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Family times

Student still in hospital Wednesday

By Liz Sawyer and Debbie Truong

Fifty-eight years later, Parents Weekend still vibrant tradition at SU

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Tom Feane, a Syracuse University ROTC cadet, remains hospitalized after coming into contact with a fallen 34,000-volt power line Tuesday evening.

At press time, Feane was still listed in critical condition at Upstate Medical University Hospital Wednesday, said a hospital official.

Feane, a senior political science and history major, was surveying a portion of the U.S. Marine Reserve Center’s grounds in Salina with two other cadets at approximately 6:20 p.m. Tuesday when he was shocked by the live wire.

The crossarm of a utility pole broke, sending the wire that was supported by the crossarm falling to where a guy wire was situated, said Sgt. John D’Eredita of the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office. Feane later came in contact with the charged wire, he said.

“At this point, it’s just an unfortunate accident,” he said.

National Grid crews were called to the scene to perform a full review Tuesday night and are continuing to investigate the incident, said Virginia Limmiatis, media relations representative at National Grid. The review has yet to be completed, she said.

David Harding, an ROTC cadet and senior American history major, said the cadets had a meeting Wednesday morning at 7:15 a.m. in front of Hendricks Chapel to discuss the incident. Physical training was canceled on Wednesday, too, Harding said.

Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs at SU, said the Division of Student Affairs is offering resources to Feane’s parents, as well as to those that have been emotionally affected by the accident.

Cadets were told Feane was in the hospital, he said. Both the Counseling Center and Hendricks are offering help, he said.

Resources have also been extended

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By Meghin Delaney NEWS EDITOR

olleen Bench has attended plenty of parents weekends since beginning as director of the SU Parents Office in 1993. But the fall 2001 weekend stands out in her mind.

That year, Parents Weekend came after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Bench said she was concerned people wouldn’t come because of the poor economy, the number of people that lost loved ones or those who lost their jobs after the attacks.

Instead the weekend saw record attendance.

“There was just such a need after that for parents to see their students and hug them and be with them and spend time with them that we had Thomas Wolfe amazing numbers that year,” said SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN OF STUDENT AFFAIRS Bench.

And that’s the number one reason families visit Syracuse University for the event, which became known as Family Weekend after 2007 — to spend time and check on their students, Bench said.

Now in its 58th year, the event is expecting record numbers. The weekend being held later in the semester, a higher number of enrolled students and the Friday night football game are all factors that may contribute to the higher attendance, Bench said.

As of earlier this week, just more than 4,000 people were registered and Bench said the Parents Office is still expecting more to register late this week and attend as walk-ins. Last year, 5,193 attended.

The first organized weekend for families to visit began in 1953 under then-Chancellor William Tolley’s time at SU, according to SU Archives. Bench said she believes the weekend, which predates the 1972 creation of the SU Parents Office, was created by students.

“My guess is that they determined the student body courtesy of syracuse university archives (FROM TOP) A Syracuse student’s mom and dad support the football team during probably wanted to have a visit weekend for their parents, the 1987 Parents Weekend game. In 1957, students coordinated to create the sign pulled together an idea and actually hosted it themselves,”

“I hang around the receptions table in Schine and just meet families.

They’re all so happy, they’re smiling, they’re happy to see their students and to feel connected to the university.”

at the game held in Archbold Stadium. The 1963 breakfast was held in Sims Dining Hall, which no longer exists, with Chancellor William Tolley.

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Running with purpose Syracuse hosts its first-ever breast cancer run to benefit a local hospital.

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Campaign to focus on texting

Doctor to speak about threat of over-medicating

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By Casey Fabris STAFF WRITER

Students and parents will be asked to pause and think about more than just the Syracuse football team’s performance during Friday night’s game against West Virginia in the Carrier Dome.

A public service campaign, PAUSE: drive now. txt l8r., put on by Hill Communications, a student-run public relations firm, aims to discourage students from texting while driving.

Though there was some advertising for the campaign earlier this week, it will be in full swing as of Friday, when two of the larger initiatives of the campaign will take place. At the football game, a public service announcement featuring Jim Boeheim, SU head basketball coach, will be aired and 15,000 thumb bands with the word “pause” printed on them will be distributed, said Tom Millas, director of Hill Communications and senior public relations and international relations major.

The thumb bands — similar to Livestrong bracelets — were provided by Shelly Fisher, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumna. Millas said Fisher has connections to a company that produces medical- and cause-related bracelets and was able to make a donation of 30,000 thumb bands, half of which will be distributed at Friday’s football game.

“She wanted to do something for the university and have students involved,” said Robert Kucharavy, faculty adviser of Hill Communications and professor of practice in public relations. “She kind of put it forth as a challenge to the students.”

The campaign will be launched in two parts, the first at Friday’s football game and the second at a basketball game in December, Millas said. At each launch, a public service announcement featuring Boeheim will be aired in the Dome and 15,000 thumb bands will be given out.

The team working on the campaign knew it wanted to collaborate with SU Athletics, so they approached Boeheim. He was very supportive of the initiative and agreed to be the spokesman for the campaign, appearing in two public service announcements, said Brianna Quaglia, team member on the PAUSE account and junior public relations and political

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With 30 years of experience at the local and national level, including work in seven countries and more than 40 states, Macaran Baird wants to educate the American people and students about the harmful effects “overme dic a l i zation” of normal life traumas can have on people around the world.

Macaran Baird will speak about The Herbert over-medicating. Lourie MemoWhere: Shera- rial Lecture on ton University Health Policy Hotel and Conferwill take place ence Center When: Friday, 2 at 2 p.m. Friday in the Sheraton p.m.

University Hotel How much: Free and Conference Center. Baird is a former Syracuse University Chair of Family Medicine.

Baird, a professor and head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Minnesota, will focus his talk on the integration of behavioral medicine and improving overall health.

Friends and family members need to provide social support rather than prescription help, he added. He said he believes where a person is from and the social context a person is surrounded by is key to understanding the issue at hand.

“There are limitations of the current approach to mental health,” he said.

Baird has also seen people, especially students, who become isolated from close friends and family turn to medication to help them cope. This practice is not very helpful and can lead to bigger problems in the future, including addiction and further depression, he said.

The American people need to learn to develop new coping skills that can lead the grieving person to a better state of mind, he said.

Baird said this practice of overmedicalization could lead to a “cultural disaster” among the people of the United States.

Baird has worked as a professor and as a practicing doctor. His teaching career has focused mostly on the research and gathering of information on integrated mental health.

