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Shopping spree New York state will raise the
Not so thirsty Marina Charny questions the
Let it all hang out The NewHouse hosts a semi-
On to the next one The Syracuse football team has the weekend
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off before starting Big East play. To succeed in conference, there are still some critical kinks the Orange needs to iron out. Page 24
SU tests library for PCB traces
Substantial donation to be revealed
By Beckie Strum News Editor
By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor
One of the largest scholarship gifts in Syracuse University history will be announced Friday afternoon on the Quad. The Office of Financial Aid and Schola r s h i p What: Scholarship Programs announcement e-mailed Where: The Quad When: Friday, 3:30 s t u d e n t s T u e s d a y, p.m. announcHow much: Free ing the gift, Project P, and the coinciding barbeque and music event. “We think you’ll be a Phan of Project P,” the e-mail read. The benefactor of the scholarship donation has yet to be announced, but students who attend Friday will be able to meet the people behind the gift, according to the e-mail. University officials said they are currently unable to comment on the specifics of the event, but said it was a historic event for SU. “I can tell you it is a historic, major gift announcement for the university,” said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, in an e-mail. “To put it in perspective, we announced a major, very significant gift this summer for the new law school building, and that was $15 million.” Signs were placed on the Quad as of Wednesday, promoting the event and listing a website. The website includes no more information than the already-released time, the location of the event and that it will be “ground-breaking.” Chris Jensen, a senior art photography major, said he had not heard of the gift or event, but it would not affect him anyway because he is graduating soon. He said he has not had probsee gift page 6
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brandon weight | staff photographer Protective plastic covers a part of Bird Library’s basement floor after a sample was taken to test for the presence and depth of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
E.S. Bird Library has seen its fair share of trials in the past couple of years — running out of shelf space, students fighting for more group-study areas as others push for more academic research materials, controversy over offsite book storage — all the while dealing with an inherently tight budget. A glimmer of hope came to library administrators when the family of The New York Times columnist and Syracuse University alum William Safire pledged a gift to redesign Bird’s basement, a rearrangement that would free up space on upper levels. But when tests showed old carpeting from the basement contained a carcinogen, polychlorinated biphenyls — or PCBs — in fall 2009, staff put the renovations on hold and added toxin removal to its to-do list. SU Risk Management and the Environmental Health Office have since been running tests on the basement floor and discussing with administrators possible options for moving forward with construction, said Dale King, assistant dean of administration services at Bird. Crucial core samples were taken Wednesday morning that will show how deep the PCBs have filtered into the concrete floor, a measure of how big or small — and expensive — PCB removal might be. “The Environmental Health Office is the main area looking at it, along with risk management, to see what we can possibly do to move forward,” King said. “We’re not sure if they are there or they aren’t still there. They might have etched in the concrete, but we don’t know. And if they’re there, we don’t know how deep it may go.” Wednesday’s samples will show if the PCBs are in the basement and how deeply they’ve penetrated the concrete. The deeper the PCBs are, the harder their removal will be, King said. PCBs, outlawed in manufacturing in 1978, originated from the carpeting installed in the basement during the see pcbs page 6
Comedian, TV star Damon Wayans to perform during homecoming By Aaron Gould Asst. Feature Editor
The star of “My Wife and Kids” is coming to Syracuse University to perform a comedy show homecoming weekend. Damon Wayans will be coming to Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center on the evening of Oct. 16. Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Phi Beta, together with the Office of Student Activities, will be putting
on the event. The comedy show is part of Homecoming Week 2010, called Orange Central. An actor, wayans producer, writer and comedian, Wayans, 50, had his first on-screen appearance in Eddie Murphy’s “Beverly Hills Cop.” Wayans also starred
in the film “Major Payne” and the critically acclaimed show “In Living Color.” The New York-born comedian has also made several HBO comedy specials. “Looking at other universities and what they do during their homecoming weeks, our homecoming lacked a major event,” said Donald Saint-Germain, a junior AfricanAmerican studies and policy studies major who is in charge of the budget
for the event. “After sitting down with the sisters of Omega Phi Beta, we came to an agreement that something we haven’t seen for a long time is a good quality comedy show,” SaintGermain said. Tickets are $10 with a valid SU or State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry ID and $15 for general admissee wayans page 8
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What: University Union Cinemas will host a screening of Sex and the City 2 Where: 201 ABC Goldstein Student Center When: Thursday, 8 p.m. How much: Free
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What: The PARCC Conversations in Conflict Studies Series will host a discussion of the book “Academic Repression: Reflection from the Academic Industrial Complex� Where: 400A Eggers Hall When: Thursday, 12 p.m. How much: Free
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What: The Digital Witness Symposium, in conjunction with the eighth annual Human Rights Film Festival, will bring international experts in human rights media together for a three-day event Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III When: Thursday, 7 p.m. – Saturday How much: Free
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What: WERW, SU’s only free-format, student-run radio station, will hold a launch party with local acts The Fly, devon. james and Howdy to celebrate the official beginning of broadcasts Where: Spark Contemporary Art Space When: Friday, 8 p.m. How much: $2 tickets at the door available for purchase starting at 7 p.m. Friday
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Cyber bullying results in another suicide
On Sept. 19 a Rutgers University student tweeted: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay,� according to The New York Times. The roommate then used the webcam in his dormitory room to broadcast his roommate’s encounter live on the Internet. On Sept. 22, the roommate who had been filmed — an 18-yearold freshman and successful violinist — jumped into the Hudson River in an apparent suicide. Authorities disclosed the death on Wednesday, the second high-profile suicide this year resulting from incidents of cyber bullying, according to The New York Times. In January, a high school student in Massachusetts hanged herself in her home after enduring months of bullying. The Wednesday announcement of the death of the Rutgers student came on the same day the university started a two-year, campus-wide project to preach the importance of civility.
Koreas plan to hold talks on military
A South Korean official said on Wednesday that North and South Korea will hold military talks on Thursday in Panmunjom, a village on the border of the two countries, according to The New York Times. The two sides have not held military talks in two years. The official declined to discuss what will be touched upon at the Thursday meeting, but it is expected South Korea will raise the issue of the sinking of one of its warships in March. The announcement of the rare Thursday meeting occurred just hours after a new leadership structure had been implemented in North Korea. Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of the country’s leader Kim Jong Il, was awarded major military and political posts, according to The New York Times.
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SU creates website to target bias By Susan Kim Copy Editor
Every so often, Kelly Emmons hears people using gay slurs. “Sometimes people say it so carelessly without realizing the effects,” said Emmons, a junior history major. Although Emmons said she thinks acts of bias on campus do not occur regularly, she knows they exist. To inform the Syracuse University community about bias, the Inclusion, Community and Citizenship portfolio of the Division of Student Affairs launched the STOP Bias website in early September. In addition to providing information about bias and how to spot it, the website offers a reporting tool that allows SU students, faculty and staff to report bias-related incidents. “We’re trying to really lower the tolerance for even the smallest of bias attacks,” said Rebecca Reed Kantrowitz, associate vice president for Inclusion, Community and Citizenship. The “STOP” in “STOP Bias”
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Worst winter in US goes to Syracuse By Dara McBride Asst. News Editor
October’s start on Friday marks the unofficial beginning of winter in the nation’s worst winter weather city: Syracuse, according to the Farmers’ Almanac. “Wet weather is going to begin in October,” said Sandi Duncan, the managing editor of the Farmers’ Almanac. “So here come the gloomy skies.” Syracuse has long been identified for bad seasonal weather, but the Farmers’ Almanac made it official in a Sept. 7 release. The Almanac named Syracuse the “Worst Winter Weather City” in the United States because of long winters, big snows and the gloomy atmosphere that hangs over the city starting in October. “Unfortunately, Syracuse made our checklist,” Duncan said. “It definitely came up as one of the top winter
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jason robertson | contributing photographer Christina Rainaldi , a sophomore in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, peruses through the tops at J. Michael Shoes on Marshall Street. The store, as well as some customers, said they are unphased by a 4 percent clothing tax hike that takes effect Friday.
