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Open secrets The founder of the website

Presidential debate?

Dress to impress Ditch the grungy look in favor of

Mountain climb The Syracuse football team travels to West Virginia

Ben Klein and Roman Acosta battle over Obama’s health care bill in part 1 of a 3-part series.

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PostSecret shares stories with SU students. Page 3

looking for its first victory over the Mountaineers since 2001. Page 28

tailored, presentable looks. Check out Pulp’s fall fashion guide for this year’s latest stylings. Page 13

Rolling in Use of Molly – the purest form of Ecstasy – growing on campus, becoming party staple

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he drink earned the nickname “liquid cocaine.”

Four Loko tastes something like artificial fruit, and downing a can of the malt beverage is like downing a cup of coffee with three beers.

Four Loko is one of the newest caffeinated alcoholic drinks to hit the market. It comes in tall-boy, 23-ounce cans with bright blue, green and yellow logos that advertise flavors like watermelon, raspberry, lemon-lime and lemonade. The beverage features doses of guarana and taurine, in addition to caffeine — more than enough to give drinkers a jolt of energy during their drinking

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Smash hit on college campuses, Four Loko sparks criticism

130 more UVA residents than last year overwhelm, crash Internet

By Michael Boren ASST. NEWS EDITOR

Rich Tehan was taking an online quiz from his bedroom at the University Village Apartments complex when his Internet crashed.

“I lost connection completely to Blackboard so it cut out, and I got a zero on the quiz,” said Tehan, a junior information management and technology and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major.

Tehan’s professor let him make up the quiz after he explained the Internet collapse. But it was not the fi rst or last time Tehan’s Internet went down in the apartment, and it has happened with both wireless and Ethernet connections.

He now uses Syracuse University’s network to complete homework and has had to travel to Goldstein Student Center six times to connect to the Internet, which he said was a

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im lights, blaring music, students crammed into a dirty basement: It’s a typical Friday night.

Enter Molly: The room brightens, the heart races, the crowd becomes comforting.

Molly is the nickname for the purest form of MDMA, or Ecstasy. A highly popular drug in the 1990s rave scene, MDMA, an amphetamine, is reemerging as a common party drug at Syracuse University. The limited research on the drug’s long-term effects, combined with the euphoric feeling it induces, has led some students to perceive it as a safer alternative to other hard drugs.

“I know a lot of kids that say they don’t do drugs would do Molly,” said Casey Siegel, a sophomore fashion design major.

Siegel said she heard about MDMA in high school and knew students who did it last semester. But this semester, she has witnessed an increase in the drug’s popularity among students, she said.

MDMA usage was at its height in New York state in the 1990s, said Erin Mulvey, special agent and public information officer for the New York field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency. Recent investigations have shown the drug coming across the Canadian border and being marketed to college students as a “club drug,” she said.

Pure MDMA reduces the serotonin in the brain. This induces happiness, but the user cannot tell if it is real or fake happiness, she said. But there is no way to tell if the pills or powder are pure MDMA unless they are tested.

The ingredients are often mixed in unsanitary places like bathtubs and toilet bowls, Mulvey said. MDMA

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Panel debates student blog controversy

By Jon Harris ASST. COPY EDITOR

Freedom of speech and the Internet was supposed to be the topic of debate at the College of Law Wednesday, but despite organizers’ efforts, the focus derailed to the controversial blog SUCOLitis.

The debate, “Anonymous Free Speech and the Internet at a Private University” held Wednesday at 12 p.m. in MacNaughton Hall, was part of National Freedom of Speech Week and was hosted by the Tully Center for Free Speech and

the American Constitution Society.

Ryan Suto, president of the American Constitution Society chapter at SU, said the event was not held to promote SUCOLitis, the satirical and controversial WordPress blog. The blog pokes fun at the Syracuse University College of Law and is written by a group of second- and third-year law students who began posting online in early October. The blog had more than 12,000 hits before it became private Wednesday night.

“This event is not supporting

any particular blog or any specific speech,” Suto said. “The participants in this debate do not necessarily support what they argue today.

They are merely playing a role.”

SUCOLitis is not a news blog and has no actual news and “should not be attributed to any persons, living or dead,” according to a disclaimer on the blog.

Len Audaer, president of the Parliamentary Debate Society, is the sole person currently being investigated for harassment by the College SEE LAW PAGE 7

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Back down to Morgantown Check dailyorange.com this weekend and in Monday’s edition for all the coverage of SU vs. WVU as our beat writers make the trek to the Mountaineer State.

Yankees beat Rangers, stay alive

The New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 7-2 Wednesday night in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, according to ESPN.com. The Yankees, the defending World Series champions, avoided elimination and trimmed the Rangers lead in the series to 3-2. Yankees pitcher C.C. Sabathia scattered two runs over six innings with seven strikeouts. Nick Swisher, Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano all homered for the Yankees. Game 6 of the ALCS returns to Texas on Friday as the Yankees try to even the series, according to ESPN.com.

Giants win, push Phillies to brink

The San Francisco Giants defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 6-5 Wednesday night to take a commanding 3-1 National League Championship Series lead, according to ESPN.com.

Game 5 will be held Thursday night as Phillies’ ace Roy Halladay faces off againt back-toback Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum.

UPCOMING EVENTS MLS Commissioner Don Garber

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CORRECTIONS In a Sept. 20 article titled, “PostSecret creator, Frank Warren, to present on campus,� the student group that brought Common to campus last spring was incorrectly stated. The Muslim Students’ Association and the Student AfricanAmerican Society collaborated to bring Common to campus. The Daily Orange regrets this error.

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Leader of US bid for World Cup to speak

World volunteer organization to recruit students

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Soccer and the United States have a hesitant relationship. Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber is trying to change that.

Garber, a member of the committee to get the 2022 World Cup bid for the United States, will be speaking in Kittredge Aud itor iu m on ThursWhere: Kittredge day at 7 p.m.

Auditorium about why When: Today, 7 p.m. the growth of How much: Free soccer in the United States is important and how it can be achieved.

More children play soccer than any other sport, yet it has failed to join the ranks of popular professional sports, said Rick Burton, a professor of sport management.

Burton, who has known Garber for more than 20 years, said he chose to ask Garber to speak to students this fall, because the World Cup bid decision falls in December.

“I thought that given that this is the year that the World Cup decision will be made as to which countries will host the 2018 and 2022 World Cup, and that decision gets made in December, that this would be a great time to have him on campus,” Burton said.

Burton and Garber met when they worked together for the NFL. Garber spent most of his time with the NFL dealing with the international division. He also handled business development, taking care of television and marketing for the league.

Garber became the second commissioner of MLS in 1999. He has been attempting to get soccer on the same level in America as it is globally and has emphasized creating stadiums that aren’t shared with other sports to help the MLS create a more distinct identity. He has secured the organization fiscally by adding 15 new investors.

By 2012, he will have added nine new teams to the league.

The United States will be competing with Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea for the 2022 World Cup. Garber is joined on the Bid Committee Board of Directors by a group that includes former President Bill Clinton, U.S. soccer see garber page 8

“The Creation of a Soccer Nation in America”

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danielle parhizkaran | asst. photo editor frank warren , creator of the popular blog PostSecret, talks about how running a blog of anonymous secrets has helped him deal with his own secrets on Wednesday in Goldstein Auditorium.

PostSecret creator spills secrets

By Elora Tocci Asst. Copy Editor

Students’ voices shook as they voiced their deepest secrets.

Confessing attempted suicides, battles with depression, losing parents to cancer and personal sexual activity to an auditorium full of strangers, they bore all to a full audience.

The point of Frank Warren’s sharing exercise was this: You are not alone.

PostSecret creator Warren shared his “PostSecret Live” presentation to a sold-out Goldstein Auditorium Wednesday night. Telling stories of humor, hope, despair and strength, Warren discussed the countless secrets he has read since the PostSecret project started in November 2004.

The PostSecret Project allows anyone

to mail Warren postcards with their personal secrets written on them.

“I believe we all keep our secrets in a box, and each day we decide what to do with that box,” Warren said.

“Often we bury the box like a coffin, but when we share it, that can be the most liberating thing in the world.”

Warren talked about the history of PostSecret and the personal struggles his project helped him face. He said he received a postcard with a photo of a door with holes in it that read, “The holes are from when my mother tried to knock down my door so she could continue beating me.” Warren uploaded that postcard on the PostSecret website and received about a dozen other postcards from people who faced similar situations.

“Those postcards helped me recognize and deal with the fact that

I had that same door in my childhood,” Warren said. “The courage those people showed in sharing their secrets helped me face my own.”

Warren has received almost every imaginable secret. The most common secret he gets is “I pee in the shower,” but he has also received revenge postcards and ripped up suicide notes in envelopes. He said he has read secrets on In-N-Out Burger bags, seashells and sonograms.

“At the core of every secret I get, there is a kernel of truth that we can learn from and grow from,” he said.

Warren said he started PostSecret by walking around Washington, D.C., and approaching passersby.

“I would go up to people and say, ‘Hi, my name is Frank and I collect secrets,’” Warren said. He paused. “It see secret page 12

Volunteering in an orphanage or animal conservation park is a typical part of the itinerary for those traveling with International Student Volunteers, Inc. “It gives students such an insight into the struggles of people that you wouldn’t normally hear about,” said Rhys Davies, an international campus representative for ISV. “It’s a fantastic opportunity to come and do some volunteer work.”

Representatives from ISV, a nonprofit volunteer organization, will speak with Syracuse University students about volunteer opportunities abroad Thursday. ISV sends more than 4,000 students from more than 800 universities abroad each year for one month of volunteer work and outdoor activities.

The meetings will be held in Room 304A in Schine Student Center and will start at 9:20 a.m., running every half-hour until 6 p.m.

Davies and Cara Cioni, a national recruiter, will host information sessions about the program and how to get involved.

ISV was founded in 1983, when it started sending students to Australia. The organization has now sent 18,000 students abroad to seven different areas, including Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Eastern Europe. A trip to South Africa was added this year.

“You return to wherever you are from, knowing that you have done something really significant,” Davies said.

ISV has spots for approximately 50 students for each country, Davies said. The application process is very see volunteer page 8

Poll places psychology as least satisfying college major

By Heather Wentz Staff Writer

Students may want to rethink their majors after a recent survey conducted by PayScale.com ranked majors from least to most satisfying based on the careers the majors led to.

The survey showed the least satisfying major to be psychology, with 26 percent of psychology degree holders responding they are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with their career paths. On the other hand, chemical engineering and management information systems tied for most satisfying, with 54 percent of

chemical engineering and management information systems majors saying they are “very satisfied” or “satisfied.”

Psychology and chemical engineering professors and students at Syracuse University said they understand why the poll listed their fields as least and most satisfying, but some said they were surprised.

The data from the national survey was collected between April and June and included 10,800 workers who completed their bachelor’s degrees between 1999 and 2010. The survey was done as part of The Wall Street Journal’s Paths to Profes-

sions project, which looked at jobs that are satisfying, well paid and have growth potential.

A bachelor’s degree in psychology does not prepare students for any specific job right out of college, which could contribute to the results of the study, said Kate Carey, professor of psychology at SU. “Most psych majors know that unless they are going to make a career out of it, they could go into personnel, human services, both of which do not pay well,” Carey said.

“Or they could go into advertising, law, a wide variety of things.”

After college, students could go

to graduate school or medical school if they wish to pursue a career in psychology, but most do not go this path, Carey said.

“I’m a little surprised that people are dissatisfied with it, because most people take psych because they love psych,” Carey said. “But being confronted with those wide-open choices after they graduate can be anxiety provoking.”

There are approximately 500 psychology majors at SU, making it one of the most popular majors on campus, said Jennifer Bragg, undergraduate secretary for the see majors page 7

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As Obama reaches 2-year mark, election promises tested Passing of health care bill positive first step in creating coverage plan

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ith the passing of health care reform on March 23, 30 million Americans who were previously uninsured will now be given health care.

After months of debate and increased pressure on President Barack Obama to deliver on his reform promises, the final health care bill, although not ideal, is a start to revamp the health care system in America.