Working at SU, Baird developed numerous relationships, and those connections along with an invita-

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Overcoming obstacles

GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN , author of “Spirit Junkie: A Radical Road to Self-Love and Miracles,” shared her personal struggles beating multiple eating disorders and addiction to drugs and alcohol to a crowded Gifford Auditorium Wednesday night. Bernstein, a Syracuse University alumna, said she transformed her life after graduating from SU in 2001, later becoming a successful entrepreneur and spiritual teacher. Bernstein told of an inner voice that inspired her: “I have been listening to that voice ever since and living the Spirit Junkie way.” SEE DAILYORANGE.COM FOR FULL STORY.

Author answers questions, reads poetry

By Kristin Ross STAFF WRITER

Iain Haley Pollock stands at the front of Gifford Auditorium behind a podium, staring out at his audience. Students queue the aisles behind microphones, ready and waiting to question him about his recent published book of poems, “Spit Back a Boy.” He was wearing a gray blazer and jeans, with black-rimmed glasses that cut across his face, framed by his scraggly beard and layered, waist-length dreadlocks. With a nervous glance at the students, Pollock grips the podium and nods his head at the first student, motioning the beginning of the Q-and-A session.

A 2007 alumnus of Syracuse University’s graduate creative writing program, Pollock spoke Wednesday evening in Huntington Beard Crouse, continuing the university’s Raymond Carver Reading Series.

Students in the ETS 107: “Living Writers” course conducted the Q-and-A with Pollock starting at 3:45 p.m., followed by a reading at 5:30 p.m. The event was free and open to the public.

Pollock began his reading by saying thank you to the university and his old professors, without whom, he said, he could not have written this book.

“I can’t imagine being the writer I am without coming here,” he said.

Pollock, smiling, described himself as laid-back. During the Q-andA, he often gave comical short answers to students’ questions before taking the time to thoroughly answer them. However, when Pollock read his poetry, he became

“He was a lot more animated than I thought he would be. He almost read it like he wanted it to be slam poetry, but didn’t quite go there.”

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serious and adapted a storytelling voice to emphasize a poem’s meaning, complete with the occasional singing of lyrics or punctuated yelling of words.

“He was a lot more animated than I thought he would be,” said Whitney Hoblit, a freshman communications and rhetorical studies

major. “He almost read it like he wanted it to be slam poetry, but didn’t quite go there.”

Hoblit came to the event because she is currently taking the ETS 107: “Living Writers” course, but said she is glad she came.

“This was definitely one of the more entertaining readings, and one of my favorites,” she said.

“There have been ones where I have been sitting here almost asleep, but this one was enjoyable. He kept it lively and made jokes, and he was an engaging person.”

The collection of Pollock’s poems in “Spit Back a Boy” range in subject matter and meaning, from a lighthearted poem of a father giving his son a haircut in “Affection” to a more thought-provoking poem of a young boy scraping at his mixed, light-colored skin tone with a knife, hoping to find a darker skin color below that he wished he resembled instead in “The Recessive Gene.”

Pollock said many of his poems are autobiographical, inspired by personal events from his life.

Several of Pollock’s poems in “Spit Back a Boy” reference his identity struggle because of his mixed racial background. Now, he said, he identifies mainly as black.

“Because of my subject matter, I tend to get many personal ques-

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science major. Quaglia is also a staff writer for The Daily Orange.

Tony Callisto, chief of the Department of Public Safety, said he felt the campaign was valid, as texting while driving is an issue throughout New York state and on campus, where there is heavy pedestrian traffic. He supported the efforts of the campaigns, saying awareness is a key instrument in preventing such accidents.

“A structured campaign with students reaching out to students will probably be more effective than us reaching out to students,” Callisto said. “Students will listen to each other and talk about this.”

This weekend, students can expect numerous initiatives from the students of Hill Communications, Kucharavy said.

“We’ll have a table on the Quad, and there will be students in the Dome handing out the thumb bands,” he said. “There will be emails sent to students later this week. It’s a full-blown communications program.”

Hill Communications started in 2001 under the name Campus Hill Communications,

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tion are what brought him back to speak at the lecture, he said. Baird has not spoken at many universities, but is excited to speak at SU. Kelly Bogart, an administrative specialist at the Center for Policy Research in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which

“A structured campaign with students reaching out to students will probably be more effective than us reaching out to students. Students will listen to each other and talk about this.”

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though the name was later changed to Hill Communications due to confusion with Campus Hill Apartments, Kucharavy said. It is a full-fledged public relations group that takes on multiple clients per year and is entirely student-run.

Said Quaglia: “Every semester we do a probono campaign or one that we don’t do for profit, and we were really drawn to this topic because it’s a really prominent thing in the media right now.” cffabris@syr.edu

is co-sponsoring the event, said a large turnout for the lecture is expected.

The Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture is hosted in memory of Herbert Lourie, a clinical professor of Neurosurgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Lourie made a name for himself in the field of neurosurgery, as well as in the national and international medical communities, until his death in 1987. nrcardon@syr.edu

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am writing to comment on a point made in the article “Equal Access” that appeared in The Daily Orange on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The article was very informative in regard to the different groups on campus, including the new Disability Cultural Center, that provide service or a forum for disability issues. The article includes a quote from Stephanie Woodward, a law student and president of the Disability Law Society, in which she expresses her disappointment that the architects for the Dineen Hall College of Law building have “not taken the concept very seriously” that universal design is “good for everyone, not just people with disabilities.” I want to assure Stephanie and readers of The Daily Orange that the architects and the entire project team fully support the benefits of universal design, and we are taking the inclusion of universal design of the new building very seriously. The regular input from Stephanie and her peer members of the Disability Law Society, their faculty adviser Michael Schwartz, members of the Beyond Compliance Coordinating Committee and representatives of the Burton Blatt Institute has guided many decisions on the design of the site, entrances, elevators, classrooms, bathrooms and overall circulation of the building. We look forward to continued dialog through the rest of the design process to assure the new Dineen Hall College of Law will be as accessible and accommodating as it can be, and I look forward to working with the new Disability Cultural Center to initiate further accessibility improvements across campus.

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Local elections affect students, despite minimal intrigue General elections are just a few weeks away. This election season, they are primarily local but attract limited student interest. Local politics directly affect Syracuse University and its students, so while the races heat up in the coming weeks, students should take a moment to become acquainted with the candidates.

Local elections are particularly important for students living off campus in the East neighborhood, where town-gown relations become the fuel for local legislation, such as the consolidation of student housing in the East neighborhood that has

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Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has worked to alleviate the frustrations of permanent residents in the East neighborhood. Miner highlighted residents’ concerns during her campaign, which played a part in the demise of the MayFest block party on Euclid Avenue in fall 2009.

