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InSU her honor alumnus creates

Good show Krystie Yandoli applauds

Music men A student-run company finds success

professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences for his late wife. Page 3

college students for Occupy College protests. Page 5

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after 15 months of business, with about $20,000 worth of sales in the last two months alone. Page 9

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Syracuse basketball’s rivalries with Georgetown and Connecticut were intensified with the creation of the Big East in 1979. Page 16

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Sedaris uses memories to humor crowd

By Annie Knox STAFF WRITER

David Sedaris’ father kept a metal serving spoon next to his plate on the dinner table when Sedaris was growing up. During meals, he used it to whack Sedaris over the knuckles or on the head.

“I would not have traded my father for anyone,” Sedaris told the crowd in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center at 6 p.m.

Tuesday, saying that his father’s constant disapproval still motivates him to prove he could succeed at something.

Approximately 1,400 people attended the event, said Esther Gray, senior administrator for academic affairs, in an email after the event.

“That is so painful,” he said, referring to being thumped with the oversized spoon. “But I had to laugh. It was that over the top.”

Sedaris’ family provides much of the material in his best-selling memoirs. During the lecture, he read pieces about trying to win his father’s approval at his childhood swim meets. He also joked about parents today, who he said are much more lenient than parents were 40 years ago.

Sedaris recounted his lack of athleticism as a childhood swimmer.

His father was far prouder of singer Donny Osmond, Sedaris’ swim team’s best competitor who is two years younger than Sedaris and now owns a group of stores selling sex toys in North Carolina. He said his mother consoled him by asking: “Who wants to be the best at something you do in a bathing suit?”

Sedaris also said he sees parents today coddling and praising their kids, including “volcanic three-yearolds” who scream at their parents in grocery stores. When he was young, he said, parents didn’t just hit their own kids for acting out. They also hit other people’s kids. And nobody blinked because of it.

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As second non-chancellor University Senate moderator, MacInnes brings modesty, sincerity Text and photo by Brandon Weight | Photo Editor

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ith the faint sound of classical music audible on the second floor of Hinds Hall, it is clear that Ian MacInnes is in his office. The music follows the new University Senate moderator’s tone: subtle, calming and reassuring. MacInnes can only speak of himself modestly, and his sincerity is noted.

“There are a lot of other people who would be

very good moderators. I don’t really think I am necessarily the only or the best,” MacInnes said.

MacInnes’ resume suggests otherwise. As associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Information Studies, he holds three political science degrees and has 10 years of experience in USen, in which he has served on four committees, chairing two. His inherent sincerity and dedica-

tion is also evident, as noted by Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs and a two-year Agenda Committee member.

“He’s got a nice way of listening and making encouraging conversation, but also helping the senate keep order so it can go about its business,” Wolfe said.

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Lustig announces candidacy to students in Schine Tuesday morning

By Rachael Barillari STAFF WRITER

Dylan Lustig formally announced his candidacy for Student Association president to students in the Schine Student Center Atrium at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Lustig spoke for approximately eight minutes at a podium to an audience of a few dozen people. After introducing himself, Lustig said that during his time in SA he has focused on working to better communicate with his constituency.

Issues with constituency communication and fragmentation within SA have motivated Lustig to run for president, he said.

Lustig touched upon a bill he and SA Parliamentarian Eugene Law presented at Monday night’s assembly meeting, which mandated committees be formed to represent each home college in hopes of better communication with constituents. The bill, which passed 27-10, was contest-

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ed by Lustig’s opponent Taylor Carr.

“If we’re not going to pass something like that — something that’s going to better our organization, make it mandatory for our organization to do their job — then why are we here?” Lustig said. “And I think it’s a good push for our organization that this bill did pass.”

If elected president, Lustig said he would focus on bettering communication both within the SA general assembly and outside the organization.

Lustig said another issue with connecting SA to the student body is the actual name of the organization.

He said that because the term “Student Association” is not being related

with student government, one of his plans is to change the name of the organization to “Student Government Association.”

Until early 2000, SA was known as the Student Government Association.

Other goals Lustig touched upon pertained to the need for better safety on campus and the creation of a SA “signature program.” Lustig said he would design this program as a campus-wide day of community service.

“My goals as president are realistic and they are obtainable. That’s very important,” Lustig said.

Lustig also exposed some opposition to Carr’s proposal of mandated community service hours for representatives. He said he believes this is something the assembly members should be doing already and that his signature program would work toward this.

After his speech, Lustig said he’s not nervous about being the first sophomore to run for SA president in

approximately 20 years. He also said that because Carr is a junior, Carr feels that it is his “rite of passage” to be president, as he is the right age.

Lustig said he could not wait any

“My goals as president are realistic and they are obtainable. That’s very important.”

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longer and that he had to run for president now.

Said Lustig: “I can’t watch SA do this anymore. We need to change our image and start acting like a student government, finally.” rebarill@syr.edu — Asst. News Editor Liz Sawyer contributed reporting to this article.

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Alumnus’ gift honors late wife

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Orchestrating perfection The Syracuse University Symphony Orchestra performed in Setnor Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tuesday. The performance opened with The Barber of Seville Overture, originally composed by Gioacchino Rossini. Setnor will host a Jazz Ensemble Performance on Oct. 13 at 8 p.m.

A number of other musical events are planned for this month, including an Oct. 25 Korean Classical Concert. The Setnor School of Music was recently given the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s 50-year-old collection of music after the SSO declared bankruptcy in the spring.

Number of Hispanics, Latinos in college increase in 2010

By Elizabeth Carey Contributing Writer

The number of Hispanics and Latinos enrolling in college increased 24 percent last year, according to a recent Pew Hispanic Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.

Although the national population of 18- to 24-year-old Latinos grew to 19 percent from April 2009 to March 2010, the rise in Hispanics and Latinos enrolling in college is outpacing the rise of their growth in the national population, said Richard Fry, the senior research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center who authored the August report.

Latinos’ high school completion rate reached 73 percent in 2010 — the highest since 1972, Fry said. This rising educational attainment is driving the increase, he said.

“More young Hispanics are finishing high school,” Fry said. “And when young Hispanics finish high school, more are choosing to attend college.”

When the recession began at the end of 2007, Fry expected to see a rise in enrollment rates and noted a coun-

tercyclical trend between the economy and enrollment. Dismal prospects for employment make education a viable option for young people.

“The boom of college enrollment rates is a silver lining,” Fry said.

At Syracuse University, Hispanic and Latino enrollment increased from 5.8 to 6.5 percent of all enrolled students from 2009-10, according to data from SU’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. In 2008, 5.2 percent of all enrolled students self-identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino. This fall, the figure increased to 7.4 percent.

Donald Saleh, vice president for enrollment management at SU, acknowledged the higher collegegoing rate for Hispanics and Latinos and attributed the rise to several factors.

“In part, (it’s) because of our recruitment efforts in communities that have higher Hispanic populations,” he said. SU actively recruits in New York City, Washington, D.C., Florida, Georgia, California and Puerto Rico.

“Our goal is to build a strong student body, and one of the strengths of our student body is diversity,” Saleh said. “Syracuse is getting to be known as an institution with a very diverse student body, so it’s attrac-

raising the bar The percentage of Latino

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tive to Hispanic students.”

That is why Harly Rodriguez, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, chose to attend SU. “I got accepted to Holy Cross, but I chose to go to SU because of the diversity,” Rodriguez said. “I want to be with people who are similar to me.”

Myrna García Calderón, interim director of the Latino-Latin Ameri-

can Studies program, has observed evolving Hispanic populations and academic studies since attending college in Puerto Rico in the 1970s.

