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Early bird gets the worm More students are graduating early for a better shot at the job market.

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Signing up American Sign Language courses should fulfill language requirements.

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Pet rock Jam band The Heavy Pets will make a triumphant return to Syracuse.

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Start me up Syracuse’s offense will look to find its rhythm early against Minnesota on Saturday, something the team has failed to do through its first three games.

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Bill to call for closer look at bombing

By Jessica Iannetta ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Congresswoman Ann Marie Buerkle has announced she will introduce two pieces of legislation regarding the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.

The legislation will call for further investigation into the bombing and just compensation for the families of the victims, according to a Sept.

19 press release.

The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killed 270 people, including 35 Syracuse University students returning from study abroad programs in London and Florence, Italy.

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only individual ever convicted in the bombings, died in Tripoli in May. He served eight years in prison, but was released in August of 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. Doctors gave him only three months to live, but the former Libyan intelligence officer lived for nearly three years after his release.

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Student pushes for Heather’s Law against domestic violence in memory of cousin

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ith conviction and a strong will, Ashlee Newman pushed her mind past the torturing, unsettling feelings of her cousin’s murder last December.

She asked what she could to do to stop what she calls a senseless act of domestic abuse from happening to anyone else.

“I kind of took it upon myself,” Newman said. “People were like, ‘There has to be a Heather’s Law.’”

The same night Newman went home to Colts Neck, N.J., for Winter Break her freshman year, her cousin, Heather Trapp, was found dead in an Old Bridge, N.J., home. Trapp was stabbed more than 20 times by her ex-husband Anthony Trapp, according to an article published in New Jersey’s The Star-Ledger on April 8.

During the last nine months, Newman, a sophomore political science major, has advanced discussions about preventing domestic abuse.

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Syracuse University’s Human Rights Film Festival, starting Thursday evening, will be dedicated to Bassel Al Shahade, a graduate student who was killed while making a documentary in Syria in May. Roger Hallas, co-director of the film festival, met Al Where: Life Sciences Shahade at last fall’s Human Rights Film Complex Auditorium Festival. He described When: Beginning Today, 7 p.m. through Al Shahade as excitSaturday ing and exuberant. His How much: Free commitment to show the social and political injustices in his home country of Syria through film truly inspired Hallas.

“He really embodied the ethos of our festival,” said Hallas, an associate professor of English.

The festival, which will run Thursday

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Nike VP discusses tech goals

By David Lauterbach CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The hashtag #NewhouseGLDSM trended nationwide Wednesday night during a presentation by Stefan Olander.

Olander, a vice president of digital sport at Nike, gave a presentation via videoconference titled “Game On: Bridging the Digital and Physical World” to a crowd of more than 300 students on Wednesday night in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium.

The presentation was part of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications lecture series titled “Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital Social Media.”

Olander began by outlining the history of Nike and discussing the company’s goal of connecting products to athletes.

Nike’s mission is to give inspiration, innovation and hope to every athlete around the world. Nike believes, Olander said, that if you have a body, you’re an athlete.

“We have always been about serving the athlete,” he said.

Nike strives to create products that

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Students hand out T-shirts to promote Innovation and Disruptive Entrepreneurship Accelerator, an organization that works with student entrepreneurs on their new ventures for economic growth in Central New York. IDEA is a partnership between Syracuse University and The Tech Garden, located in downtown Syracuse, but it is still open to students from other colleges and universities in the area. To raise awareness for entrepreneurship on campus, a frozen flash mob was organized for Wednesday on the Quad from 12:45 to 12:50 p.m.

Students graduate early to stand out, find careers

By Marissa Blanchard CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Just as students look to stand out during the college application process, college students are doing what they can to stand out to future employers. For many, this means graduating early.

In the past 10 to 20 years, Syracuse University has seen a notable increase in the amount of students who decide to graduate a semester early in hopes of entering the job market as soon as possible, said Michael Cahill, director of SU Career Services.

Cahill often works with students to help address their concerns about starting to search for a job.

“We try to help them weigh their options,” he said. “People often put a high premium on the college experience, so the decision to graduate early is on a case-to-case basis.”

Graduating early allows students

more time to search for jobs, Cahill said, and employers will notice these students are academically prepared to begin working immediately.

Ultimately, the decision hinges on the needs and wants of the student. Students could use the final semester to pick up a minor or gain hands-on experience, but if they graduate early, they can get a jump start, Cahill said.

As enrollment in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes increases, he said, more students have transfer credits that can help them graduate in December, or even earlier in some cases.

Susan Kim, a junior biophysics and biochemistry major on the premed track, is graduating a full year early.

“There weren’t a lot of external

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Advocacy Center rebrands image

By Levi Stein

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

More than a year after the R.A.P.E. Center changed its name to the Advocacy Center, it is still working to raise awareness about its new name and broader goals.

One of the ways the Advocacy Center has attempted to raise awareness in the past is through posters placed in dormitory bathrooms.

“I live in Marion Hall and there

is a poster in every stall about the Advocacy Center,” said Duane Ford, a sophomore policy studies major.

Many of these older posters still instruct students to call the R.A.P.E. Center. As part of the rebranding process, a committee was formed to design a new sticker with the Advocacy Center name emblazoned across it, Janet Epstein, director of the Advocacy Center, said in an email.

“These new stickers are now available and we will be working to get those up in bathrooms across all areas of campus,” Epstein said.

The Advocacy Center, located in the lower level of the Syracuse University Health Services building on 111 Waverly Ave., looks to provide support, information, assistance and advocacy for students who have been impacted by sexual or relationship

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Derby Days culminates in chariot race for charity

By Joey Cosco

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Handmade chariots will race through Thornden Park as part of the Red Bull Chariot Race, which comes to Syracuse University for the first time this weekend.

The Red Bull Chariot Race on Saturday is the culmination of Derby Days, the SU chapter of Sigma Chi’s annual, weeklong philanthropy

event, which began Monday. The event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. in Thornden Park and is free and open to the public, said Derby Days Chair Boo Urick.

The rules are simple: Teams of three build their own chariots and two of the teammates pull the vehicle, which the third teammate will ride in a bracketed, one-on-one race tournament, Urick said.

Sigma Chi has held Derby Days annually since its return to campus in 2008, and the event is a staple among Sigma Chi chapters nationally, said Sigma Chi president Keegan Slattery. Derby Days, a weeklong contest between teams, raises money for the Syracuse branch of the Children’s Miracle Network, a charity that helps pay

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‘Gangnam Style’ perpetuates society’s need to bust a coordinated move

ove over, “Call Me Maybe,” there’s a new song capturing the hearts of everyone around. This one even comes with some pretty sweet dance moves.

All you have to do is dance like you’re riding a horse. And we’ve all done that a few too many times on a Friday night.

Obviously, we’re talking “Gangnam Style,” from South Korean rapper Psy. It’s a ridiculous music video, a pop song on the rise and a dance craze sweeping the nation.

And it proves, for some reason, that people just love dance crazes.

Psy has already taught Ellen DeGeneres and Britney Spears how to get their “Gangnam Style” on. Then, he took the stage of the “Today” show to perform his dance-friendly hit.

But “Gangnam Style” truly joined the ranks of the pop culture elite last Saturday.

During the premiere episode of “Saturday Night Live,” a sketch featured a spoof of the popular song.

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the one that got away by pressing a button, unleashing comedian Bobby Moynihan in all his “Gangnam Style,” lip-syncing glory. Once everyone thought the sketch’s punch line was played out, Psy himself emerged from the Lids storage closet he was hiding in.

Psy, Moynihan, two “sexy lady” impersonators from the video and fake horse heads all joined in for the closing.

“Gangnam Style” seems to be the perfect storm of weirdness and a catchy tune to have strong staying power. It takes two types of viral media — songs you can’t avoid, like “Call Me Maybe,” and videos no one can stop posting on

Facebook, like winter’s “Sh*t X People Say” videos — and throws them together for a dominating four-minute experience.

Sitting in my magazine editing class this Tuesday, I couldn’t stop hearing Psy singing in my head. And technically, I don’t even know any words other than “Gangnam style” and “sexy lady.”

But that doesn’t stop me from wanting to ride my imaginary horse in the middle of class.

Although songs like “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” by Soulja Boy or the more recent “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO have inspired people to get their pre-choreographed groove on, “Gangnam Style” is definitely most reminiscent of 17-year-old wedding favorite “Macarena” by Los Del Rio. I assume that 98 percent of the American population doesn’t know any of the words to “Macarena,” excluding the phrase “Aye, Macarena!”

Does that stop anyone from jumping onto the dance floor once they hear the 1995 single come

on? Of course not — just like everyone who loves to “Gangnam Style.”

There are children in high school younger than the Latin hit, but all who can tell their right hand from their left still do the dance.

Whether we’re ready to admit it or not, dancing in public is ridiculous. It’s why no one is ready to dance at a party until the lights are turned off.

Dances like those for the “Macarena” and “Gangnam Style” just indulge that silliness.

No one looks “cool” doing them and that’s why people love them. Instead of worrying about whether you look hot or like a hot mess, you can just laugh along with your friends about how dumb — and fun — the dance is.

