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United effort The 13th annual Dollar Day

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Food for thought Ceramic bowls and small

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at the Dome brought in an estimated $5,000 on Saturday. Page 3

protecting citizens taking video of police arrests. Page 5

portions of soup contribute to hunger awareness. Page 9

five times in a double-overtime loss to Rutgers on Saturday. Page 20

‘A habit of giving back’ Phanstiel scholarship program affects ﬁrst set of middle-class students

B mitchell franz | staff photographer Students cheer on New York’s College Team during the football game against Rutgers University on Saturday. Athletic Director Daryl Gross said SU would continue to use the NYC appeal for marketing.

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Sports marketing to remain unchanged By Meghin Delaney NEWS EDITOR

With Syracuse’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the university’s teams will now be playing up and down the Eastern Seaboard, not just in the Northeast. This move, however, will not change SU’s marketing campaign as New York’s College Team, said Daryl Gross, SU’s athletic director. Although the move to the ACC may mean SU plays fewer games in the Carrier Dome and New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Gross is optimistic that the ACC will

still provide ample opportunities for SU teams to play in the city. “The Big East Tournament, the ACC Tournament was very, very important to us — to be in New York is what I’m saying. I just think that would be great,” he said. “And we’ve had those conversations, and there’s an interest from the ACC to want to have that rotation in New York, so that’s really important.” And having games in New York City is incredibly important to some of the alumni who live there. There are about 43,000 alumni who live in the city’s metropolitan region, said

Scott McDowell, director of communications at SU Lubin House. SU will always market itself as New York’s College Team, Gross said, because of the alumni outlet. “But the reason that will — at least as long as I’m here — will always be a campaign for us is because that’s our No. 1 alum stop for careers is in that area. And we should be there with the flag up,” he said. Gross said that as long as SU could continue to market itself in the city, they would because of the SEE MARKETING PAGE 4

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ailey Marks had almost given up hope on going to Syracuse University. But only a few days before she had to mail her deposit to the State University of New York at Fredonia, Marks received an email from SU that changed her decision. “I got the email that said, ‘Your financial aid package has changed.’ And I was just sitting there and my heart started beating faster and I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness what is this about?’” said Marks, one of the first ten recipients of SU’s Phanstiel scholarship. “And I sat there for a couple minutes and thought, ‘Wow, I can actually go here.’” Announced last October, the How-

ard and Louise Phanstiel Scholars Program provides assistance to students from middle-class backgrounds who show academic strength and a desire to give back. The program is the result of a $20 million gift from Howard “Howie” Phanstiel, a 1970 undergraduate and 1971 graduate and trustee, and his wife, Louise. The scholarship reward varies depending on the financial situation, but it is enough to change a decision, the couple said. In 2008, the Phanstiels were on campus and noticed a concern among administrators that students would not return after the recession. In spring 2010, the Phanstiels presented their idea for the scholarship program to Thomas Walsh, executive vice SEE PHANSTIEL PAGE 4

daily orange file photo LOUISE AND HOWARD PHANSTIEL , founders of the Phanstiel Scholars Program, made a $20 million donation to SU last October.

Local establishments temporarily close during construction on water main gates By Liz Sawyer ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Several local businesses along South Crouse Avenue and Marshall Street were forced to temporarily close Sunday due to water main gate construction. Water was shut off while gates at the intersection of East Adams

Street and South Crouse were under construction Sunday afternoon, said Syracuse Department of Public Works officials. The job took approximately six hours and was completed by 2 p.m., officials said. Dunkin’ Donuts, Roly Poly, Jimmy John’s and Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery were among the businesses that

reported losing water. Bruegger’s was closed the entire day and placed a sign in the front window saying that it would reopen Monday. Dunkin’ Donuts employees reported closing the store from noon to 2 p.m., then reopening for the rest of the day. Jimmy John’s lost water for about

1.5 hours, but it remained open all day because it didn’t present much of an inconvenience, said employee Dustin Bowden. “Everything seemed to be operating fine,” he said. Kyle Metz, a Roly Poly employee of two years, said the water was off for about three or four hours, but,

like Jimmy John’s, they remained open because it didn’t interfere with operations enough to close. Businesses farther down Marshall Street, such as Insomnia Cookies and Chipotle Mexican Grill, were not affected by the construction. egsawyer@syr.edu

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Syracuse female hurt in Sunday car accident By Dara McBride Editor in Chief

A 19-year-old Syracuse resident was struck by a car near the intersection of Ostrom and Euclid avenues around 1 a.m. Sunday. Adriana Barletta, also of Syracuse, said she and the victim were at a party. The victim’s father was picking her up in a Chevrolet Cobalt when a Mazda 6 crashed into the rear of the car. The Cobalt was pushed into the opposite lane and significant damage occurred to the Mazda. Barletta said her friend was conscious, but her wrist was injured. Officers from the Syracuse Police Department and Department of Public Safety were on the scene but declined to comment. Ostrom Avenue was blocked off between Clarendon Street and Euclid Avenue. The driver’s side air bag on the Mazda was deployed. SPD officers searched the car and the trunk. The car had a South Campus parking pass. The victim was taken in a Rural/ Metro ambulance at 1:30 a.m. About 10 minutes later, a tow truck from Big D’s Auto towed the Mazda. dkmcbrid@syr.edu —Presentation Director Becca McGovern contributed reporting to this article. —A previous version of this article appeared on dailyorange.com on Oct. 2.

Man arrested at Westcott Theater A Syracuse man was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at 12:30 a.m. Friday at the Westcott Theater, according to a Syracuse police report. Stephen Kenny, 26, was harassing customers, police noted. A guard at the theater approached a police officer about Kenny’s behavior. The owner of the Westcott Theater, told police that Kenny was intoxicated and was asked to leave. Kenny told police he was doing nothing wrong and just wanted to listen to music. Kenny was advised he would be arrested if he did not leave. After Kenny refused, he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

SU students burglarized A burglary occurred at the East Genesee Street apartment of two SU students between 9 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. Thursday, according to a report. One student, a junior in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, had his MacBook, two iPods, an Xbox game console and a controller stolen. —Compiled by Jon Harris, asst. news editor, jdharr04@syr.edu

kristen parker | asst. photo editor MiNa JOhnson, JULES PeiXOTo and sara schmalbruch, all sophomores, collect money during the 13th annual event before the football game Saturday. After collecting money, organizers headed to the Physics Building to count up the $5,000 in cash.

Community donates to Dollar Day at the Dome By Dylan Segelbaum Contributing Writer

Syracuse University hosted its 13th annual Dollar Day at the Dome on Saturday, prior to Rutgers University’s 19-16 double-overtime victory over SU. The event was facilitated by more than 200 members of SU’s fraternities and sororities. Dollar Day, part of SU’s United Way campaign, is a yearly event targeted toward students to encourage donations to charitable causes. Organizers were primarily posi-

tioned around the Carrier Dome and on the Quad. But volunteers were stationed as far out as South Campus, Ostrom Avenue and many of the university’s event parking lots, said Jennifer Horvath, campaign coordinator and public information officer for the Department of Public Safety. It was Horvath’s first year coordinating the event, which she will also run next year, she said. Despite a drop off in donations from last year, the event was an overall success, Horvath said.

In the third quarter of the football game, it was announced via the public address system that $3,667.33 had been raised in total. After the game, Horvath estimated that the actual number was closer to $5,000. “It was a little down from last year, but it was cold and rainy out, so there’s not much that you can do,” she said. All proceeds went to United Way of Central New York, which directly benefits 95 programs and 35 agencies that are locally based. SU’s United Way campaign runs through Dec. 9,

according to the SU Athletics website. One area that was particularly encouraging was the number of student volunteers, an estimate of about 320, she said. This was up from the 250 students who took part in Dollar Day last year. Though primarily consisting of members of SU’s greek system, students not involved in greek life participated as well. “This year our student volunteers were outstanding,” Horvath said. “They stood out there in the cold and see Dollar Day page 4

SU alumnus creates online tutoring program for college students By George Clarke Staff Writer

Does That Make Sense, an online service providing customized study guides for college students and developed by a Syracuse University alumnus, went public in September after two years of development. Jonathan Kestenbaum, a 2009 political science alumnus from SU and member of Pi Kappa Alpha, created the service after he graduated from SU while studying law at Hofstra University. Using money he earned from Familiar Threads, a clothing busi-

ness he started at SU that created greek apparel for SU students, he partnered with Kamran Barelli, a technology consultant in New York City, to create a tutoring service like no other, Kestenbaum said. “We say we’re like eBay for tutoring,” he said. The service hires degree-holding tutors — called “nerds” — who bid to accept assignments from students to create original study materials for almost any topic, Kestenbaum said. Prices depend on the number of tutors available for an assignment, their familiarity with the topic and

the type of material students request, Kestenbaum said. Since creating study material is less difficult for “nerds” than it is for a newcomer to the topic, experts in a given subject need less time to create study guides and can then charge students less, he said. A robust set of software algorithms that solve the business model’s most complicated problems is what makes the service unique, Kestenbaum said. During the website’s two-year, invite-only beta phase, students would sometimes hire and pay a tutor

who had no access to the necessary textbooks, Kestenbaum said. Barelli and Kestenbaum responded to this problem by developing a search algorithm that scours libraries near a tutor’s home for the textbooks they need to fulfill an assignment. If a tutor is unable to access the right textbooks, that tutor cannot agree to create that study guide. The service also works with Turnitin, an anti-plagiarism website universities use to scan student essays, to prevent tutors from duplicating their work, he said. Every see Tutoring Program page 4

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president for advancement and external affairs, and Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president for enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid at SU. After that, plans for the program moved quickly. “Giving back and helping the institutions and people who helped us along the way is very important to us,” Howie Phanstiel said. Since 2008, Copeland-Morgan said the financial aid office has seen an increased number of students in need of financial assistance. A record number of students have applied to SU, and many of those apply from low- and middleincome backgrounds. If families are seeing college tuition — but not wages — rise, there is going to be a need, she said. Marks, now a freshman majoring in Spanish and public relations, said she wanted to go to SU, but wasn’t willing to see her family take on the monetary obligation. Her father is an English teacher and her mother is a social worker, and both are also helping her brother through college. Marks still needed to take out loans, but ultimately, the scholarship made attending her first-choice school a reality. “Really, it was what made the difference for us. She was headed to a state school until that scholarship came in just days before we had to send the check in,” said Jon Marks, her father. “That really made it for us, we’re awfully grateful.” The Phanstiels’ gift is among a small group of scholarships aimed at middle-class students. In 2009, Purdue University introduced a program,

