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Jennifer Boucher lead student in lawsuit

Recognition, significance of 1995 Title IX lawsuit filed by 8 women against SU forgotten in time

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By Jon Harris

ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

o student ever expects to be in a legal battle against the university he or she attends. But about 15 years ago, that’s where eight female students at Syracuse University found themselves.

“Looking back, I was thinking, ‘I can’t believe I did that,’” said Alexis Braunfeld, a 1997 SU graduate. “But we just wanted a lacrosse team and thought this was a good way to get it and get some attention on it, and get the team in place. In hindsight, I can’t believe that I would go against the school that I love so much and had a great time at.”

Braunfeld was Alexis Snader then.

She was a member of the women’s club lacrosse team.

Braunfeld and seven other female students — six on the club lacrosse team and one on the softball club team — filed a class-action lawsuit against SU on May 8, 1995. The suit claimed the university’s athletic department was discriminating against female student-athletes and was violating Title IX. It also asked a judge to immediately elevate women’s lacrosse from club to varsity status.

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In 1998, the Federal District Court addressed the lawsuit and ruled in favor of SU. But the ruling was appealed to the U.S. Second Circuit Appeals Court in New York. On Jan. 6, 1999, the court — three justices including Sonia Sotomayor — partially reversed the case by mandating that SU create more women’s varsity teams. By that time, the university already created women’s varsity lacrosse and soccer teams. Softball was on its way.

Many SU officials admit they’ve never heard of this suit. It’s been forgotten over time, and the suit’s effect remains in question.

Critics say the case was insignificant, as the university was already in the process of adding women’s sports.

Others say the lawsuit prompted the university to take action. The only sure things are the facts: The suit was filed in 1995, and by 2000, women’s soccer, lacrosse and softball were added, while men’s gymnastics and wrestling were on their way out.

The Federal District Court ruling

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May 8, 1995

Eight female students — seven on the women’s club lacrosse team and one on the softball club team — file a class-action lawsuit against Syracuse University.

Jan. 21, 1997

SU announces it will cut men’s wrestling and gymnastics and add a varsity women’s softball team to begin play in 2000.

April 6, 1998

The Federal District Court addresses the Title IX discrimination suit and rules in favor of SU.

Jan. 6, 1999

The U.S. Second Circuit Appeals Court in New York partially reverses the case by mandating that SU create more women’s varsity teams.

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Students to cast votes based on tuition rates

By Andrew Feldman STAFF WRITER

As tuition rates rise at colleges and universities across the country, students are looking to the presidential candidates for solutions as they prepare to cast their vote.

The affordability of higher education will be a key issue for students in the upcoming presidential election, and both President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney have taken different views on the topic as they try to win the student vote.

But the ambiguity in the candidates’ platforms has made tuition rates a less-important factor.

At Syracuse University, great strides are being made in terms of making tuition more affordable, said Kevin Quinn, senior vice president for public affairs, in an email.

“This year’s (2012-13) tuition increment growth (3.6 percent) is the lowest at SU in 46 years,” he said.

At SU, undergraduate aid will total 204 million dollars for the 2012-

ELECTIONS 2012 13 academic year. This represents a 6-percent increase from last year and a 52-percent increase from 2007-08, when financial aid was only $134 million, Quinn said.

“I would say that SU has always worked to provide the most costeffective education possible for our students, and we redoubled those efforts during the past several years as the recession impacted students and families,” he said.

On a national scale, though, neither candidate has a solution to fix the tuition rates, said political science professor Jeff Stonecash.

“My impression is that no one in America has the slightest idea of what to do about the rising tuition prices,” Stonecash said.

Republicans and Democrats have differing stances in several areas regarding the issue of college

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DellPlain’s cafe draws in success

By David Lauterbach STAFF WRITER

Tucked away in the corner of DellPlain Hall’s lobby is a new place for students to satisfy their midnight munchies: the Breezeway Cafe.

The cafe is a collaboration between the Entrepreneurship Club, Syracuse University Food Services and the Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Living and Learning Community in DellPlain Hall.

The cafe, which is currently in its soft-opening phase, is only open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. It accepts cash, SUpercard and credit cards, said Justin Hirschhaut, head of ventures for the Entrepreneurship Club and a sophomore entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major.

The café will have its grand opening next Thursday, Oct. 11, he said.

As of right now, students need to

shijing wang | staff photographer Students order food at the Breezeway Cafe in the lobby of DellPlain Hall. The cafe, which is in its soft-launch phase, is open Thursday, Friday SEE DELLPLAIN PAGE 6 and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Milkshakes and pizzas have been two of the most popular items at the cafe so far.

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Website to provide transparency

By Anna Giles STAFF WRITER

Transparency and campus engagement are what Student Association Director of Technology Ross Lazerowitz hopes to achieve through new online software that would allow Syracuse University students to monitor SA initiatives and activities.

Lazerowitz made this announcement at an SA meeting in Maxwell Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Monday.

“We will be one of the most transparent student governments in the nation after this,” Lazerowitz said.

“I’ve looked around and I haven’t really seen anyone else sourcing

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Lazerowitz, SA director of technology, announced plans to create software to monitor SA activities.

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their internal operations on the web.”

The online software would function separately from the SA website.

SA members would be able to document their initiatives by posting calendars, documents or simply an update on the site. Students would be able to log in to the software and see everything posted and uploaded, Lazerowitz said.

“People will be able to go in and see progress and see where everything is moving — or not moving,” Lazerowitz said.

He compared the new social interaction to sites like Gmail and Facebook. However, students cannot

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leave comments or make suggestions online because it would “mess up the process,” Lazerowitz said.

There is no definite completion date for the software, but Lazerowitz said meetings start this weekend.

The project is a much-needed technology update for SA, he said.

“We need to redo what we are doing because it’s not necessarily the best, and we need to have the best,” he said.

But as this new project begins, initiatives for current SA President Dylan Lustig are coming to an end.

With elections for the next SA president coming up this November, Lustig

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HE SAID IT

“We will be one of the most transparent student governments in the nation after this.”

Ross Lazerowitz

SA DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY

Panels available to community through live-stream webcast

By Jessica Iannetta ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Students and members of the public who were unable to get tickets for the Common Ground for Peace Symposium panels will be able to watch via webcast.

The two panels will be streamed live on oneworld.syr.edu/webcast, according to an Oct.1 SU News release.

The videos of the panels will eventually be available on the One World website, but not immediately, said Erin Kane, associate vice president of public relations. The footage will be edited for time and, since the video crew is also filming the Tuesday concert, the video will likely not be available until later in the week.

Tickets are required to attend each of the panels and can only be used for the session listed on the ticket. All tickets for the panels have already been distributed, according to the release.