New York state to increase clothing, shoe tax 4 percent By Jessica Wiggs Contributing Writer
New York state will add 4 percent more in clothing tax to items under $110 starting Friday. The 4 percent increase brings clothing tax to 8 percent, but Syracuse University students said they are unconcerned about the raise, and businesses near SU campus reported they do not expect shopping habits to change. The state passed the clothing tax in August as a way to close the $9.2 billion budget gap. The tax
hike is expected to raise a total of $330 million for the state, according to the 2010-11 state budget. Each New York state county has always been able to determine its own tax, with a maximum at 4 percent. Periodically, New York has chosen to add statewide taxes before. When the state is in need of more money, it brings back this clothing tax. The last time the state exercised this tax was in 2005. This 8 percent clothing tax isn’t permanent. On April 1, 2011, cloth-
ing items under $55 will go back to having a 4 percent tax. And on
April 1, 2012, the tax will go back
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August 3, state passes budget which includes temporary clothing tax increase Friday, clothing and shoe tax in New York state increases by 4 percent for all items April 1, 2011, clothing and shoe tax decreases by 4 percent for items under $55 April 1, 2012, clothing and shoe tax decreases by 4 percent on items under $110
Globalized communications prompt addition to annual film festival By Brianna Quaglia Contributing Writer
The images of millions of Iranians protesting in the streets after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009 flooded the Internet and television news from the cell phones of those at the scene. Days later, the riot’s violent turn to clashes between demonstrators and authorities were likewise visible in seconds. The idea of human rights being affected by information spread-
ing rapidly across the globe has inspired the addition of the Digital Witness Symposium to Illuminating Oppression, the eighth annual Human Rights Film Festival that begins Thursday. “It is a smaller and smaller world,” said Tula Goenka, associate professor of television, radio and film and the festival’s co-director. The symposium will discuss human rights media and how rapidly information can be disseminated, thanks to digital innovations. Getting students talking about human
rights issues is the purpose of Illuminating Oppression, Goenka said. The three-day festival, which will go through Saturday, showcases award-winning documentaries from around the world. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium in Newhouse III. Illuminating Oppression is part of the SU Humanities Center’s 2010 Syracuse Symposium, “Conflict: Peace and War.” The festival combines creative approaches to film, with a focus on bringing human
rights issues to light. Goenka said the films are supposed to inspire students to take on the responsibility of creating change, even if it’s change near home. Films featured will deal with topics ranging from contemporary slavery in Brazil to a family coping with teenage pregnancy in New York. Goenka and co-founder Mallika Dutt, executive director of the human rights organization Breakthrough, began the festival in 2002. see film festival page 7
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Katy Perry, Sesame Street debacle creates controversy, opportunity
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o me, nothing screams happiness like an Elmo and Katy Perry collaboration. However, due to parents’ complaints, “Sesame Street” producers made the decision to rob children and babysitters across the country by cutting Perry and Elmo’s rendition of “Hot and Cold” from the show. Simply because Perry’s outfit choice was too revealing. In the performance, Perry was wearing a hardly controversial yellow dress that showcased her cleavage, which hardly rivals that of Miss Piggy’s. Before you rush to defend Perry’s honor, consider instead that Perry is a publicity genius. Most will admit Perry is somewhat controversial, but when compared to the likes of Lady Gaga, Perry fades into the background. But now Perry has something even Lady Gaga doesn’t have: “Sesame Street” rejection. And her rejection from America’s most iconic preschool show is her ticket to having a household name known across all generations’ spheres. After PBS decided to cut Perry’s performance, the blogosphere, tabloids and talk show hosts went wild, siding with either the overreacting producers and parents or Team Katy. Unintentional outfit choice? No. Publicity
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heart racin’ in my skin tight jeans stunt? Yes. Inaworldinwhichcontroversylaunchescelebrities intoAmerica’scollectiveunconsciousoverphilanthropic efforts, Perry made all the right moves. Only two days after PBS’s decision to cut Perry’s performance, the California girl appeared on “Saturday Night Live” to make light of the event. Wearing a low-cut, cleavage-bearing Elmo T-shirt, Perry’s mockery was funny and relevant enough to overshadow her horribly awkward performance of “California Gurls” later on in the show. Many celebrities run to “SNL” to play the funny card back into America’s hearts and fail. Think Lindsay Lohan. The key point here is everyone still hates Lindsay, but we can’t get enough of our favorite Proactiv spokeswoman. Perry’s execution of comedic redemption was so perfect that it would be ignorant to claim
it was anything but unplanned. Perry created a perfect controversy that was just scandalous enough to gain the recognition of the preschoolaged kids, the teens, the parents and even the grandparents. Furthermore, Perry’s only response to the incident has been one tweet that stated, “Wow, looks like my playdate with Elmo has been cut short!” Seemingly unaffected by her rejection, Perry’s scandal offered her a guest role on a holiday episode of “The Simpsons.” Controversy breeds comedic opportunity. The best part of the debacle: The next day Elmo appeared on “Good Morning America” to issue his own form of an apology. Elmo invited Perry on another playdate and said, “Elmo
loves Ms. Katy, and we had a good time.” Yeah, Elmo? So Team Katy fans, don’t feel bad for Perry, applaud her. She stealthily managed to stir up drama on “Sesame Street,” get cut from the program, redeem herself on “SNL” and get offered a role on “The Simpsons,” in addition to another appearance on “Sesame Street” in a later episode. And overreacting parents, you may have gotten your way, but my homegirl is and will remain America’s “Teenage Dream.” Amanda Abbott is a junior geography and IST major. She is the assistant opinion editor at The Daily Orange, where her column appears occasionally. She can be reached at aeabbott@syr.edu.
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Idea of college Thursday night proves unfulfilling
’ve always had a problem with Thursday. For one thing, you don’t really know what exactly it is: a weekend or weekday? Is Thursday a day of torture that takes its form in an additional 24 hours of potential schoolwork? Or is it a day of hope and rebirth, a reawakening of your senses and your thirst for cheap, hard-to-swallow, sweet, sweet alcohol? I can’t really say. But as early as freshman year, I learned that if you knew what was good for you, you would rearrange your schedule in any way possible to have Fridays off and Thursdays free to party. The only problem with this whole plan has been the fact that three years later, I still haven’t figured out what to do on Thursdays. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for drinking. There’s no other time in life when you are allowed, and often even encouraged, to say the most obnoxious things that come to mind and are not held accountable for them the next day. However, sitting around your apartment
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blondes know better with your roommates and drinking just for the sake of drinking is not that stimulating. You can’t really embarrass yourself in front of your roommates. They’ve already seen you pass out face-first on asphalt and have still agreed to associate with you. So the incentive just isn’t quite there. There’s almost never frat or house parties on Thursdays, either, because of those poor, lost souls that actually do have classes on Friday. So you won’t be able to spend your evening rubbing
up against sweaty strangers in someone’s dark basement. The bars are open, of course, but there’s that little issue of identification. And as a victim of the “late birthday,” I have officially lost all of my friends, and some of my will to live, to Chucks on Thursdays. I’m sure I’m not the only one experiencing this conundrum. But our fair collegiate community is so unanimous in its love for Thursdays that I feel as though there might be some special, secret activity that takes place that I somehow don’t know about. I decided to do some research. Fifth-year industrial design major Josh Harris told me, “Things have changed a lot over the years. Thursday nights used to be the best night of the week, but now most people care too much about their property to have parties. That being said, I have no idea what I would do now if I was underage.” Very helpful. Senior advertising and marketing major
Ilana Vakhovskaya said, “People really just want Thursdays off because everyone else has them off. It might also be your last chance in life to have a three-day weekend. And if you don’t drink, well, I guess ... you can catch up on sleep?” Great. But I refuse to be influenced by everyone else’s blind faith in Thursday nights. I will not be unproductive, just for un-productivity’s sake. I will attend “Late Night at the Gym.” I will indulge in my secret passion for Antiques Roadshow on PBS. I will finally come to terms with the fact that maybe the best thing about Thursday nights is that you can finally just relax and reflect on how you’ve successfully made it through another long, hard week of college. Then again, my 21st birthday is in a month. Marina Charny is a senior English and textual studies and writing major. Her column appears weekly, and she can be reached at mcharny@syr.edu.
United States needs to establish a more neutral relationship with Israel
ver the past few months, the special relationship between Israel and the United States has been under constant observation from parties on both sides. Many U.S. officials say it was Israel’s actions during the Palestinian peace talks that could have put President Barack Obama on edge. Some Israeli officials say it is just time they become independent of the U.S because of its inefficacy in providing them with the backing to push out Palestinians. Construction in the West Bank began on Monday, which means over the next few months, Israel’s popularity will plummet. Since the global community views the U.S. and Israel as sharing the same bed, it could only be assumed that our global popularity vote goes with them. So I decided to get to the bottom of what is really going on with the U.S./Israeli relationship.
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i think i’m hungry again On July 8, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, gave a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations. He addressed a number of issues the Israeli state is targeting and how U.S. and Israeli relations are panning out. Netanyahu said, “I told the Oval Office that the reports of the demise of the U.S./Israel special relationship are not only premature, but they’re wrong. Now they’re wrong not simply because of the unbreakable bond between our two countries.”
There was more to the prime minister’s statement, but the excerpt given illustrates a primary issue in U.S. foreign relations, particularly those pertaining to Israel. Making unbreakable bonds with a nation that is hated by most — if not, all — Middle Eastern countries show courage, but also create an inability to provide solutions. I’ve been reassured by Netanyahu’s statement that the U.S./Israel relationship is as strong as ever, but it only makes me more worried that the Middle Eastern region will never see peace over the Israel and Palestinian conflict. When an individual places him or herself as a mediator, he or she must be the neutral party that has the power to move the opposing sides toward a solution. The only position in which the U.S. can help Israel or Palestine is in one displaced from a governmental bond that
automatically picks a winner. I find it hard to believe the U.S. has yet to do this. If Obama wants to raise his popularity points and show the world that the U.S. is capable of actually solving long-standing issues, he needs to start making hard-hitting decisions when it comes to Israel. Obama and former President Bill Clinton’s first plan of action should be to stop “urging” nations and to actually do something. They should also reconsider this “unbreakable bond” Netanyahu refers to and start chipping away at it to show some form of neutrality. I wish the support for Israel came from a moral standpoint, because arguing against it would be like arguing politics or religion at the dinner table — pointless. John Sumpter is a senior political science major. His column appears weekly, and he can be reached at jsumpte@syr.edu.
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n Oct. 30, thousands of Americans will flock to our nation’s capital to attend a joint rally held by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” promise to walk the line between comedic satire and legitimate political concern. In a continuously changing media world, Stewart and Colbert have succeeded in finding a way to get their voices heard by a growing number of people who are interested in politics, but bored by the conventional network coverage. The dedicated and loyal followers can bring reason to Washington, D.C. Political debate that tries to unite a nation, instead of tear the country apart. Stewart said the rally is for Americans who think, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.” Americans “who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard.” The rally was planned in response to Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor,” which took place on Aug. 28. Although it’s unclear exactly how many people attended Beck’s rally, estimates have gone as high as 500,000. The rally, which took place on the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, drew both rampant criticism and media attention. The anticipated popularity of this event represents a fundamental change in the way people receive
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rhetoric meets reality their news. Both “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” have amassed huge followers, and more and more people are turning away from traditional news sources to get their information. “The Daily Show,” according to an Indiana University study, “is just as substantive as network coverage.” In 2003, “The Daily Show” garnered national media attention when presidential candidate John Edwards announced his candidacy on air. Political humor shows suddenly became a platform for legitimate news and political developments. The Comedy Central hosts look to attract an audience of people who are politically minded, first, and fans of comedy, second. While the rally will undoubtedly have some of the same antics as the late-night television shows, the event will also discuss and debate real political issues as well. The rally has the potential to attract hundreds of thousands of people to the National Mall. More than 145,000 people have said they will be attending Jon Stewart’s rally on Facebook, while Colbert has tallied over 70,000 already confirmed.
