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Watch your mouth With each profanity, Dane Cook brings

Wait for me Most attention on incoming freshmen

summer BP oil spill on the U.S. government. Page 3

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has been focused on Fab Melo, but Dion Waters is primed to play a key role off Jim Boeheim’s bench. Page 24

the laughs at the Oncenter. Page 11

SU’s definition of harassment hazy

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Swing, swing

NICK GARRITANO AND GABBI TRAUB, co-art director of First Year Players and costume, hair and makeup artist, respectively, swing dance to “C’mon Everybody” from the Elvis Presley-inspired musical “All Shook Up” during a flash mob in Schine Atrium on Tuesday afternoon at exactly 12:23 p.m. The group was promoting a Tuesday night dance workshop in preparation for next semester’s production of “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” SEE PAGE 12

An ongoing investigation into the controversial, anonymous student blog SUCOLitis raised questions about the definition of harassment after a first-year student filed a harassment complaint with the Syracuse University College of Law more than a week ago.

As a private university, SU has its own policies regarding free speech, meaning the university does not have to uphold the First Amendment. But on Monday, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education addressed a letter to SU Chancellor Nancy Cantor, saying the organization was deeply concerned about the threat to freedom of expression, to which the law school’s investigation has led.

Len Audaer is the only student accused of writing the blog and the only student under investigation by the school.

“Since no harassment has occurred, either by law or

by Syracuse’s own policies, the investigation of Audaer or any other potential author of the blog cannot be understood as any more than a politically motivated witch hunt,” Adam Kissel, FIRE’s vice president of programs, said in the letter.

Kissel would like Chancellor Cantor to respond to his organization’s letter by Nov. 12, he said. Kissel also said, in the letter, FIRE is “committed to using all of our resources to see this situation through to a just and moral decision” and that SU should correct its error and drop the investigation immediately.

SUCOLitis, a WordPress blog, began publishing online in early October with posts satirizing those within the College of Law. The blog received criticism from the col-

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Legal residents excluded from some private aid

By Susan Kim COPY EDITOR

Permanent residents and U.S. citizens get the same financial aid benefits — usually.

Although both have the same access to most of Syracuse University’s financial aid and scholarships, permanent residents — who do not have citizenship status — may be restricted from applying to private or special scholarships, including the recently announced Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholar Program.

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Little financial aid available for international students

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Financial aid for international students is limited, especially this year with their enrollment at its highest level ever at Syracuse University.

There are 2,763 international students at SU, but there is “very, very little” financial aid available for them, said Patricia Burak, director of the Lillian and Emanuel Slutzker Center for International Students.

International students are not allowed to apply for FAFSA and usually only find financial support from SU through merit-based aid, which has been cut back in recent years, she said.

Tuition for international students amounts to $55,326, which is $3,366

more than undergraduate domestic student tuition. Last year, the number of international students was 2,690 and the year before it was at 2,388, Burak said. They currently make up 8 percent of the student body, Burak said.

International students have been increasing in numbers at SU in the past five years, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. Ten years ago, international students made up about 2 percent of the student population, and the

percent has more than tripled since then, he said.

But there is a limited amount of money available for international students based on merit or need, Saleh said. Money is distributed to

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WHERE THEY COME FROM

Syracuse University’s international students come from all over the world, but the countries with the most students in Syracuse are:

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2 China: 882

3 India: 487

4 Korea: 316

5 Canada: 92

Taiwan: 64

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The tsunami was set off by a 7.7 magnitude undersea quake and slammed into the Mentawai Islands Monday night. It reached as high as 10 feet and advanced as far as 2,000 feet inland. The tsunami killed 113 people, left hundreds missing and thousands homeless, according to The New York Times. Both the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii and the Indonesian government issued a local tsunami watch seven minutes after the earthquake but canceled it hours later.

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Group sets up free bus to DC rally

By David Propper Staff Writer

At least 55 Syracuse University students with join people from across the nation pouring onto the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Saturday for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s dueling satirical rallies.

“It’s the What: Stephen Colbert’s “March to first opporKeep Fear Alive” and tunity for Jon Stewart’s “Rally some students to Restore Sanity” to become Where: National Mall politically in Washington, D.C. active even When: Oct. 30, if it’s in more noon to 3 p.m.

How much: Free of a comedic sense,” said Amy Snider, one of the organizers of a bus that will bring SU students to event.

The two rallies will take place from noon to 3 p.m. on Saturday, on the far eastern end of the National Mall in D.C. Part of the reason the celebrity pair is holding the rallies is in response to the Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally that attracted approximately 87,000 people Aug. 28. Beck’s rally drew criticism for being held on the anniversary of the March on Washington.

Bus tickets for the ride to the nation’s capital for the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” rallies will be handed out free of charge at Schine Student Center on a first come, first serve basis Wednesday starting at 11 a.m. The rally and march will host speakers including the Comedy Central hosts Stewart and Colbert.

Snider and Democracy Matters President Christina Levin have reached out to every politically based organization on campus, including see rally page 8

Political Rallies

keeta koalska | contributing photographer lee clarke , an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University, presents his thoughts on how the government failed to prevent the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf Coast. Clarke was part of a four-person panel on the oil spill Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel.

Panelists point to US government for longevity of oil spill

By Colleen Bidwill Asst. Copy Editor

In Lee Clarke’s view, the disaster surrounding the BP oil spill resulted from an American government that failed to regulate BP and other large oil corporations.

“When oil hits the fan, innocent people pay for it,” he said.

These sentiments were echoed throughout “Blowout: What the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Means for You and the Future of American Energy,” a panel discussion Tuesday night in Hendricks Chapel. Clarke, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University, was one of four panelists

who spoke about how capitalism and the American government exacerbated the BP oil spill.

Many members of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University community attended the event and asked questions to generate discussion with the panelists.

The oil spill occurred due to three levels of failure: leadership, organization and politics, Clarke said. He said blame should be placed upon the regulators who were willing to make empty promises and the government’s pressure for more oil pro-

duction.

“When the mantra was ‘Go, go, go’ and ‘Drill, baby, drill,’ safety takes a backseat,” he said.

Kishi Animashaun Ducre, SU assistant professor of African American studies and another speaker for the panel, said capitalism and the U.S. political system contributed to this disaster. In the American system, corporations tend to win out over smaller businesses and individuals, such as the fishermen in the Gulf Coast, she said.

“Many people claim that to solve the problem, we need to change the individual,” she said. “The first line

of defense is not to buy a Prius but to change corporations and politics.”

Matt Huber, SU assistant professor of geography and a speaker for the panel, said the American way of living requires too much petroleum, which also contributed to the disaster.

The government needs to improve regulation of the oil companies and should have put the government in charge of cleaning up the spill, Huber said.

“After the spill, BP was the expert to clean it up,” he said. “In a comedy of errors, their plan included see oil spill page 8

Study finds increasing number of young adults too overweight to enlist in US military

By Victoria Napoli Staff Writer

A growing number of civilians are too overweight to enlist in the U.S. military, according to a recent study done by researchers at Cornell University.

The number of Americans of military age, particularly women, who are ineligible for service under the current U.S. armed forces requirements for weight-for-height and body fat percentage has increased since the 1950s, said Johanna Catherine Maclean, co-

author of the study and an economics doctoral student at Cornell.

Maclean and John Cawley, associate professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell, analyzed National Health and Nutrition Surveys spanning from 1959-2008 and observed the percent and number of civilians who did or did not meet military weight requirements, Maclean said. Their paper, “Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment,” was pub-

lished in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

From the data collected from 200708, Maclean estimated 11.7 percent of men, about 5.7 million men, and 34.65 percent of women, about 16.5 million women, of military age were ineligible for military service because they were overweight or obese.

The most common reason applicants are medically disqualified from service is because they are obese, Maclean said. This constitutes 23

percent of denied applications. Marijuana use is the second most common reason and accounts for 12 percent of denied applications, Maclean said.

“If these trends continue, we can expect that there will be lower and lower proportions of the population who will make the weight standards for the military,” Maclean said.

The findings show military weight standards have become more lenient over time, but Maclean said she and her partner have yet to find mili-

tary documents that assert military weight standards have become less stringent over time.

Unlike the standards of earlier times, the military currently follows a two-step procedure selecting applicants. An applicant’s weight is first compared with the minimum weight and maximum weight. Applicants are deemed eligible if their weight falls within that range and ineligible if their weight falls below the minisee weight page 8

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MDMA not addictive like methamphetamines As stated in Brian Birnbaum’s letter, MDMA is methlyenedioxymethamphetamine. He says, “Without the ‘MD’ part, MDMA is no different from the potent stimulant methamphetamine.”

MDMA does indeed contain the “MD part” and therefore is chemically related, but not identical to methamphetamine, as I stated in my previous letter.

MDMA is not generally classified in the amphetamine category with substances like crystal methamphetamine and other popularly abused drugs like Ritalin, which has an amphetamine-like effect, but a different chemical structure. MDMA does not have the same highly addictive characteristics that these substances do, which is an essential piece of information to consider while discussing the drug.

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Political attack ads increase mistrust in government

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ith midterm elections just six days away, our televisions have been bombarded by political attack advertisements. These ads do not discuss a candidate’s positive attributes or platforms, but rather why his or her opponent shouldn’t be elected.

Political advertising has become a game of who has been involved in less controversy and scandal. Who has managed to keep him or herself off the radar enough to avoid being attacked. The issues have been completely forgotten. Candidates are no longer advocates of themselves in ads because it is more efficient to simply try to destroy the opponent. Political attack ads perpetuate mistrust in the government and delay the democratic process.

