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SYRACUSE CITY ELECTIONS 2011

The race is on

Candidates for city seats wind down campaigns; ready themselves for Election Day

By Meghin Delaney, Jon Harris and Heather Wentz THE DAILY ORANGE

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ust a week away from Election Day, races around the city of Syracuse are heating up. The Daily Orange highlights four city election races: 4th District common councilor, city auditor, 5th District common councilor and councilor-at-large.

4TH DISTRICT COMMON COUNCILOR The 4th District Common Council sector includes downtown, parts of the Southside and Eastside neighborhoods and some Syracuse University neighborhoods.

The Democratic candidate for the 4th District Common Council is Khalid Bey. Two of Bey’s major issues on his platform include job creation and education. Bey said that in Syracuse, he has seen a problem with people not understanding what jobs are in need.

“There needs to be a promotion of what jobs exist and training in those areas, and then attracting more jobs to the city,” Bey Khalid Bey said.

Education is part of his platform, and Bey supports programs that are catered to the needs of students.

“My opinion is that the environment for education is not conducive to learning,” Bey said. “It’s a tough sell. It’s a lot tougher than it sounds, but I plan to work closely with school commissioners to come up with ideas.”

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The Green Party candidate for the 4th District is Howie Hawkins, a well-known activist for the Southside and Eastside of Syracuse. Hawkins’ campaign platform includes better education, fair wages, equal employment and clean energy systems.

“He is a multi-issue person,” Ursula Rozum, Hawkins’ campaign co-chair, said.

“Anything that has to do with social justice, fairness, equality, humans’ rights or fair Howie food wages, he works for.”

Hawkins Hawkins is involved with the South Side Community Coalition, which is trying to revitalize the business district on Salina Street between Brighton and Colvin streets.

“In cooperation with SU, we got the communications center involved where the kids can come in and use the computers,” Hawkins said.

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CITY AUDITOR Because of term limits, Democrat Phil LaTessa can’t run for re-election. The Department of Audit, headed by the city auditor, conducts an audit of the affairs of every officer, department and board of the city.

The 69-year-old Republican had a career as general counsel and manager of broadcasting stations in Maryland, Buffalo and Syracuse. Kimatian ran for mayor in 2009, but lost to Democrat Stephanie Miner. He also is an adjunct professor in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Kimatian said he is looking to create transparency for how decisions are made by the city administration. Like Martin MasSteve Kimatian terpole, Kimatian plans to address the balance of pension costs and overtime issues.

Kimatian said his credentials — more than 25 years dealing with finance, accounting and lenders — should appeal to residents and SU students.

Kimitian also said he works well with the city administration, but isn’t close friends with them like Masterpole.

“My opponent happens to be part of the inner circle of the mayor of Syracuse, and to expect that a person who is part of the inner circle is going to be critical of what that person does, I think is a pretty big reach,” he said.

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The 38-year-old Democrat previously served four years as a Syracuse common councilor. He is currently completing his fourth year as an Onondaga County legislator representing the 17th District.

Masterpole said one of his main goals is to provide more services from the department.

“Typically right now, we see many of just the chartered audits being conducted, but I’d like to expand that to some perforMartin mance-based audits,” Masterpole said.

Masterpole During Masterpole’s time on the Common Council, he was on the Finance, Taxation and Assessment Committee every year and went through the city budget several times — something Masterpole said his opponent isn’t as experienced with.

“I think my opponent has been boasting about a large corporate background and oversight over these large corporate budgets, but I’m not interested in discussing corporate budgets,” Masterpole said. “I’m interested in discussing a municipal budget that I’m very familiar with, and I believe I have more experience in that than he does.”

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Students aid in Turkish relief efforts

By Nicki Gorny CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Turkey’s call for aid in the aftermath of the country’s earthquake early last week fell on receptive ears in Syracuse.

“After the Turkish government asked for help from foreign countries, it became obvious that we need to take a step forward to increase the awareness on campus,” said Hamza Salih Erden, president of the Turkish Student Association and doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Syracuse University.

The 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Van province in southeast Turkey on Oct. 23. As of Sunday evening, 1,561 aftershocks of varying magnitudes rocked the country, according to Earthquake Report, an independent earthquake reporting website.

Tens of thousands of displaced Turks, homeless or afraid to return to the unstable infrastructures of homes and buildings, slept in streets and tent cities this week as nightly temperatures dropped below freezing, according to a Time magazine article published online Sunday. The death toll in Turkey surpassed 600, according to Earthquake Report.

TSA joined with the Helping Hands Relief Foundation to raise funds to improve conditions in the region with a campaign that began Saturday. The Turkish Cultural Center has also been working through Helping Hands on its own, Erden said.

TSA contacted Helping Hands after the nonprofit organization began a donation campaign on the night the earthquake hit the Van province.

“Helping Hands’ offer was very reasonable,” said Erden about the coordination of fundraising efforts between Helping Hands and the university.

In addition to soliciting monetary donations through Helping Hands’ website, TSA will collect nonmonetary donations like clothing, shoes, handbags, linens, curtains, bicycles and toys, Erden said. The donations SEE RELIEF EFFORTS PAGE 4

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Creekwalk aids residents, transportation within city

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randy hurrle and daniela baban hurrle , a recruiter in the Office of Admissions and an international student and scholar adviser in the Slutzker Center for International Services, respectively, finish up the two-mile Halloween fun run/walk on the Quad dressed as a bride and a groom. Participants won prizes for best individual costume, best group costume, most spirited costume and judge’s choice, among others.

The Department of Recreation Services and Healthy Monday Syracuse sponsored the walk.

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Members reach full representation

By Rachael Barillari Staff Writer

The Student Association general assembly erupted in applause with the election of the 71st representative at Monday night’s meeting. This final representative election for the 55th session brought the general assembly to 100 percent capacity.

“When I stood up here on January 14, at our first meeting, we said we are going to get results, that we were going to set specific goals, and we were going to accomplish them,” SA President Neal Casey said after the 7:30 p.m. meeting in Maxwell Auditorium ended. “This is a very numeric goal that we set and accomplished in a very short period of time. It would have never happened without every member of the assembly stepping up and chipping in.”

The final three seats in the assembly all belonged to the School of Visual and Performing Arts. Three candidates ran for the positions.

Carmen Ramirez and Ana Karina Vasquez, both sophomore art photography majors, were elected, as well as Elizabeth Webster, a freshman fashion design major, The new representatives said they believe VPA is underrepresented and they could easily keep in touch with their constituents

because of the close-knit nature.

They also gave several suggestions on making rental equipment and studio time more accessible and adding weekend hours to the food services at The Warehouse.

“It is very exciting for us to say that now we can pass something that is the voice of the students, and we know that it is truly representative of what is happening on campus,” Casey said after the meeting.

Representatives Nick Iaquinto and Jesse Feitel presented a report titled “Selectivity and Diversity at Syracuse University.” Before the presentation began, Iaquinto clarified that this was only a presentation of

the facts and that he and Feitel were an impartial voice.

The report outlined the issue of selectivity and diversity as it affects the admissions process at SU after professors raised concern about the university’s reputation at the March 23 University Senate meeting. The admissions policy was defended by administration at the meeting.

