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for the proposal for the controversial NYC mosque will speak at SU. Page 3

enter the fashion world with caution. Page 5

benefits of reading to local elementary schools with Children’s Book Week. Page 11

week’s win over Florida Atlantic. On Saturday, the Bulls’ defensive line will provide the biggest test thus far for a young Syracuse offensive line. Page 24

Sorkin’s Mark Screenwriter, SU alumnus Aaron Sorkin ﬁlls ‘The Social Network’ with personal experiences

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hen asked in several interviews last week if he wants Mark Zuckerberg to see “The Social Network,” screenwriter

Aaron Sorkin said he’d never want a movie made about himself at 19. Why not? “Are you serious?” the Syracuse University alumnus answered in an e-mail from Berlin, where he was promoting the fi lm. “Is M-Street still there? Are there still women attending the school? Did 19-year-old guys stop being morons? And did the drama department students suddenly become cool?” But Sorkin’s script is, in essence, about his own college experience and his road to fame. Among other things, it’s a story of the human need to feel accepted and significant, and the inevitable setbacks that arise. “It seems pretty clear that he has exaggerated a lot of qualities about himself — he actually is writing about himself as a young man,” said Geri SEE SORKIN PAGE 13

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Sima Taslakian was all signed up. She and one of her best friends enrolled in a brand new housing option offered at Syracuse University — gender-neutral housing, where dorm rooms are coed. “It was a natural fit,” she said. But over the summer, Taslakian, a sophomore information management and technology major, and her friend decided to cancel the nontraditional arrangement. And they weren’t the only pair of students who decided to opt out of gender-neutral housing. When the housing reservation process ended in April, 82 students had signed up for gender-neutral housing, said Terra Peckskamp, director of the Office of Residence Life. At the beginning of the fall semester, the number had dropped from 82 students to 68 students, or 34 pairs. That number continued to drop into the school year as two pairs of students who experienced problems were moved, bringing the number down to 64 students currently participating in the option, Peckskamp said. Gender-neutral housing is an option increasingly more U.S. colleges are offering. About 50 schools include the option, according to an article

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Police to target texting while driving during second part of pilot program By Darian Herrington CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In an effort to discourage texting while driving, police will be cracking down on motorists in Syracuse for the next two weeks. The Syracuse Police Department, Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, New York State Police and Syracuse University Department of Public Safety will be watching motorists from Thursday until Oct. 16. Handheld cell phone use and texting while driving is banned for all drivers in

New York state. The pilot project, “Phone In One Hand, Ticket in Another,” is federally funded. Its mission is to raise awareness of the fact that using a cell phone while driving is dangerous, especially if the driver is texting, said Ken Baker from the state Department of Motor Vehicles. “One out of five crashes in New York state involves a distracted driver as a contributing factor to a crash,” Baker said. “We see that nationwide about 5,500 people died in 2009 in

crashes involving a distracted driver and more than 440,000 were injured.” The upcoming crackdown is the second in the campaign; the first was from July 22 to July 31. During the July crackdown, joint area police forces issued 184 citations for using a cell phone while driving, six for texting specifically and 160 for other driving violations, according to a state police press release. Texting while driving delays a person’s reaction as much as having a blood alcohol content of .08 percent,

the equivalent to being drunk, Baker said. Syracuse is one of two cities in the nation involved in the pilot project. Syracuse and a Hartford, Conn., program will hopefully gain national recognition and become models on how to better educate the public on potentially dangerous driving behaviors, Baker said. “We want to use the pilot project in such a way that it will become a national standard, to be the equivalent of campaigns such as ‘Click it

or Ticket’ or ‘Over the Limit, Under Arrest,’” he said. Sgt. Gary Bulinski of SPD said the purpose of the Syracuse project is to look out for the safety of motorists and for the safety of the surrounding motorists and pedestrians. Police will be on the lookout for drivers and will be giving out tickets. Like many other driving violations, points will be put on their license. Texting while driving has a penalty of two points. SEE TEXTING PAGE 6

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TODAY’S EVENTS Cultures on the Quad

What: Enjoy Chinese music and food sponsored by the Chinese program in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics Where: HBC Breezeway When: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. How much: Free

Career fair

What: Representatives from more than 100 employers will discuss internship and job opportunities with students Where: Carrier Dome When: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. How much: Free

Speaker: Daisy Khan

What: Daisy Khan will speak about why the Cordoba House should be built at Park51 Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, Newhouse III When: 3:45 p.m. How much: Free

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Toxic sludge ﬂoods Hungarian towns

A reservoir at an alumina production plant burst its banks, which caused a flood of toxic red sludge on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. The flood spread across 16 square miles and swept cars off roads, and damaged bridges and houses. The toxic sludge burned through clothing. Residents had to evacuate Kolontar, Devecser and Somlovasarhely ,and 7,000 residents were affected, according to The New York Times. At least four people were killed, 120 were injured and five others went missing. The accident could have devastating environmental consequences, according to The New York Times. The flood has the potential to pollute the Danube River and damage ecosystems. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the government has created a special team of experts to analyze the accident, according to The New York Times.

New planet could nurture organisms

Astronomers found an Earthlike planet capable of harboring water on its surface last Wednesday, according to The New York Times. The planet, named Gliese 581g, is about three to four times the mass of Earth and has potential to harbor plant and animal life. The planet orbits a star 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Its temperatures vary between 10 and minus 24 degrees Fahrenheit. A National Academy of Science report states that finding planets outside of the solar system is one of the major goals of the decade, according to The New York Times. NASA’s Kepler satellite, which was launched in March 2009, is expected to find dozens or hundreds of planets. Six other planets orbit Gliese 581, the star the new planet orbits, which resembles our solar system. At this time, there are uncertainties about the density, composition and atmosphere of the planet, according to The New York Times.

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SU pushes registering for voting By George Clarke Staff Writer

Following a low voter turnout for the primary elections, Syracuse University is exercising a new right to encourage students to register for November’s midterm elections. The deadline to register to vote is Friday. Previously, the Office of Residence Life placed registration forms directly in student mailboxes, and it will continue to do so this year. But the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 is allowing SU to send e-mail reminders for the first time. Though the act is mainly known for aiming to lower college costs, it also includes an amendment that allows universities to provide information on voter registration. Since the act came into effect, colleges and universities across the nation are sending e-mails to encourage students to vote, in part because of coaxing by higher education groups, said Diana Napolitano, government relations associate at the SU Office of Government and Community Relations. “Students are adults,” she said.

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Wife of Park51 Imam to explain value of mosque By Hilary Levin Contributing Writer

The debate about the construction of a Muslim cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero is coming to Syracuse University. Daisy Khan, the executive director of the American Society What: Why We of Muslim Should Build AdvanceCordoba House at ment, will Park51 address an Where: Joyce audience Hergenhan Auditorium in at 3:45 p.m. Newhouse III We d ne s d ay When: Today, 3:45 at the Joyce p.m. Hergenhan How much: Free Aud itor iu m in Newhouse III. Khan is the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the driving force behind the controversial cultural center and mosque. Khan’s talk, “Why We Should

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brandon weight | staff writer joe giliberto, a sophomore civil engineering major, speaks with Terry Hopkins and Mary Kay Montville of C&S Companies, an engineering firm, at a career fair Tuesday in Link Hall. The event was part of Career Week, which holds Wednesday’s fair in the Carrier Dome.

Career fair attracts more than 100 employers to campus By Amanda Quick Contributing Writer

Students looking for a job or internship will have the opportunity to browse businesses during the annual career fair held Wednesday in the Carrier Dome. The event is scheduled to Where: Carrier take place from Dome 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. When: Today, 1 to and will offer 5 p.m. students the How much: Free opportunity to network with companies and discuss

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career opportunities. “We look for people who are energetic and those who can focus their energy on getting their work done,” said Lawrence Levy, a representative for General Electric. “We look for people who present themselves well. A firm handshake, that’s impressive.” Sponsors GE, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Macy’s, Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers are typically the most popular booths. But students can also connect with employers from more than 100 other companies that will be looking to fill jobs in a variety of

industries, such as retail, technical, nonprofit, government, consulting, design, hospitality, public relations, advertising and biotechnology. Michael Cahill, director of the SU Center for Career Services, said companies are also looking for students who communicate effectively and have an impeccable work ethic, along with excellent problem solving and analytical skills. To help students prepare for the career fair, the center also offers “How to Succeed at the Career Fair” workshops.

“They are really good preparation on how to take advantage of the situation, such as managing time at the career fair and how to increase effectiveness and efficiency at the career fair,” Cahill said. Although it is unlikely freshmen will receive an internship this year, Cahill encouraged underclassmen to attend. Lesley Antwi, a junior accounting major, attended the career fair as a freshman and said it was good preparation. see career fair page 7

First 5k event to raise awareness for Nicaraguan aid organization By Diana Pearl Contributing Writer

Since high school, Haley Erickson has worked with a nonprofit organization trying to improve the living situation of families in Nicaragua. Now she’s bringing the aid opportunity to Syracuse through the first annual Path Out of Poverty 5k walk and run. The benefits from the event, which Erickson organized, will go toward the nonprofit organization, Project Chacocente.