The increase in political attack ads is due in large part to the Supreme Court decision in January, which stated that corporations could not be limited in the amount of money they spend to either support or oppose a candidate. Although corporations cannot give an unlimited amount of money to the candidate directly, they can run as many negative ads as they want.

This decision has been met with intense criticism by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama said in a statement this summer that we are seeing “a flood of attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don’t know who’s behind these ads, and we don’t know who’s paying for them.”

With the push toward Election Day in the final stages, independent corporations have

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rhetoric meets reality begun pouring millions of dollars into monitoring campaigns and running ads where necessary. Money is playing an ever-growing role in politics. Inevitably the question becomes this: Are politicians making decisions to better the government and improve people’s lives?

Or are they simply satisfying those corporations that are giving them the most money?

American Action Network is one of the largest contributors to negative political ads.

American Action Network President Rob Collins said in a New York Times article, “We carpet-bombed for two months in 82 races, now it’s sniper time.” Comparing the campaign trail to the battle field demonstrates that defeating the opponent is more of a priority than achieving positive gains.

Such a statement has no place in politics.

Collins knows the immense power he has, and the ads he chooses to run can greatly influence an election. Corporations like the American Action Network utilize shady, behind-thescenes techniques to ensure that the candidates they endorse can get elected.

This is neither a Democratic nor a Republican issue. This is an American issue. The public should be shown ads explaining how a candidate will improve our dire situation, not how the other person will make it worse. It is not difficult to see why the American public is quickly losing trust in our government.

Many of the attack ads make stunning personal and political allegations. The public doesn’t know what to believe and what not to believe with so much negativity. Some of the claims in the ads are truly appalling and oftentimes are found to be fallacious or largely exaggerated.

A recent Fox News study found that 87 percent of Americans are concerned with the frequency of personal attacks in political ads.

Attack ads are not popular, but they appear to be effective. Candidates and corporations continue to make these negative ads to sway elections.

This election season has made it clear that money truly does dominate in politics.

Corporations with nearly unlimited resources have poured millions of dollars into attack ads and have greatly influenced races across the country. These attack ads only reinforce the idea that politicians should not be trusted and ensure that Americans will continue to lose confidence in the government.

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

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Blazers versatile, essential for men’s, women’s wardrobe

eing a college student, fashion and budget often do not mix well together. However, most of us do strive to look nice, if not for the weekend parties, then at least for that business casual presentation required for class.

This is where that one essential wardrobe piece comes into play. It is comfortable, yet fashionable, and is a key transition piece from day to evening attires. It is the final touch that brings the entire outfit together. If there was one staple piece to splurge on, this would be it.

Simply said, that one piece is the blazer.

The blazer is often associated as strictly the second half to a suit, but it has really evolved away from that stereotype. It now comes in different fabrics, styles and patterns that cater

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to both men and women. Because of its modernity and versatility, the blazer should play an integral part in everyone’s closet.

For women, the blazer complements any outfit wonderfully because of the variety it offers. Different fabrics, such as cotton or herringbone; lengths, such as cropped or boyfriend blazers; or even the smaller details, such as the size of the lapel, show the many styles they can play around with. When it comes to this sports jacket, women are fearless.

For minimalist sophistication, wear a blazer with your jeans and a plain tee combo. Make the outfit more feminine by experimenting with the sheerness and color of the tee, and make sure to accessorize with statement jewelry.

Or try out the blazer’s natural

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i’m judging you androgyny. By pairing a structured blazer with a flowing silhouette, it gives the contrast of masculinity and femininity. Add a pair of combat boots, and it is instantly military chic.

When buying your perfect blazer, take into account the blazer’s lining. “Look for a sleeve lining that’s interesting, like a ticking stripe or a fun pop of color, so you can stylishly roll up the cuff,” said Simon Kneen, creative director of Banana Republic.

Also, for some simple embellish-

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ments, make sure to look at the button styles of each blazer. The smallest details always create the best look in any outfit.

For men, the blazer can be as creative or as simple as they want it to be. But for the guys on this campus, let’s start with a simple black or navy blazer.

The most important thing about the blazer is its fit. Whereas a loose or long fit may work for women, it looks careless and unflattering for men.

The bottom of your blazer should end at your crotch, and the waist of the blazer should hug your body to broaden your shoulders. For better movement, choose a blazer with at least a single vent in the back.

For a dressed-up look, wear your blazer with a classic white oxford shirt, but make sure the sleeves are short enough that only half an inch of

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the dress shirt is showing. Any longer, and it will give off a sloppy appearance. Finish the look with either a pair of chinos or dark-washed jeans.

To achieve a casual look, try different types of patterned shirts, such as plaid or a gingham print. Or wear a crewneck sweater underneath the blazer, and complete your outfit with a comfortable pair of Converse Chucks.

Blazers are truly one-of-a-kind jackets because they mold so easily to your liking. Any way you slice it, a blazer is definitely one of the best items to invest in. So go to the mall, follow these tips and embrace the new fashionable you.

Vicki Ho is a senior public relations major. Her column appears every Wednesday, and she can be reached at vho@syr.edu.

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“That’s just the nature of the private scholarships,” said Kaye DeVesty, director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship Programs.

Just as there are scholarships that require applicants to be a specific major or to be from a certain state, there are scholarships that require applicants to be U.S. citizens, although they are not as common, DeVesty said.

The Phanstiel Scholar Program, for instance, will provide scholarships to SU students who are U.S. citizens and come from middle-class backgrounds beginning in the 2011-12 academic year.

The $20 million donation from the Phanstiels will support a private scholarship program, said Youlonda Copeland-Morgan, associate vice president of enrollment management and director of scholarships and student aid. The way this gift was put together by the donors requires

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students who truly need it, but Saleh said he did not have exact numbers on how much aid was available.

Sarah Cho is a citizen of South Korea and attended an American high school in India.

When the sophomore electrical engineering student was thinking about college, she said she knew she would be going to college in America.

Cho decided on SU knowing financial aid was limited, but she was convinced by the quality of its engineering program, she said.

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eligible students to be U.S. citizens, she said.

The requirements that define which students are eligible for private scholarships are determined from within the organization providing the scholarship, Copeland-Morgan said. The donors will take into consideration the advice received from members of the organization or from attorneys who help set up the scholarships, among other things, she said.

The Phanstiel scholarships are meant to focus on aiding students of middle-class backgrounds. The U.S. citizenship requirement is less important, Copeland-Morgan said.

“In a world where you have significantly huge institutional funds, citizenship is just not something that we focus on,” Copeland-Morgan said.

But Jenny Ahn, a senior English and textual studies and psychology major, said not including permanent residents for the Phanstiel Scholar Program eliminates a lot of potential middle-class applicants who might need the scholarship.

Cho said. “I knew that it was an expensive school, but it was the one I chose.”

Cho attends SU without any financial aid.

She said the school should offer more aid to international students through merit scholarships, determined by criteria like being placed on the Dean’s List. She does not have Federal Work-Study and cannot get a job off campus, as her student visa does not allow for outside employment.

The increase in international students was due to more applications coming in from abroad, because the university has increased foreign recruiting over the past decade.

Other colleges and universities have used recruiting abroad to attract students who typi-

“That one grant is not going to make a difference for their ability to come to Syracuse.”

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Ahn was a permanent resident from South Korea before becoming a U.S. citizen about two weeks ago. If the Phanstiel Scholar Program had been available while she was a permanent resident, Ahn said she would have been disappointed because she would not have been eligible to apply.

But Copeland-Morgan said SU invests $178 million dollars in need-based and merit-based scholarship programs, which are available to both permanent residents and U.S. citizens. So there is an array of SU scholarships available

cally pay the full ticket price. But SU is not targeting international students because they pay more tuition, as other schools have, Saleh said.

“The driving force here is to build a student body that is rich in diversity,” Saleh said.

During the admissions process, the same or possibly higher expectations for classroom performance are placed on international students over domestic students.

They are required to submit the same application as domestic students, and transcripts, SAT or ACT scores and essays are all considered. A group of SU admissions counselors who are familiar with the cultural education in other countries examines international students’ applications and takes their cultural backgrounds into consideration, Saleh said.

When looking at SAT scores, he said, the admissions group will usually see strong math scores and lower reading or writing scores with international students.

International students who may not be proficient in English are also required to take an English test to prove their ability and must register for a student visa, which will prove they have the financial resources to pay the university, Saleh said. Once accepted, some students may be required to take an English as a second language course.

Isabel Dong, a sophomore advertising major and Cho’s roommate, chose to come to SU because of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication’s reputation abroad. Dong, who was born in the United States but has lived in South Korea since she was eight, applied to 11 American schools.

Dong, whose first language is Korean, was required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the SAT, on which she received an 1880. She was also accepted to the University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut and University of Iowa, among others.

Funding her college choice has been difficult for her and her friends, she said. WorkStudy is the best choice, but she said it is often not offered. She called the difference between domestic student financial opportunities and international student financial opportunities “unfair.”

The opportunity to have international students on campus is similar to going abroad, Burak, the director of the international center, said. She said it was a unique opportunity for

for students who are not eligible for the Phanstiel Scholar Program, she said.

“That one grant is not going to make a difference for their ability to come to Syracuse,” Copeland-Morgan said.

Permanent residents and U.S. citizens usually are not distinguished from one another in enrollment and financial aid, said Don Saleh, vice president for enrollment management. A distinction is usually only made between people in the United States and international students, he said.

“So if you are a permanent resident, we just move students through in the same way we do as a U.S. citizen,” Saleh said.