She said the largest Latino population in her classes is from the Dominican Republic.

Puerto Ricans were the secondlargest group she’s witnessed in her six years on campus. And she said Latinos from New York City are highly represented.

Rodriguez, and two fellow members of the Latino-focused Phi Iota Alpha fraternity, said they noticed the growing number of Hispanic and Latino students.

“There are more and more people from ‘the Island’ (Puerto Rico), and Latinos from places like the Bronx,” said Joluis De Los Santos, a junior in Arts and Sciences.

Some Latino students said increasing educational opportunities and cultural shifts may influence this rise, and García Calderón pointed to conflicts Latinos might face once enrolled. see latino page 4

A Syracuse University alumnus will give back to his alma mater on behalf of his wife, who died in 2008. The school led them to each other and to their successful careers in teaching and research.

The donation from Charles Bishop, a 1942 undergraduate alumnus and 1944 graduate, and Beverly Petterson Bishop, a 1944 alumna, is helping expand the neuroscience program at SU’s College of Arts and Sciences with an endowed gift creating a professorship in the name of Petterson Bishop.

After Petterson Bishop graduated from SU with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, she became a nationally recognized neuroscientist and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992, according to a Sept.

27 SU press release. She passed away in 2008, and this year, in her honor, her husband created the Beverly Petterson Bishop Professorship in Neuroscience.

“We met at Syracuse, we got married in Syracuse, this place is really important to us,” Bishop said. “This means that she lives on, promoting things that she was so excited about.”

The couple first considered the professorship before Petterson Bishop died, her husband said, because they wanted to send a message that people believed in the institution and the study that was so important to them.

Spearheading the initiative will be Sandra Hewett, the inaugural Bishop Professor in the biology department.

Formerly a professor at the University of Connecticut, her research focuses on neural injury. Hewett’s goals as the recipient are to build neuroscience in the undergraduate and graduate level and focus on an interdisciplinary program through a cohesive unit of faculty.

“The position means the world to me,” she said. “I’m just excited to be able to be a part of something that is growing.”

The professorship will not only commemorate Petterson Bishop’s pioneering work in neuroscience. It will also give the university the chance to bring the program to the forefront of the field, said James Spencer, associate dean of Arts and Sciences.

With her excitement and energy for neuroscience, Hewett will shape the course of the program, Spencer see bishop page 4

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MacInnes is only the second non-chancellor moderator for USen, the first being Jonathan Massey, who resigned as USen’s presiding officer after the 2010-11 academic year to focus on research in organic architecture.

Previously, USen bylaws mandated that the chancellor preside over meetings. But Chancellor Nancy Cantor, while serving as moderator, often felt uncomfortable fielding questions in which she was the focus.

“You shouldn’t be the one receiving questions and answering questions substantively and also holding the clock in your head to make sure things run on schedule,” Wolfe said. “It just makes perfect sense.”

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After Massey decided to take a research sabbatical, MacInnes said colleagues encouraged him to run for Agenda Committee chair. At the first USen meeting of the fall 2011 semester, MacInnes was elected chair, and thus appointed as the USen moderator.

With one meeting under his belt, MacInnes has already begun to enact and encourage changes. After the first meeting of the fall semester, he began a three-minute time limit for senators to speak during discussion. MacInnes said he hopes that this new rule will bring a variety of voices to discussions. While not a mandate — there will be exceptions, MacInnes mentioned — the rule will encourage senators to err on the side of succinctness.

“If you state that as an aim, people might think, ‘How can I state my idea in a succinct way in a few minutes?’” MacInnes said.

MacInnes feels the role of the moderator, and agenda committee as a whole, is not to drive the agenda, but rather to determine the agenda after receiving input from senators and other committees.

“It’s really the senators that are in charge, not the Agenda Committee,” MacInnes said.

Still, MacInnes does have novel interests and ideas for USen. Most importantly, MacInnes said he hopes to continue to involve multiple areas of the university, a practice he is familiar with in the iSchool.

Elizabeth Liddy, dean of the iSchool, said

she thinks MacInnes is extremely qualified for the job.

“Ian is highly respected by his colleagues in the iSchool, other schools on campus and administrators for his deep understanding of policy,

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she said, don’t even know they are neuroscientists. By uniting professors with a specific focus in departments like psychology and nutrition, Hewlett said she hopes to form a “strong nexus” by playing to already existing strengths.

“What’s so exciting about Syracuse is though we’re not a medical school, we literally can go from molecules to mouse to human,” she said. “I see myself looking at what’s missing in the curriculum and developing that and growing it to a point where we can offer graduate degrees.”

An induction ceremony will be held to celebrate Hewlett’s appointment Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. in the Life Sciences Complex Lundgren Room.

“It’s a big day for Beverly, and she would be very excited about it,” Bishop said. “It’s the people that really make the difference, and I think Sandra Hewett has the fire to do it. I’m looking forward to really seeing Syracuse on the map in terms of neuroscience. That would make Beverly very happy.”

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“It’s great if the numbers of enrollment increase, but what’s greater is seeing those numbers reflected in graduation rates,” García Calderón said. “How do we not only open the door but address other needs that traditional students might not have?”

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said.

Hewett is focused on pooling faculty members that are already on campus, many of whom,

“Ian is highly respected by his colleagues in the iSchool, other schools on campus and administrators for his deep understanding of policy, fair-mindedness, and willingness to discuss differences in opinion.”

Elizabeth Liddy Dean of the iSchool

fair-mindedness, and willingness to discuss differences in opinion,” Liddy said in an email.

The iSchool has reached out to collaborate with the School of Visual and Performing Arts, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management for programs as diverse as

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“Many have different backgrounds,” she said. “We speak a lot about inclusion and openness, but the most important issue is retention.”

Global Enterprise Technology and Information Technology, Design and Startups. Being able to collaborate with diverse schools is important for his home school, MacInnes believes, but also draws parallels in senate meetings.

“I really enjoy these kinds of abilities to connect with people from other schools because you learn so much,” MacInnes said.

He said he hopes to further discussions on having professors of practice in the university.

Traditionally, universities favored tenured and tenure-tracked faculty. Professors of practice are former industry experts who become fulltime faculty members but generally don’t have doctorate degrees. MacInnes said there is a broad consensus among faculty members for the practice.

“The ability to recognize faculty members who come from nontraditional academic areas is very good for the classroom and for the general interaction of faculty at the university,” MacInnes said.

Also, with such an extensive digital background, he would like to expand upon digitization practices. The eco-benefits are great, he said, but building up a catalog of searchable material is another plus.

“I really believe in having digital copies,” MacInnes said. “It’s a lot easier to find things later, and it makes your offices less messy.” bjweight@syr.edu

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Coming Out Month inspires support, learning editorial by the daily orange editorial board The personal coming out stories that appeared in Tuesday’s paper remind us all of our struggles for selfdiscovery and the courage it takes to openly defy societal expectations, our religion or our family.

Coming Out Month may inspire those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to open up to their friends and family. But such openness should be reciprocated.

Straight friends and family can use this month, too, by raising awareness, being especially supportive and learning more about a part of our community sometimes pushed to the margins.

Coming Out Month is a call to action for members of the straight community to be particularly aware of friends and family members coming to terms with their identity, especially if they have the courage to talk about it.

Coming out is not a final step. Personal coming out stories reveal it is often the opening step to a very hard period of time, marred by isolation and sometimes depression. Providing a network of support and unwavering reassurance for those who have just come out can compensate for the sometimes harrowing and destructive reactions of others.

The LGBT Resource Center offers a wealth of information not only to those questioning their identities, but also to those who feel they need to know more about the LGBTQ community. It’s far better to ask the uncomfortable questions in a safe place than to accidentally say something hurtful.