The event will feature two panels on Oct. 8, one from 9 to 11:30 a.m. and another from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Both panels will be moderated by NBC correspondent Ann Curry and feature His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They will be held in Goldstein Auditorium

in the Schine Student Center, according to the release.

As the date of the panels gets closer, the names of the panels and several of the panelists have changed.

The morning panel will now be called “The Rise of Democracy in the Middle East” instead of “The Arab Spring,” according to the release.

The previous title was only a working title and was changed once the panelists were finalized, Kane said.

The members of the morning panel are: Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, former director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University Irshad Manji, former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young.

The members of the afternoon panel, entitled “Shifting the Global Consciousness” now include: human rights advocate Martin Luther King III, Ebadi, ElBaradei, U.N. Ambassador A.R. Rahman and IranianAmerican journalist Roxana Saberi. jliannet@syr.edu

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Differing debates Political columnists focus on keys to success for Obama, Romney as 1st presidential debate on domestic policy draws closer

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Obama’s plan for job creation relies on proven strategy

Romney-Ryan plan for budget will help solve economic problems

resident Barack Obama’s plan to create jobs is better than the alternatives that Republicans are offering. It attempts to immediately get more people working.

Obama’s plan rests on a proven strategy to create jobs using government initiative and direct action. The plan would hire more state and local government workers to repair the nation’s poor infrastructure. Compared to the rest of the world, the United States is falling far behind in key areas, like education, transportation and infrastructure. Obama’s plan attempts to solve the problem. The government will spend more money.

The plan doesn’t depend on the unpredictable strategy of lowering taxes for the wealthy.

The rich may or may not decide to use their excess money to create jobs. The strategy has already been attempted and failed in the current George W. Bush tax cuts. It need not continue, nor should tax loopholes for billion-dollar corporations. The Obama plan advantages those who are forced to spend their

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to the left, to the left money, not those who can keep saving it.

The biggest problem Obama’s and Mitt Romney’s plans face is actually getting them passed and implemented. Division in both the House and Senate means these plans will go nowhere unless they receive bipartisan support. What would be satisfying to all Americans is not a plan that is based in rigid ideology, but that is appealing to both parties.

Harmen Rockler is a senior newspaper journalism and political science major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at horockle@ syr.edu or followed on Twitter at @LeftofBoston.

Romney-Ryan plan does not create free enterprise system as it claims to do

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onservatives point out that we, as a society, have never tried an entirely free enterprise system. They’re right — and there’s a reason for it.

Even so, the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan plan for the economy is not free enterprise. It would exploit the vulnerable in our society and funnel wealth to the top, all in the name of job creation.

They say balancing the budget would somehow encourage job growth. To do that, they propose the following things: cut taxes, cut spending and close loopholes in the tax system.

There are many tax breaks that we on the left do not like — for instance, those to oil companies and the one Romney got for his dancing horse, Rafalca. However, nearly everyone takes a few tax breaks.

The largest of which are the breaks on mortgages to encourage home ownership, on children to help parents, on marriage to encourage families to settle down, on retirement to encourage people to save and on charitable donations.

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the liberal elite Which of these deductions would they cut?

Romney has said he doesn’t want to cut defense spending a single dime, instead suggesting he would increase it. So all of his spending cuts would come from what’s called domestic discretionary spending.

This spending includes programs like NASA, the National Park Service, the FBI and my favorite, the National Weather Service.

Which of these programs will they cut?

And he wants to sacrifice these things to pay for more tax cuts for millionaires — you know, so they can buy more yachts.

Colin Crowley is a senior political science and philosophy major. His column appears online weekly. He can be reached at cocrowle@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @colincrowley.

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itt Romney, and Paul Ryan win the economy hands down.

One way to see this is to look at what is certain. Namely, it is certain that on the current track set by President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress, by 2022, our nation will begin accelerating toward insolvency.

The White House’s analysis of Obama’s 2013 budget proposal says that beyond 2022, “the fiscal position (of the United States) gradually deteriorates mainly because of the aging of the population and the high continuing cost of the Government’s health programs.”

The document also says, “The deficit continues to rise for the next 75 years, and the publicly-held debt is also projected to rise persistently relative to GDP.” Hence, according to Obama’s own budget documents, it is clear that Obamacare and everything else Obama has set in motion fail to solve our long-term economic problems. In short, the Democrats’ plans fail on paper and in practice.

Obama’s Treasury Secretary Timothy

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vast right-wing conspiracy Geithner admitted to the House Budget Committee, that “we’re not coming before you to say, ‘We have a definitive solution to the long-term problem.’ What we do know is we don’t like yours.”

The solution the Obama administration opposes — the Republican solution by Ryan — would close the deficit by 2040, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

So, instead of expanding on failed policy, our nation should consider Romney and Ryan as an alternative to certain economic doom.

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

He can be reached at mcstikke@syr.edu.

Failure of Obama to rally the nation leads to doubt, support for Romney

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any of America’s problems can be blamed on government dysfunction.

Sluggish job creation is no exception.

It’s important to understand government does not create jobs, but creates the environment in which the private sector does. These privatesector businesses deal in profits and losses and want to understand one thing: the bottom line.

The bottom line is what President Barack Obama’s has failed to deliver. The U.S. economy is clawing back, but Obama has been unsuccessful to give a precise economic vision to bring confidence to the private sector. Washington’s inactivity has led to private-sector inactivity in hiring.

Polls shows businesses are severely understaffed, but won’t hire new workers because of the economy. Small-business owners don’t understand Obamacare, how our national debt will affect long-term markets or if their savings will be enough. Obama hasn’t eased their worries.

The private sector looks at an ominous fiscal cliff next year and heads into hibernation. Why should businesses create jobs when Washington cannot guarantee the solvency of our government? There are lawmakers to blame, but the

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don’t tread on me buck stops at the president’s desk.

Obama needs to showcase leadership, stand with Republicans and Democrats and say the American economy is strong. For an orator as accomplished as Obama, he hasn’t shown the skills to work the process and deliver this message.

When it came to failed talks on tax reform and debt reduction, Obama blamed Republicans. It’s hard to believe that a few Tea Partiers thwarted the most powerful human on Earth.

The private sector respects Obama, but doesn’t see him as a leader to restore faith in the economy.

Jared Kraham is a senior political science and broadcast journalism major. His column appears weekly. He can be reached at jmkraham@syr.edu and followed on Twitter at @JaredKraham.

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ihanna’s new single was released this week (if you know me, you know there’s no way I can say “dropped” without sounding ridiculous, so just chill).

In this new creative endeavor, her pithy Gilbert-and-Sullivan-esque lyrics included use of the word “diamond” 38 times in a two-minute musical journey. Spoiler alert: “Diamonds” is the title of the song.