Sy racu se University will host the What: 5K walk event Saturand run day from 1 Where: Carnegie p.m. to 3 p.m. Library Participants When: Saturday, 1 will start to 3 p.m at Carnegie How much: $20 Library and travel throughout Main Campus. When Erickson, a sophomore public relations major, was approached

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this summer by a Chacocente board member to organize a walk and run, she agreed in order to help build awareness in the Syracuse area. The run is supposed to symbolize the journey the families take in starting their new lives — their own path out of poverty. Chacocente is currently sponsoring four runs in the United States. Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with more than 80 percent of the pop-

ulation living in poverty, according to Chacocente’s website. Chacocente is trying to move families out of the Managua dump, home to about 175 families living in shacks and scavenging among the garbage. After moving families out of the dump, Chacocente helps them establish a new life in Masaya, get jobs and lease their own land. Erickson said Chacocente will help set up new areas for Nicarasee 5k page 4

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guans and help them settle in. She said their current poor conditions have prevented them from being able to perform everyday tasks, but Chacocente’s involvement teaches individuals how to cook meals and brings in a library and school. Chacocente also works to get jobs for family members. After a certain point, they also help to get them a lease on a property of land. “The goal is to set them up to be self-sufficient.” Erickson said. In order to get the event on campus, Erickson worked with Students Taking Action Now in

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Darfur, a co-host of the event. Dan Cowen, vice president of STAND at SU, said the group has helped in planning many of the logistics of the event. “We were excited to do everything we could to support a grassroots organization that helps a population in dire need of positive social change in Nicaragua,” Cowen said. Syracuse’s chapter of STAND is passionate about taking action and looking for a solution, Cowen said. He said he thought the 5k was the perfect event to help kick off the group’s new initiative. Planning the event took many people performing many different tasks, Erickson said. As of Oct.1, there were 30 runners registered. Around 30 to 60 total runners are expected,

“We were excited to do everything we could to support a grassroots organization that helps a population in dire need of positive social change in Nicaragua.” Dan Cowen

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Erickson said. The run begins at Carnegie and loops down South Crouse Avenue, Marshall Street, Comstock Avenue, around the Carrier Dome and back to Carnegie. There will also be music entertainment, water and snacks for participants. Erickson said she hopes Path Out of Poverty will bring awareness about Chacocente to Syra-

cuse campus and spur the creation of future events at SU for Chacocente. She expressed interest in planning a trip or starting a formal club for Chacocente on campus. “There are many possibilities for the future of Chacocente at SU.” Erickson said. “We’re hoping that it becomes something that people are aware of.” dspearl@syr.edu

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Proposition 19 next logical step for California

n November, California residents will have the opportunity to vote on Proposition 19, the legalization of recreational marijuana use. It’s surprising that such an initiative is on the ballot and even more surprising that it has a legitimate chance of passing. In 14 states across the country, medical marijuana has already been legalized, and Proposition 19 seems to be the next logical step in the complete decriminalization of marijuana. With the opportunity to raise hundreds of millions in additional tax revenue and clean out America’s overloaded jail system, the legalization of marijuana is logical, both financially and socially. California is burdened with debt, and the taxation on marijuana, if the proposition passes, will give the state an opportunity to raise an estimated $1.4 billion a year in additional revenue. The decision to legalize simply makes sense. The new law will allow California residents over 21 to purchase and possess up to an ounce of marijuana, use the marijuana in private residences or licensed public establishments, and grow marijuana for personal use in an area up to 25 square feet. Legally, marijuana will be treated much like alcohol is now. In a blog posted on the latimes.com, Stephen Downing, a retired Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief of police and a proponent of Proposition 19 said,

rhetoric meets reality “By keeping marijuana illegal, we aren’t preventing anyone from using it. The only results are billions of tax-free dollars being funneled into the pockets of bloodthirsty drug cartels and gangs who control the illegal market.” Ironically enough, the legalization of marijuana has the possibility of actually reducing the amount of people who use drugs in America. According to a CBS news report, America leads the world in marijuana use. In America, just over 40 percent of people have used marijuana, but in the Netherlands, a country with much more liberal drug policies, only 19.8 percent of people have used it. Opponents of Proposition 19 maintain that marijuana is a mind-altering drug that impairs the development of the brain and can lead to more dangerous drug use. They also say legalization will only lead to increased marijuana use among minors. In an article for the calforniachronicle. com, Former Sutter County Deputy Sheriff Nate Bradley countered this argument and

said dealers “don’t check IDs, they don’t care if they’re selling to a 12-year-old or if they’re selling to a 30-year-old.” But if marijuana trade is controlled by the state, it will be much easier for law enforcement to monitor the sales of marijuana and to make sure all transactions go to people over the legal age. Regardless of what happens in November, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already signed a controversial piece of legislation that reduces a marijuana possession arrest of up to an ounce from a misdemeanor to an infraction. Residents arrested will now be punished with nothing more than a $100 fine for possessing marijuana. Schwarzenegger said, “In this time of drastic budget cuts, prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement and the courts cannot afford to expend limited resources prosecuting a crime that carries the same punishment as a traffic ticket.” The legalization of medical marijuana in states across the country and the possibility of complete decriminalization in California have distanced marijuana from other more deadly narcotics. With increasing toleration for a drug many people feel is less harmful than alcohol, more liberal marijuana policies seem inevitable.

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Celebrity designers need more than fame to succeed in fashion industry

s I skimmed through fashion blogs looking for writing inspiration, I came across an article on Fashionista.com that caught my eye: “Sammi Sweetheart Wants to Get Into Fashion, Design Hair Extensions.” My initial reaction was fear, which quickly turned into frustration. It’s bad enough JWoww has her own clothing line, Filthy Couture, but now we have to deal with another fashion disaster. Celebrity-turned-designers, for the most part, do not work. Around 95 percent of the time, celebrities have nothing to do with the designing — they merely use fame to get their own lines and collaborations. My heart grows heavy every time a celebrity puts a dent in the fashion industry.

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Take Avril Lavigne’s fashion stint, for example. In 2008, Kohl’s decided to team up with Lavigne to create her line Abbey Dawn, and they even let her pretend she could actually design. All Kohl’s did was mass-produce Lavigne’s wardrobe and call it a clothing line. The only thing Abbey Dawn proved was that even a washed-up rock star like Lavigne could have a second chance at short-term fame. And let’s not forget Lindsay Lohan’s brief position as artistic adviser for fashion label Emanuel Ungaro. It created a huge stir during New York Fashion Week 2009, especially when she got fired shortly after. Under Lohan’s advising, Ungaro’s collection looked unfinished: It was poorly executed and looked immature for such a distinguished label.

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i’m judging you Women’s Wear Daily described the spring 2010 collection as “cheesy and dated. … The collection displayed none of the promised younger side Lohan was supposed to deliver.” Even though I am against celebrities becoming designers, there are a handful of them who have proved they are more than just actors and singers. Over the past few years, celebrities like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Victoria Beckham have managed to

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gain a huge presence in fashion. The Olsen twins’ upscale line, The Row, and contemporary line, Elizabeth and James, have proven time and time again that Mary-Kate and Ashley know what they’re doing when it comes to fashion. Designs for both lines tailor perfectly to their target audience, not to mention how stylish and trendsetting their collections are each season. The Olsen sisters were inducted into the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2009, which further acknowledged their success within the industry. Victoria Beckham’s eponymous line has also shown great potential during recent years. At first, no one took Beckham seriously. But under the mentorship of Roland Mouret, Beckham slowly transformed her

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design aesthetic into beautifully tailored collections. Five seasons later, she is standing stronger than ever. The fashion industry is all about survival of the fittest. It doesn’t matter how famous you are prior to your clothing launch. Everyone starts out in the same boat, hoping to pave his or her way into the eyes of editors, buyers and consumers. If you work hard and take the industry seriously, respect and acknowledgment will be given in return. Showing the slightest sign of weakness and uncertainty, however, will land you on fashion’s D-list, along with every other failed celebrity attempt out there. Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears every Wednesday, and she can be reached at vho@syr.edu.

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Build Cordoba House at Park51,” will discuss Islam in America and include a question and answer session. “She will be answering questions regarding the proposed community center and her experience during this time as a Muslim-American woman,” says Nancy Shihadeh, executive coordinator at the American Society for Muslim Advancement. The mosque project was originally called the Cordoba House and is funded by an organization called Cordoba Initiative. Imam Rauf has said the original name refers to eighth through 11th century Cordoba, Spain, which was populated by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The project is now named Park51, after its address on Park Place in New York City.