Ahn, the senior who recently became a U.S. citizen, said although she has seen several scholarships that require applicants to be U.S. citizens, she has not had a problem finding other scholarships to apply for.

“If you really wanted to go look for a scholarship,” Ahn said, “you could find other options.” shkim11@syr.edu

International students at SU Ten years ago, international students made up 2 percent of the student body.

Today, they make up 8 percent. In recent years, the university has become interested in increasing geographical diversity and has been recruiting international students.

Last year, the total number of graduate and undergraduate international students was at 2,690, and the year before that it was 2,388. This year, it reached its highest amount ever — 2,763.

Classifications of individuals • Citizen: a native-born or foreign-born and naturalized person who owes allegiance to the United States • Temporary residents: foreign citizens who enter the United States on a temporary basis for a specific purpose, but have a permanent residence abroad.

• Permanent residents: foreign citizens who reside in the United States legally.

• Legalized aliens: certain foreign citizens who enter the United States legally and become eligible for temporary resident status.

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American students to have a diverse campus.

“It is a very positive and enriching experience for U.S. nationals who have not traveled abroad,” she said.

This year, the most students came from China and Korea, and Burak said she expects to see the overall number of international students continue to increase.

There is a draw for students to apply to study in the United States because it is known as a place that welcomes religions and cultures, Burak said. And SU is no exception to this, she said, as the campus has a mosque, the Alibrandi Catholic Center and Winnick Hillel Center for Jewish Life.

“The United States is the place where people from the rest of the world want to come,” Burak said. “It has been this way for generations.” dkmcbrid@syr.ed

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lege after a student had filed a grievance accusing the satirical blog of harassment.

The law school informed Audaer of the complaint against him and began an investigation into the matter. Five days later, the blog became private after hitting more than 12,000 views.

Earlier that day, a debate was held at the law school, where students and faculty expressed mixed opinions on the blog.

In the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities section of the SU 2009-2010 Student Handbook, the right on speech, expression

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and press supports FIRE’s view.

“Students have the right to express themselves freely on any subject provided they do so in a manner that does not violate the Code of Student Conduct,” according to the student handbook. “Students, in turn, have the responsibility to respect the rights of all members of the University to exercise these freedoms.”

SU’s Code of Student Conduct states harassment can be oral, physical, written or verbal. The code further defines harassment as something that crosses the boundaries of protected free speech and is “directed at a specific individual(s), easily construed as ‘fighting words,’ and likely to cause an immediate breach of peace.”

Defining ‘harassment’ The College of Law’s investigation into a controversial, satirical student blog SUCOLitis has prompted another controversy over how the university defines harassment. The law school began the investigation after a first-year student filed a formal harassment complaint with the school’s student life office. Here are some interpretations of harassment with the SUCOLitis case in mind.

“Since no harassment has occurred, either by law or by Syracuseís own policies, the investigation of (Len) Audaer or any other potential author of the blog cannot be understood as any more than a politically motivated witch hunt.”

Adam Kissel vice president of programs at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

“Students have the right to express themselves freely on any subject provided they do so in a manner that does not violate the Code of Student Conduct. Students, in turn, have the responsibility to respect the rights of all members of the University to exercise these freedoms.”

Syracuse University Student Handbook

“(Harassment) requires a little more than just one insult. It’s essentially a lot more. It requires repeated threatening behavior. Even aggravated harassment, I believe, would require some level of repetition.”

Roy Gutterman director of the Tully Center for Free Speech and professor of communications law

“Harassing others by sending annoying, abusive, profane, threatening, defamatory or offensive messages is prohibited. Examples include sending threatening, obscene or repeated, unnecessary messages.”

Computing and Electronic Communications Policy in the SU Student Handbook

“On a blog, if someone was purposely getting on the same personís case day after day after day, thereís a possibility that theyíre getting harassed.”

Cpl. John Sardino Syracuse Universit y Department of Public Safet y

In the academic year 2009-10, the Office of Judicial Affairs saw 108 cases of harassment, up from 53 in 2008-09, according to Judicial Affairs’ reports on student conduct.

The Computing and Electronic Communications Policy in the student handbook provides another definition of harassment: “Harassing others by sending annoying, abusive, profane, threatening, defamatory or offensive messages is prohibited.” It goes on to list examples, such as sending threatening, obscene or repeated, unnecessary messages.

The letter from FIRE said, “satirical blog posts do not come close to meeting either standard under any reasonable reading of these policies.”

But Roy Gutterman, director of the Tully Center for Free Speech and associate professor of communications law and journalism, said the Code of Student Conduct is open to interpretation by SU officials.

“The university has its code of conduct, and they interpret it however they want to interpret it,” he said.

Cory Wallack, director of the SU Counseling Center, said harassment is a code of conduct issue.

Wallack said, in an e-mail, the Counseling Center would define harassment as unwanted, uninvited involvement in one’s life that could take on multiple forms.

The students the Counseling Center sees have primarily been harassed on identity-related issues, such as race, religion and sexual orientation, Wallack said.

The Department of Public Safety uses New York State Penal Law when it comes to harassment, although the university relies on the Code of Student Conduct for its stance on each matter, as well, said DPS Capt. John Sardino. Sardino

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said SUCOLitis might be a case of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

“There’s aggravated harassment, which picks up a lot of the electronic communications like repeated phone calls,” he said.

Section 240.30 of state penal law states an individual is guilty of second-degree aggravated harassment when he or she initiates written, electronic, telephone communication or communication by a person who is likely to cause alarm or annoyance. The penal law states the individual also must have the “intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person.”

Sardino said a blog could fall into this category if particular people were picked on in multiple posts. But in most cases, the blog uses students’ names once or twice.

Onondaga County Chief Assistant District Attorney Alison Fineberg said the laws of New York are enforceable on any college campus.

“If there’s probable cause to arrest and charge, then they’ll arrest and charge,” Fineberg said.

Gutterman said the SUCOLitis blog does not contain enough repeated behavior to be considered harassment.

“It requires a little more than just one insult,” Gutterman said.

Raymond Dague, attorney and counselor at law in Syracuse, said he would be more worried about libel and slander than harassment, as posts that deface names put those individuals’ morals at stake.

Even though the blog is now private, Gutterman said he still expects the investigation by the College of Law to continue.

Said Gutterman: “It looks like they’re going to continue the investigation either way.” jdharr04@syr.edu

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the College Republicans, Snider said.

“I really hope that the College Republicans come out and even if you aren’t affiliated with the College Democrats or College Republicans, whether your Green, Libertarian, Communist, Socialists, anything,” Snider said. “No matter what your political affiliation, these rallies are for everyone.”

Snider and Levin organized the trip and secured the bus last Thursday. Snider said she felt there was a student desire to go to the rally,

“I really hope that the College Republicans come out and even if you aren’t affiliated with the College Democrats or College Republicans, whether your Green, Libertarian, communist, socialists, anything. No matter what your political affiliation, these rallies are for everyone.”

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but the real issue was how to get there. Levin held a general interest meeting Thursday night to gage how many students would actually want to go. Twenty-five to 30 students came to the meeting, Snider said.

The students will travel seven and a half

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mum. Applicants who weigh over the maximum have their body fat percentage measured. If body fat percentage is less than the maximum, that person is deemed weight-eligible.

Requirement categories, including weight for a certain height, percent body fat for men and women, and age, vary depending on the military branch, Maclean said. For instance, body mass index in the Marine Corps is higher than other branches because the Marines are

hours to arrive at the rallies. Once the event is over, the students will immediately return to campus, Snider, sophomore history and political science major, Snider said.

Snider said she hopes the 55-seat bus is completely full and would have added another bus, but funding was unavailable.

The coach bus is being funded by the cocurricular student initiative fee, said Sylvia Langford, the vice president of Student Affairs for Discovery and Engagement.

Grant Reeher, a political science professor, said the rally could spur more voters to go out and cast their ballots come midterm elections next week.

“It sounds like it can be a combination of a fun party with some stuff that will be pretty funny and entertaining with again the opportunity to think about things,” he said.

One of the comedic twists Colbert is putting on his rally, “March to Keep Fear Alive,” is encouraging spectators to dress up in Halloween costumes of their biggest fear.

“You got to hand it to them, it’s their First Amendment right to free speech,” Patrick Mocete, current chair of the College Republicans, said.

But Mocete said he thinks the celebrity liberals’ representation of the anger expressed by some conservatives is wrong.

“People are upset for good reason,” Mocete said.

Daniel Fitzpatrick, former chair and current member of College Republicans, said he would not be going to the rally because he does not have the time and does support the Left-wing views of Stewart and Colbert.

Fitzpatrick also said he found out about the rally through a listserv and thinks that makes it artificial.

“In my view, this makes the rallies not ‘grass roots’ but ‘Astroturf,’” he said in an e-mail.

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an emergency contact who had been dead for five years.”

Although most of the panelists criticized the government’s role in the oil spill, panelist Christopher Scholz, an SU earth sciences professor, said he was impressed with Congress and its efforts to be informed on the issue.

While the event was devastating to the Gulf, it has raised the awareness of the American public. Scholz said the country is now in a better position to move forward.

Scholz said he hopes the American public will continue to pay attention to the long-term effect of the oil spill. When a disaster occurs, people pay attention briefly until something else serves as a distraction, Scholz said. For example, not many Americans know or care about the recent cholera outbreak in Haiti, despite January’s earthquake in Haiti, he said.

“When the mantra was ‘Go, go, go’ and ‘Drill, baby, drill,’ safety takes a backseat.”

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Victoria Lee, a junior architecture major, said she was impressed by the commentary and the variety of speakers. She said her favorite panelist was Huber because of his discussion about the role of the government.

