, the best night ever would have balloons. Something like that could warrant best night ever. Any less than that, and I refuse to buy it.

So I ask you — nay, beg you — to strike the hyperbole of “ever” from your vocabulary.

Doing so would be the best thing ever. … Damn it.

Seth Sommerfeld is a graduate student in the Goldring Arts Journalism Program and the humor columnist. His columns appear weekly, and he can be reached at srsommer@ syr.edu. Dakota Fanning is slated to star as Seth in his upcoming biopic.

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asked behind expressive depictions of the Italian countryside and smooth tracking shots, “The American” contains just the slightest semblance of a plot. The atmospheric tension director Anton Corbijn creates is gripping, though he’s susceptible to prolonged, meaningless sequences with the hope that they will be mistaken for an artist’s imprint.

“The American” may be one of the most artistically accomplished wide releases in a while, but its boldness does not sufficiently compensate for its lack of depth.

Seeking solace in a small Italian village after a bloody ordeal in Sweden, contract killer Jack (George Clooney) agrees to the small but lucrative task of assembling a powerful firearm for a fellow assassin. Posing as a photographer named Edward, the tight-lipped killer finds comfort in the company of Father Benedetto (Paolo Bonacelli), who entreats him to turn to God. Jack further compromises his identity when he falls for a prostitute, the sweet and caring Clara (Violante Placido), who may pose the greatest threat to his safety.

Corbijn’s stylized aesthetic is captivating at times, but the sparseness of the plot makes it difficult for one to buy into his approach. A master at gleaning lushness from seemingly empty scenery, Corbijn is at his finest. He utilizes perfectly composed close-ups to illuminate Clooney’s displeasure with his lifestyle and profession. Corbijn is blessed to have a gorgeous region near Rome as his canvas, though he thrives in intimate surroundings, where he gives life to less-thanexciting environments.

If only he could depict true intimacy with the same expertise. The director’s sense of space and form is impressive, but his breathtaking visuals are rendered worthless by a wafer-thin storyline and inadequate character development.

Corbijn’s portrayal of Jack is cold and ultimately distancing, failing to offer the audience with a single reason as to why he or she should care whether Jack lives or dies. Corbijn is obsessed with Jack’s secretive, suspicious nature, though his actions become redundant as his air of mysteriousness slowly fogs up. Even if Corbijn simply wants the audience to relish observing Jack, the character is just too dull and lifeless.

A movie star of George Clooney’s stature is not programmed to play an unpleasant bore. While his talent suggests he’s capable of tackling any role, his performance is weak as an assassin devoid of character. Clooney is great at projecting a quiet intensity, but he struggles through playing a character with a nonexistent personality.

The beloved Academy Award winner, in his formfitting zip-up sweaters and perfectly tailored suits, truly looks like an American James Bond. His persona, however, hardly suits the role. Assassins are generally introverted, but in “The American,” Jack makes the Bourne trilogy character Jason Bourne look like Gene Kelly in “Singin’ in the Rain.”

Corbijn deserves praise for imbuing a major release with admirable artistic integrity, but he’s just too ambitious. The Dutch filmmaker aspires to compound a masterpiece from a story that never should have been transposed to the screen, impressing with his brash style, but floundering in his own ego. “The American” could have been a fine romance or an exciting action movie. Corbijn thought it could be both, but wound up with neither. smlittma@syr.edu

“THE AMERICAN” Director: Anton Corbijn

Cast: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli Rating:

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working here.”

Hanyak hired him at age 15, but by then, Novak already knew the business well. Novak and his friends would stop by on a regular basis, seeing if Hanyak needed help moving or lifting anything heavy, he said.

Opening such a successful business close to home has made him a recognizable face in the community and a source of pride for his father.

“From a family perspective, it’s a dream to have him close by and participating in the town he was raised in,” Chris said.

Novak balances his school life, his growing business and his family life extremely well, his father said. Ryan has a seven-year-old brother, whom he comes home to see as often possible, playing Wii or catch with him, he said.

There were times when Ryan could have stopped persevering. But those close to him know quitting isn’t exactly his style.

Zach Goldstein, a senior entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major, lived on the floor below Ryan in Day Hall during his freshman year, and they have been friends ever since. It didn’t take long for him to recognize what is perhaps Ryan’s strongest quality.

“He absolutely has the drive. He was like ‘I’m going to be running this chocolate pizza company, just you wait,’” Goldstein said. “I said that this couldn’t be real. There’s no way this kid is going to end up taking over this company. And it happened, he was right.

I think he can pretty much do whatever he wants right now.”

Ryan’s time at SU has given him applicable workplace knowledge that has helped him run

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day-to-day operations at the Chocolate Pizza Company. His supply chain management class taught him to smooth out the shop’s daily operations. Some things can’t be taught in a classroom, though, he said.

“You can try to teach (entrepreneurship) in a class, but you really can’t do it until you’re actually out there working with people,” Novak said.