The rise in popularity of both “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” is indicative of another important trend in politics: young people getting involved. In the 2008 election, there was an increase in voters who were 18 years old to 29 years old. Both Stewart and Colbert try to attract this demographic, and while announcing the rally, Colbert said, “This is the time to be heard, young people.” The rally has been planned just five days before midterm elections on Nov. 4. According to a CBS report, Stewart has always claimed that “his show is only about comedy.” But the timing of the event provides “evidence that his ambitions are far larger.” The midterm elections have the potential to swing the power pendulum either way in Washington, D.C., and only time will tell if the rally has any effect on what party prevails come Election Day. Stewart and Colbert have made a living combining comedy and politics, and this rally is sure to warrant a lot of national attention. With expected numbers of attendees in the hundreds of thousands, Stewart perhaps said it best when he announced, “The rally is fo’ realzz.” Benjamin Klein is junior political science and magazine journalism major. His column appears weekly, and he can reached at btklein@syr.edu.
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SU Abroad apologizes for offensive advertisement We are writing in response to letters in the Wednesday, Sept. 29 issue that identified recent ads for SU Abroad programs as racist and offensive. We want to make clear that the ads, though designed without ill intent, did perpetuate stereotypes and were racially insensitive. We
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1970s. At the time, the chemical was a common component of caulking and industrial glues, like the one used to hold the carpeting to the floor of Bird. In the 2009-10 school year, Bird moved shelving and research materials from the basement to a Syracuse warehouse and ripped up the carpeting, King said. It was during this process that testing was done and results came back PCB-positive. There is no danger to students in the library basement today, as the PCBs are not free-floating. The danger comes with construction, like the proposed renovations, which would kick up the chemical into the air, King said. University administrators have also been working with the Environmental Protection Agency to figure out proper and legal solutions. But many of the proposals so far have
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lems with scholarship funding, but has heard friends discuss issues. Jensen said the announcement could be beneficial for those students in need of funding. The university has experienced recent trouble with financial aid, as SU earned 20 percent less Federal Work-Study funding this year. Due to the cut and a loss of federal stimulus funds, SU denied the Work-Study money to some students who had previously received the award, according to an article in
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been unrealistic, said TC Carrier, director of program management at Bird. Suggestions included sealing or entirely ripping out the floor, both of which are structurally impossible or too expensive. “We really don’t have our options in front of us yet,” Carrier said. No matter how small the procedure is to get rid of the toxins, it will be an added expenditure to the cost of redoing the basement, she said. The redesign already includes the creation of two classrooms — one large and one small — a large and comfortable study space, and gallery space along the perimeter to showcase student work. The redesign would have allowed for administrative offices to be moved to the basement and free up shelving space on the top floors. Architects have already laid out the design and picked color schemes and possible furniture. PCB removal is the last hurdle before getting construction underway. Bird and other university buildings are not
the only ones dealing with PCBs confounding construction projects. In September 2009, the EPA revamped its guidelines for dealing with PCBs found in caulks and glues, said Elias Rodriguez, EPA spokesman, in an e-mail. The updated guidelines were in response to a number of schools and colleges nationwide that discovered the toxin, according to an EPA news release on the guidelines. “PCBs have been banned for the last 30 years for most uses,” said EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson in the news release. “But unfortunately high levels of PCBs are present in many buildings and facilities constructed prior to the PCB ban, including, most recently, some schools.” PCBs were most commonly used in transformer oil, and for a while the EPA had been managing the safe removal and interaction with that form of the toxin, King said. It wasn’t until recently the EPA had to figure out how to dictate safe removal of PCBs left over from caulk and glue, which is why progress on the basement has
been so slow, he said. Until the test results come back from core samples drilled for on Wednesday, the future of the library’s basement and space issues are still up in the air. Renovations in Carnegie Library, the campus’ first library, throughout the next several years will allow a transfer of collections and help reduce the crowding at Bird, Carrier said Administrators are expecting construction at Carnegie to run more smoothly, as it was built in 1907, decades before PCBs became a standard part of manufacturing in the 1950s. And for now, administrators are remaining optimistic that the core sample test results will get the ball rolling on a solution. “It’s frustrating to everybody that we can’t move forward,” Carrier said on Wednesday. “But the fact that they’re testing today is a really good sign.” rastrum@syr.edu
“I can tell you it is an historic, major gift announcement for the university. To put it in perspective, we announced a major, very significant gift this summer for the new law school building and that was $15 million.” Kevin Quinn
senior vice president for public affairs
The Daily Orange on Monday. No details have been released on who the scholarship will benefit. Hanna Akom Wiredu, a sophomore public health major and pre-med student, said the secrecy behind the event has caused her some
confusion. She saw the signs on the Quad and has heard students talking about the announcement, but she said she wanted to know more before Friday. “There’s a lot of people who want to know about scholarship opportunities,” she said.
Akom Wiredu said she plans to attend the event in hopes of learning more. “It’s something else,” she said. “I’m excited.” dkmcbrid@ syr.edu
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stands for “Spot it. Talk about it. Open your mind. Prevent it.” These are the steps people can take to eliminate acts of bias in the community, according to the STOP Bias website. Bias is considered treating someone negatively based on his or her age, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, political or social affiliation, race, religion or sexual orientation, according to the website. Examples of bias include telling jokes, name-calling, stereotyping, offensive graffiti, or avoiding or excluding others, according to the website. The highest amount of bias occurs during the first six weeks of school because first-year students are not aware of what constitutes bias, Kantrowitz said. “Some people don’t realize that writing the word ‘fag’ is not OK to do on the white board in a residence hall,” she said. The STOP Bias website aims to help people become more aware of bias on the SU campus, Kantrowitz said. Although the website is still being fine-tuned, there is potential for it to grow, she said. “Right now, I think it’s basic, and it’s getting us started to get the word out there,” Kantrowitz said. SU students, faculty and staff who experience bias or see it happening can use the Bias Incident Reporting Form on the website to report acts of bias. Although the form has been available online for several years, improvements have been made to make it easier for people to use, such as making it shorter, Kantrowitz said. The form, which may be submitted anonymously, asks for the reporting person’s contact information and details about the incident being reported. The form is not meant for events presenting immediate threat, which should be reported to the Department of Public Safety instead, Kantrowitz said. “Generally after we receive it, we will reach out in the next few days to see how the situation is resolved and how the student is doing,” Kantrowitz said. “We don’t want people using this tool for emergencies.” The information collected from the forms will provide insight as to how often bias-related incidents occur on campus, where they occur and for what reason they occur, she said. Kantrowitz said more students may report bias-related incidents via the Bias Incident Reporting Form after they use the website and learn what constitutes bias. So if more incidents are reported this year than in previous years, it does not necessarily mean there is an increase of bias-related acts on campus. “It will be unclear if there’s more bias-related
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incidents or if more people are stepping up and noticing it,” she said. Allie Hootnick, a graduate student in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said the STOP Bias website could help to create a positive environment on campus. “As long as people use it constructively, I think it will be something good to have,” Hootnick said. Emmons, the junior history major, also said she thinks the website will be beneficial for students. “It would be helpful for people to find information in one source, especially something that is relevant toward Syracuse University and geared toward Syracuse University,” she said. Kantrowitz said first-year students were already introduced to the STOP Bias website during Freshman Orientation. A poster campaign with testimonies from students about bias-related incidents will come out later in the semester, she said. “I think as our campus continues to become more diverse and people are continuing to think about what it’s like in a world where there may be different norms and different standards,” Kantrowitz said, “it’s important that we try to make this an open community.” shkim11@syr.edu
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Because of Sept. 11, there was a lot of interest in conflicts in South Asia when the project began, Goenka said. In 2007, the festival was expanded to include a broader range of topics and global regions. In past years, opening night has attracted 250 to 300 people, filling the auditorium, Goenka said. “We’ve had a decent turnout in the past, but we always wish for more,” Goenka said. Opening night will begin with a screening of the film “The Response,” directed by Adam Rodgers, at 7 p.m. “The Response” presents a conflict between human rights and uncertain security or terrorism threats in a vivid and realistic setting, said William Banks, director of SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. A discussion panel will follow the screening and will be led by Banks; David Crane, professor of practice in the College of Law; and others from outside SU. “We expect to have a lively discussion of the issues of detention and trial with a panel of experts in human rights and military law and with professional actors from the cast of the film,” Banks said. One of the documentaries featured is “October Country,” a film about a family from Herkimer, N.Y., that struggles with war, teen pregnancy and child abuse. The issues of slavery, homophobia, racism and class divides will also be addressed throughout the festival on both global and local levels. Bill Spaulding, a sophomore broadcast journalism major, said he did not know about the festival, but thinks SU students should attend. “I do think it sounds important for SU students,” Spaulding said. “In today’s world, it’s very important that we are prepared to leave SU with a broad understanding of human rights.”