The bill ensures that insurance companies will be more closely monitored and will no longer be able to refuse coverage due to pre-existing conditions. In addition, insurance companies will be required to cover preventative measures, such as vaccines, and young Americans will be able to stay on their parent’s health care plan until they are 26 years old.

For the first time in the history of America, unemployed and low income Americans will be able to get health care coverage. Hospitals will not be able to turn away patients without coverage, ensuring every American is given at least a minimum of health care benefits by the government.

Most Americans will not be affected by this legislation. Nearly 60 percent of Americans are covered by their employers. This will not change. Taxes will only be raised for those citizens who make more than $200,000 a year.

Citizens will be required to have health insurance, just as drivers are required to have car insurance.

In his presidential acceptance speech, Obama said, “Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American.” And with the passing of the health care reform bill, Obama kept his promise.

The final version of the bill was undoubtedly a compromise. With such strong and unwavering resistance from the Republicans, compromises were necessary. The final bill does not include the government-run public option, there are complications about whether abortions will be covered, and illegal immigrants will not be given coverage.

The fact remains, however, that legislation has been passed, and at least we have a starting point. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation and signed the subsequent Civil War amendments, and

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rhetoric meets reality yet social change for African Americans did not occur.

What the Emancipation Proclamation did do, though, was lay the groundwork for the future. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was able to create change in the 1960s due to the postCivil War legislation that had been passed a century earlier. The health care bill enables progressive reforms to be made in the future, to further improve our health care system.

Before Obama signed the bill into law, universal health care was an impossible dream. Now with legislation on the books, the government can continue to improve on our health care system and work to create a more comprehensive coverage plan.

Nearly every democratic nation in the world has already adopted universal health care, and yet for some reason, America has resisted in following suit. Universal health care puts the onus on the government to protect its citizens and ensure safety.

The passing of health care reform is Obama’s greatest political victory to date.

Americans who previously could not get insurance coverage or risked being turned away at a hospital are now protected by our government. The government has a duty to protect its citizens, and with the passing of health care reform, Obama has done just that.

he hype of President Barack Obama’s promised change is starting to fade throughout America. People want solutions, not change. And as the November midterm elections roll around, it will be interesting to see if the Democrats can keep the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

As Obama’s ratings continue to decline, more and more Americans are unhappy with the way the direction of the country is heading. The way Obama sought to help our economy and address an important issue was to attack health care by reinventing the way Americans go about obtaining it.

Health care reform seemed like a great idea, and with the Democrats controlling the House and the Senate, the bill was rushed through and finally passed. Before anyone had the chance to actually look at the over 2,000page proposal.

It seemed as if Obama helped solve one of the biggest problems facing America.

But looking back, many are beginning to realize Obama’s health care bill was simply not good enough.

Instead of addressing the problem, it will require every American to obtain health care. If not, that person is required to pay some sort of fee. As Americans stress over the rising unemployment rate, many have started to look at the health care bill as a step back instead of a step forward.

When the bill entered the House and the Senate, it received virtually no bipartisan support from the Republicans. The only reason it passed was because of the Democrats’ super majority.

It’s interesting how a president who claims to want to reach out to the other side is OK with passing a bill that had only one party’s support. Many believed the only reason no Republicans voted for the bill was because

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Ben Klein is a junior political science and magazine journalism major. His column appears weekly, and he can be reached at btklein@syr.edu.

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hella deadly they wanted to hinder Obama in any way possible, but it’s deeper than that — the bill just isn’t good.

By no means does this bill fix the problem it sought out to address: to increase America’s access to health care by creating more choices, thus decreasing health care costs. Instead the bill looks to infringe on our liberties in that it requires everyone to have health care.

By 2014, most Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay a fine, taking away American’s freedom of choice. The Congressional Budget Office reports that by 2019, the uninsured will decrease by 32 million, thus adding a predicted 18 million Americans to be covered under Medicaid. Medicaid is a welfare program, funded and administered by both the federal- and state-level governments.

The increase of Medicaid-insured citizens would overwhelm an already underperforming program. Moreover, the federal government promises to cover all of Medicaid’s increasing benefits costs over the years, and the states will cover the added administration costs, causing more state budget cuts and more financial worry.

As Obama looks to expand the government’s role through intervention in the economy and our everyday choices, Americans are starting to take a step back and rethink how much faith we have in our government.

Although this bill aims to cut the national debt and supply people with jobs in the future, people want results now.

Without the majority, mediocre bills with limited bipartisan support, like Obama’s health care bill, will not cut it. Currently, the health care bill sits in the hands of the Supreme Court, which will decide if it’s even constitutional. This has Democrats going into the November elections saying, “Oops.”

Roman Acosta is a junior political science and philosophy major. His column appears weekly, and he can be reached at rgacosta@syr.edu.

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idterms are upon us. For most people, this is a time of great stress. We are crammed into the library like sardines, hunched over our computers and twitching. We spend more time searching for a table than we actually spend doing work, and the printer is bound to break down on at least seventeen different occasions throughout the evening. All in all, midterms are no one’s ideal scenario.

But after giving this matter some thought, I’ve realized that the middle of the semester is actually not a horrible time; rather, it is a time of hope and second chances. You’ve made it halfway through, and even if you completely screwed up all your work, you still have another half of the semester to make up for it. More importantly, you still have a chance to do all those semi-sketchy things that you wanted to do during the first half, but didn’t.

You can still hook up with an attractive person in one of your classes and then make life nice and awkward for one another over the rest of the semester. After all, you only have half as much time left to deal with it, you’ll probably never see them again, and really, what’s the harm in getting to know your classmates better? College is all about

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blondes know better making new friends and study buddies – two birds, one stone.

Go to class high. Attempt to appear not high. Challenge yourself.

Think outside the box. College is all about these things, too.

Go to class. Honestly, if you’ve never been, you should go at least once and scope out the territory. No man is an island, you know.

Work around your deadlines. If you have an upcoming paper due by email, attach a blank document, send it in, relax, enjoy the finale of the Jersey Shore, go out, get wasted, come home, pass out, nurse your hangover all of the next day, go out again, pass out, wake up at 2 PM, and start writing your paper calmly and resourcefully.

Send it in. Apologize profusely for the silly mistake! Blame your hectic 18-credit schedule and your strange but loveable pet hamster, who happened to get sick over the weekend.

Now is the time for you to do all

these things. Don’t wait till next semester, when you’ll be in your deluded, post-New Years resolutions phase, and you’ll be all about doing your work in a timely fashion and smiling kindly at freshmen. (Plus, next semester it’ll be cold. Everything about life sucks when it’s cold. Just a reminder.)

Senior economics major Mike Santaniello agrees. “What’s life like these days? It’s awesome! I really don’t let the idea of failing get to me that much,” he says. “Sometimes I wonder if should be as stressed out as everyone else. But I just prefer not stressing.” True story.

Midterms may be all about schoolwork, but midterm time is essentially a time for you to stop and reflect on your accomplishments thus far, and strategize future moves towards personal success and happiness. I can only wish you luck, remind you that the world is your oyster, and if all else fails, take off your pants! Very successful people never wear pants. That can be said of celebrities like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, and as of late, it’s been working out pretty well for me.

Hehe. Just saying.

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Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at mcharny@syr.edu.

Student group looks to recruit members to attend rally “There’s nothing I can do. I don’t really care. I’m just not into politics.”

How many times have you heard something like that from a friend, or perhaps even from yourself? Between schoolwork and friends, I have often felt completely powerless to budge the political process. Are we condemned to accept the status quo? Are we prepared to allocate a significant chunk of our time and money toward political activism? Not necessarily.

So how does one change the country?

For starters, there is now a chapter of Democracy Matters on campus. DM is a national, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization that advocates reducing corporate influence in the policymaking process by implementing fair election reforms across the country.

The Supreme Court recently ruled

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that corporate money in elections is a form of free speech and therefore cannot be restricted by campaign finance laws. Political candidates need millions of dollars to run competitive campaigns. To collect funds, candidates usually accept massive contributions from major corporations and unions that later expect favors in return for their implicit sponsorship.

Elected officials are held accountable to their donors rather than to the constituencies that have elected them — a phenomenon that contradicts a participatory form of government.

Don’t think that DM is exclusively for students who are “into politics.”

Whether you’re a hardcore liberal or a fiscal conservative, DM’s mission is applicable to you. As long as elections are largely financed by corporations

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let ter to the editor and unions, elected officials cannot be truly representative of “we the people.”

There is a viable public alternative to running campaigns aptly referred to as “Clean Elections.” Anyone eligible to run for public office would be given public funds for campaigning if they prove themselves to be serious, legitimate candidates who are willing to comply with certain guidelines, as well as full disclosure of all of their donors. This would permit more candidates to run for office, diversifying the political process, and relying more heavily on small donations from citizens while banning direct corporate funding.

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based on their ideas, not visibility in the media. Candidates would be supplied with funds to run a campaign, so they’d have more time to communicate directly with voters, instead of pooling millions from industries interested in affecting the policy-making process.

Clean elections would only cost each taxpayer less than $10 a year — much less than what we indirectly waste on today’s multimillion dollar campaigns — primarily financed by and thus beholden to special interest groups. Public financing has already been implemented in other states.

Recently, New York state was just two votes away from implementing a public finance option.

Political humor often helps engage young people in politics. DM is taking the initiative to coordinate efforts for

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SU students to attend both Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Stephen Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” rallies in Washington, D.C., along with organizations like STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. Neither group is beholden to a political ideology other than the idea that the nation we are going to inherit needs true grassroots movements to ensure participatory democracy and human rights over corporate privilege.

Will you join us? Attend a general interest meeting for the rallies at 7:15 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium. Let’s rally to keep our democracy alive.

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is often laced with other drugs like ketamine, methamphetamines and heroine, she said.

Some dealers press well-known brand names into the pills, like Coach or Mercedes, to market them to young people, she said.

“It’s kind of playing Russian Roulette,” Mulvey said. “You don’t know where the drug’s from.

You don’t know what’s in it.”

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Erica Peterson, a senior anthropology and Spanish major, said she had never heard of students taking Molly before she left to study abroad in Chile last spring. But when she returned to SU this semester, she said use of the drug seems to have exploded.

Although she has never taken the drug, she knows many who have. She recalls one weekend party during which “half the people I knew left to do Molly,” she said.

Crouse Hospital, less than a mile away from SU campus, has seen a significant increase in the

past two to three months of patients in multiple units who use MDMA, said Monika Taylor, manager of outpatient services.

There has also been an increase in calls to the hospital from users and their family members for more information about the drug, she said. Some parents call with concerns about their child’s well-being in regards to MDMA, she said. The increase in MDMA use started recently, Taylor said, so there are no solid statistics to give yet.

Crouse’s rehabilitation center has six different support groups for people recovering from

dependency. One of the clinicians told Taylor half of the members of her group names MDMA as their drug of choice, she said. Taylor said there has also been an increase in young people coming through the detoxification unit as a result of using Molly or Ecstasy, she said.

Crouse tests MDMA with a urine screening, and Taylor said the hospital has a panel of basic drugs it tests. That panel changes as drug trends change. Currently MDMA is on the list, she said.

The age range for patients coming in for MDMA treatment or therapy is generally between 18 and 25, Taylor said. She is unsure if SU students make up a significant portion of those patients, she said.

“I know it does include some college students, but I would be hesitant to say just college students,” Taylor said.

Taylor attributes the drugs’ popularity among young people to the reason why young people explore other drugs — a sense of invincibility.

Young people often think nothing can hurt them when it comes to drugs, Taylor said.

Some of the usual effects Taylor has seen are increased heart rate, heavy sweating, teeth clenching, chills and sometimes a sharp increase in body temperature, she said. In the 1990s, when Ecstasy first made headlines as a rave drug, Taylor said there was a trend of sucking on pacifiers because of the teeth grinding.

There are patients at Crouse who claim a dependency and see withdrawal effects, but that is not the case for everyone who uses MDMA, Taylor said.