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spotlight and fame of New York City. “It’s recruiting, it’s branding, it’s arguably the greatest city in the world,” he said. “So why would we not take advantage of that.” Kevin O’Neill, an advertising professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said he thinks the move may both hurt and help the university’s marketing strategy. “I’m not sure it’s fatal, but I mean Madison Square Garden is the national cathedral of college basketball, and we were one of the archbishops,” he said. “So you pull us out of that venue, that can’t be a good thing.” But O’Neill said he is not sure if the bad necessarily outweighs the good because by joining the ACC, Syracuse University expand its footprint and expose itself to a highly populated area of the country. Brian Spector, president of the SU Alumni Association, said that for alumni, the move to the ACC is both a loss and a gain. He said while SU games are scheduled less frequently in the Northeast against teams such as Georgetown and Connecticut, SU also gains some games in the region against teams such as Boston College and Maryland. On the other hand, SU also has large alumni bases in areas such as Atlanta and South Florida, which would allow more alumni from those areas to attend games, he said. Spector said he expects SU athletics will work in more games in the NYC area once the move to the ACC happens. He said he believes SU has a firm commitment to the fans in the area. The chancellor has also received assurance that some ACC games will be played in the New York City metropolitan area, he said. “One would hope that would include in either a permanent or rotating basis all or part of the ACC tournament,” he said. “There is also a belief of a firm commitment by Syracuse to try to continue to play a traditional rival, like St.

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which is given to students from Indiana households with incomes of $40,000 to $100,000. In September, the University of Oregon announced the Mary Corrigan and Richard Solari Scholarship, available to Oregonian students also caught in the middle. But Copeland-Morgan said she has not heard of one quite like the Phanstiel’s gift, which emphasizes philanthropy and stipulates scholars to enroll in the financial literacy program, participate in an annual lecture series on giving back and submit a one-page statement about the philanthropic efforts with which they are involved. “I think it’s absolutely wonderful that Howie and Louise went beyond just giving money, they could have done that, but it reflects a deeper sense of responsibility and a deeper sense of caring,” Copeland-Morgan said. SU has an institutional budget of $180 million in financial aid money and a total budget, which includes federal loans and grants, of $450 million, Copeland-Morgan said. More than 80 percent of students receive some sort of financial aid and about two-thirds of the students at SU receive scholarship or grant assistance from SU. For Howie Phanstiel, who came from a middle-class background and had to work through college, and Louise Phasntiel, who took night classes until she graduated at 27, giving a gift was not to only help students attend their dream school, but also to make the most of the experience, they said. “For students who have to work a certain number of hours, they’re going to miss out on the total university experience,” Howie Phanstiel said.

The couple was on campus at the start of the semester and met the scholars, who they described as diverse and energetic about giving back to their own communities and now Syracuse. Copeland-Morgan said she is most impressed with the amount of work the scholars have already done in the community. “No one person was doing one thing,” she said. “When you read their bios, it’s a habit of giving back. It’s almost as if they have to be engaged in service in one way or another.” Throughout high school, Katie Arts, of West Palm Beach, Fla., balanced her love of the arts with community service. She danced and volunteered at the Norton Museum of Art and the Sandoway House Nature Center. When it came to applying to college, she said she also applied for financial aid and scholarships. She said it looked like she would be going to a state school in Florida given her economic background. “It’s that middle ground where people kind of forget about you,” Arts said. Arts, now a freshman art photography major, said she was honored to be selected for the program. “I’m amazed at how small the group of people is,” Arts said, adding she’s still surprised she was selected to such an intimate scholarship program. “But I’m still grateful that they did.” Adrienne Marcino, of Sparta, N.J., heard about the scholarship, but did not imagine it to be so selective, either. “I thought it was a broader, much broader program,” said Marcino, who was a member of the lacrosse team and the student newspaper in high school and also involved in volun-

teering through her church. As the eldest of four, Marcino said the gift was the final push for Syracuse. Now that she has come to SU and met everyone involved in the program, Marcino said she has a feeling of security. Each scholar will be paired with a student mentor from SU’s Student Philanthropy Council and also has contact with the Council of Mentors, a group comprised of different leaders from offices on campus. The network of guidance available — from the Phanstiels to the mentors on campus — has been the best part of the program so far for Marks, the freshman Spanish and public relations major. “They’re so helpful, and they just really want all of the Phanstiel Scholars to succeed in whatever they do at Syracuse,” Marks said. In many ways, this is a test year for the program, and SU officials have said there may be some tweaks to how the program operates, the number of scholars or functions of the mentor groups. Walsh said his hope for the program is that the scholars will begin to break out and become leaders of philanthropy on campus. He said he would like to see the scholars continue to help each other and future incoming scholars. The gift is now part of SU’s endowment, meaning it will grow and always be available, Copeland-Morgan said. Although the program and the number of scholars may change, the money will continue to go toward helping students’ futures. “It will always go on,” Copeland-Morgan said. “There will always be Phanstiel Scholars.”

John’s, in the New York City metropolitan area.” Spector, a 1978 graduate of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, said he thinks from a marketing standpoint, the move to the ACC will force SU to use creative outlets to keep the marketing strategy alive. “Always going to ramifications or downsides, so we may have to be more creative and find other ways,” he said. “We have teams other than just football and basketball. Why can’t a lacrosse tournament be held again in New Jersey? We have a very large presence there.” Eva Zaccaria, a 2010 Newhouse alumna, said she was initially surprised and upset with the move to the ACC. Zaccaria has attended every SU game and event at Madison Square Garden since she moved to New York City in December 2010. “I think it’s definitely going to be an adjustment period,” she said. “There’s a lot more alumni in NYC area than there are in the South. Syracuse will obviously lose that home court advantage pretty strongly.” Zaccaria said she doesn’t think many NYC alumni will travel very far to see games after the novelty wears off. Personally, she said she won’t be flying to any games, unless they are NCAA Tournament games. She also said she is not sure if SU can maintain its current marketing strategy if they are not playing in games at MSG or the Pinstripe Bowl as much. “You can’t call yourself New York’s College Team if the only place you ever really play is upstate,” she said. “I don’t really see them being able to maintain that.” But in the end, O’Neill, the advertising professor, said there’s one marketing strategy for sport teams that outweighs all the others. “I mean the most reliable marketing program for a sports team is winning,” he said. “You can’t beat winning for a marketing strategy.”

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University and the University of Michigan, and he will come to SU within the next month. “Now we’re ready to start putting out the word,” Kestenbaum said. “There’s no other service like this right now.” Does That Make Sense is working with The Campus Socialite, a lifestyle blog for college students, on a 12-campus marketing tour that includes nerd mascots and vials of M&Ms candy, Kestenbaum said. To woo faculty, the business hosts free luncheons and raffles tickets to local attractions, such as Turning Stone Casino, he said. For the next two years, Does That Make Sense will be Kestenbaum’s primary focus, though he sees a long list of possibilities for the service’s patented technology, he said. In the future, he said he hopes to apply its bidding system to real estate services and legal research. The service may someday fit the needs of younger students, especially those with disabilities, he said. In the meantime, Kestenbaum said, finishing law school at Hofstra comes first. “I’ll have to develop some kind of exit strategy,” he said. “It’s just really hard to do everything at once.”

medelane@syr.edu — Sports Editor Michael Cohen and Asst. News Editor Jon Harris contributed reporting to this article.

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study guide is unique, Kestenbaum said, and students retain the rights to the guides that tutors create for them. The website displays no ads but is already profitable because of a price markup that covers the cost of Turnitin verification and other costs of business, such as Web hosting and software development, Kestenbaum said. After two years and $250,000 in software development, Kestenbaum’s service grew from a 100-student beta to a company with 225 tutors and more than 13,000 students, he said. Jose Moreno, a sophomore broadcast journalism major, said a service like Does That Make Sense had crossed his mind before, but he has yet to see any marketing for it at SU. “If a faculty member or someone of that authority were to promote it, I’d be more likely to use it,” he said. After starting the business with a total of $250 in marketing, Kestenbaum said, he is appealing to students and faculty at several universities, including Pennsylvania State

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rain and raised a lot of money for a great cause.” Ana Estes, a sophomore international relations major, participated in Dollar Day for the first time this year with her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta. She said she liked the fact that a majority of the proceeds go back to Syracuse and the surrounding areas. “They told us that one-fourth of people in Central New York are in a program that is funded or is helped out by United Way,” she said. “Every donation is helpful. People can

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give us spare change, or as much or as little as they want.” Sarah McKinney, a sophomore advertising major and member of Phi Sigma Sigma, was also involved due to similar reasons as Estes. “I didn’t know too much about Dollar Day before, and I signed up because my house did it,” she said. Jim Steves, a game attendee, was one of many individuals who donated Saturday. For him, contributing money just made sense. “It’s ‘cause it’s the right thing to do,” he said. “You guys are taking your time raising money for a nice cause, and that’s what makes everything go around.” dmsegelb@syr.edu