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“Usually you’ll see a distracted driver with their eyes looking down and the device in their hand, at which point police will then take action,” Bulinski said. In January 2010, the National Safety Council reported drivers using cell phones to talk or text were the cause of 28 percent of all traffic crashes. Texting causes a minimum of 3 percent of the total crashes. “If you’re taking your mind off the objective, which is getting from point A to point B safely,

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Besides her involvement with Park51, Khan heads two programs, Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow and Women’s Initiative for Spirituality and Equality. Both programs have goals of promoting peace and understanding through open dialogue across cultures. The proposals for Park51 include making it a space to facilitate interfaith dialogues, according the Park51 website. “Our goals are pluralism, service, arts and culture, health and healing. A group of downtown Muslim Americans envisioned a sanctuary where everyone is welcome to learn, experience the arts and culture, and explore their relationship to faith,” according to the website. Although the construction plan for the mosque and cultural center has been approved by city authorities and has support from Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Barack Obama, the plan has also been met with much disdain from others.

either by having a cell phone conversation or texting, it increases the risk of a crash and injury.” Bulinski said. Starlet Wheatley, a senior hospitality major, has a car on campus and said she would be more careful with her phone use over the next two weeks. She said she understands how an accident could happen if a driver is distracted. “I’ve never been in an accident from being on the phone, but it does take your attention away from accidents that can be avoided,” Wheatley said. “Every time I look down, I just hear my mom’s voice saying, ‘Stay a car distance away from the car in front of you.’” ddherrin@syr.edu

By the numbers • At least 28 percent of all traffic crashes, or 1.6 million per year, are cause by drivers using cell phones. • An estimated 1.4 million crashes each year are caused by cell phone usage. • At least 200,000 crashes each year are caused by texting. • Texting increases the chance of a crash by eight. • Between 43 and 57 percent of the public supports a total ban on cell phone while driving. source: nsc.org

“I invited her because I have seen panels and events where she has spoken. There seems to be intense public interest around the Muslim cultural center and the designing and promoting in lower Manhattan.” Gustav Niebuhr

director of SU’s Carnegie Religion and Media Program

“Some people do not agree with it. They feel that because an extremist group, Al Qaeda, destroyed the World Trade Center, Muslims should not be near ground zero,” said Gustav Niebuhr, director of SU’s Carnegie Religion and Media Program. The Carnegie Religion and Media Program is one of the sponsoring organizations of the event. Niebuhr first contacted Khan and asked her to come speak at SU. He said he thought it would be an opportu-

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“We can’t force them to register to vote.” Before the Higher Education Opportunity Act permitted e-mail reminders, SU impartially promoted registration at events, such as Constitution Day on Sept. 17, during which they distributed the forms with pocket versions of the Constitution, Napolitano said. In addition to the university’s effort, student groups like the New York Public Interest Research Group are continuing to encourage SU students to register. “We’ll be out there every day, registering every student we can,” said Alejandro Fernandez-Lovo, project coordinator for the local chapter of NYPIRG, a statewide nonpartisan political organization. NYPIRG is one of several student groups that talk to students about registering to vote and becoming politically active at home, Fernandez-Lovo said. The group encourages students to learn about local candidates and to make an educated decision between absentee voting and registering in Syracuse, he said.

nity to engage students in a timely topic, as well as broaden their horizons. But because of the implications and issues surrounding the cultural center, Niebuhr said, he also expects it to be a sensitive subject for some across campus. “I invited her because I have seen panels and events where she has spoken,” Niebuhr said. “There seems to be intense public interest around the Muslim cultural center and the designing and promoting in lower Manhattan.” hklevin@syr.edu

“We need students to come out and be at the polls,” he said. Fernandez-Lovo has participated in politics since the start of his college career in 2004. “It’s the first thing I did when I got here,” he said, referring to his voting registration in Syracuse. SU has sent out e-mails reminding students to register. Likewise, student groups are continuing to push students to register. E.S. Bird Library, which becomes a polling location on Election Day, only saw 17 voters on Primary Election Day in September, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Sept. 15. Amid voter apathy in Syracuse, Minda Conroe, president of SU College Democrats, and her group have manned a table in Schine Student Center for the last three weeks. The purpose is to place participation over partisanship, she said. “We like political participation, regardless of your party,” said Conroe, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Last year, the College Democrats and SU College Republicans staged a debate over their policy differences. There are some elements of rivalry, Conroe said, but the groups are too busy promoting participation to spend time sparring with each other. Many voters are registered in their home state, Conroe said, but are unsure of how to vote in Syracuse. In response, the College Democrats encourage voters to register locally, she said. Maya Johnson, a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences and a native of New York City, said she might not vote in the midterm elections because the long distance from home makes her decision difficult. “I don’t know enough about the candidates,” she said. “I think it’s wrong to vote if you don’t know who to vote for or what’s going on.” geclarke@syr.edu

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Engineering professor receives grant to increase Web browser safety By Heather Drost Staff Writer

A three-year $472,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will fund Syracuse University research on ways to improve Web browser security. Wenliang Du, associate professor at the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, will be working with a research team to reduce the number of security vulnerabilities Web browsers like Internet Explorer face. Under the current design, 80 percent of all Web browsers are susceptible to some form of attack, Du said. But with such a high percentage, there must be more to the problem than poor development. “The problem is when 80 percent of developers are making these mistakes and leaving their sites vulnerable for attack, there has to be something else that contributed to the mistake,” Du said.

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“The point of going was to practice — I made mistakes as a freshman, but now I feel more comfortable with employers. I can hold a conversation, and I am building a network,” Antwi said. To prepare for the next career fair, Antwi suggested students get their resumes checked at the Center for Career Services and purchase business attire. “You should look nice. If you don’t look the part, they won’t want you,” Antwi said. Some of the students attending the career

Current troubleshooting for Web security usually happens in reaction to a security breach, Du said. If a website is attacked, the Web programmer who developed the code is the first person blamed. Du and his research team found it is a problem that Web browsers determine who can access what content. The design was made 15 to 20 years ago and has not evolved with the Web, Du said. “The security model was good when websites only contained information from one destination,” Du said. “Web 2.0 has content from different places and different Web servers.” To solve this problem, Du and his team will be redesigning the security model to implement policies based on trust. This system would make it easier for Web developers to limit user access points through various levels of trustworthiness, Du said. As part of his research, Du said he is mak-

“The problem is when 80 percent of developers are making these mistakes, and leaving their sites vulnerable for attack there has to be something else that contributed to the mistake.” Wenliang Du

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ing contacts with Web browser industries like Google and Mozilla Firefox in hopes that they will adopt his findings. Carlos Caicedo, an associate professor at the School of Information Studies and director of the Center for Convergence and Emerging Technologies, said other approaches using a policy-based design have not yet succeeded. “It is a very interesting approach,” Caicedo

“The point of going was to practice – I made mistakes as a freshman, but now I feel more comfortable with employers. I can hold a conversation and I am building a network.” Lesley Antwi

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fair said they plan to bring their resumes and are prepared to market themselves and answer questions regarding their potential employer. “I am trying to visit 12. The quality of conversation matters over how many companies you visit,” said Tara Nelson, a senior advertising

major. In the past few years, a number of SU students have found a job or internship due to a connection made at the fair. “Last year, we had 10 to 20 interns from Syracuse. We’re not really looking to recruit

said. “But establishing policies based on trust is not an easy task.” Caicedo said he thinks Du’s approach is worth pursuing. “If he succeeds in what he is trying to do,” Caicedo said, “it could make the Web safer to use by correcting a lot of the vulnerabilities that exist in it today.” hadrost@syr.edu

full time, but we did recruit interns over the summer, and three were from Syracuse,” said Levy, the GE representative. The career center will have another event in the spring. Cahill said the center works year round to promote SU students to employers and invites prominent companies to upcoming events. “Putting on events is just a small portion of how we help — a quarter of students obtain positions from those who come to campus,” Cahill said. “People are available to help students pursue and obtain employment.”

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published in the Los Angeles Times on March 15. SU now stands among those 50 colleges, as a pilot program is underway for the fall semester that will help university housing officials gauge whether the program will continue and how it will change to better suit residents. Although only four students have expressed complaints so far, there is potential for more problems down the road, Peckskamp said. Thirty-three of the 34 pairs are living in South Campus apartments, which makes it difficult to keep track of problems because there are no resident advisers, Peckskamp said. “Generally speaking, by the time a conflict for any of the apartments gets to the staff’s attention, the students have had it; they’re ready to go,” she said. ORL offers opportunities for students having problems to meet with staff and mediate conflicts, Peckskamp said. “And then if it’s absolutely unlivable, then we work with them on what the next steps are,” she said. The two pairs that asked to be moved experienced “regular kinds of roommate problems” that ORL has seen before, Peckskamp said. “They were not things that were unexpected or that we don’t have with non-gender-neutral housing roommate pairs,” Peckskamp said, but she wouldn’t elaborate on the problems. Although only one of the 34 pairs is living in a two-person suite on North Campus, suites in Watson Hall, Booth Hall, DellPlain Hall, Washington Arms and Haven Hall are available for gender-neutral housing, in addition to the two-person apartments on South Campus.

