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Bon voyage SU Abroad to open program in Tunisia despite last year’s uprisings. Page 3

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Benefit bash After two successful charitable Juice Jam concerts, University Union should make it a tradition. Page 5

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Standing united A performance at Syracuse Stage draws on life

Rare find Tony Asante brought a unique skill set to Syracuse

experiences of local Congolese refugees. Page 9

and is helping lead the team’s explosive offense in a turnaround season. Page 20

SU community responds to complexities of Syrian conflict

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ania Habib can’t go home. The Arabic professor at Syracuse University grew up in Homs, Syria, and as a young woman left her country to attend graduate school at the University of Florida.

With a death toll of nearly 23,000 civilians and counting, Syria has proven to be the bloodiest battle in a string of revolutions and demonstrations known as the Arab Spring.

With neighboring countries stepping in and an unclear plan for the future, Syrians like Habib are losing hope that the country will find peace again.

“It’s not possible to go back anytime soon,” she said. “I’m not sure what will happen to me if I go.”

The story of the Syrian conflict

starts not with the current president Bashar al-Assad, but with his father, Hafez al-Assad. The Assad Regime came into power in 1971, and Hafez al-Assad was president for 29 years until his death in 2000, said Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdu, head of the Middle Eastern Studies program at Syracuse University.

His tenure was marred with tension as a result of a minority sect ruling over a Sunni majority. The secular, militaristic government had no sympathy for other religious sects.

In the early 1980s, Assad put down Islamic opposition, and between 10,000 to 20,000 people were reportedly killed, Boroujerdu said.

Habib was born in a small village in Syria and moved to Homs when she

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allen chiu | design editor RANIA HABIB, an Arabic professor and Syria native, worries about her family that remains in her home country. The brutality and massacres have intensified as the situation grows more and more complex.

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Items from summer, last year expected to be revisited at first session WHAT IS USEN?

University Senate is an academic governing body with powers such as proposing policy on grading, student life and athletics, among many others. It also approves new curricula and recommends faculty for promotion. USen meets once a month on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium.

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After a notably busy summer in which faculty kept an eye on policy discussions such as Bernie Fine and the roles of administration versus faculty, several items from the summer and previous University Senate session are expected to continue into this year.

The first USen session of the 201213 academic year, to be held Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium, is expected to be quiet and will serve to introduce senators to committee assignments.

Later in the fall, senators expect major discussion to revolve around promotions and appointments, communication within the university and

the campus library system.

Promotions and appointments Syracuse University’s Board of Trustees stepped in to approve eight College of Law candidates for promotion during its May 12 meeting after a USen committee declined to endorse the candidates.

Many faculty and USen members said it was an affront to one of the few

decision-making powers faculty hold.

Bruce Carter, who will take over as agenda committee chair and USen moderator for Ian MacInnes, said the law school promotions are “a done deal.” He does expect a broader discussion in the promotions process and university procedures will arise this semester.

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Program to launch in Tunisia

By Kerry Wolfe CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In the fall of 2013, Syracuse University students will be given the opportunity to study at yet another unique location: Tunisia.

The Tunisia program is the result of a partnership between SU Abroad and CET Academic Programs, an organization SU Abroad has previously worked with and remains confident in, said Sue Shane, director of programs at SU Abroad.

SU Abroad is confident that students will remain safe in Tunisia, despite the country’s past uprisings.

CET’s program is small and follows careful safety guidelines, so SU Abroad does not anticipate any problems, Shane said.

Shane said she doesn’t think students will feel at risk. But students are still urged to be careful, given the country’s geographic location.

CET formerly ran a highly successful Arabic program in Syria, but relocated to Tunisia when uprisings in Syria began, Shane said.

“It’s another example of having to be flexible and trying to create new options as the world changes,” she said.

Although the program is open to all students, including those just starting to learn Arabic, it is aimed toward students who want to become more immersed in the language.

“When students study Arabic in an Arab country, they don’t only learn the modern standard Arabic, but they get the chance to learn a dialect as well,” said Rania

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In memory FRANK FOWLER AND STEPHANIE MINER, Syracuse police chief and Syracuse mayor, respectively, participate in a moment of silence at a 9/11 memorial service on Tuesday at Firefighters Memorial Park. The moment of silence took place between 8:43 a.m., the time of Flight 11’s crash into the north tower, and 9:03 a.m., the time of Flight 175’s crash into the south tower. The terrorist attack took place 11 years ago, killing nearly 3,000 people and leaving more than 6,000 injured. Both towers collapsed within two hours.

Rolling Stone reporter to discuss journalistic experience, elections

By Annie Palmer CONTRIBUTING WRITER

All across campus, students are preparing for voting season.

“Politics is an important topic,” said Simone Depew, a sophomore public relations and political science major. “I think a lot of us try to stay informed.”

To prepare students for the

upcoming election, Jerk magazine and Syracuse University College Democrats are sponsoring a talk by Matt Taibbi, a reporter for Rolling

Matt Taibbi Lecture

Where: Maxwell Auditorium When: Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

How much: Free

Stone magazine, at Maxwell Auditorium on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

Taibbi is expected to discuss his journalistic experience, recent writing, pop culture and this year’s election. Following the speaking engagement, Jerk magazine will host an interview, according to the event’s Facebook page.

Though sponsored by SU College

Democrats, the event stresses non partisan affiliation.

“I am proud to be involved with an organization that promotes voting and registration, no matter what the party,” Gabrielle Levy, communications director for SU College Democrats, said in an email.

Taibbi, author of the Rolling Stone

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Student on bike, vehicle collide

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meg o’malley | contributing photographer A medical team attends to the injured bicyclist, who collided with a vehicle on the corner of Comstock Avenue and Stratford Street on Tuesday.

A Syracuse University student collided with a vehicle while riding his bicycle at the corner of Comstock Avenue and Stratford Street on Tuesday morning.

The student did not appear to be injured, but was taken to the hospital for further evaluation, said Department of Public Safety Capt.

John Sardino. The current condition

of the student is unknown.

The crash occurred at 10:49 a.m.

Tuesday, Sardino said, and DPS and the Syracuse Police Department immediately responded to the scene. SPD led the investigation, but because the crash involved a student, DPS was also involved, Sardino said.

The accident is still under investigation, but it appears the cause was bicyclist error, said Syracuse Police Department Sgt. Joel Cordone. The

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Syracuse University protesters misunderstand basic mission of ROTC

hree days after the Sept. 11 attacks, in an impromptu speech at ground zero, President George W. Bush said, “The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.” Less than one month after that statement, our military led coalition forces into Afghanistan.

Despite the sacrifices made by our military in bringing justice to those responsible for 9/11, a handful of Syracuse University students and locals occupied the Army ROTC cadet lounge in protest on Sept. 4, citing U.S. military action in Afghanistan as one reason for their protest.

Regarding ROTC, one protester, Ben Kuebrich, an SU graduate student said, “SU should be an educational space, and a lot of the university’s goals and missions conflict with this military presence,” according to a Daily Orange article about the protest.

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vast right-wing conspiracy ROTC stands for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. So, it follows that the purpose of ROTC is to train future commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces. Upon commissioning, each future officer takes the United States Uniformed Services Oath of Office.

Namely, they say, “I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear

After Juice Jam success, UU to hold meeting Wednesday to recruit general members Looking out at the sea of students in a sold-out Juice Jam crowd, I was reminded of all the amazingly talented students that made the event possible.

From our board of directors to our general members, University Union worked as a team to make this the largest Juice Jam to date. Now we are looking for you, the Syracuse University student body, to help us build on this success.

Have a great idea for a concert, speaker, comedian or movie screening? Want to be a part of SU’s official programming board? Come

LET TER TO THE EDITOR to our first general member meeting of the year this Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m. in the Heroy Geology Building Auditorium. Everyone is welcome. I look forward to seeing you there.

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true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” Following from the oath, ROTC’s purpose is to prepare leaders to defend the U.S. Constitution. In doing so, these leaders will defend the freedoms of our people and the sovereignty of our great nation.

The implications of the protester’s statement regarding the university’s goals and missions raise a red flag. The protester implies that many of our university’s “goals and missions” are hampered by the United States military presence on campus.