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n recent months, citizens videotaping police activity have escalated conflict with the police. Most of the confrontations are a result of the increasingly easy access to cameras and video recorders on cellphones. In most of these situations, police proceed about their jobs, but there are a growing number of reports that police have intimidated people who take videos. Because police can easily abuse their power and intimidate, laws should limit the police’s ability to confiscate or delete footage. In one incident, reported in the Baltimore Sun, a man who took video of his friend being arrested at a horse racing event in 2010. Police asked the man to surrender his camera as evidence. The man eventually complied and later found that the video had been deleted. Now, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing The Baltimore police department. In Philadelphia, two people recorded a woman whose head was repeatedly slammed into a police cruiser. Shakir Riley, one of the people filming told the Philadelphia Inquirer that police “beat him, poured a soda on his face and stomped on his phone, destroying the video he had just taken.” Police claimed that filming was a violation of federal law. Riley and the other person filming were charged with disorderly conduct, only to have the charges dropped. These incidents, two of a growing number, highlight the need for greater protections from police. Deborah Jeon, ACLU legal director, told The Baltimore Sun, “It is antithetical to a democracy for the government to tell its citizens that they do not have the right to record what government officials say or do or how they behave in public.” Police officers offer a different perspective. Allowing people to record can often distract police from their duties. Officers may be too preoccupied by the potential biases of the video. By not capturing News Editor Editorial Editor Feature Editor Sports Editor Presentation Director Photo Editor Copy Chief Art Director Development Editor Special Projects Editor Asst. Presentation Director Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor Asst. News Editor

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to the left, to the left the whole incident and the background, those who view the video may not have the full information needed to judge the situation. While video may offer a biased perspective, this should not be cause for police to overstep their authority and confiscate videos. A commonality in several of the incidents is that officers use the law and their position of authority to compel people taking video to surrender their footage. The unevenness in power requires that the law protects citizens who are simply exercising their rights to film in public spaces. Police should be barred from making illegitimate threats and lying to the public. Some states’ courts, such as in Illinois and Massachusetts, have interpreted existing laws to determine videotaping police or anyone without their consent represents a violation of the privacy of the person being filmed. Certain exceptions exist. Other states have no precedent or definitive ruling which states that videotaping is illegal. Interpretations from these courts conflict with the basic rights citizens have to hold the government and its employees accountable. Without video evidence of police abuses, oftentimes a police officer’s word is valued over a citizen’s word. The goal of a proposed law to permit citizens to videotape would not try to make police work more difficult. Instead, protecting the public’s right to videotape would promote accountability. Those who are supposed to protect us should not be exempt from justice. Harmen Rockler is a junior newspaper and political science major. His column appears every Monday. He can be reached at horockle@syr.edu.

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Move to ACC to mend SU’s reputation The university’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference from the Big East conference will increase Syracuse University’s exposure in the Southeast. The exposure will aid SU’s recruitment efforts in new geographic areas, but underscores a need to complement recruiting with real academic improvements. Representatives from Boston College said the Northeast school experienced an increase in applications from the Southeast, though that was not a motivation for joining the ACC in 2004. SU’s move to the ACC may mend some of the recent blows to its academic reputation and certainly highlights its need to do just that. Schools in the ACC cover a greater area of the United States and are primarily located in the South. Television coverage of SU games will also increase as a result of the move to the ACC. These two factors could attract a greater number of applications from the Southeast, experts say. This predicted increase in applicants goes hand in hand with other academic recruitment efforts. SU has focused its recruitment on this portion of the United States because more collegebound students will be graduating in

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editorial by the daily orange editorial board the Southeast than the Northeast in the coming years. Despite the expansion of its recruitment efforts, SU has received several blows to its reputation in recent years. U.S. News and World Report ranks SU No. 62 in college rankings, a drop from No. 40 in the late ‘90s. It voluntarily pulled out of the prestigious Association of American Universities before getting forced out last spring and has focused less on raising money for academics and faculty relative to almost every other fundraising effort. SU’s declining national reputation may be healed in part by the move to the ACC. SU has had traditionally little name recognition outside of the Northeast. This is changing thanks to recruitment efforts. But SU’s future exposure in games against schools with enormous fan bases like the Tarheels of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Blue Devils of Duke University will greatly expand the SU brand. High school upperclassmen with

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Flood control Students travel to Margaretville, NY, to help clean up after tropical storm By Jess Siart

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hen Robert Miller returned to his hometown of Margaretville, N.Y., after Tropical Storm Irene, the area was barely recognizable. Half of Main Street was devastated, entire buildings were washed away and roads were impassable. Miller, a senior polymer chemistry major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, organized a group of five students to spend the weekend of Sept. 10 helping repair the damage done by the storm. Along with Miller’s group from ESF’s main campus, there were also multiple groups from ESF’s Ranger School in Wanakena, N.Y., that visited damaged towns in the Catskills region. “We wanted to help out businesses that were destroyed or flooded and help out families,” he said. “We pulled the group together and did some work.”

“The thought of letting my friend’s hometown sit in that disarray was not OK. We knew that people needed help and that it really couldn’t wait.” Kelly Long

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The group spent the first day in Arkville, N.Y., a neighboring town, cleaning up debris in a park, and the second day was spent on Main Street in Margaretville helping businesses, including a drug store owned by Miller’s family. Most businesses experienced flooding in their basements and first levels and some fared even worse, Miller said. A recently renovated plaza in a low-lying part of town was completely destroyed and partially washed away, he said. “The CVS Pharmacy is gone and the grocery store was basically destroyed,” Miller said. Miller said the floods after Irene were the worst he’s seen since 1996, when there was 14 feet of water, compared to 16 feet in the most recent floods. While cleanup efforts are still going on, almost half of the businesses in town

are still closed because the buildings aren’t structurally sound. During the week, the town tries to carry on with life as normal as possible, he said, and then focuses on cleaning up and repairing damage on the weekends. Miller said the small town, where he graduated with about 35 people, banded together to help. “A lot of projects are going on where local construction companies are offering free labor and free equipment for buildings that revitalize instead of demolish,” he said. Miller said that it was important to him to go back and help his family and friends return his town to normal. Julia Brophy, a junior landscape architecture major, also from Margaretville, was part of Miller’s group. Brophy said her house wasn’t seriously damaged, but several of her friends’ houses were hit hard. “There was debris in trees way up where there should never be water,” said Brophy. “It was pretty unbelievable, and it was one of the weirdest things I’ve seen.” Like Miller, Brophy said she was struck by how the people in town came together. Because people are still trying to repair the damage, several local businesses are operating out of temporary locations to keep things as normal as possible, Brophy said. Despite the severity of the damage, the floods haven’t received much attention, which Brophy said she attributes to the town’s size. “If it’s New Orleans, there’s so many people there and everyone knows where it is,” Brophy said. “But if you say Margaretville, New York, no one knows where it is.” Kelly Long, a senior conservation biology major, joined Miller’s group because she saw how the floods affected the two. Long has experience with flood damage cleanup, having spent last spring break in New Orleans at St. Bernard Parish. “The thought of letting my friend’s hometown sit in that disarray was not OK,” said Long. “We knew that people needed help and that it really couldn’t wait.” Long was amazed by the amount of debris the group saw at the park in Arkville on their first day. The group collected the debris and put it in piles for government organizations to haul away. She said they picked up many things that had washed away from houses like tires, fencing, furniture, televisions, stairways, picture frames, tackle boxes and Christmas ornaments.

courtesy of robert miller Main Street in Margaretville, N.Y., flooded after Tropical Storm Irene worked its way up the East Coast last month. With the help of a group of ESF students, the town has been working to clean up debris since the aftermath of the storm.

Long said that while some areas were relatively unscathed, other parts of town have homes that are partially or fully submerged in sinkholes. Victoria Reinhart, a senior environmental science major, also helped with the cleanup. Reinhart is from Prattsville, N.Y., which now has more than 40 houses condemned and a trailer park that no longer exists. “I went home Labor Day weekend with a large suitcase filled with donations, and I cried at how much devastation there was within the valley and my home itself,” she said. “People I grew up with lost their homes and everything thing in them on the day Irene hit and the days after,” Reinhart added. “I watched them all suffer, my family included, for four days while sitting in Syracuse going to classes,

doing assignments and essentially doing nothing.” To help do her part, Reinhart organized the Hurricane Irene Relief Drive. Donations can be made at ESF’s Moon Library and are then distributed to towns affected by the floods in Schoharie, Greene and Delaware counties. During her time spent at home, Reinhart said, she and her family worked from sunrise to sunset cleaning out homes and buildings and disposing damaged property. Reinhart said she’s not sure when she’ll be able to return to the area, but she will continue to run the drive until supplies are no longer needed. “I know that in the long run,” she said, “the people back home will help each other and someday get back to normal lives.” jlsiart@syr.edu

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Fast-paced race draws big crowd By Josh Campbell Contributing Writer

Victoria Crisp, a 71-year-old woman from Nashville, Tenn., was among the hundreds who showed up to run in Sunday’s Syracuse Festival of Races despite the less than cooperative weather. “Sure, it’s cold and raining, but nothing short of a hurricane is going to keep us off those streets,” Crisp said. The morning of races kicked off with the men’s 5K at 8:50 a.m. After 15 minutes and 26 seconds of soldiering through the wind and rain, Mark Andrews broke the finish line tape to enthusiastic applause. For his persistence and speed, the 40-year-old Rochester, N.Y., athlete will receive the $250 John Trowse Memorial Award. Exactly one hour after the men’s 5K began, the women’s 5K starting gun sent hundreds of runners into the USA Track and Field-certified course. At the end of the race, Stephanie Herbst-Lucke, a 45-year-old Atlanta, Ga., native and former University of Wisconsin runner, claimed victory with a time of 16:37. She not only won the Women’s 5K in the Syracuse Festival of Races, but also nabbed the record for fastest 5K time in the 45-49 age group, breaking the previous record by two seconds. Sascha Scott, assistant professor of art history at Syracuse University, also participated in the women’s 5K. She came in sixth overall, but came in first place in her 35-39 age group with a time of 17:52. The Syracuse Festival of Races isn’t just about the record-setters and semi-professional runners. It’s also about the everyday individual who decided to step out and exercise — like 7-year-old Sean Cahill, who finished at the 30-minute mark, or 56-yearold Christine Kennedy, who crossed the finish line just under 19 minutes. This year, the event had its youngest competitor ever: 5-year-old Amanda Aitken, who crossed the line with a time of 37:44. Following the men’s and women’s 5K main events, the MVP Health Care 3K Fun and Fitness Run kicked off, bringing large numbers of competitors from both races out into the street, ready to finish out the day with a casual fun run alongside their families. Several dozen who chose to stay after the races treated themselves to free food and drinks, including see race page 12

kelsey francella and Meredith Jeffers attended the Empty Bowls event, which donates to hunger-fighting groups. Francella, a freshman communication design major, and Jeffers, a freshman English and textual studies major, were two of hundreds of participants.