“From my understanding, some people may not get addicted to it,” Taylor said. “Young people are willing to take the risk and bet they won’t get addicted.”

MDMA in itself can be harmful to the body, but Taylor said what young people should be more wary of is that MDMA in Ecstasy or Molly is not always pure.

Some patients who said they used MDMA tested positive for PCP, and when told, they responded, ‘Well, that’s not the drug I was using,’” Taylor said.

Tibor Palfai is the professor for PSY 315: “Drugs and Human Behavior” and has authored books on drugs. Most of the research on the long-term effects of the drug has proven to be inconclusive, he said. The drug could be legally purchased in bars until the mid-1980s, he said.

The drug is often taken in party settings, but alcohol and MDMA are not compatible, Palfai said. This is because alcohol is a “downer” and Ecstasy is an “upper.”

MDMA is popular among college students because it induces feelings of empathy toward others. The drug makes users feel warm toward everyone around them, he said.

“College students are highly sexual beings, and I think this drug facilitates it,” Palfai said.

MDMA has been used successfully in certain medical cases, Palfai said. In the 1980s, a psychiatrist in San Francisco used it as a therapeutic aid, he said. But “in the wrong hands, irresponsible college students may use too much,” Palfai said.

For college students, the risks involved increase in a party setting, where dancing and overcrowding are common. Dehydration is a main side effect of MDMA, and if not consciously avoided, it could lead to overheating, convulsing and seizing, Palfai said.

Despite these possible dangers, students who take MDMA perceive the drug as benign in comparison to other drugs, such as cocaine or a hallucinogen.

“It’s not like a hallucinogenic, you don’t have to have a babysitter” said Peterson, the SU senior. “I don’t know anyone who would do it to watch a movie.” kronayne@syr.edu rastrum@syr.edu

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Washington Post correspondent to discuss female power in politics

By Debbie Truong Contributing Writer

With the midterm elections fast approaching in less than two weeks, Washington Post writer Anne Kornblut will discuss this year’s campaigns during a lecture Friday afternoon at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Kornblut’s speech is the first this year in the annual State of Democracy Lecture Series. Kornblut, a White House correspondent for The Washington Post, will also be discussing her book, “Notes From the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and What It Will Take For a Woman to Win,” and President Barack Obama’s progress after two years in office.

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Department of Psychology. She said this could be because psychology could be applied to a number of other fields. People who did not further their psychology education after graduating tended to move into unrelated fields after one year, according to the study.

If psychology majors further their education and become a psychologist, they could make anywhere from $48,840 to $160,127, according to PayScale.com.

Alex Collins, a junior psychology major, said he picked psychology because he will be entering the military after graduation, and the major allows him to learn about people.

But Collins said it is hard to find a niche in the major.

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of Law for authoring the blog. Audaer has neither confirmed nor denied authoring the blog and said the Office of Judicial Affairs is also likely to soon start an investigation.

Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, and Jason Feldman, a first-year law student, spoke in support of free speech, but first-year law student Chris Lattuca and assistant professor of law and LGBT studies Tucker Culbertson spoke against it.

Gutterman said the panel should be just the beginning of a process to discuss and debate the blog and its controversial aspects.

“We are participating in one of the remedies right now because the best way to deal with offensive content, offensive speech is to talk more about it and to have a dialogue,” Gutterman said.

The blog highlights the issue of the right to anonymous speech on the Internet, Gutterman said. And these students are within their rights because people viewing the blog are reading it knowing it’s satirical — principles protected under the First Amendment, he said.

But the amendment does not protect the authors of the blog within the confines of the private university, as SU has its own free speech policies and does not have to adhere to the First Amendment, Lattuca said.

“If Syracuse University decides to find a way to punish the students who created the SUCOLitis blog, they have every right to do so,

will center on an involved discussion with Roger Hardy, an Islamic affairs analyst with BBC World Service.

Kristi Andersen, a professor of political science, and Susan Arbetter, public affairs director of WCNY News and host of The Capitol Pressroom, will join Kornblut in Friday’s discussion.

“I will be responding to the talk given

by Anne Kornblut, and I expect that the three of us — and the audience — will then have a discussion about the role of gender in politics, political leadership and political decision-making,” Andersen said in an e-mail.

Elizabeth Cohen, an assistant professor of political science, said she and co-organizer Grant Reeher, director of the Campbell

Public Affairs Institute, hope the series will focus campus attention on social issues in politics.

“The Campbell Public Affairs Institute, together with the Maxwell Dean’s office, believes that one of our roles in the academic community of Syracuse is to foster open conversation about matters of pressing concern to our nation,” Cohen said in an e-mail.

To accomplish the goal of fostering a conversation, input is welcome from the anticipated 100- to 500-person turnout during both the post-lecture discussion and at the reception that follows, Cohen said.

Cohen and Reheer aim to instill long-term political concern in all lecture attendees, she said. In addition to cultivating a politically informed public, Cohen said, the series

was organized to bridge the divide between policy makers and those directly impacted by policy making: the public.

“Our lectures are places where every member of the community can expect to interact directly with people who set political agendas, write authoritatively about politics and are in some way responsible for resolving pressing political questions of the day,” Cohen said.

Nicole Ruben, an undecided freshman in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, said she hopes to attend the event.

“It would be interesting to hear her view on prevalent current issues and how our society should cope with them,” Ruben said.

“I think psych as a major is really pretty worthless because it is kind of like majoring in college,” Collins said. “There is nothing specific, and it’s such a broad field that you have a hard time finding topics to focus on.”

Collins, who is also majoring in forensic science, said pairing psychology with another major or minor is beneficial because students can have a field of expertise along with a psychology background.

“You pretty much can’t do anything with a major in psych,” Collins said. “You have to pursue your education further if you want to make a career out of it.”

On the other end of the survey’s spectrum fell chemical engineering as the most satisfying major. George Martin, professor and program director of chemical engineering at SU, said chemical engineering is versatile because students can enter a variety of fields post-gradua-

tion. They have a unique skill set that prepares them for many areas of work, including medicine, law, finance or management.

“Having the problem-solving skills of a chemical engineer gives you a heads-up in a lot of different career paths,” Martin said.

There are currently 59 chemical engineering undergraduate majors at SU, according to the Undergraduate Records Office.

Chemical engineering enrollment at SU has increased in the past few years, and Martin said he hopes it will continue to do so. He attributed this in part to all of the problems currently related to energy, global warming and renewable energy resources.

Another factor that draws people to chemical engineering is the starting salary out of college, Martin said. According to PayScale. com, the average starting salary for a chemical engineering graduate out of college is $59,947.

“I think in general chemical engineers are paid pretty well,” Martin said. “Probably the highest average starting salary for B.S. graduates of all of the different fields because there are a number of jobs that pay reasonably well.”

Sam Poirier, a junior chemical engineering major, said she chose her major because she loved chemistry and wanted to do something useful with it. While some majors require internships or a co-op with companies to get hands-on experience, chemical engineering classes already provide Poirier with that, she said.

“It’s a lot of work and takes up a lot more time than most people in other majors, which is kind of a downfall, but it’s really interesting,” Poirier said. “You’re teaching yourself a lot of it, which in itself is really satisfying.”

and they’re not going to be bound by the U.S. Constitution,” Lattuca said.

SUCOLitis is just another form of bullying, Lattuca said. He said a post on the blog about the current first-year law class being the bestlooking and “especially slutty” was offensive.

He said students should not have to wait until the blog becomes more extreme and offensive to take action.

“The thing about going too far is you haven’t gone too far until it’s too late,” Lattuca said.

“We don’t look at these blogs and say ‘Wow, this is wildly offensive’ until something bad has happened.”

One of the problems with SUCOLitis is many of the people it pokes fun at are “women or people of color” when the law school is “blindingly white,” Culbertson said. Those students who are most vulnerable should not have racial and ethnic slurs thrown in their faces, although derogatory names for sex, race and sexual practices are thrown around at SU often, he said.

Culbertson referenced cases of five lesbian, gay and transgender students who committed suicide over the past four months during the debate, including Tyler Clementi, an 18-yearold freshman at Rutgers University. He committed suicide on Sept. 22 after his roommate secretly filmed him during a sexual act with another man in his room and posted it live on the Internet.

The blog might be a bad joke, Culbertson said, but it still has the potential to cause harm.

But the students should not be punished for writing the blog, Culbertson said. Although

expelling the students would be much easier than going through the remedy process, it would not be a successful means to handle the situation, he said.

“I’m interested in restorative justice as a manner by which not simply to defend a community but to make one,” Culbertson said.

In his closing comments, Gutterman agreed with Culbertson about the punishment of the students and said the best way to deal with these issues is discussion. He said the blog should not result in the law school punishing the authors.

But previous students at SU were disciplined and even threatened for similar actions.

In 2005, freshman Amanda Seideman created a Facebook group which was critical of her writing class teaching assistant, Rachel Collins, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Feb. 8, 2006. The group, which was called “Clearly Rachel doesn’t know what she’s doing ever,” put Seideman and three of her friends under investigation from Judicial Affairs, according to the article.

Seideman told The Daily Orange in the article that she was threatened to be made an example of by Judicial Affairs. The students were told if they made fliers explaining the dangers of Facebook, their punishment would be lenient. By the end of the controversy, one student decided to transfer to another school, and Seideman and the other two students were placed on disciplinary reprimand, according to the article.

“In a time where we’re dealing with wars, crushing unemployment, financial costs of education, I think we have more serious fish

to fry than a couple of jokes, even bad jokes,” Gutterman said.

As for the blog damaging SU’s reputation as an institution, Gutterman said the offensive content would not deter him from attending the College of Law if he was a prospective student.

But Andrew Natalo, a first-year law student, said SU has every right to protect its image by disciplining the authors of the blog.

“I think the blog is offensive, but I’m OK with that,” Natalo said. “I’m also OK with the university coming down hard on the people that made it. I feel like the university has every right to do that. I feel like they had every legal right to publish it, but in the end it’s a private university.”

SUCOLitis is different from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and other satirical shows because the blog goes after private citizens rather than public citizens, said Jeff Winston, a third-year law student who attended the lecture. Yet he said the authors of SUCOLitis should not be kicked out of the university.

“Don’t kick them out, but put a face to them,” Winston said. “Don’t let them hide behind the wall of the Internet and be anonymous.”

Ryan McCarthy, a third-year law student who attended the lecture, does not think the students should get punished for writing the blog.

“It says right on there that it’s satirical, and the one article had a (third-year law student) who is a very good student and a friend of mine and is getting a job at Chipotle,” he said. “It’s funny and has redeeming quality in and of itself.”

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huge inconvenience.

“You’re paying big money, and you can’t even depend on your Internet,” Tehan said.

“And you’re forced to leave your apartment to get work done.”

The slow Internet connection is a widespread problem at the South Campus UVA complex, where 432 people live and pay between $900 and $1,000 per month for rent.

Residents argue they have experienced online troubles since school started in late August, and some complain the complex’s management has been slow to fi x the problem. Students have taken their complaints to the Web as well, where they have been complaining since around Sept. 1 on the apartment complex’s Facebook page.

The number of UVA residents grew by 130 in its second year open, so more students are eating up the available bandwidth, but UVA officials did not expect the Internet connection to slow because it was not a problem the previous year, said Matt Burkett, the community manager for UVA. “We didn’t anticipate having this much of an issue,” he said.

UVA runs into the most problems with its Internet connection when its usage peaks between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m., Burkett said. The connection is usually fi ne during the day because students are in class, he said.

UVA officials decided the Internet’s bandwidth needed to be expanded the week of Sept.

13, Burkett said. The complex plans to cancel its contract with Time Warner Cable. The bandwidth provider, Fibertech Networks, will expand UVA’s Internet connection by laying half a mile of new fiber line, but there is no timetable for when the project will start or fi nish, Burkett said.

“It’s not as easy as just fl ipping a switch, there’s a lot of infrastructure involved,” he said.