So, one wonders which specific SU “goals and missions” the protester believes are weakened by the presence of those who prepare

to defend our liberty. Regardless, preparing future military officers to defend our liberty does not oppose the “goals and missions” of SU, and if it does, SU — not ROTC — is the problem.

The chancellor and the other SU administrators who define our university’s “goals and missions” would likely agree that ROTC’s presence does not hamper the university’s “goals and missions.”

Regardless, the protesters should have looked at what hangs on the wall in the cadet lounge: a 9/11 remembrance flag. Above silhouettes of the Pentagon and the twin towers, the flag reads, “Never Forget.”

Although the protesters sat in a room with this banner, they have forgotten.

Michael Stikkel is a junior computer engineering major. His column appears weekly.

He can be reached at mcstikke@syr.edu.

Public interest group works to solve issues involving students, recruit members As you may know, New York Public Interest Research Group is New York’s largest studentdirected advocacy organization and connects college students from 20 different campuses, including Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. NYPIRG works to make positive, legislative change while teaching valuable skills that engage students in exciting campaigns.

This election year, much will be decided here in Syracuse during the November election that will influence policies for years to come. The 25th Congressional District, which includes the city of Syracuse, will be included on the federal portion of the ballot. One of New York’s two U.S. Senate seats will also be decided, as will the presidency.

Equally as important to college students are the seats up for grabs in Albany for State Assembly and Senate. Many issues directly impacting us as students may occur in the state races, including setting tuition rates, installing financial aid programs, funding public transportation, preserving our environment and protecting us as consumers.

That’s why during September and early October the focus will be on voter registration. We anticipate registering thousands of students to vote here in Onondaga County because it is only possible to truly influence politicians if the student voting bloc and the Syracuse community are well represented on Election Day.

LET TER TO THE EDITOR Any student looking to get registered should contact the NYPIRG office, in the space just above Faegan’s Cafe & Pub on South Crouse Avenue. The voter registration deadline is Oct. 12.

Other top legislative priorities for the semester include ensuring that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Department of Environmental Conservation do not permit unsafe natural gas drilling in New York, limiting mercury pollution from large industries, enacting the New York State Dream Act, fighting against cuts to higher education and pushing for more strict campaign finance laws, including publicly funded campaigns. In addition to these efforts, NYPIRG will continue to offer unique services to the Syracuse community through the Small Claims Court Action Center and the Hunger and Homeless Outreach Program.

Like all grassroots campaigns, these issues need dedicated leaders and volunteers to ensure a brighter future for the Syracuse community and New York state as a whole.

To get involved, come to our general interest meeting on Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. in the Hall of Languages 500.

Anticipating a monumental semester,

Nicole St. James

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Disease forces bats into Syracuse-area homes

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here are a lot of things that go bump in the night, but this summer, students living off campus ran into a new menace: bats.

These winged mammals are not a new thing to the Syracuse area. It is fairly common to get a bat stuck in your house every once in a while.

This year was an exception.

There was a large increase of bats flying into human dwellings. Not only do I know at least six people who ran into this problem, but I had a bat stuck in my bedroom in the middle of the night.

Bats have invaded Syracuse.

We’re not out of the woods yet. Summer doesn’t officially end until Sept.

22, and bat species hibernate in winter.

If you haven’t gotten a bat in your house yet, chances are you might soon.

If the bats have always been here, why do there seem to be more this year?

Well, there aren’t more, technically. Bat populations in North America have been hit hard by white-nose syndrome, a fungus that appears on the snout and/ or wings. The fungus thrives in the bats’ natural habitats: caves and mines.

Fewer bats in North America, espe-

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21st-century tree hugger cially in New York where the disease was first discovered, could mean more bats in houses. Bill Shields, a biologist and professor of animal behavior at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, says he thinks there is a correlation between bat disease and bat invasion into human habitats.

“There’s less disease in houses,” he said. “They can reproduce successfully.

In caves, their populations are declining, so they find somewhere else.”

While this is not a proven correlation, rampant study has ensued to find out how we can help our bat populations. In the meantime, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s whitenose syndrome coordination team has planned containment strategies.

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The disease first appeared six years ago and has since spread across the Northeast. The disease threatens extinction to six species within two decades, according to reports. After that, it is estimated this would cost U.S. agriculture more than $3.7 billion a year, due to the species’ use in controlling pest populations.

There is not much that a common college student can do to help New York bat populations, but as they are intruding our habitats, it’s important to remember how we have intruded in theirs for so long. These animals may be known for Halloween, but bats are a vital part of our ecosystem.

Without bat populations, every other species population will be affected, whether it’s the bugs that they eat or something farther down the food web. All species are interrelated, and humanity is a part of that machine, as well. Like bats, we’re mammals too.

Meg Callaghan is a junior environmental studies major and writing minor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her column appears weekly.

She can be reached at mlcallag@syr.edu.

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UU should continue charitable acts at Juice Jam For the second year in a row, a portion of the proceeds from University Union’s Juice Jam concert went to charity, an action UU should make into a tradition.

UU should continue to donate a portion of its Juice Jam concert proceeds each year to different charities, funds or scholarships.

Making Juice Jam a benefit concert each year is a great way for UU to bring light to different causes and issues happening around the world.

On the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, a portion of the proceeds from Juice Jam went toward famine relief in the Horn of Africa through the United Nations’ World Food Programme.

This year, $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Colorado Organization for Victim Assistance and will benefit victims of the Aurora, Colo., shooting at the midnight premiere of “The Dark Night Rises” on July 20. The donations

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EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board from this year’s Juice Jam hit close to home, as a 2011 Syracuse University graduate, Stephen Barton, was shot in the theater.

Based on the past two Juice Jam concerts, it seems fiscally possible for UU to continue making them into benefit concerts.

Some students at Juice Jam did not know an SU alumnus was injured in the Aurora shooting.

UU should take pride in its ability to reach out to and educate so many students at once.

If UU officials choose to make this a tradition, it should look into ways of getting students more involved. If UU had donation boxes set up around Skytop Field during the concert, perhaps more students would have donated and the total amount could have been much higher.

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was 2 years old.

When she was a child and Assad was in power, they did not have the freedom to speak out against the government. Although Assad governed like a dictator, she said, he did advance Syria socially.

“I think the West has a really wrong idea about the Assad regime,” she said. “I think the Assad regime brought a lot of progress to Syria.”

In school, the government enforced the removal of hijabs, head coverings traditionally worn by Muslim women. Although Habib was raised by a Christian family and never wore a hijab, she remembers her schoolmates’ parents being upset, as they did not want their daughters to be taught by male teachers without their head coverings.

“As a child, and as a girl, society was more restricting than I would say the government was restrictive to me,” she said.

Society said girls weren’t supposed to have boyfriends. They couldn’t talk to boys. After a certain age, they couldn’t ride a bike. They had to dress a certain way. Although the government ran the schools in a military, secular manner, the majority Sunni population dictated society.

Hafez al-Assad was tougher than his son, Habib said, and when power was passed to Bashar al-Assad, a whole government was inherited, including many of its government officials.

“The current president was blamed for all that his father has done,” she said. “It’s not fair to him because he really did a lot of things for Syria after he came into power.”

Assad opened up Syria’s economy to the

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world, opened the private sector and spread technology. He opened factories and increased worker’s salaries by 300 percent, Habib said.

But the people still revolted. Assad’s rise to the presidency wasn’t exactly democratic, said Boroujerdu. Although there were elections, he ran two times unopposed. When his father died, the government changed the minimum age for president so he would qualify.

fighting are from the Muslim Brotherhood, and Habib fears that when Assad falls a fundamentalist government will take its place.

At the international level, China and Russia have blocked UN involvement. Russia has major ports in Syria, said Boroujerdu, and doesn’t want to jeopardize their success.

The United States is hoping the opposition will win, Boroujerdu said, but is reluctant to get

While the people wanted reform and change, Habib said, they initially didn’t ask for Assad’s resignation. But when the government opposition organized and blood started to shed, that initial goal was lost.

The opposition formed the Free Syrian Army. Although its name implies freedom for Syrians, the issue has become more complicated.

The opposition is supported by countries such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and Habib worries they don’t have Syria’s best interests in mind.