Miner and the Common Council also play a major role in supporting SU’s initiatives, such as the Connective Corridor. The

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Local political bodies also have considerable control over the local arts venues and festivals, which they have a large role in funding.

Here are the local candidates whose districts include the Hill and its students: • Khalid Bey, a Democrat running for District 4 of the Common Council • Howie Hawkins, a Green Party member running for District 4 of the Common Council • Joanie Mahoney, an incumbent

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she said.

There is little information available for the first few Parents Weekends because there was no office at the time to keep records, Bench said.

The weekends have always been marked by football games, and throughout the years, Syracuse has played a variety of different teams from all over the country. In 1954, the game was against Holy Cross. In 1964, Syracuse played UCLA. And in 1965, the team took on Oregon State. Tickets for games cost $4.50 in 1963 — and an extra 35 cents for shipping and handling.

Football games are still a big draw for families today and probably the second reason next to visiting students as to why parents come, Bench said. A survey showed that 93 percent of parents prefer having Parents Weekend on a football weekend.

“I think they really enjoy the festive atmosphere of a football weekend and all the rah-rah of everything that goes on,” she said, adding it does not matter how well the team is playing.

This is the first weekend SU has played a Friday night game during the special weekend, said Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs. Having a Friday night game clears up some of the schedule for the rest of the weekend.

Wolfe said having an organized weekend filled with activities rather than visiting for an informal trip is appealing to parents and families as well.

“The events of the weekend are catered to families, and I think it’s not just that they see their son or daughter, but they also encounter other families, and then the offerings of that

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tions or questions about race,” Pollock said.

“I’m happy to answer those questions, but I’m also a little bit uncomfortable with it because I don’t speak for all African-Americans. I don’t speak for all mixed-race people. I don’t speak for all men. This is my particular experience of something.”

Even though his work is now published, Pollock said he is never completely satisfied

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weekend are appealing to them as a whole, like the game and concerts,” Wolfe said.

A program called School for Parents, which began in 1958, allowed parents to get a taste of daily academic life. Parents were allowed to wander in and out of classes and lectures. But this was disruptive, Bench said. Now, certain professors will volunteer to teach lectures and classes to parents. The professors do this on their own time and outside of their regular classroom hours to minimize disruptions.

Breakfast with the chancellor was once a Saturday morning staple of Parents Weekend.

The breakfasts were held in a variety of places on campus to accommodate growing numbers. They began in Hendricks Chapel and at one point were held in the Sims Dining Hall, which no longer exists, said Mary O’Brien, SU archivist. Tickets for breakfast in 1963 cost $1.25.

Now, because of increased attendance, breakfasts with the deans of colleges and schools are held individually, Bench said. It’s one of the most highly attended events, and not just because of the food, but because of the personal touch and chance to tour the facilities their students use, she said.

“Parents really want to talk to the faculty and they want to meet their students’ teachers, kind of going back to when their students were in grade school, if you will,” she said.

For Wolfe, the best part of each weekend is seeing families together. He said he tries to attend as many events as he can and serve as a face for the university.

“I hang around the receptions table in Schine and just meet families. They’re all so happy, they’re smiling, they’re happy to see their students and to feel connected to the university,” he said. “And they’re wearing their orange. It’s just a fun weekend.” medelane@syr.edu

with a poem, which is something he learned from his graduate professors at SU. He said his poems went through countless drafts before the book was fi nally published early this year.

“I would say I spend more time revising than writing poems,” Pollock said. “I knew it would be five or six years to write the book so that I could spend time tinkering with line breaks, tinkering with images and phrases, adding images that strengthened the logic of the poem.” klross01@syr.edu

ly affected by the accident, Wolfe said.

“It’s very much in the front of their mind,” he said. “They’re a very close-knit group.” egsawyer@syr.edu

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Washington donates to alma mater; scholarship, chair created in honor

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By Maddy Berner STAFF WRITER

ordham University received a generous gift earlier this month when famous actor Denzel Washington donated $2.25 million to the school’s theater program.

Washington gave $2 million to endow the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre and another $250,000 to fund the Denzel Washington Endowed Scholarship for an undergraduate theater student at the school, according to an Oct. 3 Fordham press release.

“I wanted to create the Denzel Washington Endowed Scholarship and Chair in Theatre at Fordham in order to offer the next generation of students positive influences,” Washington said in the press release.

Washington said in the release that he had a positive influence because of his mentor and professor at Fordham, Bob Stone. Washington said he hopes the donation will bring the same positive influences to students.

Washington graduated from Fordham’s theater program in 1977 and, after being discovered by producers through his work onstage, has been cast in more than 40 films, including two Oscar winners, according to the release. Washington, who is currently filming a movie, was not available to comment.

Bob Howe, the director of communications at Fordham, said the gift was great for the theater program, but having someone of Washington’s public stature made the donation more highly visible.

“It elevates the profile of the school, it elevates the profile of the theater program,” Howe said. “That he’s a graduate of the theater program speaks well of it.”

Howe said the Denzel Washington Endowed Scholarship is given to a student studying theater at Fordham. Howe said once the gift is put into an account, the interest from the gift pays the tuition for one student at a time, preferably a minority student from the Mount Vernon, N.Y., school district where Washington grew up.

The same applies to the Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre. It’s a faculty position whose salary is paid for by the interest made in the account. The position will go to a working actor who will teach on a semester-by-semester basis, with a new faculty member every semester, Howe said.

“That gives students access to a level of talent that they might not otherwise get in the classroom,” Howe said.

This semester’s chair holder is actress and star Phylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”

Becca Ballenger, assistant to theater program director Matthew Maguire, said some students were thrilled to learn that Rashad would be their professor. Ballenger has had people write in to congratulate the school on having Rashad as a professor.

“I think she’s perfect,” Ballenger said about Rashad. “It’s always great to have another perspective, and she’s just a remarkable artist, so to have her perspective is especially special, I would say.”

Ballenger said the donation has allowed more people to see Fordham as one of the pre-eminent theater training programs in the country.

Ballenger said she thought it was incredibly exciting to have someone like Washington, one of Fordham’s highest achieving alumni, give back to the school.

She said: “Denzel, who is a person who could give his money anywhere he likes, has decided to give it to us, to trust us, to do really great things with it.” mjberner@syr.edu

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Quidditch game flies onto Quad

By Drew Muller CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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It was a tranquil day on the Quad.

Students meandered through on their way to class or sprawled out on the grass, enjoying a brisk but beautiful day in Syracuse. Suddenly, students riding broomsticks appeared out of nowhere.