On Sept. 14, Chancellor Nancy Cantor wrote a letter to The Daily Orange regarding SU’s drop in rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Cantor defended SU’s admission rates and goal in attaining diversity, according see sa page 3

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ed to the general assembly at Monday’s meeting. The election brought SA to 100 percent capacity.

He said it “It would have never happened without every member of the assembly stepping up and chipping in.”

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Members of the Syracuse community celebrated the opening of the Onondaga Creekwalk, a public trail that connects Armory Square to Onondaga Lake along Onondaga Creek.

Instead of celebrating the event with a traditional ribbon cutting ceremony, organizers inaugurated the Creekwalk by inviting residents to ride their bikes along the 2.6mile trail Oct. 25. Representatives from Onondaga County, the city of Syracuse and the Armory Square Association attended.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner opened the event by highlighting the importance of the Creekwalk for the community.

“One of our most inherent strengths is the strength of our neighborhood and the people that live here,” she said, “and it’s by connecting strong neighborhoods in our city, in bringing people the ability to see our city from different vantage points, that we can grow together and connect together.”

Miner thanked Onondaga County Executive Joanne Mahoney for her leadership in looking at Onondaga Lake and Onondaga Creek as an asset and using them “as a place to think about our past and our future, and to enjoy, rather than as a conduit for our ‘floatables.’”

The county has focused on making the Creekwalk even more sustainable through the installation of “green infrastructure” like porous pavement in the parking areas and rain gardens along the trail.

These improvements will help capture more than 254,000 gallons of rainwater a year, according to Save the Rain’s website, a project led by Onondaga County.

“Using green components as well

has really energized this community,” Mahoney said.

Not only does the Creekwalk open a new recreation area for Syracuse residents, it also offers a safe way for alternative and more environmentally friendly forms of transportation such as biking and walking.

The completion of the Onondaga Creekwalk was made possible through an alliance between the city and the county. Construction to connect the existing paths around the Inner Harbor and Franklin Square into a single unified trail began two years ago, Miner said, but the original idea for the Creekwalk came about decades ago.

“I loved the Creekwalk; the trail was beautiful.

I walked with my two co-workers Mallory and Dacie on our lunch break.

We made it all the way from The Post-Standard to Carousel Mall and back in an hour.”

Carolyn Lee

Advertising sales assistant at The Post-Standard

Andrew Maxwell, director of planning and sustainability for the city, said the idea for the Creekwalk began in the 1960s at Syracuse’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Youth Programs. The project has two more phases, which would extend the trail to the southern border of the city. The first of these phases would reach Kirk Park, and the second one would finalize the Creekwalk at Dorwin Avenue, he said.

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None of the current SA members know when the last time the organization had full representation.

veronica magan | staff photographer The Onondaga Creekwalk extends 2.6 miles down Onondaga Creek, connecting Armory Square to Onondaga Lake. The trail opened to residents Oct. 25, ending the two-year construction.

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to the report.

An article published Oct. 2 in The Chronicle of Higher Education, titled “Syracuse Slides,” argued the university is sacrificing its prestige in an attempt to be a public good.

The article stated that faculty disagrees on this issue. Many rebuttals to the article support the chancellor’s stance.

Iaquinto and Feitel said after the meeting that they presented the report to educate the assembly before Don Saleh, the vice president for enrollment management, speaks with the assembly on Nov. 14.

Although there are more than two sides to this issue, speaking to people that are at the forefront of contesting what the university is doing gives the student body a perspective, Feitel said.

“I would like to see student input on this

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for the inauguration. Carolyn Lee, an advertising sales assistant at The Post-Standard, visited the Creekwalk as soon as it opened.

“I loved the Creekwalk. The trail was beautiful,” she said. “I walked with my two co-workers Mallory and Dacie on our lunch break. We made it all the way from The Post-Standard to Carousel Mall and back in an hour.”

Lee and her co-workers Mallory Brown and Dacie Dusseault plan to continue using the Creekwalk during their lunch breaks. They agreed some improvements still need to be

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and not just assembly members,” Feitel said. “I want to see Maxwell Auditorium packed with undergraduate, graduate and law students because this affects all of them.”

After all the sides are presented and everyone is informed, a bill on the students’ perspective will be drafted, Iaquinto said.

Both representatives said they were cautious about putting a timeline on when the bill will form.

Ross Lazerowitz, SA director of technology, presented several updates to the assembly, including a voting system and better technological coverage for the upcoming presidential debate. The voting system is done via text message and representatives can each vote once.

The coverage of the debate, Thursday, Nov. 10, will have several interactive features, Lazerowitz said. Features include the ability to send in questions and comments directly via Twitter. rebarill@syr.edu

made, especially on the cross that connects Franklin Square to the Inner Harbor.

“That part of the walk isn’t clearly marked, and a lot of drivers fly through that area really quickly,” Brown said.

Heather Helman, a junior environmental studies major at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, welcomes the idea of the trail, but she said she believes the Creekwalk needs to be promoted better.

“I think it opens up the creek definitely a lot more; it’s more accessible,” Helman said.

“But I don’t think that what the city is trying to do has been well publicized.” vymagan@syr.edu

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5th District Common Councilor

The 5th District covers the eastern portion of Syracuse and the eastern side of SU, including Thornden Park and the Westcott, Near Eastside and Salt Springs neighborhoods.

DEM.

Nader Maroun

Maroun is the incumbent Democrat for the position. He is the chairman for the Education and Human Development Committee and is a member of the public works and public safety committees.

Maroun is concerned with the quality of life issues for students, so he attends as many meetings that involve community members and businesses as he can.

“By virtue of being an elected official, I have direct contact with students who are asking questions. I am aware of what’s going on, what’s current, and I can respond relative to the city,” he said.

REP.

Bruce McDaniels

Though this name will appear on every ballot, McDaniels is no longer actively campaigning for office, he said in an email. He said the 5th District Common Council is made of the 5th and 17th wards in Syracuse. He said a Republican cannot win the seat in the 17th ward because of the overwhelming Democratic enrollment. There are other Republicans who can win other offices, and he is supporting them. He said he missed the deadline to withdraw his name from the ballot by a few hours.

Councilor-at-Large

The councilor-at-large acts on issues including the school budget, city budget, neighborhood issues, and zoning and economic development resolutions. This is a city-wide position. Voters can choose two of the four candidates.

DEM.

Helen Hudson

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Kathleen Joy

Hudson is committed to bringing the voice of the community to the Common Council.

There are too many residents who feel disenfranchised and unheard, she said. She will work to make the city a safer place, especially from violence. Hudson co-founded Mothers Against Gun Violence after the streets of Syracuse became plagued with death, shootings and violence. Hudson said her priority is safety.

“Students at Syracuse University are residents of this city, and it’s my priority when on the Common Council to make sure residents feel safe in our city,” she said.

rep.

Joseph Rotondo

rep.

Kurt Schmeling

Rotondo has taught in the Syracuse City School District, he’s worked for the county budget department and he’s been doing personal tax returns for the last 20 years.

Rotondo retired from teaching three years ago, and one of his main goals is to help improve the city education system by getting students in the city classrooms and encouraging parent involvement.

“I think as a city we’ve got to work on getting the kids in the building. Secondly, families that are stakeholders in their kids’ educations, try to keep them in the city,” he said.