For many of the stories of abuse and rape Habib has heard from family and friends, the government’s army is not to blame. It is the opposition.

Neighboring countries support the Free Syrian Army for a combination of religious, political and economic factors, she said. Many people

involved. It’s an election year, and since there is not a clear leader in the fight, Washington doesn’t want to get involved in another prolonged conflict.

“What happens then is that there is a lot of hand wrangling in DC,” Boroujerdu said. “They don’t really know what they want to do with a conflict like this. After Afghanistan and Iraq, in terms of the human material cost there, do we really want to get involved?”

In response to the violence, one Syracuse University Law Professor has started a nonprofit campaign called “I Am Syria.” David Crane, who is also an international war crimes prosecutor, started this organization to educate the world on the conflict, said Emilee Gaebler a third year graduate student in the College of Law who is involved in the campaign.

“It’s not a political movement,” she said. “It’s simply an organization that’s there to show

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financial relations with Bain Capital have received praise, according to Tiabblog.

His latest book “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that is Breaking America,” touches on the 2008 Wall Street bailout and its effects on the United States’ political party structure. Taibbi is expected to speak about these topics, according to the event’s page.

“I think Taibbi will be sparking some debate and getting students involved who otherwise might not be,” said Depew, the sophomore public relations and political science major.

Both the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications boast a student body full of politically and journalistically intuitive students, so Levy said she expects a large turnout.

“I’m a huge fan of Matt Taibbi,” she said. “He

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political blog, Taibblog, has appeared in wellknown media outlets such as Democracy Now, the Huffington Post and MSNBC to discuss current electoral and political issues.

Most recently, his thoughts on Wall Street’s underlying discrepancies and Mitt Romney’s

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Prior to his work with Rolling Stone magazine, Matt Taibbi worked for a variety of other news publications. In the past, Taibbi was a reporter for Dateline NBC and a correspondent for CBS and ABC News.

He has covered several subjects during his career, including politics, finance and the media. Taibbi also spent 11 weeks in Pakistan and Afghanistan covering the war on terror, and three months in Jordan and Iraq covering the Iraq War, according to MSNBC.

support and show the people of Syria they aren’t alone.”

Students can like the group’s Facebook page and take a picture of themselves holding a sign that reads, “I Am Syria.” The phrase highlights the organization’s belief that what happens to one person in the world can be felt by everyone.

“I Am Syria” is selling shirts on its website and plans to donate the money to a shelter in Syria. Gaebler said they want to cut out the middleman, and make sure their profits are going directly to the people.

Habib’s parents fled the city where she grew up and are now living in the village she was born in. Homs is where most of the action took place, and it wasn’t safe to live there anymore.

Although her parents are safe, Habib’s sister is not. The village where her sister lives in has been under siege for about two and a half months and there is no way to contact her.

Habib knows most of the time she doesn’t have electricity, and for a while she couldn’t even get food.

“Sometimes my sister goes on the roof of buildings to look for cell phone service just to call my parents and tell them she’s OK,” Habib said.

Although she does want Assad to step down, Habib said she is worried about what would happen if the Free Syrian Army comes into power.

She said there is no way a government can be democratic when it is based on religion.

“It’s not a situation of democracy and freedom anymore. It’s a situation of more suppression and more separation,” she said.

Habib wants the fighting to stop. She wants a real opposition to come forth with a nominee and a plan, stating its goals, principles, and what it wants to do for the Syrian people. But as far as she can see, any real steps toward peace are not on the horizon.

“As far as the situation goes right now, nobody has hope,” she said. “Nobody knows how it’s going to end. Nobody knows how long it’s going to last. And it’s horrible.” seschust@syr.edu

“I think Taibbi will be sparking some debate and getting students involved who otherwise might not be.”

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is one of the main reasons I want to work with Rolling Stone magazine. We are so lucky to have the opportunity to hear him speak and hear his political commentary in such a crucial time.”

Colin Crowley, president of SU College Democrats and a columnist for The Daily Orange, said in an email that SU students recognize Taibbi as a well-known writer and are excited to see him speak.

“Taibbi is an experienced political journalist that manages to connect with his audience by using humor and being relatable,” he said.

Crowley said one of the main goals of having Taibbi speak at SU is to better educate students on the upcoming election.

Said Crowley: “We’re hoping it’ll give students a perspective on the election that students can really understand, and will not only motivate them to vote, but to vote for the candidate that they can resolutely believe has their true interest at heart.” apalme05@syr.edu

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Salina shape-up Apartment building, relocated bus hub to revive downtown Syracuse neighborhood

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he 300 block of South Salina Street is undergoing a makeover. Now that the bus hub has been moved, and construction of the Pike Block is underway, city officials hope downtown Syracuse will begin to return to its former prosperity.

The bus hub at the corner of South Salina and East Fayette streets was moved to a new location in early September. In doing so, unsightly rows of buses, loiterers and noise are now absent from the 300 block of South Salina Street, said Syracuse Common Councilor Bob Dougherty.

Dougherty said he recalls driving on South Salina Street and seeing five to seven buses lined up in two different directions, all waiting at the same time.

“You would drive along and you wouldn’t be able to see the stores through the buses,” he said. “It was really terrible for commerce, and it just looks bad.”

Merchants are happy because people can now see their shops, he said. He already noticed a new influx of people venturing onto South Salina Street now that the buses are gone.

Since the location of the old bus hub was on a public corner, there was little anyone could do about people loitering in the area, Dougherty said. A decrease in loiterers will make shoppers and students feel safer when spending time on the 300 block.

The removal of the bus hub has made way for even bigger projects like the Pike Block. The Pike Block is a redevelopment that will take four vacant historical buildings and turn them into one residential area.

VIP Structures, an architecture firm that has called downtown Syracuse home since 1975, is responsible for the project. With the market improving and Armory Square doing well, now was the perfect time to take on this project, said David Nutting, CEO and chairman of VIP Structures.

“We’re in interesting times,” he said. “People actually want to live downtown and work downtown. We’re right in the middle of that wave that’s really going to get stronger.”

To receive historical tax cuts, VIP Structures must be sensitive to the historical buildings, which include the Witherill, Chamberlin, Wilson and Bond buildings.

The exteriors will be mostly preserved, while the interior will be a combination of refinished wood floors, columns, new apartments, modern meeting spaces and conference rooms. With the addition of a courtyard at Armory Square, the space becomes not just a building, but also a community, Nutting said.

“It’s got that weird eclectic style that happens when you put apartments in old buildings,” he said.

The first floor will be cleared for retail space, although Nutting said he believes there will be more restaurants and coffee shops than clothing stores. And offers are still rolling in. Nutting is already amid more than a dozen active conversations with businesses that want to set up shop at the Pike Block.

Although the building will make a huge difference downtown, he said, the apartments are, unfortunately, expensive. Apartments start at $1,100 a month, and the most expensive apartment is $2,500 a month, according to the Pike Block’s website.

“We would love, someday, to start doing projects for people with normal incomes,” he said.

“When the demand rises, hopefully we can.”

The project started more than a year ago, but didn’t really get going until April, Nutting said.

The first apartment should be ready in January and the last at the end of June.

Dougherty said there was also talk about renovating One Lincoln Center, which is across from the Pike Block. He wants the city to add bike lanes, so traffic will slow down and bikers will get off the sidewalks.

There is also discussion of publicly displaying art at Perseverance Park, so it looks more like a park and less like concrete, Dougherty said.

“This is all going to make South Salina Street like it used to be,” he said. “A main street for the city of Syracuse.” seschust@syr.edu

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Habib, an assistant professor of linguistics and Arabic.

Students will be required to fully immerse themselves in the language, speaking only Arabic throughout the program, Habib said. Speaking English is highly discouraged.

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The Committee on Appointments and Promotions declined to endorse the candidates because the college changed its policies without going through the proper channels. The College of Law may not have filed its new procedures in time, but did have the right to change them, Carter said.

Jeff Stonecash, a professor of political science and committee member who presented the committee’s case to the board, said the committee was not questioning the College of Law’s right to change its procedures. Instead, he said, this is a question of why procedures matter and that policies for promotions will be discussed during the year.

