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MID-TERM ELECTIONS 2010

Few youth interested in election By Michael Boren ASST. NEWS EDITOR

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After a day of spastic weather and Syracuse’s first daytime spattering of snow, the Hall of Languages—and the rest of campus—endure some of the coolest temperatures of the semester. Lows reached 30 degrees Farenheit late Monday night into Tuesday morning. The Weather Channel predicts the coolest night will be Tuesday, with a low of 29 degrees. Although average temperatures sit between 36 and 49 degrees for this time of year, they have been as high as the mid 70s in early November and as low as 17 degrees.

Tea Party platform draws support from conservative students at SU CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With a number of Tea Party candidates appearing on Tuesday’s midterm election ballot, conservatives at Syracuse University are supporting the movement that aims to restore traditional values and fiscally conservative policies in America. “The overall movement is gaining popularity,” said Patrick Mocete, a junior political science major and chairman of College Republicans at SU. “If more college students take a

look at the tea party, I think they’ll find that they agree with it.” As a reaction to the Democratic majority in Congress and administration in Washington, D.C., the Tea Party movement has gained national and local attention from Republicans. Some at SU said they plan to vote for candidates that have followed the tea party platform, including gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino and congressional candidate Ann Marie Buerkle.

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Atheist student groups on rise nationally By Susan Kim COPY EDITOR

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When Victoria Smurro voted for the first time in 2008, she knew the names and the platforms of the candidates on her Rhode Island absentee ballot. Smurro voted for the president and every political race in her home state. But she did not apply for a ballot on time to vote in this year’s midterm elections because she did not know much about the candidates and viewed the midterms as less important than the presidential election, she said. “No one’s really pushing us to vote, so why would we?” said Smurro, a senior public relations major. In a year without a presidential race on the ballot, student political groups are pushing for more students to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections than they did in the September primaries, which saw a very low student turnout. Though political issues

James Johnson used to be a Jehovah’s Witness. He used to think atheists were sinners and had no morals. He used to judge atheists for not believing in God. But that was four years ago. Now he’s one of them. “I actually started to challenge my religion,” said Johnson, a graduate student studying plant science and biotechnology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. “For once in my life, I questioned, ‘Is there

really a God?’” The number of secular student organizations on college campuses is on the rise, with a 42 percent increase from last year, according to the Secular Student Association. Syracuse University has been home to a secular student organization since 2009. “The outlook for secular groups is really promising,” said Jesse Graf, communications director of SSA. “We’re noticing a lot of growth, both on campus and in support of students.” The number of national SSA-

affiliated organizations grew to 225 this year, compared to the 159 last year, Graf said. There are usually 25 to 30 members in each organization, he said. As these groups gain more prominence, students are stepping up to support each other and their beliefs, he said. Reasons for the increase are uncertain, but secularism is gaining more attention nationwide with leaders like atheist Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion,” paving the way, Graf said. College students particularly want to get SEE ATHEIST PAGE 10

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Richard Barnes, a photographer whose work compares humans and their environment, will speak in Slocum Hall Auditorium Tuesday at 2 p.m.

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In a federal appeals court on Monday, Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona and her lawyers defended the state’s controversial new immigration law, according to The New York Times. But Justice Department lawyers said central parts of the state law were unconstitutional and would render federal law enforcement. Just one day before the law was to take effect in July, a lower court ruled the state could not make local law enforcement What: Weiss, a 1987 SU alumnus and CEO officials check on the immigration status of people and founder of Weisscomm Group, will present they pull over, which is what the new law would “The Age of Integrated Communications” call for. The court also ruled local officials can’t be Where: Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, required to detain people they suspect of being illegal Newhouse III immigrants. Gov. Brewer is appealing that lower court When: 6 p.m. decision. Whatever the outcome from the appeals How much: Free court, it is also expected to be appealed. The judges focused on the question of whether a state could take it upon itself to carry out national laws, according to What: Black Communications Society will bring The New York Times. rapper, artist and actress Amanda Diva to SU. Diva will share her career experiences with the entertainment industry Where: 001 Life Sciences Building Britain, France and Germany all halted cargo shipWhen: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ments from Yemen as counterterrorism authorities How much: Free thought about their response to the finding of two bombs in air cargo late last week, according to The New York Times. Germany also stopped all Yemeni passenger flights while the British government barred What: SU will present new sounds in world Somali cargo. Theresa May, the British home secremusic with Korean contemporary-traditional tary who has responsibility for domestic security, said music and dance the ban would be in place for a month to start. DurWhere: Grant Auditorium ing that initial month, the government will work with When: 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. the manufacturers of airport screening equipment to How much: Free develop a sustainable security system to meet the new terrorist threats to air cargo. British Prime Minister David Cameron put the damage air cargo bombs can do in perspective. He said on Saturday that the bomb found at East Midlands could and was designed to blow up an airplane, according to The New York Times.

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Average debt from college up 6 percent By Heather Wentz Staff Writer

Student debt after graduation has continued to increase nationally, rising six percent since the class of 2009. “Student Debt and the Class of 2009,” published in October by the Project on Student Debt, showed 2009 college graduates have an average student debt of $24,000. At Syracuse University, there is an average student debt of $28,358, according to the study, more than $4,000 than the student average. The study collected the statistics on how colleges and universities distributed aid, said Edie Irons, communication director for the Institute for College Access and Success, the organization that runs the Project on Student Debt. “There are some private colleges with very generous financial aid packages where tuition is very high but student debt is low, and then there are lower-cost schools with alarmingly

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andrew renneisen | staff photographer tim wilke , a Student Association representative, reviews the agenda for Monday night’s SA meeting, where a resolution passed that allows University Union to apply for a year’s worth of funding at once. UU was also made the Official Programming Board of the university.

Campus can Revised UU budget frees funds for other organizations test updated Toyota Prius st uden t a ssoci ation

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The Syracuse University community will serve as testing grounds this November for two Toyota Prius Plugin Hybrid vehicles (PHV) that are not yet on the market. Two volunteers will be chosen every two months for the next 12 to 24 months to drive the newest unreleased Prius model in place of their normal cars to help Toyota decide how to market the Prius. Clean Communities of Central New York, a local company focused on adopting practices that reduce the use of petroleum, will choose the volunteers to drive the cars as part of Toyota’s research program. Chosen participants will need to pay for gas and electricity to charge the car’s battery. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Cities program funds Clean Communities of CNY. The department will manage the program, which entails recruiting volunteers from the

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A resolution to grant University Union yearly funding passed at Student Association’s Monday night meeting. UU, Syracuse University’s biggest and most funded programming organization, can now apply for funding on a yearly basis, leaving $10,000 to $20,000 open to other smaller student organizations to apply for. Six other student organizations can request yearly budgets: SA, Student Legal Services, SU Ambulance, CitrusTV, WERW and Z89. Unlike UU, these organizations receive funding for their operating expenses, not programming ones. Like most student organizations, UU has traditionally applied for its share of the student fee — the $185 built into each student’s tuition that gets funneled to student organizations — on a semester-by-semester basis. The resolution also makes UU the Official Programming Board of the university, giving it more financial autonomy and more flexibility in booking artists and reserving venues. For UU, getting the go-ahead to

collect its funding for the entire year at once means booking bigger acts earlier and cheaper. “The ability to book early is paramount,” said Andrew Beyda, UU president. Beyda said UU usually books bands and musical artists for Block Party, the organization’s spring concert in the Carrier Dome, in the February or March before the event. The change in the funding process will allow UU to book Block Party acts over the summer and secure harder-to-get names on the ticket for the April concert. The change means “we’re getting better artists before other colleges can get them,” Beyda said. The advanced booking would also take down the cost of the event by $10,000 to $20,000. The amount does not make up a large portion of the UU budget but could impact a lot of smaller campus organizations, Beyda said. SA president Jon Barnhart said SA’s intent in changing UU’s funding process was to draw down the cost of Block Party and leave more money available to other organizations. The switch to a yearly budget for UU has been in talks for more than

a decade, Beyda and Barnhart said. Barnhart said he remembered SA talking about the new office since he joined the association in fall 2008. As the Official Programming Board, UU will be the go-to contact for talent agencies calling the university for all large-scale programming,

Barnhart said. In the past, the Office of Student Activities has received an average of 17 phone calls a day from talent agencies looking to plan university events, and there is often confusion about where to direct the calls. Barnhart said these experisee SA page 10

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Student Association did away with the Class Alliance, the university’s now-defunct, previous governing body of the students. Recently the Class Alliance has only existed in SA’s codes.