“I find that when their kids start to get to be school age, they go find a house in Fayetteville or outside the city and that’s a dilemma.”

As the incumbent councilorat-large, Joy has worked on writing and supporting the overlay district for the university neighborhood, which protects students from overcrowded, dangerous housing but keeps residential neighborhoods from turning into rentals, she said.

Joy is a Democrat and has endorsements from the Working Families Party and the Veterans Party. During her time, Joy ensured that money from SU goes toward organizations that will have a positive effect on the neighborhood, she said.

A Republican and conservative candidate, Schmeling worked at various air conditioning companies before retiring, according to the SU Democracywise website. He is advocating for licensing absentee landlords and controlling truancy for school children, according to the website. He has not held a previous office but ran for the councilor-at-large seat in 2003 and 2005 and the Common Council District 1 seat in 2007, according to the website.

Schmeling could not be reached to comment.

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TV, according to TCC’s website. TCC has collaborated with Helping Hands in the past, and the TCC center in Syracuse maintains a consistent relationship with the TSA on campus. TCC could not be reached to comment.

The changing situation in Turkey will affect the way funds are allocated, said Nevzat Yilmaz, president of Helping Hands.

“We are keeping in touch with organizations in Turkey, and we are talking about what we can do once we get the donations. The situation is changing day by day in that area,” Yilmaz said.

Yilmaz said tents, blankets and food are greatly needed.

As of Thursday, four to five universities already contacted the foundation, in addition to approximately 400 people with individual donations. Although Yilmaz did not reveal the monetary total raised so far, he said he is happy with the response.

Said Yilmaz: “It’s a good amount, and we hope that within the next 10 days it will be a huge amount.”

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will be exchanged for money, which will then aid the affected region.

The campaign will continue through the fall.

Collection boxes for nonmonetary donations will be placed throughout campus this week, Erden said. TSA will sponsor fundraising tables in the Schine Atrium between Nov. 14 and Nov. 18.

Additionally, they will solicit donations at the screening of the Turkish comedy film “Organize Isler,” or “Organized Jobs” when translated, on Nov. 2, the culture-sharing event Turkish Table on Nov. 3 and the Cultures on the Quad stand on Nov. 9.

The website of the Turkish Cultural Center in Syracuse features a link to Helping Hands’ online donation page as well, in addition to information on the Turkish Earthquake Relief Telethon.

The telethon is scheduled for Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. and is organized by Helping Hands Relief Foundation. It will be broadcast through Ebru

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November Homecoming may be cooler than expected The university will hold Homecoming — officially called Orange Central — starting next week. The mid-November date is unusually late compared to recent years, when Syracuse University held the event sometime in the middle of October or earlier.

The late date comes with a few obvious disadvantages: the Syracuse weather is showing the ominous signs of turning from beautiful fall to frigid winter at any moment, and Thanksgiving is so close it may deter alumni from making a potentially expensive visit to campus.

But some surprising advantages may make a late Homecoming preferable. For starters, this will be the first time in at least four years alumni can watch both football and basketball games in the Carrier Dome during the weekend. A later date ensures the football team

EDITORIAL by the daily orange editorial board will be playing a college in the Big East conference — offering more excitement and intrigue. This time around the football game could even determine our bowl eligibility.

The late Homecoming also comes after the wave of midterms that pile up in October. Students, generally speaking, have time to celebrate during the second weekend of November. The later date gives transfer students and freshmen time to settle in before the big show of Orange pride. And it gives Orange Central planners more time to schedule better events. As long as the campus crosses its collective fingers that Snowvember doesn’t wreak havoc on air traffic, a late Homecoming may be better than expected.

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Student engineers bring expertise, water to Honduran village

he Engineers Without Borders chapter at SUNY-ESF is approaching its projects with the users in mind.

As of today, they are implementing a gravity-fed water distribution system in Buena Vista, Honduras. This consists of a water tank with plastic pipes buried underground serving a population of 300 people. Until the students came along, the community had stream water flowing though rubber hoses aboveground and only during the rainy season. The water was frequently contaminated with feces and the hoses often leaked. It is thrilling to see this project, started in 2006, finally coming to fruition.

Although the majority of students participating in EWB are environmental resources engineering majors at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, all majors are welcome,

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and there are non-engineers actively participating. It is a vibrant group with representation from all undergraduate classes and a few graduate students. There will certainly be younger students ready to take over when the current officers graduate.

Buena Vista is a community of subsistence farmers who grow vegetables, sugar cane, yucca, plantains and coffee. Any surplus is sold to generate income to supplement what they grow, but this remains an impoverished village — even by Honduran standards.

EWB stresses community-run projects. In Buena Vista, the point of contact is Junta de Agua, an organization devoted to managing, maintaining and educating the community about their water supply.

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green and read all over the village over time and working with them to create a solution that works is essential. This system was designed to keep maintenance simple and within the means of the villagers. A gravity-fed pump eliminates the need for an outside energy source that the village would have to fund.

EWB has made many trips to the community and has had positive experiences, said Amanda Barnett, club president. Students stayed in a guest house of one of the community members, ate meals with the families and played soccer with their kids.

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Getting to know the people who use their designs puts a face to all the calculations.

Villagers and students worked together to construct the system; both parties are completely invested. This close relationship bridges cultural gaps, like learning to turn the faucets off when they are not in use. This is to maintain the water pressure necessary to make this gravity-fed system work.

EWB is setting up the framework to allow the club to pursue multiple projects simultaneously. Under the guidance of Stewart Diemont, a professor of engineering, they are writing two grants for ESF to collaborate with a Mexican university, Institute of Ecology (Inecol). A potential project is designing and building a microfiltration system.

In Cusco, Peru, EWB has been in contact with the nongovernmental organization ECOAN (Asociación

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Ecosistemas Andinos), which focuses on promoting biodiversity. They are interested in a water distribution project that would result in designing a sand filtration system to improve water quality.

Locally, EWB is exploring projects, possibly rain gardens, in Oakwood Cemetery and Thornden Park. The student EWB chapter has a relationship with the Syracuse professional EWB chapter and is looking to collaborate more in the future.

In each of these cases, EWB positions its members as partners with the local community to understand its needs. EWB is not engineering for the sake of gaining experience, but designing projects that really help people.

Leanna Mulvihill is a senior forest engineering major and environmental writing and rhetoric minor. Her column appears every Tuesday. She can be reached at lpmulvih@syr.edu

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Wealthcare Study finds poor health correlated with financial struggles

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here is a direct link between wallet size and health, according to a new study that confirms economic inequality is a key part of what makes people ill.

Economic inequality is measured by looking at the distribution of wealth and income in a society, not the general wealth of the country, according to an Oct. 19 Time magazine article published online.

One way to understand how the economic inequality is related to health is that money allows for fewer barriers to obtain health care, according to the article. The health gap has become so bad that high-level health officials from at least 60 countries attended a recent World Health Organization conference where the topic centered on wealth and its relation to human health, according to the article.

Though this health gap clearly exists, the problem of health disparities among the rich and the poor reaches deeper levels and may be related to our primitive ancestors, according to the article.

After following wild baboons in Africa who have similar social structures to humans, researchers found that a key side effect of inequality is stress. Chronic stress is directly related to poor health, as high levels of stress hormones overtime are known to reduce immune system function and increase virtually all mental and physical ill-

ness, according to the article.