The violent tragedies that befall those in desperation are completely avoidable. It is not on the shoulders of the desperate to climb out of such darkness. It is the responsibility of the community to reassure and encourage and remind our neighbors, our peers and friends of their worth.

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t’s a scary and exciting time to be a college student in the United States — often for the same reasons. We’re living in a time of societal uprisings and social change that, in many ways, parallels the electric culture of the 1960s revolutions — equal rights legislation, wartime and questioning the role of our government. At the heart of all these forms of civil unrest is one major similarity: relevant protesting.

Most recently is the Occupy Wall Street movement, a protest that originated in New York City and has now spread to more than 900 cities nationwide in an effort to challenge the economic status quo and the degree of influence Wall Street has over our government. The main goal is to relay the message that 99 percent of America is being controlled by the elite 1 percent of Americans.

Occupy College, born out of the Occupy Wall Street movement, is similar in its fundamental purpose but differs in the sense that the majority of participants are college students located on their respective campuses. Students on more than

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not a barbie girl 100 campuses nationwide walked out of their classrooms at noon last week in protest of rising student loan debt, increasing college costs and a feeble job market.

Our generation has for once silenced the critics who incessantly cast us off as unapologetically apathetic. Thomas Friedman labeled us “Generation Q for quiet” in a 2007 New York Times column and “Generation Limbo” in an August 2011 feature. Participating students in the Occupy College protests achieved something that our generation lacked until this point: a visible presence within a significant social movement.

Now that college students have caught the mainstream media’s attention, what do we do with it?

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Students shouldn’t think of Occupy College as a single day’s worth of protesting — this nascent activism needs to be further explored. The most effective way to accomplish a cohesive social movement around the issues supported by Occupy College is not just to act and mobilize, but also to stay organized and think critically throughout the entire process.

Katrina vanden Huevel, editor of The Nation magazine, provided her own insight on this topic at Syracuse last week, the night before Occupy College took place. “There is a thin line between anger and passion.

This is a moment that calls for anger.

There’s something mobilizing about anger and about passion — and in this era, in this political moment, it’s mobilization we need fused with big and risky ideas.”

Given the current economic climate, students are rightfully angry, but I question how effective the Occupy College protests were. There weren’t any main objectives established, and, in turn, there weren’t any successful goals achieved. But as a movement, Occupy College has a hell

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of a lot of potential. Transforming this into an actual movement is just a matter of outlining goals. It’s also critical to recognize the ways in which to go about achieving these goals and targeting the right people in charge.

The general public needs to be well versed in the key issues for which Occupy College is fighting. It’s important to go about relaying these messages and achieving said goals in the most effective ways possible.

People are fired up, and mainstream media outlets are finally reporting on the outrage that fills our generation. It’s important to take advantage of this moment in history and continue to organize with a more focused direction. Activism is about determining goals and moving people who can create change. Now that Occupy College has succeeded in acquiring both an online and physical presence, we can’t let our anger burn.

Krystie Yandoli is a senior women and gender studies and English and textual studies major. Her column appears every Wednesday. She can be reached at klyandol@syr.edu or followed on Twitter at @KrystieLYandoli.

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he West Genesee School District was awarded more than half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to improve its physical education department.

The district will receive $508,173 from the Carol M. White Physical Education Program to implement its original plan “Healthy Bodies at Our Best = P.E. Success.”

The driving force behind the award is Janine Corning, a physical education teacher at West Genesee Middle School. Corning has applied for the federal grant money every year since 2008. Though denied each time, she continued to research ways to improve her “amateur” writing proposal and began working with a professional grant writing company, Insight Grants, she said.

Her persistence paid off. West Genesee is one of 10 school districts in New York to receive the

“Older fitness rooms can be intimidating. We want to teach students how to use the fresh new machines and get a lot of people excited and interested in increasing their fitness.”

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grant and the only Central New York recipient.

“Instead of just talking about health problems, we’re hoping that we will start doing something about it,” Corning said. “This is an

avenue to start making some changes.”

West Genesee’s plan focuses on lifelong fitness through physical and nutritional components, said Michael Burns, West Genesee director of athletics.

The grant money covers new weight room equipment for the high school and two middle schools, including treadmills, spin bikes, dumb bells, weight benches and pull-up bars, Burns said. He said he hopes the new equipment will be more inviting for the students.

“Older fitness rooms can be intimidating,” Burns said. “We want to teach students how to use the fresh new machines and get a lot of people excited and interested in increasing their fitness.”

The grant will also help pay for more recreational equipment, such as rock climbing walls, to introduce adventure programming and high element activities for the elementary and high school, Corning said.

There will be educational nutritional programs for all students, Corning said. Health classes and home and career classes will continue to be part of the district’s curriculum, along with district-wide presentation on nutrition. The plan will work with the food services to offer new fruits and healthy foods in the cafeterias, she said.

The grant will allow the district to provide technology for students to keep track of their health and diets. All 4,957 students in the district will be given a pedometer, Burns said, as well as access to heart rate monitors, fitness assessment software and applications that calculate body mass index.

“Our No. 1 goal is that students will take control of their own fitness and wellness,” said Brian Kesel, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. “We’re excited for the opportunities for all 5,000 of our students to benefit from this grant.” kacrisci@syr.edu

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Sedaris read from a piece called “I’m not running for president,” in which he poked fun at Republican and Tea Party candidates running for president. In the piece, God told Sedaris he was better qualified than the rest of the pack in

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the presidential race, he said.

Sedaris’ pieces appear regularly in The New Yorker. He saw his career take off after his series about working as an elf at Macy’s department store in New York City, “The Santaland Diaries,” aired on NPR. Sedaris, who is openly gay, read a story from his diary that included a quiz for mothers to tell if their sons are gay. The questions did not make him feel sorry for gay teenagers, he said, but for straight ones.

“Does he wear sweatpants to Christmas dinner?” Sedaris asked. “Congrats! He’s a heterosexual.”

Sedaris appeared small behind the university’s podium. Soft-spoken with bright blue eyes, he dispensed advice to students and aspiring writers.

“You are so young to feel discouraged. This is your time to suck,” he said, adding that it’s almost unheard of for writers to get published in their early 20s.

George Saunders, a professor at Syracuse University and a regular contributor to GQ Magazine and The New Yorker, said Sedaris has a knack for staying alert to what’s funny.

Sedaris does this both when it happens and when he goes to write about it later, Saunders said. Humor comes to Sedaris effortlessly, he said.

Saunders recalled a trip he and Sedaris took to Capri, Italy, to attend a writers’ conference.

From inside a bus, Sedaris had a group of three grade-school-aged Italian girls on the side of the street laughing uncontrollably. Sedaris was miming his plan to steal away the lollipops they had been eating.

“I don’t think he has to try,” Saunders said.

In Sedaris’ writing, “the project is not to get laughs but also to get heart. There’s not a lot of writers who do that.”

Katie Giarrusso, an Onondaga Community College student who plans to transfer to SU in the fall, said she has read all but one of Sedaris’ books three times over. She brought worn paperback copies of Sedaris’ books “Naked” and “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” with her for Sedaris to sign — their pages falling off the spine from use.

Giarrusso said she wouldn’t mind standing in line late into the night for Sedaris to sign her books.

“I’m gonna wait as long as it takes,” she said.

Sedaris signed one of his books for Paul Czuprynski, a senior English education major.

“I wish you were my English teacher,” Sedaris wrote.

“You are so young to feel discouraged. This is your time to suck.”