Look, I know I’m not the first person to berate pop music for sucking so much, but now it’s starting to get pretty bad out there. I was hoping the record industry would just collapse on itself like a dying nebula in a massive auto-tuned and glitter-filled explosion after Rebecca Black’s album “dropped.”

See? I really can’t say it.

But no, the whole system is still here and we still seem to feel OK supporting Chris Brown’s artistic efforts.

So, now my overall thesis seems to be “Wow guys, why are we listening to some of this crap?”

I’m no Rolling Stone writer (I don’t have the hair/tattoos/extensive drug experience for it), but it seems like the conventional songwriting process of today goes thus: Come up with a vague phrase that sounds really deep — think something a guy with a guitar would say on the Quad to get dumb girls to touch his scraggly fiveo’clock shadow.

Once you’ve got that one phrase nailed down, just repeat it 11,000 times over the top of a generic beat and boom — instant Top 40 hit.

Along with that, it seems to help if your overall theme has a hint of apocalyptic desperation — something along the lines of, “Girl, you better sleep with me tonight because the world might vaporize tomorrow, or you might get hit by a truck, so let’s get hammered.”

By the way, does saying that kind of stuff actually work in the real world?

I’ve been going about it all wrong.

I didn’t realize chicks dug the “we’re all going to die” motif. Explains why Ernest Hemingway was such a pimp.

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world on a string We’re living in a society with the aesthetics of the Jazz Age — our music has largely taken on a carefree, forgetabout-tomorrow tone, but it’s a tone that’s pretty dissonant with reality.

We have an economy in the tank, a whole bunch of foreign relations imbroglios and a culture hopelessly divided on social issues. I don’t see a whole lot of people doing the Charleston over how great everything is.

I hope what we’re listening to isn’t reflective of a generation that’s becoming more and more disengaged with what’s really important. I hope it’s just that we’re currently embroiled in a second, massive Payola scandal, and eventually justice will be done to all those who have perpetrated these offenses to my ears in the past decade.

Which is not to say all pop music is bad, but we’re getting pretty close.

Close enough to become creatively bankrupt? I’m not sure.

Trey Songz is apparently only here for the ladies and the drinks, and Rihanna, the reigning Queen of Bad Mixed Metaphors, wants you to lick the icing off her birthday cake, despite the fact that it’s not even her birthday.

So we could be fine. This could just be a blip on the radar screen.

Or this could be the beginning of society’s death spiral where we finally decompose into a brain-dead seething mass of drunken fornication, and the machines finally take over and use our bodies to create their own nutrients to rule the universe.

But failing that, let’s all remember to “shine bright like a diamond,” everyone. Whatever that means.

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Title IX resonates for teams 40 years later Although women’s sports at Syracuse University may never achieve the same popularity as men’s sports, Title IX still resonates for the women’s programs.

Forty years ago, the women’s teams had to buy their own uniforms and tape numbers on the back. They practiced on unkempt fields. They drove a 12-person van to games.

Today, with Title IX, the women’s sports get the same support from the athletics department as the powerhouse men’s sports do. The women’s teams do not bring in the same

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Women’s teams play in the Carrier Dome, have access to gyms and practice fields, and travel across the country to play other teams and participate in tournaments.

Right now, the SU field hockey team is ranked No. 1 in the country. Last spring, the women’s lacrosse team made it to the

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Despite their successes, these games bring in few spectators compared with men’s sports.

Title IX can only go so far. The policy cannot force students to attend games and cannot force female sports to be as popular as men’s sports, but bringing equal access to the teams is still relevant and necessary 40 years later.

Without the university’s support, which comes through Title IX, the successes of these programs would not be possible.

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affordability. Stonecash said Democrats want to subsidize the interest rate for college loans and provide them directly, so taking out a loan would not create another fee. Republicans want banks to profit through providing the loans.

“The Republican criticism is: the more we provide loans and grants, the more we provide revenues for administration,” he said.

Part of the problem, he said, is that colleges and universities draw students based on quality rather than tuition.

Students on campus have differing opinions on which candidate, if either, would help lower tuition rates and make college more affordable.

Alexa Voss, a freshman magazine journal-

ism major, said she thought Romney would be more likely to lower tuition rates.

“I think Romney would because he’s more of a businessman and he understands the importance of spending money and things like that,” she said.

Edwin Chalumeau, a junior information technology major, said tuition rates are high since he didn’t attend an in-state school. But he said this will not be a major factor in his vote.

“I’m leaning towards Obama just for other stuff like health care,” he said.

But college tuition rates are less of an issue than the student debt is, said Kristi Andersen, professor of political science. She said the political parties take two very different stances.

To combat student debt, Andersen said, President Obama has supported maintaining and increasing Pell Grants, which are one large way

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While Romney hasn’t come out and said he wants to get rid of Pell Grants, various nonpartisan policy institutes have deduced that he will, based on his goals of cutting taxes and increasing defense spending, Andersen said.

President Obama also wants to limit loan repayment to 10 percent of one’s income, which would increase interest in public service occupations, Andersen said.

A second concern for Andersen is the forprofit college industry. She said these types of colleges try to attract military veterans who have government money from the GI Bill by using fancy brochures when the schools don’t have great job or graduation rates.

“Democrats are very dubious about the forprofit colleges,” she said. “The Republicans say ‘No, they’re fine, they don’t need to be regulated.’”

Another point of contention between Democrats and Republicans is the way the president has encouraged colleges to sign on to the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, making onepage financial aid disclosures, Andersen said.

This aid disclosure would clearly indicate grants, loans, how to keep the aid and how much college will cost for students. Republicans do not

think utilizing the bureau, which also reformed credit card bills, is necessary, Andersen said.

The effects of college affordability on students’ actual vote remain to be seen. Several students at SU do not plan to make the cost of college their top priority when heading to the polls.

Nicole St. James, project coordinator at the New York Public Interest Research Group for SU and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, said she thinks college tuition rates will have a major effect on student voting.

“Definitely tuition is a high priority for students because of the fact that they are students and they’re dealing with this every day,” St. James said.

College affordability was a huge concern in Rachel Viggiano’s college decision. The freshman undeclared major in the College of Arts and Sciences said she would not have been able to attend SU without her scholarships.

But she said she believes there are more important issues that she will take into consideration in the upcoming election.

Said Viggiano: “I think I’m going to be more focused on how (my vote) is going to help our world and a broader aspect of being more unified, rather than focusing on money.”

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week,” Hirschhaut said.

The menu features sandwiches, pizza, ice cream, soda, hot chocolate and breakfast items, among other items.

Frank Pingatore, a freshman undeclared major in the College of Arts and Sciences and head of food management at Breezeway, said the pizzas and milkshakes have been the most popular items thus far.

“This week we are doing specialty pizzas and we are probably going to keep them on the menu, just because they’re so popular. Our barbeque and our buffalo chicken have been our top,” Pingatore said. “Last week for sure our milkshakes were.”