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“The Response” This courtroom drama is based on transcripts from the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals. Friday, 7 p.m. “Bound by Promises: Contemporary Slav ery in Rural Brazil” This 17 minute short tells the story of slaves in the rural regions of Brazil. “Good Fortune” This documentary shows how international efforts to reduce poverty in Kenya may inadvertently have a negative impact. Saturday, 1 p.m. “Rex vs. Singh” Past homophobia and racism in Canada is explored in this short that restages an early 20th century sodomy trial of Sikh men in Vancouver. “An Island Calling” Fijiís tribal, class and ethnic divides are explored in this murder mystery about a prominent gay couple. Saturday, 4 p.m. “Slaves” This animated short depicts testimonies on child kidnapping and slavery in Africa. “October Country” This documentary tells the tale of a family in Herkimer, N.Y., that struggles with war, teen pregnancy, foster care and child abuse. Saturday, 7 p.m. “Well Done, Abba!” This satire comments on the politics of development in rural India. Source: Syracusesymposium.org
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weather cities. But like we said, it’s all what you think is worst weather, too.” The 2011 edition of the Farmers’ Almanac reports Syracuse winters, which run October through April, have average temperatures in the lower 30s, with nighttime lows in the teens and subzero temperature drops. The city averages almost 120 inches of snow per season — more than Buffalo, Rochester, Albany or Binghamton. Cloud cover throughout the season means Syracuse receives about one-third of possible sunshine. This winter season, Duncan said Syracuse can expect storms in December, but not much snow pile-up until January. The Farmers’ Almanac uses a formula that draws from sunspot and moon activity and the position of the planets. Only one person knows the formula, which was created in 1818. Duncan said their predictions for the weather, made months in advance, are usually about 80 percent correct. This is the first time the Farmers’ Almanac has ranked cities based on bad winter weather. Syracuse was included on 2002’s bad weather city list, but now moved up in the ranks because of new requirements, Duncan said. Population was taken into account, meaning Syracuse beat out other locations that may receive worst winter weather, but are not large enough to be considered cities. Duluth, Minn., Casper, Wyo., Cleveland and Detroit also made the list. Duncan said the editor of the Farmers’ Almanac received a call from Buffalo to commend the choice to have Syracuse top the list. The caller felt Syracuse was notorious for bad weather, but Buffalo was
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often given the bad name, she said. Mark Monmonier, professor of geography and author of “Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather,” said he did not think Syracuse had the worst winter weather. “Quite frankly, having been out to Minneapolis one winter, it is bitter cold out there, and that would be far worse than what we get here,” he said. Syracuse winters are a mix of lake effect and ocean effect snow, but not the blizzards that have shut down cities in the Northeast corridor. He said the snow storms that hit Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Philadelphia were especially bad last year because the cities did not have the equipment or planning needed. This is not true for Syracuse, he said. “We get a fair amount of snow, it blows around a lot,” Monmonier said. “But generally speaking, we can deal with it.” Mary O’Brien, reference archivist at E.S. Bird Library, said Syracuse being known for bad weather is nothing new. “I well remember the headline for the 1993 blizzard — ‘Syracuse is Snow King’ — with over 42 inches having fallen over the weekend,” O’Brien said in an e-mail. The Blizzard of 1966 and 1993 are two
incidents considered the worst in SU history because of their poor timing, O’Brien said. SU scheduled students to go home for the Christmas holiday, return for finals and then have the semester break in 1966. But the Blizzard of 1966 hit in late January, as students returned to campus for the spring semester. Classes were canceled for the first time in SU history because of the Blizzard of 1993. It hit campus over the weekend of March 12 through 13, and the amount of snowfall canceled Monday classes. Despite being the worst winter city, students are unlikely to get out of class. The university’s protocol for ice and snow closing states SU will generally remain open unless weather affects transportation. Thirty-six or more inches of snow accumulation during a 24-hour period may result in closing or delays, and heavy snowfall, an ice storm or freezing rain in the morning may result in a delay. Aaron Witzel, an undecided freshman in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, hails from Rochester, so he said he knew to expect Syracuse’s “snowy, gloomy, unpredictable” winter weather. “When winter comes around,” Witzel said, “it’s hardly ever sunny, always gloomy, dark.” dkmcbrid@syr.edu
worst winter cities 1. Syracuse, N.Y.: Averages 120 inches of snow per season 2. Duluth, Minn.: January’s average temperature is 16 degrees Fahrenheit 3. Casper, Wyo.: Has recorded wind gusts of more than 60 mph 4. Cleveland, Ohio: Lake Erie winds create localized snow squalls 5. Detroit, Mich.: Two out of three days are overcast Source: Farmer’s Almanac
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sion. Tickets are on sale at the Schine Box Office. The show begins at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6 p.m. After auditioning for the spots, a series of
“Looking at other universities and what they do during their homecoming weeks, our homecoming lacked a major event.” Donald Saint-Germain
junior African-American studies and policy studies major
student comedians will open for Wayans. The final auditions for the opening slots are Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Goldstein Auditorium. Saint-Germain said he hopes the addition of a comedy act will make a difference for years to come. “We just wanted to give people something about homecoming that they could be excited about,” Saint-Germain said. “Hopefully it’ll become a tradition, an annual event where Syracuse is known throughout the upstate region for this homecoming comedy event so students are proud of it and can have a good weekend.” akgould@ syr.edu
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he police surveillance cameras aren’t installed above Sam Abdel’s business, but he can already picture the impact. His customers may shop elsewhere to avoid being identified on camera, as many of them individually sell drugs, he said. Abdel, however, is willing to take the financial hit if some of them leave. “I’ll sacrifice hurting the business a little bit for more security,” said Abdel, owner of the cell phone store Page West. Since opening it in the Near Westside neighborhood of Syracuse 17 years ago, Abdel has suffered two break-ins. Now, a surveillance camera may be rising at his shop’s intersection of South Geddes Street and Grand Avenue, and Abdel said he believes the camera could deter other criminals. “Once they see the cameras there, I think they’ll be hesitant to commit a crime,” he said. Syracuse police and some city officials are hoping for the same result as they tackle a proposal to boost security in the Near Westside with nine surveillance cameras. But civil liberties groups and the city are divided on how effectively the cameras could fight crime now and in the future. The city would use $125,000 in federal grant money to install the nine cameras, which could zoom in on the street and rotate vertically and horizontally. The Near Westside was chosen for the cameras because of its large number of reported gunshots. Police have agreed to delete any recorded camera footage 14 days after it is captured. Unlike other cities, such as Rochester, police will not monitor the footage unless the cameras record a crime, in which case officers would place the footage on a disk and eliminate the original version after the 14-day period. The Syracuse Common Council has postponed voting on the camera’s placement twice this month, but will consider it again in its next meeting on Oct. 11. “My view is that the Syracuse Police Department are not the bad guys in this,” said Syracuse Common Councilor Bill Ryan, chair of the city’s Public Safety Committee. “Cameras are being used extensively in this country and other countries. Whether we want to use them in Syracuse remains to be seen. We will have that discussion,” he said. Ryan plans to meet in October with members of neighborhood watch groups to receive their input. Questions about the cameras remain, such as if the footage can be subpoenaed and if federal government agencies can use it to pursue criminals, he said. The cameras are meant to be overt, so they would have large blue lights that could turn on, off or flash, Ryan said. But Ryan and SPD are split on the future of the cameras. At a Sept. 22 Common Council
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study session, Ryan emphasized the nine cameras would be a pilot program, yet SPD Capt. Richard Trudell confirmed police are interested in expanding Syracuse’s camera numbers to those of Rochester, where there are 110 cameras. The long-term strategies of police elicited some concern at the latest Common Council meeting.
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the cameras, but increased 250 to 500 feet away from the cameras. Moving criminal activity still may make a difference, said William Snyder, a visiting assistant professor of law at Syracuse University who works at SU’s Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. “It’s not a crime eliminator,” Snyder said
“It’s like a Big Brother kind of thing. I think you lose individual freedom when you put it on the whole block.” Lenora Monkemeyer
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“The police obviously have plans, we just don’t know what they are,” said Barrie Gewanter, director of the Central New York chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, at the meeting. Gewanter said an SPD policy shouldn’t be the only document with privacy protections and rules against misuse of the camera technology. The Common Council should create legislation to ensure those safeguards are in place, she said. “We should not move forward on trust alone,” she said. Some of the audience members at the council meeting broke into applause after Gewanter finished speaking. The camera surveillance issue has moved from discussion to reality in Rochester, where police started installing cameras three years ago in high-crime areas, said Rochester police Sgt. Charles Gorman. Police in Rochester determined the locations of high-crime areas by examining the number of emergency calls and citizen complaints. So far, the cameras have targeted drug dealers, gang activity and violent crime, Gorman said, leading to a decrease in drug deals on corners that used to have them. “They’re nowhere to be seen anymore,” he said. Gorman did not have any exact statistics on how much criminal activity had dropped. The cameras are monitored 24/7 by officers and public safety aids, who in many cases are retired police officers working part time for the city. From one camera room, the officers and aids can rotate the cameras 360 degrees. Similar to the proposed cameras in Syracuse, the Rochester cameras are overt with blue flashing lights and have zoom lenses, Gorman said. With the overt design of the cameras, criminals know they exist, he said. “They’re going to think twice because the camera’s there,” he said. Evidence from other cities has shown cameras shift crime to outside the surveillance zones. A 2008 study by the University of California, Berkeley, on San Francisco’s 68 surveillance cameras found murders decreased in front of
about camera surveillance. “It’s a crime reducer.” When Snyder was a federal prosecutor, he used surveillance video of small-quantity drug transactions on the street to show how open-
air drug markets worked. The camera footage is terrific evidence in court, especially when tracking patterns or movements, Snyder said. “It helps tremendously, because people have patterns in the way they commit crimes,” he said. But some Syracuse residents question the extent to which the proposed cameras could stop criminals. “How can a camera look at a person in a mask and tell who it is?” asked Lenora Monkemeyer, who lives a few blocks away from SU campus. She argued criminals would just move to another area if cameras were installed. But her concerns also came down to personal freedoms with the camera surveillance. “It’s like a ‘Big Brother’ kind of thing,” she said. “I think you lose individual freedom when you put it on the whole block.” mcboren@syr.edu
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to the way it was before Friday with 4 percent on any clothing and shoe items under $110, according to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. And for anyone ordering clothing and shoes online, the 4 percent sales tax will be in place for any orders made before Friday, regardless of when the order is delivered. A tax of 8 percent was formerly considered a luxury tax. Items sold for more than $110 have always had the New York state tax of 4 percent added to their county tax. This tax, voted for by Sen. David Valesky,
consider the price of their purchases. “People actually realize how much they could be saving when all the little things add up. It all goes toward something, though, and every two dollars counts,� he said. Victoria Huish and Caitlin Doak, employees at J Michael Shoes, a Marshall Street clothing and shoe store, said students will not really be affected. Huish said she believes students are not concerned with the change and will continue being loyal customers, despite the higher tax. “The parents are more aware and worried about the tax,� Huish said. Sophia Dimanidis, the owner and manager of the new Marshall Street boutique Ellie Mia, said she shares this opinion.