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inding a matching set was no easy task, so Franchesca Clemente settled for a color scheme: four bowls painted in different shades of blue and purple — a few uneven around the edges and others with intricate carvings all around. Her purchases will pay for 28 pantry meals for hungry families. The Interreligious Food Consortium of Central New York will be able to provide these meals and thousands more with proceeds from the hunger awareness charity Empty Bowls, part of IFC’s “Eliminate Hunger” campaign, which took place at The Warehouse on Friday. “I love the uniqueness of pottery. I love how every time you do it, it comes out different,” said Clemente, a Syracuse resident. Syracuse University has had a hand in the city’s rendition of the International Empty Bowls project since shortly after its founding in Michigan in 1990. Back then, a local crafts shop in Syracuse, Eureka Crafts, created and donated most of the bowls and let students in the College of Visual and Performing Arts pitch in. But

Hand-crafted bowls, small portions of soup drive hunger awareness fundraising event for the past four years, the school’s ceramics department has helped sponsor the event. Erin Daetsch, a sophomore advertising major, was one of many who attended as an art enthusiast and said the hunger relief effort was an added bonus.

“I can’t give money. I’m an artist. I’m poor. One thing I can do is make bowls.” Tim See

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“I think it’s a really cool idea. You’re helping the cause, but you get to see everyone’s art,” she said. Attendees sorted through the 1,800 bowls created by art students from the university and in the ceramics programs at Clayscapes Pottery in Syracuse. Each purchase of a bowl included six ounces of soup, provided by a variety of local restaurants. Errol Willett, chair of the art department

in the School of Art and Design, said this amount is very symbolic. “Six ounces of food a day is what most of the world is surviving on,” said Willett, who has been working for months to organize the event with Peter Beasecker, a professor of ceramics in VPA. Beasecker said the goal was to have people hungry at the event to make them understand what others go through in their daily lives. Both Willett and Beasecker said they hoped awareness of the issue would grow after people went home craving seconds. Six ounces was barely enough to cover the bottoms of some bowls, and Tim See, Clayscapes ceramics instructor and SU alumnus, said the bigger bowls were the more popular choices. Zach Dunn, a third-year graduate student in ceramics, estimates that he made about 100 bowls. “We tried to keep them on the smaller side, but by the same token, we wanted to make something people would want to take home,” he said. Dunn and several graduate students began making bowls over the summer to prepare for see bowls page 10

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the event. See reminded a woman checking a bowl for an artist’s initials or a date: “It’s about the bowl, not who made it.” Willett said every bowl is signed with a

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simple, “EB” for Empty Bowls rather than an identifier. “We try to not have it be about the artist as much as the cause,” he said. Most artists manning the tables could not identify their own work at all. So many bowls were thrown in the same short stretch of time that it had to be about quantity as much as quality, See said. Outreach to the Greater Syracuse area was a tremendous effort this year in appealing to both artists and participants. See said the ceramics students worked together to create, glaze, trim and pack the bowls. See said that he’s doing this not just to further his artistic pursuits, but also because he truly believes in the cause and making a difference through art. “I can’t give money. I’m an artist. I’m poor. One thing I can do is make bowls,” he said. Volunteers wearing red and yellow bowlingstyle shirts swarmed the lower level of The Warehouse. They realigned the bowls on the

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seemingly endless tables every time someone picked one up to inspect its texture. Volunteers came from Clayscapes, which donated all of the clay, and from the Bank of New York Mellon, Solvay Bank and the Syracuse Ceramics Guild, which donated $1,000, the organizers said. “I think it’s a very mixed group,” he said. “It’s the biggest event yet in terms of bowls, people, members of community organizations and just in terms of reach. And in terms of volunteers — we have an army here!” VPA ceramics majors were required to attend. Senior ceramics major Sofia Mejias said she would have volunteered whether it was mandatory or not because the cause was important to her. “For Ramadan, we fast and see how it is without the privilege of food, and I think this helps people see it in a nonreligious way,” Mejias said. Beasecker said what interested them was having their students get involved in the community. Willett added, “Ceramics is invented with the notion of community from day one. ... It has always been about the food, about the use.” sfanelli@syr.edu

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The Empty Bowls Project is an international effort created by The Imagine Render Group to fight hunger. Individuals create handcrafted bowls for guests who are invited for a meal of soup and bread. Guests make a cash donation and keep a bowl as a reminder of all the empty ones that exist in the world. The Empty Bowls Project started from a luncheon to raise money for a school district food drive and has since grown into a grassroots movement. Events have taken place across the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Finland, England and Hong Kong.

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Flash mob celebrates national day of pride with song, dance By Erik van Rheenen Asst. Copy Editor

The Quad was quiet on Friday, with the exception of several students conversing with each other on their way to class. At 12:40 p.m., a group of Chinese students flooded the Quad, singing China’s national anthem, carrying flags and wearing stickers on their faces. Most students were decked out in shades of red, the national color of their motherland. One student taking pictures and participating in the mob was Ling Liang, a graduate public administration major and student at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

Time to Celebrate The National Day of the People’s Republic of China is celebrated every year on Oct. 1 as a public holiday in China. It was founded Oct. 1, 1949, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Central People’s Government passed the “Resolution on the National Day of the People’s Republic of China” on Dec. 2, 1949. This day is celebrated through a variety of governmentorganized activities throughout mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. Some the activities include fireworks and concerts. Places such as Tiananmen Square are decorated with portraits of past leaders like Mao Zedong, founder of the People’s Republic of China.

“This is a way for us to celebrate our love for our homeland, but also to show our togetherness as students from China,” she said. The event was planned by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Syracuse University to celebrate the National Day of the People’s Republic of China. Member Wei Zhuang, a graduate environmental science and engineering major at ESF, helped plan two different flash mob events. The group used mailing lists to reach out to Chinese students on both SU and ESF campuses. “We came up with the idea last Saturday,” said Zhuang. “We only had it planned for a week, but a lot of students participated, and it turned out nicely.” Before the mob started, students mingled in small groups, chatting idly and constantly looking at their cellphones to check the time. Once a sharp whistle sounded, the quiet packs of students sprinted to meet each other at the center of the Quad, shouting loudly and exchanging triumphant smiles and hugs. Passers-by stopped dead in their tracks, not sure what exactly was happening. After taking pictures with each other, the throng of students broke into song with the Chinese national anthem, proudly holding flags in the cool September breeze. Some students sang it seriously. Others tried to tag friends with stickers bearing the Chinese national flag without them noticing. But all the CSSA members radiated a feeling of united jubilation. The flash mob on the Quad lasted from 12:40 to 12:45 p.m. The second flash mob

zixi wu | staff photographer Xiaosong Yan, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, and other students flooded the Quad on Friday to celebrate the National Day of the People’s Republic of China. took place at the E.S. Bird Library from 1:10 to 1:15 p.m. At about 1:10 p.m., the carousing group of students meandered to the library for the encore performance of the flash mob. The flash mob not only allowed Chinese students to celebrate China’s national day, but also to showcase their national spirit to the rest of the campus. “We wanted to show Syracuse how proud we are of our culture,” said Liang. “And having a flash mob was a good way to surprise everyone with a unique display of our holiday.” ervanrhe@syr.edu

“We wanted to show Syracuse how proud we are of our culture. And having a flash mob was a good way to surprise everyone with a unique display of our holiday.” Ling Liang

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Electronica band provides versatile set, enthralls crowd Text and photo by Gabriela Sarzynski Design Editor

The crowd roared in unison as the band members struck their first chord. All eyes were glued to the stage. The beat slowly built and after much anticipation, it intensified and

“I’m a fan of all the musicians on stage. When they’re all together, everyone hates on them but when they’re playing together, it is definitely something that is substantial, something that should be heard.” Sara Snodgrass

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dropped like an exploding grenade. Hundreds in the crowd were overtaken by the infectious rhythm. “There was a war out there,” said Conspirator’s guitarist Chris Michetti. “We won the battle tonight. It was a fun battle.” Electronica band Conspirator performed at

the Westcott Theater on Thursday night for a crowd of more than 300, said Casey Jarrett, box office manager. Thursday night’s crowd was predominantly college-aged. In the electronica world, Conspirator has become a household name. Two members of the popular jam band The Disco Biscuits, keyboardist Aron Magner and bassist Marc Brownstein, formed the band in 2004 alongside producer DJ Omen. With the addition of guitar prodigy Chris Michetti of RAQ, Conspirator is no longer an electronic duo. The band is fluent in dubstep, electro house, drum and bass, house and drumstep, fully encompassing the umbrella genre of electronica. Brownstein said the tempo determines what genre a song will fall under, each having a distinct pace and sound. “They’re versatile, that’s why kids like them,” said Jesse Spitzer, a senior forest health major at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. The band performed newly released tracks “Seek Bromance” and “Gypsy Lane,” along with older EPs, like “Velvet Red.” The crowd went wild for “Feed the Wolf,” enthusiastically jumping up and down. Darren Shearer of The New Deal and Mike Greenfield of Lotus alternated playing drums. Conspirator can no longer be considered a mere side project. Within a week of releasing EP “Seek Bromance,” the track has been downloaded 10,899 times with more than 36,000 plays

marc brownstein (LEFT) and chris Michetti, bassist and guitarist of electronica band Conspirator, perform at the Westcott Theater on Thursday.

on the website SoundCloud, where the band makes their music available. Because Conspirator is a conglomerate of musicians from other well-established bands, some fans have become uncomfortable with the style of music it has chosen to embody, Brownstein said. “The reason they’re begrudging us for liking it is because we’re the people who make the music that they like, and they’re afraid we’re gonna start making music they don’t like,” Brownstein said. However, there are some fans that still enjoy both bands. “I’m a fan of all the musicians onstage. When they’re all together, everyone hates on them,” Sara Snodgrass of Scranton, Pa., said. “But

Installation project reflects artists’ heritage By Karin Dolinsek Asst. Copy Editor

As she moved through the exhibit describing a carbonized wood sculpture she created, New York-based artist Natalia Porter recalled the challenge of assembling stacks of fragile charcoal into a vertical piece of art. “It’s the stacking gesture of a kid,” Porter said. “These sculptures are like the everyday passage of life. You take one step and another, and in the end, you have a whole. This installation represents our learning and growth as artists.” Porter was one of two Mexican-born artists from New York City who presented their collaborative installation project “Edifice,” currently on display at the Point of Contact Gallery in Syracuse. Curated by Pedro Cuperman, founder of the gallery and associate professor of Spanish at Syracuse University, the exhibition commemorated Hispanic Heritage Month. The gallery hosted an opening reception with Porter and Gabriela Alva Cal Y Major last Thursday. Inviting Boston-based writer Andrew Witkin to participate in the collaboration, the artists formed a dynamic partnership between written word and spatial composition, said Tere Paniagua, the gallery’s managing director and associate editor. Porter and Alva employed Witkin’s writings, which read like lists of accumulated thoughts, as inspiration for their pieces. The artists responded to Witkin’s juxtaposition of order and abstraction, as well as the visual composition of his printed words. “It was interesting but also a challenge to keep the integrity of my work and still explore interests through someone else’s perceptions and thoughts,” Alva said.