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As the option was developing, she said there was little opposition, with the exception of concerns voiced by students and the board of trustees about romantic couples living together and breaking up. “I don’t know, specifically, if we’ll see things directly connected to the gender-neutral aspect of things,” she said. “We certainly could. We do know that there are romantic couples that have selected that option, so certainly there is the potential there. But that’s also something that we have anyway because there are same-sex couples that choose to live together as well.” Same-sex coupwles could live together before this option was implemented at SU, so ORL knows how to handle breakups, Peckskamp said.

transgender students. Around this time at SU, talk of the gender-neutral housing option first surfaced as officials in the housing office saw a general increase in students asking for the option, Peckskamp said. Soon after, meetings began to lay the groundwork for the pilot program that is currently underway. “We landed on a process that would meld well with the current housing reservation process,” she said. “We didn’t want to give preferential treatment, either to those students who were interested in gender-neutral housing, or give them less of a status or priority if they were interested in it.” Since gender-neutral housing is part of the regular housing reservation process, Peck-

“Generally speaking, by the time a conflict for any of the apartments gets to the staff’s attention, the students have had it; they’re ready to go.” Terra Peckskamp

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“We’ve had breakups and dealt with people who weren’t breaking up but were having romantic drama,” she said. Student Association President Jon Barnhart said he also anticipates basic problems, such as other residents feeling uncomfortable living next to gender-neutral roommates. Although romantic couples at SU are utilizing the option, Peckskamp said national statistics indicate the majority of students using gender-neutral housing are good friends. Gender-neutral housing made its first appearance on college campuses in fall 2004 in response to growing activism supporting

skamp said there is no application process and students are assigned a lottery number. The housing office will need to know by December whether gender-neutral housing will be offered again and if changes will be made to the option, Peckskamp said. “It’s still too early to make the call, but I haven’t seen anything that would — at this point — make me say we’re not going to offer it,” she said. Possible changes to the program will be discussed in the coming months. Some of the questions that were still on the table from last year’s implementation of the pilot program included

what room types could additionally be eligible for the option and if first-year students should be allowed to participate, Peckskamp said. The housing office and ORL want freshmen to get accustomed to SU before participating in gender-neutral housing, but the option may expand to include them in the future, she said. The proposed additional room types could include gender-neutral open and split-double dorm rooms, although the rooms don’t offer the separate bedrooms like the two-person suites or two-person apartments do, Peckskamp said. Some gender-neutral single-user bathrooms are already present on campus, and more are being added as residence halls are renovated, Peckskamp said. Yet Peckskamp said she doesn’t think SU will ever be as liberal concerning the option as some institutions. “I don’t think we’ll ever go, ‘Everything’s open,’ because I think we would then hear that people are not comfortable with us having just random assignments where you can be randomly assigned a roommate of the opposite gender,” Peckskamp said. Even though the option may never encompass the majority of the student body, it was still necessary, as it is a way to be more inclusive for housing with LGBT students, she said. But Peckskamp said she expects more students to sign up for gender-neutral housing next year if the option is offered. “I don’t think it will ever be 50 percent of students living in gender-neutral housing,” she said. “But I do imagine that will increase as more people are aware of it, as well as it becomes something that more families are comfortable with for their students.” jdharr04@syr.edu

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he University of Puerto Rico is seeking new administrators. Qualifications include questionable morals and hidden political agendas. This was the message that appeared on fake ads that popped up around New York City and Puerto Rico in September and were placed anonymously. The ads called for replacements for University President José Ramon de la Torre and Board of Trustees President Ygrí Rivera de Martínez. The first ad appeared Sept. 8 on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the second was found the next day near the main campus of UPR-Río Piedras, said Christopher Powers, an associate professor of comparative literature at the UPRMayagüez campus. The ads follow student strikes that shut down some of UPR’s 11 campuses and lasted from April to June. Students went on strike to protest admissions policies, cuts in budgets and the university’s refusal to reveal where money was being spent. The protest started against the planned elimination of tuition waivers for meritorious students, such as honors students and athletes, Powers said. The posters appeared legitimate on first sight, but called for candidates with “few morals and flexible ethics,” as well as “a willingness to work with dark political agendas.” “They implicitly criticize the authoritarian administrative style, pro-privatization policies, aggressive anti-student stance and the willingness to accede to the brazen political intervention of the current government in university affairs that have marked Rivera and de la Torre’s administration of the UPR during and after the strike in May to June,” Powers said. The university’s name and logo were used illegally and without authorization, which have provided cause for a formal investigation, according to an article the Chronicle of Higher Education published on the subject. University officials could not be reached by The Daily Orange for comment. The fake, satirical ads are a humorous response to the many full-page newspaper ads the administration published in all the major

newspapers during the strike, Powers said. An agreement was reached between the university and students in June through a courtappointed official, with the most notable victory for students being a cancellation of a special fee, called the Stabilization Fee, that would have raised the cost of attendance at the university by 100 percent, Powers said. The deal also said there would be no backlash against students who organized the strikes. Students felt the inclusion of the Stabilization Fee would have been a step toward privatization in the university, said Miguel Cruz, a graduate student at UPR. “During the strike, one of the main rea-

sons for stopping classes and occupying the campuses was to try and stop the push toward privatization,” Cruz said. The ads still grabbed public attention, although the Stabilization Fee was canceled. “The ‘advertisements’ were, I think, a stroke of genius. Why? Well, you have to think about the language and style used. It looked like a real-life advertisement for a vacant corporate position,” Cruz said. “The main argument of the fake advertisements was to expose the corporate agenda behind the administration’s plans.” But there is still unrest between students and administrators at UPR, Powers said. Since the strike, the university announced it would

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nce upon a time, there was a Syracuse University professor named Marvin Druger. Marvin taught biology to more than 40,000 students more than 47 years ago. Marvin was very good at biology and knew science very well. Then one day last year, Marvin decided to

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retire. Now Marvin teaches poetry. Marvin thinks everybody can write poetry. After all, if he can do it, anybody can. “You can do it, I can do it, everybody can do it,” Marvin said. Marvin thought child ren in the Syracuse community

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Six days remain until DJ Steve Aoki’s performance in Goldstein Auditorium, but the soldout crowd hasn’t guaranteed that all Syracuse University students are happy about the choice. April Gelbard, a sophomore biomedical engineering major, is one of many students who lined up outside Schine Box Office on Sept. 22 to make sure she got to see her favorite DJ perform on Oct. 11. “He is probably one of my favorite artists,” said Gelbard, who had the chance to see Aoki perform in Florida over the summer. “The concert is unlike any other concert you will ever go to,” she added. “The music is

amazing, and everyone is in such a good mood, dancing, cheering and singing. I absolutely cannot wait,” Gelbard said. Gelbard added that the $5 price of the ticket was “incredible” compared to the $30 she had to pay to see him at the summer venue. “It’s great that the school is giving the students such a discount,” she said. Tickets for the Steve Aoki concert are sold out. Gelbard was one of the 300 students able to purchase a ticket for the concert. Meanwhile, University Union’s Steve Aoki event page on Facebook has more than 220 confirmed guests as of Tuesday night. The page is brimming with posts from students hoping to find an extra ticket.

“The concert is unlike any other concert you will ever go to. The music is amazing and everyone is in such a good mood, dancing, cheering and singing. I absolutely cannot wait.” April Gelbard

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Even with the buzz around Aoki, students who are unfamiliar with the performer said they had no interest in attending. “I am a little disappointed that a DJ is coming,” said Shelby Epps, a sophomore writing and English major. “I’d rather see a band.” But this year will see a slight difference

to the usual Bandersnatch offerings. Trevor Elwell, the co-president of the Bandersnatch Music Series, said the Homecoming Week committee approached UU about having a DJ competition this year. The winner of

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should write poems, too. So for years, he has traveled to the University Bookstore in the Schine Student Center to teach students poetry

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for Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Week. Leah Deyneka said Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Week is a week that brings smiling boys and girls from all over Syracuse to share the joys of reading and writing. Leah even said from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. all this week, different SU volunteers read to students from the Dr. King Elementary School. Leah is the academic support coordinator for

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the competition will open for Aoki. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They had the whole scenario of the DJ genre set, and we just kind of went with it,â&#x20AC;? said Elwell, a senior in the Bandier Program for Music and Entertainment Industries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We looked at a bunch of different artists, and we got

the bookstoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general book department and said she is happy to spread the joy of reading to everyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hoping it spreads the love of reading and that it gives them a greater connection to the university,â&#x20AC;? Leah said. Standing behind the big group of boys and girls, Leah smiled. She was laughing at Marvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poetry, which he wrote all by himself. Marvin read all kinds of poems. And he read some of his today at the bookstore. Some were about macaroni, beef and bologna pizzas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ewwwww,â&#x20AC;? the students screamed. Marvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poems also taught the group how to be good girls and boys. He showed them how it is bad to be greedy and it is OK to cry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My poems have some meaning,â&#x20AC;? Marvin said with a big grin. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to put some meaning into it and put some lessons into life.â&#x20AC;? Even though Marvin was teaching little girls and little boys, he just couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help teaching like a professor. With a shiny red laser pointer, Marvin pointed to lines of poetry on a bright projection screen. Marvin said that style of teaching is engrained in him. It is how he helps everybody learn, big or small. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get away from it. I really miss teaching the course,â&#x20AC;? Marvin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It keeps your

hand in the pot a little bit.â&#x20AC;? But some of the boys and girls were restless. They kept looking at other books in the store and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look at Marvin. Marvin saw their restless looks and decided to let them read poetry, too. Only the boys and girls with the loudest voices could read Marvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Who has a loud voice?â&#x20AC;? Marvin asked. One little girl raised her hand and said she did. The little girl read a poem about saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;pleaseâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;thank you.â&#x20AC;? Sometimes she could not read the words. That was OK, though. Marvin and the other girls and boys helped her through the hard parts. After, Marvin did not want others to feel left out. So the whole class read a poem about counting sheep. Marvin wanted everyone to know they can write poems, too. So he read poems his 7-yearold grandson had written. The boys and girls were excited by the poem, and they wanted to write, too. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think he gets the message across in a funny way to the kids so that they really pick up on it,â&#x20AC;? Leah said. But when it was time to go, the children whined and pouted. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go back to school.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;But wait, we have a big surprise waiting for you!â&#x20AC;? one teacher said. Suddenly, Curious George and Maisy the Mouse were standing in the bookstore. The boys and girls jumped with glee as they ran over to hug the Literacy Corps volunteers dressed as George and Maisy, each one telling them how much he or she loved the characters. As they left the bookstore, Maisy and George even excited the big boys and girls in Schine Atrium. Hugging the fuzzy characters, the older boys and girls realized they, too, should join Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Week. One older girl, Rosa Guambana, said Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Week makes students understand how they should connect with the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes us realize that we need to reach out for them,â&#x20AC;? Rosa said. She studies international relations and is a junior. And then there was Marvin. Marvin was happy to teach the little girls and boys how to write poetry. He said it makes him feel warm and fuzzy inside when he helps a child read. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not teaching 40,000 big boys and girls anymore, but teaching poetry still lets him live happily ever after.