“We have 12 employees, and all of them are older than me. That can be a challenge sometimes, because sometimes not everyone wants to listen to a 21-year-old.”

“From a family perspective, it’s a dream to have him close by and participating in the town he was raised in.”

-Christopher Novak

Ryan novak’s father

With a new store opening up Oct. 1 in Manlius, Ryan hopes to expand his business around the country. Growth of the Chocolate Pizza Company is one change he can not only see coming, but welcomes.

“He understands that life is full of blessing and tears, and he’s had plenty of both,” his father said. “But he focuses on the blessings.

Whether its football, business, school or life, he understands that adversity is part of the journey. It either crushes you or makes you stronger, and he’s chosen to get stronger.” akgould@syr.edu

Public forum hopes to brighten downtown area

By Katie Marren Contributing Writer

Local organizations are calling on community members to literally change the way people see Syracuse.

Imagining America, together with CNYSpeaks and the New York Council for the What: Imagining Humanities, will hold America Forum a forum Friday at 5 Where: The p.m. at downtown’s Warehouse When: Friday, 5 p.m. Warehouse to discuss ways to make SyraHow much: Free cuse a more culturally vibrant city.

Many different kinds of cultural expression will be explored, including gospel choirs, community gardens and different types of cooking, said director of Imagining America and Syracuse University professor Jan Cohen-Cruz.

Imagining America is a SU-based program meant to democratize the arts in cities around college campuses, said Greg Munno, project manager of CNYSpeaks, a local organization focused on using community dialogue to help improve the visual aspects of the city. The Creative City Forum will take the spirit of Imagining America and pair it with the mission of CNYSpeaks, Cohen-Cruz said.

“We tend to live segregated lives. There’s not much pleasurable exchange across race, age, class,” Cohen-Cruz said.

Maria Rosario Jackson of the Urban Institute, a national organization that collects data on social and economic issues, will talk for half an hour about her research on designing public spaces that can be used creatively. Issues, such as economic development, crime and safety, arts and aesthetics, parking and transportation, will be discussed.

Graduate student facilitators from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs will then break up into groups to discuss Jackson’s ideas to get people to see how relevant they are to Syracuse, Cohen-Cruz said. After the event, the student facilitators will conduct a group Q-and-A session.

“We’re interested in getting people talking about what would make Syracuse a better place, a more inclusive, more vibrant, more artistic place,” Munno said.

Kelley Wares, a freshman entrepreneurship major, said she thinks it will be beneficial

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to make downtown more colorful and exciting.

“It’s kind of dull downtown,” Wares said.

“I’d like to see cleaner-looking buildings, more colorful.”

Maggie Chen, an undecided freshman in the School of Information Studies, said her impression of downtown was that it wasn’t as fun or exciting as New York City, her hometown.

Munno hopes these initiatives will be able to chip away at the feeling of deadness the city can sometimes have.

“People want to see businesses, galleries and interesting things taking place in the street-level spaces that aren’t being utilized,” he said.

Students have different ideas for making Syracuse more engaging.

Sean Silva, a senior finance and public relations major, lived in Syracuse during the summer. He said there were a lot of exciting events while he was in the city, but no one at the university was made aware of them.

Chen suggested adding more attractions for students to enjoy downtown. “I think, in addition to there being more student activities for us, it will bring us closer to the community,” she said.

Lauren Kinsler, a Syracuse resident, said the area near the university and the hospitals used to be Jewish and African-American neighborhoods, complete with jazz clubs and other attractions. The areas were deemed “undesirable” and were bought out to build Interstate 81.

“Downtown’s kind of a weird place,” Kinsler said. “It doesn’t feel like there’s much of a community connecting everything that is there. The big problem with Syracuse is that so many people, like myself, are temporarily here. Although people see the problems and would like solutions, it is difficult to become involved in solving them in a relatively small amount of time.”

Students are invited to attend the event and should not feel required to know about the city or about art to participate, Munno said. The goal of the initiative is to make Syracuse a better city in which to live and enjoy.

“A great city is a place that, no matter what time of day,” he said, “there is something going on to engage you.” kjmarren@syr.edu

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Freshman safety Joyce impresses in debut for South Florida

By Mark Cooper ASST. COPY EDITOR

Mark Joyce is just a true freshman.

He’s just the second-string free safety on South Florida’s 2-deep depth chart this season.

But he made sure to make the most of his opportunities Saturday against Stony Brook.

On the opening kickoff, Joyce got down the field to tackle the Seawolves’ Brock Jackolski at his own 25-yard line, limiting him to a 15-yard return.

And he wasn’t close to being done.

In the third quarter, Joyce turned a deflected pass into six points, as he ran his first career interception 33 yards to the end zone. His two tone-setting plays helped the Bulls cruise to an easy 59-14 win in the season opener. “I just happened to be in the right place and took it to the house,� Joyce said. “When I scored, I ran over to the student section, so that was an exciting thing. My teammates came over and knocked me down.�

It was a game of debuts for South Florida on Saturday, as it was also the first game for Skip Holtz as the Bulls head coach. Holtz was hired this offseason, leaving his position as head coach of East Carolina to join the Big East.