Now we’ll just have to wait and see whether “Gangnam Style” becomes a wedding classic in 17 years.

Ariana Romero is a junior magazine journalism and political science major. Her column appears every week. She can be reached at akromero@syr. edu or followed on Twitter at @ArianaRomero17.

Board of Trustees pledges continued support for the Campaign for Syracuse University We are writing as a follow-up to Monday’s article about Syracuse University successfully surpassing — four months early — its $1-billion fundraising goal for the Campaign for Syracuse University.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we want to take this opportunity to thank students, faculty and the SU community for

LET TER TO THE EDITOR their strong support. We were delighted to celebrate this historic announcement last week, made all the more remarkable by the excitement and infectious enthusiasm of the

hundreds of students, faculty and staff who were there on the Quad. The pride the SU community has in this achievement and our success under Chancellor Nancy Cantor’s leadership was on full display.

It is important for us to recognize what it means for SU to have exceeded the goal for its most ambitious fundraising effort ever. The $1-billion goal is nearly triple that of any previous fundraising goal in the university’s history and, thanks to the generosity of more than 60,000 individual donors — alumni and friends, faculty and staff, students and families — SU has entered a new philanthropic era.

When the campaign was launched in 2007, there were five core areas to which support would be designated by donors: student access and support; faculty excellence; cross-connections; building futures; and annual support.

These were overarching areas of investment in which $1 billion in new funds would have the most positive impact on students, faculty and the university as a whole.

That impact has been great — 350 student scholarships have been established, endowed faculty chairs have more than doubled to a total of 99, new state-of-the-art facilities have been supported, including Newhouse III, the Life Sciences Complex and Dineen Hall, and new interdisciplinary teaching, research and

community engagement initiatives have been supported across every one of SU’s schools and colleges — just to name a few accomplishments.

And we are not done yet. While we already have surpassed our goal, the campaign is still underway and we are determined to finish strong. The areas of student and faculty support remain high priorities for the remaining months of the campaign and beyond.

Impressively, the success we’ve achieved together has come amid the worst national economic recession since the Great Depression — conditions that caused other universities to postpone similar campaigns. During this time, with the support of students, faculty and staff, SU actually thrived, building an unprecedented national and global volunteer network that was instrumental to the ultimate success of the campaign. These are extraordinary achievements in which every member of the SU family can take great pride.

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Sign language course should fulfill language credits As American Sign Language is a way – and sometimes the only way – people can communicate,officials should consider offering ASL as a language course, and not just as an education course.

Two ASL classes are offered in the School of Education, rather than the language department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students have petitioned for the course to count toward the language requirement, said Teresa Gavagan, an ASL professor.But students should not have to go through this process just to take a language course.

SU appears to be accommodating of those who are deaf and need to use sign language to communicate. The American Sign Language Club at SU is supported by the Disability Cultural Center, a unit in the Division of Student Affairs.

The club works with community members, but wants to pull in students.

But the university seems to be less accommodating of those who wish to

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board learn ASL. It will be hard for the club to pull in students for events if students cannot learn the language needed to fully interact at the events. The two classes offered in the School of Education fill up quickly and often leave students closed out.

ASL is not much different from other language courses at SU. Although many may often think of foreign languages as languages from other countries, foreign can also refer to unfamiliarity. Like any other language, learning sign language stimulates the brain and is a valuable skill set for students to have.

To create a more inclusive and wellrounded community, the university must consider expanding the ASL classes so they count toward the language requirement.

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Bill to explain tier system deserves support from assembly, student body

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tephen DeSalvo knows what needs fixing.

During the spring 2012 Student Association budget meeting, DeSalvo, the SA comptroller, entertained questions from student leaders about the concept of the “tier system” and how the SA Finance Board uses it to delegate funds to Syracuse University’s registered student organizations. The majority of the inquiries, however, concerned how a group could move up in the system and have access to more funding.

The questioning was not undeserved.

Though the current SA finance codes do explain the use of the tier system and that it was implemented to promote fiscal responsibility, there is no explanation for how organizations can move

tiers. This is a major issue, as many student leaders wish to plan large-scale events and do not understand why they are denied the funding, or when they will be able to receive it in the future.

In recognizing that this ambiguity could not continue, DeSalvo, with input from Finance Board members, drafted a bill to clearly define mobility in the system for student organizations. He presented the bill Monday to the assembly and it will be up for a vote Sept. 24.

The general assembly needs to enact this bill to ensure fairness, equality and transparency in its financial processes.

The finance codes currently state student organizations can apply for funding from the student activity fee, but can only receive up to the amount stipulated

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in their tier. Organizations have been placed in tiers based on their programming capital, history of successful events and Finance Board evaluations.

Tier One organizations receive the lowest amount of funding and Tier Four organizations receive the highest.

Movement in the tiers is currently up to the discretion of the comptroller.

If passed, DeSalvo’s bill will explain to student organizations that moving up

is achievable and, therefore, access to larger sums is a possibility in the future.

The bill explains the application for moving up a tier, which includes an explanation of programming history containing at least six semesters of SAfunded events, a letter of recommendation by the adviser and a justification for moving up. All new organizations will be placed in Tier One, and an organization can only move one tier at a time.

If this bill is not passed, the ability for groups to move tiers may remain up to the discretion of the comptroller.

SA should be apprehensive about leaving such decisions to one person with no policy to base upon. Student leaders have expressed a want for clarity concerning mobility. As comptrollers

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DeSalvo’s proposed policies are explicit and understandable. During his first term as comptroller, this is the most significant proposal he has put forward to the general assembly, as it patches a hole in the SA financial system.

When he worked to make the system part of the codes a year ago, DeSalvo knew it would be a work in progress. He has found what needs fixing, and this bill is a step in the right direction.

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Newman wanted a law that would prevent what happened to her cousin from happening to anyone else.

Through an independent study with William Coplin, a public affairs professor, Newman researched policies, interviewed experts and formed her own goals. She documented events leading up to her cousin’s murder and supplied the information to New Jersey state politicians.

Last week, she took part in a press conference at the New Jersey State House to generate support for it, speaking alongside state senators Barbara Buono and Linda Greenstein.

“With my family overwhelmed with grief and horror, I knew being the determined person I am, I could not let the time go by without taking action,” Newman said.

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“With my family overwhelmed with grief and horror, I knew being the determined person I am, I could not let the time go by without taking action.”

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ers who have a permanent restraining order granted against them. An amendment will name it Heather’s Law. Trapp was failed by the justice system before being killed by her ex-husband in December.

Trapp had two restraining orders dismissed before she was murdered, Newman said.

“Even though it wouldn’t have saved my cousin’s life because my cousin’s restraining orders were denied, it’s trying to protect the victim,” Newman said. “And that’s a key I think is missing in the state of New Jersey.”

One year ago, Newman was simply a freshman taking her first semester of classes at SU. She was in Coplin’s PAF 101: “An Introduction to the Analysis of Public Policy” and his honors discussion class. Many of the terms taught in that introductory class are ones Newman still uses today. There, Coplin taught how policies are created.

But, at the time, it was just another class to Newman.

“He wasn’t very fond of me, like, I didn’t take a particular interest in the class,” Newman said. “I wasn’t very fond of him, he knows all this; I really couldn’t wait to be done with the class.

“But there was just this connection right after it happened,” she added.

Newman heard people say that there needed

THE JUSTICE FOR HEATHER COALITION

As part of her research in her independent study last spring, Ashlee Newman created “The Justice for Heather Coalition,” a Facebook group meant to bring people who knew Heather Trapp together.

Since then, it has picked up more than 1,000 subscribers. Newman now uses it to provide updates on her progress in helping create preventive measures for domestic abuse that both honor Trapp and create more awareness.

To see “The Justice for Heather Coalition,” visit http://www.facebook.com/ Justice.for.Heather.Coalition.

to be a law in Trapp’s honor. Almost instantly, she reached out to Coplin.

He responded immediately.

“I told her, ‘OK, you can. You can do this,’” Coplin said. “‘First of all, you have to get information on what the details are, and you need to talk to a lot of people and do research.’ And she did a lot.”

Research meant analyzing all angles of domestic abuse, both specific to her cousin’s case and in general in order to find her true goal. She spoke with directors at Syracuse-area advocacy nonprofits, including Vera House and Chadwick House. She analyzed what the SU Advocacy Center and the Department of Public Safety do to combat domestic abuse.

She created The Justice for Heather Coalition on Facebook, which was her way of centralizing the discussion for those who knew her cousin and wanted to see something happen legislatively.

The group now has more than 1,000 subscribers.

“She did a fantastic job,” Coplin said. “I think she’s actually surprised how far it’s gone, and she’s more or less an expert now on domestic violence policy.”

To help create Heather’s Law, state senators asked Newman to submit something to them that gave the gist of Trapp’s case. Newman spoke to family members, did additional research and submitted a detailed document that she said is 6-8 pages in length.

Buono, the New Jersey state senator, sent it to be analyzed in the legislature and came back to Newman with a few domestic violence bills already drafted.

