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By Meghin Delaney Staff Writer

Maurice Harris did not foresee becoming an educator when he was working on his Master of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

“In the back of my mind, I was thinking I would probably go out and work in investment banking some more, selling investment services to cities and municipalities,” Harris said.

But Harris’ career has taken on a different path, as he was chosen last week as the new dean of undergraduate admissions at Syracuse

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SPD to patrol Euclid more Students’ coming out stories encourage understanding on Halloween

andrew renneisen | staff photographer blythe bennett, assistant director of the School of Information Studies’ school media program, tells the story of how she divorced her longtime husband and eventually came out to her daughter at an event Wednesday, where students shared personal coming out stories.

By Bianca Szklaruk Contributing Writer

When Danielle Sutton wanted to make an announcement last year, she posted on her Facebook.

“I am coming out as a bi-sexual on national coming out day!!!” the status read.

Sutton shared her experiences of coming out during Wednesday night’s Coming Out Stories, the annual event capping Syracuse University’s Coming Out Month.

Approximately 65 people attended the event, and eight shared their stories.

Although the media has been placing more attention on the LGBT community in light of recent suicides like that of Tyler Clementi at Rutgers University, events like Coming Out Month and Coming Out Stories have always been important, said Lauren Hannahs, coordinator of the event

and second-year graduate student in the School of Education.

Coming out as a straight ally and showing support have also always been important, she said. The event is meant to give all students a chance to share their stories, bring their

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Some New Yorkers will be keeping a watchful eye on the other side of the country come Tuesday, as the fate of California’s proposition to legalize marijuana for recreational use could influence the passage of medical marijuana bills in New York.

Twin bills are currently sitting

in the New York state Assembly and Senate that would legalize marijuana for medical use. Should Proposition 19, California’s ballot measure to allow marijuana to be used for recreational purposes, pass on Election Day, political activists predict the stigma for New York legislators to approve medical marijuana may be lifted, though the effects may not be

immediate.

“A positive outcome for Prop 19 would increase the chance of Democrats stepping up in New York to support medical marijuana,” said Evan Nison, the campus organizer for the Yes on 19 campaign and former director of Ithaca College’s chapter of New York Patients First, a medical marijuana advocacy group.

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Under Proposition 19, Californians over the age of 21 would be able to personally possess, process, share or transport at most one ounce of marijuana. They would also be able to grow up to 25 square feet on private property. Licensed businesses would be able to sell up to an ounce to customers 21 or older.

The Syracuse Police Department will increase off-campus patrols for the Halloween weekend, but residents and students said they are unsure what to expect in light of the recent spike in off-campus party activity.

SPD officers will focus on strictly enforcing the open container law and loud parties, Sgt. Tom Connellan said. Increased patrols will be in place in anticipation of the parties this weekend, but Connellan said he was not allowed to report on the exact number of patrols.

“There will be strict enforcement,” he said. “People can count on that.”

In the past, the Halloween week-

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Obama appears on ‘The Daily Show’

President Barack Obama appeared on “The Daily Show” on Wednesday and told host Jon Stewart that change in America is not possible overnight, according to The New York Times. “When we promised during the campaign change you can believe in, it wasn’t change you can believe in in 18 months,” Obama said during the 30-minute interview. “It was change you can believe in, but we’re going to have to work for it.” The president used the interview to make a pitch for people to turnout and vote and to defend his agenda. But Stewart used the interview to question Obama on arguments he often hears from the liberal side, characterizing his agenda as timid, which is a characterization Obama resisted.

The interview was a chance for Obama to get Democrats to the polls, but Stewart used it as a runup to the Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive rallies he and Stephen Colbert are hosting on the National Mall Saturday, according to The New York Times.

Bin Laden tape threatens France

A new audiotape broadcast from Osama bin Laden on Al-Jazeera televison on Wednesday warned France it would face kidnappings and killings if it refused to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, according to The New York Times. Also on the tape, bin Laden justified the kidnapping of five French citizens in Niger last month, saying France was mistreating its Muslims. France has nearly 3,750 troops stationed in Afghanistan, making it the fourth biggest contributor to the international military, according to The New York Times.

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Academic advocates for cloning

By Micki Fahner Contributing Writer

Shelly Kagan believes it is not the hard facts of cloning that cause controversy, but the emotions.

“I don’t think cloning is a very deep issue from a philosophical point of view,” said Kagan, a professor of moral philosophy at Yale University.

“Emotionally, it’s something that people are very worked up about.”

Kagan spoke Wednesday morning in Grant Auditorium on the ethics of cloning to a group of philosophy students and those interested in the controversial topic.

Kagan discussed the issue of cloning within a modern context, instead of the religious or sciencefiction notions that he said frequently surround the issue. He offered arguments supporting both reproductive and research cloning.

Reproductive cloning involves creating a genetic copy that is allowed to fully develop, such as 1996’s Dolly the sheep. In research cloning, the goal is

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jenny jakubowski | staff photographer Shelly kagan , a moral philosophy professor at Yale University, explains there are many misconceptions about cloning, such as the thought that a clone would have the same exact character as the original person, during a speech Wednesday morning in Grant Auditorium.

MID-TERM ELECTIONS 2010

Candidates for NY governor support range of issues, changes to state

Buerkle challenges Rep. Maffei in 25th Congressional District race

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New York voters have five choices for governor on Election Day Tuesday: Democrat Andrew Cuomo, now the attorney general; Republican Carl Paladino, an outraged businessman from Buffalo; perennial Green candidate Howie Hawkins of Syracuse; former Manhattan madam Kristin Davis; and Libertarian Warren Redlich, a town board member of Guilderland.

In the Sept. 14 Republican primary, Paladino beat former Congressman Rick Lazio for the GOP nomination. Paladino received 272,898 votes to Lazio’s 166,656 votes. Lazio had been the party’s favorite.

In his victory speech on primary night, Paladino welcomed the party’s support.

“I want everyone in the Republican Party who opposed me to know this — you’re welcome to join the people’s crusade,” he said. “Come aboard, you’re both welcome and needed.”

Voters in the 25th Congressional District will choose between Rep. Dan Maffei (D-DeWitt) and Republican challenger Ann Marie Buerkle on Tuesday.

In his bid for a second term, Maffei is stressing Democratic changes from former President George W. Bush’s administration as an appeal to voters, said his press deputy, Marcus Cerroni.

“They do not want to go back to the failed policies of the Bush years of an unregulated Wall Street and economic policies that benefit only the wealthy,” Cerroni said.

For the Republicans, Buerkle gets praise from the party as a good listener.

“Ann Marie will listen to the people and bring the government back to the people,” said John DeSpirito III, chairman of the Onondaga County Republican Committee.

Because of her conservative views, the party is confident that Buerkle will represent it

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New York State governor race

Who: Democrat Andrew Cuomo, Republican Carl Paladino, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, Anti-Prohibition candidate Kristin Davis, Libertarian Warren Redlich When: Voting to be held Tuesday Where: New York state Why we care: Determines the next governor of New York state

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25th Congressional Representative Race

Who: Incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, and Republican Ann Marie Buerkle When: Voting to be held Tuesday Where: Syracuse area (Onondaga and Wayne counties and portions of Monroe and Cayuga counties) Why we care: Determines the next representative in the U.S. Congress from the Syracuse area

Editor’s note: These stories originally ran on Democracywise, an SU-based website with stories from political reporting students.

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Obama’s role in Afghanistan must be more assertive, focused

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t’s that time of the year again, when attacks advertisements blare on the television and political talking-heads start having that vein in their temple pulsate: election season.

When it comes to the war in Afghanistan, many Americans are more worried about their pocketbooks and thus have ignored the issue. Many of President Barack Obama’s liberal fans feel betrayed by his administration’s troop surge and may just stay home on Election Day.

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About half of all registered voters are likely to go to the polls next Tuesday to vote for local representatives, congressmen and senators, a process that will shift legislative priorities substantially. In January 2009, there was a change in leadership in the White House, but no leader-

ship changes in the Pentagon. To that end, Obama’s latest strategy in Afghanistan is based on the 2006 surge in Iraq, which helped pacify large sections of the country. But Afghanistan is not Iraq.

Obama needs to truly assert himself as the commander in chief, telling the Pentagon what to do and not vice-versa. Instead of an additional 30,000 troops for a broad and vague counterinsurgency campaign, the main focus of Obama’s Afghanistan war policy should be the dismantling of the entire al-Qaeda network, conditional reconciliation with the Taliban to help ensure stable governance, and a commitment of aid to help build schools, instead of drop bombs.

The recent news of reconciliation talks between the United States and the Taliban is an encouraging sign that our leaders understand the Taliban is not our immediate enemy.

The Taliban, as an organization, is a beast of America’s own making. We invested billions in weapons funding and insurgency training for the mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight off the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. When this group of “freedom fighters” won and Soviet tanks withdrew, so did American support. The country had lots of weapons, with little in the way of effective governance or schools.

To fill this power and education vacuum, the former mujahideen fighter, Mullah Omar, formed the Taliban, which was supplemented

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give green a chance with fighters from radical Islamist madrassas, schools that preached violent jihad while the country reverted to an Islamic theocracy based on fringe ideas that most Muslims wouldn’t even recognize as Islamic. One wonders how things would be different in Afghanistan had we invested in education and governance in 1989.

Contrary to liberal belief, the solution is not to end the war immediately and withdraw troops. We’ve done that already, and it created a radicalized failed state that allowed al-Qaeda in the 1990s to come to Afghanistan to train and plan the 9/11 attacks.

The real problem I have with the war effort is its lack of focus. We know the Taliban was complicit in allowing al-Qaeda a safe haven, but we also know they were rather wary of these Arab jihadists bothering the United States.

Unfortunately, former President George W. Bush administration’s invasion in 2001 pushed these two groups together, and we have failed to

distinguish the two ever since.

So let’s get al-Qaeda. It is likely in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, a region where Obama has ordered more drone strikes than Bush ever did, which shows he understands the real mission in the area.

We need to work with the shaky governments in both countries, so let’s try to encourage stability without being overly interventionist. Iraq was a complete waste of our time and resources from which Obama wisely extricated all of our combat troops this past summer. He needs to focus the efforts in Afghanistan on creating a functional civil society. One that blends a traditionally decentralized political structure with a central government that has authority and holds free elections, not the ones marred with fraud that we saw recently under the corrupt President Hamid Karzai. Similarly, we should reach out to Pakistan in a very big way as it recovers from its terrible summer of flooding, because massive disasters are often breeding grounds for more radicalism.

But a world away, the choices Obama and other political leaders make affect who lives and dies, whether it be more American troops, more children, more tribal leaders or more alQaeda militants.

Luke Lanciano is a junior political science major. His column appears every Tuesday, and he can be reached at lllanci@syr.edu.

Halloween presents three-day opportunity to be someone, something else

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h, Halloween. Day of the Dead. All Hallows Eve. Call it what you will, but it’s safe to say most of us agree it is one of the best holidays of the entire year. Why, you ask? Well, the answer is simple. It’s because you get to be someone else for a day. What a genius idea! After all, why would anyone have ever wanted to be you in the first place?

Here at Syracuse University, we are especially lucky because Halloween spans an entire weekend, rather than just a day, which gives you the option of sorting through a variety of costumes and embracing several different alter egos.

Of course, some costumes are classics and never go out of style: sexy cop (you know Lil Wayne approves), French maid (she can make your bed and warm it up too) and friendly neighborhood hooker (cheap and effective).

Other costumes are more conceptual: Lady

Gaga (you’re a free b****, baby), Four Loko (you’re up, you’re down, you’re all around) and God (if you wear a white beard, there’s always the potential issue of people thinking you’re Santa).

Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter who (or what) you go as, it’s about how you pull it off.

Last year, I went as Girl Who Got Caught in a Downpour Without an Umbrella. I was so convincing as a poor, little, wet, cold and slightly weird student that I’m sure no one even noticed my shirt was see-through. See, Halloween is about more than just dressing up. It’s about more than pumpkins. It’s about playing the part. It’s about truly absorbing your new role.