Due to lifestyle factors and differences in hardships, those who are less economically successful are also more likely to have chronic levels of stress, according to the article “There are two striking findings. The first was that there was about a threefold difference between the top and bottom in mortality. That’s absolutely enormous,” said Michael Marmon, professor of epidemiology at University College London, in the Time article.

This means the morality rate of those who are poorer were much higher than those who were wealthier. Further, Marmon noted in the Time article that there is a direct correlation between wealth and health.

“There was a stepwise relationship between your socioeconomic position and your health,” Marmon said.

Health disparities are not new to health care. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a list of articles about health disparities directly on its website. It describes how race, economic standing, gender and age can all make one more susceptible to poor health than their counterparts.

Lindsey Adams, a senior public health major, said she understood where the study results were coming from.

“I think it’s correlated, but it doesn’t necessarily make it a rule,” she said. “Even though healthier options might be easier to attain with a higher income, it is by no means a death sentence, as there are still ways to maintain healthy lifestyles at lower incomes. It may just be slightly more difficult.” knvanbru@syr.edu

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Winter will be here before you know it and there’s not a minute to waste. Here are 6 outdoor activities to enjoy

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he last of the auburn and gold leaves are falling from the trees. Halloween is now just a red “X” on the calendar, and gray skies are even more common than usual. Yes, winter’s curse is just around the bend again at Syracuse University. But wait! Before the wind chills get unbearable and students are up to their knees in snow, here are seven fun ways to get in some last-minute outdoor activities before the SU campus slumbers into hibernation mode. From the art student to the sports nut to the adrenaline junkie, there are activities for all on Pulp’s “Go before It Snows” list.

By Joe Infantino CONTRIBUTING WRITER

University Union will bring a blend of electronic music and hip-hop to Syracuse University on Tuesday night.

Indie-electronic band Neon Indian and female rapper Kreayshawn will perform as part of the Noisey College Tour.

Rapper KreayThe concert shawn and band will be in GoldNeon Indian will stein Auditoput on a show.

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Auditorium and doors will When: Today, 8 open at 7:30 p.m., doors open p.m. Tickets at 7:30 p.m. are still on sale How much: $10 for $10 at the Schine Box Office. However, students who RSVP to the concert online can attend for free. Students can RSVP at the Noisey College Tour website.

Kreayshawn, a recent musical sensation from San Francisco, released her first mixtape, “Kittys X Choppas,” with DJ Woogie in 2010. She made it big in the music scene with a music video for her single “Gucci Gucci,” released in May 2011. It quickly accumulated more than 24 million views.

“Gucci Gucci” is now No. 132 on the iTunes Top 200 chart.

“Whenever there’s a buzz like that on any kind of social media network, it definitely has a broad effect,” said Kenny Consor, co-director of UU Concerts, “I think that’s going to be something that definitely draws people out.”

Singer and producer Alan Palomo created Denton, Texas-based indieelectronic band Neon Indian. Neon Indian released its first extended play, “Psychic Chasms,” in 2009, and internet music publication Pitchfork Media ranked it No. 14 on its Best Music List. The band also performed at the country’s most prominent music festivals, including South by Southwest, Bonnaroo Music Festival and Sasquatch! Music Festival.

Zack Wallenbeck, an undeclared sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, thinks Kreayshawn and Neon Indian will be a hit on campus.

“Kreayshawn is such a big name act now. How could people resist? It’s a good opportunity for the school,” Wallenbeck said.

Not everyone is as excited. Frank Smith, a sophomore education and history major, recently attended the concert “WERW Presents: Class Actress, Guards and Mouth’s Cradle.”

Smith said he preferred the style of

Noisey College Tour

— Compiled by The Daily Orange Feature staff, pulp@ dailyorange.com

Animal behavior

Rekindle fond memories of elementary school field trips to the local zoo with a visit to The Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, just a 10-minute drive from campus. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and an $8 admission fee for adults ages 19 to 61, the zoo is home to approximately 700 animals. Take a gander at the bushy-tailed red panda, blue poison dart frogs and Kibibi, the zoo’s baby patas monkey. A current exhibition, “Art Gone Wild,” showcases dozens of pieces of artwork created by animals living at the zoo. The exhibition includes pieces produced by trunks, paws, feet, hooves and scales.

One with nature

If you’re an art lover with a thirst for outdoor adventure, trek over to one of the first outdoor sculpture parks in the country. Open to the public year-round and located about 25 miles from Syracuse, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park boasts 104 acres of land and more than four miles of hiking trails. Inspired by the relationship between art and nature, the park showcases original, one-of-a-kind artwork by emerging and established artists. Walking through the park, visitors will encounter large-scale installations and sculptures. The park’s current indoors exhibition, “New York Prints of Mind Exhibition,” runs until Nov. 27 and displays original limited-edition prints by some of the world’s most important late 20th and 21st century artists.

Go clubbin’

Whether you are an experienced golfer, or you just have a keen interest in the sport, now is the time to get in that last round of golf before the snow covers the ground.

Drumlins Country Club offers its golf course at no cost to full-time SU undergraduate students. Students can either play a 9- or 18-hole course, with club rentals available at no charge. So grab your friends and play a round of this great social activity. Enjoy the outdoor environment while getting in some physical exercise, too.

Lunch al fresco

Now that midterms are over, students can finally take a break and relax. The few sunny days lying ahead offer a perfect opportunity to have an outdoor picnic. Invite your boyfriend or girlfriend on a romantic lunch along with a blanket and a basket of snacks for a fun, untraditional date. Picnics can be large, too — combine one with a cookout and have an end-of-the-season porch barbeque party. Or you can have your friends over for a potluck picnic filled with outdoor games and entertainment. So put on a warm jacket, fill your basket or garden table with finger foods, fresh fruits, salads and some cool drinks and enjoy a chill, colorful afternoon.

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Guards and Mouth’s Cradle. Disappointed by University Unions choice of artists, Smith does not intend to go to Tuesday’s concert.

“First of all, I had never heard of (the acts) until I saw the fliers around school,” Smith said.

“I do listen to music that is kind of like this, but I feel like since it’s become so popular, more people are just riding the mainstream wave.”

Consor isn’t worried about people not attending the concert. He said UU picked these bands for a reason, hoping to appeal to a wide audience and fill the venue to give everyone attending an enjoyable experience.

“These are two up-and-coming artists, and they’re both also artists that are appealing to two different genres on campus,” Consor said.

“We thought they were two artists that would

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We still scream for ice cream

Even if you think that you stop craving ice cream once the temperature drops, you’ve probably noticed those taste buds are tingling for it. Head to Gannon’s Isle, located at 525 Valley Drive. Eccentric, animated ice cream characters cover the walls from floor to ceiling. The menu boasts both hard- and softserve ice cream options, all homemade. New flavors of the day or ones that complement the season pop up regularly. But if you want to indulge your sweet tooth, you better get over there quickly; Gannon’s closes up shop for the winter on Nov. 12.

diversify the talent we bring here and appeal to a pretty wide audience.”

Consor said he feels confident in the show and expects the concert to produce good results.

“If people look back at the track record of University Union shows that we brought in the last year or two, we have a tendency to bring artists that are up and coming,” Consor said.