The expansion process is slow because Fibertech has to create a contract, fi nalize permits with Syracuse, install the fiber underground and schedule the construction, said Scott Casey, vice president of informa-

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competitive, especially for the more popular travel destinations, such as Australia and Costa Rica. Students can pick up the one-page application at any of Thursday’s meetings.

During the fi rst two weeks of the trip, students participate in the volunteer work of their choice, with a focus on either conservation or community development. Options include working at orphanages, schools, animal conservation parks and several other

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star Landon Donovan, actor Morgan Freeman and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

Holding the World Cup in America would move soccer in the direction Garber is pushing it, Burton said.

“The perception is obviously that we see America as a football, basketball, baseball country, but the reality is that we’re very much growing as a soccer country,” Burton said.

“You’re paying big money and you can’t even depend on your Internet. And you’re forced to leave your apartment to get work done.”

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tion technology at Education Realty Trust, which owns the UVA property.

“You’ve got to possibly go under streets, you’ve got to redirect traffic, possibly because of construction crews,” Casey said.

Fibertech is currently in the process of getting permits approved from the city for the fiber expansion, which will double UVA’s bandwidth to 100 megabytes, Casey said. He said he expects the fiber line to be installed before bad winter weather strikes, but could not guarantee the new line would be in before fi nal exams in December.

“It’s not going to be six months or anything like that,” Casey said. “We’ll have it in as quickly as possible.”

The biggest challenge UVA faces is an increase in video streaming on websites like Hulu, Casey said. But Education Realty Trust, which manages nearly 60 properties, has complexes with no Internet problems that have more students but the same amount of bandwidth as UVA, Casey said.

“Managing the Internet usage at these properties is really a day-to-day challenge for us,” Casey said.

But the fi x may not come soon enough for some students, who have already decided not to renew their leases for next year.

“Basically the students are out of luck,” said Josh Fishman, a junior marketing management and entrepreneurship major who pays nearly $1,000 for rent.

He started experiencing problems with UVA’s Internet connection at the beginning of the semester and has since been unable to open MySlice at times. When Fishman tries to watch Netfl ix, only the audio or video will play, and videos sometimes take 20 minutes to load, he said.

“One night it’ll be good, and then the next night it’ll be awful,” Fishman said. “It won’t

even load.”

He tries to get most of his homework completed during the day on campus because of UVA’s Internet issues, he said. He blames UVA’s management team, he said, for not communicating the problems to residents.

“It’s basically a big game of pointing the fi nger at each other,” he said.

Fishman also does not get any high-definition channels, something that was guaranteed in the lease, and his basic cable channels look fuzzy, he said.

Burkett, UVA’s community manager, said the complex was trying to make upgrades to respond to the cable problems.

UVA plans to add a program offering extra high-defi nition channels, but Burkett said there was no timeframe for when the upgrades would be installed. Through the updates, the satellite dish on top of UVA’s clubhouse would intercept new channels and run them through an existing network into residents’ rooms, he said.

UVA resident Dan Blackson, who pays nearly $900 per month for his space, also said he has not received any high-defi nition channels.

“We do pay for that stuff, and we’re not getting it,” said Blackson, a junior fi lm major.

His Internet was slow from the fi rst week he got to school, and he said UVA was not prepared for the number of students living there this year. UVA officials insisted the complex’s Internet speed was fi ne and ignored their residents, he said.

“If they would just respond to us, people would chill out for at least a couple days,” Blackson said. “It’s bad business, it’s just straight up bad business.”

organizations. In the second half of the trip, students have the chance to mountain bike, white water raft, repel off mountains and explore local cities.

ISV has approximately 50 or 60 SU alumni from the past few years and has trained two SU students as representatives to talk to others about the opportunities the trip has to offer.

Daniel Crockenberg, a senior and one of the student representatives, traveled to Australia with ISV. He worked at Wild Mountains Trust to build an ecological restoration center and also white water rafted, explored the Great

Barrier Reef and rolled down a 200-foot sand dune.

“You’re constantly doing things and seeing all sorts of new things,” said Crockenberg.

Other students have helped preserve environmentally threatened species, such as the kiwi bird and the kangaroo, Davies said.

“It’s one of those experiences that’s pretty hard to describe,” Crockenberg said. “When you look at the stars at night, they just don’t look the same here.”

Burton gave Garber the option to select his own topic, but given the timeliness of the World Cup and his dedication to soccer over the last 11 years, Burton said the betterment of the sport was an obvious choice.

“I think it was evident that he would speak about soccer, or football, as it’s known around the world, because he’s the commissioner of MLS, and he’s been one of the chief architects of the World Cup bid,” Burton said. “Asking him to speak about anything else would kind of go away from what his real passion has been for quite some time.”

“The perception is obviously that we see America as a football, basketball, baseball country, but the reality is that we’re very much growing as a soccer country.”

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GREEK LIFE

House hunt

By Meghin Delaney STAFF WRITER

F

ollowing the end of fall recruitment on Oct. 8, the Interfraternity Council is reviewing the changed fraternity recruitment process that led to more men receiving bids but also problems with recruits showing up to all the houses.

A total of 135 potential new members participated this fall in the recruitment process, said Justin Tasolides, the IFC vice president and chair of recruitment. Ten of them did not receive bids on Bid Day, compared to 55 men who did not receive bids last fall and 150 who did not receive bids in the larger spring recruitment.

The main change that affected the number of recruits was in the open house portion, in which the potential members visit every fraternity house.

This year, recruits were led to all of the houses by brothers called Rho Chis from the various fraternities on campus. This is a change from last spring’s process, in which men did not have to visit every house, and the main job of Rho Chis was to inspect chapter houses to make sure they were sticking to IFC’s dry rush policy, said McGhee Cost, the president of Phi Gamma Delta.

The structure IFC used in the past did not support the large greek system on campus, said Eddie Banks-Crosson, director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

“The changes were made because we had a large number of men not being placed at the end of recruitment,” he said. “The structure in the past has mirrored a smaller community, and we are a large greek community, and we had to change the structure of the recruitment process to mirror that.”

The system was successful overall, but it does have a few areas for improvement, Tasolides said.

“We ran into a few errors and a number of things have to be worked out, such as how long each potential new member gets at each house and issues with Rho Chis,” Tasolides said.

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“However, the issues are definitely workable.”

Though Cost’s chapter, Phi Gamma Delta, had more recruits visit the chapter, it experienced problems on the third night of the open house, Cost said.

“Our house didn’t see any Rho Chis or potential new members for almost an hour and a half, and when they did come, they were off schedule,” Cost said. “It’s not exactly clear why the groups didn’t show up.”

Phi Gamma Delta is investigating the issue within IFC, Cost said. But Cost said he is hopeful there will be measures put in place next semester to ensure this does not happen again.

He would like to see more accountability for anyone involved who does not follow the guidelines set out by the IFC, he said.

“When the system changes so that everyone must visit all IFC chapters and we still don’t see all the potential new members, there is a problem,” Cost said. “In the future, I’d like to see these rules enforced so that things go the way they are advertised, instead of being adjusted on the fly.”

IFC will keep working on these problems to make sure the system is solid for spring recruitment, Tasolides said.

“We’re going to take the successes and failures from this fall recruitment and figure out what worked and what didn’t,” he said. “Then we will apply it to the spring to make it as successful and as efficient as possible.”

The changes put in place this semester yielded one of the more successful processes IFC has seen in years due to the large increase of bids received and accepted, Tasolides said. He has hoped for a continued increase in semesters to come.

“We really want to increase our numbers across the board and make our greek community stronger and stronger,” he said. “Anyone who wants to be involved in greek life should have the opportunity, no question, and hopefully with this system, they’ll find the right places for them.” medelane@syr.edu

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By Gregory Miller Staff Writer

The collegiate gentleman is dead. The bands of brothers merrily skipping to class in their flouncing pleated pants and varsity sweaters are long gone. Today, the chances of seeing a herd of guys wearing four different items made of sweatshirt material are higher than seeing one guy in a pair of penny loafers.

“The standard sweatshirt isn’t going to cut it,” said Syracuse University alumna Sharon Clott, editor of MTV Style, MTV’s fashion website. “Even if you put four on, it still doesn’t work. So step up your game.”

Thanks in part to the recession, men’s runway shows have become decreasingly idealistic.

For the average male college student, this means styles have become increasingly available. Case in point: Fall’s trends are all about cool, casual comfort, not the glitz of yesteryear. But it does include a number of relatively simple trends Syracuse guys can pull off without too much effort.

Take flannel, which is finally having its moment in the sun.

“Flannel’s something that’s had a horrible reputation for all these years,” Clott said. “Like, ‘Ew, don’t touch flannel.’ But now designers are really embracing it.”

Flannel is an easy fix for warmth that also adds a little color in the wardrobe. Molly Gallagher, editor in chief of Zipped, SU’s fashion magazine that is published once a semester, called the look one of her favorites.

“I think it’s really easy to layer and manipulate and carry into winter,” she said.

Just be careful of what you pair the flan-

nel with, lest you look like a lumberjack who suddenly rolled up on campus. To avoid the grungy look, don’t wear the flannel with a pair of grubby khakis, said Gallagher, also a staff writer for The Daily Orange.

“If it’s with a dark-washed jean and a nicer pair of shoes, it looks more put together,” Clott said. “The worst thing to do is wear a printed T-shirt that says ‘Syracuse’ with the flannel over top.” Instead, pair a flannel with a solid white, gray or black tee.

With that flannel, go ahead and throw on a pair of the season’s hottest pants — tailored denim. Clott said college guys’ jeans are in desperate need of some attention.

“They’ve been too lazy, just taking their baggy pants and going with it for all their lives,” she said. To maintain masculinity, Clott suggested pairing the more fitted jeans with a looser top.

The biggest thing in footwear this year couldn’t translate to Syracuse any better.

“Every guy who’s into fashion this year will be buying a combat boot if they don’t have it already,” said Clott. “I feel like it’s the must-have for fall.”

Last season was all about the hiking boot, but the ability to make the combat boot casual or formal makes this year’s look far more versatile. Both Clott and Gallagher said combat boots work best with the flaps loose and on the outside of pant legs.

As temperatures drop, the go-to coat for several years running has been the peacoat.

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“It’s really to take on and off in class,” Gallagher said. “And they offer great detail.”

Clott said there’s one look with these coats every guy must avoid.

“You can go prep-overload with this and think you should be on a yacht,” she said.

While most students probably won’t be on a yacht anytime soon, some formal occasions may arise. One of the freshest looks for formal evenings is the tuxedo jacket paired with dark denim.

“The standard sweatshirt isn’t going to cut it.

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“I automatically think of Brad Goreski from ‘The Rachel Zoe Project,’” Clott said. “He’s kind of perfected the tux jacket in any occasion, every occasion, every-moment-that-I-wake-up look.”

Gallagher said the most important thing about the look is its transferability from day into night. And best of all, Clott said, it’s great for students who will be dressing to impress.

“I think if a guy were wearing this on a date, I’d think, ‘Oh, he’s got it together,’” she said.

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felt as weird as it sounds.”

Most people told him they didn’t have secrets.

He eventually persuaded them to write down a secret anyway and discovered those were usually the most interesting ones.

Students were surprised by how relevant they found the presentation.

“It hit home for me in ways that I definitely wasn’t expecting,” said Leslie Ott, a sophomore inclusive elementary special education major.

Jessica Denman, a freshman fashion design major, said she has been reading PostSecret since she was in eighth grade but did not expect the presentation to resonate with her so strongly. “It was shockingly relatable,” she said.

Warren also talked about the importance of turning ideas into reality. At one point, he flashed a photo of a nipple with a hair being plucked from it, and the word “confession” was scrawled across the top. The photo was one of many censored from Warren’s five PostSecret books by his publisher, HarperCollins Publishers.

He encouraged students to take risks and embrace the power of the Internet, just as he did, and to put their ideas into action.

“I know that there are one thousand, maybe ten thousand people out there who have ideas as good as or better than PostSecret,” he said.

He said each time he gives his presentation, he hopes to inspire someone to take an idea, believe in it and make it happen.