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“If you really, really want something, that extra 4 or 8 percent isn’t going to stop you from making a purchase,� she said. Though some places are considering hosting more sales in light of the tax increase, customers in the Syracuse area will not be so fortunate, Dimanidis said. Many of the shops on Marshall Street will not be hosting any sale opportunities, she said. “I think everything will just stay the same,� Dimanidis said. “Well, I hope everything will just stay the same.� jawiggs@ syr.edu
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kirsten celo | asst. photo editor Marisa Schachner, a senior fashion design major, hands out breast cancer awareness stickers and flyers on the Quad. Distributing the information in only a bra, Schachner and other topless Syracuse University students urged people to check themselves for breast cancer.
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he red, blue, black, orange and white bras almost blended in, dangling among the turning fall leaves on the Syracuse University Quad. Good thing there were nearly topless women to point them out. In a 10-minute blitz, members of the SU advertising agency, The NewHouse, and their friends passed out stickers and flyers in varying degrees of nudity. Cleavage fully exposed, members of the group sought to raise awareness of the Feel Your Boobies Foundation and its YouBoob Funniest Video Contest. This comes just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which starts tomorrow. “The Feel Your Boobies organization raises breast cancer awareness in nontraditional ways,” said Kaitlin Bevans, a senior advertising major who helped expose the last-minute Quad campaign. “They want to target college students, but they don’t want to lecture them because they know students won’t listen to that.” The YouBoob Funniest Video
Contest encourages people to submit 60-second videos documenting how they would remind women to check themselves for breast cancer. The contest’s website urges contestants to be lighthearted, creative and edgy with their videos. The winner will receive $10,000. “The contest is so easy, and it’s for a really good cause that we felt we needed to build awareness for,” said Danielle Colvin, a senior Spanish and advertising major who spearheaded the campaign. The campaign took place between 2:05 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., a time when students are usually walking to and from class. Some members of The NewHouse recruited their friends to help out. Volunteers positioned themselves at the front of the Quad between the School of Information Studies and Huntington Beard Crouse Hall and at the College Place bus stop: areas where between-class traffic is typically high. Though turnout was slow at the beginning, students began pouring in by the campaign’s end. The organizers chose to catch
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people’s attention by decorating trees on the Quad with bras and by having volunteers take off their shirts, Bevans said. The girls who didn’t feel comfortable taking off their shirts wore bras over their shirts, which also grabbed onlookers’ attention. One passing woman stared in confusion at a student who was wearing a bra over her shirt and waving a sheet of stickers around. “Are you interested in breast cancer awareness?” the student asked the woman. “Oh!” the woman replied, as the confusion immediately left her face. “I thought this was just a new fashion trend I didn’t know about!” Whether or not passing students accepted the stickers and flyers, they all took notice of the scene. Many curious viewers began laughing as they got closer. “Everyone was curious, but no one really said anything negative,” said Marisa Schachner, a senior fashion design major. She said she took her shirt off because it supported the cause, and she knew it would be a good way to attract attention to it.
“I stuck stickers on a lot of people,” she said. Most of them laughed and continued walking, she said. Although the scene may not have made an immediate impression on some, Bevans said the point was to make a lasting impact. “They may not look at the flyers and stuff now, but when they’re going through their book bags later, they’ll see it and remember the event on the Quad,” she said. Bevans said each component of the campaign, if done individually, would have felt bare. But by putting their bras in full view, passersby could easily connect faces to the bras on the trees, giving a strong, wellrounded impression. Colvin said the campaign could have had far more cleavage, but many could not show due to scheduling issues. “A ton of people wanted to help but couldn’t because they had class,” she said. While the students planned the guerilla marketing campaign as a fun, creative way to grab the attensee awareness page 14
rrational love is part of the human condition. We treat our purse-sized Chihuahuas like royalty and talk about our sports cars like the centerfold of a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition (“Yeah, she has some great curves” or “I rode her pretty hard last night”). Yet it still confuses me how people in this neck of the woods reserve a small cache of nonsensical passion for a freakin’ grocery store. I’m speaking, of course, about your beloved Wegmans. When I first arrived at Syracuse, one of the first things I was told was that I had to go to Wegmans for groceries. Person after person recommended it, speaking in gleefully glowing tones that are normally reserved for grandmas angling to get you to look at pictures of their newborn grandchild. (Sorry, Granny, all babies look alike.) Wegmans love even went national this year when Alec Baldwin, during an appearance on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” discussed his mother’s affinity for the chain. Recounting a tale of how he tried to persuade her to move from upstate New York to reside with his brother Billy in California, her response was trite: “And leave Wegmans?!?” Certainly, with such ringing endorsements, this must be more than a supermarket — it must be the Mecca-market. You know what it really is? It’s a grocery store. That’s it. But what of its low prices and extensive organic selection? As my roommate astutely pointed out, these two items contradict one another. He avoids Wegmans precisely because of the organic selection. It’s not that he’s anti-organic — in fact, quite the contrary. He’s the artistic, free-spirited type who is the target demographic of everything green. But the endless possibilities attack a more vital green, namely the kind that exists in his wallet. The bargain prices of the generic names lure him in like Pooh Bear to a honey pot or Eeyore to a Bright Eyes concert, only for him to blow all of his money on the expensive organic selection. A more personal drawback is selection bias. I’m sure some of you see sommerfeld page 14
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readers from other sections of the country have entered a local supermarket and thought, “What?! How can they not have X, Y or Z?!?” Things that are staples of hometown supermarkets are nowhere to be found at Wegmans. Since Mom can’t be around to make her delicious meatloaf and chocolate snickerdoodle bars, the other foods of home must help satiate you until Thanksgiving or Christmas break. Wegmans isn’t helping on that front. As a West Coast native, I dearly miss the delicacies of back home. Wherefore art thou Tillamook Cheddar, Nalley Jalapeño Hot Chili, and Franz Milk & Honey Bread? It’s a frustrating experience having to go through alternative brands of food trying to determine which canned chili has the same kick. Or which brand of white bread is ideal for crunchy peanut butter and chocolate chip sandwiches (easily the best type of sandwich, and I will bare-knuckle box you if you disagree). Wegmans has yet to provide suitable replacements. I will give Wegmans this — being open 24 hours is pretty sweet. Though I’m not sure if it’s a good sign when you find yourself mentally straining over which type of rice to buy when it’s 2 a.m. Especially when the place is as sparsely populated as the American National Rugby League’s booth at Comic-Con. Perhaps you ‘Cuse folk hold Wegmans in such high regard because it’s the best of what you have. I did venture into the disaster zone of a supermarket you guys call Price Chopper. Wegmans seems wonderful when compared to the other local chain, but that’s hardly a fair comparison. It’s like saying modern-day
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tion of the university community, the ultimate goal of the campaign was for people to look at the handouts and remind themselves or their friends to feel their boobies. “Obviously, seeing half-naked girls on the Quad is an attention-grabber,” Colvin said, “but we really wanted to raise awareness for the foundation.” ertocci@syr.edu
Thirsty Thursday This week we’ll explore cheaper and more accessible stouts that are perfect for beginners. Many recreational beer drinkers cringe at the sight of darker ales, thinking it will be overly rich or strong Compared to domestic alternatives, United Kingdom stouts offer great entry-level options for adventurous drinkers. They are richer and sweeter than their American counterparts, not to mention the lower alcohol-by-volume percentage. U.K. citizens love drinking several beers for a long time at a bar, whereas the American fans prefer a high-alcohol, robust stout with a punch of flavor. Here are some great gateway stouts.
Ah, Guinness: The world’s most wellknown stout. Straight from Dublin, everyone who has had a beer has at least heard of Guinness. In typical U.K. fashion, it is more brown than black. The stout smells mildly like nuts and bread, with some coffee and chocolate notes. This is Extra Stout, so it’s a little bit more intense than the standard Guinness. Take notice of the higher ABV. Unlike the other U.K. stouts, this one is inherently bitterer. Not overbearingly, mind you, but not nearly enough to be considered a sweet stout. Give it a try, even if it’s just for the namesake.
DOUBLE CHOCOLATE STOUT OATMEAL STOUT
Brewery: Wells & Young’s Brewing Company, Bedford, England ABV: 5.2 percent
Instead of ordering that chocolate cake and a cup of coffee for dessert, get a bottle of this. This beer has a pleasant, dark chocolate sweetness that is offset by light coffee and toffee flavors. Oddly, it even smells like chocolate milk. It is very rich and creamy, so drinking even a whole bottle may prove to be a challenge. But at least it’s a delicious one.
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This beer comprises the best of both worlds: It’s cheap, but it’s also an exemplary entry-level stout. It smells like breakfast food, with hints of oatmeal, coffee, chocolate and dark fruit. Upon first taste, it is typically British, with low carbonation and a rich, smooth finish. It has a strong oatmeal flavor up front, but is then offset by chocolate and coffee bites, making it simultaneously well-rounded and affordable.