Beverly Reynolds, a junior in ESF, said she enjoyed the presentation but thought something was lacking.

“It was good, but a bit one-sided,” she said.

“It would have been better if someone from the oil industry was there.”

These are the panelists who spoke at the “Blowout: The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill” discussion at Hendricks Chapel on Tuesday evening.

Lee Clarke

Clarke is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University and is the author of two books, “Mission Improbable” and “Worst Cases.” He is working on a project focused on how scientists decide the boundary between science and politics, specifically exploring scientists who foretold the disaster Katrina would bring to New Orleans.

Kishi Animashaun Ducre

Ducre is an assistant professor of African American studies at Syracuse University. She studies the relationship between environmental issues and race in America by exploring government policies that affect communities of color, such as the Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

Matt Huber

Huber is an assistant professor of geography at Syracuse University.

Huber is interested in the relationship between U.S. politics, capitalism and oil. Huber is turning his dissertation, “Lifeblood: Geographies of Petrocapitalism in the United States,” into a manuscript.

Christopher Scholz

Scholz is a professor of earth sciences at Syracuse University. His research focuses on studying the sediment of lake basins and for records of past climate change. The National Science Foundation and various oil and gas companies support the research.

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interested in more muscular soldiers, she said.

Maclean offered several options the military could implement to remedy the problem. She said the military could make standards more lenient, although it would bring less-fit civilians into the military, or rely on more technology, such as battery-operated helicopters, that require less physical exertion from members.

Other options could be to retain current members by providing them with incentives to stay in the military longer or to invest in private military companies, she said.

Maclean said she thinks these ideas are plausible, but is an economist and not a military

expert, so she is not sure they are ideal.

While more military-specific solutions could potentially help the problem, America’s obesity epidemic is also a social problem, said Catherine Himes, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University.

Himes said she believes obesity is a direct result of diet and exercise practices, and there are currently many kids who are not active at all. She said she thinks the government could play a role in helping the obesity problem.

“I think they can increase emphasis on high school physical education programs and create

“If these trends continue, we can expect that there will be lower and lower proportions of the population who will make the weight standards for the military.”

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ECONOMICS DOCTORAL STUDENT AT CORNELL UNIVERSIT Y

more classes that encourage students to practice healthy lifestyles,” she said.

What a child learns from a parent is also important, she said. Parental health behaviors will “trickle down” to the child in a negative or positive way, depending on how those behaviors are practiced, she said.

“Think of it as a national security issue,” she said. “If we aren’t going to have enough recruits that are physically fit, then obesity becomes a national security problem.” vdnapoli@syr.edu

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By Meghin Delaney STAFF WRITER

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tudents at Wesleyan University searching for an energy boost while studying must now be wary of turning to prescription drugs.

A modification to the student code of nonacademic conduct now bans the misuse or abuse of prescription drugs. The prescription drugs were banned chiefly because they violated the spirit of the student honor code, not because of concerns for health, safety or illegality, Michael Whaley, Wesleyan’s vice president for student affairs, said.

The student honor code at Wesleyan states students will complete their tests and other academic exercises “without improper assistance.”

The code was adjusted at the beginning of the current academic year to include the misuse of prescription drugs in the definition of improper assistance, Whaley said.

“Some students had raised concerns about students misusing prescription drugs as study aids and felt that such misuse constituted a form of cheating,” Whaley said. “It should go without saying that the misuse of prescription drugs may also present significant risk from a health perspective.”

Bradley Spahn, a senior at Wesleyan, opposed

the use of study aids and campaigned to get the ban put in place, Inside Higher Education reported on Oct. 13.

Spahn could not be reached for comment

by The Daily Orange, but said in the Inside Higher Education article that drug usage is particularly common at Wesleyan within the most academically challenging majors.

“Study drugs aren’t thought of as being as serious as plagiarism or traditional forms of cheating,” Spahn said in the article. “Study drugs are tacitly accepted, but with a lot of variability of student opinion on whether it’s right or wrong.”

The policy against the misuse of prescription drugs was not the only change in the honor code and code of non-academic conduct at Wesleyan, Whaley said. The university also updated other aspects of the honor code, including adding plagiarism from Internet sources, because the Internet did not exist the last time the code was revised, Whaley said.

Whaley said although enforcing the prescription drug ban will be a challenge, it is still important for the university to have clear expectations of student behavior.

“As a community, we feel that integrity in our academic work is crucial,” Whaley said. “We

therefore felt that it was important to address this issue in our policy and set a clear expectation for adhering to our codes of conduct.”

Whaley said the misuse of prescription drugs is uncommon among Wesleyan students, and initial survey data at Wesleyan indicates a very small number of students misusing or abusing prescription drugs.

“We have no reason to believe that the misuse of prescription drugs has increased at Wesleyan, but national survey data seems to indicate that such misuse is becoming a concern nationally,” Whaley said.

Common drugs used as study aids among college students are Adderall and Ritalin, according to a December 2008 study published by the Journal of Attention Disorders.

The study of about 3,400 students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro found about 94 percent of students who reported using non-prescribed ADHD medications did so to study for longer and to concentrate better, according to the study.

Arya Alizadeh, the academic affairs committee chair of the Wesleyan Student Assembly, said drugs as study aids are not a huge issue at Wesleyan, but there was an instance a few years

ago when a couple students were caught using study aids to gain an advantage.

“All students at Wesleyan sign the honor code saying they won’t participate in any cheating, and I think a lot of students really take it to heart,” Alizadeh said.

Alizadeh said most of the students at Wesleyan reacted positively to the new ban.

“When it’s an issue that’s academically beneficial to everyone involved, I think students really rally around it,” he said. “We are here as a community, and you don’t want to let your friends get involved in the misuse of prescription drugs, and you also don’t want to be competing against students who are misusing prescription drugs.”

Joseph O’Donnell, the student affairs committee chair for WSA, said many universities already have language against prescription drug abuse in their codes of conduct.

At Wesleyan, O’Donnell said the ban was not a significant policy change.

“Since the misuse of prescription drugs, like selling them or giving them to a friend, is already prohibited by most federal and state law,” O’Donnell said, “the addition was more a clarification than a change of procedure.” medelane@syr.edu

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Potty mouth

Shying away from exaggerated delivery, Dane Cook slows down with raunchy comedy

By Lauren Tousignant

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Opinion Editor

ane Cook certainly has a potty mouth. But f***, was he funny.

Performing the first show on his tour titled “I Did My Best” Tuesday night at the Oncenter Complex, Cook was offensive, sexist, vulgar and downright hilarious.

Opening acts for Cook were Chris Newborn, Ben Glee and Al Delbene. With their sarcasm and candidness, it seemed entirely possible that the opening acts would be more entertaining than the main event itself.

Newborn took the stage first, warming up the audience with witty one-liners.

“I’ve always thought it’d be funny to send animal crackers to PETA,” Newborn said.

Newborn moved on to more controversial content, increasing the audience’s laughter with each imagined scenario. Thanks to his quick punch lines and hilarious anecdotes, he was the funniest of

the openers. At one point, he talked about singing about nun rape to the melody of a Justin Bieber song.

“Next time you think of Justin Bieber, you’ll think of nun rape,” Newborn said.

Up next, Glee vented his frustrated affection for “girly” drinks.

“How did men screw up so badly that we can’t publicly enjoy delicious drinks?” Glee said. “Everyone loves anything strawberryflavored.”

Delbene, who rounded out the openers, revealed the eventual difficulties of potty training his uncircumcised son. “When I’m done, I just put it away — you? I don’t know what the f*** you have to do.”

While the Oncenter was roughly three-quarters full, Cook’s strut onto the stage made it sound like a packed Madison Square Garden.

Often criticized for being too loud and obnoxious during his acts, relying on dictation for the majority of his jokes, Cook maintained a fairly level voice. Giving a surprisingly hilarious performance, he

placed a stronger emphasis on the actual jokes than the delivery.

Focusing his act on how bizarre his recent months have been, Cook began with expressing his love for crime shows. His new favorite program, “Disappeared,” recently aired an episode about a girl who went missing for three and a half years. Cook described how in one scene, the camera cut to her sobbing best friend, the last one to see her alive. “We just came from the Dane Cook concert,” she cried.

“I rewound that thing like 40 f***ing times,” Cook said. He said this incident made him wonder if he blacks out after shows and then murders his fans.

Though the joke was funny at first, Cook carried it for far too long.

He sidetracked too much, questioning if the episode was a sign that his destiny was to save this girl. And what would happen if he did.

The joke kept going. And what if they got married? And what if they

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brandon weight | staff photographer Brianna Lecce (Left) and Cole Tucker a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and sophomore mechanical engineering major, respectively, dance in Schine Atrium.

First Year Players promotes latest play in Schine with flash mob

By Olivia Dibs

Contributing writer

A curious pedestrian in Schine Atrium had one question to ask when she saw the small clusters of people in matching shirts spread out in Schine Student Center’s atrium.

“Why is everyone wearing red?”

The crimson flash mob kicked off at exactly 12:23 p.m. on Tuesday, as promised by Facebook invites and tweets. Members of First Year Players, clad in red T-shirts, began swing dancing to the song “C’mon Everybody” from the Elvis Presley-inspired musical “All Shook Up.” First Year Players is a student-run musical theater organization on campus that gives freshmen and transfer students a chance to perform in a spring musical. Flash mobs are old hat for the members of the theater group: They’ve done several in the past to promote their upcoming shows.