It’s actually quite serious.

Personally, I’m really excited to see what everyone will end up wearing. You can learn so much about a person by observing his or her Halloween costume. Do girls dressed as nurses

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blondes know better love playing doctor? Possibly. Are guys dressed as Hugh Hefner harboring a secret fantasy for job opportunities in the adult film industry and three blond girlfriends half their age?

Probably. And what about the people in couples’ costumes? Little Red Riding Hood and the big, bad wolf? Priest and nun? Great ideas in theory, but has anyone else noticed that those duos come off sounding somewhat suggestive? So unfortunate. I’m sure no one likes it when his or her costume is misread.

Junior business management major Nick Kowalski is also looking forward to Halloween.

“Usually I tend to reuse the same costumes.

I’ll be a lifeguard or a super-guido, but I have a great new idea for this year,” he said. “It’s stay-

ing secret until the big day, though.” Ooh la la.

Brace yourself, ladies. He might just go as the man of your dreams.

With each year, Halloween seems to get bigger and better. We’ve already been e-mailed basic safety information, but I leave you with some additional tips.

Do not wear the same costume as your friend. One person always looks better. And it’s usually your friend.

Do not wear a costume that’s about two sizes too small. Naked is not technically a costume, although exceptions can be made for really good-looking people. You are probably not one of them.

And most importantly, don’t forget to turn tricks for your treats. It’s only fair. Oh, and remember this nursery rhyme? “Trick or treat.

Give me something sweet to eat. And if you don’t, then I swear, I’ll pull down your underwear!” Words to live by.

Marina Charny is a senior English and textual studies and writing major. Her column appears every Thursday, and she can be reached at mcharny@syr.edu.

Inappropriate to continue recognizing Taiwan as a country The article on the first page talked about financial aid available to international students at Syracuse University. There is a picture showing the “countries” from which most international students come, and Taiwan is among them. I think now that Taiwan is not officially recognized as a nation by the U.S. government or the United Nations, it’s not appropriate to be called a country in this newspaper, because most international readers are Chinese from the

let ter to the editor mainland. People may have different opinions about whether or not Taiwan should be considered a nation, but isn’t it more appropriate to use the phrase “countries and districts?”

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Bandwagon fans should be embraced, not ridiculed

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y name is Amanda Abbott, and I am a San Francisco Giants bandwagon fan.

Well, maybe not a full-fledged bandwagoner, but I am at least from the San Francisco Bay Area. Evidently, I am having a hard time associating myself with the frowned-upon bandwagon-fan label. However, I know I am riding one very crowded wagon.

Bandwagon fans are prominent within every sport, every playoff series and every good event people want to be included in. And with every bandwagon fan, there is a selfacclaimed true fan who will s*** on us and tell us, “To be a bandwagon fan is worse than being a Dodgers fan.” Come on, “true fans,” don’t put us on that level. Instead, love us.

Most people typically secure a spot

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on a team’s bandwagon whenever their sports team is doing well. My spot on the San Francisco Giant’s wagon, however, was the result of Tim Lincecum.

After his Major League Baseball debut in the 2007 season, Lincecum was quickly deemed “The Freak” due to the contrast between his small stature and his large stride. Later in October 2009, Lincecum was charged with marijuana possession, which not only expanded his fan base, but also simultaneously inspired an array of “Let Tim Smoke” themed merchandise. Between being explicitly labeled as abnormal and a stoner, Lincecum was shaping up to be my best friend. Then this year’s season offered the final selling point.

In midsummer, I was watching a game with my grandma — an

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heart racin’ in my skin tight jeans authentic fan — when my dad walked into the living room, glanced at the television and said, “Hey, Lincecum looks like Marie.”

At that moment, my Lincecum loyalty was born, and my love for the San Francisco Giants was perpetuated. Marie is my 21-year-old female cousin who happens to have a striking resemblance to the “The Freak.”

Maybe Marie grew to look like Lincecum or maybe Lincecum grew to

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look like Marie, or maybe it was just Marie’s new haircut. But whatever it was, I now felt like it was my own cousin who was leading the Giants to one of their best seasons since 2002.

I immediately began calling Marie “Timmy,” and I made plans to see Lincecum pitch at the next home game.

Furthering my cheesy reasons to be a Giants fan, this season the San Francisco Giants’ marketing team tapped into “Kung Fu Panda,” also known as Pablo Sandoval and pandamonium hit. Amanda rhymes with panda. Need I say more?

Whether you’re a follower-fan due to a team’s success or because you’ve been sucked into a team’s marketing hype, you’ll probably be called a bandwagoner. If you haven’t been following a team since spring training

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or don’t have a relative who used to sneak into the Polo Grounds to watch the New York Giants play ball, you basically suck.

However, here’s an idea for all the true fans out there. Instead of bullying or outperforming us in obscure trivia, a smarter, more economic move would be to offer us some unnecessary paraphernalia. After all, the No. 1 defining characteristic of bandwagon fans is that we’re all suckers.

Just a side note, I could really use a “My Tim Lincecum look-alike cousin is smarter than your honor student” bumper sticker.

Amanda Abbott is a junior geography and information studies major. She is the assistant opinion editor at The Daily Orange, where her column appears occasionally. She can be reached at aeabbott@syr.edu.

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not to create a cloned being, but to use the clone cells for research purposes.

During his discussion, Kagan broke the issue down, describing the science behind it before elaborating on its potential benefits.

He addressed the many misconceptions that accompany the topic of cloning, saying a clone is not the same person as its parent, but is more like a twin. While both the parent and the clone are nearly genetically identical, each develops in its own unique environment, resulting in completely different characters.

“One obvious concern is that this person wouldn’t be unique, but that’s a misunderstanding of science,” Kagan said. “They would be full-blown human beings just like us.”

Ben Bradley, a Syracuse University philosophy professor, arranged for Kagan to speak.

“He’s a well-known moral philosopher, he’s a lively speaker, and he would be of interest to both the philosophy department and the university community at large,” Bradley said.

Kagan came as a part of the new integrated learning major in ethics, Bradley said. The integrated major concerns the philosophical study of ethics, but involves other fields of study, including theory and history, according to the program’s website. Most of the audience members were part of Bradley’s PHI 192: “Introduction to Moral Theory” class.

After his discussion, Kagan answered students’ questions, and some audience members challenged various facets of his argument.

Questions addressed topics ranging from the use of cloned body parts to issues surrounding the health of the cloned beings.

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“I don’t think cloning is a very deep issue from a philosophical point of view.”

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actually talk to people,” Kagan said. “Moral philosophers don’t often get called upon to comment in a public or even semi-public venue about issues that have a moral dimension.”

One audience member asked Kagan if it was ethical to create cloned human beings just for body parts. Kagan answered by pointing out that millions of people donate their blood each year with no ethical dilemma.

Cynthia Njuguna, a freshman international relations major, asked Kagan about the moral dilemma of creating more humans through cloning in an age of overpopulation. He acknowledged there were complexities that accompany this issue from a political standpoint. He pointed out many forms of creation today differ from traditional forms, such as in vitro fertilization.

“A lot of times we hear arguments for why it’s bad, and I think it’s probably good for everyone to hear the other side, especially from someone who’s not a scientist,” said Holly Stone, a freshman bioengineering and biochemistry major.

Stone’s majors have made her familiar with the negative connotations usually associated with cloning, she said. She said she thinks confusion might scare people away from the issue of cloning.

“People don’t understand all the ins and outs with the genetics,” Stone said, “and that’s what scares them.” mjfahner@syr.edu

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voices out collectively and support each other, Hannahs said.

“We want to show you aren’t the only one going through this and also want straight people to come out as allies,” Hannahs said.

“They need to bring their voice of support to the community.”

Students who chose to share their stories first stepped through a door placed behind the podium. The door was filled with signatures from those who spoke at the past Coming Out Stories, and those who spoke this year added their names when the event was done.

Sutton, president of Pride Union, first came out as an ally in 2008. When she later came out as bisexual, she said her friends, family and boyfriend, whom she is still with, remained supportive.

“It is an incredible freeing experience, and a giant weight is lifted,” Sutton said on coming out.

Sutton was followed by Caroline Godden, a junior communication design major. Godden told of her experiences growing up with two moms. Though she has always been an ally, Wednesday marked her first time at the event.

“Having two moms has been a big part of my life and is a constant ‘coming out,’” she said. “Even though I define my sexuality as straight, I am still part of the community and am still affected, having even lost a friend in high school.”

At SU, she said she was worried about how her sorority sisters might react to her having two moms, but she said they were supportive.

“I even bring both my mom and stepmother to Mother-Daughter Day,” Godden said.

She said although greek life is seen as a stereotypically heterosexual community, she has met many lesbians and gays involved in it. She said she did not think there should be a separation between the greek and LGBT communities.

Hannahs, coordinator of the event, said Coming Out Stories is beneficial to those who attend and do not share their stories as well. Everyone who attends takes something away from the event, and it can be healing to hear the sometimes funny, sometimes emotional stories, she said.

“It is most moving to hear someone speak from a place of support and healing who was able to overcome and withstand a lot of obstacles,” she said. “They got out to the other side.” blszklar@syr.edu

Coming out at SU Wednesday night was the finale of Syracuse University’s Coming Out Month. The event was meant to give all students a chance to share their stories of coming out as a member of the LGBT and ally community and show support for one another.

“I actually came out to my mom via text message and to the world on Facebook putting ‘I am coming out as a bi-sexual on national coming out day!!!’ as my status.”

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president of Pride Union and bisexual

“Having two moms has been a big part of my life and is a constant ‘coming out’. Even though I define my sexuality as straight I am still part of the community and am still effected having even lost a friend in high school.”

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junior communication design major and ally

“Everyone who does go takes something away from it. It is really healing to hear someone tell a story. Not all are funny stories some are sad very emotional.”

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The proposition is about even in the polls, with some saying it will win 48 percent to 44 percent and others saying it will lose 47 percent to 46 percent, according to The New York Times.

One of the goals of the Yes on 19 campaign is to foster a national discussion on the legalization of marijuana, both recreationally and medicinally, regardless of Tuesday’s outcome, Nison said. The campaign has received volunteer support from across the country, including New York, he said.

Meanwhile, the twin bills have been sitting in the New York state Legislature since 2009.

The Assembly has previously passed other ver-

What is Prop 19?

Proposition 19 is California’s ballot measure to allow marijuana to be used for recreational purposes. It would allow Californians more than 21 years old to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and grow up to 25 square feet on private property. Licensed retailers would be allowed to sell up to an ounce to people over 21.

Analysts predict it could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to fill in California’s $20 million budget gap.

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end has not differed from other weekends as far as the number of students out in the Lancaster Avenue area, said Harry Lewis, treasurer of the South East University Neighborhood Association.

“What they are doing now is so much improved to years ago, you can’t even compare. They weren’t out at all.”

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Though he noticed last Thursday and Friday were busier than usual, he said he is not sure if there will be more students this Halloween weekend. He said things like the weather would affect turnout. Friday is expected to have an overnight low of 38 degrees with partial showers, and Saturday should have an overnight low of 41 degrees, according to Weather.com.

Lewis said he thinks the police and Syracuse University’s Department of Public Safety have done a good job patrolling the area in past years with the increased number of patrols during the Halloween weekend.

“What they are doing now is so much improved to years ago, you can’t even compare.

They weren’t out at all,” he said. “There’s no such thing as perfect, but this is as close to perfect as you can get.”

He does not anticipate problems from students this weekend, he said. The biggest problem the neighborhood has seen was the smashing of a few pumpkins last week. For the past two years, there has been little to no student traffic on Lancaster for Halloween, said Lewis, who has lived on Lancaster for 51 years.