The cafe will be decorated during the upcoming week in preparation for its grand opening, Hirschhaut said. The walls will be painted and one wall will feature a mural of the cafe’s logo, which was created by a DellPlain resident.

Hirschhaut said students will be able to donate artwork to the cafe, which will be inserted into plastic table covers so that students can look at artwork while they eat.

Hirschhaut also said that down the road, the managers hope the cafe will have a delivery service that will cater to all of campus.

Additionally, the cafe hopes to expand its hours in the future, but there is no definitive time set to make this change, Hirschhaut said.

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be signed in to the building to access the cafe, but Hirschhaut said he is working with the Department of Public Safety, Residential Security Aides, the residence director of DellPlain and housing to resolve this issue.

“That is going to be changed. Just for safety issues right now, everybody that goes to the cafe outside of DellPlain has to be signed in,” Hirschhaut said. “It may just be that nearby dorm buildings can get in, but it sounds like it’s looking pretty positive.”

Hirschhaut said he has been working on starting the cafe since the end of the summer.

Despite the efforts of students to make the idea into a reality at the end of last year, the school didn’t support them at first because the university was worried the cafe would be too expensive, Hirschhaut said.

“Two weeks ago, I don’t even know if there was electricity back there,” Hirschhaut said. “I know they had to put in plumbing. There was no water, to my understanding. There was no equipment, that’s for sure.”

The cafe has been open for two weeks, but Hirschhaut said it is managing to break even.

“This is still our soft-opening week and we haven’t done any marketing yet, and this week we have almost doubled our profits from last

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From Combat to Kentucky: Interviews with Student-Veterans Tuesday, October 2, 5:30-7 p.m., Life Sciences Building, Auditorium 101 LTC (ret.) Anthony Dotson, Veterans Resource Center Director, University of Kentucky Doug Boyd, Nunn Center for Oral History Director, University of Kentucky

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A new image Myspace prepares to launch revamped website

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yspace is back.

The once-popular social media site is completely redesigning its website as a way to attract musicians and other new users. The new Myspace features personal images and events laid out in a grid-like style similar to Pinterest.

The new site seems to favor musicians, with options to create personal playlists and to see the geographic and demographic breakdown of users listening to specific artists. The pages scroll horizontally instead of vertically, which makes the layout unique from other social media sites, according to a video uploaded on the website.

The new site hasn’t gone live and its public debut remains unknown.

The changes came about after advertising network operator Specific Media bought Myspace in June 2011 for $35 million. Myspace had been losing 3 million users a month for the past two years under the ownership of News Corp., according to a July 20 Forbes article.

Specific Media teamed up with singer and actor Justin Timberlake to redesign the site while

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announced he does not plan to run for re-election.

He did not comment on the members who will be running for the position this fall, but said more information will be available soon.

“We’ll see them turn up within the next few weeks for sure,” Lustig said. “Things are going to start to happen pretty quickly.”

When assessing his own presidency, Lustig said he is most proud of his collaboration with local charity organization Vera House and promo-

keeping Myspace’s main goal in mind: connecting musicians with their fans. Myspace’s music library currently has 42 million songs, which is more than twice as large as Spotify’s music selection, according to the article.

William Ward, a social media professor, said he thinks Myspace is trying to become an entertainment hub for music and video. He said one of Myspace’s most interesting features will be the ability for users to watch television shows live with their friends online, which is something other social media sites haven’t captured yet.

The new Myspace won’t be competition for major social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, but competing with these sites isn’t the point, Ward explained.

“They’re not going to be the Facebook killer,” Ward said. “They’re going to have to carve out their own niche and try to capture a smaller market based around what they’re doing.”

Freshman Shayne Sebro, a marketing major, isn’t interested in the new Myspace, but thinks its new design and music focus will attract users.

“I think Myspace is going to become a kind of hipster Facebook, but just for music,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to make a Facebook-sized comeback, but I think it will be popular in its

own sense.”

Sophomore education major Melody Allan said that because Facebook and Twitter are so prominent, it will be difficult for MySpace to make a big comeback.

“I mean, Myspace was really big and Facebook kind of wedged its way in there, so it could happen, but I don’t think it’s very likely,” she said.

Ward said Myspace’s design is much more visual and active than it was previously, but the site has to have more than a good design to be successful.

“Just because they release something now, they can’t just be like ‘Here it is,’” he said. “They

have to keep improving and changing it all the time because all their competitors are.”

Ward said many people will judge Myspace based on its previous image, but he encourages everyone to see what the new site has to offer.

Users need to give Myspace a chance and not just rely on others’ opinions. It’s important that individuals use the site themselves before judging it, he said.

Having Timberlake as a spokesman might pique some people’s interest in the site, Ward said.

Said Ward: “I jokingly say he brought sexy back, so maybe he can bring Myspace back.”

tion of student engagement with the White House.

He said he wishes he could have accomplished his “Keep the Change” initiative, a program through which students could choose to donate extra change from purchases at SU food centers to local charities. But Lustig said he still has hope for this initiative.

“You don’t necessarily have to be the SA president to get things done around here,” Lustig said.

Lustig also addressed possible business concerns from Acropolis Pizza regarding an email he sent out with the Department of Public Safety, warning students about walking near

the Marshall Street establishment late at night.

“No one’s saying to stop going to Acropolis to buy things,” Lustig said. “We are saying be careful after it gets dark.”

In the email, Lustig and DPS officers said a non-SU student was stabbed near Acropolis last week and suggested “avoiding this establishment late at night, as it has been the center-point of these activities.”

Lustig said he has not received any direct complaints from businesses near Marshall Street, but SU parents have expressed concern. “(Violence) rumors like this need to be addressed as soon as possible; otherwise, we could

find ourselves in a lot more panic,” Lustig said.

He described the rumors as “inaccurate and scary,” and said students need to relax and follow DPS safety suggestions.

“Nothing good ever happens after 2 a.m.,” Lustig said. “People should know that.”

In other business, two new candidates were elected into the general assembly at Monday night’s meeting. One from the College of Visual and Performing Arts and one from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Board of Elections and Membership Chair Jennifer Bacolores said this puts GA representation at 78 percent.

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chase gaewski | asst. photo editor Despite the dreary weather, about 5,600 people trekked a course throughout downtown Syracuse. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the participants left Clinton Square on Sunday morning for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk. It raised $340,000 from various teams.

Walk thisway Annual walk brings together survivors, supporters to raise hope, money for breast cancer cure

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obbie Jean Davis-Jackson, 58, is a two-time breast cancer survivor.

Davis-Jackson, a 1981 alumnus, was diagnosed in 1996 and 1999, and has been a survivor for 16 years. DavisJackson joined the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk 13 years ago.