Dick Thompson, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said the administration would like to engage in discussion with the senate and faculty on promotions procedures. He said involving the board in the College of Law promotions was “not something we wanted to do, but something we felt we had to do to resolve the impasse.”

Promotions policies at SU have already been somewhat discussed, but no specific group has formed, Thompson said. Revisiting the poli-

“If you don’t use the language, you’re not going to get the same results,” she said.

With language comes culture. In addition to an intensive Arabic curriculum, students will also be exposed to local life, Habib said.

Students will have Tunisian roommates, live in dorm-style housing and have a Tunisian language partner to practice Arabic with. The goal is to surround students with what Shane referred to as “friendly forces.”

“With language barriers comes cultural barriers,” Shane said. “It’s challenging, but students are given the tools to succeed.”

Students may find the language and cultural barriers difficult, but many find that their purpose for studying abroad is achieved via cultural immersion, Shane said.

“When obstacles are framed as a learning experience, it makes all the difference,” she said.

Although the program is not set to open until fall 2013, Shane said SU Abroad will consider letting students go as early as this spring.

Information on the Tunisia program will be presented at the Middle East Partner Programs information session on Sept. 12.

“It’s an exciting time,” Shane said. “To see new democracies forming is an opportunity that doesn’t come every generation.”

cies will allow SU to become competitive with peer institutions for recruiting and retaining faculty, Thompson said.

Vice Chancellor and Provost Eric Spina said, upon urging from the Board of Trustees, that the university will establish a group to examine SU’s policies on promotion and see how they are aligned with those at other research universities.

No group has been formed yet, but Spina said he plans to speak with Carter on Wednesday.

Forming the group to examine the processes will ensure the promotions process is “broadly owned by the faculty,” he said.

Communications and inclusion Senate members also anticipate USen talk will steer toward communication and discussion itself.

Faculty members have called into question the timing of two university news items relating to the Bernie Fine case. The Fine report was released July 5, a Friday wedged between the July Fourth holiday and weekend. Then, the Friday before Labor Day weekend, SU’s Joint Working Group released updated policies on reporting child abuse.

Thompson said the Fine report was not issued at that time with the intention of sweeping it under the rug.

“The report was released when it was com-

plete. The last thing we wanted was for it to be sitting in a file drawer,” Thompson said.

The Working Group, which will continue to report throughout the year, released their policies to coincide with the start of the academic year, he said.

Carter said he believes policies are more successful and able to become “community property” when they come about through broad discussion. Carter said he hopes the administration will continue to discuss policies with the senate in the future.

The campus library system In anticipation of a heavier workload, the library committee is growing by a handful of members, Carter said. During the past several years, there has been ongoing discussion relating to library space, reorganizing the library system and moving “low-use” materials into storage on South Campus.

Gianfranco Vidali, professor of physics, will be out of the country in the fall and will no longer serve as chair of the committee. He said he expected the continuing renovations of Carnegie and other library facilities, and exploring the mission of the library will arise in committee concerns.

The committee will also likely discuss the library’s peer institutions in October, said Suzanne Thorin, dean of libraries and com-

mittee member. Dartmouth College, Columbia University, Rice University, Miami University and the Coalition for Networked Information will be reviewing the library.

This year, renovations at Carnegie Library — home to the mathematics department and Science and Technology Library — will end, and work will begin on the second floor of E.S. Bird Library, making the Bird collection exclusively for humanities, Thorin said. The second-floor work will also establish a digital learning center and reconstruct the bridge that once served as an entrance to Bird’s second floor from University Avenue.

Members of the mathematics department voiced concerns regarding the renovations at Carnegie in May when it was announced that “low-use” materials from the Carnegie collection would go into storage. Thorin said she received good news for the mathematics department this week and that, after finding extra shelving space, all books in the collection will remain in Carnegie with room to grow, but periodicals will still go to storage.

Senators said they expect further concerns regarding the Carnegie reconstruction will likely be handled outside of USen.

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t is the job of a sex and health columnist to keep careful tabs on all things healthy and sexy happening around the world. Therefore, with the recent craze caused by E. L. James’ erotic novel, “50 Shades of Grey,” one would be remiss not to comment on the effects of such a novel and what erotica can mean to readers.

Here are a few conversations I imagine would take place among a few key figures and erotica at large — I think this can help illuminate the world behind erotica, and how it can play a role in your life.

Reality-inspired play offers opportunity for Congolese community to unite

From: Marquis de Sade Subject: I put the S in BDSM To: SU Student Population Your first floundering into erotic literature may well have been E. L. James’ novel, “50 Shades of Grey,” this summer, but I would like to inform you I’ve been writing this sh** since the 18th century. For the record, while I was incarcerated in mental asylums/prison for 32 years of my life, writing about whores and sex fantasies got me through the hard times.

I’m rather ticked off after reading on the RichList website that Miss E. L. James has made an estimated $15 million from mainstreaming Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism — BDSM. Sincerely, Marquis “I put the S in BDSM” de Sade

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beth fritzinger | design editor CYPRIEN MIHIGO, a Congolese refugee and Syracuse University alumnus, sits onstage looking out into the audience during the rehearsal for “Cry for Peace.” Mihigo is a dramaturg and cultural consultant for “Cry for Peace,” opening at the Syracuse Stage on Friday.

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By Chelsea DeBaise ASST. FEATURE EDITOR

rowing up in a country of war is like growing up an orphan.

It’s the insatiable desire for the love of a parent, unquenchable due to the circumstances surrounding the child.

This is how Cyprien Mihigo described childhood in the Congo. Mihigo is a Congolese refugee, and leader of the Congolese community in Syracuse.

Mihigo is the head dramaturg and creator of “Cry for Peace,” a documentary-style play about Congolese refugees living in Syracuse. The world premiere of the show, after years of rewrites and workshops, will be Friday at the Syracuse Stage.

Mihigo’s passion for peace in the Congo has been unwavering since his move to the United States. His concern for the genocide still occurring in his home country, where many of his extended kin still reside, is potent in his tone.

“Parents cannot provide for their children,” Mihigo said. “That’s the color of a child of war.”

Mihigo explains the trials and tribulations faced by those in the Congo, and he’s tragically well-versed on the subject. He talks about the economic strife, the rape of Congolese women and the perpetual danger faced by locals across the region.

He talked about the greed exhibited by those using Congolese territory as a forum for hunting for minerals, exploiting and killing millions of citizens in their wake.

This greed is exhibited in one scene of “Cry for

Peace,” where cast members Kambale Syaghuswa and Emmanuel Ndeze banter back and forth, discussing the violence and maliciousness that goes into being a “boy soldier” in the Congo. At one point, they discussed a scene one of the men witnessed, where he saw children fighting over common fruit.

“Sometimes they kill each other over an avo-

“We in the West have been responsible for their misery. And we owe them something.”

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cado,” Syaghuswa said. “When there are millions of avocados.”

Offstage, Mihigo goes on, providing details about the tumultuous relationship between Rwanda and the Congo, and the disruption caused in his country when Hutu refugees from Rwanda had to flee to the Congo.

During his time at SU, Mihigo remembers hearing Paul Rusesabagina speak at Hendricks Chapel. Rusesabagina is a survivor from Rwandan genocide who is the inspiration for the plot of Academy Award-winner “Hotel Rwanda.”

Mihigo, a 2007 alumnus, noted the way that “Hotel Rwanda” served as a tool to tell the story of a

vicious genocide.

But it told the story of the past. Congolese genocide is very much in the present.

And to tell the story of an ongoing tragedy takes an altogether different process. Mihigo knew that the story must be told, and that people must be reached and informed about the situation in the Congo, but uniting the Congolese refugees in the Syracuse area presented an unusual challenge.

“Coming here, we’re like enemies to each other,” said Mihigo, referring to the different Congolese families now located in Syracuse. “You don’t know the person. You just know the tribe.”

The journey started with a dinner. After meeting with each family one on one, Mihigo brought them together for a dinner — a test, as Mihigo put it — to see exactly how difficult a union between families of different tribes would be.

The fear and discomfort was palpable between tribes traditionally opposed to one another, but something else was present as well. When Mihigo turned on some music native to the Congo during the dinner, the guests were elated to hear something from their home country. It was this moment — this discovery of a common denominator between opposing forces — that gave Mihigo hope that his vision for a unified community was possible.