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Czuprynski started reading Sedaris’ books three months ago. Since then, he said he’s finished almost all of them. He said he plans on doing a David Sedaris unit in the creative writing course he teaches as a student teacher.

Czuprynski said his favorite part about Sedaris’ writing is that he draws humor from everyday, real-life situations.

“You don’t have to be experienced to have an experience or story to share,” Czuprynski said.

Sedaris said his father went to SU. The writer also wanted to apply to the university’s writing program, but was too intimidated by its prestige to apply, he said.

Now that Sedaris is famous, he said, his father doesn’t resent the picture his son paints of him in his memoirs. But he’s not satisfied with Sedaris, either. Instead, he nags Sedaris to get his prostate checked out by a doctor, he said.

“I want a light at the end of the tunnel,” Sedaris said, “but not that tunnel.” abknox@syr.edu

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Comedian to deliver quirky act

By Drew Muller Contributing Writer

Amping it up altan james | staff photographer Barnett Klane (center), a junior marketing major, launched Klane Consulting LLC in April. The company sells audio and lighting equipment to fraternities, making the buying process easier for its clientele by providing demos to test the materials before they buy.

Students remodel audio equipment business; reach larger following

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By Liz Sawyer Asst. News Editor

arnett Klane took a big risk when he started his company.

He invested practically all of his savings to pursue an idea that could easily fail.

But what Klane, a junior marketing major, lacked in business experience, he made up for in determination. And during the past five months, the 20-year-old has worked grueling hours to expand Klane Consulting LLC, a business dedicated to providing high-quality audio and lighting equipment to fraternities.

Now Klane, the company’s CEO, and his two partners are working to keep up with the business, which has quickly snowballed from a start-up to a legitimate company.

The business has made about 15 sales in the last two months, grossing more than $20,000, he said. At the end of last semester it had only made one.

Klane successfully launched Klane Consulting LLC in February after noticing that most fraternities weren’t satisfied with the current process of buying speakers.

With his original partners, Keegan Slattery and Jack Farley, Klane began marketing more than 150 different brands of audio equipment to their fraternity-

based clientele last spring.

Before, fraternities were limited to getting equipment online, which is more tedious than Klane’s method.

Klane takes equipment directly to the homes of potential buyers and performs demonstrations, allowing the buyers to test the equipment for themselves.

Within the past three months, Klane completely restructured the company. Slattery and Farley stepped down from their positions after they realized they couldn’t commit time to help expand the company.

In the fall, juniors Nick Mancini and Chris Jones became Klane’s new partners after both of their fraternities bought equipment from Klane Consulting LLC. Mancini, Jones and Klane meet two to three times a day to discuss ideas for expansion, improvement and service. They take road trips on weeknights to do demos at other universities on a regular basis, pick up equipment at their warehouses and deliver it to the customers — sometimes all in one day.

Within the next few weeks, the group is scheduled to film a YouTube commercial, do a photo shoot and sponsor three Halloween parties, he said.

“There isn’t a day where we just sit back and relax,” Klane said. “We

make a move or work on a project every day.”

The company strives to make sure its customers have access not only to quality products, but also to quality service. That’s why they ship, deliver and install all of their equipment for free, Klane said.

He always has his phone on, too, just in case there are any problems.

Klane said fraternity members have called him at 1 a.m. when they had questions about their equipment, and if he couldn’t help them via phone he would go to their houses.

“There isn’t a day where we just sit back and relax.

We make a move or work on a project every day.”

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junior marketing major and founder of klane consulting llc

“When you buy from us, you’re buying our service, too,” said Jones, the chief operating officer for the company.

Dave Zhou’s fraternity at Cornell, Zeta Psi, bought a stereo system and lights from Klane and his

partners. The junior political analysis and management major praised the group for its customer service and quality.

But the company caters to more than just fraternities now. Klane Consulting LLC sold studio equipment to Passion Pit, the band that co-headlined SU’s 2010 Juice Jam, Klane said. Students ask for things as small as headphones, diversifying the company’s sales from that of $20 to $7,000, he said.

“It’s a niche market, and we sell at cheaper prices than every other competitor,” Klane said. “So we’re beating them on price, we’re beating them on service, and we’re their peers, too.”

Nick Mancini acts as the chief information officer for the group, currently reconstructing the company website to be more efficient and user-friendly. Mancini, an information technology major, said he intends to post videos and tutorials on the site so customers will know how to take care of their equipment.

The group hopes to get the new site online by November, with full functionality of the shopping cart feature by the beginning of the spring semester, Mancini said.

One of Klane’s biggest goals is to expand sales to other campuses, and see audio page 10

Known for his offbeat personality and equally unconventional style, standup comedian Demetri Martin is set to take the stage that has been graced

by Lewis Black, Andy Samberg, Adam Sandler and Daniel Tosh.

What sets Martin apart from his fellow funny men, besides his signature The comedian 1 9 7 0 s -i n s pi r e d will bring his rou- haircut, is his tine to SU. quirky approach Where: Goldstein Auditorium to comedy.

Combining in the Schine Stumusic, artwork dent Center When: Today. and apathy into Doors open at his act, Martin 7:30 p.m., show will perform starts at 8 p.m.

Wednesday How much: $5 in Goldstein (Sold out) Auditorium in the Schine Student Center at 8 p.m.

Presented by University Union Performing Arts and the SU Panhellenic Council, the event is available to all Syracuse University and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry students, faculty and staff. Tickets cost $5 and were available at the Schine Box Office until the event sold out last Thursday.

“He’s very relatable, quirky and a lot of kids know him, so we knew he would be a perfect fit in our performing arts series,” said Amanda Shaw, co-director of University Union Concerts with Jamie Berman. They are responsible for bringing high-profile comedians, speakers and other special events to campus. Shaw, a senior child and family studies major, and Berman, a senior public relations major, said they are thrilled to deliver such a recognizable name to the Syracuse spotlight.

Known for his Comedy Central stand-up specials, a starring role in his own Comedy Central show, “Important Things with Demetri Martin,“ and his frequent contributions to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in the segment “Trendspotting,” Martin is no stranger to the college audience.

“I watched his show on Comedy Central and thought it was hilarious,” said Greg Boilard, a sophomore communications and rhetorical studies major. “He’s really different compared to other comedians.”

And if different refers to musical medleys, meandering stories and markedly unmathematical graphs, see martin page 10

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What happens when 6 people stop being polite, start speaking Mandarin

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yracuse University values diversity. I see it every day, not just in the makeup of our student body, but in all of SU’s values and institutions.

To me, there is no better example of that diversity than the six guys who live in my Ostrom Avenue house. Between us, there are 3 1/2 Jews, a Buddhist, a Hawaiian, two Christians and a black guy. In other words, we’re like the cast of a Disney Channel movie gone horribly, horribly wrong.

As strange a combination as that is, it only scratches the surface of the vast differences between us. After all, Jews and Christians worship the same god, Hawaiians are still Americans, Buddhists can practice monotheistic religions and some black people watch “Friends.” One time, I even met a white guy who likes Tyler Perry.

Rather, the biggest source of our in-house diversity comes from the mixture of academic majors among the six of us. I, along with two of

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the website is a helpful tool in doing that, he said. Klane, Mancini and Jones have road trips scheduled for Rutgers University, University of Maryland and Miami (Ohio) University. He said the group hopes to establish representatives on each of those campuses.

To make a further commitment to the company, the three men decided to room

DANNY FERSH

f*** it, we’ll do it live my roommates, study broadcast journalism.

Another one studies political science, and the other two study industrial design.

Now, as a native of Washington, D.C., who dabbles in political speechwriting, I could explain political science to the average bystander. It involves a combination of reading comprehension and a basic understanding of how the United States government works — public policy, bureaucracy, hookers, cocaine, et al.