But Joyce’s debut turned out to be the most prolific. He did everything a coach could have asked of him — hustled down the field on special teams, played well in his spots on defense. When he got his big opportunity, he made sure to make it count.

It was certainly a treat for Joyce’s family,

who were in the stands. The safety said his mom, dad, brother, aunt, uncle and cousin were all in attendance. “They came to my room (after the game) and they were all excited, hyped up,� Joyce said.

In order to get the season started on the right foot, Holtz relied on some other newcomers. The three true freshmen on South Florida’s depth chart — Joyce, quarterback Bobby Eveld and wide receiver Stephen Bravo-Brown — all got significant playing time.

Eveld completed his first eight passes of his collegiate career, finishing 9-for-12 for 119 yards and a touchdown. Bravo-Brown finished second on the team with four receptions for 48 yards.

They were the debuts Holtz was looking for out of the true freshmen, as he gave South Florida fans the debut they were looking for.

And of course, Joyce met his coach’s expectations and exceeded them. It’s certainly not a common feat for a true freshman to score a touchdown on defense in his first career action. “He’s one of those guys that when you sit down and you look at whether or not you redshirt a freshman or you play him, you have to look at not only his athletic ability and how he can help the team,� Holtz said in a Big East coaches conference call Monday. “But where he is from a physical standpoint and where he is from a maturity standpoint, Mark is a really good football player. He’s got a good sense of the game, and he’s a very talented player. “I think he’s got the chance to be a special player here, as he continues to mature and develop.�

“I just happened to be in the right place, and took it to the house.�

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falling to Kentucky 23-16.

For a conference hoping to make some noise in 2010, it wasn’t the start it was looking for.

Pittsburgh running back Dion Lewis, a Heisman Trophy candidate, was held to 75 yards and a touchdown on 25 carries. The Bearcats loss to Fresno State snapped an 18-game regular season winning streak dating back to October 2008.

Big East doesn’t play “big� in openers

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To say the Big East struggled in Week One would be an understatement.

Three of the top four teams in the Big East preseason poll lost this past week, as Pittsburgh, Connecticut and Cincinnati failed to win games on the road. In fact, Syracuse was the only team in the Big East to defeat a Football Bowl Subdivision team. The conference went 1-4 against FBS opponents.

Pittsburgh, the preseason pick to win the conference, lost 27-24 to Utah on Thursday. “I was disappointed that we didn’t play better,� said Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt in a Big East coaches conference call Monday. “We gave up two easy scores on defense because of mental mistakes, really. Offensively, we were so good last year in the red zone, and twice (Thursday) we were inside the 10, and we settled for field goals rather than touchdowns.

On Saturday, UConn was blown out by Michigan 30-10, and defending Big East champion Cincinnati blew an early 14-point lead in a 28-14 loss to Fresno State. Louisville was the other team in the conference to lose to a FBS team,

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It was a beauty of a touchdown, though: an 80-yard run on the first play from scrimmage after a Wildcats field goal. The touchdown run also set a record for longest rush of Powell’s career. “Bilal has been solid ever since I got here in the spring,� Louisville coach Charlie Strong said. “(He’s) just a solid football player. Works hard, doesn’t say much. Just leads by example.� mcooperj@syr.edu

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SU has had a taste of Locker before. Last time, it was the start of something big for Locker, and it was the continuation of a long trend downward for Syracuse football under former head coach Greg Robinson.

Locker, then a redshirt freshman, torched the Orange in the first Friday night game ever in the Carrier Dome, using his wheels to open up the field. He rushed for 83 yards and two touchdowns, completing 14-of-19 passes along the way, in a 42-12 thrashing of SU. Derrell Smith remembers. He was a redshirt freshman in 2007, and a running back at that, the last time the Orange saw Locker.

Smith recalls the game vividly, admittedly

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ness. It’s swagger,” Thomas said. “Marrone and Shafer always talk about our ‘swag.’ … We don’t fear anybody, we will play whoever is in front of us and we are going to grind.”

Jake, here comes the grind. And here comes the camera. The Camera Club, that is.

It’s an actual entity which stems from the game to the game tape where SU defensive coordinator Scott Shafer mandates that, depending on the situation, seven or 11 of SU’s defenders are within the focus of the camera by the end of the play.

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because he had a numbing headache for much of the following week from cut blocking a Washington defensive end. But he also remembers standing on the sidelines and watching Locker.

“I do remember Jake Locker’s first game,” Smith said. “He was extremely fast. I just remember that. We definitely won’t take his speed lightly.”

That speed is something that sets Locker apart. It’s the reason SU defensive coordinator Scott Shafer “looks like he does,” tired and coughing profusely between answers from a sleepless half-week of game planning for Locker.