The next step was a soccer match.

Mihigo invited the community to partake in a friendly soccer game at Barry Park, another

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Lightless letdown Service at Francesca’s Cucina doesn’t hold candle to appetizing Italian menu

lauren murphy | asst. photo editor An Italian lemon cake sits atop a raspberry and lemon glaze. The cake, which tasted fresh, wasn’t too tart or sweet and was a good way to wrap up the meal. Chicken Francesca lacks the Italian authenticity one would expect from the restaurant. Although flavorful, the price tag of $16 cannot be justified for a dish that tastes like chicken pot pie.

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hen I think about Italian food, I think of a big, happy family dinner. So this weekend, when I was craving a nice sit-down meal, I gathered up my family of friends and drove down to Francesca’s Cucina in Syracuse’s Little Italy.

We made a night of it and got dressed up, only to sit in the darkest corner behind the bar. Now, there’s darkness to create ambiance and then there’s “what-am-I-eating?” dark.

Francesca’s was the latter.

It might seem like I’m harping too heavily on the lack of light, but this issue carried into other aspects of our dining experience, ultimately taking away from some of the bold Italian flavors we sampled.

For example, pitting seven hungry girls against a well-sized menu, plus a long, sloppily hand-written list of specials with only two candles to go around is dangerous.

This was slightly redeemed by the fact that Francesca’s had a lot of enticing options. The menu highlighted ingredients that Italian cooking masters: fresh vegetables and cured meats — veal, chicken and fresh fish. There were refreshing combinations like the special of Halibut over Jasmine Rice with Creamed Spinach (priced as a special), the Cedar Planked Bacon-Wrapped Sea Scallops ($22), as well as a twist on Italian classics with the Risotto Manicotti special ($15) and the Chicken

Marsala ($17).

Each meal came with a house salad and choice of dressing. We all wisely chose the balsamic vinaigrette, which was creamy and well balanced, and tart but not bitter. With a kick of black pepper and a possible hint of pine nut, it was almost perfect, except that I ate all of mine in one bite. The dressing was not mixed well among the fresh greens — something I probably would have noticed with a little more light.

As we waited for our entrees to arrive, a few of us decided to order some wine, but our waiter was nowhere to be found. Or maybe he didn’t notice us from our tight, tiny table. Tired of waiting, a few of us stepped out from our shadowy spot and up to the bar where, in the better lighting, our waiter noticed us and said he could take our orders. Too late, my friend.

He seemed to get the message, and soon, our main courses were set before us. With six different meals to choose from, I tasted the good, the great and the boring.

The good was that the amount of jumbo sea scallops on my plate was beyond generous, and the first few I sampled were perfectly cooked having been pan seared and then smoked on a cedar plank with Dijon mustard.

But good just wasn’t good enough, as the mashed potatoes were lacking any type of flavoring, and the last two scallops on my plate were relatively overcooked and rubbery.

The Crab Stuffed Salmon with garlic

risotto ($22) was simply great because it was simple. With a good cut of fresh fish, as was in this dish, the best way to prepare it is by bringing out its natural flavors. The salmon had notes of lemon and herbs, and roasted perfectly through to the savory crab salad mix in the middle. The garlic risotto was oozing with creamy cheese and buttery garlic paired perfectly with the fish.

The boring manicotti risotto was the most disappointing because it had so much potential. Who would think to put two of Italy’s most decadent dishes together? The possibilities of rich flavor combinations could have been truly innovative. But at the end of the day, this dish stumbled into the pitfall that many Italian meals fall into: It was drowned in tomato sauce.

Some of my friends who had gone to Francesca’s before said they’ve had better experiences and, considering some of the delicious food we had, maybe it’s just luck of the draw.

But a great restaurant should be consistent and make accommodating the customer its first priority. The kitchen over at Francesca’s understands how to create interesting but authentic Italian cooking.

Their difficulty in execution can be easily fixed. It’s the inattentive service and dark atmosphere out front that will make or break your experience there. dmodiama@syr.edu @daniemarieodie

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Childish Gambino and Calvin Harris weren’t the only attractions at Juice Jam on Sunday: The university’s Student Involvement Fair also took place at Skytop Field. Featuring a variety of the almost-300 campus groups offered at Syracuse University, here are a few

ART: CathARTsis Merriam-Webster Dictionary perfectly sums up the goal of new campus group CathARTsis: the purification or purgation of the emotions, primarily through art.

Sasha Pincus founded the group last semester.

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“I felt like I couldn’t find enough outlets on campus to do art, and I was feeling sort of angsty,” said Pincus, a junior.

An art and psychology dual major who hopes to be an art therapist, Pincus took her passion for art and emotions and turned it into a positive force by creating CathARTsis, which is open to all SU and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students.

She hasn’t nailed down the specifics on what major activities CathARTsis will do, but she promises big plans are in the works. In addition to meeting every Thursday for general artistic expression in an open studio, she will plan other events throughout the year.

Last semester, while the group was getting started, they were able to enjoy the art of baking when Pincus’ mom showed everyone how to bake bread.

The club includes every artistic interest from dancing to drawing.

As Pincus puts it: “It’s for anything that makes you feel good.”

go from having a serious discussion about bioethics to talking about dragons. Debate President David Kopel said that isn’t unusual for a debate meet.

“We have a lot of leeway to write cases about whatever is interesting to us,” said Kopel, a senior biological and medical physics major. “Pretty much whatever you find an interest and a passion in, you get a chance to explore that.”

The team travels to other schools for tournaments on the weekends, where two teams of two people each go head to head arguing each side of a “case” and are judged by students and debate alumni.

Any SU or ESF student who thinks he or she has what it takes to debate some of the smartest people in the country can join. Simply attend one of the club meetings, which are held Tuesday and Thursday nights at 8 p.m. in the Hall of Languages.

Said Kopel: “It’s a lot of fun. After you go to a tournament or two, you get really addicted to it.”

HUMOR: The Kumquat

The message of mental health awareness and suicide prevention group Active Minds might be serious, but the group’s leaders want people to know that coming together to “stomp out the stigma” surrounding these issues can be fun.

The group started about a year ago when Lexy Davis, a junior child and family studies major, was looking for a student-run mental health awareness group to join.

Not finding what she wanted, she came across Active Minds, a network of campus-based chapters that promotes mental health advocacy and education. She decided to bring a chapter to Syracuse; she’s now both the founder and president. Her twin sister, Ariella Davis, serves as vice president.

This year, Active Minds, which is open to all students, is hoping to raise even more awareness about suicide, depression, stress, eating disorders and more through various activities like movie nights and speakers.

Said Lexy Davis: “People that join will, no matter what, find some way that they can relate to it, and then help spread awareness on campus.”

This just in: Satirical news group The Kumquat is back for another semester of mocking the news.

The show began with three freshmen, who noted the lack of a satire news groups on campus and decided to take matters into their own hands. Within a semester, they were an official campus group, releasing videos roughly every two weeks on their YouTube channel.

To co-founder Nicolas Sessler, The Kumquat is more a way of life.

“When we perceive worldly events, we don’t think, ‘How can we objectively report this?’” Sessler said. “We think, ‘How can we make fun of this in a way that will help people understand it?’”

Sessler and Alex Kuzoian, the other cofounder, want to release content more often.

The two of them — both sophomore television, radio and film majors — note The Kumquat is about more than just being humorous.

Said Kuzoian: “It’s kind of controversial, which promotes discussion about the topic.”

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test to see exactly how deep the animosity ran among each other. Mihigo himself opted to referee. The match was a success.

“They all loved it very much,” Mihigo said.

“They forgot the hatred. They don’t even know.

They had no idea. So I said OK, there is hope.

Things can work.”

It was after that point that Mihigo set to work organizing the play and finding a way to tell the Congolese story. He brought an idea to Kyle Bass, a playwright and dramaturg at Syracuse Stage.

While Bass was not sure about the original fictional script, he was struck by the nature of the Congolese community. He called Ping Chong, a playwright with whom he had collaborated before on a piece called “Tales of the Salt City,” and Chong expressed immediate interest.