While Porter created vertical structures that parallel Witkin’s organized building of written word, Alva based her works on individual poems using the word layout to generate new compositions in her prints and photographs. What draws Porter and Alva together is their interest of urban landscape and architecture, reflected in the installation’s common theme of buildings, constructions and industrial objects. “Human built objects placed in nature are fascinating,” Porter said. “I was inspired by cityscapes we live in and their elements, like graffiti marks on the sidewalk.” In one of her pieces, Porter stacked laser-cut paper shaped like tree foliage to build a vertical structure. The sculpture interacts with the porous quality of the gallery’s ceiling, connecting with its environment to communicate an image of a stone stalactite spearing from above, Porter said. Porter drew inspiration mainly from architecture and Alva employed industrial objects as the basis for her pieces. Using glass from broken soda bottles scattered all over cities in Mexico, she used the easily available material to portray an aspect of her home country. Alva said that in her home country, glass shards are placed on top of fences and used for protection. “Glass became a part of the landscape in Mexico,” Alva said. “I tried to show the contradiction between danger and the feeling of safety. Broken glass is dangerous, but when light hits it under a certain angle it reflects beautifully.” The colors resonating through the exhibit are predominantly earth tones and grays

resembling urban concrete, with surprising flashes of bright pink and orange color. Artists use colors they are suddenly drawn to, but also adhere to rules they created to keep consistency in their work, Alva said. While it is an enriching experience for people to see works of art firsthand in a gallery, both artists also said it’s important that their work is represented in print media. “Many people can’t experience and see artwork in person,” Alva said. “It’s important how you reproduce your pieces in print because it’s the closest some people will get to your work.” kvdolins@syr.edu

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when they’re playing together, it is definitely something that is substantial, something that should be heard.” Brownstein expressed his enthusiasm for electronic music’s resurgence in the mainstream after a decade-long hiatus. Despite the growing competition, Brown expressed his excitement for the increasingly popular music. “This new music is so nasty, I’m excited that it’s progressing again,” Brownstein said. “There was like a 10-year lag, and now the young kids came along and showed all of us older guys what’s next, and now it’s if you can make it, you can make it, and if you can’t, you can’t.” gmsarzyn@syr.edu

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freshly made salads, Pom Wonderful juice and Subway subs. A Tops tent provided Vitamin Water, yogurt, bananas and crumb cake. At the end of the day, the 19th annual Syracuse Festival of Races got people moving, raised money for many good nonprofit causes and provided families with a morning full of fun — everything it was designed to do. But race

“Sure it’s cold and raining, but nothing short of a hurricane is going to keep us off those streets. I drove here all the way from Tennessee, and I’ll be damned if I let a little water keep me from running.” Victoria Crisp

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director Dave Oja is already putting an eye toward the future. “Next year is an early Columbus Day, so we’ll see you all on September 30th,” he said. jwcampbe@syr.edu

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rime drama, next to mindless reality shows, may be the most abundant genre on TV. There’s “Law & Order” and its three spin-offs, “CSI” and its two spin-offs, “NCIS” and its spin-off, every show on the USA Network and countless other scattered programs. To break up the monotony of this oversaturated format, a new crime show needs a gimmick, something that will allow the viewer to differentiate between two shows following the exact same blueprint from week to week. For “Unforgettable,” that gimmick is hyperthymesia. If the title of the show was not a big enough hint, hyperthymesia is a very rare disease that allows a person to remember everything. In the case of “Unforgettable” the lucky recipient is protagonist Carrie Wells. She used to be a detective in Syracuse, N.Y., but quit and decided to start working at a nursing home. She helps them remember things, obviously. Then one day, or in the first episode, her old partner and ex-boyfriend Al, also from Syracuse, says he needs her help on the force in New York City. So for the foreseeable future, the two of them will use what is probably the single most boring superpower in the world to solve

New crime drama ‘Unforgettable’ fails to break out of stale format

a new crime each week. “Unforgettable” has a lot of problems right from the start, the most pressing of which is Wells’ titular “power.” It’s pretty boring watching someone remember things. The show attempts to remedy this via elaborate flashback sequences in which presentWells watches past-Wells in an event that is too complicated to explain — and too uninteresting to watch. No one cares about someone’s stylized thought process. Also, the idea of a perfect memory could be interesting, but it makes no sense for police work. Presumably in every show, the detectives will hit a snag in the case. Wells remembers some teeny tiny detail everyone missed the first time, and the wheels keep spinning until it either happens again or they catch the bad guy. In the most recent episode, she uses her power of human nitpicking to find a boy hiding underneath a tarp because she recalled the tarp had moved since she last saw it. Riveting. Then there’s the Syracuse issue. “Unforgettable” attempts to inject its characters with depth and give them an interesting backstory. Unfortunately, the creators of “Unforgettable” fail to develop the show’s characters, instead favoring the thrill of chasing criminals in its hour of airtime. To fix this, the writers quickly establish that Wells and Al both worked at the Syracuse Police Department and then shoehorn Syracuse references about three times per episode. As a resident, I laughed every time it was referenced. For example, Wells shows up to the crime scene in her street clothes and Al immediately tells her, “You can’t dress like that here. This isn’t Syracuse.” The name-dropping illustrates nothing about the city, as it could have easily been

replaced with Rochester or Buffalo or Neverland. It is a cheap tactic that gives a sense of history between the characters, but “Unforgettable” could not care less about them. They only exist to service the cases. Speaking of a poorly developed backstory, the show’s other two character shadings are unbearably ironic. First, Wells can’t remember the day her sister was murdered. Second, her mother has Alzheimer’s disease. Both of these thoughts are about one minute long vignettes scattered throughout the episode, but they offer essentially nothing to the overall show. Wells is still going to solve crimes every week, and nothing is ever going to change that. In the world of TV crime shows, stasis equals success. Unfortunately, that’s a wholly uninteresting concept for the cognitive viewer. If “Unforgettable” wants to set itself aside from all the other detective stories, it had better invest in its characters. jswucher@syr.edu

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SU stays in DRILL game behind tough defense

Dan Vaughan

Vaughan entered Saturday’s game with 23 tackles on the season at linebacker. He was coming off a career-high seven stops against Toledo. The senior broke that mark with 15 tackles to lead the Orange defense, as it held Rutgers to five yards rushing on 38 attempts.

Dyshawn Davis

Davis made the biggest defensive play for the Orange, forcing a fumble that Ri’Shard Anderson returned for a touchdown less than one minute into the game. The freshman linebacker finished with two sacks and 3.5 tackles for loss to spearhead SU’s constant pressure on the Rutgers quarterbacks.

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Ross Krautman

Krautman hasn’t been as effective as he was last year when he converted 18-of19 field goal attempts. After missing a 39-yard attempt and having another blocked against Rutgers, the sophomore is just 6-of-9 this season. He also had an extra point blocked that allowed Rutgers to eventually tie the game at 13.

Syracuse wide receivers

After starting the season strong with multiple receivers stepping up to make plays, SU failed to break through with a big play through the air against Rutgers. The team’s leading receiver, Alec Lemon, only made four catches for 54 yards, and Van Chew caught just one ball for nine yards.

Ball security

Though Antwon Bailey rushed for 124 yards and a touchdown, he also fumbled the ball twice — the last one ending the game in the second overtime. SU head coach Doug Marrone mentioned after the game that his team knew Rutgers was good at stripping the ball, but still couldn’t hold onto it despite extra preparation.

Brandon Sharpe

Sharpe, one of the players expected to fill the hole left by injured defensive end Chandler Jones, had just one assisted tackle on Saturday. He also hurt the SU defense with penalties, getting flagged for offsides on a third-and-1 and a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on Rutgers’ first scoring drive.

TURNING POINT

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After the SU defense forced a turnover deep in Rutgers territory, the Orange set itself up with first-and-goal at the RU 5. But quarterback Ryan Nassib’s quick slant pass attempt to freshman Kyle Foster deflected off of Foster and up in the air, where Rutgers safety David Rowe came down with it. The pick cost SU an opportunity to go up 20-3.