Newman thought Senate bill 331 fit Heather’s Law best.

Newman continued her work into the summer by attending the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence in Denver. Her trip was sponsored by SU’s Renee Crown University Honors Program, of which Newman is a member.

Newman said she plans to complete her final Capstone Project by doing a comparative domestic violence study, looking at policies and statistics around the world.

Honors students do not normally think about their Capstone Project until they are juniors, but Newman already has hers figured out.

“When they’re able to invest early enough, the students can often develop wonderful projects,” said Eric Holzwarth, deputy director of the honors program.

Upon concluding her research, Newman was able to pinpoint the specific problems in Trapp’s case that could have been prevented by the law.

Newman mingled with state senators after she spoke at the press conference in New Jersey last week and called upon the state to follow domestic violence models of other, more progressive states.

She pushed the idea of a 48-hour follow-up law, which would require police to check in at houses where there was a domestic complaint 48 hours after it happened. She said this law already exists in other states.

Newman is currently working with Sen. Linda Greenstein on the 48-hour follow-up law and said Greenstein seems interested.

While she does not want to go into advocacy as a career, instead preferring corporate law, Newman said she imagines she will always be involved philanthropically. Though working toward Heather’s Law has inspired Newman to pursue future projects, she said it’s not about her; it’s about Heather.

Said Newman: “It’s honoring her memory and it’s getting the idea of protecting the victim out there. I worked really hard but it’s really for all of my family and I know that it’s a way for everyone else to cope. So it’s been amazing.” mcooperj@syr.edu @mark_cooperjr

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violence, according to the Advocacy Center website.

Faculty members and students have said the new name is more welcoming and better reflects the center’s broadened mission.

“We have noticed that students are much more comfortable referring to the Advocacy Center by name than they were with the R.A.P.E. Center name,” Epstein said.

There has also been an increase in students seeking assistance related to relationship abuse, Epstein said.

Samantha Sloan, a sophomore television, radio and film and Spanish major, said she thinks the new name is more politically correct.

“It is less rash than the R.A.P.E. Center; however, the name isn’t quite as clear anymore,” she said.

A student volunteer marketing committee was formed in the hopes of increasing awareness about the Advocacy Center’s goal and promoting the name change. Last semester, the

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Moammar al Gadhafi, the former Libyan dictator who many suspect orchestrated the attack, was killed last October.

With Libya in the news for crimes against Americans, now is a good time to remember those who suffered under the Gadhafi regime, as well as the victims of the bombings, Buerkle said in the press release.

“Sadly, all these years later, the families of American victims are still awaiting justice.

Until now, there has yet to be a complete inves-

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committee created new posters to be placed around campus. Volunteers also periodically table in the Schine Atrium and Goldstein Student Center, Epstein said.

Along with the name change, more services have been added to the Advocacy Center.

Workshops are held to educate the public about domestic violence, and also include information on healthy relationships, respectful behavior, recognizing warning signs and supporting friends and family in abusive relationships, Epstein said.

While the rebranding process has brought about new services, the traditional student volunteer process is the same. Students train to become peer facilitators through the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program, which introduces students to the empowered bystander approach to interpersonal violence prevention, Epstein said.

Said Epstein: “These Advocacy Center peer educators are also working to inform students throughout campus about the Advocacy Center name change, services and programs.” ldstei01@syr.edu

tigation of those implicated in the crimes,” she said. “The families of the victims continue to hope for proper compensation for the crimes they have endured, as only some have received compensation.”

Buerkle has been working with the organization Families of Pan Am 103/Lockerbie and its president, Paul Hudson, on the legislation for several months.

Said Buerkle: “It is very little to ask that those who were responsible for the attack be brought to justice and that the families of the victims receive fair compensation.” jliannet@syr.edu

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factors,” Kim said. “I just saw that I had enough credits and thought it would be a good idea to take a gap year to do an internship or something that I really love instead of staying in school.”

Kim plans to work for a drug development company, located in Seattle, in order to build her resume and figure out what path to take in medical school. She said she will walk in the commencement ceremony in May with the graduating seniors.

“I love college, but I am just ready to go on with the rest of my life,” Kim said.

Many students who contemplate graduating early consider if they will be able to come back and walk in the ceremony. SU currently does not hold a December graduation ceremony.

In the past, SU held both winter and spring graduation ceremonies. However, in 1952, the December ceremony ended, said Susan Germain, executive director of the Office of Special Events, in an email.

Senior television, radio and film major Leslie Berkowitz is graduating early in the hopes of beating the application rush in the spring. She said in an email that she has a few friends in her major that also plan to graduate early.

“I’m coming back to graduate in May,” Berkowitz said. “I think it’s important to walk with my friends and be recognized as part of the group. It’d be nice if there was a December ceremony, but I would probably have come back in May regardless.”

through Saturday, will showcase five documentaries highlighting injustices all over the world.

The films will be viewed in the Life Sciences Complex Auditorium and admission is free, according to an Aug. 29 SU news press release.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the film festival, which was started in 2003 by Tula Goenka, a television, radio and film professor, in response to Sept. 11. When it first began, the festival showcased stories from South Asia, but it has since become an international film festival exposing social injustices.

Goenka said she hopes dedicating the festival to Al Shahade will remind viewers that violence occurring in the Middle East can still affect SU. “It brings it home to the SU community that we always think that violence is happening far away from us,” she said. “But we are affected by it as human beings all the time.”

At the festival, Al Shahade’s life’s work will be acknowledged. His short film will also be highlighted, Hallas said.

“It’s a really beautiful film, but also a very timely film about the time of conflict and war,” he said.

Unlike previous years, representatives from all of the films will be at the festival participating in discussions regarding social injustices.

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This year’s Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival features five films. All films are shown in the Life Sciences Complex Auditorium and are free and open to the public. The film schedule is:

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Last year, he said, Skype was used to communicate with filmmakers.

The planning for the festival took place over the summer, Goenka said. Both she and Hallas chose the five films based on research and cur-

“Human rights are so fundamental that they broadly encompass virtually every aspect of our lives.”

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rent social issues. The festival makes an effort to show films that are not easily available to the public.

“These are important issues. Even if students had not heard about them, they should know about them,” Goenka said. “The festival has a very much teaching mission and that is why we pick these films and raise these topics with the community.”

The festival opens with the viewing of “The Invisible War,” a documentary investigating the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military on Thursday, according to the release.

Other films include “The Mexican Suitcase,” a documentary that shows the political nature and trauma in Mexico; “Somewhere Between,” which follows the lives of four Chinese girls adopted by American families; “Call Me Kuchu” which chronicles David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, and his attempt to defeat homophobic legislation and “Valley of the Saints,” which shows the life of a young boatman on Dal Lake who deals with conflict in Kashmir.

The film festival will also showcase “Undesired,” a series of photographs revealing the difficult societal pressures Indian women face, according to the release.

The biggest challenge the film festival faces, Hallas said, is attendance. Through the years, the festival has started to create a following in the SU community.

“We’ve really been making a strong progression of building an audience that knows of the festival, is around and looks forward to it every year,” Hallas said. “We’ve also created an opportunity for students to engage in dialogue.”

Abrar Almjally, an information management graduate student, said he thinks the festival is an excellent idea because it can help the different cultures around the world come together.

Said Almjally: “The film festival might help SU students have a better understanding of the injustices that are taking place around the world.” mhnewman@syr.edu

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Boxed in University of Texas at Austin rejects, then allows student newspaper bins in College of Communication

By Andrew Muckell STAFF WRITER

Two weeks ago, the University of Texas at Austin was forced to choose between keeping the grounds clean and spreading student journalism.

The university’s College of Communication administration initially rejected the idea of having boxes for The Daily Texan — the student newspaper — in the newly established Belo Center of New Media for fear of increased litter, according to a Sept. 7 Daily Texan article.

But after receiving backlash from students, alumni and faculty, the college announced boxes would be installed, according to the article.

UT Austin is working toward a silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for the Belo Center. LEED certification signifies a building’s “greenness” in energy and resource preservation, according to the article.

The administration originally said it felt not providing newspaper boxes at the facility would help keep the school clean, according to the article.

Laura Byerley, the public affairs representative at UT Austin, said in an email that the College of Communication “never intended to ‘ban’ Daily Texan boxes.”

“Because they were already located across the

street (15 feet away), it never occurred to us that we would need additional ones,” she said. “However, we have asked our architect to recommend locations and designs for newspaper boxes at the Belo Center for New Media.”

The College of Communication tweeted assurances similar to Byerley’s on Sept. 6, citing “confusion” regarding the issue of the boxes and reaffirming that UT Austin is “working to make (The Daily Texan) available.”

Students and faculty were not just aggravated with the inconvenience of crossing the street to get a newspaper, but also with the principle of the issue: A journalism school should endorse the student newspaper, according to a Sept. 6 Daily Texan article.

There are about 175 newspaper boxes on and off campus, according to the article, and it would be ironic if the Belo Center contained none.