As if conjured out of thin air, a Quidditch pitch — complete with goal posts — appeared on the Quad.

Students wearing orange and white began a pick-up game of the popular wizarding pastime, launched to fame by the Harry Potter books and films.

Although the players’ feet remained rooted firmly on the ground, their steeds more Swiffer than Shooting Star, the two teams provided some high-flying action.

The impromptu match, which lifted off Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. and lasted for about a half-hour, was hosted by University Union Cinemas in conjunction with the Syracuse University Quidditch team to promote screenings of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” this weekend. Students can catch the movie Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse Hall and in Goldstein Auditorium on South Campus on Thursday and Sunday, also at 8 p.m.

At the screening, viewers can also play Harry Potter-themed activities, including trivia games in seating arrangements inspired by the four houses of Hogwarts to win prize packages.

“Not only is (the Quidditch match) to promote our screenings, but it’s also a great way to connect different student organizations and initiate cross-promotion,” said Lindsey Colegrove, a junior public relations and information management and technology major and co-director of UU Cinemas.

Judging by many of the Muggle spectators’ surprised expressions, the SU Quidditch team can only benefit from the exposure.

“We’ve been flying under the radar, and this really got us out there,” said Drew Shields, a senior advertising and international relations major.

Shields, a captain and founder of the team, started Quidditch at SU during his freshman year. He said he is pleased with the reception it has received.

Combining elements of rugby, dodgeball and cross-country running, the game may look a bit strange SEE QUIDDITCH PAGE 11

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Q&A with Eric Schenkman, lead guitarist of Spin Doctors

By Gabriela Riccardi Contributing Writer

The karaoke-worthy Spin Doctors is an alternative rock band that rose to fame in the early ‘90s.

The band will perform at the Westcott Theater on Friday as part of the 20th anniversary tour for their debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite.” Eric Schenkman, lead guitarist for the band, shares his insight on how far the band has come in two decades.

The Daily Orange: You’re performing your entire debut album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” on your tour. What was it like coming back to this album 20 years later?

Eric Schenkman: It’s pretty great because usually you don’t listen to something that old for a long time. We always played some of those tracks. Some of those are radio tracks, but going back to something that’s 20 years old and realizing that it still sounds really good, that’s sort of a happy thing. One good thing about being older is that the group is much better together than we ever were before. We sound great, everyone’s feeling good about it, and we get to go back and revisit the record to say, “Wow, this is a really great record.”

Can you explain why you feel the band is better than ever and how that has affected the album?

The four of us each have a certain pocket together that makes us have good chemistry, rhythmically and in all kinds of different musical ways. I think that one thing that 20 years does is that it makes you a little more laid-back, a little more mature. The music basically sounds

bigger than it used to because we’re a little more relaxed now. It’s more dimensional, really. Rock music comes from young energy. I think that if you’re a musician for life like we all are, I don’t think that energy dissipates that much over the course of 20 years.

What might Spin Doctors fans expect to see in the future?

This year is a great time to celebrate the birthday of this record, and it’s also a great way to get people to look at us. It’s hard these days to come out with anything new, so for us, there’s a lot riding under the surface. We have a whole catalogue of original blues music that we intend to record. I’d expect two records from us in the next 16 months. One would be more bluesy and one would be more funky stuff, straight-up New York funk. We’re grateful that the record’s turning 20 because it gives us a chance to show who we are now, where we can come out and play some of the stuff that’s indicative of where we’re going. ggriccar@syr.edu

The Spin Doctors

This alternative rock band signed to Epic Records and released its debut studio album, “Pocket Full of Kryptonite,” in 1991. The album’s two best-known singles are “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong.” The Spin Doctors rereleased a 20-year anniversary edition of “Pocket Full of Kryptonite” in August to accompany its United States tour.

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emma fierberg | staff photographer joey Distefano, a sophomore environmental engineering major, throws a ball at an opposing team’s member as a beater on the Syracuse University Quidditch team.

quidditch from page 9

to the eye of the unenchanted. But to die-hard Harry Potter fans, Quidditch is the sport of their dreams.

“I love Harry Potter, and I was really upset when it ended, so being able to play the sport from the books and movies is amazing,” said Raul Ramos, a freshman communications and rhetorical studies major and a member of the team.

The team will play in the Quidditch World Cup, the mother of all Quidditch tournaments and the only one of its kind. It will take place in New York City from Nov. 12-13 and features hundreds of college teams.

The SU Quidditch team practices on Sundays at the Women’s Building fields, and anyone is welcome to hop on a broom and give the game a whirl.

“We don’t turn anyone away. We just do it for fun,” Shields said.

As players sped off to class, the game vanished as quickly as it had materialized. For all who witnessed the match, it was an experience out of the ordinary. The magic of Harry Potter may be confined to pages or the screen, but this impromptu match allowed fans to fall back under its spell.

“This is the first time I’ve seen Quidditch on the Quad since freshman year,” said Brian Disher, a senior economics major. “People love Harry Potter, they should do this more often.” admuller@syr.edu

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“Pop culture as we know it began here with the Cardiff Giant,” said Tom Carpenter, a fellow Syracuse artist who attended the Cardiff Giant’s recreation. “It was the first pop culture sensation.”

The Cardiff Giant made the jump to the 21st century when Marshal planned on creating an original hoax of his own. While researching his hoax, he stumbled upon the story of the Cardiff Giant. To him, this is Syracuse’s own Loch Ness Monster, its local Bigfoot. What astounded him even more was that, despite being a Syracuse native, he had never known of his hometown’s tradition of folklore and innovation.

“I’m hoping people will pass the story down and say, ‘Look at this very unique and innovative thing that happened in Central New York in 1869,’” Marshal said. “The idea of passing a story down through generations is very important.”

After witnessing the original giant at the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown, Marshal set out replicating the giant to its original specifications — right down to the very size of his cold, gray nose. The original weighed 3,000 pounds but Marshal used Portland cement, hypertufa and peat moss for his creation, which weighs between 500 and 700 pounds.

Although history is a crucial component to Marshal’s giant, it is also a reminder of the intricate link between the arts and a local economy and how they help one another grow. As Marshall’s Cardiff Giant rests at the Lipe Art Park on West Fayette Street, local Syracuse businesses like Lakeland Winery and Speach Family Candy Shoppe are capitalizing on the event with special Cardiff Giant

products.

“People create new things, new ideas that drive the economy. Art helps drive the local economy and builds business,” said Carpenter, who sold Cardiff Giant T-shirts through his company, King Weasel.