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David Rezak, director of the university’s Bandier Program, called the change to University Union’s funding process a real enabler for better programming on campus.

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letters to the editor Make your voice heard, vote in midterm elections Election Day is today. I urge you, as a fellow student, to get out and vote Democrat. We need to channel the energy we felt on Nov. 2 just two years ago and keep the people who best represent us in office. Facing us are the midterm elections. Races are in Congress for governor, senator, state senator and state Assembly. There are local elections as well, such as for sheriff. When you go to the polls, please know that Congressman Dan Maffei represents us. He has been a true advocate for issues that directly

affect students. He has made student loan reform a priority. With his vote, we as students are now able to borrow directly from the government, thus eliminating the middleman of loan companies. This allows for our loan repayments to be capped at 10 percent of our income. Maffei supported health care reform, so once we graduate, we can stay on our parent’s health insurance up to age 26. This is a huge improvement and relief off our shoulders, especially to those seniors like me.

Issues that arise in this election are things that matter to us as not only students but as residents of Syracuse and New York state. Maffei has worked hard to support ending tax cuts to businesses that export jobs away. If you have any more doubts, please Google his appearance on “The Colbert Report.” Maffei is one cool guy. We are students of social science who believe in democracy. We are students of humanities who believe in ethics. We are students of natural science who believe in protecting the environment.

We are students, and we believe in education. Do not let your beliefs be pushed aside by politicians who think they can solve budget problems by eliminating the Department of Education or who deny that global climate change exists. One lump or two? Make your voice heard. Pass on the tea.

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Senior political science and international rel ations major President of SU College Democrats

Incident with teaching assistant causes student to question respect for students Syracuse University is new to me, but I know it has a high reputation as an academic institution and has the highest tuition in the state of New York. Last week one of the department’s reputation started melting before my eyes after an instructional assistant (more commonly know as a teaching assistant) defined the “to render” function on the Final Cut Pro video software

as, “It’s when a computer is thinking ‘What the F@#k?’” The other TA addressed me with, “I don’t like when people are turned to me with their butts when I talk to them” while I was logging off from the computer. (Later in the letter, I will refer to cussing as “casual communication.”) Additionally I was discouraged to ask questions related to the software after I had only

two. Passionately, but without raising the voice, I explained that my family pays a lot of money for the class and I cannot leave the lab with no knowledge in my head and, as a result, fail the multimedia project. This effort of being vocal was evaluated as a rude way of talking to a TA. Finally, in a subtle way, I was asked to pick another lab TA, which I understood as me being unwanted in the class next time. I nodded during the critique and kept quiet because the person could barely hide the anger and because I did not want the dialogue to become nasty barking back and forth like in “The Apprentice” television show. But I left with a strong opinion that students should not be treated like dogs or Marines on drill. And I can absolutely understand if a new teacher is initially not from an academic environment and comes from a profession in which casual communication is a norm,

but it should not be a norm to use inappropriate words in the classroom as part of teaching or communication or to display anger. Someone can argue that anger is part of human nature, but I always thought that in academia, teachers are of high integrity and try to help a student instead of picking up frustration and fighting back. Now I am left with a number of questions: What is the value of the teacher who is overly casual in communication or treats students poorly? What is the value of the department that does not instruct new teachers to use literary language in the classroom and develop professional ethics? What is the value of the university that charges roughly $3,000 per class and tolerates poor customer service?

Elza Orozalieva

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‘Clicker’ misrepresents new series Today’s Clicker feature, “Doomed,” was an egregious misrepresentation of an original series. The author’s critique of “The Walking Dead” for its brutally macabre depictions of the undead and the associated violence is inane and completely ignores the fundamentals of the genre. Such a condemnation is like lambasting popular vampire series for having too much blood. The appeal of this series is that its characters cling to their humanity despite the growing apocalyptic conditions surrounding them. Far from being too long-winded, the

prolonging of the series allows for thorough character development and rich storytelling. I would counter that this series offers the viewer a refreshing departure from the mundane television crime dramas that saturate the networks while maintaining its integrity. Such a misrepresentation could mislead readers into skipping what most critiques, including The New York Times, consider the most intriguing addition to TV.

Kristen O’Hara

Senior in the College of Visual and Performing Arts

‘Perspectives’ answer racially insensitive I’m writing in regard to the Oct. 28, Page 17 Perspectives question, “What are you dressing up as for Halloween?” I found it to be in really bad taste that The Daily Orange allowed the response “I’m going to be a Native American” to be published in the newspaper. The native population on campus is very small but very close-knit, and we constantly struggle with stereotypes and try to inform people when it’s necessary, and this is such a time. I feel like putting this into The D.O. is a real step backward. I was really happy with The D.O. on the articles it did on our Columbus Day event, which we had on the Quad, and I thought the coverage was really well done, accurate and culturally sensitive.

This, however, is not. I’m disappointed. There are a lot of students who may have seen this article and said, “Haha, that’s funny, a Native American.” It’s almost like you’re promoting it in a way. Please try and be more culturally sensitive in your articles from now on. It would have been really easy to just ask someone else what he or she wanted to be and not publish this in the ton of newspapers around campus. And to students on campus: Halloween is over, but please keep it in mind for next year. We know we’re fighting a really one-sided battle here, but every little bit helps.

Brianna Carrier

Junior Geography and policy studies major

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Results of midterm elections should matter to students editorial

Today is the 2010 not mean much to midterm elections. us now, but those by the daily orange New York state policies will have a editorial board residents will be huge effect on our voting for their congressional reprelives once we graduate. sentatives, in addition to New York’s Issues involving tax cuts, employnext governor. ment rates, health care and the cost There was an incredibly low turnof higher education will affect our out of Syracuse University students at careers, families and college debt. the primary elections in September, The governor’s race is particularly and experts expect similar results for important to students from the State today’s election. It’s not a presidential University of New York system. The election, but students should keep 2009-10 fiscal year budget under Govin mind that the president does not ernor David Paterson cut millions of make all the decisions. dollars from SUNY schools. President Barack Obama may Although Syracuse may not be our have campaigned on the platform of permanent residence, we do live here health care reform, but it was ultifor four years of our lives. The decimately Congress that drafted the bill. sions made within New York state College is a four-year bubble, and and Onondaga county do affect us. it is easy for students to lose sight of Even if you did not vote, take the the importance of midterm elections. time to read the election results, learn Many of the policies proposed and who won and understand their platput into effect by state representaforms. We need to be informed and tives, senators and governors may aware of who is making decisions.

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Democratic candidates best incorporate environmentalism into platforms

oday, New York voters get to pick a governor, a congressional candidate and both senators, all with the power to help carry strong environmental protections and renewable energy incentives through our Legislature on both the state and national level. Three of the best candidates for environmental issues happen to be Democrats. But I’m not supporting them because of their party. The Green Party is the closest to having a political party that I can fully support, but unfortunately many of the party’s candidates are difficult to take as serious contenders. The Democratic choices are emblematic of the way their party has successfully incorporated environmentalism into their platform, although their leadership on the issue during the 11th Congress was abysmal. There is one Green Party

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candidate, however, who is a suitable option - Howie Hawkins for governor of New York. Although he is unlikely to win against Andrew Cuomo, he is an incredibly strong supporter of environmental issues. Through his campaign, Hawkins has been pushing Cuomo to take a stronger stand on certain green issues, such as hydraulic fracturing, a process by which natural gas drillers attempt to fracture rocks with various liquids to increase the gas output. This is a practice that threatens the integrity of groundwater, and it also makes extraction of natural gas easier and cheaper, which incentivizes the dirty energy generation. Cuomo may not be a huge fan of the practice, but he won’t go as far as Hawkins will to make it outright illegal. For the 25th Congressional District seat, Dan Maffei has shown himself to be strongly supportive of