Steve Aoki.â&#x20AC;? The second Bandersnatch Music Series performance is UUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main focus right now, Elwell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are going to hang posters all over campus and online next week,â&#x20AC;? Elwell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to create a want for the show.â&#x20AC;? The second group in the music series, Two Door Cinema Club, will be performing in Schine Underground on Oct. 19.

Taylor Noel, a sophomore sport management major, said she knew very little about either upcoming artist in the Bandersnatch Music Series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have never heard of Bandersnatch, and I am not familiar with the two artists that are coming to SU,â&#x20AC;? Noel said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the bands that are playing means Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m less likely to go.â&#x20AC;? Elwell said that even though student opinion is

crucial when picking the artists, it also depends on who is available, how much each artist charges and who UU thinks would do well here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try to see what markets are bigger in our school,â&#x20AC;? Elwell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every semester, we send out surveys in hopes of fi nding artists that the students like. We use that information, even though we might not be able to get everyone.â&#x20AC;?

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Clark, one of Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former professors, based on the previews sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can only write ourselves, but he has a lot of stuff for somebody who is very intelligent, who feels a great deal of pressure to find out how to be the next big thing, and he, like Mark, was successful at it.â&#x20AC;? Sorkin constructed the character without interaction with Zuckerberg or his company. The film gives credit to Ben Mezrichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Accidental Billionaires,â&#x20AC;? which also attempts to tell the Facebook creation tale, but Sorkin had access to people close to Zuckerberg, his Harvard blog and cartons of legal documents from the Facebook lawsuits, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the most important thing in making Mark someone who, despite his flaws that may turn you off, we ultimately do care about as a movie character, was finding the parts of myself that are like Mark,â&#x20AC;? Sorkin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have to have affection for the character, and I have to defend him.â&#x20AC;? Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zuckerberg longs for the exclusiveness of Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-class fraternities and approval from the girl he let get away â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Facebookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Helen of Troy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the face that launched 500 million members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m awkward, too,â&#x20AC;? Sorkin said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to mistake me for Puffy when it comes to the ladies. Like most people, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve felt like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m on the outside looking in, like thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great party I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been invited to and that somehow Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never make it to the cool kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; table.â&#x20AC;? But this lack of access makes Zuckerbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character angry, he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tend to only be angry when I watch Syracuse play football.â&#x20AC;? Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s professors remember his popularity,

at least within the drama department. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was talented, he was smart, he was attractive. The prettiest and most talented girl in the department was his girlfriend,â&#x20AC;? Clark said. The couple starred together in a Syracuse Stage production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carolâ&#x20AC;? (Sorkin played Young Scrooge), but the relationship wavered. Timothy Davis-Reed, an SU drama professor who was a year behind Sorkin when they were students, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember him ever having a steady girlfriend at school, or relating well to girls. Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Zuckerberg is also driven by Harvardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social standings. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone is inventing something at Harvard,â&#x20AC;? the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president says in the film. At SU, Sorkin was surrounded by a cloud of competitive musical theater majors, many of whom made their way to film and on Broadway, said Davis-Reed, who has appeared in the three television shows Sorkin penned â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The West Wing,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sports Nightâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Studio 60.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all sort of thinking weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to conquer the world,â&#x20AC;? Davis-Reed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It just turned out he was right.â&#x20AC;? Before he started writing, Sorkin aspired to be an actor. He flunked the foundational â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coreâ&#x20AC;? curriculum students must pass before they perform, including a playwriting component. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem was that the class met at 8:30 in the morning, and from time to time the weatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not very good in the city of Syracuse, and all this going to class and reading was having a negative effect on my social life in general and my sleeping in particular,â&#x20AC;? Sorkin said in a 1997 convocation to the College of Visual and Performing Arts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At one point, being quizzed on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Death of a Salesman,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; a play I had not read, I gave an

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answer that indicated I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aware that at the end of the play, the salesman dies.â&#x20AC;? Sorkin would later meet playwright Arthur Miller and eventually lecture about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Death of a Salesmanâ&#x20AC;? on Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behalf when he caught the flu. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened a lot, but Aaron is one of the few handful that said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know what, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m coming back,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Jim Clark, a drama professor and Geriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, said of students who fail and must retake Core. His senior year, peers elected Sorkin the musical theater majorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative to the faculty. Not all faculty members loved him, though. He had a smart mouth, Geri Clark said. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t malicious, but some of the faculty felt slow while talking to him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He had a smart, quick mouth, and he was fun to have around, and he was a pretty good actor, too,â&#x20AC;? she said. Sorkin received few callbacks for theater auditions after graduating in 1983. Bored touring with a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theater company, he began tapping out what would become â&#x20AC;&#x153;Removing All Doubt,â&#x20AC;? a play about post-college life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Initially, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think he was going to be a writer, he just thought he was writing a play that had a good part for him in it,â&#x20AC;? said Davis-Reed, who was Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roommate at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything that would happen in his life, he would sort of fold into the play, whether he needed it or not.â&#x20AC;? Friends urged him to focus on writing, and it eventually eclipsed his acting aspirations. (Sorkin has a few lines in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Social Network,â&#x20AC;? though, as an ad executive Zuckerberg falls asleep in front of.) Just six years after graduation, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Few Good Menâ&#x20AC;? debuted on Broadway. Sorkin won the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding American Playwright, which launched his star-

dom and led to a slew of other plays, TV shows and films heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d write. Clark sees Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent film as an exploration of fame. One of the most contended scenes portrays Napster co-founder Sean Parker prepping to snort cocaine off an internâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about him investigating, you know, the tragic qualities of his own life and what fame has cost him,â&#x20AC;? Clark said. Sorkin has publicly discussed his struggles with cocaine, both recently in the press and in 2004 with SUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drama students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all he knows about,â&#x20AC;? Clark continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, he knows facts about Mark Zuckerberg, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know him. He canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. All of us have a really hard time just knowing ourselves.â&#x20AC;? At the end of the film, Zuckerberg sits alone, refreshing his Facebook homepage. It spotlights his loneliness, his desire for friends. But it also presents the most significant difference between him and the screenwriter: Sorkin doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want an account. bmdavies@syr.edu

SORKINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SU SHOUT-OUTS â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jabberwockâ&#x20AC;? is part of an e-mail address in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Social Network.â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ode to SUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jabberwocky Cafe, a campus coffeehouse in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, and Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high school mascot. Sen. Storch, Sen. Clark, Sen. Wagner, Sen. Sabo and the other senator from Indiana,â&#x20AC;? is a line from the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The American President.â&#x20AC;? The senators are named after Sorkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SU professors.

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iguring out what to drink for a quick caffeine fix just got easier with the free myStarbucks app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Now everyone can have his or her favorite Starbucks beverage and snack selected long before he or she gets to Marshall Street. The application is simple. When it first opens, the phone’s Wi-Fi connection searches for the Starbucks nearest to the user. An interactive map then displays the exact location of said Starbucks. One tap on the map displays store hours, turn-by-turn directions and the store’s phone number. Designating that location as a favorite adds it to the myStores list, allowing quick access to the information in the future. Once the user decides which Starbucks to visit, he or she can place his or her own personal order. The app lists every offering on Starbucks’ beverage menu. Whether one is looking for something smooth and flavored or simply something filled with enough caffeine to pull another all-nighter, the app has all the information needed to select his or her preferred blend. Another option allows the user to click on a word that best describes what type of coffee he or she is in the mood for. Options range from “earthy” to “caramelly,” just to name a few. Luckily, the app is not limited to a la carte coffees. The Drink Builder allows the user to modify pre-existing beverages and create new concoctions. Choosing a hot or cold drink opens a menu that displays all the different types of options available. The user can then customize the selection down to the smallest detail, including a particular type of milk or a

specific flavoring to add. The thoroughness of the app is especially convenient, as it cuts time people would normally waste while waiting in the coffee shop. If the Java Chip Frappuccino isn’t enough, myStarbucks allows the user to view every single food item on the menu, including pastries, salads and breakfast sandwiches. Like the rest of the app, the food menu is fully customizable. If calories are an issue, the user can set the menu to display menu items within a target calorie range. If food allergies are a concern, the menu can be altered to only display foods free of peanuts, soy, egg and other allergens. The user can designate an ideal snack and drink as favorites, making sure favored choices are just a tap away. For all the aspiring brewmasters, myStarbucks also lists all locations accepting job applications. People can apply to be baristas or browse other job opportunities if serving coffee is not their cup of tea. Users can also check to see if other stores are taking applications. The app has many features that make it user-friendly and easy to navigate. When all of those options work at once, the app seems to get overloaded. It also suffers from occasional crashes, bringing the user back to the iPhone homepage. It’s a frustrating trait, but certainly not a deal breaker. It just gets especially annoying when the user is in the middle of making a drink. The app lacks the function to save a user’s progress in the middle of customizing a drink, which forces the consumer back to square one with an empty cup. Standing in line can take forever when some unprepared person can’t make up his or her mind. Don’t be that guy, and get the myStarbucks app. nerivera@syr.edu