After Warren’s presentation, students lined up at microphones on either side of the auditorium and confessed their own secrets.

Some fought back tears as they shared their

pain with the crowd. One student said he was rejected from 10 of the 13 schools he applied to and still feels like a failure. As he walked back to his seat, another student shouted, “You’re not a failure!” prompting the crowd to cheer wildly.

Choking through her story, another student teared up as she talked about the suicide of a close friend and her own struggles with depression. Strangers hugged her as she walked back to her seat.

“I really admired the bravery of everyone who came up to the microphone,” said Kerey Morris, a freshman international relations

“Each story you all shared is an individual fingerprint. But together, they tell our universal story and remind us of the most important thing: You are never alone.”

Frank Warren

PostSecret creator

major. “I wasn’t expecting all the random hugging and support. It was amazing.”

Warren travels around the country giving his presentations because of the support that rises in response to the students who quiver through their secrets.

“Each story you all shared is an individual fingerprint,” he said. “But together, they tell our universal story and remind us of the most important thing: You are never alone.” ertocci@syr.edu

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From the

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Adopt the season’s top trends with long layers, comfortable knits Text by Lauren Tousignant OPINION EDITOR

Photos by Keith Edelman

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inally. After two seasons of bright neons, bold prints and exaggerated shapes, designers have turned down the volume.

Chic looks and sleek styles dominated the fall 2010 run-

ways. The studded, grunge rock ‘n’ roll designs have faded into fashion abyss as designers are more focused on tailored, put-together pieces that are better suited for the opera house than a KISS concert.

The ripped-up rags are back in the trash, and clean looks have taken center stage. The biggest trends to take away from the fall runways are both sleek and Syracuse-friendly. Heavy knits, faux fur, long sweaters and layers — lots and lots of layers.

A front row seat at Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Marc Jacobs might imply we’re back in 1958 or, with any luck, on the set of “Mad Men.” Vuitton’s elbow-length leather gloves, waist-cinched skirts and corseted tops are a beautiful breath of fresh air from the grunge look.

Even though a high-waist, calf-length, full-tweed skirt might be the last thing to expect in a Saturday night wardrobe, Vuitton’s ladylike outfits have inspired a new season of curve-enhancing clothes. Look for waist-cinching belts, soft necklines and simple accessories; turn to Christina Hendricks from “Mad Men” for further instruction.

Fur fans can rejoice. If there was only one trend to take away from SEE FALL FASHION PAGE 16

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Fur

Look for a tailored trench coat with fur trim to tackle two trends at once.

Derek Lam

Heavy KNits

Missouri

Coat: Ellie Mia Boutique

Perfect for blizzards and sub-zero days.

Camo shirt, scarf: Some Girls Sweater, headband: Ellie Mia Boutique

Rodarte

Elie Tahari

Nordic

Pair long sweaters with Nordic patterned accessories for a comfortable, effortless look.

D&G

Rag & Bone

Scarves: Some Girls Sweater: Ellie Mia Boutique

layers

Mix patterns and colors for a look that’s stylish and cozy.

Marc Jacobs

Jeremy Laing

Jeans, Sweater: Ellie Mia Boutique Vest, hat: Some Girls

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the fall runways, it was fur. Almost every designer, from Chanel to Balenciaga to Giorgia Armani, featured vests, jackets, sweaters, scarves, boots and skirts made of or trimmed with the fuzzy stuff.

Chanel may have cloaked their models in head-to-toe fur frocks that would only be practical in the North Pole. However, the line’s consistency is a sure sign that fur is here to stay. Animal lovers, relax: The biggest trend in fur was that it was all faux.

Other designers, such as D&G, Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier, have filled their collections with cheery Nordic styles. This mountainfriendly pattern may have you rummaging through your mom’s old ski sweaters, but know that these styles are anything but ‘80s. In hues of rich reds and navy blues, Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s designs make you wish you were sitting in a wooden Colorado cabin, curled up in front of a fireplace with a mug of hot chocolate — wrapped in a reindeer knit sweater, of course.

The head-to-toe ensembles of D&G can be overwhelming outside the ski lodge, but the pattern can easily be worked into any winter outfit.

Snowflake hats, gray cable sweaters and furtrimmed vests make for the perfect accessories for Syracuse’s snowy days.

Anna Sui, Christian Dior, Missoni, and Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag & Bone wrapped their models in layers of sweaters, long-sleeved shirts, scarves and fur-trimmed vests. Rag & Bone continued with the menswear trend, piling on plaid button-ups, gray wool coats and plenty of blazers. Anna Sui decided against the more tailored trend and designed her layers with bright colors, loud

patterns and plenty of funk. Christian Dior’s equestrian-themed line showed layers of brown leather, frilly frocks and plaid blazers.

Heavy knits and long pieces also swarmed this fall’s catwalks. Long skirts graced the Michael Kors and Hermes runways, while kneelength cardigans and wraps were shown at Peter Som, Ralph Lauren and Richard Chai Love.

Three sweaters, a vest, two scarves and two hats might be a bit overkill, but the wrapped up, long-layered trend couldn’t be more perfect for Syracuse University’s windy subzero days.

Nordic patterns and prim, feminine accents add the relaxed details once held by flashy neons, leather, studded accessories and feathered, flowered headbands.

Fur, layers and knits create both a comfortable and stylish wardrobe for the season. The fall 2010 trends may lack the overpowering intensity that previous seasons have shown, but the collections are anything but dull. Styles are simpler, classier and effortless. letousig@syr.edu

What’s out 80s shoulder pads

Time for them to go back to where they came from.

Metallics

Face it, you never really liked it anyway.

Biker chic

Keep the leather jacket, but ditch the studded gloves and chain necklaces.

Leggings

At least the patterned, ripped, sequined, and light-up ones.

Thigh-high boots

Replaced with thigh-high socks.

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binge.

The drink has taken off in popularity, especially on college campuses where students are attracted to its high alcohol content and cheap price. It inspired several amateur artists to post YouTube music videos about it and prompted a U.S. senator to call for an investigation into its confusing marketing strategy.

At Syracuse University, Four Loko attracts a wide variety of supporters, from upperclassmen to freshman and from greek life bashes to lowkey house parties.

Tiffany Tanz, an undeclared freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, said she has never tried the drink but knows a lot of people who have. “I’ve seen it a lot,� Tanz said.

Tanz said she would stay away from the drink, mostly because of its high alcohol content.

Students mistakenly believe the caffeine, a stimulant, and the alcohol, a depressant, will benefit the drinker, said Sarah Short, a nutrition professor. “Well, it’s an upper and a downer, so it’s not going to even out somehow,� Short said.

With its combination of a stimulant and a depressant, Four Loko will not make the drinker experience a more awake buzz. On the contrary, the combination and the high alcohol content will fool students into believing they are drinking less alcohol. How drunk the consumer gets then depends on his or her body composition and tolerance, Short said.

When someone consumes a drink like Four Loko, the caffeine is likely absorbed before the alcohol, increasing the heart rate. The alcohol is absorbed soon afterward, slowing down the consumer’s body functions in a short period of time.

To make matters worse, it’s doubtful any doctors will run studies on the exact effects of these caffeinated alcoholic drinks, Short said. “I don’t think there is really a consensus on what this will do to you,� she said.

Doctors shy away from alcohol studies, fearing a study participant would die or become ill from consuming too much alcohol. Many alcohol studies are considered unethical, Short said.

As for Four Loko’s popularity, at least one college, Ramapo College of New Jersey, banned the beverage from its campus because it experienced a spike in student trips to the hospital after students consumed alcohol. At least six students were hospitalized after consuming Four Loko this year, CBS News reported Friday.

The growing popularity of the drink prompted Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to send letters to the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission, calling for an investigation and possible sanctions against the drink and its manufacturers, Phusion Projects. “The style and promotion of these products is extremely troubling,� Schumer wrote in the letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “Frankly, it looks to me as if manufacturers are trying to mislead adults and business owners who sell these products, while at the same time actively courting underage drinkers. This type of marketing is, at minimum, grossly irresponsible.�

The FTC has the power to regulate advertising and marketing campaigns. Schumer alleges Four Loko targets underage drinkers and youth in general with its campaign.

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Interest filed lawsuits against Anheuser-Busch and Miller-Coors to stop selling their caffeinated alcoholic drinks, according to the center’s website. Busch sold both Bud Extra and Tilt, and Miller produced Spark. Since then, both companies have stopped selling the alcoholic energy drinks.

Schumer also argues the labeling and packaging of Four Loko make it difficult to distinguish it from regular drinks. Four Loko comes in cans that are roughly the same size as energy drinks Monster and Vault, and Four Loko cans all feature bright, colorful packaging. “Some stores even stock them directly next to

“Well, it’s an upper and a downer, so it’s not going to even out somehow.�

Sarah Short

nutrition professor

non-alcohol energy drinks, causing further confusion for both legal and underage consumers,�

Schumer said in the letter to the FTC. The FDA, which possesses the ability to regulate the drink’s contents, is in the process of responding to the letter, said Schumer’s deputy press secretary, John Rizzo. The FTC has already responded, and Schumer’s office is waiting for the results of an FTC report.

Jay Wright, a communications law professor, said the FTC would try to limit Four Loko’s advertising if it felt the advertisements improperly targeted children.

The FTC did this before, when it banned the use of carton characters from cigarette advertising, which included the termination of Camel cigarette’s Joe Camel.

Four Loko may agree to scale back its advertising. Many advertisers prefer self-regulation to imposed rulings from the FTC. Before anything happens, though, the FTC will need to see concrete facts that prove the advertising has a direct effect on youth and underage alcohol consumption.

Wright said: “You can’t just go in and change someone’s advertising campaign without real evidence.� adbrow03@syr.edu

The buzz on four loko Nicknames

“Blackout in a can,� “liquid cocaine�

ABV

12 percent

Ingredients

Alcohol, caffeine, taurine, guarana, sugar, carbonation, artificial flavoring and color

Size

23 oz. can

Flavors

Cirtus, grape, fruit punch, orange blend, watermelon, blue raspberry, lemonade, cranberry lemonade and lemon lime

Similar drinks

Anheuser-Busch’s “Bud Extra� and “Tilt;�

Miller-Coors’ “Sparks�

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Creative craft market allows local artisans to showcase, sell pieces

By Eric Vilas-Boas Staff Writer

Bringing a rainbow assortment of Post-it notes, duct tape and mannequins, an uncanny amount of color will brighten the dreary Case Supply Building in downtown Syracuse.

All the color is part of the second annual Salt City Urban Art and Craft Market. The market opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The one-day event will feature three live musical acts, three food vendors and 39 booths featuring local artists from Central New York.

The Salt City Urban Art and Craft Market was started by Syracuse locals Briana Kohlbrenner and Vanessa Rose. Collaborating with Syracuse University, Kohlbrenner and Rose want the arts fair to be edgier than the typical craft market.

“I think a lot of people get confused about what it is,” said Rose, an organizer and co-

“We’re really looking for something edgier, something more urban, something that people haven’t seen as much.”

Vanessa Rose

Salt Cit y Urban Art and Craft Market Co-Founder

founder of the market. “They think it’s just another arts and crafts show. We’re really looking for something edgier, something more urban, something that people haven’t seen as much.”

The building, which is at 112 Wyoming St., has space for 40 booths. Over 90 artists initially applied to have their works featured this year, a number greater than last year when the organizers were having trouble finding a space, Rose said.

“There are a lot of empty storefronts in Syracuse, but trying to get a hold of doing something with them is not easy,” Rose said. “It’s sad.”

After securing the space last year, Kohlbrenner and Rose vacuumed the dust off of the entire warehouse floor with a store-bought Shop-Vac and a few friends. This year, they knocked a wall down to make more room. Using only a $250 private donation and the $40 fee from each artist, Kohlbrenner and Rose have managed to keep the event free of charge. With the exception of SU-subsidized space, they operate independently.