“I actually wrote a play about the 19thcentury history with the rubber genocide,” Chong said. “I already knew about the Congo

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and was fascinated.”

Chong and Bass began the process of writing the show in 2010. While Mihigo had originally presented a piece of fiction, Chong and Bass decided to move in a different direction and encouraged the members of the cast to share their own stories from refugee life to move the narrative of the play.

Each cast member is ultimately telling his or her own story, although the syntax and actual English rhetoric is the result of Chong and Bass’s skilled playwriting. The one exception is Beatrice Neema, who, according to Chong and Bass, is acting the part on behalf of one who cannot speak.

Mihigo appreciates the difficulty faced by Neema in playing such a role.

“Most women back home, they don’t tell their stories because of the shame,” Mihigo said. “She is very brave.”

Neema’s scenes in the play were originally all in French, with cast mate Mona de Vestel translating her aria. Yet Neema was not satisfied with this, and was determined to participate in the English dialogue of the play.

“When we first met her, she spoke three words,

or four. Thank you, hello, yes, no,” Bass said. “She was committed to doing it in English. And that brings its own challenge now. But her English has grown remarkably. I mean, remarkably.”

Chong and Bass acknowledged the difficulty of working with a cast where English was not the primary language. Mostly, though, the writers marveled at the polyglots that made up their cast, almost all of whom spoke English as their fourth language. They came to view the language barrier as an opportunity to challenge their audience.

For Bass, one of the most rewarding parts of the show came when the crew first started working with the projections, flashing different Congolese images behind the cast members as they performed their dialogues and their arias.

When the cast members turned around for the first time to view the images themselves in rehearsal, they immediately reacted to the images. They began pointing out their former villages, parts of the Congo that they remembered.

Some actually took out their phones to snap a picture of the places they used to call home. Bass realized they were literally looking back.

He realized how difficult and undesirable a move to a new home must be for these people.

“It’s not just, ‘Let’s move to America,’” Bass said. “It’s life and death.”

Chong agreed with his collaborator, feeling that such a transition is a groundbreaking change, and believed the American view that immigrants look forward to a shift into a new life is an ignorant one.

Additionally, Chong commented on his own role as a co-writer and director of the show, and how it related to the relationship between the Congo and the United States.

“We in the West have been responsible for their misery,” Chong stated emphatically. “And we owe them something.”

As for Mihigo, his own views of countries at peace not afflicted by the horrors he experienced growing up could be surmised in one word: fortunate.

Said Mihigo: “When you have the chance and are in a country at peace, you need to be happy and recognize it. Take advantage of the opportunities.”

fighting over which A-list star will play me in the novel’s film adaptation, I would like to encourage those fainting at the thought of “pleasurable pain” to think outside the box.

Sexual role-play is simply a concentrated manifestation of everyday interactions.

Bondage is nothing more than a hair tie getting a new job description. Sadism is just a slightly vicious butt squeeze. Domination is simply telling someone to do the dishes more forcefully. Without dishes.

Trilogy, or other erotic equivalent, for further enlightenment.

tian Grey’s mustard, but bondage, domination, sadism and masochism are just big words for a bit of sexual rough and tumble.

Don’t be alarmed or afraid to enjoy tying your boyfriend’s hands to the bedposts. And if playing Rihanna’s “S&M” gets you in the mood, throw your vanilla inhibitions away and embrace the dirt.

You may not wish to turn your dorm room into the Red Room of Pain, or pay for your submissive’s MacBook Pro, but kinky sex need not be daunting. Read the 50 Shades

With the fall semester settling in, we have a new rotation of beers starting to make their way into the beer aisles. The Saranac family of beers is a great place to start exploring the fall seasonals. The Matt Brewing Co. uses the Adirondack Mountains as inspiration for their beers. The 12 Beers A Falling package contains four seasonal and two year-round brews that are perfect to help us transition to autumn. This 12-pack is available at Tops for $15.27 if you use your BonusCard.

The highlight of the seasonals is the Irish Red Ale. The body is sitting pretty between light and heavy with 4.5 percent alcohol by volume. The malts selected for the ale are specially roasted to bring out a pleasant, but not overpowering, sweetness. The sweetness is complimented by caramel and toffee accents. The whole package is tied together with a gorgeous, deep red color. If I were in the law-making business, I would forbid you from drinking this out of a bottle and missing out on the color of this beer. It is unfortunate that this beer is only available in this seasonal pack and not in a six of its own.

The Caramel Porter smells as good as the Irish Red looks. The bouquet is dripping with powerful caramel overtones. I want to wear this as my cologne at a baked goods convention to meet women. The body is on the dark side and is 5.4 percent ABV. A good word to describe the flavor of this beer is robust. This Saranac is slightly more bitter than your average porter, but it is not the defining aspect of the palette. It should be noted that my favorite ingredient, Fuggle hops — a bitter English hop variety used in porters and pale ales — makes an appearance.

The Cascade hops are present in full force with the India Pale Ale; I love how you know exactly what you’re getting with Saranac beer names. This is a bitter beer with a straw color, a medium body and is 5.8 percent ABV. This IPA is refreshing and has a nice finish, but does not stand out compared to other IPAs from other breweries like Dogfish Head, Great Lakes or Harpoon. There’s nothing wrong with this beer’s flavor bouquet or body, but other breweries have staked their reputation on the excellence of their IPA, making it harder for this one to compare favorably.

If anything you’ve read here entices you, check out the Syracuse Brew Festival this Saturday, Sept. 15, from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Alliance Bank Stadium, and stay tuned for next week’s reviews of the Pumpkin Ale and Oktoberfest lager.

- Compiled by Dylan Sorensen, contributing writer, djsorens@syr.edu

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Edsall to face Connecticut for 1st time since leaving program

By Kevin Prise STAFF WRITER

Paul Pasqualoni entered last fall’s matchup against Syracuse carrying plenty of past history. Pasqualoni and his Connecticut team got the best of the Orange that day, coming away with a 28-21 victory.

It was his first victory as a head coach since 2004 — his final season as Syracuse’s head coach.

Now Pasqualoni must prepare some of his players for a similar challenge this weekend.

“Coach Edsall’s not playing in this game, and there aren’t any coaches on the field.

From our standpoint, we’re just going to get ready to play this game and not get distracted by anything else.”

Paul Pasqualoni

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The Huskies (1-1) will travel to play Maryland (2-0) on Saturday, with the Terrapins coming off a 36-27 win at Temple.

This time, the coach on the other sideline will be feeling nostalgic.

Terrapins head coach Randy Edsall was the head coach at Connecticut for 12 seasons, where he guided the program in its transition to Division I. But when the Maryland opportunity came up, Edsall jumped at the chance to lead an Atlantic Coast Conference program and departed from Connecticut.

Saturday, some of Edsall’s former players will get the rare chance to square up against

their former coach, and they’re not hiding their emotions going into the game.

“It is not going to be hard to get fired up for that one,” Huskies senior defensive tackle Ryan Wirth told Jim Fuller of the New Haven Register. “Definitely. That is about it; that is all I am going to say about that.”

Wirth was one of the last players Edsall and his staff recruited. He took the Maryland job two days after the Huskies lost to Oklahoma in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl.

It’s Pasqualoni’s team now, and the former SU head coach led Connecticut to a 5-7 record in his first year with the Huskies, going 3-4 in Big East play. Edsall didn’t fare as well with the Terrapins, finishing 2-10 and failing to win a Football Bowl Subdivision game after a season-opening victory against Miami (Florida).

Maryland has already matched its win total from last year, and looks to surpass it against its coach’s former players.

As far as Pasqualoni is concerned, though, the ironic matchup makes little difference once the players take the field.

“Coach Edsall’s not playing in this game, and there aren’t any coaches on the field,” Pasqualoni said during Monday’s Big East teleconference. “From our standpoint, we’re just going to get ready to play this game and not get distracted by anything else.”

For the Huskies to fare better against Maryland, they’ll need to fine-tune an offense that only scored seven points in a loss to North Carolina State last Saturday. Connecticut was held to 239 total yards in the loss, and was held scoreless until Lyle McCombs’ 5-yard touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter.