This, in essence, speaks to Marshal’s goal of fostering community through art and col-

“I’m hoping people will pass the story down and say, ‘Look at this very unique and innovative thing that happened in Central New York in 1869.’ The idea of passing a story down through generations is very important.”

Ty Marshal

Creator of the Cardiff Giant project

laboration. When Marshal started building the giant, he needed additional funding to see the project through. He launched a Kickstarter fundraising campaign, which lets users pledge a specific amount they need. Then others can donate any desired amount of money. By earning his desired $3,000, Marshal proved a farreaching interest in the arts.

The giant’s effects even reach Syracuse University. Matt Reilly and Mofe Voza, two

teaching assistants for ANT 141: “Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory,” incorporated the Cardiff Giant into their curriculum this semester, hoping to raise students’ awareness of the local history. Reilly said they will bring the class down this Saturday to view the giant.

“It’s good for the community to get this exposure and use one of the most famous events in Syracuse history to do it,” Reilly said.

Marshal’s Cardiff Giant will reside at Lipe Art Park until this Sunday. Then, Marshal will transport the statue to Hanover Square via horse and buggy — just as it was done in 1869.

There, the public can behold the giant with a 25-cent admission.

Sitting in Hanover Square, the giant will be another piece in the city’s growing public arts initiative — art that is available to all within and outside of the community. With such public art installations scattered throughout the city, Marshal said projects like the Cardiff Giant are the key to claiming an artistic identity in Syracuse.

And he’s not doing it alone. Other local artists have joined in on the Cardiff Giant project, helping put together the event. Syracuse visual artist Dustin Regner said he was intrigued by the giant’s community-building abilities.

“It’s another individual bringing people together to enjoy themselves,” Regner said.

“It’s about getting people out and getting them involved by sharing and talking.”

At the park, more men, and even women, appear in top hats, bonnets and even Raccoonskin vests to create a fully immersive artistic experience. Marshal knows Syracuse’s artistic future doesn’t lie just in the past, but also in the present community.

“It’s important that artists here work together,” Marshal said, “and evolve to create a Central New York-based art form.” ansteinb@syr.edu

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What you’ll need: For the muffins: • • • • • • • • •

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 tsp cinnamon 2 teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup vegetable or canola oil 1 egg 1/3 cup milk 1 cup (or about 1 medium-sized apple) diced apples

For the glaze: • •

1/3 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoon maple syrup

Preheat oven to 400 F. Prep a dozen muffin cups with liner and spray.

Combine flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking powder.

Place oil in a 1-cup measuring cup, add egg and fill to the 1-cup marker with milk.

Whisk with a fork to combine.

Pour into flour mixture and stir just until ingredients are moist. You don’t need to use a mixer, a spatula will work fine.

Fold in the apples.

Fill the muffin cups to ¾ fullness.

Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Let muffins cool in pan. Place them on wire rack to cool completely.

For glaze, mix sugar and syrup and drizzle it over the cooled muffins. *The glaze hardens and these will stay absolutely fresh for days. Put a few in a zip-close bag in the freezer and save some for later.

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By Jillian D’Onfro Staff Writer

eck yes we’re open,” boasted the little sign hanging on the door at 550 Westcott St., eliciting smiles from my dining partners and me. The door opened to a steep staircase, leading up to one of Westcott Street’s newest businesses: the Mello Velo Cafe.

If the name sounds familiar, that’s because it probably is. Although the cafe just opened in September, Mello Velo Bicycle Shop has existed in Westcott since 2009. From the beginning, owners Steve Morris and Sarah O’Mahoney thirsted for the juxtaposition of bicycles and good coffee, and they finally made that goal a reality this fall.

Although the main entrances of the cafe and the bike shop are different, upstairs, a single door joins them both.

After conquering the stairs, we chose a table close to the door and hopped onto the high stools surrounding it. Although I say we “chose” the carly piersol | staff photographer table, there really wasn’t much of a choice; the place Mello velo cafe is an extension of Mello Velo Bicycle Shop on Westcott hummed with activity on a Sunday afternoon.

Street. The eatery offers a variety of dishes, including homemade hummus.

Almost every other three-person table was taken.

Conversations burbled steadily over the Van Morrison song playing in the background. Along with the chattering arrived. The arrangement of the food seemed purposeful — a sliced groups of diners, some students also sat alone, bent over textbooks strawberry garnished my plate. The glassware, brightly colored and with their mugs of coffee. bold, added the finishing touch to an already well-presented meal.

An eclectic mix of furniture — several styles of chairs surroundNot only did my panini look great, it tasted even better than I ing the same big, middle table, and tables varying in design — gave expected. The crisp bread and smooth avocado complimented each the cafe an interesting, creative vibe. Situated in front of the counother, with an additional crunch added by the thick slices of bacon ter, two comfy armchairs looked perfect for curling up in with mugs and the cucumber. A slightly tangy mayonnaise, layered thinly, proof caramel apple cider, a current Mello Velo special. vided an extra juiciness to the sandwich along with the tomato. So The menu was more extensive than I had expected. Besides the many different flavors coalesced perfectly in my mouth; everything coffee and the selection of baked goods (squash bread, anyone?), amazing about a typical BLT was magnified. there were a variety of different paninis and several side options.

The hummus was unique as well. Garnished with paprika, it Morris and O’Mahoney make sure that everything they serve is as tasted nutty and sweet. Cut into triangles, the soft and thick pita was locally sourced as possible. Vegetables either come from one of the perfect for dipping. area farmers’ markets or Morris and O’Mahoney’s own backyard.

For dessert, I purchased a cookie called the Occupy Chi, made They brew Gimme! Coffee, supplied from Ithaca. Nearly everything with all organic ingredients by a woman who lives in the neighboris organic. hood. Morris said she cares more about cookies than anyone he’s “It just makes sense,” Morris said. “It’s better for you, and it’s ever seen. She crushes her own barley for flour and sweetens it with better for the earth.” maple syrup. My cookie contained large chunks of crystallized ginI ordered what might just be the best panini concept in the entire ger. It tasted like a cup of tea in cookie form, but sweeter and more world: a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich with cucumber and delicious. avocado, dubbed by Mello Velo as “The Gran Fondo.” Bacon and From the food to the atmosphere, the Mello Velo Cafe is the kind avocado gracing the same sandwich? I could hardly wait for my food of place that invites you in like an old friend: You’re immediately to arrive. We also ordered the homemade hummus and pita platter. comfortable. It’s an ideal spot for anyone craving strong coffee and Although I debated getting a mocha or a latte, I stuck with simplicity a feel-good meal, a calming place to study or simply an escape from and ordered a regular cup of coffee. Brewed from a blend called Piclife on campus. jidonfro@syr.edu colo Mondo, it tasted bold and sweet.