Jill Feigelman, a junior magazine and anthropology major, also said she does not

sions of medical marijuana bills twice, only for them to be voted down later in the Senate. The current Assembly version of the bill is in the Codes Committee, and the Senate version has been referred to the Rules Committee.

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the Assembly version, declined to comment for this article. Sen. Thomas Duane (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the Senate version, could not be reached for comment.

The front-runner and Democratic candidate for governor, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, has said he would not support legislation to legalize medical marijuana. Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate, on the other hand, called for a referendum to legalize it.

Current Gov. David Paterson is seen by advocates as more likely than either candidate to sign medical marijuana legislation because of his battle with glaucoma, though he has not officially announced his stance on this issue, said Jay Goldstein, the executive director of the Empire State chapter of the National Organization for the Relaxation of Marijuana Laws.

Because of the uncertainty in the next governor’s stance, Proposition 19 would have to be passed in the next two to three months to have a direct effect on the current New York bill, Goldstein said.

“The cycle is too short,” he said.

What’s more likely to have a short-term impact on New York is the fact that New Jersey

know if there will be more students off campus this Halloween than usual because of the new greek life restrictions.

She said she is unsure of her Halloween plans, but she will most likely go to a party off campus like she has in previous years.

“I hope they let people have fun, but they keep people safe,” Feigelman said.

Doug Wexler, a senior political science major, said he hopes the police are understanding of college students about the drinking and parties.

“It’s college,” he said. “Obviously the law needs to be enforced for those under 21, but I don’t think they need to go out of their way to look for people.”

He said he has never encountered SPD, but his friends had gotten in trouble last weekend at 2 a.m. for having a loud party.

Wexler plans to go off campus this year for Halloween, which he has done about twice in the past, he said.

Alana Sullivan, a senior English and textual studies major, said she also plans on going out to the off-campus area for one of the Halloween nights. This will be her first time going off campus for Halloween. Last year she was in London, and during her first two years at SU, she spent Halloween on campus,

“It’s not going to happen where Nov. 2, Prop 19 passes and then Nov. 3 medical marijuana passes.

But possibly in a year.”

Daniel Fitzpatrick

Former chair and current member of Syracuse Universit y’s College Republicans

recently approved medical marijuana, Goldstein said. Either New York patients will flock to New Jersey to get medical marijuana, forcing the New York Legislature to pass its bills, or New Jersey’s law will be successful, encouraging legislators to vote in favor of similar bills in New York, he said.

California’s current system exemplifies how poor regulation of medical marijuana has led to a number of illegal dispensaries, Goldstein said. But if Proposition 19 is executed well, supporters will be able to point to California as an example of successful marijuana legalization, he said.

“There’ll finally be a lab to see what legalization looks like,” he said.

But Republicans who are skeptical could cite the evolution of legal medical marijuana to legal recreational marijuana in California as a reason to block the bills in New York, said Nison,

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Yet Daniel Fitzpatrick, the former chair and current member of Syracuse University’s College Republicans, said he foresees medical marijuana eventually becoming legal in New York with Proposition 19 giving it a push. Unlike presumptions about his party, Fitzpatrick said he supports medical marijuana, though he has never smoked the drug himself.

“It’s not going to happen where Nov. 2, Prop 19 passes and then Nov. 3, medical marijuana passes,” he said. “But possibly in a year.”

With the recessed economy and the health care debate, medical marijuana has taken a backseat in New York, said Minda Conroe, president of SU’s College Democrats. Proposition 19 has revitalized discussion somewhat, she said, but there are still larger issues, like the budget, that will most likely be taken care of first.

One of the main arguments supporting Proposition 19 is that it could help ease California’s $20 billion budget deficit through taxation and reduced costs of prosecuting drug offenders.

But even if New York’s medical marijuana bills included taxation, Conroe said she does not think that would be an effective argument in the state.

“This state is really blue in New York City, but the rest of the state is pretty conservative, which is something to consider,” she said. “The economic arguments make sense, but it’s still more of a social issue.” rhkheel@syr.edu

‘Staying Safe and Respectful this Halloween’ In an e-mail sent out Oct. 11, Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, reminded students to stay respectful this Halloween. This means considering how an individual’s “portrayal of ethnicity and race, gender, class, religion, culture, sexual orientation, or disability might affect others,” according to the e-mail. The e-mail was endorsed by a number of campus organizations and students were encouraged to visit the STOPBias website for information on bias related incidents and how to prevent them. she said.

She also said she doesn’t expect there to be much trouble in the off-campus area and said she thinks students can control themselves. But even with the increased patrols, Sullivan said she doesn’t think there is anything the police

can do.

“I feel like there’s not going to be very much they can do if there are a lot of people doing it and having parties,” she said. “It’ll be like a MayFest situation.” krkoerti@syr.edu

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University. He will be responsible for recruiting students to SU. Harris, the current associate dean for graduate programs in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, will be replacing Susan Donovan after a national search was conducted for a replacement. Harris is described by colleagues as a challenge-taker, an avid people-person with a high energy level and a natural leader.

Harris will take on his role as the dean of undergraduate admissions Jan. 1 and is still acting as the associate dean in Whitman, currently traveling the country to recruit new students.

Harris began his career as an investment banker in Texas, with an undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University and an interest in combining business administration with public administration.

After finishing his master’s degree, Harris began a doctorate in the area of public administration at Maxwell, but found it did not quite fit his interests. Harris left to work for a company in Washington, D.C., that offered financial services to cities.

When the company was bought out, Harris decided to return to Whitman for a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration in finance and economics.

When working on his doctorate, Harris became interested in teaching. After finishing his doctorate, he ended up at Bentley College — now Bentley University — and then the University of New Hampshire.

It was while Harris was at UNH that he received a phone call from Peter Koveos, Whitman’s chair of the financial department at the time.

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“When deans say we need to build this certain program, and we want these types of students, he’ll go out and find those students and help build the brand for Syracuse.”

Melvin Stith

Dean of Martin J. Whitman School of Management

Harris didn’t see the phone call as unusual at first. Koveos was always very involved in the lives of doctoral students and often would check up on past Whitman students, Harris said. But this time, Koveos had something different in mind for Harris.

“In the course of the conversation, he hinted around that they were looking for a finance professor back at Whitman and asked if I would be interested,” Harris said.

At first, Harris said he wasn’t enthralled by the idea and had concerns about returning. He had lived in Syracuse on and off for many years as a student and said he wondered if he could move back there as a professional.

But Harris did return to SU in 2005 as an assistant professor of finance and said the decision to return was one of the best he has made in his life. He said Whitman, which had a new building and a new dean, was a combination of the best of the old and the new.

“It was such a vibrant, exciting time for Whitman,” Harris said. “It was a real new day for the School of Management with new leadership, new facility and new personnel.”

The decision to recruit Harris was an easy

one for Whitman, said Melvin Stith, dean of Whitman. Harris quickly escalated to a more permanent position, Stith said. He said those at Whitman quickly discovered Harris could do a lot to make Whitman a better place for faculty, staff and students.

“After working with him for a year, I went back to the department chair and said we had to find a way to see if he’s interested in staying at Whitman,” Stith said.

Harris stayed at Whitman, and when the school was looking for a new associate dean of the master’s programs in July 2008, the choice was simple, Stith said.

The school was trying to rebuild the master’s program to attract more students, a goal Harris quickly and skillfully completed, Stith said.

“When deans say we need to build this certain program, and we want these types of students, he’ll go out and find those students and help build the brand for Syracuse,” Stith said.

Stith cited Harris’ work with the master’s in finance program as an example of Harris’ capabilities. The program only had three or four students when Harris began, but had more than 40 students last year, Stith said.

“I call it the ‘Maurice Master’s in Finance Program’ now,” Stith said. “I told him about recruiting more students, ‘Maurice, this is your office. If you can do it, go do it.’ And he did.”

Donald Saleh, vice president for enrollment management, said as soon as Harris expressed interest in the dean of undergraduate admissions position, he emerged as one of the top candidates with his leadership and creativity.

“Maurice has really natural leadership qualities, and this is an important leadership position,” Saleh said. “But certainly his creativity and his willingness to ask probing questions about what we’re doing in admissions and why we’re doing those things set Maurice apart from other candidates.”

Harris’ desire to be in a leadership position struck Saleh as an interesting asset, Saleh said.

Saleh said Harris is driven to be a leader, an ability he can use as an educator and administrator at SU. Harris said he thinks his skills in both education and administration will help him succeed in his new position.

“As an educator, I understand curriculum and the importance of the delivery of the curriculum,” Harris said. “As an administrator, I understand how important it is to offer a product, the curriculum, that is perceived as value.”

Harris compared education to a product and said if the product is not innovative enough and is not marketed well enough, it will not sell.

Harris said this is the strategy he plans to bring to the dean of undergraduate admissions.

Harris has had personal experience working with undergraduate students by trying to find the right college for his two nieces and one nephew.

“I’ve helped them decide upon schools, and we went through all of that together at that time,” Harris said. “That was even before I decided to take this job, it was just because I was an active uncle.” medelane@syr.edu

Maurice Harris’ bulletpoint Bio • Received undergraduate degree from Bowling Green State University • Began career as an investment banker in Texas • Started doctorate in public administration at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, but left when he found it did not quite fit his interests • Worked for a company in Washington, D.C., that offered financial services to cities • Went to the Martin J. Whitman School of Management for the business administration with a concentration in finance and economics doctoral program • Became an assistant professor of finance in Whitman • Elevated to the associate dean of masters’ programs in Whitman • Selected to be the new dean of admissions at Syracuse University

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city ordinance expanding same-sex domestic partner health benefits and leaves of absence was approved by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner on Oct. 15.

The same-sex domestic partner and dependent children of a city employee can now receive health care coverage from the employee’s insurance, said Donald Thompson, the director of the Office of Personnel and Labor Relations of Syracuse. The ordinance will go into effect Monday. The expansion of benefits follows similar changes to employee benefits at Syracuse University over the past several years.

The city’s benefits include coverage by the employee’s health and dental insurance and include absences due to sickness, vacations or bereavement. For example, if a family member of a same-sex domestic partner died, the employee would have time off, Thompson said.

The proposal was brought up in the Syracuse Common Council by Councilor-at-Large Kathleen Joy on Oct. 4. It was officially adopted by the council Oct. 12, and it then went to the

mayor’s office for a signature.

Joy is the chair of the Economic Development and the Downtown and Metropolitan Planning committees of the city, so the bill would not usually fall under her jurisdiction. But she said she feels so passionately about it that she wanted to take charge of the proposal.

“The bottom line is we don’t want to be discriminatory,” she said. “We’re setting an example for the city.”

Joy is running for a seat in the 50th District of the state Senate. She said the political race and her work at the Common Council “are not really directly related.”

Syracuse has a very active LGBT community, said Barrie Gewanter, director of the Central New York chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Gewanter, who identifies as a lesbian, cited CNY Pride, a nonprofit group in the city that organizes LGBT-focused events like the annual gay pride parade. She also said SU’s LGBT Resource Center is a large part of the city’s gay community.

Before this ordinance, dependents of LGBT employees would need to get their own insur-

ance policies. In New York state, same-sex couples cannot legally get married, so benefits for married couples would not apply to them, Gewanter said.

Gewanter and her partner married out of state, but she said not all same-sex couples have that option.

“I think it’s important to have this option.

Marriage is a big step, and people want to do it,” she said. “In the interim, to have domestic partner benefits is wonderful.”

Same-sex couples who choose to get married out of state were already receiving employee benefits before the ordinance passed, said Thompson, the director of personnel and labor relations.

Gewanter said one reason the proposal may not have passed is because of increased costs to the city. The additional cost of health and dental insurance for partners of city employees could increase taxes for the employer, she said. She said she was not sure if the city will make an effort to make up for increased taxes.

The proposal and approval of the ordinance were met with little opposition and were approved

by all members of the Common Council, Gewanter said, but there was one visible opponent.