After UT Austin announced Daily Texan boxes would be placed in the Belo Center, Glenn Frankel, director of the College of Communication, voiced his approval of the revised decision in the Sept. 7 article.

“I thought it was a mistake to not give students and faculty access to The Daily Texan and newspapers here in the Belo Center,” Frankel said in the article. “To me, it was not important whether those boxes were inside the lobby or outside, just that there is access for our students.” asmuckel@syr.edu

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help athletes perform at their best, such as Nike+, Nike Fuel Band and a new product set to be released soon that was created in cooperation with Microsoft. The product will use Kinect camera technology, Olander said.

The product has the user do seven exercises of functional movements to assess fitness and then generates a four-week program tailored to the user’s individual needs, Olander said.

Many of Nike’s digital or technological products are tailored around the goals of the consumer. People want to see their progress and, at Nike, this is taken into consideration when

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medical costs for children in the area.

Urick said last year’s Derby Days raised $5,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network and 5,000 pounds of clothing to donate to the Salvation Army.

This year the fraternity has increased expectations; it aims to raise more money and collect more clothes. As last year was the first year for the clothing drive, Urick said he expects more people to be aware of the drive and prepared to donate.

products are created, Olander said.

Brett Samuels, a freshman undeclared major in Newhouse, said he was very impressed with Olander’s presentation.

“I think he gave good insight into the way a huge company like Nike works,” Samuels said.

“He broke it down really well to how they reach a consumer.”

When Nike first started, the company was selling shoes out of the back of a van, yet the commitment to the customer was still the same.

On the topic of social media specifically, Olander discussed how Nike not only wants to connect people with its brand, but with each other.

This idea helped Jose Moreno, a junior broadcast and digital journalism major, understand Nike’s use of social media.

“I want to reach as many people as we can with this,” Urick said.

Urick has taken to Twitter to help promote the event under his alternate title: @ DerbyDaddy.

While Sigma Chi will hold its traditional Derby Days events, this year will be the first time the event ends with the Red Bull Chariot Race.

“I was all for it because it ties into the whole greek system we have,” Urick said. “We’re greek fraternities; chariot races are from ancient times.”

Red Bull Chariot Race has come to several colleges across the nation. This fall, SU and the University of Tennessee are the only schools

“I think he gave good insight into the way a huge company like Nike works. He broke it down really well to how they reach a consumer.”

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“Nike obviously continues using social media for innovation to improve their products,” Moreno said.

William Ward, a social media professor in

“I was all for it because it ties into the whole greek system we have.

We’re greek fraternities; chariot races are from ancient times.”

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Newhouse who coordinated the event, said he thought Olander was an ideal speaker to discuss social media with students.

“The Newhouse Global Leaders in Digital and Social Media speakers series is really about finding those people around the world that are innovating in that digital and social media space,” Ward said. “Nike was really one of the first.”

Nike came before several other companies that are referred to as social media giants today, like Facebook and Twitter, Ward said.

“I like that he emphasized the human element of Nike,” said Ward. “I hope the biggest take away is he humanized what seemed like digital tools and platforms and APIs and mobile apps to pretty much how they help people’s lives.” dlauterb@syr.edu

ute to ancient Greek athletics, according to the Red Bull Chariot Race website.

The chariot race will also be the first Derby Days event that other fraternities can participate in, Slattery said.

Other fraternities were invited to participate in the festivities, he said, because Sigma Chi did not want them to be left out, and additional participants would lead to increased proceeds for the fraternity’s philanthropy.

Said Slattery: “It’s good to show the community that we do do a lot on this campus, and having everybody coming together and being united on it is pretty cool.” jjcosco@syr.edu

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its songs.

The current lineup of the band, formed in 2006, is based out of Fort

Gales of laughter and the smell of cookies fill the room. People sit around the brown wooden table, talking and enjoying the cookies — fresh, round cherry ones decorated with peace signs.

The Slutzker Center for International Services has hosted Brown Bag Lunch Discussions from Monday to Thursday to celebrate the upcoming International Day of Peace. As part of Eat Together for Peace — a project undertaken by the Syracuse University Humanities Center — students, faculty and staff are welcome to bring their lunches to the center and join the discussion about world peace.

The aim of the project is to explore hospitality and the arts as pathways to peace.

Each day, about 35 students from all over the world — including Peru, Japan, South Korea, China and Germany — attended this service. Even though the event is hosted in the Slutzker Center, which mainly serves students from abroad, several American students also participated.

Discussion leaders from the Fulbright International Education Exchange Program, the flagship exchange program funded by the U.S. government, chose different topics for each day.

“Peace is very important to our future, to everyone’s future. It doesn’t matter what country that you are from. And I always remind Americans that they are internationals, too,” said Elane Granger, the associate director of student services at the Slutzker Center. “They are part of the responsibility of the globe and international community. We are on the same boat.”

The program’s policy is to be inclusive, Granger said, which means the events that are organized are not just for international students, but also for the whole student population. The idea is not to look at the student body in terms of populations, but in terms of groups.

Sheng Yu, a graduate student studying statistics, is from China.

Yu recognized peace is the goal that everyone tries to reach, but different governments tend to choose different approaches.

“Peace is an international issue,” Yu said. “But when the governments deal with it, it always depends on their own, internal situations and concerns their own benefits.”

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Hometown heroes The Heavy Pets’ jam-band sound brings life to Syracuse music scene

By Robert Gaudio

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rom a makeshift stage at Harry’s Bar to one of the premier venues in upstate New York, one local band, The Heavy Pets, has made its mark on Syracuse.

At Syracuse University, the band, then named My Friend’s Band, was the catalyst in bringing live music to Marshall Street.

Before the band convinced Darwin’s — a local bar now long gone — and Harry’s on Marshall Street,

there was no live music around campus. The boys made a makeshift stage, which they hauled from venue to venue, racking up as much playing time as possible.

“Those were some of the best years of my life,” said singer and guitarist Jeff Lloyd.

Now the boys are back in town on a familiar stage. The remaining members of this band and SU alumni Lloyd and Jim Wuest return to play the Westcott Theater on Thursday.

Tickets are still available for the 9 p.m. show for $12 online and $15 at the door.

The Heavy Pets has played the Westcott six times since 2010.

Although the Westcott has only been around since 2008, it wasn’t there during Lloyd and Wuest’s days on campus.

“It’s a great room with a great staff,” Lloyd said.

Despite having multiple perfor-

courtesy of the heavy pets THE HEAVY PETS perform live in concert. The jam band, now based in Florida, helped bring live music to Marshall Street. The Heavy Pets used to play at Harry’s Bar and now-closed Darwin’s. mances in a short amount of time, Lloyd said the band’s crowd grew every time, along with the amount of people who actually sang along with

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was lying in bed on a nice, peaceful night, when all of a sudden, at a few inches height, I spotted before me the vilest of vermin.

I immediately reached for my whiskey and bourbon.

Staring right at me with black beady eyes was this nasty little creature of the smallest of size. Now it wasn’t a cockroach, nor was it a tick — those I could handle with merely a stick.

This nasty intruder on the floor in my house was none other than a stupid little mouse.

He was sitting on my fan, as innocent as could be, probably looking for food, perhaps cheese or a pea. I was not happy to see this tinytoothed visitor, so I set forth to exterminate him with his brothers and sisters.

Off the floor went my clothes and spare trash, in went the poison and the peanut-butterfilled traps. My house declared war on our longtailed house guests and — sure enough — my roommates stood up to the test.

The first mouse ran himself into a corner.

The funeral followed with many a mourner.

The second varmint met a more comic demise: He was crushed by a saxophone, to everyone’s surprise. With the third mouse’s fate I was particularly pleased, though when I tell this story, stomachs often go queasy.

“e taste of fried chicken, but moister and less greasy.”

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no lies, just bull**** I found the corpse in a pool of his own brains, and alone in my room, I laughed at his pain. The trap I had set had done the job well. He’d been dead long enough, for his blood started to gel.

To Twitter we went with the hash tag, “#mousewranglers,” and soon all our friends knew the mess that entangled not only our house, but my girlfriend’s, too. After all, I did not want to sleep in a zoo.

I’m not the only one with a severe rodent problem. The bats down in Sadler can cause quite the bedlam. You would think that a school with tuition so high could have dorms free of rodents that fly. Yet as freshmen in school, we were warned of the bats and left to wonder which halls would have rats.

Now a few weeks prior, the bats did infest

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my girlfriend’s house and they caused quite the mess. Screaming, she called me late in the night, for the flying mouse wonder gave her a fright. So with tennis rackets wielded, we stormed through the door. My friend brought a drumstick to complete the chore.

The house full of girls still shrieked in sheer panic as if they were passengers aboard the Titanic. Their knees had been bloodied from their swift, panicked crawl, until they were locked in the room down the hall. We searched through the house and checked every room, when another friend came, waving his broom. The bat had since flown away from the manor, leaving us with girls now with poor bedside manner.

Now for weeks I’ve fought against these putrid pests, and many a night I’ve spent without rest. These suckers must die immediately, I say, for I don’t think I can stand another day with a mouse in my house and close to my bed, scurrying about and close to my head. With a murderous gleam, I’ll continue about until they’re all dead, beyond any doubt.