Industrial design is a different story. Simply put, industrial design as a major teaches its students to use artistic principles to create func-

together next year, Klane said. The partners sees this as a necessary move to create a stable business they can continue even after graduation.

While business is doing well, Klane said the partners have yet to take any money out of the company; they have just reinvested it. Klane said that this is because the trio is focused on promoting the company, so money isn’t what matters right now.

“It’s not something we’re doing for the money or to get big and famous. This is just something

tional products and concepts. In reality, it’s far more complicated than that, but I couldn’t go into detail about it if my life depended on it.

You see, unlike blacks and whites, Christians and Jews, or Hawaiians and real people, industrial design and broadcast journalism majors are fundamentally different. To willfully study and excel at our different areas, we each require a certain brain type that is completely foreign to the other.

They communicate with concepts and emotions. We communicate with words and gestures. They understand beauty and functionality. We understand structure and deadlines.

They’ll work for some of the nation’s top design firms after they graduate. We’ll be unemployed.

For a broadcast journalism major, explaining industrial design is like teaching Mandarin Chinese to puppies. Its spatial, imaginative way of thinking is so far beyond me that when my roommates explain their work to me, my first instinct is to roll up a newspaper, hit them on

we really like to do,” said Jones, a junior earth science major.

Although the company puts a strain on academic work and social activities, the three said they are truly enjoying the work. Klane said he hopes they will continue to run the business even after they graduate.

“Money should never be a motivator to do a job and, at this time, I’m extremely happy with what I’m doing day to day. I’m going to do this as long as it makes me happy.”

the nose with it and tell them, “No!” On the other hand, when I help these two design geniuses edit and structure simple writing assignments, they’re equally awed by my linguistic expertise. I try to explain grammatical structure to them as I go, but they just stare at me blankly. Then they go build a lawn mower out of Silly Putty and common household appliances.

Regardless, at the end of the day we’re one big, happy, multiracial, ethnically ambiguous, geographically diverse and religiously confused family. Every day we bridge the gap between our two majors to communicate effectively as a unit.

And, somehow, we all manage to tolerate the political science major, with his hookers, cocaine, et.al.

Danny Fersh is a senior broadcast journalism major, and his column appears every Wednesday.

This piece goes out to Carson, Roarke and the 866ers. If you see any puppies speaking Mandarin on the Quad, please return them to their home at 866 Ostrom Ave. Email Danny at dafersh@syr.edu and follow him on Twitter via @fershprince #FershDays.

WHAT IS KLANE CONSULTING?

Klane Consulting LLC provides audio and lighting equipment for college groups.

The company provides high-quality equipment like speakers, lights, fog machines and smaller pieces like headphones. They have sold equipment to fraternities at SU and other campuses, as well as to DJs and electro-pop band Passion Pit.

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Martin fits the description perfectly. Generally armed with a guitar, harmonica or keyboard, he delivers jokes in a casual, almost bored manner.

Martin’s onstage antics revolve around sketching on a large pad of paper, a staple that has developed into a trademark for the comedian. His drawings range from plays on words, of which palindromes rank among his favorites, to self-deprecating cartoons and societal mockeries.

“We’re responsible for providing the technical requirements needed for the show,” said Berman. “Usually, they’re things like pianos or specific types of microphones, but in this case it was a giant pad of paper.”

Andrew Chernoff, a senior broadcast and digital journalism and political science major, is

one of the students looking forward to the show.

“We’re all college students, and we watch Comedy Central all of the time,” he said. “It’s cool to see a big name come to the Hill, following in the footsteps of Daniel Tosh.”

Shaw and Berman said Martin was looking to do a fall tour and is conveniently stopping at Syracuse a few months after the release of his book, appropriately titled “This Is a Book” His first venture into the literary realm hit shelves April 25 and contains 288 pages of essays, illogical charts and silly scribbles.

Shaw hopes that his performance, in the midst of midterms, will help alleviate some of the stress on students’ shoulders and make them laugh.

“College is difficult — we get that,” said Shaw. “Everyone works really hard to get here and stay here, and it’s our job to provide them with entertainment. We want them to laugh.” admuller@syr.edu

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TRIUMPH Gosling’s character, Clooney’s direction drive political thriller

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“THE IDES OF MARCH” Director: George Clooney

Cast: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman Release date: Oct. 7 Rating:

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eorge Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” a riveting political thriller that eerily reflects the growing cynicism in politics today, proudly preaches hopelessness. Though the storyline is fairly standard and uncomplicated, the great Hollywood showman finds a way to render it beautifully.

Based on screenwriter Beau Willimon’s play “Farragut North,” “The Ides of March” is chilling despite the absence of a threat of violence and the slightest notions of peril. Clooney draws out the darker elements of the play in transposing the story to the screen, delivering one of the year’s best thrillers; a morality play that utilizes political savvy as a means of plumbing deeper ideals about desperate men in dire straits.

A new take on the political thriller, “The Ides of March” is fashioned like a film noir with its seemingly defeated protagonist, conspiratorial elements, overwhelming cynicism, dark aesthetic and femme fatale. It reflects the current disturbing animosity between liberals and conservatives in Washington, D.C., putting the schism into focus.

Junior campaign manager Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling) is regarded as one of the best media minds in the country and a brilliant strategist despite appearing as if he could still be in college. Working under the ruthless Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) on the presidential campaign of Pennsylvania Gov. Mike Morris (George Clooney), Myers follows his boss to the White House. When a covert but innocent meeting with rival campaign manager Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti) reveals disturbing details concerning the broader outlook of the election, Myers realizes Zara’s wrath and recognizes that his naivety could injure his work.

As the scope of the fallout slowly comes into focus, Myers falls for seductive 19-year-old intern Molly Stearns

(Evan Rachel Wood). In spending time with her, Myers comes across an earthshattering secret that could spell the downfall of Morris and the Democratic Party. When he’s given little choice by the more experienced and manipulative powers overseeing him on both sides of the campaign, Myers might have no choice but to wield the secret as a weapon.

The film asserts that power does not necessarily come from the desire to ascend the political ladder but to preserve — or numbly come to terms with neglecting — loyalty and integrity. Even if the conflict between Myers and the three-headed monster of Zara, Duffy and Morris is not necessarily applicable to Washington, D.C., in its current state, the underlying motives are most certainly relevant.

Gosling is spellbinding as Myers in an Oscar-alerting performance, communicating a state of gnawing agitation with subtle force. A considerably more likeable and charismatic figure in Willimon’s play, Gosling’s Myers is a more intense workaholic with a built-in edge.

Myers embodies the vulnerability in the political battlefield. In his clashes with those more power hungry and diabolical, Myers proves he’s little more than a motherless cub alone in the jungle. But that can only happen if he channels the fury that can lead men to higher political posts while simultaneously damaging the already corrupt landscape of hatred and lies.

Clooney, who has a taste for challenging political fare, boldly interprets the eight scenes in Willimon’s play and includes Morris with a speaking part.

Hoffman, Giamatti, Wood and Clooney are all in prime form, but the clearly superior acting is not what makes “The Ides of March” so engrossing. If that were its greatest attribute it might as well have stayed on the stage. Photographed, lit and composed like a great McCarthy-era noir, “The Ides of March” is the first great political thriller of the Obama era. smlittma@syr.edu

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and they would be out there like the day before the game.”

The night of Jan. 4, 1980, was no different. A low temperature of around eight degrees meant nothing. The “Manley Zoo,” as the overly enthusiastic student section was known, probably welcomed the chill, especially considering the magnitude of the next day’s game.