The attention to detail stood out from the moment that our food

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bobby yarbrough | staff photographer jordyn burns (right) handles the puck for Syracuse in Wednesday night’s loss to Colgate. Burns and the Orange fell to the Raiders 3-1 at Tennity Ice Pavilion.

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The Orange power play unit continued its struggles, getting off just four shots in 1:44 with the two-player advantage.

But the issues for SU didn’t end there. The Orange defense broke down to allow Colgate to pad its lead.

Burns got trapped in a corner near the top of the offensive zone and coughed up the puck.

This set up an odd-man rush that was capped by deke by Melissa Kueber to assist a Taylor Volpe goal to put Colgate up 2-0.

In the third period, though, the energy changed for the Orange after Flanagan pulled Billadeau from the game and replaced her with third-string goalie Stephanie Jones. It was Jones’ first appearance of the season.

Flanagan said the move was made to get Jones some playing time and “maybe get something going.”

Though Caroline Potolicchio added an insurance goal against Jones early in the period, the change in net along with what Flanagan told the team in the locker room lit a fire in the team for most of the final period.

The Orange played with an aggression that was lacking early.

“Our coach, Paul, definitely brought that up in the dressing room, and he had to repeat it again, and that’s where we came out stronger,” Hosoyamada said.

The Raiders added some insurance in the third period by way of Potolicchio’s second goal of the season before the Orange finally got on the board with less than two minutes remaining on a goal by Jessica Sorensen.

Normally a garbage time goal isn’t thought of as much, but Sorensen’s goal came on a power play, and Flanagan hopes this will give the team a little bit of momentum moving forward.

The head coach is hoping his team can take the lessons from the poor performance and improve as the season goes on.

“Sometimes failure’s good for you,” Flanagan said. “You learn a lot about yourselves.

We’ll see what kind of character our team shows up with.” dbwilson@syr.edu

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Tulsa player dons number of deceased friend

By Andrew Tredinnick Asst. Copy Editor

After George Clinkscale passed away Sept.

21, Curnelius Arnick approached Clinkscale’s fiancee with an idea.

He wanted to honor his friend and former teammate at Tulsa by wearing his No. 8 jersey.

Arnick received her blessing and took the field for Tulsa against North Texas on Oct. 1 — the day of Clinkscale’s funeral — donning his fallen teammate’s number. Arnick could not put into words what it felt like running onto the field for that game. He simply wanted to give Clinkscale, a former linebacker, the chance to be on the field one last time.

“For the rest of the season I’m trying to dedicate the season to him,” Arnick said. “Just play how I know he would want me to play and just make him proud.”

The gesture for Clinkscale — who died at age 24 after participating in an unsanctioned boxing match — proved that Arnick has not only grown as a player in his senior season at Tulsa, but he has also grown even more as a person. Arnick has stepped up on and off the field to honor his friend.

In a year marred by a change in defensive scheme under a new coaching staff and the death of his former teammate, Arnick has stayed strong and provided a sense of unity in the Golden Hurricanes locker room.

Through it all, he has transformed into one of the nation’s most dynamic defensive playmakers under first-year defensive coordinator Brent Guy. With 74 tackles through six games, Arnick is fifth in the nation in tackles per game. The linebacker is also pushing to break

Tulsa’s single-season record of 165 set by Chris Chamberlain in 2007.

Coming from a large public high school in Dallas, Arnick had to adjust to the culture of private college like Tulsa.

“He’s grown a lot as a person,” Guy said.

“He’s a world changed from where he grew up, what he knew, to where he came to a private school, just culturally. Guys respect him for seeing what he’s gone through and the changes that he’s made.”

For Arnick’s transformation to take place he had to adapt to a new coaching philosophy. Seven out of the 10 coaches on the Tulsa staff, including Guy, are in their first season with the team.

Arnick had to find his niche in Guy’s new 4-3 defensive scheme. Arnick was inserted at the Mike linebacker position, and he has flourished as the quarterback of the defense. Guy said Arnick’s nose for the football and ability to dissect the defense rapidly makes him an effective leader of the defense.

His play is very similar to the way Clinkscale played during his time at Tulsa.

“He was always going to be there,” Arnick said. “He was going to make the play, and if he wasn’t making the play, he was doing what he needed to do to help his teammates or his fellow defensive players. He always supplied the team with a spark and a passion.”

Arnick was one of the few members on the team that got the chance to play side by side with Clinkscale for two seasons before the former linebacker graduated in 2009.

Arnick and the upperclassmen on the team were the deeply affected by Clinkscale’s pass-

ing. But many of the freshmen and sophomores did not know who he was, and following Clinkscale’s death, the Golden Hurricanes seemed to be divided by varying levels of heartache.

But Arnick took it upon himself to rally his teammates to honor a member of the Golden Hurricanes family. He spoke with the team’s captains and each player donated their per diem, or cash allowance, for one week — a total of $1,800 — to Clinkscale’s fiancee.

For junior defensive end Cory Dorris, that gesture brought the team closer together. The younger players may have seen Clinkscale on the sidelines as a spectator, but many of them didn’t know what he meant to the program until they saw the older players’ reactions following his death.

“Even though it’s not something they can relate to because they didn’t know him,” Dorris said, “it’s something they can see us and see our heartache, and with that they can respect that, and they can come together with us.”

The loss of Clinkscale shows how quickly life can take a sharp turn. For Arnick, the memory of Clinkscale will serve as inspiration for the rest of the season. And for the team, his death is a constant reminder of what it means to play for Tulsa.

“I think for them it’s a real reality check,” Guy said. “And for the opportunity when you’re out here sweating and it’s hard, it’s tough, and you want to think about doing other things, you think about, ‘Hey, George didn’t have much time on earth, I better make the best of it.’” adtredin@syr.edu

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Pittsburgh’s Gibbs chosen as Preseason Player of the Year

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

NEW YORK — Ashton Gibbs knows that being named the Big East Preseason Player of the Year is a major achievement. It took a lot of work both on and off the court to propel him to that status.

But just hours after he was projected as the top player in the conference for the upcoming season, Pittsburgh’s senior guard was already putting the award behind him.

“I’m just trying to push it aside,” Gibbs said. “It is what it is. It’s definitely a great accomplishment. I worked really hard for it.

But at the same time, I really just want to win this year.”

Gibbs became the fifth Panthers player to earn Preseason Player of the Year honors at Big East men’s basketball media day Wednesday at the New York Athletic Club.