FRIDAY - September 21st International Day of Peace on the Quad Peace Sign + Silence + Oranges 11:30 a.m. Make a ‘living’ peace sign Come together on the Quad to form a ‘living’ peace sign.

A photo will be given to the Dalai Lama when he visits SU. Meet at the intersection near Link Hall. Go Orange!

12:00 p.m. Chimes, 1-minute of silence, music Bring friends, roommates, student groups.

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By Rob Marvin STAFF WRITER

he Words” is the story of a story within a story within yet another story. Problem is, none of the stories are particularly interesting.

This wishy-washy literary thriller is masquerading as a “book-ception” of sorts, with incessant narration and a heavy-handed score just as cliched as its plot. The actors move capably enough through the film, but their performances are lost in a muddled narrative, like charming characters stuck in a lifeless novel.

Needlessly complex storytelling buries the few enjoyable scenes deep in the film’s runtime.

Bradley Cooper plays his typical suave role as a young novelist, but his only truly absorbing acting is when he shares the screen with legendary star Jeremy Irons — the old man whose book he uncovered and passed off as his own.

When “The Words” finally peels back all the layers of its stale script, it’s far too late to save this mundane fiction.

The film opens with famous writer Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid) reading his upcoming novel out loud to an audience. It chronicles struggling New York City writer Rory Jansen (Cooper), whose new book isn’t quite good enough for publishers; he’s working a dead-end job just to get by.

While honeymooning in Paris with his stunning wife, Dora (Zoe Saldana), he comes across a tattered old briefcase in an antiques shop. It sounds cliche, but wait, there’s more: Concealed inside is an untitled manuscript. Whoa. Now things are really heating up.

After some internal debate, Jansen plagiarizes the book literally word for word. The instant bestseller, “The Window Tears,” showers him with the acclaim and literary fandom he’s always dreamed of. Jansen enjoys the fruits of his lie until the real author (Irons) shows up, revealing the true story behind his stolen success.

The biggest problem with “The Words” is the words themselves. The script jumps back and forth between storylines, ruining what little dramatic momentum the plot drums up.

Co-writers and directors Brian Klugman and

Lee Sternthal write themselves into corners, saved by one lucky coincidence after another — the original manuscript is tragically left on a train, Jansen happens to come across it at the perfect time and he effortlessly tracks down the mysterious unnamed author.

Irons’ particular storyline is the one bright spot in an otherwise forgettable cinematic experience. He limps onscreen with a cane and scraggly gray beard, casually approaching Jansen as a fan. Irons’ calming, raspy speech turns slowly colder as he describes the personal manuscript he lost long ago and “the piss-ant kid who found it.”

Irons narrates the old man’s memories with passionate nostalgia and pangs of regret. The young American veteran (Ben Barnes) falls for a beautiful French girl (Nora Arnezeder) in post-World War II Paris, living in bliss until they’re inevitably torn apart by tragedy. These few romantic flashbacks are the only bearable ones.

The collective narration is bothersome at best, with Quaid, Cooper and Irons all taking turns. The writing also has an air of conceit.

Characters continually make corny, grandiose statements during hokey narrations.

As if to justify the premise of stealing a book verbatim, Hammond narrates as Jansen retypes the text: “He wanted to feel the words pass through his fingers, through his mind, if only for a moment.” It sounds like something written

by Stephenie Meyer.

The atmosphere also seems artificial, chockfull of flashbacks to 1940s Paris and replayed stock footage of New York City, as if to fake an authentic feel. A heavy orchestral score adds to the painful melodrama, with swells of string and woodwind instruments signaling when a scene is supposed to be especially thrilling.

When the storylines finally do come together — sort of — there’s no real payoff. Instead of illuminating the depths of career ambitions and desperation, it’s just the superficial tale of a guy who steals a book, feels bad and gets away with it.

This film pretends like it has something to say, some grand life lesson to impart. But in the end, it’s just words. rjmarvin@syr.edu

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Check it ALL WEEKEND LONG SU Human Rights Film Festival It has been 10 years since the Syracuse University Human Rights Film Festival was created.

It celebrates its anniversary this weekend by showcasing various award-winning films that touch upon social justice issues throughout the world.

This year’s festival is dedicated to Bassel Al Shahade, a graduate student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts and a Fulbright Scholar who was killed in May in Syria while filming. All of the films in the festival will be shown in SU’s Life Sciences Complex Auditorium and are free and open to the public.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 20 Phonography exhibit Every day, many students use their cellphones to snap a shot and record a memory. This is far from the days when photography wasn’t instant, but rather on film that had to be developed. It is far even from digital photos that had to be pulled up on a computer.

A cellphone photography exhibition at The Gallery at The Tech Garden showcases this transformation of picture taking and sharing.

From 4 to 7 p.m., a physical exhibit will be present, as well as a slideshow projected on the walls. Smartphone users can look at some of the photographs on Instagram by using the

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hashtag #syracusephonographyshow. If you miss it, however, the gallery on 235 Harrison St. will be open through Oct. 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m every day except Saturday and Sunday.

Syracuse Style Fashion Show Anyone interested in fashion should stop by Armory Square at 7:30 p.m. for the Syracuse Style fashion show. The show will reveal some trendy fall collections from various retailers, which include local stores such as Mr. Shop and Bounce. Don’t fret about the weather; the show must go on. And it does, rain or shine, under a large tent outside Empire Brewing Company. Best of all: It’s free.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 Cuse Crawl 3 The first stop of this semester for the National Bar Crawl Association Highlight the Night Tour is Armory Square. Cuse Crawl, which occurred each of the past two years with about 6,500 participants last year, promises to be bigger and better. For only $10, it drops the cover fee to every bar. The list of bars is still pending, but it starts at 8 p.m. Participants also receive a crawl scorecard and various prizes, including T-shirts, highlighters, Red Bull, sunglasses and beads. Tickets can be bought online or that night.

—Compiled by Colleen Bidwill, feature editor, cbidwill@syr.edu

Lauderdale, Fla. Alongside Lloyd and keyboardist Wuest are band members Mike Garulli, also on guitar and vocals, Tony D’Amato on bass and Jamie Newitt on drums.

The rock ‘n’ roll jam band is a national force, playing festivals and selling out venues all over the country.

The group has become a staple at music festivals, playing the Bear Creek Music Festival four times and taking the stage at Wakarusa and Bonnaroo. The band has even had a festival named after it called PetZoo. Although it was a seemingly haphazard touring schedule at the beginning of the group’s career, after leaving Florida, Lloyd said festivals were how the band accessed an audience base outside its hometown.

The Heavy Pets has been hailed as “Extraordinary” by jam-band website JamBase, and its self-titled album received a Top 10 Albums of 2010 nod from Dan Sweeney at The Huffington Post. By combining roots in funk, the blues, bluegrass and reggae, the band creates a distinctive sound.

“Don’t think of us as a bunch of hippies.”

Lloyd said. “We don’t rely on improvisation, we just use it.”

The group’s sound can most readily be described as subdued chaos — sharp, practiced riffs, creative verses and catchy hooks, giving way to a flowing jam of heavily invested, welllearned instrumentalists.

The band has released four studio albums: “Whale” (2007), “Slow Motion Conduction” (2008), the self-titled “The Heavy Pets” (2010) and “Swim Out Past The Sun” (2011). Creating a repertoire of more than 70 songs, each album

gets increasingly more polished and refined as the members grow as songwriters and musicians.

Along with its studio releases, the band has released four live sessions cataloging its famous live shows, with three from 2009 and one from 2011.

The SU campus has had just as big of an effect on the band as it has had on the Syracuse music scene. A song off its most recent album, titled “Too See Forever,” is about Lloyd’s time living in room 2C up on the Mount in Flint Hall.

Aside from the group’s Syracuse influences, Lloyd and the band find inspiration everywhere.

“Our music tastes are always changing. You could ask all five guys and get five different answers.”

The band’s playing isn’t even confined to the name, The Heavy Pets, though. It has many side projects of varying genre. There is Spaghetti Warhol, the full band performing covers of other artists, DuBBle James, a live dubstep duo, and others.

The future of The Heavy Pets looks bright since its album release in 2011 and, since then, the band has been working on new material, focusing on some new sounds and growing as a group. Over the years, The Heavy Pets has developed a sizable following in upstate New York, Colorado and Philadelphia — according to the band, its biggest growing market is its popularity in Southern states, the Carolinas and Georgia.

Looking back, the band’s performances at SU were a time when Lloyd and Wuest learned how to really read an audience, such as knowing when and when not to “jam.”

Said Lloyd: “I was a terrible student. I just played music.” ragaudio@syr.edu

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Comedic hypnotist to enchant crowd

By Anna Hider STAFF WRITER

Syracuse University junior Nathan Garland never knew he had a secret talent for dance.

That was, at least, until he attended a show at ACACIA, where he volunACACIA hosts Doug MacCraw. teered to Where: Goldstein Auditorium be hypnoWhen: Friday, 7:30 p.m. tized by How much: $5 comedic hypnotist Doug MacCraw.