A lone protestor stood outside the Syracuse Town Hall when the Common Council adopted the ordinance. He held a sign stating, “Marriage is between a man and a woman.”

Gewanter said free speech works both ways, and that it did not stop her from clapping loudly at the proposal’s passage.

Though the passage of this ordinance may be seen as a step for the city, Gewanter said equal benefits must now be examined for heterosexual couples that are not married.

“The city of Syracuse has not chosen to do that. I honestly do not think you should discriminate,” she said. “Should people decide not to get married, then the city has an obligation to treat them with respect.”

Gewanter said the passage of benefits was long overdue and is now waiting for the next step.

“It was simply the right thing to do, for now,” she said, “until we get to such a point where gay and lesbian couples can finally get married.” smtracey@syr.edu

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He is campaigning on a “mad as hell” antigovernment platform that has also won him wide popularity among the tea party movement of frustrated voters.

The governor’s seat is an open race without an incumbent. Gov. David Paterson has decided not to run for the office. The general election is Tuesday.

On the political spectrum, New York is an intensely blue state. Of the 16 million registered voters, 8 million are Democrats, compared to 3.5 million registered Republicans. There are 500,000 members of the Independence Party.

Roughly 165,000 people are in the Conservative Party. There are just over 29,000 Green Party members and another 3,000 who register with the Libertarian Party.

Roughly 3 million voters — or 19 percent — are registered with no party affiliation.

Here are some sketches of the gubernatorial candidates:

Carl Paladino (Republican) Paladino, 64, is a native of Buffalo. He served in the U.S. Army and then practiced law in New York for 15 years. He is best known as the chief executive officer of Ellicott Development Company, a real estate development company in Buffalo. The company started in 1973 and now controls $500 million in assets. Paladino has a personal net worth of $150 million.

His campaign did not respond to two interview requests.

In his campaign for governor, Paladino calls for an immediate 20 percent cut in state spending and comparable cuts in state taxes. His campaign threat to take “a baseball bat” to Albany has become synonymous with his candidacy, and he takes pride in being blunt.

Early in his campaign, he came under fire for sending out e-mails containing racist and vulgar jokes. He dismissed those as items he

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well, said DeSpirito.

“We always pick great candidates,” he said.

“But she’s a super-great candidate.”

The 25th Congressional District includes Onondaga and Wayne counties, as well as portions of Monroe and Cayuga counties. The general election is on Nov. 2.

At stake is control of the House of Representatives. All 435 seats are up for re-election.

Currently, Democrats are the majority, with 258 seats to 177 for Republicans. That gives the Democrats a 41-seat advantage.

But races for 42 seats are open, with no incumbent on the ballot. And many incumbents — for both parties — are endangered by an angry electorate looking for change in politics and government. Many pollsters and political analysts suggest the Democrats are vulnerable to losing control of the House on Tuesday.

In New York’s 25th Congressional District, voter enrollment gives the GOP a slight edge.

The New York State Board of Elections website lists the Democrat’s party enrollment as 137,792 voters and the Republican’s as 138,146 in the district. The district also has 18,095 voters registered who are unaffiliated with any party and 7,188 registered Conservative Party members.

Combined enrollment in the Green and Working Families parties is under 3,000.

Here is some background on the candidates:

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For the Republican primary, Paladino spent $3 million of his own money on the campaign, according to The New York Times. He has pledged to spend up to $10 million on his campaign for governor.

Still, many political analysts suggest he will not win the governor’s race.

“I can’t imagine he’s got much chance of winning,” said Jeff Stonecash, a political science professor in Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. “He’ll give a little visibility to a Republican candidate.

The question is will he do some things that are off the wall that will hurt the party image?”

Andrew Cuomo (Democrat) Cuomo has been the state’s attorney general since 2006. In that office, he focused on government corruption and promoting transparency.

He launched Project Sunlight, a website that gives public access to statewide government information. He’s also targeted Wall Street, forcing nine of the largest financial institutions getting federal aid in the recession to disclose the salaries of top executives.

His campaign did not respond to interview requests.

If elected, he would be the second member of his family to be governor. His father, Mario Cuomo, was governor of New York from 1983 to 1994.

Cuomo started gaining political experience on his father’s staff as an adviser to the governor before joining the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He was an assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in former President Bill Clinton’s administration from 1993 to 1997 and then secretary of the department from 1997 to 2001.

Cuomo, 52, was born in Queens. He attended Fordham University and received his law degree from Albany Law School. He was married to Kerry Kennedy, the seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy, for 13 years. They have three children.

In his campaign for governor, he calls for a one-year emergency financial plan to stabilize spending. Cuomo also proposes cutting the size of state government by 20 percent.

Facing the anti-incumbent mood of voters, Cuomo has some potentially heavy political baggage, said Kristi Andersen, a professor of political science in Maxwell. “Cuomo,” she said, “is the consummate insider.”

Howie Hawkins (Green Party) Hawkins has run for Syracuse mayor, Syracuse Common Council, Onondaga County executive, New York state comptroller and both houses of Congress. So far, he has never won an election.

Still, Stonecash commends Hawkins on his persistence. “Howie is a good soldier,” he said.

Hawkins is a former Marine and longtime activist in peace, environmental and social justice movements. Hawkins attended Dartmouth College. In New England, he worked in construction and helped to organize a workers’ cooperative that specialized in energy audits and solar and wind installations. Now he works unloading trucks for UPS Inc. in Syracuse.

In his campaign, Hawkins calls for raising taxes on the rich, increasing funding for public schools and raising the minimum wage.

His senior advisor, Mark Dunlea, describes Hawkins’ platform this way: “We want to hire everybody. We want to put everybody to work.”

Dunlea added: “We want to invest in renewable energy. We want housing. We want to take over more of the cost for local, you know, schools.”

Kristin Davis (Anti-Prohibition) On her website, Kristin Davis describes herself this way: “Best known as the woman who provided escorts for a New York Attorney General and Governor, Elliot Spitzer. Kristin Davis was convicted of promoting prostitution and served 4 months on Riker’s Island.”

Despite misspelling her famous client’s name — it’s Eliot — Davis highlights her connection to Spitzer in her own campaign for governor.

Dan Maffei (incumbent, Democrat)

Ann Marie Buerkle (challenger, Republican)

Maffei, 42, is seeking his second two-year term.

In 2008, he defeated long-term incumbent Republican Jim Walsh.

Maffei is a former vice president of a financial services firm, staff member for two senators and a former television reporter at WSYR in Syracuse.

He has his bachelor’s degree from Brown University and two master’s degrees, one from Columbia University and one from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In his re-election bid, Maffei calls for several tax credits aimed at the middle class. Among them are tax credits for first-time homebuyers and for college expenses, according to his campaign website.

He also supports getting rid of taxes on unemployment benefits and closing tax loopholes that allow companies to avoid some taxes on their profits made in overseas operations. The corporate tax loophole, said spokesman Cerroni, benefits “companies that ship jobs overseas.”

Maffei voted for the national health care overhaul and for an economic stimulus package that Republicans are now targeting for sharp criticism. On his campaign website, he defends the vote on the health care overhaul.

“It represents a giant step forward in terms of fairness, cost-control, boosting the overall economy and protecting the health of millions of individual citizens,” he said on his website.

On the economic stimulus package, he has called it a “compromise” meant to stave off more economic problems.

Buerkle, 58, is a former nurse and lawyer.

In her campaign, she’s drawn high-profile national endorsements from Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, and from House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).

She has six adult children. She has been a New York state assistant attorney general since 1997.

In her campaign, Buerkle takes a traditional

She is on the November ballot on the line of the Anti-Prohibition Party, according to the New York State Board of Elections.

“I am running on a platform of personal and economic freedom,” Davis said on her website.

Among her policy initiatives, she said, are ending the prohibitions against marijuana, gay marriage and casino gambling. Removing the bans will “generate new revenues instead of raising taxes on already overtaxed New Yorkers,” she said.

Before becoming a madam, Davis said, she was a vice president of a hedge fund. In the scandal that forced Spitzer from office, Davis was convicted of promoting prostitution and served four months on Rikers Island, New York City’s main jail complex.

Warren Redlich (Libertarian) In 2008, Redlich worked as a lawyer for Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. In 2004 and 2006, he was the Republican candidate for Congress in New York’s 21st Congressional District, which surrounds Albany.

For governor, he’s running as the Libertarian Party candidate. His campaign did not respond to interview requests.

Redlich was born in New York and grew up in the town of Guilderland, a suburb about 12 miles west of Albany. He received his undergraduate degree from Rice University, his master’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Albany Law School. On his website, Redlich said he taught English in Hiroshima, Japan, for one year.

He is a member of the National Rifle Association. He supports gun ownership under the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment and a right to carry a concealed weapon. He calls for voter approval of pay raises for elected officials and for a cap on government officials’ pay at $100,000 a year.

In an interview with the “Capital Tonight” public affairs show, Redlich said, “We can save a lot of money if we just agree public-sector pay should be kept at $100,000 a year.” mdcontin@syr.edu

Republican stance, calling for smaller government and less spending.

“Government doesn’t create jobs, small businessmen and women do,” she said on her website. “So it only makes sense that we lower the costs of doing business and let individuals keep more of what they make in order to encourage entrepreneurship, investment, and sustainable economic growth.” hnduggan@syr.edu

The 25th congressional district is made up of Onondaga County, Wayne County, and parts of Monroe and Cayuga counties.

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Playing Inspiring stage productions, the Landmark Theatre’s reported ghosts live on through memory

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n the late 1970s, a few stagehands walked into the decaying Landmark Theatre, intending to fi x some of its structure. They left the theater as skeptics-turned-believers, likely the first witnesses of a ghost in the downtown Syracuse theater.

The men began working on the stage, which needed their primary attention.

No one else came into work that day.

As the men labored, someone spotted a

woman in the balcony. She sat there in a seat, wearing a long, white evening dress.

“Hey, lady, what’re you doing here?” one man shouted.

The woman remained seated.

“We’re closed,” another yelled. “Can we help you?”

With enough heckling, the woman left her seat with the dress trailing behind her, walked up the steps and exited the balcony. In the years follow-

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Thirsty Thursday Imposters This week will look at an entirely different subcategory of beer. There are many beers that use similar ingredients to other types of alcohol. One massively growing trend is aging in wine, bourbon, whiskey and scotch barrels. There are sediment, trace amounts of extra liquor and dormant (safe) bacteria left over in crevices and lining the barrel. Aging beer found in these creates a consistently unique taste from every barrel. Also, using yeasts and bacteria from other kinds of alcohol, like champagne and wine, develops an unusual beer product, carrying with it qualities of the alcohol that the ingredients came from. This week’s beers are the best of their respective categories.

CONSECRATION 1.bp.blogspot.com “Paranormal Activity 2?� “The Exorcism of Emily Rose?� “Scary Movie?� Sure, these movies are good for some cheap chills and thrills this time of year. But if you really want to get in touch with the Halloween spirit, nothing will get you in the mood like “Hocus Pocus.� Watching the Sanderson sisters cast spells on unwitting humans and fl y through the air on vacuum cleaners has the same effect as watching Flick from “A Christmas Story� freeze his tongue to a pole: It warms your heart and makes you feel spirited and cheerful in ways you can’t explain. Worried that “Hocus Pocus� won’t give you that freak-out factor you get from the typical horror flick? No worries there: Watching Max, Dani and Allison’s too-close-for-comfort encounters with the Sanderson sisters has viewers’ hearts beating right out of their chests. And now you’ll be able to pick up on all the elements you missed when the movie first came out in 1993. Did you know what a virgin was when you were 5 years old? Max’s lighting of the black flame will make much more sense now that you can comprehend what a bummer it is for his virgin status to be revealed in front of his love interest, Allison. And who can resist a pre-“Sex and the City� Sarah Jessica Parker? Don’t pass on an opportunity to re-watch the magic (pun intended) that is “Hocus Pocus� — it’s an essential part of any solid Halloween weekend. — Compiled by Elora Tocci, asst. copy editor, ertocci@syr.edu

Russian River Brewing Company, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Style: American Wild Ale ABV: 10 percent Rating: 4/4 Cost: $13 (375 milliliters)

Aged in Cabernet (a type of red wine) barrels, this beer has some currants added to it. It has a slightly acidic nose with light cherry coming through. It pours dark-brownish, but one knows it has wine-like characteristics on the first taste. It is sour, but not dry, and has some tart, vinegary flavor to it. As one of the rarest beers in the nation, this is a must-try.