What has kept her coming back to the walk all these years? Giving back to others who have had the same experience she did.

“I’m alive, plain and simple, and I want to be encouragement to anybody who is diagnosed,” Davis-Jackson said at the annual walk on Sunday morning.

The walk from Clinton Square around downtown Syracuse drew a crowd of 5,600 individuals, despite heavy rain. From the event, the American Cancer Society raised $340,000.

The event on the last day of September served as a precursor to October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Davis-Jackson’s husband and her friend helped her cope with her cancer. She had been dating her husband for only three months when she was diagnosed for the first time. Her friend brought her a bouquet of flow-

ers because Davis-Jackson said she “needed sunshine in my life.”

“I just wanted to say that some people are afraid to let people know that they have breast cancer,” Davis-Jackson said.

“The best thing you can do is tell your family and friends so you can have a support system. You’d be surprised how much that support can help you.”

Amy Delia, spokeswoman for the local American Cancer Society, has been participating in the walk for eight years. The huge turnout, despite the weather, she said, was indicative of how passionate people are about the cause.

Gina Taylor, a first-year law student, came to the walk as part of the National Women’s Law Student Association.

But the walk hit much closer to home for her. Taylor comes from a family in which multiple women — her two grandmothers and several great aunts — all suffered from breast cancer.

“It’s really emotional,” Taylor said. “I have a lot of women in my family who suffered from breast cancer.”

She participated in Sunday’s walk on behalf of her cousin, who was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 32, went into remission 13 years ago and

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was diagnosed again a year ago. Her cousin currently has metastatic breast cancer, which means the cancer spread to other body parts.

Taylor said her cousin might not make it to the end of the year, and she wanted to run in her honor.

According to ACS’ official website, one in two women who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer turn to ACS for support. The organization has helped over 4 million women get screening tests. There are currently more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. The Making Strides program brings together more than 270 communities to raise money for breast cancer.

“Just being with friends and surrounded with all this energy, it’s hopeful. It’s people at their best, isn’t it?”

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Donna Parks, education coordinator for Crouse Hospital, said that it was Quintin “Chip” Lockwood, her neighbor’s husband, who ended up bringing the walk to Syracuse.

A walk that Bethany Surman, 31, attended for the first time this year. Surman, a board member for the Liverpool Community Chorus, is about two months away from remission.

“My diagnosis made me decide to come,” Surman said.

The walk was also a chance for individuals to come out in support of their loved ones who have breast cancer or went into remission. Lenny

Newton, 32, also a first-time walker, came to support his cousin and aunt, who both suffered from breast cancer. He said the walk went beyond his expectations.

“It exceeded them, truthfully, to see more people show up than the numbers they had,” Newton said. “They keep growing and growing.”

Susan Mone, along with Surman, attended the walk as part of the Liverpool Community Chorus.

“Just being with friends and surrounded with all this energy, it’s hopeful,” Mone said.

“It’s people at their best, isn’t it?”

Others simply came out to support the cause.

Bob and Ann Avery, husband and wife, are realtors from Coldwell Banker. The residential real estate organization donates five dollars to the American Cancer Society for every individual that attends a Coldwell Banker open house.

“We’ve had walkers in the past, and this year we decided to join them,” Bob Avery said.

His wife said the walk emphasized the importance of preparedness.

“They’re getting the message out for early testing, and I think it has a huge impact,” Pam Avery said.

Jessica Ottinger, a junior at the State University of New York at Cortland and vice president of programming for Delta Phi Epsilon, came to the walk with her sorority sisters. She said this was the biggest walk they attended and that the girls were moved by the cause.

“It was really nice,” Ottinger said. “I liked to see a lot of people wearing the same color and it was moving. I think it really hit home for a lot of the girls.”

Ultimately, what draws people to the walk is not just the cause, but also the nature of the walk itself — its capacity to attract anyone.

Said Delia: “It’s not a race. You don’t have to be a certain age. We have a lot of community groups, coworkers and individuals.” matoure@syr.edu

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s many of you Syracuse University students are probably already cramming for your semester’s first exam, I’m just embarking on week two of classes at Istanbul’s Bahcesehir Universitesi.

At the very beginning of our trip, our program coordinator warned us that among our myriad culture shocks, we should expect even college life to be very different in Turkey. One of the dissimilarities became apparent the moment we used our shiny new ID cards to get into the main academic building: Here, “class” and “fashion show” seem nearly synonymous.

Granted, at Syracuse I was never one to wear sweatpants outside my house often, but I appreciated the fact that I could throw on my oldest pair of jeans and a grungy graphic T-shirt and feel like I looked reasonably comparable to at least one-fourth of any given class. Here, half the female students strut by in high heels, and I’ve never seen so many sweaters tied around dress-shirtenclosed shoulders in one university hallway.

Bahcesehir also deserves a shout out for taking the concept of syllabus week to the next level. Some teachers showed up late. My advice: Wait 15 minutes before assuming that the teacher decided to extend his or her lunch break indefinitely. Other professors didn’t show up at all.

Midweek, I was sitting in the designated room of an urban studies class I was interested in, trying not to look too pathetic despite being completely alone 10 minutes after the class had

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going, going, gone “begun.” A woman walked in and shot a quick stream of Turkish in my direction. Once my blank look established a language barrier, she explained in English that that particular class was no longer happening this semester. Oh. The lack of actual syllabi passed out was striking as well. Turkish professors seem to have a strange aversion to printing things out or using email. You’re on your own for class materials — after half of my classes, I had to wander cluelessly into the school’s copy center to throw down some lire for the double-sided piece of paper that rehashed the same academic honesty policy I’ve read about 100 times before.

Plagiarism: bad. Copyright infringement: apparently not a big deal.

“Turkey is the kingdom of Xeroxing,” one of my professors said with a half smile at the beginning of class. Then, she recommended that we should feel free to borrow her copy of the text and run to the university copy center.

For the first time in my college life, I won’t be spending 100-plus dollars on textbooks that I’ll barely read, though I’ll be spending a lot of time in that copy center.

With classes dropping off schedules at the last minute, and teachers who hate using email, the school’s registration process seems like a labyrinthine hellhole of confusion to the point that our Syracuse program coordinator has taken it upon himself to do all of our registering for us. I think they’re trying to cut down on the panic-attack-induced tears. I think I can forgive MySlice for its cutesy name.

When I finally do get officially registered, I’ll be taking about five classes at Bahcesehir. As someone with an admitted tendency to overachieve workload wise back at Syracuse, I couldn’t resist a slight scoff at how little work it seems I’ll need to be doing day to day to succeed at BU. That’s not because the university is a joke, however. I’ll be taking five classes, but most students take somewhere in the vicinity of nine. The majority of students are Turkish, but since it’s an English-speaking university, they’ll all be pounding through their credit hours in their second language.