In their flash mob-style dance, the First Year Players started out slowly. First, only males danced. Soon after, their female counterparts

took the floor. Before long, everyone was locked in swing mode. The entire atrium was filled with dancers and staring onlookers.

The turnout was expected to be somewhere around 276, according the event’s Facebook page, but only about 60 students outside of the drama group showed up. The event ended with an announcement inviting students to a dance workshop that was held Tuesday night.

Although many students did not see the performance, some students present seemed to be persuaded to attend the workshop. “I was thinking about going to the workshop tonight, but now I’m definitely going,” said Allie Villa, a freshman broadcast and digital journalism major.

“We really wanted to get people excited about First Year Players and our various workshops throughout the semester. This year we’re putting on ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,’ so we’d like people to get excited about that, too,” said Heather Newkirk, a sophomore music history major who is involved in First

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had a baby? And what if that baby went missing? And what if you could put a GPS in your baby, and then your baby goes missing, but you can chase the kidnapper down the highway?

But what if technology fails? Like when you try to TiVo “Glee,” but the television records “Antique Roadshow” instead. The tangent dragged on, eventually ending with a confusing joke about a baby bomb.

“Let’s reel it back in,” he said. With the audience laughing, he circled back around to his story about crime shows, introducing his theory on how to commit the perfect crime.

Cook said that in a crime show, it’s impossible to stab someone to death.

“The universe will never let you hide the knife,” he said.

Cook explained that even if you wrapped the knife up and threw it in the deep end of the ocean, the universe would make it land on some

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Year Players.

“25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is a play that surrounds six middle school students who must compete against each other for a trophy and a coveted $200 prize. A large aspect of this show involves audience members walking on stage and attempting to spell words like “syzygy.”

It is not unusual for on-campus organizations to try sparking student interest for recruitment.

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amateur scuba diver’s head.

“But I’ve figured it out,” Cook said. His first step: Stab the victim. The second: Wipe the knife. Crime shows always unveil a knife dripping with blood.

“But we’re classy,” he said, to roaring laughter. “Syracuse, we’re gonna ShamWow that b****.”

Cook’s final step: Invite yourself to your neighbor’s house for a friendly visit. Once there, discreetly slip the knife into his or her knife drawer. Because, he said, no one will ever call up the police to report a strange knife in his or her knife drawer.

However, no other crime topped his explanation of how to mug someone and get away with it.

Wear a necklace of dildos.

When you approach your victim, “force one dildo into their mouth, perhaps another into their ear, and make them do a dance,” Cook said. He elaborated that no one will ever admit to being subjected to such an experience.

Continuing stories of his recent past, Cook didn’t let up on the provocative comments. He

ity through Facebook invitations titled “What’s shakin’ in Schine at 12:23 p.m. on Oct. 26?”

Twitter user FlashSU44, who tweeted general messages about the time and place of the event, was even following some students on the social networking site.

Many students admitted they showed up to the Schine event just out of curiosity.

“I’m not really into theater, and I normally wouldn’t have shown up to an event for this type of thing,” said Alex Ptachick, a freshman newspaper and online journalism major. “But I was just really curious. It was definitely an effective way to get people to show up.”

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recounted a breakup from his girlfriend of five years.

“Movies make girls out to be so sappy in breakups. You wear sweatpants, have your hair in that pineapple mess, Meg Ryan comes over to talk about feelings,” he said. “But girls are actually awesome in breakups.”

He shared how after their final fight was over, he stopped her before she left. Not wanting to end things on such a negative note, he asked her to wait.

“What, f***face?” she asked.

Annoyed but determined to keep the relationship intact, he told her how they’ve shared five years together, how many great moments they’ve had, and how he really hopes she has a wonderful, happy life.

“I’m gonna go f*** black dudes,” she said.

“It was so unexpected, I just said, ‘Yeah, maybe I’ll go f*** black dudes, too,’” Cook said.

Finally, he told of his special encounter with a well-known porn star. Upon arriving at his house, she bashfully expressed how big of a fan she was, how she owned all of his CDs and how

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“you make me laugh all the time.” Laughing, Cook explained how he responded: “Oh, well, you make me c** all the time.”

Just when the show seemed like it was over, Cook threw a curve ball at the audience. He explained how he was asked to speak at the memorial of a guy who, for 10 years, wrote Cook hate mail about how he sucked at everything he ever did.

Announcing he was going to “do something special,” Cook invited Delbene back up onstage for some giddy sing-a-longs. The two joked around like old frat brothers as they explained that they’ve known each other since they were 12 years old.

“We both wanted to be stand-up comedians,” Delbene said.

“And then I made it, so I brought Al along,” Cook responded.

Leaving with a standing ovation, Cook’s tamed recollections of porn stars, cop shows and dildo necklaces proved he really does know how to be a comedian. No f***ing joke. letousig@syr.edu

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12:10 p.m.: Arrive at Schine Student Center, full of curiosity.

12:11 p.m.: Make small talk with other students awkwardly waiting around for the “secret event” to begin.

12:13 p.m.: Students begin to move tables and signs out of the middle of Schine Atrium.

12:16 p.m.: Begin to notice an abnormally large number of people wearing red.

12:18 p.m.: “Do you have any idea what this is all about?”

12:22 p.m.: A girl in red fumbles with iPod speakers.

12:23 p.m.: Cue music. Dancing breaks loose.

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OK Go performs show at Westcott Theater

By Allison Mariotti Contributing Writer

Cannons shooting out pink and blue confetti at the Westcott Theater set the scene for OK Go’s performance of “Do What You Want.”

Behind the band, a screen displaying closeup shots of the band members from microphonemounted cameras brought each performer closer to the crowd. Wearing suits featuring primary colors of blue, yellow, green and red, the band knew what putting on a visually appealing show is all about.

“Waiting for the show was excruciating, but it was all worth it.”

Tatyana Ivanyutenko,

Junior Supply chain management major

Even though this was only the first song of OK Go’s Tuesday night show, the crowd was already jumping and singing along. Many fans anxiously waited for the show, standing in the line that spanned two blocks for as long as two hours prior to the venue’s doors opening. The line stretched to Westcott Street’s Papa Johns Pizzeria about two blocks away.

OK Go impressed even the fans that only came to see the opening acts.

“I really enjoyed (opening act) Those Darlins, but OK Go has both met and exceeded my expectations,” said Carie Rebecca, a Cornell University student. Rebecca was one of the

4 million viewers of OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” treadmill-choreographed music video on YouTube.

Even though the band didn’t have treadmills on stage, the energy in the crowd skyrocketed once lead singer and guitarist Damian Kulash struck the opening chords to “Here It Goes Again.” More confetti rained down, shooting from cannons on the stage. The roar of the crowd nearly drowned out Kulash’s vocals.

Even during low-tempo songs like “Last Leaf,” Kulash jumped off the stage and walked through the audience, keeping the crowd on its feet.

Kulash walked through the crowd, greeting fans along the way. This was the moment that defined the concert for Tatyana Ivanyutenko, a junior supply chain management major.

She touched the lead singer as he greeted the crowd from the floor. This was Ivanyutenko’s first concert, which she loved, save for some minor details.

“Waiting for the show was excruciating, but it was all worth it,” she said.

The show started an hour late, drawing boos and visible frustration from some members of the audience. By the time the second opening act started, people were getting anxious for the headliner to make an appearance.

When OK Go finally got on stage in a haze of smoke, the crowd went wild. Kulash began by telling the audience that later on in the show, the band would be showing the music video for its single “White Knuckles” in 3-D. “Make sure you get the 3-D glasses at the

back, or else you will be bored and it will be very blurry,” Kulash said.

The 3-D music video featured expertly trained dogs performing choreographed tricks as the band played on. The video, like the treadmill stunts in “Here It Goes Again,” found a strong audience reaction, even with its low budget and simplicity.

Mallory Squier, a civil engineering graduate student, came to the show with her friends and said she loved the band.

“They do a really great show,” she said. “Plus the lead singer is really sexy.” admariot@syr.edu

Going to the top Some of OK Go’s top hits • “Here It Goes Again” • “Shooting The Moon” • “White Knuckles” • “This Too Shall Pass” • “End Love” • “Get Over It” Source: iTunes Music Store

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celebration of outrageous costumes and collaborations, Halloween is a night of fashion at its extreme. It’s a weekend of transforming the normal day-to-day ensemble into an over-the-top creation of fashion and mayhem. At Syracuse University, it’s also an opportunity for some pretty creative outfits.

Sure, some students could take the traditional route. They can search the Internet and costume shops for tacky, packaged looks, lacking any sort of creativity. You could be a half-naked nurse or a provocative police officer, but the only eye-catching thing about your outfit is the cheap shiny material hugging your body. Ditch the polyester. With your plastic stethoscope or handcuffs, you’re anything but original.

You wouldn’t be caught dead in the same dress as every other girl, so don’t settle for wearing the same costume. Take advantage of SU’s slew of distinct characters and try something unique.

All basketball fans should take a shot at being the next Jim Boeheim. It’s easy to achieve this look, starting with your favorite khaki dress pants. Pair them with a simple white button down and a minimal printed tie. All that is left to make this look complete is the classic black or blue blazer. The must-have for this costume is a basketball, and if you feel like going all the way, change it to a 1970s orange and blue-checked blazer and a bald wig. Put your game face on, and there’s a good chance no one will be able to match your costume.

But let’s not forget SU has an iconic female costume, too, with Chancellor Nancy Cantor. Capture Cantor’s look by pairing a modest skirt suit, cut just below the knee, with pumps. Cantor’s

Instead of choosing predictable Halloween costumes, opt for iconic SU looks

reserved fashion and simplistic hairstyle assure us she means business. With deep rouge lipstick, your costume as Cantor will be far more striking and powerful than one of a typical French maid.