Rose, a fourth grade teacher in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District, met Kohlbrenner while working on a Syracuse One Take Super-8 film event. Kohlbrenner owns and operates Craft Chemistry, a Syracuse-based art gallery, studio lab and retail store. Rose and Kohl-

brenner started the market as an outlet for artists to expose and hopefully sell their work.

In mid-2009, the then-nonexistent market found recourse in the Near Westside Initiative.

The initiative recently backed the Love-Letter Bridges art project, a series of paintings on Syracuse highways and overpasses with lines like “fall leaves, winter longs,” and “nothing to do, is everything with you.” The initiative is dedicated to promoting community involvement and artistic growth in the Westside neighborhood, said Near Westside Director Marten Jacobs.

The Near Westside Initiative is funded and run

by SU’s Office of Community Engagement and Economic Development.

Jacobs met Rose and Kohlbrenner through 40 Below, another community involvement initiative in Central New York. After working with them on 40 Below and helping find a space for Craft Chemistry, Jacobs helped finance their latest endeavor. The building is being used for single-day events, like the arts fair, until it becomes the new home of Syracuse’s public access television station, WCNY, he said.

“If it wasn’t for the university putting the money and the manpower into these projects, some of them would never have happened,” Rose said. “But on the same note, the university tends to get its hands in everything.”

SU is the main resource of many Syracuse art and community projects, Jacobs said.

“I think in an ideal world, it’s not Syracuse University’s responsibility. The city of Syracuse should deal more with this stuff, too,” he said.

“I’m just happy SU can pick up the slack, but I think there’s a real need to keep pushing the city to make economic investments in the arts.”

For Rose and Kohlbrenner, the important thing is not the money but the involvement.

“I do get worried about everything becoming property of the university,” she said. “Some of the SU projects have these grand schemes, but I live in Syracuse, I want to make them happen.” epvilasb@syr.edu

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By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER

nly in the midst of a film festival could a Syracuse resident walk around the outside of a theater to find four-time Academy Awardnominated actor Ed Harris leaned against the wall, introducing himself for a friendly conversation.

As the final end credits scrolled off-screen, the seventh annual Syracuse International Film Festival concluded Sunday night. Almost a week after the festival, the thrill of discovering and seeing films from all over the world still lingers. The Syracuse film festival should not be taken for granted, and not just because it injects some increased economic activity in the city across a five-day period.

Critics, such as Roger Ebert, have suggested that one should try to see three or four films a day when attending a film festival. In Syracuse, fulfilling that unofficial requirement can be an indelible pleasure, venturing from Watson Auditorium on the Syracuse University campus to the cozy Red House Arts Center to the somberly majestic Palace Theatre, where most of the marquee events were held.

This festival kicked off on a light note Oct. 13 with a screening of “Pizza with Bullets” at the Palace The-

Big-name actors make Syracuse International Film Festival leading downtown arts affair

atre, which actor Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”) attended. On Friday night, the Palace Theatre hosted a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lodger” (1927), for which American saxophonist Javon Jackson performed a new score. Saturday night saw the premiere of the riveting Syracuse-shot thriller “Session,” starring Israeli model Bar Refaeli and Cuban-American actor Steven Bauer.

The festival ended late Sunday night after Harris presented one of his most recent films, “Touching Home,” and a new print of “Pollock” (2000), the film that earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Of the many great works shown at the festival, the finest was arguably Robert M. Young’s “Human Error,” a film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. Boasting a refreshingly theatrical script and a slew of great performances, “Human Error” deserves a great deal more recognition than it has received. The film’s stars, Xander Berkeley, Robert Knott and Tom Bower, joined Young to discuss the film afterward in an engrossing Q-and-A session, asking members of the audience for suggestions as to how they could reach a wider audience.

Among the exciting events, Harris’ appearance on

Sunday night was a true gem of the festival. One of the most respected and accomplished actors of today, Harris was very modest in presenting and discussing “Touching Home,” often deferring to his much younger directors, twins Logan and Noah Miller. Harris is phenomenal in the true story film, owning the fairly challenging role of the Miller twins’ alcoholic, selfdestructive father. A performer who takes his art quite seriously, there isn’t a better guy to speak to outside of a theater on a cold Syracuse night.

The excitement of screenings is amplified by the notion that the films the audience is watching may never screen for a large crowd again, because many films aren’t picked up by big-time distributors.

Acclaimed filmmakers and performers gather to discuss their work and are generally very receptive to questions from members of the audience.

A film festival is arguably the most exciting cultural event in today’s art scene. Literary festivals have, unfortunately, lost a great deal of popularity, and music festivals function more or less as prolonged concerts. Film festivals are unique in their ability to attract large crowds that are eager to engage with and experience something new. smlittma@syr.edu

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Presentation College joins D-III, begins football preparations EDITOR IN CHIEF

When Andy Carr showed up for work at Presentation College on June 1, he was stepping into uncharted territory.

Carr and his staff had no offices to work in. No computers, either. The staff didn’t even own a single set of keys to the building they’d be spending their days working in.

There were no blueprints for this kind of undertaking.

Instead of fi xing a broken program, Carr and his staff were building one out of nothing.

“When a head coach gets his fi rst position, usually he’s fi xing something that’s broken,” Presentation head coach Carr said. “But for us, it’s going to have our thumbprints all over it. We’re building from the ground up.”

This summer, Presentation threw its hat into the world of college football, and when Carr showed up for his fi rst day of work, he began his journey to create history for the small South Dakota school. The Saints will begin playing in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference in the fall of 2011. The Saints’ fi rst game is scheduled against Trinity Bible on Sept. 3. The last weekend of October 2011, they’ll be playing a conference opponent in the Metrodome in Minneapolis.

The Metrodome can seat more than double the population of Aberdeen, S.D., the town in which Presentation College is located and the

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third largest city in South Dakota.

But fortunately for Presentation, it’s the only game in town. There are no other Division III football programs in the entire state of South Dakota. That, Carr said, was one of the driving factors to make this team become a reality.

“That’s really what drove (Presentation president) Dr. (Lorraine) Hale to do this,” Carr said. “A large portion of the population is being unserved.”

Talented athletes from South Dakota who cannot live up to Division I or Division II football previously had nowhere to go, Carr said. Already, Carr and his coaching staff have begun informally recruiting and getting the word out about the team. He said he has seen numerous coaches’ lists, and two or three players on their teams would have jumped at the chance to play in-state Division III ball.

With enrollment currently around 800 students, the 60- to 65-man roster Carr hopes to bring to campus in the fall could make up almost 10 percent of the student body.

Presentation has seen its enrollment grow in the past few years, and for Carr, football seemed like a natural next step.

But it’s not an easy one. It’s more than playbooks and schedules. Luckily for Carr, he had the guidance of another coach — in his own league, nonetheless — that had gone through this process only three years ago.

Greg Carlson, head coach at St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., came in at the end of the season last year with a 4-6 record. The year before, they went 1-7. The year before that,

those Saints didn’t exist.

So Carr sought the advice of his colleague when he took the job. Carlson gave Carr the advice he was looking for — the “do’s and don’ts,” the little things he can’t forget.

“Some of the coaches at St. Scholastica told us we need to be clear and explain every-

“When a head coach gets his first position, usually he’s fixing something that’s broken. But for us, it’s going to have our thumbprints all over it. We’re building from the ground up.”

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PRESENTATION COLLEGE HEAD COACH

thing,” Carr said. “We can’t take for granted that they know how to break down at the end of practice, what style of dress we wear on the road and to take their hats off when we go out to eat.”

Carlson recognized the difficulty of the position Carr had gotten into, but he also noted the benefits of taking the risk.

“Just knowing that, for the fi rst time, your team is taking the field representing their

college,” Carlson said. “Wearing the uniforms you helped design, the coaching staff and players you chose — they’re a part of history.”

Pat O’Brien recognized those benefits, too, and took the leap from a comfortable high school head coaching job in Tampa, Fla., to Aberdeen to become defensive coordinator and secondary coach for the Saints.

O’Brien said he’s looking forward to starting from scratch. When Presentation coaches head out on the recruiting trail, they don’t have to give players empty promises. Those freshmen coming in will get the chance to play football right when they get on campus. They don’t have to wait years for a spot like they would at other schools. They can pursue their passion right off the bat.

“The pot is empty,” O’Brien said. “Every time we go and sit down and talk with a player right now, we can say, ‘You know what, you have a chance to play.’ Every freshman we talk to can get a truthful statement from us.”

And it seems that Aberdeen is ready for a team like Presentation. With a population of only around 30,000, O’Brien said the community has been supportive of the endeavor.

So for Carr, a man who has been working to become a head coach his entire career, the time and the location is ready. He’s fi nally the one who will help to create the traditions and structure the team needs. And Aberdeen’s history will be made from his thumbprints.

“We’re recruiting on the base that we have a chance to make history,” Carr said. “We’ll be the fi rst picture in that trophy case. We’ll let them be a part of building that tradition.” knmciner@ syr.edu

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LeGrand’s condition sends shock through Rutgers, Big East

By Mark Cooper Asst. Copy Editor

The negative side of football reared its ugly head last weekend when Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered an injury that paralyzed him from the neck down.

Rutgers, though, is doing its best to just establish a stronger community. From the rest of the football team to the Rutgers students to the Big East conference, LeGrand’s injury has left that community with many heavy hearts.

“We appreciate all the thoughts and prayers of so many people,” Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano said in the Big East coaches’ teleconfer-

“Everyone here at Rutgers, on (LeGrand’s) team, his family, we believe he is going to recover and is going to walk out of there.”

Greg Schiano

Rutgers head coach

ence Monday. “The league has been tremendous.

Coaches, athletic directors, trainers, players from across the country really, but our league has really been special.”

LeGrand, mainly a special teams player, was attempting to make a tackle on a kickoff return in the fourth quarter Saturday against Army when he was involved in a violent collision with the Black Knights’ Malcolm Brown. After lying motionless on the field for several minutes, LeGrand was carted off. The crowd, attending the first FBS game in New Meadowlands Stadium, fell silent in shock.

And it has since affected the entire athletic program. It was a main topic of discussion Wednesday for Rutgers head coach Mike Rice at the Big East media day for men’s basketball. “(Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti) came and spoke to our student athletes, as he did (with) all our athletic teams, and just about how to support (LeGrand),” Rice said. “The prayers for him, picking up the men’s football team as they walk by, making sure your thoughts, and you’re communicating your support for them and for Eric.

“As a coach — and I was at the game — your heart sinks.”

Rutgers went on to win the game, but the focus was on LeGrand, who still remains at Hackensack University Medical Center.

It sparked reaction across the Big East football landscape, including Syracuse. Senior linebacker and captain Derrell Smith said his prayers go out to LeGrand and his family.

“It’s something that happens in the game,” Smith said. “It’s unfortunate that it had to happen to somebody. … I’ll definitely keep him in my prayers, and I wish the best for him.”

Other Scarlet Knights’ teams have also shown their support, along with students of the university. Rice, entering his first year as RU’s men’s basketball coach, said tragedies like the one that occurred Saturday create a greater sense of closeness among teams, students and

people.

“Things like this unfortunately do. It brings you together,” Rice said. “Me and my wife can’t even think of what (Schiano’s) last four or five days have gone through. As usual, he’s handled it with class, with a personal touch.”

The football team will pay tribute as well, wearing stickers on the front of their helmets that will read “Believe.” The team chose “believe” because it is one of the few things the players can do in the situation.

They believe LeGrand will walk on the field with them once again.

“It has been a challenging couple of days here since the game,” Schiano said. “It’s going to be a long, long road and a long fight.

“But everyone here at Rutgers, on his team, his family, we believe he is going to recover and is going to walk out of there.”

Connecticut quarterback suspended for season UConn announced Wednesday that starting quarterback Cody Endres has been suspended for the rest of the season for an undisclosed violation of school policy.

The junior took over in the middle of UConn’s game with Buffalo on Sept. 25 and kept the role as starter from that point. He has thrown for 471 yards and five touchdowns to only two interceptions in his two-plus games of work.

The Huskies went 1-1 with him as a starter.