Saturday, Jan. 5, marked Syracuse’s grand entrance into the Big East. The ninth-ranked Orangemen hosted — and pummeled — a Seton Hall team in front of 9,258 crazed fans.

The 99-76 win cemented SU as a contender in the fledgling conference and firmly established the role of Manley as one of the team’s greatest weapons.

“On average it was the biggest, loudest group of fans,” Bouie said. “And for the first Big East game, that was record-setting. Nobody wanted to play us in Manley Field House. It was so loud that it was scary sometimes.”

Ashford recognized the fear. While an assistant at UConn under head coach Dom Perno, Ashford said the Huskies were scared by Syracuse. When 1980 rolled around, six years elapsed since Connecticut knocked off the Orangemen.

“We were intimidated by Syracuse, that was my perspective,” Ashford said.

Yet in the first year of the Big East, that all changed. When the Huskies entered Manley on Jan. 26, they didn’t believe SU was the dominant machine that trounced them by 40 points two seasons earlier.

UConn hung tough, but ultimately lost 99-89.

A year later, the Huskies beat the Orange twice in the regular season.

The rivalry was born.

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“That year in Manley, we finally got over our jitters,” Ashford said. “We saw them as no different than anyone else. … They were talented the following year, but our guys came to play, and that was the turning point.

That was fantastic. I have to say that was a highlight.”

••• Georgetown was too confident for fear. Despite SU’s 57-game home winning streak, the Orangemen’s No. 2 national ranking and the raucous “Zoo,” the Hoyas strode into Manley on Feb. 12, 1980, unfazed.

The final game to ever be played at Manley went down to the wire. It was senior night for Bouie and teammate Louis Orr, who together formed the “Bouie ‘N Louie Show” on the court.

Bouie led the team in scoring that year with 16.1 points per game. Orr grabbed the most rebounds for the Orangemen.

Though Georgetown was unranked, SU’s senior class had never beaten the Hoyas, meaning this was their last chance to do so at home.

And Georgetown let them know it.

“They knew that if we ever beat a Maryland or Syracuse, John Duren (a three-time AllAmerican guard for the Hoyas from 1978-80) would call the opposing players on the phone and make jokes at them and crack jokes about them,” former Georgetown forward Craig Shelton said. “He would do that a lot.”

But in Bouie ‘N Louie’s final home game, it was a freshman who left them stunned.

Eric “Sleepy” Floyd, a 6-foot-3, 170-pound guard, hit two free throws with five seconds left to give the Hoyas a 52-50 win. Streak over.

Manley closed.

“At that time, I didn’t know the magnitude of what was going on,” Floyd said. “But looking back on it, that was a historic moment in the Big East. And that rivalry between Syracuse and

Georgetown just really took off from a national level.”

••• John Toner called Perno, Ashford and Jim O’Brien, the other UConn assistant coach, into his office in 1979 with an offer. Toner, then the athletic director at Connecticut, presented his basketball staff with a mandatory invitation.

“He had presented to us basically an invitation to be in the Big East,” Ashford said. “And for us, after we left that meeting, we felt that we had no choice but to join because it was going to be a great opportunity.”

Thirty-two years later, Daryl Gross was in Toner’s shoes. The Syracuse athletic director called a coaches meeting with his entire staff to discuss the school’s move to the ACC. Just as UConn had felt obligated to accept, so too did Gross in 2011.

“Obviously, very empathetic to the Big East, you know,” Gross said. “And I’ve been here seven years, I have a lot of colleagues there, and we understand it. But at the same time, the opportunity for the ACC is one that you just can’t second-guess yourself on.”

Gross described the demeanor of the coaches as “fired up” during that meeting. “Just back flips,” he said.

Boeheim wasn’t at that meeting. He was out recruiting. The face of Syracuse basketball and a Big East lifer, Boeheim’s reaction to the move was quite different.

“The chancellor has to make the decision based on what’s best for the university, and she did that, and I’m very comfortable with that,” he said.

Best for the university doesn’t necessarily mean best for Syracuse’s highestgrossing revenue sport. Though Boeheim did say rivalry games with Georgetown and St.

John’s are likely to continue as nonconference matchups following the move to the ACC, that doesn’t mean the former participants are satisfied.

Sleepy Floyd was “shocked” to hear Syracuse and Pittsburgh were jumping ship. He couldn’t imagine the Big East without the Hoyas-Orange rivalry that has entertained the country for so many years.

“It’s very sad when I heard that Syracuse was leaving the Big East and going to the ACC, basically being driven by football dollars,” he said. “ … That is a sad state of affairs in America.”

Eric Devendorf, an SU guard in the late 2000s, is convinced Boeheim would have rather stayed in the Big East. He gives the coaching mogul “a year or two” in the ACC before he retires.

As Syracuse and Pittsburgh depart, the future of the league itself is in jeopardy.

Though 14 basketball schools remain, the conference is left with only six football schools.

And as Floyd pointed out, football and money are the driving forces of the conference at this point.

On the day rumors about SU and Pitt defecting first surfaced in the national media, Dave Gavitt, one of the founders of the Big East and the league’s first commissioner, passed away.

Two days later on Sept. 18, those schools officially moved on.

“It’s something that over time, I saw it happening,” Ashford said. “And at this point in time, I can see really clearly why. Football was in the mix. “ … And my thought was that Dave, the genius behind the Big East, had died. And maybe, hopefully, the Big East doesn’t die as well.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

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Parity remains strong theme in Big East; league wide open

By Ryne Gery

Asst. Sports Editor

For Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano, the Big East has long been defined by parity. Whether a team sits atop the conference standings or scuffles at the bottom, every conference matchup is a battle.

“I think that’s been the Big East,” Schiano said in the Big East coaches teleconference Monday. “I think that’s one of the things that makes the Big East football conference so exciting is that every week any team in our league can beat any other team.”

It was true last year when Schiano’s Scarlet Knights finished in last place with a 1-6 conference record, but they earned their lone win over the Big East champion, Connecticut. And they have proven to be true again so far this season.

Schiano and Rutgers (4-1, 2-0 Big East) were picked to repeat their 2010 last-place performance in the Big East football preseason media poll, but after winning their first two conference matchups, they are currently in first place. The Scarlet Knights are one of five Big East teams with winning records at the midway point. At 3-3, Pittsburgh is a dangerous opponent and the conference’s coaches aren’t about to overlook Louisville and Connecticut despite their subpar play thus far.

South Florida and Pittsburgh have both already learned how important it is to go into each game ready to go from the start.

The Bulls’ lesson came in its first conference matchup with the Panthers on Sept. 29. Going into the Thursday night game with a struggling Pittsburgh team, South Florida was cruising.

USF was 4-0 and climbed to No. 14 in the nation behind an explosive offense.

But the Panthers upset the Bulls to end their undefeated start in dominant fashion, winning 44-17.

“Every week in this league, you better strap it up, you better be ready to play or you’re going to get beat,” USF head coach Skip Holtz said in the teleconference.

Holtz is keeping that in mind as his team prepares to take on Connecticut this Saturday.

The Bulls head coach said UConn is a solid football team despite its 2-4 start, pointing out that three of the Huskies’ losses came by a combined 14 points.

As USF looks to get back on track, Pittsburgh will try to rebound after following up its big win over the Bulls with an embarrassing 34-10 loss to Rutgers last Saturday.

Pitt head coach Todd Graham said he stressed to his team that it needed to put the emotional high of the USF win in the past and to start preparing for the Scarlet Knights. But Graham said the Panthers failed to do so, and it showed in the loss Saturday.