Brewery: Guinness Ltd., Dublin, Ireland ABV: 6.0 percent — Compiled by Lucas Sacks, staff writer, ldsacks@syr.edu
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“WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS” Director: Oliver Stone Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Carey Mulligan, Josh Brolin Rating:
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uring the past 15 years, filmmaker Oliver Stone has disintegrated from a master chronicler of American culture and history into a half-decent director who simply can’t find his groove. Once lauded for his indelible depictions of the Vietnam War and the American presidency, the Academy Award-winning director of “Platoon” (1986) has regressed at a startling pace. A sequel to “Wall Street” (1987), the film that won Michael Douglas an Oscar for Best Actor, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” is hardly recognizable as its sibling. Stone’s work is clunky and shabbily composed, lacking the excessive machismo that made the first “Wall Street” so likable. In Stone’s sequel, Douglas reprises his role as Wall Street rock star Gordon Gekko, who’s trying to get his life back together after serving an eight-year prison sentence. Ambitious young broker Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf) is preparing to marry Gekko’s estranged daughter, Winnie (Carey Mulligan). Moore feels high on life despite the suicide of his mentor, Louis Zabel (Frank Langella). Moore sees Gekko’s return as an opportunity to reunite father and daughter, while picking up a tip or two from the former master. Eager to get in on the action himself, the jobless, relatively penniless Gekko encourages Moore to exact revenge on the man who perpetuated Zabel’s suicide, billionaire Bretton James (Josh Brolin). While Moore might suspect Gekko’s heart is in the right place, he should know better than to trust the man whose veins flow green with cash. The first “Wall Street” is not a great film, though Douglas’ titanic performance and Stone’s clever script elevated it to a unique cult status. The sequel, however, is less of a commentary on the American dream than an obnoxious mess
of whip pans, match cuts and superimpositions. Eventually, Stone’s aesthetic becomes so jumbled and dizzying that it is impossible to latch onto the action. Where Gekko’s protégé in the 1987 film, Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen), was equipped with an interesting backstory that lent some depth to his character, LaBeouf is completely one-dimensional and uninteresting. Gekko, once a great screen icon in the past 15 years, has found his reputation to be all but obliterated in this film. For much of the picture, Gekko is a beggar, subtly scrounging and pleading. What Stone does not understand is that watching the swearing, plotting and endearingly villainous Gekko acting helpless is about as appealing as hearing Charlie Chaplin’s “The Tramp” character speak. Gekko represents the pinnacle of prosperity and capitalist ambition. Even if Stone aims to reveal the direness of the 2008 stock market crash, he should not have attempted to communicate that message through his antagonist. Stone’s ideals are admirable, but his execution is not. Douglas explored the nature of washed-up self-centeredness to an infinitely greater effect in “Solitary Man,” which opened in May. Even if Stone can no longer be relied on to deliver a great film, he can always be counted on to glean some terrific performances from his actors, with the exception of LaBeouf. “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” would be intolerable if not for the extraordinary performances by Langella, the star of the first 15 minutes of the film, and the dependably great Brolin. While Stone’s more recent works, “World Trade Center” and “W,” showed a decline in his talent to monopolize on American events, his inability to make a film related to an area he already successfully explored is downright disappointing. smlittma@syr.edu
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fourth downs, and going into the Big East, we need to pick that up. We need to fix that.” Heading into the USF matchup, the Orange ranks third in the conference in both total defense (301 yards) and scoring defense (16.2 points) per game. But at times, the defense has struggled to maintain its consistency. Against Washington, it allowed 467 yards and 41 points. Against Maine, it allowed 14 first-half points. And against Colgate, it ended up staying on the field for 44:26, unable to stop the Raiders from moving the ball. Those inconsistencies are what the Orange will look to correct over the next week. All season, head coach Doug Marrone has stressed the importance of getting better each and every week. That message is especially important with SU embarking on conference play, where a big-time playmaker or two will be lurking around every corner. If Nate Eachus can run for 147 yards, what will the likes of Noel Devine and Dion Lewis do? That message isn’t lost on Hogue and his teammates. They realize Akron, Maine and Colgate aren’t comparable to who lies ahead. For them, it’s back to the drawing board.
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“We need to review these past couple of games,” cornerback Da’Mon Merkerson said Saturday. “Get better and become more sound. … Come prepared and ready for South Florida.” Despite nearly shutting out Colgate Saturday, members of the SU defense were adamant that they need to get better with conference play now starting. For Hogue, the reality of that sunk in when, exhausted and fatigued, Syracuse couldn’t stop Colgate from finding its way into the end zone. When Colgate finally did break through, the game was no longer in doubt. For most observers, the touchdown may not have even mattered. Syracuse was moving on to South Florida, and the Raiders were a distant memory at that point. But to Hogue, Colgate’s lone score just added more motivation to tweak the defensive imperfections that have been a stumbling block for the Orange all season. To him, that touchdown mattered. “It most definitely mattered,” Hogue said. “I can’t tell you what was in everybody else’s head, but I was really upset when they got that ball in the end zone. It just put a bad taste in my mouth to see that and just increased my motivation going forward.” aljohn@syr.edu
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later, it was announced he was out indefinitely with an injury to his foot. Marrone made it clear at that point in time that SU had lost perhaps the one freshman receiver who was going to get reps this year. The 6-foot-3 West, the tallest receiver with a chance to play for the Orange, would not be providing that height as a weapon. “I was assuming he was going to be someone that was going to be a part of this offense and really contributing in the first year,” Marrone said on Aug. 12. With West out, the team had three receivers rise above the rest: Van Chew as the main target and deep threat; Alec Lemon as the reliable route-runner and occasional big-play provider; and Aaron Weaver as the big-bodied 220-pound revelation with a nose for the ball. After two games and a half a week of practice leading up to the team’s home opener against Maine, Weaver was lost. His big body held to six catches in his SU career. On Monday, it was announced that Rene was lost for the season with a shoulder injury. With the
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back-to-back road trips to Morgantown, W. Va., and Cincinnati. With the objective of a bowl in clear sight, the Orange now sees that reality coming: This is the stretch that could determine the fate of head coach Doug Marrone’s second season at the helm. “South Florida, playing them, obviously it’s another Big East team we haven’t beaten,” Mar-
bye week, it would have been interesting to see if Rene was going to be utilized more in the plans. So here the Orange stands, needing Lemon to step up, just like Chew. Aside from Chew, the Orange receivers haven’t done much in the passing game. He is the only Orange receiver in the Top 10 in the Big East in receptions (sixth with 4.8 per game) and receiving yards (second with 85.8 per game). SU needs Chew to continue to perform his Velcro-hands best, as he has all season, but now against the bigger secondaries of the Big East. And SU needs Graham or Sales to provide some kind of an extra niche. In tight games, SU just might need that extra something. It was exhibited in the Colgate game at times. There was the long jet-and-go attempt downfield to Graham in the end zone. There was the runblocking by Sales on several big plays for Delone Carter. And there was the strike downfield where Nassib left Sales out to dry for two safeties to sandwich. SU tried against Colgate. The trying needs to continue. The niches need to be there, ironed out and ready for Tampa. Said Marrone on Sept. 20: “We have some options.” aolivero@syr.edu
rone said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Monday. “They’ve beaten us pretty darn good, from a point-differential standpoint when we’ve played them. Those are really what my concerns are.” The Big East has hit a downturn to start the season, which should give the Orange even more of a reason for confidence heading into its conference slate. The only Big East team to beat a BCS conference squad this season in 11 tries was the Mountaineers, who beat Maryland 31-17 on Sept. 18. Five of those 10 BCS conference losses have come by double digits. Still, the Orange has not seen the constant barrage of playmakers it will prepare for over the coming weeks. First, there’ll be USF’s dualthreat quarterback B.J. Daniels. Next, dynamic running backs in Pittsburgh’s Dion Lewis and West Virginia’s Noel Devine. Then, a pure passer in Cincinnati’s Zach Collaros. And despite coaching one of the few members of the conference that has performed pretty much as expected in non-conference play, that’s precisely why Marrone isn’t taking the conference lightly. “We have a lot of good football teams we haven’t beaten here recently in the conference,” Marrone said in the Big East teleconference. “We’re just taking it one game at a time.” And to finally beat these teams — to steal one or two wins in its toughest stretch — SU will need to have complete games. No mental lapses, like against Washington. No limping out of the gate, like against Maine. No defensive slips, like last week against Colgate. For the Orange, it simply all has to come together — now. For fullback Adam Harris, the offense and the team is still a work in process. It’s just a matter of time before it all comes together. But that time needs to come next week. This is make-or-break time. Said Harris: “When we put all of the parts together, we’re going to be hard to stop.” bplogiur@syr.edu
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After living pitching dream, Bentz returns to football field By Abram Brown Staff Writer
That first hit in 12 years hurt. During a recent practice, Chad Bentz found himself lying on the ground, the victim of a hard hit from the team’s star linebacker. Bentz, a 30-year-old Castleton junior, felt a pain in his upper chest, like the time he broke his collarbone. “And I thought, ‘There’s my college football career, and it’s over in 30 seconds,’” Bentz said Wednesday. That afternoon was Bentz’s first collegiate practice in full pads and in full-contract drills. A few minutes after the hit, a trainer looked at him, pressed on his collarbone and gave him the OK to return. Until this September, the last time Bentz played football was in high school, about 12 years ago. Bentz gave up playing football for the dream of becoming a major league pitcher. He achieved that dream for a while, but not for long enough. Now the Spartans’ fullback, this is one man’s odd story of making it to a different sort of show. This fall, Bentz enrolled in Castleton to pursue an education degree and become a physical education teacher. On the first day of class, the sun shone brightly, and Bentz’s attention wandered outside. During a two-hour break between classes, he walked over to where the football team practiced and went into head coach Rich Alercio’s office. The two men knew each other — Bentz had coached Alercio’s son in baseball. They chatted, and Bentz asked polite and interested questions about Alercio’s squad. Bentz remembers what came next as a halfhearted statement. “I’d really love to play for you, you know,” Bentz said to Alercio. “So why don’t you?” Alercio said. Bentz was surprised, and he asked Alercio if he meant it. Alercio said he was serious. Why not? Alercio told Bentz to just give it a shot. “I responded with, ‘Let me go check out over with the missus (sic) and talk it over with my wife,’” Bentz said. Even before this year’s football season, Bentz was a familiar figure at Castleton. Starting in 2004, Bentz would go to work out with the Castleton baseball team when he came home for professional baseball’s offseason. Bentz played two seasons in the major leagues. In 2004, he played for the Montreal Expos, and the next year, he went to the Florida Marlins. In those two seasons, Bentz pitched 29-and-twothirds innings and ended up with a 7.58 ERA. Bentz is a lefty who was born with a right hand that just never grew fully, leaving him without a developed right hand. He enjoyed pitching against live hitters at Castleton. He would work in the bullpen, too, and dispense tips to the Castleton players. That was the deal. Free use of the gym, if he helped groom Castleton baseball head coach Ted Shipley’s players. “He would just be one of the guys. He’d do everything that we’d do,” Shipley said recently. Each year, Shipley asked about his plans for the next season. The plans changed some every time, and eventually Bentz stopped playing professional baseball altogether. “It’s the nature of the business. You have
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to produce, or they’ll find someone who will,” Shipley said. But as Bentz’s baseball career faded, a new career began. After his impromptu recruitment visit with Alercio, Bentz failed to even wait until he got home to tell his wife that he wanted to embrace the impulses of his youth and play football again. On the car ride home from Castleton, he asked her permission to play over the phone. “What do you think about me playing football?” he asked his wife. “Are you serious?” she said. Bentz confessed his early doubts, but his desire as well. And he said she agreed to let him play on the spot. Just as well, Bentz said, in case something went wrong or he decided against playing, he could blame it on his wife wanting him at home. His wife took just a little cajoling. He found the task more difficult when he talked to a different family member. “My mom was the worst. No matter how old you get, moms are the same,” he said. Working Bentz into the Spartans’ offense will take time, said Alercio. Bentz knows his job in a few plays now, and Alercio adds a new play per week to Bentz’s knowledge. Bentz needs to know his exact role on the field to play well in a game, Alercio said. “You don’t want to have a 6-foot-2-inch, 265pound former professional athlete with indecision out there,” Alercio said. The offensive scheme calls on Bentz to play in short-yardage, goal-line situations for when the Spartans’ need him to pick up a tough yard. So far Bentz focuses on lowering his head down and running through the hole. And if Bentz wanted to, he could play at Castleton until his eligibility runs out. Somehow he figures he will quit playing prior to that. He plans to graduate before then, anyway. Said Bentz: “I guess I have another three years left. That’s the rumor, anyway.”