Connecticut (3-3, 0-1 Big East) was picked to finish fourth in the Big East football preseason media poll, and the Huskies had even higher expectations than that. But things haven’t gone as planned — especially the quarterback situation. Endres, who was suspended in the preseason for breaking team rules, took over for quarterback Zach Frazer in the Buffalo game.

Frazer had struggled as the Huskies’ starter, completing only 52 percent of his passes and throwing just two touchdowns in three-plus games.

Those struggles allowed Endres, back from suspension, to take the starting role. Endres also started six games last season before an injury ended his year.

Frazer had since been dropped to third on the quarterback depth chart, behind redshirt freshman Michael Box. It hasn’t been decided whether or not UConn head coach Randy Edsall will give Box his first career start Saturday at Louisville or if he will go back to Frazer.

Big man on campus WR Armon Binns Senior Cincinnati Last week: 8 receptions, 175 yards, 3 TDs

Binns, part of the Bearcats two-headed wide receiver attack along with D.J. Woods, had a career day against Louisville Friday. In the midst of a shootout with the Cardinals, Binns was quarterback Zach Collaros’ favorite target all night, hauling in eight catches, including three for scores. His big game helped Cincinnati (3-3, 1-0 Big East) win its conference opener, 35-27.

He also accounted for over 60 percent of his quarterback’s 275 yards passing. And all three touchdowns came at crucial junctures in the game.

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The senior’s 10-yard touchdown catch in the first quarter was a much-needed response to a Louisville touchdown, putting the Bearcats back on top 14-7. After the Cardinals reeled off 17 unanswered points to take a two-score lead, Collaros found Binns for a 31-yard touchdown catch, cutting UL’s lead to three heading into halftime.

In the fourth quarter, Binns got the hat trick with a touchdown that gave Cincinnati a cushion it needed. Winning just 28-27, Binns burned Louisville cornerback Bobby Burns, and his

quarterback delivered a perfect strike, leading to a 62-yard touchdown that gave the Bearcats the 35-27 score that eventually went final.

Binns and Woods have combined for 63 catches, 1,075 yards and 13 touchdowns in six games this year. Woods is first and Binns second in receiving yards in the Big East, and Binns is tied for second and Woods fourth in receptions.

They are also No. 1 (Binns) and No. 2 (Woods) in touchdown receptions in the conference. mcooperj@syr.edu

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later — May 6, 2002, Williams died at the age of 24.

Last week Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the neck down. The injury isn’t as common or notorious in college football as it is in the NFL, but here are some similar injuries from the past 25 years. This includes two from 10 years ago when the injury became well-known nation wide with the Adam Taliaferro injury:

Adam Taliaferro, Penn State (2000)

Curtis Williams, Washington (2000)

Williams, a senior strong safety who led the Huskies in tackles in 1999, suffered a horrific paralyzing injury on Oct. 28, 2000, against Stanford. He collided in a helmetto-helmet tackle with Stanford’s running back, and fell to the ground immediately, his body frozen. The rest of UW’s season was dedicated to him. Eighteen months

Taliaferro, a Nittany Lions defensive back, suffered a career-ending spinal cord injury while making a tackle at Ohio State on Sept. 23, 2000. Taliaferro, then an 18-yearold freshman, was one of the most highlyrecruited defensive players in the country.

It was only his fifth game as a collegiate player.

Chucky Mullins, Mississippi (1989)

Mullins broke four vertebrae in his cervical spine trying to make a tackle against Vanderbilt during Ole Miss’ Homecoming game on Oct. 28, 1989. He was paralyzed immediately, and never regained feeling below his neck. He died 18 months later, on May 6, 1991.

— Compiled by Asst. Copy Editor Mark Cooper

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Big East coaches rank SU 3rd in preseason conference poll

By Andrew L. John Sports Editor

NEW YORK — A year after winning an outright Big East regular season championship, Syracuse found itself No. 3 on the conference’s 2010-11 preseason poll Wednesday. The poll was released at the conference’s annual media day at Madison Square Garden.

Pittsburgh, not Syracuse or West Virginia — a Final Four team a year ago — was the coaches’ preseason choice to win the conference this season. Jamie Dixon’s squad returns four starters, including All-Big East preseason selection Ashton Gibbs, from a team that finished 25-9 and was tied for second place in the league in 2009-10.

Villanova was selected as the second-place team, with Syracuse, Georgetown and West Virginia rounding out the top five.

“Being picked to finish high is not a bad thing,” Dixon said. “We’ve been picked high before. Last year was the first year we really haven’t. What we have done every year is finish a little higher than we were picked, so I guess it’ll be hard to do that this year.”

Syracuse freshman Fab Melo was voted as the league’s preseason Rookie of the Year.

The 7-foot freshman, originally from Brazil, is expected to come in and play a significant role for the Orange this season, especially after likely losing center DaShonte Riley for the season with a foot injury.

Georgetown guard Austin Freeman was selected as the league’s preseason Player of the Year. Freeman, a three-year starter for the Hoyas, was an All-Big East second team selection a year ago, after averaging 19.5 points and shooting nearly 52 percent from beyond the 3-point arc in league play.

Aside from Freeman, the preseason first team is comprised of Pittsburgh’s Gibbs, Connecticut guard Kemba Walker, Villanova guard Corey Fisher, Seton Hall guard Jeremy Hazell and West Virginia forward Kevin Jones. Syracuse forward Kris Joseph was selected to the preseason second team, and SU forward Rick Jackson was one of three honorable mentions.

Before Freeman, the only other Georgetown

players to be tabbed the conference’s preseason Player of the Year were Roy Hibbert (2007-08), Alonzo Mourning (1991-92) and Patrick Ewing (1982-83, 1983-84 and 1984-85).

“It’s an honor, but I also look at it as all that matters is what happens at the end of the season,” Freeman said. “I also know I need to focus even more because I’ll have a target on my back.

It’s something I prepared for this summer, so I think I’m ready for it.”

them can improve upon what both squads did a year ago.

“It’s the first chance I’ve had in quite some time,” Calhoun said. “Any time that you’re seven or above, you’re not winning the Coach of the Year. Lavin has a chance. Even when we have someone even at six, it could be Coach of the Year. It’s after that, that you start having chances.”

Red Storm on the way back to the top?

To kick off the annual media event, Big East Commissioner John Marinatto announced 73 of 144 of the league’s regular-season games would be televised nationally. In addition, all 16 teams in the league will play in at least five nationally televised games within the conference this season.

To Marinatto, this only further solidifies the Big East as perhaps the superior conference in college basketball.

“Year in and year out, our conference has proven to be among the most competitive from top to bottom in the country,” Marinatto said. “There is no question that much of our programs’ success can be attributed to the unparalleled exposure they receive annually.”

Once again, the league will partner with ESPN for the network’s Big Monday format.

In addition, the Big East will have nationally televised games on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Syracuse will be showcased on national television 18 times this season, starting with Canisius on Sunday, Nov. 14, on ESPNU. Overall, it will be the fourth consecutive year in which all 144 in-conference games will be nationally televised.

“This is why most of us chose to play in the Big East,” Connecticut guard Kemba Walker said. “It’s because of the competitiveness of the league and the exposure we get as players.”

Former UCLA head coach Steve Lavin was hired to turn around a St. John’s team that had fallen on hard times recently, and the buzz was evident Wednesday. Just a year after finishing with a 6-12 record in conference play, Lavin’s squad was the preseason pick to finish sixth and even snagged a preseason vote to win the conference.

Lavin admitted he knew the vote came from Louisville head coach Rick Pitino, who was very complimentary to the media of St. John’s combination of experience and talent heading into the season. The Red Storm has a league-high 10 seniors, including multiple key contributors from last season.

“One of the strengths of this team is that we have 14 seniors in this program,” Lavin said.

“Ten players and four managers, and we want to send them out on a high note. To do that, they’ll have to take advantage of the fact that they are experienced, we are a veteran group, and they’ve been through the rigors of the Big East.”

St. John’s hasn’t been selected to finish higher than ninth in the preseason poll since 2002-03. Evidently with a new head coach and a group of experienced veterans, league coaches believe the Red Storm is ready to make a big jump this season.

Connecticut was selected as the No. 10 team in the preseason poll, prompting head coach Jim Calhoun to predict that he and Lavin have the best shot at winning the league’s Coach of the Year award if either of

More Big East games to be televised

aljohn@syr.edu — Asst. Copy Editors Michael Cohen and Mark Cooper contributed reporting to this article.

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In a game in which SU’s defense will have to contain all four of West Virginia’s big-play threats, the Sanders-Merkerson matchup may be the best.

Last week against Pitt, Merkerson held the Panthers’ leading receiver to just 61 yards on one catch.

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MIKE HOLMES CB

GENO SMITH QB

PHILLIP THOMAS FS

The key here will be not letting Smith hit Austin, Sanders or anyone else on deep balls. The breakdowns are bound to happen for the SU secondary with two of the fastest receivers in the Big East. Phillips’ main assignment will be the textbook one for a free safety: not letting anyone get deeper than him.

Just like Merkerson, Holmes will be going up against a topnotch receiver for the second week in a row. If Holmes has a repeat performance of failing to mark his receiver on a short pass like last week, SU and Holmes will be in for a long day.

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• WVU wide receiver Jock Sanders has recorded a reception in 34 straight games.

The mark is good enough for the fourth best mark in Big East history and the second best mark in West Virginia history.

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3 WEST VIRGINIA DEFENSE 94 DE Craig Marshall 46 DT Cory Grissom 97 DT Terrell McClain 58 DE David Bedford 57 OLB Jacquian Williams 36 MLB Sam Barrington 34 OLB DeDe Lattimore 16 CB Steven Barker 2 CB Quenton Washington 8 SS Jon Lejiste 1 FS Jerrell Young

Beating USF on the road and getting destroyed by Pitt on Homecoming makes this SU squad fairly unpredictable. But I still can’t pick this one to be close.

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The first year The Schwartzwalder Trophy was given out. The trophy is given out annually to the winner of the WVU-SU game and is named in honor of former SU head coach Ben Schwartzwalder.

WVU’s best vs. SU’s best here.

Devine torched the Orange last year as he took the reigns of the game over with an 11-yard touchdown reception four minutes into the game, kickstarting 27 unanswered points for the Mountaineers to start the game.

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SYRACUSE DEFENSE 54 DE Mikhail Marinovich 94 NT Bud Tribbey 51 DT Andrew Lewis 99 DE Chandler Jones 11 SLB Marquis Spruill 25 MLB Derrell Smith 32 WLB Doug Hogue 6 CB Da’Mon Merkerson 35 CB Mike Holmes 24 SS Max Suter 1 FS Phillip Thomas

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After tears of joy at USF and an apology after Pitt, this game is just, well, pretty much expected. West Virginia just has the superior talent.

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If the SU offense didn’t like the three-and-out stretch in the second quarter, they are going to hate Saturday. WVU is fourth in the nation in forcing three-and-outs, only behind TCU, Ohio St. and Boise State.

Do you think SU would have a chance versus those teams?

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Trio of transfers bring experience to Orange

By Zuri Irvin Staff Writer

The three senior forwards on the SU ice hockey team have each been playing collegiate hockey longer than their current program has been alive. Julie Rising, Ashley Cockell and Stefanie Marty are in their fourth year. The program is in its third.

The Orange is benefiting from the lessons the players learned before the program’s existence.

And in its third season, the Orange is ahead of the usual curve for a third-year team, thanks to the lack of a need for that learning curve with the

“I just thought it was a really neat opportunity to be able to start something new. Just to be able to build a program, and to have that, is pretty special.”

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front line. It was a head start.

“One of my friends mentioned a new program at Syracuse,” Rising said. “I didn’t mind (Rising’s former school) Bemidji much, but it was just Syracuse was pretty cool starting a new program. … I thought, why not?”

Rising, the first of the three to commit, played in 36 games her freshman year at Bemidji State.

Since joining the Orange, she was named cocaptain as a sophomore and led the team in shots as a junior. At Bemidji, ice hockey was the only Division I team on campus. At Syracuse, athletics is much bigger, and being a part of an extensive athletic program was important for

Rising. Without her, Bemidji State is 2-4 on the season so far.