What makes Locker so hard to defend, Shafer says, is his speed. Scrambling, he can turn a four-second play into an eight-second play, resulting in more ground for the line and linebackers to cover and more time for each member

of the secondary to mark its man.

And so, the matchup Shafer is keying on in his preparation is, to him, an obvious one.

“Locker on all 11 (SU defenders),” Shafer said. “He’s a guy that can take a play you have defended really well and move the pocket with his feet. … There’s a reason why he’s one of the top one, two or three quarterbacks in the nation.

He’s the guy that keeps me up.”

With much of the concern on Locker in the Syracuse locker room, it’s not completely onesided.

In the early stages of watching film and preparing to rebound from a 23-17 loss to BYU last week, Locker realizes he is going up against what looks like a vastly improving defense. Last season, SU finished 37th in total defense. This year, after pummeling the Zips, the Orange stands ninth.

“They’re fast,” Locker said in a teleconfer-

ence Monday. “They play hard. They get to the ball and make plays. From what I’ve seen, they’re just going to line up and play. They’re not going to do a whole lot of tricky stuff. …

We’re going to have to do a good job on offense to move the ball on them.”

And while Locker familiarizes himself with the opposing squad, the Orange defense is getting to know him, too. After a week of preparation for that key matchup of one-on-11, it’s safe to say every single member of the Syracuse defense knows Jake Locker.

Even if they don’t know it’s Jake.

“We all know Jake Locker,” Shafer said.

“Everybody in America does. … So I’m sure Chandler knows that (now).”

Added Shafer, smirking: “I know one thing. I know it’s Jake.”

hand in hand with that Marrone and Shafer professed “swag.”

“Swagger is huge, as far as the defense,” Jones said. “Coach Shafer has asked for all 11 guys to be in The Camera Club. … We make a tackle to intimidate the offense.”

Here comes the intimidation.

Intimidation is a word that surfaces with this defense. It is about changing minds. Changing the opposition’s minds. And ultimately, changing America’s mind. Even though it should be changed already.

This is an SU team that returns 10 starters from a unit that finished first in the Big East in rush defense last year. This is a unit that is ready to make another jump after leaping from triple digits nationally in rush defense, tackles

for loss and sacks to the top 15 in all of those categories in 2009.

But numbers lead to speculation. And though pregame talk can lead to speculation as well, there is one huge difference between speculation from numbers to speculation from players. The verbiage of the members of this defense comes directly from their mouths, and their minds, just days prior to the actual game.

“Why can’t we be the No. 1 defense in the country?” Thomas said. “We watched BYU on defense.

I think we are better than them on defense. We fly to the ball better, we cover better.”

Jake, here come the droves. Here comes the Camera. Here comes the “swag.”

Sure, Thomas and company believe Locker is a “smart” quarterback, the best they have

faced since arriving at Syracuse. The respect is there.

But the respect isn’t there for this SU defense, yet. Come Saturday, it finally will be.

Here it comes: the change in the minds. And the punch in the mouth.

The SU defense doesn’t even have to think about it. It took Thomas all of six seconds on Wednesday to settle on a point total for the Huskies: 14.

There it is, Jake. Now, here they come. Better brace.

Said Thomas: “We are going to hit him: sacks, smacks, knock him out of bounds.

“Change his mind.”

bplogiur@syr.edu

Tony Olivero is an assistant sports editor at The Daily Orange where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at aolivero@syr.edu.

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KEY MATCHUPS

BIG EAST STANDINGS THROUGH WEEK 1

SYRACUSE DEFENSE

JAKE LOCKER QB

DA’MON MERKERSON CB

This is how defensive coordinator Scott Shafer is preparing his unit this week. With Locker’s all-around ability, each and every member of the defense will have to keep one eye on him at all times.

BY THE NUMBERS

JERMAINE KEARSE WR

DELONE CARTER RB

Kearse had 108 yards receiving last week and is Locker’s main option in the passing game. Merkerson will have to shut him down for SU to have a chance.

MASON FOSTER OLB

VAN CHEW WR

Carter had 91 yards last week against Akron, but he grinded for every single one of them.

Against a much better defense that includes the tackling machine Foster, stepping up and becoming the guy on offense is key for Carter.

QUINTON RICHARDSON CB

After one game, it’s already clear that Chew has the potential to be the deep, go-to threat for Ryan Nassib. Again, like the rest of the offense, the question is whether he can do it against a much better defense.

STARTING LINEUPS

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24

32 6

5.6

54 56

15

11

25 94

65

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51

35

99 71

4

9

73

61

10

WASHINGTON ON OFFENSE

2

The number of pointafter-attempts SU starting kicker Ross Krautman failed to convert against Akron last week.

8

6

9

The number – out of 120 – in national ranking for the amount of true freshman the Orange played in its first game of the season, 10. Florida is No. 1 in the nation with 15. SU is No. 1 in the Big East.

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87

41

31 74

75

99 70 12

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Cincinnati

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Connecticut

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Louisville

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Pittsburgh

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BIG EAST SCHEDULE Friday, Sept. 10 Marshall at West Virginia,

7 p.m.