Graham said he is still trying to get his program established in his first year at the helm, and his players need to show more consistency.

There are no excuses for failing to prepare properly, he said, especially for a conference game. He and his coaching staff try to hammer that point home every week.

“You better be humble each week is what we talk to our guys in how you approach your opponent in the Big East,” Graham said in the teleconference. “Because if not, you’ll get humbled.”

Staying humble has also become a part of the “fabric” of Schiano’s Rutgers program. Schiano said he talks about being humble every day.

With his team off to an unexpected 2-0 start in conference play, he said it is important to keep that mentality moving forward.

This Scarlet Knights team has adopted that mentality since it began working out immediately after the 2010 season ended with a 35-14 loss to West Virginia on Saturday, Dec. 4. The Monday after the game,

courtesy of rutgers athletic communications greg schiano and the Scarlet Knights are off to an early 2-0 start in Big East play.

Rutgers is atop the conference heading into a matchup with West Virginia Saturday.

Schiano said, Rutgers was already training for 2011.

The team’s losing campaign snapped a streak of five straight bowl appearances for Rutgers, and that didn’t sit well with Schiano or the players.

Their drive to improve has formed a strong bond between the players in 2011. Now, the Scarlet Knights are taking extra time to study their playbooks together during the week. The intense preparation has translated to a high level of confidence for Rutgers on Saturdays, Schiano said.

The fast start has answered some of the questions surrounding the Scarlet Knights after losing their final six games to finish 4-8 last season.

“It was questions about doing some things that were very fundamental playing the game, as well as chemistry things that I wanted to see us get back to who we were,” Schiano said. “And we’re not there yet, but I like the direction we’re headed.”

From what Holtz has seen from afar, he thinks Rutgers has reclaimed that identity as a tough and fundamentally sound football team. The USF head coach feels it’s also the identity of the Big East, and that style of play

is the reason the conference is so competitive each week.

“It is such a balanced league with teams playing solid, fundamental football,” Holtz said.

“This is not a trick league where it’s wide open, throw it all over the yard.”

Big man on campus Stedman Bailey West Virginia Wide Receiver Last week: Seven catches, 178 yards, two touchdowns

Bailey now leads the Big East in receiving after his fourth straight game with 100 yards receiving in West Virginia’s 43-16 win over Connecticut on Saturday. The redshirt sophomore caught seven balls for 178 yards, good for a 25.4-yard-per-catch average. Bailey’s 84-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter pushed WVU’s lead to double digits and put the game out of reach. Bailey has become one of quarterback Geno Smith’s favorite targets as the Mountaineers continue to light up the scoreboard. rjgery@syr.edu

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After tying Top 25 team, SU hopes for repeat effort against Red Storm

By Rachel Marcus Staff Writer

Nick Roydhouse felt a different kind of energy during warm-ups before last Saturday’s game at Louisville. Although the warm-ups weren’t any different and the players were putting the usual amount of effort in, the aura and intensity were distinct for the SU midfielder.

“You can kind Who: St. John’s of tell,” Roydhouse Where: SU Soccer Stadium said. “Everyone When: Today, 7 p.m. was there to play.

The quality was higher. Everybody was switched on.”

Facing a highly touted opponent in that match could have been the cause for that newfound energy. The Cardinals were ranked No. 11 in the nation and made it to the national championship game a year ago. It was a big-time Big East match and the Orange came ready, notching one point in the conference standings with a scoreless tie.

SU (2-7-1, 0-2-1 Big East) will find itself in a similar situation at home Wednesday when it goes against No. 21 St. John’s (7-3-2, 1-2-0) at 7

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p.m. at SU Soccer Stadium. The Orange plays a second straight game against a ranked Big East team and a second opportunity to set the tone for the match during warm-ups.

Many of Syracuse’s best performances this season have come when SU steps up its level of play against tough opponents. It’s when Syracuse faces opponents that should be inferior — like SU’s loss to Binghamton — that it tends to fold. Roydhouse knows St. John’s will present another tough task, and the Orange will have to rise up to the occasion and make plays not just in warm-ups, but also during the game.

“It tends to be, the teams you play against, you play to their level,” Roydhouse said. “And, unfortunately, we did that against Binghamton.

When we play the better teams, we perform. We know it’s a big game.”

The defense’s play, SU’s calling card all season, is expected to produce similar results as the Louisville game, when the Orange recorded its first clean sheet of the season against one of its top opponents.

After losing its first two conference games by a goal apiece, Syracuse gained some confidence and a tangible result that things may be looking up.

St. John’s provides different challenges than Louisville. The Red Storm is quicker. It’s small and technical, and it runs around, placing pressure on its opponent.

Syracuse will have to match St. John’s intensity and pressure on both sides of the ball.

“We know St. John’s is a good team, so we’re going to have to be on our feet and have the same performance we had against Louisville,” defender Ryan Tessler said. “We’re going to go after them. We’re playing a top-10 team in the country, so we’re going to try to get a result.”

Tessler and SU will have a tough test containing St. John’s leading goal scorer, Jack Bennett, who has five goals on the season. But the Orange face challenges on both sides of the ball with a ranked team like the Red Storm.

“They’ve got quality players in all positions,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre said. “They’re a tough team to play. They really pressure you; they’ve got a lot of technique. But I like our matchups.”

There’s little room for error against a talented team like St. John’s. Everyone must be ready starting with warm-ups. Just like the Louisville game.

“Hopefully we can start like that again and start the game with a bang,” Roydhouse said.

“We just have to make sure we’re switched on for every play. There’s no time to rest when you’re playing the good teams. Every play of the game is potentially a goal-scoring play for a good team, so we have to be on our game.”

St. John’s is just another game on a grueling schedule filled with three straight ranked conference opponents. The Orange plays No. 11 USF on Saturday at home. But it also presents SU with another chance to get its Big East win in 1 1/2 years under McIntyre against a quality squad.

The warm-ups SU will take part in before the game will be the same as always — dynamic exercises, passing drills, sprinting. Against Louisville, Roydhouse said they were all on point. Passes were good, players were in position, the technique was on par.

And now SU wants to come out of the gate prepared so it can pick up a win this time.

“We now realize that we’re done against the best team we’ve played against,” Roydhouse said of Louisville. “If we can play the same way we did and just put away our chances against St. John’s, we should be able to come away with a result.” rnmarcus@syr.edu

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Looking back on Sunday’s 5-1 loss to West Virginia, Brittany Anghel can’t think of anything else she could have done to stop the bleeding.

“It’s kind of upsetting to give up five goals, but I don’t think there was a whole lot I could have done,” Anghel, the goalkeeper, said. “I definitely brought maximal effort.”

But the Orange’s wall of defense that had stood tall in front of Anghel all season finally cracked Sunday, allowing the most goals against to an opponent this season. It’s something SU (6-5-3, 5-3 Big East) hopes to prevent from happening as it goes into the final stretch of the season. Prior to the five-goal slipup, the Orange hadn’t allowed more than one goal since Sept. 23 to Georgetown.

Although Syracuse head coach Phil Wheddon said he wasn’t going to put the fault of the scoring spree against his team solely on the defense, the problem goes back to something SU has struggled with throughout the duration of the season, even if the scoreboard hadn’t indicated it. Syracuse’s defenders were not marking their players in the box.

“I said all along that against some of the better teams we’d probably get exposed, and we did,” Wheddon said.

Anghel said not marking in the box has nothing to do with a skill or talent. She said every player on the Orange knows how to mark up, and it’s just an “attitude and willingness to be disciplined” once the game is underway.

For defender Skylar Sabbag, when she looked back at the tape from the game, it came down to communicating with her teammates.