That’s almost as impressive as their grace in three-inch platform shoes on the cobbled sidewalks.

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

She can be reached at jidonfro@syr.edu.

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courtesy of sophistafunk (FROM LEFT) EMANUEL WASHINGTON, ADAM GOLD AND JACK BROWN, members of Sophistafunk, share beverages and laughter. They recently put an album out on vinyl.

Funkytown Local trio blurs line between old-school hiphop, laid-back blues

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By Ibet Inyang STAFF WRITER

itting or standing anxiously among the crowded Funk ‘n Waffles tables or in a testy crowd of college kids at the Westcott Theater — wherever Sophistafunk has chosen to grace with its presence — is practically torture. With cool, laid-back vibes mixed with a soulful, bluesy sound, the group is funky fresh and perfect for dancing.

Sophistafunk unleashed its distinctive sound on Syracuse and most of the nation over the past year, performing songs from its latest album, “twentyeleven.” Now, in true funky fashion, the group has released a vinyl version of the hit album, and the agony of waiting is finally over.

Adam Gold, Jack Brown and Emanuel Washington started playing together in simple jam sessions before actually forming the group

in 2007. With two S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni and the whole group’s roots deep in Syracuse, it’s no wonder that Sophistafunk has infected ‘Cuse and the Northeast music scene with an extra dose of funk.

But not just any funk. The group’s sound combines elements of old school and alternative hip-hop with jazz, soul and heavy bass and drum sounds. Just think of a George Clinton and A Tribe Called Quest lovechild.

Let’s start with a simple drum roll. A huge pounding or big kick sets off pretty much every song, and instantly, heads raise and people lift from their chairs. The energized tone of the piece is automatically set and, if you glance over, behind flailing sticks and a grooving expression, it’s all courtesy of percussionist extraordinaire Emanuel Washington.

You can marvel at his skills most clearly in “The Get Down.” The instrumental track’s shining embellishments are balanced by a dash of cymbal and a constant, open drum sound whose echo gives the song nothing but cool vibes.

Most of the funk elements in Sophistafunk are courtesy of the many sounds of Adam Gold.

The multi-instrumentalist plays keyboard, the occasional trombone and even provides the bass sound with his left hand tickling the keys of a synthesizer. As a song gets going, you’ll swear Sly and The Family Stone were onstage, only to see the head-bobbing crooner offering deep vocals.

His synthesizer is truly the magic behind the group’s ability to create the illusion of a big band sound. In “Gimme Some Space,” he starts out by creating a high-pitched whistle that sounds like a machine in Willy Wonka’s factory and generates a psychedelic vibe.

Front man Jack Brown contributes to the hip-hop atmosphere with his old-school emcee persona and attention to lyricism. Sporting his signature blazer, fedora and glasses, Brown oozes cool as he steps onto the stage and immediately gets the crowd amped up. Brown is also a spokenword poet, so dropping knowledge and producing thought-provoking words is second nature to him.

In Sophistafunk, he’s able to combine his skills with elements of hip-hop and rap. “Take Back The Planet” is nearly three minutes of Brown’s spoken word set to eerie sounds and free-form poetry. The verses are about misguided human nature and are a call to action for people to discard trivial things in the world and rise up, delivered through a voice that powerfully punches and will slap you awake — in a good way, of course.

As the name illustrates, “Lyrical Guide” shows off even more of Jack Brown’s way with

words, while blending quite nicely with production by Washington and Gold. The song is an upbeat tune urging fans to join the party, with funky, laid-back keyboard sounds and an extra kick of drums. The chorus is catchy and infectious, making the song a crowd favorite.

The funky, cool trip that Sophistafunk offers is definitely best enjoyed on stage, but thanks to vinyl, you’ll probably feel like you’re actually there. The rerelease of “twentyeleven” will no longer deprive fans of precious, raw sound lost in digital conversion and bring the sound of a live performance straight to your record player.

Feel free to get funky all on your own. ieinyang@syr.edu

Sounds like: George Clinton mixed with A Tribe Called Quest Top track: “Gimme Some Space”

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“In the winter, she didn’t run; she would do musicals,” Deborah said. “Her big dream was to be on Broadway.”

But that dream was short-lived when she decided to give cross country one more try.

Nerud practiced with the team the summer before her freshman year at North Shore, finding another passion to pursue.

“I realized that I loved to run and loved the aspect of competing and the team concept,” Nerud said.

Nerud credits her high school coach, Neal Levy, for her commitment to running, saying he pushed her to excel each year.

“Brianna improved every single season of every single year of her high school career, which is very rare,” Levy said.

Nerud almost suffered a setback in the 10th grade when her family found out she was iron deficient.

“We didn’t realize she was doing so much mileage and she wasn’t eating enough red meat,” Deborah said.

Her family resolved the deficiency quickly so she could continue to compete.

In her last year of high school, Nerud received numerous national honors as she shattered records nationally and locally.

At the IAAF World Juniors Championship in Barcelona, Spain, Nerud finished the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 10:00.72, passing Providence runner Shelby Greany’s record of 10:00.88 for the American Junior under-20 set in 2010.

While not many people expected Nerud to break out like she did at the end of the season, Levy saw it coming.

“Brianna’s best races are ones where she builds confidence in herself, where it wasn’t so much about winning or a time, but trying to reach her potential in whatever she does,” Levy said.

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motivation simply because of that.

Opening up the conference schedule coming off a loss and needing to turn the season around should be enough to fire the players up. The players shouldn’t need to draw off playing a primetime game to find their motivation, Marrone said.

“As a coach, you hope that’s not the case,” Marrone said. “You hope that, you have a limited amount of opportunities per year in this game, you put a lot of work into it.”

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Now, Nerud is looking to achieve her potential at SU. As she prepared for her first meet, the athletic department and Nerud’s mother had her iron levels tested again. They found her levels were high, meaning she could continue to compete.

It allowed Nerud to run her first college race for the Orange on Sept. 21, at the Toledo Inter-Regional Bubble Buster. Nerud was one of four true freshmen to run.

Nerud was the first freshman to finish, placing 19th overall in the 4K with a time of 13:43.1. She said her first race went well because she stuck with the plan formed with SU head coach Chris Fox. Nerud ran a harder, faster race in the second half. Teaming up with sophomore Jessie Petersen, the pair went in the middle of the pack and worked together to move ahead of the other runners.

Nerud said following the plan helped keep her poised to finish strong.

“I felt like I ran a hard and smart race,” Nerud said. “I just hope next time I can help my team have less points.”

Her SU career is only starting, but her record-breaking performances in high school garnered Nerud national attention.

As soon as the Syracuse cross-country staff could, they started reaching out to her, said John Oliver, SU’s cross country director of operations.