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WASHINGTON DEFENSE 92 DE Everrette Thompson 74 DT Alameda Ta’amu 99 DT Cameron Elisara 11 DE Talia Crichton 40 OLB Mason Foster 31 ILB Cort Dennison 41 OLB Victor Aiyewa 28 CB Quinton Richardson 6 CB Desmond Trufant 8 SS Nate Williams 29 FS Nate Fellner

South Florida at Florida,

12:20 p.m.

Indiana State at Cincinnati,

Noon

Texas Southern at Connecticut,

Noon

New Hampshire at Pittsburgh,

1 p.m.

Eastern Kentucky at Louisville,

3:30 p.m.

Syracuse at Washington,

7 p.m.

Rutgers at Florida International,

8 p.m.

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

28 74

Washington 21, Syracuse 20

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ANDREW L. JOHN

3 SYRACUSE OFFENSE 12 QB Ryan Nassib 3 RB Delone Carter 15 WR Alec Lemon 82 WR Van Chew 87 WR Aaron Weaver 85 TE Jose Cruz 67 LT Justin Pugh 75 LG Zack Chibane 70 C Ryan Bartholomew 66 RG Andrew Tiller 74 RT Michael Hay

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West Virginia

The last time the Orange played Locker, SU did not have any collegiate tape of the quarterback to watch. As a result, Greg Robinson and SU watched Locker’s high school tape to prepare for the 42-12 loss in 2007.

29 40

15

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Syracuse

Heisman Trophy candidate Jake Locker made his first collegiate start in 2007 as a redshirt freshman versus the Orange. In the game in the Carrier Dome, Locker finished 14-of-19 with 142 yards through the air and 83 on the ground, propelling the Huskies to a 42-12 win.

1

The number of yards Jake Locker — who runs a 4.3-second 40-yard dash — averaged per attempt on the ground in the Huskies loss to BYU last week. His longest run was a gain of only nine.

South Florida

DID YOU KNOW?

47

2.6

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1

The number of times Akron drove into the Orange redzone in last week’s 29-3 loss for the Zips.

Rutgers

WASHINGTON OFFENSE 10 QB Jake Locker 1 RB Chris Polk 47 FB Austin Sylvester 15 WR Jermaine Kearse 9 WR Devin Aguilar 4 TE Chris Izbicki 56 LT Senio Kelemete 65 LG Ryan Tolar 73 C Drew Schaefer 61 RG Gregory Christine 71 RT Cody Habben

SYRACUSE DEFENSE 54 DE Mikhail Marinovich 94 NT Bud Tribbey 51 DT Andrew Lewis 99 DE Chandler Jones 11 SLB Marquis Spruill 25 MLB Derrell Smith 32 WLB Doug Hogue 6 H Da’Mon Merkerson 35 CB Mike Holmes 24 SS Max Suter 1 FS Phillip Thomas

BRETT LOGIURATO

The Orange definitely has a shot here, but winning on the West Coast could be an even bigger challenge than containing Jake Locker.

Washington 24, Syracuse 14

With a methodical, consistent approach on offense and a bigplay defense that has become expected, it wouldn’t be crazy to see SU win this game. In the end, SU just isn’t at Washington’s level yet.

Washington 17, Syracuse 13

TONY OLIVERO

If SU is to win, it needs to win the time of possession battle like BYU did last week. Or else, the defense will be too dead to hang on, just like majority of games last year.

Current Statistical Leaders PASSING

Ryan Nassib

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229

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INT

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Delone Carter 26 Ryan Nassib 9 Antwon Bailey 9

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Alec Lemon Antwon Bailey Van Chew Aaron Weaver

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REC

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AVG.

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TD

0 0 1 1

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Pacific brings back football program after 19-year hiatus

By Abram Brown Staff Writer

For the first field goal ever by Pacific’s Jon Lee, everything went wrong.

The snap came back wobbly. The holder promptly dropped the ball. As Lee came forward to kick, the ball laid on the ground horizontally.

But Lee pushed through — sending the ball 26 yards through the field goal posts.

“I’m still questioning myself on how I did it,” said Lee, a Pacific senior.

In that Sept. 4 game at Puget Sound, Lee played in his first football game ever and scored the first points of his career.

The field goal also represented the first points Pacific has scored in 19 years.

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In 2009, the University brought back its Division III football program after an almost two-decade hiatus and gave head coach Keith Buckley a year to put the team together.

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goals en route to a 36-19 loss for the Boxers.

“Hopefully, next time we’ll have more touchdowns, so I won’t have to kick as many field goals,” Lee said.

At Pacific, Lee’s story of how he joined the program symbolizes how most players ended up on the team.

Lee played collegiate soccer at Pacific for two years. He played in an intramural football league with some other students, too, just having some fun.

At one intramural game, a friend told Lee that he had a great leg. “You might make a great kicker,” his friend told him.