No. 11 Wisconsin at No. 24 Michigan State Prediction: Wisconsin 30, Michigan State 14
Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio will return to the Spartans this week, but it will take a lot more for Michigan State to triumph over Wisconsin. Badgers running back John Clay will run all over the Spartans’ defense.
No. 7 Florida at No. 1 Alabama Prediction: Alabama 24, Florida 20
In this week’s most intriguing matchup, Alabama will get another serious test from conference foe Florida this week, after just surviving an upset-minded Arkansas team the week before. Florida will take this down to the wire, but the Crimson Tide will prevail.
In honor of Donovan McNabb returning to Philadelphia this weekend, we name our racers after their all-time favorite athletes to play in Philadelphia. 1. (D. Stallworth) Z. Brown (13-2) 1. (R. Balboa) Cohen (13-2) 1. (C. Barkley) LoGiurato (13-2) 4. (J. Garcia) A. Brown (12-3) 5. (H. Edwards) Cooper (11-4) 5. (J. Frazier) Iseman (11-4) 5. (A. Iverson) John (11-4) 5. (B. Westbrook) Marcus (11-4) 5. (J. Kruk) McInerney (11-4) 5. (V. Papale) Olivero (11-4) 5. (M. Vick) Phillips (11-4)
courtesy of castleton sports information chad bentz (center) , 30, is in his first season as a fullback for Castleton College. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 2004-2005 before giving up that dream.
No. 9 Stanford at No. 4 Oregon Prediction: Oregon 27, Stanford 17
A battle of early-season West Coast superpowers, Stanford will look to upset the Ducks. But watch for Oregon to eek this one out.
No. 22 Penn State at No. 17 Iowa Prediction: Penn State 20, Iowa 17
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No. 8 Oklahoma at No. 21 Texas Prediction: Oklahoma 32, Texas 20
For this year’s edition of the Red River Rivalry, Texas takes Oklahoma at home, but victory will prove elusive for the Longhorns. adbrow03@syr.edu
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With leader Williams sidelined, SU defense rallies team to win By Chris Iseman Staff Writer
Ashley Williams sat on the bench, wearing her warm-up gear and keeping score. Looking like she wanted nothing more than to be out on the court. But Syracuse’s leader on defense wouldn’t see any action Wednesday. And it was up to the rest of the team to try and adjust to not having her. “It’s difficult when you’re playing different positions and adjusting,” outside hitter Hayley Todd said. “In practice, we’ve been working on it a lot, and it was really good to have the weekday game just to test things out.” Syracuse (18-1) isn’t in an enviable position as it tries to test things out with a new-look defense during the season. But with Williams out indefinitely with a knee injury, the Orange
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had to make all the right adjustments in its 3-1 win over Binghamton. Williams leads the team with 190 digs for the season and averages 3.52 per set. The Orange now has to put players at positions at different positions, trying to come up with the best solution to the new defensive problem it’s faced with. Coming into the game, Syracuse knew everyone was going to have to step up to play a solid defense to try and replace its leading defender. And if it needed any extra motivation to get a win, Syracuse was coming off its first loss of the season after being defeated 3-2 by South Florida Sunday. “This past weekend was absolutely crazy,” SU assistant coach Carol LaMarche said. “Especially having an offseason where we were totally
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set with our offense, and at the last minute, everything was thrown off. We’re still kind of figuring things out.” But early on, SU wasn’t able to adjust quickly enough. Binghamton seemed to find all the holes in the Syracuse defense in the first set, as the Orange struggled to make solid passes and digs. One of the biggest problems the Syracuse defense faced early on was it had to adjust to Binghamton’s return shots. The Bearcats were returning over the Orange blockers, stifling the defense, which was expecting lower shots. “I think we were still nervous about the change in the lineup,” LaMarche said. “We weren’t sure what Binghamton was going to be doing, and once we figured it out, we were able to adjust.” But as the game went on, the Orange adjustments all began to fall into place. The players started to know what they had to do and where they needed to be to do it. Most of all, almost as if someone flipped a switch, Binghamton couldn’t get anything past the SU defenders. “Defense goes a lot on blocking,” defender Sarah Hayes said. “So I feel like it has a lot to do with us getting used to how everyone’s blocking and getting into the holes and getting ready. We just got more aggressive as the game moved on.” Hayes was left with having to replace Wil-
liams as the libero, finishing the game with 12 digs. Besides Hayes stepping up, Noemie Lefebvre’s performance also allowed the Orange to breathe a little easier. The outside hitter, who played libero for about half of last season, finished the game with a double-double, notching 18 digs and 17 kills. “That was definitely a good challenge for our team, having to adjust, because she definitely was playing consistently in the back, giving us an advantage,” Lefebvre said. “Today I think we did a pretty good job. We were consistent with passing, and we were able to adjust after the first set.” Part of those adjustments involved moving the lineups around to the point where the players were comfortable in their positions. Syracuse moved Todd from the front middle blocker position to the left outside hitter on the back row. Freshman Lindsay McCabe then came in to play middle. With that one change, the entire dynamic of the SU defense changed. And the Orange defense survived, and even excelled, without Williams. “Hayley has such a tremendous reach,” LaMarche said. “She was what we needed tonight, and it’s definitely part of the reason we were able to turn things around.” cjiseman@syr.edu
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After sluggish start, Orange recovers in win over Bearcats By Rachel Marcus Staff Writer
Over the course of the Syracuse volleyball team’s 17 straight wins to start the season, the Orange did not have many syracuse 3 missed serves. SU did not Binghamton 1 have many missed digs. And Syracuse did not have any set losses to a New York state team. But in the team’s first set of its match on Wednesday against in-state rival Binghamton, the team that was on the court looked unfamiliar. It was the furthest thing from the team that looked unstoppable just one week before. “I think the first set, we were just sort of not ourselves,” senior outside hitter Hayley Todd said. “Sort of slow to warm up.” But it was the same team. Syracuse dropped the first set 25-23 and looked sluggish at the outset, with its defense appearing
“I feel like we just came in thinking it was going to be an easy game or just a regular week game where we can just win easily. But I think we just woke up after the first set and realized that we were actually playing a good team, and we had to step up our game.” Noemie Lefebvre
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lost at times and its offense hardly resembling the balanced one fans have come to see this season. However, the Orange got its act together and roared back to win the final three sets of the match in dominating fashion. SU won those sets by scores of 25-14, 25-17 and 25-11, for the 3-1 win at the Women’s Building on Wednesday. “We got a little bit angry at ourselves after that first set, and we had to pull up our socks and just change something,” Todd said. “And luckily we did.” Noemie Lefebvre led the attack with a gamehigh 17 kills, while Todd and Samantha Hinz added 14 and 12 kills, respectively. The match started off slow for the Orange, which was coming off a five-set loss to South Florida the previous weekend. On top of that, SU was without Ashley Williams, the team’s libero and defensive leader. “I think (the first set) was just recovering from the weekend,” assistant coach Carol LaMarche said. “We had a whole 16 games to get set with one lineup, and then all of a sudden we have to change it, and we hadn’t been forced to change it all preseason.”