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Dyshawn Davis knifed through the gap unblocked. As he charged full speed toward Rutgers running back Jawan Jamison, he knew he had the chance to do something special just two plays after Syracuse coughed the ball up on an Antwon Bailey fumble. The ensuing collision in the backfield brought the crowd to its feet and elicited a roar that was equal parts jubilation and recoil. “I saw the guard’s hands, so I knew that he was pulling,” Davis said. “He gave me the look, so as soon as he pulled, I just hit the hole right away and I was clean. And I knew I had to make a big play.” Davis’ hit resulted in a fumble, and SU cornerback Ri’Shard Anderson scooped it up to return it for a 66-yard touchdown less than one minute into the game. It was the beginning of a day in which the Orange defense continually bailed out Ryan Nassib and the offense to keep Syracuse in the game. But because SU ultimately fell short in a 19-16 double-overtime thriller, the defense walked sullenly out of the Carrier Dome knowing that its best performance of the season was all for naught. For a unit fresh off back-to-back games in which it gave up an excess of 435 yards to Toledo and Southern California, Saturday’s effort was a drastic improvement. Though the Scarlet Knights ran a staggering 95 offensive plays — more than either the Rockets or the Trojans in the past two weeks — the SU defense stifled Rutgers. Nearly 100 plays resulted in only 302 total yards for a meager 3.2 yards per play. “As a defensive unit … we had an incredible game,” Syracuse middle linebacker Marquis Spruill said. The forced fumble by Davis nullified Bailey’s fumble, which gave the Scarlet Knights the ball at the Syracuse 30-yard line. It was one of three instances during Saturday’s game in which the Orange defense made an important stop after a blunder by the SU offense, which turned the ball over five times.

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Knights defense is at stripping the football. But the Orange failed to execute its game plan and protect the ball. Bailey’s first fumble on the opening possession set the tone for the first half, as the offense couldn’t find its rhythm. The SU defense redeemed Bailey’s fumble by forcing the ball loose from Scarlet Knights running back Jawan Jamison on the next possession and taking it back for a score. But the Orange did not score a point on offense in the first half. SU converted only two first downs in the first two quarters. “It was tough, but it’s not different than what we’ve experienced before,” center Macky MacPherson said. “We always focus on getting the fi rst fi rst down, which we didn’t accomplish enough.” Even with good field position coming off a couple of Rutgers turnovers, the Orange found ways to botch golden opportunities to add insurance points. Marrone pointed to two specific turnovers

mitchell franz | staff photographer RI’SHARD ANDERSON (9) recovers a fumble forced by Dyshawn Davis (35) in the first quarter. Anderson returned it 66 yards for Syracuse’s lone touchdown in the first half. After Nassib’s first interception of the game in the second quarter, the defense didn’t yield an inch after Rutgers drove down to the Syracuse 9-yard line. SU pushed the Scarlet Knights back 1 yard on the next three plays and only allowed a field goal. In the third quarter, Syracuse kicker Ross Krautman shanked a 39-yard field goal, failing to extend the Orange’s lead to 13. But on the ensuing Rutgers drive, quarterback Gary Nova fumbled the ball as he was sacked by Mikhail Marinovich. Spruill came out of a scrum with the fumble recovery. “When your defense is playing like that and you turn the ball over, you don’t feel bad for yourself, you feel bad for that defense,” Syracuse center Macky MacPherson said. “… You feel terrible, and they have the right to be upset because they played their butts off, and we didn’t do what we should have done, and that’s put points on the board.” The Orange’s most impressive defensive performance came in a game where the unit was ravaged by injuries. Both Anderson and Keon Lyn, two of SU’s cornerbacks, wore casts on one hand. Starting strong safety Shamarko Thomas was out again due to injury, and safety Olando Fisher, who head coach Doug Marrone thought would be back this week, couldn’t suit up. A ragtag secondary still found a way to control Rutgers wide receiver Mohamed Sanu, who is one of the best pass-catchers in the nation. He was held

to 65 yards receiving after a 176-yard outburst last week against Ohio. Free safety Phillip Thomas and linebacker Dom Anene bracketed Sanu in double coverage during portions of the game in an over-under scheme employed by SU defensive coordinator Scott Shafer. “They want to try and get him in open field and try to get him the ball, and that’s what coach Shafer tried to eliminate with me and Dom Anene, just trying to double-team him and get him tired,” Thomas said. And while Sanu was blanketed for most of the game downfield, SU’s defensive front turned in a stellar performance as well. Rutgers finished the game with 5 rushing yards on 38 attempts — an almost unheard of 0.1 yard per attempt — due to relentless pressure by the Orange. The defense recorded five sacks, 11 tackles for loss and recovered three fumbles while harassing both Scarlet Knights quarterbacks used during Saturday’s game. On a day when the Orange defense came up with four takeaways — the most since 2007 — it still walked off the field defeated. Though none of SU’s defensive players would pin the loss on the offense’s subpar performance, it was clear which side of the ball did its job. “There’s nobody to blame,” Thomas said. “We’re all a team. We win and lose as a team.”

that he said would be “tough” to handle. Up 7-0 in the second quarter, SU defensive end Torrey Ball had just recovered a fumble for the Orange in Rutgers territory. Syracuse planned to run a screen pass first, pump faking to the left and tossing the ball back to the right. But the screen was covered well by Rutgers defensive tackle Justin Francis, who dropped back into coverage, grabbed the pass for an interception and secured it against his 275-pound frame. “They dropped (Francis),” Marrone said, “and what Ryan did was pump left, and then his eyes are off what’s going on.” Then in the third quarter, Scarlet Knights quarterback Gary Nova — who had recently entered for starter Chas Dodd — coughed the ball up on a sack, and Marquis Spruill recovered it for Syracuse at the RU 16-yard line. A 6-yard run by Bailey, who had a sound game with 124 yards and a touchdown despite the two fumbles, moved the ball down to the Rutgers 10. But in an empty backfield set on first-andgoal from the 5, Nassib’s quick slant to freshman Kyle Foster was tipped in the air. Rutgers safety David Rowe came down with the pick. “You can’t expect to win a game when you

have five turnovers,” Nassib said. “Leaving all those points on the board is unacceptable.” Yet in the midst of the Orange’s worst offensive performance of the season, Rutgers was just as inefficient. The Scarlet Knights turned the ball over four times. While Syracuse missed two field goals and an extra point, Rutgers missed three field goals. The result was a 13-13 tie and overtime. They remained tied in overtime, too — until Bailey’s fumble. MacPherson said after the game that many of SU’s mishaps on offense fell on the offensive line. So when Bailey walked to the podium for his postgame press conference, he was surrounded by the five members of the starting SU offensive line. MacPherson, Michael Hay, Andrew Tiller, Zack Chibane and Justin Pugh stood with him, looking like bodyguards as Bailey took questions. “He’s a great running back, and we support him all the way, with anything he needs to do,” MacPherson said. “And it’s our responsibility to keep those linebackers from hitting him late so the ball doesn’t come out.”

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Krautman, field-goal kicking unit fail SU in loss to Rutgers By Mark Cooper ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Ross Krautman became a hero as he sent Syracuse to a bowl last season with a game-winning field goal against Rutgers. This year, his fieldgoal kicking unit was one of the goats. One blocked field goal, another missed field goal. A blocked extra point. Seven potential points lost due to a feeble day by the SU kicking game. “I think it’s very difficult to win football games when you have five turnovers, and a field goal gets blocked and a PAT gets blocked,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said. “Those things happen, and we lost that game because of those errors, and we weren’t able to capitalize at times.” Both Krautman and Scarlet Knights kicker San San Te missed kicks at an alarming rate in Rutgers’ 19-16 win over Syracuse on Saturday. Krautman finished 1-of-3 on field goals — missing one more field goal Saturday than he did all of last season — and 1-of-2 on extra points. Te had a much busier day than Krautman, attempting seven field goals and hitting on four of them. There was controversy last week surrounding the botched call by the officials on Krautman’s missed extra point against Toledo. But this week, all of Krautman’s misses were clear. Syracuse produced one of its best drives of the season on its first possession of the second half, driving 93 yards in six plays. Running back Antwon Bailey finished it off with a 3-yard touchdown run to put SU up 13-3, but Krautman’s extra point was blocked by Jamal Merrell coming around the right side of the Syracuse line. “I think we have to look at that wing area at

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normal fourth-down play so risky? Especially for a team that had two kicks blocked during the course of the game. But that’s surface-level stuff. Marrone furthered his explanation as to why he opted against lining up and pounding the ball up the middle for a potential first down or touchdown. “My philosophy as a football coach is to never take the game away from the players,” Marrone said. “What I didn’t want to do is get stopped, and we’ve been stopped before. Rutgers is very good on defense for tackles for loss, so why not kick the three points, which I felt comfortable about.” Marrone is absolutely right that the Scarlet Knights defense is great at getting tackles for loss in the backfield. Rutgers came into the game in a tie for second in the nation in tackles for loss per game with 9.3.

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The number of turnovers by Syracuse on Saturday. There were Antwon Bailey’s two fumbles, one during SU’s first possession and the other on the final play in double overtime to seal the loss. And then there were the Ryan Nassib picks, all three of which came in Rutgers territory to halt Syracuse scoring opportunities.

the right tight end,” Marrone said. “One of the things we’ll do is get bigger out there. We had to go overload on that last one, which secured it for us. In the other circumstances, it’s not acceptable.” Krautman then missed a 39-yard attempt wide left less than three minutes later. But it was the field goal unit’s final error that really shifted the momentum to force overtime. Holding a 13-6 lead late in the fourth quarter, Syracuse drove into Rutgers territory but stalled just inside the 30. Krautman lined up for a 44-yard attempt, one that could have pushed SU’s lead to double digits to potentially seal the win. But Merrell again swooped in front of the kick, breaking past the right side of the offensive line. Rutgers cornerback Marcus Cooper picked up the football and returned the ball into SU territory, setting up the game-tying touchdown drive for the Scarlet Knights. Te, the Rutgers kicker, missed three field goals but made the kick that mattered most — a 47-yard try in the second overtime to put RU up 19-16. “I’m proud of our players and coaches for continuing to stay calm and continuing to chop,” Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano said. “Sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn’t, but if you don’t keep doing what we did today, it never goes your way.”

mitchell franz | staff photographer ROSS KRAUTMAN (37) has his extra point attempt blocked by Rutgers’ Jamal Merrell in the third quarter Saturday. Krautman was 1-of-3 on field goal attempts in the loss.

Doug Marrone expected to see Olando Fisher on the field Saturday. Fisher, SU’s nickel back and second-string strong safety, hasn’t played since the Orange’s season opener Sept. 1, when he suffered a lower body injury against Wake Forest.