When Buckley started putting together his team, Lee tried out. For Lee, the biggest adjustment to that point came when he began running in pads and a helmet.

“I had never worn pads,” he said. “I had never run in pads. So I had a little trouble.”

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continued from previous page “The biggest thing was that life-changing decision of leaving your alma mater, your wife’s alma mater, and jumping into something new,” Buckley said.

In the summer of 2009, Buckley and his family arrived at their new home. And Buckley quickly found that Pacific lacked any blueprints for constructing the team.

“There’s not a manual for starting a football program,” he said. “I pretty much dropped my bags and hit the road recruiting.”

Buckley traveled down the West Coast, trying to talk players into joining his program.

He recruited from California, Oregon and Washington.

He even made a seven-day trip to Hawaii, where 25 percent of Pacific’s student body comes from, including his current kicker, Lee. Buckley stuck to his recruiting timetable even in Hawaii, he said.

“I didn’t even stick my toes in the water once — now that’s depressing,” Buckley said.

Buckley eventually won enough students over with his pitch. Pacific’s team would give them a chance to start as freshmen — no need to wait for playing time, Buckley would tell potential players.

This summer Buckley started camp with more than 130 athletes. Now that number has dwindled to around 130. Division III schools accommodate larger teams because their players don’t receive scholarships.

So far, so good, Buckley says. He has more time with his family, and it’s his team to build.

He expects it will take about six to 10 years to build Pacific into a respectable program.

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expect to bounce in three years,” he said. “I keep telling people that we’re putting our toes forward and just thinking about the future.”

ranking so far this season, but it will have its work cut out for it.

Florida State at Oklahoma

Prediction: Syracuse 23, Washington 20

Prediction: Oklahoma 27, Florida State 20

Ever yb o dy k nows ab out Ja ke L o cker by now. How m a ny t i me s h ave we he a rd t he ph r a s e “ Hei sm a n c a nd id ate” ? Sy r acu s e lo oke d qu ite go o d l a st we ek a ga i n st A k ron a nd shou ld g ive t he Hu sk ie s a l l t hey c a n h a nd le , a nd p erh ap s mor e.

I f R y a n Na s sib c a n ke ep t he ch a i n s mov i n g for t he S U of fen se, t he defen se shou ld b e able to hold t hei r ow n.

After narrowly escaping defeat at home against Utah State, head coach Bob Stoops and the Sooners will face a serious contender when they host Florida State. Florida State demolished its foe last week, Samford, 59-6. New Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher will have to shore up his run defense to make sure Oklahoma running back DeMarco Murray doesn’t have free reign. Murray turned in more than 200 rushing yards in the close call last week.

Penn State at Alabama Prediction: Alabama 23, Penn State 17

Joe Paterno and the Nittany Lions will face a much tougher game this week. It will be interesting to see how Penn State’s true freshman quarterback, Rob Bolden, holds up against Alabama’s defense. Alabama was in fine form last week against San Jose State, but it too will face a greater challenge.

This game will be close, mostly because the Tide’s Heisman winner, running back Mark Ingram, is still sidelined. No upset, but still a grind-out game.

Miami (Fla.) at Ohio State Prediction: Ohio State 21, Miami 10

This is the first matchup between these two teams since the 2003 national championship game won by the Buckeyes. OSU quarterback Terrelle Pryor looks to turn in another good game, after throwing three touchdowns in a romp of Marshall last week.

Miami will need to prove it deserves its high

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Michigan at Notre Dame Prediction: Michigan 30, Notre Dame 27

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One of college football’s best rivalries comes to South Bend, Ind., where these two recently down-on-their-luck programs will clash. Both teams hope to prove themselves this year, but if Notre Dame’s recent history proves one thing, it’s that the team lets its fans down in big games. New Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly got off to a good start last week, but don’t expect that success to continue as Notre Dame loses a heartbreaker at home. adbrow03@syr.edu

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amie Plenkovich saw what he thought was the weak link of the Ferndale High School defense.

It was a thin, wiry, 14-year old freshman starting cornerback, whose helmet looked too big for his head. The kid’s name was Jake Locker.

Plenkovich, then the varsity coach at Sehome, a rival high school, had hopes of picking on Locker by lining his all-league receiver up against the young cornerback.

“I just thought he was not going to be able to be physical and tackle,” Plenkovich said, “and I wanted our guy, who was a good receiver, to go one-on-one with him and challenge him in the first quarter.”

Bad idea.

The first time Sehome threw Locker’s way, he nearly picked off the pass. The next time, Locker made a sure tackle on the spot. After two or three more throws to Locker’s side of the field, Plenkovich avoided throwing his direction the rest of the game.

After the season, Locker was voted an allleague cornerback. As a sophomore, he moved to the other side of the ball and became Ferndale’s starting varsity quarterback. Plenkovich, who had once coached against Locker, took over as the varsity head coach at Ferndale a year later, as Locker progressed into an all-state quarterback as a junior and senior.