“She’s always been a top-level athlete in high school, so we had her on our radar,” Oliver said. “At the start of her senior year we started getting in touch with her, talking to her coach and getting to know her family.”

Nerud said she liked what the Syracuse coaches had to say, eventually swaying her decision from Duke to SU. “I loved the coaches and I thought they would really help me keep improving to a higher level,” Nerud said. qsbronso@syr.edu

day night was one of the team’s signature wins under Marrone. Syracuse beat West Virginia 49-23 and seemed to have taken a major step. Instead, the team went into a tailspin and lost its final five games of the season.

Still, Marrone has seen what his team can do when it plays well. Too often this season, that hasn’t happened. Trying to find a way to get this team to resemble the one that beat the Mountaineers a year ago is the head coach’s challenge this week.

“The team has worked extremely hard,” Marrone said. “I think they’re focused in the areas that we have to do a better job of.” cjiseman@syr.edu @chris_iseman

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marked the first time a university had ever won a Title IX lawsuit filed by women athletes.

Mary Dee Wenniger has been editor of Women in Higher Education, a monthly news journal looking to “enlighten, encourage, empower and enrage women on campus,” for 21 years.

“The significance is Syracuse University did something right,” Wenniger said of the case. “I can’t remember another school that has escaped punishment.

“The reason the school got off the hook is that it had continued to showcase that it upgraded women’s activities,” she added.

The university was able to prove that to the Federal District Court without adding a single women’s team from 1982 to 1995.

SU increased scholarships for women athletes, improved facilities and enhanced the coaching staffs. During those 13 years, female participation rose 47 percent with an increase of 69 varsity opportunities. Participation in men’s sports increased 3 percent.

Therefore, the Federal District Court said the university was in compliance with Title IX based on a sufficient history of expanding opportunities for women athletes.

But the briefs filed with the U.S. Second Circuit Appeals Court on April 3, 1998, called the court’s finding “totally erroneous” for failing to consider SU’s undergraduate enrollment.

The 1972 Educational Amendments Act states that universities that receive federal aid must have a gender ratio in the school’s varsity programs that mirrors the ratio in the undergraduate student body.

In 1982, the briefs state, the SU student body was 60 percent male and 40 percent female. By 1996, women made up 51 percent of undergraduate enrollment, according to the briefs. From 1982 to 1995, the disparity in athletic opportunities for

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against Football Championship Subdivisionopponent Stony Brook. It’s hard to believe the program can turn it around based on its first four games this season.

But when Syracuse takes on Pittsburgh in the Carrier Dome on Friday, Marrone and his players have the chance to show everyone who they are. They have the chance to prove they’re better than their record — that their season isn’t over. And they’ve had a bye week to shore up the turnovers and penalties, and the red zone and tackling issues that have been prevalent during their disappointing start.

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women compared to their enrollment actually increased from 19 to 21 percent, the briefs state.

When the lawsuit was filed in 1995, there were 11 varsity sports for men and nine for women. The teams consisted of 360 male athletes compared to 155 female athletes.

That was about to change.

The SU athletic department initiated the creation of women’s varsity soccer and lacrosse teams before the lawsuit was filed, SU defense attorney Edward Conan told The Daily Orange in January 1999.

“It was several months after the plan began being implemented that these students sued seeking immediate implementation of the lacrosse team,” Conan said.

But four affidavits from female students who claimed to have personally requested that the university elevate their respective clubs to varsity status prove otherwise.

Jennifer Boucher, who was captain of the women’s club lacrosse team, stated in her affidavit that Crouthamel never made her aware of the Athletic Policy Board, which handles proposals looking to elevate a club team’s status.

The affidavits from three other students told similar stories, claiming athletic officials told them there was nothing they could do to have their club team’s status raised.

The Second Circuit Appeals Court partially reversed the case on Jan. 6, 1999, by requiring SU to create more women’s varsity

“I don’t think that lawsuit was connected to the fact that Syracuse was going to expand its athletic programs. It may have had some stimulating effect from one year to the next, but it was going to happen inevitably.”

David Bennett

SU HISTORY PROFESSOR

But the athletic department promised women’s varsity teams for more than a decade before the lawsuit prompted them to take action, Faith Seidenberg, the students’ attorney, said in the same article.

“They made press releases saying that the teams were going to be made,” she said. “But when disgruntled students questioned them, the university was saying the teams weren’t going to be made.”

Jake Crouthamel, SU athletic director from 1978 to 2005, claimed at the time he had “no recollection” of any female student seeking to attempt elevation of her club team to varsity status, the appellants’ briefs state.

teams. By then, though, most of the creating was already done.

As the lawsuit flew under the radar, women’s soccer was added in 1996, women’s lacrosse began in 1997 and softball was instated in 2000.

SU also announced in January 1997 that it was cutting men’s wrestling and gymnastics to move closer to compliance with Title IX. The university fielded 12 women’s sports and nine men’s sports when everything was said and done. By that time, all eight female students had already graduated.

More than 13 years later, the significance of their lawsuit is still unclear.

David Bennett, a history professor who has

The Orange’s Big East opener represents its last chance to prove the doubters wrong and get back on track. In a conference with just two teams in the Top 25 that has traditionally been the weakest Bowl Championship Series conference in the nation, Syracuse can make its season with a strong showing in league play.

It starts against a Pittsburgh team that lost its first two games to FCS opponent Youngstown State and Cincinnati by a combined 65-27. Though Pitt recovered to win its next two games, it’s a team SU needs to beat if it wants to save its season.

And with a full week to prepare, the Orange should be ready to go. Marrone heaped blame on himself in the past week on the Big East

coaches’ teleconference, saying the program’s performance has been unsatisfactory under his standards. He said he’s failed to prepare his team in nearly all aspects.

“You would hope that the motivation level and the inspiration level is at its highest point each time, and I think that’s something obviously I’ve done a poor job of,” Marrone said during the teleconference on Monday. “And I have to find a way to get this team ready to play like we have played at times during the course of my three years here.”

Marrone repeated during the last two weeks that turnovers and penalties have killed the team through four games. And those failures are a direct reflection of him as a coach.

Syracuse ranks 109th in turnover margin and 114th in penalties per game out of 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

On Monday, he took a moment to reflect on the team’s last Big East win over West Virginia — a team making headlines this season as a member of the Big 12.

It was the Orange’s last Big East win. SU committed just three penalties for 25 yards and didn’t turn the ball over once in that game.

“We played extremely hard. We played well.

We didn’t turn the ball over. We didn’t commit penalties,” Marrone said of the 49-23 win over WVU during the teleconference. “We did a lot of things that I’ve talked about previously we

been at SU since 1961, was the chairman of the Athletic Policy Board and the NCAA Faculty Representative from 1975 to 1995.