Cantor isn’t the only woman worthy of imitation on Halloween night. Instead of being the standard princess with a barely-there taffeta skirt, try dressing like your favorite sorority sister. It is generally a bit chilly in late October, so this will be the perfect costume to keep you warm when running from party to party.

Start with a black North Face jacket and black leggings.

Whether it’s 90 degrees or 5 below zero, the average sorority sister is sure to have her versatile nylon pants on. Consistency is key, so complete the outfit with the necessary footwear. You must wear Ugg boots. If it’s raining, don’t worry about soaking your Australian boots: Just choose Hunter rain boots instead. Diversify the look with a pair of short jean shorts and colorful Ray-Ban wayfarers. And double points will be scored to any guy who can pull this costume off.

As convenient as it could have been, one doesn’t see prepackaged “No. 1 Orange” costumes in the University Bookstore.

Luckily, it won’t be hard to scrounge one up in this neck of the woods. Grab an orange wig, orange face paint, orange hoodie, orange shorts or orange tube socks. Stand out on Halloween night and show school spirit at the same time. Be creative. Even an SU Snuggie will do. If it’s orange, you can work it out. You may not be original when it comes to an SU basketball game, but this Halloween, you’re sure to have a unique costume among the sea of devils and angels.

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expects to “outwork” Louisville, then those mental mistakes have to be eliminated.

“The difference between these good teams, great teams, bad teams is that one split second of a lapse of concentration,” Vuolo said. “And that happened three times on Saturday. We’re going to look to be sharper mentally for the whole 90 minutes and not have any mishaps that might cost us the game.”

Sentiments that were echoed by SU head coach Ian McIntyre.

“We know we’ve got 90 minutes where we’ve

“They’re a better team, I’ll just put it out there.

They’re a better team, but we’re going to try to outwork them and get a result.”

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got to bring our ‘A’ game,” he said.

In reality, Wednesday night’s game is shaping up to be very one-sided. But not in the way you might expect.

The Cardinals have already locked up a spot in the Big East tournament. They’ve already locked up the Red Division’s No. 1 seed in the tournament. And they’ve also secured the Big East regular-season title.

In essence, all they have to play for is seeding in the NCAA Tournament. This fact, Vuolo said, could provide an advantage for Syracuse. Especially if the Cardinals rest some of their starters in anticipation of an easy victory over the Orange.

“I’d love them to think it’s a day off,” Vuolo

dave trotman-wilkins | staff photographer NICK BIBBS and the Syracuse men’s soccer team face their toughest test of the year Wednesday against Louisville. The Cardinals, No. 2 in the nation, are unbeaten this season, and are the highest-ranked team the Orange has faced in 10 years. said. “That’d be great. I’d love them not to respect us and to come in here and think they’re going to roll over us. We’ve all had this on our calendar circled in red since the beginning of the year.”

Prior to Saturday’s disappointing loss against Rutgers, McIntyre told his players not

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to focus on the Big East standings. He urged his team to take everything one game at a time.

That changed, Bibbs said, in preparation for the Scarlet Knights. For the fi rst time all year, McIntyre called it a must-get-a-result game.

Syracuse let that chance slip through its grasp, and now it has to live with the consequences. That means stealing at least one point from the nation’s second-best team.

“We didn’t get a result, and we made our lives hard,” Bibbs said. “So we’ll have to deal with it.”

Yet somehow, someway the Orange is still alive and in contention for a spot in the Big

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East tournament. Even though it has fewer overall wins than any other team in the conference, and even though it has fewer goals than any other team in the conference.

The team’s biggest goal, advancing to postseason play for the fi rst time since 2005, is still reachable. And Bibbs and the rest of the players are trying to channel a year’s worth of effort for one crucial push Wednesday night.

“As coach said, the season is about making memories,” Bibbs said. “And I think if we beat Louisville, it would be a great, great memory for this team.” mjcohe02@ syr.edu

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Auburn looks to avoid upset as latest No.1

By Zach Brown Staff Writer

Auburn climbed to the top of the BCS rankings for the first time in school history Sunday night after beating Louisiana State 24-17 Saturday. And Tigers head coach Gene Chizik knows the bull’seye that will come with that No. 1 ranking.

“I don’t think there’s any question,” Chizik said in his weekly press conference Tuesday.

“Everybody reads it, everybody sees it and everybody hears it. We fully expect to get everybody’s best shot.”

And if the past three weeks are any evidence, their stay at that top spot in the nation may not last quite as long as the Tigers would like.

On Oct. 9, then-No. 1 Alabama suffered its first loss in 19 games at the hands of conference rival South Carolina. Ohio State stepped into the top spot the following week, only to lose its first game this year at Wisconsin. And Saturday, after Oklahoma had risen to No. 1 in the first BCS rankings of 2010, Missouri knocked off the country’s top team for the third week in a row. All three upsets followed a similar formula for the underdogs: starting fast, making big plays on special teams and finishing strong.

“You get a little bit satisfied with winning,” Alabama head coach Nick Saban said, “and you’re not usually as anxious to do the things that you need to do, and you lose focus on the process of the things that you need to do to continue to improve.

That’s something that we’ve talked to our team about on a week-to-week basis.”

All three also involved the top team traveling to a conference rival’s home field, something newly anointed No. 1 Auburn will have to endure this week with a trip to Mississippi.

If Ole Miss is to take down the No. 1 team in the country for the fourth straight week, it may want to follow the example set by the Gamecocks, Badgers and Tigers.

All three jumped out to early leads, keeping the home crowd deafening and raucous well past the pregame introductions. South Carolina went up 21-3 over Alabama just more than a minute into the second quarter. Both Wisconsin and Missouri returned the opening kickoffs for touchdowns, and the Badgers extended their lead to 21-0 just after the first quarter ended.

Missouri did not pull away early, but like the other two underdogs, the Tigers finished with a strong final period. They started the fourth quarter down a point but scored 16 straight to put the Sooners away. Ohio State mounted a comeback against the Badgers, but Wisconsin scored the final 10 points in its 31-18 victory.

And in the first upset, South Carolina held the Crimson Tide scoreless for the final 14:51 in its 35-21 win.

And Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel saw another parallel in all three games.

“The big thing in common with all three of those games is those were two good teams on the field in each case,” he said Tuesday in the Big Ten coaches’ teleconference. “When you put two good teams on the field, you never know what the outcome of the game is going to come, and if you don’t do things right in all phases of the game, then you’re going to be the one that comes up short.”

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courtesy of alabama athletic communications trent richardson and Alabama were the first of three teams ranked No. 1 in the nation to get upset in consecutive weeks. This week’s BCS No. 1, Auburn, plays Mississippi on Saturday. Richardson’s Crimson Tide squares off against the Tigers Nov. 26. nent for Auburn as the previous three No. 1 teams faced. South Carolina, Missouri and Wisconsin were and still are ranked in the Top 25. Missouri and Wisconsin have even jumped the Sooners and the Buckeyes in the current poll. Mississippi, on the other hand, is just 3-4, including an opening day 49-48 loss to Football Championship Subdivision Jacksonville State in double overtime.

The Rebels will enter the game against Auburn Saturday as clear underdogs. But in the mind of Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema, playing as the underdog is better than playing as the favorite.

“I think any time you have a team that people don’t say they’re going to have success or feel that they are the underdog, that helps everybody (on that team),” he said “I think any coach prefers to be in the underdog role to anything else. That’s probably a little bit of a motivational edge.”

Despite the home-field advantage, underdog mindset and similar recipes for the upsets, all three coaches for the favorites felt that, in the end, their teams’ lack of execution ultimately cost them the game. Saban said part of it was simply being human and relishing in the accomplishment — something Auburn will have to avoid to stay atop its No. 1 perch.

“People have to be able to deal with success,” Saban said Oct. 13 in the SEC coaches’ teleconference. “And you have to be able to focus on the standard that you want to play to, and don’t get relieved when you have success. You always have to remember what got you there, the things that you did, and continue to build on those. From a human nature standpoint, that’s probably difficult to do.”

Big man on campus QB Cam Newton Junior No. 3 Auburn Last Week’s Stats: 10-of-16, 86 yards, 28 carries, 217 yards, 2 TDs

In Newton’s toughest test this year with No. 12 LSU traveling to Auburn, the junior cemented

himself as the Heisman favorite for 2010.

Newton ran over, around and through the Tigers to power Auburn to a 24-17 win and the ensuing No. 1 ranking in this week’s BCS standings. With his career-high 217 yards rushing Saturday, the junior has already set the single-season SEC record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 1,077.

Newton’s 49-yard scramble to give Auburn a 17-10 lead in the third quarter may also serve as his signature moment in the Heisman race.

After faking a handoff to running back Mario Fannin, Newton squeezed through a hole in the Tigers line and cut to the right. LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu got a hand on the quarterback’s foot, but the 6-foot-6, 250-pound Newton kept his balance and stormed down the right hash. He cut back inside another Tiger defender at the 45 and one more at the 40 before accelerating away from the rest of the defense. LSU junior Patrick Peterson finally caught Newton at the 10, but the quarterback dragged him into the end zone for the go-ahead score.

Auburn has now beaten four teams currently

in the Top 25 with the win over LSU. A matchup at No. 6 Alabama in the last week of the regular season looms as the last major regular season test for Newton and the Tigers.