“He just scared the living daylights out of me (as an opponent),” Plenkovich said. “So I knew when I came to Ferndale, we had to make sure we really exploited his athleticism and his gifts as a weapon on offense.”

And Plenkovich did just that. Locker was the “weapon” Ferndale used to capture a Washington State Championship title in his senior year before moving on to play collegiately at Washington.

In his first career start for the Huskies in 2007, Locker torched the Syracuse defense by throwing for 142 yards and rushing for 83 yards and two touchdowns in a 42-12 rout at the Carrier Dome. Now, as a senior Heisman Trophy candidate, Locker will see the Orange for the second time on Saturday in Seattle (Fox Sports Northwest, 7 p.m.).

This time, the attention is all on Locker. He’s projected as a Top 10 pick in the 2011 NFL Draft, and many believe he has the prototypical body of an NFL quarterback. But what many don’t know is that he hasn’t forgotten his small-town roots and values.

He still abides by the values with which he was raised. He made that evident in his decision to come back to Washington for his senior season, rather than entering the 2010 NFL Draft.

“I saw down and talked to (my parents) about it,” Locker said in a teleconference on Aug. 30.

“Got a chance to talk to my dad. He said, ‘Jake, you know, make a decision that when you’re my

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courtesy of washington athletic communications JAKE LOCKER and the Huskies are looking to rebound from a season-opening loss to BYU. As a likely Top 10 pick in the 2011 NFL draft, all eyes will be on him Saturday. age, you’ll look back on and you won’t regret.’

“It was easy for me to come back.”

Locker was born into a family full of athletes.

His father, Scott, and three uncles were all running backs for Ferndale. His uncle Pat went on to rush for 4,049 yards at Western Washington.

His grandfather was also a football player, and mother Anita won a state volleyball championship at Ferndale.

But Jake was different. He was even better.

A football and baseball player, Locker was the buzz of Ferndale right from that game against Sehome. People knew the Locker family and their athletic accomplishments, but they also knew the youngest Locker was special.

Locker’s greatest leaps and bounds as a football player came once he was in high school. He would go to Ferndale High before school started to do a sprinter’s workout with one of the track coaches and then go to baseball practice after school. He would work out in his garage each day, determined to get bigger and stronger.

The thin and wiry kid became a long and strong man.

“We used to make fun of him because we thought he ate dumbbells for breakfast,” said Rocki Sandusky, one of Locker’s childhood friends and his current roommate in Seattle.

“The kid just blew up when he got to high school.

He got huge. His work ethic definitely changed how he looks.”

His work ethic paid off for the rest of the team, too, as it now had one of the best quarterbacks in the state at its disposal. Ferndale lost in the state final his junior season, but made it back and blew out Prosser, 47-12, in his senior season — defeating another Heisman candidate, Boise State’s Kellen Moore.

The effect Locker has had on the town of Ferndale is perhaps even more impressive. The small town of less than 9,000 people has latched on to Locker. He is their hero. Locker’s parents

have yet to miss a game he’s played for the Huskies, no matter how far away they have to travel. Many others Ferndale residents make the 90-minute trek to Seattle.

He’s mesmerized an entire community.

Jake Locker, the person, is a key reason why Ferndale is so attached to him. Both Plenkovich and UW head coach Steve Sarkisian say he’s a better human being than he is a football player.

There’s much more to Locker than his football accolades.

For those close to Locker, he’s not only the ultimate athlete, but the ultimate person as well. For example, he once shaved his head as a fundraiser for a Ferndale athlete who was battling cancer.

“People sometimes are looking for heroes, and they really like their heroes to be tall and handsome and nice and polite, and to not get in trouble,” said Ferndale mayor Gary Jensen, who also employs Jake’s mother as the business manager of his plumbing company. “Those are sometimes just fantasies of the book. Here, you got Jake, and you’re going, ‘Man, he’s the real deal.’”

All of that isn’t to say that Locker’s play on the field hasn’t amazed the town of Ferndale as well. In a game against Sehome during Locker’s senior year, Sehome’s quarterback attempted to throw the ball away out of bounds. But out of nowhere came Locker, leaping up to pick off the pass and take it back for six.

It’s not all athletic ability, either. Locker has that high football IQ. He reads plays and picks up schemes with ease. He might as well have been in the offensive huddle in a game against Vancouver Collegiate in his senior year.

“He was like, ‘Listen, they’re going to run a sweep around the end,’” said Sandusky, who played safety alongside Locker in the Ferndale secondary. “He came around and made the tackle. Next play, he goes, ‘Rocki, they’re going

to throw a hitch to this guy here. I’m going to pick it and take it back for six.’”

He took it back for six.

Though it has been more than four years since that state title game, Plenkovich still keeps in touch with Locker. The old coach talks to his former star every few weeks, whether it is about Ferndale’s season or what’s going on in Locker’s life. Plenkovich knows Washington’s struggles over the past couple of seasons bother Locker immensely. The quarterback once apologized to his coach after a loss.