“One of the patterns that I’ve seen is that after we bring them they tend to blow up.” jtinfant@syr.edu

Top Tracks

Check out some popular songs by Kreayshawn and Neon Indian:

Kreayshawn

“Gucci Gucci” and “Wavey”

Neon Indian

“Psychic Chasms” and “Should Have Taken Acid With You”

Sharpshooter

Take cover from paintballs but don’t take cover from paintballing.

Go north of Syracuse to HeadRush, the largest paintball business in Central New York. The outdoor field has 50 acres on State Route 49 in Rome, N.Y. It offers an area with two speedball fields, a dirt mound field and four more wooded fields on varied terrain. Want to go but not play? The 15,000-square-foot indoor facility at 6255 E. Taft Road has an elevated observation area for bands and spectators.

If you need a break, you can play pool, arcade games, foosball or put your feet up and hang out on the couches.

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One man’s discovery kick-starts fight against Facebook privacy policies

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ax Schrems is pissed at Facebook.

What distinguishes the 24-year-old Austrian law student from the masses of other displeased Facebook aficionados: He’s decided to do something about it.

Curious about personal data the social networking site kept on him, Schrems submitted an access request to Facebook this past summer. A few weeks later, he received a compact disc of files Facebook kept about him.

Broken down into 57 categories, the CD’s data ranged from which Facebook users he “poked” to the locations and Internet Protocol addresses recorded with each and every login. When printed, this information filled up 1,200 pages.

More disturbing than the sheer volume of information collected during Schrems’ three years as a member was the fact that Facebook had retained “deleted” data. Schrems found deleted messages, accounts of terminated Facebook friendships and every picture he’s ever been tagged in, even if he untagged himself.

Being a levelheaded and well-educated law student, Schrems moved forward by pressing charges on 22 separate counts. If found to have violated data protection laws, Facebook will have to pay up to 100,000 euros. Schrems even started a movement via an online campaign.

His recently launched website, Europev-Facebook.org, urges others to follow his lead. Under the “Get Your Data!” section, he validates members’ rights to data and lays out the steps necessary to request and acquire

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our ram is bigger than yours data in an easy to follow format. This page also describes how Facebook users residing in the United States and Canada do not have the same rights as European users.

European users all fall under the umbrella of the Irish Facebook subsidiary, dictated by the European data protection law. A note on this page explains: “You have a right to access no matter if you are a EU citizen and no matter if you are a user of Facebook. Only residents of the U.S. and Canada cannot request their data!”

Americans and Canadians have a much less satisfactory option of downloading their own data. The company only relinquishes a very limited scope of information, no way indicative of the true depth and nature of information Facebook keeps stowed away.

Apparently, the European push for data requests panned out. Those demanding their information received responses from Facebook informing them that they are currently too overwhelmed with requests to abide by the 40-day rule. Americans and Canadians are restricted to pressing Facebook’s server power

instead of its manpower.

One angry man from Austria said he was perturbed that a company could amass that much data, adding that his concern stems from the leverage garnered when any one entity has too much information.

“Information is power, and information about people is power over people. It’s frightening that all this data is being held by Facebook,” he said.

The issue of retained data has long been an issue for Facebook, one that has received public attention. Does anyone remember hactivist group Anonymous and its oath to single-handedly dismantle Facebook? In a dramatic letter announcing the group’s plot, the authors of Operation Facebook referenced Facebook’s information gathering practices as a key motivation for their attack: “Everything you do on Facebook stays on

Facebook regardless of your privacy settings, and deleting your account is impossible. Even if you delete your account, all your information stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time.”

The date set for the promised Facebook apocalypse? Saturday, Nov. 5.

If you’re European and concerned about your data, file a request for access. You can print out a few hundred pages of any possibly damning information you thought you deleted. If you’re an American or a Canadian worried that Facebook still has the picture of you at the kegger that could keep you from ever getting a job, well, the best you can do is hope for a Facebook Rapture.

Jessica Smith is a senior information management and technology and television, radio and film major. Her column appears every Tuesday.

She can be reached at jlsmit22@syr.edu.

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By Darren Bleckner STAFF WRITER

lectronic dance music is all the rage in the United States. Big name disc jockeys and producers dominate Top 40 radio, yet Justice is still not a household name.

The French electronic duo gained popularity since the release of their 2007 debut album and gigantic world tour. But after being thrust into the spotlight following the album’s release, Justice retreated. They stopped touring and recording. Now, four years later, they return with “Audio, Video, Disco.” It’s an album dramatically different from its predecessor, but it will have listeners dancing and bobbing their heads.

If “†” was Justice’s attempt at making a science fiction Daft Punk-like tribute, “Audio, Video, Disco” is an ode to ‘70s rock gods like Led Zeppelin, The Who and Queen. The prospect of blending progressive and classic rock with thumping bass, synthesizers and other Microsoft Pro Tools noises may sound strange, but Justice not only makes it work, they also make it sound natural.

Deep organ sounds and pounding cymbals flood album opener “Horsepower.” After about a minute, the beat drops and explodes with a Queenlike guitar riff, a down-tuned, distorted bass and haunting synthesizer.

It’s the perfect song for any Halloween soundtrack.

Its 4/4 time signature invokes the feeling of a motor running as it fades perfectly into the album’s first single, “Civilization,” featured in a recent Adidas ad. Once again, down-tuned bass and electronic drums dominate the track as guest vocalist Ali Love provides lyrics about war and devastation. The chorus’ combination of massive keytar, bass and guitar riffs will have any party’s dance floor rocking.

The album slows down a bit with the Led Zeppelininspired electro-pop track “On’n’On.” Guest collaborator

French duo’s rise in popularity culminates in eclectic blend of electronic beats, classic rock

Morgan Phalen’s high-pitched wail fits perfectly over a heavily distorted guitar that bears a striking resemblance to Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” In keeping with the theme of ‘70s progressive rock, beautiful flute solos float over the keyboard riffs. The slowest song on the album, “Ohio,” builds up one instrument at a time, especially with its hypnotic piano riff. Two minutes in, the sound dies out and a guitar solo using phaser effects takes over.

Justice rarely uses an electronic effect when playing guitar on “†,” but they use this new instrumentation to enforce their new dance-rock sound. “Brianvision” is a perfect example. It features fine fingerpicking, a la ‘70s hair metal. The disco- and punk-inspired “Helix” makes great use of a sleek, distorted guitar riff. The band layers the same riff multiple times with various keyboard instruments and scatters chopped up vocals singing the words, “No, I don’t care,” on repeat throughout the song.

Justice adds their electronic magic touch to both songs, and one cannot help but dance around.

Title track “Audio, Video, Disco” bids the listener farewell with a lavish sendoff, its infusion of organ, palm-muted guitar and piano blasting radiantly from the speakers. A soothing voice simply repeats “audio, video, disco” in the entire track, but it works perfectly. What the song lacks in build, it makes up for with its charming use of the same simplistic instrumentation throughout the album. There’s no doubt it will be a staple in plenty of disc jockeys’ sets over the next few months.