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give green a chance environmental issues and has upheld a very responsible environmental stance in the past year. Though the measure failed due to Republican obstructionism, he voted for greater offshore drilling regulations and lifting the liability cap on companies like British Petroleum, Halliburtun and Transocean for the Gulf oil spill disaster. When Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) proposed eliminating the Clean Air Act provisions - an idea so radically dangerous and irresponsible that it shocks the conscience - Maffei delivered a strong

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nay. I feel confident in saying that he will be a solid vote for environmental sanity, seeing as how his opponent, Ann Marie Buerkle, is dangerously ignorant in openly disavowing the theory of climate change, among other things. For the Senate candidates, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have solid environmental voting records.In 2008, Schumer was one of the “yea” votes on perhaps the most far-reaching proposal our Congress has had yet on the issue of greenhouse gas emissions. The measure failed to reach the 60-vote threshold to end the debate, but Schumer can be trusted to make the right choices when it comes to the environment. Gillibrand, who has been in office since Hillary Clinton moved on to head the State Department, also has a strong record. In September 2009, she voted to protect our oceans from offshore drilling,

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a stance that had her at odds with President Barack Obama at the time. Nine months later, 5 million barrels of oil were in the Gulf of Mexico and the local economy was crushed, with biodiversity in the Gulf decimated. She can be trusted to make the right decisions and rely on foresight to try and stop future problems, even when it is politically unpopular. If you haven’t voted yet today, I urge you to do so. Voting is a right that many countries don’t have and one that should be exercised. Also, regardless of how ineffective thirdparty candidates might seem after they get elected, their campaigns can change the political landscape, so voting should be done responsibly and sincerely. Remember, if you don’t vote, you don’t count. Luke Lanciano is a junior political science major. His column appears every Tuesday, and he can be reached at lllanci@syr.edu.

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this election season could impact students, such as potential cuts to Federal Pell Grants, political experts and students expect another low student turnout on Tuesday. A total of 17 people voted on Sept. 14 at E.S. Bird Library, according to an article published in The Daily Orange on Sept. 15. This included professors and local residents whose polling station is the library. Most college students historically do not vote because they are wrapped up in their college lives and do not know much about the elections, said Jeffrey Stonecash, a political science professor. “They don’t know a lot about political history. They don’t know about the candidates,” he said. But there are issues in the midterm elections that will affect college students, he said. If Republicans gain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, Stonecash said they may try to cut funding for Pell Grants, which help low-income students pay for school. U.S. House Republicans have pledged to cut $100 billion of next year’s federal budget, which means Congress could slash up to $5 billion from the Federal Pell Grant Program, according to an

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SU community to try out the vehicles and provide personal feedback through surveys. As volunteers drive the Prius PHVs, their use and performance habits will be automatically recorded and sent to analysis by Toyota. From there, Toyota will be able to make decisions about how to market the car. Barry Carr, coordinator of Clean Communities of CNY, said the SU community was chosen because researchers want to see realworld drivers in different situations that are influenced by different weather conditions. “Toyota wants to know how the battery performs under different climates, temperatures and driving patterns,” Carr said. “It’s a technological and market test.” Previous models of the Prius did not have the capability to plug in to recharge. The new PHV is capable of running solely on stored electricity for approximately 13 miles at speeds of more than 60 mph, according to an SU news release. After that, it will run on gas and the electricity generated by driving. The car’s battery takes about three hours to recharge using a standard 110V electrical outlet, and overnight charging is recommended. Applications are currently available online through a sub-page on SurveyMonkey. The chosen volunteers will receive their cars Nov. 12. Applicants will have to meet a set of requirements, including being age 21 or older and having a clean driving record, to be chosen for the program. Any SU student, faculty or staff member who fits those criteria is allowed

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article on Bloomberg.com published on Oct. 27. Even with the Pell Grant issue, Stonecash said he expects student voter turnout to be low for the midterms following the 17-person turnout at Bird. “I’m amazed it was that high,” he said. There is always more interest in a presidential election than in the midterm elections, he said. In 2008 specifically, there was a high interest in elections because there was a lot of frustration with the Iraq War and former President George W. Bush’s administration, he said. Young people usually do not establish themselves in the community and participate in politics until after college, Stonecash said. The voter turnout at Bird usually increases by 30 percent during presidential elections, but the turnout there has been extremely low for elections during the past several years, said Edward Ryan, Onondaga County’s Democratic elections commissioner. “A lot of them don’t care about the local elections,” he said. Ryan expects 50 to 60 people to vote at Bird for the midterms, he said. Students living on Main Campus can vote at Bird, but those living on South Campus have to vote at Drumlins Country Club. Some students have linked the low voting turnout to poor advertising of the elections on campus. Smurro said there are not as many

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advertisements and buzz about the elections this year as there were in 2008 for the presidential election. Student political groups came to her Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter meetings in 2008 and encouraged many of the girls to register for absentee ballots, Smurro said. But that has not happened this year. SU’s Office of Government and Community Relations provides voter registration forms and did a voter registration push in early October to get students registered, said Diana Napolitano, the office’s government relations associate. This was the first year the university office could send an e-mail to students about how to register to vote because federal law previously did not specify it could send that information out electronically, she said. SU College Democrats has registered at least 150 students to vote since the beginning of the school year in August, said Minda Conroe, the group’s president. The group is trying to make the midterms just as exciting as the 2008 presidential election, but presidential elections are usually a bit more fun than the midterms, Conroe said. “It’s something that we tackle every year, ‘How do we make this matter?’” she said. “Especially now more than ever.” Conroe sent her absentee ballot in last week for

the midterms. But she understands most students live in a college bubble, she said. “It’s easy to kind of live in oblivion of what’s going on in the world of politics around you,” she said. Vasiliki Likitsakos, a senior public relations major, said she would consider going to the polls if she watched the news more. But as of now, she has never voted. “I didn’t know enough about politics to put my vote through,” she said. “Just didn’t think it was fair.” Students can make a difference at the polls, said Patrick Mocete, chairman of SU College Republicans. His group has 30 to 40 students in it now, which is a jump from when 15 to 20 students were members of the group in 2008, he said. The increase came from the group getting word out about its meetings and more Republican students trying to get their voices heard, he said. Students do not have to be really politically involved to vote, Mocete said. They just need to understand the current and long-term effects of political issues. “We’re talking about our future here, and there are issues from the deficit to taxes to foreign policy,” Mocete said. “It all is going to affect you at some point down the road.”

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ment as a group of everyday people concerned with issues of national importance. Unlike Mocete, Fitzpatrick said he dislikes Paladino as a candidate. Fitzpatrick said he was indifferent to the Tea Party endorsement. Paladino is “more than welcome to be backed by whoever the hell he wants to be backed by,” Fitzpatrick said. Fitzpatrick plans to support Don Miller, Republican, conservative and Independent candidate, for the 121st State Assembly District; Buerkle; and DioGuardi in upcoming midterm elections. Fitzpatrick became involved with the Tea Party after attending its rallies and has followed Buerkle’s campaign. The movement’s popularity is due to its use of skillful supporters and speakers, as well as its clever way of thinking that catches the imagination of people who are discontent, said Ralph Ketcham, professor emeritus of political science at SU. While the movement is gaining momentum at the present, Ketcham said he believes the Republican Party will likely absorb the tea party movement. Since the movement is without a specific outlined policy, the Tea Party will probably die out on its own, Ketcham said. But at the moment, the movement continues to have a strong following. It is especially important for college students to consider where the government is taking them, said Joanne Wilder, organizer of the tea party group Central New York Patriots. The group focuses on researching bills and educating and enlightening citizens on the possible consequences of certain legislation. “College students should be wondering what their life will be like in a few years,” she said. “We want to be watchdogs.” Wilder said she believes that government has become too intrusive and fiscally irresponsible over time, not just during recent years under President Barack Obama’s administration. Those who will see the most negative effects of current government policy are the younger generations, she said. The success of Tea Party candidates in the midterm elections will largely depend on how Independents will vote, she said, encouraging college students to vote. “As a college student you have to budget yourself, you can’t overspend,” Wilder said. “What right does the government have to overspend?”