One month later, he was surprisingly not ready to go. “We thought Olando Fisher would have been able to come back, and that would’ve helped us in a big way because he would’ve been able to start the game at safety and maybe play some nickel,” Marrone said. “Then we thought that we would’ve been able to get him back to just playing nickel for us, and he wasn’t able to do that.” SU could have used Fisher and the handful of other SU players who were unable to return this week. Defensive end Chandler Jones missed his fourth straight game and strong safety Shamarko Thomas missed his second. Backup running back Prince-Tyson Gulley was unable to play as well. Gulley had a breakout game last week with 66 yards on 10 carries, but he suffered a collar-

bone injury and was unable to go. The player moving into Gulley’s spot as the second running back is sophomore Jerome Smith. His first game as the change-of-pace back was uneventful — three carries for 6 yards. But he did take part in a crucial third down in overtime on his third carry. Facing third-and-1 from the Rutgers 2-yard line, Smith was stopped by RU safety Duron Harmon for a half-yard gain. Smith did get a first down on a third-and-1 earlier in Saturday’s game, though, so Marrone was pleased overall with his effort. “Once a kid is in the lineup and how the game progresses determine when you have to put him in there,” Marrone said. “I thought he ran hard, I thought he had a real nice first down.”

But that was absolutely not the case on Saturday. The stellar RU front was kept in check by the Orange offensive line, only managing three tackles for loss throughout the course of the game. And two of those were sacks of Nassib. The only time an SU running back was stopped behind the line of scrimmage was when Rutgers cornerback Logan Ryan met Antwon Bailey in the backfield for a loss of 1 yard on a first-and-10 play with 14 seconds left in the third quarter. In other words, Syracuse hadn’t been stopped before like Marrone said — at least not in this game. The Orange faced exactly two third-and-1 situations prior to overtime against the Scarlet Knights on Saturday. The first such situation came in the second quarter, and Syracuse opted to throw. Nassib’s pass intended for Bailey out of the backfield was too far in front of him and fell incomplete. The second short-yardage situation came with less than 10 minutes remaining in the

game. This time, SU opted to run. Jerome Smith got the carry and ran up the middle, bouncing off tacklers to get the first down. Marrone even applauded that run by Smith. “He hit the pile, and got bounced a little bit, and then he found a crease and ended up gaining extra yards,” Marrone said. “I thought it was a great effort trying to get the first down.” In overtime, Smith gained a half-yard on third-and-1 to set up the crucial fourth-down play. And for some reason, on the game’s most important short-yardage situation, Marrone decided against handing the ball to Smith or Bailey — even though the team needed less than 1 yard for a first down and only 2 yards for a touchdown. It’s puzzling, and I don’t understand it because Rutgers had shown no ability to stop the run. Of Syracuse’s five games this season, Saturday marked the highest yards-per-carry average by SU running backs. Bailey and Smith combined to average 5 yards per carry against the Scarlet Knights, more than any

other game in 2011. “We knew we were going to be able to run the ball, and that’s what we showed coming out of the second half,” offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said. “They were going to try and stop Ryan in the pass game. We came out running and did a really good job.” Had Syracuse gone for it, it’s unclear how the rest of the game would have played out. But it was shocking for me to see Marrone — a former offensive lineman who loves to overpower opponents with his stellar offensive line — decide to go the other way and kick the field goal. To the observer, it displayed a lack of faith in his offensive line. And for a team supposedly built on running the ball first, running the ball second and throwing the ball third — that’s not the message you want to send.

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THEY SAID IT “You can’t expect to win a game when you have ﬁve turnovers. Leaving all those points on the board is unacceptable.”

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This one is certainly disappointing. Syracuse had plenty of chanes to knock off Rutgers and begin Big East play 1-0, but five costly turnovers handed the game to the Scarlet Knights. After this deflating loss, SU must rebound quickly before Saturday’s game at Tulane.

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Orange defense shuts down opponents in weekend sweep Stephen Bailey Asst. Copy Editor

The usually loud and demonstrative Ange Bradley remained calm on the Syracuse sidelines Friday. The SU head coach didn’t need to give her players much instruction against syracuse 8 Providence. They were that dominant. providence 0 justThe Orange held Providence without a syracuse 2 shot and prevented the massachusetts 0 Friars from gaining possession in the shooting circle for the entire 70-minute game. “To give up zero shots, it’s like throwing a no-hitter in baseball,” Bradley said after Sunday’s game. “It’s pretty much unheard of in field hockey.” The Orange defense led SU (9-2, 3-0 Big East) to an 8-0 victory over Providence (2-8, 0-2) Friday in front of 341 at the J.S. Coyne Stadium. The team continued its outstanding play at home Sunday to beat Massachusetts (2-8, 0-0 Atlantic 10) 2-0 in front of 278. The Orange prevented the opposition from shooting for the first three halves of the weekend and finished Sunday’s game having allowed just two shots and two penalty corners in a span of 140 minutes. The strong defensive effort over the weekend was anchored by Amy Kee and Nicole Nelson,

“From a defensive perspective, I was really pleased with that because we’ve been working all week on being more aggressive, stepping up, getting better organization at the back.” Amy Kee

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who played nearly all of both games. Kee is SU’s vocal leader. She played into the 68th minute of Friday’s victory and until the final whistle Sunday, barking out directions throughout both games and keeping the defense in proper alignment. Under her instruction, the Orange was ready to stop the opposing offenses by dismantling threats before they could develop. Kee credited the defensive success against Providence to the team’s hard work in practice last week. “From a defensive perspective, I was really pleased with that because we’ve been working all week on being more aggressive, stepping up, getting better organization at the back,” Kee said on Friday. Kee often rotates between back and midfield throughout games with Liz McInerney. Their versatility allows the Orange to adjust its formation immediately when there is a change of possession, which helps SU in stopping opposing offenses. Nelson also made her presence felt playing alongside Kee on defense. She is also involved in the rotation. “We try to get, instead of having four backs, five into the mid,” Nelson said. “So I kind of do become a mid at a lot of points during the game, but when we’re on defense I’m back at defense.” This weekend, Nelson primarily played in a defensive role and made some key plays. In one play against UMass in the first half, a Minutewomen ball handler sped toward

keegan barber | contributing photographer Nicole nelson (4) controls the ball during Syracuse’s 2-0 win over Massachusetts on Sunday. Nelson and the Orange held UMass to just two shots in the shutout victory. the SU goal as a teammate cut in from the left side behind the defense. Nelson stepped up to challenge the attack near the 25-yard line and blocked her attempted pass with her stick to end the UMass threat. A few minutes later, she stopped a potential counterattack when she took the ball away from a Massachusetts forward. “She does really well stepping up more aggressively into the pocket, intercepting balls,” Kee said of Nelson after Sunday’s game. “She’s very good at reading the play and knowing where the ball is going to come next.” And while SU’s backs played well in the two shutouts, Bradley was equally impressed by the play of her forwards and midfielders. By reshaping the team’s formation, Syracuse was able to “get behind the ball” on all levels of the field and limit the opposition’s opportunities. It seemed every time the Friars would gain possession, a swarm of Syracuse players was waiting to take it right back. And when SU had the ball, it waited patiently for its plays to develop while eating up time by the minute. Though many of those chances did not result in goals, the Orange’s offensive possessions limited the time the opposition had to score, Bradley said. “We kept possession,” Bradley said. “When you have the ball, you’re on attack. And when you don’t have the ball, you’re on defense. “ The best Syracuse could hope for is allow-

ing two shots in a span of 140 minutes. However, Kee said the Orange always has areas in which it can improve. SU could be setting up its formation quicker, and it can’t expect other teams to attack as directly as Providence and UMass, Kee said. Bradley also felt the Orange had room for improvement. Faster competition than the inferior Providence squad may have created problems, and her team will need to improve upon its flaws to achieve its postseason goals, she said. Not every team will be the Friars or the Minutewomen as SU chases its postseason goals. “I always have to remember when we want to be a Big East champion and a national champion, so we’ve got to play speed that’s similar to ours,” Bradley said. sebail01@syr.edu

Pretty stingy Syracuse relied on its defense to stifle opponents in two wins this weekend. The Orange outscored its opponents by a combined score of 10-0 in victories over Providence and Massachusetts. Here’s a look at how dominant the SU defense was in the two games: Team

Goals Shots Penalty corners

Syracuse 10 54 26 Providence 0 0 0 Massachusetts 0 2 2

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Syracuse suffers crushing defeat in double overtime at Pitt By Chris Iseman Staff Writer

Ian McIntyre had a painful 6.5 hour bus ride to think about a game Syracuse let slip away. The SU head coach said he still felt the final result didn’t reflect the way his team played. “This is a tough pittsburgh 2 loss,” McIntyre said. syracuse 1 (2ot) “I’m proud of the effort our guys put forth. I feel that we let this one slip away. But we did enough to get something out of this game.” Syracuse (2-7, 0-2 Big East) fell 2-1 in double overtime on Saturday night, dropping its fifth consecutive game and second Big East game this season. The Orange had another strong defensive performance, holding the Panthers (3-6-1, 1-1) scoreless for the entire first half. SU’s offense, though, struggled to find the back of the net against Pittsburgh goalkeeper Lee Johnston.