Even though Justice mashes together so many different genres in one album, they never seem overwhelmed. They took the danceable music of their debut and let their heavy rock influences lead them in a new direction. The result is a cohesive sophomore album that still packs a disco-house assault, but Justice has upgraded their sound from the clubs to the stadiums. drbleckn@syr.edu

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D-III Rochester uses helmet sensors in brain activity study

By Nick Toney Staff Writer

For six minutes, Scott Greene’s world went dark. When he woke up, the Michigan State running back was on the Spartan sidelines, out of a game against Indiana with a throbbing headache and a spotty memory.

“I remember I took the handoff — it was an isolation play up the middle,” said Greene, who played at MSU from 1992-95. “The safety flew down in the box and leveled me. The next thing I knew, I was out, and I couldn’t understand why.”

Greene couldn’t understand his head injury as a player. But as a head coach at Division-III University of Rochester, he’s making sure his team understands head injuries now. As part of an NFL-funded, season-long study, 10 Rochester players wear helmets fitted with six sensors that record the force of every hit they take to the head. The object of the study is to measure how all types of head-bashing tackles — along with their energy, force and direction — can deteriorate a player’s brain activity.

Concussion-dealing blows like the one Greene took are taken into account, but smaller hits are the focus for Jeff Bazarian, an associate professor of Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester.

Bazarian, who leads the study, conducted a similar study with high school players wearing

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“You see a player take a hit and pop back up and assume they’re fine.

What we’re finding is that’s not the case at all.”

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Rochester Professor

helmets with sensors in 2008 and found that smaller, “non-concussive” hits had the potential to cause as much long-term brain damage as the hits that knock players out.

The fact that these hits often go unmonitored at the high school, collegiate and professional levels makes them all the more troublesome to Bazarian, especially in light of former NFL players dealing with dementia.

“You see a player take a hit and pop back up and assume they’re fine,” said Bazarian, who has been at Rochester since 1994. “What we’re finding is that’s not the case at all. Players that aren’t dazed, confused or knocked out still put their brain health on the line.”

This study has more depth than Bazarian’s high school one, but more importantly, it has the financial backing of professional football. The NFL donated a $99,000 grant to back Bazarian’s project and the costly brain scans and helmet technology that came with it.

Bazarian and head athletic trainer Eric Rozen picked their 10 test subjects carefully. In August, two offensive linemen, three defensive linemen, two linebackers, a tight end, fullback and running back were selected to participate

in the season-long study.

Rozen said the study emphasized linemen for a reason. In the trenches, players absorb the most mild or secondary blows.

“For the most part, we’re not talking about skill position players,” Rozen said. “We wanted to look at the guys whose heads were getting thrown around fifty times a game.”

The 10 at-risk players were given diffusion tensor imaging scans — what Bazarian calls “MRI scans on steroids” — at the beginning of the season.

The scans color code what sections of the brain have been adversely affected by head trauma.

At various points in the season, study coordinator Kirsten Ross and medical student Bobby Klein collect additional data right from the players’ helmets. The ordinary-looking Riddell Speed model helmets are fitted with data chips capable of storing information up to about 200 individual collisions.

Rozen said the study gets more comprehensive with each new data collection.

“We want to have as many plot points as possible,” Rozen said. “If these players are in fact getting worse, we need to know where before we know why.”

Bazarian and Rozen will administer another DTI scan at the end of the season Nov. 12 after a home game against Hobart, and they will compare data right after.

Brian Rieger, director of the Concussion Management Program at Upstate Medical University Hospital, said he expects the data to show that the mild or moderate hits aren’t so mild or moderate.

“Any time a player sustains repetitive head trauma over the course of months, that player will be worse for wear,” Rieger said. “Even if the player isn’t experiencing highlight-reel hits, there’s still the opportunity for damage.”

But there’s also the opportunity to heal.

Bazarian never measured the amount of brain function that returned to players in his 2008 study, but he plans to analyze the 10 subjects of his 2011 study six months after the season.

Bazarian has a hypothesis about the amount of healing that will take place in the six months of non-football activity.

“They’ll heal, but some long-term effects are expected,” Bazarian said. “We can’t wait for the results.”

Neither can Greene’s players. The Rochester players are eager to find out just how dangerous the game is for their bodies.

Greene realized just how interested his players were at the prospect of joining the study in the summer, when he asked for 10 volunteers and got many more.

Rochester Athletic Director George Vander-

Zwaag said the opportunity to participate in an NFL-sponsored study was enticing for the university’s academic interests, too.

“As a research institution, you’re happy to carry the banner for any project like this,” VanderZwaag said. “We’re happy the NFL gave our university that grant.”

Greene is happy, too. The end result of the program has the potential to make the game he coaches safer for all players at every level of competition.

“Player safety has become a priority,” Greene said. “We hope that we find out what the best way to keep our players safe and healthy is through this study.”

Games of the week Syracuse 20, Connecticut 10 Marrone’s team becomes bowl-eligible after a disappointing loss to Louisville.

Arkansas 27, South Carolina 24 Give the edge to the home team in the week’s second-best Southeastern Conference showdown.

Alabama 38, LSU 31 Trent Richardson has his coming out party during the year’s biggest game.

Wisconsin 35, Purdue 21 Wisconsin has the talent to get by the Boilermakers and stop the bleeding.

Cincinnati 24, Pittsburgh 20 Tino Sunseri’s arm isn’t good enough to carry the Panthers for two straight games. nctoney@syr.edu

Race standings

In honor of Syracuse opening its 2011-12 basketball season on Tuesday, we name our racers after their favorite all-time Syracuse basketball players: Racer

R. Bouie (Cohen) L. Rautins (Harris) D. Bing (Gery) D. Schayes (Tredinnick) P. Washington (Wilson) J. Boeheim (Mainthia) D. Coleman (McInerney) P. Shumpert (Patankar) D. Nichols (Brown) J. Flynn (Iseman) G. McNamara (Olivero) J. Wallace (Toney) E. Thomas (Bailey) D. Greene (Marcus) L. Moten (Propper) C. Forth (Cooper) E. Devendorf (McBride) D. Williams (Ronayne)

Record

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SYRACUSE VS. CAL STATE-LOS ANGELES ZACH BROWN

SYRACUSE 103, CAL STATE-LA 72

Who takes more shots tonight? Me on my 21st birthday or Mookie Jones from beyond the arc?

MICHAEL COHEN SYRACUSE 98, CAL STATE-LA 57

These Golden Eagles aren’t from Marquette.

MARK COOPER SYRACUSE 92, CAL STATE-LA 63

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FREE THROWS CSULA head coach Stephen Thompson played for Syracuse from 198690. He was voted to the Orange’s All-Century Team and is currently SU’s seventh all-time leading scorer.

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BUSSEY ELLIS 6-4, 195, SR

KRIS JOSEPH 6-7, 210, SR.

6-4, 205, JR.

CHRIS ROBINSON

6-5, 225, SR.

There might not be a more experienced point guard in the country than the fifth-year senior Jardine.

Wetherell transferred to Cal State-Los Angeles from Southern California last year before suffering a season-ending injury.

Triche was surprisingly not even named to the Preseason All-Big East Honorable Mention team and has said that will add fuel to his fire this year.

Expect him to come out on a mission, especially early this season.

POWER FORWARD

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Joseph led the Orange in scoring last year and was second on the team in rebounds and steals. The do-it-all star for SU will go head-to-head with the Golden Eagles’ top returning scorer in Robinson.