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ing, more people spotted the woman in white sitting in the balcony and the landing nearby.

They called her Clare, which later switched to Clarissa.

Some spotted other ghosts, but those stagehands were the first to report a haunting in the theater, said Bill Knowlton, a Landmark trustee and the theater’s resident historian.

“And those were big, burly men who didn’t necessarily believe in ghosts,” Knowlton said.

“But I know afterward that they would refuse to talk about it.”

The ghosts captured the attention of one local woman who had recently published a book about Landmark Theatre, filled with the

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ghostly tales and a photograph of Clarissa. The tales inspired local ghost hunters to troll the building. And with the ghosts come funds for the needy theater, bringing it the attention and curiosity of the more casual ghost hunters.

Clarissa remains the theater’s most famous spirit. As the story goes, Clarissa worked at Landmark. She wanted to become an actress but found success fleeting. She loved a man, though, an electrician at the theater. Then one day, standing in the second-floor balcony, she saw her lover fixing power lines on stage.

He slipped up and electrocuted himself as Clarissa watched. She rushed to save him and somehow toppled over the balcony’s wooden banister, falling to her death.

That’s why Clarissa favors the upper left part of the balcony as her place to haunt.

Others sometimes spot a man, possibly the

ghost of a tramp employed as a night watchman. Some report hearing the watchman’s old dog bark in the basement, even though a dog was never found.

Cathryn Lahm, a local photographer, believes she once encountered Clarissa on the balcony. In May 2008, Lahm and a group of friends went to Landmark to take photos.

Past the Hindu murals and up the stairs to the landing near the second-floor balcony, the group set up its cameras. The leader put on a white dress and began to spin: Ghost hunters sometimes dress in costume to elicit a reaction from the spirits.

Set for a time-release exposure, Lahm’s camera took one picture that startled her. She used that photo in her book that came out this month, “Clarissa’s Ghostly Debut: Out of the Shadows and Into the Light.” The picture fea-

tures a clear shot of two women: the group’s leader and a woman with matted brown hair, in a long white dress and heels. The woman in the dress had to have been Clarissa, Lahm said.

“I just think she couldn’t resist. She could not resist, and she had to come down and see what we were doing,” said Lahm, holding the book with the page turned to the photo.

Lahm invites any skeptic to check out her photograph’s authenticity. Even professionals in the paranormal believe in Landmark’s ghosts.

The Central New York Ghost Hunters led frequent hunts into Landmark in the 2000s.

When the group went the first time, it proved Clarissa fell off the balcony. The ghost hunters collected electronic voice phenomena that proved both her name and her death, said the group’s founder, Stacey Jones. A ghost hunter collects electronic voice phenomena by asking questions at the scene and then playing back the recording in hopes of hearing the spirits’ answers, she said.

Some at the theater have spotted the ghost of a man in the orchestra pit, which may be the spirit of the long-dead night watchman, Jones said. When the CNY Ghost Hunters investigated Landmark, one ghost hunter went down to the boiler room, where the watchman’s dog died. The electronic voice phenomena taken from the boiler features the ghost hunter speaking and then a loud dog bark, though a pup couldn’t be seen.

“And now when we go down there, we go, ‘Hey, boy, come here,’ and we got the sound of nails running up to us,” Jones said.

Thanks to the ghosts, Landmark receives extra cash and attention. Even today, similar to the days when the stagehands first saw Clarissa, the theater faces large bills and limited funding. The ghost hunts led by Jones raised more than $45,000 in a few years.

“We’ve never accepted a dime for what we’ve done there,” Jones said. “Every dime that we’ve raised has gone to the Landmark Theatre.”

In the late 1980s, Clarissa inspired a play about her life and her haunting of the theater.

She also inspired author Bruce Coville’s children’s novel, “The Ghost in the Third Row.” So perhaps some creative person in the late 1970s, with the theater falling down, created the story of Clarissa with the hope of attracting attention to the place?

“No, I don’t think so,” Knowlton said. “We’re extremely happy with our ghost. It’s good luck for a theater to have a ghost anyway.”

Work continues on refurbishing Landmark Theatre in hopes of attracting larger shows.

Hopefully Clarissa feels pleased with the work, Knowlton said.

“We know she’s happy.” He paused. “Well, we hope she’s happy, at any rate.” adbrow03@syr.edu

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s the Big East enters the halfway point of conference play, fans are beginning to forget the catastrophe that was the conference’s performance against out-of-conference teams. Now every team is seemingly beating up on each other in a conference race that still has a long way to go. Pitt is the odds-on favorite to get to the BCS bowl game. After that, Syracuse and West Virginia appear to be battling for a trip to Orlando, Fla. And the teams in the middle of the Big East pack are hoping Notre Dame doesn’t get to seven wins so they all can ultimately go bowling. Here is an early look from The Daily Orange into how it will shake down come the holidays: Jan. 1: Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.: Pittsburgh — Big East Champion Who would have thought before the season began that the game at the Carrier Dome between Syracuse and Pittsburgh would be the pseudo-Big East championship game? With the home game for West Virginia in this year’s edition of the Backyard Brawl, the Panthers will cruise into a slot in a BCS game. The most likely destination for a team that will be ranked between No. 15 and No. 20: Fiesta over Orange.

Dec. 28: Champs Sports Bowl, Orlando, Fla.: Syracuse — No. 2 Big East Syracuse won’t win out. But even if the Orange does, it will not be enough for a BCS game. Pitt won’t lose two games. West Virginia has a much tougher Big East schedule the rest of the way than the Orange. With just one WVU loss, SU should feel comfortable that they will get to Orlando, even if there is a long way to go.

Dec. 31: Meineke Car Care Bowl, Charlotte, N.C.: West Virginia — No. 3 Big East It’s an uphill battle for the Mountaineers back to a BCS bowl. The good news is they can still defeat Pitt and have a legitimate shot to get there. The bad news is that game is at Heinz Field. The even worse news is that if Notre Dame gets to seven wins, WVU will have

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purify the colors to settle for the Big East’s fourth bowl, which would be a supreme failure.

Dec. 30: Pinstripe Bowl, New York City: Rutgers — No. 4 Big East It seems like every year Rutgers somehow slips into a solid bowl game after a dull season, making a trip to a bowl that is much more worthy than the team itself. For some reason, I think it’s going to happen again this year. And it will be the ideal situation for Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano, as the Scarlet Knights will be slotted to stay home at Yankee Stadium, thanks to a tie with the other two 6-6 Big East teams.

Dec. 21: Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, St. Petersburg, Fla.: South Florida — No. 5 Big East Speaking of staying home, if USF, Rutgers and Louisville all beat up on each other in the middle pack of the Big East, USF won’t have to travel anywhere. Skip Holtz will be content with that in his first year.

Jan. 8: Birmingham Bowl, Birmingham, Ala.: Louisville — No. 6 Big East As the least appealing team in the New York City and Tampa markets, Louisville will stay down south. The main team Charlie Strong should be worried about for a bowl bid is Utah.

If the Utes slip up versus Notre Dame, UL will be the team left out of the selection process, thanks to the two hometown hosts for Rutgers and USF, as Notre Dame needs seven wins to steal one of conference’s bowl slots. aolivero@syr.edu

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an. 1: Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.: Pittsburgh — Big East Champion The Backyard Brawl will likely determine the winner of the Big East, and I see Pitt defeating West Virginia in Pittsburgh. Even if Pitt loses to any conference team not named WVU, it appears it will still claim the top spot in the conference. Two losses in-conference and the league is suddenly wide open.

Dec. 28: Champs Sports Bowl, Orlando, Fla.: Syracuse — No. 2 Big East If Syracuse wins out, this would be a worst-case scenario. Doug Marrone referred to a bowl talk as a “four-letter word,” but I’m guessing SU’s place in the Big East standings is something that plays on his mind. A loss this weekend would obviously be a hit but not necessarily a major setback.

Dec. 31: Meineke Car Care Bowl, Charlotte, N.C.: West Virginia — No. 3 Big East West Virginia may still finish No. 1 or No. 2 in the conference, despite a loss last weekend. WVU needs to win out and hope SU falls at least one more time to claim the top spot. But the thinking here is that the Mountaineers will lose at least one more game and finish No. 3 in the conference.

Dec. 30: Pinstripe Bowl, New York City: South Florida — No. 4 Big East Though SU fans might like to see the Orange in the first ever bowl hosted at the new Yankee Stadium, finishing No. 4 would obviously be a

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goin’ hog wild step back from its current ranking. Still, can you imagine all the Syracuse support at that potential game? I see USF landing here, especially after taking down Cincy.

Dec. 21: Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, St. Petersburg, Fla.: Cincinnati — No. 5 Big East Just one year removed from running the table in the Big East, Cincinnati has had much different results this year. Quarterback Zach Collaros might be out this weekend and beyond, which doesn’t bode well for a team that has struggled even with him in the lineup.

Jan. 8: Birmingham Bowl, Birmingham, Ala.: Rutgers — No. 6 Big East Grabbing the final spot is the Scarlet Knights, which has been up and down this season. Connecticut and Louisville both have a legitimate chance of becoming bowl-eligible but have not played nearly consistent enough to finish any higher than No. 6. aljohn@syr.edu

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After Henry’s shocking death, Pace remembers, perseveres

By Katie McInerney Editor in Chief

To see the effect Danroy “D.J.” Henry had on a profound number of people, look no further than the 800 that crowded the Pace University gymnasium in his memory last Sunday. One by one, Henry’s friends and other Pace students told stories and anecdotes about how they remembered him best.

“Danroy was very popular and had a lot of friends,” said Joe O’Donnell, Pace’s athletic director. “I think the students that got up and said something were able to get some of the feelings they had out.”

Henry was shot and killed by two police officers Oct. 17 outside a bar in Thornwood, N.Y. His death occurred hours after Pace lost its Homecoming game to Stonehill College, a college coincidentally located in Henry’s hometown of Easton, Mass. Henry’s death has become a national story. There are highly conflicting accounts of the shooting from police and witnesses, and there are questions about whether proper medical attention was given to him after he was shot.

Pace will take the field for its first game after Henry’s death this Saturday in a league matchup against University of New Haven. This is one of the first steps toward normalcy in what has been a hectic series of events for the Pace football team.

Or as close to normal as it can get.

O’Donnell said the team has taken steps to bring things back to the way they were. Last week’s game against Bentley College — which was supposed to be Homecoming in Waltham, Mass. — was cancelled. The players took Sunday and Monday off from practice after the death of their teammate and resumed practices Tuesday.

O’Donnell said this was an effort to bring back the normalcy to which the team is accustomed.

The last time Pace had to cancel a game was in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

But O’Donnell doesn’t expect that normalcy to return soon.

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“There’s nothing in the makeup of college kids to handle something like this,” he said.

“Most people don’t experience the loss of a parent, brother or sister until later in life. To lose something like this, this is very dramatic.”

That Sunday night, a candlelight vigil was held on the football field.

Immediately following the vigil, those students returned to the Pace gym to tell their stories.

Stories of how Henry is remembered as a genuinely good-natured person. Pat henry Casey, a senior finance, accounting and entrepreneurship and emerging enterprises major at Syracuse, went to Oliver Ames High School in Easton, Mass., with Henry and played football with him for three years.

When he first met Henry during their freshman year of high school, Henry was a much smaller person. After putting in time in the weight room year after year, Casey said he became fit and much more of an athlete. He said Henry always planned to play sports in college. A three-sport athlete at Oliver Ames, he constantly put in effort to succeed.