Edsall’s offense fared a little better, racking up 334 yards in the 36-point effort against Temple. A former backup quarterback at Syracuse — where he also spent 11 years as a graduate assistant and assistant coach — Edsall gave the reins of his offense to freshman quarterback Perry Hills to lead his offense against the Hus-

kies. Hills threw for two touchdowns and ran for another against Temple.

The professional connections between Pasqualoni and Edsall are deeply rooted.

From 1987 to 1990, both worked on the same defensive staff at Syracuse — Pasqualoni coaching linebackers, Edsall coaching defensive backs.

Still, Pasqualoni prefers not to dwell on past ties in preparation for this weekend. More important football-related matters, such as working hard in practices and learning assignments, take precedence.

“Every game is very precious,” Pasqualoni said Tuesday. “Let’s get ready to play. If you’re distracted, I don’t know how you’re functioning at a high level.”

Edsall walks the same line, claiming not to place any special attention on this week’s game.

“To me, this is just the third game on the schedule,” Edsall said in a press conference on Tuesday. “It just happens to be against Con-

CHANGE OF SCENERY

Randy Edsall left Connecticut after the Huskies’ loss to Oklahoma in the 2011 Fiesta Bowl, taking the head-coaching job at Maryland just days later. UConn hired former Syracuse head coach Paul Pasqualoni to replace Edsall. The Huskies and Terrapins will meet Saturday, which will be the first time Edsall faces his old team. Here’s a look at how the two programs have fared so far under their new coaches:

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necticut.”

Edsall, though, didn’t leave the Huskies on the best of terms.

After the Fiesta Bowl loss, Edsall didn’t take the plane back to Connecticut with his team, ESPN reported. When the plane touched down, players began to learn of Edsall’s departure by phone and text message, the story said.

For then-senior Huskies wide receiver Kashif Moore, Edsall’s actions served as a reminder of sport as a profit-driven endeavor.

“At the end of the day, and I learned this when I was getting recruited, this is a business,” Moore said in the story. “We can’t ever forget that.”

Pasqualoni and his team have business to attend to on Saturday, trying to beat Maryland to get back above .500 on the season. For Pasqualoni, that’s all the motivation needed.

But for the Huskies who experienced Edsall’s sudden departure, the memory of the way he left the team remains.

“It is definitely a big game,” redshirt sophomore safety Ty-Meer Brown told Fuller. “He is the coach there; he did a great job here.

The way he left, I feel like some people didn’t like that, but I think it’s going to be a great matchup for us.”

GAME OF THE WEEK: RUTGERS AT SOUTH FLORIDA, THURSDAY, 7:30 P.M., ESPN Both teams enter their first 2012 Big East matchup at 2-0 and look to stay undefeated in this prime time tilt, which pits the highpowered Bulls offense against the stingy Rutgers defense.

Rutgers is coming off a 26-0 victory over Howard, in which the Scarlet Knights held the Bison to 149 total yards. Jawan Jamison led the Knights rushing attack with 110 yards, including a 64-yard burst. In total, Rutgers accounted for 191 yards on the ground.

The Rutgers ground game could pose a problem for the Bulls, who surrendered 278 rushing yards in Saturday’s 32-31 escape at Nevada.

Senior quarterback B.J. Daniels led South Florida in a frantic late-game rally against the Wolf Pack, throwing two touchdown passes of more than 50 yards in the final three minutes to bring the Bulls back from a 31-20 deficit.

Daniels threw for 363 yards and three touchdowns that day.

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SU sets out to leave definitive mark on Big East in final year

By Jack Truitt

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Syracuse head coach Phil Wheddon had a message for his team heading into conference play.

He told the team that it was like starting a new season, giving the Orange an opportunity to shake off its early season struggles and finish strong.

SU (3-3-1) kicks off Big East play this week against Connecticut (4-2-1), the last season for the Orange in the conference. SU went 6-5 last year in conference games and wants to make one final statement before heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“It’s been a long time since this program’s done well in the Big East, so we’ve got to make sure that’s not a fluke,” Wheddon said.

Wheddon also wants to make sure Syracuse’s final years in the Big East are seen as a launching pad for future success.

“We want to make sure we sort of leave a little bit of an imprint as a team that was a developing program, and one that is going in the right direction,” he said.

For that to happen, SU will have to correct

the mistakes that have plagued its first seven games, namely set pieces and finishing.

“We’re not scoring goals,” Wheddon said.

“There’s been some good goalkeeping but you

“We definitely want to leave a stamp on the Big East. We want to say Syracuse was a force to reckon with in the Big East.”

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know we’ve got to make our chances count.

We’ll probably get fewer chances in these games, so every chance we get is a valuable one. ” For the players, this last year in the Big East means a final chance for SU to make its mark on the conference.

“I think everyone’s trying to make it a really good one, make it really special,” junior goalkeeper Brittany Anghel said.

Rachel Blum, a junior midfielder, believes a successful final year in the Big East will lead to a solid season next year in the ACC. Competition will only get tougher in 2013 when SU makes the jump to a league that’s home to national powerhouse North Carolina, among others.

“I’m excited,” said Blum. “The team and the school is going into a new conference, and we can only go up from here.”

But for Skylar Sabbag, a senior defender, switching conferences is nothing new.

Sabbag played for Central Michigan in the Mid-American Conference in 2009, where she played in 14 games off the bench. She played in 15 games and started nine for the Orange one year later.

“We definitely want to leave a stamp on the Big East,” Sabbag said. “We want to say Syracuse was a force to reckon with in the Big East.”

While the opponents may be different in

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LASTING IMPRESSION Syracuse struggled to compete in the Big East in head coach Phil Wheddon’s first three years at the helm. But the Orange turned it around last season, going 6-5 in league play to qualify for the conference tournament for the first time since 2005.

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Asante transferred to SU and quickly became the focal point of this year’s turnaround season.

Asante has brought a heightened level of offensive energy to a team that sorely lacked it last year. Two years after his former head coach found him in that summer league game and brought him to Monroe, the Ghana native leads an explosive Syracuse offense — which leads the country in goals with 19 — in goals and points.

“When he crosses the white line, he’s an animal,” said senior forward Louis Clark.

“He could play five minutes of every game and still get a goal or two.”

Two men saw the scoring potential in Asante that few others did. The first, DiBernardo, coached Asante’s cousin years earlier. That created an immediate bond between the two, and that meant a lot to Asante.

Without that support, he said, his first day at Monroe would’ve been a lonely one.

And from that support, DiBernardo and Asante grew even closer.

Two years ago, Syracuse head coach Ian McIntyre flew to Tyler, Texas, to watch Asante at the NJCAA semifinals. On that trip, McIntyre became the second coach to see Asante’s talent.

Monroe chose a formation that fielded only

“I still have to think about it and how far he’s come. He was just playing pickup games in the city two years ago. I’m so proud of what he’s doing on the field and even prouder that he can get his degree from Syracuse.”

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one forward, so McIntyre got a long look at the prospect showcasing his skills in a unique game plan.

That’s when McIntyre’s plan first came into focus. If he could convince Asante to come to Syracuse, he’d have the electric, speedy player he could turn the program around with.

“He said he saw a lot in me,” Asante said about his postgame interaction with McIntyre. “So I came down to visit, and I saw myself on this team. I knew I could be a big part of SU Soccer.”

Asante’s mother, Georgina Ryan, agreed to McIntyre’s offer right away.

Ryan had seen Asante struggle to make friends and transition to life in the United States when the family moved from Ghana in 2010. She had hoped that living in New York City would bring out the best in her soft-spoken son. But despite his good grades, he only got scholarship offers from small community colleges before DiBernardo found him that night in Queens.

Asante was most comfortable when he was playing soccer, and when Syracuse offered to extend his playing career — as well as his education — she said she “couldn’t believe her luck.”

“I still have to think about it and how far he’s come,” Ryan said. “He was just playing pickup games in the city two years ago. I’m so proud of

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What separates Asante — and what makes him one of the most talented scorers SU’s fielded in years — is his ability to make difficult situations look routine. At Monroe, the team played under a “get-Asante-the-ball” motto, not an offensive system like Syracuse deploys that gets its players equal touches.

Weightlifting was another foreign concept to Asante during his two years at the junior college level. But in his two assists this season at Syracuse, he absorbed contact from bigger defenders before centering the ball to his waiting teammates.