Team of the Week No. 7 Missouri Last Week’s Result: W, 36-27 vs. No. 11 Oklahoma

Missouri became the third team in three weeks to knock off the nation’s No. 1 team at home with its win over Oklahoma. The Tigers used a strong fourth quarter to pull away from the Sooners and give head coach Gary Pinkel his first win over Oklahoma.

Missouri took the lead on a Jerrell Jackson 38-yard catch-and-run early in the fourth, tacked on a short field goal three minutes later to extend the lead to eight and put the game away on a James Franklin touchdown run from three yards out.

The win over Oklahoma marks the first in seven chances for the Tigers since 1998 and gave Missouri its best start since 1960. zjbrown@syr.edu

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SU’s Nelson provides team with security

By Ryan Marfurt Staff Writer

For Iona Holloway, these past two weeks have been a telling time for the Syracuse field hockey team.

Four starters from the beginning of the season were left home from a road trip to Albany Oct. 10 and have slowly made their way back onto the field. But in their absence, an internal search began.

SU also struggled to find a leader last year, with only two seniors on the squad.

“Last year we didn’t have a leader as such, and this year we are on the hunt for one. I think people are really stepping up over the last couple of weeks, and that’s really big for us,” said Holloway, a sophomore back.

One player Holloway is quick to mention who has stepped up for the team in the role is junior midfield Nicole Nelson. For a team that has had its ups and downs this year, Nelson has seen playing time in every game of the season and is described by head coach Ange Bradley as one of the most consistent players on the team.

But to Holloway, it’s not just Nelson’s reliability that makes her an easy candidate for the role of leader. It’s the fact that Nelson has not only stepped up her game this season, but the performance of others. She has become one of the more vocal players on the team and provided on-field guidance for a team searching for direction.

“Nicole has always been a vocal player, but I think this year she has really had to step up,” Holloway said. “Especially this year, she is playing more of a central role. Last year I think she was more of a left back. It’s more significant, her communicating, because it’s a more pivotal position on the field. She speaks more now than she did, but I’ve always heard her.”

For Nelson, it wasn’t always certain what her role on the team would be. As a freshman, she came in and got some playing time at forward early on, but was then forced to play left back when one of the older players went down with

“Last year, we didn’t have a leader as such and this year we are on the hunt for one. I think people are really stepping up over the last couple of weeks and that’s really big for us.”

Iona Holloway

SU back

daily orange file photo iona holloway (8) and the Syracuse field hockey team are a win away from its second straight outright Big East title. SU is on a season-high five-game winning streak after edging rival Connecticut 1-0 in double overtime, followed by a win over Boston College.

an injury.

Before she even knew it, Nelson was starting in a final four matchup against then-No. 2 Wake Forest. SU director of player development Guy Cathro remembers Nelson stepping up in those games and how composed the freshman seemed going against the best of the best.

Two years later, Cathro isn’t surprised by the fact that Nelson has developed into one of the steadiest players on the team. Her contributions may not be immediately visible on the stat sheet — Nelson has only one goal on the year and no assists — but Cathro can see the growth.

“She is doing very well at stepping up,” Cathro said. “She understands the game well.

She reads the game phenomenally well, and she is very confident in controlling the players around her, and she knows what she wants people to do.”

Nelson’s role as communicator became even more important when second team All-American Amy Kee went down with a knee injury and struggled with what Bradley called inconsistent play. Kee missed a total of four games with the injury and has come off the bench in a total of seven games so far this year.

Kee, the team’s second-leading scorer from a year ago, has since started the past three games and is back to her form of last year. But in her absence, it was Nelson who filled the void. For Nelson, it wasn’t hard to adjust to being more vocal. It was simply second nature.

“I naturally talk a lot,” Nelson said with

a laugh. “So I guess on the field it just comes out.”

With Nelson’s emergence and Kee’s return, the team has taken on a new form. Senior back Maggie Befort has gone from playing back at the start of the year to playing forward — a position she played as a freshman when she registered 35 points. Since the change, the Orange defense has given up only four goals in five games — and

even held Georgetown without a shot during that stretch.

For Bradley, Nelson is a player who she can trust and a player who she knows can take care of the team. When asked if Nelson is a player she considers to be one of the leaders on her team, Bradley responded without hesitation.

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Despite youth, Jackson provides Syracuse with leadership

By Bobby Campbell Contributing Writer

Laura Jackson is still just a teenager, but she has played a veteran’s role with the Syracuse women’s soccer team this year. With only two seniors on the squad, Jackson has used her vast experience to give the Orange some veteran presence.

Jackson, an SU defender, is in just her second year at Syracuse. But the sophomore is experienced well beyond her years. Growing up in London, England, Jackson has been playing soccer her entire life.

In fact, she never really had a choice.

“It’s what you do,” Jackson said. “Everyone plays back home. You can’t really get away from the culture.”

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The dream since Waiters committed to SU assistant coach Mike Hopkins in 2007 before playing a minute of high school basketball was to play for Syracuse, just like big cousin Jardine. The dream was a permanent trip to Syracuse from the “already ready” streets of Philadelphia, just like Jardine and SU senior power forward Rick Jackson. With the start of Syracuse’s practice for the 2010-11 season, Waiters’ dream finally became reality.

But it was a reality that came after tribulations spread out across multiple high schools.

After playing that pickup game as an eighth grader, Waiters enrolled at Philadelphia’s John Bartram High School and then transferred to South Philadelphia High School as a freshman. At both stops, he didn’t play basketball.

In 2007, he enrolled at South Kent (Conn.)

Prep, where he played but was booted from the school due to “conduct detrimental to the team,” according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 7, 2008. He then transferred to Life Center Academy in Burlington, N.J., as a junior, where he remained until he graduated as a nationally recognized blue-chip recruit.

But Waiters, his teammates and his coaches will all say that none of those stops really mattered. Whether Waiters be the 13-year-old on the court at Neumann or the 18-year-old on the court in Syracuse, he has always had the same Philly swagger.

“He had the swag he has right now, and that always stood out,” SU assistant coach Rob Murphy said. “Dion always stood out, and we knew how good he could become.”

To Waiters, it was simple. Even if he made stops at four different high schools and even if he was kicked out of one school after not sticking with two others, he was always basketballmature enough for this moment.

It is because of Philadelphia. The fraternity that weeded out the weak — and even some of the strong — in the streets bordering Neumann made Waiters the ready-freshman he is today. The player Murphy describes as “not a freshman.”

“We,” Waiters said of Philadelphia basketball players, “are already ready.”

That tangible factor in Waiters’ game of “already ready” is the reason why some pundits, and even some inside of the SU basketball

ent Academy from 2005-07. She then played for Watford Ladies Football Club from 2007-09 as a center back and center midfielder. Those six years playing across the Atlantic have been advantageous for Jackson in coming to SU. It’s that soccer knowledge that appealed to SU head coach Phil Wheddon, who is also a native of England. Wheddon recruited Jackson to come to Syracuse just a year after he took over as head coach.

“The European players bring a different level of experience to the table,” Wheddon said.

In her first year at SU, Jackson appeared in all 19 games, starting 18. Jackson was a part of a defensive unit that recorded four shutouts.

She picked up her first assist in a 1-0 victory at Fordham on Sept. 4, 2009. This year, Jackson has only played in four games.

For Wheddon, it is rare for a player to

receive as much playing time as a freshman as Jackson did. But with such a young team like the Orange has had each of the past two years, freshmen have to grow up quick.

Jackson is just one of more than 2,000 international students at Syracuse. But she’s one of seven on Wheddon’s squad. The SU head coach, in his third year coaching the women’s soccer team, understands the importance of having a mix of American and international athletes.

Like many other aspiring soccer players, Jackson looks no further than English icon David Beckham for inspiration. Jackson looks to Beckham as someone who supplemented his athleticism with the right amount of hard work to round himself out as a soccer player.

Junior defender Taylor Chamberlain has only known Jackson for a year, but she appreciates having her as a teammate. Chamberlain

said though the sophomore defender may be all fun and games off the field, she is all business on the field.

“She’s obsessed with soccer, and she works hard,” Chamberlain said. “But she will slide tackle anyone who gets in her way.”

After college, Jackson plans to go back home and continue playing soccer. But for now, she will likely remain one of the key components of a young SU team that will attempt to grow up quickly next season. The Orange will return 15 players from this season’s team next year.

And with her previous exposure to the game, Wheddon is looking for Jackson to continue her strong play.

Said Wheddon: “We have a very young team, so any prior experience is valuable.”

program, feel he will be the best freshman for the Orange this season. Better than Big East Rookie of the Year choice Fab Melo: The 7-foot Brazilian center who has had Orange coaches drooling for a year and a half.

In fact, Waiters may be the polar opposite of Melo. Melo is the late addition SU stumbled across during its NCAA Tournament trip to Miami, Fla., in 2009. Waiters is the kid who SU pounced on three years before St. Joseph’s head coach Phil Martelli even thought to talk to the hometown product.

Melo is the marquee name that reminds fans of another similar one-syllable SU legend.

Waiters’ is the forgotten cornerstone.

“He seems like he has been at Syracuse for four years already,” Murphy said. “When he came up here, it was like he wasn’t a freshman.

“Everyone always talks about Fab Melo, but (Waiters) is the leader of the class. He talks, he motivates. He leads by example when he gets out there. He is an extremely valuable player.”

Waiters and Melo are a part of a celebrated four-man class that also includes Fair and Senegal native Baye Moussa Keita, a 6-foot-10 center. Every member of the class and every member of the team will say Waiters plays the role of, yes, the elder cousin of the freshman class. After blue-chip SU recruit Tobias Harris picked Tennessee over SU last year, Waiters got on the phone with his classmates not soon after and told them they needed to bring back

a championship for SU head coach Jim Boeheim. Once that practice on Oct. 15 came, they needed to “go hard.”