Syracuse and Connecticut took home the top team honors of the event as the rivals tied for first place in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll. The other top individual honor of the day, Big East Preseason Rookie of the Year, went to Connecticut center Andre Drummond.

Drummond did not attend media day, but his teammate Alex Oriakhi gushed about the freshman big man.

“He’s willing to learn,” Oriakhi said.

“That’s the thing I’m impressed about him most. He’s willing to listen and improve and get better. When you do that it helps. When you’re 277 pounds as well, it helps a lot. I think he’s going to be able to come in right away and help us from the start.”

The idea of Drummond contributing this year seemed impossible as recently as August.

The No. 2 overall recruit in the Class of 2012 was originally going to attend prep school for a year but surprisingly committed to UConn at the end of August.

And from what Orakhi said, Drummond has lived up to the hype in the preseason.

“I’ve seen athleticism out of this world,” the senior forward said. “He’s just a very athletic kid. Once he learns how to slow down a little bit and not do everything based off athleticism, it’s going to be scary.”

Gibbs, on the other hand, has relied on his shooting to power him to the top of the conference. He shot 49 percent from 3-point range last year and enters the season ranked third on the Big East career list, shooting 45.4 percent from deep on his career.

Gibbs said his biggest individual goal this

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Stealing the show While Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim shrugged off the multiple questions posed to him regarding the Orange’s upcoming move to the Atlantic Coast Conference, other coaches in the Big East did not hesitate to open up about conference realignment.

And for Villanova head coach Jay Wright, who had remained mostly silent on the matter prior to Wednesday, it has been hard to keep up with all the changes.

“Every time I say I’m going to talk about it, I think I have a feel for what’s going on,” Wright said. “But I swear by the time I go to talk, things change and then I know I don’t know what I’m talking about. That has really happened a lot.”

But while simply keeping up with all the changes has been frustrating for some, the ongoing episode of conference realignment has been even more trying for the Big East.

The conference has already lost Pittsburgh and SU to the ACC and a commitment to join the conference by Texas Christian. And many of the coaches voiced their opinions on the changes in college sports on Wednesday.

“To me, the No. 1 thing of significance in aligning any league is geography,” Louisville head coach Rick Pitino said. “That’s what made the Big East run so smoothly. But now, when you talk about people flying from the Midwest to the East or vice versa, the athletes aren’t being taken into consideration.”

Both Wright and Pitino said not a single recruit has asked questions about this conference shake-up. And while realignment may be taking over headlines now, both also agreed that once the games actually begin, it will fade to the back of people’s minds.

“Once you get into the actual playing, no one will talk about conference realignment,” Pitino said. “I’m sure at every game, you’ll have signs about the schools that are leaving.

I’m sure Georgetown’s going to have some nice signs about Syracuse. That will be, but once the season starts, nobody will talk about realignment.”

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marinatto from page 20

The biggest piece of news from the teleconference was the announcement that even if the Big East secures two replacements for Syracuse and Pittsburgh, the commissioner will not allow them to leave any earlier than June 30, 2014.

He made that point perfectly clear when asked again on Wednesday if there was any intention of letting Syracuse and Pittsburgh leave early, smiling at his emphatic response.

“We have no intention of doing that.

Period. Exclamation point. End of sentence,” Marinatto said.

Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim skirted around the topic when he was asked about the

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future of his team. He made it very clear his focus was on preparing for the 2011-12 season, which he knows will be in the Big East.

But unlike Marinatto, Boeheim didn’t shut the door completely on an early exit for the ACC. “My only concern as a coach is getting this team ready to play,” Boeheim said at Big East media day. “And I’ll get next year’s team ready to play wherever we are. I’ll leave it at that.”

Boeheim’s tight-lipped approach to questions about realignment and the ACC was strikingly different than those of his coaching colleagues.

Louisville’s Rick Pitino remained outspoken and candid, exactly as he has during the entire conference expansion process.

He referenced the ages of Boeheim and Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun, saying their coaching window is rapidly closing. And with

both of those coaching moguls having accomplished so much in their careers, an additional “one or two years” in the ACC wouldn’t mean much to them at this point.

Like Pitino, Marinatto acknowledged how difficult it must be for Boeheim to see the conference in its current jumbled state.

“I have a lot of respect for Jim for what he’s been able to accomplish over the years,” Marinatto said. “I think Jim is a very loyal Big East guy. He’s been here from the beginning, and he’s one of the few people that can really truly appreciate the evolution of the Big East conference and what it’s done for Syracuse University.”

The Big East that Boeheim remembers from the inaugural season in 1979 is without similarities to the new models Marinatto and his staff are considering. Thirty-two years ago, it was a seven-team basketball league. Today, the Big East is exploring an option that could lead to a 14-team football conference with 19 schools.

Marinatto even said the Big East has done models of a 24-school format. Four basketball divisions with six teams in each. Every team plays the teams in its own division with additional crossover games.

“This isn’t exactly what I signed up for,” Marinatto said, chuckling. “I was never contemplating this being the thing that you would focus all your time on, the last 18 months really, since November or December, I think, of 2010 has been about conference realignment.”

And while the coaches were repeatedly questioned about the future of the Big East, there sat the players — sometimes awkwardly.

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ment in March won’t suffice.

Said Joseph: “The team goal is to win it all, from the Big East tournament to the NCAA championship.”

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ble of much more than winning the Big East.

And as a result, the players are expecting more.

Another early exit from the NCAA Tourna-

“I can’t tell you how happy I am to be talking with you about basketball this morning.”

John Marinatto

big east commissioner

It was a scene made possible by the turbulent realignment process. Marinatto’s excitement about the beginning of basketball season seemed ironic by the event’s end, as the players themselves were passed over to discuss the league’s future rather than its impending season less than a month away.

It’s a trend that will likely continue until June 30, 2014, at which point Syracuse and Pittsburgh will be released. And hopefully, by that point, the talk of expansion will cease.

“I don’t think anyone — obviously no one has a crystal ball — but I don’t think anyone expected what’s happened over the last several months to ever happen,” Marinatto said. “Not in the way it’s happened. It’s unfortunate, and it’s not something that I’m proud of.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

mjcohe02@syr.edu —Staff writer Zach Brown contributed reporting to this article.

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Preseason poll ranks Orange 1st

SU lacks energy, enthusiasm in loss to Raiders

By David Wilson Staff Writer

By Michael Cohen Sports Editor

NEW YORK — As Jim Boeheim leaned nonchalantly back in his chair, a rainy Central Park visible out the window behind him, the Syracuse head coach offered a quick, almost haughty response when asked about his team’s place tied atop the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll.