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Chris Fox has built a winner at SU, but now he finally has a team all his own By Carron J. Phillips Staff Writer

hris Fox has come a long way. In 2005, he took over a Big East doormat of an SU cross country team. Today, his squad stands as one of the most feared in the country. And today, he’s mentioning his name in the same breath as Jim Boeheim. “This year we’re getting into homes and getting phone calls with the best kids in the country,” Fox said. “Especially after winning Big East last year, we’re more welcomed in everybody’s home, and I think people invite us in like we’re what we are — a Top 10 program. It’s probably like Coach Boeheim’s experience. He can get in anywhere.” Under Fox’s reign, SU produced its first All-American in 27 years last season in Tito

Medrano, who Fox recruited in his second season on the job. When Fox was recruiting Medrano, it wasn’t always as easy as it is now. Recruiting is a big reason why the team has become the force that Medrano spoke of. Fox now has a roster full of runners who have all been recruited by him. The recent success of the program has made the recruiting process easier. And the recruiting has made the squad into the powerhouse it is now. “Coach recruited us with the idea that we were going to become great,” Medrano said. “He told us that from day one, we weren’t just here to compete and become good. We’re here to make something happen and to start a program that was going to stay around for a long time. We’re a force to be reckoned with.”

daily orange file photo the syracuse cross country team hopes to push for an NCAA title in 2010 under head coach Chris Fox, who has brought the team into the national rankings. One of the first runners Fox signed was Steve Murdock. Being one of two seniors on the team, Murdock has seen the drastic change that has occurred in the program since Fox arrived on campus. “My first year, we weren’t ranked or anything, and people kind of poked fun at the program a little bit,” Murdock said. “It was a dead program going nowhere, and

Coach Fox came along and started making things change. People don’t party all the time anymore like we used to. Everything is really serious and fun at the same time.” As the partying decreased and the seriousness increased, the success of the program also started to increase. And the accolades started to pour in. see next page

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Medrano was named an All-American. Coming into this season, the team was ranked preseason No. 1 in the Northeast region, an accomplishment that had never been bestowed upon the program. After winning last season’s Wisconsin Adidas Invitational and the Northeast Regional to go along with a Big East championship, the team and Fox had a game plan of success for this season. Using the Colgate Invitational as a warm-up for some of their younger runners,

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the program still took home a fi rst-place fi nish. With another Big East title being one of the team’s main goals for this season, Fox and his runners have even higher hopes this season, as they are eyeing a Top 10 fi nish at the NCAA championships. “There’s certainly a team on the guy’s side that can win a trophy, which is the top four,” Fox said. “Anything more than that would be huge. We have some great recruiting going on right now, and if we happen to get what we want, we may be a little bit closer to trying to

THE ROAD AHEAD After three meets, the Syracuse cross country team’s have begun to hit their stride. As the Orange enters its final seven meets of the season, its toughest competition lies ahead. Here’s a quick glance at how the rest of the schedule looks

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“This year we’re getting into homes and getting phone calls with the best kids in the country. Especially after winning Big East last year we’re more welcomed in everybody’s home, and I think people invite us in like we’re what we are - a Top 10 program. It’s probably like Coach Boeheim’s experience. He can get in anywhere.” Chris Fox

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win a national title.” As the culture and thought process within the program is progressively changing for the better, outsiders like Villanova head coach Marcus O’Sullivan are starting to notice the turnaround in the program. “I’ve known Chris Fox for probably 30 years, and I knew that when he was going to take over the program that he was going to get things up and running,” O’Sullivan said. “It was pretty evident a number of years ago that he was going to be a force to be reckoned with in the conference.” With such high praise from his peers, Fox is taking everything in stride and keeping his team focused on the task at hand. Fox has completely changed the scene around the program. From the partying to the runners he brings in

and recruits. Four years in, it’s his program now. “It’s been a huge change, and you’ve got to give him credit,” O’Sullivan said. “He works hard and is a good coach, and it shows because he’s getting it going.” cjphil01@ syr.edu

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Syracuse benefits from trust formed between young players By Andrew Tredinnick Staff Writer

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For the Syracuse women’s soccer team, a preseason camping trip wasn’t about learning plays. It was about gaining trust — an important component for such a young squad. So when SU started five freshmen and four sophomores in the opening game this season, the players knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses as a result of that trip. “I think you can’t just learn something from the whole team,” freshman Alyscha Mottershead said. “You have to learn what each individual likes. I feel like we’ve learned what everyone likes and dislikes, and everyone is very team-oriented. That alone makes us a very good team.” Head coach Phil Wheddon has used a lineup consisting of predominantly freshmen and sophomores in every game this season. Wheddon knows these young players are capable of competing in the Big East. And they have proven him right. Other coaches throughout the country have even complimented Wheddon on his lineup’s potential. “We are going to have immediate experience, and a lot of teams across the conference and the country are saying, ‘You know, you’re going to be good next year,’” Wheddon said. “That’s not good enough for us. We want to be good this year. I think we’ve taken our lumps, and that is part of the experience. Learning on the fly is one of the drawbacks, but overall I think our team has done very well.” With just one senior in the starting lineup, the Orange has already matched its win total from last season. The upperclassmen have had to mesh with a majority of sophomores and freshmen, but the body of talent on the roster has ensured a competitive product. Wheddon has seen the benefits of consistently deploying a young starting lineup. Freshmen

have not been playing roles as simple substitutes. They continue to get substantial playing time in a vastly competitive conference. For Wheddon, only good things can come of this. “It’s invaluable, and they know what to expect from day one,” Wheddon said. “It’s not a case of just getting your feet wet, but they’re actually playing day in and day out. For me and for us, we feel that this experience is absolutely invaluable.” The transition may be the hardest part for any incoming freshman, but a bonding experience, such as the camping trip in the second week of the preseason, has only propelled this team forward. Freshman midfielder Rachel Blum explained that the game may be a lot faster than in high school, but the older and younger girls have been able to collaborate extremely well. The freshmen have been making the most of their early game experience. “It’s been a really easy transition,” Blum said. “The older girls have made it really simple for us. They’ve taught us how the team works, and it’s been easy to slide right in, and we’re just trying to do our best to show that we’re here for the team.” The younger players have been able to gain vital experience many other teams do not provide. Mottershead has been able to take what she has learned from the veterans and turn it into success for the team this season. During Sunday’s game against DePaul, she made a run opposite of senior Megan Bellingham. Mottershead snuck in behind the defense and junior Casey Ramirez fed her the ball. All Mottershead had to do was tap the shot over the goalkeeper for a goal. She did just that. The product was a direct result of knowing each other’s tendencies. And for the newcomers, despite not knowing each other too well during that preseason camping trip, they’ve forged a bond that enabled the team to mature together. “We’ve really been molding as a team,” Blum said. “We have a lot of dynamic players and a lot of girls that work really hard. So we can only go up from here.” adtredin@syr.edu

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Syracuse will look to snap its three-game losing streak when it plays Big East foes West Virginia and Pittsburgh this weekend. The losing streak came after the Orange went five consecutive games without a loss. SU will look to move up in the conference standings with four consecutive home games. Syracuse currently sits in sixth place in the American Divison with six points on the year. The Orange jumped out to a 5-3-3 record before losing its last three games in the Big East. All of Syracuse’s remaining contests are Big East games.

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SU freshman class provides depth sooner than anticipated By Jason Krakower Staff Writer

Four years ago, Ange Bradley began building a winning field hockey program from the ground up. Her first recruiting class consisted of current team anchors Maggie Befort, Lindsey Conrad and Shelby Schraden. The trio now serves as leaders of a Top 10 program at Syracuse. But with the impending graduation of a number of starters and her first core group of players, Bradley was facing an overhaul. She had to hope her younger, inexperienced players would be able to make the transition and eventually step into more prominent roles. She didn’t expect it to happen so soon. To SU’s benefit, Bradley’s latest recruiting class has already begun to make a major presence felt on the field. Bradley recently emphasized her newcomers have played a big part in the team’s improvement. That group has been a key factor in salvaging the season for No. 9 Syracuse (7-4, 3-0 Big East) as the Orange looks to get back to the NCAA tournament. On a squad that relies so heavily on experienced seniors and returning starters, the freshmen have become an unexpected driving force behind the Orange. “Our freshman group has a lot of character together, and they work really, really hard,” Conrad said. “They’re stepping up and they’re pushing the upperclassmen, and they understand that without them, this team would be nothing.” The main role of SU’s freshman class is to work hard in practice and help make the team better, and many of the newcomers excel in that facet of the game. And despite the steep learning curve that comes with playing for a Top 10 pro-

gram, there are a few players who have stepped up immediately. Forward Ashtin Klingler has appeared in every game this season, while midfielder Leonie Geyer and back Laura Hahnefeldt have both already cemented their spots in the lineup. Geyer’s influence has been the biggest of any of Bradley’s freshmen to this point in the season, as she is currently second on the team in points (13) and leads the team in assists (seven). Bradley has used terms like “world class athlete” and “dominating player” to describe her, but Geyer said her contribution to the team is a result of an increased opportunity after coming over from Germany. “I have quite a different role here on the team,” Geyer said. “In Germany, I’m not the person who changes the game, and my role there is not as important as it is here. I have many more chances to take, and I can score more goals.” While Geyer isn’t quick to acknowledge the rare talent Bradley attributes to her, Hahnefeldt hasn’t received much acknowledgement at all as she has emerged as one of SU’s defensive anchors. But since the tall defender shut down three of the country’s leading scorers in Virginia’s Paige Selenski, Princeton’s Kathleen Sharkey and Louisville’s Nicole Youman, Bradley knows she has something special. “Laura is incredibly smart,” Bradley said. “She’s very quiet, and I don’t think people realize how good she is. I think she’s one of the most underrated players that we have on our team.” Though Geyer, Hahnefeldt and the rest of the freshman class unquestionably have the skill to play well at this level, the question is whether they have the confidence and adaptability to endure the challenge of the Big East and the rest of SU’s tough