What Waiters hopes he provides on the court is nothing short of the accolade Melo received from the Big East coaches this preseason. He is not coy about what he thinks he can do, which includes, well, everything.

“I can do it all,” Waiters said. “I can shoot. I can play defense. I can pass the ball. I am going to bring everything to the table.”

Murphy concurs to a degree. In Waiters, he sees a scoring threat that will bring points — not necessarily a stroke — at the shooting guard position lost with the departure of Andy Rautins. Boeheim agrees with Murphy, calling Waiters a “good shooter.”

What exactly Waiters brings on the court remains to be seen. But one thing is for certain. With this group of freshmen, Waiters isn’t the tagalong. Even if he is the youngest player of the bunch.

He is ready. He has been. Just ask the one guy he followed throughout everything.

“Dion brings a lot of strong ability to the team,” Jardine said.

But more pertinent to Waiters’ journey and current role than the words of his cousin are the words of the coach that committed to Waiters — a player that, upon committing, was 47 years the coach’s junior.

At media day, minutes prior to when Waiters thought back to the beginning of it all at Neumann, Boeheim spoke to the media to open

up the season. He spoke of the freshman class.

He spoke to all that Waiters has gone through.

Even if the 18-year-old vows he is ready.

“We’ll see how guys fit in,” Boeheim said. “I really never make any determinations on what guys are going to do based on what they did in high school.

“That can be very deceptive sometimes.”

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With season over, Wheddon sees growth

By Zuri Irvin STAFF WRITER

“I kind of just looked at where it was going, and this program is definitely moving in the right direction, and I wanted to be a part of it.”

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ended Sunday afternoon following a 2-1 loss at South Florida.

Rosina Callisto emerged as a legitimate scoring option behind the usual two at the top.

The usual two at the top, Megan Bellingham and Tina Romagnuolo, were just that, with Bellingham’s composed presence in the fi rst half of the season and Romagnuolo’s late-game heroics in the second.

Alyscha Mottershead emerged as co-captain. One of only four to play in all 20 games this season, the former Iowa transfer found a home in the Orange midfield.

“I knew a couple of the players here already, so I didn’t necessarily look at the record of the past,” Mottershead said. “I kind of just looked at where it was going, and this program is defi nitely moving in the right direction, and I wanted to be a part of it.”

Reserves emerged as threats. Six players scored at least two goals this season, and two netted the fi rst of their career. Crunch time emerged as payday. The Orange scored four goals in the fi rst half to 14 in the second, seven of which won or tied games in the last 10 minutes.

Underclassmen emerged as game-changers.

court hathaway | staff photographer TAYLOR CHAMBERLAIN and the SU women’s soccer team improved on last season by one win, but failed to qualify for the Big East tournament, missing out by two points. Still, Syracuse is optimistic about 2011, as it only loses two seniors.

Brittany Anghel’s 91 saves were the sixthhighest single-season total in school history.

Brielle Heitman scored two goals, and the game-winner, in the team’s fi rst win of the season. And the backfield presence of Kayla Afonso and Cecilia Borgstrom alone played a key role in SU’s six shutouts.

So what does all that mean for next year’s outlook?

“It means that we are going to be better the next couple of years,” SU defender Taylor Chamberlain said.

SU only won one more game than it did last year. But the transformation of the Syracuse women’s soccer program is not complete.

Next year, the Orange will welcome back 15 upperclassmen compared to this year’s five.

Wheddon will be entering his fourth season with the program, and perhaps Syracuse will build upon being the team that’s difficult to put away.

Pittsburgh head coach Sue-Moy Chin had high praise for the Orange following a 1-1 overtime draw on Oct. 10, a game in which SU came from behind late to tie. Syracuse did not qualify for the Big East tournament this season, but to even others outside the program, things have changed.

And with a near-full roster coming back next year, Chamberlain thinks there can be even more change.

“With a lot of younger girls, we are going to have experience and be better for the next couple of years,” Chamberlain said. “It will be nice to have some veterans that can lead the team, but at the same time, younger girls who bring a lot of hope for the future.” zoirvin@ syr.edu — Staff Writer Andrew Tredinnick contributed reporting to this story

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For the Syracuse women’s soccer team, on the surface, everything looks the same.

In the preseason, the squad was picked to fi nish seventh in the Big East. It fi nished tied for sixth. Last year, the team won five games.

This year, six. In 2009, SU rode a five-game unbeaten streak on its way into conference play. And in 2010, SU put together back-to-back wins, heading into conference play with some momentum.

And all that “same” did not take the Orange to its season-long goal: making the Big East tournament.

“While our record in 2010 is better than it was last year, it doesn’t ease the pain of not making the (Big East) tournament,” SU head coach Phil Wheddon said. “I am disappointed for the players because I believe they deserve to be there. I’m proud of the players and their work rate. They didn’t give up at all. … We’re a very young team that is only going to get better and better.”

To the naked eye, much of the play remained the same for the Orange. But for Wheddon and his players, there were several indications of improvement before the season

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october 27, 2010

SPORTS

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the daily orange

The wait

is over

After entire high school career as SU commit, Waiters finally part of Orange

By Tony Olivero Asst. Sports Editor

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kirsten celo | asst. photo editor dion waiters was first recruited by SU as an eighth grader when playing with his cousin Scoop Jardine at a pickup game in Philadelphia. Five years later, he is a guard at SU.

ere Dion Waiters was, once again, playing tagalong to Scoop Jardine.

Five years after he was first noticed by his future college team in a pickup game with Jardine, the younger cousin was again on the same team as the elder. Finally, Waiters joined his blood on the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center court as an official member of the one team he was always an unofficial member of. The one team he was a part of during half a decade of one surrogate basketball home after another.

Syracuse.

“They stuck with me through thick and thin,” Waiters said. “It was like my second family.”

At SU’s media day on Oct. 15, Waiters followed in Jardine’s footsteps, just like he did on that pickup team. Just like the day he was first noticed as Jardine’s little cousin inside the Neumann-Goretti gym in Philadelphia five years ago. But instead of playing the role of second-fiddle on a fast break, Waiters was cast into the role of interviewee. As Jardine was bombarded by questions from a slew of reporters, the notepads and tape recorders also converged on Waiters.

But all the freshman wanted to do was practice. How could he not? He was finally dressed head-to-toe in the SU gear he was so close to yet so far away from donning for his entire high school basketball career. He was finally sporting that Syracuse No. 3,

“He had the swag he has right now. ... Dion always stood out, and we knew how good he could become.”

Rob Murphy

SU assistant coach

the number he talked of and dreamt about at the National Basketball Association Top 100 Camp in a University of Virginia dorm with fellow Orange freshman C.J. Fair in 2008.

He was finally here: Dion Waiters, 6-foot-4, 215-pound shooting guard, Syracuse Orange.

All he wanted to do was get out and run.

But before he could practice, before he deflected one question after another in eager anticipation of his first day, he had to reflect on what it was like to be here. With his first public words as a practicing member of the Orange, Waiters thought back to the beginning. He thought back to Neumann.

“I didn’t think (back then) I would be here right now,” Waiters said, staring down at the ‘Melo Center court. “But back in the day at Neumann…”

He paused. And then, Waiters summed up five long years of waiting.

“I don’t know,” he said. “It’s crazy. It’s a dream come true.” see waiters page 19

m e n ’s s o c c e r

SU hosts highest-ranked opponent of decade

By Michael Cohen Asst. Copy Editor

Nick Bibbs said it will be the biggest game of his life. Wednesday against Louisville is unlike any other game the first-year Division I midfielder has ever prepared for.

That’s because he’s never played the No. 2 team in the country before.

And it’s also because a East Who: No.2 Louisville Big tournament Where: SU Soccer spot is on Stadium the line.

When: 7 p.m.

“I get

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nervous before every game, but this one, you know, I think I’m more excited for,” Bibbs said.

With that mindset, the Orange (2-8-5, 0-4-3 Big East) prepares to take on its highest-ranked opponent in 10 years when the Cardinals (120-2, 7-0-0 Big East) arrive at SU Soccer Stadium Wednesday for a 7 p.m. start. Syracuse has two games remaining in its regular season, and the team is still in contention for one of the final two spots in the Big East tournament. Though no one on the SU roster will deny that Louisville is the better team,

the players are now faced with the challenge of trying to steal a result against one of the nation’s best teams if they want to get into the postseason.

Bibbs is one of those players.

Along with goalkeeper Jeremy Vuolo, Bibbs acknowledged that Louisville is supposed to come here and beat SU. As the No. 2 team in the nation, that’s its job.

“They’re a better team, I’ll just put it out there,” Bibbs said.

“They’re a better team, but we’re going to try to outwork them and get a result.”

Outworking the Cardinals is something no one has been able to do this season. Louisville has won its last eight games heading into Wednesday night — the exact opposite of how Rutgers limped into Syracuse over the weekend, riding an eight-game losing streak.

But those Scarlet Knights, the worst team in the Big East, came away with their first conference win of the season after trouncing the Orange 3-0.

Vuolo chalked that loss up to mental errors. If Syracuse truly see louisville page 16

INSIDE

The end of the line The Syracuse women’s soccer team’s season came to an end with a 2-1 loss to South Florida on Sunday in Tampa, Fla. The Orange finished with the exact same 6-9-5 record in 2010 that the team finished with in the 2009 campaign. But even with the identical numbers from the year prior, Syracuse head coach Phil Wheddon maintains that his team grew substantially in year three of his tenure. Page 21