“At one point I was onstage doing ballet. I can’t do ballet,” said Garland, a computer engineering major. “I was up there just strutting and doing spins.”

It will mark the sixth time MacCraw has used hypnotism to bring out hidden talents on campus.

Just about anything can happen at ACACIA’s show featuring MacCraw, which will take place on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Goldstein Auditorium.

Tickets are still on sale at the Schine Student

Hypnotist performance

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Anna Ebers of Estonia was Monday’s guest discussion leader. She spoke about natural resources and peace.

“Natural resources can create a lot of conflicts. We have participants from many different countries,” Ebers said. “They told us how their countries get influenced by the natural resources; either they lack or have an abundant

Center Box Office for $5 with a valid student ID and can be purchased up until the night of the show.

The old hypnotist catchphrase, “You are getting sleepy. Very sleepy,” holds true for MacCraw’s shows. MacCraw, an ACACIA brother and graduate of the University of North Dakota, gets participants to do all different kinds of crazy things — everything from falling asleep in their chairs to dancing. He hypnotizes audience volunteers and occasionally the entire bunch.

MacCraw is not only certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists, but is also an accomplished stand-up comedian. He combines comedy with hypnosis to create an entertaining and interesting show for the audience, Garland said.

Garland has volunteered to be hypnotized onstage both times he has attended MacCraw’s show, including his ballet performance.

Garland also said not everyone can be hypnotized, but being relaxed and open to the experience helps prime viewers for the show. Being hypnotized is essentially the state of being so

relaxed that you become open to suggestion or direction, and MacCraw is an expert in getting people to this state.

At MacCraw’s show, audience members who hope to experience hypnotism at a closer level raise a hand to volunteer. “(MacCraw) relaxes you first. The way he talks is supposed to soothe you, and then he just owns you,” said Garland, describing what it’s like being hypnotized. “He has his fun with you.”

While in a hypnotized state, volunteers remain conscious and aware, Garland said.

Being hypnotized is both entertaining and relaxing, Garland said. He also said MacCraw has hypnotized audience members to wake up at a certain time the next morning.

Whether students go to be hypnotized or just to watch the goofiness, MacCraw’s shows are always amusing, Garland said.

Said Garland: “How many other opportunities do you get to see an actual hypnotist perform?”

supply of them.”

Ebers is a State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry graduate student who is currently working on a project to bring solar electricity to the village of Mezquitic in Mexico.

Normally, countries with an abundance of natural resources have low economic growth — it is called natural resources curse, she said.

Angola is a country rich in diamonds and petrol chemicals and, as a result, experiences civil wars and conflicts over its natural resources.

At this point in the discussion, a student from Angola joined in to say the only way to stop the conflicts is to have a good government.

Ebers also said peace is very fragile. It is difficult to create, but very easy to destroy.

Granger encouraged all SU students and faculty to go to the Quad and celebrate International Day of Peace on Friday. The event will feature a moment of silence, a spiritual moment with hearts full of peace for everyone in the world, she said.

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SYRACUSE AT MINNESOTA SATURDAY, 8 P.M., BIG TEN NETWORK

KEY MATCHUPS

BIG EAST 2012 STANDINGS TEAM

SIRIKI DIABATE MLB

MAX SHORTELL QB

The 6-foot-6-inch, 237-pound Shortell will step in for injured starter MarQueis Gray. Diabate and the SU defense will need to be prepared for an inexperienced quarterback who they won’t have much film on heading into the game.

BY THE NUMBERS

MARCUS SALES WR

TROY STOUDERMIRE CB

LOU ALEXANDER RT

D.L. WHILITE DE

Wilhite is a major threat up front for the Gophers, and he leads the team with 3.5 sacks so far in 2012. Alexander, a first-year starter, will need a strong game to contain Wilhite on Saturday.

Sales has certainly been Ryan Nassib’s favorite target thus far in 2012, and he has four receiving touchdowns to show for it.

Stoudermire will hope to contain him on Saturday, forcing Alec Lemon and Co. to step up in Sales’ place.

Barker leads Minnesota in catches, receiving yards, touchdowns and all-purpose yards through three games, so Anderson and the secondary will need to contain him to limit the Gophers’ scoring chances.

The number of times Syracuse and Minnesota have faced each other in football. Minnesota leads the series 2-1, winning each of the past two games.

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DID YOU KNOW?

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Marcus Sales has topped 100 yards in each of his last four games dating back to the Pinstripe Bowl in 2010.

Sales is seventh in the country in receiving yards with 116.7 yards per game. He also has four touchdowns.

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The number of tackles Syracuse outside linebacker Marquis Spruill is averaging per game this season. Spruill moved from middle linebacker to outside linebacker during the offseason.

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Minnesota has allowed just two passing touchdowns so far in 2012, and only one of them came in regulation. Something will give on Saturday, though, as Ryan Nassib is averaging three passing touchdowns per game this season.

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BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

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Syracuse 31, Minnesota 20

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Syracuse won’t be the team to dig an early hole.

SYRACUSE ON OFFENSE

The number of wins Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone has against Big Ten teams. He is 1-3 overall.

45 SYRACUSE OFFENSE

MINNESOTA DEFENSE

12 QB Ryan Nassib 45 RB Jerome Smith 23 RB Prince-Tyson Gulley 5 WR Marcus Sales 15 WR Alec Lemon 85 TE Beckett Wales 60 LT Sean Hickey 75 LG Zack Chibane 59 C Macky MacPherson 71 RG Ivan Foy 77 RT Lou Alexander

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98 DE Michael Amaefula 46 DT Cameron Botticelli 99 NT Ra’Shede Hageman 95 DE D.L. Wilhite 57 SLB Aaron Hill 26 MLB Mike Rallis 4 WLB Keanon Cooper 2 CB Troy Stoudermire 13 S Derrick Wells 27 S Cedric Thompson 23CB Michael Carter

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BIG EAST SCHEDULE Connecticut @ Western Michigan Gardner-Webb @ Pittsburgh Temple @ Penn State South Florida @ Ball State Louisville @ Florida International Rutgers @ Arkansas Syracuse @ Minnesota

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The capacity of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium, which is partway through its third season of use.

A.J. BARKER WR

STARTING LINEUPS

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RI’SHARD ANDERSON CB

CONFERENCE

Rutgers 1-0 3-0 Cincinnati 1-0 2-0 Louisville 0-0 3-0 Connecticut 0-0 2-1 Temple 0-0 1-1 Syracuse 0-0 1-2 South Florida 0-1 2-1 Pittsburgh 0-1 1-2

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Syracuse 34, Minnesota 27

MINNESOTA OFFENSE

11 QB Max Shortell 20 RB Donnell Kirkwood 81 FB John Rabe 83 TE Drew Goodger 1 WR Brandon Green 80 WR Devin CrawfordTufts 58 LT Ed Olson 53 LG Tommy Olson 62 C Zach Mottla 52 RG Zac Epping 65 RT Josh Campion

SYRACUSE DEFENSE

10 DE Markus Pierce-

Brewster 96 NT Jay Bromley 13 DT Deon Goggins 91 DE Brandon Sharpe 11 SLB Marquis Spruill 18 MLB Siriki Diabate 35 WLB Dyshawn Davis 4 CB Brandon Reddish 21 SS Shamarko Thomas 28 FS Jeremi Wilkes 9 CB Ri’Shard Anderson

MICHAEL COHEN

Check me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.

Syracuse 28, Minnesota 24

RYNE GERY

The Orange make it two straight heading into the bye week.

Returning Statistical Leaders PASSING

Ryan Nassib

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Jerome Smith 44 175 3.9 0 Prince-Tyson Gulley 27 134 5.3 2 Ashton Broyld 17 85 4.8 1

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Former track star Hunt finds gridiron success on Mustangs

By David Wilson STAFF WRITER

Margus Hunt never expected to be here.

He was supposed to be in London this past summer competing in discus throw in the Olympics. Instead, he spent the summer working out with the Southern Methodist football team in Dallas.

“Ten years ago I knew that at that point I was going to be at the London Olympics this year,” Hunt said. “Things change, people change and you just have to make do with the decisions and opportunities ahead of you. …

It’s been a fun ride.”

Hunt arrived in Dallas from Karksi-Nuia, Estonia, in 2007 to train with Mustangs track and field coach Dave Wollman. But when Hunt finally arrived at SMU, the school had dropped its men’s program.

Without the track and field scholarship, Hunt would have to leave Dallas and return to Estonia.

But he didn’t want to do that; he loved SMU too much. So at the suggestion of Wollman, Hunt began training with the football team, trying to earn a football scholarship as a defensive lineman.

“I only had the financial possibility to come here for a year and we knew that it was going to be a long shot to get the program back,” Hunt said. “Once the one year started to come to an end, we were officially with a problem, whether or not I was going to have to go back to Estonia and try to figure something out.

“I really didn’t want to leave SMU. I liked it

over here. I liked Dallas, I liked the campus, I liked everything about it and, at that time, a lot of the football coaches were always in the weight room and they told me just to try out.”