After graduating from Oliver Ames in 2007, Henry did a post-graduate year to improve as a player and was recruited to play at Iona College.

When Iona dropped its football program in 2008, Henry searched for a new team and found a home at Division II Pace, located in Westchester County.

“He wasn’t insecure at all, he was comfortable in his own skin,” Casey said. “He knew what he was capable of. He wanted to grow from that.”

Casey called him an inspiring figure. “He was one of those kids who really was working his a** off and really going hard, going out of his way to be nice to people,” Casey said. “He showed appreciation for where he was in life.”

So Pace will show that same respect to its routine. For them, getting on the field each Saturday is normal. So at 1 p.m., when the game kicks off, some of that normal might return.

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courtesy of pace university media relations danroy “D.J.” henry, 20, was killed on Oct. 17 by shots from two police officers.

The Pace football player had just played in the Setters’ Homecoming game Saturday. after a similar tragedy occurred in Storrs last season.

Almost a year to the day before Henry was killed, UConn cornerback Jasper Howard was stabbed and killed at an on-campus event following the Huskies’ win over Louisville. UConn took to the field to escape the pressures surrounding the situation.

“The games and practices were really healthy because it let you think just about football and nothing else,” said Connecticut Associate Director of Athletics/Communications Mike Enright.

“It’s a place to escape, if you will.”

UConn scheduled practices and press conferences in the days following Howard’s death at the same time they had always been scheduled.

It wasn’t normal, but it was consistent. It helped to keep the team together. The team also empha-

sized the attitude of playing the remaining games the way Howard “would have wanted them to play football,” Enright said.

That is a sentiment that also holds true for the Setters.

“The attitude is there. It’s a good attitude,” O’Donnell said. “They want to play this for D.J., which will be normal. … We try not to get too emotional.”

After discussing with his captains, head coach Chris Dapolito thought this was the best move for the team.

“We’ve talked to everyone, we’ve talked to the faculty,” O’Donnell said. “The faculty has been absolutely wonderful in the ways they’ve tried to help the student-athletes get back to normalcy. If there is a normalcy after this.” knmciner@syr.edu

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Jones bides time behind Schoedel, earns start versus Union

By Ryne Gery Staff Writer

Stephanie Jones received a text message immediately after the Syracuse ice hockey team’s victory Friday over Union. The text was from former SU goalie Lucy Schoedel, who started ahead of Jones during the program’s first two seasons. Her message: Congrats.

The short message said it all. This win was special for Jones — it was her first career start.

The junior goaltender had waited two-plus years for this moment.

“I’ve been waiting for a while,” Jones said. “It felt good to finally be told that I was going to get a chance.”

The chance meant she would be introduced as the starter. Hearing her name announced was exciting, especially with her father in the crowd and friends and family watching from home online. She wanted to make them proud.

Jones did just that with her strong performance to get the win. She recorded 12 saves and controlled the rebounds to limit Union’s

scoring opportunities to just 13 shots on goal in a 3-1 victory.

Head coach Paul Flanagan was pleased with her effort. He said he decided to start Jones to reward her hard work and patience over the last two years.

The junior didn’t see much playing time as the backup to Schoedel, who was the first player to sign with the brand new Syracuse program in 2008. Schoedel transferred from New Hampshire, where she was a backup on a team that reached the NCAA Regionals. Jones only played in five games combined as a freshman and sophomore.

Flanagan said he knows it was frustrating for her at times, but she accepted her role and stayed positive.

“I think she knew that she was going to be an understudy,” he said. “Probably after she was here for a year or so, I think she felt she would have wanted to play more, but those are just coaching decisions.”

And the coach went with Schoedel. She was among the top goaltenders in the country, and the

key to the program’s success. She led the Orange to a winning record last year and earned MVP honors in each of her seasons with the team.

Jones has tried to apply what she picked up from Schoedel to this year’s team.

“I learned a lot from (Schoedel) in terms of character off the ice,” Jones said. “She was just a great leader and brought a lot of energy to our team, so even though I’m more of a quiet leader, I try to just bring some of those traits back to the team.”

Schoedel, who is now an assistant coach at Wesleyan, said Jones pushed her at practices and gave her pointers in drills and during games that helped her succeed. Jones was a supportive teammate who kept everyone optimistic in the locker room.

Schoedel has moved on, but she stays in touch with Jones. She said she hopes she can still help her, even if it’s through a quick text every now and then.

That brief text after the game had a deeper meaning behind it. Schoedel was celebrating her

old teammate’s victory, but she was also saying “thank you.”

“Whether or not she knows it, her attitude was such a huge inspiration to me while I was playing,” Schoedel said. “A teammate like her makes a difference come game time, whether or not she’s starting.”

Jones continues to be a reliable teammate, but she finds herself in a similar situation as a backup to freshmen Jenesica Drinkwater and Kallie Billadeau. Through seven games, her first start is the only game in which she has seen action.

The first start was special, but she knows it was just one game. And a one-game performance isn’t enough to guarantee more starts. She must earn them every week at practice.

“I think at this point, what coach has told me is just continuously competing in practice,” Jones said. “It’s what I’m trying to do, and stay more consistent and just stay competitive on the shots.” rjgery@syr.edu

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Avoiding excessive gore, ‘Paranormal Activity 2’ strategically builds anticipation for frightful sequel

By Sam Littman STAFF WRITER

hile a good horror movie is something to treasure, a good horror sequel is one of the rarest cinematic feats.

Though it lacks the revelatory spark of its predecessor, “Paranormal Activity 2” is exactly that: a true rarity for its genre. Where most horror sequels fizzle into orgies of meaningless and relentless gore, “Paranormal Activity 2” is a welcome departure. In an era in which mainstream horror films are generally numbing and incessantly violent, the “Paranormal Activity” films function as beacons of horror hope. The film will never be mistaken for a masterpiece, but that’s hardly its intention.

After their home is burglarized, Dan and Kristi Rey (Brian Boland and Sprague Grayden) decide to install four security cameras inside and outside their San Diego home, fearing for the safety of their teenage daughter, Ali, and toddler, Hunter. Kristi and her sister, Katie (Katie Featherston), recount a supernatural experience from their childhood. Meanwhile, Ali discovers a mythical circumstance on the Internet in which a human gets power in exchange for his or her firstborn son. Hunter, it so happens, is the first male born into the family in generations.

Kristi’s worst fears are realized when she is attacked by the invisible demon, dragged down into the cellar for hours, only to return as a seemingly different person. Dan does his best to rid them of the demon, calling upon their recently fired housekeeper to assist the family in eradicating the evil entity. But this proves to be a tremendous struggle. As in the first “Paranormal Activity,” the demon is ruthless and untraceable, which only exacerbates the Rey family’s frustration.

Sitting through just 10 minutes of an average horror movie without being bombarded with stabbings, disembowelments or decapitations is an accomplishment. This is precisely what makes the “Paranormal Activity” films so satisfying. In keeping with the structure of the first installment, the frights are few and far between

in the first two acts, as the suspense builds mercilessly. The film is so restrained that it is frustrating at times, which is exactly the point. By the third act, the anticipation is so heated that the slightest door creak can incite screaming in the audience.

Stylistically, the film isn’t necessarily an aberration from the first in the series, though the filmmakers utilize a four-camera setup rather than the single-bedroom camera that dominated the first film. The footage from the cameras is especially riveting when nothing is transpiring. The audience is allowed, or rather forced, to intensely explore the frame, thus becoming increasingly immersed in the action.

A rare sequel that expertly builds on the strengths of its predecessor while trimming the fat, “Paranormal Activity 2” benefits from the skills of director Tod Williams, whose last film, “The Door in the Floor” (2004), was an acclaimed independent drama. Williams’ talent in direct-

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ing actors is evident in nearly every scene, using the larger family dynamic to imbue the film with more drama than the original ever offered.

Though it is by no means a perfect horror movie, “Paranormal Activity 2” deserves great praise for not succumbing to the typical horrorsequel trappings. There are quite a few cheap scares, the acting is occasionally subpar, and the movie lacks the innovation of the original, but those are its only discernable flaws. In the case of an average horror sequel, that constitutes a major triumph. smlittma@syr.edu

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Quick Louisville goals to start halves doom SU in upset bid

By Michael Cohen Asst. Copy Editor

Jakob Karlgren experienced this feeling before.

This wasn’t the first time he’d seen his team concede a goal in the game’s opening moments.

That familiar “here we go again” mentality eventually crept into his head.

“It’s been the story of Louisville 2 the season pretty much syracuse 1 for us,” he said. “It’s too bad.”

If ever there was a time this season that the Syracuse men’s soccer team needed to avoid a slow start, it was Wednesday night. The Orange was taking on its highest-ranked opponent in a decade. Louisville, the No. 2 team in the country, certainly didn’t need any added advantages.

But SU gave them two.

Syracuse (2-9-5, 0-5-3 Big East) allowed a goal in the first six minutes of each half and couldn’t battle back against one of the nation’s best teams. The Orange ultimately fell, 2-1, to the Cardinals (13-0-2, 8-0-0 Big East) in front of 722 fans at the SU soccer stadium. Karlgren tied the game near the end of the first half, but SU couldn’t muster a second equalizer to force overtime. Louisville dominated possession in both halves and prevented the Orange from creating more than a handful of scoring chances.

As Karlgren accurately stated, early goals have been an issue for the team this season.

With the Cardinals scoring their first goal in the game’s seventh minute, it was the 11th goal the Orange has given up in the first 30 minutes of games this season. Of those 11, four have been conceded in the first ten minutes.

“It’s been, unfortunately, a trend this year,” SU head coach Ian McIntyre said. “It’s great to say that we’re resilient and we bounce back, but it would be nice to score that first goal.

The Cardinals struck first on a throughball that split Karlgren and fellow defender David Neumann. Louisville’s Dylan Mares controlled the pass and bent a shot around SU goalkeeper Jeremy Vuolo and into the bottom right corner.

But as has been the case, Syracuse responded.

Much like it did against Villanova last Wednesday, the Orange hung in there against a better team and evened the score. Karlgren got his head on a cross by midfielder Nick Roydhouse in the 36th minute to put Syracuse on the board.

“Yeah, you’re worried (after conceding an early goal),” McIntyre said. “But I was interested to see how we would react. And I thought we reacted well.”

Heading into the half, Syracuse had the momentum. It was tied 1-1 with the No. 2 team in the country, and it was well on its way to earning a result that would help sneak into the Big East tournament.

And in the early minutes of the second half, the Orange dominated the Cardinals. Twice in the opening five minutes, SU had legitimate scoring chances. A shot by Mark Brode sent a roar through the crowd before the whole stadium realized it had only hit the side netting.

“The shot I took that everyone thought went in, we were feeling it at that point of the game,” Brode said.

But in seconds, that feeling was gone. With a single pass, Louisville showed why it is the conference’s best team.

The Cardinals’ Kenney Walker made a tackle on SU midfielder Mawuena Agbossoumonde just outside his own penalty box and started a counter attack. His ball in behind the Syracuse defense gave teammate Colin Rolfe a breakaway, and he buried a shot into the upper left corner of the goal.

In an instant, Syracuse went from being on the verge of taking the lead to being down 2-1.

“It is a bit of a sucker punch,” McIntyre said.

“I think it’s a little bit of naivety, but also you give credit (to Louisville). They’ve got a lot of pace. We got caught attacking, got dispossessed, and they quickly turned that in and we got exposed.”

From that point forward, the Cardinals toyed with the Orange by possessing the ball for minutes at a time. Louisville put together more than 20 consecutive passes at one point. Syracuse was forced to chase, and its fatigue began to increase.

“It’s always mentally tough to always chase

sean harp | contributing photographer jeremy vuolo and Syracuse allowed a goal in the first 10 minutes of each half in a 2-1 loss to No. 2 Louisville Wednesday. SU still does not have a win in Big East play. the ball,” Karlgren said. “It’s tough to chase the whole time and be one goal down.”