It was a similar situation for Rising’s front-ice counterpart Marty.

“For me, SU is just a huge sports school,” Marty said. “That made my decision even easier.

UNH was big, and coming from Europe, we don’t have sports and academics. We don’t have sports teams at universities. So (Marty’s former school New Hampshire) was already big to me, and then I came here and it was 10 times bigger.”

Much like Rising, Marty came to SU following a disappointing freshman campaign. Still new to American colleges, Marty originally wasn’t aware that an opportunity with the Orange existed. Her freshman season at UNH was also her first in the United States. A member of the Swiss National Team since 2003, Marty is the team’s other co-captain and a veteran of both the 2009 Olympics and the 2008 Frozen Four. In her absence, New Hampshire is 3-2 on the season.

The third of the trio is Cockell, SU’s lone new senior. Cockell is in her first year on campus after transferring from division powerhouse Mercyhurst this past August. “(Mercyhurst) just wasn’t the right fit for me,” Cockell said. “It was late, but I took the chance of not going back and maybe having to sit out a year.

It worked out.”

Cockell came from the program everyone involved in SU ice hockey is chasing. Mercyhurst is the perennial league favorite and has taken the first eight CHA titles since the league’s inauguration in 2002-03. She has played on a team that has been to the Frozen Four and the NCAA championships and that has been ranked No. 1.

Still, Cockell transferred because she wanted to come to a team that she could learn more from and to help a new program improve. Mercyhurst is 5-1 on the year.

There were only four teams in the league when the Lakers began their run several years ago. Syracuse became the fifth in 2008, and since

then, SU has quickly asserted itself as one of the more attractive destinations for up-and-coming players. Rising, Marty and Cockell all left productive teams with the intention of creating something stronger here in Syracuse.

And for Rising, the only option to transfer that she would have considered was the unique situation at SU. Becoming an elder immediately attracted her.

“This was the only school,” Rising said. “If my friend didn’t mention it, I’d probably still be at Bemidji. I just thought it was a really neat opportunity to be able to start something new.

Just to be able to build a program, and to have that, is pretty special.” zoirvin@syr.edu

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Syracuse won both meetings versus the Bulldogs last season, 4-1 and 3-2 respectively. Union comes into the weekend at 3-1, and the Orange stand at 2-2-1.

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a big loss — a disappointing loss — to a Pitt team, the schedule doesn’t get any easier. We’re playing a West Virginia team that’s all of Pitt and probably more speed.”

The challenge for this SU defense will come in the form of a four-headed monster of weapons that are among the Big East’s leaders in their respective categories.

Quarterback Geno Smith is second in the conference in passing yards per game and pass efficiency. Running back Noel Devine is a twoway threat. And wide receivers Jock Sanders and Tavon Austin are one-two in receptions per game.

“They have the potential to be an explosive offense with the players that they have,” Marrone said. “I think this is a Top 10 football team. … We’re playing a team that truly, deservedly,

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should be a Top 10 football team.”

And the key to stop those threats starts with stopping the big plays, the third-down conversions in the red zone that came back to haunt the Orange against Pittsburgh.

Three plays, 170 yards. Those three plays — a 79-yard touchdown reception by Devin Street to start the game, a 61-yard reception by Jon Baldwin and a 30-yard touchdown reception by Mike Shanahan — are what the SU defensive coordinator pinpoints as the main perpetrators of the blowout.

“Yeah, the big plays did kill us,” Shafer said.

“We missed some tackles. … You can’t take those back. You take them back, and we’re sitting here having a different conversation. So you look at where we lost leverage or where we missed a tackle or two here and there.”

One of those broken plays was a surprise — the 79-yard touchdown to start the game, when a simple bubble-screen from Pittsburgh quarterback Tino Sunseri turned into a mad dash to the

end zone for Street and humbled the SU defense to start the game.

Shafer credits that to the Panthers’ scheme and game plan for the Orange. They went away from their bread and butter — the power formation. Shafer said Pittsburgh ran 46 plays out of that formation in its four previous games.

Against SU, he said the Panthers only lined up six or seven times in the formation.

The element of surprise caught Syracuse off guard. But Shafer isn’t altering the way he prepares. He has to scheme for the percentages.

“You have to go with the numbers,” Shafer said. “You have to go with the percentages. You have to prepare for who they are and what they do well. They’re not going to change. They’re going to do what they do well.”

Spruill was the culprit in another of those plays last Saturday against the Panthers. A Dion Lewis rush for no gain and a false start on Pittsburgh had pushed the Panthers back to secondand-goal at SU’s 15-yard line.

Then Spruill missed his assignment. Pitt running back Ray Graham slipped out of the backfield and found himself wide open to stroll into the end zone. It gave the Panthers a 14-7 lead, the start of a 28-point run that would put the game away.

“I think it’s just when we get in that type of mode,” Spruill said of red-zone situations, “everyone gets excited, and one person might forget their assignment. And that one blown assignment might mess up the whole thing, and they might get a big play out of it.”

So though most of his defensive stats are near the top of the charts, Shafer knows the most telling number is perhaps that glaring 85.

Spruill knows the elements his defense will face. He took a trip to be amid the Mountaineer faithful last year while at Fork Union Military Academy in Virginia. That game was against Colorado, and the only way he described being with the crowd was “crazy.”

He also knows the elements the defense will face on the field, in the form of those four players very capable of turning no-gains into big plays.

And he knows for the Orange to win, those recurring big plays can’t happen.

“It’s very important,” Spruill said. “We can’t let them do that, because that obviously puts us in a big hole. … It’s just something we have to work on.” bplogiur@syr.edu

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abandonment of the run allowed Pitt defenders to pin their ears back and rush quarterback Ryan Nassib, who also had his worst game of the season as a result.

Clear enough?

It’s easy to say it’s not that simple. But consider this: Carter gets most of his carries in the first quarter, which, not coincidently, is when the Orange typically has the most success offensively.

Against Colgate, during SU’s most explosive second half of the season, it was Carter who carried the load and rushed for 146 yards and three touchdowns in the second half.

Against Pitt, the SU offensive line struggled to keep the Panthers from breaking into the backfield. Carter wasn’t going to do it all by himself.

Nor should he have to. The line needs to start to pave the way, and Nassib and the receivers need to keep the opposing defenses honest and not allow them to stack eight or nine men in the box.

And more than every so often, the coaches need to call Carter’s number time and time again.

This isn’t in opposition to what Marrone wants out of his offense, either. The Syracuse head coach firmly believes in running the football to control the tempo, open up the passing game and keep the defense rested and off the field.

The head coach has preached that to his players.

“Our offense likes to have a good balance of running and passing,” freshman tight end Beckett Wales said last week. “One can’t work without the other.”

This Saturday, Syracuse takes the field against the league’s best team in the league’s loudest, most disorderly venue. Mountaineer Field will be rocking, and that WVU defense — ranked No. 5 in the nation — will be relentless. That is the reality SU faces.

But if the Orange hopes to have any chance of walking away victorious, it needs to have Carter pound the ball early and often. It won’t be easy against a defense ranked No. 4 against the run this season, but we’ve seen the results of not doing that — and it wasn’t too pretty.

It’s really that simple.

Andrew L. John is the sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at aljohn@syr.edu

SPORTS

thursday

october 21, 2010

SYRACUSE AT WEST VIRGINIA20 SATURDAY, NOON, ESPN2

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Improving offense is simple: Give ball to Carter Andrew l. john

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kirsten celo | asst. photo editor The Syracuse defense faces its toughest test when the team travels to West Virginia Saturday to take on the No. 20 Mountaineers. After being outclassed by Pittsburgh’s offense last week in a 45-14 loss, the defense needs to improve if SU wants its fifth win of 2010.

Big trouble

By Brett LoGiurato Asst. Sports Editor

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arquis Spruill can’t explain the disparity of the Syracuse defense.

He hears the numbers. In a unit that has been wildly inconsistent from game to game this season, the stats are all there near the top. SU ranks 18th in the nation in total defense. Tied for a cool 19th in first downs allowed, holding opponents to just 16 first downs per game.

Facing West Virginia’s dynamic offensive weapons, SU looks to eliminate big plays on defense

But then there’s the big play. The red zone plays. When opponents are inside the Orange’s 20-yard line, they score 86 percent of the time.

That figure is virtually the only stat that ranks SU near the bottom of college football on defense — 85th overall.

It’s troubling to Spruill, a freshman linebacker.

He pauses for eight seconds, thinking about why a defense that looks dominant on paper has had so much trouble in big spots.

Needs improvement In the words of defensive coordinator Scott Shafer, big plays have “killed” Syracuse in its two losses this year to Washington and Pittsburgh last week. The six plays total 307 yards of offense: Opponent

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1st and 10 Jake Locker to Jermaine Kearse 1st and 10 Jake Locker to Jermaine Kearse 2nd and 5 Chris Polk rush 1st and 10 Tino Sunseri to Devin Street 1st and 10 Tino Sunseri to Jon Baldwin 3rd and 10 Tino Sunseri to Mike Shanahan

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57-yard TD 28-yard TD 52-yard TD 79-yard TD 61-yard first down to SU 3 30-yard TD

“(Eighty-five) in the red zone?” Spruill said. “I couldn’t really — I don’t even really know.”

As the Orange (4-2, 1-1 Big East) heads to West Virginia for a contest with the No. 20 Mountaineers (5-1, 1-0 Big East) Saturday at noon (ESPN2), keeping WVU’s middle-of-the-pack, yet dynamic, offense out of the end zone in those big-play situations could be crucial in determining the outcome of a close game. It’s a matchup SU is looking to win for the first time since 2001.

In its two losses this season, Syracuse has been plagued by the big play. The backbreaker. And on Saturday, it will be especially important to correct.

Because to SU head coach Doug Marrone, this West Virginia team is the best his Syracuse squad has faced thus far. A common theme this season has been Marrone preparing the Orange as if it is facing a Top 10 team every week.

And this time, Marrone admitted the Mountaineers are far and away better than the Maine’s, the Colgate’s and the Akron’s. Even Pittsburgh.

“To date, this is the best team we’ve faced, from what I’ve seen on film,” Marrone said. “Coming off see west virginia page 26

et’s not complicate things here.

Syracuse is a heavy underdog heading to West Virginia this weekend, and rightfully so. But to avoid a second consecutive blowout, Delone Carter needs to pull a Keyshawn Johnson and tell his coaches, “Just give me the (darn) ball.”

It’s really that simple.

Admittedly, watching Syracuse abandon the run in just the second quarter last weekend was puzzling.

With three quarters still remaining in what would become arguably SU’s worst loss in the Doug Marrone era, the Orange opted to go with a more passoriented offense and turned Carter, its leading rusher, into a spectator.

Eleven of Carter’s 13 carries came in the first quarter. After that, he was basically done for the day. For the second time in as many losses this season, Carter watched the second half from the sidelines Saturday. Staring in the face of a 28-7 halftime deficit, Carter might just as well have not been in the building for the second half. He watched as his team failed to generate a sufficient amount of offense as it turned to the passing game in an attempt to forge a comeback.

During a critical second quarter, when Pitt began to separate itself, Carter was a non-factor. By the third drive of the second quarter, the Orange completely dumped its rushing attack and passed six out of seven times before the drive ended on a Ryan Nassib interception.

By halftime, it may have been a lost cause, and perhaps the only way to get back into the game was to get the ball down the field for some quick offense.

But not in the second quarter.

For three quarters, Carter — arguably Syracuse’s most valuable offensive weapon — stood helplessly on the sidelines.

“Running the ball is where our offense starts,” said Antwon Bailey, Carter’s fellow backfield mate, on Sept.

22 as the Orange prepared to take on Colgate. “That starts with Delone and the offensive line. When they have success, our team usually has success.”

The Orange finished Saturday’s game with just 77 yards rushing — easily its lowest total of the season. And surprise, it came in the Orange’s worst loss of the season. Syracuse’s obvious see john page 26