And Plenkovich knows those humble, smalltown values will keep Locker grounded, even when he’s getting paid to scare the living daylights out of NFL coaches.

“He’ll remain true to his values, and that’s going to help him have success as well,” Plenkovich said. “He does not get star-struck or caught up in the accolades he receives.

“He’s a better guy off the field than on the field, and he’s really special on the field.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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SPORTS

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the daily orange

SYRACUSE AT WASHINGTON SATURDAY, 7 P.M., FOX SPORTS NETWORK

Hope you’re ready, Locker, SU’s ‘D’ will test you TONY OLIVERO

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Doug Hogue (32) and the Syracuse defense held Akron to three points Saturday, the most dominant performance by SU’s defense since 2005. SU now travels across the country to Washington, where it will face a challenge in 2010 Heisman-hopeful quarterback Jake Locker.

By Brett LoGiurato

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ot 20 minutes after Syracuse had finished disparaging of Akron last Saturday, Chandler Jones was already thinking ahead. He knew the task at hand — well, almost.

There was, well, this quarterback.

Jones knew him as a pretty good quarterback, arguably the best player in the Pac-10. He’s the Heisman Trophy frontrunner. The potential No. 1 overall pick in next year’s NFL draft.

Yeah, what was his name again?

“Next week, you really have to focus,” Jones said following SU’s victory over the Zips. “You have a good quarterback — Jake, or Chris, Locker. Whatever his name is. He’s supposed to be a first-round draft pick, but we should get ready for him and game plan.”

Whether Jones actually couldn’t remember or just didn’t want to give Jake Locker too much credit doesn’t

matter much. After bending Akron quarterback Patrick Nicely to their will, Jones and the rest of the Syracuse (1-0) defense will face their first real test when they travel to Seattle to face the Heisman candidate Locker and Washington (0-1) at 7 p.m. Saturday (Fox Sports Northwest).

“It’s a great opportunity,” senior linebacker Doug Hogue said. “I can’t wait. The supposed No. 1 draft pick coming up in this draft. It’s great. I can’t wait to play him.”

Aside from containing Locker, SU will also be trying to begin the reversal of 45 years of futility on the West Coast. Syracuse is 1-11-1 in West Coast road games since 1964, a figure head coach Doug Marrone pointed out at his weekly press conference on Monday. To make the Orange’s task even more daunting, Washington is 23-2 at home since 1970 when facing an East Coast team.

Nicely never stood a chance

After dominance in win at Akron, SU defense looks for same against Heisman front-runner Locker against a dominant SU defense that forced increasing pressure as the game progressed. He was hassled, sacked and knocked down, leading to a final stat line of 12-for-35 and just 111 yards passing.

Following the Orange’s three turnovers, its defense proceeded to go out twice and force a three-and-out.

The other time, backed up to its own 18-yard line, the defense didn’t allow any yards and forced the Zips to settle for a field goal. The unit didn’t allow a touchdown in the game, something it failed to do all of last season. The three points allowed were the lowest

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And immediately after the win, the unit turned its attention to the cream of the crop of NCAA quarterbacks.

“I think if you just read the press clippings and the bios,” Marrone said, “they’re all true. He’s a very, very talented quarterback who can run, move and throw the ball anywhere on the field. … He’s probably the top quarterback coming out this year. No disrespect to anyone else, but you still have to go out there and play and perform, at every level, at every position, no matter who you are.” see washington page 18

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Two in a row?

With Syracuse looking to start the season 2-0 in Seattle, The Daily Orange provides full pregame coverage inside. Page 19

ere comes the haymaker.

Jake Locker better be ready. The Washington offense better be ready. All of Seattle better be ready.

Come Saturday, it will be best vs. best. The Syracuse defense truly believes that. SU’s defense feels — no, it knows — that it can stand toe-to-toe with Locker and Co. It’s a blasphemous belief spewing from the SU defense, if you were to ask the majority of the nation.

The SU defense will provide a true test to Locker and Washington? And they might get the better of him? Really?

Yes. The numbers, but more importantly, the proven mentality, fail to lie.

That’s because, when the whistle blows, the SU defense has one intention. Sure, it may be malicious, it may be crass, but this is the game of football. And this is the way the Orange defense plays the game of football in 2010. It did all summer. No room for flowers and rainbows. No matter if you are Patrick Nicely or Jake Locker.

The Orange defense is not nice.

Far from it.

“Contain him and hit him in his mouth,” safety Shamarko Thomas said. “First play, hit him in his mouth.”

Jake, here they all come.

And SU just might be the best defense you will play in 2010. The Nebraska Blackshirts and the BYU defense that defeated you last week, included.

Here comes the “swag.”

And for the first time in a long time, the SU defense has “swag.” A whole lot of it.

It will be validated Saturday, whether Syracuse wins or loses.

This defense is for real. This “swag” is for real. It’s a word and a mentality being thrown around all the way from Doug Marrone and Scott Shafer at the top to Thomas and defensive end Chandler Jones in the flanks.

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