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to apply. Those chosen must sign a contract with Clean Communities of CNY and attend an orientation session before receiving their cars. New PHV drivers will be chosen every two months for the next 12 to 24 months, Carr said. Only the accepted volunteers are allowed drive the vehicles. Drivers may use the cars for commuting to and from campus and for any other personal business. Insurance coverage on the cars is provided by Toyota Motor North America. Clean Communities of CNY will pay for vehicle maintenance and service through local Toyota dealers. Clean Communities of CNY also placed two Prius PHVs with the Syracuse Center of Excellence and CuseCar, a local community-based car-sharing organization. Patty Hodapp, a senior magazine journalism major, said she thinks the program sounds like a good idea. She said she would be interested in applying. “A lot of students are looking to be more green in every aspect of their lives, and transportation is a big one,” she said. Tanya DiPietro, assistant energy conservation manager at the SU Energy and Computing Management office, has been testdriving the Prius PHV since early September. She said the hybrid was a dramatic change from her large SUV. “You can go forever without putting gas in it,” DiPietro said. “Next week will be two months, and I’ve only filled up the tank twice.” ygalstya@syr.edu

The Tea Party is a reactionary movement to excessive government spending, taxation and federal control, according to its website at teapartypatriots.org. The group has three main principles: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and a free market economy. The movement is concerned Americans’ fiscal freedom is at risk when high levels of taxation impose restrictions on where the money an individual earns must go. The Tea Party also believes the U.S. Constitution has only one original interpretation and that states have the right to determine those powers not expressly stated in the Constitution. Proponents of the movement are also against government interference in private business. Mocete said he plans to support Joe DioGuardi, Republican and conservative nominee for the U.S. Senate; Rick Guy, the Republican, Independent and conservative candidate for the 120th New York State Assembly District; and Buerkle, the Republican candidate for Congress representing the 25th district, which covers Syracuse. New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, who received the Tea Party’s endorsement, is not the perfect candidate, Mocete said, but he would still support him. “He can definitely do some good things,” Mocete said. “I like his stances on cutting spending and taxes. I think that will bring more jobs back to New York.” A self-proclaimed conservative, Mocete said he agrees with the Tea Party’s promotion of fiscal responsibility to “get the country back on track.” Mocete does not consider himself to be a member of the Tea Party movement but has participated in some local Tea Party meetings and went to a rally held in Syracuse on April 15, where he saw many young people turn out, he said. Mocete said he thinks the movement might appeal to younger Americans because they would be interested in more personal freedom. Daniel Fitzpatrick, former chair of SU College Republicans, said no matter what age group, if someone is concerned about the way the government is run, he or she may agree with tea party ideas. He said he sees the move-

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high student debt,” Irons said. At SU, 65 percent of the graduates have debt after college, according to the annual report. In addition, 22 percent of students were Pell Grant recipients. SU awarded $178 million in scholarships and grants for this academic year, according to the SU Financial Aid website. The information from the study was licensed fom Peterson’s, a company that compiles data on undergraduate and graduate programs from all over the country, Irons said. The Institute analyzed the data, which was collected between July 2008 and June 2009, and broke the information down to the state level. The Institute has conducted this study for the past five years because it is important for people to know how students at colleges across the country are borrowing money, Irons said. Trends on student debt in different geographical locations show the northeast consistently has high student debt, and the west and southwest show lower debt, Irons said. This could be attributed to the fact that there are more private colleges and universities in the northeast where students come out with more debt than in the west, he said.

New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania were all among the top ten highest debt states, and Utah, Georgia, California, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana and Washington were among the top ten lowest debt states, according to the annual report. College debt can also affect post-college jobs as it adds pressure for students to find decent paying jobs, Irons said. At the current average debt rate, graduates would have to pay $300 per month if they wish to pay off the debt in 10 years. “Unfortunately, we know that taking public service jobs or lower paying jobs such as teaching or social work has a real impact on people’s lves after graduation,” Irons said. Ricky Podsialdo graduated from SU in 2009 with a degree in information management and technology. He said he knew he wanted to work in the IT field and found a job right out of college with Liberty Mutual Insurance. Podsialdo said that he had $50,000 in student debt and he elected to pay it off in 30 years because right now he is not making a lot of money. He said he hopes as he furthers his career he’ll be make enough money to pay his debt off faster. But for right now, he said, this was the best plan. He also said he would still like to keep graduate school an option. “Ideally I would like to do a grad program where the company I work for pays for it, so

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he meningitis vaccine is now believed to provide protection for a maximum of five years, according to federal vaccine advisers. The vaccine was previously thought to provide protection for 10 years. Meningitis vaccines are required before most freshmen enter college because the disease is highly contagious in close quarters like dorms and can cause long-term health problems. Federal vaccine advisers debated recommending when the first and second doses should be administered. The group voted Wednesday to recommend 16-year-olds to receive a meningitis booster, which would protect students through early college years when outbreaks are most likely, according to a Wednesday article in The New York Times. The vaccine is usually given to children between the ages of 11 and 12. James Turner, a member of the committee and former president of the American College Health Association, said the committee made the official recommendation, but that does not mean it is legally binding. “What the (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) recommends never becomes law or a requirement,” he said. Meningitis is defined as an inflammation of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord and is categorized by symptoms like a high fever, constant headache and stiffness of the neck. Though it’s a rare disease, the fatality rate for those who contract it is 15 percent. In addition, 20 percent of people who became infected with the virus ended up with severe disabilities, such as hearing loss. “Contracting meningitis causes your body to go into shock, which causes a lack of blood flow to vital organs, such as the brain and kidneys,” Turner said. These health problems can result in the amputation of fingers, hands, feet

we’ll see what happens in the future,” Podsialdo said. While paying back student loans may seem daunting, Irons said, there are numerous options for managing loan repayment. The Project for Student Debt’s website has information on how to deal with student debt. Irons also suggested students keep in mind

and legs or the need for a kidney transplant, he said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends people to continue to vaccinate until a disease is eliminated, according to the CDC website. The CDC recommends the booster for susceptible teens and young adults to acquire the same successful results. Vaccines are the best way to prevent the spread of diseases, according to the CDC, but basic knowledge about the symptoms and outcomes could be helpful in the prevention process as well. Meningitis vaccinations started in 1982 when the Haemophilus Influenzae Type b Vaccine was given to infants and children under 5 years old, eventually eliminating the Hib disease, Turner said. Hib was one strain of the meningitis virus. Turner said students should be mindful of certain behaviors that could put them at risk for contracting meningitis. “Students should be reminded that random kissing and the sharing of drinking glasses and smoking materials spread bacteria, which can also lead to the spread of meningitis,” Turner said. Students are not required to receive a meningitis vaccine prior to coming to campus, but they are required to complete a form on whether or not they have received the vaccine, according to Syracuse University Health Services. If a student decides later on that he or she would like to receive the vaccine while on campus, Health Services offers the meningococcal vaccine. Freshman pre-law major Sydney Powell said she thought students should be vaccinated for any potentially fatal or communicable disease. Said Powell: “I care that people aren’t vaccinated and living around me because they might get me sick since I’m part of the most at-risk age range.” acptachi@syr.edu

the public service loan forgiveness program, which forgives debt after 10 years of eligible employment and qualifying loan payments. “Federal loan repayment ties monthly payments to income,” Irons said. “So if you don’t make a lot of money and have a lot of debt, this tool is very useful.”

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Recipe for disaster With dash of fatigue, inexperience, students become prone to cooking-class injuries By Anthony DiBiase

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and Food Service Operations” have been injuring

beginning of the semester. The classes include a

themselves during lab sections.

six-hour kitchen lab once a week, either on a Tues-

urns, cuts and dehydration are what some

HPM 115 is a class in which first-year students

students have to show for after dedicating

investigate the science behind cooking in a kitchen

“We establish very early on that this is an

themselves to their hospitality manage-

setting. In HPM 216, students explore what it is like

environment that they aren’t used to yet,” said

to run and be part of a functional restaurant. The

MaryAnn Kiernan, an instructor of one of the

Despite strict safety precautions, students taking

class prepares and serves real meals to a select

HPM 216 classes.