Syracuse created plenty of scoring chances, taking 12 shots in regulation. The frustration came from being unable to sneak any of those shots past Johnson, who finished with a total of six saves in the game. After a sloppy, unaggressive offensive performance against Binghamton last Tuesday, SU took five shots in the first half, with three on goal. The Orange broke through quickly in the second half when junior forward Louis Clark scored Syracuse’s lone goal in the 47th minute of the game. But that was the only blunder Johnson would make in more than 104 minutes of play. Five minutes after Clark scored, Pittsburgh freshman Chu Chu Onyeukwu won a battle on a breakaway with SU goalkeeper Phil Boerger to tie the game at 1-1. Neither team scored again in regulation, forcing the game into overtime. McIntyre said

his team failed to take advantage of some of the scoring opportunities it created. “We had some chances when it was 1-1 to go on and win the game,” McIntyre said. “But unfortunately we fell a little bit short.” Both teams took two shots in the first overtime, but none of them translated to goals. About midway through the second overtime, Ryan Brode, brother of SU junior Mark Brode, put a header past Boerger to win the game. As hard as Syracuse fought for both halves and almost two full overtimes, it still left with a sour taste in its mouth after failing to push harder for another goal. McIntyre said overall, he was happy with the way his defense played, but the two goals the Panthers scored could’ve been avoided. “I think at the end of the day, we gave away two soft goals,” McIntyre said. “But

we did enough. We created enough chances. … I feel that with the body of work that the guys put in, they deserve something out of the game.” Syracuse took a total of 14 shots in the game, with four taken by senior Nick Roydhouse. But the midfielder’s chances proved to be futile on a frustrating night for the SU offense. “Obviously, we’re disappointed not coming away with any points tonight,” McIntyre said. “We still have a long way to go as a team. But we’re going to learn from tonight, and it was certainly an education for us all.” Despite the effort he saw from his players, McIntyre’s ride back to Syracuse wasn’t made any easier. All he had to think about was one that got away. Said McIntyre: “As we’re finding out this season, it’s a cruel sport.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Orange wins pair of Big East games to extend conference winning streak The Syracuse women’s soccer team accomplished something this weekend that it hasn’t done since 2001. For the first time in 10 years, Syracuse had a three-game winning streak against Big East opponents. And it’s the team’s highest win total in conference play since 2001. The Orange (5-4-3, 4-2 Big East) topped both Seton Hall and Rutgers, pushing its Big East record to 4-2. Against the Pirates on Friday, SU scored a season high in goals with a 4-1 victory. Casey Ramirez netted SU’s first goal in the 27th minute after collecting a pass from Brittany Kinmond from 18 yards out. The Orange knocked in another goal six minutes later when Cecilia Borgstrom scored her second goal of the season. In the second half, SU kept applying the offensive pressure, with Megan Hunsberger scoring in the 69th minute. It was the freshman’s second goal in as many games. Tina Romagnuolo put the finishing touches on the game with her goal in the 78th minute. With the score, Romagnuolo now moves into a three-way tie for fifth on the all-time scoring list in program history. SU goalkeeper Brittany Anghel finished with four saves, allowing just one goal in the 79th minute. While Friday’s match was never really close, Sunday’s game was the complete opposite. It was a nail biter to the end, with SU coming away with a 2-1 double-overtime victory. In the second overtime period, Romagnuolo sent the ball into the box for Borgstrom. From there, Borgstrom moved past her defender and hit the ball across RU’s goalkeeper. Junior Jasmine Watkins was able to finish off the play with

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the game-winner. It was Watkins’ first career goal.

Ice hockey The Syracuse women’s ice hockey team split two games over the weekend at the East/West Showcase in Minneapolis, Minn. The Orange came away with a narrow 2-1 victory Friday night against St. Cloud State, but was shut out one day later by Minnesota in a 4-0 blowout. Things got off to a fast start for SU in its opening contest of the year against the Huskies when the Orange offense scored twice in the first period. SU sophomore Sadie St. Germain netted the first goal of the season with 3:03 to go in the opening period to give Syracuse the early edge. Kaillie Goodnough took a shot that was blocked by St. Cloud goalkeeper Taylor VanDenakker, but St. Germain was in the right place at the right time to knock in the rebound. Less than two minutes after SU’s first goal, it scored again when Lisa Mullan slid the puck just past the goal line. Originally, the score was waved off. But upon further review the call was reversed for what would be the eventual game-winner. SU goalkeeper Jenesica Drinkwater earned her seventh career win. The sophomore had 32 saves. The only goal she surrendered was in the middle of the second period to Huskies forward Haylea Schmid. The day after Syracuse narrowly escaped with a win, it was beaten soundly by the No. 4 Gophers. Minnesota dominated on the offensive end all night long, outshooting the Orange 50-10. SU goalkeeper Kallie Billadeau allowed

three first-period goals and one more in the second period. The four goals were scored by four different players for Minnesota. Despite letting in four goals, Billadeau had an impressive 46 saves in the loss.

Volleyball After dropping its Big East opener, Syracuse took its first step in righting the ship in Big East play with a pair of three-set sweeps against St. John’s and Connecticut. Lindsay McCabe and Sam Hinz fueled the Orange (11-6, 2-1 Big East) in the first set against the Red Storm (9-12, 0-4), contributing back-toback kills to give SU a 12-10 lead that it would never relinquish en route to a 25-20 victory. In the second set, Syracuse found itself behind 17-14 before a 7-1 run led the Orange to a 25-22 victory and a commanding two-set lead. The third set was again close throughout, but with the score tied at 15, SU pulled away for a 25-22 victory and its first Big East victory of the season. Syracuse had a quick turnaround as it continued its road trip in Storrs, Conn., against the Huskies (8-9, 0-4) the next day. A 12-2 run let SU storm back and eventually win the first set 27-25. The next set was a polar opposite for Syracuse. The Orange led by as much as eight in the set as five of Andrea Fisher’s 10 kills helped SU cruise to a 25-18 victory. But the third set was another battle. Syracuse again found itself down, but with the Orange trailing 20-18, SU again fought back for a 26-24 victory to push Syracuse to another conference win. Laura Homann also became the sixth player in Orange history to tally 3,000 career assists.

SU returns home Wednesday for a nonconference matchup against in-state rival Colgate before getting back to the Big East schedule Friday against Villanova.

Cross country The Orange harriers kicked off the more competitive part of their 2011 schedule this weekend at the Paul Short Invitational, racing against some of the top teams in the Big East and the nation. The Orange, which was ranked No. 12 on the women’s side and No. 15 on the men’s side, held its own against top schools like Georgetown, Providence, Oklahoma and Villanova. The women’s team placed third overall and the men’s team finished in fifth place. Going into the race, head coach Chris Fox had a goal of placing in the top three on both the men’s and women’s sides. Pat Dupont led the men’s team, finishing in 11th place with a time of 24:27. Crossing the finish line in 35th place was Tito Medrano with a time of 25:00 and freshman Andrew Palmer (25:02) was right behind in 38th place. The third-place finish for the women’s team was led by senior Lauren Penney (20:32) with a fifth-place finish. Junior Sarah Pagano was just six seconds behind Penney, with a time of 20:38. Senior Natalie Busby (21:09) finished in 24th place with teammates Rebekah MacKay (21:23) and Heather Stephens (21:25) close behind, claiming the 44th and 45th spots, respectively. The Orange will travel to Madison, Wis., to compete in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational on Friday, Oct. 14, and Terre Haute, Ind., for PreNationals on Sunday, Oct. 16. —Compiled by The Daily Orange Sports staff

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SPORTS

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the daily orange

16 SYR ACUSE VS. RUTGERS 19 (2OT)

SLIPPING AWAY

mitchell franz | staff photographer ANTWON BAILEY (CENTER) carries the ball in Saturday’s 19-16 double-overtime loss to Rutgers. The Orange had five costly turnovers, two of which were fumbles by Bailey.

Five SU turnovers prove costly in double-overtime loss to Rutgers By Mark Cooper ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

ntwon Bailey’s final carry was practically the same as his first. He took a handoff going right, shifted left and turned upfield. The one action the Syracuse running back didn’t plan for on either carry, though, was the fumble. His last carry in overtime resulted in the final blunder for SU in a game that was full of them. Rutgers linebacker Edmond Laryea forced the ball from Bailey before he hit the turf, and Logan Ryan emerged from the ensuing scramble with the loose ball. The play was reviewed, but officials confirmed the original call, and the game was over. “I thought I was down, but at the end of the day, I need to hang on to the ball,” Bailey said. “That’s all on me.” The performance of Syracuse’s (3-2, 0-1 Big East) offense was bookended by Bailey’s lost fumbles, with

multiple interceptions and various miscalculations in between. Quarterback Ryan Nassib threw three momentum-killing interceptions, and Bailey lost the two fumbles. The sloppy play ultimately cost SU the game in a 19-16 double-overtime loss to the Scarlet Knights (3-1, 1-0 Big East) in front of 42,152 in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Bailey’s fi nal fumble ended the game, after San San Te nailed a 47-yard field goal to begin the second overtime and give Rutgers the lead. “It’s the No. 1 way to not win a football game,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said of the turnovers. The Orange survived two overtime games against Wake Forest and Toledo, but in its third overtime game of the season, the team couldn’t overcome its poor offensive performance. Marrone said the Orange talked this week about how good the Scarlet SEE OFFENSE PAGE 14

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Rutgers defense

It was the worst performance of the year for SU’s offense, and much of the credit should go to the Scarlet Knights. Syracuse couldn’t get anything going through the air, and the fi ve turnovers — one more than the Orange defense caused — were ultimately the difference.

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Ryan Nassib

Nassib looked nothing like the quarterback SU fans saw through the first four weeks of the season. The accuracy that was his strongest asset to start the season disappeared against Rutgers. He went just 15-of-32 for 169 yards and threw three picks.

Marrone’s decision to kick in overtime remains puzzling

h, to play the role of Monday morning quarterback. The time when we look and think back to the weekend’s game and second guess every wrong decision. If only I had … It’s clear I should have … I wish I could have … It’s perhaps the easiest position in football. So from the comfort of my apartment I look back at Syracuse’s 19-16 double-overtime loss, and one play continues to irk me. Faced with a fourth-and-1 at the Rutgers 2-yard line in the first overtime, SU head coach Doug Marrone opted to kick the field goal instead of going for it. It was the wrong decision. “There, I just wanted to make sure I got the points knowing that they’re (Rutgers) going to take the field and a lot of things could happen,” Marrone said. “They could fumble the snap. They could fumble the football, which we ended up

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not a dime back doing in overtime. So I wanted to make sure I took the points and moved on and got to the next overtime period.” Well, let’s think about that for a second. Couldn’t SU long snapper Eric Morris have a poor snap on a field goal attempt just as easily as Rutgers could fumble on its own possession? Couldn’t holder Charley Loeb fumble the snap as he tries to set it down for kicker Ross Krautman? What guarantees the success of a field goal but makes running a SEE COHEN PAGE 15