That everyone must know which opponent she is responsible for.

Once that’s figured out, following through on guarding that potential scoring threat is just as important.

“Actually getting it done,” said Sabbag, a junior. “Not just saying, ‘I have this player,’ and then letting them go during the run of play.”

Even though the SU defense was cracked this weekend, overall, Wheddon has been pleased from what he’s seen from the unit.

Syracuse already has as many shutouts this season than all of last season and has allowed five fewer goals to opponents at this juncture in

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keep improving on that and keep our focus where we don’t turn the ball over and we can continue to move the ball in our third-andshort yardage situations, how can we improve that?”

the year than in 2010.

In a conference in which Wheddon said organization is everything, the fourth-year coach has seen that asset displayed by his team.

“I think the defense has been fantastic all season long,” Wheddon said. “We’ve played multiple people back there and everyone’s contributed.”

And it comes from a group that is still relatively young, but many SU defenders have played together for two consecutive years now.

And at least in Anghel’s eyes, it has shown on the field.

“By returning almost everyone, that has helped us gain that extra chemistry,” Anghel said.

That’s why Anghel believes SU’s struggle against West Virginia is more an abnormality than anything else.

But the team can also take solace from one part of the disappointing effort. If Syracuse was going to be exposed like Wheddon feared, it happened in the regular season rather than three weeks from now, when the Orange could be playing in the Big East tournament.

In its next three games, all the SU needs is one victory to accomplish something the team set out to do since day one — make the Big East tournament.

“We were disappointed, but now we know what to work on looking at the video and stuff,” Sabbag said. “So we’ll hopefully be that much better in the next games so that won’t happen again.”

Wheddon hopes to get that one win out of the way as soon as possible. He doesn’t want to wait for other teams to control Syracuse’s playoff aspirations. Unlike previous years, when Syracuse needed another team’s assistance to reach the playoffs, this time the Orange controls its own destiny with three games to go.

And Wheddon won’t want his team to stop there. Sitting in third place in the American Division right now, SU could potentially earn a bye in the first round of the conference tournament and even earn a home playoff game if it rights the ship and continues to win.

Said Sabbag: “We’re anxious to get back out there and redeem ourselves this weekend.”

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Syracuse arrived home from Tulane at about 6 a.m. Sunday and put Saturday’s game to rest soon thereafter.

Now, heading into the Orange’s first bye week of the season, the SU players will get a little rest from game planning as well.

“This week during the bye, we’ll take a little bit of separation from ourselves and the players so they can concentrate on academics,” SU head coach Doug Marrone said in the Big East coaches’ teleconference Monday.

Marrone said he wants his players to straighten out their academics with midterms on the horizon before Syracuse starts thinking about its first opponent after the bye, West Virginia. After playing for six straight weeks, Syracuse (4-2, 0-1 Big East) has a week to evaluate how the first half of the year went before preparing to play four straight weeks against four Big East teams. The Orange’s next bye comes the weekend of Nov. 19.

Marrone said even the coaches will go through a self-evaluating period before considering the Mountaineers.

“From a standpoint of our coaches, we’re going to take a good look at ourselves and what we’ve been doing, what we’ve been calling, a lot of quality control work,” Marrone said.

He’s more worried about what SU needs to correct. All three phases have faltered for Syracuse in one of the past two games.

Against Tulane Saturday, the Syracuse defense allowed Tulane quarterback Ryan Griffin to throw for more than 300 yards for the first time all season. SU blew a 17-point lead and allowed Tulane to tie the game with less than three minutes remaining before winning 37-34 on a field goal as time expired.

The week before — in a loss to Rutgers — the Syracuse offense and special teams lapsed. Syracuse turned the ball over five times. Orange kicker Ross Krautman missed one field goal, had a second blocked and had an extra point blocked.

On Monday, Marrone said he was pleased with how Syracuse cleaned up its turnover troubles in New Orleans.

“Obviously, we come out of a game with no turnovers, which was a good sign,” he said. “How do we SEE MARRONE PAGE 14

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n an airport terminal more than a decade ago, Greg Ashford heard the future of the Big East. As he and his wife, Leslie, waited for their connecting flight from Charlotte back home to Connecticut following a vacation, he spotted Big East Commissioner Mike Tranghese.

The ensuing five-minute conversation between Tranghese and Ashford, a former assistant coach for the Connecticut men’s basketball team, told of the new direction for the conference.

“I hadn’t seen Mike in a long time because I had been out of coaching.

But I remember that he didn’t like to fly,” Ashford said. “So here he is down in Carolina, and apparently, he had been down there talking to the schools in that area.

“I remember the conversation just in passing about football, the mention that had surfaced. And so, apparently, football was becoming a prime driver now. So the conference had evolved in that direction.”

Though the exact year of the conversation eludes him, the mention of football by Tranghese remains poignant in Ashford’s memory. He spent eight seasons with the Huskies from fall 1978 to spring 1986 and witnessed the creation of the Big East conference

in the process.

Providence, St. John’s, Georgetown and Syracuse extended invitations to Seton Hall, Connecticut and Boston College to create the original seven-team Big East on May 31, 1979.

It was a league designed to bring together schools from the Northeast into a singular basketball-powered conference.

Football wouldn’t become a part of the Big East until 1991.

“Starting in the mid-1990s, that’s when football became — schools are starting to think big picture now, I guess,” Ashford said.

Big picture seems to mean big money, and in the most recent shakeup to college athletics, Syracuse and Pittsburgh left the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference, a league with a more lucrative television deal and one that provides more financial stability for its members.

In doing so, the Orange leaves a conference that its head coach, Jim Boeheim, essentially built. Boeheim took over the reins for SU in 1977 and was instrumental in the formation of the Big East, along with legendary coaches John Thompson of Georgetown, Lou Carnesecca of St. John’s and the league’s commissioner, Dave Gavitt, who was the former Providence head coach.

The seven teams began play in the 1979-80 season, kick-starting an amazing run that catapulted

the league to the top of the college basketball scene. By the time Syracuse — which won the inaugural conference championship — and Pittsburgh accepted offers to leave, the Big East had swelled to 16 schools and was considered by many to be the best basketball conference in the country.

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Boeheim said. “We were an eastern program, as was everybody else. And the league made us a national program and able to play for national championships. That’s what the Big East did. It was a great, great help for our program.”

••• By the time Roosevelt Bouie left Manley Field House the day before a

THE ORIGINATORS When the Big East formed in 1979, there were seven teams for the first season of basketball. St. John’s, Georgetown and Syracuse all finished in a three-way tie for first place, but the Orange got the nod in tiebreakers. SU went 5-1 in the league that year and was the inaugural Big East champion. Here’s a look at Syracuse’s conference games in the 1979-80 season: DATE

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of lame duck until the move to the ACC becomes official within the next 27 months. Syracuse leaves behind some of the fiercest conference rivalries in all of college sports, namely its games against Georgetown and Connecticut, and a conference that catalyzed SU’s ascension to becoming an elite program.

“It made us a national program,”

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game, the “Zoo” had already arrived.

Fans — mostly students — lined the walkways outside the arena to secure a ticket to the game. They camped out, hundreds of them, all disciples of the Orangemen.

“It was like 17 below zero sometimes,” said Bouie, a center for SU from 1976-80. “We’d leave practice, SEE BASKETBALL PAGE 12

daily orange file photos ROOSEVELT BOUIE (LEFT) AND LOUIS ORR (RIGHT) formed the “Bouie ‘N Louie” show for Syracuse and helped carry the team as it transitioned to the Big East. Bouie led SU in scoring during the league’s first year in 1979-80, while Orr led the Orangemen in rebounds.