HPM 115: “Food Science” and HPM 216: “Restaurant

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involved because they have enough time and resources to make a difference, he said. “There are just genuinely more and more non-religious Americans, and that’s something that’s even stronger among younger generations,” Graf said. Secular student organizations have formed in all but six states, according to the SSA website. In the Northeast, most of the organizations are located in the tri-state area, and 11 groups are in New York state. One of those 11 groups is at SU. In the summer of 2009, Johnson started the Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers Alliance. “We try to build a safe space for people who

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feel like they can’t talk to anyone else about it,” Johnson said. There were only six members when AAF first started. Within months, the organization grew to 20 members. Now there are more than 100 members on AAF’s Facebook page and 25 members on OrgSync, in addition to 80 new students who signed up for the listserv this year, Johnson said. “I thought we would be camping along with, like, six members,” he said. “But there was positive reception. The people who saw AAF were really excited.” Despite the growing number of secular student groups, atheism is still considered taboo, Johnson said. It is not uncommon for atheists to face discrimination from their family or friends and hostility from the community in which they grew up, he said.

Marc Mason, a junior international relations and communication and rhetorical studies major, adopted atheism when he was 14 years old. Before that, he was Orthodox Christian, as is his mother. And before Mason told his family about his religious beliefs, he imagined they could have had a negative reaction to the news, he said. It was a while before he gathered the courage to tell his family that he would no longer practice Christianity, or any religion, for that matter, he said. When he finally did tell them, he did not face as much hostility as he expected, he said. “It’s a big reaction from them at first, especially because the norm today is to say that you’re religious,” Mason said. But groups like AAF will be helpful for atheists who might feel like they are part of the

minority, he said. “It works as a support system, to let people know that like-minded people do exist on campus,” Mason said. But people are not always entirely accepting. Johnson, the president of AAF, said about 60 percent of the posters AAF members put up around campus get torn down. The posters were usually announcements for special events sponsored by AAF, such as guest speakers, he said. But now that the organization has stable membership, Johnson said it can set out to do what it was created to do: fulfill a need for secular students. “You think you’re alone in how you view the world, and you find out that you’re not. And there’s an entire group of people who think like that,” Johnson said. “And, you know, you get pretty excited about things like that.” shkim11@syr.edu

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ences helped SA recognize the need to create the new office. With UU doing the programming, the job will be able to be done without increasing the student fee, Barnhart said. UU has been doing the job of scheduling large-scale events for some time, Barnhart said. The resolution now makes the position official. Barnhart said: “UU goes the extra mile to put on the biggest and the best programming on campus.” abknox@syr.edu

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Factors like a lack of experience, improper hydration, hunger, exhaustion and the occasional hangover leave students unprepared for six-hour labs, said Kiernan and Josie Pimentel, a learning assistant in an HPM 115 class and a junior hospitality management major. Despite these setbacks, there have not been many major accidents â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just a few scrapes and burns. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of expected that when you are in an intense kitchen environment, accidents are bound to happen,â&#x20AC;? Pimentel said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just people being absent-minded.â&#x20AC;?

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In the HPM 115 lab, someone passes out from dehydration and overheating every week on average, Pimentel said. In these cases, the instructor will follow procedure and call the Department of Public Safety, turning the student over to a safety officer. This protocol is meant to eliminate panic and unneeded stress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work very hard to minimize the stress level,â&#x20AC;? said Kiernan, who cited cooking shows like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Top Chefâ&#x20AC;? as accurate depictions of kitchen-based stresses. Kristina Mallon, a freshman nutrition science major, is one student who has felt the kitchenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pressures. During one of her lab blocks, she began to feel lightheaded and hot within the first 20 minutes. A classmate asked her if she was feeling all right, but she could only shake her head as a response. Her instructor, Nancy Rissler, noticed her pale complexion and sat her down in another room.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly pass out, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure if I had been standing a few more seconds, I could have,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon as I was seated, I started feeling fine.â&#x20AC;? Despite feeling better, she still showed symptoms of dehydration and was brought to Syracuse University Health Services by an ambulance. Health Services told Mallon that she needed to eat a better breakfast before going to her 9:30 a.m. lab. Lauren Wannermeyer, a junior hospitality management major, had two incidents this year in which she sustained injuries during a lab. The first was while using a double boiler to melt chocolate. Wannermeyer thought she could touch the pan without extra protection because she was wearing gloves required for students with painted nails. However, when she grabbed the pan, it melted through her gloves and burned her hands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just people being absent-minded,â&#x20AC;? Pimentel said. She sustained her second injury, a facial burn, when opening a powerful steam oven with her face directly in front of it. The steam escaped when she opened the door and instantly burned her face. In both of these cases, Wannermeyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s professor immediately instructed her on proper ways to treat the burns, which prevented blistering and further injury. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are definitely protocols in play,â&#x20AC;? Wannermeyer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether or not people follow them is where the problem lies.â&#x20AC;? There are many safety precautions set to avoid these injuries, the biggest being the dress code. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniform is one of the most highly recognized uniforms, aside from doctors,â&#x20AC;? Kiernan said. The double-button coat helps protect against heat and other kitchen hazards.

At the beginning of the semester, the professors explicitly lay out the rules. In Wannermeyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s class, the rules were recently reiterated to keep students safe throughout the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the dust settles, I would guess 80 percent of the time, it was operator error,â&#x20AC;? Kiernan said. Because accidents sometimes happen, there is no real solution to these problems, Kiernan said. People learn from their mistakes, and experience plays a major factor when avoiding and coping with injuries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are going to be occupational hazards, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the nature of the beast,â&#x20AC;? Kiernan said. One thing the department has done to lessen the amount of injuries is move the HPM 115 labs to a later time. Kiernan said the 8 a.m. time was too early because students werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready at that hour.

In Kiernanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 8 a.m. HPM 216 lab, she gives students anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour to wake up a little more by debriefing them on what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be working on before they actually start cooking. Despite the potential dangers, people stick with the class and seem to enjoy it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I love going to HPM 115. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely one of my favorite classes, and I really enjoy instructor Rissler,â&#x20AC;? said Mallon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I also love learning to make different foods, and taking to-go boxes back with me is always a plus.â&#x20AC;? In all the minor incidents that have occurred, no one has been severely hurt, mainly due to the professorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience and their ability to handle dangerous situations. Wannermeyer said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;They really are an amazing presence in the kitchen.â&#x20AC;? aedibias@syr.edu

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With only two meets left in the season, the turning point for the Syracuse men’s cross country team came in early October when it failed to repeat as champions at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational. Ever since that fourth place finish, the team has been undefeated. After the Wisconsin trip, Forest Misenti decided to cut his hair in a mullet type Mohawk that he calls the “Zipper,” but with the team on a win streak he’s decided to keep it a little longer. “I can’t cut it off now,” Misenti said Monday. “I’ve got to keep it.” And with good reason. The Orange’s twomatch win streak culminated in a victory in the Big East championship on Saturday. Led by Misenti, junior Pat DuPont and junior Steve Weeks, who each finished in the top 10 of the meet, SU captured the championship. All three of those runners earned All-Big East honors for their performances. Misenti was feeling too good to let the cold weather ruin his day on Monday. Coming off his team’s second consecutive Big East championship on Saturday, the sophomore Misenti was still reveling in the moment two days later. “It feels great,” Misenti said, when asked about his team’s big victory on Saturday at Jamesville Beach Park. “Going into it we wanted to repeat. We didn’t have to have an incredibly good day, but we just had to have everybody run well. We had some guys step up, but we’re moving on to the bigger picture and looking forward to nationals.” Syracuse shocked everyone when it won its first Big East title in Wisconsin last season, but this year the team faced added pressure because it was the favorite, as SU ran on their home course. Though everyone on the team had smiles on their faces at Monday’s practice, SU’s runners know they still have a lot of work to do, especially coming off only a four-point win on Saturday. Junior runner Tito Medrano, for one, is making sure his squad does not become too overconfident about its chances in upcoming regional and national meets. “We don’t take anything for granted,” Medrano said. “We’re going into the (NCAA

“We don’t take anything for granted. We’re going into the (NCAA Northeast Regional) knowing we need to perform solid like we always do. Nationals is where we want to make a statement, and we still have a sour taste in our mouths from last year.”