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Five players averaged double figures for the Golden Eagles last season, but the top two scorers have since departed. Franklin Session (16.3 ppg) and David Norris (12.8 ppg) were the team’s leading scorers in 2010-11.

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Syracuse returns everyone from its 2010-11 roster except one player, power forward Rick Jackson. But Jackson was a leader of last year’s Orange team, averaging a doubledouble per game.

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Eagles 97-54. The Golden Eagles are picked to finish fi fth in the California Collegiate Athletic Association this season.

But Boeheim said the preseason games pose challenges in their own ways. One of those being the size difference the Orange has to match up with.

“Although they’re games you should win, they’re not going to be games that are easy, so I think it will be good for us,” Boeheim said.

Although Syracuse’s big men won’t get to match up against the big bodies they’ll see months from now in Big East games, it’s important for them to get floor time. Sophomore centers Fab Melo and Baye Moussa Keita both look to improve on their tough freshman years with a fresh start to their sophomore seasons.

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Marinatto has made it clear that the conference intends to hold Syracuse and Pittsburgh to the 27-month waiting period since they left for the Atlantic Coast Conference.

And in a statement issued Monday night, his stance on West Virginia is no different despite its intentions to leave early.

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FAB MELO

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6-6, 210, SR.

SU’s big man rotation entering this season is still a mystery, with Baye Moussa Keita also in the mix. Christmas was rated

by Scout and Rivals as the No. 2 center in the country in this year’s freshman class.

CARL HOFFMAN

6-8, 277, JR

Finding a low-post option on offense could be the difference between a good season and a special season for the Orange this year. Melo showed fl ashes of potential and growth at the end of last year.

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STEPHEN THOMPSON

W-L: 78-87 6 SEASONS

Thompson graduated from Syracuse in 1990 and played for Boeheim in the 1987 national championship game, which SU lost to Indiana. Thompson knows the 2-3 zone, but he likely doesn’t have the players to beat it.

And freshman forward Rakeem Christmas, rated by Scout and Rivals as the No. 2 center in this year’s freshman class, will see his first game action for SU. Melo said he learned a lot from last season and heads into this season with a better grasp of what to expect.

“The expectations people had for me,” Melo said at Syracuse men’s basketball’s media day on Oct. 14, “I thought it would be easier. I thought I would go there and play and average 20 points a game, something like that.

“People realized that it’s not like that. I know I had to learn a lot. It was hard for me to deal with that, the expectations people had for me.

Now I’m more mature, and it will be better.”

Boeheim said he anticipates everyone getting playing time against CSULA, and it will be important to get the SU players on the court in the Dome.

Though the performances of Melo, Keita and Christmas may not be indicative of anything to

come, good or bad, gaining the experience before the more important games is what matters.

“It’s hard, it’s not a real indication,” Boeheim said. “A big guy could not play that well against a 6’5” guy, but he can play great against a really

“We are disappointed that West Virginia has adopted this strategy and cannot imagine why it believes it does not have to respect and honor the bylaws it agreed to as a member of the Big East,” Marinatto said. “Based on an initial review of the lawsuit, it is clear that the allegations and claims in it are false and inaccurate. Certainly there is nothing in it that would justify WVU’s not fulfilling its obligations. To put it simply, a contract is a contract.”

West Virginia said in the lawsuit that the Big

East is also no longer a viable and competitive football conference due to its lack of leadership, its breach of fiduciary duties and the voting disparity between football and non-football schools.

West Virginia also said “upon information and belief” it expects the Big East to lose its status as Bowl Championship Series automaticqualifying conference.

“The lack of leadership, breach of fiduciary duties by the Big East and its Commissioner, and voting disparity between the football and

“It’s hard, it’s not a real indication. A big guy could not play that well against a 6’5” guy, but he can play great against a really good 6’10” guy. So it’s not a good evaluation necessarily for big guys.”

Jim Boeheim

SU HEAD COACH

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Syracuse’s average margin of victory in three exhibition games against Cal State-LA in the last five seasons. The Orange defeated the Golden Eagles 97-54 in the last meeting between the two teams on Oct. 25, 2009.

good 6’10” guy. So it’s not a good evaluation necessarily for big guys.”

The Orange hasn’t played much in the Dome in preparation for the season. As of last Wednesday, Boeheim said SU hadn’t practiced on its home court since Midnight Madness, save for one scrimmage.

That’s where the real opportunity will lie for the big men, a chance to run up and down the Dome court. Even if they are a head taller than the player trying to defend them.

But for 6-foot-8 forward C.J. Fair — who would be one of the tallest players on the Golden Eagles — there’s still an expectation to perform that comes with the early season hype surrounding the top-10 team.

“Preseason, we’re one of the top teams,” Fair said at SU media day. “We’ve got to bring it from the start. We think we’re the top team, so we’ve got to come play like we’re the top team. We’ve just got to get off to a good start.” mcooperj@syr.edu

non-football schools resulted in the Big East football conference no longer being a viable and competitive football conference,” according to the lawsuit.

“Accordingly, the Big East conference and its Commissioner, through their actions, breached their contract with WVU and nullified and voided the Bylaws.” rjgery@syr.edu —Sports editor Michael Cohen contributed reporting to this article.

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Orange offense to rely on veteran frontcourt

By Andrew Tredinnick Asst. Copy Editor

Erica Morrow has been playing basketball with Iasia Hemingway since she was about 11 years old.

Hemingway, a senior forward, sat out Syracuse’s 2009-10 campaign after transferring from Georgia Tech. But last season, Morrow, now an SU graduate assistant, got the chance to play alongside one of the players she grew up with.

She noticed several areas that Hemingway had improved upon, but more importantly, she noticed the opportunity for something great between the frontcourt partnership of Hemingway and starting center Kayla Alexander.

“She’s always been tough to guard,” Morrow said of Hemingway during Syracuse’s annual media day on Oct. 14. “Now she’s developing her jump shot and she’s developing that great midrange game, and it’s making it a lot tougher on teams, and it’s also making it easier on Kayla.

“Kayla is unstoppable down low, she’s definitely a force. The two of them together poses a lot of mismatches on other teams.”

And after the loss of its two starting guards in Tasha Harris and Morrow, Hemingway and Alexander will be asked to shoulder the brunt of the scoring load while the new roles on the court are figured out. The frontcourt duo has already proven capable in its first full season together in the starting lineup.

Alexander, a Preseason All-Big East selection this season, was the team’s leading scorer a year ago, averaging 14.8 points per game. Hemingway was the team’s leading rebounder, grabbing 7.4 per game last year, while setting the tone as the team’s secondbest scoring option.

Although there is added pressure with the loss of two veteran players, Hemingway is confident in the players who will receive increased playing time. Although it may seem that she and Alexander are the team’s top threats following last season’s performance, nothing is concrete until the first game is played.

“I think when the season starts, it’s going to wear down on us,” Hemingway said on media day, “and they’re going to be so worried about our shooting guards, they’re going to be like, ‘Oh, forget about Iasia and Kayla,’ because I feel like our outside shooting guards are really strong. We’re going to do what we have to do.”

The pair’s two seasons working together in practice and one year together in games has instilled a level of confidence at the forward and center positions. They each have been able to take note of the other’s tendencies, such as where to locate a pass in Syracuse’s high-low offense.