During his last years as chairman, Bennett said, the university was talking about adding women’s lacrosse and soccer. The addition of women’s sports was happening across the country because of Title IX, he said.

“I don’t think that lawsuit was connected to the fact that Syracuse was going to expand its athletic programs,” Bennett said. “It may have had some stimulating effect from one year to the next, but it was going to happen inevitably.”

Crouthamel recalls making the difficult call to cut men’s gymnastics and wrestling in 1997. He remembers the nasty letters and alumni outcry, especially from the SU wrestling community.

Even Boucher, who was considered the lead student in the lawsuit against SU, told The Daily Orange in January 1997 that she never thought equality would come from eliminating other sports.

“But you got to do what you got to do,” Crouthamel said in a phone interview.

Adding the three women’s sports was what Crouthamel and the university had to do to comply with Title IX. While many were upset with the elimination of two men’s programs, Crouthamel believes the addition of the women’s sports was quietly appreciated.

“Not to my recollection did I get any phone calls saying, ‘Hey, you’re doing a good job,’” Crouthamel said. “I mean it was a job we should have been doing and finally did. But it was obviously the right thing. It was a requirement, but it was also the right thing to do.”

Today, SU has seven men’s sports compared to 11 women’s sports. It’s a change from when Crouthamel began his 27-year career at SU in 1978 and from when the eight female students filed the lawsuit against the university on May 8, 1995.

“Women’s athletics at the collegiate level has become quite something to their credit,” Crouthamel said. “They’re a part of the team now.” jdharr04@syr.edu

were very good at.”

Since then, those strengths have become weaknesses and SU hasn’t put it all together.

But that’s the type of team Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst expects to face Friday night in the Carrier Dome.

“They’ve had some tough games but also played some, I think, some really good teams,” Chryst said during the teleconference. “So I expect that they’ll be very well prepared.”

After a bye week in which Marrone reexamined his work over the last four years building the program, Syracuse needs to come out sharp on Friday to back up Marrone’s words after the Minnesota loss.

“We have to work extremely hard to keep getting better and correct the mistakes that we’re making,” Marrone said at the postgame press conference. “And when we do that — and it’s probably not as much as what people are going to say or talk about — but when we do that, we’ll be a very good football team and we’ll win a lot of games.

“And I believe that we will do that.”

Whether or not Syracuse wins this Friday will reveal its character and identity, and whether or not perception of the program will remain a reality for the 2012 season.

Ryne Gery is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at rjgery@syr.edu.

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Syracuse can still prove legitimacy in Big East play RYNE GERY

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that’s respect

fter Syracuse’s 17-10 loss to Minnesota, Doug Marrone tried to keep his players believing. Their 1-3 record said they were anything but a good football team, but the head coach sat in front of the microphone and said otherwise.

Marrone said he and his players knew they were better than their record, despite the inevitable beliefs of those outside the program.

“I told them that perception is what other people think of you,” Marrone said after the loss. “Your character is who you are.”

Right now, the perception of the Syracuse football program is reality. The Orange has lost eight of its last nine games, and its lone win during that stretch came

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andrew renneisen | photo editor DOUG MARRONE and Syracuse return to action on Friday night at 7 p.m. against Pittsburgh. The Orange has not won a Big East game since its 49-23 upset over then-No. 11 West Virginia last October. The victory was SU’s last win against a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent.

cross country

Nerud looks to carry record summer into college career

By Melissa Bronson-Tramel STAFF WRITER

Brianna Nerud almost had a different fate. As the race for selection slimmed to Syracuse and Duke, Nerud almost selected the Blue Devils.

During her senior year at North Shore High School (N.Y.), Nerud, the 2012 top cross country recruit, visited Georgetown, Providence, Duke and Syracuse.

“We really thought she was going to Duke,” Deborah Nerud, Nerud’s mother, said. “She had her foot in the door there.”

But in December 2011, Nerud committed to Syracuse to give the Orange a runner with a decorated high

school career. Last summer, Nerud broke the American juniors record in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the IAAF World Junior Championships.

After showing steady improvement throughout high school, the freshman is on her way to becoming a top runner for Syracuse.

When Nerud started competing in cross country in seventh grade, she was not positive she even wanted to pursue cross country in high school.

At that time, Nerud’s heart was set on the musical arts.

She took voice lessons in the eighth grade and performed in winter musicals.

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ON THE WAY UP

Brianna Nerud came to Syracuse after a standout career at North Shore High School. Here’s a look at the records she broke during her career: EVENT

New York State 5,000-meter American Juniors 3,000-meter steeplechase

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Orange focuses on limiting miscues during bye week

By Chris Iseman ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Syracuse has had nearly two weeks to sort out the causes of four weeks worth of miscues.

The bye week came at a time when the penalties, turnovers and miscues were mounting for the 1-3 Orange. With an extra week to prepare for its Big East opener against Pittsburgh on Friday, Syracuse zoned in on working to limit the mistakes that helped sink the team in each of its three losses.

“During the bye week, we obviously paid more attention to those things — turnovers, penalties, situations during the course of a game which are really hurting,” Marrone said during the Big East coaches’ teleconference on Monday. “Those are things we’ve worked on.”

The head-scratching mistakes are perhaps the biggest culprit for a disappointing start to the season for Marrone and Syracuse. The Orange is seventh in the Big East in turnover margin per game at -1.5. That also puts Syracuse in a tie with three other teams for 109th in the country.

SU’s 35 penalties, which have resulted in 271 lost yards, place the team fifth in the conference in total penalties for the season.

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Everyone understands that if we can clean those things up — not that it’s going to guarantee us a win — but it’ll give us a much better opportunity.

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SU HEAD COACH

“Turnovers have obviously hurt us. I think that’s the first way you put yourself in jeopardy of losing a game,” Marrone said. “We’ve done that consistently in the four games that we’ve played.”

In Syracuse’s last game against Minnesota on Sept. 22, the Orange

racked up 10 penalties for 79 yards and lost two of three fumbles. After the game, quarterback Ryan Nassib said the team “shot ourselves in the foot” with all the turnovers.

Nassib is fifth in the country in passing yards per game with 341.8.

Marcus Sales’ 95.5 yards per game put him at 20th in the country.

Syracuse’s new-look, no-huddle offense has often shined, but the mistakes are casting a dark cloud over the team’s ability to reverse the losing trend.

Marrone also said the team worked on its “tight” red-zone offense this week, which has been poor through four games. Tackling has been another issue for SU, and it was a point of emphasis during the bye week.

“Everyone understands that if we can clean those things up — not that it’s going to guarantee us a win — but it’ll give us a much better opportunity,” Marrone said.

Friday night lights While Friday’s game against Pittsburgh will be in primetime and on national television, Marrone said he hopes his players don’t feel extra

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