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The Orange followed up its six-game road trip with an overtime win over No. 9 Louisville before hitting the road again with games at Providence and Massachusetts. The No. 9 Orange shut out the Friars 3-0 but lost to the Minutewomen 2-0. SU has now split each of its four weekend road trips. Syracuse (7-4, 3-0 Big East) has three more games left on its road trip, including a game at No. 18 Albany. The Orange will have to contain Albany’s Christina Patrick, who has posted more goals (eight) and points (19) than anyone on SU’s roster.

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bridget streeter | photo editor lindsey conrad (left) and the Orange have relied on their seniors this season to mentor the younger players. Conrad, a senior, is tied for the team lead in goals with six. schedule. The Orange still has three conference games remaining, including a home matchup with No. 5 Connecticut, and then has to prepare for the important Big East tournament. Bradley said there is still work to be done to get her freshmen physically and mentally ready, and there is no one better to help than her seniors. As her first recruiting class is playing out the final games of their collegiate careers, Bradley needs them to play a part in ushering in a new era of Syracuse field hockey that could make its mark

in the final stretch of the season. And in the process, the younger players will have to bridge the gap between Bradley’s first recruiting class and the future for Syracuse. “You can’t expect freshmen to be able to handle everything right away, so we need our older kids to help school them,” Bradley said. “The freshmen are still trying to figure themselves out and figure things out, even though they’re very good players.” jakrakow@syr.edu

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former head coach Dean Foti, has seen action in just three games so far in 2010. With Vuolo’s ejection, Jones entered Saturday’s game without the ability to warm up. And facing a penalty kick right off the bat was not the easiest way to enter his first Big East game in nearly a year. “It was definitely tough going out there to play just the last 15 minutes after being on the bench for the whole game,” Jones said. “I just feel that maybe if I got a little bit more of a warm-up in, then I could have done something about them.” Come Wednesday, he will have plenty of time

“Coming off a 4-0 loss, it’s given a lot of outside people the perception that we might not be that good. But as a team, we know we are a lot better.” Nick Roydhouse

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Ri’Shard Anderson suffered a season-ending shoulder injury on Aug. 18.

Vuolo, the Big East’s leader in saves. And in addition to being one of the conference’s top goalkeepers, Vuolo is also a vocal leader for the Orange. All game long, he can be heard barking words of encouragement to his teammates and communicating with his defenders. Wednesday shouldn’t be too different, though, Vuolo said, because he thinks a number of players could assume his position of leadership, including Roydhouse. “There’s different ways of being a leader,” Vuolo said. “I always urge the guys to have 11 captains out there on the field. In terms of vocal leadership, (Roydhouse) is going to step up a bit. That’s his mentality. He probably won’t shut up for the 90 minutes.” Jones said he, too, will be vocal when the situation calls for it, and that he has a little bit of something to prove after getting scored on three times against USF. After being the starter last season but taking a backseat to Vuolo in 2010, any chance he has to get on the field is a chance to show something to McIntyre and the coaching staff. “I’m going to put the South Florida game behind me, because there wasn’t much I could do about the whole situation,” Jones said. “I’m going to go out there and prove myself and show everyone that I can still play.” With that grit and determination, Jones will try to guide the Orange to its first win in 26 days Wednesday night. Although Vuolo returns in time for Saturday’s Big East matchup against DePaul, a win behind Jones would be a huge morale boost

They dropped like flies. At one point, all Marrone could do was joke about it. “It’s unbelievable. It really is,” Marrone said on Aug. 23 of the injuries piling up on his squad. “It’s like, every day. I’ve lived my life well. I’ve done a lot of good deeds. I hope it

dave trotman-wilkins | staff photographer Ryan Jones will start in goal for Syracuse Wednesday when the Orange hosts Colgate. He takes the place of Jeremy Vuolo, who will miss the game due to a red card. for the team. The players and coaches remain positive as of now, but a seventh-straight game without a win could belittle them at a crucial point in the season. “It would just be a nice relief, almost, to get

that win and be able to go on from and build some momentum results-wise,” Roydhouse said. “You can be playing good every single game, but if you don’t win, then there’s just no point.”

starts to pay off.” And for the members of the secondary, as well, the unit suddenly became a question mark when its players had done all they could to eliminate that question mark. For Merkerson, Anderson’s injury was the breaking point. The injury brought about a flurry of questions in Merkerson’s own mind. But Merkerson said there were never any doubts. “Just to see people get injured and be out for the season, you feel sad,” Merkerson said. “You’re a little disappointed, because you know they, too, had aspirations of having a great season. But at the same time, I guess it inspires me to have to play well or want to play well so that I can dedicate the season to them and make sure they know I’m doing it for them. They were a big part of this.” Though Anderson was lost for the season, Scott, Thomas and Lyn all made it back by the Orange’s home opener against Maine. wAnd immediately, the profound effect the unit’s performance has had on SU’s overall success is evident. In the Orange’s three victories, it has given up 128.7 passing yards per game. Against a tougher test in Washington, facing Heisman Trophy candidate Jake Locker, SU allowed 292 yards through the air. “We struggled,” said Lyn of the secondary’s performance against Washington. “I feel like we were supposed to win that game. I feel like the big plays messed us up. … Missed tackles. We’re working on that so we don’t have any more missed tackles. We’ll be ready to go so we don’t have any more mistakes like that.” Against Daniels and the Bulls, correcting those mistakes will be crucial if the Orange hopes to come away from the matchup victorious for the first time. It’s another true test after the warm-ups with Maine and Colgate. The secondary has, in the words of Marrone and the unit itself, hurdled the question marks. Now come the expectations. With the bye week, the unit is back to as close to full strength as it possibly can. And with that come the expectations. The expectations to carry those performances through to SU’s toughest tests. “I think this team is a good team,” Merkerson said. “This is a very well-coached and very fast team. This is going to be a good challenge.”

Then he smiled. “We feel like,” he said, “if we do our job, we’ll have a good chance of winning the game.”

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Florida key Keon Lyn symbolizes Syracuse’s inroads into the Florida recruiting trail under Doug Marrone. The freshman defensive back chose to come to SU rather than South Florida, which also offered him a scholarship. His home of Miramar, Fla., is about four hours away from Tampa. On Saturday, Lyn will be facing many friends, former teammates and opponents in a homecoming game of sorts. “It’s cool,” Lyn said. “I have a lot of friends

“We were the weak link last year on the defense. We didn’t want it to be like that anymore when this year came around.” Max Suter

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on that team. (South Florida) offered me, too. So it’s going to be great going against them and seeing what they got. I’m going to show them why I chose Syracuse.” Lyn isn’t the only one. Freshman cornerback Jeremi Wilkes is from Tampa, about eight miles away from the USF campus. In all, the Orange has 11 players on its roster from the state of Florida. So for Marrone and Syracuse, Saturday’s matchup is also something of an audition to keep up a strong presence in Florida’s recruiting pipeline. “I’m not going to be naive and say if we don’t win this game, we won’t get our share of players from down there,” Marrone said. “But if we win the game, we may get in on some kids we may not have before. That is a possibility. Anytime you play a team that is in a recruiting area for you, if you win, you get benefits from that.” bplogiur@ syr.edu

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New Mexico State head coach DeWayne Walker could not help but be impressed. And it wasn’t because of anything his team had done. Instead, it was No. 4 Boise State that left Walker awestruck during a methodical 59-0 beatdown of his Aggies Saturday in Las Cruces, N.M. And Walker said just by looking at the Broncos, he could see this was a superior football team. “Just how good their players look,” Walker said in the Western Athletic Conference coaches’ teleconference Monday when asked what stood out most from the thrashing. “I’m kind of into that now, being a head coach now and really learning what it takes to build a program. I was just really impressed on how (Boise State head coach Chris Petersen) built his team. … Boise was just a totally different looking football team.” Unfortunately for the Broncos, the win did not leave such a resounding mark on the pollsters. In the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll, Oregon (5-0) jumped past Boise State (5-0) to claim the No. 3 ranking after beating No. 16 Stanford, 52-31, in Eugene, Ore. Despite the Broncos’ unblemished record that includes two non-conference wins over BCS schools, the team’s WAC affiliation, once again, appears to have cost Boise State in the rankings. The Broncos have defeated the Ducks each of the past two years, but Oregon’s Pac-10 affiliation is more impressive. That is the reality Boise State is faced with each season. Boise State’s Petersen said the one-spot drop does not bother him at this point in the season with so many games left on the schedule. He added that although he does favor the bowl system to a playoff, a combination of both, in his mind, would be best for college football. “The system’s not perfect,” Peterson said. “I think people are trying to figure out how to make it better. Once somebody comes up with the correct plan, hopefully, it gets adopted and introduced.”