In just three years of playing organized football, Hunt has become one of the most intriguing prospects in college football. At 6 feet 8

“At that time, a lot of the football coaches were always in the weight room and they told me just to try out.”

Margus Hunt

SMU DEFENSIVE END

inches and 280 pounds, the 25-year-old former track and field star still has been clocked running a 4.7 in the 40-yard dash.

During the Mustangs’ 52-0 win over Stephen F. Austin, Hunt set an NCAA record with his ninth career blocked field goal. A week later, in a 48-3 loss to Texas A&M, Hunt blocked his 16th career kick, good for second on the all-time list.

That kick-blocking ability comes from a rare combination of size and speed.

“He has rare explosion,” Mustangs special teams coach Frank Gansz said. “If you just take the fact that he’s 6-8, you see those things. You watch him come off the ball and this guy’s a

gifted athlete. He could probably do anything he wanted to, he could play basketball.”

Ask Gansz about Hunt and he’ll spend minutes raving about the senior and how well he’s picked up the game in just three years.

“He’s a very analytical-type kid,” Gansz said.

“He understands things. … You’re better off sometimes having something that’s a blank slate and working with it than you are when he’s coached by a lot of different coaches.”

One area where Hunt had to change was in his training.

As a thrower, Hunt would exert large amounts of energy every 10 or so minutes. He wasn’t prepared for the every down play of college football. Game film from his freshman season often shows Hunt frequently patting his head to signal he needed to come out.

“He’s never experienced that kind of training for, for that kind of athletic team,” said Wollman, the former SMU track and field coach and now Hunt’s personal trainer. “But now, after this past three years of conditioning and power, he’s as fit as any big man I’ve ever seen.”

Hunt had never even heard of football growing up in Estonia. At least not the American version.

“I played European football, which you know as soccer,” Hunt said with a laugh. “I never really knew that much about it when I came here.”

Instead, Hunt was a world-class thrower.

Hunt won gold medals in both the shot put and the discus throw in the Junior World Championships in Beijing.

When he was younger, Hunt competed in nearly every track and field event. That has gone to help him become the dominant and versatile athlete he is today.

“I used to do every event out there,” Hunt said. “That’s what my coach back home wanted me to do. He made me do every possible track and field event so I would be more athletic and more prepared, just dynamic.”

Hunt still looks back on his journey, and it’s still unbelievable.

The next step for him could be the NFL. Right now, Hunt still fits the bill as an under-the-radar prospect, likely destined for the second or third round. But where he has the best chance to raise his stock is at the NFL Draft Combine.

In addition to Hunt’s 4.7 40-yard dash potential, the defensive lineman has also benched 225 pounds 35 times, cleared 384 pounds and snatched 345 pounds.

And most important, he’ll just keep getting better.

“This kid is an ascending player,” Gansz said. “He’s still got a ways to go, and I think he’s a great player. That’s the best thing about this guy, he’s an ascending athlete.”

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California and contributed to a three-point halftime deficit against SBU, so getting on the board will be crucial in its first road game of the season.

The Orange offense has been explosive in the second half, scoring 68 of its 98 points after halftime this season. The unit has thrived in a new fast-paced system, as Ryan Nassib is second in the nation in passing offense and has thrown for nine touchdowns. But Nassib and the SU offense will face a stiff test against a Minnesota team that ranks 15th in the country in passing yards allowed per game and has given up just two touchdowns through the air in three games.

To continue its streak of success and pick up a win on Saturday, the Orange knows it needs to find its rhythm from the start.

“We have to keep on being aggressive, right when we get out we got to attack, and I think that will be the biggest test this week,” SU offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said.

Hackett said the coaches have drilled the need to come out ready to go on the first drive all week at practice. Wide receiver Alec Lemon said practices have started with team drills to get the players running around and in the flow for the game rather than starting with individual work.

While the play calling that Marrone referenced last Saturday contributes to the slow starts, Lemon said it comes down to the players being focused when they step on the field.

“We got to come in with our mindset ready to go on the first play,” Lemon said. “You can’t take a couple plays to get into the flow of the game and stuff like that, so it takes ownership on us too.”

Still, Hackett admits part of the problem lies with the play calling. Syracuse has been a slowstarting team since he arrived in 2010, and he knows he needs to be more aggressive with his calls early in games.

Starting off conservative will only contribute to a sluggish start. Last week, Stony Brook came out and confused the Orange with a variety of looks in coverage, and it took until halftime for Hackett and the team to adjust.

The offense will face a Minnesota defense that focuses on stuffing the run and forcing quarterbacks to throw the ball to the outside of the field, Hackett said.

“We have to keep on being aggressive, right when we get out we’ve got to attack, and I think that will be the biggest test this week.”

Nathaniel Hackett

SU OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

Lemon said the offense must know the opposing defense’s tendencies, but it also comes down to making plays and execution on the Orange’s side.

“We got a different defense each week and good players out there,” Lemon said. “We got to make the plays on our side of the ball. We can’t hurt ourselves with turnovers and stuff like that, so it comes up to us as well.”

For Syracuse to pick up its second win of the season against Minnesota, Lemon and his teammates have to make plays in the first 30 minutes — not just in the second half.

“With a good team like this, you have to have success right away, but that’s just like any team you have to,” Lemon said. “Our goal is to score every possession, and that’s what we’re going to try to do.” rjgery@syr.edu

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Mistakes late in match cost SU in collapse to Binghamton

By Jacob Pramuk STAFF WRITER

Syracuse was pushing toward an easy victory.

Up two sets, the Orange seemed to have a tight grip on its opening home match against Binghamton. But SU dropped the third set and never regained control.

Binghamton (3-12) domiBINGHAMTON 3 nated the final three sets SYRACUSE 2 of the match in a five-set (24-26, 26-28, 25-22, 25-14, 15-13) victory over Syracuse (7-7) on Wednesday night at the Women’s Building. The fast start wasn’t enough, as sloppy play down the stretch spoiled the Orange’s home opener.

“We used so much nervous energy to take that first set,” assistant coach Stephanie Cantway said. “We were frazzled after that.”

Syracuse got off to a sluggish start, falling into a 14-6 hole in the first set, but the Bearcats made some errors to let the Orange put together a slow comeback and cut the deficit to 24-20.

Syracuse took six straight points to put away the set, capped by a decisive kill by freshman Gosia Wlaszczuk.

The second set was a back-and-forth affair in which the Orange showed some grit. With the set tied at 26, Wlaszczuk put away another kill before Binghamton hit a ball into the net to end the set.

From there, the Syracuse team that had won

the first two sets disappeared.

SU made a number of errors during its collapse. Serves into the net, net violations and hits out of bounds gave the Bearcats easy points in crucial moments of the last three sets.

Cantway said new features in the Women’s Building may have overwhelmed some of Syracuse’s more inexperienced players as the intense match progressed.

A new video screen and fresh floor paint were unveiled for the home opener. An energetic group of students in the crowd made the gym louder than what many of the players have come to expect from the facility.

“It’s just hard to play.

Our middles maybe got two or three sets, where usually each of them get about 12 sets.”

Leonid Yelin

SU HEAD COACH

“They’re used to playing in an empty warehouse, basically,” Cantway said. “Now, it’s pretty, and there’s a production value. It’s overwhelming.”

An absence in the middle of the Syracuse lineup left the team with different rotations and

sam maller | staff photographer LEONID YELIN talks to Silvi Uattara in the Orange’s home opener against Binghamton on Wednesday night. SU fell to the Bearcats 3-2 after winning the match’s first two sets. a lack of experience at multiple positions.

Junior middle blocker Lindsay McCabe and sophomore setter Emily Betteridge both sat out the game with injuries. Syracuse couldn’t contain the Bearcats’ offense without McCabe.

Without the 6-foot-1-inch McCabe on the frontline to turn away Binghamton’s shots, the Bearcats had three players with more than 15 kills in the match.

Syracuse head coach Leonid Yelin said the injuries had a significant effect on the game. Yelin scrambled to make lineup changes.

Wlaszczuk, who normally plays outside hitter, spent a portion of the match at setter.

Yelin said playing without McCabe and Betteridge was like a football team playing without its quarterback.

“It’s just hard to play,” Yelin said. “Our middles maybe got two or three sets, where usually each of them get about 12 sets.”

The players felt like it was a match that shouldn’t have slipped away, injuries or no injuries. Wlaszczuk said a lack of focus, not a lack of players, was Syracuse’s downfall.

“We can’t say that if we lose one player, our team is worse,” Wlaszczuk said. “Every girl can play, we just need to show what we can do.” jspramuk@syr.edu

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The offensive coordinator saved his job and possibly his career when he found out about quarterback Joel Sambursky, from Liberty, Mo. Sambursky, though, had already committed to Northwest Missouri.

But that didn’t stop Limegrover.

“He ended up basically forcing his way on my front porch,” Sambursky said. “He said ‘I want to talk to you. We want you to come out here and give it a look.’ He was incredibly persistent.”