But it all comes back to giving up early goals.

If the Orange doesn’t concede, it doesn’t have to chase.

And by coming out five minutes too late,

Syracuse came away with nothing.

“We started on our heels both first and second half,” Vuolo said. “Unfortunately, we had to pay for it. If we don’t start that slow, we come away with a point or three points.” mjcohe02@syr.edu

Vuolo keeps Orange in game with 7 saves against Cardinals

By Allison Guggenheimer Staff Writer

Louisville’s Kenney Walker had a free kick from six yards outside the box. The first half was winding down, and No. 2 Louisville was tied with a Syracuse team that had no conference wins. Walker played the ball across the field to a waiting Aaron Horton at the corner of the six-yard box.

The cross came in a little low. But instead of volleying it, Horton threw his body at the ball, heading it at the Syracuse net just feet away.

SU goalie Jeremy Vuolo pounced off his line and dove at the ball, clutching it in his hands to prove to the Cardinals that the play was dead.

This was Vuolo’s favorite save of the day.

“When he plays like that and keeps us in the game, it just builds our confidence so much,” Nick Bibbs said. “We’re like, ‘Oh, JV (Jeremy Vuolo) is smoking. Let’s get hot now. We can win this for JV.’” So what was supposed to be a blowout in favor of No. 2 Louisville ended in a 2-1 loss for

the Orange. Vuolo kept Syracuse in the game against a team that is second in the league in shots and third in goals scored. His seven saves kept the team from getting blown out.

His leadership and distribution of the ball to start attacks made his teammates fight for all 90 minutes.

Although head coach Ian McIntyre said his goalkeeper made some good saves to keep the team in the game, he was most impressed with Vuolo’s distribution. His ability to decide when to punt or throw the ball served as a springboard for the attack. Central defender Robbie Hughes said it was these extra elements that made Vuolo’s performance Wednesday stand out.

“Today he showed a lot more of his game, as in his distribution and his command of his back four was good today,” Hughes said.

In particular, this meant rolling the ball to SU midfielder and top scorer Nick Roydhouse.

Vuolo has trended more toward punting when he gets the ball so that his players have a chance

to get up the field. Against Louisville, however, the keeper wanted to start quick counter attacks. On several occasions, Roydhouse was unmarked on the left side of the field, giving Vuolo a perfect open target.

“When they got caught forward, (Vuolo) noticed that Nemo (Roydhouse) — I think it was three times in a row — was just wide open on the flanks with a lot of space,” Bibbs said. “If Nemo’s open in space out wide, you have to give it to him.”

Although none of these opportunities were converted into goals, they opened up a new option for his distribution. Punting the ball as opposed to rolling it also gives players a chance to catch their breath. In a high-tempo game against such a formidable opponent, however, Vuolo did not want to slow down play.

Yet despite being on top of all aspects of his game, the team did concede two goals within the first six minutes of each half. Both goals came down to showdowns with Vuolo. On the first goal, Louisville’s Dylan Mares ended up alone

in the box. Although Vuolo came out, there was little the keeper could do to stop Mares’ shot low to the right corner.

The second goal, Cardinal Colin Rolfe got the ball a few yards over the midfield line with just two SU defenders in the way of the goal. Once in the box, Rolfe hit the top left corner of the goal, an almost unstoppable shot.

“I think it was a sloppy goal to concede,” McIntyre said. “We were attacking and the ball turned over, and then one ball in behind caused us problems.”

Vuolo’s play wasn’t enough to get the Orange into position to make the Big East tournament.

But he helped his unranked team play with the best team in the Big East. His saves were just the beginning. His leadership from the back and how he distributed the ball rounded out his performance and motivated his team.

Said Bibbs: “When he plays like that, I feel like we’re one of the best teams.” alguggen@syr.edu

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Pead’s explosiveness out of backfield completes Bearcats ASST. COPY EDITOR

Isaiah Pead is tough to tackle. Cincinnati’s junior running back was tops in the Big East last season in yards per carry and has improved upon that number this season, rushing for 7.7 yards per carry.

Despite those numbers, he sometimes gets overlooked. It’s easy to miss him. Quarterback Zach Collaros’ 20 touchdowns garner the national attention. But without Pead for two games earlier in the season, the offense struggled to find any balance.

Since his return from a knee injury, it’s been smooth sailing.

“Just his overall playmaking ability has really been beneficial for us to get him back to full

“I think it all stems from balance. Any time the defense makes you one-dimensional, it’s extremely difficult.

Isaiah Pead brings so much to our offense.”

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CINCINNATI HEAD COACH

strength,” Bearcats head coach Butch Jones said in the Oct. 11 Big East coaches’ teleconference.

Pead is the motor that keeps the Bearcats offense going. Without him, Cincinnati (3-4, 1-1 Big East) lost to North Carolina State by doubledigits, scoring just 19 points in the process.

Cincinnati’s backup running backs combined for just 43 yards as Collaros worked with a onedimensional offense.

Pead’s first game back from his knee injury was against then-No. 8 Oklahoma. The junior gave UC the rushing attack it desperately needed, running for 169 yards on just 21 carries. The Bearcats looked little like the team that won the Big East last season, falling to the Sooners in a 31-29 nail-biter.

Cincinnati played like a different team against

OU. And the reason why was clear, crystal clear for Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops.

“He gives them a very good dimension on the ground,” Stoops said. “And any time you have a back of that quality, it sets up other aspects of the offense as well.”

Pead’s ability to break off a big run has opened up Cincinnati’s passing game even more. Collaros has thrown for 11 touchdowns in the three games in which Pead has run for over 100 yards, compared to nine in the four games in which he hasn’t.

Pead, who was also a track star in high school, has helped shape Cincinnati back into the Big East title contender that most expected it to be. Oklahoma couldn’t tackle him. The highlights from that game are full of Pead jukes and spin moves.

Miami (Ohio) couldn’t tackle him. Pead ran for 197 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries — all in the first half — while Collaros threw for three touchdowns. Pead broke through for an 80-yard touchdown in the first quarter, the longest run of his career.

The Bearcats’ first team didn’t even need to play in the second half after a 45-point output in the first two quarters.

“Obviously he’s one of our playmakers on offense,” Jones said. “Not just from a run standpoint, but from a pass standpoint, too. … He’s got probably some of the best hands we have on the team.”

In Cincinnati’s Big East opener, Louisville couldn’t tackle him. Pead ran for 145 yards on 21 carries against the Cardinals on Oct. 15 in a UC victory. It was against a Louisville defense that has shut out its last two opponents other than the Bearcats.

This past weekend was the fi rst time anyone limited Pead since his return from injury.

South Florida stacked the box, and the junior couldn’t fi nd any holes, rushing for just 48 yards on 15 carries.

Still, his ability to put fear into USF meant Collaros would have more open receivers to throw to.

The quarterback managed to throw for 463 yards, and the Bearcats put up 30 points. UC might have lost 38-30, but it wasn’t the offense’s fault. Even in the loss, Cincinnati’s offense made a statement.

Pick your poison: run or pass. Because you can’t stop both.

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courtesy of cincinnati media relations ISAIAH PEAD ran for over 140 yards in three consecutive games earlier this season, including two Cincinnati wins. His return from a knee injury has jolted UC’s offense.

“We felt like we needed to make them onedimensional, one way or another,” USF coach Skip Holtz said. “We tried to turn and stop a little bit more of the running game. But Zach Collaros is a very efficient quarterback.

“I don’t think you’re going to line up and scheme Cincinnati. … You’re not going to win that game 10-9.”

Holtz is right, based on the Bearcats stats this season. It doesn’t look like there will be any 10-9 games. UC’s offense hasn’t been shut down since Pead has returned.

Cincinnati’s last four point totals: 29, 45, 35, 30.

When a team is averaging almost 35 points per game in a month’s stretch, it’s hard for a defense to game plan.

Two playmakers like Pead and Collaros make it nearly impossible.

“I think it all stems from balance,” Jones said.

“Any time the defense makes you one-dimensional, it’s extremely difficult. Isaiah Pead brings so much to our offense.”

East) defeated the Bearcats 38-30.

It’s the most points USF scored against an FBS team all season. And it’s no coincidence the two games in which South Florida has scored 30 against FBS teams (31 against Florida Atlantic being the other) are the two games in which Daniels hasn’t turned the ball over.

“B.J. has been through a lot of adversity and criticism the last couple weeks,” USF head coach Skip Holtz said. “He was really dialed in, he was focused, he was into it. I thought he played an excellent football game.” mcooperj@syr.edu

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South Florida fans breathed a collective sigh of relief after Daniels finally displayed the talents he showed off so frequently last season.

Daniels, who had thrown five interceptions to zero touchdowns in USF’s first two Big East games this year, figured things out Friday night against Cincinnati.

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the Orange beat the Bulls in Tampa, Fla. This time, no tears were shed. No postgame hugs were seen outside the locker room. Smiles were hard to find. Emotions had been left inside the locker room.

“To tell you the truth, it might sound cliché, but I’m thinking about Cincinnati right now,” junior defensive end Chandler Jones added Saturday, adjacent to Smith outside SU’s locker room.

When the Orange returned to practice this week, those sentiments remained. Syracuse hadn’t beaten West Virginia in nine years. Now the Orange will face a Bearcats squad it hasn’t defeated since 2004. And though SU is seeing a pattern, the approach to those games has changed this season.

Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone doesn’t want his team to ride the “highs and lows” of wins and losses. That’s why, Smith said, Marrone is trying to set the tone for this team to stay level-headed about the ups and downs SU has experienced thus far.

That is the way Marrone believes Syracuse

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will ultimately find success.

“Our goal is to be a consistent football team, and that’s what we are trying to get done,” Marrone said Monday at his weekly press conference. “And the goal is to be a consistent coach in your demeanor and how you represent the game plan or represent your coaching style or yourself. Players will pick up on that.”

During the week, Smith and teammates Mikhail Marinovich and Antwon Bailey talked openly about that change in culture from previous SU teams. Bailey said SU’s approach this week is simply a byproduct of learning how to win. About having been there, done that.

Marinovich reflected upon how the Orange responded from its loss to Pittsburgh, openly talking about how that helped SU realize it can’t ride the rollercoaster that comes with marquee victories.

And with that, he emphasized the loss to the Panthers played a big roll in why Syracuse was all business following arguably its biggest win of the past few years.

“After South Florida, Pitt kind of helped us stay grounded,” Marinovich said. “That’s why we’re not looking at (West Virginia) too much, and we’re saying, ‘Fix the mistakes and move on.’ Because, as we’ve seen in the past, you

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Big East team, which is like saying the Orange is the Nicolas Cage of college football. (You have the occasional impressive “Leaving Las

“Our goal is to be a consistent football team and that’s what we are trying to get done. And the goal is to be a consistent coach in your demeanor and how you represent the game plan or represent your coaching style or yourself. Players will pick up on that.”

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can’t relish wins or losses. You’ve got to move forward.”

“It’s a great feeling,” added Marinovich. “But you can’t get satisfied. When you get satisfied, that’s when you get beat.”

As the Orange began the season, the fourgame stretch of South Florida-Pittsburgh-West Virginia-Cincinnati was seen as a make-orbreak stretch. To SU left tackle Justin Pugh, it wasn’t difficult to tell why.

“Cincinnati has won the Big East the past two years,” Pugh said. “Pitt was the favorite this year, and they were ranked 15th in the country before. West Virginia was ranked when we played them. So it was definitely the hardest

potential four to play.”

And now 2-1 through that stretch, SU doesn’t appear to be content with where it is heading into Saturday’s game at Cincinnati.

Because of that, Smith refuses to let reality set in and dwell on what his squad has accomplished thus far. Instead, he prefers to stay grounded, realizing there’s still work to be done.

That now is not the time to be content.