Hemingway provides SU with a scoring threat that often times leaves opposing defenses weary of double-teaming Alexander.

“Iasia is a godsend because if you have her on the court, you can always get her the ball,” Alexander said on media day. “If she has the ball in her hands she’s going to score, or she’s going to be shooting free throws,” Alexander said. “Having Iasia on the court makes life so much easier.”

The importance of SU’s dynamic frontcourt presence showed itself during the team’s run in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament last season. Hemingway averaged a double-double in the three games before the Orange’s quarterfinal overtime loss to Toledo. In those games, Hemingway scored 19.3 points and pulled down 11.7 rebounds. Alexander scored 18 points per game while grabbing just under six rebounds per contest.

But in the team’s elimination game, Morrow took over the scoring responsibilities.

Hemingway was 0-of-6 shooting, adding only five points on free throws. Her frontcourt teammate, Alexander, scored 17 and added eight boards, but the Orange still fell by three points to the Rockets.

One incomplete game in the frontcourt was all it took for Syracuse to be bounced.

“We’ve built a nice bond,” Hemingway said during media day. “And hopefully we continue what we did at the end of the year, we continue it next year, and hopefully we do it a lot better.

Honestly, I think we will do it a lot better.”

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Senior duo develops unique friendship at Syracuse

By Stephen Bailey Asst. Copy Editor

Martina Loncarica was one of four Syracuse seniors who stood in a line on the J.S. Coyne Stadium field as part of the Sunday’s senior day pregame ceremony.

The other three invited their parents onto the field. But with Loncarica’s family living in Argentina, the team captain asked teammate Liz McInerney to accompany her.

Tears streaming down her face, McInerney walked alongside Loncarica through an aisle created by two rows of cheering teammates.

“She’s just a great friend and a great teammate, and she’s always there supporting me,” Loncarica said. “So I picked her because she deserves it.”

Cohesive teammates on the field, good friends off it, Loncarica and McInerney share a profound relationship that is critical on a Syracuse (16-3, 5-1) team hoping to make a push for a national championship. Their will to win is exemplified during games, practice and even in their offseason training regimen. But that all started just two seasons ago when McInerney joined SU after spending 2008 and 2009 playing in her native Ireland.

Coaching at a camp in Pennsylvania a few summers ago, the two formed a bond. After coaching during the daytime, Loncarica and McInerney would return at night to practice.

Eventually, Loncarica urged McInerney to try to play for the Orange and head coach Ange Bradley. And she did, making the move to America before last season. “(Martina’s) the reason I’m here,” McInerney said. “She basically recruited me to come here and brought me over, so I owe her everything.”

Officially listed as a junior in 2010, McInerney started all 21 of SU’s games. However, she recorded only one goal and three assists. She knew there was room for improvement.

Heading into the offseason this past summer, McInerney wanted to become a faster, sharper player. Rather than returning to Ireland, she stayed at SU and trained with Loncarica.

“We were here for the three weeks or a month after everyone left and we just ran and ran. Just everywhere,” McInerney said. “… We’d just run all around Syracuse.”

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where the two were even going.

In addition to those more than hourlong — sometimes marathon-esque — runs, the two worked extensively with the team’s strength and conditioning coach. They added quickness, running sprints and built strength by working vigorously in the weight room.

That month of painstaking training has paid off for both her and Loncarica. The two veterans have utilized a rare breed of toughness, helping lead SU to a 16-3 record heading into the Big East tournament.

Loncarica rewrote the program’s record books, setting new marks for career points and career assists. McInerney has already tallied five goals and has two more assists (10) than Loncarica (8).

And defensively, McInerney is reading passing angles exceptionally well, thus preventing opposing offenses from building attacks.

“That’s just something I like to do in my game,” McInerney said. “I like to disrupt the play of the other team.”

But whether McInerney will be wreaking havoc on opposing offenses again next season is unclear. Officially listed as a senior, she has

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filed paperwork with the Big East conference to earn another year of collegiate eligibility.

McInerney expects to receive an answer soon, and Loncarica is hoping her teammate is allotted another season.

“That’s something nobody can control,” Loncarica said. “We just have to wait, and hopefully she gets it. If she doesn’t she’ll move forward, but I have my confidence that she will get it.”

But regardless of whether McInerney returns to the Orange in 2012, she will remain close with Loncarica. The emotional moment they shared walking side by side past their applauding teammates will live with them forever.

And it may very well be followed by countless others.

“That’s what’s great about sport — you make friends for life,” Bradley said. “These kids are blessed to be in a position to have teammates from all over the world that, when you leave here 15 to 20 years down the road, you’re going to look back, and you’re going to remember those things.” sebail01@syr.edu

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Syracuse heads into its first exhibition game of the season Tuesday with a striking height advantage over Cal State-Los Angeles.

The Golden Eagles feature just two players taller than 6 feet 6 inches in the form of 6-foot-9 centers Carl Hoffman and junior transfer Jordan Richard. The Orange will be rotating players on and off the floor all evening, many whose height eclipse the height of the Golden Eagles’ third-tallest player, 6-foot-6 Leland Jones. Here’s a look at the players for each team who are Jones’ height and taller:

WVU sues Big East to leave early

By Ryne Gery

West Virginia filed a lawsuit Monday to leave the Big East conference early for the Big 12 conference.

On Friday, the Big 12 announced the acceptance of the Mountaineers in time for the 2012-13 athletic season, with the move taking place effective July 1, 2012. To comply with Big East bylaws, though, West Virginia is required to wait 27 months before making the jump to the Big 12.

WVU claims it should not have to wait the 27 months in a 14-page

“We are disappointed that West Virginia has adopted this strategy and cannot imagine why it believes it does not have to respect and honor the bylaws it agreed to as a member of the Big East.”

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al State-Los Angeles has no player taller than 6 feet 9 inches. Only two Golden Eagles players are taller than 6 feet 6 inches.

For a Syracuse team with seven players taller than 6 feet 6 inches and two taller than 6 feet 9 inches, the size mismatch creates a challenge. For both teams.

“It’s harder to guard them for us because they are small, that makes it a challenge for our big guys,” SU head coach Jim Boeheim said on Oct. 26. “They’ll be playing 6’5” guys sometimes, so that makes it a little bit harder for them to chase

those guys around.”

The No. 5 Orange take on Cal State-LA on Tuesday at 7 p.m., welcoming the Golden Eagles into the Carrier Dome in the first of two exhibition games before SU’s 201112 regular season starts. It’s the third time in the last four years that Syracuse starts off against CSULA, which is coached by former Syracuse swingman Stephen Thompson. Since Thompson took over as Golden Eagles head coach in 2005, Syracuse won all three exhibition meetings between the two teams.

The Orange last played Cal StateLA in 2009, defeating the Golden

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lawsuit fi led in Monongalia County Circuit Court in West Virginia, blaming Big East Commissioner John Marinatto for the instability of the conference.

In the suit, West Virginia said Marinatto breached the interests of the Big East’s six remaining football schools following the departures of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Texas Christian by failing to take action to maintain the level of competition of Big East football. With eight nonfootball playing members, the lawsuit said Marinatto ignored the interests of the football schools.

“The Commissioner did nothing to protect the football playing schools and in fact took measures to further protect and advance the interests of the non-football playing schools,” West Virginia said in the lawsuit.

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