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Northeast Regional) knowing we need to perform solid like we always do. Nationals is where we want to make a statement, and we still have a sour taste in our mouths from last year.” After placing first or second in every meet last season, the team failed to perform to its level of expectation and finished a disappointing 14th. Head coach Chris Fox hasn’t forgotten about what happened last year in Indiana, and it has been one of his motivational tools all season. “These guys are pretty motivated,” Fox said. “All year the goal was to run well because this is the start of our season. The Regionals are only important that we get to Nationals, because we have become a kind of a conference/nationals team.” A top-10 finish is what Fox is aiming for, and with the program receiving so much recent attention he is making sure his team is focused and starving for even more success. And Medrano is one of his players hungry for more. “We’re definitely hungry for more,” Medrano said. “We’re far from satisfied, and won’t stop getting hungry until we run well at Nationals.” cjphil01@ syr.edu

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A familiar

pattern

Though predictable, N.E.R.D.’s sound still enjoyable

By Terron Moore STAFF WRITER

.E.R.D. can be misleading. After all, two-thirds of the group, Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo, better known as The Neptunes, are the producers of just about every other recent song that tells listeners what to do with their booty (“Drop It Like It’s Hot,” “Wind It Up,” “Rock Your Body”). Their albums are often powered by fun and bold singles, such as 2004’s furious “She Wants To Move” and 2008’s “Everyone Nose.” But when it comes to the group’s actual records, N.E.R.D. isn’t exactly party central. The group tends to be surprisingly mellow — almost too mellow — given its history of producing hit singles. Their fourth and newest record, “Nothing,” follows the same familiar

format of the band’s first three records. It’s calm with a little kick, but that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable. In fact it’s even more fun this time around. Perhaps it’s the oversaturation of autotune and abundance of techno influence into mainstream hip-hop, but N.E.R.D. excels when sticking to what it does best: making a concise collection of alternative hip-hop that’s best when performed live. “Nothing” floats through so many different vibes that it could be called inconsistent, but in this instance, it actually works. At Syracuse University’s 2010 Block Party, when N.E.R.D. opened for Drake (and arguably rocked the crowd better than the headliner), students got the chance to hear two tracks from “Nothing,” which is good because they have a solid presence on the album. “Party People,” the opener, sounds even better in stereo than it did in the Carrier Dome. It’s a hyper-funky sing-along that features a verse from recently incarcerated rapper T.I. On the other side, as the album closer, “Hot-N-Fun” is a track that sounds both retro and modern as Pharrell compels listeners to “get high, get money, get sex, get real,” featuring a catchy chorus and a Nelly Furtado verse.

The middle of the album, however, is where things get significantly spacier. On “Hypnotize U,” Pharrell woos a pretty, promiscuous woman with his whimpering falsetto while pounding a drum pad. It isn’t sexy in the slightest, but somehow the track still flows. The album weaves through a completely random set of songs that attempts to further exemplify the band’s effortlessness. “Help Me” wanes and climaxes through blaring horns, but “Victory” lacks energy. The album picks back up on “Perfect Defect,” a mid-album highlight that feeds on mellow, old-school R&B funk. Over a sample similar to Temptations, Pharrell tries to pick up yet another girl, although in a classier way (“Aw, you’re so perfect / Don’t you ignore me, girl”). “I’ve Seen the Light/Inside of Clouds” is another likable track boasting Pharrell’s still-mediocre vocals over an awesome mash of sounds, ranging from western to old school to futuristic. The horn lines on “God Bless Us All” are infectious and soulful. “Life As A Fish” is a quiet, wondrous tune in which Pharrell suggests that living on dry land sucks and argues how life would be much better if we all lived as sea creatures. “Nothing On You,” however, is the best track overall, with an up-tempo tune that sounds similar to something you’d hear in both N.E.R.D.

and The Neptunes’ most popular songs. It’s that easy cool that takes Pharrell’s best vocal, a great drum line and great implications from a clearly adventurous girl: “You kiss me / I kiss her / She kiss you / You kiss me.” Well, there’s an interesting proposition to say the least. “Nothing” is a great album for N.E.R.D. fans. Tracks like “Nothing On You” and “Hot-N-Fun” are among some of the coolest tracks the group has ever created. But regardless of whether you are a fan of the group or not, this record simply isn’t that surprising. temoore@syr.edu

Sounds like: A classic funk band meets The Neptunes Genre: Hip-Hop Funk Top track: “Nothing On You”

N.E.R.D.

Rating:

Nothing

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“It is about this community, the lettermen, the alumni, the faculty, the people associated with the program that there is a sense of pride in what we’re doing,” Marrone said. “You can be proud of everything that we do. … That is how I look at it, and that is what it is about.”

Syracuse defense ranks No. 13 nationally After holding Cincinnati to just seven points Saturday, SU entered the week with the No. 13 defense in the country. Its scoring defense (17.5 points per game) is its best since 2001, and its total defense (298.5 yards per game) is its best since 1997. “When our defense plays well, we usually have success as a team,” running back Antwon Bailey said Wednesday. “They take the pressure off of us and allow us to not force things offensively.” As the defense goes, so goes SU. The defense has paved the way for SU’s 6-2 start this season. In its six wins, SU has allowed just 10 points per game. In its two losses this season, the Orange defense struggled, allowing 43 points per game. But recently, the Orange defense has played as well as it has in recent memory. In each of its last two wins, the Orange has not allowed a single offensive point in the second half. “We have experience on that side of the ball, good leadership on that side of the ball,” Marrone said. “We have excellent coaching, starting with (defensive coordinator) Coach (Scott) Shafer. Players are playing at an extremely high level right now. There is an urge in them to be successful. They have a confidence about them, and they know how to work. They know it’s not easy to perform on a Saturday.”

“It is about a school that hasn’t done well in a period of time now and a point where we see a level of awareness and happiness, there are smiles on our face and people are talking.” Doug Marrone

SU head coach

Orange completes 3-1 October stretch As the season began back on Sept. 4, it appeared as if the toughest part of SU’s schedule would come during the month of October. The string of South Florida-Pittsburgh-West Virginia-Cincinnati appeared to be the gauntlet that would determine the success of the season. It appeared to be a make-or-break stretch. But with its 31-7 victory at Cincinnati Saturday, Syracuse completed its most successful October in nine years. With road wins against South Florida, West Virginia and UC, the Orange also won three conference road games in a single month for the first time since 2001. The last time the Orange finished 3-1 or better during the month was that same year, when it won all four games in October. Since then, SU had been just 6-22 during the month of October prior to this season. Still, Marrone isn’t sitting content with the accomplishment. He doesn’t dwell on what has been accomplished in just his second year at SU. “I can’t afford to do that,” Marrone said. “We haven’t really accomplished anything. Good job, we’re 6-2, but not 8-0. We need to keep our nose down because we have a lot of work ahead of us. It becomes more and more difficult each day.”

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Syracuse to test 10-man rotation in 1st exhibition of season By Brett LoGiurato ASST. SPORTS EDITOR

Jim Boeheim teams don’t usually contain a 10-man rotation. Last season, seven players ruled Syracuse’s minutes. The year before, it was the same amount. Not 10. But that’s how many players Boeheim thinks are capable of earning significant playing time this season for the 2010-11 version of the Syracuse men’s basketball team. “We do have 10 guys who we think are capable,” Boeheim said at SU’s annual media day on Oct. 15. “So we’ll see how practice and we’ll see how the early part of the season goes. The guys who are ready will play.” Whether what Boeheim thinks is a capability actually develops into a 10-man rotation will start to be determined Tuesday, as the No. 10 Orange gears up for its first contest of the season, an exhibition with Division II school Kutztown (Pa.). Starting at 7 p.m. inside the Carrier Dome, Boeheim will start to discover which

players will fill out his rotation — and which will fill out his bench. Under Boeheim’s tenure at Syracuse, capability has often developed into a tight rotation of seven or eight players as the season progresses. In 2007-08, similar to the two seasons that would follow, five SU players saw more than 30 minutes of action per game while two others got nearly 20 minutes per game. “He is a Hall of Fame coach,” junior guard Scoop Jardine said of Boeheim at media day. “He gives us a lot of freedom and lets us do a lot of different things. He thinks about and does what is best for the team, and he is going to find out what is best for the team. At the end of the day, coach knows best.” Jardine figures to be one returning player who will see significant time this season in Boeheim’s rotation. He is expected to start alongside returning starting point guard Brandon Triche. Senior forward Rick Jackson is back at his starting “four” spot, and Kris Joseph will move from