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But the team found its way in the second set when Lindsay McCabe went in the middle and Todd was moved to the outside. “Hayley hit really well, Lindsay blocked well,” LaMarche said. “So I think that was kind of the big difference going into the second set.” On the defensive end, Sarah Hayes took the role of the libero in place of Williams and was able to get the defense back to how it played in its wins. That, in turn, made the offense better. And once both sides were clicking, SU was off to get rid of Binghamton in a hurry. “We definitely picked up our passing,” Lefebvre said. “We communicated well. Our offense was more successful because of that, and then the big difference was probably blocking and then our digging.” In the second set, SU seemed to be involved in yet another tight one with the Bearcats. The Orange held a slight lead at 16-13. But thanks to two kills and one ace by Todd, SU went on a 7-0 run to take a 23-13 lead and ultimately had control of the set in the 25-14 win. The third set played out like the second, with both teams even for the most part until SU finished strong at the end with another 7-0 run. And by the time the fourth and final set came along, SU made sure the first set was a distant memory. The Orange went on an 11-0 run and steamrolled Binghamton in a 25-10 win. That, Lefebvre said, was how the team should have been playing the whole time. “I feel like we just came in thinking it was going to be an easy game or just a regular week game where we can just win easily,” Lefebvre said. “But I think we just woke up after the first set and realized that we were actually playing a good team, and we had to step up our game.” Added Lefebvre: “If we forget about the first set, I think we played as we should have.” The Orange can now look at this game and see two teams — the team that couldn’t get anything going in the first set, or the team that dominated in the final three sets. The team seems to be favoring the latter. “I think it shows us that we can come back (after we) struggle,” Todd said. ”Being able to fight back from a silly loss like that is important.” rnmarcus@syr.edu
brandon weight | staff photographer noemie lefebvre (6) led the Orange with a double-double Wednesday. She had 18 digs and 17 kills to help Syracuse recover from its first loss of the year on Sunday.
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Three new coaches struggle to live up to high expectations By Mark Cooper Asst. Copy Editor
Charlie Strong is not expected to turn around Louisville’s program overnight. In fact, of the three new coaches to Big East football this season, he probably has the least pressure upon him. But that thought doesn’t cross Strong’s mind. It never has. And that confidence has proven contagious. Rebuilding certainly wasn’t on any of the Cardinals’ minds when they took then-No. 25 Oregon State to the wire in Corvallis, Ore., on Sept. 18. Louisville lost by a touchdown in the end. But the potential to win now was unmasked. “We played hard enough, but you still like to get away with a victory,” Strong said in a Big East coaches’ teleconference on Sept. 20. “That’s what you want to do, you want to win. We were given so many opportunities (and) did not take advantage of those opportunities.” Rebuilding certainly isn’t on his mind. First-year coaches Butch Jones and Skip Holtz aren’t rebuilding programs, either. They took over two programs — Cincinnati and South Florida, respectively — with the expectations to contend for the Big East title. But with those great expectations come even more struggles. Once the losing starts, keeping the fan base and team from panicking so early in the season is one of the biggest. And they shouldn’t panic,
considering how poorly the Big East has played as a whole. Because despite the mixed results all three head coaches have had so far this season, conference play will bring about new life and a chance to forget about the early season struggles. “I still think this is a good football conference and a good league,” Holtz said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference Monday. “We’ll learn a little bit more about it as I get into the middle of it, because I haven’t played Cincinnati. I haven’t played Pittsburgh in a long time. I haven’t played against Connecticut, just from what I’ve seen on TV.” While Strong’s slow start relates to his predecessor’s struggles, Jones’ and Holtz’s struggles are both completely different. Jones’ is the opposite of Strong’s, actually. And it’s not even his fault. He inherited a team Brian Kelly led to 18 consecutive regularseason wins, heightening expectations of the Bearcat faithfuls to the point that they expect a BCS bowl game every year. Now with Jones and a new starting quarterback in Zach Collaros, Cincinnati is off to its worst start since 2006 and has yet to defeat a Football Bowl Subdivision team. In its three losses, Cincinnati has given up nearly 30 points per game. Albeit the three losses were tough games at Fresno State and No. 23 North Carolina State, continued on next page
Big East Schedule Saturday Oct. 2
Connecticut (2-2) vs. Vanderbilt (1-2) Rutgers (2-1) vs. Tulane (1-2) Pittsburgh (1-2) vs. Florida International (0-3) South Florida (2-1) vs. Florida Atlantic (1-2) Louisville (1-2) at Arkansas State (1-3)
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courtesy of bh photography butch jones was hired as Cincinnati’s head coach after last season. Jones and the Bearcats have struggled to a 1-3 start in 2010, after the team won the Big East in 2009.
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continued from previous page and home against No. 8 Oklahoma. Cincinnati showed improvement this past Saturday, losing to Oklahoma by just two points. But that doesn’t make it any less disheartening so far. “We’re very disappointed in the outcome,” Jones said in a Big East coaches’ teleconference Monday. “There are no moral victories. We didn’t get it done at the end. But I thought our team continued to take great strides. Not only on the field, but I thought in terms of leadership.”
“We have a good team. Our guys are beginning to listen, and I think that with success, they will understand it more, of what we’re trying to get accomplished here.” Charlie Strong
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At 1-3, the team needs to come together fast to make a bowl. Jones is optimistic because the three losses do nothing to deter UC’s BCS hopes. Those hopes live and die with Big East play. Contrary to the other two new coaches, Holtz has led South Florida (2-1) to a winning record so far this year. But USF certainly hasn’t played like a team that could win the Big East. Western Kentucky, which owns the nation’s longest FBS losing streak at 24 games, outgained the Bulls on offense last Saturday, but USF man-
aged to pull out the victory. The Bulls turned the ball over five times in its only game against a quality opponent this season, getting blown out at Florida. Quarterback B.J. Daniels is in the midst of a sophomore slump, throwing for just 141 yards with five interceptions in two games against FBS teams. Holtz is an eternal optimist, though. Despite the blowout loss at Florida and the passing game sputtering versus Western Kentucky, he believes there are plenty of positives to take into USF’s game Saturday against Florida Atlantic (7 p.m., ESPN3). “If we don’t turn the ball over in that game against Florida, that’s a classic college football game that goes right down to the wire,” Holtz said. “I was really proud of our players, I thought they stood in there toe-to-toe.” A former Gator himself, Strong is a defensive mind. He won two national championships, coaching the Florida defense to strong performances against Oklahoma and Ohio State. So he knows the defense he coaches now isn’t where he wants it to be. Not yet, at least. Oregon State’s Rodgers brothers (Jacquizz and James) exhibited that after combining for 193 total yards and three touchdowns. Strong is already making his mark on the defense, though. Give him some more of his own recruits, and a couple years down the road, it may resemble the side he ran in Gainesville. “We have a lot of room to improve,” Strong said. “It’s all about fundamentals. It’s about defensively, just assignment football. Getting lined up on defense and making adjustments. “We have a good team. Our guys are beginning to listen, and I think that with success, they will understand it more, of what we’re
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Last week: 14 carries, 172 yards, four touchdowns Carter had a banner day for Syracuse on Saturday against Colgate, pleasing the home crowd to the tune of a career-high 172 yards and four touchdowns. A 24-yard run to the end zone in the first quarter by the senior running back set the tone, as the Orange cruised to an easy 42-7 victory. It was a much-needed breakout game for
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FIND RIGHT NICHES FOR FEW RECEIVING OPTIONS AVAILABLE By Tony Olivero ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
This season has been about injuries for the Syracuse wide receiving corps. Starting this bye week, it should be about niches. The injuries, SU couldn’t do anything about. The niches, SU can do something about. The answer to the wide receiver strife is twofold when it comes to these niches. These days off should be spent engraining and perfecting
what the last two reliable receivers SU is down to — Van Chew and Alec Lemon — will need to do game-in and game-out in Big East play. Then it is about addressing what the likes of Marcus Sales and Dorian Graham may be able to bring to the table for Ryan Nassib. Niches, because half of the receivers head coach Doug Marrone and the Orange planned to have filled into their ideal roles by now are no longer able to play. Three receivers who the
Orange expected contributions out of this season — Jarrod West, Aaron Weaver and Steve Rene — have all gone down. They won’t be returning. It started on Aug. 11, when West, a true freshman, was already on crutches in the Manley Field House parking lot. Less than 24 hours
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FULLY PREPARE FOR MOST DAUNTING FOUR-GAME STRETCH OF ITS SCHEDULE By Brett LoGiurato ASST. SPORTS EDITOR
When others wouldn’t budge for two weeks, Marquis Spruill finally said the obvious. His defensive unit had just given up 376 yards to a Football Championship Subdivision team. Twenty-three first downs, more than Syracuse’s 20 on
offense. A dominant 230 rushing yards, which almost matched a similar output from the Orange on a career day from Delone Carter. Time to state the obvious — the giant elephant in the room. “We’re going to watch film and see what we can get better at and make new goals for (South) Florida,” Spruill said
following Syracuse’s 42-7 win over the Raiders. “Colgate is a good team,” he added. “But South Florida isn’t going to be Colgate.” This is the reality SU faces heading into the toughest, perhaps makeor-break four-game stretch of its 2010 season. Starting with a trip to Tampa
next week to face South Florida, the Orange will face the crown jewels of the Big East. And three of those four games will come on the road. Gone are the cupcakes of back-toback home dates with Maine and Colgate. In comes a trip to Tampa, followed by a visit from Pittsburgh. In come the
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Doug Hogue recalls looking up at the scoreboard in the fourth quarter, hoping he and his teammates could hold on. Syracuse was just minutes away from its first defensive shutout in five years, but Colgate was driving. Eventually, the Syracuse defense wilted. Colgate running back Nate Eachus broke through on a 12-yard run, dashing SU’s hopes of a shutout. After the game, despite a 42-7 SU victory, not stopping the Raiders and preserving the shutout was still on the Syracuse linebacker’s mind. “Man, we really wanted that,” Hogue said. “From a defensive standpoint, we don’t want them to
move the ball, let alone put points on the board.” Similar thoughts will stick with Hogue as he and his defensive teammates prepare to take on a dynamic South Florida offense in just over a week. Through the first four weeks of the season, the Bulls lead the Big East in rushing offense (216.7 yards per game) and are second in scoring offense (32.3 points) and total offense (392.0 yards). After allowing Colgate to move the ball up and down the field and rack up 230 yards on the ground in the process, USF presents the Orange with a tall challenge. “We let them move the ball too much,” Hogue said. “We let them convert on third downs and
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