“Yeah,” said Boeheim at the Big East’s annual men’s basketball media day at the New York Athletic Club on Wednesday. “Normally that’s the way it works.”

Truth be told, he’d already predicted it. The SU head coach said as much during the Orange’s media day in Syracuse on Oct. 14.

On Wednesday, the Orange was voted to the top of the preseason poll — along with defending national champion Connecticut — to begin the 2011-12 season. Syracuse and Connecticut shared the top spot with 209 points each. The Huskies received seven first-place votes to SU’s five.

“Coming off of a successful year and you have a lot of guys back, your ranking’s going to be pretty good,” Boeheim said last Friday at SU media day. “As it should be.”

Louisville (3) and Pittsburgh (1) were the other two schools to receive first-place votes, and they ranked third and fourth in the poll, respectively. Cincinnati rounded out the top five.

The No. 1 ranking, though, expected by Boeheim, means more to the players than their legendary head

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1 Connecticut (7) 209 1 Syracuse (5) 209 3 Louisville (3) 201 4 Pittsburgh (1) 188 5 Cincinnati 169 6 Marquette 155 7 West Virginia 132 8 Villanova 127 9 Notre Dame 114 10 Georgetown 104 11 Rutgers 75 12 St. John’s 71 13 Seton Hall 56 14 South Florida 43 15 Providence 40 16 DePaul 27

brandon weight | photo editor jim boeheim predicted a high ranking for his team at SU media day Oct. 14. His words were validated Wednesday when Syracuse was voted first in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll. coach. Boeheim has often expressed his opinions on how wrong the polls can be — see last year’s “most overrated team” he’s ever had.

But it gives the players something to strive for.

“They want to be the best team in the league, so that’s what they want,” Boeheim said on Wednesday. “And that’s what they should aspire to.”

The team will be led by seniors Kris Joseph and Scoop Jardine, both of whom received preseason recognition within the conference. Joseph and Jardine were Syracuse’s player representatives Wednesday at the New York Athletic Club.

Joseph, who averaged 14.3 points per game and 5.2 rebounds per game in 2010-11, was named to the Preseason All-Big East First Team. He was joined by Ashton Gibbs of Pittsburgh (selected as the Preseason Player of the Year), Jeremy Lamb of Connecticut, Darius Johnson-

Odom of Marquette, Tim Abromaitis of Notre Dame and Kevin Jones of West Virginia.

“As an individual, I just want to be the best player, the best teammate that I can be, the best leader that I can be for these younger guys,” Joseph

how deserving the Orange is of the preseason No. 1 ranking.

“I guess they’re deserving of it,” Gibbs said. “But at the same time, it’s preseason, so we’ll see if they deserve it or if any team is really deserving of their ranking once the

“They want to be the best team in the league, so that’s what they want. And that’s what they should aspire to.”

Jim Boeheim

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said at media day on Wednesday.

Jardine was named to the Preseason All-Big East Second Team.

He is coming off a junior season in which he started every game for the Orange, scoring 12.5 points per game and leading the team in assists.

Despite SU’s veteran leadership, Gibbs wasn’t sold on Wednesday of

season starts. We’ll see how everything unfolds after the season. Preseason is preseason.”

And with the preseason comes lofty goals and expectations, as each team enters with a clean slate.

So with the No. 1 ranking in hand, Joseph looked at the bigger picture.

He feels this Syracuse team is capasee syracuse page 18

Marinatto enjoys break from realignment

By Michael Cohen Sports Editor

NEW YORK — The deep sighs heard Tuesday in John Marinatto’s teleconference were gone one day later in New York City. He’s undoubtedly tired, frustrated and disheartened as the league to which he’s dedicated nearly two decades of his life teeters on the cliff of existence.

But Wednesday, from the podium at the New York Athletic Club at the Big East’s annual men’s basketball media day, a smile found its way onto Marinatto’s face. He welcomed the change in topic.

“I, for one, am obviously very happy to be talking to you about basketball this morning,” Marinatto said. “I can’t tell you how happy I am to be talking with you about basketball this morning.”

In the midst of a whirlwind month that saw the death of the Big East’s original commissioner and co-founder, Dave Gavitt, the defection of Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the Atlantic Coast Conference and the departure of Texas Christian before it even played a game, Wednesday’s focus on basketball was a relief for Marinatto.

And though he couldn’t fully escape

questions about realignment and expansion, he could do so knowing this day was all about basketball and not football or television deals.

“Today is also about a preview of the Big East basketball season that won’t be affected by all the aspects of conference realignment,” Marinatto said. “So we’re focused on that as we move forward.”

Nonetheless, he was swarmed by reporters following his statement to open the media day event and faced a slew of questions to follow up his teleconference from Tuesday afternoon. see marinatto page 18

Paul Flanagan called it the worst game he’s ever coached.

“The team just wasn’t ready,” Flanagan, the Syracuse head coach, said. “That’s my job to get the team … It’s our colgate 3 ready. job to get these syracuse 1 kids ready for each and every game.”

Flanagan’s Syracuse team lacked energy and focus in its 3-1 loss to Colgate on Wednesday in front of a crowd of 125 at Tennity Ice Pavilion. The Orange looked lost for stretches and came out flat in the opening period against the Raiders. SU conceded the first goal for the second consecutive game and was thoroughly outplayed from start to finish.

For the Orange, its struggles were clear as soon as the puck dropped.

A defensive gaffe in the opening minute of play allowed Brittany Phillips — the nation’s leader in points per game entering Wednesday — a breakaway opportunity that was denied by Kallie Billadeau.

“We just didn’t come out focused at the beginning of the game, which obviously showed,” freshman defender Jordyn Burns said.

From there, the opening period was mostly uneventful until the closing seconds of the period.

With time winding down in the first, Miriam Drubel skated into the offensive zone, where she got tangled up with SU defender Akane Hosoyamada, who was called for a penalty.

The struggling Orange special teams unit was forced to start the second period on the penalty kill. And the Raiders capitalized on the opportunity less than a minute into the period on a slap shot goal by Phillips.

“Colgate did a good job of frustrating us, but I think we were our own worst enemy,” Flanagan said.

The opportunities started to come for Syracuse in the second period, but on Wednesday, anything that could go wrong for the Orange went wrong.

Shiann Darkangelo nearly answered Colgate’s goal with two of her team-high five shots just a minute later, but was robbed on a fantastic save by Raiders goaltender Kimberly Sass.

Later in the period, Hosoyamada redeemed herself for the earlier penalty by drawing a tripping call against Phillips to set up a five-onthree for the Orange.

But Syracuse couldn’t make the most of the opportunity Hosoyamada created. see ICE HOCKEY page 14