“This has just been a dream come true for a senior season,” Smith said Saturday. “I’m definitely living the dream right now. I’m on cloud nine. And it’s a great experience, and we want it to continue.”

Vegas,” and then you go out and do something like “The Wicker Man.”) Lose, and the mind-erasing will have to happen later. Syracuse players know this. And they want to make people forget — now.

“We know what we can do,” sophomore wide receiver Alec Lemon said. “And that’s what we’re going to go out there and do. Go out and shock the world. Go out and play the way we can play.”

This contest is a chance to make people forget immediately because it would be such a catastrophic turnaround from the recent history of the conference. Cincinnati has been the Big East champion each of the past two years. Syracuse, on the other hand, has been its laughingstock.

How things change. And so quickly. Cincinnati is on the ropes as a conference power.

One week, the Bearcats are taking Oklahoma down to the wire. The next, they’re giving up 27 points to Louisville and 38 points to a USF

offense that was hapless against the Orange.

And SU left tackle Justin Pugh knows what kind of opportunity this game presents for the Orange to turn it around.

“Getting a win on the road is big,” Pugh said. “But beating some of the powers in the Big East opens people’s eyes. Obviously, as a player, I would hope that people before the season would know the way we competed last year and that we’d be better. But you have to go out there and prove it before anyone is really going to start to give us anything.”

A team with questions coming into Big East play, Syracuse has proven itself with those two quality road victories. And that could continue on Saturday.

Beat Cincinnati, and a lot more people will forget about the past two — and 10 — seasons of Syracuse football.

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Brett LoGiurato is an assistant sports editor at The Daily Orange, where his column appears occasionally. He can be reached at bplogiur@ syr.edu.

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KEY MATCHUPS

BIG EAST STANDINGS

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RYAN NASSIB QB

DELONE CARTER RB

DAN GIORDANO DE

Nassib is coming off his worst statistical game of the season, a 5-for-15 performance last week at West Virginia. How he rebounds off that will be key.

BY THE NUMBERS

J.K. SCHAFFER LB

CHANDLER JONES DE

Carter, his coach and his teammates say he’s ready to go after he missed almost all of the final three quarters last week. If he’s not, Antwon Bailey will have to carry the load once again.

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QB

DA’MON MERKERSON CB

If Zach Collaros is in there as the starting quarterback, the Orange will have to contend with someone who Marrone said is one of the best he has had to prepare for. If not, the Orange will have an easier time. Either way, Jones’ disruption in the backfield like last week will be important.

ARMON BINNS WR

For Cincinnati’s high-powered offense, Binns leads the way with 44 receptions and nine touchdowns. SU will need the good Merkerson to match up against Binns on Saturday.

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• In 2009, the Cincinnati Bearcat mascot won the Capital One Mascot Challenge.

The mascot beat out 11 other mascots in the challenge last year and is in contention again this year. There has never been a back-to-back winner of the Mascot Challenge

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The number of total yards per game given up by the 16th-ranked SU defense. The yardage per game figure is the best mark for the Orange since 1997.

3 SYRACUSE OFFENSE 12 QB Ryan Nassib 3 RB Delone Carter 49 FB Adam Harris 15 WR Alec Lemon 82 WR Van Chew 85 TE Jose Cruz 67 LT Justin Pugh 75 LG Zack Chibane 70 C Ryan Bartholomew 66 RG Andrew Tiller 74 RT Michael Hay

CINCINNATI DEFENSE

58 DE Brandon Mills 95 DT Derek Wolfe 40 NT John Hughes 99 DE Dan Giordano 4 LB Maalik Bomar 37 LB J.K. Schaffer 54 LB Walter Stewart 5 CB Reuben Johnson 24 FS Wesley Richardson 26 SS Drew Frey 21 CB Camerron Cheatham

Admittedly, I’ve gone 0-for-3 in my last three predictions. Let’s see if that ends this week.

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The number of votes Syracuse received in the AP Top 25 poll this week.

The last time the Orange received votes was in 2004.

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• Cincinnati debuted new jerseys two weeks ago at the midpoint of the season.

The jerseys are Adidas TECHFIT compression-fit uniforms. The jerseys are meant to allow players to play lighter and faster on the field. It supposedly reduces the weight of the jersey by 30 percent.

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The number of road wins Syracuse has had this season, equal to its total in the past fi ve seasons combined.

The year Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium was constructed. It is the fourth-oldest playing site in college football.

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66 LT Samuel Griffin 53 LG Randy Martinez 60 C Jason Kelce 70 RG C.J. Cobb 59 RT Alex Hoffman 19 TE Ben Guidugli 85 WR Marcus Barnett 3 WR D.J. Woods 80 WR Armon Binns 12 QB Zach Collaros 14 QB Chazz Anderson 23 RB Isaiah Pead

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

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And with this prediction, SU will probably get the kiss of death.

But even if Collaros is starting, the Orange should win this game.

Syracuse 33 Cincinnati 24

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If Collaros doesn’t play, a loss for SU would be nothing short of a failure.

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Orange looks for consistency to rescue conference season

By Chris Iseman Staff Writer

The players on the Syracuse volleyball team realize the importance of consistency. But this season, consistency has remained elusive for the Orange. Ask any player why that is, and there won’t be any excuses.

Instead, it’s just reality.

“Every team has ups and downs, it’s a long season,” outside hitter Hayley Todd Who: Pittsburgh said. “We’re just Where: Women’s Building sort of fighting When: Friday, 7 p.m. through that.”

Syracuse (21-5, 3-5 Big East) heads into a weekend with two must-win matches against Pittsburgh and West Virginia. The two wins would keep the Orange’s season alive in the Big East. Coming off a lost Midwest road trip in which it suffered two defeats at the hands of Notre Dame and DePaul, Syracuse needs to right itself for the last stretch of the season.

Now’s the time to do that.

Both the Mountaineers (14-10, 4-4) and the Panthers (10-14, 4-4) come in with even conference records, sitting in seventh and eighth places in the conference, respectively. The Orange leads the Big East with a .288 hitting percentage, while Pittsburgh sits at No. 9 at .188 and West Virginia is No. 13 at .173.

On paper, Syracuse is the better team.

If the Orange can live up to those statistics on the court, getting at least one win, if not two, shouldn’t be too much of a problem. If it doesn’t, SU will be in for a tough final weekend of the season, when it would have to beat the top two teams in the Big East in Cincinnati and Louisville.

“If we lose this weekend, it’s going to be tough,” Orange assistant coach Carol LaMarche said. “Pitt and West Virginia are no pushovers, and DePaul has one win in the Big East and that’s against us. Anything can happen.”

SU hasn’t been able to put together a string of wins, instead it has tough losses that keep the Orange’s quest to remain in the top eight of the Big East a daunting task. Syracuse’s crucial victories have been mixed with untimely defeats.

The consistency of winning hasn’t been there in conference play.

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For the Orange, that isn’t necessarily out of the ordinary. That’s what happens when good teams beat up on each other. Any team can get a win in any match, and that team doesn’t have to be the best one on the court. But this weekend, Syracuse has to do both: Be the best team and get the two wins it needs to contend.

“We have to keep playing defense well,” middle blocker Lindsay McCabe said. “Just keep our hitting consistency, we’ve been having good kill percentages.”

SU continues to have the best overall record in the conference, but its Big East record remains the issue. The Orange now sits in 10th place in a position that is far from where it wants to be. A league record below .500 prob-

“Every team has ups and downs, it’s a long season. We’re just sort of fighting through that.”

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ably wouldn’t allow Syracuse to get into the top eight to make the playoffs, although there could be a shot. Albeit a long shot.

“It has to be mathematically perfect,” LaMarche said. “But you know 8-6 is definitely in, 7-7 has a good chance. We’re pushing through these next four games, and hopefully one from Louisville or Cincinnati.”

Two wins this weekend would get SU back to .500 and back to a good spot in the standings.

After losses this season, the players have said that not everything came together well enough to get a win. Everything didn’t click the way it should. But as the season goes on, things better start coming together and clicking. Syracuse’s grip on its playoff ambitions loosens with every loss.

At least for SU, it knows what it needs to do to turn things around.

“We just have to finish the plays,” McCabe said. “Last weekend we dug a lot of balls up, had good sets and just struggled to end the play with a kill. That definitely has to be our focus.” cjiseman@syr.edu

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Even flow After biggest win in years, SU tries to stay grounded heading to Cincinnati

By Andrew L. John

broke through and beat South Florida, an opponent it had never defeated. A week after that, the Orange was dismantled, 45-14, by a hungry Pittsburgh squad that already lost three games. That complacency, Smith said, was the reason.

With the Orange (5-2, 2-1 Big East) now headed to Cincinnati (3-4, 1-1) for a noon start (ESPNU), Smith and his teammates made sure not to get too wrapped up in the significance of beating West Virginia. From the moment Syracuse emerged from the locker room, it made a point of not getting wrapped up in the moment. Instead, it was all about the next game, the next opponent and the next step.

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errell Smith doesn’t want to wake up from this dream. Instead of letting reality sink in Saturday, the senior defensive captain didn’t want to think too much about the significance of beating the No. 20 team in the country on the road.

He figures that would lead to complacency.

And with Syracuse playing its best football in years, he doesn’t want this to be the time SU starts finding satisfaction in just one win.

“We’re already looking to the next one,” the senior linebacker said Saturday. “We don’t want to be content with what we have.

Not now.”

Smith wasn’t alone in his demeanor, either. Two weeks earlier, the Orange finally

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Cincinnati red Syracuse had never beaten South Florida in five tries before a victory in Tampa three weeks ago. The Orange had also not beaten West Virginia since 2001 before a victory in Morgantown last week. Now, SU heads to Cincinnati having not coming away from the matchup victorious since 2004, looking to continue the reversal of its losing trend.

Here’s a breakdown of the past five games against the Bearcats: Year

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Place

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Result

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22-16 17-3 52-31 30-10 28-7

Season record

1-10 (0-7 Big East) 4-8 (1-6) 2-10 (1-6) 3-9 (1-6) 4-8 (1-6)

matthew ziegler | staff photographer derrell smith (25) and Syracuse will try to avoid a letdown against Cincinnati.

Syracuse will attempt to win back-to-back Big East games for the first time since 2004.

For Orange, game against Cincinnati represents chance to cement itself at top of Big East

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ikhail Marinovich has been at Syracuse for three years. But to the SU defensive end, the past two might as well not even exist.

He puts them out of his mind.

Gone are the memories of Greg Robinson’s last season as head coach in 2008, in which his defense gave up 40-plus points back-to-back against Akron and Penn State. Gone is the first year under Doug Marrone, which showed improvement but still only led to four wins.

“It’s hard to speak about previous

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outrageous fun years,” Marinovich said. “Because I’ve blocked them out of my mind. … I think we’ve just changed so much in the culture around here. I don’t even remember what happened, besides we lost, and the feelings we felt. I don’t

ever want to feel that again.”

And now Marinovich and the rest of SU have a chance to help everyone keep forgetting about the past. This Saturday at Cincinnati presents a unique opportunity for the Orange.

Win, and SU finds itself the winner of three of the past four games, all three of which have come on the road against quality Big East opponents. Win, and the Orange’s place in the upper tier of the Big East is firmly entrenched. Win, and Syracuse will have its best start since

2001 and a legit chance to finish at the top of the Big East.

That would make people forget.

Lose, though, and the memories will start to crawl back into view. The longer-term goals of a bowl will still be there. But with two quality road wins over West Virginia and South Florida in the past three weeks, this team should expect more than a bowl bid. Marrone established that after the Orange’s last setback, a 45-14 blowout loss at home to Pittsburgh off the high of the win at USF. “What’s wrong with that?” Mar-

rone said when asked if there were some unreasonable expectations following the USF victory. “What’s wrong with someone thinking we’re a good football team? What’s wrong with thinking that you’re better than you are? There’s nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. …

You want high expectations. I want my players to think that they’re better than they are.”

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