For the past five years, Boise State has been at the heart of the BCS discussion. The Broncos finished the 2006, 2008 and 2009 regular seasons undefeated. They won the Fiesta Bowl over Oklahoma following the ‘06 season and beat TCU in the Fiesta Bowl last year. Yet Boise State only climbed to No. 4 and No. 5 in the final rankings after those undefeated seasons. This year looked like it would be different. The preseason poll slotted the Broncos at No. 3 in the country. A solid non-conference schedule would help Boise maintain its spot near the top, waiting patiently for Alabama or Ohio State to slip up. A virtual road win against then-No. 10 Virginia Tech in Week One kept that dream alive. Three weeks later, a 37-24 home victory over then-No. 24 Oregon State bolstered the Broncos confidence. “Boise State, unlike any other team in the country, has won the games that they’re supposed to win,” WAC commissioner Karl Benson said in the WAC teleconference Monday. “They have not been upset in a regular-season game for five years. And you can’t say that about any of the other teams.” But even though the Broncos keep winning, their early-season opponents have not. Virginia Tech dropped a home game to Football Championship Subdivision opponent James Madison just a week after losing to Boise State. Both the Hokies and Oregon State have slipped from the rankings, hurting what was once a solid nonconference schedule for the Broncos. Benson couldn’t help but express how he felt about all the attention being paid to Boise State’s schedule. He said the focus should be on Boise State’s performance on the field and its 18-game winning streak. “I think it is very frustrating to listen to all the ‘what ifs,’” Benson said. “What if Boise State played in this league or what if Boise State played in that league? The bottom line is that the teams play the schedule that they’re dealt. … Whether

there’s injuries or whether there’s this or that or whether it’s 95 degrees and humidity. … Bottom line is good teams win.” But with what now appears to be a softer strength of schedule than how it originally appeared, Oregon slides ahead of the Broncos, despite Boise State’s dismantling of New Mexico State last weekend. And Walker, the Aggies head coach, would not say whether he believed one team should be ahead of the other. But he did work as UCLA’s defensive coordinator from 2006 to 2008. He said he was impressed with Boise Saturday and added it could play with any team from the Pac-10 — Oregon included. “All I know is, coaching in the Pac-10 and having a chance to go against Coach Petersen’s team for two years now,” Walker said. “There’s no doubt they could go in the Pac-10 and be more than competitive in that conference. … You could put them in the Pac-10, and they would definitely hold their own.”

Big men on campus Darron Thomas and LaMichael James No. 3 Oregon (5-0) Last week’s stats: Thomas — 20-for-29, 238 yards, 3 TDs, 15 carries, 117 yards, 1 TD James — 31 carries, 257 yards, 3 TDs

Thomas, a sophomore quarterback, and James, a sophomore running back, led Oregon to a combined 612 yards of total offense and accounted for all seven of the team’s touchdowns in the Ducks’ win over No. 16 Stanford. After falling behind 21-3 in the first quarter, Oregon outscored the Cardinal 49-10 for the rest of the game. Thomas threw touchdowns of 29, 41 and 25 yards and knotted the score at 31 in the third quarter with his six-yard touchdown run that set the tone for the rest of the second half. Oregon scored three more touchdowns after Thomas’ scamper, while the Cardinal failed to put any points on the board in the last 30 minutes. James’ career-high 257 yards on the ground

was the second-most in school history. He chipped away at the Cardinal defense for most of the day before exploding for a 76-yard score with 1:10 left in the game to close out the scoring.

Team of the week No. 17 Michigan State (5-0) Last week’s result: W, 34-24 vs. No. 20 Wisconsin (4-1)

Head coach Mark Dantonio missed his second consecutive game due to health issues, but his Spartans once again rose above the distractions to take care of Wisconsin in both schools’ Big Ten opener. Dantonio planned on sitting in the coach’s box for MSU’s clash with the Badgers, but was hospitalized for a blood clot in his leg Thursday. He watched on television as offensive coordinator Don Treadwell took over head coaching duties for the second week in a row and led the Spartans to the 34-24 victory. The Spartan defense snapped Wisconsin running back John Clay’s 10-game streak of at least 100 yards rushing, and Treadwell secured the win with a gutsy call in the final minutes. With MSU clinging to a 27-24 lead, the Spartans decided to go for a fourth-and-goal from the oneyard line with just less than three minutes left in the game. Quarterback Kirk Cousins found B.J. Cunningham in the end zone for his third touchdown pass of the day to put the game out of reach. The win boosted Michigan State’s record to 5-0 for the first time since 1999. zjbrown@syr.edu

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Deep coverage After injury-plagued summer, SU secondary keys Top 25 pass defense By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Sports Editor

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matthew ziegler | staff photographer da’mon merkerson (front) and the Syracuse secondary have made drastic improvements since 2009, jumping from 85th to 23rd in the nation. The unit is giving up 169.5 passing yards per game.

epth. It’s a word that, just more than a month ago, Doug Marrone simply would not have used to describe the state of his secondary. Yet there Marrone was, at his weekly press conference Monday, noting the unit’s depth that, in part, has enabled it to become a key strength of the Syracuse pass defense. Marrone’s statements symbolized just how far the unit has come — from the trials and tribulations of last year and from the trials and tribulations of preseason camp. “I feel pretty good about where we are from a secondary standpoint,” Marrone said. “We have enough players and we have decent depth back there, more so than some of the other positions on our football team.” With seven defensive backs playing significant roles, the Orange secondary has evolved quickly from a preseason, injury-riddled question mark to the primary reason for SU’s 23rd-ranked pass defense. As Syracuse continues to prep for a trip to Tampa, Fla., to face South Florida on Saturday (noon, Big East Network), the unit will be tasked with keeping the high-flying USF offense led by quarterback B.J. Daniels in check. Coming off the most points the SU defense had allowed since 2001 in last season’s 56-31 loss to Connecticut to end the year, the secondary was the defense’s weak link, producing the 85th-ranked pass defense in the nation. Current members of the unit admit as much. “We were the weak link last year

on the defense,” senior safety Max Suter said. “We didn’t want it to be like that anymore when this year came around.” That meant this summer, there were no breaks. In those summer practices, running gave way to going over footwork in specific packages. Which led to work on coverage schemes. Little things members of the secondary credit with making the unit what it has become through SU’s first four games of the season. For senior cornerback Da’Mon Merkerson, the past two summers under Marrone have produced a different focus, particularly with the defensive backs. After this summer’s work and with more than a year under Marrone’s system, it all finally paid off. “Previous years I’ve been here, sometimes the summer workouts haven’t necessarily been taken as seriously as these last two summers I’ve been here,” Merkerson said. “The last two summers, it has been different. There’s a different atmosphere — a different culture. Everybody on the team, especially the (defensive back) room, in my opinion, made that into a culture and into a religion. We come out here, we come to the field, and it’s business.” But all of that work was thrown into question at the start of preseason camp. It wasn’t a question of talent, but rather a question of numbers. First, Kevyn Scott and Shamarko Thomas went out with hamstring tweaks. Nothing more than that, but they still each missed two full weeks of camp. Then, Keon Lyn went out because of mononucleosis. Finally, see secondary page 20

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Orange without Vuolo, Jones to start in goal against Colgate By Michael Cohen Asst. Copy Editor

Jeremy Vuolo wavered for a split second. One tiny instance of uncertainty, and it cost him. He couldn’t beat South Florida’s Hasani Sinclair to the ball. “I hesitated for a second,” Vuolo said. “We were both sprinting toward the ball, and he got a touch right before I got there. So I just couldn’t really stop, and there was a collision.” Just like the old cliché: He who hesi-

tates is lost. And Vuolo was lost. He still is. Literally. Syracuse’s 6-foot-3, 200-pound goalkeeper received a red card and a one-game suspension for his collision with Sinclair, and the Bulls Who: Colgate w e r e Where: SU Soccer awa rded Stadium When: 7 p.m. a penalty kick.

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Vuolo was replaced by sophomore Ryan Jones, but Sinclair buried his shot. Beginning with that penalty in the 78th minute, the Orange allowed USF to score three times in a span of 7:18. In a heartbeat, the game ballooned into an ugly 4-0 loss. That horrific span of 7:18 is only a part of what Syracuse (1-5-3, 0-1-1 Big East) must overcome when it steps back onto the field Wednesday night at home against Colgate (5-1-3). The Orange will

also be without its captain, Vuolo, who must serve his suspension for the red card. Though South Florida was SU’s toughest test of the season, that role is now played by Colgate. The Raiders are the first ranked team the Orange will play this season, after Colgate assumed the No. 24 national ranking earlier this week. Syracuse needs an improved performance in its last non-conference game to set the tone for the remainder

of its Big East schedule. “Coming off a 4-0 loss, it’s given a lot of outside people the perception that we might not be that good,” SU midfielder Nick Roydhouse said. “But as a team, we know we are a lot better. It would be nice to prove to ourselves that we can come out with a win and play well.” If the Orange does get a win, it will be with Jones as its goalkeeper. Jones, who started all of last season under see colgate page 20