a prominent bench role into the starting small forward. But beyond those four is where the questions start. Beginning with the presumed starting center: highly touted freshman Fab Melo, who will take over for the departed Arinze Onuaku. Boeheim is expecting both Melo and fellow freshman Baye Moussa Keita to play key roles this season, especially with the presumed seasonending foot injury to sophomore DaShonte Riley. “Our big guys are key for us because we’re asking the freshmen to step in and do the work inside,” Boeheim said. “I think the two guys are very capable, but they’re going to have to work hard. Bernie Fine always does a great job with the big guys, getting them ready. It’s up to us to make sure they’re ready to get done what we need to out there.” Keeping count, that’s six. And in the Orange’s two exhibition games against Kutztown and against Le Moyne on Nov. 9, just how many more Boeheim is willing to put in his rotation will

start to come into focus. That could mean spots for the other two in a top-ranked freshman class, guards Dion Waiters and C.J. Fair. “I can do it all,” Waiters said. “I can shoot, I can play defense, I can pass the ball. I am going to bring everything to the table.” It could mean spots and extended roles for sophomores Mookie Jones and James Southerland, who each saw their playing times dwindle last season as the Orange entered Big East play. Or it could mean spots for all of those 10. Boeheim at least expects as much. On Tuesday, he will start to find out. “I think we have some guys who are very capable,” Boeheim said. “We think the 10 guys we have can play. We don’t think that any of the 10 guys we have are not ready. We think they will be ready and capable of coming in and playing. I don’t have any reservations about these 10 guys. I think they can come in and contribute.” bplogiur@syr.edu

(0-0) SYRACUSE vs. KUTZTOWN (0-0) ANDREW L. JOHN

SYRACUSE 120, KUTZTOWN 62

This should be entertaining.

TONY OLIVERO

SYRACUSE 97, KUTZTOWN 54

Yes, you are right. This was the score in the Orange’s exhibition opener over Cal State-L.A. last year.

STARTING LINEUP

BEAT WRITER PREDICTIONS

TONIGHT, 7 P.M., CARRIER DOME

POINT GUARD

SHOOTING GUARD

SCOOP JARDINE

JULIUS GRAY

BRANDON TRICHE

JON DESHIELDS

KRIS JOSEPH

6-2 190, JR.

6-0 185, SR.

6-4 205, SO.

6-6 200, SO.

6-7 210, JR.

Scoop will play both guard positions this season, and his ability to run the Syracuse offense should make him one of SU’s most important players. The keys to the car are his now.

POWER FORWARD

FREE THROWS

SMALL FORWARD

Triche will also play both guard spots this year, but his combination and ability to score means he will play off the ball a lot more. It should be interesting to see how his game has progressed from Year 1 to Year 2.

CENTER

ERIC BRENNAN 6-7 217, JR.

Joseph may be SU’s best player this year. He replaces Wes Johnson in the starting lineup but will bring a lot of different things to the table for SU.

a Melo game. Be ready for

RICK JACKSON

TAMIR JOHNSON

FAB MELO

ALEX REED

JIM BOEHEIM

BERNIE DRISCOLL

6-9 240, SR.

6-6 225, SR.

7-0 244, FR

6-9 225, SO

W-L: 829-293 34 seasons

W-L: 165-118 10 seasons

And so begins the career of another prized recruit with the one-syllable name. Safe to say Melo has the edge here over the undersized Reed. The real question is how dominant the center will want to be in the exhibition.

STAT TO KNOW

2006

SYRACUSE 92, KUTZTOWN 58

Jackson, a two-year starter, has the most experience of the guys returning and will be called upon early to be a front-court leader. Time will tell how he performs with Arinze Onuaku now gone.

Kutztown will play in its first game since the loss of Stephen Dennis, the Division II National Player of the Year, last season.

The last year Syracuse started the season after losing a firstteam All-American. Hakim Warrick was named a first-team All-American by seven different outlets in 2005. The Orange lost first-team All-American Wes Johnson at the end of last season.

COACHES

BRETT LOGIURATO

Oh yeah, exhibition games, yeah.

SU head coach Jim Boeheim begins his 35th season at his alma mater. Boeheim was honored as coach of the year by seven different outlets, including the Associated Press, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the United States Basketball Writers Association, after leading SU to a 30-5 season in 2009-10.

Last year, Driscoll led the Golden Bears to a 23-8 record. It was the team’s first back-to-back 20 win seasons in school history. It’s an accomplishment. But Jim Boeheim is Jim Boeheim.

BIG NUMBER

The number of SU scholarship freshmen who will be making their Carrier Dome debuts versus the Golden Bears. Big East freshman of the year choice and 7-foot center Fab Melo, shooting guard Dion Waiters, forward C.J. Fair and center Baye Moussa Keita comprise the Orange’s freshman class.

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Hayes provides Orange with all-around play, leadership By Chris Iseman Staff Writer

All it took was a video. One in which Sarah Hayes’ all-around volleyball abilities were so apparent — so evident — that the Syracuse volleyball coaches immediately knew they were interested. And they hadn’t even seen her in person. “You could just tell that she had a really good court awareness and was an all-around player,” Orange assistant coach Carol LaMarche said. “I saw the quickness. I gave the video to Jing (Pu), and he saw the same things I did.” But they both saw the 5-foot-9 Hayes playing defense for the Orange. A switch in positions was in order. Hayes had always been an outside hitter in high school, a level at which her height didn’t inhibit her ability to play offense. But to play in the Big East, her height made the change to defense somewhat inevitable. Four years later, adjustments long out of the way, the senior captain has become a reliable leader for the Orange both on and off the court. Hayes knew she wouldn’t be recruited to play offense at the Division I level. She was all but guaranteed a spot on defense. But the switch was no problem for Hayes. Instead the outside hitter turned defensive specialist has learned to love her position because, well, she doesn’t have much of a choice. “I love offense,” Hayes said. “But I mean, (defense) is my position on this team, that’s my role. You sort of just have to love it.” The hard hits to the f loor Hayes takes every time she dives to make a dig never show up in the box score. Neither does her job of having to defend against the smashing hits opposing hitters — who can be five inches taller than her — sent in her direction. Defense is a thankless job, so for Hayes, it’s a good thing she’s able to love it.

But like her all-around volleyball abilities, her leadership abilities are just as strong and just as important. That’s why her teammates named her captain at the start of the year. Last season, her ability to become a vocal on-court leader of the Orange started to show itself, LaMarche said. “I guess that has to do with some of her confidence and her feeling that this is her team,” LaMarche said. “It’s great because she’ll be the one to speak up in practice or in games and kind of get people going if it’s getting kind of sluggish.” But there’s nothing sluggish about Hayes’ play on the court. Her quickness gives SU’s coaches the opportunity to have two players capable of playing libero — Hayes and junior Ashley Williams. It’s not a luxury every coach has, but Hayes’ quick reactions to opposing offenses allow Pu and LaMarche to have that choice. Those quick reactions make it much more difficult for other teams to find the holes in Syracuse’s defense. If they hit in Hayes’s direction, there’s a good chance the Orange will be able to return it back over the net. As Syracuse heads into the final stretch of its season, the final push to the playoffs, Hayes will be depended on to continue giving the Orange offensive opportunities. With SU on the bubble for a Big East tournament berth, this is the time that Hayes’ quick reactions are needed most. Syracuse will need every opportunity it can get if it wants to find itself with a spot in the conference playoffs, and it starts with the leader of its counterattack. “If something’s coming at her face, she can put her hands up and block it and actually have it be a ball that can be set,” LaMarche said. “She has a quick reaction time.” cjiseman@syr.edu

brandon weight | staff photographer sarah hayes moved from outside hitter to a defensive specialist after high school. Hayes, a senior, has embraced her role and become leader on the Syracuse team.