“Heading to the weight room here was a little different for me,” Asante said with a smile. “I had to get used to being a little sore.”

There hasn’t been a learning curve for his goal scoring, though.

In the first half of SU’s last home game, Asante nearly chipped the Colgate goalkeeper for a score to end the first half. He leaned back as he watched his ball land over the cross bar, trying to reel the ball closer to the goal with his body language. When it didn’t happen, Asante put his hands on his head and smiled.

He wouldn’t make the same mistake again.

Six minutes into the second half, Asante capped a three-goal run by chipping the goalkeeper. His smile was even bigger this time around.

McIntyre can’t help but smile, too. His prized prospect is only improving with each passing game.

“He’s been the best player at every level he’s played at,” McIntyre said. “He’s made that jump happen and he has the talent to do that. It’s exciting to think about what he can do when he improves even further.” nctoney@syr.edu

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Before he came to Syracuse, Tony Asante was a top junior college prospect in men’s soccer. The Ghana native was a two-time junior college AllAmerican before leaving Monroe (N.Y.).

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of family. He rushed for 157 yards and three touchdowns as part of the team’s high-powered running attack, and he’ll look to continue his hot start this weekend against the Orange.

Head coach Chuck Priore said Coker developed a connection with the players and the campus community during his official visit.

After much deliberation, Coker officially decided to transfer to be closer to home and to his mother. The running back was also intrigued by Stony Brook’s offense, which piled up 3,475 rushing yards in 2011.

“It’s just a downhill, hard type of offense,” Coker said.

Coker has helped the Seawolves total 822 rushing yards through their first two games. He is already an integral part of SBU’s offense, just as he was at Iowa.

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“What he brought to our team last year was just outstanding play,” Ferentz said during the Big Ten coaches’ teleconference on Sept. 4. “He’s a tough, competitive guy. He’s a strong runner and a great young man.”

Marcus honed his running skills at DeMatha Catholic High School, where he played under coach Bill McGregor. McGregor recalls Coker as a strong player with great speed and toughness.

With Coker lining up in the backfield, McGregor was able to be creative with his play calling.

In one particular game, DeMatha was down three points with one minute remaining.

McGregor ran a draw play for Coker, who took it 70 yards for a touchdown to win the game.

“That’s the kind of young man he was,” McGregor said. “You could always count on Marcus to make the big play for us, and he

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“I know he had some trouble at Iowa, but he’s a very, very fine young man.”

And now, his mother can support Coker on a weekly basis in person. Money only attended three of his games at Iowa in his two seasons with the Hawkeyes.

She watched her son on TV as he rushed for 1,384 yards and 15 touchdowns in 2011.

Now, she drives more than four hours from Beltsville, Md., to Stony Brook, N.Y., to see him play, but she doesn’t go alone. Money was one of 16 family members to watch Coker play his first game as a member of the Seawolves against Central Connecticut on Sept. 1.

“It just felt totally right,” Money said. “We missed being at games live. We always watched him play on television when he was at Iowa, but to be there in person is amazing.”

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“They’re a very close family, and the family loves football,” Priore said. “I think he loves to have the opportunity to have them here each and every week.”

Coker appreciates having the chance to play in front of his mom and the rest of his family.

“My mom’s my best friend,” he said. “She used to go to all my practices and games. Now she’ll be able to come out to all the games, and that’s important for her, too.”

Money said he has made the transition smoothly and enjoys the culture of Stony Brook football. His teammates have embraced him as part of the family already.

Coker appreciates spending more time with his mother at home and having her in the stands at every home game.

“I think he loves Stony Brook. He seems to be really happy at Stony Brook,” Money said.

“We’re really happy with him here. He loves being able to come home when he wants to.” tbhass@syr.edu

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ilana dunn | contributing photographer TONY ASANTE has carried his success from two standout years at Monroe (N.Y.) College to the Syracuse men’s soccer team in 2012. With five goals and two assists in just six games, Asante has revilatized the SU offense and helped the team to its best start since the 1996 season.

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arcus Coker opened the front door of his Beltsville, Md., home and walked inside. After two years at Iowa — more than 900 miles away from his mother — Coker now has the chance to see her on a regular basis.

Since transferring to Stony Brook in January, Coker has visited home more than 10 times, often without telling his mother, Tammy Money, in advance.

“That’s one of the best surprises ever, to see your kid walk through the door,” Money said.

Coker transferred to Stony Brook after he was suspended for the Insight Bowl following an accusation that he sexually abused a woman. By joining the Seawolves,

Coker brings big-time experience from playing in one of the nation’s top conferences. He’s given a significant boost to Stony Brook’s run-heavy offense, which Syracuse will try to contain Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Carrier Dome.

After emerging as the secondleading rusher in the Big Ten in 2011, Coker’s season and life took a dramatic twist on Oct. 28, when Iowa’s athletic department was informed of the accusation.

Coker was not charged, and the case was dropped after the alleged victim decided not to take criminal action. But 10 days before the team’s bowl game — after the case was dropped — the university suspended Coker for violating the UI StudentAthlete Code of Conduct.

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he two weren’t supposed to meet that night.

Tony Asante had already committed to a local community college when he laced up his cleats for a summer league game at the Metropolitan Oval in Queens, N.Y. Marcus DiBernardo, the head coach of nearby Monroe College, went to the same game in Queens to watch one of his star players line up across from Asante.

But as the game went on, DiBernardo couldn’t take his eyes off Asante — and what Asante was doing to his team’s best player.

“Tony absolutely abused him,” he said. “As soon as he scored one or two goals, I thought this was a kid we needed to get. This is a kid that’ll go on to be something special.”

DiBernardo knew then what Syracuse knows now, and ended up convincing Asante to abandon his previous commitment and play for him at Monroe. After two National Junior College All-American seasons playing for DiBernardo,

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Syracuse got one wide receiver back on Saturday, but lost another soon after.

Sophomore wideout Jeremiah Kobena will be out for several weeks after undergoing surgery after he suffered an upper-body injury, SU Athletics announced in a press release on Tuesday.

KOBENA Wide receiver Alec Lemon returned to the field Saturday after being held out of the season opener against Northwestern as he recovered from a lower-body injury he suffered in training camp. But Kobena’s loss means SU’s receiving corps will remain thin.

Kobena has caught five passes for 101 yards through the first two games of SU’s season, and also scored two touchdowns. He was averaging a team-leading 20.2 yards per catch.

The Orange’s struggling special teams unit also takes a hit with Kobena’s loss, as he was one of the team’s primary kick returners. So far this season, he returned nine kicks for 174 yards.

In Syracuse’s game against Southern California on Saturday, Kobena caught one pass for 22 yards. He had a pass from quarterback Ryan Nassib bounce off his fingertips in the first quarter, and then failed to beat Trojan defensive back Brian Baucham in the end zone in the remaining seconds of the first half.

With Kobena out, younger receivers Jarrod West and Christopher Clark will likely take on greater responsibilities. cjiseman@syr.edu @chris_iseman

TAKING A HIT courtesy of stony brook athletic communications MARCUS COKER will lead a talented rushing attack when the Seawolves play SU this Saturday. Coker, who was a star at Iowa, transferred to Stony Brook after leaving the Hawkeyes program in 2011. in question. He withdrew from Iowa in January, and the direction of his college career was uncertain. Coker began to explore other options, meeting with the Stony Brook coaching staff later that month.

He quickly decided to transfer to the Football Championship Series school, which allowed him to play right away rather than sitting out a

season under NCAA transfer rules.

“He chose Stony Brook because he felt like it was the right fit,” Money said. “He really wanted to get right back into the swing of things, and that’s what Stony Brook was offering him.”

Coker has excelled in his first two games at SBU, playing in front

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Syracuse’s receiving corps took a hit on Tuesday when it was announced that Jeremiah Kobena will miss the next few weeks after undergoing surgery.

Younger receivers will have to step up in his absence. Here’s a look at the statistics for the Orange’s wideouts through the first two games: PLAYER

RECEPTIONS YARDS

Marcus Sales 20 Jarrod West 10 Jeremiah Kobena 5 Alec Lemon 5 Christopher Clark 3

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