With Sambursky under center for the 2002 campaign, the team immediately saw improvement. The Salukis scored more than 75 points in each of their first two victories and then upset No. 8 Western Illinois, 54-52, on a fourth-quarter touchdown pass by Sambursky as time expired.

Sambursky said the SIU offense turned

around so quickly because the coaches stressed the consistent execution of the “little things.”

“For me, it was footwork,” the former quarterback said. “It was everything from where my first step was to just making a handoff or how to make a proper juke step. … But the little things are what dictate a football game.”

The Salukis offense was one of the best in the league for the next six seasons.

Braden Jones, who transferred to Southern Illinois in 2005 from Northwestern, credited Limegrover’s work ethic in creating effective game plans for the team’s offensive outbursts.

“He is meticulous,” Jones said. “I think he lives and breathes football. He is always up on the offense watching film and always coming up with new ideas.”

Sambursky recalled hearing stories from film sessions in which Limegrover would rewind the same play 15 times because everything regarding the offensive line needed to be flawless. The former quarterback said his coordinator sees the game of football as “a chess match.”

Sambursky, who graduated in 2005, holds the SIU career records for touchdown passes, completion percentage and most rushing yards by a quarterback. It wouldn’t have been possible without the offensive coordinator who personally recruited the quarterback.

“I owe a lot to Matt Limegrover,” Sambursky said. “He gave me a shot and we got things turned around.”

Prior to the start of the 2008 season, Northern Illinois hired Kill to replace Joe Novak.

Like he typically did, Kill brought the majority of his coaching staff with him.

Again, Limegrover took over an offense at the bottom of a conference. The 2007 Huskies averaged 19.1 points per game, fewer than any other team in the Mid-American Conference.

By the time Kill and Limegrover left Northern Illinois, it was one of the top offenses in the nation. In 2010, the Huskies averaged 37.8

points per game, good for 13th in the country.

The team finished third nationally in rushing touchdowns and seventh in rushing yardage.

“One of the things about our offense is that we’re not going to try to fit square pegs into round holes. There’s a lot of different ways we can go with the offense, depending on our personnel,” Limegrover said. “So the biggest thing is just who we have at our disposal.

The kind of athletes we have will really drive the offense we’ll have from year to year.”

Justin Kramer, a former Saluki offensive lineman from 2002 to 2005, said Kill’s system, not just Limegrover’s offensive prowess, is a reason these programs have improved so drastically.

“At any time you get a collective whole buying into one vision and one goal, I think success is going to happen early for you,” Kramer said.

“I’m not shocked one bit they turned it around.

Not one bit.”

Kramer said he isn’t surprised by Minnesota’s 3-0 start this season. Fritzler said it’s only a matter of time before the Gophers’ football program takes off.

Minnesota running back Donnell Kirkwood also believes the Gophers will be Limegrover and Kill’s next success story.

“We’re real close,” the redshirt sophomore said. “We made a big jump to this year from last year. We can do anything on any down, and that’s what makes this offense so good.”

It remains to be seen what Kill and Limegrover can accomplish with a Minnesota team that competes in a challenging Big Ten conference.

But the results from a bond between two men who have made their careers turning around football programs together couldn’t be clearer.

“I think it says a lot about loyalty,” Kramer said. “That’s something you don’t see a lot in the profession anymore. With that loyalty comes consistency, and anytime you can create consistency in a program, you have a great chance to be successful.”

McIntyre said the team played with “something to prove” following the Niagara game and steamrolled Colgate 6-0.

“As a coach, you love to see that,” McIntyre said. “I think we realized that we’re a good squad and that we can put a loss like that behind us just by playing up to our capabilities.”

SU’s fast start proves it’s in position to accomplish more than it has in any other season

under McIntyre. As the Big East schedule rolls around, the head coach and his team will need to put losses behind them to make their first Big East tournament since 2005.

That can start with another bounce back against Seton Hall on Saturday.

The Big East boasts six Top-25 teams, including No. 2 Connecticut and No. 4 Notre Dame.

Seton Hall is unranked, but senior midfielder

Mark Brode said the conference is “too deep” to expect SU to keep up its early-season pace.

When losses come, though, Brode thinks the team has what it takes to minimize the damage.

“We know that after a bad game, we can restart and get back to playing our brand of SU soccer,” Brode said.

courtesy of minnesota athletic communications MATT LIMEGROVER has made his career turning around struggling offenses with Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill. They have worked together for the last 14 seasons.

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Fritzler was a member of Kill and Limegrover’s first recruiting class at Southern Illinois.

He joined a team that had finished 3-8 the season before.

“That was a terrible program,” Fritzler said.

“I was coming from Butler County Junior College, where we won a national championship.

And I walked into one of the worst athletic programs in the country at the time in SIU.” In Kill’s first season at the helm, the team found a way to regress and finished 1-10. Limegrover’s offense finished at the bottom of the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring.

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2-1 home defeat at the hands of Niagara. And against the Purple Eagles, the Orange scored late to make the game interesting.

Syracuse wasn’t demoralized by that result — a departure from its mindset last season.

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“We gave up two goals in regulation and another in extra time,” Cribley said. “That was the real moment where you can point to and say we didn’t pick ourselves back up. We let a goal in and we hung our heads about it and lost.”

SU went on to lose the next game against Rutgers in similar fashion before dropping two of its final three games.

The team last lost on Aug. 31 — a

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andrew renneisen | photo editor RYAN NASSIB and the Syracuse offense have gotten off to slow starts in all three games this season. The early-game struggles cost the Orange in losses against Northwestern and USC. The offense is looking to click from its first drive on Saturday against Minnesota at TCF Bank Stadium.

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tanding at the podium after Syracuse’s 28-17 win over Stony Brook, Doug Marrone said he was still looking for consistency from his team offensively.

Through three games, he couldn’t

explain why the high-scoring unit failed to click in the first half. Marrone said he and his coaching staff scanned its big sheet of plays, trying a variety of combinations to jump-start the offense.

But so far, he hadn’t found the answers to the problem.

“Somewhere along the line in

every offense, you’re going to struggle somewhere, but you don’t want to do it when you first come out,” Marrone said after the game last Saturday.

“You want to get off to a good start, you want to get into a rhythm as fast as you can and it’s difficult, and we’re working extremely hard to figure out

what that right rhythm is.”

Syracuse (1-2) will try to find its rhythm early Saturday when it takes on Minnesota (3-0) at 8 p.m. at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Slow starts doomed the Orange in losses to Northwestern and Southern

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Syracuse hoping to bounce back following disappointing road defeat

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Ted Cribley felt different after Syracuse fell to Cal State Fullerton last Sunday.

He was disappointed in the end result — a 3-1 loss that ended a fourgame winning streak. But unlike last year’s abysmal three-win season, the senior midfielder could sense that the disappointment wouldn’t carry over into SU’s next game.

“That’s what makes this team different,” Cribley said. “Last year we’d let

a goal in and hang our heads about it.

This year we’re always looking ahead.”

Cribley said Syracuse (6-2) will have a short memory as it begins its conference schedule this weekend.

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its losing streaks, posting slides of two, three and five games.

Cribley said it was tough for SU to play with confidence during those streaks. The senior midfielder pointed to last year’s loss to South Florida in October as one that snowballed into multiple defeats last season.

Coming off a one-goal loss to St. John’s, the Orange led then-No. 11 South Florida by two goals in the 78th minute. Despite the team’s poor win-loss record, Cribley thought an upset of the Bulls could’ve propelled

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outhern Illinois’ 80-yard, beautifully orchestrated game-winning drive against Western Illinois on Oct. 5, 2002, did more for two men standing on the sideline than it did for the program.

The drive didn’t just end the Salukis’ 18-game losing streak to the Leathernecks, which dated back to 1983. The defining victory established the names of offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover and head coach Jerry Kill.

“It was one of those drives where every play call was right and they were on the right page together,” said Mike Fritzler, a Southern Illinois offensive lineman from 2001-02. “It was a huge wall that was knocked down for Southern Illinois. And it was a springboard for Jerry and Matt.”

Ten years later, the Salukis’ glorious march down the field symbolizes what Limegrover and Kill have perfected throughout their 14 years of coaching at each other’s side: cooperation and turning around football programs. After starting together at Division-II Emporia State (Kansas) in 1999, Limegrover and Kill revitalized the Southern Illinois and Northern Illinois programs and now strive to make Minnesota their third such project.

The Gophers finished 2011 last in the Big Ten in scoring with 18.4 points per game and in yards per game with 310.3. Through three games this season, Minnesota’s 34 points per game puts it at sixth in the conference, and the Gophers’ 429 yards is good for fifth.

Limegrover coached the offensive line at Emporia State for the 1999 and 2000 seasons. When Kill left the Division-II ranks for Southern Illinois, he brought most of his staff with him, including Limegrover.

This time, though, Limegrover would have the added responsibility of offensive coordinator.

“He cares about us as assistants, he’s hard on us, but he also wants to make sure that we’re getting the most out of the kids and I appreciate that,” Limegrover said via Minnesota athletic communications. “He’s made me a much better coach over the last 14 years for sure.”

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