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routine,” Marrone said in his weekly press conference on Oct. 4. “When I first went into the NFL, a coach who had coached for more than 30 years (then-SU head coach Dick MacPherson) told me I was never going to last with how I was doing things. He said I had to get into a routine and get my sleep here and get my sleep there. When you get into a routine, then it is better for dealing with stress.” But for Andersen, the Utah State head coach, the stress finally caught up with him. Lucky for him, his health issue was stressrelated and not something more serious or life-threatening. Andersen said he needs to do a better job of taking care of himself. That includes sleeping and eating better, in addition to understanding what to do daily. “Just be smarter when it comes to my daily health,” Andersen said. “I’ve educated myself,” he added, “and I’ve listened to doctors and had every test in the world done on me to see if anything was wrong. And there’s really nothing wrong.” But even though there is no underlying medical issue, stress from the intricacies of the job has proven to be an issue that is often ignored until a major incident occurs. It is an issue that is not taken with the seriousness of other health issues but one that can develop serious consequences. As someone who consistently immerses himself in the health-related issues of players and coaches, Neal sees firsthand the stress that Division I coaches endure. “What happens sometimes is everybody feels stress,” Neal said. “Sometimes there may be an underlying problem, such as a heart condition or something else. And when people get stressed without a heart condition, you can feel your chest pound or you can feel your chest get tight. So they dismiss it, thinking it’s just a normal, professional stress, when in fact it could be a heart condition.” The Syracuse football coaches have physical exams every year because of the stress of the occupation, Marrone said. New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton implemented physicals for his staff, and Marrone, who coached with Payton on

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the Saints, now does the same at SU. “We as coaches, most of us think we’re invincible,” Marrone said. “We’ve played, we’re fine, we’re in great shape, but that was big for Sean, and we all had to go and get these physicals.” Even if a coach’s physical reveals no heart condition, he or she can still have heart problems arise. Mark Dantonio, the head football coach at Michigan State, had a heart attack on Sept. 18, almost immediately after the Spartans beat Notre Dame on a stunning fake field goal in overtime. And that was after Florida head football coach Urban Meyer nearly resigned following esophageal problems in January. Their issues may not have been solely based on stress, but it could have been a contributing factor, Neal said. Big-time coaches get entrenched in their jobs. Like Andersen, they live, eat and breathe their football or basketball programs, leaving little time for themselves. “I absolutely think it was due to stress,” Andersen said of his blackout. “I absolutely believe it was due to the way that I took care of myself. And I think anybody that knows anything about stress, which I knew nothing about prior to the situation, is if you don’t eat right, you don’t sleep right and you don’t take care of yourself the right way, that leads to issues. “And stress is one of those issues.” In charge of 115 lives besides his own, Andersen struggled balancing everything and everyone. Andersen had been putting himself last. But now the Utah State coach is finding a balance. Yes, he still must take care of his players and his program. But he is trying to do both without getting overworked. “It comes down to three things for the kids,” Andersen said. “And when I look at the issue that I had, now I sit back and say, ‘How can I help myself ?’ “Well, I look back and I always try to put the players first — their social lives, their academic lives and their football lives. I need to make sure that I take care of them by having the time to take care of myself.” So that is what Andersen is doing now. Learning to take care of himself and handle the stress. It doesn’t go away, so he and countless other coaches must learn how to deal with it. That involves exercising, eating healthy and taking time to care for

themselves, not just others. “Coaches have a tendency to think they’re indestructible, and then they put everything on the backburner to focus on the football team, to focus on winning games,” Andersen said. “And I believe now I know that you can do that and still take care of yourself. And I don’t think I was doing that. “So do I hope other coaches will listen and say, “Hey, I’m not indestructible, this could happen to me?’ I absolutely hope they do, and not necessarily from what happened to me.” Dantonio’s heart attack was another shock after his team’s scintillating win over the Fighting Irish. Especially to Dantonio himself. “I’ve always been in great health,” Dantonio told reporters following the incident. “You know, that’s just the way it is, I guess.” But at least there are some coaches like Andersen who are more aware of their situations now. Even if it took him blacking out to realize he needs to slow down. Andersen said he hopes that people in general, in addition to coaches, take these issues to heart. Despite the responsibilities that come with being a big-time college coach, he isn’t ready to say that Division I football and basketball coaches are the only victims of stress. Stress comes up with any job, Andersen said. Not just coaching. “I think if you want to be the best at your job, it’s going to be a stressful job,” he said, “because you put so much on yourself, and you expect so much out of yourself.” Neal agrees that people have to find their own ways to cope with stress. “Some handle it well, and some maybe can handle it a little better,” Neal said. “Stress is a fact of life, and people have to develop ways to cope with it within their own dynamic.” Andersen is doing that now. He’s making daily changes. He’s still getting up at 5:45 a.m. He still has long hours. But little changes like going home earlier and taking an hour to himself are helping him cope. After all Andersen has gone through, he continues to get the message to people and coaches. He’s taking time for himself. “Happy to be who I am,” Andersen said. “Hopefully lesson well-learned, and move on.”

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Y K S RBUISINESS courtesy of msu athletic communications and usu media relations MARK DANTONIO (LEFT) AND GARY ANDERSEN (RIGHT) are two Division I coaches who suffered with stress-related health problems in 2010.

Recent health scares cause reﬂection on stresses of coaching high-level collegiate teams By Rachel Marcus STAFF WRITER

very day was the same for Utah State head football coach Gary Andersen. Get up at 5:45 a.m., drive to work. Take care of academic duties for his team, review fi lm until noon. Take a short break, practice. Take another short break, more fi lm. Return home by 8 p.m., if he’s lucky. Then repeat. Every day, that is, until Sept. 27.

Instead of driving to work, Andersen was driven to the emergency room in an ambulance after a blackout and fall that left him with two cracked vertebrae in his neck. The cause? Stress. “There’s no question that’s part of it,” Andersen said. “And a lot of it’s self-induced. And for me, personally, I don’t think it’s really a situation of stress of necessarily of winning or losing a football game. I think what it comes down to is man-

aging your day-to-day operations.” Andersen’s health issue highlights a disturbing trend among high-profi le Division I football and basketball head coaches. In the past year, numerous coaches, from Florida to Michigan State, have dealt with serious health issues relating to the stress that accompanies the rigors of such a demanding occupation. With daily schedules that start at the crack of dawn, recruiting,

coaching and dealing with everyday life, coaching a major program is no easy task. Especially if coaches like Andersen aren’t paying enough attention to their well-being. “They’re putting in enormous amounts of hours,” said Tim Neal, the assistant director of athletics for sports medicine at Syracuse University. “In addition to that, that cell phone can go off, and there’s some sort of a problem. … They’re in the recruiting, which is very stressful.

They’re on the road a great deal. So they do experience a great amount of career stress, and it comes with their career.” Most fi nd a way to handle everything. Sure, they get stressed. It’s not in the job description, but it’s defi nitely part of the job. Syracuse head football coach Doug Marrone said the solution is his day-to-day schedule. “You just have to be in a good SEE STRESS PAGE 18

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Despite win at UC, Syracuse just outside Top 25 in latest poll By Andrew L. John SPORTS EDITOR

Only a week after Syracuse found itself among those in the “others receiving votes” outside the AP Top 25 poll, the Orange reappeared just outside the new poll Sunday. Last week, SU received eight votes. This week, it got

22. The only other team outside the poll with more votes than the Orange is Hawaii with 50 votes. “It is great for the people,” Syracuse head coach Doug Marrone said Monday at his weekly press conference. “It is about a school that hasn’t done well in a period of time now and a point

where we see a level of awareness and happiness, there are smiles on our face and people are talking.” Though not quite in the Top 25, Syracuse (6-2, 3-1 Big East) remains the highest-ranked Big East team. The Orange is currently second in the conference, behind Pittsburgh (5-3, 3-0).

After collecting its fifth victory in its last six games, the Orange is surging. For the first time since 2004, SU has received votes in the Top 25 and won three of its first four conference games. The last time SU was inside the Top 25 was 2001. Marrone said Monday that he

doesn’t even pay attention to the rankings and that he doesn’t talk about them with his team. But Marrone acknowledged that the attention SU has received in recent weeks is good for the program and good for those who care about the program. SEE TOP 25 PAGE 15